cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
8647
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From 86 (“get rid of, kill”) + 47 (“second presidency of Donald Trump”)
Senses: examples: text: In a now-deleted post on Instagram, Comey shared a photo of what he described as a "shell formation" on a beach that formed the numbers "8647."
ref: 2025 May 15, Nnamdi Egwuonwu, “Former FBI Director James Comey under investigation for post seen as a potential threat to Trump's life”, in NBC News:
text: The former FBI director James Comey has said it did not occur to him that that the numbers 8647 – which he spotted spelled out in seashells on a beach, and posted on social media – could be interpreted as a call to assassinate the president, as many supporters of Donald Trump have claimed.
ref: 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A numeric code advocating for the impeachment of (and in some cases, the death of) Donald Trump.
wikipedia: Donald Trump
Related terms: 8646
whatever winds your clock
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The toy company is apparently announcing her selection Saturday at a press conference. “I thought my agent was playing a joke,” says the single mother of a 6-year-old girl. “I never dreamed I’d be Barbie.” Whatever winds your clock.
ref: 1993 October 6, Pat Simms, “Snoop: Doctor meets Crawford after all”, in Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1B, column 1:
text: No one cared less if Dex—Dos—wanted to stand and eavesdrop on people’s conversations. The waiter had passed through the swinging door a number of times while Dex stood hiding behind it with his ear pressed to the crack and only once did he stop to look at him; he shook his head with vague disapproval and smiled at the little bald-headed dish cleaner. “Whatever winds your clock, buddy. You better hope you don’t get caught, he’s a regular here.”
ref: 2002, Bobbi McCutcheon, chapter 18, in Father Mars, Mother Earth, New York, N.Y.: RJ Communications; Juneau, Alas.: Gray Rabbit Enterprise, →ISBN, page 214:
text: “I just wanted to remind the guys that there’s a bigger purpose here, don’t get caught up in what we did the last couple of games. Let’s go out here tonight and play against a team that knows how to be champions.” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan didn’t know Fisher planned to address the team, but he didn’t mind. “I don’t care what they bring out, as long as it isn’t illegal,” Sloan said with a laugh. “Whatever winds your clock. We need whatever help we can get.”
ref: 2006 November 30, Phil Miller, “Jazz Notes: Fisher becomes impromptu ringleader”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Ut., →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: “The Bear, I’ve had since I was an infant. It’s of great sentimental value to me. So it’s always with me. On the road, it stays in my suitcase. I do like my Bear, OK?” Hey, kid, whatever winds your clock …
ref: 2007 March 5, Randy Galloway, “Galloway: Daniels’ gamble could pay off big time”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4D, column 6:
text: “Ninety percent of the work is done in the field. You guys will never change that.” / “I like to think my ten percent gives you guys a reason to be in the field.” / Kremp shook his head sadly. “Whatever winds your clock.”
ref: 2011, Curt Batson, “The Shuffle”, in Lucky Stiffs, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, section 3, page 43:
text: “You know that the Peace River country was settled long after the rest of the country. My growing-up years were something like fifty years behind the life experienced by town people like you.” / “But surely that difference vanished when you got into city life.” / “I got used to city life. But I don’t think I’ve ever really accepted it.” / “I don’t know why, but whatever winds your clock.”
ref: 2021, Lea Tassie, “Saving Water”, in Eyes Like a Hawk:
glosses: Synonym of whatever floats your boat.
synonyms: word: whatever floats your boat
8646
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From 86 (“get rid of, kill”) + 46 (“Joe Biden”)
Senses: examples: text: The number 86 has also been used by Republicans calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden – for example, T-shirts sold on Amazon reading “8646”, indicating a call to impeach Biden (the 46th president) – with some liberals accusing the right of deliberately misunderstanding Comey’s intent to score political points.
ref: 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A numeric code advocating for the impeachment of (and in some cases, the death of) Joe Biden.
wikipedia: Joe Biden
Related terms: 8647
whatever melts your butter
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Police said they offered to hold the man’s two black cases containing hundreds of rings, necklaces, assorted bracelets, earrings and belt buckles while he checked into a jail cell. “Whatever melts your butter,” the salesman replied.
ref: 1979 November 19, “People”, in Victoria Times, 96th year, number 135, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 1:
text: “[…] What’s her bond?” / “Fifteen thousand dollars.” / “She’s a mother, right? She’s got two children down there in Medellín?” / “You’re telling me . . .” / “I wouldn’t think of such a thing. You do whatever melts your butter. Just remember how poor the State of Florida is, and that we could use the bail money.”
ref: 1993, Clifford Irving, chapter 3, in Final Argument: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Do what you feel like, and hope that it sticks. If it doesn’t, throw it again. Maybe it sticks the next time over. And if it doesn’t, who cares? It’s just one insignificant life wasted in the vast ocean of lives all around. Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your camel, whatever sizzles your bacon, whatever tickles your pickle…
ref: 2008 May 14, Karan Bajaj, “It’s All a Waste”, in Keep off the Grass, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India; India Today Group, →ISBN, pages 15–16:
text: Our safety briefing this morning was sprinkled with his colorful Arkansas-born sayings. “Roger, you run the lighting show. Take one or two burners, whatever melts your butter. Keep an eye on the east line. When this gets romping and stomping, I don’t want everyone scattered from here to breakfast.”
ref: 2017, Mary Emerick, “Burning the Prairies”, in Fire in the Heart: A Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Wildfire, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Synonym of whatever floats your boat.
synonyms: word: whatever floats your boat
whatever humps your camel
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Heh heh, well then stop yer whinging - If I'm not mistaken, you've just done taking someone to task for not knowing 'you' - yet you 'know' all about 'us' being there or all there, quite a judgement call, would you say. However, whatever humps your camel, or takes your horse to water, just don't try to make 'me' drink it - I have unusual tastes and some tasty projections!!!
ref: 2000 November 24, Tommy kins, “Turkey Day?”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 May 2025:
text: Friend: What do you wanna do later? Me: Whatever humps your camel.
ref: 2007, “whatever humps your camel”, in Aaron Peckham, compiler, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 225, column 2:
text: Do what you feel like, and hope that it sticks. If it doesn’t, throw it again. Maybe it sticks the next time over. And if it doesn’t, who cares? It’s just one insignificant life wasted in the vast ocean of lives all around. Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your camel, whatever sizzles your bacon, whatever tickles your pickle…
ref: 2008 May 14, Karan Bajaj, “It’s All a Waste”, in Keep off the Grass, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India; India Today Group, →ISBN, pages 15–16:
text: PLAYER 2: What makes that date so buzzworthy? PLAYER 1: The buzz being, it was still illegal to serve alcohol to openly gay men. But on that day, a group of us stormed the establishment, slapped our hands on the bar and shouted, “We are homosexuals and demand to be served!” Or was it serviced? No, no…that, that came later. Much, much later. After the drinks. PLAYER 2: Whatever humps your camel.
ref: 2009 January 20, Paul M. Kelly, “Dishing at Julius’”, in Stage Whispers: Plays in One Act, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Whatever humps your camel. Why do you think London is such an inspiring capital for fashion and design? London is the Toys R Us of cities.
ref: 2012, Reiss London Guide, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023:
glosses: Synonym of whatever floats your boat.
synonyms: word: whatever floats your boat
Cliddesden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6349).
rinse-repeat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Studies show that for a vast majority of people, diets don’t work in the long term. This did not stop WeightWatchers from re-enrolling those customers, again and again, with the implicit promise that this time would be different. I was one of those rinse-repeat clients.
ref: 2025 May 15, Jennifer Weiner, “WeightWatchers Got One Thing Very Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of lather, rinse, repeat.
Herriard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6646).
regressive argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regressive arguments
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
hypernyms: argument
glosses: Synonym of regress argument.
synonyms: word: regress argument
regress argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regress arguments
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
related: word: regressive argument
hypernyms: argument
glosses: An argument derived from (an infinite sequence of) previously accepted propositions.
zestos skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zestos skippers
Senses: glosses: Epargyreus zestos, a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae, found in the Caribbean and North America.
zestos skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zestos skipper
deadling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdlɪŋ/
Forms: form: deadlings
Etymology: dead + -ling
Senses: examples: text: The teenager stared down the barrel of Petr's gun for a few seconds, then asked hesitantly, “What kind of questions?”
“Something's going on,” Petr began.
The pimply deadling shrugged. “This is Brno, there's always something going on.”
ref: 2023, Kristýna Sněgoňová, “The Dragon of Brno”, in Jakub Mařík, transl., edited by Jakub Mařík and Martin Fajkus, Monster Hunter Fantom. A Monster Hunter Anthology, Baen Books, published 10 May 2024, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: Somebody designed to die.
deadlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadling
blue triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue triangles
Senses: synonyms: common bluebottle
glosses: Graphium sarpedon, a swallowtail butterfly that is found in East, South and Southeast Asia, as well as eastern Australia.
blue triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue triangle
OD-ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of OD
squidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squidless
form: most squidless
Etymology: From squid + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The birds find their own squid, although, after a long, squidless search, an individual may join other feeding albatrosses briefly.
ref: 1974, Wonders of the world of the albatross, page 51:
text: As I finish the last bite and begin to deal with the olive oil stains on my shirt, I am buoyed by the thought that the sort of New York joints that once went from being totally squidless to being buried in fried calamari will soon have pan bagnat as a familiar menu item.
ref: 2003, Trillin, Calvin, Feeding a yen: savoring local specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco, page 45:
text: I know where they are, Murel told her. The water’s a bit shallower there too, and squidless, so it would be easier for me to come and go. No offense about the squid...
ref: 2009, McCaffrey, Anne, Deluge, page 281:
glosses: Without squid.
mangelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mangelike
form: most mangelike
Etymology: From mange + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Others, such as members of the family Epidermoptidae, burrow in the skin and may cause a mangelike condition.
ref: 1990, Georgi, Jay R., 1928-, Parasitology for veterinarians, page 66:
text: Mites and ticks also infest the woodchuck. So far as I know the ticks are not injurious or annoying, but the mites may be responsible for a mangelike condition that occurs on the chuck.
ref: 1966, w.j. schoonmaker, The world of the woodchuck, page 36:
text: When he arrives home, he finds his own house dark, only the floodlight on the garage burning. The yard looks godawful, mangelike swatches of bare ground, whitish dog turds, trash blown down from the road.
ref: 1997, Long, David, The falling boy, page 134:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mange.
eye-brow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-brows
Senses: examples: text: Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily?
ref: 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XLVII. From Lien Chi Altangi, to ***** merchant in Amsterdam.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 209:
text: When that gentleman came from the city, and was welcomed in the drawing-room by his daughters and the elegant Miss Wirt, they saw at once by his face—which was puffy, solemn, and yellow at the best of times—and by the scowl and twitching of his black eye-brows, that the heart within his large white waistcoat was disturbed and uneasy.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Sentimental and Otherwise”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 109:
text: Nadia’s grandmother is that extremely rare thing in Chekhov’s work, an almost entirely negative character. This is brought out in his opening description of her, which emphasises her physical repulsiveness: ‘Grandmother, or, as she was called at home “babulia”, was very fat, ugly, with thick eye-brows and a little moustache.[…]’
ref: 2007, Joe Andrew, “‘A Room of One’s Own’, Part II: Narrative, Gender and Space in The Fiancée”, in Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction, 1846–1903, Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: Alternative form of eyebrow.
eye-brows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye-brow
drop bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop bolts
Senses: examples: text: Speaking now as a condemned criminal might speak ere the drop-bolts are drawn, my story, wild and hideously improbable as it may appear, demands at least attention.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9:
glosses: A bolt that holds a trapdoor shut.
glosses: A bolt that drops into place when let go.
drop bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop bolt
evil-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evil-tempered
form: most evil-tempered
Senses: examples: text: I call him a fool; but he attends me still with the same unwearied smile, the same bland professional manner, the same neatly-trimmed red whiskers, till I begin to suspect that I am an ungrateful, evil-tempered invalid.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10:
glosses: Extremely bad-tempered.
cuckoo cry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoo cries
Senses: examples: text: How many thousands, influenced by the cuckoo-cry of the cold-blooded political economists, have argued thus[.]
ref: 1840 May 7, The Launceston Advertiser, Tasmania, page 1, column 4:
text: “Jack, darling!” was her one eternal cuckoo-cry, “I’m sure it’s all a mistake—a hideous mistake; and we’ll be good friends again some day. Please forgive me, Jack, dear.”
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10:
text: “Starve? Stuff and nonsense!” he retorted testily. “No able-bodied fellow need starve nowadays. [...] Pshaw! Starve! That's always your, cuckoo cry!”
ref: 1942 January 31, The Voice, Hobart, page 5, column 2:
glosses: A repetitively incessant call, proclamation, statement, plea, etc.
cuckoo cries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckoo cry
reader copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reader copies
Senses: glosses: A low grade comic book in bad condition that may only be good for reading purposes.
Mg.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mgs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mg.
intimidatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intimidatable
form: most intimidatable
Derived terms: unintimidatable
hammer beam truss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer beam trusses
form: hammer-beam truss
form: hammerbeam truss
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A kind of roof truss, so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
Related terms: hammer beam roof
hammer beam roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer beam roofs
form: hammer-beam roof
form: hammerbeam roof
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A roof supported by a kind of roof truss, so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
Related terms: hammer beam truss
Orchard City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Delta County, Colorado, United States.
glintily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glintily
form: most glintily
Etymology: From glinty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The flowers, their roots glintily netted with spider-webs, nodded serenely over his long hands.
ref: 1921, Walter de la Mare, chapter 26, in Memoirs of a Midget, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, “Wanderslore” section, page 175:
text: In fact, Angela Lansbury’s bawdy, chattering, equivocal Granny—a super opportunity glintily grasped—is as likely to entertain young Rosaleen […]
ref: 1984 September 21, John Coleman, “Films”, in New Statesman, volume 108, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 3:
text: Indolently bobbing, here came a boat: the one cap-and-fag bloke’s slow oarsplat, the other’s trailed line jigging glintily—[…]
ref: 2014, Christopher Jessop, chapter 4, in A Summer Break: A Novel, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire: Springboard Press, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: In a glinty manner.
granniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From granny + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, Angela Lansbury’s bawdy, chattering, equivocal Granny—a super opportunity glintily grasped—is as likely to entertain young Rosaleen with such coarsenesses as ‘. . . and she found another husband not too shy to piss into a pot’ as to scare her with warnings about men whose eyebrows meet: you feel there is more to this gabby old woman than her granniness, especially when she herself encounters a fate out of the played-up Little Red Riding Hood theme.
ref: 1984 September 21, John Coleman, “Films”, in New Statesman, volume 108, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 3:
text: What do grannies do? Well, they help around the house, do some cooking, love to be with kids, keep a house neat as a pin, lend moral support, plant-sit, pet-sit, handle food shopping, tell stories, and a whole lot more. If you’re a closet granny, this is a wonderful opportunity for you to earn extra money while getting all of your granny jollies. Market your granniness with classified ads, signs on bulletin boards, and a free publicity story.
ref: 1991, Jay Conrad Levinson, “Rent-a-Granny”, in 555 Ways to Earn Extra Money: Revised for the ’90s, New York, N.Y.: Owl Books, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Earning Extra Money Because You’re Oriented to People”), “Services for People” section, page 132:
text: She doesn’t look like grannies look / Or act like grannies act. / She’s got no trace of granniness / And that’s a fact. / Most other people’s grannies / Are silver-haired and small, / My granny is a skin’ead / And she’s six feet tall.
ref: 1997, John Whitworth, “Granny Song”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Phoebe Flood, London: Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 96:
text: “See that elderly lady there, the one who is trying her best to look like somebody’s innocent Scottish granny?” He nodded solemnly. “If I were you, I would have her taken off and strip searched. For one thing, she’s carrying the unabridged Oxford Dictionary and some awfully dangerous looking knitting needles.” He glanced again at the Queen Mum and smiled; she smiled back at him, the very picture of Glaswegan granniness.
ref: 2003, James Dodson, “Nibs the Lost Boy”, in The Road to Somewhere: Travels with a Young Boy through an Old World, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: The quality of being a granny.
otter board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otter boards
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
Canet-Plage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Canet + plage.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood and seaside resort in Canet-en-Roussillon commune, Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France.
O-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O-faces
Senses: examples: text: I was so stunned, I couldn't move for a moment, which was just as well because Ozzy came, and his O-face was really a sight to behold.
ref: 2020, Phoebe Alexander, The Big O, Mountains Wanted Publishing:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of o-face.
O-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of O-face
triakonter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triakonters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of triaconter.
bed wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed wrenches
Senses: glosses: A bedkey
bed key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed keys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedkey.
bed-key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-keys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedkey.
Velcro cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Velcro cats
Etymology: Named after the fastener.
Senses: glosses: A cat that is very attached to its owner and rarely leaves the owner's side.
Coordinate terms: Velcro dog
Burgate Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Breamore: A two-mile stretch of the former LSWR Wimborne-Salisbury line (closed in May 1964 and owned by Hampshire County Council) is to become a public footpath. It runs through the parishes of Breamore and Fordingbridge, between South Charford and Burgate Cross, and was originally intended to be turned into a village bypass.
ref: 2025 May 14, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Western”, in RAIL, number 1035, page 20:
glosses: A hamlet in Fordingbridge parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1516).
Related terms: Lower Burgate
Upper Burgate
rasedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of rase (alternative spelling of razedst)
Rawson Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Kilburn parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3746).
resource curse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon in which nations or regions rich in natural resources tend to become politically unstable and/or economically stagnant.
razedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rasedst
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of raze
razest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rasest
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of raze
-ichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴχνιον (íkhnion, “track, footprint”).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Forms names of types of trace fossils.
Related terms: ichno-
ichnofossil
mutton-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutton-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muttonmonger.
mutton-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutton-monger
meal-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meal-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mealmonger.
meal-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meal-monger
fashion-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashion-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fashionmonger.
fashion-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashion-monger
wit-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wit-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of witmonger.
wit-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wit-monger
scandal-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scandal-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scandalmonger.
scandal-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scandal-monger
rule-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rule-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rulemonger.
rule-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rule-monger
place-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: place-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of placemonger.
phrase-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrase-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phrasemonger.
place-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place-monger
phrase-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrase-monger
panic-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic-mongers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panicmonger.
panic-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panic-monger
Goodwright
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Goodrich.
Goodrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Goodrich.
Goodricke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Goodrich.
Gooderick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Goodrich.
Gooderidge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Goodrich.
Godrich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Goodrich.
Godridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Goodrich.
Portfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A neighbourhood of Christchurch in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1593, not shown on maps).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Curry Rivel parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4026).
glosses: A place in England:
An eastern suburb of Chichester, West Sussex (OS grid ref SU8704).
Oldridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Aldridge.
Elderidge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Aldridge.
Aldrige
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Aldridge.
Allderidge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Aldridge.
Alldridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Aldridge.
you problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of you problem
86'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 86
raseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rase (alternative spelling of razeth)
lemontinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemontini
woodthrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodthrushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wood thrush.
enneadecaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enneadeca- (“nineteen”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and eikosioctophobia respectively.
ref: 2020 August 24, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, page 820:
glosses: Fear of the number nineteen.
Sōya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
eikosioctophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi, “twenty”) + Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and eikosioctophobia respectively.
ref: 2020 August 24, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, page 820:
glosses: Fear of the number twenty-eight.
Coltons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Colton
Bățani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bățani.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Covasna County, Romania.
District 1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The central urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Kentucky River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kentucky (“a river in Kentucky, United States”).
synonyms: word: Kentucky
extra: a river in Kentucky, United States
Oei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, most commonly found in Indonesia.
Oey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, most commonly found in Indonesia.
O Vicedo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
autocraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autocrafts
form: autocrafting
form: autocrafted
form: autocrafted
Etymology: From auto- + craft.
Senses: examples: text: The Crafter will have a unique ability to autocraft items based on how one configures it.
ref: 2023 October 16, Vaidehi Shrestha, “How will autocrafting work in Minecraft 1.21 update”, in Sportskeeda:
text: However, you’ll need to know how to make a Crafter and how to autocraft before you begin.
ref: 2024 September 30, Jessica Filby, “How to make a Crafter block & auto-craft in Minecraft”, in Dexerto:
glosses: To craft automatically.
arc of history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the arc of history
form: arcs of history
Etymology: Popularized by Barack Obama, and based on an older metaphor by abolitionist Theodore Parker, later popularized by Martin Luther King Jr.: “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”.
Senses: examples: text: If Jim Yong Kim wants to ‘bend the arc of history’, he should start by addressing long-standing inequalities in his own organisation[.]
ref: 2012 November 27, Chris Simms, “World Bank reforms must embrace racial equality and accountability”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: If Obama’s interests run toward history, so does his rhetoric. “It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day,” he said the evening of his first election.
ref: 2015 December 21, David A. Graham, quoting Barack Obama, “The Wrong Side of 'the Right Side of History'”, in The Atlantic:
text: We understand the great arc of human history bends towards people coming together in ever greater numbers — from tribes to cities to nations — to achieve things we couldn’t on our own.
ref: 2017 May 25, Mark Zuckerberg, “Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement address at Harvard”, in The Harvard Gazette:
text: The nationalist was urging his listeners to question the prevailing narrative, to think the unthinkable, to bend the arc of history.
ref: 2019, Andrew Marantz, “Prologue”, in Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Penguin, →ISBN, page 1:
text: For the roughly half a million members here, many of whom joined in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and two Donald Trump inaugurations, the arc of history feels more like a freefall.
ref: 2025 June 26, Sam Wolfson, “On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The idea that history has a direction or purpose that “bends” (or can be bent) towards some goal.
wikipedia: Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr.
Theodore Parker
Related terms: end of history
Whig history
story arc
Qingtian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Lishui, Zhejiang, China.
autocrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + crafting.
Senses: examples: text: Let us dive deep into how the autocrafting mechanism can work by using the Crafter.
ref: 2023 October 16, Vaidehi Shrestha, “How will autocrafting work in Minecraft 1.21 update”, in Sportskeeda:
glosses: Automatic crafting.
autocrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From auto- + crafting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autocraft
razor-billed auk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razor-billed auks
Senses: glosses: razorbill
autocrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autocraft
autocrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autocraft
red squill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red squills
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant, Drimia maritima, native to Mediterranean lands, used medicinally and as a rat poison.
Synonyms: squill
sea squill
sea onion
maritime squill
red steenbras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red steenbrases
Senses: glosses: A fish of species Petrus rupestris (syn. Dentex rupestris).
Related terms: white steenbras
sand steenbras
red osier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red osiers
Senses: glosses: A dogwood shrub of species Cornus sericea, native to much of North America, used for basketry.
Synonyms: red brush
red willow
redstem dogwood
redtwig dogwood
red-rood
American dogwood
creek dogwood
western dogwood
purse crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purse crabs
Senses: glosses: A crab of species Birgus latro, of Indo-Pacific islands.
glosses: Any of family (Leucosiidae) of crabs characterized by an adult female having the abdomen formed into a hemispherical cup that snaps shut against the sternum to form a brood chamber for the eggs.
Synonyms: sense: Birgus latro
word: coconut crab
sense: Birgus latro
word: robber crab
sense: Birgus latro
word: palm thief
sense: Birgus latro
word: tree crab
puffback flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puffback flycatchers
Senses: glosses: A bird, Batis pririt
orange-peel fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange-peel fungi
Senses: glosses: A fungus, Aleuria aurantia
owl's claws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a plant, Hymenoxys hoopesii
pangola grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant, Digitaria eriantha
night-blooming cereus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-blooming cereuses
Senses: glosses: Any of various cacti with night-blooming flowers:
moonlight cacti (Selenicereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.)), esp.
glosses: Any of various cacti with night-blooming flowers:
moonlight cacti (Selenicereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.)), esp.
Selenicereus grandiflorus
glosses: Any of various cacti with night-blooming flowers:
Gregg's nightblooming cereus (Peniocereus greggii)
synonyms: Arizona queen of the night, deer-horn cactus, sweet potato cactus
glosses: Any of various cacti with night-blooming flowers:
dutchman's pipe (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)
Synonyms: queen of the night
schemochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schemochromes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “shape”) + -chrome, from χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”).
Senses: examples: text: First, a blue pigment is known from birds (rhodoxanthin, a xanthophyll producing the blue of fruit pigeons, Ptilinopus; see Buckley 1982 : 61), although the blue of parrots is almost certainly not based on a pigment (biochrome), but rather is a schemochrome (structural color).
ref: 1973, Florida Ornithological Society, The Florida field naturalist, page n183:
text: In some groups a schemochrome overlies a conspicuous biochrome, with spectacular effect.
ref: 1975, Howe, William H, Bauer, David L, The Butterflies of North America, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, page 19:
text: The fine scales on the wings of some butterflies and the surface of scarab beetles produce schemochrome colours (Chapman, 1998a).
ref: 2010, Morgan, E. David (Eric David), Biosynthesis in insects, page 272:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Colouration produced by microscopic structures that reflect/refract light rather than pigments.
Related terms: biochrome
schemochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schemochrome
dipneumonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + pneumon- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: We must remember, finally, that the dipneumonous spiders can live for many months, that is to say, during the whole season of physiological activity, without food.
ref: 1878, Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 200:
text: Morin (1888) * states that the lungs of the dipneumonous spiders arise in form of infoldings at the bases of the two appendages of the second abdominal segment.
ref: 1894, Orville L Simmons, XXX.—Development of the lungs of spiders, page n7:
text: From a morphological point of view the genus Aysha, and, indeed, the entire group of the Anyphænidæ, is of considerable interest on account of the retention by the tracheal stigma of a more primitive position than is found in most dipneumonous spiders.
ref: 1895, Crosses W. H, The Annals And Magazine Of Natural History (sixth Series) Vol-xvi, page 142:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two lungs.
stby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of standby
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Standby.
Liancourt Rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lēãko͞orʹ
Etymology: From the name of the French whaling ship Le Liancourt that nearly wrecked on the rocks in 1849.
Senses: examples: text: From May to July 1856, H.M.S. Hornet had little or no current either in this sea or in Korea strait; but in the latter end of July and the month of August it ran strong to the N.E., on one occasion as much as 48 miles in twenty-four hours; it, however, gradually decreased as the vessel proceeded to the northward. These currents were evidently much influenced by the wind, for on one occasion, in the vicinity of the Liancourt rocks, she was set 1½ miles an hour to the S.E.
ref: [1873, “General Remarks.—Climate, Prevailing Winds and Weather, Fogs, Storms, Gales, Typhoons, and Currents; and Remarks on Making Passages.”, in Frederick W. Jarrad, compiler, The China Sea Directory, volume IV, London: Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, →OCLC, page 7:
text: Liancourt Rocks/Dokdo Islands
The Liancourt Rocks, or Takeshima (たけしま) in Japanese and Dokdo (독도) in Korean, include two rocky islands and a group of smaller rocks. Both South Korea and Japan claim the islands. They were managed by Japan up to 1945 and by South Korea after 1953.
ref: 2013 April 11, Rodion Ebbighausen, “A guide to names of islands in the South and East China Seas”, in EFE, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2015, Conflict:
glosses: A group of islets located in the Sea of Japan, administered as part of Ulleung County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, and claimed by the Japan and North Korea.
Lianzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Qingyuan, Guandong, China.
Molisch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Molisch reaction
Molisch's reagent
Molisch's test
A Fonsagrada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
Tyumen Oblast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tyumen (“an oblast in Russia”).
synonyms: word: Tyumen
extra: an oblast in Russia
subbotniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian суббо́тники (subbótniki).
Senses: glosses: plural of subbotnik
voskresniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian воскре́сники (voskrésniki).
Senses: glosses: plural of voskresnik
Subbotniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Subbotnik
Subbotniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian суббо́тники (subbótniki).
Senses: glosses: plural of Subbotnik
Voskresnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Voskresniks
form: Voskresniki
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of voskresnik.
Voskresniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Voskresnik
Voskresniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian воскре́сники (voskrésniki).
Senses: glosses: plural of Voskresnik
shockworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shockworkers
Senses: examples: text: Communist subbotniki (Communist Volunteer Saturday Workers) were shockworkers who volunteered their free Saturdays for the Bolshevik cause.
ref: 2004, Steven Rosefielde, “Subbotnik”, in James R[obert] Millar, editor, Encyclopedia of Russian History, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Reference USA, →ISBN, page 1492, column 1:
text: Shockworkers undertook longer shifts and worked at a faster pace than ordinary workers, thereby exceeding production norms.
ref: 2009, Maria Gough, “Production”, in Jeffrey T[hompson] Schnapp, editor, Speed Limits, Milan: Skira, →ISBN, “Speed Writings” section, page 111:
text: Resentment towards Stakhanovite ‘shockworkers’ often boiled over into punch-ups and machine wrecking.
ref: 2016, Simon Ings, “The great patron”, in Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, part 2 (Power (1929–1941)), page 237:
glosses: Alternative form of shock worker.
shockworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shockworker
Birobidzhaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Birobidzhaners
Etymology: From Birobidzhan + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the Khabarovsk prison too there must have been other Jews beside the Birobidzhaners, but they never were placed in the same cells with us.
ref: 1981, Israel Emiot [pseudonym; Israel Goldwasser], translated by Max Rosenfeld, “On the road to penal servitude”, in The Birobidzhan Affair: A Yiddish Writer in Siberia, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jewish Publication Society of America, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Still, Birobidzhaners could count on state funding to create many of their own Yiddish institutions.
ref: 2001, Miriam Weinstein, “The Soviet Union: Marching and Singing to Birobidzhan”, in Yiddish: A Nation of Words, South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, →ISBN, part 2 (The Modern Era), page 106:
text: Young Birobidzhaners were bemused when a group of ethnically Slavic subbotniks, or Sabbatarians, settled in one of the villages of the JAR, but would not work on Saturday, because they were committed to living by Biblical law.
ref: 2023, Gennady Estraikh, “Growing Pains”, in The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (Russian Shorts), London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Birobidzhan.
Birobidzhaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Birobidzhaner
magnetoencephalographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetoencephalographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a magnetoencephalographic manner.
kora-koras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kora-kora
she-demon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-demons
Etymology: From she- + demon. Compare she-devil.
Senses: examples: text: If some were akin to the Formori of the baleful fogs in Irish mythic history and the Mallt-y-nos, those she-demons of marshy lands immortalised by the Welsh bards, creatures huge and uncouth "with grey and glaring eyes," there were others who exceeded in beauty anything human.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 14:
text: When night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:
glosses: A female demon.
she-demons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of she-demon