cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gigafire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigafires
Etymology: From giga- + fire.
Senses: examples: text: When we coined the term "megafire" for wildfires that exceed 100,000 acres, it was in the back of our mind that if a fire reached 1 million acres it would be called a "gigafire".
ref: [2018 October 26, Bill Gabbert, “Bushfire in Australia burns over 2 million acres, becoming a "gigafire"”, in Wildfire Today, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2022:
text: In addition, due in part to human-caused warming and a drying climate, California recorded its first "gigafire" since modern records began in the early 1930s.
ref: 2020 October 5, Andrew Freedman, “California sees first ever ’gigafire’ and passes 4 million acres burned”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022:
text: In a historic fire season with million-acre gigafires and more than two dozen deaths, the destruction in Happy Camp barely broke through the long list of dire news stories making the headlines.
ref: 2020 October 23, Vivian Ho, “Fire tore through the Karuk tribe's homeland. Many won't be able to rebuild”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2023:
text: From Category 5 hurricanes to flooding from sea-level rise to gigafires, the value of losses from severe weather or climate-related disasters in the United States over the past several years has been unprecedented.
ref: 2021 October 13, Mark Brennan, Tanaya Srini, Justin Steil, Miho Mazereeuw, Larisa Ovalles, “A Perfect Storm? Disasters and Evictions”, in Housing Policy Debate, volume 32, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53:
text: Just a few years ago, fire scientists thought that the burn scars of all these megafires and gigafires might help check future spread, theorizing that it would take a while for the landscape to recover and that what would grow back could prove less flammable than what burned originally.
ref: 2022 August 24, David Wallace-Wells, “The American West's Haunting, Smoke-Filled Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 May 2023:
glosses: A wildfire which burns more than one million acres.
wikipedia: August Complex fire
Related terms: megafire
gigafires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigafire
pagger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paggers
form: paggering
form: paggered
form: paggered
Senses: examples: text: The reality is that the drink has nothing to do with whether people want a pagger, it's the mentality of a small number of fans before they even have a tipple in the first place.
ref: 2015, Jamie Montgomery, “Why do the minority in Scotland dictate how the majority live?”, in Daily Record:
glosses: To fight.
Derived terms: paggered
paggering
Related terms: wagger-pagger-bagger
motlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of motley: more motley
motliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of motley: most motley
what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
DOPE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOPEs
form: D.O.P.E.
form: D. O. P. E.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of data on previous engagement.
Altina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Altinas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Al-Tina
al Tina
Al Tina
al-Tina
el Tina
El-Tina
Eltina
El Tina
el-Tina
Tina
Eltina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eltinas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Altina
Al Tina
al-Tina
al Tina
Al-Tina
el Tina
El Tina
El-Tina
el-Tina
Tina
speech act participant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech act participants
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: SAP
glosses: The speaker or listener of a sentence; the first person or second person.
bollockhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bollockheads
Etymology: From ballock + head.
Senses: examples: text: "It was one fuck of a lot smarter than your brain, bollockhead."
ref: 1996, Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction, page 983:
glosses: dickhead, jerk
bollockheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bollockhead
Aqil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
glosses: A surname from Arabic
Related terms: Akel
Akil
witch ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch ladders
Senses: examples: text: The next day I showed the woman the engraving of the witch-ladder in the Folk-Lore Journal. She was astonished, and said, "Why that is la guirlanda delle strege which I described yesterday."
ref: 1892, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition, page 353:
text: Next he tied nine knots in a short length of string, and sprinkled some dead flies into the fire. "Take thou a mandrake [...] Bind the root, with a witch ladder," he held up the knotted string.
ref: 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, published 1984, page xi. 144:
glosses: Alternative form of witch's ladder.
witch ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch ladder
digital transformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital transformation
hold one's jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds one's jaw
form: holding one's jaw
form: held one's jaw
form: held one's jaw
Senses: glosses: To refrain from talking, to hold one's tongue, to be quiet.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, jaw.
Illia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Illias
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ілля́ (Illjá)
BWI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British West Indies.
glosses: Initialism of Building and Wood Workers' International.
Repalle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Railroad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, so-named for the Northern Central Railway.
glosses: A township in Starke County, Indiana, United States.
light pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light poles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lightpole.
light poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light pole
eighty-eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eighty-eight
New Milford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Rockford Township, Winnebago County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Bergen County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of West Milford, New Jersey, renamed for Post Office reasons.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in Warwick, Orange County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rootstown Township, Portage County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough and township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
examples: text: For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and their passengers rested and refreshed themselves in thriving New Milford, where flunkeys bowed before the best hotel. Those are the days which Neyland people, especially the older ones, recall with pride.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, pages 629-630:
glosses: A former name for Neyland railway station, at Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales; possibly named after Milford Haven (the large harbour).
affectionate friendship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affectionate friendships
Senses: glosses: Synonym of romantic friendship.
synonyms: word: romantic friendship
double minis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double mini
double mini trampolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double mini trampoline
mini hi-fi systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini hi-fi system
Rootstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Root + -s- + town, named after Ephraim Root.
Senses: glosses: A township in Portage County, Ohio, United States.
masters of the mint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master of the mint
ginger ninja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginger ninjas
Senses: glosses: A redhead.
hoop jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoop jumpers
form: hoop-jumper
Etymology: From the idiom jump through hoops.
Senses: examples: text: Time and time again he claims he has been offered help — but only if he will jump through some hoops. You know, the social contract. But Marvin is not a hoop jumper.
ref: 2004 April, Annasue McCleave Wilson, “The Man on the Porch”, in Cincinnati Magazine, volume 37, number 7, page 69:
text: Here's what I always try to remember when I'm tempted to start jumping through hoops to make others happy: Jesus wasn't a hoop jumper. He did what he did and left it up to people to take him or leave him.
ref: 2010, Mark Atteberry, Let it Go: Come Home from Your Guilt Trip:
text: Throughout life there are things we do not want to do, but we do them to get to our objective; we jump through the hoop, and have to work like worker bees. This book is specifically written to get the hoop jumpers and worker bees on their way to managing and taking control of their financial futures.
ref: 2017, Dr. Jack Burrow, Buffett, Munger Marathon Investing: Passion Investing:
glosses: One who jumps through hoops.
examples: text: " We can use it to start the circus! We'll do it! I'm pretty good with a knife and a sling shot! And I bet Allondra would do horseback riding! ” “ I wanna be a hoop jumper!"
ref: 2022, Brian Stewart, Journey to Patmos. Donkey Ollie:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, through, hoops.
hoop jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoop jumper
hoop-jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoop-jumpers
Senses: examples: text: So, hoop-jumper that I was, I wrote the following: “This will eventually be part of a longer piece that will explore the Foundation for Spiritual Knowledge in Tallahassee, Florida, which is a group of local people in training to be mediums and spirituals ^([sic]) healers.
ref: 2010, Charles Lowe, Pavel Zemliansky, Writing Spaces, page 192:
text: Also, I know that confidence overflows into making me less motivated to be a hoop-jumper and more dedicated to being an effective and caring teacher looking to find that wiggle room to execute meaningful instruction and to execute change where it's needed.
ref: 2014, James Henderson, Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development, page 153:
text: She laughs and says, “I'm a champion hoop-jumper,” referring to her success in working within the church, various certification agencies and health care organizations.
ref: 2016, Claire Cole Curcio, Voices of Women of the Cloth:
text: On the other hand, law can be an irresistible temptation to the hoop-jumper who sees mere fulfillment of a set of precepts as sufficient to ensure that one is a good person who has done the right thing.
ref: 2016, Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, James J. Buckley, Catholic Theology, page 342:
glosses: Alternative form of hoop jumper.
hoop-jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoop-jumper
oxdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ox-drawn
Etymology: Compound of ox + drawn.
Senses: examples: text: About 1500 B.C., it was overrun by tribesmen who had the military advantage of possessing iron weapons and horsedrawn chariots as against the copper weapons and oxdrawn carts of the natives.
ref: 1975, L[eften] S[tavros] Stavrianos, The World to 1500: A Global History, 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, pages 80–81:
text: Historically earlier forms of writing—such as the boustrophedon, or the way the oxdrawn plow moves—would have yielded a simpler line of writing for cutting, semiotically continuous and more readily materially isolated.
ref: 2010, Julian Warner, Human Information Retrieval, Cambridge, M.A.; London: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Cultures with furtive heels / return to your scholar's view, / whole biographies / lost on oxdrawn wheels;
ref: 2015, Elise Partridge, “The Finder”, in The Exiles' Gallery, Toronto, O.N.: House of Anansi Press, →ISBN, page 81:
text: After digging up the anthills, they crush the soil, sift it and then cart it to their fields by oxdrawn carts or wheel barrows.
ref: 2019 December 6, Elliott Siamonga, “Input prices derail cropping season preparations”, in The Chronicle, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2020:
glosses: Drawn or pulled by oxen.
Related terms: horsedrawn
ancient marineresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancient marineress
oxwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of ox + work.
Senses: examples: text: Then feed thy oxen in the house with hay; / Which he that wants with ease enough will say, / "Let me, alike, thy wain and oxen use." / Which 'tis as easy for thee to refuse, / And say thy oxword then importunes much.
ref: 1858, “Second Books of the Georgics of Hesiod”, in George Chapman, transl., Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams, London: John Russell Smith, page 181:
text: The diary carefully records the soil of the different localities passed under homely but intelligible farm terms. It was "emplastado, prieta or migajon," heavy, dark or friable, and the amount of water supply was carefully estimated, as a Mallorca farmer would count it by inches, yards or "oxwork."
ref: 1904, Bryan J[ames] Clinch, California and Its Missions: Their History to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, volume II, San Francisco, C.A.: The Whitaker & Ray Company, page 31:
text: The shuttle reached the IPL satellite in only a few hours. Inter-Planetary Launch was a city of three thousand inhabitants, breathing oxygen from the plants that also fed them, drinking water that had already passed through their bodies ten thousand times, living only to service the tugs that did all the oxwork in the solar system and the shuttles that took their cargos and passengers back to the Earth or the Moon.
ref: 1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 270:
glosses: The work of an ox.
bloodwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of blood + water.
Senses: examples: text: Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo’s bloodwater in the morning.
ref: 1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:
text: Beyond the terrace the twinkling city lights faded, dark stars, and blood seeped from brick and glass, streamed along concrete and steel until the streets grew soaked with scarlet. Then a torrent of rushing bloodwater engulfed the city's humanity, whisking them to their doom.
ref: 2007, Howard Hopkins, “Death Reign of the Zombie Queen”, in The Spider Chronicles, Calumet City, I.L.: Moonstone Books, →ISBN, page 78:
text: And the river flowed through them, soaking them red, inundating and running through them as they piled up, clacking in the babbling stream—and I could see the gray streak of Jimmy's ashes in the bloodwater, and I followed it.
ref: 2012, Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow, Madison, W.I.: Terrace Books, →ISBN, page 272:
text: "Living worms in the bloodwater suggests it was not treated," [Alexandra] Morton said of the fish waste. "And this is going into the largest wild salmon migration route."
ref: 2017 November 27, Lynda V. Mapes, “B.C. fish processors spewing potentially dangerous bloodwater into key salmon migration corridor”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, W.A: The Seattle Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:
glosses: A mixture of blood and water.
mirrie dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * Said to be from Scots mirrie (“merry”) + dancers.
* That may be a false cognate. See discussion at shetnews.co.uk Community/History in a wird, 1 March 2023. Mirr can mean 'to shimmer', among other senses.
Senses: glosses: the northern lights
Grand Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grand Crosses
Senses: examples: text: Rafael Nadal received the Grand Cross of the Order of the 2nd of May.
glosses: A decoration of the highest class in certain orders
examples: text: This person is a Grand Cross.
glosses: The recipient of this decoration.
Related terms: Grand Cordon
Grand Crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grand Cross
awesomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awesome
sab.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of sable.
sa.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of sable.
Related terms: ca. sa.
arg.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of argent.
ar.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of argent.
gu.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of gules.
purp.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of purpure.
pur.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pu. (“purpure”).
blind mole-rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind mole-rat
blooie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Moon Base itself is a sitting duck for a ship. One bomb - blooie!"
ref: 1955 Apr, Robert A. Heinlein, Nebula, page 24:
glosses: Alternative spelling of blooey.
age-long
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agelong.
witch-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch-balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of witch ball.
witch-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch-ball
Crowan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and small village south of Camborne, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6434).
pantouffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantouffles
Senses: examples: text: That hath or weareh^([sic]) pantouffles.
ref: 1586, Ambrosii Calepini Dictionarium Decem Lingvarum, […], Lyons, page 268, column 2:
text: Now you muſt know, that the Women ſtand upon their Pantouffles, even in Hell itſelf.
ref: 1745, Francisco de Quevedo, translated by Mr. Nunez, Visions: Being a Satire on the Corruptions and Vices of All Degrees of Mankind from the King to the Cobler. […], London: […] J. Collyer, […], page 58:
text: There is little remarkable, except the Make of his Pantouffles or Slippers, which barely cover his Toes, and the hanging Sleeves of his furred Habit, which tho’ ſhorter than moſt hitherto ſeen, is not ſo ſhort as his Father’s, who firſt introduced that Faſhion in the French Court.
ref: 1750, Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of France. […], volume II, London: […] W. Innys […]; J. and P. Knapton […]; and R. Manby and H. S. Cox […], page 25:
text: They were even become ſo heavy that they paſſed into a proverb, and when any one wanted to expreſs a thing that was remarkably clumſy, Caſſem’s pantouffles were always the object of compariſon.
ref: 1770 August, “The Effects of Avarice; An Oriental Tale”, in The Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, volume I, London: […] Robinson and Roberts, […], page 31, column 2:
text: No perſon or perſons who ſhall occupy the myſtery or occupation of a cordwainer or ſhoemaker ſhall ſhew, to the intent to put to ſale, any ſhoes, boots, buſkins, ſtartops, ſlippers or pantouffles, upon the Sunday, upon pain of forfeiture for every pair made, ſold, ſhewed, or put to ſale, three ſhillings and four-pence, and the juſt and full value of the ſame.
ref: 1795, William Hawkins, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; or A System of the Principal Matters Relating to That Subject, Digested under Proper Heads, 7th edition, volume I, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […]; and J. Butterworth, […], page 13:
text: […] / And yet her ’kerchief and her ruffles, / Her petticoats and her pantouffles, / Were full as cleanly and as neat / As you can buy in Monmouth ſtreet: / […]
ref: 1798, [William Watkins], Anomaliae. Being Desultory Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects., Whitby: […] T. Webster, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of pantofle.
pantouffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantouffle
unretrofitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not retrofitted.
nonretrofitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + retrofitted.
Senses: glosses: unretrofitted
post-retrofit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: After a retrofit.
VUR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VURs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of vesicoureteral reflux.
in no small part
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in no small measure.
synonyms: word: in no small measure
organellomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organelle + -omics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The branch of cell biology that studies the structure and function of organelles in an organism.
shield shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shield shrimps
Senses: glosses: A member of the Notostraca; a tadpole shrimp.
eaglesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eaglesque
form: most eaglesque
Etymology: From eagle + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Like or somewhat like an eagle.
eaglesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eaglesque
form: most eaglesque
Etymology: From eagle + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Those haggard hands which hovered, eaglesque, over the world, met with no check.
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xiii. 116:
glosses: In the manner of an eagle.
in a flat spin
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: See flat spin
Senses: examples: text: "I am in a flat spin!" Gaston Max declared.
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xix. 182:
glosses: In a state of confusion.
meat fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat flies
Senses: examples: text: The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 16:
glosses: blowfly
meat flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat fly
outfit doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outfit doctor
kaffir doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaffir doctor
kaffir cabbages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaffir cabbage
medication assisted treatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medication assisted treatment
overmedicalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overmedicalisation
staff nurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staff nurse
nurse-practitioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nurse-practitioner
nursery nurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nursery nurse
nursing chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nursing chair
nursing pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nursing pad
teamups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teamup
team-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of team-up
tech heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tech head
Caulkheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caulkhead
coke heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coke head
jolter heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jolter head
loose heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loose head
problem pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problem page
Rentheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Renthead
onespot fringeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onespot fringehead
sherm-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherm-head
sonheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonhead
sprinkler heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprinkler head
stillheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillhead
probeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probehead
undertails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertail
uppertails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uppertail
western yellow wagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western yellow wagtail
Cape wagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cape wagtail
citrine wagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citrine wagtail
Cuban striped curlytails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cuban striped curlytail
eastern yellow wagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern yellow wagtail
Flufftails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flufftail
grey wagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey wagtail
Laredo striped whiptails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laredo striped whiptail
orange-throated whiptails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange-throated whiptail
Parker's spinetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parker's spinetail
ribbontails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribbontail
rufous-backed fantails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rufous-backed fantail
rufous-crowned sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rufous-crowned sparrow
stripetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stripetail
tailshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailshaft
tailspeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailspeed
Texas spotted whiptails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texas spotted whiptail
Lingayats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lingayat
naice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naice
form: most naice
Senses: examples: text: I dare say she feels it. She was a naice-lookin’ woman. Flesh is flesh! They’ve given ’im a notice in the papers. Fancy!
ref: 1921 September, John Galsworthy, To Let, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part III, page 252:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nice.
throw under a bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws under a bus
form: throwing under a bus
form: threw under a bus
form: thrown under a bus
Senses: examples: text: Rebekah Vardy has been accused of throwing her former agent and friend “under a bus” in a last-ditch attempt to save her reputation in the “Wagatha Christie” libel trial.
ref: 2022 May 12, Jim Waterson, Jim Waterson, “‘Wagatha Christie’ trial: Rebekah Vardy accused of throwing friend ‘under bus’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Met PC barred over Wayne Couzens inquiry says she’s been ‘thrown under a bus’ [title]
ref: 2023 May 26, Emine Sinmaz, “Met PC barred over Wayne Couzens inquiry says she’s been ‘thrown under a bus’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of throw under the bus.
autolinguonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː.təʊˈlɪŋ.ɡwə.nɪm/
ipa: /ˌɔː.toʊˈlɪŋ.ɡwə.nɪm/
ipa: /ˌɑ.toʊˈlɪŋ.ɡwə.nɪm/
Forms: form: autolinguonyms
Etymology: From auto- + linguonym.
Senses: examples: text: "Gaelg" is the autolinguonym of Manx.
glosses: A language name of endonymic (native) origin, created and used by native speakers as designations for their language.
Synonyms: autoglossonym
autoglottonym
Related terms: endonym
autonym
exonym
xenonym
linguonym
glossonym
glottonym
autolinguonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autolinguonym
Cecil house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cecil houses
Etymology: Named after English journalist Cecil Chesterton (1879–1918).
Senses: examples: text: Whately was an active supporter of the Cecil Houses in London, which provided overnight accommodation for homeless women, where they could obtain ‘a clean bed, with plenty of hot water for baths, tea and biscuits, for one shilling a night, with no questions asked’
ref: 2018, Keith Gildart, David Howell, editors, Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume XIV, Springer, →ISBN, page 279:
glosses: A shelter providing accommodation for homeless women.
Poush Sankrantis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poush Sankranti
extreme risk laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extreme risk law
stiff-person syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A further addition to the puzzle comes from the woman’s autopsy report. It showed definite abnormalities in muscles. Thus, “stiff-person syndrome” had a physical or organic base in her which means a hysterial^([sic]) mental state is not necessarily the most likely explanation.
ref: 1958 February 24, Delos Smith, “Women Now Afflicted With Muscle Syndrome”, in The Pomona Progress Bulletin, 73rd year, number 21, Pomona, Calif., page 7:
text: The 39-year-old single mother of three was recently diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a painful and incurable progressive neurological disorder that causes stiffness and spasms of voluntary muscles.
ref: 2004 November 6, Wendy Isom, “Looking on the bright side of life: Mother of three with rare disease finds solace in faith”, in The Jackson Sun, Jackson, Tenn., page 1C:
text: When the disorder, stiff-person syndrome, eventually left her using a wheelchair, [Jacqui] Kapinowski began doing wheelchair competitions.
ref: 2013 October 3, Julius Whigham II, “Marathoner adapts to life with wheelchair, keeps racing”, in The Palm Beach Post, section N, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of stiff person syndrome.
drop one's beads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops one's beads
form: dropping one's beads
form: dropped one's beads
form: dropped one's beads
Senses: examples: text: But they will “drop their beads” (as queens used to say) one by one, until the full necklace lies on the floor. He'll mention he likes the ballet, you'll tell him of your interest in opera.
ref: 1977, Charles Silverstein, Edmund White, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 124:
topics: LGBT
glosses: To reveal one's homosexuality.
Dauphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dauphin
containerware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From container + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Two leading containerware companies, Owens-Illinois and Hazel-Atlas, and a leading noncontainer company, Corning Glass Works, uphold the Supreme Court’s decision in briefs replying to the government’s petition.
ref: 1945 February 24, Business Week, page 42:
text: Product identifications screen printed directly on bottles, jars, and other containers are rapidly replacing conventional labels. This is especially true of beverages, cosmetics, and household products packaged in glass or polyethylene containers. Screening on containerware has evolved into a distinct field of operation quite separate and apart from routine screen printing.
ref: 1971, J[acob] I[srael] Biegeleisen, Screen Printing: A Contemporary Guide to the Technique of Screen Printing for Artists, Designers, and Craftsmen, New York, N.Y.: Watson-Guptill Publications; London: Evans Brothers Limited, →ISBN, page 142, column 2:
text: Sands of lesser quality, suitable for coloured containerware, are also worked at Chelford and Congleton in Cheshire, Messingham in Lincolnshire and West Lothian in Scotland, all deposits which yield primarily foundry sands.
ref: 1975, John Blunden, The Mineral Resources of Britain: A Study in Exploitation and Planning, London: Hutchinson & Co, →ISBN, page 299:
text: Earl Tupper, whose name became a household word because of the plastic containerware he marketed so successfully, died today in Costa Rica.
ref: 1985, David Keith Cohler, Broadcast Journalism: A Guide for the Presentation of Radio and Television News, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 64:
text: The market, however, needed cheap, easy to produce, decorative containerware and the process had to become more complex in order to produce three-dimensional forms.
ref: 1996, The Dictionary of Art, volume 12, Grove, →ISBN, page 783, column 1:
glosses: Containers collectively.
Wrightstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Wright + -s- + town.
Senses: glosses: A borough in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A township and unincorporated community therein, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A town in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A village in Brown County and Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Peckinpah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But she is not one of those who think that much will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence. Truffaut, Peckinpah ... The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Peckinpahesque
drag click
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drag clicks
form: drag clicking
form: drag clicked
form: drag clicked
form: dragclick
Senses: examples: text: When you drag click, you benefit from the friction created as your finger moves quickly across the surface between the mouse button and skin. Because of the friction, the mouse switch detects vibrations that result in more clicks than would otherwise be feasible.
ref: 2022 October 20, Edward Hays, “How to improve CPS in Minecraft PvP?”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023:
text: When you drag click, you rely on hardware and not on the software part. Regardless, it takes some time to master it. This gives players who know it a greater advantage over those who can't do it.
ref: 2023 February 16, Joseph Henry, “Best Drag Clicking Mouses of 2023: Why Should You Use Them?”, in Tech Times, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2023:
topics: video-games
synonyms: word: drag
glosses: To cause a computer mouse to record an extremely high rate of clicks (sometimes over 100 CPS) by rubbing it with one's finger to create a vibration.
drag click
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag clicks
form: dragclick
Senses: examples: text: Knowing how to double-click drag before you get too fancy with short and long drag clicks is essential. This isn't about clicking the mouse fast or pressing it hard. You must drag your finger softly along the mouse wing from back to front. More clicks will register if you move to the edge of your mouse wing (left for left-clicks and right for right-clicks).
ref: 2022 June 27, Jorge Aguilar, “How to drag click — Drag Clicking Explained”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023:
text: Flick your wrist at an angle while softly pressing the mouse button downward to perform a drag click. Let your finger slide through the button without applying excessive pressure.
ref: 2022 August 22, “Top 3 Clicking Methods To Improve Mouse Clicking Speed”, in Deccan Herald, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: An instance of drag clicking (which includes multiple individual clicks).
Related terms: butterfly clicking
jitterclicking
drag clicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drag click
drag clicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag click
drag clicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drag click
drag clicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drag click
round-table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: round-tables
form: round-tabling
form: round-tabled
form: round-tabled
Senses: examples: text: The freshly printed petitions had been taken over to city hall and "round-tabled." Five or six city employees — all of whom owed their jobs to the machine — sat around a table and passed petition blanks and voter registration lists in a circle. Each person copied every fifth or sixth name from the registration list. That way, the forgeries weren't so obvious.
ref: 1976, David Anderson, Peter Benjaminson, Investigative Reporting, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Day after day they read materials and then round-tabled the value of what they could glean from them.
ref: 2010, Claudette Rothman, Gerald L. Jones, Greenwich Secrets, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 314:
glosses: To discuss at a round table conference.
transfems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfem
landsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landsiders
Etymology: From landside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: What else but the quest for knowledge would tempt a sane person away from a comfortable home? What else would persuade a landsider to take to the ocean, except the chance of getting to meet more strangers in a shorter time?
ref: 1983, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 103:
text: He wanted to stop at Petra's bunk and tell her about his home, about what his birthdays were usually like, just tell her it was his birthday so she'd say something about it being a happy one. But nobody told birthdays. It was childish. It was what landsiders did.
ref: 1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:
text: We'll be going out with the tide, with an extra five knot of current running where the river is usually slowest. I just thought you might be in a hurry to move at this end, what with the way your friends are keeping out of sight down with the codfish smell. The way I hear tell, you landsider don't favor fish odor too much.
ref: 1987, Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Not a man I'd trust alone with her, you understand. Not a man I trust entirely on anything—too involved with the landsiders, the traders, the political people.
ref: 1988, Thomas T[hurston] Thomas, An Honorable Defense, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 108:
text: It is easy for the landsider to forget that seafarers came in many disguises. We tend to think of officers and ratings — deck sailors. We might, if pricked, think about the engine room crew — who with the onset of oil, then diesel, just kept on shrinking per ship.
ref: 1993, Tim Madge, Long Voyage Home: True Stories From Britain's Twilight Maritime Years, London […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 146:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: word: groundsider
word: dirtsider
glosses: Someone who lives on land (as opposed to the sea or space).
Related terms: Earthsider
Moonsider
planetsider
spacesider
landsiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landsider
Latrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place name:
A local government area in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, named after the Latrobe River and Latrobe Valley; in full, the City of Latrobe.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Latrobe Council Area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A place name:
A local government area in northern Tasmania; in full, Latrobe Council.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
groundsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundsiders
Etymology: From groundside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Near the main airlock she foimd Tregare arguing loudly with persons she had never seen—groundsiders here, she thought.
ref: 1976, F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Rissa Kerguelen, Berkley Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Coming back groundside, you always felt the dissociation. They shouldn't have brought him all the way back here; they should have left him out at a Jupiter station, or somewhere his own kind were. These groundsiders were the real aliens. He couldn't make any connections with contemporary Earth—this wasn't the America he remembered.
ref: 1988, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Outpassage, New York, N.Y.: Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Trinli paused a second, holding his place with one hand while his whole body quivered with the need for crampons and ropes, and pitons driven solid into the walls around him. Lord. It had been a long time since his groundsider orientation had come back this strongly. He moved forward. Forward. Not up.
ref: 1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 109:
text: The server was cute, and I wondered how she got here, because her physique was groundsider, even more than mine. She had a wedge do with blond highlights and was cheerful without being icky.
ref: 2016, Michael Z. Williamson, Angeleyes, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 118:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: word: landsider
word: dirtsider
glosses: Someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).
Related terms: Earthsider
Moonsider
planetsider
spacesider
groundsiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundsider
planetsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetsiders
Etymology: From planetside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Todd knew billions of planetsiders were watching, most of Earth. What would they make of this? They had to take the threat seriously. Pat had to make them understand—as he hadn't made them imderstand the true significance of the alien messenger.
ref: 1981, Juanita Coulson, Tomorrow's Heritage, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 349:
text: Her chest was hurting already — no star-traveller had the stamina to outrun a planetsider—and she knew she could not keep up her pace for much longer.
ref: 1985, Melissa Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 307:
text: The passers-by were mostly planetsiders, some so recent you could see they had trouble handling low-G movement.
ref: 1989, Larry Niven, Man-Kzin Wars II, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 216:
text: "So youre not a planetsider." Raine laughed. "A dirtgrubber? Of course not. I'm from the Habitat. Gryphon torus."
ref: 2011, Garth Nix, A Confusion of Princes, London: HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN, page 209:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Someone who lives on a planet.
Related terms: dirtsider
Earthsider
groundsider
landsider
Moonsider
spacesider
planetsiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetsider
blue fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fever meaning madness and sexual obsession, and blue traditionally representing the police.
Senses: glosses: Sexual attraction towards members of the police.
Related terms: Asian fever
black fever
jungle fever
white fever
yellow fever
white fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fever meaning madness and sexual obsession, and white traditionally associated medical workers.
Senses: glosses: Sexual attraction towards health care professionals, particularly doctors and nurses.
glosses: Sexual attraction towards white people.
Related terms: Asian fever
black fever
blue fever
Indian fever
jungle fever
yellow fever
hooktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooktails
Etymology: From hook + tail.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any dragonfly of the genus Paragomphus.
glosses: A hooktail skate (Dipturus oregoni)
phantogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæntəɡɹæm/
Forms: form: phantograms
Etymology: From phantom + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A type of optical illusion that works by using perspectival anamorphosis of stereoscopic vision to create distorted images.
phantograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantogram
kalaleng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalalengs
Senses: glosses: A type of nose flute made from bamboo from the Philippines.
saryarkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Saryarka + -ite, after the locality it was found in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral containing calcium, yttrium, aluminum, phosphorus, oxygen, silicon and hydrogen that is found in Kazakhstan.
non-engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + engineering.
Senses: examples: text: The Permanent Way: Britain's Railroads in the Making. By Horace Greenleaf and G. Tyers. […] Although designed primarily for the general public, it is also worthy of being read by those non-engineering railwaymen who want to know something of the other man's job.
ref: 1948 September and October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
glosses: Alternative form of nonengineering.