cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
supracervical hysterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supracervical hysterectomies
Senses: glosses: A partial hysterectomy in which the uterus, but not the cervix is removed.
Massachusett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Wampanoag
glosses: A Native American tribe who traditionally live in the Massachusetts Bay area in the state of Massachusetts.
synonyms: Natick
Wampanoag
glosses: The Algonquian language of the Massachusett tribe.
mugwumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌɡwʌmps/
ipa: /ˈmʌɡˌwʌmps/
ipa: [ˈməɡˌwəmps]
Etymology: From mugwump + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of mugwump
mugwumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌɡwʌmps/
ipa: /ˈmʌɡˌwʌmps/
ipa: [ˈməɡˌwəmps]
Etymology: From mugwump + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mugwump
Wampanoag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wampanoags
form: Wampanoag
Etymology: From Massachusett Wôpanâak, wôpanâak.
Senses: examples: text: In 1621, colonists invited Massasoit, the chief of the Wampanoags, to a feast after a recent land deal.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 4:
glosses: A member of a Native American tribe located in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
glosses: A member of a current Native American nation currently consisting of five affiliated tribes.
Synonyms: Massachusett
Natick
Wampanoag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Massachusett Wôpanâak, wôpanâak.
Senses: glosses: The Algonquin language of the Wampanoag tribe.
steerages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steerage
constitutional monarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constitutional monarchies
Senses: synonyms: limited monarchy
hypernyms: monarchy
coordinate_terms: absolute monarchy
parliamentary monarchy
glosses: A monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
sprits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of sprit
intercity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-city
Etymology: From inter- + city.
Senses: examples: text: I plan to catch an intercity train, or bus.
text: A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
synonyms: interurban
antonyms: intracity
intraurban
coordinate_terms: interprovincial
interregional
interstate
glosses: Between cities; connecting cities with other cities.
Related terms: english: homophonous or nearly so in some accents
translation: homophonous or nearly so in some accents
word: inner city
intercity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercities
form: inter-city
Etymology: From inter- + city.
Senses: glosses: Something that runs between cities, such as a railroad.
marula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marulas
Etymology: From Tswana morula (“marula tree”), or from a closely related language.
Senses: examples: text: They were between two marula trees.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 87:
glosses: A medium-sized dioecious tree, Sclerocarya birrea, indigenous to Southern Africa and West Africa.
examples: text: In the evenings, long drinks anticipate freshly caught fish [...] with a marinade of mazhanje juice or marula liqueur.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 278:
glosses: Its edible stone fruit, with light yellow skin and white flesh.
marulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marula
goods and services tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goods and services taxes
Senses: related: word: GST
synonyms: value added tax
VAT
glosses: A tax very similar to a value added tax, levied, for example, in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.
Related terms: sales tax
snuss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See snus.
Senses: glosses: Snuff.
glosses: Chewing tobacco.
chewing tobacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewing tobaccos
Senses: synonyms: dip
snuff
coordinate_terms: snuff
glosses: Tobacco, cut or ground finely, and placed between the cheek and the gum to allow nicotine absorption through the mucous membranes.
glosses: Tobacco that is cut into strips or shreds, and chewed and then tucked between the cheek and the gum.
Related terms: quid
snuff
inheritance tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inheritance taxes
Senses: glosses: A tax based on the value of the property of a deceased person, and charged on the beneficiaries of the estate.
Synonyms: death duty
estate tax
estate tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estate taxes
Senses: glosses: A tax based on the value of the property of a deceased person, and charged on the personal representatives of the deceased.
Synonyms: death duty
inheritance tax
unequip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unequips
form: unequipping
form: unequipped
form: unequipped
Etymology: From un- + equip.
Senses: glosses: To remove equipment from.
topics: video-games
glosses: In role-playing video games, to deactivate (an item carried by a player).
death duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death duties
Senses: examples: text: Hardly a working day passes but we are asked if we can help the proprietors of a private company to dispose part of their holdings so as to prepare for or to pay death duties.
ref: 2008, Wolfgang Schön, editor, Tax and Corporate Governance, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: An inheritance tax or estate tax.
sacrosanctity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrosanctities
Etymology: From sacrosanct + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sacrosanct.
Synonyms: sacrosanctness
sacrosanctities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrosanctity
Tobacco Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: There were and are many roads of this name in the American South. The meanings are derived from the 1932 novel, Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell and the 1933 play and 1941 movie derived from it. Caldwell does not use the term "Tobacco Road" to refer to the region or place, only to the roads themselves.
According to Caldwell, the roads were created by rolling thousands of tobacco casks over them, over many decades. In the Savannah Valley of 1932 there were "scores" of these roads, ranging up to 30 miles in length. The casks were known as hogsheads, were roughly 48 inches by 36 inches and weighed about 1000 pounds once filled with leaves.
Senses: glosses: A dirt road, created by the passage of thousands of tobacco casks being rolled, mainly by people or mules, from plantations to river steamboats or trucks.
glosses: A region of North Carolina historically associated with the production of tobacco.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The four North Carolina schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
examples: text: If you have traveled in the remote parts of the Deep South, I am sure you have seen the architecture of Tobacco Road - shacks built of whatever materials were available at the time, often by a series of owners. Maybe the roof is corrugated tin, but one wall is made from a billboard and the doorstep is a cinder block.
ref: 2004, Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, page 169:
text: All in all, the scene was one of an ethereal Tobacco Road West.
ref: 2004, Mike Echols, I Know My First Name Is Steven, page 124:
text: Then we got Tobacco Road on the corner here, but they finally got burnt out. The family she referred to lived at the end of the block.
ref: 2000, Phillip J. Obermiller, Thomas E. Wagner, Edward Bruce Tucker, Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, page 151:
text: The next time he saw her it was her picture in the newspaper, with the story all about the Tobacco Road girl who had made good.
ref: 2006, Lee Server, Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing, page 43:
text: But those Tobacco Road stereotypes of the South and rural America are the same disparagements that the Republicans hurled at the Populists a century ago […].
ref: 2007, Geoffrey Nunberg, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte, page 83:
glosses: A fictional place in the rural American South inhabited by poor and uneducated people who live in dilapidated structures.
Derived terms: tobacco-roader
tobacco-roadish
school uniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school uniforms
Senses: examples: text: School uniforms for boys may include a school tie, jacket, cap and a pair of formal trousers.
glosses: A number of uniform items which must be worn by pupils/students in a school.
Related terms: gym uniform
school tie
head tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head taxes
Senses: glosses: A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual; a poll tax.
Synonyms: capitation
poll tax
poll tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poll taxes
form: poll-tax
Etymology: From sense poll (“head”) for “uniform tax per individual”; from sense poll (“voting place”) for “tax required to vote”.
Senses: glosses: A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.
glosses: A tax that must be paid in order to vote.
Synonyms: capitation
head money
head tax
unequips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unequip
unequipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unequip
unequipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unequip
unequipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unequipped
form: most unequipped
Senses: glosses: Without equipment.
examples: text: At six years of age, he was unequipped to deal with the death of his parents.
text: The only overlap is that fitters of the electric side are responsible for repairing electrical faults in the diesel multiple-units, but even this has led to trouble, as diesel fitters called out to repair a multiple-unit, having diagnosed the fault as electrical, have been unequipped to deal with it.
ref: 1961 August, M. C. Casson, “Motive power transition in the Liverpool area”, in Trains Illustrated, page 476:
glosses: Not given the appropriate tools to deal with a situation.
nonuniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + uniform.
Senses: glosses: Not uniform.
glosses: Not having the same instantaneous velocity at all points.
raw_tags: of a flow
glosses: Composed of macromolecular species of differing molar masses.
raw_tags: of a polymer
Derived terms: nonuniformness
nonuniform polynomial time
Related terms: dispersity
nonuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonusers
form: non-user
Etymology: From non- + user.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not a user (of drugs, a computer system, etc.).
examples: text: An office may be forfeited by mis-user or non-user.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: The subject of the forfeiture of corporate franchises by nonuser or misuser , was fully discussed in the case of The King v . Amery
ref: 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:
topics: law
glosses: Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right.
nonviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪəbəl
Forms: form: non-viable
Etymology: From non- + viable.
Senses: synonyms: unviable
inviable
glosses: Not viable: not capable of independent life; not practicable.
nonvirulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + virulent.
Senses: glosses: Not virulent.
nonvocational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vocational.
Senses: glosses: Not vocational.
nonworking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + working.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: out-of-order, out-of-service
synonyms: inoperative
nonfunctioning
nonfunctional
coordinate_terms: dysfunctional
;
hypofunctional
;
unworkable
;
unusable
glosses: That does not work (operate or function).
examples: text: She works more than 12 hours a day at homemaking and childcare, so it is ironic that she is classified as a nonworking spouse.
glosses: Not employed; employed in unpaid labor, such as homemaking and childcare.
jeremiads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeremiad
peaches and cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those Incarnations — they've got real jobs to do! It isn't all peaches and cream for them, any more than for us!
ref: 1991, Piers Anthony, And Eternity, page 209:
text: When I was little, I thought life was peaches and cream.
ref: 1995, Albert Ramsdell Gurney, John Cheever, A Cheever Evening: A New Play Based on the Stories of John Cheever, page 26:
text: I'm not trying to make it sound like life as part of a championship-level race team is all peaches and cream. Nothing in life is all peaches and cream.
ref: 2002, Tony Stewart, True Speed: My Racing Life, page 44:
synonyms: word: bed of roses
word: bowl of cherries
word: sunshine and rainbows
word: beatitude
word: bliss
word: delectation
word: delight
word: ecstasy
word: euphoria
word: lust
word: nirvana
word: pleasure
word: rapture
word: ravishment
word: transport
glosses: A very enjoyable experience. Usually used to describe something being unrealistically idyllic.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A simple dessert consisting of sliced peaches and whipped cream, popular in the United States.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peach, cream.
peaches and cream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peaches and cream
form: most peaches and cream
form: peaches-and-cream
Senses: glosses: Of facial complexion: smooth, unblemished, with attractive yellow-pink coloring.
peaches-and-cream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peaches-and-cream
form: most peaches-and-cream
form: peaches and cream
Senses: glosses: Of facial complexion, smooth, with attractive yellow-pink coloring.
quaffing wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaffing wines
Senses: glosses: A wine considered unsophisticated or simple in taste, but pleasant to quaff.
bowl of cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowls of cherries
Senses: examples: text: Life is just a just a bowl of cherries / Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious / You work, you save, you worry so / But you can't take it with you when you / go, go, go. / Oh, life is just a bowl of cherries / so live and laugh at it all.
ref: 1931, Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries:
text: Della thought it meant that you just get your bowl of cherries in life and that's your lot and you eat them one by one and then you die.
ref: 2001, Amy Jenkins, Honeymoon, page 160:
text: She did not believe that life was a bowl of cherries, and she never had.
ref: 2002, Michael Malone, Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women, page 94:
synonyms: word: peaches and cream
word: beatitude
word: bliss
word: delectation
word: delight
word: ecstasy
word: euphoria
word: lust
word: nirvana
word: pleasure
word: rapture
word: ravishment
word: transport
glosses: An enjoyable experience.
nipple cripple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nipple cripples
Senses: glosses: A school prank, the act of taking a person's nipple between the thumb and forefinger and then twisting it around roughly.
Synonyms: purple nurple
titty twister
nipple cripples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nipple cripple
towel snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towel snaps
Senses: glosses: A school prank in the act of the person twisting a damp towel making it look whip-like. The person whips the victim with the end of the towel making a snapping noise and with contact of the victim in pain
towel snaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towel snap
syzygies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syzygy
missionary-linguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missionary-linguists
form: missionary linguist
Senses: examples: text: although we do not meet among the missionary linguists that marvellous variety of languages which excites our wonder, yet we find in them abundant evidences of a solid and practical scholarship
ref: 1858, C. W. Russell, The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti, page 29:
text: While he had fulfilled what was expected of him as a missionary linguist, his eagerness for the welfare of the Africans led him to occupy himself with other plans
ref: 1881, John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson, Memoir of George Thomson, Cameroon Mountains, West Africa, by one of his nephews, page 20:
text: the valuable work of the excellent and indefatigable missionary-linguist, the late Father Marcoux, on the Iroquois language, is about to be published by the Bureau of ethnology.
ref: 1883, H. Hale, “The Iroquois institutions and language”, in Science, volume 2, number 36, page 497:
text: Even the famous missionary-linguist J.G. Christaller could not break away from the spell of this 'priestcraft'-theory.
ref: 1979, J.G. Platvoet, “The Akan Believer and his Religions”, in Official and Popular Religion: Analysis of a Theme for Religious Studies, page 595:
text: Many missionary-linguists leave the familiarity of their home and their social network to go spend many years (often decades) in local communities, learning the local language and local customs and beliefs.
ref: 2006, Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization, page 196:
glosses: A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.
Related terms: missionary linguistics
missionary linguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of missionary-linguist.
tunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tonk (“card game”).
tunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunks
Senses: examples: text: a tunk on the head
glosses: A sharp blow; a thump.
Related terms: kitchen tunk
A*s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A*
C-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of Chinese.
Senses: glosses: Chinese; used to form nouns relating to the (popular) culture of China.
Coordinate terms: word: J-
english: Korean
translation: Korean
word: K-
word: T-
english: Vietnamese
translation: Vietnamese
word: V-
Derived terms: C-beauty
C-drama
C-pop
bioethicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioethicists
Etymology: From bioethics + -ist, analogous to ethicist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in bioethics
communality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmjʊˈnalɪti/
ipa: /ˌkɒmjʊˈnaləti/
ipa: /ˌkɒmjəˈnalɪti/
ipa: /ˌkɒmjəˈnaləti/
ipa: /ˌkɑmjuˈnæləti/
ipa: /ˌkɑmjəˈnæləti/
Forms: form: communalities
Etymology: From communal + -ity; compare earlier commonalty, commonality.
Senses: examples: text: There may have been a vague communality of purpose, but we were never a team.
ref: 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 10:
glosses: The condition of being communal.
glosses: The extent to which something is communal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure of variance in factor analysis.
microscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microscopists
Etymology: From microscope + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert at microscopy.
Derived terms: nonmicroscopist
rig pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rig pigs
Senses: examples: text: And, of course, they can maintain control of half a dozen shit-scared rig pigs.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse, page 95:
text: "Rig pigs are welders that drive souped up pick-up trucks with all their gear in the back and they spend weeks at sites welding. […]" "[…] You should know that. You're from Alberta!"
ref: 2006, Laurie Hannan, The Gamble, page 118:
text: You are truly a fucking champion and thank you for bringing a smile to a rig pig's wife!
ref: 2007, Paul Carter, This Is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield, page 238:
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A worker on an oil rig; a roughneck.
multisystem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + system.
Senses: examples: text: When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.
ref: 2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one system (especially computer systems)
glosses: multisystemic
multisystemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: more multisystemic
form: most multisystemic
Etymology: From multi- + systemic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or affecting more than one system or organ of the body
tava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tawa.
nerdish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerdish
form: most nerdish
Etymology: From nerd + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The boys whose averageness is marked by their especially pale-skinned, scrawny, and nerdish appearances.
ref: 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: Like a nerd; having the traits of a nerd.
Derived terms: nerdishly
nerdishness
Related terms: nerdy
geekish
pandemoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandemonia
Senses: glosses: plural of pandemonium
geekish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geekish
form: most geekish
Etymology: From geek + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a geek; having the traits of a geek.
Derived terms: geekishly
geekishness
Related terms: nerdish
mom and pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mom and pops
form: Mom and Pop
form: mom-and-pop
form: Mom-and-Pop
Etymology: Named for the archetypical case in which such a business is run by a self-employed couple with children.
Senses: topics: business
commerce
retail
hypernyms: SMB#Noun
SME#Noun
coordinate_terms: big box
glosses: A small business, often but not always owned or operated by a family.
examples: text: Also, love for mom and pop.
ref: 1952 November 24, “Religion”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume LX, number 21, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76, column 2:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mom, and, pop.
Related terms: english: often hypernymous
translation: often hypernymous
word: family business
mom and pop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Mom and Pop
form: mom-and-pop
form: Mom-and-Pop
Etymology: Named for the archetypical case in which such a business is run by a self-employed couple with children.
Senses: examples: text: In the past ten years or so, there has been an explosion of restaurants. This is a very welcome development, as the art of fine dining has spread to areas that previously only had mom and pop diners or substandard steakhouses.
ref: 1997, Bradley S. O’Leary, “What Makes a Restaurant Romantic?”, in Dining by Candlelight: America’s 200 Most Romantic Restaurants, Austin, Tex.: Boru Publishing, →ISBN, page xxi:
text: McDonald’s and Burger King have pretty much wiped out the mom and pop diners; […]
ref: 1998, Ed Gorman, chapter 4, in Cage of Night, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Did he eat at local mom and pop diners or national chains?
ref: 2016, Steven M. Studebaker, “Global Leadership Without Hubris”, in A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal: Spirit of the Kingdoms, Citizens of the Cities (Christianity and Renewal – Interdisciplinary Studies), →ISBN, part III (The Spirit and National Renewal), page 229:
glosses: Alternative form of mom-and-pop.
big box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big boxes
Senses: examples: text: Expect major mall owners to step up their courting of discounters and big boxes.
ref: 2006, Stacy Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Big Boxes are becoming ever more prevalent in suburbia, replacing many viable regional malls or
ref: 2012, Lisa Scharoun, America at the Mall: The Cultural Role of a Retail Utopia, Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Different models of specialty big boxes persist , as does the suspicion of Walmart as both a cultural influence and a touchstone for how to build retail spaces
ref: 2024, Bart Elmore, Rachel S. Gross, Sherri Sheu, Big box USA: the environmental impact of America's biggest retail stores, Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming Press, →ISBN, page 152:
topics: business
commerce
retail
synonyms: big-box store
box store
hyperstore
megastore
supercenter
superstore
coordinate_terms: mom and pop
glosses: A large self-service store, usually on a single level, with few interior walls, owned and run by a corporation.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, box.
Related terms: hypermarket
big-box
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-box
form: most big-box
Senses: examples: text: Big-box retailers like Wal-Mart have driven local mom-and-pop stores out of business.
glosses: Of or relating to a very large retail establishment built as a massive, free-standing structure.
big boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big box
game-changing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Our plan to transition from products to solutions is a game-changing moment for our company.
text: These trains are not only being keenly awaited by people in our city region, but also by rail experts aware of how game-changing these are for the industry.
ref: 2019 October 23, Richard Clinnick, “Testing begins as Merseyrail moves closer to new '777s'”, in RAIL, number 890, page 28:
text: What is beyond dispute it that Declan Rice, at £105m from West Ham United, is the game-changing signing Arteta had in mind when he put such time and effort into the pursuit of his top summer transfer priority.
ref: 2023 September 3, Phil McNulty, “Declan Rice: The game-changing midfielder Arsenal need for title challenge”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Critical and having the potential to alter the overall outcome.
Related terms: game changer
who's your daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What's your name? / Who's your daddy? / Is he rich like me?
ref: 1968, “Time of the Season”, in Odessey and Oracle, performed by The Zombies:
glosses: A humorous or sarcastic statement of (often sexual) superiority over someone else.
examples: text: I got fisted one time [by] a very short lesbian. [mimes] "Who's your daddy?" "...Eileen?" "That's right, bitch!"
ref: 2002, Margaret Cho, Notorious C.H.O.:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A humorous or sarcastic statement of (often sexual) superiority over someone else.
An assertion that one is the dominant in a relationship or situation.
Clintonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪnˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /klɪnˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Clintonian
form: most Clintonian
Etymology: From Clinton + -ian.
Senses: examples: "Obama's Clintonian circle: the abundance of Clinton veterans recruited by Obama may not be the change voters had in mind." (Yahoo Home Page, November 19, 2008 2:58PM (PST) ).
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to Bill Clinton (born 1946), US politician who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to Hillary Clinton (born 1947), US politician and wife of Bill Clinton.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to DeWitt Clinton (born 1769), US politician.
Related terms: Clintonesque
Clintonite
phycology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fī-kŏlʹə-jē
ipa: /faɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
ipa: /faɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /fɑɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From phyco- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of algae.
Synonyms: algology
Derived terms: paleophycology
Related terms: phyco-
phycologic
phycological
phycologically
phycologist
phycophyte
unpollinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpollinated
form: most unpollinated
Etymology: From un- + pollinated.
Senses: examples: text: The ground was littered with unpollinated nutlets.
glosses: That has not been pollinated.
Related terms: pollinate
pollinated
poecilonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsɪlənɪm/
Forms: form: poecilonyms
Etymology: From poecilo- + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: >> Is there another word for synonym?
>Actually, there is: poecilonym
Take care, though; ‘poecilonym’ can only be used for the taxonomic meaning of ‘synonym’--an incorrect or obsolete systematic name for a genus or species.
ref: 1999 July 27, Ucalegon, “Missing aircraft”, in alt.anagrams (Usenet):
text: It's high time I looked for another job and got as far away from homonyms, synonyms, antonyms — to say nothing of caconyms, eponyms, and poecilonyms!
ref: 2006, Nero Blanc, Death on the Diagonal, page 147:
text: Maybe we could all use a few spanking old poecilonyms. Poecilonym? It's an old synonym for synonym that you'll find in these pages. But many words in this dictionary have no real counterparts in today's English.
ref: 1997, David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words, page xi:
synonyms: alias
synonym
glosses: Any of several names for a thing; an alternative name.
examples: text: This is also a type of poecilonym or hybrid word; cf. such a word as “aeneolithic” (=chalcolithic) in English.
ref: 1977, Robert H. Stacy, Defamiliarization in Language and Literature, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Synonym of hybridism.
synonyms: word: hybridism
Related terms: poecilonymic
poecilonymy
poecilonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poecilonym
autoclitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoclitic
yens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yen
yens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yen
yens
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: yĭnz
rhymes: Rhymes: -ɪnz
Forms: form: yins
form: yinz
Etymology: A contraction of the phrase "ye ones".
Senses: glosses: You, you all; used in referring to a group that includes one's audience.
Synonyms: the list of other second-person pronouns in you
Related terms: yeens
yoons
you-uns
kindas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinda
tasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tase
tased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tase
high hopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just what makes that little old ant / Think he'll move a big rubber plant? / Anyone knows an ant can't / Move a rubber tree plant / But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes / he's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes[…]
ref: 1959, “High Hopes”, in Sammy Cahn (lyrics), Jimmy Van Heusen (music), All the Way, performed by Frank Sinatra and Eddie Hodges, from the film A Hole in the Head (1959):
text: Living life is fun and we've just begun / To get our share of this world's delights / High hopes we have for the future
ref: 1979, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, “We Are Family”, performed by Sister Sledge:
glosses: The optimistic belief that an aim or goal will be achieved.
impossible dream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impossible dreams
Etymology: From Don Quixote.
Senses: examples: text: Tell me before I seek worthier pastures / And thereby restore self-esteem / How can you be so short-sighted / To look never further than this week or next week / To have no impossible dream?
ref: 1996, Alan Parker, Oliver Stone, Evita:
glosses: A belief or goal which is unattainable despite the pursuer's high hopes.
scissorbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scissorbill
blow a fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows a fuse
form: blowing a fuse
form: blew a fuse
form: blown a fuse
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from flowing.
examples: text: When he learned that his daughter had eloped, he blew a fuse.
synonyms: word: Note: All terms are idiomatic unless stated otherwise.
word: blow a fuse
word: blow a gasket
word: blow one's stack
word: blow one's top
word: crash out
word: cut up nasty
word: cut up rough
word: do one's block
word: do one's nut
word: flip one's lid
word: flip one's wig
word: flip out
word: fly into a rage
word: fly off the handle
word: forget oneself
word: get bent out of shape
word: get one's back up
word: get one's dander up
word: get one's Irish up
word: get one's shirt out
word: go ape
word: go apeshit
word: go ballistic
word: go bananas
word: go bitchcakes
word: go HAM
word: go H.A.M.
word: go ham
word: go off
raw_tags: not idiomatic
word: go postal
word: go spare
word: have a cow
word: have a fit
word: have kittens
word: hit the roof
word: hit the ceiling
word: lose it
word: lose one's cool
word: lose one's marbles
word: lose one's mind
word: lose one's rag
word: lose one's temper
word: lower the boom
word: pitch a fit
word: pop one's cork
word: see red
word: shit a brick
word: steam
word: teen
raw_tags: not idiomatic
word: throw a fit
word: throw one's toys out of the pram
word: vent one's gall
word: wax wode
raw_tags: not idiomatic
glosses: To lose one's temper; to become enraged.
tanj
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of TANJ (There ain't no justice.)
to a tee
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to a T.
states' rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: conservatism
glosses: Rights reserved to the 50 state governments of the United States that allow each one to set policy on some issues, rather than being subject to federal policy, especially in reference to their right to allow slavery before the Civil War.
Derived terms: states' righter
biofix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofixes
Etymology: From bio- + fix.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: pest management
glosses: A biological event or indicator of a developmental event, usually in the life of an insect pest, that initiates the beginning of growing-degree-day calculations.
biofixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofix
Sieg Heil
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sieg Heil, from Sieg (“victory”) + Heil, a common chant at political rallies in Nazi Germany, translating as “victory brings salvation” or alternatively as “salvation [to] victory” on the model of Heil Hitler.
Senses: examples: text: "Ti-to! Ti-to! Ti-to!" has exactly the same rhythm and resonance as "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" at the Nazi demonstrations, or "Du-ce! Du-ce! Du-ce!" in Fascist Italy.
ref: [1971, Sydney Morrell, Spheres of Influence, page 216:
text: All of a sudden a number of the militant homosexuals stood up, raised their hands in a Nazi-style salute and began to chant "Sieg heil! Sieg heil! Sieg heil!" Everyone in the room was paralyzed. How could they accuse us — those who suffered and died in the Holocaust — of being Nazis?
ref: 1991, James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, page 16:
text: Tear gas floated into the Hilton, up the air vents, and into the suite of the vice president, who was preparing his acceptance speech. On the street, chanting: "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil," and "The Whole World Is Watching."
ref: 1995, Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and The Sixties, page 224:
text: And so, sometimes, did their direct effects. At many skinhead concerts, bands led fans in swastika flag-waving and chants of Sieg Heil!
ref: 2002, John Rodden, Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, page 202:
text: Then a few voices started to chant "Sieg heil! Sieg heil!", and these were joined by more voices, and gradually the whole assembly rose to its feet.
ref: 2004, Paul Taylor, Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics, page 101:
text: The omnious vast regimented rallies we have all seen on television, with adoring crowds shouting Sieg heil! and saluting in unison, were now a feature of German social life. In 1933 Hitler was in a position to seize power.
ref: 2007 October 8, Harry Davis, Palace of Crystal, Arena books, →ISBN:
glosses: The greeting Sieg Heil, used by the Nazis, and by neo-Nazis and people comparing others to Nazis today.
Derived terms: Sieg Heil salute
Sieg Heil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sieg Heils
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sieg Heil, from Sieg (“victory”) + Heil, a common chant at political rallies in Nazi Germany, translating as “victory brings salvation” or alternatively as “salvation [to] victory” on the model of Heil Hitler.
Senses: examples: text: In the other truck, Hi Hitler giggled piercingly, and the skinheads gave Sieg Heils.
ref: 2000, Michael McClister, “The Fifth Day”, in Double Deal, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 187:
text: And Jerry, Jerry doing Sieg Heils around the stage then, in that crumpled suit.
ref: 2012, Ada Wilson, “January 3rd 1990, 11am”, in Red Army Faction Blues, Pontefract, West Yorkshire: Route, →ISBN, page 200:
text: One year they fell foul of the organisers at the West German Grand Prix in some way and they kept goose stepping around the paddock, snapping their heels and doing Sieg Heils.
ref: 2015, Chris Carter, Richard Skelton, “Sidecar racers”, in Chris Carter at Large: Stories from a Lifetime in Motorcycle Racing, Poundbury, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 5, pages 123–124:
glosses: Ellipsis of Sieg Heil salute (“Nazi salute”).
Sieg Heil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sieg Heils
form: Sieg Heiling
form: Sieg Heiled
form: Sieg Heiled
form: sieg-heil
form: sieg heil
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sieg Heil, from Sieg (“victory”) + Heil, a common chant at political rallies in Nazi Germany, translating as “victory brings salvation” or alternatively as “salvation [to] victory” on the model of Heil Hitler.
Senses: examples: text: (It’s worth noting that the video Musk posted of his speech did not show Musk performing the gesture head-on—it cut away to the crowd; a C-SPAN clip shows it in full, though.) Eventually, he will almost certainly deny that he Sieg heiled.^([sic])
ref: 2025 January 20, Charlie Warzel, “Did He? Elon Musk either had a slipped-mask moment, or is supremely awkward.”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2025:
glosses: To perform a Nazi salute, often while chanting Sieg Heil.
prenotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenotions
Etymology: From pre- + notion.
Senses: glosses: Foreknowledge.
steups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steupses
form: stewps
form: chupes
form: chupse
form: cheups
form: steupse
Etymology: Imitative of the act of sucking one's teeth as a gesture of annoyance or disapproval. Native to the English-speaking West Indies, e.g. Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago etc. In Jamaica, the term "kissing teeth" is used instead.
Senses: examples: text: A loud steups followed.
ref: 2003, Ramabai Espinet, The Swinging Bridge, page 45:
text: He thought he heard a loud steups somewhere from the dark.
ref: 2004, Anson Gonzalez, Crossroads of Dream, page 57:
text: When my mother heard this she let out a loud steups but said nothing.
ref: 2006, Joy Mahabir, Jouvert, page 78:
glosses: The sound made by sucking one's teeth.
steups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steupses
form: steupsing
form: steupsed
form: steupsed
form: stewps
form: chupes
form: chupse
form: cheups
form: steupse
Etymology: Imitative of the act of sucking one's teeth as a gesture of annoyance or disapproval. Native to the English-speaking West Indies, e.g. Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago etc. In Jamaica, the term "kissing teeth" is used instead.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Here?’ Petronella steups. ‘Where you think here is?’
ref: 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 104:
synonyms: kiss one's teeth
suck one's teeth
glosses: To suck one's teeth, indicating disappointment, derision or disgust.
Related terms: hiss
shush
surah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: surahs
form: suwar
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sura (“chapter of Quran”).
surah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: surahs
Senses: glosses: soft twilled silk
tenebrific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛn.ɪˈbɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more tenebrific
form: most tenebrific
Etymology: From New Latin tenebrificus, from Latin tenebrae (“darkness”) + -i- + -ficus (“making, causing”).
Senses: examples: text: Tenebrific stars were once thought to be the source of darkness during the night.
text: It lightens, it brightens, / The tenebrific ſcene, / To meet with, and greet with / My Davie, or my Jean!
ref: 1793, Robert Burns, “Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, stanza X, page 222:
glosses: Producing darkness, obscuring; (loosely) gloomy.
aoudad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aoudads
Etymology: From French aoudad, from Tashelhit awdad.
Senses: examples: text: Aoudads compete with native deer and actually run them off shared range, according to TPWD^([Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]) ethnobotanist David Alloway. There is no doubt that the aoudad must be removed from the ranch; the only question is how.
ref: 1995, Dick Bartlett, Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation, page 183:
text: In captivity the aoudad seems to like water and to enjoy taking a bath. The diet consists of grass, herbaceous plants, and stunted bushes.
ref: 1999, Ronald M. Nowak, “Aoudad, or Barbary Sheep”, in Walker′s Mammals of the World, volume 1, page 1231:
text: New Mexico addressed this anxiety by issuing game department personnel a shoot-on-sight order for any aoudad found inside known bighorn boundaries in New Mexico. By comparison, Arizona′s intent was to eliminate any aoudad loose anywhere inside its jurisdiction, and its neighbor′s other additions were not welcome either.
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Exotic Animal Field Guide: Nonnative Hoofed Mammals in the United States, page 12:
glosses: The Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia.
ramose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ramose
form: most ramose
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rāmōsus.
Senses: examples: text: But it is chiefly in the interesting family Chalcídidæ that we find the greatest number of species having ramose antennæ.
ref: 1837, J. O. Westwood, “Art. VIII. Description of a new Genus of British parasitic Hymenopterous Insects.”, in Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Longmans, page 258:
glosses: Having branches; branching
Derived terms: caliculato-ramose
sarong party girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarong party girls
Senses: synonyms: word: SPG
glosses: An Asian girl who dates a non-Asian, especially a white expatriate.
gulps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlps/
rhymes: -ʌlps
Senses: glosses: plural of gulp
gulps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlps/
rhymes: -ʌlps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gulp
gulping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌlpɪŋ/
Etymology: From gulp + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gulp
gulping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌlpɪŋ/
Forms: form: gulpings
Etymology: From Middle English gulpinge, golping, equivalent to gulp + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Distracted by the munchings and gulpings that punctuated my father's theology, I lost my place in his dialogue.
ref: 2002, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Stories of an imaginary childhood, page 35:
glosses: The action of one who gulps.
anemophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anemo- + -philous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: anemogamous
antonyms: entomophilous
glosses: Pollinated by the wind.
Related terms: anemophily
hyaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyaloid
form: most hyaloid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑαλοειδής (hualoeidḗs), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-id”).
Senses: glosses: transparent or glassy
Derived terms: hyaloidal
hyaloid artery
hyaloid fossa
hyaloiditis
hyaloid membrane
hyaloidotomy
hyaluronic
subhyaloid
hyaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaloids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑαλοειδής (hualoeidḗs), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-id”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hyaloid membrane
currish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: more currish
form: most currish
Etymology: From cur + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
examples: text: more enfierced through his curriſh play,
 Him ſternely grypt, and haling to and fro,
 To ouerthrow him ſtrongly did aſſay […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Gratiano:
O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:
glosses: Ignoble, mean-spirited.
Synonyms: doggish
Derived terms: currishly
currishness
phantom pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom pains
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A sensation of pain coming from a part of the body that has been amputated, or in which the nerves have been destroyed.
Synonyms: pseudaesthesia