cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wedding-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding-cakes
Etymology: The adjective is from wedding cake.
Senses: examples: text: For years past this branch of art-manufacture had been entrusted to those whose taste, if it may be called taste at all, can be no more referred to correct principles of design than the gimcrack decorations of a wedding-cake could be tested by any standard of sculpturesque beauty.
ref: 1869, Charles L[ocke] Eastlake, “The Entrance Hall”, in Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 48:
text: Many a Suffolk lass believes that she will be sure to dream of her future husband if she sleep with her head on a pillow beneath which there lies a piece of wedding-cake that a bride has with her own hand cut from her bridal cake, and passed three times through her bridal ring.
ref: 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, “The Ring-Finger”, in Brides and Bridals. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: A Victoria spongecake held pride of place as a wedding-cake, and there were glass jugs of orange-juice and chilled China tea.
ref: 1993, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 10, in Moonflower Madness, Sutton, London: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: Dated form of wedding cake.
wedding march
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding marches
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, there isn't much danger, as long as I have got breath in my nostrils," said Peik, and took a ram's horn, which he began blowing; and when he had blown a wedding march on it he put the horn to his sister's nostrils and blew life into her again and she rose up as if nothing had been the matter with her.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 197:
text: The musicians had been quietly singing some familiar Christian songs but then the singing stopped and the music turned into a wedding march as the procession started down the small hallway. First, Sandra, in her yellow bridesmaid dress and carrying a small bouquet of yellow roses […]
ref: 2009, Jim Hayden, The Year of God's Promise, page 325:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A slow-tempo march played during a wedding.
wedge heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge heels
Senses: glosses: A shoe's heel which is part of the sole.
glosses: A shoe with such a heel.
weekend bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weekend bags
Senses: glosses: A lightweight handbag suitable for travelling.
weeny-bopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːniˈbɒpəɹ/
Forms: form: weeny-boppers
Etymology: From weeny + bopper by analogy with teenybopper.
Senses: glosses: A preteen child, especially one who enjoys pop music
weeping fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weeping figs
Senses: synonyms: benjamina
Benjamin fig
glosses: An ornamental tree of species Ficus benjamina, often grown in containers indoors.
wei ch'i
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wei ch'i
form: Weiqi
form: weichi
form: weiqi
form: wei qi
Etymology: From Chinese 圍棋.
Senses: glosses: go (board game)
wellington boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellington boots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wellington boot.
well-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A calque of German wohltemperiert
Senses: glosses: good-humoured, pleasant, having an even temperament
raw_tags: of a person
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having twelve notes per octave of the standard instrument tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and the resulting sound will not sound perceptibly too far out of tune.
Welsh corgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlʃ ˈkɔːɡi/
ipa: /wɛlʃ ˈkɔɹɡi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡi
Forms: form: Welsh corgis
form: Welsh corgwn
Etymology: From Welsh + corgi.
Senses: examples: text: With reference to the correspondence upon Welsh corgwn, it is interesting to learn that one of these animals, which have a dachshund body with collie head, tail, and coat, was used at Plas, Llanfechan,^([sic]) for many years to turn the roasting jack.
ref: 1926 December 16, “Wales Day by Day”, in Western Mail, 4th edition, number 17,948, Cardiff, →OCLC, page 6, column 7:
text: Having been a breeder of Welsh Corgwn (Pembrokeshire) for the past seven years, I would like to give the people of this area some information about this wonderful breed as they are very rare in the U.S.A.
ref: 1961 August 9, Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Cash, “Concerning Corgis”, in Herbert M. Davidson, editor, Daytona Beach Evening News, volume 33, number 218, Daytona Beach, Fla., →OCLC, “Readers’ Editorials” section, page 4, column 6:
text: Mouthfeel presents DJ Divorcée and DJ Tip spinning a tribute to Pimm’s Cups, Welsh Corgwn, the Union Jack, and Kate Middleton’s love of drinking parties, just in time for the royal nups.
ref: 2011 April 29, James Renovitch, “Calendar: This week’s community listings”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 30, number 35, Austin, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58:
synonyms: corgi
glosses: A type of herding dog originating from Wales, having a small body, short legs, and fox-like features such as large ears.
Wergaia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An indigenous Australian language group in the Wimmera region of northwestern Victoria.
West Bromwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛst ˈbɹɒmɪt͡ʃ/
Senses: examples: text: They had been to a party thrown by friends of theirs from a congregation in West Bromwich, and likely themselves had enjoyed a glass of red.
ref: 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 83:
glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, formerly in Staffordshire (OS grid ref SP0091).
Synonyms: West Brom
Related terms: Castle Bromwich
West Brom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: West Bromwich
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: West Bromwich Albion Football Club
Synonyms: WBA
Baggies
wheatlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheatland
white-fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-fishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whitefish.
cryoturbated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryoturbated
form: most cryoturbated
Etymology: From cryo- + turbated.
Senses: glosses: Disturbed by cryoturbation.
folist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folists
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A histosol that is not saturated with water for long periods of time during the year.
Derived terms: udifolist
fibrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrists
Senses: glosses: A histosol that is made up of only slightly decomposed organic materials, often called peat.
fibrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrist
folists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folist
saprist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saprists
Etymology: See sapro- (“putrid”).
Senses: glosses: A histosol that is primarily made up of highly decomposed organic materials, often called muck.
hemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemists
Senses: glosses: A histosol that is primarily made up of moderately decomposed organic materials.
saprists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saprist
hemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemist
pseudoresonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudoresonant
form: most pseudoresonant
Etymology: From pseudo- + resonant.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting pseudoresonance.
White Nile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the two main tributaries of the River Nile in Africa, which starts in Lake No and flows into the Nile at Khartoum.
glosses: A state of Sudan.
Related terms: Blue Nile
Blue Nile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: White Nile
glosses: A river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into the Nile at Khartoum in Sudan; one of the two major tributaries of the Nile.
glosses: A state in southern Sudan.
Related terms: Abbay
cryosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryosols
Etymology: From cryo- + -sol.
Senses: glosses: A gelisol.
Derived terms: cryosolic
cryosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryosol
gelisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelisols
Etymology: Latin gelāre (“freeze”) + + -sol
Senses: glosses: A kind of soil found in cold climates, containing permafrost near the surface.
Synonyms: cryosol
gelisols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelisol
histel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histels
Senses: glosses: A kind of organic soil, similar to a histosol but with permafrost near the ground surface.
histels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histel
turbel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbels
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A kind of soil that shows marked influence of cryoturbation.
orthel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthels
Senses: glosses: A kind of soil that shows little or no cryoturbation.
turbels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbel
orthels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthel
arents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arent
shetland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shetlands
form: Shetland
Etymology: From Shetland sheep.
Senses: glosses: Lightweight, loosely twisted wool fabric.
orthent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthents
Etymology: ortho- + Clipping of entisol
Senses: glosses: A kind of shallow or "skeletal" soil, found on recent erosional surfaces or very old landforms completely devoid of weatherable minerals.
Derived terms: xerorthent
fluvent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluvents
Etymology: Clipping of fluvial + Clipping of entisol
Senses: glosses: A kind of alluvial soil where development is prevented by repeated deposition of sediment in periodic floods.
Derived terms: fluventic
udifluvent
xerofluvent
orthents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthent
fluvents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluvent
aquent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquents
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A kind of wet soil formed on river banks, tidal mudflats etc.
Derived terms: fluvaquent
hydraquent
psammaquent
aquents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquent
snack-bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snack-bars
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards, Alan and I wentup to the snack-bar for coffee and sandwiches, and now we both are here in the lounge writing before we go to the hotel.
ref: 2007, Joseph A. White II, Letters to Libby: Part Two, →ISBN:
text: In one of the coaches was a snack-bar, but uniformed attendants brought trays of food to those who preferred to remain seated.
ref: 2010, Norman Hillson, I Speak of Germany (RLE Responding to Fascism), →ISBN:
text: The US Red Cross Empire Club (referred to either as the Empire or the ARC and which we could use) was dedicated to their comfort with a cinema, dance hall, snack-bar, lounge/reading room, games room, two music rooms (one classical) where you could lounge in leather-bound easy chairs listening to records of your choice, put on by grey-uniformed ladies of the US Red Cross.
ref: 2012, Ian M. Malcolm, Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of snack bar.
erodable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erodable
form: most erodable
Etymology: From erode + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erodible.
Derived terms: bioerodable
nonerodable
unerodable
weatherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weatherable
form: most weatherable
Etymology: From weather + -able.
Senses: examples: weatherable minerals
glosses: Capable of being weathered.
eutrophications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutrophication
unerodable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + erodable.
Senses: glosses: Not erodable.
nonerodable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + erodable.
Senses: glosses: Not erodable.
FIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Acronym of Federal Information Processing Standards, a government standard of the United States of America.
friendshippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friendshippy
form: most friendshippy
form: friendshipy
Etymology: From friendship + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 'Dine with me, of course, Brown,' said Sir Eichard, whom the Malaga had made very friendshippy.'
ref: 1874, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Young Brown:
text: "I really like it," Wally jumped into the breach, trying to make up for the cold splash with his warm towel of friendshippy approval.
ref: 2001, Marlene Fanta Shyer, Second chances - Page 156:
text: Don't soaps want to have hot romances that heat up the screen? A couple fighting to be together? I mean, sweet, "friendshipy" marriages might be nice in real life, but TV romances need something more.
ref: 2005, Sharon R. Mazzarella, Girl Wide Web: Girls, The Internet, And The Negotiation Of Identity - Page 112:
text: 'I had never before known […] what an odd, singing, dancing, saving, dreaming, stuffing, love-making, visiting, lazy, gossipping, speculating, friendshippy […] maudlin, smoking, soaking life the Germans lead.'
ref: 2008, Sabine Clemm, Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood:
text: “You're incredible,” I'd said sincerely. Out of the blue he kissed me after that compliment! But it all too quickly felt too friendshipy.
ref: 2009, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Brand X: The Boyfriend Account:
glosses: Indicative of friendship or friendliness; cordial.
friendshipy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friendshipy
form: most friendshipy
Etymology: From friendship + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Don't soaps want to have hot romances that heat up the screen? A couple fighting to be together? I mean, sweet, "friendshipy" marriages might be nice in real life, but TV romances need something more.
ref: 2005, Sharon R. Mazzarella, Girl Wide Web: Girls, The Internet, And The Negotiation Of Identity - Page 112:
text: “You're incredible,” I'd said sincerely. Out of the blue he kissed me after that compliment! But it all too quickly felt too friendshipy.
ref: 2009, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Brand X: The Boyfriend Account:
glosses: Alternative form of friendshippy.
friendful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friendful
form: most friendful
Etymology: From Middle English freendful, frendful, frendfull, freondfull, equivalent to friend + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It might have been that these occasions held a cracked mirror to my image of myself as being friendful---let alone the fairest.
ref: 2010, Michael Joseph Coughlin, What I remember:
text: Finally, 'that cruel and fervent enemy of nature, the deadly corruption, did utterly vanquish and overcome the pure and friendful blood, without all manner of physical help and remedy.'
ref: 2013, John Guy, The Children of Henry VIII:
glosses: Full of friendlihood; friendly.
mastectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mastectomize
friendlihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of earlier friendlihead, equivalent to friendly + -hood. Cognate with Dutch vriendlijkheid, Old Danish fryntlighet.
Senses: examples: text: “He ran for help as soon as he saw what he'd done. No one thought there was intent about it. Hasn't made for friendlihood between the Ashewells and Medcotes, though.”
ref: 2006, Margaret Frazer, A Play of Knaves:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being friendly; friendliness.
examples: text: [...] 'and also that he will not hurt you in your bargain if you could be friendlily disposed toward him as you have been; for without a friendlihood of your part he seems he should not greatly help you in your bargain, so I feel him. He lives somewhat aloof, and not utterly malicious against you.'
ref: 2011, Helen Castor, Blood and Roses:
glosses: Friendship.
megawatt-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megawatt-hours
Etymology: By surface analysis, megawatt + hour, or, by surface analysis, mega- + watt-hour.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
Meronyms: yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour (3.6 J) < microwatt-year (31.536 J) < kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J)
related: word: mul:MW·h
word: mul:MW h
word: mul:MWh
word: ;
word: megawatt hour
glosses: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one megawatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10⁹ joules).
boot boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot boys
form: boot-boy
Etymology: From boot + boy.
Senses: qualifier: C19 British
glosses: A boy who cleans boots and shoes.
examples: text: He's [Enda Kenny] acting like a political thug and a political boot boy in a party political fashion.
ref: 2013 June 28, Fiach Kelly, Lise Hand, Fionnan Sheahan, quoting Niall Collins, “Shatter urges ex-FF ministers to reveal contacts with Anglo”, in Irish Independent:
synonyms: bovver boy
hooligan
skinhead
qualifier: 1970s British slang
glosses: One of a gang of violent hooligans who usually wear short-cropped hair and bovver boots.
examples: text: Among Bryan Gunn's myriad incarnations, from Alex Ferguson's babysitter through Scotland goalkeeper to Norwich manager, boot boy to Alex McLeish was one of the less successful. Once, just before a Scottish Cup final, McLeish discovered his size 10s were still in Aberdeen.
ref: 2009 March 22, Phil Shaw, “Gunn peppers Birmingham's automatic promotion hopes”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A boy who cares for a footballer's boots.
boot-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot-boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boot boy.
boot boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boot boy
boot-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boot-boy
bovver boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bovver boys
Etymology: From bovver + boy.
Senses: glosses: A hooligan who creates bother (trouble), specifically a member of a skinhead gang.
Synonyms: boot boy
hooligan
Related terms: bovver bird
bovver boots
bovver boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bovver boy
bovver bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bovver birds
Etymology: From bovver + bird.
Senses: glosses: The female counterpart of a bovver boy.
bovver birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bovver bird
runecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rune + -craft. Compare Old English rūncræftiġ (“skilled in deciphering runes”).
Senses: glosses: Knowledge of runes; skill in deciphering runic characters.
glosses: Knowledge of, or skill in, the use of runes for esoteric and magical purposes.
rubab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubabs
form: robab
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian رباب (rubāb), from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb); similar forms exist in many languages where the instrument is played, such as Pashto رباب (rabāb), Punjabi ਰਬਾਬ (rabāb), Hindi रबाब (rabāb).
Senses: glosses: A traditional lute-like musical instrument of Central Asia.
robab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rubab.
liligers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liliger
kurort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurorts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kurort, in some cases via Russian куро́рт (kurórt).
Senses: examples: text: […] how rotten it must be for her to be shut up in a potty little German kur-ort when the world could be so otherwise amusing […]
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 391:
text: ‘And she loved inventing some rare illness and going to some famous kurort […].’
ref: 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 121:
text: […] the Soviet Union. They are known as kurorts and emphasize physical medicine for the most part. In 1965 there were 500 of these kurorts with over 2,000 sanitoria and over 8,000,000 people visited these spas, […]
ref: 1972, Donald Olen Cowgill, Lowell Don Holmes, Aging and modernization, page 161:
text: “In the old days the kurorts were only for company employees,” she explained, using the Russian term for the resorts
ref: 2002, Matthew Brzezinski, Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure, page 106:
glosses: A health resort, especially one in a German-speaking country or in the area of the former Soviet Union.
monodimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monodimensional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a monodimensional manner.
digital watermark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital watermarks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Auxiliary data embedded in a datafile for subsequent identification and verification of the file.
ccm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cubic centimeter.
a week is a long time in politics
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Usually attributed to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the mid-1960s. Also used by (and incorrectly attributed to) Australian PM Gough Whitlam in the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: In politics, much change can occur in a short space of time.
chulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chula
Devil's buttermilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Devil's buttermilk
Senses: examples: text: I am glad that you, Mr. Speaker, are in a minority, because we both refrain from indulging in the stronger waters—or the Devil's buttermilk, as I sometimes call it.
ref: 11 May 2005, Ian Paisley, House of Commons Hansard Debates, Hansard
glosses: Whiskey.
snap strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap straps
Senses: glosses: A strong elasticated tow strap, used for pulling a vehicle out of a bog.
immigratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to immigration.
immixt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of immixed.
immunizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunizers
form: immuniser
Etymology: From immunize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who immunizes.
immunizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunizer
impassionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impassionately
form: most impassionately
Etymology: From impassionate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impassionate manner.
tidge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: tidges
Etymology: Possibly a blend of tidbit and smidge.
Senses: examples: text: Cucumber left for half a day, with red peppers and soy sauce and a tidge of sea salt (which tastes nice) comes through fierce and maritime as a Yangtse pirate.
ref: 1978, Colin Tudge, Cold turkey, New Scientist, 21-28 December 1978:
text: Before I knew it he had taken my hand and squeezed it, just a tidge, like a gentleman would.
ref: 2007, Christian Moerk, Darling Jim, Henry Holt, published 2009, →ISBN, page 39:
text: “Sorry if I'm just a tidge miffed over the dirty trick he played on me.”
ref: 2008, Connie Bailey, True Blue, Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: A very small amount.
tidges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidge
SGRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SGR
plumpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumping
fluffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌfɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fluffing
pattings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpætɪŋz/
ipa: [ˈpʰæɾɪŋz]
homophone: paddings
Senses: glosses: plural of patting
plumings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpluːmɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pluming
Jevonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈ-/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Jevonian
form: most Jevonian
Etymology: From Jevons + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), English economist and logician.
seamfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seam + -free.
Senses: glosses: Seamless; without seams.
search-light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: search-lights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of searchlight.
search-lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of search-light
self-medicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-medicates
form: self-medicating
form: self-medicated
form: self-medicated
Etymology: From self- + medicate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: automedicate
glosses: To consume a substance as a medication without the advice of a physician.
Related terms: self-medication
self-medicator
Brown Shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brown Shirts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brownshirt.
examples: text: The Brown Shirts crowded close to the aircraft, taking righteous possession of it now that it was shut down on the deck.
ref: 1997, Keith Douglass, Alpha Strike, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Brown Shirts were attached to the aircraft squadrons and were maintenance people.
ref: 2011, Max Gallimore, From Here to Caprock, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: Alternative form of brown shirt (squadron personnel)
bullmastiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullmastiffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bullmastiff.
params
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of param
bumfreezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumfreezers
Etymology: From bum + freezer.
Senses: examples: text: Seated at table, eating delicious food brought by European migrant waiters in red bumfreezers, I felt that we were all making a very game pretence of reconstructing Europe.
ref: 1965, Peter Black, The Poms in the Sun:
text: Smaller boys wore short Eton jackets, known as bumfreezers
ref: 2012, Anne de Courcy, Snowdon: The Biography:
glosses: An Eton jacket or other similar short jacket.
Synonyms: bumfreezer jacket
Eton jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eton jackets
Etymology: Named after Eton, a prestigious college in England, where it was part of the uniform.
Senses: glosses: A mess jacket.
Synonyms: bumfreezer
bumfreezer jacket
bundle off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bundles off
form: bundling off
form: bundled off
form: bundled off
Senses: examples: text: Her mother came back in and pulled her out into the hallway as if she were bundling her off on a date and whispered urgently to her.
ref: 2006, Elliot Mabeuse, A Game of Dress-up:
glosses: To send someone away quickly and without fussing.
examples: text: The porpoises gave us one last push and our strange-looking craft bumped gently on a low beach. Then, thanking our lucky stars for a chance to stretch our cramped legs, we all bundled off on to the land—the first land, even though it was floating land, that we had trodden for six weeks.
ref: 1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle/Part 4/Chapter 5:
glosses: To go somewhere unceremoniously.
bibliotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bibliotherapeutic
form: most bibliotherapeutic
Etymology: From biblio- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bibliotherapy.
bibliotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliotherapists
Etymology: From biblio- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: A therapist who provides bibliotherapy.
bibliotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliotherapist
bungee running
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A leisure activity where someone is attached to a secured bungee cord and attempts to run far enough away to reach a target.
bunny slope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny slopes
Senses: synonyms: bunny hill
coordinate_terms: black diamond
blue square
double black diamond
green circle
glosses: A ski area with a gentle slope, usually used for novice skiers or snowboarders.
burp gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burp guns
Senses: glosses: A small submachine gun
bust-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bust-ups
Senses: examples: text: “It was a real old bust-up. I do wish I knew what it was all about.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 23:
text: Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week.
ref: 2025 June 7, Edward Helmore, “Trump warns Musk of ‘very serious consequences’ if he backs Democrats”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An angry argument.
bust up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts up
form: busting up
form: busted up
form: busted up
form: bust up
form: bust up
Senses: examples: text: The doctor told me nothing that I didn't already know; my hand was busted up pretty good. It was too early to tell how badly it had been busted up, but I was most definitely out of the tournament.
ref: 2005, Ken Shamrock, Beyond the Lion's Den: The Life, The Fights, The Techniques:
glosses: To physically damage or ruin; to be ruined; to go bankrupt; to end (something).
examples: text: I knew, because both Alison and Penny had taught me, that busting up with someone could be miserable, but I didn't know that getting off with someone could be miserable too.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: To break up (end a relationship).
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To shoot (someone).
glosses: To express sudden and intense emotions; to burst into loud laughter.
glosses: To spend money wildly, especially on alcoholic drinks.
bus pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus passes
Senses: examples: text: A city block, chock full of empty heroin bags, used condoms, dirty diapers and expired bus passes. Sewer grates, straining under the weight of quarter water bottles and wrappers from cheap snacks and cakes.
ref: 2014, Miss Sixx, 15th & East Capitol, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: A pass that allows the user to travel on buses for a certain duration or a certain number of trips.
hooteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And she'll speak no more, no more,
To make the heart beat quicker in me;
For the owl hooteth, where she lies,
Under the alder-tree.
ref: 1848, Henry Septimus Sutton, Poems, page 19:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoot
flaunteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: flaunt + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flaunt
Byelorussia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Белоруссия (Belorussija).
Senses: examples: text: In Byelorussia, Stalin not only killed 100,000 people in purges and repression in the 1930s but also doomed 1.5 million people and 75 percent of the republic's cities and towns to death and destruction through his half-witted military strategies in World War II.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: Belarus
Derived terms: Byelorussian
Turkmenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Turkmenistan.
glosses: Turkmenistan.
The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.
Related terms: Turkmenian
Ozarker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ozarkers
Etymology: From Ozark + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another thing: most native Ozarkers actually prefer suckers to either bass or trout, and will regularly pass up game fish in order to strike at a big redhorse or hogmolly!
ref: 2017, Vance Randolph, Robert Cochran, The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society, page 235:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Ozarks.
Ozarkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ozarker
poreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pore + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without pores.
Derived terms: porelessness
antinudist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinudist
form: most antinudist
Etymology: From anti- + nudist.
Senses: glosses: Prohibiting or opposing nudism.
roller shutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller shutters
Senses: examples: text: [...] aluminium is used extensively for cross-partitions, intercommunicating doors and roller shutter doors.
ref: 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Restaurant car problems”, in Modern Railways, page 79:
glosses: A shutter (for a window or door) consisting of a series of horizontal sections that are hinged together and attached to a roller at the top.
Related terms: roll
rolled
roller
roller-top desk
rolling
rolling shutter
shutter
muleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muley
dimidiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dimidiate
dimidiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dimidiate
dimidiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dimidiate
unpricked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pricked.
Senses: glosses: Not pricked.
yantric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yantra + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to yantras.
great-grandparenthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From great-grandparent + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: He and Segismunda enjoy happiness and prosperity and eventually take delight in great-grandparenthood.
ref: 1968, Otis Howard Green, Spain and the Western tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from El Cid to Calderón, page 202:
text: Indeed, great-grandparenthood can be said to occupy much the same niche today as grandparenthood did a century ago: not all that common and little understood.
ref: 2000, Ruth Karola Westheimer, Dr. Steven Kaplan, Grandparenthood, page 46:
text: Three aspects of great-grandparenthood appear to be most important.
ref: 2009, John C. Cavanaugh, Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Adult Development and Aging, page 442:
glosses: The state of being a great-grandparent.
hollowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hollowing
dramaticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramaticisms
Etymology: From dramatic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The habit of performing actions in a histrionic manner.
grandrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandrelations
Etymology: From grand- + relation.
Senses: examples: text: This includes bilateral name relations, consanguineal-affinal term transpositions, reciprocal grandrelation and sibling-cohort terms, extension of relationship terms through namesake equivalence, and marriage to specific cousin categories.
ref: 1989, Edwin N. Wilmsen, Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari, page 188:
glosses: A member of one's family from whom one is separated by two generations.
grandrelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandrelation
descend upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: descends upon
form: descending upon
form: descended upon
form: descended upon
form: descend on
Senses: glosses: To arrive, usually without warning or invitation.
To make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
examples: text: My neighbour descended upon me just as I was walking out the door.
glosses: To arrive, usually without warning or invitation.
To arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
examples: text: This fall, millions of devout Muslims will descend upon Mecca, Medina, and Saudi Arabia's holy sites in one of the largest annual migrations in human history.
ref: 2013, Laurie Gaarrett, Maxine Builder, The Middle East Plague Goes Global:
glosses: To visit in large numbers, especially a public place.
ski bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski bunnies
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: An attractive female at a ski resort, especially one who is more interested in being seen than in skiing.
hotsy-totsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hotsy-totsy
form: most hotsy-totsy
Senses: examples: text: He and Catherine would patch it up, prosperity might now really be around the corner, it would all turn out hotsy-totsy, and Studs Lonigan would be singing in the bathtub, and singing in the rain, and singing.
ref: 1945, James T. Farrell, Judgment Day, The World Publishing Company, page 176:
text: The waters made old men young, and everything was hotsy-totsy until Ouachita broke the "moral law" by killing a man who seemed likely to succeed him as chief. Then "the mountains yield molten lava," destroying Ouachita and his tribe.
ref: 1972, Vance Randolph, Ozark Folklore: A Bibliography, Indiana University Research Center for the Language Sciences (1972), page 161
text: “Joey, you're naive. You think this government is all hotsy-totsy, fair and square. But governments are not like that. […]
ref: 2001, Joseph Berger, Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 279:
glosses: Fine, all right, good.
examples: text: I could never forget his supercilious sarcasm when I walked out on the practice field of his hotsy-totsy college, and he listened to my Flats accent, and listened to me asking him with Flats words how did I go about playing the game of football for his school.
ref: 1952, Lester Dent, Cry at Dusk, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: […] and every spring, in the fullness of their benevolence, they sent him and my mother for a hotsy-totsy free weekend in Atlantic City, to a fancy goyische hotel no less, there (along with all the other insurance agents in the Middle Atlantic states who had exceeded the A.E.S., their annual expectation of sales) to be intimidated by the desk clerk, the waiter, the bellboy, not to mention the puzzled paying guests.
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Vintage International, published 1994, →ISBN:
text: So unlike some of these hotsy-totsy movie stars athletes rappers and rock and roll stars who spend all their money on expensive cars clothes mansions and go bankrupt from excessing, I will not.
ref: 1996, Terry McMillan, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Signet, →ISBN:
glosses: Fancy, sophisticated.
Synonyms: sense: fine, good
word: peachy
hotsy-totsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotsy-totsies
Senses: examples: text: “Don't you get risque with me! This is your mother you're talking to and not one of your little hotsy-totsies.”
ref: 1960, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer, Vintage International, published 1998, →ISBN, page 155:
text: It's so he can fly off in a swirl of self-justification to Um-beseir and his huge bed and his Russian hotsy-totsies.
ref: 2004, Christopher Buckley, Florence of Arabia, Random House, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Instead, she had a younger, darker copy of the hotsy-totsy who had stolen away her son and ruined her life: me.
ref: 2011, Ellis Avery, The Last Nude, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An attractive woman, especially one who is the companion of a man.
hotsy-totsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotsy-totsy
tool and die
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tools and dies
Etymology: Named for the cutting tools and forming dies that are among the principal kinds of tooling that this specialty makes.
Senses: examples: text: The toolmakers are employed in tool and die shops.
text: They work in tool and die.
glosses: An area of activity (concentration or specialty) in manufacturing, comprising toolmaking, diemaking, and (usually also) moldmaking.
examples: text: Wage rates for tool and die makers differ in various regions of the country.
glosses: The tools and dies made by this specialty.
Related terms: diecast
die grinder
diemaker
toolmaker
make the world go round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the world go round
form: making the world go round
form: made the world go round
form: made the world go round
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make the world go around.
self-abasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-abasing
form: most self-abasing
Etymology: From self- + abasing.
Senses: glosses: Humbling by the consciousness of guilt or by shame.
Related terms: self-abased
self-acting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + acting.
Senses: examples: text: On this railway there were three inclined planes of the self-acting type, the full wagons pulling up the empty.
ref: 1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Fordell Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:
glosses: Acting of or by itself.
self-action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + action.
Senses: glosses: Action by or originating in one's self or itself.
self-activity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + activity.
Senses: examples: text: If it can intrinsically stir itself […] it must have a principle of self-activity which is life and sense.
ref: 1692, Robert Boyle, A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure and Origin of Human Bodies:
glosses: Self-motion or the power of moving one's self or itself without foreign or external aid.
material witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: material witnesses
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person with information alleged to be material concerning a criminal proceeding, and who therefore may be detained to insure their participation in such a proceeding.
material witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of material witness
self-admiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Admiration of oneself.
self-annihilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + annihilation.
Senses: glosses: Annihilation by one's own act.
self-conceited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-conceited
form: most self-conceited
Etymology: From self- + conceited.
Senses: glosses: Having self-conceit; vain; having a high or overweening opinion of one's own person or merits.
self-confiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-confiding
form: most self-confiding
Etymology: From self- + confiding.
Senses: glosses: Confiding in one's own judgment or powers; self-confident.
self-convicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + convicted.
Senses: examples: text: In a better cause, what fortitude, what endurance, would have belonged to her nature! even humiliated, self-convicted as she felt, her native pride could not quite desert her.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Lord Marchmont’s Jealousy”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, or avowal.
loaded dice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loaded (“weighted asymmetrically”) + dice.
Senses: examples: text: Slave states have always won. They have played with loaded dice—loaded with Slavery.
ref: 1960, Charles Sumner, The Republican Party its origin necessity & permanence, J. A. H. Hasbrouck & Co., page 10:
text: In fact, the need for a cultural-relativistic point of view has become apparent because of the realization that there is no way to play this game of making judgments across cultures except with loaded dice.
ref: 1972, Melville Jean Herskovits, Cultural Relativism: Perspectives in Cultural Pluralism, page 56:
text: The riverboat gambler’s most intriguing insight on the stock market is that all investors use loaded dice if they only knew it.
ref: 2012, Fred Carach, Forty Years a Speculator: My Discoveries and Insights, Dog Ear, page 53:
glosses: An advantage obtained by manipulating rules or insider influence.
examples: text: We here behold an impudent unlettered miscreant, wheedling himself into the acquaintance of the young and unexperienced, taking advantage of the hour of intoxication, to introduce loaded dice, and then enforcing his pretended claim by means of a loaded pistol.
ref: 1792, The Analytical Review, volume 14, page 409:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see loaded, dice.
Synonyms: sense: literal
word: fullam
sense: literal
word: gourd
sense: literal
word: langret
sense: literal
word: uphills
self-conviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + conviction.
Senses: examples: text: No wonder such a spirit, in such a situation, is provoked beyond the regards of religion or self-conviction.
ref: 1774, Jonathan Swift, The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift:
glosses: Conviction proceeding from one's own consciousness, knowledge, or confession.
self-culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + culture.
Senses: glosses: Culture, training, or education of oneself without the aid of teachers.
self-destroyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-destroyers
Etymology: From self- + destroyer.
Senses: glosses: One who destroys himself/herself.
self-devoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-devoted
form: most self-devoted
Etymology: From self- + devoted.
Senses: glosses: Devoted in person, or voluntarily devoted.
self-devotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + devotion.
Senses: glosses: The act of devoting one's self; willingness to sacrifice one's own interests or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
self-distrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + distrust.
Senses: glosses: Distrust of, or lack of confidence in, oneself or in one's own powers.
self-evolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + evolution.
Senses: examples: text: The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth Codex entry:
glosses: Development by inherent power or quality.
self-exaltation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + exaltation.
Senses: glosses: The exaltation of oneself.