cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
steal a glance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steals a glance
form: stealing a glance
form: stole a glance
form: stolen a glance
Senses: examples: text: Each boy stole a glance at the other and met the same look of disbelief.
text: Zoe took a big breath and stood up, and promised herself she would not look back. That promise lasted only a dozen steps, as she couldn’t help stealing a glance one last time to the spot where she left him.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To look quickly at someone or something, hoping that nobody notices the action.
gül
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: güls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gul.
negativism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negativisms
Etymology: From negative + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It's easier to sow inner dissension than to unite for betterment. Negativism can even be fun for some who have such limited vision that they can't "see" how mch has already been achieved by those who struggle rather than just bitch.
ref: 1981 August 15, Priscilla Golding, “A Disservice”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4:
glosses: A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude.
glosses: A stubborn tendency to do the opposite of what one is asked.
sticking-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticking-points
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sticking point.
negotiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negotiabilities
Etymology: From negotiate + -ability or negotiable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: the negotiability of a financial instrument
glosses: The state of being negotiable.
Derived terms: unnegotiability
neocolonialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neocolonialist
form: most neocolonialist
Etymology: From neo- + colonialist.
Senses: synonyms: neocolonial
neocolonist
glosses: Of or relating to neocolonialism.
neocolonialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocolonialists
Etymology: From neo- + colonialist.
Senses: synonyms: neocolonist
glosses: A neocolonial person.
neuritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuritic
form: most neuritic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neuritis.
Derived terms: antineuritic
intraneuritic
postneuritic
neuritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuritics
Senses: glosses: A person who has neuritis.
neutralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutralisms
Etymology: From neutral + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being neutral; neutrality.
glosses: A political policy of nonalignment in a situation of conflict.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The neutral theory of molecular evolution, holding that, at the molecular level, most evolutionary changes and variation within and between species are caused not by natural selection but by genetic drift of mutant alleles that are neutral.
Derived terms: positive neutralism
neutralist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neutralist
form: most neutralist
Etymology: From neutral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neutralism.
neutralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutralists
Etymology: From neutral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who advocates such policies.
new-fashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new-fashioned
form: newer-fashioned
form: most new-fashioned
form: newest-fashioned
Senses: glosses: Newly made.
examples: text: He seemed very sentimental, very full of some Feelings or other, & very much addicted to all the newest-fashioned hard words—had not a very clear Brain she presumed, & talked a good deal by rote.
ref: 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 7, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 94:
english: Sanditon
translation: Sanditon
text: I don’t think the Dorrance place is as handsome as ours, after all, if it is newer-fashioned.
ref: 1867 December, “Light and Shadow”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XXXVI, number CCXI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1868, page 84, column 2:
text: [Anthony] Trollope cannot be too much read to-day. He is not old-fashioned. On the contrary, he is far newer-fashioned than the bulk of novelists to-day. Trollope writes of life, of live people, real things. He convinces—the word is a perfectly good expressive word despite protests against it of late—people who know about life and the world and men and women of it; on the contrary, the six-shilling novelist of to-day usually half convinces people who do not know much about these things.
ref: 1913 May 17, “Shorter Notices”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 115, number 3,003, London, page 623, columns 1–2:
text: Duck with cherry sauce, named after a type of cherry grown near Paris. Not much newer-fashioned than duck with orange sauce, although both are quite tasty.
ref: 2001, David d’Aprix, The Fearless International Foodie Conquers the Cuisine of France, Italy, Spain, Latin America, New York, N.Y.: Living Language, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Up-to-date, fashionable or avant-garde.
Hypernyms: fashioned
newsboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsboys
Etymology: From news + boy.
Senses: examples: text: A newsboy passed by, yelling, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
synonyms: word: paperboy
english: delivery
translation: delivery
hypernyms: boy
man
<
person
coordinate_terms: newsgirl
papergirl
glosses: A boy, or by extension a man, who sells and/or delivers newspapers.
examples: text: He was wearing a gray newsboy and a tan jacket.
hypernyms: cap#Noun
hat#Noun
coordinate_terms: flat cap
glosses: Ellipsis of newsboy cap.
Derived terms: newsboy cap
Related terms: newshound
newsmonger
newsstand
newsgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsgirls
Etymology: From news + girl.
Senses: examples: text: A newsgirl passed by, yelling, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
synonyms: word: papergirl
english: delivery
translation: delivery
hypernyms: girl
<
person
coordinate_terms: newsboy
paperboy
glosses: A girl who sells and/or delivers newspapers.
Related terms: newshound
newsmonger
newsstand
newsdealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsdealers
Etymology: From news + dealer.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells newspapers etc.
newspaperwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newspaperwomen
Etymology: From newspaper + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.
newswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newswomen
Etymology: From news + -woman.
Senses: synonyms: newslady
glosses: A female reporter or newsreader.
Related terms: newsman
Kanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kannes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kanne.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
sticking-place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticking-places
form: sticking place
Senses: examples: text: But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii]:
text: Old men, who heard it, will still tell you how the reverberating voice made all hearts swell, in that moment; and braced them to the sticking-place.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “September”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book:
glosses: The point at which a process or thing, especially a state of mind or emotion, reaches its greatest strength and remains steadfast; sticking point.
sticking place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticking places
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sticking-place.
Stolperstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stolpersteins
form: Stolpersteine
Senses: examples: text: But it was Lucie’s stone that chilled me to the core. Hers is a single memorial stone in front of a large building. One little Stolperstein.
ref: 2023 October 23, Lana Bastašić, “I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of stolperstein.
audiocassette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audiocassettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of audio cassette.
audio cassette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio cassettes
form: audiocassette
Senses: synonyms: cassette tape
compact cassette
glosses: A cassette designed to hold recorded sound or music.
pyree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrees
Etymology: From Late Latin pyreum, from Ancient Greek πυρεῖον (pureîon).
Senses: examples: text: But more usefull to our intellect, is the long time famous'd Mountaine Albors, neere this place; infamous in the Pyreë or Temple of Idolatrous Fyre, which has never gone out for fifty Ages.
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:
text: The fire Ether, which they supposed to circulate throughout the universe, was represented in their pyrees, or fire temples, by the sacred fire kept continually alive by the Magi, or priests [...].
ref: 1841, The Existence of Christ Disproved, London, page 63:
text: In Persia the temples of fire are called Pyrees; the most celebrated is that of Baalbec, the city of the sun.
ref: 1892, Notes and Queries, volume LXXXVI:
glosses: An ancient Persian temple devoted to fire.
RNIB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal National Institute of Blind People.
subjunctive mood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjunctive moods
Etymology: From subjunctive (from Latin subjunctivus, from sub- (“under”) + junctus (“joined”), perfect passive participle of jungere (“to join”) + adjective suffix -ivus) + mood (from Latin modus).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: conjunctive
conjunctive mode
conjunctive mood
subjunctive
subjunctive mode
glosses: Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.
hangup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangups
Senses: examples: text: One result of the sexual revolution was the spread of venereal disease to near-epidemic proportions. The clap was, as one writer put it, “one of the hangups of the new morality.”
ref: 1991, Timothy Miller, The hippies and American values, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hang-up.
hangups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangup
hesitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesitances
form: hæsitancy
form: hesitancy
Etymology: From Latin haesitantia.
Senses: examples: text: His hesitance was caused by bad past experiences.
text: […] Then California, resting the rifle / On the top rail, without doubting, without hesitance, / Aimed for the leaping body of the dog, and when it stood, fired.
ref: 1925, Robinson Jeffers, “Roan Stallion”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1937, page 156:
text: No matter how much one denies it, there is always some hesitance when shooting an intimate scene. But an actor needs to shed inhibitions to look convincing.
ref: 2016 May 6, Times of India:
synonyms: hesitation
glosses: The act or state of hesitating.
homeliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homelinesses
Etymology: From Middle English homlynesse, homelynesse, hamelynes, equivalent to homely + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being homely.
examples: text: How many familiar faces, rejoicing in our joy, sorrowing with our sorrow—how many cares, pleasant from habit—sickness, whose suffering gave a tenderer character to love—mirth, the mirth of the cheerful hearth or the daily meal—mirth, like home-made bread, sweeter from its very homeliness—...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 209–210:
glosses: The quality associated with home; domesticity.
homeyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hominess
form: homeiness
Etymology: From homey + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being homey.
horselaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horselaughs
Etymology: From horse + laugh.
Senses: examples: text: Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
ref: 1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxix:
glosses: A loud, boisterous laugh.
Related terms: bray
brayer
horseface
hominess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homeyness.
kurabiye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurabiyes
form: kurabie
form: ghorayebah
form: ghraybeh
form: kourabiedes
form: kourabiethes
Etymology: From Turkish kurabiye.
Senses: examples: text: 'What a kurabiye, what a biscuit! Ha? Aren't you?' Gertjie freezes. Delican does the same, and they stay poised like this, reared like animals.
ref: 1992, Antony Sher, The indoor boy, page 68:
text: […] they tend to be given as gifts as well[,] hence one is usually eating someone else's kurabiyes and not one's own. The word itself is Arabic, as is the basic recipe though it has passed into the kitchen of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews.
ref: 1997, Esin Eden, Nicholas Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook, page 212:
glosses: A cookie, particularly a sweet cookie (originally Middle Eastern, now also Turkish, Greek and Albanian), often made with almonds or hazelnuts.
Deaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: deaf
homophone: def
Etymology: From deaf.
Senses: examples: text: Today, sign languages are the means of communication and interaction in Deaf communities around the world and have been shown to contain all the linguistic complexities and potentials of spoken languages (Stokoe, 1960/2005).
ref: 2005, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Marc Marschark, Advances in the Spoken Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: There are Deaf clubs in many cities, but the clubs are just a part of the larger community of Deaf people.
ref: 2006, David Alan Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, American Sign Language the Easy Way, Barron's Educational Series, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages.
CODA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CODAs
form: coda
Etymology: Acronym of child of deaf adults.
Senses: glosses: A person born hearing to deaf parents.
Asya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ася (Asja), informal pet form of Анастасия (Anastasija, “Ann”)).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Russian, of modern usage.
kerb crawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerb crawlers
Senses: glosses: Someone who drives slowly along roads seeking sex from prostitutes or other women.
Synonyms: prostitute's client
Related terms: kerb crawling
kerb crawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerb crawler
cygnine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cygnine
form: most cygnine
Etymology: From Latin cygnus (“swan”), with English -ine. The alkaloid was named in reference to the Swan River in Western Australia, where the toxic plants were discovered.
Senses: examples: text: The genus Choristopus, Eyton, apparently Anserine rather than Cygnine, is said to possess this character […]
ref: 1869, Elliott Coues, On the Classification of Water Birds, Merrihew & Son, published 1870, page 26:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Being of the genus Cygnus (swans), within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae.
examples: text: But, in the cutting of it, if thou dost shed / One drop of cygnine blood, thy clumsiness...
ref: 1848, Edmund Saul Dixon, Ornamental and Domestic Poultry, page 20:
text: On the whole, then, the bones of the pectoral arch in Dendrocygna — if we may judge from the two North American species of the genus — are more anatine than they are either anserine or cygnine.
ref: 1915, Zoologische Jahrbücher: Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und […] , volume 38, page 44:
text: 1949, G. L. Hendrickson, Classical Philology, Vol. 44, No. 1, page 30 alternate
...scarcely a translator can be found who conveys any other impression than that Horace becomes a swan before our eyes. One almost wonders in what cygnine dialect the rest of the poem was spoken.
glosses: Of, concerning, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of swans.
Related terms: cygnet
cygnicide
dendrocygnid
anatine
anserine
cygnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cygnus (“swan”), with English -ine. The alkaloid was named in reference to the Swan River in Western Australia, where the toxic plants were discovered.
Senses: glosses: An alkaloid from plants of genus Gastrolobium, found in Australia, principally Western Australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.
Related terms: monofluoroacetic acid
fluoroacetate
kerb crawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of driving up roads seeking prostitutes or other women for sex
Related terms: kerb crawler
adjudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adjudge
advertent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɜːtn̩t/
ipa: /ədˈvɝtn̩t/
Forms: form: more advertent
form: most advertent
Etymology: Apparently a back-formation from inadvertent, or a learned borrowing from Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“I give or draw attention to”)
Senses: examples: text: Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported
ref: 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227:
glosses: Attentive.
examples: text: There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
ref: 1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442:
text: Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]
ref: 1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283:
glosses: Not inadvertent; intentional.
Synonyms: sense: intentional
word: deliberate
word: purposeful
word: purposive
word: intentional
Derived terms: advertently
ad-libbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ad-lib
ad-libbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ad-lib
ad-libbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ad-libbed
form: most ad-libbed
Senses: glosses: Improvised, or performed without preparation.
adjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɔɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjoin
adjoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɔɪnz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjoin
airfares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airfare
litter tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litter trays
Senses: glosses: An open receptacle lined with a layer of absorbent material for use as a toilet by a cat or similar animal when indoors.
Synonyms: cat box
litter box
androids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of android
colourpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colourpoints
form: colorpoint
Etymology: From colour + point.
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of the Siamese cat and closely-related breeds that have dark tips on their extremities.
Related terms: blue point
bluepoint
chocolate point
lilac point
seal point
sealpoint
douche bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douche bags
Senses: examples: text: An ordinary rubber douche bag was filled with a one in twenty solution of carbolic acid
ref: 1883 March 24, Robert F. Weir, “Hydrarthrosis of Knee Joint Treated by Carbolic Injection”, in The Medical Gazette, page 138:
glosses: Alternative form of douchebag (“container”).
examples: text: Oh, that fukken Wiener Douche-bag sonofabitch!
ref: 1950, Louis Falstein, Face of a Hero, New York: Harcourt, page 38:
text: She noticed both defendants at the bar ... and while singing one or the other defendant addressed indecent remarks to her between 11 and 12 o'clock, calling her a "douche bag" ... and calling out, "How about getting laid"
ref: 1954, Ralph J. Barra, Brief for appellant, Carlo Mendola (People v. Miele and Mendola, New York Court of Appeals), New York: New York Court of Appeals, page 3:
text: How the fuck did you get hooked up with a douche-bag like this in the first place?
ref: 1995, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of douchebag (“jerk”).
douche bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douche bag
value raise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: value raises
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A raise made with the intention of being called in order to extract more money from a likely worse hand.
value raise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: value raises
form: value raising
form: value raised
form: value raised
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To raise with the intention of being called in order to extract more money from a likely worse hand.
value raises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of value raise
value raises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of value raise
value raising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of value raise
value raised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of value raise
deep stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep stacks
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An amount of money that is large relative to the stakes being played
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A player who has a large amount of money relative to the stakes being played
deep stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep stack
deep stacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Having a deep stack
short stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short stacks
form: shortstack
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A relatively small quantity of chips relative to the stakes.
qualifier: poker tournament
glosses: A quantity of chips which is far less than the average in the tournament.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A player who is in possession of a short stack.
glosses: A person with a stocky or stout, possibly busty ('stacked') build.
short stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short stack
Mazda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁 (mazdā, “wisdom”).
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Ahura Mazda, the supreme and transcendental god of Zoroastrianism.
Mazda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazdas
Etymology: Supposedly from Mazda as well as surname of the founder of corporation, Jujiro Matsuda.
Senses: examples: text: Nicole and I met outside the church after my bell choir rehersal. I will never forget watching her climb out of her Mazda RX7 and just keep going up, up, up. She was tall, she was blond and she was gorgeous.
ref: 2003, Kathy N. Jublou, Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul, HCI, →ISBN, page 20:
text: one of Skip’s friends from the fire department agreed to drive the U-haul with his girlfriend, pulling our Mazda behind, as we drove in the Bronco. I will never forget seeing our cats’ faces in the Mazda while we were following behind.
ref: 2006-2007, Debi Wright, Out Of Your Mind, Traumatic Brain Injury, AuthorHouse, page 129
text: ...seated atop a genuine (detached) commode of the white porcelain variety, which he had lugged at great hernia-inducing peril from the back of his Mazda to the Outdoor Cinema site, several blocks away.
ref: 2007, Jala Pfaff, Seducing the Rabbi, Blue Flax Press, page 310
glosses: A vehicle, especially a car, manufactured by the Mazda Motor Corporation.
Derived terms: Mazdarati
monadelphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + adelphous.
Senses: examples: text: The stamens are monadelphous and are united for more than half their length into an open tube adnate to the petals
ref: 1988, Michael Hickey & Clive King, 100 families of flowering plants, Cambridge University Press, 2007 digital reprint, p. 326
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having all its stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by the filaments.
Porsche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɔː.ʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɔː.ʃi/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹ.ʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹ.ʃi/
ipa: /ˈpoɹ-/
homophone: Portia stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃə
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃi
Forms: form: Porsches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Porsche
* (automotive): The surname of the founder, Ferdinand Porsche.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The German sports car manufacturer founded in 1931 and based in Stuttgart. Full name: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG.
Porsche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɔː.ʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɔː.ʃi/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹ.ʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹ.ʃi/
ipa: /ˈpoɹ-/
homophone: Portia stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃ
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃə
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃi
Forms: form: Porsches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Porsche
* (automotive): The surname of the founder, Ferdinand Porsche.
Senses: examples: text: Mom drives an Accord, which is quite a surprise if you think about it. I guess that says something about her response to fame. Anyone can drive a Porsche once they have the cash.
ref: 2004, Gaby Triana, Backstage Pass, page 42:
text: a male undergoing a garden-variety mid-life crisis is disturbed not by his sexual appetites but by the lack of variety in his sexual partners. He is disturbed not by the crass materialism of his life but by the fact that he is still driving a Ford when he could and should be driving a Porsche.
ref: 2005, William Braxton Irvine, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want, Oxford University Press,, →ISBN, page 26:
text: I'm unstoppable / I'm a Porsche with no brakes / I'm invincible / Yeah, I win every single game
ref: 2016, Sia, Chris Braide, “Unstoppable”, in This Is Acting, performed by Sia:
text: I don't really want a white horse and carriage / I'm thinkin' more of white Porsches and karats
ref: 2018, “Girls Like You (Remix)”, in Red Pill Blues, performed by Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A car of this brand, reputably high-performance and expensive.
Derived terms: menoporsche
gullywasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gullywashers
form: gully-washer
form: gully washer
Etymology: From gully + washer (1815–1825).
Senses: examples: text: "Then maybe some preacher got a tad too zealous on Sunday" Thinking of his " frog-strangler," Lucy said, "In Montana, we'd call this a gullywasher." " Gullywasher. I like that." She could hear him, up there on the island in Thomas Jefferson's ...
ref: 2008, Jonathan Raban, Surveillance, Vintage, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm.
bonxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒŋk.si/
ipa: /ˈbɑŋk.si/
rhymes: -ɒŋksi
Forms: form: bonxies
Etymology: From Scots bonxie, from Old Norse bunki.
Senses: examples: text: Bonxies are more than happy to fly at you as you walk harmlessly across the moors, and they regularly clip people with a wing or extended foot […]
ref: 2006, Graham Uney, Backpacker's Britain: Northern Scotland:
text: It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 102:
glosses: The great skua, Stercorarius skua.
pass muster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑːs ˈmʌst.ə/
ipa: /ˌpæs ˈmʌs.tɚ/
Forms: form: passes muster
form: passing muster
form: passed muster
form: passed muster
Etymology: From pass (“to undergo successfully”) + muster (“military assemblage or review”); from 1570s, originally as pass musters.
Senses: examples: text: To get a raise, an employee must pass muster with the boss.
text: Also passing muster were the loin of lamb in a zinfandel sauce and a variation on chicken marsala served with an avocado, tomato and cheese topping.
ref: 1990 July, Pete Johnson, “A Taste of France in Huntington Beach”, in Orange Coast Magazine:
text: [George] Harrison's all-American band had passed muster on Dark Horse and were the leading performers of the period […]
ref: 2006, Simon Lang, While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison, Hal Leonard Corporation, published 2006, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Supple yet tough, these nylon pants can take a week of bushwhacking and still pass muster at a dress-code restaurant.
ref: 2009 March, “Field Test: Global Apparel”, in Backpacker:
glosses: To meet or exceed a particular standard.
examples: text: So while speaking directly to a celebrated stranger may not be possible without first passing muster with a squad of handlers and publicists, you can do the next best thing: dial the famous person's last listed phone number and talk to the lucky, star-dusted citizen who inherited it.
ref: 1990 June, Max Carter, “Yoko Ono, Phone Home”, in Spy:
text: In any event, the Texas law clearly passes muster under rational basis review, which doesn't presume to grade our citizens' moral judgments as if they were submitted as part of an undergraduate exam in moral philosophy.
ref: 2005, Jeffrey Rosen, “Rosen, J., dissenting”, in Jack M. Balkin, editor, What Roe V. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Although I had worked on school newspapers, I did not know what news was — that is, what events would make a story and what combination of words would make it into print after passing muster with the night city editor.
ref: 2009, Robert Darnton, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future, PublicAffairs, published 2009, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: To adequately pass a formal or informal inspection.
Synonyms: sense: to meet or exceed a standard
word: cut the mustard
sense: to meet or exceed a standard
word: cut it
sense: to meet or exceed a standard
word: hack it
sense: to meet or exceed a standard
word: make the grade
sense: to meet or exceed a standard
word: measure up
Related terms: muster out
muster roll
muster up
up to snuff
up to par
with flying colors
reconnaisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of reconnaissance.
continuation bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuation bets
form: C-bet
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A bet made in a round of betting, after raising in the previous round of betting, usually with a weak hand.
continuation bet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: continuation bets
form: continuation betting
form: continuation bet
form: continuation bet
form: C-bet
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make a continuation bet.
Synonyms: sense: to make such a bet
word: continue
continuation bets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuation bet
continuation bets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of continuation bet
continuation betting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of continuation bet
short stacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Having a short stack.
chip leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chip leaders
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The player with most chips at a given time in a poker tournament.
chip leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chip leader
limp reraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limp reraises
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A reraise which was made by a player who previously called on the same betting round.
limp reraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: limp reraises
form: limp reraising
form: limp reraised
form: limp reraised
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To reraise after previously calling on the same betting round.
limp reraises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of limp reraise
limp reraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of limp reraise
limp reraised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of limp reraise
reraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reraises
Etymology: From re- + raise.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A raise of a bet which itself constituted a raise of a previous bet.
Derived terms: limp reraise
reraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reraises
form: reraising
form: reraised
form: reraised
Etymology: From re- + raise.
Senses: examples: text: I have reraised these points here because we now have at least this piece of theoretical apparatus to work with...
ref: 1981, Arthur Coleman Danto, The transfiguration of the commonplace: a philosophy of art:
text: If any kind of exception is raised, a rollback() operation is performed and the exception is reraised.
ref: 2009, David M. Beazley, Python Essential Reference:
glosses: To raise again or anew.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To raise another raise.
Derived terms: limp reraise
reraises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reraise
reraises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reraise
reraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reraise
reraised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reraise
norfluoxetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nor- + fluoxetine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The active metabolite of fluoxetine
Synonyms: seproxetine
hemstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemstitches
Etymology: From hem + stitch.
Senses: glosses: an embroidery stitch in which parallel threads are drawn together in groups
hemstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hemstitches
form: hemstitching
form: hemstitched
form: hemstitched
Etymology: From hem + stitch.
Senses: glosses: to sew or embroider using this stitch
pensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnsaɪl/
ipa: /ˈpensɑel/
ipa: /ˈpensaɪl/
ipa: [ˈpensɑe̯l]
Forms: form: more pensile
form: most pensile
form: pensill
Etymology: From classical Latin pēnsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).
Senses: examples: text: However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 165:
text: Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: Hanging down, suspended.
Derived terms: pensileness
vibrissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈbɹɪsə/
Forms: form: vibrissae
Etymology: From Latin vibrissae.
Senses: examples: text: There are also long hairs inside each ear and sometimes on its tip, and about a dozen very long and strong hairs—the whiskers or vibrissæ— are placed on each upper lip.
ref: 1881, St George Jackson Mivart, The Cat, London: Murray, page 14:
glosses: Any of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat.
glosses: Any similar feather near the mouth of some birds.
examples: text: The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus. […] Vibrissae are present in most mammals, but their innervation and role in sensory function appears to be less pronounced in humans.
ref: 2012, David W. Kennedy, Peter H. Hwang, editors, Rhinology: Diseases of the Nose, Sinuses, and Skull Base, Thieme, →ISBN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The thick hairs found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals.
Derived terms: vibrissal
mummia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummias
Etymology: From Late Latin mummia, mumia.
Senses: examples: text: "Now let us partake of the holy mummia," he said in commanding tones and the dervishes advanced towards us humbly bearing large silver trays on which were a number of small bowls with pieces of mummia – or at least I presumed it was mummia.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 120:
glosses: A medicinal preparation of mummified human flesh; mummy.
glosses: An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen; a mummy.
shrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shroom
glosses: Magic mushrooms, which produce drug-like hallucinations.
shrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shroom
shroomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shroomer
mountain sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mountain-sickness, with its nausea, first comes to those who are bilious, or to those who are hurrying or exerting themselves more than usual.
ref: 1915 April 24, Enos A. Mills, “Going to the Top”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Altitude sickness.
decussation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɛkʌˈseɪʃən/
Forms: form: decussations
Etymology: From Latin decussationem, from decussare.
Senses: examples: text: […] which being doubled at the angle, makes up the Letter χ, that is the Emphaticall decussation, or fundamentall figure.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 167:
glosses: A crossing or intersection of lines etc. so as to form an X-shape.
Derived terms: hemidecussation
Morten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Morten.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Danish or Norwegian.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Mortenson
Minnesota nice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minnesota Nice
Etymology: From Minnesota + nice, coined by radio personality Garrison Keillor.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Gibson called me in part because she knew I like to provoke, tickle, and prod. She knew I would respond yes, with Minnesota Nice, but what she really was after was my [...] New Yorker attitude...
ref: 1989, Helping Learners Learn at a Distance: Fifth Annual Conference on Teaching at a Distance, Madison, Wisconsin, August 8-10, 1989, The University, page 28:
text: Having lived in the open land of southwest Minnesota for more than thirty years, I have learned the limits of Minnesota nice.
ref: 1992, A. W. B. (Alfred William Brian) Simpson, In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain, Oxford University Press, page 80
text: Minge (pronounced with a hard G) is close to a personification of "Minnesota nice," the quiet cheerfulness and pleasantness which permeates much of life in […] much of its politics.
ref: 1993, Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, Almanac of American Politics, 1994: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors, National Journal, published 1993, →ISBN, page 727:
text: each moment draining sweat that pools around in a tradition of politeness—
 disturbed here now by swarms of gnats—some natives call "minnesota nice"
ref: 1996, Quincy Troupe, “Minnesota Nice”, in Avalanche: Poems, Coffee House Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: The natives joked about Minnesota Nice, and outsiders called it conformity, but civility was in fact the norm and any rip in its fabric a vice.
ref: 1997, David Lebedoff, Cleaning Up: The Exxon Valdez Case, from 3 Drinks to 5 Billion Dollars, Free Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: People who like one another often go along with one another's ideas to keep everyone happy. In Minnesota, people often call this "Minnesota nice." The intent is not to hurt anyone's feelings.
ref: 1999, Rosalie T. Torres, Hallie Preskill, Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: A style of pleasantness, courtesy, cooperation, and helpfulness associated with Minnesota culture; a form of Northern Plains charm.
Derived terms: Minnesota ice
Minnesota nice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Minnesota Nice
Etymology: From Minnesota + nice, coined by radio personality Garrison Keillor.
Senses: examples: text: Their new anchor, or family member, as they call him, isn't resonating with the viewers, who aren't sure he's Minnesota nice
ref: 2006 July 28, Brooke Gladstone, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, On the Media, WNYC
glosses: Pleasant, courteous, cooperative, and helpful (as associated with Minnesota culture).
quincuncial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kwɪnˈkʌnʃəl/
Forms: form: more quincuncial
form: most quincuncial
Etymology: From Latin quincuncialis.
Senses: examples: text: Of this Quincunciall Ordination the Ancients practiſed much[,] diſcourſed little; […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter I.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 98:
text: In architecture the quincunxial shape was considered a sort of housing for the divine power – a battery, if you like, which gathered into itself the divinity as it tried to pour earthward, to earth itself – just like an electrical current does.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1297:
glosses: Arranged in a quincunx.
examples: text: quincuncial aestivation
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior.
Derived terms: quincuncially
quincuncial phyllotaxy
triquetrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈkwɛtɹəs/
Forms: form: more triquetrous
form: most triquetrous
Etymology: From Latin triquetrus.
Senses: examples: text: the lithostrata or figured pavements of the ancients […] consisted not all of square stones, but were divided into triquetrous segments, honey-combs, and sexangular figures, according to Vitruvius
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 172:
glosses: Triangular; especially (in natural sciences), having a triangular cross-section.
haws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: plural of haw
haws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of haw
Christen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English Cristen, from Old English crīsten (ca. 890), from Latin Christiānus.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Dashwood had never been so much pleased with any young women in her life, as she was with them; had given each of them a needle-book, made by some emigrant; called Lucy by her christen name; and did not know whether she should ever be able to part with them.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 277–278:
glosses: Obsolete form of Christian.
Christen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christens
Etymology: From Middle English Cristen, from Old English crīsten (ca. 890), from Latin Christiānus.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Christian.
Derived terms: christen
christening
Christendom
Christiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪs.tiˌænə/
Forms: form: Christianas
Etymology: A medieval literate form of the female name Christian.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
glosses: A borough of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States.
consensus trance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consensus trances
Etymology: Coined by American psychologist Charles T. Tart.
Senses: glosses: An automated state of consciousness; actually, the normal consciousness, based on the premise that people believe what they are told to be true as opposed to what they have themselves realized to be true.
wikipedia: Charles Tart
hawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haw
hawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
Forms: form: hawings
Senses: examples: text: Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them […]
ref: 1847, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 285:
glosses: The act of saying "haw", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
hawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haw
sneaking suspicion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneaking suspicions
Senses: examples: text: I have the sneaking suspicion that he has already taken a decision about this.
glosses: A premonition, or hunch; a belief based on little evidence.
common difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common differences
Senses: examples: text: If the first term of an arithmetic sequence is 3 and the common difference is 13, then the fourth term is 42.
topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: common ratio
glosses: The constant added to each element of an arithmetic progression to obtain the next.
over to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Let's go over to Peter Smith, our commentator at the match.
text: Over to you, John.
text: Now, over to our man in Tokyo for an on-the-spot report.
glosses: Used on television or radio to indicate a change to another reporter or commentator.