cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
childcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more childcentric
form: most childcentric
Etymology: From child + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The tradition of embracing a childcentric view of development dates from Rousseau (1762/1948) and has been reinforced not only by the writings of Freud (1905), but by the contributions of many other preeminent theorists such as Piaget (1936/1974) and Bowlby (1982).
ref: 2002, Margie E. Lachman, Handbook of Midlife Development, page 281:
text: She sees Kylie, the central character in an Australian TV series, as an example of 'childcentric' comedy and links her to the Australian tradition of irreverence for authority, bom of its colonial history.
ref: 2019, George E.C. Paton, Chris Powell, Stephen Wagg George E.C. Paton, Chris Powell, Stephen Wagg, The Social Faces of Humour: Practices and Issues, page 1973:
text: The platform is described on its website as follows: "Everything we do is childcentric: Storypark works to make a difference—not just a dollar... Our approach comes with a sincere respect for children, including their privacy and contribution”.
ref: 2023, Claire McLachlan, Tara McLaughlin, Sue Cherrington, Assessment and Data Systems in Early Childhood Settings, page 108:
glosses: Focused on or oriented toward children.
dogcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dogcentric
form: most dogcentric
Etymology: From dog + -centric.
Senses: examples: ref: 2009, Susie Essman, What Would Susie Say?, page I love dogs. I'm dogcentric. A dogophile, some would say.:
text: And the new dogcentric dating websites such as AnimalAttraction.com or DateMyPet.com make it easier than hanging out in the dog park to meet the right dog owner.
ref: 2012, Pamela Redmond, Rabid: Are You Crazy About Your Dog or Just Crazy?, page 114:
text: dogtopia. AKA a dog utopia, the ideal dogcentric world for dogs.
ref: 2023, Marc Bekoff, Dogs Demystified: An A-to-Z Guide to All Things Canine, page 87:
text: Others resist this humancentric story of the being of dogs, arguing for dogcentric understandings of what it means to be a dog.
ref: 2024, Erika Cudworth, Animal Entanglements: Muddied Living in Dog–Human Worlds, page 7:
glosses: Focused on or for dogs.
foodcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foodcentric
form: most foodcentric
Etymology: From food + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Our very unique, multilevel pyramid approach to well-being is lifestylecentric, not foodcentric.
ref: 2014, Alex Pattakos, Elaine Dundon, The OPA! Way: Finding Joy & Meaning in Everyday Life & Work, page 219:
text: Our nanny, Dee, keeps assuring me no child will starve himself to death, but this whole eating thing is a major trigger for my anxiety (as a recovered anorexic, foodcentric issues really push my buttons still!).
ref: 2019, Erin Gates, Elements of Family Style:
text: There's a telling scene in one of Anthony Bourdain's later travel shows, Parts Unknown: the one where he visits Sicily to sample some of the local delicacies of this famous foodcentric island.
ref: 2024, Dominic Pettman, Eugene Thacker, Sad Planets:
glosses: Focused on food; gastronomic.
drops down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop down
dropping down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop down
dropped down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop down
three-letter agency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-letter agencies
Etymology: From initialisms of major intelligence agencies in the United States, such as the CIA, FBI and NSA.
Senses: glosses: Any intelligence agency of the United States federal government.
glosses: Any intelligence agency, regardless of nationality or allegiance.
three letter agency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three letter agencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-letter agency.
TESCREAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛskɹiːəl/
ipa: /ˈtɛskɹiːl/
rhymes: -ɛskɹiːəl
rhymes: -ɛskɹiːl
Forms: form: Tescreal
Etymology: Acronym of transhumanism + extropianism + Singularitarianism + cosmism + rationalism + effective altruism + longtermism, coined by Eritrean computer scientist Timnit Gebru and by American philosopher Émile P. Torres in 2023, as an umbrella term for the collection of its constituent movements.
Senses: examples: text: People who are very rich or very clever, or both, sometimes believe weird things. Some of these beliefs are captured in the acronym Tescreal. The letters represent overlapping futuristic philosophies — bookended by transhumanism and longtermism — favoured by many of AI’s wealthiest and most prominent supporters.
ref: 2023 May 10, Anjana Ahuja, “We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries”, in Financial Times:
glosses: An ideological movement purported to underpin much of the Big Tech industry, whose adherents use the threat of human extinction to justify the pursuit of reckless technological experimentation at all costs, with no regard for any negative impacts on others or society as a whole; especially in relation to the development of artificial intelligence.
Derived terms: TESCREALism
TESCREAList
Caponesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caponesque
form: most Caponesque
form: caponesque
Etymology: From Capone + -esque, after Al Capone.
Senses: examples: text: […] it seems that Bimbo had accused Nickolas of using Caponesque methods in an effort to usurp his kingdom, which included some 300,000 subjects in the United States at the time.
ref: 1969, Edith De Rham, How Could She Do That?: A Study of the Female Criminal, page 212:
text: […] a Caponesque terrorism with a tawdry kind of glamour, a meretricious appeal.
ref: 1978, Kate Caffrey, '37-'39: Last Look Round, page 16:
text: It is fair to say that those drawn to the paramilitaries shared a mixture of some or all of these characteristics: idealism, initiative, thrill-seeking, bravery, an urge to emulate their forebears, ruthlessness, Caponesque gangsterism, vindictiveness and psychopathy.·
ref: 2022, Matthew Engel, The Way It Was: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, 1952–79:
glosses: Having a similarity to Al Capone.
wikipedia: Al Capone
caponesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caponesque
form: most caponesque
Senses: examples: text: Equally wonderful is Doris Day as the virgin next door, Thelma Ritter as the sarcastic maid, and Tony Randall as the caponesque best friend/rival.
ref: 2010 February 13, Michael Strangeways, “Let’s All Go To The Movies!”, in Seattle Gay Scene:
text: All of Shakespeare, naturally, especially because the most brilliant of our teachers was a short, chubby man—caponesque, really—named Andrew Chiappe, whose intense lectures, punctuated by his blazing readings from the texts, were utterly thrilling.
ref: 2016, Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life, page 23:
text: Thank you Professor Allan. Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.
ref: 2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Caponesque.
caponesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caponesque
form: most caponesque
Etymology: From capon + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: They manage only a caponesque 16 per cent of the natives 'breeding rate; and, lacking a home river, they have no instinct to return to it.
ref: 2011, Richard Girling, Rubbish!: Dirt On Our Hands And Crisis Ahead:
text: The chickenesque youth led to caponesque youth, akin to a plantation or a quasi-plantation.
ref: 2012, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, page 173:
glosses: Like a capon.
Noli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines.
baby yoga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Incorporating massage and baby yoga into a baby's bedtime routine can promote relaxation and better sleep. Gentle massage techniques and stretching exercises can help release tension and create a sense of calmness.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Aurora Brooks, The Controversial Method for Getting Your Baby to Sleep All Night Long, BabyDreamers.net, →ISBN:
glosses: A light stretching exercise for babies.
examples: text: The Yoga Therapy Centre also offers combined postnatal and baby yoga classes. These use the weight of the baby to tone the mother's body and during these classes find their bodies become stronger, fitter and more supple than before pregnancy.
ref: 1999, Sarah Brewer, Pregnancy the Natural Way, Souvenir Press:
glosses: A form of yoga for new mothers, using their child as a weight.
Timberland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Timberland and Thorpe Tilney Parish Council) in North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1258).
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Roosevelt, Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States.
Thorpe Tilney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Timberland parish, North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1157).
Naxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Naxian
form: most Naxian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Greek island of Naxos
pentacations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentacation
outbuddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outbudding
bugdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugdoors
Senses: examples: text: a novel, minimalist approach to constructing deniable bugdoors for microcontroller firmware
ref: 2014 December 8, Samuel Junjie Tan, Sergey Bratus, Travis Goodspeed, “Interrupt-oriented bugdoor programming: a minimalist approach to bugdooring embedded systems firmware”, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '14), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 116–125:
text: provide the cover of plausible deniability for attackers in the form of exploitable “bugdoor” attacks
ref: 2024 April 13, Mario Lins, René Mayrhofer, Michael Roland, Daniel Hofer, Martin Schwaighofer, “On the critical path to implant backdoors and the effectiveness of potential mitigation techniques: Early learnings from XZ”, in arXiv, →DOI:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A security vulnerability caused by a bug that was intentionally added by the vendor.
Hypernyms: backdoor
benchod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benchods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of behenchod.
toadesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toadess
Hop Pole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently named after a public house, which closed long ago; "hop" refers to the climbing plant.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Deeping St Nicholas parish, South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1813).
flex off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flexes off
form: flexing off
form: flexed off
form: flexed off
Senses: glosses: To take time off from work using a flexible time-off policy, generally allowing time off at will instead of using accrued sick and/or vacation time.
Segeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Celtiberian.
Senses: glosses: An ancient settlement in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
cue off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cues off
form: cuing off
form: cueing off
form: cued off
form: cued off
Senses: examples: text: The sight cued off a panic attack.
text: I came up with questions for the interview by cueing off the things you wrote in your book.
glosses: To cause (an emotional reaction); to take as a starting point.
amalgamism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amalgam + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Commitment to this idea may well be reaction against the unbridled, atomistic individualism which has wreaked havoc in society as a whole and in innumerable lives, and which, as his books indicate, Steinbeck recognizes as disastrous for mankind. But he has swung to and remains at the opposite extreme, that amalgamism which deprives the individual of initiative, responsibility, value, and even metaphysical being, and makes him no more than a cell in a supposititious monstrosity called "group-man" or an inextricable aspect of a pseudo-mystical entity called the "great big soul."
ref: 1951, John S. Kennedy, “John Steinbeck: Life Affirmed and Dissolved”, in Harold C. Gardiner, editor, Fifty Years of the American Novel: A Christian Appraisal, New York, N.Y.; London: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 225:
glosses: Support for the merger or amalgamation of different things.
Related terms: amalgamationist
amalgamator
amalgamist
Segontia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Celtiberian.
Senses: glosses: An ancient settlement in Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, now Sigüenza.
widowdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From widow + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Taking a hoe this morning, (could find no spade but the ace,) I exhumed a toadess, perhaps a widow, living all by herself, in underground lodgings, as widows have done, and will do, again and again, till there is no such thing as widowdom in the world.
ref: 1854, Benj[amin] F[ranklin] Taylor, “Digging for a Subject”, in January and June: Being Out-Door Thinkings, and Fire-Side Musings. […], New York, N.Y.: Samuel Hueston, […], →OCLC, pages 50–51:
text: [“H]e and his pretty mother had had such pleasant times during that twelve month of her widowdom”
ref: 1950 August 10, Davis Grubb, Gentleman Friend (A&M 2797, West Virginia and Regional History Collection) (typescript of unpublished story), Morgantown, W.V.: Charles C. Wise Library; quoted in Jeffrey Couchman, “Davis Grubb and His ‘River Book’”, in The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2009, →ISBN, page 47:
text: To make her job easier in the future, she [Louise Barstead of Widowed Persons Services] has a simple and clear message to the now-married population of the world: “Prepare now for widowdom because you’ll either face it some day or you won’t be here.” Half of every married couple, unless death is simultaneous, will eventually enter the state of widowdom.
ref: 1981 January 30, Rhonda Tidrick, “Widow aids others in coping with death, getting on with life”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, 95th year, number 113, Spokane, Wash., page 8:
text: The story [of the film Rollover] begins with [Jane] Fonda’s socialite, ex-actress Lee Winters on the night of her widowdom.
ref: 1981 December 17, Susan Green, “If There’s a Moral Here, It Got Lost in Ticker Tape”, in The Burlington Free Press, 155th year, number 351, Burlington, Vt., pages 1D and 8D:
text: She was too great a lady, in her late forties when we met and I in my sixites,^([sic]) I remote in the making of my Judgement and she remote in her piety, her widowdom, her misplaced loyalty wasted upon an object unworthy of it: her late husband, […]
ref: 1984, Sidney Alexander, “Macellum Corvarium”, in Nicodemus: The Roman Years of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1534–1564, Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: A massive heart attack took his [her father’s] life, and in devastating sorrow, her mother sank away into a world far away from the harsh reality of her widowdom.
ref: 2001, Audry Colleen Browne, chapter 27, in Sins Against the Children, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 239:
text: Mother was keen to see the use of her widowdom. She knew how to be of service to others, her calling, and even in grief she kept baking cookies.
ref: 2004 July 15, Barbara Cathey, “Love Is an Accident”, in Death of a Saleswoman, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 389:
glosses: Synonym of widowhood.
synonyms: word: widowhood
amalgamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amalgamists
Etymology: From amalgam + -ist. Compare German Amalgamist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who supports the merger or amalgamation of different things.
glosses: Someone who supports miscegenation (interracial relationships or marriage) between white and African-American people.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An advocate for or an expert on using amalgams to fill tooth cavities.
amalgamist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amalgamist
form: most amalgamist
Etymology: From amalgam + -ist. Compare German Amalgamist.
Senses: examples: text: The amalgamist culture of the United States may have been forged by immigrant entrepreneurship and the labor of multitudes, but the nation reached its greatest heights at precisely its nativist peak, powered by a "greatest generation" that had come of age in a culture of closed borders, cheered by invocations of a common national heritage and a shared national future.
ref: 2010 March 31, The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2024:
glosses: Relating to amalgamists or amalgamisms.
Synonyms: amalgamationist
Related terms: amalgamationist
amalgamator
amalgamism
amalgamize
amalgamists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amalgamist
amoebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amoebulas
form: amoebulae
form: amoebulæ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amebula.
amoebulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoebula
amoebulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoebula
amoebulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoebula
bambooze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæmˈbuːz/
ipa: /bæmˈbuz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: bamboozes
form: bamboozing
form: bamboozed
form: bamboozed
Etymology: Back-formation from bamboozle.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, come now, Jacques,” he grumbles, “ain’t they listed yet, those famous shares of yours ? Your uncle promised to give me a part interest for my wages, but it won’t do for him to bambooze me too long, because I will give him as good as he sends, I will ! I ain’t the sort to be gammoned, I ain’t !”
ref: 1893, André Theuriet, chapter XII, in E. P. Robins, transl., My Uncle Scipio, New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, pages 209-210:
text: As " Here lie the slimsey remains of aristocratic wit: Which shone awhile with uncommon brilliancy: Illuminating the 15 Un. States: Evidently calculated to bambooze the people into a just sense of their dearest rizts; until: Exhausting its glow-worm taper in squibs crackers buffoonery & bombast is now set: In eternal oblivion! "
ref: 1899, “7 of Jonathan Delano”, in Joel Andrew Delano, compiler, Genealogy of Delano: 1621 - 1899, volumes 4-6, page 426:
text: He shadows the regular in his name, the massage operator in his method, and the hypnotist in bamboozing the public.
ref: 1906 November 24, “Osteopathy”, in J. W. Jervey, editor, Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association, page 292:
text: I told him that if he thinks he can bambooze me with any such truck of a notion he was crazy.
ref: 1934 September 24, Carson Seeley, Writer's Digest, volume 14, number 10, page 40:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bamboozle.
bamboozes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bambooze
bamboozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bambooze
bamboozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bambooze
annulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an annulating reagent
glosses: That causes an annulation reaction (a reaction which forms a ring of atoms).
annulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of annulate
antipassivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antipassivizes
form: antipassivizing
form: antipassivized
form: antipassivized
form: antipassivise
Etymology: From antipassive + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: If we wish to form an agentive participle, we must first antipassivize the verb (the antipassive suffix being -ŋay).
ref: 1985, Avery Andrews, “The major functions of the noun phrase”, in Timothy Shopen, editor, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, volume I: Clause Structure, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire […]: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 153:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.
Related terms: word: antipassivization
word: antipassivized
antipassivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antipassivises
form: antipassivising
form: antipassivised
form: antipassivised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antipassivize.
antipassivises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antipassivise
antipassivising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antipassivise
antipassivised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antipassivized.
antipassivised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antipassivise
antipassivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antipassivize
antipassivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antipassivize
antipassivized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antipassivised
Senses: examples: text: an antipassivized verb
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That has been converted into the antipassive voice.
antipassivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antipassivised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antipassivize
antipassivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipassivizations
form: antipassivisation
Etymology: From antipassive + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: What are the conditions for zero-detransitivisations and kha-antipassivisations?
ref: 2014, Narayan Prasad Sharma, Morphosyntax of Puma, a Tibeto‐Burman language of Nepal (thesis), London: University of London, archived from the original on 10 May 2024, page 69:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process by which a clause, word, etc. is converted into the antipassive voice.
Related terms: antipassivize
antipassivized
antipassivizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipassivization
antipassivisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipassivisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antipassivization.
antipassivisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipassivisation
Florida Man
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A reference to offbeat news headlines commonly phrased as Florida man [commits some unusual crime or other act].
Senses: coordinate_terms: Florida Woman
glosses: A personification of the people responsible for outrageous crimes and occurrences in the US state of Florida.
beezy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beezies
Etymology: From bitch + -eezy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Senses: examples: text: I can't fade a beezy who don't keep a bleezy / Rolled for a neezy / I ask her, 'What the feezy?'
ref: 2001 November 20, Mac Dre, “Bleezies-n-Heem” (track 3), in It's Not What You Say... It's How You Say It, performed by Mac Dre:
text: I'd lost it, really. What was I doing sitting here gossiping with a couple of beezies?
ref: 2007, Nyomi Scott, Gettin' Hooked, New York, N.Y.: Kimani Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: "I'm good, Tami. I'll holla," I interrupt. Been there and done that when we kicked it last year. These beezies is treacherous.
ref: 2013, Kwame Alexander, He Said, She Said, New York, N.Y.: Amistad, →ISBN, pages 24–25:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A woman.
beezies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beezy
-eezy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /iːzi/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -izzle (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words)
Japanese bayberry whiteflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese bayberry whitefly
off the heezy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off the heezy
form: most off the heezy
Etymology: From off the hook + -eezy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Senses: examples: text: Party was bumpin'. Dan said, "Shit is off the heezy." Nikki said, "You know you're white, right?"
ref: 2012, Adam Wilson, Flatscreen, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 200:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Wild, exciting, out of control.
off the heezy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off the heezies
Etymology: From off the hook + -eezy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Senses: examples: text: Bruh I used to get inbtrouble for doing "off the heezies"😂
ref: 2019 September 24, @d0nde3zy, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2024:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A basketball move in which the ball is bounced off of an opponent's head.
off the heezies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of off the heezy
flyssa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyssas
Senses: glosses: A sharp weapon that originates in precolonial Algeria.
flyssas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyssa
for sheezy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: fo sheezy
form: fo' sheezy
form: fuh sheezy
Etymology: From for sure + -eezy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Senses: examples: text: "I think I might change my name to cutie since everyone here calls me that. My name is Freaky and that's fo sheezy."
ref: 2003, Antoine Thomas, Flower's Bed, New York, N.Y.: Amiaya Entertainment, →ISBN, page 82:
text: "You gon' call me?" she asked. ¶ "Fuh sheezy, boo. I'm feeling your vibe," he said as he pulled her even closer.
ref: 2014, Parish Sherman, A Little More Sin, Wilmington, D.E.: Street Knowledge Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Yup, I'm for sheezy. Check out this hoodie. It looks like any ole black hoodie but it's actually a state of the art transformational mask.
ref: 2015, Marcus Gardley, “No More Monsters Here”, in Facing Our Truth: Short Plays on Trayvon, Race, and Privilege, [New York, N.Y.]: Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 85:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: For sure, for real, definitely.
Related terms: fo shizzle
fo sheezy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for sheezy, representing African-American Vernacular English.
fo' sheezy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for sheezy, representing African-American Vernacular English.
fuh sheezy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for sheezy, representing African-American Vernacular English.
red hornweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A marine algae of species Ceramium virgatum, found throughout the British Isles.
jillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jillionaires
Etymology: From jillion + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: ("I can hold my breath for a long time" was this summer's "I ate bison liver." Good for you, you middle-aged macho-measuring jillionaires.)
ref: 2016 January 7, Mark Harris, “The era of gigantosaur movies brought us Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, and now Star Wars.”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
synonyms: bajillionaire
bazillionaire
gazillionaire
squillionaire
glosses: An incredibly rich person; a zillionaire.
jillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jillionaire
knowwhaddamean
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnəʊwɒdəˈmiːn/
ipa: /ˌnoʊwɑdəˈmin/
ipa: [ˌnoʊwɑɾəˈmin]
Forms: form: knowhatimean
form: knowutimean
form: knawwhatimean
form: knowadamean
form: knowarramean
form: knoworrimean
form: knowwhorraimean
form: know whatta mean
form: know watta mean
Etymology: Contraction of the phrase do you know what I mean.
Senses: examples: text: "Now, most of those islands are down by Key West. Lots of places to hide down there. That's why the Keys are known for some... less savory actions, you know what I mean?" Knowwhaddamean?
ref: 2014, Chuck Wendig, The Cormorant, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire; New York, N.Y.: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 229:
synonyms: nah mean/nah ah mean[AAVE]]>
yadadamean[hyphy#Noun|hyphy]]>
glosses: Do you understand? Do you catch my drift?
Sulby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Sóla-bør (“Soli's farm”).
Senses: glosses: A village in the Isle of Man.
Sulby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in West Northamptonshire, England.
mehh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Gears of War (360). Mehh - yet another pretty but bland FPS. Back to Gamesfrenzy it goes.
ref: 2007 July 2, Sir Chewbury Gubbins, “First Play, Want, Bin of July”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
text: We both looked at her boobs. "Mehh," we said and shrugged.
ref: 2017, Missi Magalis, Happily Ever After in Front Royal, Virginia, Front Royal, V.A.: Happy Creek Publishing, page 96:
glosses: Elongated form of meh (“expressing indifference etc.”).
glosses: Elongated form of meh (“animal sound”).
SEAFDEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center.
victimary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victimaries
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French victimaire, from Latin victimārius, from victima + -ārius.
Senses: examples: text: Two of the ministri support a pole or brancard, from which hangs a situla (pail with handles); a third has charge of a huge ox, over whose head floats a bird like Progne; whilst a victimary drags by the horns a goat, sacred to Mars.
ref: 1876, Richard Francis Burton, Etruscan Bologna: A Study, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 43:
glosses: A person whose role it is to kill the sacrificial victim(s) during a ritual sacrifice.
victimary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more victimary
form: most victimary
Etymology: From victim + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Ansay reinserts the victim at the heart of what the violence of independence can signify: the second part of the text leaves behind the revolutionary government's processes of self-construction and represents the experience of independence exclusively from this victimary perspective.
ref: 2022, Catriona McAllister, Literary Reimaginings of Argentina's Independence: History, Fiction, Politics, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, page 42:
glosses: Relating to victim(s) or victimhood.
victimaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimary
Soulby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from Old Norse súla (“pillar”) + bȳ (“farmstead village”).
Senses: glosses: A village located in Cumbria, England.
Soulby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
victiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of victim
victimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Breaking my retreat at last, I took a taxi to the campus of Florida International University and spent an hour with a professor named Anthony Maingot, an expert on the Caribbean, a refreshing man who impatiently waved away all thought of what poet Derek Walcott called (Maingot quoting him) "the historiography of the oppressed and the historiography of remorse" — meaning, I take it, the interminable cliches of the victimed and genocided.
ref: 1995, Lance Morrow, Heart: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, pages 234–235:
glosses: That has been made into a victim; victimized.
victimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of victim
bleezy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleezy
form: most bleezy
Senses: examples: text: Having often made the same remark, I mentioned that twice or thrice, in passing their house, I had seen her looking foolishly through the window, pressing her tongue on the glass, with a red face and bleezy eyes; indeed, it was pretty generally thought in the town, that she took more than did her good.
ref: 1830, John Galt, Lawrie Todd; Or, The Settlers in the Woods, volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, page 301:
text: They had both glistening eyes and bleezy faces. I had my doubts—gude forgie me if I blaspheme her good name!—that the strange woman was the waur of liquor; for, when she sat down on a chair, she swayed hither and yon, and was so coggly that I had my fears of a catastrophe on the floor.
ref: 1836 January, John Galt, “Tribulations of the Rev. Cowal Kilmun”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, number 25, page 33:
glosses: Showing signs of alcohol consumption, especially of eyes.
bleezy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleezies
Etymology: From blunt + -eezy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Senses: examples: text: Ladies, come with me and then take it easy / Here's a bleezy for you and your friend, I light it up / All I know is that we 'bout to get blowed
ref: 2012 November 15, B.o.B, “So Blowed” (track 14), in Fuck 'Em We Ball, performed by B.o.B ft. Snoop Dogg:
synonyms: word: bifta
word: bifter
word: blunt
word: bogie
word: bomber
word: bone
word: bun
word: Camberwell carrot
word: doink
word: doinker
word: doob
word: doober
word: doobie
word: exotic cheroot
word: fatty
word: giggle stick
word: hogger
word: hooter
word: J
word: jazz cigarette
word: jay
word: jimmy
word: joint
word: juju
word: left-handed cigarette
word: muggle
word: number
word: phattie
word: reefer
word: roach
word: spiff
word: spliff
word: toke tube
word: torpedo
word: zol
word: zoot
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A blunt (marijuana cigarette).
pensions off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pension off
pensioning off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of pension off
pensioned off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pension off
sports-bet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sports-bets
form: sports-betting
form: sports-bet
form: sports-bet
form: sports-betted
form: sports-betted
Etymology: A back-formation from sports betting.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: To bet on the outcomes of sport matches.
monkey-strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey-straps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monkey strap.
monkey-straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey-strap
equalify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equalifies
form: equalifying
form: equalified
form: equalified
Etymology: From equal + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make (something) equal; to equalize.
equalifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equalify
equalifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of equalify
equalified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equalify
monkey strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey straps
form: monkey-strap
Senses: examples: text: Also, he must always use the approved safety harness, or "monkey strap" as it is commonly called.
ref: 1970, U.S. Army Aviation Center, U.S. Army Aviation School (contributors), United States Army Aviation Digest - Volume 16, page 11:
text: The monkey strap term came from the "tail" we had whenever we unhooked to exit the helicopter.
ref: 2007, Frank Lampi, Ghost Riders A War Story, page 102:
text: Although his monkey strap kept him from flying completely out of the chopper, he went out to the end of his strap and then flew back and hit the side of the chopper.
ref: 2014, H. D. Graham, Vietnam Helicopter Crew Member Stories, page 254:
text: Kolt leaned forward slightly, testing the tension on his monkey strap, and spotted the second Mark V still positioned next to the ship.
ref: 2015, Dalton Fury, One Killer Force - A Delta Force Novel:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A type of safety strap.
monkey straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey strap
white skin privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white privilege.
synonyms: word: white privilege
hops off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hop off
hopping off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of hop off
hopped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hop off
bullspink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlˌspɪŋk/
Forms: form: bullspinks
Etymology: From bull + spink.
Senses: examples: text: Their haunts are stubble fields, and in very severe weather, farm-yards, where they feed among the chaff and refuse of the corn; hence they get the name of Chaffinch. In Yorkshire this bird is known by the name Bullspink.
ref: 1794, James Bolton, “Nest and Eggs of the Chaffinch”, in Harmonia Ruralis; or, An Essay towards a Natural History of British Song Birds, volume 1, page 24:
text: Chaffinch. Fringilla celebs. A common resident. Locally known as the ‘bullspink.’ Observed above Angram, at 1,050 feet.
ref: 1886 July 24, W. Eagle Clarke, W. Denison Roebuck, William Storey, “Upper Nidderdale and Its Fauna”, in Wm. Denison Roebuck, editor, The Naturalist, number 132, London, page 200:
text: Eh ! what a grand shop this is ! It's makin me feel as pyert as a bullspink, an' as leet i' th' anclif as a gruand !
ref: 1895, John Trafford Clegg, “Calder Valley”, in The Works of John Trafford Clegg ["Th' Owd Weighver."] Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes, Chiefly in the Rochdale Dialect, Rochdale: The Aldine Press, page 397, column 2:
glosses: A chaffinch or a bullfinch.
bullspinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullspink
Western Bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Western Bloc
Senses: examples: Holonyms: free world; First World < world, World
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
related: word: Eastern Bloc
word: <
word: Soviet Bloc#Proper noun
word: <
word: Second World#Proper noun
glosses: The noncommunist nations of Europe and America.
dig yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: To obtain a proper understanding of something, to figure something out, to work something out.
sleeby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Sleepy.
asset-stripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The practice of selling off a company's assets in order to improve returns for equity investors.
asset-stripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asset-strip
asset-strip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asset-strips
form: asset-stripping
form: asset-stripped
form: asset-stripped
form: asset strip
Senses: topics: business
glosses: To sell off a company's assets in order to improve returns for equity investors.
asset strip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asset strips
form: asset stripping
form: asset stripped
form: asset stripped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asset-strip.
the feezy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the fuck + -eezy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Senses: examples: text: I can't fade a beezy who don't keep a bleezy / Rolled for a neezy / I ask her, 'What the feezy?'
ref: 2001 November 20, Mac Dre, “Bleezies-n-Heem” (track 3), in It's Not What You Say... It's How You Say It, performed by Mac Dre:
text: “Who the feezy is them niggas?” he asked. ¶ I laughed because he had been using ‘feezy’ instead of the word fuck, and it was so funny to me.
ref: 2017, Bianca, A Malice Love, Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 145:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular; minced oath; African-American Vernacular; minced oath
glosses: Euphemistic form of the fuck.
Elez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Èlez.
Senses: examples: text: An account that appeared to be linked to Elez posted a call to repeal the Civil Rights Act as well as an endorsement of a “eugenic” immigration policy and repeated anti-Indian screeds within the last year, according to archived posts, which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
ref: 2025 February 7, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Rene Marsh, “‘Second American Revolution’: The team behind DOGE’s government overhaul”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
azulmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] azulmin. This brownish ill-defined polymer forms in the solution and may coat electrode surfaces. Schmidt and Meinert proposed that azulmin is formed by a chemical reaction between cyanogen and hydrocyanic acid. Other workers have[…]
ref: 1993, Christopher S. Hofseth, The Cuprous Ion Catalyzed Oxidation of Cyanide in Flow-through Porous Electrodes:
text: […] cyanide ion and brown azulmin from the polymerization of CN- are produced. At a pH between 7 and 8.6, carbonate, ammonium, and azulmin are formed.
ref: 2005, Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Environmental Technologies Handbook, Government Institutes, →ISBN, page 219:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown substance produced by the decomposition of hydrocyanic acid.
kerplode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kerplodes
form: kerploding
form: kerploded
form: kerploded
Etymology: From ker- and explode.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of explode.
synonyms: word: explode
azulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... of azulin prepared therefrom. 5. The silver medal, or its value, and the sum of 1,875 francs to the inventor of a yellow solder, possessing the properties and quality of ordinary tin solder, and to be used for soldering brass or[…]
ref: 1872, Scientific American, page 214:
text: ... of azulin. About this time, 1861, Girard and deLaire patented in England the preparation of a blue dye aniline blue which they had obtained by the reaction between aniline and rosaniline at[…]
ref: 1924, Leigh Charles Anderson, A Study of 3(1), 3(2), 3(3)-TRIMETHYL-AURINE (ORTHO-CRESAURINE), page 9:
text: ... with azulin as an intermediate product.
ref: 1938, Victor von Richter, Organic Chemistry: The aromatic compound; (newly translated from the 12th German ed. by A.J. Mee):
glosses: Alternative form of azuline.
monkey orchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey orchestras
Senses: examples: text: Celebrated sets were the Monkey Orchestra and the Carnival of Venice, escorted by upwards of a hundred different and independent figurines, representing the various professions and trades ...
ref: 1877, R. M. Washburn (compiler), The People's Condensed Library - A Compendium of Universal Knowledge, Historical, Scientific, Mechanical, and Statistical, Comprising the Origin of Many Things Not Generally Known, page 360:
glosses: A group of Meissen porcelain figures depicting monkeys playing musical instruments.
chipped rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flattened rice.
synonyms: word: flattened rice
rice flakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice flake
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flattened rice.
synonyms: word: flattened rice
monkey orchestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey orchestra
Jimson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Jamestown, Virginia. (an alteration)
Yuanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of New Caledonia
stolen goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: Any goods or other property that have been obtained, carried off, or abstracted by means of a crime.
right to silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rights to silence
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
synonyms: right to remain silent
glosses: A legal principle guaranteeing any individual the right to refuse to answer questions from law enforcement officers or court officials.
right to remain silent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rights to remain silent
Senses: glosses: Synonym of right to silence.
synonyms: word: right to silence
rights to remain silent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right to remain silent
rights to silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right to silence
Bhudevi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit भूदेवी (bhūdevī).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bhumi.
synonyms: word: Bhumi
Myrotvorets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mirotvorets
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Миротво́рець (Myrotvórecʹ, literally “Peacemaker”).
Senses: examples: text: This estimate is contested by the estimates of the Ukrainian pro-governmental website Mirotvorets, which regularly publishes data of identified separatists. Mirotvorets puts the total number of Russian foreign fighters, excluding regular military, at around 50-80,000. However, there is one common thread in the numbers provided by the Union of Donbass Volunteers and Mirotvorets:[…]
ref: 2017 May 30, Kacper Rekawek, Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 64:
text: But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.
ref: 2019 August 27, Mansur Mirovalev, “Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2022:
text: I had asked him about the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) organization, which hosts a database he described as a political instrument for counterterrorism in Ukraine. Launched in December 2014, Myrotvorets collects personal information about people believed to be conspiring against the country.[…]Myrotvorets and its separatist counterpart Tribunal offer concrete examples of the difficulties of researching politicized contexts like war.
ref: 2023 December 6, Ilmari Käihkö, "Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance, 2014-2023, Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: A Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.
Mirotvorets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Myrotvorets.
kerplodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kerplode
kerploding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of kerplode
kerploded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kerplode
Periyalvar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil பெரியாழ்வார் (periyāḻvār).
Senses: synonyms: Vishnuchittar
glosses: One of the twelve alvar saints, foster father of Andal.
Barcheston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2639).