cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
DDBJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of DNA Data Bank of Japan.
jubie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jubies
form: jubee
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: So everytime you walk through a dance tell a yute 'xcuse me' / Tellin your jubie 'I like her style' / She's talkin about 'abuse me'
ref: 2000, Kardinal Offishall, “BaKardi Slang” (track 2), in Quest for Fire: Firestarter, Vol. 1, performed by Kardinal Offishall:
text: Could you be so kind and show me a sign / I've been searching and it's so hard to find / Decent values with a decent wine / Decent jubee running it down the line
ref: 2001 September 11, Damien Marley, “Still Searchin'” (track 5), in Halfway Tree, performed by Damien Marley ft. Stephen Marley and Yami Bolo:
glosses: A young woman.
propledge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propledge
form: most propledge
Etymology: From pro- + pledge.
Senses: examples: text: It was an issue of great personal importance to young men who thought they might be drafted, and possibly killed, in a war they regarded as immoral. Janis and Rausch (1970) tested for selective exposure to propledge and antipledge communications among four different kinds of Yale students: those who immediately refused to sign the , those who refused after some deliberation, those who favored the pledge and said they might sign, and those who had already signed it.
ref: 1978, Jonathan L. Freedman, David O. Sears, J. Merrill Carlsmith, Social Psychology, page 363:
text: Patrick not only used Facebook extensively to promote his own propledge writings, but he became quite adept at concocting framing introductions to other authors' pieces he posted there as a means of promoting the pledge.
ref: 2018, Patrick Walker, Bernie or Bust: Pioneers of Electoral Revolt, page 51:
text: Joseph Curran's National Maritime Union was particularly active, donating money and manpower to help get out the propledge vote in the Detroit area.
ref: 2003, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War At Home: The CIO In World War II, page 196:
antonyms: antipledge
glosses: In favor of a particular pledge.
Wozney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wozneys
form: Wozny
form: Vozny
form: Voznyy
form: Voznyj
Etymology: From Polish Woźny and Ukrainian Возний (Voznyj).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
leek orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leek orchids
Etymology: From leek + orchid, a partial calque of translingual Prasophyllum n (literally “leek-leaf”). Derived from Ancient Greek πρᾰ́σον n (prắson, “leek”) + translingual -phyllum n (“leaf”).
Senses: glosses: Any orchid of the genus Prasophyllum.
Related terms: Prasophyllum
French Quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French + Quarter.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood and National Historic Landmark in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nambe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nambé.
Nambe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nambé.
Nambe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nambé.
mesonephric duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesonephric ducts
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: paramesonephric duct
glosses: Synonym of Wolffian duct.
synonyms: word: Wolffian duct
Mullerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Müllerian.
ring-bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-bolts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ringbolt.
ring-bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring-bolt
Pojoaque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /pəˈwɑ.ki/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /poʊˈwɑː.ki/
note: US, wine–whine merger
ipa: /pəˈʍɑ.ki/
note: US, wine–whine merger
ipa: /poʊˈʍɑ.ki/
ipa: /pəˈwɑː.kiː/
ipa: /pəʊˈwɑː.kiː/
rhymes: -ɑːki
Etymology: From Spanish Pojoaque, from Tewa Pʼohsųwæ̨geh (“water drinking place”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pojoaque people.
Pojoaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /pəˈwɑ.ki/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /poʊˈwɑː.ki/
note: US, wine–whine merger
ipa: /pəˈʍɑ.ki/
note: US, wine–whine merger
ipa: /poʊˈʍɑ.ki/
ipa: /pəˈwɑː.kiː/
ipa: /pəʊˈwɑː.kiː/
rhymes: -ɑːki
Etymology: From Spanish Pojoaque, from Tewa Pʼohsųwæ̨geh (“water drinking place”).
Senses: glosses: A federally recognized tribe of Tewa-speaking Pueblo people in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.
Pojoaque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /pəˈwɑ.ki/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /poʊˈwɑː.ki/
note: US, wine–whine merger
ipa: /pəˈʍɑ.ki/
note: US, wine–whine merger
ipa: /poʊˈʍɑ.ki/
ipa: /pəˈwɑː.kiː/
ipa: /pəʊˈwɑː.kiː/
rhymes: -ɑːki
Etymology: From Spanish Pojoaque, from Tewa Pʼohsųwæ̨geh (“water drinking place”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: Nambé
Ohkay Owingeh
San Ildefonso
glosses: The pueblo inhabited by these people, one of the Rio Grande Pueblos.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.
Related terms: word: Acoma
word: Cochiti
word: Isleta
word: Jemez
word: Laguna
word: Nambé
english: San Juan
translation: San Juan
word: Ohkay Owingeh
word: Picuris
word: Sandia
word: San Felipe
word: San Ildefonso
word: Santa Ana
word: Santa Clara
english: Kewa
translation: Kewa
word: Santo Domingo
word: Taos
word: Tesuque
word: Zia
word: Zuni
word: Pueblo
word: Puebloan
smell the coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells the coffee
form: smelling the coffee
form: smelled the coffee
form: smelled the coffee
Senses: examples: text: The gay and lesbian movement has been white and middle class, and it is very meaningful for working class gay and gay people of color that our movement has finally smelled the coffee on this and it is taking up in a major way.
ref: 1991 December 15, Jacob Smith Yang, quoting Sue Hyde, “Anti-ROTC Or Anti-Military?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 6:
glosses: To wake up and smell the coffee.
whewl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whewls
form: whewling
form: whewled
form: whewled
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:whewl.
glosses: To cry, moan, or whine plaintively.
whewled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whewl
whewls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whewl
whewling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whewl
dial out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dials out
form: dialing out
form: dialling out
form: dialed out
form: dialed out
form: dialled out
form: dialled out
Senses: examples: text: To dial out, press 9 and then the phone number.
glosses: To make a call using an outbound line.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: dial in
glosses: To start an online meeting or conference call by calling or otherwise alerting the participants.
examples: text: You have to dial him out to get any work done.
glosses: To ignore (someone).
dick off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dicks off
form: dicking off
form: dicked off
form: dicked off
Senses: glosses: To shirk; to waste time; to play around.
dick out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dicks out
form: dicking out
form: dicked out
form: dicked out
Senses: examples: text: He dicked me out of a hundred dollars.
glosses: To cheat (someone); to screw over (someone).
bedbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedbreaking
form: most bedbreaking
Senses: examples: text: It felt better, in the soul, than the best sweaty, wild and bedbreaking screw.
ref: 1994, Frederick Busch, Long Way from Home, page 87:
text: And so, after months of backbreaking, bedbreaking day and night labors with Scottie and Speedy and Edwina and the consumption of many cases of champagne, an advertising plan was conceived.
ref: 2010, Dave Robson, A True History of the Robson Mistake, page 234:
text: According to reports, Deepika Padukone has called both Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh 'bedbreaking'.
ref: 2021 October 13, Pankaj Sabnani, “From Shah Rukh Khan to Akshay Kumar to Alia Bhatt, 9 celebs who love to crack double meaning jokes”, in Bollywood Life:
glosses: Alternative form of bed-breaking.
bed-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bed-breaking
form: most bed-breaking
form: bedbreaking
form: bed breaking
Etymology: Compound of bed + breaking, from the image of sex that is so wild that the bed on which it occurs falls apart from the strain.
Senses: examples: text: The upside of the stormy affair is the nightly session of wall-shaking, ground-quaking, bed-breaking, neighbor-waking make-up sex.
ref: 2000, John Paschal, Mark Louis, The Single Man, page 156:
text: Their passionate gazes would be locked in silent promise of more bed-breaking sex romps in the coming hours.
ref: 2011, Cate Lord, Lucky Girl:
text: Edward is the epitome of thoughtfulnes who devotes himself to his wife's well-being, even if that means controlling his vampire urges to taste her sweet-smelling blood, and his teenage hormones that want more bed-breaking sex.
ref: 2012, Kelly Oliver, Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down, page 205:
text: Because I thought you were just bragging before, when we first came into the bungalow and you told me that as newlyweds, we were supposed to be 'having wild, bed-breaking sex.'”
ref: 2020, Cynthia Eden, Crossing The Line:
glosses: Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bed, breaking.
bed breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bed breaking
form: most bed breaking
Senses: examples: text: She reminded me of my trip to Orlando where Cheryl and I had bed breaking sex.
ref: 2010, Jaden Kelley, Drama, page 6:
text: She was an easy 10/10 in looks and the sex with her had been bed breaking, but the game's the game.
ref: 2021, Leke Apena, Flavours of Black:
text: She was so lame because there was no way that Paz—who was as famous for his oversized sculptors as he was for his affairs with stunning women—would associate her, a menopausal housekeeper with four grown-up sons: one she'd birthed and four she'd adopted into her heart, with bed breaking sex.
ref: 2023, Joss Wood, Just a Little Jilted & Their Temporary Arrangement:
glosses: Alternative form of bed-breaking.
toss in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses in
form: tossing in
form: tossed in
form: tossed in
Senses: examples: text: Buy now, and I'll toss in floor mats!
glosses: To add (something) as a bonus.
ZiGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ZiG
smash someone's face in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smashes someone's face in
form: smashing someone's face in
form: smashed someone's face in
form: smashed someone's face in
Senses: glosses: To beat someone violently.
Synonyms: bash someone's face in
heat thunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:heat thunder.
glosses: Thunder that is heard without lightning being seen by the observer, and/or that is attributed to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen).
Related terms: heat lightning
CorrectThink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We cannot survive as a country or culture if CorrectThink is a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
ref: 2016 October 13, John Nolte, “Feminist Movie Blogger: P***y Groper Devin Faraci Deserves CorrectThink Forgiveness”, in The Daily Wire:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of correctthink.
racial profiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racial profilers
Etymology: From racial + profiler.
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in racial profiling.
racial profilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racial profiler
minstrel song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minstrel songs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of coon song.
synonyms: word: coon song
minstrel songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minstrel song
dig on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs on
form: digging on
form: dug on
form: dug on
Senses: examples: text: Jermaine dug on her.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be attracted to (someone).
examples: text: You had better dig on this.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To observe.
dish off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishes off
form: dishing off
form: dished off
form: dished off
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To pass the ball or puck.
zip coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip coons
form: zip-coon
form: Zip Coon
Etymology: From a minstrel song titled Ole Zip Coon (1834) about a minstrel show character named Zip Coon. The song stereotypically portrays Zip Coon as unintelligent and incapable of assimilating into white American society.
Senses: examples: text: Arter a while we got done—but it looked like I had bad luck for in sittin' down agin I lik'd to have sot on Barbry's tom cat, which if I had, I shoulder bin like Kurnel Zip Coon's wife who jump'd into a holler log to mash two young panters to deth, and they scratched her so bad she couldn t set down for two munse.
ref: 1858, Big Bear's Adventures and Travels, page 98:
text: "De gal w'at git ole Brer Jack 'ull git a natchul pacer, sho'. He move mo' one-sideder dan ole Zip Coon, w'ich he rack up de branch all night long wid he nose p'int lak he gwine 'cross."
ref: 1883, The Century, volume 26, page 613:
text: I'm ther old eriginal zip-coon, And that uther coon er sottin' on er rail; And I'm that same old coon What allers war er coon, And that never got er lickin' till yet.
ref: 1886, Hiram H. McLane, The Capture of the Alamo: A Historical Tragedy, in Four Acts, with Prologue, page 85:
glosses: A black man.
examples: text: There were many names for the coon stock character. He has been referred to as the urban zip coon, dancing dandy, and, most notably, Sambo, the happy slave.
ref: 2006, Ronald L. Jackson II, Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media, page 26:
text: Dixon's "Zip Coon" celebrated such a dandy in 1834, and the engraving on the cover of the sheet music portrayed a zip coon in just such a jacket.
ref: 2009, Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather, page 2:
text: George Dixon first portrayed the zip coon in 1834.
ref: 2019, Elizabeth L. Sanderson, Spike Lee's Bamboozled and Blackface in American Culture, page 28:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A black person who accepts an inferior social status to white people.
drawbridge mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now, one might think that most teachers would welcome the traditional approach, with its anonymity and its drawbridge mentality, but they really don't. The vast majority of teachers are conscientious people who truly want to do the best job possible for the students.
ref: 2007, Richard Zagranski, William T. Whigham, Patrice L. Dardenne, Understanding Standards-Based Education, page 17:
text: "Yeah, some people have a drawbridge mentality, ” remarks Barry. "They move to an island and then they think that nobody else should be let in after them. […]"
ref: 2012, Phillip Vannini, Ferry Tales: Mobility, Place, and Time on Canada's West Coast:
text: And while Danish labour market policies and labour rights have been very little deregulated, the British population have experienced such great changes in their social mode of regulation that some commentators talk about a 'drawbridge mentality', where concern is directed at making sure yourself are inside the castle rather than caring about what happens to those who are not.
ref: 2018, Jens Lind, Iver Hornemann Møller, Inclusion and Exclusion:
glosses: An attitude that is concerned with protecting one's privileged status rather than extending that privilege to others.
dodge up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dodges up
form: dodging up
form: dodged up
form: dodged up
Senses: glosses: To fake, counterfeit or concoct (something) dodgy.
dichlorofluorescin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dichloro- + fluorescin.
Senses: glosses: A chemical compound, C₂₀H₁₀Cl₂O₅. that is commonly used as a fluorescent probe because it is converted to a fluorescent compound when it reacts with reactive oxygen species (ROS).
flaminglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaminglets
Etymology: From flamingo + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Baby lesser flamingos, known as flaminglets, are initially gray in color because they haven't adopted the pink diet.
ref: 2024, Geo Rutherford, Spooky Lakes, page 75:
text: The world can be a dangerous place for fox kits, flaminglets, armadillo pups, and zebra foals.
ref: 2024, Dawn Huebner, Facing Mighty Fears About Being Apart From Parents, page 13:
text: The reserve is awaiting new arrivals of flaminglets, as many of the birds are currently sitting on their nests before their eggs hatch.
ref: 2024 May 22, Jack Maclean, Neve Gordon-Farleigh, “Unlucky in love' flamingo lays first egg aged 70”, in BBC News:
glosses: A flamingo chick.
flaminglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaminglet
dope off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dopes off
form: doping off
form: doped off
form: doped off
Senses: glosses: To be inattentive; to get out of hard work; to skive off.
glosses: To fall asleep.
doss out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dosses out
form: dossing out
form: dossed out
form: dossed out
Senses: glosses: To sleep outside.
duke in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dukes in
form: duking in
form: duked in
form: duked in
Senses: examples: text: I duked you in, and you're gonna betray them!
text: You got duked in to the elite.
glosses: To vouch for (someone), thus allowing them to join a gang, buy contraband from or otherwise be treated as trustworthy by criminal elements; to have been introduced to important people.
duke up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dukes up
form: duking up
form: duked up
form: duked up
Senses: examples: text: I need to duke you up for the party tonight.
text: The car has been duked up with luxury accessories.
glosses: To dress up; to embellish or improve (something).
examples: text: When he said that, I duked up.
glosses: To square up; to get one's fists ready for a fistfight.
fake up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fakes up
form: faking up
form: faked up
form: faked up
Senses: glosses: To counterfeit (something); to make (something) that appears to be something else.
fizz out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fizzes out
form: fizzing out
form: fizzed out
form: fizzed out
Senses: glosses: To stop working; to let (someone) down; to abandon (someone).
flag away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flags away
form: flagging away
form: flagged away
form: flagged away
Senses: glosses: To abandon; to give up on; to avoid continuing with.
flop for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flops for
form: flopping for
form: flopped for
form: flopped for
Etymology: Pun based on fall for.
Senses: glosses: To fall for (someone); to fall in love with (someone).
Escoda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a Filipina national heroine Josefa Llanes Escoda.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Escoda Shoal.
glosses: A barangay of Marcos, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Usec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Abbreviation of undersecretary.
Solgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SolGen
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of solicitor general.
guinit helmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guinit helmets
Senses: glosses: a pith helmet made from coconut fiber (used by soldiers serving in the Philippine Army from 1935 through 1942)
looksmaxxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʊksˌmæksə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: looksmaxxers
Etymology: From looksmaxx + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Many of Mr. Latham’s followers are so-called Looksmaxxers, part of a booming digital community of young men seeking to enhance their physical attractiveness. Its suffix comes from the world of role-playing games, in which to “max” means to fully develop a single character trait, like strength or wisdom.
ref: 2023 November 6, Joseph Bernstein, “Young Men Seek Answers to an Age-Old Question: How to Be Hot”, in The New York Times:
text: Looksmaxxing attaches "scores" to aspects of male appearance, focusing particularly on jawline, muscularity and skin. Looksmaxxers aim to increase their scores via "softmaxxing" (such as using a gua sha, burning more calories than consumed, or moisturising) and "hardmaxxing" (such as steroid use, hair transplants, or cosmetic surgery).
ref: 2024 March 26, “Inside looksmaxxing, the extreme cosmetic social media trend”, in BBC:
text: An army of girls and gays—not to mention admiring looksmaxxers—would kill to be where I am now, next to Piker, as he pants in a pair of neon shorts with black Calvin Klein boxers poking out and sunlight glinting off the sweat beaded on his chest hairs.
ref: 2025 August 13, Kieran Press-Reynolds, “Hasan Piker Thinks America Might Be Cooked”, in GQ, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025:
glosses: A person who looksmaxxes.
looksmaxxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looksmaxxer
Pickburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Brodsworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5107).
AirDrop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: By the analogy of an airdrop, in which items are delivered by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A wireless service of Apple Inc. which can transfer files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices by means of close-range wireless communication.
Related terms: Bluetooth
AirDrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: AirDrops
form: AirDropping
form: AirDropped
form: AirDropped
Etymology: By the analogy of an airdrop, in which items are delivered by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
Senses: examples: text: “Another day another group of french^([sic]) teens trying to AirDrop me memes on the subway,” one woman tweeted. “In a crowd of teens and they keep trying to AirDrop me memes!!!” said another. One young Twitter user joked that she was going to a music festival last weekend “just to AirDrop.”
ref: 2019 June 5, Taylor Lorenz, “When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire”, in The Atlantic:
text: Cyber-flashing is not experienced as a less harmful or less damaging behaviour just because it happens digitally rather than on the street. […] For those who have been AirDropped in a public place, there is not even the comfort of knowing for certain who is guilty.
ref: 2023 April 19, Sophie Gallagher, “Cyber-flashing is just as damaging as the ‘real world’ equivalent. When will the law catch up?”, in The Guardian:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: airdrop
glosses: To transfer a file using AirDrop.
ailurophobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ailurophobiacs
Etymology: From ailuro- (“cat”) + -phobiac.
Senses: examples: text: Henry’s great-great-great-second-nephew, Louis XIV, also an ailurophobiac, kept scores of toy poodles, Chien Gris de St. Louis hounds, and trufflers—terriers specially trained to dig up the popular delicacy of the day.
ref: 1994, David Comfort, The First Pet History of the World, New York, N. Y.: Fireside, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Synonym of ailurophobe.
synonyms: word: ailurophobe
ailurophobiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ailurophobiac
truffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trufflers
Etymology: From truffle + -er.
Senses: synonyms: truffle hunter
glosses: A person who hunts for truffles.
examples: text: Henry’s great-great-great-second-nephew, Louis XIV, also an ailurophobiac, kept scores of toy poodles, Chien Gris de St. Louis hounds, and trufflers—terriers specially trained to dig up the popular delicacy of the day.
ref: 1994, David Comfort, The First Pet History of the World, New York, N. Y.: Fireside, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: An animal, usually a pig or dog, used for extraction of truffles.
glosses: A person who keenly seeks something out.
trufflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truffler
-esthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -aesthesia
form: -æsthesia
form: -esthesis
form: -aesthesis
form: -æsthesis
Senses: glosses: Combining form of esthesia.
glosses: Combining form of synaesthesia.
-aesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -esthesia.
-æsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -esthesia.
-esthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -esthesia.
-aesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -esthesia.
-æsthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -esthesia.
Dunkeswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1407).
Miry Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Miry Creek No. 229) in western Saskatchewan, Canada.
fall by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls by
form: falling by
form: fell by
form: fallen by
Senses: examples: text: You have to fall by her house this afternoon.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To visit unexpectedly; to arrive for a visit without an invitation.
amphiesmenopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphiesmenopteran
fight up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights up
form: fighting up
form: fought up
form: fought up
Senses: glosses: To fight (someone) aggressively.
examples: text: He's fighting up with that job.
glosses: To endeavor or struggle to do.
ctenodactyloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenodactyloid
germophobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germophobiacs
Etymology: From germ + -o- + -phobiac.
Senses: examples: text: Spraying with an antiseptic did not lessen in any sense such danger as there was. The trouble was with the woman. She was a germophobiac. She was a nuisance to everybody in the car. It is a good guess that she is a nuisance to her family and everybody around her. It is also a good guess that her family has more than its share of germ diseases.
ref: 1916 December 13, W. A. Evans, “Germs and Germs”, How to Keep Well, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 75, number 298, page 8:
glosses: Synonym of germophobe.
synonyms: word: germophobe
bind off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binds off
form: binding off
form: bound off
form: bound off
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To end a column of stitches by trapping its final stitch in a way that prevents unraveling.
Synonyms: cast off
bind off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bind offs
Senses: examples: text: I’ve learned a new bind off that’s perfect for cuffs and brims of hats.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A technique used to bind off stitches.
binds off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bind off
binding off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bind off
bound off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bind off
Dyed Moroz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ded Moroz.
Regehrs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Regehr
shine box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shine boxes
form: shinebox
Senses: glosses: A box or other container in which a shoeshine boy keeps his shoeshine equipment.
Derived terms: get one's shine box
shine boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shine box
laundryless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laundry + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Two bathing suits for each small guest proved an ample wardrobe, and we lived, during July in a laundryless world!
ref: 1930, Council of Social Agencies, Philadelphia. Children's Department, Children, Preferred, page 47:
text: Sylvia Mangold's paintings of bare wooden floors [though sometimes defiled by a pile of dirty laundry] have the clarity and innocence of hope. […] When Mangold paints a laundryless floor, it exudes the peace and quiet of being left alone in the morning light.
ref: 1994, Cheryl A. Brutvan, The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, page 25:
text: Ironically, the detergent industry-sponsored "soap operas" that are central to modern afternoon television programming promise (mostly) female viewers both relief from drudgery and escape into the dramatic, crisis-filled on-air world of (laundryless) marriages, adulteries, and other relationships.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Marriage:
text: Before any purging or organizing, let's tackle any remaining laundry (and put it away!) so you can start with a clean and laundryless slate.
ref: 2024, Sid Garza-Hillman, Ultrarunning for Normal People:
glosses: Without laundry.
examples: text: In 1916, Alice Austin designed Llano del Rio, a socialist city of 10,000 residents of Los Angeles comprising laundryless and kitchenless homes connected by subterranean tunnels to central facilities for rapid delivery of finished laundry and meals.
ref: 2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, page 282:
text: Perched on stools at the Eureka Laundromat in the middle of a balmy day were laundryless people pitching quarters into slot machines.
ref: 2012, Matt Biers-Ariel, The Bar Mitzvah and Beast, page 79:
text: Last week some fifty of his friends here celebrated the birthday of W.H> Ferry, his 65th, by [drinking] and contributing money towards a coin-operated laundry for a laundryless southwestern village
ref: 2015, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Meanwhile There Are Letters:
glosses: Lacking laundry facilities.
Isted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Alternative form of Idstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
fluke up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flukes up
form: fluking up
form: fluked up
form: fluked up
Senses: glosses: To mess up; to blunder; to fail.
gleo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gloeo-.
fluke out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flukes out
form: fluking out
form: fluked out
form: fluked out
Senses: glosses: To lose or fail due to a fluke; to deserve to win or succeed but instead lose due to a fluke, especially a last-minute or unpredictable fluke.
message-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: message-sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of message stick.
message-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of message-stick
scintiphotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scintiphotographies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scintigraphy.
synonyms: word: scintigraphy
non-character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-characters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noncharacter.
flute around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flutes around
form: fluting around
form: fluted around
form: fluted around
Senses: glosses: To waste time.
fluff about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluffs about
form: fluffing about
form: fluffed about
form: fluffed about
Senses: glosses: To waste time.
fog out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fogs out
form: fogging out
form: fogged out
form: fogged out
Senses: glosses: To become distracted or foggy; to daydream.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: To ventilate a space by breaking open a window to let smoke out.
fritz out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fritzes out
form: fritzing out
form: fritzed out
form: fritzed out
Senses: glosses: To malfunction; to break down; to cause (something) to break down.
front off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fronts off
form: fronting off
form: fronted off
form: fronted off
Senses: glosses: To confront, bully or disrespect (someone); to square up for a fight; to intimidate (someone) into doing something (often leaving); to show off in front of someone.
glosses: To embarrass (someone) by revealing information about them.
Related terms: front oneself off
shinebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shineboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shine box.
shineboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinebox
front oneself off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fronts oneself off
form: fronting oneself off
form: fronted oneself off
form: fronted oneself off
Senses: examples: text: He fronted himself off about having already broken the rule.
glosses: To reveal something about oneself.
view of frankpledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: views of frankpledge
Senses: glosses: A gathering and inspection that occurred twice a year where every freeman over the age of twelve was required to appear in order to prove their loyalty to the king and also sought nine other freemen to vouch for their good behavior.
views of frankpledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of view of frankpledge
get one's shinebox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's shinebox
form: getting one's shinebox
form: got one's shinebox
form: got one's shinebox
form: gotten one's shinebox
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get one's shine box.
funk up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: funks up
form: funking up
form: funked up
form: funked up
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To make (something) funky (foul-smelling).
risks it for the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of risk it for the biscuit
risking it for the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of risk it for the biscuit
risked it for the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of risk it for the biscuit
pyramided down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pyramid down
pyramiding down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of pyramid down
pyramids down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pyramid down
fuck away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks away
form: fucking away
form: fucked away
form: fucked away
Senses: examples: text: I fucked away all of my inheritance.
text: I've fucked away most of the vacation.
text: I'll be fucking away in the graveyard.
text: We fuck away at the abandoned prison.
glosses: To squander; to spend or waste (something) foolishly.
Shitaly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of shit + Italy.
Senses: examples: text: Why not? Looking back you can see that it was all over for them last year: Stalingrad, Cape Bon, the invasion of Shitaly - you pardon, Rudy - Italy - and the removal of the submarine menace in the Atlantic.
ref: 1970, Robert Gaffney, A World of Good, page 163:
text: You obviously took offense to my suggesting that you seek citizenship in Antarctica, but honestly that would be a major step up from Shitaly.
ref: 1994 March 25, Barbara Abernathy, “BARBERA ABERNATHY JOINS CONVENT”, in alt.flame (Usenet):
text: nah, just a family owned joint in Bellevue, Little Italy, (also known by all its loyal employees as Little Shitaly)
ref: 1999 December 28, Kevin R., “--”, in alt.religion.christian-teen (Usenet):
text: "And don't get me started on their clumpy sauce. They should change their name to 'Shitaly'."
ref: 2012, Fanny Merkin, Andrew Shaffer, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, A Parody, page 133:
text: 'Shitaly,' he says. 'Let's call it "Cooking in SHITALY".'
ref: 2021, Kate Langbroek, Ciao Bella! - Six Take Italy:
text: Look at Shitaly: they are ugly like Muslim women but they have not Islam and consequently Shitaly is a mess.
ref: ?, Luca Barel, JESUS AND THE SINNER - A far right wing book:
glosses: Italy.
butt-check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt-checks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buttcheck.
butt-check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: butt-checks
form: butt-checking
form: butt-checked
form: butt-checked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buttcheck.
butt check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt checks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buttcheck.
butt check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: butt checks
form: butt checking
form: butt checked
form: butt checked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buttcheck.
nail sick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
roofing
transport
glosses: Of a house, a roof, or a ship, exhibiting degraded or corroded nails, or otherwise unsound fastenings.
Derived terms: nail sickness
carceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Imprisonment, incarceration.
Derived terms: e-carceration
carcerality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The idea, concept or presence of imprisonment.
Weekend at Bernie's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weekends at Bernie's
Etymology: From the 1989 movie Weekend at Bernie's, in which two men attempt to cover up the death of their boss by puppeteering his corpse.
Senses: examples: text: A Weekend at Bernie's acted out on the gray and black stage of frozen stone. Someone laughed and was immediately hushed by their own sense of shame.
ref: 2005 February 1, Nevada Barr, High Country, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: All they had to show for themselves was a Weekend at Bernie's economy, with sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts on zombie companies supposed to give the impression of life and health
ref: 2009 February 9, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: John McCain went so far as to say he would pull a Weekend at Bernie's if Chairman Greenspan died while McCain was president.
ref: 2018, Robert X. Browning, The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A situation in which someone pretends a dead person (or by extension, any entity) is still alive.
Weekend at Bernie's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Weekend at Bernie's
form: Weekend at Bernie's-ing
form: Weekend at Bernie's-ed
form: Weekend at Bernie's-ed
form: Weekend at Bernie's'd
form: Weekend at Bernie's'd
Etymology: From the 1989 movie Weekend at Bernie's, in which two men attempt to cover up the death of their boss by puppeteering his corpse.
Senses: examples: text: I could only imagine that Rupert L. was standing Rupert P. upright with one hand and waving Rupert P.'s arm with the other. (And seeing the pictures later, I was totally right.) Rupert P. had been Weekend at Bernie's-ed after all.
ref: 2016 May 19, Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 234:
text: After being Weekend at Bernie's'd by his closest doctors, Washington wasn't feeling right. He told the three doctors that he felt like his life was over and to let him go.
ref: 2017 May 9, Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Jane supported his weight on one side, while Ethan propped up the other, and they practically had to Weekend at Bernie's him down the alley between the ice cream parlor and the praline shop.
ref: 2020 December 7, Carrie Pulkinen, Santa Got Run Over by a Vampire: A Paranormal Romantic Comedy, Carrie Pulkinen:
text: To get her home and past the eagle-eyed scrutiny of our mother the morning after, I'd had to Weekend at Bernie's her, waving her arms and nodding her head at questions
ref: 2024 February 1, Ashley Winstead, Fool Me Once: A simmering, sizzling second-chance romcom from TikTok sensation Ashley Winstead, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Mostly we talk about Realm of the Ravager or Marianne or the crackpot theory that our principal is being Weekend at Bernie's-d. Obviously it's nonsense. But hilarious nonsense.
ref: 2024 July 30, Amelia Diane Coombs, All Alone with You, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: To move a dead body, or otherwise non-responsive person (such as due to illness or intoxication), while pretending that the person is alive and conscious.
avatarfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avatarfags
Etymology: From avatar + -fag.
Senses: qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: A user who is identifiable by the attachment of similar off-topic images to their posts.
avatarfag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: avatarfags
form: avatarfagging
form: avatarfagged
form: avatarfagged
Etymology: From avatar + -fag.
Senses: qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: To behave as an avatarfag.
acrobatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acrobatizes
form: acrobatizing
form: acrobatized
form: acrobatized
form: acrobatise
Etymology: By surface analysis, acrobat + -ize. Or, possibly a back-formation from acrobatism.
Senses: glosses: To perform acrobatics; to behave in the manner of an acrobat.
publicke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more publicke
form: most publicke
Senses: examples: text: I ſavv her once / Hop forty Paces through the publicke ſtreete, […]
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 347, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of public.
racial profile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racial profiles
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
qualifier: public policy
glosses: An estimation or generalization about the behavior of a group based on their appearance, skin color, hair texture, or clothing.
Related terms: racial profiler
racial profiling
racial profiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racial profile
Georgiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Georgio- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Russo-Georgian relations […] hit the lowest point in September 2006 with Tbilisi’s brief detention of Russian officers on spying charges. Moscow’s response turned into an overall Georgiophobia: withdrawal of its diplomats, suspending transport and mail links, clamping down on ‘illegal’ Georgian businesses and forcing ordinary Georgians residing in Russia to leave the country.
ref: 2008 February, Janina Sleivyte, “Russia’s Agenda in the post-Soviet Space”, in Russia’s European Agenda and the Baltic States (The Shrivenham Papers; 7), Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, →ISBN, page 31:
synonyms: Georgiaphobia
glosses: The hatred of or aversion to Georgia (country) or Georgian people.
regional Mexican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: regional Mexican music
glosses: A collective name encompassing types of Mexican country music, such as mariachi, norteño, sierreño, corridos, etc.
Cornsay Colliery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village (and former colliery) in Cornsay parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1743).
front on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fronts on
form: fronting on
form: fronted on
form: fronted on
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To rob or bully (someone).
Cornsay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1443).
Derived terms: Cornsay Colliery
Penn.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: PA
Pa.
Penna.
glosses: Abbreviation of Pennsylvania.
Penna.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: PA
Pa.
Penn.
glosses: Abbreviation of Pennsylvania.
a aa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aa.
a-aa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aa.
gray mullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gray mullet
brush talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brush talks
form: brush-talk
form: brushtalk
Senses: glosses: The use of written Literary Chinese as a lingua franca in the Sinosphere.
zipper lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zipper lanes
Senses: glosses: A temporary highway lane (usually demarcated with traffic cones) on the opposite side wherein vehicles going forward can bypass traffic, thereby making vehicles counterflow on the opposite side.
Related terms: zipper merge
abhore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abhores
form: abhoring
form: abhored
form: abhored
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abhor.
zipper lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zipper lane
Koboris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kobori
katavothrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katavothron
Czubas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Czuba
O'Bansawins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of O'Bansawin
Bothas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Botha
de Klerks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of de Klerk
Tukums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Courland, Latvia.