cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Quelparte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quelpart
form: Quelpaert
Senses: examples: text: In 1898 Mr. Harrison persuaded Miss Linnie Davis to come to Chunju as Mrs. Harrison, and they took Chang Gooky as servant in the new home. Drawn nearer to the Master through Mrs. Harrison’s teaching, he expressed a desire to become a preacher of the Word, so he studied first in our Mission school, then in Pyeng Yang and is now one of our ordained Missionaries to Chayju, (Quelparte), an eloquent and effective preacher of the Gospel.
ref: 1920, Anabel Major Nisbet, “The Preparation (1892-1899)”, in Day In and Day Out in Korea: Being some account of the mission work that has been carried on in Korea since 1892 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Presbyterian Committee of Publications, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: Jeju, an island of South Korea.
Quelpaert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quelparte
form: Quelpart
Senses: examples: text: At night they gave us more rice to eat ; and our master, having made an observation, found we were in the island of Quelpaert, which is thirty-three degrees thirty-two minutes of latitude.
ref: 1885, William Elliot Griffis, “The Kind Corean Governor”, in Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion with Hendrick Hamel's Narrative of Captivity and Travels in Corea, Annotated, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: Jeju, an island of South Korea.
antiapples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiapple
mishews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mishew
mishewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mishew
red rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red room
nick-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nick-names
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of nickname.
nick-names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nick-name
yippy-kai-yay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yippee ki-yay.
northron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northrons
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Northron (“a northerner”).
northrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northron
octopusic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusic
form: most octopusic
Senses: glosses: Octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
acoustic model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic models
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The connection between audio signals and linguistic elements such as phonemes.
acoustic models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoustic model
adversarial stylometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The practice of altering writing style to thwart efforts to identify the author or their characteristics.
Posidonius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Posīdōnius, from Ancient Greek Ποσειδώνιος (Poseidṓnios).
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Posidonius, an Ancient Greek polymath of the Hellenistic period, best known for his studies of philosophy.
tiponi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiponis
Senses: examples: text: Of all objects on a Hopi altar perhaps the most important and constant is the badge of office or palladium, known as the tiponi, of the religious society which celebrates the rites about it. The Antelope altar has for the first seven days two tiponis, the Snake and Antelope.
ref: 1900, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Tusayan Migration Traditions, page 972:
glosses: A Hopi badge of authority.
tiponis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiponi
what's the story, bud
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: what's the story
form: story, bud
form: story
Etymology: Alternative form of what's the story (“how are you?”)
Senses: examples: text: *Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with 'What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: 'What's the story?' Response: 'What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being 'What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : 'Story, bud?' or the pithier still 'Story?'
ref: 2012, Colin Murphy, Donal O'Dea, “18 - Saying 'What's the story?'”, in More Stuff Irish People Love, 2017 edition, The O'Brien Press Ltd, →ISBN:
qualifier: Dublin
glosses: Used as a greeting; How are you?, What's up?
Hopiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hopi + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] the appropriation of Hopiness within New Age spiritual networks that exist on a global scale.
ref: 2020, Jonathan Skinner, The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach:
glosses: The quality of being Hopi.
story, bud
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: what's the story
form: what's the story, bud
form: story
Etymology: Alternative form of what's the story, bud (“how are you?”)
Senses: examples: text: *Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with 'What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: 'What's the story?' Response: 'What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being 'What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : 'Story, bud?' or the pithier still 'Story?'
ref: 2012, Colin Murphy, Donal O'Dea, “18 - Saying 'What's the story?'”, in More Stuff Irish People Love, 2017 edition, The O'Brien Press Ltd, →ISBN:
qualifier: Dublin
glosses: Used as a greeting; How are you?, What's up?
timarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timarchies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of timocracy.
synonyms: word: timocracy
timarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timarchy
timarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timarchic
form: most timarchic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to timarchy.
antemasque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antemasques
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of antimasque.
antemasques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antemasque
tinnery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinneries
Etymology: From tin + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A tinworks.
tinneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinnery
tie and dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tie-dye (“dyeing technique”).
synonyms: word: tie-dye
extra: dyeing technique
tie and dye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties and dyes
form: tying and dyeing
form: tied and dyed
form: tied and dyed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tie-dye.
synonyms: word: tie-dye
tideful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tide + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Flooded with the waters of a tide.
tideful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidefuls
Etymology: From tide + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: […] tidefuls of seaweed […]
ref: 1938, Glasgow (Scotland). Empire Exhibition, 1938. Highlands Committee, The Highlands and the Highlanders (page 110)
text: […] a tideful of summer-fish coming up Moy to Ballina.
ref: 1952, Eric Taverner, The Making of a Trout Stream, page 35:
glosses: An amount carried by the tide.
tidefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tideful
e-therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-therapy
e-therapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-therapists
Etymology: From e- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of e-therapy.
e-therapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-therapist
three-men-in-a-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Tradescantia spathacea.
gvl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of gravel.
hoghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogheads
Etymology: From hog + head.
Senses: examples: text: In his selection, Gamst likens railroad engineers (hogheads) to ship's captains and airline pilots — masters of their trains […]
ref: 1984, Herbert Applebaum, Work in Market and Industrial Societies, page 243:
glosses: Synonym of hogger (“engineer of a locomotive”).
synonyms: word: hogger
extra: engineer of a locomotive
hogheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoghead
homicidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homicidious
form: most homicidious
Senses: glosses: Homicidal; murderous.
housewrecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housewreckers
Etymology: From house + wrecker.
Senses: glosses: A person who demolishes old houses and salvages materials from them.
Related terms: home wrecker
housewreckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housewrecker
promarijuana
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more promarijuana
form: most promarijuana
form: pro-marijuana
Etymology: From pro- + marijuana.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Harvey Powelson […] was highly praised for his promarijuana stand in 1964. Then he was attacked in the press and in person when he changed his views.
ref: 2012, Mantak Chia, William U. Wei, Cosmic Nutrition: The Taoist Approach to Health and Longevity:
antonyms: antimarijuana
glosses: In favor of, or supporting the use of, marijuana.
housephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housephones
Etymology: From house + phone.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:housephone.
glosses: An internal telephone, connected to a switchboard in the same building.
housephones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housephone
pro-marijuana
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-marijuana
form: most pro-marijuana
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of promarijuana.
huggermuggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The huggermuggery with the books and papers of the company, whereby neither Mitchell nor Cooper knew where the bank books and other books of the company were, is very significant.
ref: 1898, New York Supreme Court Appellate Division First Department:
glosses: Alternative form of hugger-muggery.
hugger-muggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huggermuggery
Etymology: From hugger-mugger + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Disorder; chaos.
houp-la
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houp-las
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hoopla.
houp-las
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houp-la
hutmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hutmasters
Etymology: From hut + master.
Senses: examples: text: I recall one specific trip when we climbed to Madison Hut which is located in the col between Mount Madison and Mount Jefferson. Tom went into the kitchen to ask the hutmaster about the menu for the evening meal.
ref: 2012, Paul Lee, Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man, page 344:
glosses: The person in charge of a hut providing accommodation to hikers.
hutmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hutmaster
hyd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: hyd. engineer
glosses: Abbreviation of hydraulic.
hyd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hydraulics.
hyperform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperforms
Senses: examples: [T]he novice is likely to put the new feature into places where it does not belong, producing outlandish hyperforms
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A hypercorrect form.
hyperforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperform
impofo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eland (“type of antelope”).
synonyms: word: eland
extra: type of antelope
immortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to become immortal.
Related terms: immortability
immortability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being immortable.
immed.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of immediate.
outbd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of outbound.
inbd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of inbound.
incendiarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incendiarists
Etymology: From incendiary + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arsonist.
synonyms: word: arsonist
incendiarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incendiarist
impx.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of imperatrix.
impv.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impvs.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of imperative.
impvs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impv.
infatuators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infatuator
infatuational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infatuation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to infatuation.
inefficacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inefficacy.
synonyms: word: inefficacy
indsl.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: indsl. waste
glosses: Abbreviation of industrial.
pairles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pairle
interpr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interprs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of interpreter.
interprs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpr.
irreverency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreverencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of irreverence.
irreverencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irreverency
isth.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isths.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of isthmus.
isths.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isth.
sea floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea floors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seafloor.
Zöe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
Criuleni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Criuleni.
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Moldova.
Drochia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Drochia.
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Moldova.
rockahomine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rockahominy.
rockahominie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rockahominy.
Leova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Leova.
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Moldova.
pighead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigheads
Etymology: From pig + head.
Senses: glosses: A very stubborn person.
Related terms: pigheaded
stink like a polecat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stinks like a polecat
form: stinking like a polecat
form: stank like a polecat
form: stunk like a polecat
Etymology: Due to the European polecat ejecting a foul-smelling secretion.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To have a bad smell, mostly referring to human body odor.
Related terms: stink like a mackerel
Chrysippus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Chrysippus, from Ancient Greek Χρύσιππος (Khrúsippos).
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Chrysippus, an Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher of the Hellenistic period.
false oxlip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false oxlips
form: false oxslip
Senses: glosses: A naturally occurring hybrid species (Primula × polyantha) of common cowslip and common primrose.
UAW/MF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] UAW/MF believed it was imperative to resist the commodification of the counterculture—a practice also important to the Diggers.
ref: 2016, Andrew Cornell, Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 261:
glosses: Initialism of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker.
Rezina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Rezina.
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Moldova.
main page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main pages
form: mainpage
Senses: examples: text: Several reports on user behavior indicate that website visitors like hypertext links, and often choose these before anything on the main menu. However, if there are no hyperlinks on the main page, visitors are forced to study the menu more closely.
ref: 2000, Eric L. Reiss, Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites, Harlow: Addison Wesley, →ISBN, page 125:
text: MySpace has since expanded options to allow up to the Top 40 friends to be displayed on the main page of your profile.
ref: 2011, Fran Vincent, MySpace™ for Musicians: The Comprehensive Guide to Marketing Your Music Online, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Course Technology, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 161:
text: Comments determine whether a post gets a high ranking on Reddit’s main page.
ref: 2014, Brian Carroll, Writing and Editing for Digital Media, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN, page 271:
glosses: Synonym of home page.
synonyms: word: home page
SSILA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
subReddit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subReddits
Senses: examples: text: SubReddits are key to the feel of Reddit, and they number in the tens of thousands. On the front page is a default list of subReddits: funny, pics, announcements, blog, askReddit, worldnews, gaming, todayilearned, politics, science, WTF, IAmA, videos, technology, music, atheism, AdviceAnimals, aww, movies, and bestof. Capitalization and grammar in subReddit naming is rather inconsistent. […] The largely uncensored nature of Reddit has led to a number of controversial subReddits, the most famous of which was the “jailbait” subReddit, which included user-submitted photos of underage minors; […]
ref: 2013, Bill Kte’pi, “Steve Huffman”, in the editors of Salem Press, Internet Innovators, Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, EBSCO Publishing/Grey House Publishing, →ISBN, pages 185–186:
text: Together, these votes organize and prioritize the thousands of posts going up in Reddit’s more than 5,000 categories, called subReddits. […] Decide on a page title and select a “subReddit” category for your reporting. You will want to browse the subReddit categories. SubReddits you might choose from include Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations, News, or Photojournalism. Subscribing to some subReddit categories will order or organize your homepage and cut down on the clutter.
ref: 2014, Brian Carroll, Writing and Editing for Digital Media, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 235 and 271:
text: Reddit is a massive site founded in 2005, consisting of many, many different subsites, conveniently called ‘subReddits’. These range from broads topics such as ‘/r/funny’, ‘/r/gaming’ or ‘/r/jokes’ to very specific subReddits like ‘/r/Sneakers’, which simply discusses all kinds of sneaker shoes and has no less than 50,000 subscribers or so-called ‘Sneakerheads’. Similarly, there is also a subReddit made entirely for lovers of the fantasy cards game ‘Magic: The Gathering’, gathering almost 133,000 fans of the game together. All of these subReddits are little separate hubs from the main portal with a group of like-minded people sharing a deep interest of the same topic.
ref: 2016, Joeri Van den Bergh, Mattias Behrer, How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation Y and Z, 3rd edition, London: Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Rare form of subreddit.
subReddits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subReddit
carseat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carseats
Senses: examples: text: “Okay then,” she says, nodding once, business-like, then sitting at the edge of the carseat and sliding over a few inches.
ref: 1986, Rick Borsten, The Great Equalizer, Sag Harbor, N.Y.: The Permanent Press, →ISBN, page 268:
text: “Oh, well. I’m sure they will.” And then, for the first time ever, as Krista was buckling the carseat into her mother’s van, “You know, honey, if you need a bit of a loan, look at that babyface, my goodness—”
ref: 2000, Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 306:
text: “Whassa matter Mommy?” Alexandria asked as Jackie buckled the carseat.
ref: 2000, Marlene Taylor, Life Is What You Make It, Darlin’, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.: Oshun Dynasty Publications, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: Alternative form of car seat.
carseats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carseat
CCRU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Vectored through cyberpunk fiction and the post-rave speed-up of Jungle and drum-and-bass, Nick Land and the CCRU's discourse aimed at maximum intensification into immanence until ‘impending human extinction becomes accessible as a dance floor’.
ref: 2013, Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, →ISBN:
text: CCRU members disavowed the leftist pieties of their peers and fused cybernetics, metallurgy, bacteriology, chaos theory, science-fiction and the occult to explore, often in deliriously opaque language, what it meant to be alive in an age of hypercapitalism.
ref: 2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.
NEG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of National Energy Guarantee.
Related terms: NEG-raising
Neg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Guardian Australia understands the Liberal states have caucused, and they want the newly elected Morrison government to reboot the Neg, or something very like it.
ref: 2019 June 21, Katharine Murphy, “Australia's energy future: the real power is not where you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of NEG.
chili con queso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chile con queso.
Kadyrov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdɪəɹɒf/
ipa: /kəˈdɪɹɒv/
Forms: form: Kadyrovs
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Кады́ров (Kadýrov).
Senses: glosses: A surname, feminine equivalent Kadyrova.
Derived terms: Kadyrovite
Kadyrovs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kadyrov
otiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊ.ʃi.ənt/
Forms: form: more otiant
form: most otiant
Etymology: From Latin ōtior (“be at ease, enjoy leisure”).
Senses: examples: text: They […] who relegate the Supreme to the otiant ease of Epicurus, cut the nerves of moral obligation.
ref: 1878, Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, The North American Review, page 483:
text: "You will see a new kind of country, soft of voice, otiant of manner, dressed in purple, and gray and blue. When you see you will think of the dateless leisure of Olympus. You will contrast it sharply with the Piedmont. One look at these gnarled old oaks and red-blooded hills[…]
ref: 1940, Thornwell Jacobs, Red Lanterns on St. Michael's, page 152:
glosses: At ease, at leisure; idling, indolent.
examples: text: Some letters are otiant in Modern Syriac, being generally, if not always, those retained for the sake of etymology, […]
ref: 1855, David Tappan Stoddard, B. L. Hamlen, Grammar of the Modern Syriac Language, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: quiescent
silent
glosses: Having no force or sound, like the l in would.
raw_tags: of Semitic languages
Abijam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abijah
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲבִיָּם, the name of the son of Rehoboam as reported by 1 Kings (rather than 1 Chronicles.)
Senses: examples: Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
glosses: An alternative form of Abijah, the king after Rehoboam (biblical character)
glosses: A male or female given name from Hebrew.
Kadyrova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kadyrovas
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Кады́рова (Kadýrova).
Senses: glosses: A feminine-form surname from Russian.; feminine of Kadyrov
Ouroborosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ouroborosian
form: most Ouroborosian
Senses: examples: text: In fact, in Dr. Manhattan's assertion that he has become so interested in human beings that he thinks he will go create some, Moore implies an Ouroborosian view of the cosmos. Because he is a man who becomes a god who creates men who presumably repeat the process, Dr. Manhattan can be read as a version of Ouroboros, the serpent who swallows its own tail.
ref: 2008, Elizabeth K. Rosen, Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 37:
text: '30 Rock' is the latest and greatest Ouroborosian comedy - the satirical snake that eats its own economic tail. Just as Monty Python mocked the BBC and The Simpsons satirized Fox, 30 Rock has a perverse, nearly sadomasochistic relationship with its corporate [owners].
ref: 2009 10, New York:
text: The unwillingness of the rich guy to take advantage of being a rich guy for fear of looking like a rich guy was a chain of logic too Ouroborosian to ponder for too long. The Boston brain trust had come up with a potential alternative: using forthcoming general election funds as collateral for a $20 million line of credit. But there were campaign finance hoops to jump[…]
ref: 2013 November 5, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Double Down: Game Change 2012, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of ouroboric.
synonyms: word: ouroboric
ouroborosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ouroborosian
form: most ouroborosian
Senses: examples: text: And all of it eminently disposable, fated to be consumed and retweeted and referred to for a few hours then forgotten, like veerything else passing through the self-devouring gullet of the ouroborosian media Leviathan we live within, picked up and dropped as we keep searching for newer confirmations of our half-articulated hopes and fears, more recent pictures to prove to us our world makes sense, fresher flags to wave[…]
ref: 2018 July 17, Roy Scranton, We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change, Soho Press, →ISBN, page 305:
text: However, if one looks up the word histoire, one discovered one of the synonyms is, naturally, conte. So, this relationship between stories and tales is somehow related to the notion of history, which is related to story, which is related to conte. Very ouroborosian. So, what can be made of the title itself? How can one define story? In his Aspects of the Novel, Forster does a somewhat questionable job of avoiding a definition of what a story is other than to say the novel has to have[…]
ref: 2021 January 20, Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Untheories of Fiction: Literary Essays from Diderot to Markson, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ouroborosian.
out-boob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-boobs
form: out-boobing
form: out-boobed
form: out-boobed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outboob.
out-boobed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of out-boob
out-boobing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of out-boob
deformalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deformalisations
form: deformalization
Senses: examples: text: A trend towards deformalisation has been observed in international law, characterised as the rejection of formal indicators to define international rules, along with a growing emphasis on informal law-making.
ref: 2022, Jonathan Verschuuren, Leonie Reins, editors, Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The international agreement, created by the process of deformalisation, becomes soft law to the extent that the absence of the totality of these eleents marks not non-law, but a different type of international law, which exists in contrast to a type of international law in which all of these elements are present — hard law.
ref: 2015, Peter Langford, Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political, Taylor & Francis, page 208:
glosses: The process of deformalising something.
taboo avoidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taboo avoidances
Senses: examples: text: It is believed that Slavic *medvědь (“bear”, literally “honey-eater”) replaced an earlier word because of taboo avoidance.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The replacement of a word or phrase with another by way of euphemism to avoid a cultural taboo (e.g. because the older word has become vulgar, or due to the belief that mentioning a dangerous creature's name may cause that creature to appear).
Related terms: taboo deformation
speak of the devil
Clovin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clovins
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
outblog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outblogs
form: outblogging
form: outblogged
form: outblogged
Etymology: From out- + blog.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:outblog.
glosses: To blog more successfully or better than; to surpass or get the advantage of in blogging.
Bridon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bridons
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
outblogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outblog
outblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outblog
chalupita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalupitas
Etymology: From Spanish chalupita.
Senses: examples: text: In 1962, when I first started working in Ixmiquilpan, tamalitos were three for a peso, as were chalupitas and other tortilla- and maize-based snacks sold by street vendors.
ref: 1989, H[arvey] Russell Bernard, Jesús Salinas Pedraza, Native Ethnography: A Mexican Indian Describes His Culture, Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 609:
text: The day before, prepare the tortillas for the chalupitas and the quesos.
ref: 1998, Jane Butel, Jane Butel’s Quick and Easy Southwestern Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 237:
text: The work is difficult and long, but the reward is the incredible tortilla: an essential piece of many traditional Mexican dishes such as tacos, quesadillas, gorditas, chalupitas, and chilaquiles.
ref: 2004, the Panera Bread Team, The Panera Bread Cookbook: Breadmaking Essentials and Recipes from America’s Favorite Bakery-Cafe, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: A bite-sized chalupa.
chalupitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalupita
oversky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:oversky.
glosses: The sky that is directly above one, as opposed to that seen on the horizon.
overgenderization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:overgenderization.
glosses: Alternative form of over-genderization.
overschematization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Excessive schematization.
blanket ban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanket bans
Senses: examples: text: When RAIL first hit the shelves, BR had a blanket ban on preserved diesels running on its network.
ref: 2024 January 10, “New trains built...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 67:
glosses: A complete, overall ban.
overwire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwires
form: overwiring
form: overwired
form: overwired
Etymology: From over- + wire.
Senses: glosses: To wire more, or to a greater level, than is necessary.
overwired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwire
overwiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwire
overwires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwire
pablumize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pablumizes
form: pablumizing
form: pablumized
form: pablumized
Etymology: From pablum + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To reduce or render (something) into pablum.
pablumized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pablumize
pablumizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pablumize
pablumizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pablumize
blanket bans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanket ban
pale male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale males
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pale male.
glosses: A white man or boy.
pale males
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pale male
WordPresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WordPress
in-person
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: With one's own body and physical presence; directly.
in-person
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Since then, and after high-level in-person talks between ScotRail and TSSA General Secretary Maryam Eslamdoust, "the company has done nothing to suggest they are prepared to shift their ground", the union said.
ref: 2024 April 3, “Network News: Fresh manager strikes at ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of in person.
heremit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hermit; an eremite.
memory enhancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory enhancers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nootropic.
synonyms: word: nootropic
smart drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart drugs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nootropic.
synonyms: word: nootropic
smart drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smart drug
memory enhancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory enhancer
yellow-billed choughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow-billed chough
came to a head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come to a head
Alpine Chough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alpine Choughs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of alpine chough.
Alpine chough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alpine choughs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of alpine chough.
Alpine choughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alpine chough
Alpine Choughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alpine Chough
noogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Equivalent to noos + -genesis; first use appeared c. 1947.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The fourth stage of evolution, dominated by the mind, consciousness, and interpersonal relationships.
paraphilately
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + philately.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:paraphilately.
glosses: The study of things adjacent to postage stamps, such as artistic or ownership stamps or collectors of stamps.
carries the mail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry the mail
carrying the mail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carry the mail
carried the mail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carry the mail
pearl-clutchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a way or manner that provokes pearl-clutching.
yan dao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌjɛn˨ ˈt˭aʊ˨˦]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 緣投 /缘投 (iân-tâu, “handsome”); spelling influenced by Mandarin's Hanyu Pinyin romanization. Compare Tagalog yantaw.
Senses: glosses: Handsome, pretty boy.
yan dao
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌjɛn˨ ˈt˭aʊ˨˦]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 緣投 /缘投 (iân-tâu, “handsome”); spelling influenced by Mandarin's Hanyu Pinyin romanization. Compare Tagalog yantaw.
Senses: examples: text: And WP candidate Bernard Chen, who was making the rounds with Mr Low, won himself an auntie fan who declared: “Yan dao (handsome in Hokkien) leh”.
ref: 2015 September 5, Ong Sor Fern, “GE2015: 7 Things Spotted On The Campaign Trail, Sept 5 edition”, in The Straits Times, Singapore:
glosses: Handsome, stylish.
raw_tags: of a man
Related terms: leng zai
frauditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frauditors
Etymology: A blend of fraud + auditor. The journalistic sense appeared in the early 2020s. The first appearance of the business sense is uncertain.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: An intimidating, phony or insincere First Amendment auditor.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An auditor who seeks or uncovers instances of fraudulent activity in a business or other organization.
frauditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frauditors
Etymology: Blend of fraud + creditor, appeared c. 1553.
Senses: glosses: A cheat or defrauder.
nonreals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonreal
claw cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claw crane
claw machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claw machine
pawg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawgs
Senses: examples: text: “That she's a 'pawg'?” “Yes. That she's a creature with paws.” “P. A. W—” “I heard you the first time.” “She has a phat ass, right?” “What does that have to do with anything?” “Phat. Ass. White. Girl. P. A. W. G.” “Oh.”
ref: 2015, Alexei Auld, Luscious Melchus 2: Fancy Anansi?:
text: “Ill give you another hit when I see some real booty shakin pawg.” “Im shaking my ass the best I can man! I told you Im not a booty dancer!”
ref: 2021 November 23, C.B. COLBY, Rock Bottom, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: […] a "pawg," as Slate had called her.
ref: 2023 May 3, Alicia Clark, Sinful Desires: 120 Forbidden and Hot Short Stories, ForbiddenFables Press, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: pawb
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of PAWG
Vietnamese spring roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vietnamese spring rolls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of summer roll.
synonyms: word: summer roll
Vietnamese spring rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vietnamese spring roll
parentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parentizes
form: parentizing
form: parentized
form: parentized
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parentify.
synonyms: word: parentify
parentization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parentification.
synonyms: word: parentification
mattress cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattress covers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mattress protector.
synonyms: word: mattress protector
pervery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perv + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Behavior or activities characteristic of a pervert.
mattress covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mattress cover
liver rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infestation with liver flukes, fascioliasis
phonemize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phonemizes
form: phonemizing
form: phonemized
form: phonemized
Senses: examples: text: It is quite natural to phonemize /[…]/, because now there obtains an iconic relation between /[…]/ and its "realization" "—r". It […] would be awkward to phonemize /[…]/ and to regard [[…]] as […]
ref: 1982, Martti Nyman, Relational and Reconstructive Aspects of Grammatical Systematization: Data-oriented Studies:
glosses: To make phonemic; to make (something) a distinct phoneme.
phonemise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phonemises
form: phonemising
form: phonemised
form: phonemised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of phonemize.
phonemization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonemizations
Senses: examples: text: Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch. 4.1. Phonemization. We take phonemization to be the mapping of the orthography of unseen words to their pronunciation […]
ref: 2005 September 1, Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch, Memory-Based Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Phonemization of allophones of the same phoneme is a frequent phenomenon in language development and is widely commented on in linguistics. It is clear that the phonetic prerequisite for the phonemization of this kind lies in the[…]
ref: 2006, Albertas Steponavičius, Diachronic Linguistics and Etymology:
glosses: The process of making or becoming phonemic.
phonemisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonemisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of phonemization.
phonemizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonemization
phonemisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonemisation
phonemised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phonemise
phonemizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phonemize
phonemises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phonemise
phonemising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phonemise
phonemizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phonemize
phonemized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phonemize
pile-drive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pile-drives
form: pile-driving
form: pile-drove
form: pile-driven
Senses: examples: text: [Until he had] pile-driven his cock into her one last time!
ref: 1994 04, Lawrence Millman, Hero Jesse: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: One: he followed his man, grabbing him by his shiny lapels before he was inside his car. Two: he got inside the car, but Matlock pile-drove his fist through the driver-side front window, getting his man but shredding his arm […]
ref: 2019 January 24, Eamonn Griffin, East of England, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of piledrive.
pile-driven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of pile-drive
pile-drove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of pile-drive
pile-drives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pile-drive
sweeps something under the rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweep something under the rug
sweeping something under the rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of sweep something under the rug
swept something under the rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sweep something under the rug
pinioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinioners
Senses: glosses: One who pinions.
pinioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinioner
counterhearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterhearings
Etymology: From counter- + hearing.
Senses: examples: text: On March 19, the day the bill was heard by the JHCC, the PWA Coalition, led by Sullivan, organized a "counter-hearing" outside the chamber, since oral testimony in the hearing was prohibited.
ref: 1990 April 21, Steve Rose, “Burroughs-Wellcome Rears Its Head Again”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: A usually unofficial, symbolic hearing held to highlight viewpoints excluded or underrepresented at another (usually the official) hearing.
fixed-wing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: aircraft
glosses: Referring to aircraft whose wings are fastened to the fuselage, and remain in the same position during flight.
chain-cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain-cables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chain cable.
chain-cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain-cable
distribution park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distribution parks
Senses: examples: text: This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: A commercial site which receives manufactured goods and distributes them to various purchasers.
parentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parentize
parentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of parentize
parentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parentize
Vietnamology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vietnamese studies.
synonyms: word: Vietnamese studies
brush something under the rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brushes something under the rug
form: brushing something under the rug
form: brushed something under the rug
form: brushed something under the rug
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sweep something under the rug.
synonyms: word: sweep something under the rug
brush something under the carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brushes something under the carpet
form: brushing something under the carpet
form: brushed something under the carpet
form: brushed something under the carpet
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sweep something under the rug.
synonyms: word: sweep something under the rug
camel hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camel hairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of camelhair.
camel-hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camel-hairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of camelhair.
camel's hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camel's hairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of camelhair.
distribution parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distribution park
camel's hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camel's hair
camel-hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camel-hair
camel hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camel hair