cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amatrices
Etymology: From French amatrice, female equivalent of amateur.
Senses: examples: text: An amatrice, who practised in the fine arts, flourished at Venice at the date of 1780.
ref: 1824, Thomas Dodd, The Connoisseur’s Repertory; or, A Biographical History of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects, […], volume 6:
text: Madame du Châtelet also wrote on physics, but at best she was only an amatrice in science.
ref: 1923, David Eugene Smith, “France”, in History of Mathematics, volume I (General Survey of the History of Elementary Mathematics), Ginn and Company, page 478:
text: Also the number of infections with seamen is nowadays not as it was before—90% due to the prostitutes. The ratio now is about 50/50 between the prostitutes and the “amatrice.” If in earlier days the seaman suffered much from the offer of female-amatrices in a few ports only of Eastern Europe, we now see that in quite a large part of the free world, free sexual intercourse has so much increased that the seaman really is not any more committed to prostitutes but indeed has a lot of trouble to keep free from the amatrices in the streets and in the neighborhood of the seaman’s homes.[…]One might well say, that we have too much been obsessed by the problem of the prostitute and that the real attention should stay fixed upon the promiscuity of man as well as of woman, prostitutes and amatrices, as promiscuity is the determining factor for demand as well as for supply.
ref: 1964, Eduard Hubert Hermans, “Interrelationship of Syphilis Incidence and Maritime Activity”, in Proceedings of the World Forum on Syphilis and Other Treponematoses (Public Health Service Publication; No. 997), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, section “Effect of Social Changes on Sexual Promiscuity”, pages 132–133:
text: I may not be a nocturne or a masterpiece of nightwork, / but I’m no oily composition, no corroded / weathercock in the hay, / no ancient lamb dressed ewe fashion / (nor yet a death’s head on a mopstick, thank you). / I do not affect the Bouguereau quality. / Neither am I an amatrice of naughtiness / —Gay Dashaleigh, Frank Merriwell, Jack Harkaway, Bunny Stutz Bearcat, Bunny / —Your own hare? Or a wig, Madame?—
ref: 1981, Peter Klappert, “That Must Have Been the Place”, in Daniel Halpern, editor, Antæus, pages 315–316:
text: A new branch of this discussion expressed moral concern for what (from the 1920s to the 1950s) was called the ‘amatrice’ (female amateur): / The appearance on the scene of the amatrice as a dramatis persona … is connected to the appearance of a premarital female sexuality that could no longer as a matter of course be localised only within the lower classes nor be lumped automatically under the heading of prostitution. (Mooij, 1993: 136)
ref: 1999, Cas Wouters, “Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960s Sexual Revolution”, in Mike Featherstone, editor, Love & Eroticism, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: A female amateur.
Synonyms: amateuse
amatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. North, Press Correspondent, gave her a large leather hand bag and Mrs. Maxwell, on behalf of the four Corps of Utah, presented her with a brooch made in Salt Lake from Utah gold and set with an amatrice setting, a newly discovered mine, and is very valuable.
ref: 1909, Journal of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Department of Kansas, Woman’s Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, page 96:
text: No. 3076—Solid gold. Genuine Utah amatrice setting.
ref: 1911, The Improvement Era, page 192:
text: The volcanic episode begins with the deposition of the Puripicar ignimbrite, a name given by Guest (1969) to a series of welded light gray or pink dacitic tuffs with a high content of phenocrysts, among which big crystals of biotite of up to 3 mm and an amatrice-type pink quartz are remarkable.
ref: 1976, A. Lahsen, P. Trujillo, “The Geothermal Field of El Tatio, Chile”, in Proceedings; Second United Nations Symposium on the Development and Use of Geothermal Resources, volume 1, section “Geology of El Tatio”, subsection “Pleistoscene-Holocene”, page 172, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of amatrix.
cuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cueing.
cuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cueing.
Derived terms: retrocuing
smooth as a baby's bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The texture has been described as being as soft and smooth as a baby's bottom
ref: 2000, Moosewood Collective, New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 284:
text: His cheeks were as smooth as a baby's bottom, and he smelled good.
ref: 1993, Peter Robinson, A Necessary End, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 316:
text: He'd sanded it for hours, "Until it was smooth as a baby's bottom," he'd said, and laughed his deep, throaty laugh.
ref: 2004, Stephanie H. Meyer with John Meyer, Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt--, HCI Teens, →ISBN, page 89:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely smooth.
talk of the town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Turning up drunk at the debutante ball will certainly make you the talk of the town.
text: I want you, I want you, but now / Who's the talk of the town?
ref: 1980, Chrissie Hynde, “Talk of the Town”, performed by The Pretenders:
glosses: A topic or person discussed by many people.
Related terms: toast of the town
be on everyone's lips
everybody and their brother
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
everyone and their brother
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
nugget of truth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuggets of truth
Senses: examples: text: Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage.
ref: 1989, Walter A. Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 59:
text: This book identifies twelve teachings that sound plausible because they each contain a nugget of truth.
ref: 2003, Henry Cloud, Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know, page 286:
text: Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local.
ref: 2008 January 24, “Clinton's Hispanic edge over Obama”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement.
slow as molasses in January
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: like molasses in January
form: slow as molasses
form: slower than molasses in January
Etymology: Since molasses is a fluid of high viscosity that might be expected to move particularly slowly in cold weather in January.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely slow.
Synonyms: slow as a snail
snail's pace
live it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives it up
form: living it up
form: lived it up
form: lived it up
Senses: examples: text: It is very like the philosophy that opens and closes Yojimbo—that a long life living on gruel in the country is better than short life of living it up in city.
ref: 1999, Donald Richie, The Films of Akira Kurosawa page 174:
text: Love in an elevator. Livin' it up when I'm going down!
ref: 1989, Aerosmith, Love in an Elevator:
text: Just as any grandmother or grandfather will tell you that their best days were spent during the Depression, anyone who was 18 and living it up in 1968 will tell you they spent their better days at this time.
ref: 1978, “Letters”, in TIME:
glosses: To enjoy oneself, to have fun.
Related terms: live up
is it just me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I was wondering, is it just me, or do you sometimes find it really hard to be a mom?
ref: 2013, Faith Bogdan, Who Are All These Children and Why Are They Calling Me Mom?:
glosses: Am I the only one who thinks this? Am I the only one experiencing this?
Related terms: it is not just you
laugh like a hyena
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughs like a hyena
form: laughing like a hyena
form: laughed like a hyena
form: laughed like a hyena
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To laugh hysterically
plain as the nose on one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of plain as day.
synonyms: word: plain as day
deciduous tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deciduous teeth
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any tooth that falls out as later teeth grow in or as other existing teeth move to take its place.
qualifier: particularly
glosses: (anatomy) A baby tooth or milk tooth which is replaced by later permanent teeth in animals displaying diphyodonty.
deciduous teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deciduous tooth
happy as a clam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: happy as a clam at high water
Senses: examples: text: Marlene […] ran off into the parade ground happy as a clam, […].
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 363:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very happy and carefree.
Synonyms: happy
Seans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sean
resultat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resultats
form: resultate
Etymology: From French resultat (now résultat), from Medieval Latin resultātum.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, that by ye favour and countenance you, and yf necessitye so did requyre yt, by the assistance of thease confederates, the protestantes of france might be, yf not supported, yet at least relieved, from that oppression, wᶜʰ the alliance wᵗʰ spayne dothe threaten upon them, and on thys, he long insysted, as th’ only couppe-gorge, of all resultats, whatsoever, between france and spayne.
ref: 1612 April 17 (Gregorian calendar), Ralph Winwood, “Sir R. Winwood to the King [i.e., James I], 7 April 1612”, in John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years’ War […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1874, pages 455–456:
text: I have given communication and shall continue to make publick the Resolution of the Committee held at Berni the 24 May. It will certainly have the desired end of promoting a more extensive Commerce betwixt the two States. I shall transmit by the post to morrow a Copy of the Resultat to Rochfort agreable to your Instructions.
ref: 1786 June 10, John Bondfield, “From John Bondfield”, in Julian P[arks] Boyd, Mina R[uese] Bryan, editors, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 9 (1 November 1785 to 22 June 1786), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1954, →LCCN, page 627:
text: It is this; that the King, in a seance royale should come forward with a Charter of Rights in his hand, to be signed by himself and by every member of the three orders. This charter to contain the five great points which the Resultat of December offered, on the part of the King; the abolition of pecuniary privileges offered by the privileged orders, and the adoption of the national debt, and a grant of the sum of money asked from the nation.
ref: 1789 June 3, Thomas Jefferson, “Letter CCIV. To Monsieur de St. Etienne [i.e., Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne].”, in Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume II, Charlottesville, Va.: […] F. Carr, and Co., published 1829, page 472:
glosses: Synonym of result.
synonyms: word: result
achelate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + chelate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no claws
actinolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinolites
Etymology: From actino- + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with monoclinic crystals of the chemical formula Ca₂(Mg,Fe)₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂, belonging to the amphibole group.
Synonyms: asbestinite
Derived terms: actinolitic
diaphysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈæfɪsɪs/
Forms: form: diaphyses
Etymology: From dia- + -physis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The central shaft of any long bone.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An abnormal elongation of the axis of a flower or of an inflorescence.
Derived terms: diaphysectomy
diaphysitis
squiffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of squiffy: most squiffy
squiffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of squiffy: more squiffy
day blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inability to see clearly in bright light; hemeralopia
Synonyms: hemeralopia
Related terms: night blindness
nyctalopia
augelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augelites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐγή (augḗ, “luster”), named in 1868.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with monoclinic crystals of the chemical formula Al₂(PO₄)(OH)₃.
wuv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Etymology: From a humorous mispronunciation of love, mimicking the speech of a young child. Reinforced by the comic portrayal of a speech impediment of the elderly clergyman in the influential book and film The Princess Bride.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of love.
wuv
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Forms: form: wuvz
form: wuvs
form: wuving
form: wuvd
form: wuvd
form: wuved
form: wuved
Etymology: From a humorous mispronunciation of love, mimicking the speech of a young child. Reinforced by the comic portrayal of a speech impediment of the elderly clergyman in the influential book and film The Princess Bride.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of love.
Synonyms: luv
Related terms: wub
tentorial notch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentorial notches
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The space in the tentorium where the brainstem passes.
day-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more day-blind
form: most day-blind
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Unable to see clearly in bright light; hemeralopic.
Derived terms: day-blindness
Related terms: nyctalopic
hemeralopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemeralopic
form: most hemeralopic
Etymology: From hemeralopia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
Related terms: nyctalopic
nyctalopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nyctalopic
form: most nyctalopic
Etymology: From nyctalopia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
Related terms: hemeralopic
night blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more night blind
form: most night blind
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of night-blind.
day blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more day blind
form: most day blind
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of day-blind.
night-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more night-blind
form: most night-blind
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Unable to see clearly in low light; suffering from night blindness.
Synonyms: moon-blind
nyctalopic
Related terms: day-blind
hemeralopic
Heraclitus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕr'əklīʹtəs
ipa: /ˌhɛɹ.əˈklaɪ.təs/
ipa: /he(ɪ).ɹɑ(ː)ˈkli(ː).tus/
ipa: /hɛɹ.əˈkli(ː).təs/
note: Indic
ipa: /hɛrɑ.klɪʈəs/
Forms: form: Heracleitus
Etymology: From Latin Hēraclītus, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειτος (Hērákleitos).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἡράκλειτος (Hērákleitos), notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher.
Derived terms: Heraclitean
Thales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθeɪliːz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θαλῆς (Thalês).
Senses: glosses: A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor.
canine tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canine teeth
Etymology: So called because canine teeth are prominent in dogs.
Senses: glosses: One of the pointed teeth behind the incisors and in front of the premolar teeth.
Synonyms: english: only in humans
translation: only in humans
word: eye tooth
Derived terms: canine-toothless
canine teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canine tooth
Darwinistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Darwinistic
form: most Darwinistic
Etymology: From Darwin + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Darwinism, the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Darwinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːwɪnɪst/
Forms: form: Darwinists
Etymology: From Darwin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in Darwinism, the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Derived terms: neo-Darwinist
deep-fat fryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-fat fryers
form: deep fat fryer
form: deep-fat-fryer
Senses: glosses: A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot fat or oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.
Synonyms: deep fryer
deep-fryer
deep-frier
Related terms: deep-fat-fried
deep-fat-fry
deep fat fry
deep fryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep fryers
form: deep frier
form: deep-frier
form: deepfrier
form: deep-fryer
form: deepfryer
Senses: glosses: A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.
Synonyms: deep-fat fryer
deep-fry
squiffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Etymology: Variant of squiffy with -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Her hair streamed down in front of her eyes and her dress was on back to front. Totally squiffed. Leo hustled her into bed.
ref: 2005, J. C. Morris, The End of Arrogance: Revised Edition, Buy Books on the web, →ISBN, page 133:
text: I got all the heavy drinkers squiffed out of their minds
ref: 1994, Farley Mowat, Born Naked, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: Intoxicated.
Synonyms: drunk
Related terms: squiffy
intermingling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interminglings
Etymology: From intermingle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: cultural interminglings
text: Novv vvhen as vvine had drovvned and drouſed the underſtanding: vvhen the night ſeaſon, vvhen the entermingling of men and vvomen together one vvith another (and namely, they of young and tender yeeres, vvith thoſe of elder age) had cleane put out & extinguiſhed all reſpect and regard of ſhamefaſt honeſtie: there began firſt to be practiſed all ſorts of corruption, for every one had all pleaſures readie at commaundement, and his choiſe of thoſe vvhereto by nature he vvas more prone and given to luſt after.
ref: 1600, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XXXIX]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 1027–1028:
glosses: gerund of intermingle: the act by which things intermingle.
intermingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From intermingle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intermingle
intermingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intermingle
adonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adonizes
form: adonizing
form: adonized
form: adonized
Senses: examples: text: but he positively said he must first "go "to Paris, as he wanted many auxiliaries to his toilet, only to be met with there, and he must have every thing proper to adonize his person on this important occasion.
ref: 1825, Sarah Green, Parents and wives; or, Inconsistency and mistakes, page 186:
text: "Forget what I hae been yelpin about politics, but dinna forget to hand up your wee finger on Sunday at the window to the first pair o' white hose ye see, when you want a shave," and gathering up his various implements of trade, and offering me, as usual, a vale, Domine, off flew Ritchie Falconer to adonize and amuse some other customer.
ref: 1833, A. Whitelaw, The republic of letters: a selection in poetry and prose, page 153:
text: It is not because they wear three pair of breeches, one over the other, that they arrive perfectly dry & clean, in spite of rain & mud: it is not because they have woolen wigs, that their stiff & wiry frisure def(y)ies moisture: it is not because they go loaded each with as much pomade, brushes & soap as would serve to adonize a whole regiment of Bas Breton(s) conscripts, that they have always the beard smooth, & the nails irreproachable: it is because the external air has not touched them: it is because they walk, drink, sleep & eat in their fluid, as in a glass bell of 20 feet of thickness, & across which they behold with pity the cavaliers whose hair the wind discomposes, & the foot-passenger whose shoes the snow soils.
ref: 1835, George Sand (Ralph Waldo Emerson, trans), Notes d'un Voyageur:
text: After visiting the soko we returned to Mr. Benoliel's hotel, to adonize for the dinner we were to partake of at Mr. Hay's, to whose house we repaired about five, found a small party assembled in his very snug dining-room, and sat down to a capital dinner, and very good wine of our host's own growth and manufacture, and to which he had given the classical name of Ampelusian, the old nomenclature bestowed on this part of the country by the Greeks, in consequence of the then excellence of its wines.
ref: 1842, Edward Hungerford, D. Elers Napier, Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, page 308:
text: in November the artist was able to see the actual orders for himself, repaint them and adjust the assembly of the three brooches, but to M'Arthur's annoyance was unable to resist softening the face - 'to adonize it' in M'Arthur's telling phrase.
ref: 1998, Richard John Boileau Walker, The Nelson portraits, page 49:
text: In this Section we adonize the Lax equations of 89.1 into an infinite commuting hierarchy in the space of dressing variables.
ref: 2000, Boris A. Kupershmidt, KP Or MKP: Noncommutative Mathematics of Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, and Integrable Systems, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: Alternative form of adonise.
Derived terms: adonization
recreational vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recreational vehicle
-mony
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin -mōnium, -mōnia.
Senses: glosses: Deadjectival suffix used to form an abstract noun usually from personal adjectives.
glosses: Denominal and deverbal suffix used to form a noun designating a legal status, estate, property.
motor home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor homes
form: motorhome
Senses: synonyms: word: housecar
glosses: A type of recreational vehicle, a self-propelled structure built on a truck or bus chassis containing living accommodations.
motor homes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor home
push bunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push bunt
push bunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push bunt
tootsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊtsi/
ipa: [ˈtʰʊtsi]
rhymes: -ʊts
Forms: form: tootsies
form: tootsy
Etymology: From tootsy-wootsy, originally a playful or nursery name for a small foot, from childish pronunciation of foot.
Senses: glosses: A young woman.
examples: text: And a hoofer by the name of Buck Wing was gettin' ready to shake his tootsies!
ref: 1936, Curly Howard, Three Stooges, Disorder in the Court (6:43)
text: Swedish massage techniques applied to your feet have reflexology effects, too, and give those tootsies the break they need.
ref: 1998, Joan Budilovsky, Eve Adamson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Massage, Penguin, →ISBN, page 216:
text: 2006, James W. Brann, MD, Women's Healthcare Topics.com, Surviving the Joy of Pregnancy, James Brann →ISBN
Swollen tootsies can be very uncomfortable, not to mention you may not like looking at them. Toes that look like sausages? That's attractive for babies, but you aren't looking at baby's tootsies.
text: Babies are fascinated with their toes. Take advantage of this interest. Join in your baby's fun. Ten Little Tootsies (to “Ten Little Indians”) One little, two little, three little tootsies.
ref: 2009, Vicki Lansky, Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months, Book Peddlers, →ISBN:
text: So what's a gal to do when she's rushing about town in pointy-toe stilettos with no time to rest her weary tootsies?
ref: 2010, Esther Blum, Secrets of Gorgeous: Hundreds of Ways to Live Well While Living It Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Take off your shoes and give those tootsies a break!
ref: 2011, Tony Ryan, Martica Heaner, Cross-Training For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: You forgot your toe warmers this morning. ... Can't have my girl's tootsies cold." "Don't say aw again," Eve ordered, anticipating. "And never say tootsies. You're wearing badges, for God's sake
ref: 2014, J. D. Robb, Festive in Death, →ISBN:
text: Weymouth is the place for us to paddle our tootsies like George III, but first we need somewhere to stay.
ref: 2022 October 5, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Reading to Southampton”, in RAIL, number 967, page 57:
glosses: A toe.
glosses: A foot, especially that of a woman or child.
Derived terms: toots
Land of Liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Land of Liberty
Senses: glosses: The United States of America.
l-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: l-words
Senses: glosses: The word love.
glosses: The word lesbian.
examples: text: "I want a lawyer right now." Landry shook his head and thought, Damn, already the dreaded L-word.
ref: 2008 December 24, Michael Whaley, Murder at 8, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: Any word beginning with l that is not normally taboo but is considered to be so in the given context.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
presidential palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidential palaces
Senses: examples: text: The White House is the presidential palace of the United States.
glosses: The palace of a president of a country, which may be used as residence, office, or both.
executive mansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executive mansions
Senses: glosses: Any ostentatious or pretentious home.
glosses: The White House.
cool down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cools down
form: cooling down
form: cooled down
form: cooled down
Senses: examples: text: You can drink the coffee when it's cooled down.
synonyms: cool off
antonyms: warm up
hot up
coordinate_terms: warm down
glosses: To become cooler; to be reduced in temperature.
examples: text: I'd love to go to Israel, but I'll have to wait until the violence cools down.
synonyms: calm down
glosses: To become less agitated or excited.
examples: text: The increase in spending in the United States last month follows a revised 1.4 percent month-over-month gain in March, when prices for gasoline soared amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Gas prices cooled down slightly in April but were still at elevated levels, while oil prices remain volatile.
ref: 2022 May 17, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Retail sales rise for the fourth straight month as prices keep climbing.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To decrease in degree or intensity.
examples: text: We had to cool down the equipment with water before using it.
glosses: To cause (something) to become cooler; to reduce the temperature of.
examples: text: Dave was kicking and screaming, so I had to cool him down with some mellow music.
text: I'm oversexed. Write me and see if you can cool me down.
ref: 1984 April 21, J. F. Peoples, “Personal Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
synonyms: calm down
glosses: To cause (someone) to become less agitated or excited.
Derived terms: word: cooldown
grassplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grassplots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grass plot.
patio chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patio chairs
Senses: glosses: A chair designed for outdoor use, on porches, decks and patios, frequently as part of a set with an umbrella-shade-equipped table
glosses: A seat that can fold up for moving around.
Related terms: deck chair
lawn chair
porch swing
patio furniture
lose weight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses weight
form: losing weight
form: lost weight
form: lost weight
Senses: examples: text: You look slimmer these days? Have you lost weight?
text: I'll need to lose weight if I want to fit into my old jeans.
antonyms: gain weight
put on weight
glosses: To become less heavy or obese.
Related terms: weight loss
front yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front yards
Senses: glosses: A yard to the front of a house or similar residence, typically having a lawn and often trees, shrubs, and/or flowers.
glosses: An enclosed and often primarily utilitarian area to the front of a house or similar residence, typically having a hard surface or paving.
Synonyms: sense: space with greenery
word: front garden
Related terms: backyard
see you soon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: see you soon !
Senses: glosses: Goodbye; something said at a farewell, not necessarily literally meaning that the speaker will see the hearer(s) again.
third world
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Third World.
general anaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general anaesthetics
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of general anesthetic.
war whoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war whoops
Senses: examples: text: Once the faint noise of a distant Navajo war whoop came drifting back through the scented darkness.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 20:
glosses: In war, a yell to fight.
war hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war hounds
Senses: glosses: A person who desires war.
how long
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: How long is that piece of string?
text: I don't know how long the Amazon River is.
glosses: Used literally: what length.
examples: text: How long are you here for? ~ Until the end of next month.
text: How long have you already been here (for)? ~ Since last Friday
text: How long is it to lunch?
text: How long ago did you stop playing tennis?
glosses: Used literally: what duration.
Derived terms: How long is a piece of string?
how long
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: How long have you lived in Chicago?
text: He won't tell me how long he is going to stay.
text: How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: Used literally: for what duration.
lamp-post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamp-posts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lamppost.
theater of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theaters of war
form: theatre of war
Senses: glosses: The area in which armed conflict takes place.
glosses: A subject that is highly contentious; an area of conflict.
knuckleballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckleballers
Etymology: From knuckleball + -er.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A baseball pitcher known for throwing knuckleballs.
f-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f-bombs
form: F-bomb
Etymology: From f (“abbreviation of fuck”) + bomb (“(euphemism marker)”), and thence other words beginning f. Likely based on the term H-bomb.
Senses: examples: text: From hip-hop artists to bloggers to the vice president of the United States, everyone's dropping the F-bomb.
ref: 2006 June 25, Joel Achenbach, “Dropping the F-bomb”, in The Washington Post, page B01:
text: When he started out in 1981 Regan would throw in the odd F-bomb to spice up a joke, but eventually he just eliminated them from his act.
ref: 2007 May 10, Guy MacPherson, “Brian Regan’s clean comedy defuses the F-bomb”, in straight.com:
text: The Ontario government treaded similar territory with the rollout of its Flick Off campaign, intended to encourage young people to conserve energy by turning off lights and appliances, but obviously hinting at the f-bomb.
ref: 2007 May 18, Patrick White, “Dropping the f-bomb”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: One could argue, of course, that most comedies about the risqué misadventures of teenagers are actually pretty wholesome. Horny hits like American Pie and last year's Blockers are, at heart, sweet coming-of-age stories, secretly reassuring everyone that the kids are all right—that no matter how many f-bombs they drop, no matter how raunchy their MPAA-antagonizing hijinks get, they're really just fumbling their inexperienced way through normal rites of passage.
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
synonyms: f-word
glosses: The word fuck.
glosses: The word funk.
glosses: The word faggot or fag.
Derived terms: atomic F-bomb
cluster F-bomb
drop the f-bomb
Related terms: c-bomb
n-bomb
driving licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving licences
Senses: examples: text: The unnamed driver appeared before the South East Traffic Commissioner in late November, to receive a six-month HGV driving ban. It followed an earlier court appearance when he was fined a means-tested £715 and given six points on his driving licence for driving without due care and attention.
ref: 2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge bash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7:
glosses: A driver's licence; an official identification document which states the recipient may drive a motorised vehicle.
kleptomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The dear old room was just as I'd left it, nothing changed, and my first move, of course, was to procure another chair and give the top of the armoire the once-over. It was a set-back to find that the cow-creamer wasn't there. I suppose these kleptomaniacs know a thing or two and don't hide the loot in the obvious place.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: plural of kleptomaniac
main course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main courses
Senses: synonyms: main
main dish
coordinate_terms: dessert
entrée
second course
starter
glosses: The main serving or dish of a meal, usually cooked.
crater lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crater lake
Lenin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnɪn
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Ле́нин (Lénin), probably due to the use of a passport of the friend, Nikolay Lenin, whose surname originated from the Siberian Lena river. It is commonly believed that the Lena derives its name from the original Even-Evenk name Elyu-Ene, which means "the Large River".
Senses: examples: text: 'He means the other Lennon,' Slowey's voice said. ' John Lennon from the Beatles.' And Farley saw him then, on the bend of the counter smoking a cigar. Slowey then turned to the barman, '... and he means the other Lenin, you know, the Russian revolutionary?'
ref: 2011, Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven, Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.
Derived terms: Leningrad
Leninian
Leninism
Leninite
snuff out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snuffs out
form: snuffing out
form: snuffed out
form: snuffed out
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: smother
text: The risk of fire was an ever-present danger, and every night at bedtime they performed the ritual of checking that every candle and lantern had been snuffed out.
text: He sighed, snuffed out his cigarette, and got back to work.
text: He sighed, snuffed out his wish to walk right out the door, and got back to work.
text: Elmander's lovely flick nearly set Taylor free inside the box but, this time, Boswinga reacted well to snuff out any real danger.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
text: 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict", in reuters.com, Reuters
The verdict against Yingluck is widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition.
hypernyms: put out#Verb
outen#Verb
coordinate_terms: blow out#Verb
douse#Verb
quench#Verb
glosses: To extinguish (literally, especially by physically covering or rubbing); to extinguish (figuratively): to stop (a process), to kill (a process).
examples: text: He sighed, stifled his urge to snuff out the moron who designed this work process, and got back to work.
synonyms: word: rub out#Verb
word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
glosses: To kill a living being.
examples: People snuff out at all ages: accident apart, our vital clocks vary […]
glosses: To die.
Related terms: candle snuffer
snuffee
snuffer
snuff film
put out a fire
snuff-dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuff-dishes
form: snuff dish
form: snuffdish
Senses: glosses: A dish for a snuffer (a candle-snuffer).
glosses: A dish for the snuff of the lamps of the Tabernacle.
boingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪŋˌɡiː/
Forms: form: more boingy
form: most boingy
Etymology: From boing + -y; imitative of the sound of elastic.
Senses: examples: text: You hear a little plink/crunch when you drop an icon onto the Trash, a boingy thud when you drag something into a folder, a whoof! when you drag something off the Dock and into the oblivion, and so on.
ref: 2005, David Pogue, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual page 132:
text: I would need a three-quarter-size bed, with a new mattress - one that's not so loud and boingy.
ref: 2002, Robert Corbet, Fifteen Love - Page 29:
glosses: Producing an elastic, bouncy sound, like a "boing"
alchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alchies
Senses: examples: text: I'm in AA for Christ's sake – of course I can't handle it! Of course I can't handle it! I have a physio-fucking-whatsit-chemical relationship to alcohol. I'm an alchie!
ref: 2000, David Hare, “Act Two”, in My Zinc Bed, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Nowadays, girls are taking selfies at the alter [sic], chugging down wine with the photo-bombing priest, with the caption, "LOLZ IM SUCH AN ALCHIE."
ref: 2014 October 13, “The Fine Line Between a Casual College Drinker and an Alcoholic”, in The Huffington Post:
glosses: Alternative spelling of alkie.
ranees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranee
brother german
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brothers german
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brother-german.
solvent abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of solvent chemicals, often dangerous, such as industrial solvents and household solvents, for their neuropsychological, hallucinogenic, stimulant, or stupefying effects.
Derived terms: solvent abuser
hitting the bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit the bottle
bear walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear walkers
form: Bear Walker
form: bear-walker
form: bearwalk
Etymology: Calque of Ojibwe me'coubmoosa (“bear walker”).
Senses: examples: text: The hair ornament was worn by the Bear-Walker before and during the casting of spells.
ref: 1901, Charles Edward Brown, The Wisconsin Archeologist, page 116:
text: He told Jim he saw a Bear-walker approaching the house then and there.
ref: 1953, Inland Seas, Great Lakes Historical Society, page 13
text: These bear-walkers owed their powers to their personal manito, the bear, and traveled in disguise at night, causing disease among their victims.
ref: 1983, Christopher Vecsey, Traditional Ojibwa Religion and its Historical Changes, →ISBN, page 148:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
qualifier: Native American
glosses: An evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear.
Synonyms: topics: fantasy
word: werebear
Related terms: bear walk
obeah doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obeah doctors
Senses: glosses: One who practices voodoo.
faith healer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faith healers
form: faith-healer
Senses: glosses: One who uses spiritual means (such as prayer or laying on of hands) in an attempt to heal others.
wikipedia: faith healer
Related terms: faith healing
sake bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sake bombs
Senses: glosses: A drink made by dropping a shot glass of sake (shot glass included) in a larger glass of beer.
Son of Man
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Son of man
Etymology: From Middle English Sone of man, sone of man (also Mannes sone, Monnes Sune, man sone, man sun, etc.), meaning "mortal man, human being; the Messiah, the Christ", a reanalysis of Old English mannes Sunu (literally “man's son”), equivalent to Son + of + Man. Calque of Ancient Greek υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (huiòs toû anthrṓpou), itself a calque of Aramaic בַּר אֱנָשׁ (human being, “bar ʾĕnāš”, literally “Son of man”), used in Daniel 7:13 for an apocalyptic figure.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Christian title of Jesus Christ, referring to his status as a celestial being who presides as an eschatological judge.
teaching hospital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaching hospitals
Senses: glosses: A hospital in which trainee doctors obtain practical training and experience.
ostentious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ostentatious.
girle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of girl.
ladye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladyes
Senses: examples: text: He sipped no sup, and he craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye!
ref: 1888, Arthur Sullivan, “I Have a Song to Sing, O!”, →OCLC, From the opera The Yeoman of the Guard:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lady.
necke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neckes
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of neck.
worthie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of worthy.
clapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: So saying, Dangerfield, with his left hand, clapt his cocked hat on, and with a ghastly smile nodded a farewell to Mrs. Jukes, who, sobbing plentifully, had placed his white surtout, cloakwise over his shoulders, buttoning it about his throat.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: simple past and past participle of clap
Synonyms: clapped
guideth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: guide + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guide
lacketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lack + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lack
goddesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goddesses
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of goddess.
honestie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honesties
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of honesty.
hatful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatfuls
form: hatsful
Etymology: From hat + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It was not quite enough time to tackle the wood-fired bathtub contraption, but it was plenty enough to motor up a long, winding hill to the north, where almost a year before we'd found hatfuls and shirtfuls of morel mushrooms with Erik's friend Breakfast.
ref: 2013, Ben Hewitt, Saved: How I Quit Worrying about Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World:
glosses: The amount that will fit into a hat.
examples: text: a hatful of trouble
text: a hatful of money
glosses: A large amount or number.
comprehendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: comprehend + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comprehend
comprehendest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: comprehend + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of comprehend
aginst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of against.
certeine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of certain.
writeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From write + -eth.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of write
writest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From write + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of write
floppier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of floppy: more floppy
floppiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of floppy: most floppy
IPBX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Internet Protocol private branch exchange: A business telephone system designed to deliver voice over a data network and interoperate with the normal Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
Related terms: english: Internet Protocol
translation: Internet Protocol
word: IP
english: Private Branch Exchange
translation: Private Branch Exchange
word: PBX
word: VOIP