cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paper flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper flowers
form: paper-flower
form: paperflower
Senses: examples: text: prosopis (Syrian mesquite), sugarbeet, camelthorn, pigweed, potato, hemp, physalis, pepper, chrysanthemum, sesame, marigold, paper-flower, Mirabilis, carrot ...
ref: 2000, Ika Salehi Mohammad with M Taghizadeh, “Herbaceous Host Range of Ume Witches' Broom Phytoplasma in Iran”, in Iranian Journal of Plant Pathology:
text: Families within the order Centrospermae, including taxa like prickly pear (Opuntia sp.) and paper flower (Bougainvillea sp.), display transient red coloration
ref: 2002, WJ Steyn with SJE Wand, DM Holcroft, and G Jacobs, “Anthocyanins in vegetative tissues: a proposed unified function in photoprotection”, in New Phytologist:
text: Introduction / Common Name: Bougainvillea, Paper Flower / Scientific Name: Bougainvillea glabra / Family: Nyctaginaceae
ref: 2002, R Schoellhorn with E Alvarez, Warm climate production guidelines for bougainvillea:
glosses: A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.
examples: text: There is my Quaker Aunt, A Paper-Flower, — with a formal border / No breeze could e'er disorder, — Pouting at that old beau—the Winter Cherry, / A pucker'd berry; / And Box, like a tough-liv'd annuitant
ref: 1826, Thomas Hood, “The Winter Nosegay”, in Whims and oddities: in prose and verse, with forty original designs, page 67:
glosses: A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.
examples: text: Between sites, small shrubs (zinnia, Zinnia pumila; paper flower, Psilostrophe cooperi) predominate.
ref: 1990, TMC Robert with CP Szpak and RJ Deslippe, “Experimental assessment of factors affecting the distribution of adult female tree lizards”, in Oikos:
glosses: A plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.
examples: text: He was wearing a red paper flower in his lapel.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, flower.
polydextrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + dextrose.
Senses: glosses: A multipurpose food ingredient synthesized from dextrose and classified as soluble fibre.
Synonyms: english: its E number
translation: its E number
word: E1200
dimethylchlorosilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dimethyl + chloro- + silane.
Senses: glosses: chlorodimethylsilane
chlorodimethylsilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chloro- + dimethyl + silane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A silane with chemical formula (CH₃)₂SiHCl.
Synonyms: dimethylchlorosilane
andirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andiron
taxwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tax + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: You lose the amortization of your capital equipment, taxwise. Compare this with the cost of leasing.
ref: 1975, Gardiner G Greene, How to start and manage your own business:
text: Indeed, that Vic is willing to structure the deal to my advantage taxwise is the main reason why I will accept less from him...
ref: 1995, Max Barnet, Driven:
text: For our clients, we run the numbers both ways to see which is preferable taxwise.
ref: 2004, Robert A Green, The Tax Guide for Traders:
glosses: In terms of taxation.
spokewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spoke + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Radial, like the spokes of a wheel.
spokewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spoke + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a spokewise fashion.
pâtissière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pâtissières
Etymology: From French pâtissière.
Senses: examples: text: The sisters roamed plazas and narrow shopping streets, eating sweets from a pâtissière’s stall, laughing at the antics of a small clan of agile jugglers, dodging the harangues of political candidates, and pondering the strangeness of such a wide, marvelous world.
ref: 1993 June, David Brin, Glory Season, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Although Ichigo’s skill is no doubt impressive, she lacks practically all of the typical talents expected of a top-notch pâtissier or pâtissière—a reality which quickly hits her as she enters the academy and proceeds to meet its immensely skilled pupils.
ref: 2012, Dani Cavallaro, “Mythopoeia”, in Art in Anime: The Creative Quest as Theme and Metaphor, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 121:
text: ‘A pâtissière?’ I marvelled. No wonder she was so flippin’ brilliant in the kitchen!
ref: 2015, Cathy Bramley, chapter 37, in Appleby Farm, London: Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 407:
coordinate_terms: patissier
glosses: A female pastry chef.
join point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: join points
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In aspect-oriented programming, a point at which advice (additional code) is triggered (a set of these constituting a pointcut).
tider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiders
Etymology: From tide + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who drives with the tide
Related terms: high tider
tiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tider
strewnfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strewnfields
form: strewn field
Senses: examples: text: [W]e report the detailed circumstances of the fall and the recovery of all documented Tagish Lake fragments from a strewnfield at least 16 km long and 3 to 4 km wide.
ref: 2006, A. R. Hildebrand et al., "The fall and recovery of the Tagish Lake meteorite," Meteorics & Planetary Science, vol. 41, no.3, p. 407 (abstract)
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An area on the surface of the earth, usually having an elongated oval shape, containing rocky fragments which detached from a disintegrating meteor as it streaked through the portion of earth's atmosphere above the area.
strewn field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strewn fields
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strewnfield.
sweatproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweatproof
form: most sweatproof
Etymology: From sweat + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to sweat.
zoomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoomers
Etymology: From zoom + -er.
The sense of "active baby boomer" is influenced by the word boomer, and is attributed to Moses Znaimer.
Senses: examples: text: The car zoomed – the driver was definitely a zoomer – away to some unknown car pool […]
ref: 2011, Gavin Lyall, Uncle Target:
glosses: That which zooms.
glosses: A kind of small swim fin.
examples: text: A recent study released by the Conference Board of Canada states that the Zoomers (Baby Boomers who refuse to age), Gen X and Gen Y have more in common than we might think.
ref: 2010, Cheryl Cran, 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: A baby boomer with a very active lifestyle.
Derived terms: rotozoomer
zoomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoomers
Etymology: Alteration of bazoom, ultimately from bosom.
Senses: examples: text: As she exited the tomb, momentarily blinded by the bright sun, she was vaguely aware that the other members of the party were staring at the impressive zoomers filling out her dusty tank top.
text: "Kelso said she had the biggest zoomers he'd ever seen."
"Zoomers, Brian?"
"You know what I mean, zoomers, coconuts, boobs!"
ref: 2011, David Seaburn, Charlie No Face, Savant Books and Publications, page 88:
text: Sonya Posner had herself a serious rack. I'm talking major league zoomers. She could give even Lovely Rita a run for her cup size.
ref: 2013, David Handler, “Chapter Two”, in Runaway Man: A Mystery, Macmillan:
text: He was hoping she was going to come back out since she left the glass wall open. He kept lowering the paper hoping to get another eyeful of her awesome tits in high def in the bright morning sun. The last time he lowered the paper and took a drag on his cigarette he saw her standing there with her double barreled rocket grenade launcher pointed at him.
"You like my tits? I'll show you a pair of zoomers."
ref: 2021, Shearling Coats, Dune Hunters Space Club, Shearling Coats:
glosses: A woman's breasts, especially large breasts.
Synonyms: breasts
zoomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoomers
form: Zoomer
Etymology: Portmanteau from Generation Z and boomer (“baby boomer, a person born between 1945 and early 1960s”). Merriam-Webster identified the earliest use in its current sense as being made on 16 March 2016 by an aviation engineer named Jennie Santoro at HNTB Seattle, in a presentation called "Boomers to Zoomers: Passing the Torch to Generation Z!"
However, the word was ultimately popularized through a variant of the Wojak meme which originated on 4chan on July 21st, 2018, and from there spread to other platforms. Accordingly, Urban Dictionary view statistics suggest that it began gaining traction in mid-2018 before peaking in January 2020.
Senses: examples: text: Hug a Boomer/Xer/Millennial/Zoomer In case you missed it: Gen Z is mad at boomers for the state of the world; boomers are mad at Gen Z for being so dismissive; Gen X feels forgotten and yet resents even themselves; […]
ref: 2019 December 27, Anya Strzemien, “13 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2020”, in New York Times:
synonyms: Generation Z
Generation Zer
Gen Z
Gen-Zer
Z
Zer
coordinate_terms: millennial
glosses: A member of Generation Z.
Derived terms: OK, zoomer
zoomer perm
zoomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoomer
rotozoomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotozoomers
Etymology: From roto- + zoomer.
Senses: examples: text: I thought about writing a 4ktro for the TI-83 once, but really the only effects you could do would be rotozoomers, wire vectors, and scrollers.
ref: 1997, h75h70, “ZShell anyone?”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet):
text: Hi all: I have written a rotozoomer that has an average frame rate of about 200fps on a Pentium 90 when writing directly to vram.
ref: 1997, Adam Levar, “RotoZoomer frame rates”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
topics: computer-graphics
computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An animated visual effect in which a bitmap is scaled and rotated.
rotozoomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotozoomer
squegging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from self-quenching.
Senses: examples: text: Squegging of the local oscillator in a receiver is usually confined to the short wave range, but cases have been encountered on the broadcast band when unusual couplings have been used. Squegging is due to high oscillator amplitude in conjunction with a large time constant in the oscillator grid circuit.
ref: 1999, Fritz Langford-Smith, Radio Designer's Handbook:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An irregular oscillation characterised by short periods of oscillation punctuated by brief periods of quiescence.
IDTS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I don't think so.
ANCOVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ANCOVAs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Acronym of analysis of covariance.
Related terms: ANOVA
hurple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: hurples
form: hurpling
form: hurpled
form: hurpled
Etymology: A word of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Scots hirple (“to limp”) or Dutch hurken (“to squat”), plus the suffix -le.
Senses: examples: Goas hurpling abart fit to give a body t'dithers to luke at him! - The Dialect of Leeds, 1862
glosses: To shrug up the neck and creep along the streets with a shivering sensation of cold, as an ill-clad person may do on a winter's morning.
hurple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: hurples
Etymology: A word of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Scots hirple (“to limp”) or Dutch hurken (“to squat”), plus the suffix -le.
Senses: examples: text: After he sprained his ankle, he walked away with a hurple.
glosses: An impediment similar to a limp.
lunate sigma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunate sigmas
Senses: glosses: The form of the Greek letter sigma used in Medieval Greek and occasionally in Greek Orthodox Church transcriptions: ϲ.
Related terms: final sigma
final sigma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final sigmas
Senses: glosses: The form of the Greek letter sigma, ς, only ever used as the last letter of a word.
Related terms: lunate sigma
final sigmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of final sigma
lunate sigmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunate sigma
railway guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railway gun
railroad guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railroad gun
access codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of access code
facial creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facial cream
facial nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facial nerve
margins of error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margin of error
oblonga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblongum
discus fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discus fish
garous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛəɹəs/
Forms: form: more garous
form: most garous
Etymology: From garum + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: this humour may be a garous excretion and olidous separation
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, garum.
loups-garous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loup-garou
loup-garous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loup-garou
pauciloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pôsĭʹləkwi
ipa: /pɔːˈsɪləkwi/
enpr: pôsĭʹləkwi
enpr: pŏsĭʹləkwi
ipa: /pɔˈsɪləkwi/
ipa: /pɑˈsɪləkwi/
Forms: form: pauciloquie
Etymology: From the Classical Latin pauciloquium (“the fact of speaking few words”), from paucus (“little, few”) + loquor (“to speak”). Structurally pauci- + -loquy.
Senses: glosses: Economical speech; the use of few words when speaking; laconism.
Related terms: -loquy
pauci-
pauciloquent(ly)
pauciloquous
acronymize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acronymizes
form: acronymizing
form: acronymized
form: acronymized
form: acronymise
Etymology: From acronym + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A sole professor, who has failed to attract recruits, does not need to acronymize the creations of their own making. But the existence of a capitalized acronym announces that the world is taking seriously an approach or topic […]
ref: 2013, Michael Billig, Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences, page 89:
glosses: To turn a phrase into an acronym.
Derived terms: acronymization
Related terms: acronymist
acronymizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acronymize
acronymizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acronymize
acronymized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acronymize
yiffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: yiffy + -er
Senses: glosses: comparative form of yiffy: more yiffy
warme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warme
form: most warme
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of warm.
warme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warmes
form: warming
form: warmed
form: warmed
Senses: examples: text: Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]
ref: 1605, The Trial of Chivalry (a play of uncertain unauthorship)
glosses: Obsolete form of warm.
rastrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹæstɹəm/
/ˈɹɑːstɹəm/
Forms: form: rastrums
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rāstrum (“rake”).
Senses: glosses: A five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel lines of a staff in sheet music.
wikipedia: rastrum
don't drop the soap
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the exposure of one's buttocks when bending over in a male group shower, in reference to prison rape.
Senses: glosses: Used as a mockery to someone who is about to be or should be confined in prison.
Related terms: drop the soap
Tsimané
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A regional language of Bolivia with less than 6000 speakers.
Synonyms: Chimané
Mosetén
keep one's nose clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's nose clean
form: keeping one's nose clean
form: kept one's nose clean
form: kept one's nose clean
Senses: examples: text: They tell us, "Keep your nose clean and you'll no doubt make a parole." So we keep our noses very clean.
ref: 1947, American Correctional Association, American Journal of Correction, page 6:
text: Alaska Congressman Don Young . . . spent a huge share of his campaign donations on legal fees to keep his nose clean in the face of an FBI investigation into his dealings.
ref: 2008 November 5, Nathan Thornburgh, “Ted Stevens Sins, and (Likely) Wins”, in Time, retrieved 25 Aug 2013:
glosses: To stay out of trouble, especially by avoiding unlawful behavior.
dryade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dryades
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dryad.
dryades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dryade
lengthener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lengtheners
Etymology: From lengthen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This exercise is a great leg lengthener.
text: I went to the store to get some eyelash lengtheners.
text: RYE is the great lengthener of the seasons.
ref: 1877, George Edwin Waring, Waring's Book of the Farm, page 325:
glosses: A person or thing that lengthens something
Synonyms: extender
Coordinate terms: shortener
lengtheners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lengthener
esoterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?
ref: 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:
glosses: The study of esoterica
listy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more listy
form: most listy
Etymology: From list + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Yes it will be helpful to make a list. I am a very 'listy' sort of person. And lists are very good when you are running out of motivation and impetus.
ref: 1999, Dominic H. Lam, Steven H. Jones, Peter Hayward, Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a list, or tending to use lists.
wordie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝdi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di
homophone: wordy
Forms: form: wordies
Etymology: From word + -ie; the enthusiast sense is parallel in nature with foodie and was probably influenced by it.
Senses: examples: text: you probably have an inner grammando […] One who constantly corrects others’ linguistic mistakes. […] There’s another new word—wordie—that captures the alternative to being a grammando. Added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in 2018, wordie describes someone who delights in language’s shifting landscape. Wordies know the language rules and where they come from, and then they make informed calls about whether or not to follow the rule in a given context. […] you almost certainly have an inner wordie who lives alongside your inner grammando. Welcome to my world! When I notice a new species in the language out in the wild (metaphorically speaking) and have an urge to stamp it out—that’s my inner grammando talking. When I delight in learning from young people about the rules of texting and new slang, my inner wordie has the upper hand. We all have our language peeves—those bits of language that grate on our nerves and that make us want to pull out a red pen while reading or stop someone midsentence to go grammando on them. (Yes, them—see chapter 18 for an explanation of how they can be singular.) And the question at any one of these peevey moments is whether to let our inner grammando say anything or let our inner wordie carry the day.
ref: 2024, Anne Curzan, Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words, Crown, →ISBN, page viii-ix:
synonyms: word lover
logophile
lexophile
hypernyms: linguaphile
coordinate_terms: grammar police
grammar cop
grammando
grammar Nazi
glosses: Someone interested in words; especially, one enthusiastic about the study of word use but not bent on being pedantic about usage prescription.
glosses: Diminutive of word.
instore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in + store.
Senses: examples: text: The final short-term planning deals with the instore fulfillment of operative tasks, i.e., plans short-term sales, develops personnel schedules, and aligns operative instore logistics and shelf replenishment processes.
ref: 2011, Alexander Hübner, Retail Category Management, page 34:
text: Therefore, we anticipate consumers' perceived value and satisfaction with retailtainment will be different for consumers with high versus low likelihood to use instore technologies.
ref: 2023, Theodore Tarnanidis, Maro Vlachopoulou, Jason Papathanasiou, Influences of Social Media on Consumer Decision-Making Processes in the Food and Grocery Industry, page 88:
glosses: inside a store or shop
instore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instores
Etymology: From in + store.
Senses: examples: text: They are playing an instore tomorrow.
text: Virgin Megastores have now taken on the risk of staging the instores which will now call at Glasgow Virgin Megastore Buchanan Street
ref: 2000, NME, Slipknot get Knotted:
glosses: a performance or other event taking place within a store or a shop
instore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instores
form: instoring
form: instored
form: instored
Etymology: From in- + store.
Senses: examples: text: and he was a licensed champion, who, theorizing from his instored legal lore, or instinctive acumen, knew on the instant where best to point his thrust, and was equally ready with every form of parry and defense.
ref: 1879, The History of Adams County, Illinois, page 416:
text: Its fragrance and sweetness and healing be poured With tones and sweet touch and with heart prompted token, In hers who all sweetness in thine has instored.
ref: 1908, David Chalmers Nimmo, “The Anniversary”, in Songs, page 111:
text: And thanks to them that they had instored in me the same things that were instored in them.
ref: 2011, Bonny Jean Castelli, Sliding Down the Rainbow of Faith:
text: Or your just mad at everybody else, about their success, when all you needed to do was just use your success gifts that (God) instored in you.
ref: 2014, Pamela Cooper, Think Your Way to Success:
glosses: To store up; to enclose; to contain
CMDB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CMDBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of central management database.
springing executory interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springing executory interests
Senses: examples: text: Joe gives land "to Harry, if Harry graduates from law school". Harry has a springing executory interest because his graduation from law school directly divests Joe of ownership.
topics: law
glosses: An interest in an estate in land created by the conditions of a grant wherein the grantor cuts short the grantor's own interest in the property in favor of the grantee, contingent upon the occurrence of a specific condition.
Related terms: defeasible fee
fee simple subject to executory interest
fee simple subject to executory limitation
shifting executory interest
springing executory interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springing executory interest
kettle corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sweet and salty variety of popcorn with the addition of granulated sugar, salt, and oil.
shovel test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovel tests
Senses: examples: text: A single shovel test was all we needed to show the site's importance.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An excavation unit of small extent and shallow depth, made quickly with a shovel or trowel to determine whether archeologically significant material is present below the ground surface.
shovel test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shovel tests
form: shovel testing
form: shovel tested
form: shovel tested
Senses: examples: text: They were contracted to shovel test only within the proposed pipeline's right of way.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: To examine a site or area using one or more small excavation units.
catch napping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches napping
form: catching napping
form: caught napping
form: caught napping
Senses: examples: text: The rout started after four minutes when Chelsea were caught napping by Kevin De Bruyne's quick free-kick which left Raheem Sterling to fire in at the far post before Aguero, who had already missed an open goal, curled a magnificent right-foot finish past the stretching Kepa Arrizabalaga from 25 yards.
ref: 2019 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
text: Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride. If the Colonel Morales was to be caught at all he must be caught napping, and, as they knew, he usually slept with one eye open.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: To surprise; to take advantage of the lack of watchfulness of.
Columbia-Wenatchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the northwest of the United States that is nearly extinct.
Hungana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A near-extinct language of the Dominican Republic.
Fam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
Middle Watut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in 7 villages of the Watut Valley in Papua New Guinea.
skub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Nonce word from a Perry Bible Fellowship comic by Nicholas Gurewitch, in which two characters (with "Pro Skub" and "Anti Skub" t-shirts) shown brawling over "skub" are juxtaposed with a picture of the "skub", a small tub of cream-like substance. The term was adopted by the users of the imageboard 4chan to mock users who would incessantly argue over inconsequential things. Compare weeaboo, from the same comic series.
Senses: examples: text: Skub is skub. And I'm willing to beat you up over it.
ref: 2006 August 4, Varran, Kingdom of Loathing forums, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2020:
text: I don't know what Skub is but I am against it
ref: 2008 July 6, James7, Neowin forum, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2020:
text: This. I mean, someone will hate skub, someone will love skub, but everyone will be getting skub.
ref: 2012 August 8, anonymous author, 4chan, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2020, No.1972, /q/:
text: Fuck you, skub has done more for society than you or anyone else who hates skub ever will
ref: 2016 September 12, anonymous author, 4chan, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2020, No.2215037, /an/:
text: i don't know what WWIII will be fought with, but i know it will be over skub
ref: 2019 December 30, Chris Wage (@cwage), Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2020:
glosses: An unspecified but insignificant fictional substance, which is perpetually the subject of hostile discussion.
wikipedia: 4chan
Perry Bible Fellowship
Derived terms: pro-skub
anti-skub
bercary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bercaries
Etymology: From Latin bercaria (“sheepcote”).
Senses: glosses: A medieval English sheep farm.
stagnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagna
Etymology: From Latin stāgnum.
Senses: examples: text: See ante p. 44, where allusion is made to the grant by Roger de Mowbray to John, son of Drin, who had liberty to make this mill, and to fasten a stagnum or mill-pool.
ref: 1865, John Fisher (of Masham.), The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire (page 182)
glosses: A millpond.
spotted dragonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted dragonets
Senses: glosses: A fish of the species Callionymus maculatus.
spotted dragonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted dragonet
bavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bavians
Senses: glosses: A baboon.
bavians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bavian
blue giants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue giant
blue supergiants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue supergiant
errand boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: errand boys
Senses: examples: text: There was plenty of food and plenty of work. He was to be errand boy, and to help the girls to carry wood and water and do other odd jobs.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 96:
glosses: A male employed to run errands.
topics: management
qualifier: occasionally derogatory
glosses: Someone in a responsible position who performs relatively menial tasks for a senior manager.
Synonyms: word: cat's paw
word: hatchet man
Pau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
glosses: A commune of the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.
errand boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of errand boy
blue stragglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue straggler
double star systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double star system
dwarf stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarf star
is-as
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of is-a
has-beens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of has-been
bercaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bercary
scut monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scut monkey
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The timezone of GMT+10:00, used in eastern Australia, comprising four states. Queensland is the only state to remain constant through daylight savings time while the others transition to GMT+11:00.
Related terms: AEST
mashuganas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mashugana
gadgetbahnen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡædʒɪtˌbɑːnən/
ipa: /ˈɡæd͡ʒətˌbɑnən/
Etymology: From English gadget + German Bahnen (plural of Bahn).
Senses: glosses: plural of gadgetbahn
out-gun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-guns
form: out-gunning
form: out-gunned
form: out-gunned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of outgun.
out-gunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of out-gun
out-gunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of out-gun
out-guns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of out-gun
Sunshine Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A section of coast in Queensland, Australia between Caloundra and Noosa Heads.
glosses: A local government area in Queensland, Australia; in full, the Sunshine Coast Region.
examples: text: Two place names on the Sunshine Coast are changing to reflect the language and culture of local Indigenous Peoples, the B.C. government says.
ref: 2021 August 19, “2 Indigenous place names restored on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast”, in CBC News:
glosses: A section of coast in British Columbia, Canada, on the eastern shore of the Strait of Georgia.
glosses: A regional district, Sunshine Coast Regional District, in British Columbia.
glosses: A section of coast in North Island, New Zealand on the Bay of Plenty.
glosses: A section of coast in Essex, United Kingdom.
glosses: A section of coast in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Derived terms: Sunshine Coaster
Related terms: Gold Coast
Cherusci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area possibly near present-day Hanover, during the first centuries BC and AD
African mole crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African mole cricket
Gang of Four
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gang of Four
form: gang of four
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 四人幫／四人帮 (sìrénbāng).
Senses: examples: text: Once control of the media was wrested from Mao's most strident defenders, the abusive language Chiang Ch'ing had used against her enemies over the years was hurled back at her. The verbal weapons borrowed from Lu Hsun backfired. "Ruthlessly beat the dog in the water," her enemies repeated as they vowed to fight the Gang of Four to the finish. Their claims to have been the standard-bearers of the much-exploited Lu Hsun were mocked.
ref: 1977, Roxane Witke, Comrade Chiang Chʻing, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 472:
text: Chinese and Japanese scholars attending a symposium on the problems facing the Peiping regime Dec. 17 reached the conclusion that the trial of the "gang of four" and six other defendants in Peiping is actually a trial of Mao Tse-tung and his thought.
ref: 1980 December 21, “Along with 'gang of four' Mao's thought goes on trial in Peiping”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, page 1:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A radical political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
glosses: Any influential (political) group having four members.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Any influential (political) group having four members.
Synonym of Big Four (“four largest corporations of Big Tech”).
synonyms: word: Big Four
extra: four largest corporations of Big Tech
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An English post-punk band formed in 1976.
Related terms: Gang of Six
Gang of Eight
patent leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patent leathers
Etymology: So named because the category began with patented formulations for tanning and finishing; for more, see Wikipedia at patent leather § History.
Senses: glosses: Leather that has been given a high-gloss, shiny finish.
Related terms: leathergoods
leatherwork
patent leathers
shoe-leather
Harnisch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harnisches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Harnisch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hatz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hate speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate-speech
Etymology: From hate + speech. Compare Old English hetesprǣċ (“hateful speech”).
Senses: examples: text: Facebook belatedly moved to further restrict hate speech that glorified violence against women after an organized social media campaign caused some companies like Nissan, the automaker, to withhold advertising from the site.
ref: 2013 May 30, “Hate Speech on Facebook”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: hate crime
glosses: Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
Caloundra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈlaʊndɹə/
Etymology: From the Pama-Nyungan language term Kalowendah, meaning "place of the beech trees".
Senses: glosses: A suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
varsity letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varsity letters
Senses: glosses: An identifying initial of the academic institution that is awarded to a member of a varsity team. It is made from structured cloth, and intended to be sewn to a piece of clothing such as a varsity sweater or varsity jacket.
pind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪnd/
ipa: /paɪnd/
Forms: form: pinds
form: pinding
form: pinded
form: pinded
form: pin
form: pynd
form: peynd
Etymology: From Middle English pinden, penden, punden (also as poynen), from Old English *pyndan, ġepyndan (“to impound, shut up, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan (“to impound”). Doublet of poind. Related also to pond.
Senses: glosses: To impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.
glosses: To confine within narrow limits, constrain.
Derived terms: pinder
Noosa Heads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuːsə ˈhedz/
ipa: /ˈnuːsə ˈhɛdz/
Etymology: From a Pama-Nyungan language term noosa ("shade, shadows") + the English term heads (“headlands”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and suburb, one of the three major centres of the Shire of Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, bounded in part by the Noosa River and the headlands of the Noosa National Park.
Related terms: Noosaville
Noosa Junction
mall ninja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mall ninjas
Etymology: Originated in several 2000-2001 discussions on Internet forums devoted to firearms, in which a poster bragged about his firearm expertise while claiming to be a "Sergeant of a three-man Rapid Tactical Force" at an American mall, trained in "ninjitsu". He was soon nicknamed "the mall ninja".
Senses: examples: text: I own a Strider [knife]. Nope, I'm not a mall ninja or secret squirrel but it gives me pleasure to own them.
ref: 2002 September 13, "Rawhide Clyde", “Re: Are Striders worth their price?”, in rec.knives (Usenet):
text: I too abandoned those groups. Granted, I was one who had my mind made up for the most part, but not entirely. I just grew frustrated with the kindergarten sophistry, mall ninja bravado, and so on.
ref: 2005 April 30, Mike Kelly, “Re: I got to stay out of the politic groups...”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):
text: No big deal, unless you're anal about being mil-spec "correct" to impress your mall ninja buddies.
ref: 2007, Patrick Sweeney, The Gun Digest Book of the AR-15, Volume 2, Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 219:
text: You know...like the delusion that you were ever a LEO [law enforcement officer], while you sound far more like a frustrated mall ninja.
ref: 2008 March 6, "WuzYoungOnceToo", “Re: Hey pickle! try again”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):
text: A compound bow is much better [than a crossbow] in every respect, expect maybe for exciting those mall ninjas who, when they are not watching The Walking Dead, hide in their mom's basement and fantasize about Lara Croft.
ref: 2016, Bryce M. Towsley, Prepper Guns, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who brags about being a weaponry expert and connoisseur, but exposes their ignorance by making improbable claims about their experience or skill.
Related terms: CDI factor
mall cop
tacticool
mall ninjas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mall ninja
biomusicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomusical
ngaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ngakas
form: dingaka
Etymology: Borrowed from Tswana ngaka.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Sotho witch doctor.
look down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks down
form: looking down
form: looked down
form: looked down
Senses: examples: text: look down someone's shirt
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, down.
glosses: To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards.
examples: text: Thurlow, forbear thy awful frown; / I beg you may not look me down […].
ref: 1791, James Boswell, No Abolition of Slavery:
glosses: To fix one's gaze upon (someone) until they look away; to stare down.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To decrease in value.
Derived terms: look down on
look down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks down on
form: looking down on
form: looked down on
form: looked down on
form: look down upon
Senses: examples: text: He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.
ref: 2009 September 25, Michael Deacon, “Ross Noble: interview”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
glosses: To regard or treat as inferior.
examples: text: High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.
ref: 1948 March and April, “A Keypoint in an Intensive Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 115:
glosses: To view from a vantage point.
examples: text: I get a feeling Kurt Cobain is looking down on Nickelback and wondering what alternative rock has become.
glosses: To view [people or events on Earth] from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally, Heaven).
Synonyms: english: at
translation: at
word: look down one's nose
Related terms: look upon
goat rodeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat rodeos
Etymology: Derived from goat rope.
Senses: examples: text: For example, a shooting incident had turned into a 20 police car "goat rodeo." The entire area was blocked by the multitude of police cars...
ref: 1996, Barbara Isabel Hummel, Managing the world: an analysis of expressive folklore among paramedics:
text: Old FAA hands, who are trying to keep this goat rodeo moving in a straight line, are still hopeful that this will all shake out in time...
ref: 2004, David Clarke, Technology and terrorism:
text: I should have known after a Monday like that, that Tuesday would be a veritable goat rodeo.
ref: 2004, Todd A, Being Good:
text: “McConnell has zero interest in presiding over another goat rodeo,” a second health care lobbyist told me.
ref: 2017, Dylan Scott, Republicans wind up one last Hail Mary to repeal Obamacare:
glosses: A chaotic, unmanageable situation.
Synonyms: clusterfuck
goat rope
slant-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slant-eyed
form: most slant-eyed
Senses: glosses: Specifically refers to having the eyes of most East Asians: with epicanthic folds, as opposed to the downturned eyes of Europeans.
slanty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slantier
form: more slanty
form: slantiest
form: most slanty
Etymology: From slant + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] when he came to climb some of Hammondsport's slantiest hills he found the pedalling as hard, if not harder, than walking.
ref: 1921, Edwin Wildman, “Glenn Curtiss”, in Famous Leaders of Industry: Second Series, page 79:
text: But Harry's thoughts on such things were, “If a guy has slanty eyes, why can't I say he has slanty eyes? If he had brown eyes, I could say he has brown eyes, couldn't I?” We're not here to debate political correctness[…]
ref: 2001, Steve Stone, Where's Harry?:
glosses: slanted
Paris-Brest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paris-Brests
Etymology: Borrowed from French Paris-Brest, from the French names of the two cities, so called to commemorate the 1,200 km Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race in 1891.
Senses: examples: text: Thankfully the tension dissipates when the waitress returns to ask about dessert. He opts for a Paris-Brest, and I go for a lemon vodka sorbet.
ref: 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: A dessert consisting of a ring (representing a bicycle wheel) of choux pastry filled with praline and topped with flaked almonds.
wikipedia: Paris–Brest–Paris
Jheri curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹi kɜɹl/
Forms: form: Jheri curls
form: Jeri curl
form: Jerry curl
form: jerry curl
form: jheri curl
Etymology: Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998), its inventor.
Senses: examples: text: Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!
ref: 1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, spoken by Mister Senor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson):
text: Eye shadow but no lipstick, Jheri curl drying out.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 517:
text: His little Jheri curl shined under the car's light. He looked hood.
ref: 2020, Romeo Conway, Stop Faking for Stripes, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look.
uncentralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uncentralised
Etymology: From un- + centralized.
Senses: glosses: Not centralized.
Synonyms: noncentralized
uncentralised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + centralised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uncentralized.
discolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discolike
form: most discolike
Etymology: From disco + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In the basement of Hot Millions 2 (opposite) is this youth-oriented, discolike bar with neon lights, loud music and a pool table.
ref: 2005, Sarina Singh, India:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a disco (nightclub where dancing takes place).
examples: text: Though using new technology, the New Romantics created a discolike dance music that had its foundation in the slick, fashionable Motown.
ref: 1996, David P Szatmary, A time to rock: a social history of rock-and-roll:
glosses: Resembling the genre of disco music or some aspect of it.
cryptobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crypto- + -biotic.
Senses: examples: text: As we made our way around the plot, Zaq explained that the majority of the surrounding ground is made up of cryptobiotic soil, a living crust that takes upwards of ten thousand years to develop but is capable of being completely destroyed by a single misplaced footstep.
ref: 2015 October 29, Mike Abu, “A Trip to Zaqistan, One Man’s ‘Sovereign Nation’ in the Middle of the Utah Desert”, in VICE:
glosses: Of or related to cryptobiosis.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to early simple organisms that have left no trace of their existence.
anhydrobiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + hydro- + -biosis.
Senses: glosses: A form of cryptobiosis that occurs in situations of extreme desiccation.
Related terms: anhydrobiotic