cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
webdev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webdevs
Senses: examples: text: iPhoneWebDev […] The authors’ own site, complete with examples and webdev discussion list
ref: 2009, Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline, iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development, Greenwich, Conn.: Manning Publications Co., →ISBN, page 427:
text: Thinking of our data visualizations in terms of SPAs removes a lot of the cognitive overhead from the webdev aspect of JavaScript visualizations, allowing us to focus on programming challenges.
ref: 2016, Kyran Dale, Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript: Scrape, Clean, Explore & Transform Your Data, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 88:
text: The goal of Rick Clicker 2000 is to click and remove all the Rick Astleys from the page as quickly as possible. If you have webdev experience, you probably already see how this will work: it’s some images with a click event handler.
ref: 2018, Earle Castledine, HTML5 Games: Novice to Ninja: Create Smash Hit Games in HTML5, SitePoint Pty. Ltd., →ISBN:
text: Steph has well over a decade of webdev experience that she enjoys sharing as an author, egghead and workshop instructor, podcast host, Twitch streamer, and conference speaker.
ref: 2023, Stephanie Eckles, Unleashing the Power of CSS: Advanced Techniques for Responsive User Interfaces, SitePoint Pty. Ltd., →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of web dev.
Web development.
examples: text: $conn = OCILogon($thisDBuser, $thisDBpassword, $thisDB) or die ("Can't get a database connection. Whine at a webdev.");
ref: 2002, Tim Converse, Joyce Park, PHP Bible, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 418:
text: However, MySQL 4 has introduced some innovations and changes, both on the database side and the PHP side. Both new and experienced webdevs should take the time to familiarize themselves with these changes.
ref: 2004, Tim Converse, Joyce Park, with Clark Morgan, PHP5 and MySQL® Bible, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 260:
text: Any #LDNOnt webdevs interested in volunteering a little time for the Food Bank to help put some mobile sexiness on their WordPress site?
ref: 2011 December 9, @rtraction, quotee, “Local tweets”, in Metro, London edition, page 12:
text: ‘It’s true, I am not the only one to have raised it, and you have confirmed the allegation to me personally. The problem is that this open use of, umm, steroid drugs raises problems for the image and the professional relations of the company. What do you think our clients think when they meet a webdev who is so . . .’ - Piotr couldn’t find the word but substituted for it a mime of puffing out his cheeks and spreading his shoulders.
ref: 2018, Matthew Sperling, Astroturf, London: riverrun, Quercus Editions Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of web dev.
A web developer.
web devs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web dev
unscissors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unscissor
unscissoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unscissor
Messis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Messi
5W1Hs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 5W1H
beneath contempt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Extremely contemptible.
strong arm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strong-arm.
in embryo
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: under development; not yet complete
civil-rights movements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil-rights movement
tune down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tunes down
form: tuning down
form: tuned down
form: tuned down
Senses: examples: text: Tune down the guitar a bit, you're slightly sharp.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To tune an instrument by decreasing its pitch
in suspense
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of on tenterhooks.
synonyms: word: on tenterhooks
in abeyance
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: His defences were all in his wits and cunning, his very instincts of cunning, and when these were in abeyance he seemed doubly naked and like a child, of unfinished, tender flesh, and somehow struggling helplessly.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: Then I hereby declare this treaty in abeyance.
ref: 1989, Melinda M. Snodgrass, “The Ensigns of Command”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart):
glosses: On hold; at a moment of inactivity.
laminated glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of safety glass consisting of two or more panes of glass with one or more thin polymer interlayers between them which prevent the glass from breaking into large sharp pieces.
deep-dye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep-dyes
form: deep-dyeing
form: deep-dyed
form: deep-dyed
Senses: glosses: To dye thoroughly; to put through thorough dying.
in the ascendant
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Towards the end of the session of 1836, the hopes of the Conservative party were again in the ascendant.
ref: 1844, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter V, in Coningsby; or, The New Generation. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 47:
text: [T]hose poets, […] by enriching the common language and by circulating from to town to town either in person or in their compositions, contributed to fan the flame of Pan-Hellenic patriotism at a time when there were few circumstances to co-operate with them, and when the causes tending to perpetuate isolation seemed in the ascendant.
ref: 1847, George Grote, “Lyric Poetry—The Seven Wise Men”, in History of Greece, volume IV, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part II (Continuation of Historical Greece), page 136:
glosses: Becoming more popular, powerful, or relevant; on the rise.
unnodding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not nodding one's head
free lance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freelance.
free lance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free lances
Senses: examples: text: […] there are always some "free lances" who are ready to do a "cutting" trade, and thus become formidable competitors.
ref: 1889, Brewers' Guardian, volume 19, page 159:
glosses: Archaic form of freelance.
in accord
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in agreement
out-group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-groups
Senses: examples: text: In-group bias, sometimes called in-group favoritism or in-group preference, means someone favoring people who look like them or are like them in other ways: in-group versus out-group preferences.
ref: 2020 June 6, Lisa Selin Davis, “Children aren’t born racist. Here’s how parents can stop them from becoming racist.”, in CNN, spoken by Sarah Gaither:
glosses: Alternative form of outgroup.
out-groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of out-group
crosses moline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross moline
patient as Job
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely patient.
ugly customer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ugly customers
Senses: glosses: Someone or something unwelcome or unpleasant.
ugly customers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ugly customer
be at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She is at Jim's house.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To be located in (a place).
examples: text: Hey bro, where are you at?
text: “Yeah, you check out. Vin says you cool, you cool. You got a ride, Mr. No-cell-phone-having-mufucka, or you short one a them too?”
 “I got a ride.”
“A'ight, where you be at?”
“Fairfax. You?”
“Don't worry where I be at, fool. I'm rolling[…]”
ref: 2011, Trevor O. Munson, Angel of Vengeance:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To be located at (in, near, or in the vicinity of).
Related terms: where it's at
put in writing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts in writing
form: putting in writing
form: put in writing
form: put in writing
Senses: glosses: To write down; to put into words
very important people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of very important person
A2M
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATM
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of ass to mouth.
coop in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coops in
form: cooping in
form: cooped in
form: cooped in
Senses: examples: text: coop in the chickens
glosses: To put into a coop
examples: text: We were cooped in because of the snowstorm.
glosses: To keep from leaving a house or other building.
stand over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands over
form: standing over
form: stood over
form: stood over
Senses: examples: text: It feels like my boss is standing over me.
glosses: To be very watchful of.
in plenty
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in abundance; aplenty; plentiful
comedy drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedy dramas
Senses: synonyms: dramedy
glosses: A genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.
comedy dramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comedy drama
suck dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks dry
form: sucking dry
form: sucked dry
form: sucked dry
Senses: glosses: To exhaust all the resources of someone or something.
nasal discharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal discharges
Senses: synonyms: word: snot
glosses: mucus discharged from the nose
scro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skroʊ/
Forms: form: scros
Etymology: Clipping of scrotum. Compare bro.
Senses: glosses: Scrotum.
examples: text: Yo, you seen Bobby? That scro still owes me ten bucks.
glosses: A disreputable or untrustworthy male acquaintance (both metaphorically and metonymically).
Mexican snowball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican snowballs
Senses: glosses: Echeveria elegans, a succulent plant.
O/W
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O/Ws
Senses: examples: text: WENDELL REYNOLDS then mounted the rostrum and made the audience there and then write down all their O/Ws (overts and withholds, or sins to use religious terminology).
ref: 1986, Stewart Lamont, Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology, →ISBN, page 100:
text: In confessional rituals, a parishioner must declare his O/Ws -- "overts and withholds" -- immoral acts that include harmful, undisclosed transgressions against Scientology.
ref: 1998 December 6, Richard Lei, “The Life & Death of a Scientologist”, in The Washington Post:
text: These courses were introductions, respectively, to […] O/W (Overt/Withhold) Write-Ups, and cycles of action (start, change, stop).
ref: 2017, Donald A. Westbrook, “Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions”, in James R. Lewis, Kjersti Hellesøy, editors, Handbook of Scientology, →ISBN, page 24, note 5:
text: The nature of the O/W was not really important at that time, only that I felt guilt.
ref: 2022, Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of overt/withhold.
O/Ws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of O/W
overts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overt
default judgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: default judgments
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of default judgement.
portemanteaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portemanteau
flint-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flint-eyed
form: most flint-eyed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steely-eyed.
synonyms: word: steely-eyed
Related terms: flint-hearted
carpet-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet-bags
Senses: examples: text: The Native had previously packed, in all possible and impossible parts of Mr. Dombey’s chariot, which was in waiting, an unusual quantity of carpet-bags and small portmanteaus, […]
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Mr. Dombey goes upon a Journey”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 197:
text: […] the train arrived, the train sped on, the London lights came in view—a gentleman who forgot his carpet-bag in the train rushed at a cab, and said to the man, “Drive as hard as you can go to Jermyn Street.”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Chapter of Match-making”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 346:
text: From the carpet-bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Archaic form of carpetbag.
carpet-bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpet-bag
dickliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dickly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being dickly.
Related terms: prickliness
heat day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat days
Senses: coordinate_terms: snow day
glosses: A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to a bad heat wave or exceedingly hot temperatures
heat days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heat day
Blessington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in County Wicklow, Ireland (Irish grid ref N9714).
glosses: A community in Tyendinaga township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in the City of Launceston and Northern Midlands council area, Tasmania, Australia, named after Countess Blessington.
glosses: A surname.
Bernedoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜɹnəˌdudəl/
Forms: form: Bernedoodles
Etymology: Blend of Bernese mountain dog + poodle.
Senses: glosses: A dog that is a cross between a Bernese mountain dog and a poodle.
Fortescues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fortescue
statusmaxx
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: statusmaxxes
form: statusmaxxing
form: statusmaxxed
form: statusmaxxed
form: statusmax
Etymology: From status + -maxx.
Senses: examples: text: They are encouraged in their culture to "looksmax" or "statusmax"; either, improve their attractiveness or make more money to attract women (Tolentino 2018).
ref: 2019, Brooke Collins, International Public Policy Review, volume 13, number 1, page 15, column 2:
text: The following expressions recur with particular frequency: "Looksmaxing" (the business of personal self-improvement and cosmetic surgery); "NEET" ("Not in education, employment, or training"); "LDAR" ("Lay Down and Rot"); "AWALT" ("All Women Are Like That"); "Roped" (to have committed suicide) "Statusmaxx" (to make more money); "Manlet" (a short incel); "Volcel" (voluntary celibate); "Marcels" (married incels); and "Fakecels" (those who falsely claim to be an incel).
ref: [2020 September 24, Simon Cottee, “Incel (E)motives: Resentment, Shame and Revenge”, in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, volume 44, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: To succeed in the dating game, other incels advise them to "looksmaxx" or "statusmaxx" – telling them how to improve their appearance or make money.
ref: 2021 August 18, “Inside incel forums: what happens in the darkest corners of the internet?”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2023:
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: To improve one's sexual market value by making money and increasing one's social status.
statusmaxxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of statusmaxx
statusmaxxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of statusmaxx
statusmaxxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of statusmaxx
Northern Midlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in central Tasmania, Australia; in full, Northern Midlands Council.
Related terms: Southern Midlands
up stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further up stairs
form: farther up stairs
form: furthest up stairs
form: farthest up stairs
Senses: examples: text: I ſtept up ſtairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, &c.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 176:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; […]
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:
text: “He’s in the dining-room, sir, along with mistress. I’ll show you up stairs, if you please.”
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 161:
text: Perhaps ’twas the state in which the poor lady lay up stairs that helped to make them excited and frightened.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How That Night Was Passed in the House by the Church-yard”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 137:
text: JUDY, (within) Well! what do you want, Mr. Punch? PUNCH. Come up stairs: I want you.
ref: 1870, John Payne Collier, The Tragical Comedy of Punch and Judy:
glosses: Archaic form of upstairs.
up-stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further up-stairs
form: farther up-stairs
form: furthest up-stairs
form: farthest up-stairs
Senses: examples: text: In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled up-stairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks in the shutters.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 42.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180:
text: So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visiter, and Makes a Call”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 78:
text: “Well, we must find out Mr. Frank’s address to-morrow, and you must write and tell him all about it,” said his wife, and taking up the jug of milk she had come to fetch, she went up-stairs. But the next minute she came flying down again. “John, run for the doctor directly,” she said; “that poor thing is dying, I do believe. Go up and call Molly,” she said as she went up-stairs again.
ref: [1872], [Emma Boultwood], “At Fernfield Hall”, in Maggie’s Message, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], page 55:
text: Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,—there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,—came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2:
glosses: Archaic form of upstairs.
be on one's bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is on one's bullshit
form: being on one's bullshit
form: was on one's bullshit
form: been on one's bullshit
Senses: examples: text: “Maybe we should’ve let him come?” Swan asked. / “Now you’re on your bullshit?” Tommy snapped.
ref: 2005, K’wan, Hoodlum: A Novel, →ISBN, page 227:
text: When I got in the house, Charity was on her bullshit, trying to question the fuck out of me, but a nigga wasn’t feeling that.
ref: 2019, Breana Morgen, When a Boss Has Your Heart 2, page 69:
text: Ade was always mad chill. And he wasn’t really in the streets like that, so Nick figured he could probably handle AK being on his bullshit without bugging out on him.
ref: 2022, Dana Asby, Christine Mason, “Nick at school”, in Akeen Nassor Marsh, Lara Jo Cox, editors, Not Just Bad Kids: The Adversity and Disruptive Behavior Link, →ISBN, page 382:
text: On Tuesday, Rep. Mary Bentley (R-Perryville), whom we thought had moved on to worrying about children identifying as house pets, was back on her bullshit.
ref: 2023 January 18, Austin Bailey, “Bullying of trans Arkansans/obsession with childrens’^([sic]) genitals continues at the Arkansas Capitol”, in Arkansas Times:
text: […] in a typically wry twist, a mid-credits scene of Brooke getting flooded with potential clients suggests the Dubeks will be back on their bullshit before long.
ref: 2023 June 29, Angie Han, “Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Other Two’ Finds Its Way Back to Love in a Hilarious, Bittersweet Finale”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
glosses: To behave in a characteristic, typically negative way.
is on one's bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be on one's bullshit
being on one's bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of be on one's bullshit
was on one's bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be on one's bullshit
been on one's bullshit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be on one's bullshit
fd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of friend.
frd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of friend.
book-case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-cases
Senses: examples: text: On one side of the room was a large coffer, whose carving was worn smooth and shining with time; and on the other was a cumbrous book-case, filled with large and silver-clasped tomes.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 205:
text: The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall book-cases, the cosy chairs, the globes, and, best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
ref: 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Burdens”, in Little Women: […], 1st part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC, pages 59–60:
text: “And I want a little book-case, papa,” she said; “a little one, you know, just for my favouritest books; for, of course, the most of my books will be down in the library.” So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match.
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: Archaic form of bookcase.
book-cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-case
guest-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest-rooms
Senses: examples: text: “About three hundred.” / “All staying in the house!” exclaimed Marguerite. “Oh! many guest-rooms have you?” / “Seventy-five. But then there is the armory; about a hundred manage to sleep there; they did at my marriage.”
ref: 1887, Kathleen O’Meara, chapter IV, in Narka, the Nihilist, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 37:
text: Marian’s room was done up in blue, as she had requested, and the other guest-room was furnished in yellow.
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 59:
text: Most hotels have a stated check-out time at which departing guests must vacate their rooms. In general, check-out time is between 10.00a.m. and noon. The information regarding this should be written on the key card, as well as stated in the information folder in the hotel guest-room.
ref: 2000, Sue Baker, Pam Bradley, Jeremy Huyton, Principles of Hotel Front Office Operations, 2nd edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: Alternative form of guest room.
guest-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guest-room
Diogenes syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of garbage or animals, and a lack of shame.
Related terms: compulsive hoarding
table-linen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table-linens
Senses: examples: text: It was a comfortable thing for a social pair of fellow-travellers to get out of their chaise at night-fall, and to find at the inn (it was then kept by a cousin of mine, a Mrs. Cotter), a roaring fire, in a clean, well-furnished parlour, the whitest table-linen, the best beef, the sweetest and tenderest mutton, the fattest fowl, the most excellent wines (claret and Madeira were the high wines then—they knew nothing about Champagne), and the most comfortable beds.
ref: 1848, William J[oseph] O’N[eill] Daunt, Personal Recollections of the Late Daniel O’Connell, M.P., volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 149:
text: Upwards of 300 persons are employed in weaving table-linens and table-covers, consisting of cotton and worsted, for Dunfermline, where they get their webs ready for the loom.
ref: 1857, M. Barbieri, A Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan, […], Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, […], page 105:
text: Her father insisted upon her undivided attention while Mrs. Elliott selected table-linen, bed-linen, towels, and other household fittings; […]
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: Archaic form of table linen.
table-linens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table-linen
night-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-falls
Senses: examples: text: It was a comfortable thing for a social pair of fellow-travellers to get out of their chaise at night-fall, and to find at the inn (it was then kept by a cousin of mine, a Mrs. Cotter), a roaring fire, in a clean, well-furnished parlour, the whitest table-linen, the best beef, the sweetest and tenderest mutton, the fattest fowl, the most excellent wines (claret and Madeira were the high wines then—they knew nothing about Champagne), and the most comfortable beds.
ref: 1848, William J[oseph] O’N[eill] Daunt, Personal Recollections of the Late Daniel O’Connell, M.P., volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 149:
text: Full many a score that lone maid counted o’er
Of day-dawns and night-falls—a year to the day—
ref: 1850 May, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “Welcome as Flowers in May”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 35, number 209, page 557:
text: Then he set meat and drink before me; and I ate and drank and he with me; and we conversed freely till night-fall, when he cleared me a place in a corner of his shop and brought me a carpet and a coverlet.
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Second Kalandar’s Tale. [Night 12.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: Archaic form of nightfall.
night-falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night-fall
anticobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + cobalt.
Senses: examples: text: It is believed that the same experiment with anticobalt nuclei would have the exact opposite result.
ref: 1996, Robert Ehrlich (physicist), What If You Could Unscramble an Egg?, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Of course, we have not been able to test the validity of the CP conservation using anticobalt, although other experiments have been conducted to show that it is preserved to a high degree.
ref: 1991, G. D. Coughlan, J. E. Dodd, The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70:
text: For example, in the well-known Wu experiment arguing from the observed asymmetry of Co⁶⁰-decay electrons (without the experiments on anticobalt nuclei!) it followed that charge parity was not conserved.
ref: 2013 [1965], Lev Okun, Weak Interaction in Elementary Particles: International Series of Monographs in Natural Philosophy, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, page 46:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiatom form of cobalt.
larding-needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larding-needles
Senses: examples: text: “And we must get a rolling-pin,” she cried, “for I shall make pumpkin pies every day. Oh, and I want a farina-kettle and a colander, and a bain-marie, and a larding-needle, and a syllabub-churn.”
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 62:
text: These strips are called lardons, and are inserted either by making an incision in the surface and laying the lardon in the slashing or by the use of a larding-needle.
ref: 1941 May 29, “Hints For Brides”, in The Honolulu Advertiser, 85th year, number 19,572, page twenty-one, column 5:
text: Scissors, kitchen needles, larding-needles, and skewers have special functions.
ref: 1960 June 23, Joseph Donon, “Noted French chef offers a guide to gourmet dining”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 262, number 175, Triangle Publications, Inc., page 30:
text: “A stitch in time saves nine” came about when a suburban football team ate a barded joint of gammon (for high tea) in which the practitioner had regrettably left two larding-needles.
ref: 1987, Punch, volume 292, page 40:
glosses: Dated form of larding needle.
larding-needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larding-needle
larding needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larding needle
West Bedlington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, England.
Related terms: english: civil parish
translation: civil parish
word: East Bedlington
labour-saving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labour-saving
form: most labour-saving
Senses: examples: text: Not only kitchen utensils, but laundry fittings, and household furnishings generally; including patent labour-saving devices, and newly invented contrivances which were supposed to be of great aid to any housewife.
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 63:
text: […] potato-growing can evidently be more profitably followed by producers on a large scale, having all the advantages of labour-saving appliances, than by market-gardeners, allotment-holders, and other spade-workers on comparatively small line.
ref: 1906, Edwin A. Pratt, chapter 10, in The Transition in Agriculture, London: John Murray, page 116:
text: Thanks to the adoption by Amsterdam shipyards of standardized designs and labour-saving devices, the fluyt maximized carrying capacity and minimized cost.
ref: 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 97:
glosses: Alternative form of labor-saving.
dinner-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner-tables
Senses: examples: text: That would be bad enough, God knows! but what is it to finding yourself in an infernal "fix," at a dinner-table, with a literary quintagenarian at your elbow […]
ref: 1852, William Hamilton Maxwell, Highlands and Islands:
text: Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.
ref: 1882, James George Scott, The Burman: His Life and Notions, Ch. xxviii: "Nga-pee"
text: The conversation was taking place at the Elliotts’ dinner-table, and Uncle Charley looked up from his carving to say: […]
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Servants”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 64:
text: Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly produces fifty-two billions of descendants in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter exuding from sores, and gaum themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter […]
ref: c. 1908, Mark Twain, “Little Bessie”, in Mark Twain's Fables of Man, published 1972:
text: But whether she has a home with her parents or not, every normal woman longs for a home of her own, and a girl who resents even arranging the flowers on her mother’s dinner-table will after marriage cheerfully do quite distasteful housework in the place she calls her own.
ref: 1908, Maud Churton Braby, “Polygamy at the polite dinner-table”, in Modern Marriage and How to Bear It:
text: The stink-glands of many bugs are well known to most residents in India, whether by the characteristic odour of the common Bed-bug or by the disgusting taste in one's soup caused by a "gundy” which has been attracted by the lights on the dinner-table.
ref: 1914, Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, Some South Indian Insects and Other Animals of Importance Considered Especially from an Economic Point of View:
text: Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined.
ref: 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
text: In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room—a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls—the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, London: Grant Richards, page 46:
glosses: Archaic form of dinner table.
dinner-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner-table
Delray Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: You’re staying in Palm Beach or West Palm, or nearby areas such as Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach or Jupiter.
ref: 2020 January 7, Rebecca Wallwork, “Which South Florida airport should I fly into?”, in CNN:
glosses: A city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
trophy husbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophy husband
dining-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dining-table
gets one's ass into gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's ass into gear
getting one's ass into gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's ass into gear
got one's ass into gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get one's ass into gear
gotten one's ass into gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get one's ass into gear
gets one's ass in gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's ass in gear
getting one's ass in gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's ass in gear
got one's ass in gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get one's ass in gear
gotten one's ass in gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get one's ass in gear
side table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side tables
form: side-table
form: sidetable
Senses: examples: text: Upon the infinitely wise countrywoman’s suggestion, she goose-penned, from the edge of her bed, on a side table with cabriole legs, a love letter and took five minutes to reread it in a languorous but loud voice […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 15:
text: For his own soiree, Kane went for somewhat more conventional decorations: on a side table, Apothia candles glimmered like fireflies, guarding a taxidermied owl, while masses of delphiniums, hydrangeas, lilacs and old Dutch roses perfumed the air.
ref: 2008 May 4, Armand Limnander, “Chow, Darling”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:
text: Lachlan rose to fetch a coffee pot from the side table and idly Holly wondered how those legs coped with the unroominess of canoes.
ref: 2013, Janie Summers, A Fallen Star, page 18:
glosses: A small table intended to be placed beside a larger piece of furniture, such as a bed or sofa.
Hyponyms: bedside table
nightstand
night table
Coordinate terms: english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: end table
side-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side-table
sidetable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidetables
Senses: examples: text: There were cigarettes everywhere, in Persian boxes and Moroccan jars, silver boxes and pewter cases, on sidetables and sideboards, by the lavatory and by the bath, even on the dining table, […]
ref: 1993, Douglas Botting, Gavin Maxwell: A Life, Eland Publishing, published 2017, →ISBN, page 528:
text: We managed, after a few false starts, to cut and arrange the flowers in a magnificent spray on the stand, and put vases of flowers round to decorate the altar and sidetables.
ref: 1998, Annie Murray, Birmingham Blitz, London: Pan Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 298:
text: A new coffee table and sidetables with accompanying lamps finish the functional furniture requirements for the room. […] A potted fern, new sidetables and lamps elevate the look of the room.
ref: 2016, Darren Palmer, HomeSpace: Changing the Space You Have into the Home You Love, Sydney, N.S.W.; London: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, pages 77 and 86:
glosses: Alternative form of side table.
sidetables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidetable
side-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-tables
Senses: examples: text: The "Grand Carver" of olden times, a functionary of no ordinary dignity, was pleased when he had a hare to manipulate, for his skill and grace had an opportunity of display. Diners à la Russe may possibly, erewhile, save modern gentlemen the necessity of learning the art which was in auld lang syne one of the necessary accomplishments of the youthful squire; but, until side-tables become universal, or till we see the office of "grand carver" once more instituted, it will be well for all to learn how to assist at the carving of this dish, which, if not the most elegant in appearance, is a very general favourite.
ref: 1861, Isabella Beeton, “Recipes [Game]”, in The Book of Household Management; […], London: S[amuel] O[rchart] Beeton, […], →OCLC, paragraph 1056 (Roast Hare), page 539:
text: Small silver dishes of almonds, olives, and confectionery were dotted about, and finger-bowls with plates were set out on the side-table.
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “A Tea Club Tea”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 140–141:
text: THE makings were neatly laid out on a side-table, and to pour into a glass an inch or so of the raw spirit and shoosh some soda-water on top of it was with me the work of a moment. […] Somebody came in and started moving like a leopard toward the side-table and, lowering the feet, I perceived that it was Tuppy Glossop.
ref: 1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, pages 126–127:
glosses: Alternative form of side table.
side tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side table
Lentran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet west of Inverness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH5845).
work-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work-tables
Senses: examples: text: The little work-tables where feminine fingers are employed are also the playgrounds of the feminine imagination, and their needles become little magic wands, wherewith they transform their rooms into isles of spirits filled with dreams.
ref: 1884, Jean Paul Fred. Richter, edited by Giles P. Hawley, Wit, Wisdom, and Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, […], page 148:
text: So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match. “That’s very nice,” said Patty, with an air of satisfaction, “for, though I hate to sew, yet sometimes it must be done; and with that little work-table, I think I could sew even in an Indian wigwam!”
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 58–59:
text: He opened her work-table. A forgotten bit of needlework which she had overlooked in the hurry of leaving, remained.
ref: 1912, Margaret Blake, The Greater Joy: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, page 455:
glosses: Archaic form of worktable.
work-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work-table
Fordyce spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fordyce spots
form: Fordyce's spot
Etymology: Named after the American dermatologist John Addison Fordyce who described them in 1896.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A sebaceous gland which appears as a yellow-white bump on the skin, most commonly on the lips, cheeks, gums, or genitalia.
wikipedia: John Addison Fordyce
Synonyms: Fordyce granule
Fordyce's granule
Related terms: Fordyce disease
Fordyce's disease
Fordyce spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fordyce spot
hold a mirror up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds a mirror up to
form: holding a mirror up to
form: held a mirror up to
form: held a mirror up to
Senses: examples: text: To hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature.
ref: c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 2
text: There are so many times when someone needs to hold a mirror up to the face of the Church...
ref: 2017, Rev. David K. Fly, My Life Under the Big Top: Reflections of a Comic, Clown and Priest:
text: Just as the Sphinx presented a paradigm of self-reference to hold a mirror up to Oedipus, the myth of Oedipus also holds a mirror up to us as witnesses.
ref: 2018, Marcel Danesi, Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric, page 55:
text: Catherine used comedy to hold a mirror up to her people, to expose and therefore correct the problems of her society.
ref: 2017, Lurana Donnels O'Malley, The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia:
glosses: Alternative form of hold a mirror to.
mud-turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud-turtles
Senses: examples: text: The mud-turtle said to the horse: “Just as I get sound asleep you are sure to come past and wake me up. We always used to have a good quiet time down here in the swamp till you got in the habit of thumping along this way. I am conservative and like to keep in my shell. I have been pastor of thirteen other mud-turtles, and we always had peace till you came, and next week at our semi-annual meeting of mud-turtles we shall either have you voted a nuisance or will talk it over in private, eight or ten of us, which will probably be the more prudent way.” Then the mud-turtle’s shell went shut with a snap, at which the horse kicked up his heels as he turned to go up to the barn to be harnessed to a load of corn that was ready for the market.
ref: 1874, T[homas] De Witt Talmage, Around the Tea-Table, Philadelphia, Pa.: Cowperthwait & Company, pages 427–428:
text: The hog is certainly a hog the world over, and, as also natural history teaches, it is certainly a land animal. Here at any rate it is looked at and treated as such, while the treatment it generally receives in the United States would incline one more to believe that it is amphibious and to belong at least to the species of mud-turtles; […]
ref: 1886 April, United States Consular Reports. Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce, Manufactures, etc., of Their Consular Districts., number 63, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 193:
text: “[…] I don’t believe it will ever be done!” “I don’t either,” said Marian; “those men work as slow as mud-turtles.” The conversation was taking place at the Elliotts’ dinner-table, and Uncle Charley looked up from his carving to say: “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the slower the mud-turtles are, the longer we shall have our guests with us.[…]”
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Servants”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: Archaic form of mud turtle.
mud-turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud-turtle
bnuuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /b(ə)ˈnuː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: bnuuies
form: bnuuys
Etymology: Popularised during mid-2020; Know Your Meme tracks the usage of the term to an image posted to Reddit on 29 May 2020.
Senses: examples: text: fucking bnuuy who gave you the right to be as cute as your owner [followed by a photograph of a black bunny]
ref: 2021 April 6, PistachioInANut, Twitter:
text: Selen's bnuuy ears just being her wings lmao
Also Enna with the floppy ears is so cute wtf
ref: 2022 December 29, razzydazzys, Twitter:
text: Bnuuys are cute, people should hug them more
ref: 2023 December 5, LazyEternity, Twitter:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of bunny.
wikipedia: Know Your Meme
Related terms: english: fox
translation: fox
word: fops
bnuuys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bnuuy
chupalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chupalla.
Senses: glosses: Fascicularia bicolor, a Chilean bromeliad.