cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pork steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pork steaks
form: porksteak
Senses: examples: text: “Well, now, this ain’t none of them newfangled things, but just the beautifullest slice of pork steak you ever set eyes on.”
ref: 1892, Lillie Devereux Blake, A Daring Experiment and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Lovell, Coryell & Company, […], page 109:
text: When the pork steak is nicely browned on both sides and nearly done, add the mixture to the skillet and flip the steak to coat.
ref: 2018, Dana Carpender, 500 Ketogenic Recipes: Hundreds of Easy and Delicious Recipes for Losing Weight, Improving Your Health, and Staying in the Ketogenic Zone, Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 193:
text: Leo has a soft spot in that belly of his for my barbecued pork steaks.
ref: 2021, John Manion, Murder in St. Charles, Page Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A steak cut from (usually the shoulder of) a pig.
Hyponyms: Boston butt
pork steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pork steak
porksteak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porksteaks
Senses: examples: text: There was a choice of beefsteak and porksteak, fried oysters, and ham and eggs, with tea or coffee, Philadelphia ale and lager beer.
ref: 1880, G[eorge] A[ugustus] Sala (London Telegraph), “Travel in England Contrasted with Travel in America”, in The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine, page 150, column 1:
text: Master Dignam walked along Nassau street, shifted the porksteaks to his other hand.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 241:
text: ‘Will we buy a bit of porksteak for the dinner?’ she’d said, looking at the porksteak on the counter. She had felt the absence of his reply and glanced up quickly: his eyes were fixed on a girl who was cutting cheese, […] ‘Will we have porksteak for the dinner?’ she had said more loudly to him, pulling at his sleeve, and he had turned to her, smiling, saying that porksteak would be lovely.
ref: 1969, William Trevor, Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill's Hotel, The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 57:
text: It was universally accepted even amongst the most extreme heretics and schismatics that under no circumstances was the eating of porksteak to be countenanced on Fridays or on any other days of fast and abstinence.
ref: 1980, John B[rendan] Keane, Stories from a Kerry Fireside, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of pork steak.
porksteaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porksteak
bish-bash-bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bish bash bosh.
have down as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has down as
form: having down as
form: had down as
form: had down as
Senses: examples: text: Nielsen’s (admittedly questionable) streaming ratings had it down as the most streamed TV series ever, reviews had ticked cautiously upwards, social media was abuzz with takes and memes and the like.
ref: 2022 July 8, Gwilym Mumford, “The Guide #42: Is Stranger Things the biggest show on TV? It depends …”, in The Guardian:
text: “I first saw him play in 2019 at the European Under-16 championships,” says Jason Filippi, a Europe-based scout who has worked for several NBA teams. “He was 15 at the time, but he caught everyone’s eye. Every colleague of mine at this event had him down as the No 1 prospect.”
ref: 2022 October 6, Ryan Baldi, “Victor Wembanyama: the 7ft 4in ‘once-in-a-millennium’ prodigy coming to the NBA”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: put down as
glosses: To have a particular view or opinion about (someone or something); to judge or describe (someone or something) as having a particular character or feature.
hyperanalyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperanalyzes
form: hyperanalyzing
form: hyperanalyzed
form: hyperanalyzed
form: hyper-analyze
form: hyperanalyse
form: hyper-analyse
Senses: examples: text: In his former practice, he recalls, some patients would bring in spreadsheets of their daily bathroom-scale weights—hyperanalyzing every minor fluctuation and developing odd beliefs and superstitions about what caused weight loss, when in fact the changes in the body’s composition of water, fat, and muscle were all at play.
ref: 2017 January 18, James Hamblin, “Why It May Be Counterproductive to Say 'Overweight'”, in The Atlantic:
text: After social media went wild hyper-analyzing a video (and a second, third and fourth angle) that made it seem like Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine during the premiere of Don’t Worry Darling over the weekend, a rep for Pine has finally officially denied the allegations.
ref: 2022 September 6, Tomás Mier, “Harry Styles ‘Did Not’ Spit on Chris Pine: Rep Calls #SpitGate a ‘Ridiculous Story’”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: To analyze excessively; to overanalyze.
Butterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0756).
glosses: A small village in Whitmore parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8342).
eat like an animal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats like an animal
form: eating like an animal
form: ate like an animal
form: eaten like an animal
Senses: examples: text: You eat like an animal!
antonyms: eat like a bird
troponyms: eat like a pig
wolf#Verb
wolf down#Verb
coordinate_terms: eat like a horse
qualifier: simile
glosses: To eat large amounts of food, especially when in a greedy and sloppy manner.
Dejerine-Sottas disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Desribed by French neurologists Joseph Jules Dejerine (1849–1917) and Jules Sottas (1866–1945).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hereditary neurological disorder, caused by mutations in various genes, characterized by damage to the peripheral nerves and resulting in progressive muscle wasting.
wikipedia: Joseph Jules Dejerine
Jules Sottas
collects dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collect dust
collected dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collect dust
Dejerine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dejerine.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Dejerine-Klumpke palsy
Dejerine-Roussy syndrome
Dejerine-Sottas disease
Dejerine syndrome
-Tok
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-ˌtɒk/
ipa: /-ˌtɑk/
Forms: form: -tok
Etymology: Clipping of TikTok.
Senses: examples: text: Luckily, TikTok – more specifically, ‘QueerTok’, stepped in to provide a little bit of joy and education while we were stuck inside. A quick scroll through QueerTok will offer you an abundance of all things digital bisexual culture.
ref: 2021 September 22, Alice Broster, “How 'QueerTok' is helping bisexual people overcome internalised biphobia”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: It’s difficult to find content on TikTok, the short-form video platform, that romanticises personal sacrifice in the name of work. / Instead, “CorporateTok” — a genre that’s loosely organised around hashtags like “corporate” or “work” — showcases young employees who are critical of traditional workplace norms.
ref: 2022 June 29, Isabel Berwick, Sophia Smith, “The rise of the ‘slow work’ movement”, in Financial Times:
text: People on TikTok can scroll past them, but the integrated nature means sponsored posts aren’t immediately registered as such. And for TikTok’s dedicated film-loving community, aka #FilmTok, trailers already pose an interest, with some members co-creating content that shares their reactions to new trailers.
ref: 2022 November 28, Annie Lyons, “TikTok’s Showtimes Ad Feature Aims to Accelerate Box-Office Sales”, in Variety:
text: WellnessTok has done it again. After convincing people to shampoo once monthly and tan with nasal spray, it now has users asking: Is sunscreen bad for you?
ref: 2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour:
text: Want to smell like a straight-up snack on a budget? Try out one of #PerfumeTok's favorite scents with notes of milk chocolate, creamy vanilla, and soft musks.
ref: 2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
coordinate_terms: -blr
-sky
-Tube
-twt
glosses: Combined with a noun or adjective for a specific community of users or a genre of videos on the social media platform TikTok.
escrupulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escrupulos
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish escrúpulo, from Latin scrūpulus (“scruple, nagging doubt, ¹⁄₂₄ uncia”), from scrūpus (“sharp stone, anxiety”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). Doublet of scruple and escropulo.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 1.2 g and chiefly used for medicines.
Synonyms: word: Spanish scruple
english: Spanish contexts
translation: Spanish contexts
word: scruple
Coordinate terms: word: grano (1
word: 24 escrupulo)
alt: ½ escrupulo
word: tomin
word: adarme (1½ escrupulo)
word: ochava (3 escrupulo)
word: castellano (6 escrupulo)
word: onza (24 escrupulo)
escrupulos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escrupulo
Tiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tiff
Tiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tiff
TIRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TIR
tkts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tkt
TLEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TLE
TIPSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TIPS
ToDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ToD
TOMPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TOMP
TORFLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TORFL
TOTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TOT
Grindon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Grindon and Thorpe Thewles parish, Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ3925).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Duddo parish, northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9144).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0854).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A western suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3555).
glosses: A surname.
virtùous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virtùous
form: most virtùous
form: virtù-ous
Etymology: From virtù + -ous, after virtuous.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, in his virtù'''ous retelling of the David and Goliath story, Machiavelli equips David with a knife as well as a sling: one’s own good arms replace divine favor.
ref: 1995, Diana Schaub, Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Virtue, Machiavelli instructed, was possible only when it was enclosed, but even within the virtù'''ous state its quantity was finite.
ref: 2004, Scott G. Nelson, “Sovereignty, ethics, community”, in Philosophy & Social Criticism, volume 30, number 7, →DOI, page 820:
text: Think, for instance, of the various actualisations of the model-image of the Knight. They share the function of putting forth a claim about virtùous political conduct. This necessarily involves selection from among possible ways of conceiving of virtù.
ref: 2007, Anni Kangas, The Knight, the Beast and the Treasure: A Semeiotic Inquiry into the Finnish Political Imaginary on Russia, 1918–1930s (Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1283), University of Tampere, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 73:
text: We concluded at the end of Chapter 3 that the Mercurial or Herculean French king ruled over the fickle multitude by eloquence, but this woodcut might have suggested that not only “virtuous” eloquence but also “virtùous” eloquence with cunning and deceit, whose significance Machiavelli explored in his works, was needed to govern the people.
ref: 2013 October, Takashi Nishi, The Representations of Hercules and Hydra in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, page 196:
text: The next year, at the 72nd Annual National Conference, we presented a paper which contrasted the moral positions found in The Prince and Breaking Bad, titled “Breaking Bad’s Walter White: A Virtùous Man Who Lacked Virtue.”
ref: 2015, Eric T. Kasper, Troy Kozma, “Acknowledgments”, in Machiavelli Goes to the Movies: Understanding The Prince through Television and Film, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page ix:
glosses: Involving the cleverness and understanding to accomplish one's goals.
Tosefos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tosafot.
Duddo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in northern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT9342).
cuarteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuarterons
form: cuarterón
Etymology: From Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -ón (forming related nouns). Doublet of quadroon.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 115 g.
Synonyms: word: panilla
english: Spanish contexts
translation: Spanish contexts
word: Spanish quarter-pound
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of mass
alt: ¼ cuarterón
word: onza
sense: unit of mass
word: marco (2 cuarterons)
sense: unit of mass
word: libra (4 cuarterons)
cuarterons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuarteron
panilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panillas
Etymology: From Spanish panilla, from Latin panellus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cuarteron, a Spanish quarter-pound.
synonyms: word: cuarteron
extra: a Spanish quarter-pound
panillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panilla
Grindon and Thorpe Thewles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham, England.
Seyed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Iranian Persian سید (seyyed), from Classical Persian سَیِّد (sayyid), from Arabic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
Seyed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seyeds
Etymology: Borrowed from Iranian Persian سید (seyyed), from Classical Persian سَیِّد (sayyid), from Arabic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sayyid.
Thorpe Thewles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Grindon and Thorpe Thewles parish, Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4023).
Cushingoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cushingoid
form: most Cushingoid
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of cushingoid.
inter-individual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interindividual.
expection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expections
Etymology: From expect + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Such curtesies are reall, which flow cheerefully / Without an expection of requitall.
ref: 1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart […], folios 70ᵛ–71ʳ:
text: A great Number of Types, Prefigurations and Prophecies […] all of them so pointing one way, as to beget in the whole Nation of the Jews, an Expection of the coming of a Messiah; […]
ref: a. 1741, Edward Synge, Religion Tryed by the Test of Sober and Impartial Reason, 3rd edition, published 1761, page 58:
text: It is ridiculous […] to expect a duty to be performed for a fee established nearly four hundred years ago! The unreasonableness of such an expection justifies, in a certain degree, the discretional claims of the officer; […]
ref: 1808, Richard Phillips, A Letter to the Livery of London, Relative to the Views of the Writer in Executing the Office of Sheriff, 2nd edition, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of expectation.
glosses: Misspelling of exception.
give someone the time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the time
form: giving someone the time
form: gave someone the time
form: given someone the time
Senses: examples: text: I don’t think he gave that girl the time that night—but damn near. Damn near.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 64:
synonyms: word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
Related terms: give someone time
give the time of day
have the time of one's life
hot-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-shots
Senses: examples: text: He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all, […]
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hotshot.
necromantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necromantists
Etymology: From Latin necromantīa + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I told him, that at a Noble-mans Table, There was, of great account, who ſaid, that there was an Engliſh man, come to the Emperours, A bankrupt Alchimiſt, a Conjurer, and Necromantiſt: who had ſold his own goods, and given the Lord Laſkie the money: and that he had beguiled him: and that now he would fain get ſome of the Emperour his money from him, &c.
ref: 1584 September 27, John Dee, “Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus, Caesareusque, Anno 1584. Stylo Novo.”, in A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dʳ. John Dee (a Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. And King James Their Reignes) and Some Spirits: Tending (Had It Succeeded) to a General Alteration of Most States and Kingdomes in the World. […], London: […] D. Maxwell, for T. Garthwait, […], published 1659, page 247:
text: So much for the Ninth term of deſcription of a Witch in the text, a Necromantiſt, one that aſketh counſel of the dead.
ref: 1655, Thomas Ady, A Candle in the Dark: Shewing the Divine Cause of the Distractions of the Whole Nation of England, and of the Christian World. […], London: […] Robert Ibb’tson […], page 85:
text: The necromantist professed to hear voices from graves, and to bring back tidings from the bosom of hell.
ref: 1858 April, “The Worshippers of Mercury; or, Paracelsus and His Brother Alchymists. Part II.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume LI, number CCCIV, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., […]; London: Hurst & Blackett, page 427, column 2:
text: She shrank close against the wall, wondering who could be in her mother’s shrine, fearing tomb robbers, necromantists.
ref: 1996, Sarah Ash, Songspinners, London: Millennium, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Synonym of necromancer.
synonyms: word: necromancer
necromantists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necromantist
chicken-and-egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chicken and egg.
chicken or egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The dynamically naive would be worrying about the "chicken or egg" of this causal process.
ref: 1993, Nordal Åkerman, editor, The Necessity of Friction, Physica-Verlag, →ISBN, page 287:
text: What is suggestive about both positions, for present purposes, is that modernism and the avant-garde are understood as belonging to a common history of supersession. The differences between them consist not in the sequencing itself, so much as in the evaluation respectively of the chicken or egg of modernism and the avant-garde (or the reverse) in a continuous process of renewal and stability.
ref: 2013, Peter Brooker, “General Introduction: Modernity, Modernisms, Magazines”, in Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, Christian Weikop, editors, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volumes III (Europe, 1880–1940), part I, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: This is likely a recursive, two-way relationship—the “chicken or egg” of institutions and development referred to previously.
ref: 2016, Paavo Monkkonen, Lucas Ronconi, “Comparative Evidence on Urban Land-Use Regulation Bureaucracy in Developing Countries”, in Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj, Susan M. Wachter, editors, Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, part I (Comparative Perspectives), page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of chicken and egg.
fruitagée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 5 Cross, fruitagée. 6 Cross, catoosed. 7 Cross, double avellaney, or Cross mascle fruitagée.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
text: Cross double fruitagée, or a mascle with four fruitages, or Cross with demi fleurs-de-lis on each side, the bottoms to avellanes, joined to the points thereof in cross. 5, fig. 19.
ref: 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 14:
text: (R. 6, 6. c. fruitagée – the grapes proper);
ref: 1849, Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd, Die Hauptstücke der Wappenwissenschaft ... mit vielen Beispielen und Abbildungen erläutert, page 265:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: fructed
in fruit
fruited
qualifier: rather than a plant
glosses: Bearing fruitages.
raw_tags: of a cross
Related terms: frugiferent
sarcele
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The fielde Or, a cross Sarcele Geules.
ref: 1562 Legh Armory 59
text: 1572 Bossewell Armorie II. 25 b,
Gules, on a Crosse Sarcele D'or, fiue mollettes of the firste.
text: Sarcele Cross [=infra 14 Recercile].
ref: 1661, Morgan, Sphere of Gentry, II. 9
text: Cross sarcele, sarcell, or sarcelle, is a cross voided, or, as it were, sawed apart.
ref: 1828-40, Berry, Encycl. Her. I
text: Gu. a cross sarcele ar.
ref: 1904, Roger Dodsworth, Yorkshire Church Notes, 1619-1631, page 103:
glosses: Alternative form of sarcelly, sarcelé (“(of a cross:) having its end terminate in forked tips which curl around; (of a cross:) voided and with the ends left open”).
Nesscliffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Great Ness parish, north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3819).
bath sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath sheets
Senses: glosses: A large bath towel.
bath sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath sheet
ereba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Belizean cassava bread.
show towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show towels
Senses: glosses: An ornamental towel used mainly for decoration rather than for drying.
show towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of show towel
golf towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf towels
Senses: glosses: A towel for drying a golfer's hands, clubs, and golf balls, often with a loop or clip to attach to a golf bag.
golf towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf towel
expections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expection
riskings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risking
rainbow slaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow slaws
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rainbow coleslaw.
synonyms: word: rainbow coleslaw
rainbow slaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow slaw
rainbow coleslaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow coleslaws
Senses: synonyms: word: rainbow slaw
glosses: Coleslaw made with a colourful mixture of vegetables.
rainbow coleslaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow coleslaw
ill doers are ill deemers
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Bad people expect others to behave badly.
cybernoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + noir.
Senses: glosses: Film noir with cyberpunk themes.
Bonggo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in Bonggo District, Sarmi Regency on the north coast of Papua province, Indonesia.
Related terms: Bongo
bring with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings with
form: bringing with
form: brought with
form: brought with
Etymology: From a substrate of Germanic immigrant languages to the Midwest that feature the same construction. Compare German mitbringen, Norwegian Bokmål medbringe, and Danish medbringe.
Senses: examples: text: I forgot to bring a sleeping bag (with me).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, with.
examples: text: "Can my friend come along?" ― "Yeah, you can bring her with."
qualifier: Upper Midwestern US
glosses: to bring someone or something along
suck one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks one's teeth
form: sucking one's teeth
form: sucked one's teeth
form: sucked one's teeth
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steups.
synonyms: word: steups
kiss one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses one's teeth
form: kissing one's teeth
form: kissed one's teeth
form: kissed one's teeth
Senses: examples: text: Don't kiss your teeth at me.
glosses: Synonym of steups.
synonyms: word: steups
Derived terms: kmt
KMT
nonclickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + clickable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unclickable
synonyms: word: unclickable
monstrous agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by linguist Sandhya Sundaresan in 2011.
Senses: examples: text: Why can’t we analyze them as quotation (full or partial/mixed)? Because grammatical dependencies cannot cross quotation marks, whereas in monstrous agreement they do.
ref: 2020, Rahul Balusu, “The Quotative Complementizer Says “I’m too Baroque for that””, in Bhamati Dash, Gurmeet Kaur, editors, Proceedings of FASAL 8, page 6:
text: McFadden shows that in case of monstrous agreement, allocutive agreement in the lower clause must reflect the relationship of the author of the embedded speech act to the addressee of that same speech act, and not the addressee of the overall speech act.
ref: 2020, Peter W. Smith, Johannes Mursell, Katharina Hartmann, “Some remarks on agreement within the Minimalist Programme”, in Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Interestingly, not all speakers accept the monstrous agreement pattern. There are speakers for whom examples like (3a) sound very unnatural (while not totally ungrammatical).
ref: 2021, Mikhail Knyazev, “Inter-Speaker Variation and Construction-Specific Restrictions on Indexical Shift in Poshkart Chuvash”, in Julia Sinitsyna, Sergei Tatevosov, editors, Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics), page 97:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon, in certain languages, of anaphoric references within an item of reported speech to the subject of the report agreeing in the first person (equivalent to *“He said that he am coming”).
threadily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more threadily
form: most threadily
Etymology: From thready + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thready manner.
deapply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: deapplies
form: deapplying
form: deapplied
form: deapplied
Etymology: From de- + apply.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unapply
synonyms: word: unapply
deapplies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deapply
deapplying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deapply
Barcombe Mills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Barcombe parish, Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4314).
deapplied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of deapply
lubberland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lubberlands
Etymology: From lubber + land.
Senses: examples: text: “Truth!” I cried, “though the Heavens crush me for following her: no Falsehood! though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of Apostasy.”
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 113:
text: In such prophesied Lubberland, of Happiness, Benevolence, and Vice cured of its deformity, trust not, my friends! Man is not what one calls a happy animal; his appetite for sweet victual is so enormous.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Contrat Social”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 54:
text: All action and story, all individuality of persons, objects, and events, is merged in a pervading atmosphere of tranquil, sunny repose,—as of a holiday-afternoon. It may seem to us an idle lubberland, a paradise of do-nothings;—Mr. Ruskin sees in it only a "dim, stupid, serene, leguminous enjoyment."
ref: 1864 March, “On the Relation of Art to Nature”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 13, number 77:
text: Lubberland symbolized a place of relaxed, lusty ease, a place of unimpeded libidinal energies and uninterrupted flows of carnal desire that stood in sharp contrast to the disciplined, ordered, and morally upright culture of Byrd's world—the social and cultural universe of the eighteenth century tidewater planter.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 25:
glosses: Synonym of Cockaigne, a land of plenty
synonyms: word: Cockaigne
extra: a land of plenty
cheilostomatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheilostomatans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Cheilostomatida order of bryozoans.
microfaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfault
microfault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfaults
Senses: topics: engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tiny fault bigger than one crystal grain.
Buxted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4923).
microturbidites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microturbidite
microturbidite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microturbidites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small-scale turbidite.
hoplocarids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoplocarid
hoplocarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoplocarids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the subclass Hoplocarida of crustaceans (mantis shrimp etc.).
atopic eczema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of atopic dermatitis.
synonyms: word: atopic dermatitis
bardcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bard + -core (“denoting a genre of music”).
Senses: examples: text: There's a Bardcore cover for every occasion: The Weekend's "Blinding Lights" for the after-banquet, Sia's "Chandelier" for when thine eyes doth begin to weep, Linkin Park's "Numb" for when the mood continues to spiral, and a cover of "I'm Blue (da ba dee)" by Eiffel 65 for those yearning for a simpler time.
ref: 2020 June 23, Elmira Tanatarova, “Exploring Bardcore: YouTube's obsession with medieval covers of Lady Gaga”, in i-D, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2022:
text: Sure, bardcore's usage of modern melodies may not align with what scholars know about medieval melodies (written in an entirely different mode) and the insertion of faux-medieval phrases like taking out all the "you"s and using "thou" alongside contemporary lyrics may not be entirely accurate. But bardcore's reinvention of medieval music isn't all that different from what's framed as historically accurate medieval music today.
ref: 2020 August 5, Hazel Cills, “How Historically Accurate Is Bardcore Anyway?”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022:
text: The instruments he uses for the bardcore covers are downloaded from virtual sound libraries - a variety of lutes and harps, as well as the crumhorn, a curved wind instrument, and the psaltery, a kind of plucked zither.
ref: 2021 February 27, Olivia Ho, “Shakira, but make it mediaeval: Bardcore takes today's music back in time”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: tavernwave
glosses: A genre of music in which modern songs are covered in a medieval or ancient style, often involving the lyrics being adapted or translated into historically accurate language.
tavernwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tavern + -wave (“applied to various (often very specialised) music genres, subcultures and aesthetics”).
Senses: examples: text: When it played on-air, that particular Shakira cover ended up being our most reacted to song via the textline for the day. 'WTF's aside, the consensus was that the Tavernwave was a vibe:
ref: 2021 February 27, Olivia Ho, “What in heaven is Bardcore and why dost thou love it?”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2022:
text: Though mediaeval music covers have been around since before the pandemic, the bardcore trend - also known as tavernwave - dates back to April last year, as the world was succumbing to coronavirus.
ref: [2021 May 12, Claire Bracken, “Shakira, but make it mediaeval: Bardcore takes today's music back in time”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022:
text: Set to a flute version of Teenage Dirtbag (apparently part of a growing TikTok phenomenon known as 'Bardcore' or 'tavernwave'), said teen goes on a cooking spree, pinching items from all over the land to make… another Christmas pudding.
ref: [2022 November 4, Vicky Jessop, “Sainsbury's Christmas advert review: watching Alison Hammond work her magic is a treat”, in Evening Standard, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2022:
glosses: Synonym of bardcore.
synonyms: word: bardcore
sequential probability ratio test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequential probability ratio tests
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A type of statistical test used to evaluate a hypothesis to within a specified level of confidence while minimizing the number of samples required to come to a decision.
Derived terms: word: SPRT
sequential probability ratio tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequential probability ratio test
Shauraseni Prakrit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sauraseni Prakrit
Etymology: From Hindi शौरसेनी (śaursenī) + प्राकृत (prākŕt).
Senses: glosses: An extinct Prakrit language of northern India, most notably used in medieval drama.
neuroperception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + perception.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Response of the nervous system in perception.
histotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histotopes
Etymology: From histo- + -tope.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, a mutation affecting the structure of a class II molecule changes the co-recognition specificity of a histotope on the APC of the mutant.
ref: 1984, William E. Paul, Immunogenetics, page 156:
text: However, this experiment by itself did not distinguish whether the change was in the desetope, which is the most straightforward interpretation, or in the histotope.
ref: 2012, Benvenuto Pernis, Processing and Presentation of Antigens, page 117:
text: First, during ontogeny, T cells are positively selected by recognition of the histotope and then negatively selected by a tolerance mechanism or vice versa.
ref: 2012, Carl W. Pierce, Susan E. Cullen, Judith A. Kapp, Ir Genes: Past, Present, and Future, page 303:
glosses: The portion of an antigen that reacts with or binds to a T-cell.
Related terms: agretope
allotope
desetope
epitope
glycotope
histotype
idiotope
paratope
supertope
making it up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make it up to
ferruginised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferruginised
form: most ferruginised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ferruginized.
recercelé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The upper one in heraldic terms may be thus described : -- Or, on a fesse, three water-bougets, arg.; the lower, or, on a fesse, az., three crosses recercelé of the field. The uncharged portions of the shields are elegantly[…]
ref: 1875, John Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire: The hundred of Scarsdale. 1875, page 430:
text: Gu. three crosses recercelé or a chief vaire erm. and ermines.
ref: 1898, Edwin Pearce, Index to Collinson's History of Somerset, page 310:
glosses: Alternative form of recercelée: synonym of sarcelly.
cercelé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A Cross Cercelé (which must be the right term , the word signifying in French rounding and circling (or curling) and so is this Cross at its ends.) Leigh writes it Sarcelé, putting s for c, and a for e, as indeed sometimes the French do[…] [Image depicts a cross with ends even more curled back than a cross moline.]
ref: 1682, John Gibbon, Introductio Ad Latinam Blasoniam. An Essay to a More Correct Blason in Latine Than Formerly Hath Been Used. ..., page 70:
text: Arms - Arg. three falcons' heads erased Sab. within a border Az. charged with eight bezants, impaling G. a cross cercelé, Or - Beake.
ref: 1796, Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), page 26:
text: Az. a cross cercelé Or, between four cross croslets fitchée Ar.
ref: 1800, The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, page 38:
text: VACHELL, impaling, quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure, semée of cross-crosslets or, a cross cercelé voided : 2 and 3, Argent, on a chevron three roses gules, KNOLLYS.
ref: 1859, Richard Symonds, Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army During the Great Civil War, page 4:
text: Armorial bearings -- He bears for Arms : Quarterly 1 and 4, azure, a cross cercelé or (for Brune); 2 and 3 argent, a chevron sable, […]
ref: 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1318:
glosses: Alternative form of sarcelly.
enscripturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃə.ɹeɪt/
Forms: form: enscripturates
form: enscripturating
form: enscripturated
form: enscripturated
Etymology: From en- + scripture + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inscripturate.
Derived terms: enscripturation
atpE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gene that encodes for ATP synthase c subunit in mycobacteria.
recercellé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of recercelée: synonym of sarcelly.
recercellée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of recercelée: synonym of sarcelly.
cercellé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 3. Gules, a cross cercellé argent. 4. Sable, a cross engrailed argent.
ref: 1862, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 602:
text: 2. Gules, a cross cercellé between four fishes haurient.
ref: 2022 July 30, William Henry Turner, The publications of The Barleian Society: Vol. 5, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: Alternative form of sarcelly.
cercellée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […], as the tops are not cercellée, I am inclined to think they represent cups, and that the coat is Azure a chevron between three cups or […]
ref: 1903, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, page 177:
text: A cross cercellée upon a shield within a circle and outer ring of petals. Anthony Bec, Bishop of Durham.
ref: 1936, Thoroton Society, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire:
glosses: Alternative form of sarcelly.
papertrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papertrails
Senses: examples: text: Murchison's clothes were strewn like a papertrail from the stair well to the living room, and the man himself was naked, bent over the toilet with a bottle of mouth wash in one hand and a glass of dissolving seltzer in the other.
ref: 2000, Mel Keegan, Aquamarine, page 38:
text: If a papertrail — and not even as detailed as that for the first Council of Ephesus — could be imagined surviving for Constantine (before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge or the campaign against Licinius or the Council. of Nicaea) or for Theodosius I (before his two civil wars in the West), then these moments might not seem so forcefully dominated by a single imperial personality.
ref: 2013, Christopher Kelly, Theodosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, page 20:
text: Myra retrieved a number of other pieces of the papertrail and headed back to the kitchen, spreading out the torn sheets on the table.
ref: 2015, Kay Christopher, Never Let Her Slip Away:
text: The papertrail generated by the sequestration and dispersal of the Royal Collection in 1649, and its partial restitution, or re-sequestration, in 1660, reveals only one painting explicitly corresponding to the description of a Salvator Mundi by Leonardo: the painting disbursed to Stone in 1651 and returned by him in 1660.
ref: 2019, Martin Kemp, Margaret Dalivalle, Robert B. Simon, Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts:
text: A moon's light in a ship's wake might make a similar papertrail.
ref: 2019, Linda Anderson, Contemporary Poetry Archive:
glosses: Alternative form of paper trail.
papertrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papertrail
paper-trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper-trails
Senses: examples: text: Jane found herself looking at the conventional paper-trail of a young woman's financial life –credit-card bills, reams of bank statements and a building society passbook.
ref: 2010, John Francome, Inside Track:
text: For example, not only did we have to provide a child safety policy, we had to demonstrate that we operated one, that the policy documents were in the filing system, that staff had been inducted in the new policies and that there was a 'paper-trail', a horrible expression, to demonstrate that that a system was embedded in the school's management and teaching practices.
ref: 2015, Charles Tyrie, The Langley Boy to Be Better Than the Best!:
text: The applicant would still need to approach the agency with the same application perhaps more than once so that a reasonable paper-trail of indecision on the case, or a stalemate or deadlock of the case situation is created.
ref: 2015, Ravi Narayanan, Understanding the Government Machine:
glosses: Alternative form of paper trail.
paper-trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper-trail
telesalesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telesalesmen
Etymology: From tele- + sales + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Simon Dean was a telesalesman for a life-assurance company, or that's what he probably still thought he was, though one of his last acts before leaving work, according to the rigorously backed-up e-mail system his company maintained, had been to send a resignation note to his boss, accompanied by a detailed account of Simon's intentions regarding the boss's teenage daughter.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 248:
text: If extroversion drugs lead every stranger, every telesalesman to address me by my first name (too many do already) and intrude a feigned intimacy, give me Grant Wood!
ref: 2016, David W Stewart, Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American Health Care Policy:
text: 'Eeerrr... sorry wrong number,' came the confused reply from the telesalesman.
ref: 2022, Christopher Beach, Rubik's Cube: Solve the Puzzle, save the World.:
glosses: Synonym of telemarketer.
synonyms: word: telemarketer
telesalesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telesalesman
sancaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sancak
nomadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomadines
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the Nomadinae subfamily of bees.
sarcelie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ... not of that strégth which sometimes it carried, for vis vnita fortior and according to this example, may all crosses be borne parted, or deuided ouer the sheeld, be they Molyn, Nyle, Pattee, Sarcelie, Botonie, Florrie &c.
ref: 1586, Sir John Ferne, The blazon of gentrie, page 175:
text: Under the effigies an escoch. in brass inlaid, [bearing] a cross sarcelie, for Uvedall, impaling a lyon rampart surmounting a bastion, for Branche. Under the escocheon, on a plate of brass, this inscription in Gothick[…]
ref: 1909, Essex Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, page 186:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sarcelly.
cercelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 22. a cross-cercelly between four cross croslets fitchy or. - ROBINSON[…]
ref: 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:
text: Sa., on a chevron within a bordure arg., 3 sprigs of 3 broom vert; 2 Gu., a cross cercelly betw. 4 fishes hauriant; 3. Arg. on a chevron sa. betw. 3 ogresses, as many roses of the field (BILLINGTON) .
ref: 1993, Sir Edward Bysshe, The Visitation of Oxfordshire, 1669 and 1675, London : Harleian Society:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sarcelly.
Youngson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Youngsons
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Young
metadivine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: meta-divine
Etymology: From meta- + divine, a calque of Hebrew עַל־אֱלֹהִי (ʿal-ʾĕlōhî, “beyond-godly”), הֲוָיָה עַל־אֱלֹהִית (hăwāyāh ʿal-ʾĕlōhît̲, “beyond-godly existence”) as used by Yehezkel Kaufmann.
Senses: examples: text: There are two realms: that of divine powers, another of the metadivine.¹ Even the gods are depicted as calling upon metadivine forces to surmount their own predestined limitations.
ref: 1960, Yehezkel Kaufmann, “Chapter II: Pagan Religion”, in Moshe Greenberg, transl., The Religion of Israel, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 23:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to the realm of existence prior to or beyond that of the gods, especially in nonbiblical/pagan religions.
wikipedia: Yehezkel Kaufmann