cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outdigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of outdig
outdug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outdig
South Haven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Noble Township, Wabash County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Sumner County, Kansas, named after South Haven, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Van Buren County and Allegan County, Michigan, located on Lake Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Van Buren County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Wright County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, possibly shortened from South Brookhaven.
luftgeschaeft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌftɡəˌʃɛft/
/ˈlʊftɡəˌʃɛft/
Forms: form: luftgeschaeft
form: luftgeschaefts
Etymology: From Yiddish לופֿט געשעפֿט (luft gesheft), from German Luftgeschäft, from Luft (“air”) + Geschäft (“business”); with spelling influenced by the orthography of the German term.
Senses: examples: text: The economic situation of the Jewish people in the diaspora is an inverted pyramid. The normal situation is when the majority is productive, a proletariat in professions like agriculture and industry, and only a minority is bourgeois, in unproductive trades like banking and commerce. Most of the Jewish people work in luftgeschaeft.
ref: 1955, Dov Ber Borochov, To the Question of Zion and Territory, pages 41-42:
text: What happened in the United States of America was essentially the result of all the luftgeschaefts run by financial wizard luftmenschen (air people) who turned money into paper and then supposedly back into even more money, siphoning off outrageous profits in the process. When the music stopped, the entire house of cards suddenly collapsed, and all that was left, of course, was luft (air) and worthless paper.
ref: 2010, David E. Y. Sarna, History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff, page 2:
text: From an ideological perspective, rural productive life was glorified, while the urban luftgeschaeft, non-productive livelihoods such as commerce, was constantly criticized.
ref: 2011, Hizky Shoham, “Of Other Cinematic Spaces: Urban Zionism in Early Hebrew Cinema”, in Israel Studies Review, page 131:
glosses: A meaningless or unproductive job, which contributes little or no value to society.
plasmenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmenyl
platyrhacidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platyrhacidan
plexities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plexity
pneumopexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumopexy
poës
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poë
polumathes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polumathe
perfect participles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfect participle
perfect auxiliaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfect auxiliary
pharyngeal constrictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngeal constrictor
pharyngeal plexuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngeal plexus
preinfestations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preinfestation
synoptophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synoptophore
Syriarchates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syriarchate
sleeps like a log
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep like a log
sleeping like a log
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep like a log
slept like a log
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep like a log
sleeps like a baby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep like a baby
sleeping like a baby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep like a baby
slept like a baby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep like a baby
open up a can of whoop-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens up a can of whoop-ass
form: opening up a can of whoop-ass
form: opened up a can of whoop-ass
form: opened up a can of whoop-ass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of open a can of whoop ass.
open a can of whoop-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens a can of whoop-ass
form: opening a can of whoop-ass
form: opened a can of whoop-ass
form: opened a can of whoop-ass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of open a can of whoop ass.
sleeps like a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep like a dog
sleeping like a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep like a dog
slept like a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep like a dog
open a can of whup ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens a can of whup ass
form: opening a can of whup ass
form: opened a can of whup ass
form: opened a can of whup ass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of open a can of whoop ass.
sleeps like a mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep like a mouse
sleeping like a mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep like a mouse
slept like a mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep like a mouse
sleeps like a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep like a rock
sleeping like a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep like a rock
slept like a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep like a rock
sleeps like a top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep like a top
sleeping like a top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep like a top
slept like a top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep like a top
Geuda Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to be from Ge-u-da, an Indian word for healing springs.
Senses: glosses: A minor city in Cowley County and Sumner County, Kansas, United States.
threek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹiːk/
ipa: /θɹik/
Forms: form: threeks
Etymology: Blend of three + fork, playing on the fact that most traditional forks have four prongs and the word fork sounds like four-k.
Senses: glosses: A three-pronged fork.
plunger pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plunger pumps
Senses: glosses: A type of positive displacement pump where the high-pressure seal is stationary and a smooth cylindrical plunger slides through the seal.
plunger pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plunger pump
Central Min
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of Chinese 閩中語 /闽中语 (mǐnzhōngyǔ).
Senses: glosses: A variety of Min Chinese spoken in central Fujian province, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin
word: Min Zhong
megararity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megararities
Etymology: From mega- + rarity.
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: An extremely rare bird for a particular locality.
megararities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megararity
tape over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tapes over
form: taping over
form: taped over
form: taped over
Senses: glosses: To cover up with tape.
glosses: To erase (a magnetic tape recording) by making another recording on the same section of tape.
hatchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchies
Etymology: From hatch + -ie (suffix that forms diminutive nouns).
Senses: examples: text: The valentine's hatchie is so dang cute! I was I had snagged more so I could freeze one.
ref: 2010 February 17, Hell Puppi, “Re: The Dragon Cave IV: Get Your Own Dragons”, in Giant in the Playground Forum, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2024:
text: What I wonder IS if a dragon has been precogged as male or female, couldn't it just appear where it normally would on the dragons page?
At least for hatchies... I am unsure that could work for eggies because THOSE can, in theory still be influenced.
ref: 2018 August 8, JavaTigress, “Show action log on hatchie page (gender-related only)”, in Dragon Cave:
text: my dragon kid named pondhopper, because she was originally meant to be green and marinating in a pond but she just... became pink
Anyway just finished an adult version of her, she’s a bit cuter as a hatchie (old art)
ref: 2021 August 16, @fishtrouts, Twitter:
topics: fantasy
lifestyle
glosses: A dragon that has just emerged from its shell; a baby/young dragon; a hatchling.
Synonyms: hatchy
hatchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchie
glosses: plural of hatchy
hatchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchies
Etymology: From hatch + -y (suffix that forms diminutive nouns).
Senses: topics: fantasy
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of hatchie.
synonyms: word: hatchie
decryed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: If notwithstanding this, you find my labour generally decryed, you may be pleased to excuse your selfe...
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of decried.
presum'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I honoured your Brother, and honour you, and have presum'd on that, to assume the Title (without your knowledge) of being
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
glosses: simple past and past participle of presume
artificiall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more artificiall
form: most artificiall
Senses: examples: text: To describe the Nature of this Artificiall man, I will consider
First, the Matter thereof, and the Artificer; both which is Man.
ref: 1651, Thomass Hobbes, Leviathan:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of artificial.
potty pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An undergarment worn by infants or young children to aid in potty training during the transition from diapers to underwear; training pants.
snatched waist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snatched waists
Senses: examples: text: Well she's ROCKING that YELLOW DRESS like the QUEEN BEE herself! Sizzle sizzle bby girl yeassssszzz HUNTY allllllll me! Showing off her 29 inch SNATCHED WAIST, breast now 38, upper area just below breast 31, butt holding on goes from 44 to 43!!
ref: 2015 July 6, Sexeeangel, Secrets to a Beautiful You, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
text: However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.
ref: 2020 January 7, Chloé Hilliard, “Fat as Shit”, in F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, illustrated edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 131:
text: I became transfixed by the '80s. There was something about the concept of a huge shoulder span and a ridiculously snatched waist that was as appealing as it was terrifying: not just for my waist but for what this new exploration would mean for my fashion future.
ref: 2020 October 21, Jamie Windust, “The Key in the Lock”, in In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 23:
text: The jacket shows off my snatched waist, thanks to the corset underneath. The skirt, which I am in love with, hugs my hips and thighs, then widens to pool at my feet.
ref: 2021 November 10, Lilith McCall, Make You Love Me, After Hours Publications, →ISBN:
text: A buttock that is augmented in size, such as during a Brazilian buttock lift, and a waistline that is maximally narrowed, coined a snatched waist, must be bridged through a linear and smooth transition described by the shape of a Tilde Curve “~”. In summary, remember that your preoperative markings will ultimately define your surgical maneuvers.
ref: 2023 January 1, Mohan Thomas, James D'silva, “HiDefinition Body Contouring”, in Mohan Thomas, James D'silva, editor, Manual of Cosmetic Surgery and Medicine: Volume 1 - Body Contouring Procedures, volume 1, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Aaron gasped. “Let me come. I'll finally live out my fantasy of tearing through your closet and replacing it with clothes that'll show off the snatched waist you hide.” Violet was a healthy size 18; nothing was snatched, nor little, about any part of her. There never had been. She liked her body. It was the world that had a problem with it.
ref: 2023 August 29, Elise Kennedy, Wallflower in Bloom: A Fake Dating, Forced Proximity, Plus Size Small-Town RomCom, Elise Kennedy:
glosses: A thin waist on an otherwise voluptuous person; hourglass figure.
snatched waists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snatched waist
videoteleconferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of videoteleconference
tertiary college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiary colleges
Senses: glosses: A kind of further education college in England and Wales, offering academic and vocational courses to teenagers and adults.
tertiary colleges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tertiary college
jobspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From job + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: HANDSET 2: DOCB just got a massive seizure near the airport in last 15 mins. 110ks of coke. Over 8m. Two in.
Lazarus quickly translated the jobspeak. The Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau had seized 110 kgs of cocaine and had arrested two suspects.
ref: 2022, Michael O'Toole, Black Light:
glosses: The jargon associated with some form of employment.
sin offering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sin offerings
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: guilt offering
glosses: A sacrificial offering of flour or an animal, commanded in the Torah (Leviticus 4.1-35), serving to atone for the unintentional transgression of a prohibition.
sin offerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sin offering
Crescent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in McIntosh County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Latah County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Iroquois County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rowan County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Logan County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Oneida County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Arthur, Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
dope-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dope-stick
dope sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dope stick
dopestick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dopesticks
Senses: examples: text: I understand that the Attorney General to-day states that he has "got some dope on certain Senators." Well, let him go to work at once with his dopestick. Any Senator who can not stand up and have the yardstick of common decency and common honesty applied to him here ought not to be in the Senate.
ref: 1924, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 3313:
text: He drew on a dopestick and let the smoke curl away from his mouth.
ref: 2002, Phyllis Gotlieb, Mindworlds:
text: Besides, you'd be able to run faster if you gave up those dopesticks.
ref: 2014, William C. Dietz, Freehold:
text: Moments later, the faint aroma of a dopestick filtered down to the stealthy Hawke. It was very poor tradecraft to imbibe on duty, but you get what you pay for.
ref: 2014, Ed Sutter, Assassins:
text: Absently, he reached to his side and attempted to thrust a three-fingered palm into the dopestick container.
ref: 2018, Larry Niven, Man-Kzin Wars III:
glosses: Alternative form of dope stick.
dopesticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dopestick
prais'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: simple past and past participle of praise
mobiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian мобики (mobiki).
Senses: glosses: plural of mobik
reap'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: How sweet is love to them that can dissemble,
In thoughts and looks, till they have reap’d the gains!
ref: 1589, Robert Greene, Menaphon’s Eclogue in Menaphon, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, p. 63, Seld speaketh Love, but sighs his secret pains; Tears are his trucemen, words do make him tremble
glosses: simple past and past participle of reap
garden level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden levels
Senses: glosses: A level of a building between the basement and the ground floor, so that a person's head height is around ground level.
garden levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden level
Blandinavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blandinavian
form: most Blandinavian
Etymology: Blend of bland + Scandinavian
Senses: glosses: Bland and Scandinavian.
Hooper's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Published in 1774 by William Hooper.
Senses: glosses: A falsidical paradox based on an optical illusion, where a geometric shape with an area of 32 units is dissected into four parts, which are then assembled into a rectangle with an area of only 30 units; however, the triangles of the dissected shape are not quite identical to the triangles in the rectangle.
crowsnest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowsnests
Etymology: From crow + -s- + nest.
Senses: examples: text: Foc’sle-head and forward deck lay engulfed to the fore-hatch. Crowsnests and rigging were crowded with human forms awaiting the end.
ref: 1920 October, Carl Clausen, “Some Pearls and a Swine”, in Romance, volume 2, number 6, serial number 12, New York, N.Y.: The Ridgway Company, page 167, column 2:
text: Binoculars from the crowsnests and bridges / Of all the ships, escort and convoy, swept / The horizon: dots turned into lines, the lines / To hulls and decks and guns and turrets—five / British destroyers making thirty knots.
ref: 1947, E[dwin] J[ohn] Pratt, “Behind the Log”, in Northrop Frye, editor, The Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt, 2nd edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, published 1962, part two (Narrative Poems), page 342:
text: At sea it can be seen through telescopes on all the crowsnests and lookout towers.
ref: 1961 winter, Tracy Thompson, “Crystal Dew”, in Bond Johnson, III, editor, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, volume XII, number 2, Lexington, Va.: Washington and Lee University, page 48:
text: hms Duncan had crowsnests and a slightly different shaped bridge which included provision for a radar cabin.
ref: 1981, Maurice Cocker, Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981, London: Ian Allan Ltd, →ISBN, page 59, column 1:
text: This shipwrighting part went surprisingly well. We simply sawed an old 16 ft rowing boat into three, threw the middle bit away, strapped the front and back together again and added masts, rope ladders, scuppers, cannons, crowsnests and some bilge rats.
ref: 1985, “‘Notes for the Interested’”, in Clare Sydney, Graham Clarke, Oxford, Oxon: Phaidon in association with Christie’s Contemporary Art, →ISBN, page 107, column 2:
text: Gun shots began to fill the air, as our men began to fire from the crowsnests and shrouds.
ref: 2008, Gertjan Zwiggelaar, A Pirate’s Tale, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 437:
glosses: Alternative form of crow's nest.
crowsnests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowsnest
crow's-nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow's-nest
original package doctrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the original package doctrine
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A doctrine in United States law, stating that imported goods do not lose their character as imports until they have passed out of the importer's control or been broken up from their original packages.
out of one's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I wish you weren't going to lose your job, but it's out of my hands: I can't tell them to keep you on.
glosses: Out of one's control.
oxkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ox + -kind.
Senses: glosses: All oxen, considered as a group.
cowkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English cowkynde; equivalent to cow + -kind.
Senses: glosses: All cows, considered as a group.
mortgage packager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortgage packagers
Senses: glosses: A company that processes mortgage applications, usually on behalf of mortgage brokers, for submission to lenders.
mortgage packagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortgage packager
palm squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm squirrels
Senses: glosses: Any of various squirrels of the genus Funambulus.
Derived terms: dusky palm squirrel
five-striped palm squirrel
Indian palm squirrel
jungle palm squirrel
Layard's palm squirrel
Nilgiri striped palm squirrel
northern palm squirrel
palm squirrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm squirrel
paper hornet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper hornets
Senses: glosses: The wasp Dolichovespula maculata.
paper hornets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper hornet
sicknes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sickneses
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Tinker, and his wife and sone, all dyed in the first sicknes.
ref: 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sickness.
paramagnetic resonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramagnetic resonances
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electron spin resonance.
synonyms: word: electron spin resonance
pepper weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepper weevils
Etymology: They feed and lay eggs on capsicum peppers and related plants.
Senses: glosses: A beetle of species Anthonomus eugenii.
pepper weevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepper weevil
sickneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The chang of aire, diate, & drinking of water, would infecte their bodies with sore sickneses, and greevous diseases.
ref: 1620-1647, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation:
glosses: plural of sicknes
present participial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more present participial
form: most present participial
form: present-participial
Senses: examples: text: The preſent participial termination Ende is, in modern Engliſh, always converted to ing.
ref: 1805, J[ohn] Horne Tooke, Επεα Πτεροεντα [Epea Pteroenta]. Or, The Diversions of Purley., part II, London: […] [F]or the Author, at J. Johnson’s, […], page 215:
text: L. uoluntās, free will. Formed, with suffix -tās, from a present participial stem *uolunt-, a variant of uolent-, from uolens, willing, from uolo, I will; infin. uelle.
ref: 1910, Walter W[illiam] Skeat, “VOLUNTARY”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 695, column 2:
text: Furthermore, numerous dangling modifiers in present participial phrases dominate the textual landscape of Lundy Martin’s poetry, rendering the text’s grammar of suffering as an ongoing present of spatio-temporal, both abstract and visceral, arrangements of bodies which are marked or boxed racially and genderwise, and at the same time become entangled in a proprioceptive approximation towards negativity and non-identity.
ref: 2017, Marius Henderson, “‘Here is the trash heap, nothing there except a muted wailing’:' Dithering in Negativity and the Failure to Move On”, in Katharina Motyl, Regina Schober, editors, The Failed Individual: Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, →ISBN, section III (Failure as Resistance/Failure as Pleasure), page 233:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: past participial
glosses: Of or relating to the present participle.
smooth newt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth newts
Senses: glosses: Any of species Lissotriton vulgaris of newts.
Synonyms: European newt
northern smooth newt
common newt
mankeeper
smooth newts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth newt
American snout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American snouts
Senses: glosses: The butterfly Libytheana carinenta.
glosses: The litter moth Idia americalis.
American snouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American snout
sob stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mawkishly sentimental material.
thorocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorocenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The actinocene cyclooctatetraenide with chemical formula Th(C₈H₈)₂.
plutonocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutonocenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The actinocene cyclooctatetraenide with chemical formula Pu(C₈H₈)₂.
RSMI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSMIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of regimental sergeant major instructor.
RSMIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSMI
SMIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SMI
solo whist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A trick-taking card game for four players in which players can bid to make eight tricks in trumps with any partner, or a solo contract playing against the other three players.
sooty albatross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sooty albatrosses
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized marine bird of the species Phoebetria fusca, having a sooty brown or black color.
sooty albatrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sooty albatross
nales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nale
southern magnolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern magnolias
Senses: glosses: A large, striking evergreen tree of species Magnolia grandiflora, found in the southeastern United States.
southern magnolias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern magnolia
spy out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spies out
form: spying out
form: spied out
form: spied out
Senses: glosses: To sight or discover by spying.
white-throated needletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-throated needletails
Senses: synonyms: needle-tailed swift
spine-tailed swift
glosses: A large swift of species Hirundapus caudacutus.
spine-tailed swift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spine-tailed swifts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white-throated needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus).
synonyms: word: white-throated needletail
extra: Hirundapus caudacutus
needle-tailed swift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle-tailed swifts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white-throated needletail.
synonyms: word: white-throated needletail
splash dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splash dams
Senses: glosses: A temporary dam used to raise the water level so as to float logs downstream to a sawmill.
splash dams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash dam
sporting girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporting girls
Senses: synonyms: sporting lady
sporting woman
glosses: A female prostitute.
Related terms: sporting house
sporting lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporting ladies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sporting girl (“female prostitute”).
synonyms: word: sporting girl
extra: female prostitute
sporting woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporting women
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sporting girl (“female prostitute”).
synonyms: word: sporting girl
extra: female prostitute
sporting girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporting girl
sporting ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporting lady
sporting women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporting woman
spotted owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted owls
Senses: glosses: A North American owl of the species Strix occidentalis.
spotted owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted owl
spotted owlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted owlets
Senses: glosses: A small Asian owl of the species Athene brama.
spotted owlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted owlet
spring lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring lambs
Senses: glosses: A milkfed lamb, usually three to five months old, born in late winter or early spring and sold for meat usually before 1 July (in the northern hemisphere).
glosses: The meat of such a lamb.
spring lambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring lamb
squaw huckleberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squaw huckleberries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deerberry (“Vaccinium stamineum”).
synonyms: word: deerberry
extra: Vaccinium stamineum
squaw huckleberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squaw huckleberry
squirrel glider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirrel gliders
Senses: glosses: A nocturnal gliding possum of species Petaurus norfolcensis.
squirrel gliders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirrel glider
rivalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rival + -ization.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: The development of a rivalry.
Paklish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Pakistani + English.
Senses: examples: text: Public transport is 'conveyance', career is 'carrier', a bathroom is 'latrine', a lounge is a 'drawing room', and a range of other examples 'can be had' from local newspapers and books. Even internationally published authors slip into Paklish.
ref: 2012, “Ten Things We Love about Pakistan”, in Ziauddin Sardar, Robin Yassin-Kassab, editors, Critical Muslim 4: Pakistan?, London: C. Hurst & Co., page 251:
synonyms: Pinglish
glosses: Nonstandard English spoken by Pakistanis.
DnB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For a drum 'n' bass producer, Wilkinson also shifts NUMBERS, with his last album Lazer's Not Included going to number one on the iTunes Dance Chart. The lead single from that album went on to sell 300,000 copies making him a veritable Drizzy of the DnB world.
ref: 2015 March 6, Angus Harrison, “Premiere: Wilkinson is Making Drum 'n' Bass for Late Night Text Sessions”, in VICE, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2024:
text: Talk of a DnB revival tends to bubble up every few years, and some – the Redditors sharing the latest clattering breakbeats and disgusting drops on their forum, say – would argue it's never gone away.
ref: 2023 December 1, Gwilym Mumford, “The Guide #115: Can anyone beat Oppenheimer, and other reader mailbag questions”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024:
synonyms: D&B
glosses: Abbreviation of drum and bass.
supercrosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercrossers
Etymology: From supercross + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of supercross.
supercrossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercrosser
beloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiˌlɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈbiːlɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɛlɔɪd/
Forms: form: more beloid
form: most beloid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos, “arrow, dart”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: In norma verticalis his cranium is distinctly ovoid, almost beloid, i.e. it is not broad enough to permit us to state definitely that it is not Egyptian, although its shape is by no means a common one in the pure Egyptian.
ref: 1987, Ahmed Osman, Stranger in the Valley of the Kings, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, Publishers, →ISBN, pages 124–125:
text: I managed a slight nod. Even that sent paroxysms of beloid agony through my neck and throat.
ref: 2005, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Eternity Artifact, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 222:
topics: anthropology
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling an arrow, particularly in having a narrow and pointed shape; arrowlike.
Related terms: belomancy
stamplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stampless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a stamp or stamps.
previous examination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: previous examinations
Senses: qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: An examination taken a year prior to graduation.
previous examinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of previous examination
pretium affectionis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: The greater number of injuries are those which concern property. A pecuniary value can generally be set upon injuries of this sort; though it is not very easy to determine the pretium affectionis, a matter of considerable importance, which the English law, so much made up of clumsiness in one part, and false refinement in another, wholly overlooks.
ref: 1825, James Mill, Jurisprudence:
topics: law
glosses: Sentimental value.
prickly nightshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Solanum torvum.
glosses: A plant of species Solanum petrophilum.
holds one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold one's own
holding one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of hold one's own
branchiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbraŋkɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more branchiform
form: most branchiform
form: branchiiform
Etymology: From Latin branchia, branchiae (“gills”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: The ear-shaped or branchiform stigma of Otostigma and Branchiostoma is due to the oblique form of the cone along a small part of its length; on the base of the stigmata of these forms there appear a few of those irregular darkly coloured patches, beset with small hooks, which are so common in the Chilopoda.
ref: 1887, “Summary or Current Researches Relating to Zoology and Botany […]”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Part I, London; Edinburgh: […] Williams & Norgate, page 386:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Gill-shaped.
held one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold one's own
branchiiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more branchiiform
form: most branchiiform
Etymology: From Latin branchia (“gills”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of branchiform.
chase the ace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game in which players try to avoid holding the lowest card, aces counting low.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A form of lottery in which a player who draws the ace of spades wins the accumulated money.
principle of excluded middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of law of excluded middle.
calathiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calathiform
form: most calathiform
Etymology: From Latin calathus (“wicker basket”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: Only young buds seen. Bracts apparently at the apex of the pedicels, calathiform, c. 3 mm in diameter, the cavity c. 2 mm deep. Pedicels c. 3,5 mm long.
ref: 1966, J. Lanjouw, P. F. Baron Van Heerdt, “Quiinaceae”, in A. Pulle, editor, Flora of Suriname, volume III, part I: Dyalypetalae, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 380:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Basket-shaped.
Related terms: calathus
prissify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prissifies
form: prissifying
form: prissified
form: prissified
Senses: glosses: To make prissy.
prissifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prissify
prissifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prissify
prissified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prissify
prison bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prisoners' bars (“the game”).
progressive jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of big band music that is more complex or experimental, originating in the 1940s.
Magdala reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magdala red
constructive malice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The doctrine that malice aforethought could be attributed to the defendant if death was caused during the commission of another felony (such as robbery or burglary) — abolished in most cases by the Homicide Act 1957.
congressional fellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congressional fellow
cone pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cone peppers
Senses: synonyms: conic pepper
conical pepper
glosses: Any of a group of erect conical chili peppers within the species Capsicum annuum.
cone peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cone pepper
obstacle races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstacle race
confidence course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidence courses
Senses: glosses: A military obstacle course (series of physical challenges).
confidence courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confidence course
conic pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conic peppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cone pepper.
synonyms: word: cone pepper
conical pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conical peppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cone pepper.
synonyms: word: cone pepper
conic peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conic pepper
conical peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conical pepper
condensed soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensed soups
Senses: hypernyms: soup#Noun
glosses: A packaged (often canned) soup with much of the water removed, prepared by adding water or milk.
condensed soups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condensed soup
find it in oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finds it in oneself
form: finding it in oneself
form: found it in oneself
form: found it in oneself
Senses: glosses: Synonym of find it in one's heart.
synonyms: word: find it in one's heart
get one's claws on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's claws on
form: getting one's claws on
form: got one's claws on
form: got one's claws on
form: gotten one's claws on
Senses: glosses: Synonym of get one's hands on (“acquire”).
synonyms: word: get one's hands on
extra: acquire
red-fan parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-fan parrots
Senses: synonyms: hawk-headed parrot
glosses: Deroptyus accipitrinus, a New World parrot from the Amazon rainforest.
hawk-headed parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawk-headed parrots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of red-fan parrot.
synonyms: word: red-fan parrot
health maintenance organization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: health maintenance organizations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: HMO
glosses: A medical insurance group that provides health services for a fixed annual fee.
health maintenance organizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of health maintenance organization
semipalmated plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semipalmated plovers
Senses: examples: text: And, speaking of relative banalities, the recurring Semipalmated Plover at the Broom Sewage Works may have inured us slightly to the status of the species as a rare vagrant, but it was an undeniable "mega" when one was discovered on Lord Howe Island on 23 March.
ref: 2017 June 24, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 2:
glosses: A species of plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, of the Americans, with semipalmated feet.
semipalmated plovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semipalmated plover
retrademark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retrademarks
form: retrademarking
form: retrademarked
form: retrademarked
Etymology: From re- + trademark.
Senses: examples: text: Pardon me if I'm wrong my understanding is very little, but if they don't have the trademark anymore can't anyone retrademark it and then it's theirs?
ref: 2016 May 20, Mipha, ZD Forums:
glosses: To trademark again or anew.
retrademarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrademark
retrademarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of retrademark
retrademarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrademark
heartbeat law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartbeat laws
Senses: glosses: A law that forbids abortions after the fetal heartbeat can be detected, typically around six weeks.
heartbeat laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartbeat law
large-headed rice rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large-headed rice rats
Senses: glosses: The oryzomyine rodent Hylaeamys laticeps.
glosses: The oryzomyine rodent Hylaeamys megacephalus.
Related terms: big-headed rice rat
big-headed rice rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-headed rice rats
Senses: glosses: The oryzomyine rodent Euryoryzomys legatus.
glosses: The oryzomyine rodent Euryoryzomys russatus.
Related terms: large-headed rice rat
trou madame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of troll-my-dames.
BHPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BHP
Leeuwenhoekian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leeuwenhoekian
form: most Leeuwenhoekian
Etymology: From Leeuwenhoek + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Dutch microbiologist and microscopist.
Ehrenbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ehrenbergian
form: most Ehrenbergian
Etymology: From Ehrenberg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876), German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist.
glosses: Of or relating to Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg (1926–2010), English statistician and marketing scientist.
dog-flea model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-flea models
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ehrenfest model.
synonyms: word: Ehrenfest model
Davidi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Davidis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tubular chimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tubular bells.
synonyms: word: tubular bells
overdubbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdubbing
armchair tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armchair ticks
Senses: examples: text: [I]t would be a rare split in that it would be unlikely to result in an armchair tick for any birders, living or dead.
ref: 2017 June 24, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 1:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The addition of a new bird to one's personal list resulting from a change in taxonomy or a delayed identification.
armchair ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armchair tick
turret spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turret spiders
Senses: glosses: The spider Atypoides riversi.
glosses: The spider Lycosa arenicola.
turret spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turret spider
Tuscan reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tuscan red
spuddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spuddy
Polls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poll
perameloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perameloids
Senses: glosses: Any marsupial of the superfamily Perameloidea, including the bandicoots, bilbies, and extinct chaeropodids.
perameloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perameloid
yirratji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yirratjis
Etymology: From Warlpiri yirratji.
Senses: glosses: A species of bandicoot, Chaeropus yirratji, of arid central Australia.
yirratjis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yirratji