cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Conybeare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Conybeares
Etymology: Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Devonshire, from either cony or Old English cyning (“king”) + Old English bearu (“grove, wood”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Cobbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cobbes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cobb
Reanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Wenchang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wǔnʹchängʹ
Forms: form: Wen-ch'ang
Etymology: From Mandarin 文昌 (Wénchāng).
Senses: examples: text: Messrs. David and Oustalet state that its visits Southern China in the summer season; and Swinhoe procured it at Swatow, and says that it is supposed to breed in the Wenchang district, N.E. Hainan.
ref: 1886, H.E. Dresser, A Monograph of the Meropoidæ or the Family of Bee-eaters, →OCLC, page 58:
text: Entire administrative districts were ordered to adopt the same planting density, irrespective of the varying conditions within that district. Mencheong county authority in Kwangtung sent cadres to direct a collective to adopt a density known by the local peasants to be technically disastrous ( NFJP , June 26, 1956).
ref: [1968, Kenneth R. Walker, “Organization for Agricultural Production”, in Economic Trends in Communist China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 421:
text: The highlight of the article is that the mass education measures used at Wenchang of Hainan Island were “teaching, criticism, debate, struggle, arrest and execution.” (Begin translation)
When this anti-revolutionary revisionist element Lin Li-ming returned to Hainan, he made his native place Wenchang the “key point county” of his work and designated the Chengchiao (Township Outskirts) Commune as the focus of that key point.
ref: 1978 June 4, L. Chen, “Has Peiping made changes?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Charlie Soong (1866-1918), also called Charles Jones Soon, was born Han Chiao-shun and was reared until he was nine in Wen-ch’ang, a port on the eastern coast of the island of Hainan.
ref: [2002, “Soong”, in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 11, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15, column 2:
text: On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping visited the launch site in Wenchang on the southern island of Hainan from which the Tianhe module was fired into orbit.
ref: 2022 April 16, “Chinese astronauts land after 6 months on space station”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2022:
glosses: A county-level city of Hainan, China.
Synonyms: Mencheong
Derived terms: Wenchang chicken
manoomin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mʌˈnuːmɪn/
/mʌˈnoʊ̯mɪn/
/məˈnuːmɪn/
/məˈnoʊ̯mɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ojibwe manoomin, from Proto-Algonquian *maθo·mina. Doublet of mnomen, which is from Potawatomi.
Senses: glosses: wild rice, usually northern wild rice (Zizania palustris)
move ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves ahead
form: moving ahead
form: moved ahead
form: moved ahead
Senses: glosses: To continue without being distracted; to keep going.
examples: text: the construction project is moving ahead
glosses: To proceed; to make or signify progress
examples: text: the committee moved ahead to the next item on the agenda
glosses: To go on to something else.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: move along
sense: make progress
word: make headway
sense: go on to something else
word: move on
humblenesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From humble + -nesse.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of humbleness.
auspitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auspitious
form: most auspitious
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of auspicious.
doubtlesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To run into the ſnares, was ſet foꝛ him doubtleſſe
ref: c. 1553 (date written), “S.” [pseudonym; attributed to William Stevenson], […] Gammer Gurtons Nedle: […], London: […] Thomas Colwell, published 1575, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:
text: Ho doubtleſſe wanton lust / and fleſhy fowle deſire / Did make thee loath my friendly lure / and ſet thy hart on fire
ref: 1567, George Turbervil[l]e, “Songs and Sonets”, in Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, with a Discourse of the Friendly Affections of Tymetes to Pyndara His Ladie. […], London: […] Henry Denham, →OCLC, folio 114, recto:
text: doubtleſſe, many humble ſoules haue found, that it hath done them good.
ref: 1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 529:
text: doubtleſſe the neat-finger'd Artiſt will anſwer yes
ref: 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of doubtless.
smoakie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smoakie
form: most smoakie
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of smoky.
unilineality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The tracing of descent through ancestors of only one gender.
Hyponyms: matrilineality
patrilineality
Related terms: unilineal
Perranwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Perranarworthal parish, south-west of Truro, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7739).
glosses: A hamlet near Perranporth, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW7752).
full clew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The state of having the bottom corners of a sail (or, by extension, the sail in general) spread wide
Perranarworthal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish south-west of Truro, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7738).
gulligut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulliguts
Etymology: From gully + gut.
Senses: examples: text: The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled& regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: glutton
gulliguts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulligut
confervæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conferva
Perranporth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Perranzabuloe parish, on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7554).
Perranzabuloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Cornwall, England; the parish includes Perranporth (OS grid ref SW7752).
bump elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bumps elbows
form: bumping elbows
form: bumped elbows
form: bumped elbows
Senses: glosses: To touch elbows with another person as a greeting, as a substitute for shaking hands, for instance during a pandemic.
Related terms: word: elbow bump
english: associate, mingle
translation: associate, mingle
word: rub elbows
raw_tags: not to be confused
bumps elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bump elbows
bumping elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bump elbows
bumped elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bump elbows
Pietermaritzburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpiːtə(ɹ)ˈmæɹətsˌbɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
Etymology: From Afrikaans, named after Piet Retief and Gerrit Maritz.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
wikipedia: Gerrit Maritz
Piet Retief
Maritzburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Pietermaritzburg.
Shotton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Peterlee parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4139).
glosses: A civil parish in County Durham, west of the village in Peterlee.
glosses: A hamlet south of Sedgefield in Sedgefield parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ3625).
glosses: A hamlet on the Scottish border in Kilham parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT8430).
glosses: A hamlet west of Cramlington, Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ2278).
glosses: A town and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3068).
Derived terms: english: village
translation: village
word: Shotton Colliery
Bhisho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bisho
Etymology: From Xhosa [Term?] (literally “buffalo”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Stargard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Stargard.
Senses: glosses: A city in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Kilham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪləm/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Killom, from Old English cylnum, dative plural of cyln (“kiln”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0664).
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in northern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT8832).
glosses: A surname.
Highthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality near Widdrington Station, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2693).
outlandisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outlandishers
Etymology: From outlandish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Hollanders, Zelanders, Scots, French, Weſterne men, Northren men, beſides all the hundreds and wapentakes nine miles compaſſe, fetch the beſt of their viands and mangery from her market. For ten weeks together this rabble rout of outlandiſhers are billetted with her, yet in all that while the rate of no kinde of food is raiſed, nor the plenty of their markets one pinte of butter rebated, aud ^([sic]) at the ten weekes end, when the campe is broken vp, no impreſſion of any dearth left, but rather more ſtore then before.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Foreigner; outlander.
outlandishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outlandisher
Philippan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Philippan
form: most Philippan
Etymology: From Philip + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to various people called Philip.
homomisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + -misic, from Ancient Greek μῑσέω (mīséō, “to hate”) or μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”), coined as an alternative to homophobic.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:homomisic.
glosses: Hating gay (homosexual) people; prejudiced against gay people.
transmisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + -misic, coined as an alternative to transphobic; for more on -misic, see homomisic.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transmisic.
glosses: Hating trans people; prejudiced against transgender people.
Related terms: transmisia
transmisiac
handmayd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handmayds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of handmaid.
forkt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of forked.
Llanpumsaint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Llanpumpsaint
Senses: glosses: A village in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4129).
tricken bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricken bags
Senses: examples: text: [T]he priest or priestess had to learn how to make love charms and various objects to cause enchantments; such as fingers-of-death, hands-of-love, luck balls and tricken-bags, the names of which adequately express their purpose.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 190:
text: "I have no belief in your tricken-bags, your luck-balls, your mysterious revelation from the snake, and spells from conjure-stones."
ref: 2013, David Murray, Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, page 58:
glosses: A type of love charm consisting of a bag containing a mixture of herbs and other magical ingredients.
tricken bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricken bag
luck ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luck balls
Senses: examples: text: [T]he priest or priestess had to learn how to make love charms and various objects to cause enchantments; such as fingers-of-death, hands-of-love, luck balls and tricken-bags, the names of which adequately express their purpose.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 190:
text: "I have no belief in your tricken-bags, your luck-balls, your mysterious revelation from the snake, and spells from conjure-stones."
ref: 2013, David Murray, Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, page 58:
glosses: A type of charm designed to bring good luck, consisting of a ball containing a mixture of herbs and other magical ingredients.
luck balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luck ball
coppis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coppises
Senses: examples: text: fell (glossed as) Lowe coppis
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 174:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of coppice.
triviall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more triviall
form: most triviall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of trivial.
pietie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of piety.
cankred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cankered.
Chenoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chenoys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
heyre-loome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heyre-loomes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heirloom.
hulke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hulkes
Senses: examples: text: Light boates ſaile ſwift, though greater hulkes draw deepe.
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: Their ſhips thus ſet on ſhore (to fruſtrate their deſire) / Thoſe Daniſh Hulkes became the food of Engliſh fire.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “The Twelfth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 197:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hulk.
hulkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hulke
forraine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forraine
form: most forraine
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of foreign.
O'Callaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Callahan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Related terms: Callaghan
productivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: productivizes
form: productivizing
form: productivized
form: productivized
form: productivise
Etymology: From productive + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Via campaigns to militarize, aestheticize, and productivize everyday life, the minds and bodies of Chinese citizens would become accustomed to the temporal rhythms of mechanized factory and agricultural work, and ever prepared to mobilize against domestic and foreign enemies.
ref: 2017, Maggie Clinton, chapter 4, in Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937, Durham and London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 130:
glosses: To render productive.
foreglimpsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreglimpse
foreglimpsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreglimpse
cupward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cup + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a cup.
fatmisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fat + -misia, coined as an alternative to fatphobia.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:fatmisia.
glosses: Hatred of, or prejudice against, fat people.
Synonyms: fatphobia
oral vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral vowels
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A vowel that is produced without nasalization.
antimasker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimaskers
form: anti-masker
Etymology: From anti- + mask + -er. Likely influenced by anti-vaxxer.
Senses: examples: text: On one side of the argument was a woman named Claire Newbourne, an anti-masker, a member of a group opposed to the government regulations on Marburg.
ref: 2017, Brian Falkner, Stubborn Seed of Hope:
text: Every time a citizen disobeys mask rules by not wearing one, or wearing it incorrectly, they endanger essential workers who have already risked their lives to service them in restaurant, store, and many other public settings. In an odd way, anti-maskers see this as being patriotic.
ref: 2020 September 22, Hope Moses, “Protecting essential workers must be a priority”, in The Marquette Tribune, volume 105, number 5, page 11:
text: Beightol, who is the administrator for several Facebook pages where public schools teachers can vent, said educators fall into three categories: vocal pro-maskers, vocal anti-maskers and pro-maskers who stay out of the line of fire.
ref: 2021 August 8, Francisco Alvarado, “‘I don’t see how it can be safe’: Florida schools on frontlines of state’s mask war”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
healthcare
politics
antonyms: pro-masker
glosses: A person who is opposed to the practice or mandate of wearing masks.
antimasker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimaskers
form: anti-masker
Etymology: From antimask + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The antimaskers are not at all concerned in the action; they are led into fill up the intervals with a grotesque kind of merriment, or, their grotesque dances, and then sink into nothing.
ref: 1884, Dr. Finkenbrink, An essay on the date, plot and sources of Shakespere's 'A midsummer night's dream':
text: Then came groups of antimaskers giving a mirthful variety to the scene of splendor — a company of beggars riding on lean jades, another of birds, but, most popular of all with the civic Puritans who lined the streets, a mask satirizing those projectors who begged the illegal and unpopular patents of monopoly from the King.
ref: 1903, Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson, The Controversy Between the Puritans and the Stage:
glosses: Alternative form of antimasquer.
antimasquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimasquers
form: antimasker
Senses: examples: text: The dauncers, masquers, antimasquers, and musicians did befor hand practice in the place where they were to present the masque, and the sceanes were artfully prepared (by Inigo Jones) att the lower end of the banquetting house, and all things were in readyness.
ref: 1790, “Manners o fthe Time of Charles the First displayed in an Account of a Musical Mask”, in The New Annual Register, page 166:
text: Next came a still more popular part—the antimasquers or comic and satirical part.
ref: 1859, David Masson, The Life of John Milton:
text: But Sabrina is no antimasquer. Instead, she introduces this alternative mode of signification into the masque proper, where she becomes moreover a necessary ally in the reunification of the aristocratic family.
ref: 1999, Nancy Weitz, Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance:
text: This downward metamorphosis serves to justify the low place of the antimasquers in the social scheme and to underscore how limited their social contribution must be.
ref: 2012, Gail Kern Paster, The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare, page 133:
glosses: One who takes part in an antimasque.
antimasquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimasquer
antimaskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimasker
aftercabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercabins
form: after cabin
Etymology: From after- + cabin.
Senses: examples: text: I was admitted to the after cabin where Mr Suffren was sitting at a table, having a number of papers upon it which he appeared to be inspecting […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 342
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The cabin in the stern of a vessel, typically used by the captain or senior officers.
spackling paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spackling pastes
Senses: glosses: A type of putty used to fill small holes in surfaces.
Elâzığ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Elâzığ.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Elazığ:
A province in eastern Turkey.
glosses: Alternative form of Elazığ:
A district of Elazığ Province, Turkey.
glosses: Alternative form of Elazığ:
A municipality, the capital city of Elazığ district and Elazığ Province, Turkey.
kitmuddar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitmuddars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khitmatgar.
supersessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersessors
form: supercessor
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin supersedēre (“to supersede”).
Senses: examples: text: Lord Wellesley […] sent down all his carriages, servants, staff officers, and general establishment to receive his noble supercessor at the waterside.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 401
glosses: Someone or something that supersedes another.
supercessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercessors
Etymology: Most likely a misconstruction involving "cede".
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supersessor.
performative authoritarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2020 July "Michael Arceneaux" "https://www.essence.com/op-ed/donald-trump-operation-legend/"
I also have doubts that the distinction between what constitutes “performative authoritarianism” and regular authoritarianism matters to the people who have been reportedly bashed over the head, tear-gassed, and in select cases, hauled off to undisclosed locations.
glosses: A display of authoritarian force by a government, particularly when unnecessary, as a means to convince or coerce the media and the population into believing that the government has control in matters of law and order.
Ancram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An older spelling of Ancrum, Scotland, and a title in the Scottish peerage.
Senses: glosses: A town in Columbia County, New York, United States.
hard cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard cheese
soft cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft cheeses
Senses: glosses: A type of rennet cheese that is not firm owing to the curds not having been pressed or comminuted to a large degree, so that much whey or liquid is left, and it has not ripened long.
soft cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft cheese
granular cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granular cheeses
Senses: synonyms: stirred curd cheese
glosses: A type of rennet cheese or cheese produced under employment of a similar clotting enzyme characterized by being firm owing the curds not only having been comminuted to a large degree but having been stirred with the whey before being put to ripen for a longer time.
granular cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granular cheese
stirred curd cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stirred curd cheeses
form: stirred-curd cheese
Senses: glosses: Synonym of granular cheese.
synonyms: word: granular cheese
stirred curd cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stirred curd cheese
stirred-curd cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stirred-curd cheeses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stirred curd cheese.
stirred-curd cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stirred-curd cheese
Pennison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Prof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Profs
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of Prof.
Tarporley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5562).
milk camel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk camels
form: milch camel
Senses: glosses: A camel of a type or a type of camel that is kept for its producing milk.
Related terms: milk cow
milk buffalo
milk camels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk camel
milch camel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlt͡ʃ ˈkæm(ə)l/
Forms: form: milch camels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milk camel.
milch camels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milch camel
staies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stays.
lustie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lustie
form: most lustie
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lusty.
May Lord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May Lords
Senses: examples: text: […] Cerdicus ſo denominated, who was the firſt maylord or captaine of the morris daunce that on thoſe embenched ſhelues ſtampt his footing, where cods & dogfiſh ſwomme [(]not a warp of weeks forerunning) & til he had giuen the onſet, they balkt thẽ as quickſands.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: a young man chosen to preside over the May Day celebrations
Coordinate terms: May Queen
May-lady
Maid Marian
May Lords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May Lord
hoblob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoblobs
Etymology: From hob (“yokel”) + lob (“yokel”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:
glosses: a rustic, boorish person; yokel
hoblobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoblob
cradlehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradlehoods
Etymology: From cradle + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In this Yarmouth as Maſter Camden ſaith, there were ſeauentie inhabitants, or houſholders, that payed ſcot and lot in the time of Edward the Confeſſor, but a Chronographycal Latine table, which they haue hanging vp in their Guild hall, of all their tranſmutations from their Cradlehoode, infringeth this a little, and flatters her, ſhee is a great deale yonger, […]
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: infancy
Midge Hall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Miggehalgh 1390; from Old English mycg + halh.
Senses: glosses: A village in South Ribble borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5123).
Hungaristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hungar(ian) + -istics.
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: Hungarian studies.
Hungarology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hungar(ian) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Oszlányi initiated the teaching of Hungarology. After seven years of persevering work, in 1969 he began to teach Hungarology at the first hundred level, later two, three and four hundred level courses and finally this year, the first master thesis on Modern Magyar Poetry was submitted and accepted.
ref: 1975, Géza Szentmiklósy Éles, Two Hungarian Immigrations: Victims of Misconceptions, page 86:
glosses: Hungarian studies.
quirrister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quirristers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of quirister.
quirristers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quirrister
pearcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of perched.
throstell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throstells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of throstle (“song thrush”).
coronaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corona
coronaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corona + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the body is a uniform medium-grained diabasic gabbro, but a variant exposed over several square kilometres in the northeastern part of the body consists of coarse-grained coronaed-olivine gabbro and norite with inclusions of harzburgite and amphibole lherzolite.
ref: 1974, “Geological, Geophysical, and Mineral-resource Investigations”, in Geological Survey Research 1974: A Summary of Recent Significant Scientific and Economic Results Accompanied by a List of Geologic and Hydrologic Investigations in Progress and a Report on the Status of Topographic Mapping (Geological Survey Professional Paper; 900), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 39, column 1:
glosses: Having a corona (in various senses).
coronaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From corona + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corona
play the game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the game
form: playing the game
form: played the game
form: played the game
Senses: examples: text: And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, / Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, / But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote / "Play up! play up! and play the game!"
ref: 1892, Henry Newbolt, Vitaï Lampada:
text: Myth #5— Acceptance and participation in the mainstream of society is automatically desirable. In order to be accepted you may have to compromise important personal values because average middle-American values are most important. You have to "play the game".
ref: 1979 December 1, Ron Vachon, quoting Bernice Goodman, “Homosexuality: Changing Clinical Perspectives”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 3:
synonyms: play by the rules
glosses: To behave fairly; to abide by the rules.
Related terms: play ball
blue-chinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I remember once the two of us were called over to the office of some blue-chinned TV producer in a pin-stripe suit to see if we had any angles he could build up for a program, [...].
ref: 1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber:
glosses: Having remnants of thick, dark facial hair when shaved.
irreluctant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: game
inclined
unreluctant
willing
glosses: Not reluctant.
Radcliffe on Trent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6439).
evil day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to put off the evil day
text: to fall on evil days
synonyms: evil hour
glosses: The time when something unpleasant occurs.
Bottesford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK8039).
glosses: A suburb of Scunthorpe and civil parish with a town council in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8907).
data custody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪtə ˈkʌstədiː/
Senses: examples: text: Many small businesses are forced into being cost-conscious, and their decisions around data custody may eventually translate to long-term setbacks.
glosses: The guardianship and protection of data from exploitation and abuse, during storage or transport, ensuring the security, integrity, and sovereignty of one's own data.
lace job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lace + job.
Senses: examples: text: Doreen wore these full-length nylon and lace jobs you could half see through.
ref: 1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber:
glosses: A piece or example of lace.
Synonyms: lacework
montologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: montologists
Senses: glosses: A person who studies montology.
montologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montologist
Charfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7292).
UFTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act.
Dead Chest Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛd ˈt͡ʃɛst ˈaɪ̯.lənd/
rhymes: -aɪlənd
Etymology: Etymology uncertain. One apocryphal explanation of the name refers to the marooning of crewmembers of the notorious pirate Edward Teach (c. 1680-1718).
Senses: glosses: An island of the British Virgin Islands.
wikipedia: Edward Teach
Aston Rowant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU7299).
Undy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Magor with Undy community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4386).
Carno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SN9696).
glosses: A river in Powys, which flows past the village and joins the Severn at Caersws.
Gaerwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog community, Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH4871).
Abertillery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Blaenau Gwent borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO2104).
trotter-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trotter-men
Senses: examples: text: "You are a trotter-man?" said a cross-examining Q.C. to a witness.
ref: 1906 June 16, The Evening News, Sydney, page 4, column 4:
glosses: An itinerant vendor selling pigs' trotters.
trotter-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trotter-man
chapli kebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapli kebabs
Senses: glosses: A Mughlai-influenced Pashtun-style minced kebab, usually made from ground beef, mutton or chicken with various spices in the shape of a patty.
dōjinshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dōjinshi
form: dōjinshis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doujinshi.
gua bao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ɡwɑ ˈbaʊ/
Forms: form: gua baos
form: gua bao
form: cuapao
Etymology: From Mandarin 刈包 (guàbāo), from Hokkien 刈包 (koah-pau).
Senses: glosses: A Taiwanese snack food consisting of a slice of stewed meat and other condiments sandwiched between flat steamed bread.
Hypernyms: bao
maskne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mascne
Etymology: From mask + -ne.
Senses: examples: text: But don’t dismiss maskne — acne and irritation from wearing a mask — as just another portmanteau to market skin-care products.
ref: 2020 June 17, Courtney Rubin, “Maskne Is the New Acne, and Here’s What Is Causing It”, in New York Times:
text: These bacteria can fuel skin irritations and infections, now known as maskne in the popular press[…]
ref: 2020, P. Bradford Smith et al., “A scoping review of surgical masks and N95 filtering facepiece respirators: Learning from the past to guide the future of dentistry”, in Safety Science, volume 131, →DOI:
text: Mask plays an inevitable role and became a part of our daily life in this pandemic era. The term "maskne" has become increasingly popular during the pandemic, particularly in the media, where it is used to describe several facial dermatoses.
ref: 2021 June 17, Kartikeya Kohli, “Management of ‘Maskne’ & Other Mask Related Facial Dermatoses”, in Medical Dialogue:
synonyms: mask acne
glosses: Acne induced by wearing a mask.
Hypernyms: acne mechanica
xenomisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + -misia, coined as an alternative to xenophobia.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:xenomisia.
glosses: Hatred of foreign people; prejudice against strangers or foreigners.
directingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more directingly
form: most directingly
Senses: examples: text: 'Lovey, Lovey, Queeby wanter come ter yer. Me wanter come ter yer,' waggling her black fingers directingly through the cracks.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 119:
glosses: So as to give direction.
porn baron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porn barons
Senses: glosses: A man prominent in the pornography industry for owning one or more pornographic publications.
fadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fadingly
form: most fadingly
Senses: examples: text: No church for her, then; and, as if in answer to their spiteful request, goose-coloured clouds began to gather in the west. However, across one cloud the end of a rainbow trailed fadingly.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 156:
glosses: In a fading manner; becoming lighter or paler.
unbaulked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Unbaulked, the alert showman instantly shifted scene and subject, and though these he varied often, the qualities of his brother in the Lord sitting directly under him had no place in the discourse, neither had church debt nor stipend fund.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 160:
glosses: Not put off; unfazed.
doll-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The childless woman, who had been a doll-less child, took this one from the now unresisting girl. Under the widow's loose hold its sole garment, a towel swaddling it, fell off.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 167:
glosses: Not having a doll; without a doll.
aquaeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aquaeous
form: most aquaeous
Senses: examples: text: Vaccine pulp is diluted at the time of grinding, using a sterile aquaeous solution of neutral glycerin of a strength such that the finished vaccine will contain approximately 40—60percent glycerin.
ref: 1953, Minimum Requirements of Biologic Products, page 208:
text: Differentiate in 0.2% aquaeous HCI 30—60 sec after staining blue the autoradiographs in rinsing tap water 30—60 min.
ref: 1972, Microautoradiography and Electron Probe Analysis: Their Application to Plant Physiology, →ISBN, page 148:
text: The average aquaeous tissue was much higher in Boer than Alpine crossbreds.
ref: 2010, Book of Abstracts of the 61st Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, Wageningen Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aqueous.
evil hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to put off the evil hour
glosses: Synonym of evil day.
synonyms: word: evil day
rootinest tootinest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rootin' tootin': most rootin' tootin'
rooting tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rootin' tootin'.
macrotrichium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrotrichia
Etymology: macro- + Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) + -ium
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An innervated hair on the integument or wing membrane of an insect.
macrotrichia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrotrichium
chætotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of chaetotaxy.
corpotentorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpotentoria
Etymology: From Latin corpus + tentorium.
Senses: examples: text: The large bar extending cephalad from each end of the corpotentorium to a pretentorina is a pretentorium.
ref: 1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect-anatomy:
text: In more primitive insects a median plate called the corpotentorium is sometimes formed between the two sides of the tentorium, but this plate is poorly developed or absent in Diptera.
ref: 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A median ventral plate of the tentorium of some insects.
circumfilum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumfila
Etymology: Equivalent to circum- + filum.
Senses: examples: text: That circumfilum is bandlike on the first five flagellomeres but absent beyond.
ref: 1993 June, Raymond J. Gagné, Fred D. Bennett, “Two New Species of Lestodiplosini (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Preying on Homoptera and Thysanoptera in Southern Florida”, in The Florida Entomologist, volume 76, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 341–348:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thread-like sensory organ found on nodes of the antennae of some midges in family Cecidomyiidae.
Eskmeals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal location in Bootle parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough, at the mouth of the River Esk (OS grid ref SD0893).
circumfila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumfilum
blastingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blastingly
form: most blastingly
Etymology: From blasting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "'Deed they doesn't. They fills their bellies wi' ther 'oney," bleated Granny blastingly.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 184:
glosses: In a blasting manner; loudly; vociferously.
dirging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dirge
dirging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But the oaks' dirging melody no longer moaned for him; to-day she caught her own sad reflex in their shivering lament.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 186:
glosses: Sung as a dirge; sounding as a dirge.
dirged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dirge
Irk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.
Changde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæŋ.di/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑŋ-/
ipa: /-də/
enpr: chängʹdŭʹ
Forms: form: Ch'ang-te
form: Changteh
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 常德 (Chángdé).
Senses: examples: text: Changte commands over four Cities, as Changte, Taoyuen, Lungyang, Juenkiang.
ref: [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Three other tourists from Zhangjiajie later traveled to the central city of Changde, taking a river cruise with dozens of other people. About 27 infections in at least six places have been linked to the boat ride.
ref: 2021 August 4, Sui-Lee Wee, Elsie Chen, “After Months as a Covid Success Story, China Tries to Tame Delta”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2021:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
ICON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICONs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of index currency option note, a type of financial instrument.
ICONs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ICON
witchfinder general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchfinders general
form: witchfinder generals
form: witch-finder general
Etymology: From witchfinder + general.
Senses: glosses: A title assumed by Matthew Hopkins, a 17th-century English witch-hunter.
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: An overly zealous investigator or accuser.
Usworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Washington, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3058).
chou moellier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choumoellier
Senses: glosses: A cultivated variety of Brassica oleracea, or a cross between cabbage, kohlrabi, and kale, used as fodder
Vrona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vronas
Etymology: From Ukrainian Вро́на (Vróna), derived from Polish wrona (“crow”), from Proto-Slavic *vorna. Compare native Ukrainian Ворона (Vorona) (whence English Vorona).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Врона (Vrona).
Vorona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Voronas
Etymology: From Russian Воро́на (Voróna) or Ukrainian Воро́на (Voróna), from Russian воро́на (voróna) or Ukrainian воро́на (voróna), both meaning "crow", from Proto-Slavic *vorna.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Воро́на (Voróna).
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Воро́на (Voróna).
begging bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begging bowls
Senses: glosses: A bowl held by a beggar seeking money and food.
examples: text: Portugal has gone to the British government with a begging bowl asking for relaxation of quarantine restrictions.
glosses: Used in reference to a plea for help.
begging bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begging bowl