cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
talquetamab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A humanized monoclonal antibody used to treat multiple myeloma.
elranatamab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug used to treat relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
sobrerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sobrero + -ol, after its discoverer Ascanio Sobrero.
Senses: glosses: The mucolytic trans-p-Menth-6-ene-2,8-diol.
wikipedia: Ascanio Sobrero
car guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car guards
Senses: examples: text: Whether you see them as a necessity or a nuisance, car guards form part of the major informal economy on a national scale in South Africa.
ref: 2016 February 1, “How much money car guards really make in South Africa”, in BusinessTech:
text: Mtuse is one of about 50 car guards across the town who are part of the Abakhuseli Skills for Life project which was officially launched in Makhanda earlier this year. The project trains and assists car guards.
ref: 2022 October 4, Lucas Nowicki, “Changing the way a town views its car guards”, in GroundUp:
glosses: A person who watches over parked cars on the street and helps drivers to find parking places in exchange for money, usually informally.
acorn moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acorn moths
Etymology: The larvae feed on acorns.
Senses: glosses: The North American moth Blastobasis glandulella.
glosses: The European moth Cydia splendana.
acorn moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acorn moth
Nabatea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nabataea.
Amidoth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Amidah
botherate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: botherates
form: botherating
form: botherated
form: botherated
Senses: examples: text: Stop botherating him, I say. He's got too much to worry about already.
ref: 2014, M. R. C. Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Foskett:
text: Months of networking, botherating, begging, and pleading had finally gotten us a space. I was so excited. This would be far and away the largest and most important venue where we'd ever had the chance to exhibit.
ref: 2018, Emily Schoerning, Science Culture, Language, and Education in America, page 111:
synonyms: word: annoy
word: irritate
word: vex
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To bother.
Related terms: botheration
botherates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of botherate
botherating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of botherate
botherated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of botherate
boschvark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boschvarks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bush pig (“type of African pig”).
synonyms: word: bush pig
extra: type of African pig
boschvarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boschvark
bouncy house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouncy houses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bouncing castle.
synonyms: word: bouncing castle
bouncy houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouncy house
bouvardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouvardias
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Bouvardia.
bouvardias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouvardia
bowwow theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowwow theories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bow-wow theory.
bowwow theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowwow theory
car guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car guard
quarter-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quarter-asses
form: quarter-assing
form: quarter-assed
form: quarter-assed
Senses: glosses: To perform a task very incompletely or carelessly, to a more extreme degree than half-assing.
Related terms: quarter-assed
half ass
phone in
Hawaiian crow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaiian crows
Senses: glosses: The alala
potwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potwashes
Senses: glosses: A potwasher (person)
glosses: A station in a kitchen at which pots and other dishes are washed.
monkey's paw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey's paws
form: monkey paw
form: monkey-paw
Etymology: From the 1902 short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, in which a mummified monkey's paw is enchanted to grant a family three wishes, but with terrible consequences for them. Popularised by a segment based on Jacobs' story in the 1991 episode "Treehouse of Horror II" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.
Senses: examples: text: It’s given me everything I thought I wanted – riches, lucre, affluence, having lots of money, and being very wealthy – but with monkey’s-paw precision it’s turned all my dreams against me.
ref: 2015 October 19, Sam Kriss with Thom Phipps, “Who really ever owns a tweet? The story of a 140-character message gone viral, and the man who stole it”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: It’s a monkey’s paw of a legacy, to have birthed an immortal gastronomic titan but not to have attained immortality of one’s own.
ref: 2017 October 11, Helen Rosner, “What Le Cirque Will Be Remembered For”, in The New Yorker:
text: For many people, the extended period of quarantine and working from home necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak has turned into a monkey’s paw situation — a theoretical wish come true that has significant downsides.
ref: 2020 April 2, Brian Feldman, “Welcome (Back) to the Appointment Internet”, in New York:
text: One person joked that Chet was the result of a monkey's paw situation with his father. ¶ 'Chet hanks is the price tom hanks paid to become tom hanks,' they wrote.
ref: 2021 March 27, Brian Marks, “Tom Hanks' rapper son Chet Hanks gets lambasted on social media after declaring that 'white boy summer' is on the way”, in The Daily Mail:
glosses: A situation in which a wish or desire has been fulfilled, but at significant cost or with ironic, usually unfavourable consequences.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey, paw.
Related terms: be careful what you wish for
poisoned chalice
Pyrrhic victory
Meetei civilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ancient Kangleipak.
synonyms: word: Ancient Kangleipak
Manipuri civilization
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ancient Kangleipak.
Manipuri civilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ancient Kangleipak.
Kanglei civilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ancient Kangleipak.
cantankerosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantankerosity
recontrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recontrols
form: recontrolling
form: recontrolled
form: recontrolled
Etymology: From re- + control.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, work will also take place in Peterborough to recontrol the signalling to Network Rail's operating centre in York.
ref: 2023 August 9, “Network News: Digital upgrade to shut part of ECML”, in RAIL, number 989, page 13:
glosses: To subject (something) to new control.
Elvii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Elvis + -ii.
Senses: examples: text: Did I mention the 30-minute encore with Les and Larry from Primus featuring four Elvii and yodelers during Harpua and Suzie? The best show ever! —Chip Croteau
ref: 1998, Andy Bernstein, The Pharmer’s Almanac: The Ultimate Toilet Reading for Phans, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Boulevard Books, →ISBN, page 200:
text: “I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago,” I said at once. / “Elvii?” Marcone inquired. / “The plural could be Elvises, I guess,” I said. “But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things ‘my precious,’ so I usually go with the Latin plural.”
ref: 2003, Jim Butcher, Death Masks, Roc, →ISBN, page 231:
text: You’ll recognize the mug, of course, but his outfit also stands out; all the other Elvii are wearing the spangled jumpsuits of Las Vegas Elvis, but Tarantino is dressed up rockabilly-style as Sun Records Elvis.
ref: 2012, Katherine Rife, If You Like Quentin Tarantino…: Here Are Over 200 Films, TV Shows and Other Oddities That You Will Love, Limelight Editions, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of Elvis
grinds out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grind out
grinding out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grind out
grounds out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ground out
grounding out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ground out
grounded out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ground out
Jihchao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 日照 (Rìzhào), Wade–Giles romanization: Jih⁴-chao⁴.
Senses: examples: text: In March 1899 three Germans prospecting near Jihchao in southern Shantung were attacked by a mob and narrowly escaped with their lives.
ref: 1963, Victor Purcell, “The reappearance of the Boxers”, in The Boxer Uprising, A Background Study, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 178:
text: The following month, after German troops had burned down two villages and had occupied the town of Jihchao in Shantung as a reprisal for the murder of three German nationals, the Governor of Shantung had been given orders ‘not to be intimidated . . . not to accede unendingly to the aggressive demands of the Germans’; and the Germans had withdrawn.
ref: 1970, Christopher Hibbert, “Righteous Harmony Boxing”, in The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911, Penguin Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 327:
text: The first indication of the melon’s new determination to resist further slicing came in March 1899, when three Germans were attacked by villagers near the town of Jihchao in Shandong Province, close to their military base of Kiaochow. Characteristically, German troops responded by immediately invading the area, where they burned two villages and seized Jihchao.
ref: 2003, Keith Laidler, “Self-strengthening”, in The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 204:
glosses: Alternative form of Rizhao.
recontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recontrol
recontrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recontrol
recontrols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recontrol.
project-manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: project-managers
Senses: examples: text: Along with the appropriation for the purchase of the land, an additional appropriation was made to employ a Negro project-manager with a staff of 17 assistants to direct the activities of the demonstration.
ref: 1935 May 24, “Tuskegee Takes Part in National Recovery Move”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume CVII, number 144, Montgomery, Ala., Tuskegee section, page eight, column 1:
text: Kent R. Kern, acting project-manager, said Saturday that about 74 per cent of the excavation work and about 15 per cent of the foundation had been completed.
ref: 1936 March 29, “Names Are Chosen For Federal Housing Project In Lexington: ‘Bluegrass Park Picked For White Section And ‘Aspendale’ For Negro”, in The Lexington Leader, volume 48, number 89, Lexington, Ky., page twenty-nine, column 6:
text: A project-manager who has the ability to assemble a team from her extensive informal network as a project gradually runs into visible problems, may undermine or be undermined by project-managers that follow the more formalised procedure of assembling a community of practice.
ref: 2015, Seán Ó Riain, Felix Behling, Rossella Ciccia, Eoin Flaherty, editors, The Changing Worlds and Workplaces of Capitalism, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Rare form of project manager.
project-managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of project-manager
Anastatia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anastatias
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Anastasia.
glosses: A surname, variant of Anastasia
Salapungan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
Discworldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Discworldian
form: most Discworldian
Etymology: From Discworld + -ian, from disc + world.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe we could work up a DISCWORLDian test or something to show how much of our reality perception has leaked out...
ref: 1992 January 31, Edward Wladyslaw Jajko, “Small, Round, Green Buzzing things and DISCWORLD opinions (on the fly! alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
text: Pratchett, Terry, and Stephen Briggs. The New Discworld Companion. “The Fully Revised and Updated Reference Book to all things Discworldian.”
ref: 2003 May/June, Interzone, number 189, page 65, columns 1–2:
text: I am one of the few readers for whom Small Gods did not work, because I felt the lack of things Discworldian—in particular Death—to be almost too heavy-handed.
ref: 2004 February, Michelle West, “Musing on Books”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, page 38, column 2:
text: WhatCulture put the idea to revered gaming industry personality Rhianna Pratchett - Tomb Raider reboot writer, unofficial custodian of all things Discworldian, and of course Terry's daughter.
ref: 2014 July 8, Henry Dowling, “Terry Pratchett's Discworld: 9 Steps To Create The Perfect Game”, in WhatCulture, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2016:
text: The Hawass regime was a time of ‘multiple Egyptologies,’ with tightly controlled paid access made available to various private organisations combined with a simultaneous doubling-down on an ‘official narrative’ that, as we shall see, is positively Discworldian in its absurdity.
ref: 2016, Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, Scarlet Imprint | Bibliothèque Rouge, →ISBN:
text: Not in the usual Discworldian sense, where those souls are liable to pop out just about anywhere.
ref: 2016, Daniel Miori, “Cocking a Snook at Death and Getting Away with It: Does the Personification of Death Make It Less Scary?”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor, Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: The Discworldian Oxbridge is architecturally based on the dreaming spires of our great university cities, with the exception of the Tower of Art which is described by Terry as having a “gnarled appearance, like a tree that has seen too many thunderstorms.”
ref: 2017, Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium, Gollancz, →ISBN:
text: In the Discworldian tradition of playing with stereotypes, Tiffany’s girlhood and womanhood is centred and presented as powerful; […]
ref: 2018, Alice Nuttall, “Be a Witch, Be a Woman: Gendered Characterisation of Terry Pratchett’s Witches”, in Marion Rana, editor, Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods (Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part I (Populating Discworld and Beyond: Characters, Criticism and Social Commentary), page 27:
glosses: Pertaining to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels or their setting.
Related terms: Discworlder
adtech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ad + tech.
Senses: examples: text: Last week, Motherboard's Joseph Cox laid down $160 with Safegraph, a digital adtech/surveillance company, and got back the location trails of everyone who'd visited 600 Planned Parenthood locations. Safegraph claimed that this data was "anonymized." This is a lie. It's really, really easy to "re-identify" location data.
ref: 2022 March 7, Cory Doctorow, “Safegraph follows people into abortion clinics and then sells the data”, in Pluralistic:
glosses: Digital technology for the delivery and measurement of advertising campaigns.
service worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service workers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A scriptable network proxy in a web browser that manages network requests for a web page.
service workers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service worker
Horseshoe Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: horseshoe+falls (waterfall). From the shape of the waterfall being like a horseshoe.
Senses: synonyms: Canadian Falls
hypernyms: Niagara Falls
Niagara
the Falls
coordinate_terms: American Falls
Goat Island
glosses: A waterfall in Niagara river, Niagara Peninsula, Niagara regional municipality, Niagara region, Ontario, Canada. A massive set of contiguous waterfalls, the larger and more spectacular portion of the Niagara Falls.
glosses: A waterfall in the Sable River, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
glosses: A weir in the River Dee, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom.
Discworlder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Discworlders
Etymology: From Discworld + -er, from disc + world.
Senses: examples: text: To Discworlders steeped in magic, the science of Roundworld—our science—did not always look as alien as you’d imagine.
ref: 1999, New Scientist, volume 163, page 48, column 2:
text: His various voices and accents range from exaggerated Cockney to raspy utterances to adenoidal inflections, and Planer zips effortlessly from Discworlder to Discworlder with aplomb.
ref: 1999 November, Bette D. Ammon, “SOUL MUSIC. (A Discworld novel.) Terry Pratchett. 1994/1996. ISIS Audio Books. Read by Nigel Planer. […]”, in Kliatt, volume 33, number 6, page 58, column 3:
text: Now Discworlders use peculiar units, the appearance of a small white goose or three billiard balls for the Thaum, and the movement of a pound of lead one foot for the Prime.
ref: 2011, Peter J[ames] Carroll, The Octavo (Roundworld Edition): A Sorcerer-Scientist’s Grimoire, Mandrake of Oxford, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Geometry to Flatlanders is as important as magic is to Discworlders. […] Flatlanders favor string theory and Discworlders favor loop quantum gravity as the way to tie the theories of Einstein and quantum mechanics together. […] Discworlders, on the other hand, favor telling the story of loop quantum gravity first because, like Einstein they are enamored with storytelling, and, second; the minuscule but discrete quantum of loop quantum gravity and spin networks are as mysterious as their thaum.
ref: 2016, Christopher Ketcham, “The Alchemy of Flat Worlds”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor, Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: In trying to be glamorous, the less astute Discworlders merely end up grubby – alazons open to criticism by their intellectual betters both inside and outside the text. […] At the climaxes of their stories, Discworlders often find themselves in supernatural situations which Pratchett keeps largely free of bathos.
ref: 2019, Joseph Rex Young, George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature), Routledge, →ISBN:
text: And one of the Discworlders was carrying these?
ref: 2021, Stephen Briggs, The Shakespeare Codex, Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: An inhabitant of the Discworld from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels.
Related terms: Discworldian
Discworlders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Discworlder
Canadian Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Canadian+falls (waterfall).
* (Niagara Falls): From being the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
* (Shoshone Falls): Coined by Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop Augustin-Magloire Blanchet in 1847. Blanchet, being from Canada, named the falls "Canadian Falls"
Senses: synonyms: Horseshoe Falls
hypernyms: Niagara Falls
Niagara
the Falls
coordinate_terms: American Falls
Goat Island
glosses: A waterfall in Niagara Falls, Niagara river, Niagara Peninsula, Niagara regional municipality, Niagara region, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Former name of Shoshone Falls: a waterfall in the Snake River, Idaho, United States.
bretessée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Dexter : Azure a lion rampant barry of eight Argent and Gules crowned Or. Sinister : Gules a fess bretessée Argent. The shield is ensigned of a crozier Or. (Unidentified Abbey, France ?) 207 (U.1.11). AUTEUR INCONNU.
ref: 1956, The Bibliotheck:
text: [The fess, on the arms of] Woodward, is bretessée.
ref: 1962, Thomas Baty, Julian Franklyn, Vital Heraldry, Edinburgh : The Armorial:
glosses: Alternative form of bretessé.
bretessy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: (10.) A chevron bretessy between 3 storks' (?) heads erased.
ref: 1882, William Wheater, The History of the Parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, with Notices of Wistow, Saxton, Towton, Etc. ..., page 118:
glosses: Rare spelling of bretessé.
single crochet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single crochets
Senses: glosses: the most common stitch in crochet, used to create two-dimensional surfaces; achieved by pulling the thread through the next loop, then pulling the thread through both of the loops on the hook
glosses: a slipstitch
barista-ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barista
horologiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horologium
LKF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lan Kwai Fong.
obtenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtenances
Senses: glosses: the act of obtaining something
Tooro Kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tooro Kingdom
Senses: synonyms: Kingdom of Tooro
glosses: A geographic region and non-sovereign kingdom in Uganda, comprised of all of Uganda's Tooro sub-region.
Related terms: english: a person from the Tooro Kingdom
translation: a person from the Tooro Kingdom
word: Mutooro
english: of or pertaining to the Tooro Kingdom
translation: of or pertaining to the Tooro Kingdom
word: Tooro
english: the people of the Tooro Kingdom
translation: the people of the Tooro Kingdom
word: Batooro
english: the language spoken in the Tooro Kingdom
translation: the language spoken in the Tooro Kingdom
word: Rutooro
tagmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of forming into tagmata, e.g. during the metamorphosis of an insect
Kingdom of Tooro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Tooro
Senses: glosses: The official name of the Tooro Kingdom.
ostkakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostkaka
supernoval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supernova + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Part of the problem in studying them is that supernoval explosions occur rather infrequently.
ref: 1968, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 67:
text: With all that, one can then appreciate and learn at least the outline—essential for the scientifically literate person—of the story of the universe: big bang, evolution of stars and galaxies, formation of solar systems from supernoval debris.
ref: 1992, Henry H[ermann] Bauer, Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method, University of Illinois Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 9:
text: On the other hand, Hope had been in the new system for three years, and if the system contained an Earthlike planet it must also be rich in other supernoval debris.
ref: 2002, Brian Stableford, Dark Ararat, Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: A selected few of them exploded in supernoval splenditude and degenerated into neutron stars.
ref: 2019, Richard L. Newell, “Episode Three: Tale of the Telltale Tail”, in Patriot Children: A Four-Part Family-Oriented Science Fiction Mystery Novel; Upholding Time-Honored Judeo-Christian Traditions and Values, →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: Of or relating to a supernova.
Hursley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4225).
Seary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
platform edge door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform edge doors
form: platform-edge door
Senses: examples: text: HS2 Ltd has commenced its search for a supplier of platform edge doors at Old Oak Common and Interchange stations.
ref: 2023 August 9, “Network News: Search for platform edge doors supplier”, in RAIL, number 989, page 19:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: PED
word: platform screen door
glosses: Synonym of platform screen door.
platform edge doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platform edge door
loconym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loconyms
Senses: glosses: A name (of a person, a language, etc.) derived from a placename.
Related terms: loconymic
toponym
loconymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loconym + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a loconym.
loconyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loconym
resticker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restickers
form: restickering
form: restickered
form: restickered
Etymology: From re- + sticker.
Senses: glosses: To sticker again; to apply new stickers to.
restickered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resticker
restickers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resticker
restickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resticker
moutabal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutabbal.
mutabbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moutabal
Etymology: From Arabic متبل (literally “spiced”).
Senses: glosses: A Middle Eastern dish of mashed roasted eggplant, tahini, salt, garlic, lemon and often yogurt, similar to baba ganoush but more spicy.
clickbaitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clickbait + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A canny marketer, García Martínez wrote, could "goose" purchasing power if Facebook's estimation of its "clickbaitness" was high. The Trump campaign's superior grip on this dynamic allowed it to buy choice ad space at bargain prices, while the reverse was true for Clinton.
ref: 2018 November 26, Matt Taibbi, “Who Will Fix Facebook?”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2023:
synonyms: clickbaitiness
glosses: The quality of being clickbaity or being clickbait.
clickbaityness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We conduct this study in the context of two significant events: the US elections of 2016 and the 2020 COVID pandemic. We build a series of classifiers to (i) examine linguistic clues exhibited by different types of fake news articles, (ii) analyze "clickbaityness" of disinformation headlines, and (iii) finally, perform fine-grained, veracity-based article classification through a natural language inference (NLI) module for automated disinformation verification; this utilizes a manually curated set of evidence sources.
ref: 2021 June 18, Archita Pathak, Rohini K. Srihari, Nihit Natu, “Disinformation: analysis and identification”, in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, volume 27, number 3, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 357:
glosses: Alternative spelling of clickbaitiness.
apple doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple dolls
Senses: glosses: A North American folkcraft doll having a head made from a dried apple.
Related terms: applehead
apple dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple doll
applehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appleheads
Etymology: From apple + head.
Senses: examples: text: Cloth, stuffing, scissors, thread, appleheads, hickory nuts, and corn husks lie about the house awaiting the masterful touch of Taylor's hands which turn them into dolls.
ref: 1984, Annelen R. Archbold, Broommaking and Dollmaking in South Central Kentucky, page 157:
glosses: The head, consisting of a dried apple, of an apple doll.
examples: text: "You, sir, are a applehead! I re-peat, an applehead! ... You're a counter-feit. Wipe the drip off your face!"
ref: 1942, Newsweek, page 83
glosses: A stupid or dumb person.
appleheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applehead
broommaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broom + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of brooms.
Porac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pampanga, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Botolan, Zambales, Philippines.
Minalin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pampanga, Philippines.
Pandacaqui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Mexico, Pampanga, Philippines.
duodecaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodecaploid
duodenocholedochotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodenocholedochotomy
duodenocystostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodenocystostomy
duodenoenterostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodenoenterostomy
duplifixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duplifix
duplitectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duplitecture
dural sinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dural sinus
durectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durectomy
durres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durre
dyoung-dyoungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyoung-dyoung
dysautoregulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysautoregulation
point blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point blankets
Senses: glosses: A kind of wool blanket with colored stripes, traditionally traded by the Hudson's Bay Company to First Nations people in exchange for beaver pelts.
point blankets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point blanket
dysendocrinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysendocrinism
dystrophications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dystrophication
early retirement pensioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of early retirement pensioner
earth almonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth almond
Manipuree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Manipuri.
Manipuree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipurees
form: Manipuree
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Manipuri.
Manipuree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Manipuri.
Manipurees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manipuree
magic feminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of magical feminism.
Hassard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ralls County, Missouri, United States, named after a railroad employee.
fast travels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fast travel
fast traveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fast travel
fast traveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fast travel
fast travelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fast travel
fast travelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fast travel
Krishnaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Krishnaists
Etymology: From Krishna + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: Krishnaite
glosses: A proponent of Krishnaism.
Krishnaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Krishnaist
Krishnaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Krishna + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of various independent Hindu traditions based around the devotion to Krishna.
K of C
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Knights of Columbus.
VTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of vertical takeoff.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of volume-time output.
VTO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Valero Texas Open.
Turkish carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkish carpets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Turkey carpet.
synonyms: word: Turkey carpet
Turkish carpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkish carpet
fiery skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiery skippers
Etymology: So called because the males are a bright flame-like color.
Senses: glosses: Hylephila phyleus, a hesperiid butterfly.
fiery skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiery skipper
mascularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ar + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: To some the unmentionables might savor of mascularity; but having seen something of a more polite society, my feminine associations are not restricted to petticoats
ref: 1854, Elisha Kent Kane, chapter XLVI, in The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 425:
text: Now, suddenly, he sat bolt upright and began to hurl them one after another down the valley with a great effect of mascularity and science.
ref: 1927, Elizabeth Bowen, “Valley”, in The Hotel, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1981, →ISBN, page 163:
text: For boys, all the pubertal changes (such as growth of facial and body hair, breaking of voice, increased mascularity, and altered physique) tend to have unambiguously positive connotations, which are accompanied by positive self-perceptions.
ref: 1990, “Psychiatric Disorders During Adolescence”, in John Bancroft, June Machover Reinisch, editors, Adolescence and Puberty (The Kinsey Institute Series), New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: Synonym of masculinity.
synonyms: word: masculinity
undercreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercreative
form: most undercreative
Etymology: From under- + creative.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: uncreative
text: Overmotivated people tend to persist with the obvious plan. Thus they tend to do well with simple problems but badly with difficult problems. Undercreative people also tend to persist with the obvious plan. Creative people have the flexibility to generate many plans and the persistence to test them all.
ref: 1973, W. Lambert Gardiner, An Invitation to Cognitive Psychology, Monterey, C.A.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 130:
antonyms: overcreative
glosses: Insufficiently creative.
rubber chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubber chicken
Thlingchadinne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tłįchǫ.
synonyms: word: Tłįchǫ
Maigue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river mainly in County Limerick, Ireland, which flows into the Shannon estuary; in full, the River Maigue.
Texas tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texas towers
Senses: glosses: A kind of offshore lighthouse resembling an oil platform.
Texas towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texas tower
huangana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huanganas
Senses: glosses: A white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari).
prankage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prank + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Obviously they were well aware of the cardinal rule of being a college freshman: all's fair in innocent prankage.
ref: 2011, John Randall Tabor, Homer Is Where the Heart Is, page 132:
glosses: The playing of pranks.
Thames barge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thames barges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Thames sailing barge.
synonyms: word: Thames sailing barge
Thames barges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thames barge
Thames sailing barge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thames sailing barges
Senses: synonyms: Thames barge
glosses: A kind of commercial sailboat, a flat-bottomed barge with a shallow draught and leeboards, once common on the River Thames in London, England.
Thames sailing barges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thames sailing barge
TEPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of tetraethyl pyrophosphate.
Tel Avivan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tel Avivan
form: most Tel Avivan
Etymology: From Tel Aviv + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tel Aviv.
Tel Avivan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tel Avivans
Etymology: From Tel Aviv + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tel Aviv.
Tel Avivans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tel Avivan
teletypesetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletypesetters
Etymology: From tele- + typesetter.
Senses: glosses: A kind of teleprinter with typesetting features such as text justification and font selection.
teletypesetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletypesetter
teletypesetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + typesetting.
Senses: glosses: The use of a teletypesetter.
baleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bale + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be made up into bales.
beeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Respelling of b-ball.
Senses: examples: text: “Anyone want to see a good beeball game? My old alma mater, Ryderling High, is playing Sunset.”
ref: 2001, John Bateson, Chocolate and Bombs Forever, page 59:
text: “Bee-ball?” Mike asked. “I got an hour.”
[…] It was looking to both of them that there might be no game today; just shots and dribbles and conversation.
ref: 2015, Tracy Amos, Flying with Crows:
glosses: Basketball.
beeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Beeman + ball, after its inventor Clarence W. Beeman.
Senses: examples: text: Special methods for the teaching of speed ball, soccer, touch football, beeball, field ball, […]
ref: 1951, Wayne University Bulletin, page 161:
glosses: A team sport with elements of rugby and football/soccer.
Mugabe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mugabes
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, Britain's show of disapproval for Mugabe's Zanu-PF government during the land seizures was in conflict with its largely silent approach on the 1980s Gukurahundi conflict, in which Mugabe ordered the massacre of up to 20,000 Ndebele civilians.
ref: 2009 June 17, Blessing-Miles Tendi, “Tsvangirai's dicey strategy”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname
S-Video
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An analog video signal format that encodes luma and chrominance on two separate channels, achieving higher image quality than composite video.
Sundayfied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sundayfied
form: most Sundayfied
Etymology: From Sunday + -fy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The omnibusses, though working, poor vehicles! look spruce and "Sundayfied." The horses have bunches of ribbons in their ears, and the coachmen carry pinks or dog-roses in their button-holes, or in their mouths.
ref: 1854, The Jubilee Harbinger for 1854:
text: Every now and then was a distribution of new singing books, bearing fantastical names and filled with "modern music," which for the most part were rollicking melodies, as if Offenbach's jingles had been Sundayfied.
ref: 1879, Sunday Afternoon, volume 3, page 253:
text: All was still and Sundayfied; the lilacs in full flower scented the air.
ref: 1921, John Galsworthy, To Let:
glosses: Made suitable for a Sunday.
Sukhavati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सुखावती (sukhāvatī).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The pure land of Amitābha in Mahayana Buddhism.
Sumero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Sumer + -o-.
Senses: examples: text: Sumero-Akkadian
text: Sumero-Babylonian
glosses: Sumerian
Suárezian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Suárezian
form: most Suárezian
Etymology: From Suárez + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian.
Derived terms: Suárezianism
Sthanakvasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sect of Svetambara Jainism.
SASP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SASPs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of senescence-associated secretory phenotype.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of salazosulfapyridine.
PASC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: păsk
ipa: /pæsk/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Public Administration Select Committee
glosses: Acronym of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, long COVID
cream puff piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream puff pieces
form: creampuff piece
Etymology: Blend of cream puff + puff piece.
Senses: examples: text: In some cases, that was true; they thought I was just another beauty or fashion editor who would do a cream-puff piece about their products .
ref: 1995, Paula Begoun, Miriam Bulmer, Don't Go Shopping for Hair Care Products Without Me, Beginning Press, →ISBN, page 17:
text: This week includes criticism of our story on Laura Bush as a "cream puff piece" and praise for the new invention we featured which turns off other peoples' televisions, called TV-B-Gone.
ref: 2004 October 21, “Letters: Laura Bush, and TV-B-Gone”, in NPR:
text: While he was a player with the Florida Marlins a writer did a “cream puff piece” on him where Renteria told him his family calls him Ricky instead of Rich.
ref: 2012 December 6, Jesse Rogers, “Cubs Notes: No Rule 5 pick”, in ESPN:
topics: journalism
media
publishing
glosses: A positive article or review that is largely based on opinion.
Synonyms: puff piece
toilet train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toilet-train.
Vancouver Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vancouver Islanders
Etymology: From Vancouver Island + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There are, however, a few of their traditions, which appear to have been handed down to them from the same source as the story of Mango Capac amongst the Peruvians—the overflow of the great waters, to the Indians of Central America; the worship of Al, the great spirit, by the Vancouver islanders; and although these are mingled with many absurd rites to propitiate the demons, yet they appear to have some connection with revelation.
ref: 1862, Charles Ede, “The Disappointment”, in Warm Hearts in Cold Regions. A Tale of Arctic Life., London: T. Nelson and Sons, […], →OCLC, pages 94–95:
text: Those Vancouver Islanders from “up-Island” are conveniently linked only to Thetis Island via Chemainus and Salt Spring Island via Crofton.
ref: 2012, Theo Dombrowski, “Introduction”, in Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea: The Southern Gulf Islands, Vancouver, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 8:
text: At this time, New Westminster was the official capital of the colony of British Columbia, much to the concern and disbelief of Vancouver Islanders, who strongly believed Victoria should have retained the position.
ref: 2018, Andrew Hempstead, Moon British Columbia: Including the Alaska Highway, 11th edition, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:
synonyms: Islander
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Vancouver Island.
Vancouver Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vancouver Islander
baby-changing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It has also urged family-friendly toilets and baby-changing facilities on trains, step-free access and level boarding, and waiting rooms with play equipment.
ref: 2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Family-friendly travel: new standard covers pushchairs”, in RAIL, number 989, page 26:
glosses: Relating to the changing of a baby's nappy or diaper.
Related terms: baby changing station
play equipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It has also urged family-friendly toilets and baby-changing facilities on trains, step-free access and level boarding, and waiting rooms with play equipment.
ref: 2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Family-friendly travel: new standard covers pushchairs”, in RAIL, number 989, page 26:
glosses: Equipment provided for children to play with or on, indoors or outdoors, including playground equipment.
laugh one's ass off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughs one's ass off
form: laughing one's ass off
form: laughed one's ass off
form: laughed one's ass off
form: laugh one's arse off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laugh one's head off (“laugh uproariously”).
synonyms: word: laugh one's head off
extra: laugh uproariously
Derived terms: LMAO
laughed one's ass off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laugh one's ass off
laughs one's ass off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh one's ass off
laughing one's ass off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laugh one's ass off