cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ethiopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ethiopic
form: most Ethiopic
form: Æthiopic
Etymology: From Latin aethiopicus, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπικός (Aithiopikós). By surface analysis, Ethiop + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Ethiopian
Ethiopic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Æthiopic
Etymology: From Latin aethiopicus, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπικός (Aithiopikós). By surface analysis, Ethiop + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This book has been preserved in Greek, Ethiopic, Armenian and Slavonic.
ref: 1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopædia britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information, Volume 2:
glosses: The Ge'ez language.
abovecited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of above-cited.
abovestated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: above-stated
Etymology: From above + stated.
Senses: glosses: Stated earlier in a document.
abovelisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From above + listed.
Senses: glosses: Listed earlier in a document.
beforenamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From before + named.
Senses: glosses: Named earlier in a document.
aforelisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + listed.
Senses: glosses: Listed earlier in a document.
aforestated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + stated.
Senses: glosses: Stated earlier in a document.
beforestated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From before + stated.
Senses: glosses: Stated earlier in a document.
aforenamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + named.
Senses: glosses: Named earlier in a document.
beforecited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From before + cited.
Senses: glosses: Cited earlier in a document.
azete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azetes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated four-membered heterocycle containing three carbon atoms, one nitrogen atom and two double bonds
dojinshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dojinshi
form: dojinshis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doujinshi.
lolcows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lolcow
Armenianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Armenian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Armenian.
Polishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Polish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Polish.
Chineseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Chinese.
Hungarianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hungarian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Hungarian.
Norwegianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Norwegian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Norwegian.
Swedishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swedish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Swedish.
Danishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Danish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Danish.
Spanishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Spanish.
Portugueseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality, state or character of being Portuguese.
pipeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipework
Mashhad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meshed
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian مشهد (mašhad), from Arabic مشهد (mašhad).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Mashhad County's Central District and the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
Related terms: Mashhadi
biko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sweet rice cake from the Philippines, made with coconut milk and brown sugar.
concealingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concealingly
form: most concealingly
Etymology: From concealing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a concealing manner.
cooking oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooking oils
Senses: glosses: A purified fat taken from plant material that is commonly used in cooking, e.g. olive oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, etc.
dæmonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dæmonical
form: most dæmonical
Etymology: From dæmonic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of demonical.
daemonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒnɪkəl/
Forms: form: more daemonical
form: most daemonical
form: dæmonical
form: demonical
Etymology: From daemonic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
demonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demonical
form: most demonical
Etymology: From demon + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daemonical.
Chiloé Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The second largest island of Chile.
ear to the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ears to the ground
Senses: examples: text: Congress never enacts a measure which is believed to oppose public opinion;—your Congressman keeps his ear to the ground.
ref: 1903, Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Disfranchisement of the Negro”, in The Negro Problem:
text: “There's no telling what a man might happen onto accidentally if he travels with his ear to the ground.”
ref: 1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in A Texas Ranger:
text: The tavern keeper's an old friend of mine—we was shipmates when we was younger—and he sort of keeps his ear to the ground for me.
ref: 1990, David Eddings, Sorceress of Darshiva, →ISBN, page 148:
text: TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon is keeping her ear to the ground as candidates' names start to pop up.
ref: 2001 May 3, Elaine Shannon, Jessica Reaves, “Who'll Follow Freeh Into the FBI Corner Office?”, in Time:
glosses: The practice or characteristic of carefully gathering information; a state or mindset of attentiveness.
examples: text: The ear-to-the-ground President knew that all the unrest could not be blamed on Communists.
ref: 1949 August 29, “Chile: Fast Work”, in Time:
qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: Pursuing the practice or having the characteristic of carefully gathering information; well-informed.
Related terms: keep a weather eye open
hyper-real religion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyper-real religions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperreal religion.
hyper-real religions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyper-real religion
SCBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCBAs
Senses: hypernyms: breathing apparatus
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equipment#Noun
coordinate_terms: SCUBA
scuba
glosses: Initialism of self-contained breathing apparatus, a portable breathing device for persons entering a toxic environment.
water buffaloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water buffalo
anarchy symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anarchy symbols
Senses: glosses: A circumscribed uppercase "A", denoting anarchy.
anarchy symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anarchy symbol
æquable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æquable
form: most æquable
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of equable.
stridulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪdjʊləs/
Etymology: From Latin stridulus (“creaking, giving a shrill sound”), from stridere (“to utter an inarticulate sound, creak, grate”).
Senses: examples: text: the Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart
ref: c. 1874, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ovid in Exile:
glosses: Emitting a particularly harsh or shrill sound.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to stridor.
sub-bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-basses
form: subbass
Etymology: From sub- + bass.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Audible sounds below 60 Hz and extending downward to the lowest frequencies humans can hear, typically 20 Hz.
tokoloshe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokoloshes
form: tikolosh
form: tikoloshe
form: tokolosh
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu [Term?]. Compare Afrikaans tokkelossie.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Zulu mythology, a mischievous dwarf-like spirit man that can become invisible by drinking water or swallowing a stone.
Porroh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "[…] You don't seem to understand that this Porroh hokey-pokey rules this country, is its law, religion, constitution, medicine, magic. […]"
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, Pollock and the Porroh Man:
text: Each Porroh man is entitled to have their services free, on giving the head of tobacco. For instance, if this Porroh was in session at Freetown, and I was living twenty miles off, I could send to the head of the Porroh and ask to be helped in this way.
ref: 1899, Report by Her Majesty's Commissioner and correspondence on the Subject of the Insurrection in the Sierra Leone Protectorate:
text: The men of Ribbee and Bompeh, as well as the Caulkers of Bompeh were Porroh men, and Porroh is considered a society of peace.
ref: 2010, Imodale Caulker-Burnett, The Caulkers of Sierra Leone, page 174:
glosses: A tribal system of religion and taboos in Sierra Leone.
wynter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wynters
Senses: examples: text: for it wel abydeth the cold wynter tyme, and ys also muche strenthened therby, and it shalbe good with other herbes unto the sede tyme.
ref: 1563/1939, Thomas Hyll, First garden book ; being a faithful reprint of A most briefe and pleasaunt treatyse, teachinge howe to dress, sowe, and set a garden, page 48
text: and their owne judgments and saffeties instructing them to worke hard in the faint tyme of sommer, (the better to be accomodated and fitted for the wynter,)
ref: c. 1612/1849, William Strachey, The historie of travaile into Virginia Britannia : expressing the cosmographie and comodities of the country, togither with the manners and customes of the people, page 30
text: My very good L , A long and wastyng diseas in the s hath disarmed me to fight with a cold wynter.
ref: 1624, Buckingham, letter to Cranfield, in 1914, Randall Davies, The greatest house at Chelsey https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t08w5b58c?urlappend=%3Bseq=176
glosses: Obsolete spelling of winter.
Bellman-Ford algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bellman-Ford algorithms
Etymology: Named after its developers, Richard Bellman and L. R. Ford, Jr.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph, capable (unlike the faster Dijkstra's algorithm) of handling graphs with negative edge weights.
wikipedia: L. R. Ford, Jr.
Richard Bellman
art rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of experimental, intellectual rock music, often presented as a suite of pieces with a story or theme.
Victoria's Secret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Founded in 1977 and named after Queen Victoria, for an association with the refinement of the Victorian era, the "secret" being the body concealed by the clothing.
Senses: examples: text: You might even find some new clothes, though I doubt it. Harry's guests were usually anorexic models wearing Victoria’s Secret. Not that you wouldn't be delicious in sexy underwear[…]
ref: 2006, Anne Stuart, Cold As Ice, MIRA,, →ISBN, page 109:
text: […] that’s normally used for fabricating things like lacy edgings on, you know, Victoria’s Secret undergarments. We’ve developed ways to use that to braid the multi-line tether structure that we’re testing in space.
ref: 2007 April 16, Rob Hoyt, Nell Boyce (reporter), "Space Tethers: Slinging Objects in Orbit?", Morning Edition, National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9574513
text: Then she, with her Victoria’s Secret uplift and her cheerleader’s outfit snugly back on, adjusted her leg warmers, slipped on her gold-glittered Nikes and blotted her hot-pink lipstick with a tissue as she tracked my far-less-fashionable footsteps down the hallway toward algebra.
ref: 2009, Marilyn Brant, According to Jane, Kensington Books,, →ISBN, page 10:
text: He looked at her lying there in her Victoria’s Secret that she planned to share with him.
ref: 2009, Derek V. Brooks, 18th & M, AEG Publishing Group,, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Beneath was a Victoria’s Secret catalog, and the Rolling Stone with Demi Moore naked on the cover.[…]
[…]
She told him her Victoria’s Secret things were in the bottom drawer, to save him the trouble of searching for them.
ref: 2010, Joe Hill, Horns, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 91 and 250:
glosses: A retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, best known for lingerie, founded in San Francisco in 1977.
Annalise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Annaliese
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Dijkstra's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪkstɹəz ˈælɡəɹɪðəm/
Etymology: After its developer Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph.
wikipedia: Edsger W. Dijkstra
ajza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juz
make one's bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes one's bed
form: making one's bed
form: made one's bed
form: made one's bed
Senses: glosses: To make the bed in which one has slept.
glosses: Alternative form of make one's bed and lie in it.
eyepatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyepatches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eye patch.
Derived terms: eyepatched
shut the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuts the door
form: shutting the door
form: shut the door
form: shut the door
Senses: examples: text: Contentment with the past, or the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut the door on science.
ref: 1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science, Appendix A:
text: But I believe I am justified in shutting the door on this vista of argument.
ref: 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 46, in What's Wrong With The World:
text: [H]e pulled off his peasant clothes covered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his "noble court dress," closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hating and personal regrets, sat down with a sigh of contentment to those wider dreams.
ref: 1911, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 1, in The New Machiavelli, London: John Lane; The Bodley Head […], →OCLC:
text: Let's shut the door on conflict.
ref: 1983, Anthony C. Yu, Journey to the West, Volume 2, →ISBN, page 140:
text: But while Gore has not entirely shut the door on another run for President, he insists that he is "not planning" to be a candidate again.
ref: 2006 April 30, Karen Tumulty, “Al Gore”, in Time:
text: Yet Tressel didn't slam the door on the possibility that Wells might still play in Saturday's game against Ohio University.
ref: 2008 September 2, Rusty Miller, “Tressel reassures Buckeyes fans on Wells”, in USA Today, retrieved 27 Jun 2011:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
‘someone/something’
expansion: [with on ‘someone/something’]
synonyms: close the door
slam the door
glosses: To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shut, the, door.
close the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes the door
form: closing the door
form: closed the door
form: closed the door
Senses: examples: text: Far from closing the door on the leadership of the ’60s generation, Mr. Obama’s presidency seems to have brought it back in full force.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of shut the door.
synonyms: word: shut the door
slam the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slams the door
form: slamming the door
form: slammed the door
form: slammed the door
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shut the door.
synonyms: word: shut the door
light bulb jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light bulb joke
beamed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beam up
beams up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beam up
beaming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beam up
grow house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grow houses
Senses: examples: text: In 2006, Florida law enforcement here discovered 480 homes growing marijuana indoors. Last year, 1,022 grow houses were busted.
ref: 2009 July 30, Carmen Gentile, “Florida's Marijuana Boom: House-Grown, and Potent”, in Time:
glosses: A house or similar structure whose interior has been modified to be used for the farming of marijuana.
Synonyms: grow op
Hypernyms: house
douhua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 豆花 (dòuhuā).
Senses: examples: text: One can find local vendors producing traditional products, ladling hot scoops of douhua, a yogurt-like bean curd, into large bowls, or baking salty flat breads inside a coal-heated drum.
ref: 2002 January 10, Paul Mooney, “Pingyao: Walled city”, in Beijing Review, volume 45, number 2, pages 34–35:
text: Wandering, we dug into a pile of floury, handmade noodles, followed by pig's-blood cake covered with crushed peanuts and cilantro; fried buns stuffed with bitter greens; pungent soup with slivers of fresh ginger and whole pigs' feet; big hunks of melon, just in season; and heaping bowls of sweet, slippery douhua—chilled tofu pudding with azuki beans, mung beans and boiled peanuts.
ref: 2008 March 30, Douglas McGray, “Last Days of Taipei”, in New York Times Magazine, page 132:
text: Generally, tofu and douhua are made from soymilk by the addition of a coagulant.
ref: 2016 April, Murekatete Nicole, Zhang Caimeng, Hategekimana Joseph, Karangwa Eric, Hua Yufei, “Soybean Oil Volume Fraction Effects on the Rheology Characteristics and Gelation Behavior of Glucono‐δ‐Lactone and Calcium Sulfate‐Induced Tofu Gels”, in Journal of Texture Studies, volume 47, number 2, page 112:
text: Delicious douhua (soy bean curd) and soy milk located in Dongmen Market
ref: 2017, Pei-ling Guo, Good Eye City Guide Taipei, page 127:
glosses: A Chinese dessert made with very soft tofu; tofu pudding.
pædagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pædagogic
form: most pædagogic
Senses: examples: text: Must it not have seemed an inconceivable inconsistency, if he had clung to the special national relation of Christianity to the Jewish people, and if he had taught a view of history in which for pædagogic reasons indeed, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort had appeared as one so entirely different ?
ref: 1902, Adolph Harnack, Neil Buchanan, chapter V, in History of Dogma, volume I, Little, Brown, and Company, page 282:
glosses: Obsolete form of pedagogic.
paedagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paedagogic
form: most paedagogic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedagogic.
Derived terms: paedagogical
pædagogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pædagogical
form: most pædagogical
Etymology: From pædagogic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pedagogical.
xiaolongbao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaʊlɒŋbaʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃaʊlɔŋbaʊ/
ipa: /ʃaʊlɔŋˈbaʊ/
Forms: form: xiaolongbao
form: xiaolongbaos
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 小籠包 /小笼包 (xiǎolóngbāo, literally “little-basket dumpling”).
Senses: examples: text: This is Din Tai Fung, the first OC outpost of the Taiwanese-based chain famous for xiaolongbaos (a.k.a. juicy pork dumplings). […] Shanghainese in origin, but perfected in Taiwan by Din Tai Fung’s Chinese founders, xiaolongbaos are bite-sized, soup-filled purses of pork.
ref: 2014 September 5, Edwin Goei, “The Waiting Is the Hardest Part”, in Gustavo Arellano, editor, OC Weekly, volume 20, number 2, Costa Mesa, Calif.: OC Weekly, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Perhaps the dish Shanghai is most famous for, other than its hong shao rou red-cooked pork, is xiaolongbao, a soup dumpling that is hard to pronounce but easy to devour. […] All of the xiaolongbao'''s are wrapped and steamed to order, and customers can watch as the assembly line of cooks prepare them.
ref: 2014 October 6, Jenny Gao, “Lin Long Fang”, in Jenny Linford, editor, 1001 Restaurants You Must Experience Before You Die, London: Cassell Illustrated, published 2015, →ISBN, page 815, column 2:
text: Pierogis: perhaps one of the crown jewels of all dumplings, somewhere between ravioli and gyoza, just below xiaolongbaos and empanadas.
ref: 2016 December 2–4, Rachel Raczka, “Match point”, in Metro Boston, Boston, Mass., →OCLC, page 11, column 3:
topics: Chinese-cuisine
glosses: A type of dumpling or steamed bun (baozi) associated with eastern China, particularly Nanxiang near Shanghai.
douchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 豆豉 (dòuchǐ). Doublet of tousi.
Senses: glosses: Chinese fermented black beans.
residueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more residueless
form: most residueless
Etymology: From residue + -less.
Senses: examples: text: To his pointed question: "Where does the residueless, total annihilation of the four elements take place?" he received the following answer. "Go, O monk, and put your question to the Exalted One. As the Exalted One shall explain it, so believe."
ref: 1908, Paul Dahlke, Buddhist Essays, pages 309–310:
text: In general, any monomineralic rock deposited from aqueous solution is capable of total, residueless dissolution in water.
ref: 1977, Lászlo Jakucs, Morphogenetics of Karst Regions: Variants of Karst Evolution, page 78:
text: If we assume that, in a philosophical context where the human subject is supposed to be intersubjectively constituted by web of relations that necessarily have to have a culturally local anchoring, principles and laws cannot do the old trick of allowing the residueless subsumption of all particulars, as if culture and social relations of recognition were just a colorful addition to a subject whose making is best accounted for in naturalistic or transcendental terms, […]
ref: 2008, Alessandro Ferrara, chapter 1, in The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, page 18:
glosses: Leaving no residue or lasting mark.
Synonyms: traceless
miscrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscrops
form: miscropping
form: miscropped
form: miscropped
Etymology: From mis- + crop.
Senses: glosses: To plant the wrong crops, so as to harm the usefulness of the land.
paedologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paedologists
form: pædologist
form: pedologist
Etymology: From paedo- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: One who researches and studies children: a student of paedology.
miscreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscreations
Etymology: From mis- + creation.
Senses: glosses: A faulty or unnatural making or creation.
Related terms: miscreate
miscreative
paedology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pedology.
miscreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪskɹɪˈeɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more miscreative
form: most miscreative
Etymology: From mis- + creative.
Senses: glosses: Tending to create badly or wrongly.
Related terms: miscreate
pædologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pædologists
Etymology: From pædo- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of paedologist.
pædologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pædologist
step ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step ladder
togæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Looking strangely different without their “togæ” and wigs, were the counsels for the Crown and for the defence.
ref: 1926, Harry Ashton‐Wolfe, The Underworld, page 270:
glosses: plural of toga
rack one's brains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: racks one's brains
form: racking one's brains
form: racked one's brains
form: racked one's brains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rack one's brain.
wrack one's brain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wracks one's brain
form: wracking one's brain
form: wracked one's brain
form: wracked one's brain
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of rack one's brain.
wrack one's brains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wracks one's brains
form: wracking one's brains
form: wracked one's brains
form: wracked one's brains
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of rack one's brains.
anæmiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anæmia
open someone's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens someone's eyes
form: opening someone's eyes
form: opened someone's eyes
form: opened someone's eyes
Senses: examples: text: Visiting Africa opened my eyes to what it is like living without clean water.
text: I have to admit that Merseyside was the one area of the railway I had little experience of until this year, but two visits […] have opened my eyes to what is an incredibly well-run network, with such friendly staff and locals.
ref: 2023 July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 61:
glosses: To make someone aware of something they did not know or fully understand before; to enlighten someone.
Related terms: eye-opener
scales fall from someone's eyes
girus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪɹəs/
rhymes: -aɪɹəs
Forms: form: giruses
Etymology: Blend of giant + virus; coined by J M Claverie, H Ogata, S Audic, C Abergel, K Suhre, P E Fournier, in a 2006 paper in Virus Research (DOI 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.008).
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: a type of giant virus, a giant nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (giant NCLDV)
glosses: Synonym of giant virus.
synonyms: word: giant virus
Related terms: gyrus
giruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girus
NCLDV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Initialism of nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus.
giant virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant viruses
Etymology: giant + virus
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any virus with more than 300,000 base pairs in its genome (genomic nucleic acid coding).
Derived terms: girus
lagopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ləgōʹpəs
ipa: /ləˈɡəʊpəs/
homophone: lagopous
Forms: form: lagopodes
Etymology: From the Latin lagōpūs, from the Ancient Greek λαγώπους (lagṓpous), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς (poús, “foot”); compare lagopod, lagopode. The bird was given this name because its feet resemble those of a hare.
Senses: glosses: The ptarmigan.
lagopodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ləgōʹpədēz
ipa: /ləˈɡəʊpədiːz/
Etymology: From lagopus.
Senses: glosses: plural of lagopus
lagopodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ləgōʹpədēz
ipa: /ləˈɡəʊpədiːz/
enpr: ləgōʹpōdz
ipa: /ləˈɡəʊpəʊdz/
enpr: ləgōʹpədēz
ipa: /ləˈɡəʊpədiːz/
Etymology: From lagopode.
Senses: glosses: plural of lagopode
CCVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCVOs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of combined certificate of value and origin.
thriambus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thriambi
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin thriambus, from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos), of Pre-Greek origin. Doublet of triumph and trump.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A hymn to Dionysus, sung in processions in his honour.
Synonyms: thriamb
Related terms: triumph
lawn dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn darts
Senses: synonyms: javelin dart
jart
lawn jart
yard dart
glosses: A large dart used in the playing of certain lawn games.
glosses: Any of various makes and models of airplane that have gained a reputation for crashing.
Derived terms: lawn dart effect
præscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præscious
form: most præscious
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prescious.
gtt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gtt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gutta, abbreviated.
Senses: glosses: drop
raw_tags: in prescriptions
shoot from the hip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots from the hip
form: shooting from the hip
form: shot from the hip
form: shot from the hip
Senses: examples: text: “As to their rifle fire, it was useless.” “They shoot from the hip, and don’t seem to aim at anything in particular.”
ref: 1914, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The German War”, in The Contemptible Little Army:
glosses: To discharge a firearm while it is held near the hip, without taking time to aim via the gunsights.
examples: text: Trump is shooting from the hip, spraying insults 360 degrees, telling lies, stoking fears and making threats that many in our military and the F.B.I. would refuse to implement.
ref: 2016 June 15, Thomas L. Friedman, “Opinion: Lessons of Hiroshima and Orlando”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 May 2018:
glosses: To speak or act quickly based on first impressions, without carefully studying the background information, wider context, etc.
Synonyms: sense: figuratively: speak quickly based on first impressions
word: shoot from the lip
Derived terms: the hip
hip-shooter
hip-shooting
Related terms: hipfire
hipshot
shoot first and ask questions later
trigger-happy
hachoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of achoo.
bored out of one's brains
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extremely bored.
Synonyms: bored out of one's mind
bored out of one's tree
fish-eating grin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-eating grins
Senses: examples: text: I had a few questions for him myself, but I just stood there and stared. He had a fish-eating grin on his face.
ref: 2002, Brian Cruver, Anatomy of greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider, →ISBN, page 337:
text: Then the Gypsy makes a crack about my accent. "You talk like a Spanish cow," he says with a fish-eating grin.
ref: 2008, Joel Stratte-McClure, The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean, →ISBN:
glosses: Euphemistic form of shit-eating grin, with assonance and metre in concord; compare, for example, goshdarnit for goddamnit.
drunk as a cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely drunk.
Synonyms: drunk as a fiddler
drunk as a fiddler's bitch
drunk as a lord
drunk as a piper
drunk as a skunk
drunk as a sow
drunk as a wheelbarrow
drunk as an owl
drunk as Chloe
drunk as David's sow
full as a goog
pissed as a fart
pissed as a newt
tight as a tick
drunk
one too many
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From one drink (of an alcoholic beverage) too many.
Senses: examples: text: We’ve got three too many.
text: Even if one child is hurt that is one too many.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one, too many.
examples: text: He's had one too many.
glosses: One or more servings too many of alcohol, leading to drunkenness.
slipped disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipped disk
borrowed time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to live on borrowed time
text: [A]t eighty a body is living on borrowed time.
ref: 1921, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter 31, in Rilla of Ingleside, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC:
text: A century ago you could expect to live 40 years. […] Anything beyond that was borrowed time.
ref: 1957 August 12, Herman N. Bundesen MD, “Diet and Health”, in Lewiston Daily Sun, retrieved 28 Jun 2011, page 3:
text: "Basically, my back is a career-ending injury." […] It might seem like a Faustian bargain, but Ho is making the best of his borrowed time.
ref: 1997 August 25, Christopher Clarey, “Ho Returns In Time To Say Farewell”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Jun 2011:
text: The thing about borrowed time is that it always runs out quicker than you want it to.
ref: 2011, Lisa Wingate, Larkspur Cove, →ISBN, page 193:
text: Several duplicate routes were on borrowed time, having escaped the Beeching cuts of half a decade earlier, but were nevertheless on the hit list for closure because they fell outside the recently devised social grants system.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
text: Ever since the abortive coup, speculation had been that Yevgeny Prigozhin could be living on borrowed time.
ref: 2023 August 23, Pjotr Sauer, “Prigozhin’s death would leave lasting mark on Russian army and elite”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A period of time whose precise duration is not known but which can be expected to be quite limited, and at the end of which one's situation, benefits, or opportunities will be entirely terminated.
examples: text: Having survived when many others died, she decided to make good use of her borrowed time.
glosses: A length of time whose duration has traditionally expired, but which continues nonetheless.
tick-borne encephalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TBE
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A viral infectious disease of the central nervous system borne by ticks, which most often manifests as meningitis, encephalitis, or meningoencephalitis.
Derived terms: Tick-borne encephalitis virus
mechanicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mechanical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mechanicalness.
perfunctoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perfunctory + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When at dusk she reached the Melchester station her husband was there to meet her, but in his perfunctoriness and her preoccupation they did not see each other, and she went out of the station alone.
ref: 1894, Thomas Hardy, “On the Western Circuit”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, section VI, page 121:
text: Claudia accomplished some shopping in the spirit of perfunctoriness that robs even new bonnets of their bloom.
ref: 1901, Edith Wharton, “The Recovery”, in Crucial Instances:
text: His hard-core images are delivered with a ho-hum perfunctoriness that often enervates his surfaces. . . . [H]is orgies are inert.
ref: 2006 November 30, David Cohen, “A Bit Nasty to Women, But Respectful to Dishware”, in New York Sun, retrieved 28 Jun 2011:
synonyms: automaticity
mechanicality
mechanicalness
glosses: The characteristic or state of being perfunctory.
greetings card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greetings cards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greeting card.
seborrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seborrhœas
Senses: examples: text: Some say that such conditions of transitory hairfall, usually ascribed to passing conditions of lowered health, are in reality due to seborrhœa. If such local infection is the direct cause, then the lowered vitality occasioned by illness of even brief duration may be the real cause, permitting as it does, an aggravation of the seborrhœa.
ref: 1945, Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill, The Hair and Scalp, page 81:
glosses: Archaic form of seborrhea.
seborrhœal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The face is the favorite location for a moist seborrhœal eczema, in children specially.
ref: 1896, George Thomas Jackson, The Ready‐Reference Handbook of Diseases of the Skin, Lea Brothers & Co., second edition, page 198:
glosses: Obsolete form of seborrheal.
seborrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: seborrhoeal
form: seborrhœal
Etymology: From seborrhea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to seborrhea
seborrhoeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seborrheal.
seborrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The seborrhœic patches are less crimson, the scales smaller, scantier, greasier, and more orange coloured; they occur by preference on the shoulders and upper parts of the trunk, and if affecting the limbs are usually on the flexor aspects.
ref: 1912, Thomas Dixon Savill, A System of Clinical Medicine, William Wood & Company, third edition, Chapter XVIII, § 470, page 658:
glosses: Obsolete typography of seborrhoeic.
unnessary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈnɛsəɹi/
Forms: form: more unnessary
form: most unnessary
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of unnecessary.
backstabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: backstabbier
form: backstabbiest
form: back-stabby
Etymology: From backstab + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That would seem to be a recipe for constant tension but Dratch says that backstage at SNL is not a competitive backstabby kind of atmosphere.
ref: 2000 February 18, Don Aucoin, “Live! From Lexington, It's Rachel Dratch”, in Boston Globe:
glosses: characteristic of deceit and treachery
Synonyms: backstabbing
pudicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudicities
Etymology: From Middle French pudicité, and its source, Latin pudicitia, from pudicus (“modest”).
Senses: examples: text: There are effects, which without impuritie may lose them their pudicitie; and which is more, without their knowledge.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.5:
text: for we authors in exile are supposed to possess a lofty pudicity of expression [...].
ref: 1925, Vladimir Nabokov, A Letter That Never Reached Russia:
text: I had always suspected him of being in love with Sylvie, but he was a man of great pudicity; when it was once a case of doing a mild psychotherapy on her he passed her over to someone else in order, I thought, not to prejudice his doctor's control: or was it because he did not wish to feel the jealousy caused by his probings?
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 29:
glosses: Modesty; chastity.
v.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: vide supra
v.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: volti subito
storky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: storkier
form: storkiest
Etymology: From stork + -y.
Senses: glosses: resembling a stork
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: tall and long-limbed
Synonyms: sense: tall and long-limbed
word: gangling
sense: tall and long-limbed
word: gangly
sense: tall and long-limbed
word: lanky
sense: tall and long-limbed
word: rangy
sequel hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequel hook
sequel hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequel hooks
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
hyponyms: cliffhanger
glosses: A plot device where information or characters are placed into a plot that can provide the basis for subsequent sequel stories.
reality show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reality shows
Senses: glosses: A reality television program.
reality shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reality show
bored out of one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extremely bored.
Synonyms: bored out of one's brains
bored out of one's tree
off the chart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off the charts.
last eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last eights
Senses: examples: text: Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals by beating Belgium's Xavier Malisse 6-1 7-5 6-4 in the fourth round. The German-born 18-year-old is the first qualifier to reach the last eight since Vladimir Voltchkov in 2000.
ref: 2011 June 27, “Wimbledon 2011: Bernard Tomic extends dream run”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A quarterfinal; the players in a quarterfinal
Related terms: last four
last sixteen
last sixteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last sixteens
form: last 16
Senses: examples: text: The young Northern Ireland player now meets Ryan Day for a place in the last sixteen of the ranking tournament.
ref: 2008 February 12, “Allen edges through in Welsh Open”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: round of 16
round of sixteen
glosses: The round in a knockout competition before the quarterfinal, in which sixteen teams or competitors remain.
Related terms: last four
last eight
Sweet Sixteen
last four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last fours
Senses: examples: text: Victoria Azarenka advanced to her first Grand Slam semi-final with a late-night victory over Tamira Paszek under the Centre Court roof at Wimbledon....
The Belarusian takes on eighth seed Petra Kvitova in the last four.
Whoever wins that goes on to play Maria Sharapova or Sabine Lisicki in Saturday's final - and Azarenka will be full of confidence having beaten Paszek.
ref: 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The semifinal.
Related terms: last eight
last sixteen
drive-volley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive-volleys
Senses: examples: text: The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.
ref: 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A powerful underarm volley shot.
love hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love holds
Senses: examples: text: Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.
ref: 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A game in which the server wins every point (in which the server holds to love).
on the back of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Lisicki will rise from her current ranking of 62 to at least 35 in the world on the back of her efforts at the All England Club, but she will have serious designs on a first Grand Slam title after overcoming the 2007 runner-up.
ref: 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: As a result of; after; subsequent to.
examples: text: Generational wealth was in some cases built on the back of slave labor.
text: They're trying to hand out dividends on the backs of the skilled workers who keep the lights on and can't get adequate raises and insurance.
text: This posh hotel makes its money on the backs of poor working women. It's clearly an outfit with no respect for its workers.
ref: 1987 December 13, Elizabeth Pincus, quoting Barbara Neely, “Copping To The Mop Scandal”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 1:
glosses: By the effort of; by drawing an unfair advantage from.
Related terms: in back of
on one's back
on someone's back
hold one's nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds one's nerve
form: holding one's nerve
form: held one's nerve
form: held one's nerve
Senses: examples: text: She held her nerve after failing to serve out the match at the first attempt, seeing three match points slip by in a nervous service game at 6-4 5-4 and recovering from losing the tie-break to dominate the decider.
ref: 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To stay calm facing nervousness.
slip by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips by
form: slipping by
form: slipped by
form: slipped by
Senses: examples: text: The children managed to slip by when the patroller was looking away.
text: The children slipped by the patroller.
text: She held her nerve after failing to serve out the match at the first attempt, seeing three match points slip by in a nervous service game at 6-4 5-4 and recovering from losing the tie-break to dominate the decider.
ref: 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To pass without being noticed or intercepted.
Synonyms: go by
pass by
go begging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes begging
form: going begging
form: went begging
form: gone begging
form: go a-begging
Senses: examples: text: "Principles without leaders go begging," he replied.
ref: 1904, David Graham Phillips, chapter 18, in The Cost:
text: As prosperity piles up the paperwork, the shortage becomes more severe; some 250000 secretarial jobs go begging every day.
ref: 1957 April 8, “They're Either Too Pretty or Too Old”, in Time:
text: Three match points went begging as that potent first serve deserted her and even a magnificent backhand lob could not stop Bartoli making it 5-5, before going on to level the match in the tie-break.
ref: 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To be available but wasted, unused, or not actualized.
double-fault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-faults
form: double-faulting
form: double-faulted
form: double-faulted
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To commit a double fault.
GNH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gross national happiness.
gross national happiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gross National Happiness
Senses: examples: text: King Jigme's goal, he says, is to increase the gross national happiness, and to that end he spends weeks traveling his Himalayan realm, in a Toyota Land Cruiser until the roads end and then on horseback or by foot, inquiring about what it would take to make people content.
ref: 1998 December 21, Tim McGirk, “Mystery in the Hills”, in Time:
text: Kannemann is working with three other U.S. universities to build a methodology that can be exported to other countries. Each country can then rank itself, as Britain will be doing, on a scale of gross national happiness.
ref: 2005 March 15, Michael Johnson, “Meanwhile: Looking for happiness in all the wrong places”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Jun 2011:
text: The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago.
ref: 2011 May 24, Frank Jordans, “USA comes up a bit short in global Better Life Index”, in USA Today, retrieved 28 Jun 2011:
glosses: A particular indicator of a country's quality of life, developed in Bhutan in the 1970s.
blens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blinds
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The common cod; codfish
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The bib or pout (Trisopterus, or Gadus, luscus), a common fish of the cod family, Gadidae.