cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
atypical antipsychotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atypical antipsychotic
Melman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Melmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Murrison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Murison
Senses: glosses: A surname.
offaly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offaly
form: offalier
form: most offaly
form: offaliest
Senses: examples: text: I also try adding some chopped turkey liver, as recommended by Delia in another recipe, but find the offaly flavour rather strident;
ref: 2011, Felicity Cloake, Perfect Christmas Day:
text: Changes in soluble proteins, free fatty acids and free amino acids were measured, as these degradation products could be responsible for the development of 'livery/offaly' flavor and could also explain the increase meat pH during prolonged chilled meat storage.
ref: 2012, Fereidoon Shahidi, Arthur M. Spanier, Chi-Tang Ho, Quality of Fresh and Processed Foods, page 52:
text: Human volunteeers rated thirteen different commercial pet food samples, concentrating on eighteen so-called flavour attributes: sweet, sour/acid, tuna, herbal, spicy, soy, salty, cereal, caramel, chicken, methionine, vegetable, offaly, meaty, burnt, prawn, rancid, and bitter.
ref: 2012, Marc Abrahams, This is Improbable:
text: Liver and bacon was my sister's favourite; the astringent taste of offaly cow's liver, layered with strands of streaky bacon and dashed with a hint of English mustard.
ref: 2015, C. Webster, Southend Made Me, page 64:
text: Hunter-gatherers – and indeed most human populations before the twentieth century – eschewed lean cuts like fillets in favour of the fattier, gnarlier, offalier cuts because these were far more nutritious.
ref: 2021, James Suzman, Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time, page 106:
glosses: Alternative form of offally.
offalier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of offaly: more offaly
offaliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of offaly: most offaly
offally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offally
form: offallier
form: most offally
form: offalliest
Etymology: From offal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Less offally dishes include crispy breast of duck with lime and orange and boned baby chicken cooked with caramelised chicory.
ref: 1994, Egon Ronay, Egon Ronay's Cellnet Guide, Hotels & Restaurants, page 775:
text: There are quite a few offally bits in dishes such as cazzmar, lamb innards made into a sausage and baked , and there's a long slow cooking method
ref: 2000, World Food: Italy, page 176:
text: Then it's filled filled egg roll–style with Mexican rice, beans (black, pinto, sometimes refried), salsa, and some chopped or shredded meat (carnitas, grilled or stewed chicken, carne asada, or offally things like tongue, chitterlings, or brains).
ref: 2017, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2017:
glosses: Containing or consisting of offal.
examples: text: You can make it with proper cuts of pork—indeed, some recipes call for a bit of pork fat to be added —but using the liver, heart and kidneys gives it that traditional, offally, visceral appearance as well as a distinct taste and texture.
ref: 2011, Andrew Webb, Food Britannia, page 364:
text: For the more offally inspired, try the tripa (tripe) and sesos (brain).
ref: 2012, Lonely Planet Food, The World's Best Street Food: Where to Find it & How to Make it:
text: Actually, I'd really love these made with nothing but the rich, almost offally, brown meat but I know this is strong medicine for most people.
ref: 2012, Nigella Lawson, Nigellissima: Instant Italian Inspiration:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to offal.
offallier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of offally: more offally
offalliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of offally: most offally
Toller Porcorum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Toller refers to the River Toller, since renamed the River Hooke, although there still is the Toller Brook, which joins the Hooke at the village. Porcorum is from Latin porcorum (“of the pigs”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in west Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY5698).
wikipedia: River Hooke
Synonyms: word: Great Toller
Shteyngart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shteyngarts
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Штейнгарт (Štejngart)
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Rogol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rogols
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gostick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gosticks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
amoebostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amoebostomes
form: amebostome
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: amoebo- + -stome.
Senses: synonyms: food cup
glosses: A sucker-like structure found on Naegleria fowleri amoebae.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Gershwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gershwins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lavender lads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavender lad
RFBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RFB
mispick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispicks
Etymology: From mis- + pick.
Senses: examples: text: To reduce the likelihood of a mispick the engagement should be delayed as long as possible so that when the loom stops, the reed is as close as possible to the cloth fell.
ref: 1972, Technology of the Textile Industry, U.S.S.R., page 76:
text: The weft detector comprises a warp tension sensor for detecting the temporary rise during beating and a control circuit connected to the warp tension sensor for stopping the operation of the loom upon detection of the mispick, that is, in the absence of the temporary raise in the warp tension.
ref: 1972, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents, page 1350:
text: If a mispick occurs, the feature automatically removes the mispick and restarts the loom.
ref: 2019, Kim Gandhi, Woven Textiles: Principles, Technologies and Applications, page 254:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.
examples: text: Cohune said he estimates that each mispick costs about $80 in lost time and shipping costs — seven times more than filling a customer's order correctly the first time.
ref: 1992 May 11, James Daly, “McKesson Drug Curing inaccuracy of warehouse labor with wearable PCs”, in Computerworld, volume 26, number 19, page 61:
text: If this is indeed true, then the data will not appear to support the hypothesis that mispick probability should decrease with an increase in pack ratio.
ref: 2001, Dan Propster, An Analysis of Distribution Pack Policy at General Motors, page 35:
text: There are many calculations for the cost of a mispick.
ref: 2011, Gwynne Richards, Warehouse Management, page 116:
topics: business
glosses: The accidental substitution of an incorrect item in the fulfilment of an order.
examples: text: Since the picking algorithm determines the wave arrival time by measuring the abscissa of an extremum, a genuine mispick can only correspond to a cycle skip.
ref: 1994, Jean-Luc Mari, Francoise Coppens, Philippe Gavin, Full Waveform Acoustic Data Processing, page 24:
text: If the picks appear to be different, then a mispick must have been made somewhere along the loop and should be rectified before you continue. All picks in the data set can and should be tied in this manner to provide consistency.
ref: 1994, Tien-when Lo, Philip L. Inderwiesen, Fundamentals of Seismic Tomography, page 108:
text: Instead, mispicks, i.e. large picking errors that occur when ambiguities exist in recognizing the first arrival among multiple events, are expected to produce local artefacts in the final velocity map.
ref: 2010, Christiane Maierhofer, Hans-Wolf Reinhardt, Gerd Dobmann, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete, page 348:
qualifier: data processing
glosses: An incorrectly sampled data point.
mispick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispicks
form: mispicking
form: mispicked
form: mispicked
Etymology: From mis- + pick.
Senses: examples: text: "This is a song for a friend of mine, same one I mentioned before as a matter of fact. You might know him," a note jangles, seemingly mispicked, but it comes again and again, until all ears are hearing it more than the surrounding chord.
ref: 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People: A Novel, page 295:
text: Initiation into the psychological concepts and manipulative stratagems of the art course often comes as a shock to those naïve individuals the computer mispicked.
ref: 2009, Eldon Taylor, Mind Programming, page 53:
text: In shallow seismic reflection profiling, as undertaken for marine dredge surveys, for instance, semi-automatic horizon picking software may miss or mispick events.
ref: 2011, John M. Reynolds, An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, page xxx:
text: Paul Cable hadn't done anything more wrong than to mispick a very minor item on a particularly large order, but it had opened the door of opportunity to rant his authority at the dumbfounded youngster, whilst attempting to get over a point.
ref: 2012, Mark England, This Lonely Incubus, page 240:
text: Not because I mispicked those horizons, or because you think I did. I look back on the way I was then, a young, inexperienced interpreter who tried to autotrack everything.
ref: 2016, Donald A. Herron, Interpreter Sam Carries On, page 92:
text: 'You just don't know me,' she'd say when he mispicked. 'I don't know what we're doing together.'
ref: 2016, Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold, page 73:
glosses: To pick incorrectly (any sense).
mispicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispick
mispicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispick
mispicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispick
mispicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispick
mispile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispiles
form: mispiling
form: mispiled
form: mispiled
Etymology: From mis- + pile.
Senses: examples: text: Am unable to say whether this was mispiled by Vandalia No. 7 or missent from St. Louis office.
ref: 1890, Lovisa Ellen Barnes, How to Become Expert in Typewriting, page 70:
text: Usually, the mispiled objects fell or the inadequately placed objects toppled over and struck workmen.
ref: 1953, BLS Report, page 23:
text: Junk or mispiled material crowds the aisles and work places and makes it hard to get around and work without bumping ourselves or coming dangerously close to moving machinery.
ref: 1957, Industrial Supervisor - Volumes 25-26, page 7:
glosses: To pile badly.
mispiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispile
mispiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispile
mispiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispile
bicycle landing gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bicycle landing gears
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: bicycle gear
tandem landing gear
coordinate_terms: quadricycle landing gear
tricycle landing gear
glosses: A form of landing gear having the main gear and nosegear located fore and aft of the center of gravity under the fuselage with outriggers on the wings.
tandem landing gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tandem landing gears
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of bicycle landing gear.
synonyms: word: bicycle landing gear
bicycle landing gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle landing gear
tandem landing gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tandem landing gear
bicyclings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycling
mispin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispins
form: mispinning
form: mispinned
form: mispinned
Etymology: From mis- + pin.
Senses: examples: text: They knew before they mispinned the stinger “of the dangerous condition of the crane"
ref: 1996, North western reporter, page 179:
text: Put a lanyard onto the standing part of the mispinned shroud, just below the upper terminal.
ref: 1997, Brion Toss, The Complete Rigger's Apprentice, page 280:
text: One of the most difficult wiring harness problems to diagnose is multiple-terminal connectors which have one or more terminal and wire that is not inserted in the correct connector cavity (mispinned).
ref: 2013, Joseph Bell, Modern Diesel Technology: Electricity and Electronics, page 510:
text: I pulled at the jumpsuit's rags, stuck to my skin like tails mispinned on a donkey.
ref: 2015, Dale Peck, The Garden of Lost and Found:
glosses: To pin incorrectly.
mispin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispins
Etymology: From mis- + pin.
Senses: examples: text: Nonjudgmental decisions, such as holes, grease spots and mispins, are recorded instantly in the computer.
ref: 1980, Textile Industries - Volume 144, page 23:
text: The selvedge trim is sucked away where in the ordinary course of events a mispin could cause it to be missed – but mispins have no effect on the performance of this device.
ref: 1993, Textile Asia - Volume 24, Issues 7-12, page 22:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An instance of mispinning.
mispins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispin
mispins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispin
mispinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispin
mispinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispin
big Dick from Boston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Little Joe and big Dick from Boston have been hitting fine. I got enough for baby's new shoes and a Caddy too.
ref: 2003, Scott Cool, Dick Schmelzkopf, Gambler's Book of Poetry, page 12:
text: Mother grimaced when he spat on the dice and exclaimed about Big Dick from Boston and eight the hard way.
ref: 2018, Jack Olsen, The Pitcher’s Kid:
topics: dice
gambling
games
synonyms: big Dick
glosses: A roll of ten in the game of craps.
jump and dump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps and dumps
form: jumping and dumping
form: jumped and dumped
form: jumped and dumped
Senses: examples: text: The ones he was attracted to were young and smoking hot, the kind that were attached to beautiful bones. The kind he could jump and dump without promise or commitment.
ref: 2008, J. C. Nicholson, The Bastard's Mother, page 19:
glosses: Synonym of smash and dash.
synonyms: word: smash and dash
Related terms: fuck and chuck
hump and dump
pump and dump
smash and dash
pump and dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pump and dump
baby needs new shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Come on, seven! I need a seven! Baby needs new shoes!
glosses: A gambler's cry in immediate anticipation of winning some money.
sevened out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seven out
sevening out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seven out
big eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big eights
Senses: examples: text: Garret had been winning regularly placing pass line bets and big eights, […]
ref: 2014, Duncan W. Alderson, Magnolia City:
coordinate_terms: big six
glosses: In the game of craps, a prominent space on the table where one can place a bet that the shooter will roll an eight before a seven.
Coordinate terms: big fat zero
Big One
big one
big two
Big Three
Big Four
big five
big six
big eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big eight
big sixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big six
stealth wealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So-called “quiet luxury” — understated but ultra-luxurious clothes favoured by the super-rich — is back in vogue, with an emphasis on stealth-wealth brands such as The Row, Loro Piana, Max Mara and Hermès.
ref: 2023 March 30, Carola Long, “Gwyneth Paltrow, ‘stealth wealth’ star of the courtroom catwalk”, in Financial Times:
text: The most chilling expressions of stealth wealth for me tend to go hand in hand with simple facts about the fortunes that purchased them, like the £570 suede slippers worn on the school run by Akshata Murty (one of the wealthiest women in Britain and Rishi Sunak’s wife).
ref: 2023 April 30, Eva Wiseman, “Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The people truly fascinated with stealth wealth are those far outside it. The terms stealth wealth and quiet luxury have been bouncing around the internet for several years, but they’ve gained the most traction lately on TikTok, where an audience disproportionately full of teens and 20-somethings dissects these looks and devours the lessons they seemingly teach.
ref: 2023 May 15, Amanda Mull, “There’s No Secret to How Wealthy People Dress”, in The Atlantic:
text: Quick word on the Sánchez aesthetic: you might have heard of trends such as stealth wealth, quiet luxury, whatever. Forget about those. Lauren wants to look really rich and really sexy and like she’s having a really good time, all of the time.
ref: 2025 June 27, Marina Hyde, “Anna Wintour has spent decades dictating a certain look for the super-rich. Then along came Lauren”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Monetary wealth that its owner keeps secret or discreet, rather than flaunting it; quiet luxury; as a fashion style, preferring neutral colors, no visible logos, and subtle finishes.
nuffies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuffy
glosses: plural of nuffie
prairie fairy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prairie fairies
Senses: synonyms: tree hugger
glosses: An environmental activist.
prairie fairies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie fairy
hold-uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hold-upper
Bambi lover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bambi lovers
form: Bambi-lover
Etymology: Named after Bambi, a young deer in a 1942 animated film of the same name produced by Walt Disney Productions.
Senses: examples: text: He is contemptuous of Bambi lovers and those who don't "speaka the English." He chews tobacco and spits, wears a checkered shirt and leather vest, keeps a gun in the trunk of his car […]
ref: 1990, Paul Loukides, Linda K. Fuller, Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film, page 93:
text: If the natural fecundity of deer could be controlled, the passionate pleadings of Bambi lovers who anthropomorphize could probably be accommodated, at least in urban areas and parks.
ref: 1998, Cooper Rutledge, Backyard Battle Plan, page 72:
text: I consider myself a genuine conservationist, not a Bambi lover or tree hugger, but a true conservationist.
ref: 2015, Richard Waltner, Love Times Four: Four Love Stories Under One Cover, page 24:
glosses: A person who is fond of animals in a sentimental or anthropomorphizing way.
examples: text: BAMBI. By Walt Disney. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. $.50. This well-illustrated edition will be one that Bambi lovers will want to keep on hand for the family.
ref: 1942 December 20, Flora Coyle, “Books for Young Americans”, in The News and Observer, volume CLV, number 173, Raleigh, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, section M (Editorial; Features), page 5, column 1:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Bambi, lover.
Related terms: Bambi factor
Bambi lovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bambi lover
holduppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holdupper
hold-up plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hold-up play
blood chokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood choke
Sharmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sharma
queer liberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Equality for LGBTQ people.
Related terms: gay liberation
queer separatism
gay liberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Equality for homosexual people.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An activist movement in the late 1960s to 1980s that advocates better treatment for gay men and lesbian women.
Related terms: word: gay pride
alt: pre-1960s
word: homophile
word: Pride Month
blue suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue suits
Senses: examples: Bill Sulzman quoted in 2012, David Keen, Useful Enemies
Inside Schriever and Peterson [air force bases], a lot of the military contractors are working alongside the blue suits.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of military personnel at an air base.
blue suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue suit
male liberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Precisely because the tenor and mood of the male liberation efforts so far have been one of self-accusation, self-hate, and a repetition of feminist assertions, I believe it is doomed to failure in its present form.
ref: 2000, Herb Goldberg, The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege, page 17:
text: While this approach to male liberation worked to attract men toward feminism, certain problematic tendencies began to arise within the context of these groups.
ref: 2017, Christa Hodapp, Men's Rights, Gender, and Social Media, page xi:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: animal liberation
Black liberation
gay liberation
queer liberation
women's liberation
glosses: The freedom of men from sexism; equal rights for men.
Related terms: MRA
women's lib
brown job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown jobs
Etymology: From the colour of the uniform, and slang job (“thing”).
Senses: examples: text: Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).
ref: 2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters, page 38:
text: […] The Navy and the R.A.F. combine and throw the Army out of the window. It passes the time...' But that evening, it wasn't the Brown Jobs that were thrown out.
ref: 2020, David Beaty, The Gun Garden:
coordinate_terms: blue job
qualifier: air force slang
glosses: A member of the army.
brown jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown job
blue job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue jobs
Etymology: From the colour of the uniform, and slang job (“thing”).
Senses: examples: text: Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).
ref: 2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters, page 38:
text: As Blue Jobs we had to walk behind the sweep line, probably because we would have been a liability had there been a scene. We hadn't quite reached the camp area when we heard the sound of Ray's chopper.
ref: 2014, Preller Geldenhuys, Rhodesian Air Force Operations, page 224:
synonyms: boy in blue
coordinate_terms: brown job
qualifier: air force slang
glosses: A member of the air force.
blue jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue job
time-frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-frame
box art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxart
Etymology: From box + art.
Senses: examples: text: The dragon featured in the Vapor Trails tour, and on the box art of the Rush in Rio DVD (and the DVD menu and homescreen) was inspired by Hugh Syme.
ref: 2014, Max Mobley, Rush FAQ:
synonyms: cover art
glosses: The illustrations or photography on the box in which a product is packaged.
topics: video-games
glosses: The artwork used to promote or represent a video game when it is distributed digitally, without physical packaging.
boxart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of box art.
-nomicon
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Most likely from the name of the fictional Necronomicon, or from Ancient Greek νομῐκόν (nomĭkón), the neuter form of νομικός (nomikós, “relating to laws”) (also used in the titles of various real works, like the Nomicon of Photius, or the 18th century Nomicon Procheiron of Michael Photinopoulos).
Senses: glosses: Used to form nouns, referring to a book of knowledge on the specified topic.
wikipedia: Photius
collar the bowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collars the bowling
form: collaring the bowling
form: collared the bowling
form: collared the bowling
Senses: examples: text: Heatley and Baines then got together, and succeeded in collaring the bowling, and put on 60 before they were separated, and, when Heatley was caught far out for 38, the score stood at 151.
ref: 1870, The Marlburian, page 74:
text: The fact was that Mr. Bruce and Mr. Whitmore (who was stupidly run out in the first innings, else the same thing might not improbably have happened then) went in first, and collared the bowling in the first twenty minutes, […]
ref: 1872, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 22, page 166:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (Of a batsman) to hit the bowled balls to all parts of the field.
dashine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dashines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dasheen.
dashines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dashine
ground food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The men devoured the delicious beef stew, boiled ground food and dumplings then the drinking began.
ref: 2021, H. M. Hanlan, Jamaica's Plantain Tarts, & Marcus Garvey:
glosses: Synonym of ground provisions.
synonyms: word: ground provisions
hard food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hard food, such as yams, coco and dasheen, came from Country, and sometimes meat too.
ref: 2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 382:
hyponyms: ground food
ground provisions
glosses: Starchy staple fruits and vegetables.
softmodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of softmod
softmodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of softmod
comealong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comealongs
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: Alternative form of come-along.
comealongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comealong
SCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SCT
airbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbombs
Etymology: From air + bomb.
Senses: glosses: A firework consisting of flash powder in a paper case, ejected into the air with a black powder lifting charge ignited by a fuse, and producing a loud bang and bright flash.
airbombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airbomb
prisoner at large
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prisoners at large
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the military who is being disciplined by being forbidden to leave the barracks or ship on which they are stationed.
prisoners at large
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisoner at large
permissivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From permissive + -ism.
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The belief that there are situations where the evidence for a proposition justifies either believing or doubting that proposition.
Related terms: permissivist
Pnina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Peninah
Etymology: From Hebrew פנינה (“pearl”).
Senses: examples: text: Both Ivana and Pnina's husband would know of the affair from the start , the husband going so far as to meet with Ivana in private to discuss how it was that she could tolerate it.
ref: 2000, John O'Meara, Defending Her Son, page 73:
text: The government made it hard for people like Pnina's family to practice their religion, and during a time of civil war and famine, they fled to a refugee camp in Sudan […]
ref: 2020, Elena Favilli, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls:
glosses: A female given name.
Peninah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pnina (“female given name”).
unshiplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshiplike
form: most unshiplike
Etymology: From un- + shiplike.
Senses: glosses: Not resembling or characteristic of a ship.
Cromartyshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cromarty + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A former county in the Scottish Highlands, comprising the medieval "old shire" around the county town of Cromarty and 22 enclaves and exclaves transferred from Ross-shire in the late 17th century.
Anor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: another, used in case citations
unperishables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unperishable
paybob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paybobs
Senses: examples: text: A form book about as helpful as the old Greek oracles is thus produced and guides the odds given by the numerous illegal bookmakers who compete with the tote run by the paybobs on each ship.
ref: 1979, W. B. Harvey, Downstairs in the Royal Navy, page 60:
text: Sod all the Shipwrights and CPO Cooks,
Sod all the Paybobs and their bleeding books
For we're saying goodbye to them all
As back to their hammocks they crawl.
ref: 2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines, page 141:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: An accountant.
paybobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paybob
ratmageddons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratmageddon
limited edition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limited editions
Senses: examples: text: LNER has produced a limited edition 2022 calendar (its second) featuring eight destinations along the East Coast route and four vintage posters from the National Railway Museum archive.
ref: 2021 November 17, “News in Brief: LNER calendar on sale”, in RAIL, number 944, page 29:
glosses: A special edition of a book, or anything else, limited to a specific number (of copies etc.).
limited editions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limited edition
tasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasty
queen of spices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: king of spices
glosses: Cardamom.
king of spices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: queen of spices
glosses: Black pepper.
Cadillac problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cadillac problems
Etymology: In reference to the luxury automobile brand.
Senses: examples: text: My sponsor, when I present him with a nagging problem (usually trivial, although blown out of proportion in my warped mind), invariably replies, "Lou, that's a Cadillac problem. Read page 417, and get grateful for what you have … now!"
ref: 2011, Louis Teresi, Hijacking the Brain, page 197:
text: It might not seem like a big deal and in the grand scheme of suffering, it is a Cadillac problem. But for me it was a significant step toward self-acceptance, and in that way, I guess it was brave.
ref: 2013, Cyndi Lee, May I Be Happy:
synonyms: first world problem
glosses: An insignificant problem of a privileged person.
Cadillac problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cadillac problem
longest-distance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But 25 minutes is not adequate for the longest-distance trains, from Glasgow and Edinburgh, so these 'step down' at Euston and are given 25 minutes plus a service interval - a total of 55 minutes.
ref: 2021 November 17, William Barter, “Will ten platforms do for HS2 at Euston terminus?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 32:
glosses: superlative form of long-distance: most long-distance
Toretto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Torettos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
de la Tourette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Trebach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
there are no stupid questions
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there's no such thing as a stupid question.
dick pic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dick pics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dickpic.
dick pics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dick pic
Ask a Stupid Question Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the phrase there's no such thing as a stupid question.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A holiday that is sometimes celebrated, usually by school students and teachers, observed on either September 28th or the last school day of September. The purpose of the holiday is to encourage students to ask more questions in the classroom.
FOBO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The whole thing actually started with FOBO, or Fear of a Better Option. It was the term I came up with to explain the fact that everyone I knew at school was always looking for something better.
ref: 2016, Patrick J. McGinnis, The 10% Entrepreneur, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: […] others referred to option paralysis (a term popularized by Black Mirror); still others invoked FOBO (“fear of a better option”).
ref: 2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic:
text: Try choosing a large cap mutual fund and you will experience a FOBO.
ref: 2021, Sandeep Sahni, Sanjit Singh Paul, What My MBA Did Not Teach Me About Money, Notion Press, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: FOMO
glosses: Initialism of fear of a better option.
examples: text: I have since adopted this strategy for myself to defuse FOBO. “Wouldn't it be nice if my presentation today went well!”
ref: 2021, Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect, Harmony/Rodale, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of fear of bad outcomes.
weed torch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weed torches
Senses: glosses: A propane torch designed to destroy weeds in paving and similar locations.
weed torches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weed torch
torchweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torch + weed, from its readiness to burn.
Senses: glosses: Verbascum thapsus, the common mullein.
August Bank Holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: August Bank Holidays
Senses: examples: text: The fact that rail's August Bank Holiday figures this year were higher than before the virus indicates the potential for growth.
ref: 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 35:
glosses: A public holiday on the last Monday in August.
Stronachlachar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small settlement on Loch Katrine, Stirling council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN4010).
Loch Katrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A freshwater lake in Stirling council area, Scotland.
autohistoradiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to autohistoradiography.
autohistoradiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autohistoradiographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of autohistoradiography.
Inversnaid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small settlement on the east side of Loch Lomond, Stirling council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN3308).
Cerv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cervs
Etymology: From Czech Červ or Slovak Červ.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Christodoulous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Christodoulou
Knuettels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Knuettel
Gabuzdas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gabuzda
Railtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Railton
formal education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal educations
Senses: glosses: Education in a structured environment explicitly designed to teach students, usually in classrooms with certified teachers.
formal educations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formal education
continuation school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuation schools
Senses: examples: text: If a boy enters mercantile life, he must for three years attend a continuation school organized by the Merchants' Association […]
ref: 1913, United States. Office of Education, Bulletin, numbers 50-58, page 25:
topics: education
glosses: A school offering additional education to young people who have previously left school in order to work.
continuation schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuation school
superrewards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superreward
continuational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From continuation + -al.
Senses: synonyms: continuative
glosses: Of or relating to continuation.
sledless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sled + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a sled.
accent tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accent tags
Senses: examples: text: Hence, clearly the search facilities and strategies represent the “nightmare” aspect of trying to use YouTube for linguistic ... Examples include “Accent tag” videos (as in Figure 13, following something like a dialect questionnaire, ...
ref: 2016, Elena Seoane, Cristina Suárez-Gómez, World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 276:
text: There are also lots of examples on YouTube, such as the “Accent Tags,” though they have to be used with some caution since they are self-selected and may not always be the ideal representative of a particular dialect.
ref: 2017, Jeffrey Reaser, Carolyn Temple Adger, Walt Wolfram, Donna Christian, Dialects at School: Educating Linguistically Diverse Students, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Kelly and the Konglish Accent Tag / Kelly, who usually posts videos about makeup and merch and has over 92,000 followers, took a departure from that genre one day to post a YouTube performance demonstrating her “English” and “Konglish” ...
ref: 2020, Betsy Rymes, How We Talk about Language: Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
text: A more recent source is the accent tag challenge on YouTube.12 It started out as a linguistic data collection project but gained its own dynamics when more and more people uploaded videos on YouTube reading the given word list and ...
ref: 2021, Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, Philipp Meer, Michael Westphal, Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A video uploaded to YouTube in which a speaker signifies bits of English dialectal language distinctive to their region.
accent tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accent tag
Consolver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Consolvers
form: Kingsolver
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Consolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Consolver
Kingsolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kingsolver
room temperatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of room temperature
Hylands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hyland
kicks rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick rocks
kicking rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick rocks
kicked rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick rocks
Comeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Comey
cholera morbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: gastroenteritis
ORW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ORWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of oral rehydration worker.
ORTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ORT
ORWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ORW
Chitradurga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chitaldrug
form: Chitaldurg
form: Chitradurg
form: Chittaldrug
form: Chittaldurg
form: Chittledroog
Senses: glosses: A city and district in the state of Karnataka in India, famous for its fort.
trotted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trot out
looked at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look at
Canal Foot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An industrial village in Ulverston parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England, at the estuary end of the Ulverston Canal (OS grid ref SD3177).
detruck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌk
Forms: form: detrucks
form: detrucking
form: detrucked
form: detrucked
Etymology: From de- + truck.
Senses: glosses: To exit from a truck.
glosses: To unload things from a truck.
Stockley Hamlet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Okehampton Hamlets parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6195).
Okehampton Hamlets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England, which surrounds Okehampton civil parish.
Fermor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fermors
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clavell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clavells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Odone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Odones
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sreberny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Srebernys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mackillop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mackillops
form: MacKillop
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic MacFhilib.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Related terms: McKillop
Leavis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leaviss
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Thygerson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thygersons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Qultist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qultists
Etymology: Blend of Q (“QAnon”) + cultist, equivalent to Qult + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A cultlike follower of the QAnon movement.
Related terms: Qult
QAnonsense
MAGAt
Trumpster diving
Trumpster fire
Qultists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qultist
Related terms: MAGAts
Qult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of QAnon + cult
Senses: glosses: The cultlike following of the QAnon movement.
Related terms: Qultist
QAnonsense
MAGAts
Trumpster diving
Trumpster fire
dissipation factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The value of energy loss rate of oscillation mode in a dissipative system.
Related terms: dissipation
noken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nokens
Etymology: From Biak inoken
Senses: examples: ref: 2018 April 20, “An Examination of the Noken and Indigenous Cultural Identity: Voices of Papuan Women”, in Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, volume 3, number 1, Lectito, →DOI:
glosses: A kind of woven wicker bag used in Papua.
nokens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noken
playscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From play + scale.
Senses: examples: text: […] several other playscale (approximately 12-inch) males have entered the collection.
ref: 2010, Debbie Behan Garrett, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak, I Listen, page 213:
text: For this study I have scaled her and her house at one-sixth scale or playscale (two inches equals one foot; one centimeter equals six)
ref: 2021, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Deconstructing Dolls: Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play, page 84:
glosses: Of dolls and toys: manufactured to approximately 1/6 the size of a real person or object.
wheelchair ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelchair ramps
Senses: glosses: An inclined plane installed in addition or as a replacement of stairs which permits wheelchair users and people pushing wheeled objects to more easily access a building.
koleroga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolerogas
form: koleroga
Etymology: From Kannada ಕೊಳೆರೋಗ (koḷerōga), literally "rot disease".
Senses: glosses: Any of several plant diseases, with distinct causal organisms, including
A disease of palm trees such as areca palms and of many other commercially important plants caused by the oomycete Phytophthora palmivora.
glosses: Any of several plant diseases, with distinct causal organisms, including
Diseases of coffee, citrus, and persimmon caused by the fungus Ceratobasidium noxium
Prot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prots
Senses: examples: text: The rarest species was a Protestant although I'd bet that the majority of Ivy League rockheads in the 1950s were Prots.
ref: 2015, Edward A. Hagan, To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969-1970, page 46:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A Protestant.
Prots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prot
deambulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deambulate
deambulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deambulate
vampire draw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But turning it off can lower the player's energy vampire draw to less than a third of a watt, […]
ref: 2009, Joe Hutsko, Green Gadgets For Dummies, page 226:
synonyms: phantom power
glosses: The continuous drawing of power from the electricity supply by devices that are left plugged in on standby.
rotor machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotor machines
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An mixed electronic and mechanical stream cipher composed of a series of wheels, widespread use from the 1920s–1970s.
rotor machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotor machine
alcatif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcatifs
form: alcatiff
Etymology: From Portuguese alcatifa.
Senses: glosses: A carpet.
alcatiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcatiffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcatif.
alcatifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcatif
alcatiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcatiff
amshom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amshoms
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam അംശം (aṁśaṁ), from Sanskrit अंश (aṃśa, “a part”).
Senses: glosses: Part of a taluk; a subdistrict.