cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Esmeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, Alternative form of Esmé.
Legal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lɪˈɡæl/
Etymology: Named in honour of Bishop Émile-Joseph Legal.
Senses: glosses: A town in Alberta, Canada.
Wendat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛn.dɑt/
Forms: form: Wendats
form: Wyandot
form: Wyandott
form: Wyandotte
form: Guyandotte
Etymology: From French Wendat, from Wyandot Wendat.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wyandot.
Related terms: Huron
interpretivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpretivisms
Etymology: From interpretive + -ism.
Senses: glosses: antipositivism
glosses: qualitative research
glosses: A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by Franz Boas.
topics: law
glosses: A school of thought holding that law is not a set of given data, conventions, or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their practice.
Related terms: interpretivist
interpretivistic
interpretivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpretivism
interpretivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interpretivistic
form: most interpretivistic
Etymology: From interpretive + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to interpretivism.
Derived terms: interpretivistically
cradle crust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradle crusts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cradle cap.
synonyms: word: cradle cap
crusta lactea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cradle cap.
synonyms: word: cradle cap
milk scall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cradle cap.
synonyms: word: cradle cap
eat it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats it
form: eating it
form: ate it
form: eaten it
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, it.
synonyms: faceplant
glosses: To fall forward, hitting one's face on the ground.
glosses: To die
eat it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: dismissal
glosses: used to taunt or end discussion with a conversation partner
Related terms: suck it
Ol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Olympiad.
Cherubim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cherubims
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cherrybum.
hook-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washer
form: hookup
Etymology: They are said to hook up with a washing machine.
Senses: glosses: A pair of miniature valves right next to each other on a wall, connecting through the wall to the household plumbing, used to provide water to a washing machine. (They are usually red and blue, with the red one delivering hot water and the blue one delivering cold water.)
Huron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjʊɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈhjɝɑn/
ipa: /ˈhjʊəɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈhjɔːɹɒn/
Forms: form: Hurons
form: Huron
Etymology: From French Huron; Uncertain; possibly from French hure (“boar’s head”) or from a Wyandot word containing the Iroquoian root ronon (“nation”), from Proto-North Iroquoian *ɹonõɁ.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Wyandot people, a Native American group.
Derived terms: word: Central Huron
word: Huron County
word: Huronian
word: Huron-Kinloss
word: Huron Shores
word: Lake Huron
word: North Huron
word: Port Huron
word: South Huron
Huron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjʊɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈhjɝɑn/
ipa: /ˈhjʊəɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈhjɔːɹɒn/
Etymology: From French Huron; Uncertain; possibly from French hure (“boar’s head”) or from a Wyandot word containing the Iroquoian root ronon (“nation”), from Proto-North Iroquoian *ɹonõɁ.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hurons; The Wyandot people
synonyms: word: Hurons
extra: The Wyandot people
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A city in Fresno County, California.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A tiny city in Atchison County, Kansas.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A city in Erie County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A town and hamlet in Wayne County, New York.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Beadle County, South Dakota.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Tennessee.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Huron Township.
glosses: A former township, now part of Huron-Kinloss township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, since 1999.
glosses: A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Huron No. 223, in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: Lake Huron
Related terms: Guyandotte
Wendat
Wyandot
Wyandott
Wyandotte
enantiomeric ratios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantiomeric ratio
hang one's hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs one's hat
form: hanging one's hat
form: hung one's hat
form: hung one's hat
Senses: examples: text: But all my ex’s live in Texas
And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee
ref: 1987 April, Sanger and Linda Shafer (authors), George Strait (singer), “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”, MCA Records
text: “Where does Hobart hang his hat?” Slocum asked.
“His spread's up north, east of the Chugwater, and maybe north some.”
ref: 2003, Jake Logan, chapter 10, in Slocum and the Undertakers, →ISBN:
glosses: To reside; to call a place home.
examples: text: I try not to make simplistic judgements on people these days. Especially over matters as trivial as where they hang their sexual hat.
ref: 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 252:
glosses: To identify with; to be.
Related terms: home is where you hang your hat
hang one's hat on
hang up one's hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs up one's hat
form: hanging up one's hat
form: hung up one's hat
form: hung up one's hat
Senses: examples: text: The film even picks up with his colleagues at the university throwing him a retirement party, but it never explores how Indy feels about finally hanging up his hat as a professor.
ref: 2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club:
glosses: To end one's career.
glosses: To make oneself at home in someone's house.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, hat.
Related terms: hang up one's boots
Trio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tiriyó.
Trio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tiriyó.
Ulmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ulmers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ulmer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A town in Allendale County, South Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: Ulmerian
Umland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Umlands
Etymology: From German.
Senses: glosses: The environs of a city, town, or village that are part of the main community through common economic and cultural activities.
Ulmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ulmer
Umlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Umland
truckdriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckdrivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of truck driver.
basiswise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more basiswise
form: most basiswise
Etymology: From basis + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of bases, with respect to bases.
hadithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hadithic
form: most hadithic
form: Hadithic
Etymology: From hadith + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to, the hadiths
Hadithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hadithic
form: most Hadithic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hadithic.
this here
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: these here
form: this 'ere
form: this ere
Senses: examples: text: Well, the receipt should have reached this here party on the Thursday morning, as it were, — I posted it on the Wednesday night […]
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business:
glosses: this
Related terms: that there
that there
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: those there
Senses: examples: text: Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, […]
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: that
Related terms: this here
Lo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An abbreviated form of surnames beginning with "Lo-".
Derived terms: J-Lo
Li-Lo
Lo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Luo
Etymology: From Mandarin 洛 (Luò) Wade–Giles romanization: Lo⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Ts’ao Chih’s “Goddess of the Lo” at first reading appears to depart from the prevailing current of realism which I have outlined above, describing as it does a vision of Fu-fei, the goddess of the Lo River, as she reveals herself to the poet.
ref: 1971, Burton Watson, “Introduction”, in Chinese Rhyme-Prose, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:
text: The waters of the Lo River enjoyed a reputation as venerable as those of the great Ho itself, into which it ultimately empties.
ref: 1973, Edward H. Schafer, The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature, San Francisco: North Point Press, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
text: He also spent time lecturing in neighbouring counties, such as the free school in Lo-ning 洛寧, Honan, later known as the Lo-hsi shu-yüan 洛西書院 or ' Academy West of the [River] Lo.'
ref: 1980, Papers on Far Eastern History, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
Lo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 盧 /卢 (lou⁴) and Hokkien 盧 /卢 (Lô͘).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
glosses: A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
Related terms: Lu
Lo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 羅 /罗 (Luó) or Cantonese 羅 /罗 (lo⁴).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
glosses: A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
Antibalaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antibalakas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-balaka.
sound posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound post
soundpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundposts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sound post.
soundposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundpost
oxiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪiː/
ipa: /ɒkˈsiːʌɪ/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ὀξεῖαι (oxeîai), the nominative plural form of ὀξεῖᾰ (oxeîă), whence oxia.
Senses: glosses: plural of oxia
violin maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violin makers
form: violinmaker
Etymology: From violin + maker.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
glosses: A person who makes violins, and usually other bowed stringed instruments such as violas, cellos and double basses.
Synonyms: luthier
violin makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violin maker
oxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪə/
ipa: /ɒkˈsiːə/
homophone: oxea
Forms: form: oxiae
form: oxeia
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ὀξεῖᾰ (oxeîă), an elliptical use for ἡ ὀξεῖᾰ προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (hē oxeîă prosōidĭ́ā, “the acute accent”) — ἡ (hē, the nominative feminine singular form of ὁ, ho, “the”, the definite article) + ὀξεῖᾰ (okseia, the nominative feminine singular form of ὀξῠ́ς, oksus, “sharp”, of sound “shrill”, of tones “high-pitched”) + προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōdiā, “variation in pitch of the speaking voice”, “pronunciation of a syllable on a certain pitch”, “a mark [i.e., a diacritic] indicating normally unwritten differences of pronunciation, viz. vowel quantity, breathing, and pitch”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
typography
writing
glosses: An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long vowels and diphthongs.
Related terms: Other Ancient Greek diacritics
baria
coronis
dasia
diaeresis
perispomene
psile
extortive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extortive
form: most extortive
Etymology: From extort + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Involving, constituting or accomplished by extortion.
Related terms: nonextortive
nonextortive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + extortive.
Senses: glosses: Not extortive.
Abu Qir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aboukir.
oxeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈseɪə/
Forms: form: oxeiai
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oxia.
oxeiai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈseɪaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of oxeia
nucleon number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleon numbers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mass number.
synonyms: word: mass number
dajjal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daˈd͡ʒɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Forms: form: dajjals
form: Al-Dajjal
form: Dajjal
Etymology: From Arabic دَجَّال (dajjāl).
Senses: examples: text: “Enough!” he growled between his teeth, as in a second he drew a knife from his waist, and, clutching her by the throat, forced her upon her knees. “Thou art the handmaiden of Al-Dajjâl, and the mark of the Câfer is set upon thy brow. Thou shalt die!”
ref: 1894, William Le Queux, Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: false messiah, deceiver
madhabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madhabis
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of madhhabi.
malatang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑ.ləˌtɑŋ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 麻辣燙／麻辣烫 (málàtàng).
Senses: examples: text: Korean crab is small, that's all there is to it, but the red-pepper soup it's cooked in is like Chinese malatang. Meaning it burns you both ways and somehow you're thankful for the pain.
ref: 2001, Tom Crawford, The Temple on Monday, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Boss Zhang went to the Sichuan restaurant for malatang (a Sichuan dish) again. After the malatang, he went for Karaoke. And then he continued to play mah-jong with friends.
ref: 2007, 汉语常用关联词语学习手册, page 5:
text: […] steamers, noisy kebab sellers and red-cheeked malatang (spicy soup with meat and vegetables) vendors.
ref: 2013, Lonely Planet Shanghai, →ISBN:
text: "First on the menu the birds have prepared a delicious bird nest soup and then we can enjoy malatang, other stuff, and a dish of fish."
ref: 2013, Joe Remesz, From Canada to Philippines: Nonsense Novel, →ISBN, page 177:
text: Among faddish foodies, Yunnan cuisine from China's far south has recently become popular, as has malatang from Sichuan – a kind of dry hotpot.
ref: 2013, Simon Lewis, The Rough Guide to Beijing, →ISBN:
glosses: A hot, spicy soup of meat and vegetables, commonly eaten as a street food in China.
pussy willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy willows
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of willow and sallow when their catkins are still young in spring.
degami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lemonwood (“Calycophyllum candidissimum”).
synonyms: word: lemonwood
extra: Calycophyllum candidissimum
popcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of popsicle.
exersize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exercise.
exersize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exercise.
AOX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of adsorbable organohalides.
glosses: Abbreviation of antioxidant.
glosses: Abbreviation of alternative oxidase.
norimono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnɔrəˈmoʊnoʊ/
/nɒrəˈməʊnəʊ/
Forms: form: norimonos
form: norimono
form: norimon
form: neremon
form: norrimon
form: nerimon
form: noromon
form: norimonno
Etymology: From Japanese 乗り物 (のりもの, norimono, "thing for riding").
Senses: examples: text: There are two sorts of palanquin, the norimon and the cango. The former, which requires four bearers for long journeys, is a large, heavy box, in which one may sit with tolerable comfort. The sides are in lacquered wood, and contain two sliding doors. Although this norimon is, par excellence, the vehicle of the nobility, it admits of no ornaments, and is used by the ladies of the middle class and by the registered courtesans, because both occupy a certain position of fortune and consideration in society. The cango is a light litter of bamboo, open on both sides; it requires only two bearers, who always walk with a rapid and regular step. They rest for one minute out of twenty.
ref: 1874, Aimé Humbert, translated by Frances Cashel Hoey et al., Japan and the Japanese Illustrated, page 156:
glosses: An enclosed Japanese palanquin.
Synonyms: english: inexact
translation: inexact
word: kago
Ernseh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sherner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ditelluride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditellurides
Etymology: From di- + telluride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any telluride having two tellurium atoms in each molecule or unit cell
Mills bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mills bomb
tittytainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɪtiˈteɪn.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪnmənt
Etymology: Blend of titty + entertainment, in reference to the pacifying effect of watching TV, similar to that of a child sucking on its mother's breast. Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann claimed that coinage attributed to by Polish-American diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski in The Global Trap.
Senses: examples: text: At the other extreme were those who foresaw growing international inequality—“a 20 to 80 world, a one-fifth society in which those left out will have to be pacified by tittytainment” (tits plus entertainment)—or “a deepening international anarchy” as “market forces and shrinking natural resources drag sovereign states into ever more dangerous rivalries.”
ref: 2000, David Reynolds, One World Divisible, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, pages 651–652:
text: This is the 20:80 society, where 20% of the total population suffice to keep the world economy going and the unemployed 80% are pacified by a (media) diet of “tittytainment” - the modern equivalent of bread and circuses.
ref: 2003, Dan Butts, How Corporations Hurt Us All:
text: In order to preserve social stability, they will supply “tittytainment” to the rest of the society, that being a mixture of basic living supplies and entertainment. This, in my eyes, is quite the opposite of a happy life built on mutual respect […]
ref: 2003, Katrin Müller van-Issem, Thinking the Future, page 71:
text: It is stuffed with video games and mixtures of info-, enter-, and tittytainment and dominated purely by economic interests.
ref: 2005, Gustavo Fischman, Peter McLaren, Heinz Sünker, Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts, page 196:
text: Their energies are being redirected to creative venture and above all their sermon of hope provided a sort of “tittytainment” that kept them out of trouble.
ref: 2006, Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, Nigeria's Urban History: Past and Present, page 221:
glosses: A form of lowest-common-denominator entertainment designed to appeal to the masses and dissuade people from thinking.
Related terms: bread and circuses
doys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doy
embuia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embuias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of imbuia.
banana skins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana skin
breast implants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breast implant
bag snatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag snatcher
prize winners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prize winner
internal combustion engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internal combustion engine
scale models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scale model
places of worship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place of worship
cycle paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycle path
flight decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight deck
bridal couples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridal couple
wedding bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding band
tailgut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailguts
form: tail gut
form: tail-gut
Etymology: From tail + gut.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
glosses: A cord which loops through the tailpiece and around the endpin of stringed musical instruments, and which is held at tension by a knot to secure the tailpiece to the body, traditionally made only of gut but now also made of nylon, wire and other synthetic materials.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The portion of the gut beyond the anus.
Synonyms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: tailcord
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: tail cord
sense: medical
word: postcloacal gut
sense: medical
word: postanal gut
tailguts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailgut
tail-gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail-guts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailgut.
tail-guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail-gut
tail gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail guts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailgut.
tail guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail gut
telegrapheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraphemes
Senses: examples: text: Every one has been told at school how telegram ought to be telegrapheme; but by this time we have long ceased to mourn for the extra syllable, and begun seriously to consider whether the further shortening into wire has not been resisted as long as honour demands.
ref: [1908, H.W. Fowler, chapter I, in The King's English, 2nd edition:
glosses: A telegram.
telegraphemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telegrapheme
relandscape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relandscapes
form: relandscaping
form: relandscaped
form: relandscaped
Etymology: From re- + landscape.
Senses: glosses: To landscape again.
e-tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-trays
Etymology: From e- + tray.
Senses: glosses: A simulated e-mail in-tray used for training potential employees.
Related terms: in-basket exercise
in-tray exercise
Scotch woodcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑtʃ ˈwʊdˌkɑk/
ipa: /skɒtʃ ˈwʊdˌkɒk/
Etymology: The name is modelled on Welsh rabbit. Just as Welsh rabbit contains no rabbit, Scotch woodcock contains no woodcock.
Senses: glosses: A savoury dish of creamy scrambled eggs served over toast spread with anchovy paste or relish.
Gumperzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gumperzian
form: most Gumperzian
Etymology: From Gumperz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John J. Gumperz (1922–2013), American linguist.
relandscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relandscape
relandscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relandscape
relandscaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relandscape
Hong Konger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hong Kongers
form: Hongkonger
form: HKer
Etymology: From Hong Kong + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Hong Kongers are invited to apply for a new British National Overseas (BNO) visa that leads to citizenship.
ref: 2021 January 30, “Hong Kongers eye British citizenship but fear retaliation from China”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: A person from Hong Kong or of Hong Kong descent.
Synonyms: word: Hongkie
word: Hongkongese
word: Hong Kongite
Hong Kongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hong Konger
Macaoese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Macaoese
Etymology: From Macao + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A person from Macao or of Macao descent.
Related terms: Macao
Macanese
Birkner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birkners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Birkner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
nihil obstat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪhɪl ˈɒbstæt/
Forms: form: nihil obstats
Etymology: From Latin nihil (“nothing”) + obstat (“hinders”).
Senses: glosses: A declaration of no objection; (specifically) a declaration used by the Catholic Church to indicate a book, initiative, or appointment to an office has been found to not breach religious or moral norms.
autopatrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- (“self”) + patrolled.
Senses: qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: Having a status such that one's edits need not be checked, or patrolled, by other users.
Related terms: autopatroller
chlororuthenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlororuthenates
Etymology: From chloro- + ruthenate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ruthenium anion RuCl₆²⁻ or any salt containing this anion
intertemporal choice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertemporal choices
Senses: qualifier: economy
glosses: A choice made between current benefits and future benefits. For example, by consuming less today and saving more, consumption could be increased in the future.
Terrace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
anaconda mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaconda mortgages
Etymology: An allusion to being trapped in the crushing coils of a large constrictor snake, such as an anaconda, suggesting the crushing burden of such debt.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t was not given to the prophet Isaiah even, to look down the vista of time for 2,500 years and read the Statutes of Arkansas. Under them every man who executes an anaconda mortgage is considered to plant and eat not; for them the heavens might as well be brass and the earth iron.
ref: 1889, W. Scott Morgan, History of the Wheel and Alliance and the Impending Revolution, page 59:
text: Furthermore, the merchants soon discovered the Anaconda mortgage, which forced the owner to back up his crop lien with everything he owned — land, money, and personal property.
ref: 1988, Michael Schwartz, Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890, →ISBN, page 59:
text: In 1883 Alabama established the "Anaconda" mortgage, which "gave the landlord the right to take not only his tenant's crop . . . but also his furniture, household goods, and personal effects," again with primacy over merchant claims.
ref: 1997, Edward Countryman, Americans: A Collision of Histories, →ISBN, page 226:
topics: business
finance
law
synonyms: dragnet mortgage
glosses: A loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other property.
Related terms: Mother Hubbard clause
dragnet mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragnet mortgages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anaconda mortgage.
synonyms: word: anaconda mortgage
Trail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
Rivers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: To do that, Rivers is currently in training to get her commercial driver’s license.
ref: 2021 April 10, AJ Willingham, “Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they’re changing the transportation game”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Port Harcourt.
glosses: A community in Riverdale Municipality, Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico, United States.
Rivers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of River
Related terms: River
Wootton Rivers
imbauba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbaubas
Senses: glosses: Any tree of the genus Cecropia.
willing horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willing horses
Senses: examples: text: [A]fter a good deal of discussion (some of it angry) among the Major-Generals, it was settled as such things are everywhere—the willing horse (which SHERMAN always is) getting the work to do.
ref: 1863 November 10, “Gen. Sherman's Column”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Feb 2014:
text: [S]he said to me as quietly as a maiden might ask one to carry a glove, "Jan Ridd, carr thic^([sic]) thing for me." So I carried it for her, without any words; wondering what she was up to next, and whether she had ever heard of being too hard on the willing horse.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “FEEDING OF THE PIGS”, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, pages 57–58:
text: Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:
text: "When he hears of it he'll be more anxious than ever to fight." / Valencia nodded. "A spur to a willing horse."
ref: 1914, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 10, in A Daughter of the Dons:
text: There is certainly the need to reward performance and offer incentives for success, but flogging a willing horse is not the way to do it.
ref: 1999 February 18, Philip D. Delnon, “Education letter: Exhausted, underpaid: and that's a good day”, in The Independent, London, retrieved 12 Feb 2014:
glosses: One who readily performs hard work or who voluntarily tolerates an adverse situation.
Daru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea; one of the Torres Strait Islands.
glosses: A town in Papua New Guinea.
glosses: A town in Sierra Leone.
windflaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndflɔː/
Forms: form: windflaws
Etymology: From wind + flaw.
Senses: examples: text: The front of the wind on the water was a solid, sharply defined strip of dark-coloured, wind-vexed water. In advance of this strip, like skirmishers, were flashes of windflaws.
ref: 1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in A Son Of The Sun:
text: The smoke seemed to cover them all halfway to the house, but then it twisted away on a windflaw and lifted like a stage curtain.
ref: 2008, Willie Nelson,, Mike Blakely, A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A sudden, strong current of wind; flaw.
Synonyms: gust
Kaima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Sierra Leone.
Lakka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Greece.
glosses: A coastal resort town in Sierra Leone.
Pepel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Sierra Leone.
Masam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Sierra Leone.
Alamut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian الموت (alamut); see that entry for more.
Senses: glosses: A castle in Iran and the most famous stronghold of the Nizari Ismailis, also known as the Assassins.
glosses: A region in the modern-day Qazvin province of Iran in which the castle is located; Rudbar-i Alamut (Rudbar of Alamut)
glosses: A period in the history of the Nizari Ismailism beginning from the capture of the castle in 1090 AD until its capitulation to the Mongols in 1256 AD.
Quhistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Qohestan
Etymology: From Classical Persian قهستان (quhistān).
Senses: glosses: A region of medieval Persia, essentially the southern part of Khurasan.
olefin metathesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of organic reaction in which fragments of alkenes are redistributed
raphes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raphe
sideslipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideslippers
form: side slipper
form: side-slipper
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
qualifier: freestyle skiing
glosses: a staff member on a halfpipe who reshapes the slope to keep the halfpipe usable, through sideslipping, shaving on the sides aboard their snowboards
Synonyms: word: slipper
ruthenium red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An inorganic dye used in histology to stain aldehyde-fixed mucopolysaccharides
monographia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of only one orthography for a language (especially used with respect to Chinese); absence of digraphia.
bean flicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean flickers
Etymology: From bean (“clitoris”) + flicker, referring to masturbation.
Senses: examples: 2002, David Buttery, Re: Mrs. Danvers - Dyke or not? Group: rec.autos.simulators
Now, he says Mrs Danvers was so nasty to the new Mrs DeWinter because she fancied her boss Mr DeWinter, whereas I've always held the view that Danvers' was a mean old, clam jousting, bean flicker who had had the hots for Rebecca
1999, radiersch, Re: Americans suck dick at any oppertunity. UK, NZ and Australia kick ass! Group: alt.tasteless.jokes
Try it you Bean flicker that's why you call your smokes fags you always have one in your mouth
2001, Nal, Re: Elton John => The Anti-Prodigy ? Group: alt.music.prodigy-the
I reckon that bloke is a dirty perv. If he was a woman, he'd be a bean flicker
glosses: A lesbian.
examples: text: 2001, Silverbullet, Re: rosie the grade school drop-out gets put in the corner again.., in usenet alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater
It's called the 21st century, beanflicker. Ever plan on visiting some day? You fucking right wingers are all alike. Really? I don't find them to be. Of course you don't, you fuckwit. That's why you racist, corrupt, homopobic nazi fascist bastards all stick together
text: 2004, The Saltex Brujo, Beware that cockbiting muff diver upstairs! Group: alt.galactically.pointless
Fucking muff diving butt sucking bean flicker! On and on...
text: You 're lezzers. A couple of beanflickers, gaplappers, switch hitters.
ref: 2006, Mike Edwards, Friendly Fire - Page 258
glosses: A person who stimulates their own clitoris; a masturbator.
donut bumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donut bumpers
Senses: examples: 1998, rage2love, Re: Is Sheryl Crow gay? Group: alt.fan.madonna
madonna god I hope not....do we really need another guitar-strumming donut bumper?
2007, Rev BR Collins, Re: Mad Hatter Day SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Group: alt.religion.christian.baptist
This coming from a self appointed sexual deviant(lesbian) woman that preaches doctrines of devils. At least you could say you are a eunich like "Merle" does, you donut bumper
2007, cub brave, Re: Sexual deviant Kelly Sowbeck is in for a big suprise[sic]......HEYALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Group: alt.religion.christian.baptist
But at the end of the day, you STILL don't have what a man has, Bull Dike. Hence "donut bumper". I know this seems SO crude to a sexual deviant like yourself
2002, Dr Funkenstein, Re: Sheryl Crow & Dale Jr. Group: rec.autos.sport.nascar
She just got Plastic Surgery and aint no donut bumper
glosses: A lesbian.
Pazend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pazand
Etymology: From Zoroastrian Middle Persian pʾcnd (pāzand), from Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬙𐬌 (paⁱti zainti, “according to understanding”); see Zend for more.
Senses: glosses: A variant of Avestan alphabet used to write Middle Persian.
Related terms: Zand
Pazand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pazend.
laughterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laughterful
form: most laughterful
Etymology: From laughter + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: "I remember once when I was small how he took me by the hand on a frost-clear night, led me forth under the stars, and named for me the pictures in them, Thor's Wain, Freyja's Spindle—how wonderful he made them, how his deep slow laughterful voice filled the dark."
ref: 2000, Martin H. Greenberg, My Favorite Fantasy Story:
text: […] and with her memory-gates wide open to the sunny South of her childhood, and with all her soul in her voice, she gave them her best, holding them breathless, laughterful, or tear-choked, according to her mood and song.
ref: 2008, Ralph Connor, The Doctor:
glosses: Full of laughter; indicative of, characterised by, or expressing laughter or mirth.
European-American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European-Americans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Euro-American.
synonyms: word: Euro-American
by now
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: See by, sense 3: “not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval)”.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: already, at this stage, at this point
text: My parents ought to've arrived by now. I wonder what's keeping them.
text: Totally overwhelmed by now, I started to hand out the fliers willy-nilly.
text: By now an angry crowd had collected outside.
coordinate_terms: by then
glosses: The hour being what it is; the hour being so advanced; considering that it is so far in time already; now that so much time has elapsed; if not before, now at the latest.
Related terms: late in the day
subordinate trait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subordinate traits
Senses: examples: text: Although S lines had higher VO_(2 max) than C, subordinate traits showed no statistical differences when the presence of the mini-muscle phenotype was controlled.
ref: August 2006, Enrico L. Rezende et al., Maximal oxygen consumption in relation to subordinate traits in lines of house mice selectively bred for high voluntary wheel running in Journal of Applied Physiology, volume 101
text: A negative relationship may exist between burst speed and endurance because they are affected by many of the same subordinate traits, such as muscle fibre type composition (Webb 1984, Weihs 1989, Garland & Losos 1994, Vanhooydonck et al. 2001, Bonine et al. 2005).
ref: October 2009, Christopher E. Oufiero and Theodore Garland Jr., Repeatability and correlation of swimming performances and size over varying time-scales in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) in Functional Ecology, volume 23
text: Since complex life-history traits are composed of many subordinate traits, the response to selection, which acts most strongly on those phenotypic aspects that are most strongly correlated with fitness, comprises associated changes in both mean values and plasticity of various aspects of morphology, physiology, and biochemical pathways [4-6].
ref: March 2014, Marija Mrdaković et al., Adaptive phenotypic plasticity of gypsy moth digestive enzymes in Central European Journal of Biology, volume 9
glosses: A trait, at a lower level of biological organization, that acts together with other such traits to affect or determine characteristics at a higher level of biological organization.
truck drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truck driver
nonmud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mud.
Senses: glosses: Not consisting of mud.
Appl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Appl.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of application.
Appl.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of applied.
in the same breath
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Said or done almost simultaneously, in one sequence.
glosses: Said of two things that cannot be true simultaneously.
katah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gata.
gatah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gata.
seed drills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed drill
Platt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Platt, Low German Platt or Clipping of Plattdeutsch.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Platt.
glosses: Plattdeutsch, Low German
Platt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Zellerndorf municipality, Hollabrunn district, Lower Austria.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6257).
glosses: An unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Angelina County, Texas, United States.
Platt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English habitational surname from Platt Bridge, from Old French plat (“footbridge”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Platt calibration
Plattsburgh
Platt scaling
Malabar Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malabar coast
Etymology: From the former general inaccessibility and unimportance of the interior to European traders.
Senses: examples: text: A Muncheel is a kind of litter, resembling a sea-cot, or hammock, hung to a long pole, with a moveable covering over the whole, to keep off the sun or rain. Six men will run with one from one end of the Malabar coast to the other, while twelve are necessary for the lightest palanquin.
ref: 1830, James Welsh, Military Reminiscences, volume II, page 142:
glosses: Synonym of Malabar, forming the southwest coast of India, now principally the state of Kerala.
synonyms: word: Malabar
word: forming the southwest coast of India
word: now principally the state of Kerala
qualifier: inexact
glosses: The entire western coast of India.
bedoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedo
bedoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedo
bedid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bedo
alcohol abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A self-inflicted form of abuse caused by a person's habitual excessive drinking of alcohol.
fine ounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fine ounces
Senses: glosses: A bar of pure gold that weighs one troy ounce
insertion reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insertion reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of reaction in which a bond (typically a double bond) is broken and a small molecule (such as carbon monoxide) is inserted in its place
venusty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin venustas. Compare also Middle French vénusté.
Senses: examples: text: Nature hathe […] geven hym a bewtye – it is called maiestye, or venustie […] – wch passethe all other bewtye.
ref: 1559, William Barker, transl., The Nobility of Women:
text: To him Divine Providence presents the pure, tralucid tenerity of Madonnina Marcia Figlidelre, the caesarial auricolored sinuose venusty of Don Eros Ardeati […].
ref: 1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato:
text: She was not really pretty, but she had all the bloom and venusty of youth, with those hazel eyes which seem almost golden when they take the light under dark lashes.
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 67:
glosses: Elegance; physical beauty.
firestep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firesteps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fire step.
Gazakh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Qazax
form: Kazakh
form: Ghazakh
form: Qazakh
Senses: glosses: A city in Azerbaijan.
Ghazakh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Ղազախ (Ġazax).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gazakh.
Qazax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Azerbaijani Qazax.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gazakh.
Qazakh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gazakh.
squirrel's cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirrel's cages
form: squirrels' cages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squirrel cage.
tonnelada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonneladas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tonelada, chiefly in Portuguese contexts.
LCCN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCCNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Library of Congress Control Number.
vay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vays
Senses: examples: text: “Going to be a fine night for a little walk,” said he, “Oliver vill be in town later on.” / “Oliver?” inquired Barnabas. / “Ah! that ’s flash for the moon, sir. Jest a nice light there ’ll be. This vay, sir.” With the words Mr. Shrig turned sharp to his left along the alley towards the River.
ref: 1913 March, Jeffery Farnol, “Which Relates, among other Things, How Barnabas Lost his Hat”, in The Amateur Gentleman, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 481:
text: Sister Gabriel blushed when her attempt to introduce themselves was checked with a brief, “Don’t make Herr Vater wait some more. Go this vay once.”
ref: 1967, Rosamond Nugent, chapter 12, in Buried Wheat, Milwaukee, Wis.: The Bruce Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 88:
text: Ragen spoke out: “I disagree. I do not think book should be written.” / “Why not?” Allen asked. / “Let me put it this vay. Billy vill talk to this man and so vill you and the others. You might tell him things for vich I could still be charged—other crimes.”
ref: 1981, Daniel Keyes, chapter 5, in The Minds of Billy Milligan, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, book 1 (The Mix-up Time), chapter section 3, page 111:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of way.
Derived terms: ve haf vays of making you talk
Bowieite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bowieites
Etymology: From (David) Bowie + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The glam following at Pip's led by a posse of Bowieites who were moving very cautiously towards punk, preferred a touch of showbiz flash and banter, while the more serious punks, to whom flash and banter was anathema, favoured the low key approach of Joy Division.
ref: 2009, Lindsay Reade, The Life of Ian Curtis: Torn Apart, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A fan of English musician and actor David Bowie (1947–2016).
Platts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Plattsburg