cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
splatbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatbooks
Etymology: From splat + book, from the tendency for all the books in the series to be named uniformly, with only the name of the group varying. See splat (“asterisk”), a symbol used as a wildcard in computing.
Senses: examples: text: Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes^([sic]) anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?
ref: 1999, Erika CircuitBreaker, “Splatbooks”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):
text: Even GURPS has put out splatbooks.
ref: 2000, Deirdre M. Brooks, “The 'NEW" Star Wars RPG”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet):
text: 2003, Stephenls, Devil-Tigers: Any Good??, alt.games.whitewolf
I own all the Vampire revised splatbooks and all the Mage Revised splatbooks that have been published.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: One of a series of books for a roleplaying game, oriented towards players, each of which covers a specific group with further options for player characters in that group.
splatbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splatbook
splat book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splat books
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splatbook.
splat books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splat book
declare war
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: declares war
form: declaring war
form: declared war
form: declared war
Senses: examples: text: Germany declared war on France, who reciprocated, on August 3 [1939], and England declared war on Germany on August 4, when Belgium was already under invasion.
ref: 2007, Carlos Ramirez-Faria, Concise Encyclopaedia of World History:
glosses: To make a formal pronouncement, or sign a legal document, that initiates a state of war between one nation and another, usually before hostilities begin.
raw_tags: of a governmental authority
examples: text: The governor declared war on poverty.
text: Leo Lillard, a Nashville native attending Tennessee State University, had become involved in the sit-ins as soon as they started. It was no longer just the students, it was clear that the town had declared war on racism.
ref: 2011, Henry Hampton, Steve Fayer, Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement:
glosses: To announce one's intention to fiercely combat or eradicate something.
azeotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of an azeotrope; the condition of being azeotropic
dubitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dubitation
dubitacion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The trewe inuocacion of God thorow Cryst, thei haue turned it into a dowtfull dubitacion.
ref: 1545, George Joye, chapter 12, in The Exposicion of Daniel the Prophete:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dubitation.
dubitatioun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Chamæleon…eftir sum dubitatioun come to Striueling.
ref: 1570, George Buchanan, Chamæleon, page 51:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dubitation.
coronograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronographs
Etymology: From corona + -o- + -graph.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A telescope, fitted with an attachment that blocks out direct rays from the sun, used to study and photograph the corona of the sun.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The attachment used in such a telescope.
isocontours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocontour
pussywhip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊsiˌ(h)wɪp/
Forms: form: pussywhips
form: pussywhipping
form: pussywhipped
form: pussywhipped
form: pussy-whip
form: pussy whip
Etymology: From pussy + whip.
Senses: examples: text: I ain't gone never let one of them young oversexed broads get ahold of me and pussywhip me and get off into my bankroll.
ref: 1993, Joseph Nazel, Black Cop:
text: She was looking at him with those extraordinary baby blues of hers, great eyes — who needs to pussywhip a man when you've got eyes like those, right, Pammy?
ref: 1995, Stephen King, Rose Madder:
glosses: To dominate a male partner, especially by sexual politics.
raw_tags: of a woman
isocontour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocontours
Etymology: From iso- + contour.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: level set; an isoline (2D) or isosurface (3D)
Derived terms: isocontouring
hypercylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercylinders
Etymology: From hyper- + cylinder.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A four-dimensional analog of a cylinder
lightfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightfronts
Etymology: From light + front.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The set of photons in the same phase of a pulse of (especially laser) light.
magnetopolaritons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetopolariton
multispinor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multispinors
Etymology: From multi- + spinor.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A combination of multiple spinors.
nondistillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + distillable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be distilled (without decomposition)
nondistillability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + distillability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of not being distillable.
orbifolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbifoldings
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The generation of an orbifold
orbifoldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orbifolding
piezotransducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piezotransducers
Etymology: From piezo- + transducer.
Senses: glosses: A piezoelectric transducer
polyiodides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyiodide
quadrivariate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + variate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having four variables.
randir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: randirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhandir
retrocausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + causal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to retrocausality.
transrectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + rectal.
Senses: glosses: Through (the wall of) the rectum
banana plugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana plug
pussywhips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pussywhip
pussywhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pussywhip
to wisse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From to + wisse (“certain, sure”). More at wis.
Senses: examples: text: That wite thu to wisse […]
ref: 1543, Morton, Legend of St. Catherine:
glosses: For certain; most assuredly.
dormin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of abscisic acid.
synonyms: word: abscisic acid
pussy-whip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: to pussy-whip
form: pussy-whips
form: pussy-whipping
form: pussy-whipped
form: pussy-whipped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pussywhip.
pussy whip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pussy whips
form: pussy whipping
form: pussy whipped
form: pussy whipped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pussywhip.
tems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temse.
blissless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blissless
form: most blissless
Etymology: From bliss + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of bliss; joyless.
Derived terms: blisslessness
sexual politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "We're making a movie, not an issue," said Michael Douglas, a star of Disclosure, the adaptation of the Michael Crichton suspense thriller about corporate intrigue and sexual politics, which will open on Friday. "It's really about the use of harassment as a tool for power."
ref: 1994 December 6, Bernard Weinraub, “A Man. A Woman. Just a Movie. Not a Polemic.”, in The New York Times, retrieved 11 Nov 2010:
glosses: The gender-based motivations and behavioral tactics present in the interactions between men and women, especially as involving manipulation and rivalry for power.
Related terms: battle of the sexes
tinc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tincs
Etymology: Probably from the Latin specific epithet tinctorius.
Senses: glosses: The dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius).
cross that bridge when one gets there
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses that bridge when one gets there
form: crossing that bridge when one gets there
form: crossed that bridge when one got there
form: crossed that bridge when one got there
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross that bridge when one comes to it.
cross that bridge when one gets to it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses that bridge when one gets to it
form: crossing that bridge when one gets to it
form: crossed that bridge when one got to it
form: crossed that bridge when one got to it
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross that bridge when one comes to it.
jugglable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jugglable
form: most jugglable
Etymology: From juggle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being juggled.
specific leaf areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specific leaf area
apiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apiologists
Etymology: From apiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies apiology, the science of bees and honey-making.
apiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apiologist
sheath cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheath cakes
Etymology: Alteration of sheet cake, possibly because in some Southern accents sheet sounds like shit. First attested in the mid or late twentieth century.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sheet cake.
scaevity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin scaevitas, obsolete, 1623-1658.
Senses: glosses: unluckiness
glosses: left-handedness
Pleiads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: plural of Pleiad
facienda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faciendum
fastigia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fastigium
venim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venims
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of venom.
havent
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of haven't.
degut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deguts
form: degutting
form: degutted
form: degutted
Etymology: From de- + gut.
Senses: glosses: To remove the guts from.
Synonyms: eviscerate
gut
volia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volya
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian во́ля (vólja) or Ukrainian во́ля (vólja).
Senses: examples: text: The new restrictions being placed on the bride added up to a loss of her former “volia”.
ref: 1995, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, The Slave Soul of Russia, page 198:
text: The educated classes had always feared that a peasant volia would soon degenerate into anarchic licence and violent revenge against figures of authority.
ref: 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 115:
text: Their integration into the imperial army was causing concern and resentment among the rank and file, who feared losing their volia and their participatory institutions.
ref: 2001, Geoffrey Hosking, Russia and the Russians, page 229:
glosses: freedom; lack of restraint or constriction.
raw_tags: in Russian contexts
examples: text: Volia, as longing for freedom – freedom of thoughts, beliefs, and acts – is what helped to form and preserve the Ukrainian nation.
ref: 2023, What is volia, the Ukrainian superpower, that keeps us going?:
text: The history of Ukrainian resistance stands as a vivid example of the expression of volia.
ref: 2024, Oksana Voytko, Volia — collective concept, most often translated as Freedom:
glosses: liberty; independence, the right of individuals to choose their own goals.
raw_tags: in Ukrainian contexts
mols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mol
flagitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈflæd͡ʒɪteɪt/
Forms: form: flagitates
form: flagitating
form: flagitated
form: flagitated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin flāgitātus, perfect passive participle of flāgitō (“to demand, ask urgingly”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
Related terms: flagitation
flagitious
rebin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebins
form: rebinning
form: rebinned
form: rebinned
Etymology: From re- + bin.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To divide (data) into a different set of bins, or interval groupings.
nonintensified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intensified.
Senses: glosses: Not intensified.
rebis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebises
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From Latin rēs (“matter”) + Latin bīna (“double”).
Senses: examples: text: While the rebis is the final form of alchemical variability, the larger process of alchemy looked to mercury as both the agent and patient of transformative possibilities.
ref: 2023, Micah James Goodrich, “Trans Animacies and Premodern Alchemies”, in Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements, page 214:
topics: alchemy
fiction
literature
media
pseudoscience
publishing
head_nr: 1
glosses: The end product of the alchemical magnum opus, a reunion of opposing qualities such as spirit and matter or male and female, represented by an androgynous being.
examples: text: Within three days Judah discovers that the rebis who won him is on his trail.
ref: 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council:
head_nr: 1
glosses: An androgyne or hermaphrodite.
unintensified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + intensified.
Senses: glosses: Not intensified.
nonintense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intense.
Senses: glosses: Not intense.
nonlesioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lesioned.
Senses: glosses: Not lesioned.
jasminelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jasminelike
form: most jasminelike
Etymology: From jasmine + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of jasmine.
rebi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Erroneously formed by treating the etymon of rebus, Latin rēbus, as a masculine noun of the second declension, in which, in the nominative case, the singular form ends in -us and the plural form in -i.
Senses: examples: text: We have a letter which begins thus: “I send you herein twenty geographical rebi [we prefer the rebuses. Ed.], two proverbial, twenty enigmas, seven square words.”
ref: 1870 October 8, “Our Letter Bag”, in Oliver Optic [pseudonym; William Taylor Adams], editor, Our Boys and Girls, volume VIII, number 197, Boston: Lee and Shepard, […]. New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, page 655, column 1:
text: “A puzzle bee. Each of you four girls could prepare an original puzzle in private, and to-morrow night we could all meet in the sitting-room, the puzzles could be read off one at a time, and we could try to guess them.” / “You mean square words, charades, beheadings, and rebi?” / “‘Rebi’ for the plural of ‘rebus’ is good,” said Uncle Frank, laughing. “Yes, that’s what I mean,[…]”
ref: 1891 January 13, Harper’s Young People, volume XII, number 585, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 178, column 1:
text: Michael Preston has dubbed this form of riddle the "chemical rebus" (1982:117).[…]Meanwhile, down in the freshman chemistry office, scores of these same rebi are posted on a billboard for another purpose. Undergraduates use chemical rebi to play with recently acquired knowledge, sometimes to affirm a conceptual mastery which is exceedingly difficult.
ref: 1986, Folklore Forum, pages 163 and 164:
text: Mary is the present editor of their monthly publication, The Enigma, from which the rebi in this article were taken. The rebus is the same as the Loony Logo in principle, but differs in economy (a good rebus contains many fewer letters) and hence in content (any word or group of words is rebus material, but most common phrases cannot be readily rebized). There is overlap, of course; February's GSEG = scrambled eggs and PIPRE = Pied Piper are venerable rebi.
ref: 1972, A. Ross Eckler Jr., edited by A. Ross Eckler [Jr.], Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, page 88:
text: I particularly like rebi in which the rubric itself is a word, instead of a meaningless collection of letters or symbols. The first I remember seeing was the lovely CARTS = concertinas (C once, RT in AS). I have since made a complete collection of such rebi appearing in the National Puzzlers' League monthly publication, The Enigma, as well as a few from other sources. The rebi presented below, taken from issues through June 1979, are labeled with the creators' pseudonyms as is done in The Enigma.
ref: 1978, A. Ross Eckler [Jr.], editor, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, page 137:
glosses: plural of rebus
cabries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabrie
emetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emetic + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alkaloid forming the active principle of ipecacuanha root.
emeto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of emetophilia.
torces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torce
ments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ment
sents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sent
fujo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fujos
form: fujo
Etymology: Clipping of fujoshi, from Japanese 腐女子 (ふじょし, fujoshi, literally “rotten girl”).
Senses: examples: text: They consider themselves “Fujo” (Yaoi readers or creators are referred as “Fujoshi” in Japanese) and they have been reading Yaoi for more than five years.
ref: 2010, Dienfang Chou, “Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi in Taiwan for Female Readers: From the Perspective of Gender”, in Intercultural Communication Studies, volume 19, number 1, page 82:
text: people be like “fujos suck and fetishize gay men” and then talk about their favorite BL 😳😳
ref: 2019 October 25, mahi alina (@noctupavo), Twitter:
text: "So, while I'm personally self-aware of the fact that I'm a fujoshi," she continued, "I would still be upset if someone were to say, 'You're into that fujoshi crap?' or call me a 'nasty fujo' to my face. […]
ref: 2022, Kota Nozomi, translated by Tristan K. Hill, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, Volume 1, unnumbered page:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction.
Synonyms: word: fujoshi
word: fujoshit
Derived terms: fujo out
fujobait
cullis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlɪs/
Forms: form: cullises
Etymology: French coulisse (“groove”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A gutter in a roof.
topics: architecture
glosses: A channel or groove, as for a side-scene in a theatre.
examples: text: When I am excellent at caudles
 And cullises […] you shall be welcome to me.
ref: 1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:
glosses: A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for someone who is ill or infirm; also, a savoury jelly.
home straights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home straight
back straights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back straight
finishing line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finishing lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finish line.
finishing lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finishing line
finish lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finish line
alarmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarmins
Etymology: From alarm + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any endogenous substance that signals tissue and cell damage
amagat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amagats
Etymology: Named after Émile Amagat.
Senses: synonyms: Amagat unit
glosses: A practical unit of volumetric number density, defined as the number of ideal gas molecules per unit volume at 1 atm (101.325 kPa) and 0 °C (273.15 K). Symbol: amg or Am.
wikipedia: Émile Amagat
Fluffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Etymology: From fluffy.
Senses: examples: text: Joey: That is not a cat.
Rachel: Yes, it is.
Ross: Why is it inside out?
Rachel: Excuse me, but this is a purebred, show-quality Sphinx cat. […] I’m going to go set up a little litter box for Mrs. Whiskerson. [Ross looks at her] Well, what am I going to call her—Fluffy?
ref: 1999 May 6, Scott Silveri (story), Gregory S. Malins (teleplay), “The One with the Ball” (03:59 from the start), in Friends, season 5, episode 21:
glosses: A given name for a pet with fluffy hair, often a cat.
Related terms: Fido
articularies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of articulary
besant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bezant.
Amishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Amish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Amish.
Battle of Quebec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From several military battles in and around Quebec City, and so named.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759)
synonyms: word: Battle of the Plains of Abraham
extra: 1759
Battle of Quebec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From being a rivalry where the two rivals are located in the province of Quebec.
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: competition between the Montreal Canadiens of Montreal and Quebec Nordiques of Quebec City in the NHL from 1979–80 to 1994–95.
Related terms: Battle of Alberta
Battle of Ontario
Battle of Ontario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: the competition between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators NHL teams
Related terms: Battle of Alberta
Battle of Quebec
collin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
Senses: glosses: A very pure form of gelatin.
Derived terms: hemicollin
conjugant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugants
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gamete that undergoes conjugation
Derived terms: exoconjugant
transconjugant
costen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒ.sən/
Forms: form: costens
form: costening
form: costened
form: costened
Etymology: From Middle English costnien, from Old English costnian, subsidiary form of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). More at choose.
Senses: glosses: To try; tempt.
Related terms: cost
costning
donaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donary
eliminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eliminants
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A resultant.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug promoting excretion or the removal of waste.
imaginaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imaginary
cub reporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cub reporters
form: cub-reporter
Senses: examples: text: The cub-reporter cannot make a name for himself unless he is favoured by fortune.
ref: 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in Psmith, Journalist:
text: He had begun at 18 as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star.
ref: 1967, Carlos Baker, "His Beat Was The World," (review of By-line: Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White), New York Times, 28 May, p. SM49
text: Like a cub reporter aspiring to be the next David Brinkley, Seacrest is, in a way, applying for a job that no longer exists.
ref: 2004 January 20, James Poniewozik, “Shallow Like a Fox”, in Time:
text: I was a cub reporter, with limited insight, for the public broadcaster. Following HIV during a controversial time when the government refused to provide antiretroviral drugs to people infected with the virus, quickly taught me an important thing – a pandemic isn’t simply a disease gone viral.
ref: 2023 August 7, Mia Malan, “A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A young, inexperienced reporter employed by a newspaper or magazine.
cub-reporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cub-reporters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cub reporter.
matis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mati
zerg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: zergs
form: zerging
form: zerged
form: zerged
Etymology: From the game StarCraft (1998), in which the easily mass-produced Zerg units encourage such a strategy.
Senses: examples: text: You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics.
ref: 2002, Wolfie, “Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):
text: The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games. The good side of that is you don't get the "wonderful" experience of zerging around DF with everyone else waiting for something to spawn.
ref: 2003, George, “Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with”, in alt.games.starwarsgalaxies (Usenet):
text: No one ever did D (or just 3-4 people tried), we just zerged, and we would lose every single AV.
ref: 2008, neithskye, “AV after the last changes...”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):
topics: video-games
qualifier: strategy games
glosses: To attack an opponent with a large swarm of low-level units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.
Synonyms: cheese
rush
zerg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: zergs
Etymology: From the game StarCraft (1998), in which the easily mass-produced Zerg units encourage such a strategy.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A very large group of units or players.
Synonyms: blob
zerged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zerg
zergs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zerg
modulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modulins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of modulatory protein, produced by some bacteria, some of which are toxic
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A variety of theremin in the form of a violin
Derived terms: fibromodulin
immunomodulin
nucleomodulin
osteomodulin
pagat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ultimately from Italian bagatto (“magician”).
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: The first trump card in a Tarock deck.
Related terms: trull
trophological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trophological
form: most trophological
Etymology: From trophology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to trophology.
trophology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tropho- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The science of nutrition.
glosses: A nutritional approach that advocates specific combinations of foods as central to good health and weight loss.
Derived terms: trophological
prediscussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + discussed.
Senses: examples: text: Stick to prediscussed hours and duties. You should not act as if a housekeeper is your personal maid.
ref: 1983, Working woman, volume 8, numbers 7-12, page 194:
glosses: Having been discussed in advance.
supersystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersystems
Etymology: From super- + system.
Senses: glosses: A system comprising several subsystems.
supersystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersystem
speedingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more speedingly
form: most speedingly
Etymology: From speeding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We are speedingly going the same way as ancient Greece and Rome.
ref: 1977, William T Bruner, The sex problem: its cause, its curse, and its cure:
glosses: With speed; rapidly.
nonovert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + overt.
Senses: glosses: Not overt.
numbers juggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of juggling a large number of props as opposed to a smaller number of props with longer and/or more varied patterns.
Derived terms: numbers juggler
pixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pix
pixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pix
trica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricae
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin trica, coined by Erik Acharius in his 1803 work Methodus qua omnes detectos Lichenes. Perhaps connected to Latin trīcae, although the semantic relationship is unclear.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
wikipedia: Erik Acharius
provant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provant
form: most provant
Senses: examples: text: a poor provant rapier
ref: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
glosses: Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality, i.e. inferior.
provant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When I want prouant wᵗʰ: Humfrie
I sup, & when benighted,
I repose in Powles wᵗʰ: waking soules,
Yet neuer am affrighted.
When I lack food, I go
without it, and when benighted,
I repose in St. Paul’s (graveyard) with ghosts,
Yet am never scared.
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text: One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day.
ref: c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
glosses: provisions; food
provant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: provants
form: provanting
form: provanted
form: provanted
Senses: examples: text: ...should not only supply her inhabitants with plentiful purveyance of sustenance, but provant and victual moreover this monstrous army of strangers […]
ref: 1599, Thomas Nash, Nashes Lenten Stuffe:
glosses: To supply with provisions; to provide for.
Related terms: provand
remenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remenants
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of remnant.
representant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: representants
Etymology: From French représentant.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter
The Representants of the three United Cities , Nurenburg , Strasburg , and Ulm
glosses: A representative.
representant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French représentant.
Senses: glosses: Appearing or acting for another; representing.
resaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resave
restem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈstɛm/
Forms: form: restems
form: restemming
form: restemmed
form: restemmed
Etymology: From re- + stem.
Senses: examples: text: to restem their backward course
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To force back against the current.
examples: to restem a current
glosses: To stem, or move against.
rondino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rondinos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of rondoletto.
synonyms: word: rondoletto
separin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of separase.
synonyms: word: separase
tornaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːˈnɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /tɔɹˈnɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: tornarias
form: tornariae
Etymology: From Latin tornare (“to turn”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The free-swimming larva of various hemichordates, such as in Balanoglossus.
tremolant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremolants
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of tremulant.
usin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌsɪn/
rhymes: -ʌsɪn
Forms: form: usins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ussun (“someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective)”).
coulises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coulis
yayo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjeɪ.oʊ/
Forms: form: yeyo
form: yay
Etymology: From Spanish llello.
Senses: examples: text: Rush-rush to the yayo; buzz-buzz give me yayo.
ref: 1983, “Rush, Rush”, in Deborah Harry, Giorgio Moroder (lyrics), Scarface, performed by Debbie Harry, Universal Music Publishing Group:
text: We yayo experts, we been whippin' the yola / Since the crackas decided to take the coke from Coca-Cola.
ref: 2004, Lil' Jon and the East Side Boyz (Jonathan Mortimer Smith), "Grand Finale" (rap song)
text: They just spend their time sniffing up the yayo.
ref: 2009, Christine A. Nandi, The ABC's of Raising a Successful Student, page 7:
text: Need you like a baby when I hold you Like a druggie, like I told you Yayo, yeah, you Yayo
ref: 2012, Lana Del Rey, Yayo:
glosses: cocaine
Austrianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Austrian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being Austrian.
sadster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadsters
Etymology: From sad + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: You see, when it comes to buying a car, people who'd haggle with the milkman turn into sadsters with 'empty my wallet' writ large on their foreheads.
ref: 1995, Autocar, volume 202, page 48:
text: I'm not a friendless sadster, just looking for some good company & see what gives from there!
ref: 1999, nice bloke, “Decent, witty, sober, passionate man available”, in uk.local.essex (Usenet):
glosses: A socially inadequate or undesirable person; a saddo or loser.
sadsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadster
zooarchaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: zooarcheological
Etymology: From zooarchaeology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to zooarchaeology
zooarcheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zooarcheology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zooarchaeological.
zooarcheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + archeology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zooarchaeology.
immanentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immanentizes
form: immanentizing
form: immanentized
form: immanentized
form: immanentise
Etymology: From immanent + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: These revelations, however, soon distort God's revelation and immanentize it through a political choice.
ref: 1980, Thomas Steven Molnar, Theists and atheists: a typology of non-belief, page 126:
text: As we will see in more detail in the next section, our anticipation of a world-cultural network of communities not only does not immanentize Christian eschatology, but takes its stand on the world-transcendent objective of Christian […]
ref: 1984, Fred Lawrence, The Beginning and the beyond: papers from the Gadamer and Voegelin, volume 4, page 82:
text: The impact is to immanentize divine volition.
ref: 1998, Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, page 212:
glosses: To make immanent.
Related terms: immanentization
immanentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immanentize
immanentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immanentize
immanentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immanentize
archeozoology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archeo- + zoology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of archaeozoology.
Derived terms: archeozoologist
immanentise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immanentises
form: immanentising
form: immanentised
form: immanentised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of immanentize.
immanentises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immanentise
immanentising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immanentise
immanentised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immanentise
archaeozoologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeozoologists
form: archeozoologist
Etymology: From archaeozoology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a person who studies archaeozoology
archaeozoologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeozoologist
pyrroloindolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrroloindoline
archeozoologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeozoologists
Etymology: From archeozoology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of archaeozoologist.
archeozoologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeozoologist
phlogistonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phlogiston + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The point which Kuhn brings out particularly in his consideration of attempts to translate between phlogistonic and 'modern' chemistry is this: that not even long 'paraphrases' or complicated multiple uses of symbols can be usefully said to 'capture', to translate, phlogistonic chemistry: 'We have not only to say that phlogiston sometimes referred to hydrogen and sometimes to absorption of oxygen, but we have to convey the whole ontology of phlogiston in order to make plausible why it was taken to be a single natural kind.'
ref: 2002, Wes W. Sharrock, Rupert J. Read, Kuhn: philosopher of scientific revolutions, page 151:
glosses: Of or pertaining to phlogiston or the theory of phlogiston.
sylleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to syllepsis.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a structure of commutativity which is stronger than a braiding but not fully symmetric.
raw_tags: of a monoidal bicategory
attowatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attowatts
Etymology: From atto- + watt.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of power equal to 10⁻¹⁸ watts. Symbol: aW
Synonyms: aW
attowatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attowatt
face for radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faces for radio
Etymology: Because a radio presenter is never seen by the audience.
Senses: glosses: An ugly face.
Related terms: face only a mother could love
face for television
voice for print
hagiolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagiolaters
Etymology: From hagio- + -later.
Senses: examples: text: A younger hagiolater, Karl Heinz Ruppel, wrote of Karajan as an epic hero in much the same terms as Bernstein had spoken of Mahler.
ref: 2007, Norman Lebrecht, The life and death of classical music, page 55:
glosses: One who practices hagiolatry (the worship of saints).
hagiolaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagiolater
pistoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistole
ronyons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ronyon
arva
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arvas
form: arvaing
form: arva'd
form: arva'd
Etymology: Likely from charver.
Senses: glosses: To have sex with; to fuck.
nonbroiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbroilers
Etymology: From non- + broiler.
Senses: examples: text: California, Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Alabama led the states in the number of nonbroiler chickens raised in 1970.
ref: 1975, Clarence E. Bundy, Ronald V. Diggins, Virgil W. Christensen, Livestock and poultry production:
glosses: A chicken that is not a broiler.
nonbroilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonbroiler
footwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foot + writing.
Senses: examples: text: When a person becomes fluid in writing using an alternate method such as other-hand writing or footwriting, they will have retained many similar characteristics to their previous writing.
ref: 2002, Katherine Koppenhaver, Attorney's guide to document examination, page 82:
glosses: Writing with the foot, as performed by those whose disability prevents them from writing with the hand.
footies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footy
glosses: plural of footie
allolactose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + lactose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of the sugar lactose.
adfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adfix
chronoclasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronoclasm
it's on
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: [A man from a competing gang throws a drink in Fred's face, just before a fight begins.]
Fred Alger (Mel Tormé): It's on!
ref: 1959: Girls Town (film)
glosses: A conflict or competition is starting.
Derived terms: on like Donkey Kong
Related terms: bring it on
casts off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cast off
casted off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cast off
casting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cast off
gobful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbfʊl/
Forms: form: gobfuls
form: gobsful
Etymology: From gob + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The Professor, in order fittingly to celebrate this golden moment, leaned back in his chair, lit the worst cigar ever sold west of the Mississippi River, and blew five large gobfuls of smoke into the face of Mr. Gilhoolie, directly above him.
ref: 1926, Robert H. Davis, Irvin S. Cobb, Over My Left Shoulder, page 20:
text: One after another, gobfuls of mash are gobbled up.
ref: 1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, published 1998, page 121:
text: The reps sat in the only beam of midwinter afternoon sunlight, and they guzzled paté, crackers, gobsful of spring onions, lettuce done in varnish, they farted and burped and read business contracts to one another,[…].
ref: 1992, Barry Dickins, Post Office Restaurant and Other Stories, page 42:
text: They stood, mouths open and teeth bared, till the yolk-like film that seeped from their gums had slid to form small gobfuls, at which time, one after the other like a Gatling gun, they spat the slime at Pemmell′s face.
ref: 2002, John Scott, “Warra Warra”, in Peter Craven, editor, The Best Australian Stories 2002, page 311:
glosses: A mouthful.
examples: text: “[…]But when you speak of love, I am no longer old. I am absolutely full of it. I have crammed great gobsful of it into my music.”
ref: 1921, Charles David Isaacson, Face to Face with Great Musicians, volume 2, page 197:
text: Three of them were full already – the diggers had scooped up great gobfuls of concrete and soil.
ref: 2005, L.J. Adlington, The Diary of Pelly-D, unnumbered page:
text: Mr Laxton:[…]I once had a conversation with someone who was a permanent secretary — a top-notch civil servant in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — who was in the business of handing out big gobfuls of money — billions here, there and everywhere.
ref: 2009, British House of Commons East Midlands Regional Select Committee, East Midlands Development Agency and the Regional Economic Strategy: First Report of Session 2008-09, page 29:
glosses: A large portion or amount.
examples: text: The neighbours were having a noisy party so I went and gave them a gobful.
text: 2007, Gideon Haigh, article in The Guardian, reprinted 2008, The Warne-Muralitharan Trophy: Marrige of Inconvenience, Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture, page 54,
But his erstwhile colleague Jason Gillespie believes that the Sri Lankan probably expects it: ‘With Murali coming out he always cops a gobful in Australia and he′ll be expecting to cop that again. He might have to grin and bear it. […] ’
text: I usually cop gobfuls from opposition fans, which is fair enough. They pay their money to come along and give it to the players they don′t like.
ref: 2011, Barry Hall, Michael Cowley, Pulling No Punches, unnumbered page:
text: —-Cheeky southern blert, a sey an am about ter give im a real gobful but then a don′t bother. It woulden be werth it like.
ref: 2011, Niall Griffiths, Grits, page 275:
glosses: A blast of verbal abuse, usually considered justifiable.
attones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attone
cock rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock ring