cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Prayers of the People
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Prayers of the People
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A liturgical structure for public prayer in worship, moving in a well-defined sequence and covering specific content.
Stonnington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; in full, the City of Stonnington.
zhrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhretses
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian жрец (žrec).
Senses: glosses: Slavic pagan priest
Related terms: zhritsa
matriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matriots
form: Matriot
Etymology: A feminine form of patriot. First use appears c. 1739. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Nor muſt it be forgot that the Scheme of a worthy matriot, and ſtrongly ſupported, though in vain, by moſt of the Gentlemen, who lately ſeceded, for reducing Intereſt to 3 per Cent.
ref: 1739, Benjamin Robins, An Address to the Electors, and Other Free Subjects of Great Britain, Occasion'd by the Late Secession. In which is Contain'd a Particular Account of All Our Negociations with Spain, and Their Treatment of Us, for Above Ten Years Past, page 36:
text: A matriot loves his or her country but does not buy such exploitive slogans as “My country, right or wrong.”
ref: 2006, Cindy Sheehan, Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism, page 213:
text: She was a matriot, and loved our country , though she thought the men who ruled were all gesture and no effect .
ref: 2011, Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar:
text: So a matriot loves the motherland, and the motherland is the land.
ref: 2017, David Stephen Calonne, Conversations with Gary Snyder:
text: A matriot is in contrast to a patriot. Matriots would do anything to stop killing as a way to solve problems. A matriot would never send her child or another mother's child to fight nonsense wars.
ref: 2020, Sharon A. Buttry, Daniel L. Buttry, Daughters of Rizpah:
glosses: A patriot who is female or who embraces feminine values.
glosses: A female who loves or celebrates the influence of women upon society.
examples: text: Men, who are in touch with the matriot inside of them, have also been important to the cause of eradicating war.
ref: 2008, Edwin Mayorga, Bree Picower, Seth Rader, Camouflaged, page 77:
text: The matriot fights not only for the rights of a particular group (she transcends "woman") but also against economic and social privilege.
ref: 2015, Clemens Spahr, A Poetics of Global Solidarity:
text: Most importantly, he was, as I will say further on, "a quiet rebel and a matriot."
ref: 2019, Georges Sioui, Eatenonha: Native Roots of Modern Democracy:
text: In Book III the finding centers on a neologism: "matriot” (the word “patriot” deturned), not a woman necessarily, but adherence to “feminist mother poetics,” a mending but also fierce calling out of the destructive results of patriarchy.
ref: 2023, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, A Long Essay on the Long Poem, page 82:
glosses: One who advocates for maternal or nurturing causes such as human rights, universal healthcare, the eradication of poverty, etc.
Derived terms: matriotic
matriotism
zhritsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhritsas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian жри́ца (žríca).
Senses: glosses: Slavic pagan priestess
Related terms: zhrets
Matriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Matriots
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of matriot.
cattled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cattled
form: most cattled
Etymology: From cattle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Russia is totally cattled*, and it is only a matter of time before it collapses. Wait and see.
ref: 2023 May 31, The Natural Philosopher, “Re: v for frequency?”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):
glosses: Ellipsis of cattle trucked (“fucked: in trouble; in a hopeless situation”).
cattled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cattle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cattle
matriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matriot
Matriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Matriot
matriotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: matriot + -ic. First use appears c. 1811. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: the sportive fancy of a lively people had produced a variety of matriotic devices, and the magnificence that reigned on every side was worthy of a city that fame had proclaimed the capital of the East.
ref: 1811, James Lawrence, The Empire of the Nairs; Or, The Rights of Women - An Utopian Romance, in Twelve Books, Volume 1, page 102:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a matriot.
posi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Combining form of positive.
cattle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cattles up
form: cattling up
form: cattled up
form: cattled up
Senses: examples: text: I think Scuba Du is the best operation we have dove with in Cozumel, others have been Dive Paradise and Scuba Cozumel at the Galapago. We were there in low season and had 4-6 divers per boat. I suspect they could have "cattled" us up in one or two boats but they put the whole fleet out.
ref: 1997 December 23, Re: Cozumel Scuba Du, “William Seiffert, M.D.”, in rec.scuba.locations (Usenet):
text: We were led out of the bar and they cattled us all up against the police vans. The cops pushed us up against the grates and the fences. People started throwing pennies, nickels, and quarters at the cops, and then the bottles started.
ref: 1998, Leslie Feinberg, “In the Spirit of Stonewall” (chapter 6), in Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 107:
synonyms: crowd together
glosses: To gather (a group of people) together into a small space.
bolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boll
Englesea-brook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Englesea-Brook
form: Englesea Brook
Etymology: There is a local stream named the Englesea Brook.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Weston and Crewe Green parish and Barthomley parish, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7551).
-grade
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin gradus (“step, degree”) and gradior (“walk”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Describes a specified way of walking or locomotion, especially according to the limbs or organs utilized.
glosses: Describes a specified direction.
glosses: Describes a variation along a scale or gradient.
Related terms: sense: terms ending in -grade otherwise formed
word: citigrade
sense: terms ending in -grade otherwise formed
word: tardigrade
informal settlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of informal settler
cinéma d'auteurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinéma d'auteur
cattle trucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle-trucking
Etymology: From cattle truck + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Angiographic findings associated with CRAO and BRAO include delayed filling of the affected vessels, reduced arterial calibre and “cattle-trucking” of the blood column in the branch arteries.
ref: 2000, S Beatty, K G Au Eong, “Acute occlusion of the retinal arteries: current concepts and recent advances in diagnosis and management”, in Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine, volume 17, number 5, →DOI, page 326:
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
synonyms: boxcarring
glosses: A diagnostic feature of retinal artery occlusion caused by the segmentation of the blood column within the retinal vessels, as seen on fundoscopy, fundus photography, or fluorescein angiography.
cattle trucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cattle-trucking
Etymology: From cattle truck + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cattle truck
potshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potshaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Padishah.
potshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potshaw
Padishar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Padishars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Padishah.
padishar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padishars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Padishah.
padishars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padishar
Padishars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Padishar
Saggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saggies
Etymology: From Sag (“Sagittarius”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: One of the challenges of dating a Saggy is that they can't stand talking about feelings. As candid as they are, a Sagittarius would much rather get into a philosophical debate than tell you why they're upset, and that def seems to be the case for Symoné.
ref: 2020 July 2, Corinne Sullivan, “Raven-Symoné's Zodiac Sign Says She's A Spontaneous & Intense Partner”, in Elite Daily:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Saggie.
-tomous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Possibly analogical to acrotomous, from Ancient Greek ἀκρότομος (akrótomos, “cut off sharp”), ultimately from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “slice, something cut”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describes the cleavage of minerals
Related terms: sense: Terms in -tomous with different meaning
word: exotomous
sense: Terms in -tomous with different meaning
word: monoschizotomous
sense: Terms in -tomous with different meaning
word: rhachitomous
sense: Terms in -tomous with different meaning
word: xylotomous
word: -tomy
word: -tomic
word: -tome
DBM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of Budget and Management.
caltractins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caltractin
Saphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Sapphic.
saphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sapphic.
saphism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sapphism.
saphist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sapphist.
h4`gt``lt`0rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: h4><0rs
Senses: glosses: plural of Unsupported titles/h4`gt``lt`0r
Saphist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Sapphist.
lolzers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Probably from lolz + -ers.
Senses: examples: text: I still get of laugh thinking about Microsoft's "Linux Heat Map". Lolzers!
ref: 2014 September 26, Chris Ahlstrom, “Windows 7 Ultimate and NFS”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
glosses: Used to express laughter.
Vygozero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Karelia, Russia.
perekovka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian перековка (perekovka, “reforging”)
Senses: qualifier: Soviet history
glosses: rehabilitation (of criminals)
Pantabangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
to be going on with
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It's not much but it'll do to be going on with.
text: I can't take on this job right now. I've already got plenty to be going on with.
text: […] while not a super-goof like some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
glosses: For now; provisionally; to begin with.
Baao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and lake in Camarines Sur, Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines.
mamey apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamey apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mammee apple.
red mamey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red mameys
form: red mameyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red mammee.
Buhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
Bito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Malita, Davao Occidental, Philippines.
vegetarianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vegetarianly
form: most vegetarianly
Etymology: From vegetarian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have said it must be reserved for us two and that they must feed us semi-vegetarianly. I put semi- because I thought otherwise they’d give us only French beans and bread—you take eggs and fish, don’t you?
ref: 1905 June, Harley Granville-Barker, “Gilbert Murray, 1866–1957”, in Eric Salmon, editor, Granville Barker and His Correspondents: A Selection of Letters by Him and to Him, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, published 1986, →ISBN, page 220:
text: Let no one tell you that one needs meat, fowl and dairy products and eggs to make a tasty delicious meal. Grand epicurean treats can be prepared vegetarianly. And remember, this is a meat-lover speaking.
ref: 1965, John H. Tobe, “What to Eat”, in Guideposts to Health and Vigorous Long Life, St. Catharines, Ont.: Modern Publications Reg’d., published September 1971 (7th printing), section 5 (Proper Food), page 134:
text: Two creative women dynamos will clean house, care for pets, plants, housesit, cook vegetarianly, whatever.
ref: 1976 January 30, Lauren, Beth, “Home Services Directory”, in Bruce B. Brugmann, editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 10, number 17, San Francisco, Calif.: Bay Guardian Co., Inc., page 23, column 3:
text: The basic question is: board and room at a large hotel (for instance, the one where I am now living very well, vegetarianly well, not exactly sharply thought out, but still) or a small private pension.
ref: 1982 [1920 April 6], Franz Kafka, translated by Richard Winston and Clara Winston, “1920”, in N[ahum] N[orbert] Glatzer, editor, Letters to Ottla and the Family, New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, →ISBN, page 42:
text: During rehearsals they often lunched vegetarianly together at the Queen’s Restaurant in Sloane Square – apples, cheese, macaroni and salads with chilly milk and soda.
ref: 1989, Michael Holroyd, chapter III, in Bernard Shaw, 1st American edition, volume II (1898–1918: The Pursuit of Power), New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, section 3, page 155:
text: And while they will eat bread, they are insectivores, meaning that they are designed for eating animals. Whatever Aristotle may have thought, hedgehogs are not vegetarianly inclined.
ref: 2008, Hugh Warwick, “How We Can Look After Hedgehogs”, in A Prickly Affair: My Life with Hedgehogs, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, part 3 (Save the Hedgehog – Save the World), page 256:
text: If I ate stupidly, Americanly, vegetarianly, for sixty years, how might plant-based eating produce longevity, plus a healing endothelium?
ref: 2013, Thomas Larson, “The Sanctuary of Illness”, in The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease, Albany, N.Y.: Hudson Whitman/Excelsior College Press, →ISBN, section 4, page 124:
glosses: In a vegetarian manner.
vegetarianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vegetarian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: First, let’s look at differences in degree of “vegetarianness.” McDougall advises you to go completely vegan for your normal diet, that is to say he advises a 100% exclusion all animal-based products, including skim milk and egg whites. […] Since there are possible benefits to including small amounts of fish in a diet, including, among other things, having a dietary source relatively rich in omega-3 fatty acids, but no likely benefits whatsoever from spending part of one’s limited dietary budget on meat or poultry, I come out between Ornish and the Pritikin Plan on the matter of “vegetarianness.”
ref: 1998, Steven L. Price, “Eat Right”, in Live Long and Prosper, Needham, Mass.: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Live Long), section II (Questions and Answers), page 41:
text: Non-vegetarianness and vegetarianness are also significant qualities of food from a ritual perspective. In both the varldāv and devr Kotas make offerings of boiled millet, vatm kū, in a ritual called eṛ vecd. The difference between this ritual in the dry funeral and god ceremony depends on what is served along with the boiled millet: spiced (ideally buffalo) meat stew for the former and salted mung bean stew (upudk) for the latter.
ref: 2005, Richard K[ent] Wolf, “Affect and Subject”, in The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India, Delhi: Permanent Black, →ISBN, page 181:
text: When I had made inquiries into the vegetarianness of the vegetarian spring rolls, they had sworn on a stack of Qur’ans that they were 100% meat-free.
ref: 2010, Carolyn A. Thériault, “My Life as a Leopard”, in Stealing Fatima’s Hand, Kfar Sava; Toronto, Ont.: Vox Humana Books, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Adding to the lack of vegetarian identity some business owners are purposely “deflecting attention away from a product’s vegetarianness . . . to avoid the dreaded pitfall of ‘veg-phobia.’”
ref: 2010, Laura K. Hahn, quoting the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, “I’m Too Sexy for Your Movement: An Analysis of the Failure of the Animal Rights Movement to Promote Vegetarianism”, in Greg Goodale, Jason Edward Black, editors, Arguments about Animal Ethics, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, published 2014, →ISBN, part 2 (Critiques of Animal Ethics Rhetoric), page 92:
text: sarah Um I’m… I’m uh mostly vegetarian. / philani (He reaches under the counter and pulls out a jar from his lunch bag.) Ah. I see. This is not an African phenomenon, this vegetarianness. But I think for this, you should make an exception. (He hands her the jar.) Try some. / sarah (looking suspiciously at the jar) These look a lot like pickled eggs.
ref: 2010 October, Daryl Cloran, Mbulelo Grootboom, Deborah Hay, David Jansen, Holly Lewis, Michelle Monteith, Andile Nebulane, “The Library”, in Theatrefront, Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project), Toronto, Ont.: Playwrights Canada Press, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: The quality of being vegetarian.
wabisabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wabi-sabi.
as a matter of facts
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /æz ə mætə(ɹ)ʌv fæk(t)s/
enpr: ăz ə mătər ŭv făk(t)s
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of facts, the introduction of an isolation system allows to reduce shear and bending moment in piers, but may increase decks’ relative displacements.
ref: 2017, Iolanda Nuzzo, Nicola Caterino, Giuseppe Maddaloni, Antonio Occhiuzzi, “Smart hybrid isolation of a case study highway bridge exploiting seismic early warning information”, in Engineering Structures, volume 147, pages 134-147:
text: As a matter of facts, it is as low as R = 0.6 for a quasicrystal like i-ACF.
ref: 2015, Jean-Marie Dubois, Esther Belin-Ferré, “Wetting and adhesion properties of quasicrystals and complex metallic alloys”, in Applied Adhesion Science, volume 3:
text: As a matter of facts, spatial creativity is a terrain on which it is hard to fix an objective, a referential framework for the interpretation of artistic and/or architectural creations.
ref: 2014, Dino Borri, Domenico Camarda, Rossella Stufano, “Spatial primitives and knowledge organization in planning and architecture: some experimental notes”, in City, Territory and Architecture, volume 1:
glosses: Alternative form of as a matter of fact.
grammatonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Graphemics.
grammatonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the study of graphemes; graphemic.
freshmanitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freshman + -itis, on the pattern of senioritis.
Senses: examples: text: Freshmanitis is justifying poor decisions because you’re a Freshman. It’s like “YOLO,” but instead you say, “I’m a freshman – I didn’t know better.”
ref: 2015 April 17, Lisa Mengotto, “Freshmanitis”, in The Stute:
text: Since one of the common psychological symptoms of freshmanitis is increased appetite, it is believed that giving students the option to eat as much as they want will often lead to Freshman 15.
ref: 2015 July 9, Erik Chiodo, “A treatment for freshmanitis: Some tips for freshman year”, in Campus Times:
text: However, I feel like freshmanitis isn’t a unique phenomenon as much as it is just a new word for a ubiquitous feeling.
ref: 2024 May 6, Carly Heffernan, “What Even is Freshmanitis?”, in The Port Press:
glosses: A tendency of (mostly college) freshmen to be overwhelmed by the amount of work as well as make unwise choices.
better-defined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of well-defined: most well-defined
best-defined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of well-defined: most well-defined
corporate finance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The area of finance dealing with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, as well as the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders.
personal finance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The financial management that an individual or a family unit performs to budget, save, and spend monetary resources in a controlled manner, taking into account various financial risks and future life events.
sophomoritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophomoreitis
Etymology: From sophomore + -itis, on the pattern of senioritis.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not unique, everyone goes through them, but I think it’s oddly understandable for things like this to contribute to sophomoritis.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Madison Holt, Joselyn Pena, “Is “Sophomoritis” a Thing?”, in Her Campus:
text: There’s now freshmanitis, sophomoritis, and junioritis.
ref: 2024 May 6, Carly Heffernan, “What Even is Freshmanitis?”, in The Port Press:
glosses: A tendency of sophomores in high school or college to slack off and lose motivation as if they were seniors with senioritis.
sophomoreitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sophomore + -itis, on the pattern of senioritis.
Senses: examples: text: Expectations were high heading into last season, but a bad case of "sophomoreitis" hit the Lady Eagles, who went 6-26.
ref: 2007 February 12, Will Parrish, “Rodd has Eagles off to best start since 1983-84 campaign”, in The Herald:
text: is sophomoreitis a thing cause i think i have it
ref: 2015 December 5, @da_last_sarAH, Twitter:
text: 47. Freshmanitis/sophomoreitis/Juniortis/Senioritis has seriously started to kick in
ref: 2016 April 26, Megan LaCross, “50 Signs You're Over This Semester”, in The Odyssey Online:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sophomoritis.
fauxsurrection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauxsurrections
Etymology: Blend of faux + insurrection.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently, according to DOJ, very few of those arrested were on Parler and the WaPo just threw Facebook under the bus because there is significant evidence that a majority of the planning for the J** 6th fauxsurrection was carried out on Facebook.
ref: 2021 January 17, skylane5sp, Ugly Hedgehog - Photography:
text: All of this is being driven by the Democrats’ obsession with using the J6 fauxsurrection to keep Trump off of the ballot in 2024.
ref: 2022 October 8, Stephen Kruiser, “The Morning Briefing: Dear Dems—Trump 2024 Is Gonna Be Super LIT”, in PJ Media:
text: Just to show how desperate they are to put the Fauxsurrection back into the purview of Americans, someone actually took the time to pen this nonsense, connecting J-6 with the 20 Republican House Caucus members wrangling over the concessions to get them to vote for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.
ref: 2023 July 1, “Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker of the House Battle Has Effectively Wiped J-6 From the Annals of History”, in The Patriotic News:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A false flag or staged insurrection, especially the January 6 United States Capitol attack as viewed by supporters of Donald Trump.
Related terms: fedsurrection
fauxsurrections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxsurrection
ANSI art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ANSI + art. So called because of the use of the ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64), from the American National Standards Institute.
Senses: topics: art
arts
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System (DOS), and control codes, which allowed for limited color, graphic block characters, limited sound, limited animation.
wikipedia: American National Standards Institute
en:ANSI X3.64
Coordinate terms: ASCII art
Derived terms: ANSImation
shed skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sheds skin
form: shedding skin
form: shed skin
form: shed skin
Senses: glosses: To cast off natural covering; to remove dead skin cells.
Nandy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tunnel book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnel books
Senses: glosses: An illustrated book with holes in the pages, allowing the reader to glimpse parts of later pages through earlier pages, and giving the impression of a three-dimensional scene.
Thuringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thuringers
Senses: glosses: A breed of rabbit developed in the state of Thuringia, having a rounded body, broad muzzle, and dense silky fur.
traffic light coalition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic light coalitions
Etymology: Calque of German Ampelkoalition.
Senses: examples: text: “The end of the traffic light coalition is a liberation for our country. The end of the self-proclaimed ‘progressive coalition’ that took Germany to the brink of economic ruin was more than overdue,” Weidel wrote on X.
ref: 2024 November 7, Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova, “Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why”, in CNN:
text: In a quirk of German politics, the governing coalitions are often given names. The previous coalition government, headed by the SPD (red), included the Green Party (green) and Liberal Party (yellow) - together they were known as the “traffic light” coalition.
ref: 2025 February 22, Sebastian Shukla, Nadine Schmidt and Claudia Otto, “Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A German political coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Party, the Free Democratic Party, and the Greens.
at haphazard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Fact is a poor story-teller. It starts a story at haphazard, generally long before the beginning, rambles on inconsequentially and tails off, leaving loose ends hanging about, without a conclusion.
ref: 1928, W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, Vintage, published 2000, page v:
glosses: Haphazardly, at random.
Jenai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 仁愛 (Rén'ài), Wade–Giles romanization: Jên²-ai⁴.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ren-ai.
like kicking dead whales down the beach
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: like kicking a dead whale down the beach
Etymology: Originating in computer programming jargon.
Senses: examples: text: I have a full backup, but restoring 213 MB of data from one oppy to another with a single drive, even using dd and big packets, is going to be like kicking dead whales down the beach. Is there an easier way?
ref: 1993 September 16, Joshua W. Burton, “OD has no more alternates for remap -- should I worry?”, in comp.sys.next.hardware (Usenet):
text: “How’s it going?” I asked. ¶ “Swimmingly, man. Like kicking dead whales down the beach.”
ref: 1998 April, Mark Fabi, “Wall Street Walpurgisnacht” (chapter 3), in Wyrm, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 65:
qualifier: simile; process; simile; process
glosses: Very slow and difficult.
raw_tags: of a task
show some skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows some skin
form: showing some skin
form: showed some skin
form: shown some skin
form: show skin
Etymology: From show + some + skin.
Senses: glosses: To wear a revealing or provocative outfit in a way which is sexually attractive.
raw_tags: of a woman
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show, skin.
show skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows skin
form: showing skin
form: showed skin
form: shown skin
Etymology: From show + skin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show some skin.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show, skin.
double X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double Xs
Etymology: From X, the Roman numeral representing 10.
Senses: examples: text: “Hikes aroun’ wit’ a hundre’ an’ ninety bucks in ’is kick an’ won’t loosen a double X fer an ol’ frien’ what’s up again’ it? Why, dat guy ain’t got de firs’ idee about bein’ square wit’ a pal or librul wit’ an ol’ friend in de same line. An’—”
ref: 1916, Jack Lait, “The Canada Kid” (chapter 9), in Beef, Iron and Wine, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, pages 178–179:
glosses: Twenty dollars; a $20 bill.
like kicking a dead whale down the beach
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like kicking dead whales down the beach.
Menem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Menems
Etymology: Spanish Menem
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Derived terms: Menemism
Menemnomics
Menemnomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Menem + -nomics. Named after Argentinian President Carlos Menem.
Senses: examples: text: If the Peronists are to win in 1995 without Mr Menem they will have to choose a candidate closely associated with the present president and who supports the current body of economic policies, popularly termed "Menemnomics".
ref: 1992, Argentina, page 5:
glosses: The economic policies of Carlos Menem, President of Argentina, and his government.
Related terms: Clintonomics
Menemism
Reaganomics
Thatchernomics
Trumponomics
Salomons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Salomon
Shuangxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shuanghsi
form: Shuangsi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雙溪 (Shuāngxī).
Senses: glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Shuanghsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 雙溪 (Shuāngxī), Wade–Giles romanization: Shuang¹-hsi¹.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shuangxi.
paramastoid process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramastoid processes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: paramastoid
glosses: A small bony projection located on the temporal bone of the skull, near the mastoid process.
reenthuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenthuses
form: reenthusing
form: reenthused
form: reenthused
Etymology: From re- + enthuse.
Senses: glosses: To make enthusiastic again.
The Fine City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the many rules and regulations in Singapore and the corresponding signs threatening fines if the rules are flouted.
Senses: glosses: Singapore.
Dom/me
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dom/mes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dom/me.
Domme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒm/
ipa: /dɑm/
ipa: /dɔm/
rhymes: -ɒm
Forms: form: Dommes
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of domme.
Dommes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Domme
Blean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1260).
Derived terms: Boughton under Blean
Gongliao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͝ongʹlyouʹ
Forms: form: Kungliao
Etymology: From Mandarin 貢寮 (Gòngliáo).
Senses: glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Buluan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Maguindanao, Philippines.
LGBTism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LGBT-ism
Etymology: From LGBT + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This stereotype of the West is not new. It builds on writings of the influential political scientist Sergey Karaganov, who considered the West to be characterized by “phenomena such as LGBtism,^([sic]) multisexuality, ultrafeminism, denial of history and one’s roots, faith, support of black racism including its anti-Christian elements and its anti-Semitism”.
ref: 2023, Angelika Nußberger, “Russia and the West – Identity Formation on the Basis of Otherness”, in European Identities and Values in Transformation: Impulses of the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum for a European Future Agenda (Notes from the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum; 4), Hamburg: University of Hamburg, page 23:
text: The Log Cabin Republicans tried to destroy a grassroots Republican movement in Texas because it was too socially conservative--and Trump hosts them at his Winter White House to celebrate "gay rights." Does it feel like that's what we need right now? More LGBTism?
ref: 2023 October 3, John D Groenveld, quoting a tweet by Pedro L. Gonzalez, “MEDIA: Billionaire Mike Bloomberg to Joe Biden: Kill American 'Xenophobia' by Importing More Migrants”, in misc.immigration.usa (Usenet):
glosses: A purported ideology behind the LGBT community.
LGBT-ism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SPLC [Southern Poverty Law Center] classes opposition to "LGBT-ism" as hate.
ref: 2016 December 3, Percival P. Cassidy, “Re: Where to report Hate Crimes”, in alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of LGBTism.
Belhelvie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, north of Aberdeen (OS grid ref NJ9417).
Shiding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shihding
form: Shihting
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石碇 (Shídìng).
Senses: glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
peripheralness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peripheral + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of peripherality.
synonyms: word: peripherality
Shihting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 石碇 (Shídìng), Wade–Giles romanization: Shih²-ting⁴.
Senses: examples: text: According to Yang I-nung (楊逸農), a present-day researcher, Chieh-yü K’eng is an earlier name for Fengtzu Lin (楓子林), in Shihting Hsiang, Taipei County.
ref: 1989 Spring, Wu Chih-ho [吳智和], “The Culture of Tea”, in Asian Culture (Asian-Pacific Culture) Quarterly [亞洲文化], volume XVII, number 1, Taipei: Asian-Pacific Cultural Center, →ISSN, page 53, column 2:
english: 亞洲文化
translation: 亞洲文化
text: Shihting township, in Taipei county, has a total area of 144 square kilometers, comprising thirteen villages and a population of slightly more than 7,000 people. It lies at the junction of two streams, about twenty kilometers southeast of Taipei city.
ref: 1991 March 1, “A Century Of Struggle With Land And Water”, in Taiwan Review, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2024:
text: Lee remembers one journey that was a nine-hour walk. They left Shihting at 6 a.m. and arrived in Ilan county, on the northeastern side of the island, at 3 p.m., just in time to set up the stage for the afternoon performance.
ref: 1994, Free China Review, volume 44, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 1:
text: Yesterday morning, around 6am, investigators thought they had made a breakthrough after police reported finding the body of a man who had apparently asphyxiated himself inside his taxi in Taipei County's Shihting (石碇) township.
ref: 1999 September 16, Irene Lin, “Man claims to have killed Peng Wan-ru”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2016, Front Page, page 1:
text: Premier Yu Shyi-kun yesterday expressed the hope that the Peiyi Expressway project could be completed two months ahead of schedule. Construction work on the 31km Peiyi Expressway, which connects Shihting in Taipei County and Suao in the northeastern county of Ilan, is scheduled to be completed in December next year.
ref: 2004 November 28, “Taiwan Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2004, Taiwan News, page 4:
text: The latter roads run along steep mountainsides before dropping into Shihting (石碇; Shídìng).
ref: 2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 119, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Shiding.
Methlick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village by the River Ythan, in north Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8537).
bird-catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird-catchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of birdcatcher.
flying cymbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying cymbals
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: flyer
glosses: A style of rapid hi-hat drumming associated with reggae music.
schoolmasterliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schoolmasterly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being schoolmasterly.
scientificality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientificalities
Etymology: From scientifical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scientificity.
synonyms: word: scientificity
guide-post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guide-posts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guidepost.
ultrafeminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + feminism.
Senses: examples: text: This stereotype of the West is not new. It builds on writings of the influential political scientist Sergey Karaganov, who considered the West to be characterized by “phenomena such as LGBtism,^([sic]) multisexuality, ultrafeminism, denial of history and one’s roots, faith, support of black racism including its anti-Christian elements and its anti-Semitism”.
ref: 2023, Angelika Nußberger, “Russia and the West – Identity Formation on the Basis of Otherness”, in European Identities and Values in Transformation: Impulses of the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum for a European Future Agenda (Notes from the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum; 4), Hamburg: University of Hamburg, page 23:
glosses: An extreme form of feminism.
Related terms: radical feminism
Udny Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village south of Pitmedden, north Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8826).
Related terms: Udny Station
Udny Station
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: It was the site of a railway station, closed many years ago.
Senses: glosses: A small village north of Newmachar, north Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9024).
Related terms: Udny Green
Chinese Turkistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Russia reached the frontiers of Afghanistan and Chinese Turkistan, while in the far east by the treaty of Aigun (1858) it obtained from China territory running east from the rivers Amur and Ussuri to the Pacific seaboard, and the naval base of Vladivostok was founded.
ref: 1962, Kazimierz Maciej Smogorezwski, “RUSSIA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 19, →OCLC, page 702, column 1:
text: Since Emperor Ashoka’s reign (268–232 BCE), Indian civilization and art have expanded from Khotan to Chinese Turkistan and then disseminated to the Far East.
ref: 2023 December 13, Kim Thu Le, “New Aesthetics in History: The Changes of Idealism”, in The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts, volume 19, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 50:
glosses: Alternative form of Chinese Turkestan.
Their Britannic Majesties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of His Britannic Majesty
glosses: plural of Her Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Your Britannic Majesty
Chinese trumpetfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese trumpetfish
Senses: glosses: A bony fish of the species Aulostomus chinensis.
West Atlantic trumpetfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Atlantic trumpetfish
Senses: glosses: A bony fish of the species Aulostomus maculatus.
the more you know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: An ellipsis (specifically, an anapodoton) representing the first part of a comparative correlative construction. Popularized by The More You Know (1989–present), an NBCUniversal series of public service announcements that features educational messages. The phrase's association with the emoji 🌠 is inspired by the graphics that accompany the phrase in that series. Collocations such as the more you know, the better [X] long predate the PSA series, but the more you know as an anapodoton seems not to predate it.
Senses: examples: text: The more you know: Give birthday boy Len Goodman a Mirrorball-trophy-inspired cake, and he'll dish out 9's and 10's on Dancing With the Stars! Yes, this week was quite a change after last week's head-scratching episode—and all is happy again in the ballroom.
ref: 2016 April 25, Jessica Radloff, “Dancing With the Stars 2016 Famous Dances Week Recap: Doug Flutie and Karina Smirnoff Are Eliminated”, in Glamour:
text: Fun fact: Elizabeth became the longest-reigning British monarch in history in 2017 when she passed the record previously held by Queen Victoria, who ruled for 63 years, from 1837 to 1901. George III, the longest-reigning man on the list, comes in third overall with 59 years on the throne—the more you know, right?).
ref: 2019 June 2, Kayleigh Roberts, “The Royal Family Celebrates Queen Elizabeth's Coronation Anniversary on Instagram”, in Marie Claire:
text: While you may not have heard of it, sea kelp has been eaten and used medicinally for hundreds of years in various forms. Some sea kelp by-products are even a common ingredient in ice cream, salad dressings and chocolate milk. The more you know, eh?
ref: 2023 August 21, Jennifer Savin, “Everything an expert wants you to know about sea kelp”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: Zoë [Kravitz] posts a rare pic of the couple on Instagram alongside the caption, “#BLINKTWICE in theaters august 23rd 🌴.” A lil refresher that Blink Twice is the actor’s highly anticipated upcoming directorial debut, which was renamed after initially being called Pussy Island. The more you know!
ref: 2024 August 20, Mehera Bonner, “Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum’s 3-Year Relationship Timeline: a Retrospective”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2024:
glosses: Used to imply that a piece of information that otherwise seems trivial or uninteresting might represent valuable knowledge.
wikipedia: NBCUniversal
The More You Know
Related terms: word: the more you know, the higher you go
english: today I learned
translation: today I learned
word: TIL
word: you learn something new every day
word: knowing is half the battle
word: you don't know the half of it
Atlantic trumpetfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic trumpetfish
Senses: glosses: A bony fish of the species Aulostomus strigosus.
vezîr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vezîrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vizier.
vezîrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vezîr
wazīr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wazīrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vizier.
wazīrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wazīr
vizieress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vizieresses
Etymology: From vizier + -ess
Senses: glosses: A female vizier.
vizieresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vizieress
-rise
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: rīz
ipa: /ɹaɪz/
Senses: examples: text: sun + -rise → sunrise
text: moon + -rise → moonrise
qualifier: Astronomy
glosses: Used to form noun from a noun corresponding to astronomical body, to indicate the rise of the astronomical body appears in the horizon.
Derived terms: -set
Pitmedden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in north Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8927).
scrub brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrub brushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrubbing brush.
examples: text: My father is the product of a marginal small-town South Texas family. His father's last job was performing some mysterious function at a natural gas pumping station in the sand and scrub brush of Atascosa County.
ref: 1984 February 4, David Morris, “Different Origins: Joto Güero del West Side”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 15:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scrub, brush: the bush.
scrub brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrub brush
viewquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːkweɪk/
Forms: form: viewquakes
Etymology: From view + quake, modelled after earthquake. Coined by American economist Robin Hanson.
Senses: examples: text: This summer, though, one of Hanson's "viewquakes," as he likes to call them, became a genuine national sensation. The only problem was, everybody hated it. Hanson's brainchild was roundly condemned by several U.S. Senators, derided by the likes of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and bond guru Bill Gross, and lampooned by late-night talk show hosts.
ref: 2003 September 15, Jeremy Kahn, “The Man Who Would Have Us Bet On Terrorism—Not To Mention Discard Democracy And Cryogenically Freeze Our Heads—May Have A Point (About The Betting, We Mean)”, in Fortune, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2007:
text: The section raises more questions than it answers. Most of all, [Allan H.] Meltzer never lets on that the crisis caused a “viewquake” within both monetarism and minimalist approaches to bank supervision.
ref: 2010 December, Tyler Cowen, “A History of the Federal Reserve. Volume 2. Book One: 1951–1969 by Allan H. Meltzer; A History of the Federal Reserve. Volume 2. Book Two: 1970–1986 by Allan H. Meltzer”, in Journal of Economic Literature, volume 48, number 4, →JSTOR, Book Reviews E: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, page 1041:
text: He [Richard Meadows] points out that for $10 you can get a book that may be terrible, and that you stop reading it. Or you could find one that puts ideas in front of you that you'd never considered before, leading to a 'viewquake'.
ref: 2020 November 18, Frances Cook, “Frances Cook: How carefully calibrated risk-taking can lead to financial stability”, in The New Zealand Herald:
glosses: A sudden drastic shift in someone's view on the world or a particular subject.
Related terms: mindquake
paradigm shift
Old Deer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in north Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9747).
Related terms: New Deer
Scots Auld Deer
Khushab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu خُوشاب (xūśāb).
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, Pakistan.
speak as one finds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks as one finds
form: speaking as one finds
form: spoke as one found
form: spoken as one found
Senses: synonyms: call a spade a spade
glosses: To speak the truth plainly, as one sees it; to be outspoken or blunt.
areaorama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: areaoramas
Senses: glosses: A tunnel book.
diethylammoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diethylammonium
Adetshina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adetshinas
Senses: examples: Chidimma Adetshina, b. 2001
glosses: A surname.
mane-combs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mane-comb
Alpine goats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alpine goat
zoo animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoo animal