cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mersister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mersisters
Etymology: From mer- + sister.
Senses: examples: text: In the 2008 Broadway version of The Little Mermaid, the song, by Alan Menken (music) and Howard Ashman (lyric), was also performed by the mermaids (or mersisters).
ref: 2009, Thomas S. Hischak, Mark A. Robinson, The Disney Song Encyclopedia, The Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Remember, these are the people who kidnapped us and were going to cut out mine^([sic]) and my mersisters' vocal cords!
ref: 2012, Robert E. Thornsberry, The Accidental Mermaid, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Now that the mersisters were gone, that seemed more important than ever.
ref: 2013, Catherine Hapka, Mermaids in the Backyard, Random House, →ISBN, page 75:
topics: fantasy
coordinate_terms: merbrother
glosses: A sister who is a mermaid.
mersisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mersister
obviosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obviosities
Etymology: From obvious + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being obvious.
examples: text: These thoughts, in some pedant's phrase, are obviosities; and I bring them up only to show that our appreciation of form and color is something inevitable.
ref: 1893, Francis Henry Underwood, Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town with Outlooks Upon Puritan Life:
glosses: That which is obvious.
Synonyms: obviousness
merfamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merfamilies
Etymology: From mer- + family.
Senses: examples: text: "The land fairies say the pollution in the cove has been making all the sea creatures sick. I imagine that includes the merfamily. […]
ref: 2008, Donna Varnes, The Cove, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 271:
text: Internally, the floor had been built up with flat rocks, therefore, even at high tide, it never contained more than two feet of water, and in the evening the entrance was always damned up by large boulders so that any incoming water did not disturb the sleeping merfamily.
ref: 2012, Annie McLeod, Man or Beast, Glass Jar Publishing (2012), page 54
text: To visit the undersea realm of Artur, the High Prince, and the rest of the royal merfamily, she has to fin it to the Cayman Islands.
ref: 2012, MaryJanice Davidson, Swimming Without a Net, Jove (2007), back cover blurb
topics: fantasy
glosses: A family of merfolk.
merfamilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merfamily
merwitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merwitches
Etymology: From mer- + witch.
Senses: examples: text: […] You see, we have been hunting the merwitch's slimy giant eel for many years now and always fall short of destroying it. […]
ref: 2013, Jessica Eppley, The Book of Siavon: Vol. 2: The Tail of Murias, Booktango:
text: "Sharks are unique, temperamental, always have been. Now they're under the control of Calandra, a particularly nasty merwitch whose goal is to rule the oceans."
ref: 2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, Fire and Ice, →ISBN, page 59:
text: The merwitch slowly opened her eyes.
ref: 2014, Mary Man-Kong, Magical Mermaid Adventure, Random House Children's Books, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A mermaid witch.
merwitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merwitch
gravitational mirage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitational mirages
Senses: glosses: A distorted or false image of a distant galaxy (e.g. an image of a distant galaxy as a ring, or as multiple copies of itself) caused by a gravitational lens (a massive object located between the distant galaxy and the viewer, which alters how the light of the distant galaxy reaches the viewer).
Hyponyms: Einstein ring
Einstein ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Einstein rings
Etymology: Named after Albert Einstein, whose theory of general relativity predicted gravitational lensing.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, clusters of galaxies with masses M ∼ 10¹⁵M_⊙ at cosmological distances can result in Einstein rings with angular radii tens of arcseconds.
ref: 2008, Malcolm Longair, Galaxy Formation, 2nd edition, Springer, page 130:
text: The many constraints that the images of Einstein rings provide, allow us to determine the slope of the mass distribution in the lensing galaxy.
In 1988, the first example of an "Einstein ring" was discovered by Jackie Hewitt [Hew].
ref: 2012, Arlie O. Petters, Harold Levine, Joachim Wambsganss, Singularity Theory and Gravitational Lensing, Springer, page 155:
text: This is quite a bit larger than the cores in most clusters, so clusters are unlikely to produce dramatic signatures such as Einstein rings.
ref: 2017, Scott Dodelson, Gravitational Lensing, Cambridge University Press, page 48:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A ring-shaped gravitational mirage; an image of a distant light source, such as a galaxy, which has been distorted into a ring by a gravitational lens.
wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Related terms: Einstein cross
Einstein radius
allantiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allant- + -iasis.
Senses: examples: text: In the first case, a child of 3 years, it was preceded a few months before by an alimentary intoxication, allantiasis; in the second case there was no history of an infectious disease.
ref: 1912, Archives of Ophthalmology, volume 41, page 303:
text: The cases of poisoning observed as a result of partaking of more or less tainted articles of food—sausages (botulismus and allantiasis), meat, milk, ice-cream, cheese, corned beef, etc., and with some specimens of mussels and oysters—are due to the development of ptomain products.
ref: 1924, Torald Sollmann, A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeuties and Toxicology, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, page 439:
text: The classical reports of outbreaks of sausage poisoning in Würtemburg by Justinus Kerner (1), a Schwabian poet and physician, are believed to refer undoubtedly to the toxic syndrome of allantiasis, or botulism, as it is now called.
ref: 1928, Samuel Reed Damon, Food Infections and Food Intoxications, Baltimore, MD: The Williams & Wilkins Company, page 67:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: sausage poisoning
glosses: Food poisoning (especially botulism) as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages.
radiator plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiator plants
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Peperomia, many of which are commonly used as houseplants.
makes oneself at home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make oneself at home
making oneself at home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make oneself at home
made oneself at home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make oneself at home
hypobulia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Difficulty in making decisions; impaired willpower.
Related terms: abulia
allobiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: adaptation to changes in internal or external conditions
Allobrogian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Allobroges
allochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + -chory.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The passive dispersal of seeds by means of external agents.
Coordinate terms: autochory
Derived terms: allochoric
allochromasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A change in the colour of skin or hair.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A defect in colour vision.
arré
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: ‘Nay, I cannot move another step,’ he howled. ‘I am old and my turban is lost. Arré! Arré!’
ref: 1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 206:
glosses: Alternative form of arrey.
squealier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of squealy: more squealy
squealiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of squealy: most squealy
squealy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: squealier
form: squealiest
Etymology: From squeal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then for some reason the higher powers would not let us go and look at the kittens, the dear little blind kittens in the outhouse. […] Only after a dispute in which Joan threatened to go the way of Peter was "just a glimpse" conceded. And they were softer and squealier and warmer than anything one had ever imagined.
ref: 1918, H. G. Wells, Joan and Peter:
glosses: Making a squealing sound.
unarrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unarrests
form: unarresting
form: unarrested
form: unarrested
Etymology: From un- + arrest.
Senses: examples: text: She was swearing at the police who were trying to deal with a domestic incident. I had to break up the situation, the harassment was interfering with them dealing with the original fight. It was decided to unarrest her when we realised her age.
ref: 2010, Gabrielle M. Maxwell, Allison Morris, Family, Victims and Culture: Youth Justice in New Zealand, page 33:
text: They were subsequently unarrested and released into their parents’ custody on Friday evening.
ref: 2015, “Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said two teenage brothers arrested while trying to leave Australia to fight with ISIS were ‘saved’”, in News.com.au:
glosses: To release (an arrested person) from custody.
unarrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unarrests
Etymology: From un- + arrest.
Senses: examples: text: However, it has been suggested to the Committee that police will not utilise this power because there will be a fear of the "unarrest" being used as evidence of a wrongful arrest.
ref: 1994, Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 3, page 223:
text: Several unarrests, and only two total successful arrests, occurred at the Navy Memorial.
ref: 2017, Matthew Knouff, An Outsider's Guide to Antifa, page 156:
text: These long stops essentially consist of a form of illegal, undocumented arrest, an investigation, and an “unarrest”—a wholly unconstitutional process.
ref: 2020, Hannah L. F. Cooper, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, From Enforcers to Guardians:
glosses: The act of cancelling an arrest.
unarresting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unarrest
unarresting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unarresting
form: most unarresting
Senses: examples: text: […] a meagre and monotonous evangelism — shunning to declare the whole counsel of God, or reiterating a few favourite phrases till they grow as trite and unarresting as a cuckoo-song — has provoked that fatal falsehood […]
ref: 1859, James Hamilton, Christian Classics:
glosses: Not arresting; that does not hold the attention.
unarrests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unarrest
deaerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaerators
Etymology: From deaerate + -or.
Senses: antonyms: aerator
glosses: A device that removes oxygen and other dissolved gases from a liquid; especially, one that treats the feedwater to a steam boiler.
Related terms: deaerate
deaeration
reaerate
reaeration
degasser
dehumidifier
deaerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deaerator
feedwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedwater
Zaydism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zaydi + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines and religious principles associated with Zaydis.
Alawism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nusayrism
marbleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From marble + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without marbles.
baglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baglets
Senses: glosses: The nipple.
Twelverism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Twelver + -ism.
Senses: hypernyms: Shi'ism
coordinate_terms: Zaydism
glosses: The largest branch of Shi'ism, believing that the Twelve Imams were divinely ordained leaders, and that the Mahdi will be the returned Twelfth Imam who disappeared and is believed by Twelvers to be in occultation.
Related terms: Twelver
Shiistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shiistic
form: most Shiistic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Shiism
supergaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergaiters
Etymology: From super- + gaiter.
Senses: glosses: A gaiter that covers the entire boot.
supergaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supergaiter
madamji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madamjis
Etymology: From madam + -ji.
Senses: glosses: madam (as a respectful term of address)
siafu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siafus
form: siafu
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili siafu.
Senses: examples: text: Male driver ants leave the colony soon after they hatch but are drawn to the scent trails left by colonies of siafu ants when they reach sexual maturity.
ref: 2016, Kevin Baker, The World's Most Dangerous Animals:
text: The siafus, together with the hyena, jackal and vulture, are the great scavengers of Kenya.
ref: 1957, William W. Baldwin, Mau Mau Man-hunt, page 216:
glosses: An army ant.
bakelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakelites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bakelite.
maon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maons
Etymology: From Mao (referring to Mao Zedong) + -on, coined in 1977 by American theoretical physicist Sheldon L. Glashow in remembrance of Mao, who firmly holds that matter is endlessly divisible.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A general term for any hypothetical particle of which a quark or lepton is consisted; a preon.
wikipedia: Mao Zedong
Sheldon L. Glashow
Synonyms: quink
haplon
rishon
subquark
prequark
Forer effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forer effects
Etymology: Named after psychologist Bertram R. Forer.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Barnum effect.
synonyms: word: Barnum effect
theosophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theosophes
form: theosoph
Etymology: From French théosophe (noun), from Medieval Latin theosophus (“a theologian”, noun), from Koine Greek θεόσοφος (theósophos, “wise in things concerning god”, adjective), from Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god”) + σοφός (sophós, “wise”). Cognate to French théosophe (noun), Spanish teósofo (noun).
Senses: examples: text: A friend of St. Martin asserts that "a Theosophe is a true Christian, and that to become so it is not necessary to begin by being wise, but by being humble and virtuous.
ref: 1822 October, “[Reviewed work:] Histoire des sectes religieuses : qui, depuis le commencement du siècle dernier jusqu'à l'époque actuelle sont nées, se sont modifiées, se sont éteintes dans les quatre parties du monde, [by Henri] Grégoire […] ”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 28, London: John Murray, →ISSN, pages 36–37:
glosses: A theosophist.
neuroplasticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroplasticity
galabieh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galabiehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of djellaba.
galabiehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galabieh
gallabiyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallabiyahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of djellaba.
gallabiyahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallabiyah
termigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termigants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of termagant.
termigants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termigant
MRAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRAM
ammonolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ammonolysis
sensationalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensationalizers
Etymology: From sensationalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sensationalizes.
sensationalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensationalizer
tridaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + daily.
Senses: glosses: Three times a day or every third day.
tridaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tri- + daily.
Senses: glosses: Three times a day or every third day.
Related terms: terdiurnal
regrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reground
regrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reground
regrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reground
regrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regroundings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is grounded again.
regroutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrouting
regroundings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrounding
demonetarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demonetarizes
form: demonetarizing
form: demonetarized
form: demonetarized
Etymology: From de- + monetarize.
Senses: examples: to demonetarize gold
glosses: To withdraw the monetary status of.
Related terms: demonetarization
demonetarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demonetarize
demonetarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demonetarize
demonetarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demonetarize
monetarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monetarizes
form: monetarizing
form: monetarized
form: monetarized
Senses: examples: to monetarize gold
glosses: To assign monetary status to; to start circulating and accepting as currency.
Related terms: monetarization
monetarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monetarize
monetarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monetarize
monetarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monetarize
unmonetizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + monetizable.
Senses: glosses: Not monetizable.
monetizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monetize + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being monetizable.
demonetarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + monetarization.
Senses: glosses: Process of demonetarizing.
monetarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monetary + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Process of monetarizing.
Derived terms: demonetarization
Ashlynn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish, Alternative form of Ashlyn.
predissertation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + dissertation.
Senses: glosses: Before a dissertation.
preproposal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + proposal.
Senses: glosses: Before a proposal.
preproposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preproposals
Etymology: From pre- + proposal.
Senses: glosses: An early proposal document submitted before a full, final proposal.
preproposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preproposal
nonspurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spurious.
Senses: glosses: Not spurious.
Theosophus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Anxiety is felt concerning the whereabouts of Theosophus Wensleydale, who disappeared from his home last week, in company with the contents of his father's safe.
ref: 1928 March 16, “News in brief”, in The Daily Mail, Hull, →ISSN, page 6:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
nonexperiencing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + experiencing.
Senses: glosses: That does not experience things.
reenchant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenchants
form: reenchanting
form: reenchanted
form: reenchanted
form: re-enchant
Etymology: From re- + enchant.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he artist has returned to create new forms of expression, to resacralize, re-enchant, remythologize.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 4:
glosses: To enchant again.
Related terms: reenchantment
e-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-friends
Etymology: From e- + friend.
Senses: glosses: A friend with whom one communicates via the Internet.
reenchanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenchant
e-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-friend
reenchants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenchant
reenchanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenchant
-sploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From exploitation, in the sense exploitation film.
Senses: glosses: exploitation of a specific demographic, person, or thing, particularly in media.
Bili ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bili apes
Senses: glosses: A gorilla-like type of chimpanzee found in the Bili Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Synonyms: Bondo mystery ape
keeperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From keeper + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Among the groupe was a man, whose name was Daly — who, of all the people accounted sane and permitted to range the world keeperless, I hold to be the most decidedly mad.
ref: 1834, “Gilbert Gurney”, in The New monthly magazine and universal register:
glosses: Not having a keeper; not minded; not kept.
know-nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb. Compare do-nothing § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: All over the world, know-nothing xenophobes are claiming – without evidence – that climate science is rigged.
ref: 2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Ignorant; characterized by foolish denial of facts or beliefs in that which is not true.
know-nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: know-nothings
Etymology: Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb. Compare do-nothing § Etymology.
Senses: synonyms: ignoramus
glosses: An ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge.
Derived terms: know-nothingness
know-nothings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of know-nothing
sounds like a plan
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Let's catch a movie after dinner, what do you say? ― Sounds like a plan.
synonyms: sounds good
glosses: Used to indicate agreement with a proposed suggestion.
kyriolexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Is my kyriolexy hasty for your obtuse brain?” I said sarcastically.
ref: 2012, Foo Yin Tung, This is Business: My Life as a Singapore Gangster II, page 118:
glosses: The use of literal expressions, as opposed to figurative; of clear, as opposed to obscure.
hicksploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So we remember the Joe Don Baker of the late 70s and early '80s, a time during which Joe Don owned — not rented, not leased, but owned — the part of bad-ass lawman in every hicksploitation flick that rambled down the dirt road.
ref: 2005, Tara Ariano, Adam Sternbergh, Hey! It's that Guy!: The Fametracker.com Guide to Character Actors, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Deliverance led to some examples of hicksploitation; […]
ref: 2011, Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton, Cult Cinema, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN:
text: There are also signature touches from other TLC "hicksploitation" shows such as Here Comes Honey Boo: One character with a thick Southern accent has her words displayed in subtitles, as if she's speaking a foreign language; bluegrass music plays to remind viewers exactly where the place is located; and situations couldn't be more contrived if you saw producers going over scripts with the "cast members" onscreen.
ref: 2013 March 3, Eric Deggans, “Why no protests against 'hicksploitation' TV reality shows?”, in Tampa Bay Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hixploitation.
reindentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + indentation.
Senses: glosses: indentation (of text in a wordprocessor etc.) again or anew
nunsploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nun + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: Making nunsploitation films also appealed to producers because, as with peplums and westerns, it was possible to recycle sets and costumes and therefore lower production costs.
ref: 2004, Tamao Nakahara, “Barred Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films”, in Ernest Mathijs, editor, Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Perhaps the world's first nunsploitation film, it centres on a morphine-addicted nun recovering from neurosurgery, who is accused of a series of horrific murders.
ref: 2008 July 4, “Random top tens: The least convincing nuns ever”, in The Scotsman:
text: In the early 1970s, the nunsploitation film emerged as a widely popular genre, energized by several key cinematic, literary, and historical catalysts: […]
ref: 2013, Ian Olney, Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 175:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of exploitation film focusing on Christian nuns.
CTFU
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cracking the fuck up..
ctfu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of CTFU.
Nazisploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nazi + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: You should see “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS,” the notorious sleazefest now considered a touchstone of the Nazisploitation craze of the 1970s.
ref: 2008 August 14, Nathan Lee, “Nazisploitation Making a Comeback”, in The New York Times:
text: As a result, Nazisploitation has ensured that Nazi evil has had an impressive staying power.
ref: 2010, Claire M. Hall, “Where Does Evil Sit in the Classroom?: Problematizing Teaching about Hitler, Nasty Nazis, and the Holocaust”, in Sara Buttsworth, Maartje M. Abbenhuis, editors, Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-war Popular Culture, Praeger, →ISBN, page 227:
text: In general, Nazisploitation movies encompass those that use the fascination of Nazi imagery, ideology, symbols and artifacts to increase its commercial appeal.
ref: 2012, Benedikt Eppenberger, “Eine Armee Gretchen: Nazisploitation Made in Switzerland”, in Daniel H. Magilow, Elizabeth Bridges, Kristin T. Vander Lugt, editors, Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 155:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: Nazi exploitation
glosses: A subgenre of exploitation film that involves villainous Nazis committing criminal acts of a sexual nature, typically against people held in their concentration camps and prisons during World War II.
contact number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact numbers
Senses: glosses: A telephone number that someone can be contacted on.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of kissing number.
synonyms: word: kissing number
contact numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contact number
historicistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historicistic
form: most historicistic
Etymology: From historic + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to historicism.
Derived terms: historicistically
historicistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more historicistically
form: most historicistically
Etymology: From historicistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of historicism.
sewer gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of toxic and non-toxic gases produced and collected in sewage systems by the decomposition of organic household or industrial wastes.
stenchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stenchy: most stenchy
stenchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stenchy: more stenchy
babycino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbeɪbiˈtʃiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˌbeɪbiˈt͡ʃinoʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
Forms: form: babycinos
form: babyccino
Etymology: Blend of baby + cappuccino
Senses: examples: text: I squeezed my way into the crowded café [...] trying not to sweep babycinos off tables with my coat.
ref: 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 139:
glosses: A drink of frothed milk without coffee.
Synonyms: word: fluffy
word: steamer
babyccino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyccinos
Senses: examples: text: “We’ve been around for 13 years, and I remember giving out free babyccinos to customers when they were five years old,” he said, referring to an order of warmed milk topped with foam and cocoa powder. “Now they’re 18.”
ref: 2025 January 21, Vivian Song, quoting Tom Clark, “Specialty Coffee Shops and Parisian Cafes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of babycino.
babycinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babycino
babyccinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babyccino
fluffies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluffy
Nastalik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nastaliq.
Shi'ists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shi'ist
'Eid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eid.
victim-blame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: victim-blames
form: victim-blaming
form: victim-blamed
form: victim-blamed
Etymology: Back-formation from victim-blaming.
Senses: examples: text: Original groups who suffer from the infection, particularly if the epidemic is a sexually transmitted disease, can be stigmatized and victim-blamed.
ref: 1994, Explorations in Ethnic Studies: The Journal of the National Association of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies, volumes 17-18, page 157:
text: […] of women who have been utterly socially marginalized (and victim-blamed for their own drug problems) by mainstream US society.
ref: 2007, Marcia C. Inhorn, Reproductive Disruptions, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: To subject to victim-blaming; to blame and hold responsible (the victim of an attack, disease, etc for the attack which they have suffered).
kaisership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaiserships
Etymology: From kaiser + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a kaiser.
kaiserships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaisership
kajawah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kajawahs
form: kajawa
form: kajava
form: kujawah
form: cajua
form: cajava
form: kedgwa
form: kedgway
form: cedgeway
form: cadjowa
form: kedjavé
form: kerjava
form: kidjawah
form: kidjahwah
form: khajawah
form: kajaweh
form: kajavah
Etymology: From Hindi कजावा (kajāvā), from Urdu and Classical Persian کجاوه (kajāwa, “kajawah, howdah”).
Senses: examples: text: Women of note trauell vpon Coozelbash-camels, each Camell loaded with two cages (or cajuaes as they call them) which hang on either side the beast.
ref: 1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626, into Afrique and the Greater Asia, page 151:
text: For the carriage of sick the camel is fairly well suited, the main difficulty being the kujawah, cradle or chair, the correct shape, size and weight of which can only be decided by actual experiment in hills as well as plains and under varying conditions.
ref: 1880, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volumes 9-10 1880-1881, page 44:
glosses: A camel-borne pannier, litter, or cacolet.
examples: text: For men and women who suffer from being in the saddle for so many hours, there is a choice between the "kerjava" and the "takht-i-rawan." The kerjava, in its best appearance, takes the form of two very small gypsy tents made of light bands of wood, the top bent circular, and covered with shawls or carpets. In each of these tents a man or woman sits after the kerjavas have been slung, like panniers, across the saddle of a strong mule. In the kerjava one must sit cross-legged, or with one's feet hanging out.
ref: 1877, Robert Arthur Arnold, Through Persia by Caravan, page 125:
glosses: Similar vehicles borne by other animals.
Synonyms: english: Arabic contexts
translation: Arabic contexts
word: mahmal
english: North African contexts
translation: North African contexts
word: bassour
kajawahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kajawah
Aqedah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Akedah.
Akedah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aqedah
Etymology: From Hebrew עֲקֵדָה (aqedá, “the binding of Isaac”, literally “binding”).
Senses: examples: text: Many medieval Jewish communities saw themselves as re-enacting the drama of the Akedah without the redemptive ending.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 118:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Binding of Isaac.
misotheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misotheist
misotheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misotheistic
form: most misotheistic
Senses: glosses: Hating God or gods; exhibiting misotheism.
chechako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chechakos
form: chechakoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheechako.
chechakoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chechako
chechakos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chechako
finnsko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finnskos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finnesko.
finneskos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finnesko
finnskos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finnsko
kokako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokakos
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kōkako.
Senses: glosses: A wattlebird of the genus Callaeas endemic to New Zealand.
Derived terms: North Island kokako
kokakos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kokako
Canuxploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Canuck + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: Canuxploitation films form a constant undercurrent in both English Canada and Quebec, swelling at certain points to near-tidal proportions.
ref: 2002, “Introduction: What Is Canadian Cinema?”, in Eugene P. Walz, editor, Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films, Rodopi, →ISBN, page xvii:
text: As a classic example of 1970s B-grade “Canuxploitation,” Death Weekend has retrospectively developed a cult audience beyond the lackluster response it garnered upon its initial release.
ref: 2011, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company (201), page 113
text: How can we account for the career of quintessentially Canadian directors such as William Fruet and Paul Lynch, whose extensive filmographies include both realist classics such as Fruet's gruelling depiction of Albertan patriarchy, Wedding in White (1972), and Lynch's loser drama of an aging country-music singer on the road in small-town Ontario, The Hard Part Begins (1973), and Canuxploitation horror such as Fruet's Death Weekend (1976), Spasms (1983), Killer Party (1986), and Blue Monkey (1987), […]
ref: 2012, David Lawrence Pike, Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 185:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of low-budget films produced in Canada, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.
whitesploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From white + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: While the Pam Grier Collection has "Foxy Brown," "Coffy," and "Friday Foster," The Elvis Gift Set (Paramount, $59.80) offers five classic whitesploitation flicks: "Fun in Acapulco," "G. I. Blues," "Paradise, Hawaiian Style," "Blue Hawaii" and "King Creole."
ref: 1998, Newsweek, volume 132, page 88:
text: You had whitesploitation films, too: Chained Heat, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and all that junk.
ref: 2003, Joe Bobb Briggs, Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies that Changed History!, Universe, →ISBN, page 125:
text: What Ken never understood was that the only thing Harold and I really excelled at was fucking around—coming up with idiotic ideas and filthy daydreams, projects like the pornographic version of The Cat in the Hat, the whitesploitation film Kung-Fu Honky, […]
ref: 2012, Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.
Hyponyms: hixploitation
Mexploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mexico + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: Remember that crazy-funny fake trailer for the nonexistent ’70s Mexploitation flick Machete that preceded the “Planet Terror” segment of Grindhouse a few years back?
ref: 2010 September 2, MaryAnn Johanson, “Class Warrior: Machete provides a slice of surprisingly effective entertainment – and political commentary”, in Monterey County Now:
text: The Mexploitation fall-out runs to explosives, rape, death by flame-thrower and a cavalcade of unconvincing plot turns.
ref: 2012 September 21, Tara Brady, “Savages”, in The Irish Times:
text: Robert Rodriguez, 45, creator of the "Mexico" trilogy and "Spy Kids" films, arguably sired the Mexploitation genre in 1992 with the campy vengeance film "El Mariachi."
ref: 2013 October 10, Ray Monell, “Robert Rodriguez corners Mexploitation film market with ‘Machete Kills’”, in New York Daily News:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of exploitation films produced in and/or set in Mexico, and often featuring plots dealing with crime, drugs, and sex.
Ozploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Oz (“Australia”) + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: While a number of Ozploitation films conformed to the 'trashy' aesthetics and marginal audience reception that historically characterizes exploitation cinema, a notable handful display production values considerably higher than those connoted by the term itself, and also experienced significant box office success, both in Australia and, at times, internationally.
ref: 2010, Ben Goldsmith, Geoffrey Lealand, editors, Australia and New Zealand, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 239:
text: While the film is rich with moments of explicit sexual threat — most notably the naked photographs and Sparks' attempted rape — the image of Jessica tied to the front of the ute remains one of the most excessive and horrific images of violence against women not only in Australian “Ozploitation” film, but in rape-revenge as a whole.
ref: 2011, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company (201), page 111
text: The name was originally explained on the event's website as being inspired by 1974 Ozploitation film, Stone, about motor bike gangs.
ref: 2014, Hilary Du Cros, Lee Jolliffe, The Arts and Events, Routledge, →ISBN, page 74:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of low-budget films produced in Australia, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.
allorhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɫloʊɻðmiːə/
Etymology: From allo- + rhythm + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An irregular pattern of the heartbeat
almogavar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almogavars
Etymology: From Spanish almogávar, from Andalusian Arabic المُغَاوِر (al-muḡā́wir), from Arabic مُغَاوِر (muḡāwir).
Senses: glosses: A lightly-clad footsoldier during the Christian reconquest of Islamic Spain.
halogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From halogen + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, characteristic of, or containing a halogen
Czechish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Czechish
form: most Czechish
Etymology: From Czech + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Czech
Czechian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Czechian
form: most Czechian
Etymology: From Czech + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Czech.
Czechian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Czechians
Etymology: From Czech + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Czech.
glosses: The Slavic language of Czechia/the Czech Republic.
Related terms: Czechia
barley-sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barley-sugar
form: most barley-sugar
Senses: examples: text: c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife
I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation!
text: In the apartment of the Abate a few pictures remain, but none of first order : one or two Carlo Dolces served to strengthen our opinion of his being one of the most barley-sugar painters of the Italian schools.
ref: 1824, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 126:
text: Well, the little dog barked on furiously, that is for a barley-sugar dog; and, after rolling themselves in the grass to get rid of the load of jam and cream on their clothes, they managed to get up and run on.
ref: 1851, The New monthly belle assemblée, page 292:
glosses: Very sweet-natured or saccharine; harmless.
examples: text: Chair-backs were very straight and no time was wasted on carving. This severe discipline prepared English craftsmen for their great period. After a slight relapse under Charles II into rather frivolous forms — very barley-sugar, but discreet […]
ref: 1935, Anthony Bertram, The House: A Machine for Living In; a Summary of the Art and Science of Homemaking Considered Functionally:
text: Suppose that, initially, the barley-sugar aerials are twisted in such a sense that the polar diagram of each has its maximum north of the zenith.
ref: 1963, Radio Astronomy:
text: The barley-sugar columns, carved in spiral channels with alternating bands of vine ornament, exist to this day though moved from their original site.
ref: 1988, Robert Milburn, Early Christian Art and Architecture, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: So they left the remains of Fosdyke and walked across the road and through the old church, restored in the eighteenth century, which had barley-sugar pillars and theatrical red curtains backlit by the sun.
ref: 2008, John Mortimer, Summer's Lease, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: Kate's living room was simply furnished with a large damask-covered sofa that had seen better days, a folding table with barley sugar legs and a couple of upright chairs.
ref: 2012, Jane Beck, For Better For Worse, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: Twisted helically.
Synonyms: sense: twisted helically
word: Solomonic
megatheriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatherium
Beds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bedfordshire.
raw_tags: in postal addresses
Derived terms: Mid Beds
alveolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveolations
Etymology: From alveolus + -ation.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An eroded structure of honeycomb-like cavities
trophus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophi
Etymology: From Latin trophus, from Ancient Greek τροφός (trophós, “feeder”).
Senses: glosses: Mouthpart of certain types of organism such as an insect or a member of the Rotifera.
tuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tug + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And while tuggy is the game of choice at work, Nanouk likes playing with plastic bottles filled with treats when she is off the clock.
ref: 2013, Maria Alomajan, Dogs in Action: Working Dogs and Their Stories, page 73:
glosses: A game played by a person with a dog, in which they both take hold of a toy or other object and attempt to pull it away from the other.
Related terms: tug of war
tuggie
unspontaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + spontaneity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being spontaneous.
Virchowian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Virchow + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German scientist, writer, and politician, known for his advancement of public health.
Virchow's triad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Rudolf Virchow.
Senses: glosses: The set of three factors that precipitate venous thrombus formation: endothelial dysfunction or injury, hemodynamic changes, and hypercoagulability.
wikipedia: Rudolf Virchow
Virchow's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Rudolf Virchow.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of leontiasis ossea (now recognized as a symptom rather than a disease)
synonyms: word: leontiasis ossea
extra: now recognized as a symptom rather than a disease
wikipedia: Rudolf Virchow
Virchow's line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Rudolf Virchow.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A line from the root of the nose to the lambda.
wikipedia: Rudolf Virchow
Virchow's cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virchow's cells
Etymology: After Rudolf Virchow.
Senses: glosses: A macrophage in Hansen's disease.
wikipedia: Rudolf Virchow
Virchow's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Rudolf Virchow.
Senses: glosses: The observation that, during craniosynostosis, skull growth is restricted to a plane perpendicular to the affected, prematurely fused suture and is enhanced in a plane parallel to it.
wikipedia: Rudolf Virchow
Virchow-Seckel syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Seckel syndrome.
synonyms: word: Seckel syndrome
Seckel syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Helmut Paul George Seckel (1900–1960), American physician.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Microcephalic primordial dwarfism, a congenital nanosomic disorder characterized by intrauterine growth retardation and postnatal dwarfism with a small head, narrow birdlike face, and intellectual disability.
nanosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nanosome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nanosomes.
soft tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft ticks
Senses: glosses: Any tick in the family Argasidae, differing from the so-called hard ticks in several respects, in particular in that they lack a defensive hard shield (or scutum) on the body.
soft ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft tick
cyberfriendship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberfriendships
Etymology: From cyber- + friendship.
Senses: glosses: A friendship based on communication through the Internet or cyberspace.
cyberfriendships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberfriendship