cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tits and bums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tits and ass
Senses: examples: text: I mean all this tits and bums must pall after a while, doesn't it?" Graham was almost whispering, hoping that his own, much quieter approach to talking might rub off a little on Terry.
ref: 1982, Peter Finch, Between thirty-five and forty-two: short stories, page 46:
text: Now I come to think about it, the basic appeal of the show is probably on a par with the tits and bums in Sunday Sport — real lowest common denominator stuff.
ref: 1986, Blues & Soul - Issues 474-485, page 30:
text: After 1933, cabaret did not die out in Germany; but it was only the innocuous entertainment version that was allowed to flourish, interspersed here and there with a few 'tits-and-bums' shows.
ref: 1998, Richard Gough, Claire MacDonald, Ric Allsopp, Performance Research: On Risk, →ISBN, page 57:
text: If it's tits and bums, that's what they expect.
ref: 2013, Jo Bannister, Deadly Virtues, →ISBN:
text: 'It was only when the tabloids started going lower orders with tits and bums that it started,' he muttered.
ref: 2014, Dan Davies, In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of tits and ass.
wafflestomper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wafflestompers
Senses: examples: text: One Step at a Time suggests four boot categories: "wafflestomper," trail, scrambling, and climbing boots. As you move from "wafflestomper" through climbing, the cost, weight, and complexity of the boots go up. Day hikers should restrict boot viewing to the "wafflestomper" and trail varieties.
ref: 1980, Gordon W. Stewart, Every body's fitness book, →ISBN:
text: Wear shoes with smooth soles, not wafflestompers.
ref: 1991, Dave Hughes, Strategies for Stillwater, →ISBN:
text: That looks like the print of a great big wafflestomper boot like you're wearin' going in the same direction that we are.
ref: 2013, Tom Airhart, Elk Hunting Guide: Skills, Gear, and Insight, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Clothing has come a long way since my first trips as a kid when we wore cotton-poly blend and wafflestompers.
ref: 2013, Christopher Van Tilburg, The Adrenaline Junkie's Bucket List, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of waffle stomper.
wafflestompers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wafflestomper
oat-burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oat-burners
form: oat burner
Senses: examples: text: He's not just your basic oat-burner who runs because he's taught to.
ref: 2008, Sharon Brondos, White Lightning, →ISBN, page 60:
text: “I'd like to see his face when Taral puts the collar on that oat-burner in the stretch,” he says. “That boy can make a horse run backwards.”
ref: 2011, John Sayles, A Moment in the Sun, →ISBN:
text: We'll never make hundreds of miles on this oat-burner. He'll still be close enough to his own farm that someone will recognize him eventually.
ref: 2013, Gordon Korman, On the Run #5: Public Enemies, →ISBN:
glosses: A horse.
examples: text: Even though we were dead serious about this oat-burner, the home audiences probably collapsed when, along with the Old West dialogue and scenes, they heard the honking and screeching noises of automobiles or the roaring of airplanes overhead.
ref: 1994, Guy LeBow, Watch Your Cleavage, Check Your Zipper!, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Here are the two lead sentences in the liner notes for a recently released western, an oat-burner just out on video called Covenant Rider.
ref: 1996 March-April, John Brown, “Don't Shoot, Pastor”, in American Cowboy, volume 2, number 6, page 30:
text: In this oat-burner, the hero, played by Buck Jones, is supposedly a full-blooded Bannock pony express rider who falls head over heels for a white woman.
ref: 1998, Ward Churchill, Fantasies of the Master Race, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: A film, radio or television show, or theatrical production set in the Old West; horse opera.
oat-burners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oat-burner
oat burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oat burners
Senses: examples: text: They gave me absolutely everything I needed, and Jackie Chan is just an incredible director.” At this point, Star's thought balloon goes like this. “If I get stuck in another oat burner like this one more time, I'm going to slice my wrists. "
ref: 2009, Karl Eysenbach, The Story of the Century, →ISBN, page 121:
text: They all looked up at me, a wisp of amusement in their eyes as I slid off the back of the old oat burner and actually landed on my feet, which was no small achievement.
ref: 2011, Don Foltz, Items of Interest, Or, Possibly Not, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of oat-burner.
oat burners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oat burner
nongreeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongreetings
form: non-greeting
Senses: examples: text: It is in middle distance situations where there are several independent scenes and spaces within reasonable range, around twenty-five meters, that further observation is needed in order to confirm or disprove my intuition that there is no resultant rule: neither greeting nor nongreeting would be stigmatized.
ref: 1986, George L. Huttar, Kenneth Gregerson, Pragmatics in Non-western Perspective, page 165:
text: The reception the Monroe women prepared for the soldiers of Company A was grand compared to the nongreeting the rest of the men received when they reached Detroit late that night.
ref: 2010, Martin N. Bertera, Kim Crawford, The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, →ISBN, page xcv:
text: "I came here to tell you a story," Shoot said, as if hurt by the nongreeting, stepping into the firelight.
ref: 2013, Scott Elliott, Temple Grove, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: The absence of a greeting at a time when a one is possible or expected.
nongreetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongreeting
non-greeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-greetings
Senses: examples: text: The sun helps me remember the good times, and in remembering the good times I can then safely say that in fact I've had good times. How's that for my next non-greeting to visitor: In fact, I've had good times!
ref: 2013, Miriam Toews, Swing Low, →ISBN:
text: The non-greeting twitches my lips into a weak smile.
ref: 2014, Lyla Payne, Living the Dream: Whitman University #5, →ISBN:
text: Luckily, Angus didn't take offense to Cash's non-greeting and headed into the conference room.
ref: 2017, Kristen Ashley, Ghosts and Reincarnation, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nongreeting.
non-greetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-greeting
Vorlages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vorlage
cock-sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-suckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocksucker.
cock-suckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock-sucker
cock suckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock sucker
corkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corkies
Senses: examples: text: [...] a whopper of a corkie on my calf courtesy of Mac [...]
ref: 2012, Toni Jordan, Nine Days, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of corky.
Blaxit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæɡ.zɪt/
ipa: /ˈblæk.sɪt/
rhymes: -æksɪt
Etymology: Blend of black + exit or blend of blax + exit. Coined by human rights consultant Ulysses Burley III, modelled on earlier words like Brexit, Grexit, etc.
Senses: examples: text: The Covid pandemic and the racial reckoning in the wake of the murder of George Floyd led some Black Americans to seek a different way of life abroad, in a movement that some are calling Blaxit.
ref: [2024 February 16, Colette Coleman, “Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A social movement promoting the migration of black people to sub-Saharan Africa from the United States to pursue adventure, career opportunities, etc.
Big Timber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Big Timber Creek.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States.
Myrtilus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A divine hero and son of Hermes.
regular map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular maps
Senses: examples: text: We now find out how a regular map acts on the ring of regular functions on a closed set.[…]Moreover, regular maps can be characterised as the maps that take regular functions into regular functions.
ref: 1994, Igor R. Shafarevich, translated by Miles Reid, Basic Algebraic Geometry 1, 2nd edition, Springer, page 29:
text: Since one expects that the canonical projection f#58;X#92;rightarrowX#47;G is a regular map of algebraic varieties and so has closed fibres, all orbits must be closed subsets in the Zariski topology of X.
ref: 2003, Igor Dolgachev, Lectures on Invariant Theory, Cambridge University Press, page xiii:
text: 2017, José F. Fernando, José M. Gamboa, Carlos Ueno, Polynomial, regular and Nash images of Euclidean spaces, Fabrizio Broglia, Françoise Delon, Max Dickmann, Danielle Gondard-Cozette, Victoria Ann Powers (editors), Ordered Algebraic Structures and Related Topics: International Conference, American Mathematical Society, page 160,
The 1-dimensional semialgebraic set 𝒮:=x>0,xy=1 is the image of the regular map
f: R ²→ R ²,(x,y)↦((xy-1)²+x²,1/((xy-1)²+x²)).
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A morphism between algebraic varieties.
examples: text: 1990 [McGraw-Hill], Jay Kappraff, Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science, 2001, World Scientific, page 141,
Just as there are only five regular maps on the sphere (or plane), there are only three classes of regular maps that can be created on a torus.
text: If n is finite, the regular map is a tessellation of the plane by congruent n-sided polygons, m of which meet at each vertex.
ref: 2010, Jozef Širáñ, Yan Wang, “Maps with highest level of symmetry that are even more symmetric than other such maps: Regular maps with largest exponent groups”, in Richard A. Brualdi, Samat Hedayat, Hadi Kharaghani, Gholamreza B. Khosrovshahi, Shahriar Shahriari, editors, Combinatorics and Graphs: The Twentieth Anniversary Conference of IPM Combinatorics, American Mathematical Society, page 98:
text: If M is a regular map of type #92;#123;p,q#92;#125;, then #92;mathit#123;Aut#125;(M)#92;approx#92;Delta(p,q,2)#47;N for some normal subgroup N#92;#92;trianglelefteq#92;#92;Delta(p,q,2). Similar statements hold for the class of orientably regular maps and subgroups of #92;Delta#43; and #92;Delta#43;(p,q,2).
ref: 2013, Roman Nedela, Martin Škoviera, “7.6: Maps”, in Jonathan L. Gross, Jay Yellen, Ping Zhang, editors, Handbook of Graph Theory, 2nd edition, CRC Press, page 845:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A symmetric tessellation of a closed surface; a decomposition of a two-dimensional manifold into topological disks such that every flag (incident vertex-edge-face triple) can be transformed into any other flag by a symmetry (i.e., an automorphism) of the decomposition.
Synonyms: sense: function between algebraic varieties
word: morphism
regular maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regular map
curtosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kurtosis.
Related terms: curtotic
interinsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + insular.
Senses: glosses: Between islands.
pretensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretensive
form: most pretensive
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin praetendere + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Pretended; feigned.
examples: text: I used half a lifetime reading the critics, and while I found the content pretensive I found the style somehow pleasurable […].
ref: 1967, Charles Bukowski, letter, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 95
glosses: Pretentious.
syphed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syphed up
form: most syphed up
form: siffed-up
form: siffed up
form: syphed-up
Senses: examples: text: And then, I always tell myself if I get siffed up, I'll merely knock myself off, put the old gun in my mouth.
ref: 1960, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Clem Anderson:
text: I am the siffed-up redhead being let out of the car on the corner.
ref: 1968, Charles Bukowski, letter, 20 April, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 103
text: She wanted to die. She was a syphed-up junkie whore, she'd have died before she was forty of malnutrition or an accidental OD […].
ref: 1974, Joe Gores, Interface:
glosses: Afflicted with syphilis; syphilitic.
pepper tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepper trees
form: peppertree
Senses: glosses: New Zealand native shrubs Pseudowintera axillaris and Pseudowintera colorata with leaves often having large red blotches and are used for traditional medicines, and whose flowers are greenish yellow and its fruit is orange-red or black.
examples: .
hyponyms: Brazilian pepper tree
California pepper tree
pink peppercorn
aroeira
glosses: Any of the South American trees in the genus Schinus, which have small fruits that have been used as a substitute for black pepper.
Synonyms: Spanish pepper
cork wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cork woods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corkwood.
sea-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-trees
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of branching corals that look like underwater trees
glosses: Any of a number of branching corals that look like underwater trees
A coral in the genus Aphanipathes
Toole County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Joseph Toole.
Senses: glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Shelby.
wikipedia: Joseph Toole
j-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: j-words
Senses: glosses: Any word beginning with j that is considered to be vulgar in the given context, such as jizz, jerk off/jack off, or Jew/Jewish, or even job.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
j-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of j-word
G-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-words
Senses: examples: text: [...] are not afraid to use the "G word." The divine is their "distinctive product," their "unique business proposition." Still, it is a risky business. The experience of the divine is anything but conformist, it bends to no formal business plan, and it can be ...
ref: 2007, Michael L. Klassen, Bad Religion: The Psychology of Religious Misbehavior, →ISBN, page 56:
text: G-word: The Constitution gives us the right to use the G-word and religious freedom. The Declaration of Independence has the G-word in it. Our Pledge of Allegiance has the G-word, and our money has the G-word.
ref: 2010, Harry Webster, Venting, Somebody Had to Say It, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: The word God.
examples: text: When the Swedish Parliament and the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs used the 'G' word, Prime Minister Erdoğan responded by threatening to deport 100,000 Armenian guest workers[.]
ref: 2014, Geoffrey Robertson, An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of g-word (“any other word beginning with g”).
Related terms: english: gay, or another word beginning with g
translation: gay, or another word beginning with g
word: g-word
sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
G-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of G-word
N-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N-words
Senses: examples: text: Some middle schoolers are learning that history isn’t always meant to be celebrated after the N-word was inadvertently printed on the front cover of their yearbooks.
ref: 2017 June 7, AnneClaire Stapleton, “Students get yearbooks with N-word on the cover”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of n-word.
N-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of N-word
F-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: F-words
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of f-word.
cittie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of city.
nonpresentist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + presentist.
Senses: glosses: Not presentist.
presentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presentist
genetic lottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic lotteries
Senses: glosses: The concept that any advantageous or disadvantageous genetic traits and abilities that a person inherits from their parents are largely determined by chance.
concavo-convexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being concavo-convex.
Treasure County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name was chosen in an effort to attract new settlers.
Senses: glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Hysham.
Limehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Limehouse
Sir Philip Sidney games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sir Philip Sidney game
Hysham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Treasure County, Montana, United States. Named after Charlie Hysham.
SQEPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SQEP
Peking operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peking opera
Beijing operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beijing opera
The Firm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is said to have popularised the expression.
Senses: examples: text: Markle’s American friends spoke eagerly about how she will be “an agent of change” for the royals, perhaps because they were too young, or too far away, to recall how things worked out for the last woman who tried to change The Firm.
ref: 2018 May 20, Hadley Freeman, “Is Meghan Markle the American the royals needed all along?”, in The Guardian:
text: Given the traditionalism that is baked into the royal family, or The Firm as she called it, the Queen eschewed online communications for official messages.
ref: 2022 September 9, Iain Thomson, “RIP Queen Elizabeth II: Britain's first tech monarch dies”, in The Register:
text: Now Andrew has been fired from the Firm, a nation wonders: who’ll be next? [title]
ref: 2025 October 31, Marina Hyde, “Now Andrew has been fired from the Firm, a nation wonders: who’ll be next?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The British royal family.
wikipedia: en:Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Related terms: The Company
Cooperite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cooperites
Etymology: From Cooper + -ite, after Neville Cooper, who founded the group in 1969.
Senses: glosses: A member of Gloriavale Christian Community, a small Christian group based at Haupiri in New Zealand.
Cooperites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cooperite
biracials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biracial
Chardinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chardinian
form: most Chardinian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest.
FOBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FOBTs
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: Initialism of fixed odds betting terminal.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of fecal occult blood test.
Related terms: word: betting terminal
word: fixed odds
alt: fecal occult blood
word: FOB
Torres Strait Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of hundreds of small islands which lie in the Torres Strait, between Australia and New Guinea.
Derived terms: Torres Strait Islander
Torres Strait Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Torres Strait Islanders
Etymology: From Torres Strait Islands + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of the indigenous people living on the Torres Strait Islands, considered distinct from the Aboriginal people of the rest of Australia.
Torres Strait Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Torres Strait Islander
Wheatland County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipal district in south-central Alberta, Canada.
glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Harlowton. Named for its wheat fields.
BFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BF
aesthesio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἰσθητής (aisthētḗs, “one who perceives”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to sensation or perception
Wibaux County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Pierre Wibaux.
Senses: glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Wibaux.
wikipedia: Pierre Wibaux
Wibaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Wibaux County, Montana, United States.
guestfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guestfriendly
form: most guestfriendly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guest-friendly.
Hongshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ho͝ongʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Hung-shan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪山 (Hóngshān).
Senses: examples: text: German-based Metro Cash & Carry, one of the most successful foreign retail groups in China, has one of its 15 mainland stores in the Hongshan district of Wuhan and has plans for another outlet in the city.
ref: 2002, The China Business Handbook 2002, Hong Kong: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:
text: In addition to interviews at the provincial level, I conducted interviews with municipal officials in Wuhan, district officials in Hongshan District, and township and village leaders in one township within the district.
ref: 2006, Tyrene White, China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: For instance, in the Hongshan district, Zhuodaoquan North Road (卓刀泉北路) is designated as “The Most Beautiful Flowery Street.”
ref: 2020, Rebecca Clothey, Richardson Dilworth, China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: People line up at a hospital designated to test the discharged COVID patients and people from the isolation facilities in Hongshan district in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Saturday, March 14, 2020. The province reported no new infections on Thursday after being the epicenter of China's outbreak.
ref: 2020 March 19, Rachel Chang, Claire Che, Bloomberge, “China’s coronavirus epicenter reaches milestone of zero new cases”, in Fortune:
text: Urban residents were surveyed in two central districts including the Hongshan District and Hangjiang^([sic – meaning Jianghan]) District in Wuhan City as well as the Zhangwan District in Shiyan City.
ref: 2020, Wann-Ming Wey, editor, Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management, MDPI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 171:
text: Officials are also tracking unspecified products of the same batch as the softshell turtles that have been shipped elsewhere, said the disease control authority in Wuhan's Hongshan district.
ref: 2022 July 14, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerve”, in Christopher Cushing, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2022, China:
glosses: A district of Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Hongshan district, Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.
glosses: A town in Sui, Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.
Hongshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ho͝ongʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Hung-shan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅山 /红山 (Hóngshān).
Senses: examples: text: Several fragments of reddish-brown clay statuettes of the Hongshan culture, found at Dongshanzui in Kazuo county, Liaoning province and dating to 3500 B.C., all seem to be kneeling or seated figures of about half life-size or smaller.
ref: 1997, Helmut Brinker, “On the Origin of the Human Image in Chinese Art”, in "Visions of Man in Chinese Art" with Selected Japanese Paintings, Kaikodo, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: Hongshan culture
glosses: A district of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.
glosses: A town in Yingshan, Huanggang, Hubei, in central China.
glosses: A residential community in Tancheng, Pingtan, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Derived terms: hongshanornithid
Hongshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ho͝ongʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Hung-shan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪善 (Hóngshàn).
Senses: glosses: A village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, in central China.
Caidian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tsīʹdyěnʹ
Forms: form: Ts'ai-tien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蔡甸 (Càidiàn).
Senses: examples: text: Deng was an individual printer in Caidian District in Wuhan City, Hubei. In February 1994, Deng printed 800 false Hubei special value-added tax invoices in 16 books and sold them.
ref: 1994 November 17 [1994 October 28], “Various Provinces Execute Six for Value-Added Tax Invoice Offenses”, in Daily Report: China, number 222, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing FAZHI RIBAO p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 22, column 2:
text: A comparison of the three maps in Figure 1 shows that the ecological security of Wuhan from 1996 to 2006 deteriorated. However, the trend strengthened from 2006 to 2010. Jiangxia District underwent the most significant changes, transitioning from high-risk to medium-, low- and relatively low-risk. Caidian District is in second place.
ref: 2016, Liandong Zhu, Ahmed Ouadha, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 335:
text: The Huoshenshan Hospital is located in the Caidian district of Wuhan. The facility is 1,000 bedded and has 30 intensive care units (ICUs) with two floors and occupies 269,000 sqft.
ref: 2020, Parvez Ahmad, Airborne Infection Control Guide to Planning & Designing of Hospitals, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
text: Eight people were reported dead in Wuhan, in Hubei province, with 280 injured after Friday's tornado ripped through the district of Caidian at 8:39 p.m., the agency said.
ref: 2021 May 14, “Tornadoes hit two Chinese provinces, killing 12, injuring hundreds”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 15 May 2021, Environment:
glosses: A district of Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.
glosses: A village in Caidian, Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, in central China.
ftira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ftiras
Senses: glosses: A ring-shaped Maltese unleavened loaf often filled and made into sandwiches.
ftiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ftira
Malta fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the fact that the disease first came to the attention of British medical officers in Malta.
Senses: glosses: brucellosis
Falasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an Ethiopic-language term, possibly Ge'ez ፈላሻ (fälaša), meaning wanderer, migrant, nomad.
Senses: examples: text: The master bedroom is a jewelry workshop where we find Rikki, an Ethiopian Jewish refugee, a Falasha, in a leopard-print leotard and safety goggles, armed with a soldering gun, bent over a trestle table making exquisite pendants and earrings of silver and nickel and amber.
ref: 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
glosses: Ethiopian Jew; Beta Israel
accommoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accommode
accommoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accommode
Anson County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after George Anson, 1st Baron Anson.
Senses: glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Wadesboro.
wikipedia: George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
Wadesboro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wade + -s- + -boro; named after Col. Thomas Wade in North Carolina.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Leon County, Florida, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Anson County, North Carolina, United States.
choogles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of choogle
choogles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choogle
phono-semantic compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phono-semantic compounds
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 形聲字／形声字 (xíngshēngzì).
Senses: examples: text: Only an opaque and weak orthography-to-phonology analogy rule can be found with the phono-semantic compound type of characters (i.e., the xingshēng zi), which covers 80% of modern daily-use characters.
ref: 2006, Language and linguistics - Volume 7, Issue 3, page 579:
text: 'Jeon' is a phono-semantic compound which is formed from two elements of different words in two parts.
ref: 2015, Denise Doyle, New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The Chinese character 城 is a phono-semantic compound of the "place" or "earth" radical 土 and 成, whose Old Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as *deŋ.
ref: 2016 July 31, Sigurdr Volsung, “US elections - I do remember such unpopular cadidates”, in soc.history.medieval (Usenet):
text: Phono-semantic compound characters, or the combination of elements that provide meaning and sound: the rebus 干 (gan) provides the phonetic basis for combinations with determinative characters such as 木 (mu, tree),日 (ri, sun), and 月 (rou, meat), to create the characters ...
ref: 2017, Thomas O. Höllmann, Chinese Script: History, Characters, Calligraphy, →ISBN:
glosses: A Chinese character (CJKV character) composed of a component which is related to the meaning the character and another component which is related to the sound of the character.
Synonyms: determination-phonetic character
semaphore-phonetic character
Ashe County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Samuel Ashe.
Senses: glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Jefferson.
wikipedia: Samuel Ashe (North Carolina)
Chowan County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Chowan tribe.
Senses: glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Edenton.
wikipedia: Chowanoke
Edenton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Eden + -ton, named after Charles Eden in North Carolina.
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Chowan County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio, United States.
Zysk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zysks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Zysk and Polish Zyśk.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Sobczyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sobczyks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Sobczyk.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
fifthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fifth
fifthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fifth
sixthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sixth
sixthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sixth
eighthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eighth
eighthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪtθt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eighth
Barys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Бары́с (Barýs).
ninthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ninth
ninthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ninth
tenthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tenth
tenthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tenth
hooraw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Then hooraw for the Tars of old England so free, The pride of the world, and the lords of the sea, The pride of the world, and the lords of the sea.
ref: 1825, Charles Dibdin, The Sea Songs of the Immortal Charles Dibdin, page 90:
text: “Hooraw !” cried one of the spectators, whose red flannel shirt seemed to indicate the propriety of looking out for a new One.
ref: 1844, Charles Sealsfield, Life In The New World; Or Sketches Of American Society:
text: "Hooraw—hooraw!" cried a dozen and a half of boys, "here be Hempror o' Roosia coming."
ref: 1865 May – 1866 August, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, chapter XVI, in Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 265:
text: "Hooraw for the 'Lantas! Hooraw for the girls! Hooraw for the Institoot!" shout a hundred voices.
ref: 1889, Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker, The Elocutionist’s Annual, number 17, page 46:
glosses: Used to express joy, excitement, amusement, or approval; hooray.
hooraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooraws
Senses: examples: text: They march in processions and get up hooraws, And wade through the mud for the good of the cause
ref: 1889 January-June, Martin J. Griffin, “Diary of a Visitor in New York During the Presidential Election”, in Murray's Magazine, volume 5, page 89:
text: Today the arts had been abandoned for sport, in this case basketball, and from the hooraw going on in the corner of the room it would appear some money was riding on the outcome.
ref: 1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Compared to the audience at that first special session, these Marsrats didn'g partake of any shouting matches, cries for attention or self-centered complaining about quake damage. No hooraw at all, which struck me as surprising and surely disappointed Black-like-me.
ref: 2003, William Walling, Olympus Mons, →ISBN:
text: We've had us one hooraw this afternoon, and that's enough.
ref: 2010, Stephen King, The Green Mile, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: A noisy or boisterous gathering or activity; uproar.
examples: text: Besides, some of those hooraws will know you on sight.
ref: 2012, William W. Johnstone, Blood of Eagles, →ISBN:
text: "I never knew no hooraws before, Long Man," said Clint. "Reckon I can get used to you, though."
ref: 2016, William T. Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN:
text: Well, I might be a hooraw, but I didn't creep out of no patch of skunk cabbage.
ref: 2016, William T. Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN:
glosses: An unsophisticated person.
examples: text: In fact, when you see all these things happening, Mr. Speaker, when you listen to that kind of hooraw — coming from the other side — it is a wonderful example of the awful things that can happen when cousins marry.
ref: 1978, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report - Volume 2, page 1501:
text: After unleashing a tirade of profanity: Lawrence Will recorded his response as: “Dag-nabbit, I can't even set foot on the blasphemous property to see what in the hooraw I've bought!”
ref: 2006, Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, →ISBN, page 785:
text: So the Consecrates are cocked and primed to go off, in an explosion of reinterpretations, reformations, counter-reformations, revelations, new doctrines, fundamentalist reactions, and every other kind of hooraw we humans have been through.
ref: 2011, Poul Anderson, The Trouble Twisters, →ISBN:
glosses: A nonce word.
hooraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hooraws
form: hoorawing
form: hoorawed
form: hoorawed
Senses: examples: text: As the driver hoorawed the horses and the three other passengers grabbed the hand straps for support, Friendly ran up to Longarm's window, looking harried.
ref: 2007, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Dwarf's Darling, →ISBN:
text: He was in the act of dismounting when someone up ahead through the underbrush hoorawed a loose horse.
ref: 2008, Lauran Paine, Feud on the Mesa, →ISBN, page 216:
text: Some of the boys down there still had their rifles and he'd be deader than mutton a second after he started to hooraw the herd.
ref: 2011, Ralph Compton, Joseph A. West, The Last Manhunt, →ISBN:
glosses: To make loud noises at, such as when driving horses or cattle.
examples: text: Sha'nt I have to hooraw nor nothin'? 'cause 'twould go awfully agin my conshence to hooraw for Van Buren.
ref: 1867, Mrs. Francis Miriam (Berry) Whitcher, M. L. Ward Whitcher, Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches, page 370:
text: I wuz permitted 2 rize after hoorawing for Duglis.
ref: 1969, John M. Harrison, The Man who Made Nasby: David Ross Locke, page 73:
text: Seems to me I hoorawed around for a while an' poured me a snort o' redeye to celebrate, but then I got to thinkin'.
ref: 2012, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt, →ISBN:
glosses: To loudly and publicly celebrate or express support for someone or something.
examples: text: Hey, you just got hoorawed, boy, you got your leg pulled.
ref: 2011, Brian Garfield, Wild Times:
text: I know all about the limit, but I figure a man as smart and important as you can find a way to hooraw the deal so the other owners won't know.
ref: 2015, James W. Bennett, Donald Raycraft, Old Hoss: A Fictional Baseball Biography of Charles Radbourn, →ISBN:
text: I wasn't going to let myself be hoorawed by any avaricious bush mechanic, especially one who looked like he wasn't busy, as this one did.
ref: 2016, Jake Jacobson, Alaska Flying: Surviving Incidents & Accidents, →ISBN:
glosses: To fool; to trick.
examples: text: Yo' see, it happen so : Marse Chan he wuz a- speakin' down at de Deep Creek Tavern, an' he kind o' got de bes' of ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin. All de white folks laughed an' hoorawed, an' ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin -- My Lawd! I t'ought he'd 'a' bu'st, he was so mad.
ref: 1897, Thomas Nelson Page, Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia, page 21:
text: She told Morgan, whose face was still badly swollen and bruised, that he cut a grand handsome figure, and he wondered how, in her female scheme of things, it was acceptable for her to hooraw his appearance when he was not allowed to poke innocent fun at hers.
ref: 2010, Howard Frank Mosher, Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel, →ISBN, page 214:
text: And that grinnin' Banty Tillotson will hooraw me for a week.
ref: 2011, Elmer Kelton, Dark Thicket, →ISBN:
glosses: To make fun of.
hooraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooraw
hooraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hooraw
hoorawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hooraw
hoorawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hooraw
presatellite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + satellite.
Senses: examples: text: She had had a satellite dish installed just so she could watch The Young and the Restless every day instead of waiting for the damn state to puit it on Ratnet. In her presatellite days, she'd once had to wait two weeks to find out if Nicholas Newman had gone to jail for a murder he naturally had not committed.
ref: 1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 189:
text: In presatellite days, certain components of the radiation balance, such as short wave (reflected) and long wave (absorbed and reradiated) energy losses to space, were established by estimation, not measurement.
ref: 2007, Arthur P. Cracknell, Introduction to Remote Sensing, →ISBN, page 256:
text: Indeed, the presatellite determination of the figure of the Earth and of its external gravity field was based on astro-geodetic and gravity data gleaned from observations made only on the continents, and not even on all the continents, and from measurements that were by no means homogeneously distributed.
ref: 2013, Milan Bursa, Karel Pec, Gravity Field and Dynamics of the Earth, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Before the use of a satellite.
shocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shocky
form: most shocky
Etymology: From shock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Shock! She's going to get shocky!
ref: 1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 204:
text: One young girl, who looked pale and shocky, was wandering around the first floor, pausing to pick up a fallen book and trying to reshelve it.
ref: 2009, Catherine Coulter, TailSpin, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Might be a bit shocky. Does wonders for the shocky types a cup of tea does.
ref: 2011, John Birmingham, After America, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: In a state of shock; suffering from shock.
examples: text: It can get “shocky” on the Clark if you don't watch it, but is quite smooth on the Howells.
ref: 2002, Ed Engle, Splitting Cane: Conversations with Bamboo Rodmakers, →ISBN, page 194:
text: This "shocky" peel is related to the increased stiffening and glass-like behavior of the adhesive at increasing peel rate.
ref: 2003, Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz, Herman Francis Mark, Encyclopedia of polymer science and technology, →ISBN, page 89:
text: In this study, it was assumed that the explosive is of a shocky type (i.e. with very high detonation velocity) and delivers most of its energy in the form of stress wave.
ref: 2012, S.C. Bhargava -, Electrical Measuring Instruments and Measurements, →ISBN, page 710:
text: Small shocky structures can be created on the surface of a basin of water by blowing at it obliquely with a household fan.
ref: 2013, G.L. Geernaert, W.J. Plant, Surface Waves and Fluxes: Volume II — Remote Sensing, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to a shock wave.
Schlichter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlichters
Etymology: Occupational surname, borrowed from German Schlichter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
overactivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overactivate
overactivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overactivate
underactivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underactivates
form: underactivating
form: underactivated
form: underactivated
Etymology: From under- + activate.
Senses: examples: text: Wood and Flowers (1999) demonstrated with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) that the same brain regions that underactivate in dyslexia also underactivate in the inattentive subtype of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
ref: 2001 -, Que Ida, Annals of Dyslexia 2001, →ISBN, page 37:
text: In contrast, struggling readers underactivate the reading systems in the back of the brain and overactivate the system in the front of the brain.
ref: 2014, Patrick R. Riccards, Phyllis Blaunstein, Reid Lyon, Why Kids Can't Read: Continuing to Challenge the Status Quo in Education, →ISBN:
text: An important discovery over the last ten years comes from studies that parametrically varied working memory load to establish that, compared to younger adults, older adults tend to overactivate PFC regions at lower loads, and to underactivate at higher loads, where performance also drops off.
ref: 2016, Roberto Cabeza, Lars Nyberg, Denise C. Park, Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging: Linking Cognitive and Cerebral Aging, →ISBN:
glosses: To produce insufficient levels of activation.
underactivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underactivate
underactivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underactivate
calorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calorises
form: calorising
form: calorised
form: calorised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calorize.
calorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calorise
calorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calorise
calorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calorise
submillikelvin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + millikelvin.
Senses: examples: text: Light fields from the radiation pressure force and the dipole gradient potential, needed to cool atoms to submillikelvin temperatures, also play an active role in the collision processes themselves.
ref: 2003, John Weiner, Cold and Ultracold Collisions in Quantum Microscopic and Mesoscopic Systems:
glosses: Relating to temperatures below one millikelvin.
nanomanipulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + manipulative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nanomanipulation.
redemptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From redemptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being redemptive.
Big Tomato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Big Tomato
Etymology: Based on Big Apple (“New York City”), but referring to the local tomato industry.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Sacramento, California.
Synonyms: Sacratomato
Sacto
Sacratomato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Sacramento + tomato, in reference to the local tomato industry.
Senses: glosses: Sacramento, California.
Synonyms: Big Tomato
Sacto
breaking of the waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the rupture of the amniotic sac at the beginning of or during labour.