cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
artyfarty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more artyfarty
form: most artyfarty
Senses: examples: text: Return on investment imperative. Stop. Forget the artyfarty stuff.
ref: 1981, Margaret Gardner Mayorga, Stanley Richards, The Best Short Plays, page 254:
text: To protect himself against his ignorance in either instance, the producer may accuse the composer of too much integrity, and find him too slow, too artyfarty, too obstinate, too costly, too much of a perfectionist.
ref: 1983, Jazz Forum - Issues 80-85, page 57:
text: 'He's not that keen on formal social occasions,' said Pascoe, who knew that the constable who sorted Dalziel's mail had strict instructions to file all invitations that smelled of civic tedium or artyfarty ennui in a large plastic rubbish bag.
ref: 2015, Reginald Hill, Bones and Silence:
glosses: Alternative form of arty-farty.
artyfarty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artyfarties
Senses: examples: text: Especially Midlands carmakers who did not want to be lectured by a bunch of London artyfarties otherwise fussing over the design of spoons.
ref: 2016, Christy Campbell, Mini: An Intimate Biography, page 60:
text: Lon hair versus short hair, right versus left, Nat versus Commie, artyfarty versus pig. You had to choose your tribe.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of arty-farty.
artyfarties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artyfarty
occupationaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occupationaires
Senses: examples: text: Initial greetings came from the first contingent of occupationaires: the outer jetty sported outsized black and red letters reading “KILROY,” a nod to the graffiti produced by GIs during the war.
ref: 2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific, page 32:
glosses: A member of the Allied military forces that occupied Japan at the end of World War II.
occupationaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occupationaire
by force of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Synonyms: by dint of
Morkrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morkrums
Etymology: Brand name, from the surnames Morton and Krum.
Senses: glosses: A kind of teletypewriter formerly used within press organizations to transmit news stories.
Morkrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morkrum
proxime accessits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proxime accessit
mossyback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒsibæk/
ipa: /ˈmɔsiˌbæk/
ipa: /ˈmɑ-/
Forms: form: mossybacks
Etymology: From mossy + back (in sense 2 (“person who stayed hidden to evade conscription during the American Civil War”) probably a variant of mossback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.
Sense 3.2 (“menhaden”) may be influenced by mossbunker.
Senses: synonyms: conservative
reactionary
retrograde
traditionalist
glosses: A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
glosses: Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”).
synonyms: word: mossback
extra: (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.
Derived terms: mossybacked
mossy-backed
mossybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mossyback
demothball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demothballs
form: demothballing
form: demothballed
form: demothballed
Etymology: From de- + mothball.
Senses: synonyms: unmothball
glosses: To restore (a mothballed project or equipment) to active use.
unmothball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmothballs
form: unmothballing
form: unmothballed
form: unmothballed
Etymology: From un- + mothball.
Senses: synonyms: demothball
glosses: To restore (a mothballed project or equipment) to active use.
demothballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demothball
demothballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demothball
demothballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demothball
unmothballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmothball
unmothballed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not mothballed.
unmothballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmothball
unmothballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmothball
motion discomfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of motion sickness.
synonyms: word: motion sickness
Kunc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lobby fodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alluding to the division of the assembly, in which MPs walk through one of the two division lobbies on either side of the House in order to vote for or against.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Members of Parliament who vote according to the party line but otherwise contribute little or nothing.
wikipedia: division of the assembly
loft bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of toss bombing.
synonyms: word: toss bombing
toss bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A method of bombing where the attacking aircraft pulls upward when releasing its bomb load, giving the bomb additional time of flight by starting its ballistic path with an upward vector.
Synonyms: loft bombing
Coordinate terms: divebombing
Czorny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Czornys
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Czorny.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Ebionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Ebionizes
form: Ebionizing
form: Ebionized
form: Ebionized
form: Ebionise
Etymology: From Ebion + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: When, therefore, St John came forward with the testimony of his Gospel to oppose the Ebionizing and Gnostic fundamental principle of all heresy, and at the same time externally and internally supplemented the Synoptists, he was not influenced by a multiplicity of separate and independent aims.
ref: 1860, Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard, translated by W. B. Pope, Biblical Commentary on the Epistles of St. John […], page xxi:
text: These writers unanimously attribute to him an Ebionizing Christology; and to this must be added as a further sign his strong chiliasm […]
ref: 1877, Johannes Friedrich Bleek, translated by William Urwick, Introduction to the New Testament, volume 2, page 26:
text: Would you be willing to imitate all the examples of the old church? Or are you Ebionizing, and do you wish to return us to the Mosaic rule?
ref: 2008 [1582], Dirck Coornhert, translated by Gerrit Voogt, Synod on the Freedom of Conscience […], →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: To believe in or expound upon the Ebionite heresy.
Ebionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Ebionize
Ebionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Ebionize
Ebionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Ebionises
form: Ebionising
form: Ebionised
form: Ebionised
Senses: examples: text: If it be asked what is the one predominant thought in the Epistle, its one idea and motive, the answer seems to be neither (as some have supposed) the blessedness of enduring temptation — thought this is very prominent in it; nor a polemic against mistaken impressions respecting justification by faith, though that occupies an important section; nor an Ebionising exaltation of the poor over the rich, though the rich are sternly warned ; nor a contrast between the friendship of the world and the enmity of God.
ref: 1882, Frederic William Farrar, The Early Days of Christianity - Volume 2, page 26:
text: Most of this Ebionising exaltation of Judaic episcopacy is the nonsense of an heretical and malignant ecclesiasticism, savouring of the elements which have ever been the corruption of all that is pure and sound and simple in the Church.
ref: 1883, Cyclopedia of Religious Literature, page 348:
text: If, again, the multitude of quotations from the Jewish scriptures might be supposed to have most weight with Jews (though we find the same phenomenon in the Epistle to the Galatians), yet, on the other hand, in the apologetic section (ix. - xi,.) the argument is rather about the Jews than addressed to them, and the moral precepts of the practical chapters seem to have in view the liberal Gentiles far more than the Ebionising Jews.
ref: 1885, Frederic William Farrar, The life and work of St. Paul, page 449:
glosses: Alternative form of Ebionize.
Ebionises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Ebionise
Ebionising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Ebionise
Ebionised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Ebionise
Ebion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Milner divides the earliest heretics into two classes—the Docetae and the Ebionites— though Bishop Horsley has shown it to be more than doubtful whether Ebion was born in the first century; and he compares the Docetae and Ebionites to the Arians and Socinians of modern times..
ref: 1812, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 160:
text: EBION, the author of the heresy of the Ebionites, was a disciple of Cerinthus and his successor.
ref: 1829, London Encyclopaedia:
text: There he attacks Ebion, the supposed leader of a Jewish-Christian “heresy” of the Ebionites: But he is making a completely false accusation—this dreadful serpent with his poverty of understanding.
ref: 2007, Petri Luomanen, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Risto Uro, Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism, page 221:
glosses: The author of the Ebionite heresy.
roided up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roided up
form: most roided up
form: 'roided up
form: roided
Senses: glosses: On steroids.
LOL in NAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOLs in NAD
Senses: examples: text: L.O.L.: little old lady. (Oddly, there is no male equivalent.) / N.A.D.: no apparent distress. The classic description of a patient in a state of well-being: L.O.L. in N.A.D.
ref: 2001 May 13, Sheilendr Khipple, “Word for Word/Hospital Lingo; What's a Bed Plug? An L.O.L. in N.A.D.”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: LOL
<
lady
woman
<
person
glosses: Initialism of little old lady in no apparent distress.
LOLs in NAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LOL in NAD
look-out book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: look-out books
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to assistance from the automation people, we now have a better look-out book. […] For every post we have a book with about 80,000 names of people to whom visas should not be issued prior to consulting with the Department, another post, or a district office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
ref: 1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations:
text: We have this stupid look out book which is going to get worse because they are going to computerize it. The look out book keeps you out of this country, […]
ref: 1987, In Defense of the Alien: Proceedings:
glosses: An official list of people who should not be admitted to a country.
look-out books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of look-out book
Newton-on-Ayr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Newton upon Ayr
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ayr, South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3423).
Demers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
unscreenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + screenable.
Senses: glosses: Not screenable.
Desrosiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Lot's wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In the Bible, the Book of Genesis describes how Lot's wife became a pillar of salt after she looked back at Sodom.
Senses: examples: text: Someone asked, “Pass Lot's wife, Toppy, will you?” Toppy slid the salt shaker down the table […]
ref: 1948, Howard Pease, Bound for Singapore, page 46:
text: Later, when Kristin beckons for the salt shaker by growling for “Lot's wife,” the author credits himself for initiating her into legitimate sailing society: […]
ref: 2001, Nancy Pagh, At Home Afloat: Women on the Waters of the Pacific Northwest, page 59:
glosses: A salt shaker.
wikipedia: Lot's wife
highballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highballers
Etymology: From highball + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Men who played the asshole card usually enjoyed consistent success with uneducated women. So why was Emma pouring the Masterpiece bourbon into a highballer instead of splashing it in this guy's face?
ref: 2008, Kylie Adams, Beautiful Liars:
glosses: Synonym of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
synonyms: word: highball glass
extra: a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs
examples: text: He was a highballer. This scar under my eye here is where he handed me the dump wrench one time when I wasn't watching. He never bothered to look.
ref: 1954, Queen's Quarterly, volume 61, page 63:
text: The final hour of the day to a highballer is what the final few metres of track are to an Olympic sprinter. (Fact: a highballer will expend significantly more calories in a single day than a runner will during a full marathon, […]
ref: 2019, Greg Nolan, Highballer: True Tales from a Treeplanting Life:
glosses: A logger who works very hard or very fast.
highballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highballer
highball glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highball glasses
Senses: synonyms: highball
highballer
coordinate_terms: lowball glass
glosses: A tall glass tumbler used for highballs, usually holding 240–350 mL.
Hypernyms: glass
tumbler
highball glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highball glass
high-key
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-key
form: most high-key
form: highkey
form: high key
form: highk
Etymology: From high + key.
Senses: examples: text: Details are tremendously important in composing an outstanding high-key photograph.
ref: 1942 November, Victor Keppler, “Key to Good Pictures”, in Popular Photography, →ISSN, page 29:
topics: art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Characterised by light tones and absence of shadow.
high-key
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more high-key
form: most high-key
form: highkey
form: high key
form: highk
Etymology: From high + key.
Senses: examples: text: High key no longer wanna tell anyone anything that’s going on with me.
ref: 2022 January 31, BIG XO (@Raveyxoxo_), Twitter:
glosses: In a conspicuous way.
Coordinate terms: low-key
mid-key
blems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blem
Californiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From California + -ana.
Senses: examples: text: Other Californiana and Americana includes some grand costumes of the early days given by the Ladies' Museum Society (a kind of feminine auxiliary to the gallery) […]
ref: 1941, Magazine of Art, volume 34, page 316:
text: Across the street, at 50 Maiden Lane, is Sergio Old Prints (40), which offers an excellent selection of old San Francisco prints and other Californiana.
ref: 1981, Gene Anthony, Jill Losson, The great cable car adventure book: a California guide, page 22:
hypernyms: Americana
glosses: Items, especially collectibles, associated with the state of California.
Cossington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6013).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3540).
Widdowson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪd.ə(ʊ).sən/
ipa: /ˈwɪd.oʊ.sən/
Forms: form: Widdowsons
form: Widdison
Etymology: From widow + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
galut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galuts
form: galuth
Senses: glosses: The Jewish Diaspora (dispersion from Israel).
industrial properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrial property
jazillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jazillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: Why hadn't she thought about this? He was professor. Of course he'd have a jazillion books...and there were, floor to ceiling, all the way around the room. Crammed in together. Stacked on the floor in places. Stacked on tables. She'd thought the Glass House was a reader's paradise, but this...
ref: 2010, Rachel Caine, The Morganville Vampires:
text: While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.
ref: 2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga:
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
jazillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jazillion
asset stripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asset-stripping.
asset stripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asset strip
decoy effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decoy effects
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change in preference between two options when also presented with a third option that is asymmetrically dominated: that is, the third option is inferior in all respects to one option, but, in comparison to the other, it is inferior in some respects and superior in others.
Related terms: decoy pricing
decoy effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decoy effect
Bredbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ9291).
miyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miya
doujin events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doujin event
infiltrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infiltrable
form: most infiltrable
Senses: examples: an infiltrable soil
glosses: Able to undergo infiltration (of water).
Related terms: infiltrability
signifying monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signifying monkeys
Senses: glosses: A monkey character in African-American folklore, derived from the trickster figure of Yoruba mythology, Esu Elegbara.
signifying monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signifying monkey
refrigeratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: refrigerable
glosses: Suitable for being refrigerated.
Neo-Syriac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From neo- + Syriac.
Senses: glosses: A collection of several Northeastern Neo-Aramaic languages or dialects spoken by Syriac Christians in and around northern Iraq.
Synonyms: Felliḥi
Modern Syriac
Sureth
Vernacular Syriac
Neo-Syriac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + Syriac.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being the Neo-Syriac dialects.
turn the clock back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the clock back
form: turning the clock back
form: turned the clock back
form: turned the clock back
Senses: examples: text: If I could move a mountain
If I could make the sky turn black
If I could turn the clock back
To when I heard your neck go snap
ref: 2005, J. G. Thirlwell, “(not adam)”, in Love, performed by Foetus:
glosses: Alternative form of turn back the clock.
Takacs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hungarian Takács, from Hungarian takács, from Proto-Slavic *tъkačь.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Takac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takacs
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
dopes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dope out
doping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dope out
doping out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘I’ll admit,’ he conceded, ‘that right now I can’t think of where any of us will figure. That’ll need a lot of doping out.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 59:
glosses: The action of figuring out.
doped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dope out
onwent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ongo
ongone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ongo
turns the clock back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn the clock back
turning the clock back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn the clock back
turned the clock back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn the clock back
undivertedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undivertedly
form: most undivertedly
Etymology: From undiverted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "It isn't a question of course however," she undivertedly went on, "of their behaving beautifully apart. It's a question of their doing as they should when together—which is another matter."
ref: 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
glosses: Without being diverted.
pompoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompoons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pompom.
Hulls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hull
Kowoll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kowolls
form: Kowol
form: Kowal
form: Kowohl
Etymology: Variant of Kowol, Kowal.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Trois-Rivieres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Trois-Rivières.
Kowohl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kowohls
form: Kowol
form: Kowoll
form: Kowal
Etymology: Variant of Kowol, Kowal.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kowall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kowalls
Etymology: Variant of Kowal, from Polish kowal (“smith”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
care and feeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: maintenance and sustenance (of something, organic or otherwise)
Laskuy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur لاسكۇي (laskuy).
Senses: examples: text: Farmer Mettohti Imin, his teenage son Abdusalam Mettohti, and a family friend were taken into custody in late March after confronting “more than 100 police officers” who had come to seize land communally owned by Aktash village in Xinjiang’s Laskuy township^([sic – meaning town]), a resident told RFA’s Uyghur Service.
ref: 2013 April 12, Rukiye Turdush, Joshua Lipes., “Three Uyghurs Held for Resisting Land Takeover”, in Rukiye Turdush, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2015:
text: Earlier this year, authorities in the township^([sic – meaning town]) of Laskuy, Hotan County^([sic – meaning City]), issued an announcement in the town seat of Aktash Village that “all restaurants and supermarkets in our village should place five different brands of alcohol and cigarettes in their shops” and create “eye-catching displays” to promote the forbidden products. “[A]nybody who neglects this notice and fails to act” the notice warned, “will see their shops sealed off, their business suspended, and legal action pursued against them.”
ref: 2015 June 23, Ryan Kilpatrick, “Uyghur exiles blast pre-Ramadan ‘beer competition’ held by Communist Youth League”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2015:
text: In April 2015, authorities in Aktash village, Laskuy township, Hotan county, Hotan prefecture, XUAR, ordered local shopkeepers to sell alcohol and cigarettes — the use of which many local Muslims considered a "sin" and "self-destructive," respectively¹¹⁷- as well as to display the alcohol and cigarettes prominently.¹¹⁸
ref: 2015 October 8, Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2015, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 2015, →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: A town in Hotan City, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Lasikui
Baghchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur باغچى (baghchi).
Senses: examples: text: A 34-year-old from Hotan, arrested in Baghchi and deprived of political rights for 4 years
ref: 2006, China Rights Forum, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:
text: Imin Memtimin, 41, who has played an active role in police operations in Sadiqawat village of Baghchi township^([sic – meaning town]) in Hotan county, was kidnapped from his home on the morning of March 9.
ref: 2015 March 23, Roseanne Gerin, Shohret Hoshur, “Police Raids Yield No Clues About Kidnapped Uyghur Village Police Chief”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2015:
text: A survey in three villages of Baghchi Town, Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture counted a total population of 5307 and a labor force of 1,699, among which 1,493 are willing to work outside voluntarily, accounting for 88 percent of the total labor force.
ref: 2021 December 14, “The So Called “Forced Labor” Constitutes a Shameless Slander”, in Sayyara, editor, Tianshannet, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2022:
glosses: A town in Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Bageqi
Bereza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berezas
Etymology: From Ukrainian береза (bereza).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Береза (Bereza).
Ribblehead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the River Ribble + head.
Senses: glosses: A moorland location with a railway station and viaduct in Ingleton parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD7779).
Kirkby Thore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both Kirkby and Thore are from Old Norse, first recorded as Kirkebythore.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6325).
Gardel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gardels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Selside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD5399).
glosses: A village in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD7875).
arrowmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəʊˌmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: arrowmakers
Etymology: From arrow + maker.
Senses: synonyms: fletcher
glosses: A person who makes arrows.
arrowmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowmaker
Mountsorrel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5814).
Waitby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7508).
macronation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macronations
form: macro-nation
Etymology: From macro- (“large”) + nation (“a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life or ethnicity”).
Senses: glosses: A large nation; a nation of considerable size in population or membership.
macronations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macronation
Thornaby-on-Tees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Thornaby parish, Stockton-on-Tees borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4517).
Thornaby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Thornaby-on-Tees: a town in Thornaby parish, Stockton-on-Tees borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4517).
glosses: A civil parish with a town council in Stockton-on-Tees borough, North Yorkshire, England, which is the parish for Thornaby-on-Tees.
wannit
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: So you wannit, do you? Well you can't have it!
text: "I don't wannit." "What do you mean, you don't wannit?" "I don't wannit." "Look, Boscobel," began Rawlins gently, "you saw Koko the clown, didn'tcha? You see Benny the mule, didn'tcha?
ref: 1952, Nicholas De Minno, Half A Dollar Is Better Than None, page 119:
glosses: Represents a contracted pronunciation of want it.
examples: text: That was ages ago, wannit ?
text: 'It was ages ago, wannit?' Another drink. 'Course that's what made the brother move out. He couldn't stay around after that, could he? Poor guy.' The rat scarpered towards the kitchen. 'What happened, Sheila?' 'Awful, wannit?'
ref: 2014, Kerry Wilkinson, Something Wicked:
glosses: Represents a contracted pronunciation of wasn't it.
Lackenby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Redcar and Cleveland borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ5619).
Nunthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English nunne (“nun”) + Old Norse þorp (“village, settlement”).
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb and civil parish in Middlesbrough borough, North Yorkshire, England; the suburb extends into Redcar and Cleveland (OS grid ref NZ5315).
Community of Madrid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An autonomous community and province of Spain. Capital: Madrid.
didn'tcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: You ate it all, didn'tcha?
glosses: Contraction of didn't you.
Related terms: didn'tchya
didncha
didntcha
Great Ayton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Ayton.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ5611).
Related terms: Little Ayton
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See more at Saltburn.
Senses: glosses: A seaside town in Saltburn, Marske and New Marske parish, Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ6621).
goodhumoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodhumoured
form: most goodhumoured
form: good-humoured
form: good-humored
Senses: synonyms: amiable
antonyms: badtempered
glosses: In a good mood.
Saltburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sealt (“salt”) + burna (“stream”), in reference to the alum found in the area.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Saltburn-by-the-Sea: A seaside town in Saltburn, Marske and New Marske parish, Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ6621).
Derived terms: Saltburn, Marske and New Marske
Earlswood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Redhill in Reigate and Banstead borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ2749).
glosses: A village in Tanworth-in-Arden parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, also partly in Tidbury Green parish, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1174).
glosses: A scattered village in Shirenewton community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4595).
Merstham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːstəm/
Senses: glosses: A town in Reigate and Banstead borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ2953).
Derived terms: South Merstham
prosodicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So prosodicity can be taken as a synonym of suprasegmental and of hierarchical structure above the segment.
ref: 2016, Youcef Hdouch, The Character of the Extraprosodicity Theory, page 3:
text: Second, I argue that the mora is a prosodic constituent, and furthermore, that its presence in subsyllabic structure is a necessary prerequisite for its prosodicity.
ref: 2018, Draga Zec, Sonority Constraints on Prosodic Structure:
glosses: The state of being prosodic.
Bucknell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bucknells
form: Bucknill
Etymology: From the genitive form of either the Old English personal name Bucca or bucca (“he-goat”) + hyll (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5625).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in southern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3574).
glosses: A placename:
A former settlement in Mendocino County, California, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, named after William Bucknell.
Derived terms: Bucknellian
Related terms: Bucknall
halfsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfsies
Etymology: From half + -sie.
Senses: examples: text: When she was eighteen, she went on a United Synagogue Youth Tour (one hundred and twenty all-Jewish high schoolers and one halfsie).
ref: 1976, Susan Berman, Driver, give a soldier a lift, page 110:
text: Julie says: I am an atheist, although among family and friends I call myself a "halfsie."
ref: 1992, Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, Robin Margolis, Between Two Worlds:
text: A halfsie herself, Sarah has "always been primarily attracted to Jewish men" and felt that JDate would help her narrow down her options.
ref: 2006, Newvoices, page 52:
text: The fact that it does not matter that Julio is a "halfsie" becomes a moot point when we begin to realize that a strict biological and national essentialism cannot operate in a cultural context that is based on the more open social epistemologies that are set in place in Spansih Harlem.
ref: 2008, José L Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydée Rivera, Writing Off the Hyphen:
glosses: One whose membership in a group is only through one parent or through a partial commitment.
-sie
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -sy (forming nouns).
Milford Haven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A natural harbour, harbour town, and community with a town council in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9005).
Related terms: Welsh Aberdaugleddau
frontsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontsie
frontsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontsies
Etymology: From front + -sie.
Senses: examples: text: To her, the ethical thicket consists of "frontsies and backsies," a phenomenon she noticed in kindergarten.
ref: 1988, William L. Rivers, Cleve Mathews, Ethics for the media, page 45:
text: One of his favorites is "No frontsies, no backsies," so there was really no point in trying to butt in.
ref: 2003, Ann M. Martin, The Baby-sitter's Club, page 200:
text: He then suggests a lawyerly solution to her problem: just ask your friend to grant you a frontsie first, so that you can enter the queue in front of her, but promise that you will then grant her a frontsie in turn, by trading places with her, so that when all is said and done, you will have taken the queue spot right behind her but without violating the rule againsts backsies; you did it all by a seuqnce of frontsies.
ref: 2011, Leo Katz, Why the Law Is So Perverse, page 71:
text: Backsies meant you let a kid cut behind you. A complex moral microcosm presented itself in the world of frontsies and backsies, with a wide range of available moral responses.
ref: 2019, Robert K. Bolger, Robert C. Coburn, Religious Language, Meaning, and Use: The God Who is Not There:
glosses: The act of joining a queue in front of a friend rather than at the end of the queue.
drinksie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinksies
Etymology: From drink + -sie.
Senses: examples: text: “A little drinksie, babe?” asked Jeff.
ref: 2004, Thomas Alton Gardner, Home on the Strange, page 59:
text: Two, you're sitting here having drinksies with a famous actress and you didn't call me.
ref: 2015, Susannah Hardy, Olive and Let Die:
text: Normally, I'd be thrilled you brought a friend around for drinksies.
ref: 2017, Vivien Jackson, Wanted and Wired:
glosses: An alcoholic beverage.
drinksies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinksie
pantsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantsies
Etymology: From pants + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Well, it's stuff for modern kids: the ones who are primal enough to giggle at a peepee rainbow (created by infantsinanursery) and the “pooped in his pantsie" jokes, ...
ref: 1998, Time - Volume 152, Issues 18-26, page 99:
text: In fact, if I See One more bootie, blankie, snugglie, jammie, hatsie, pantsie or shirtsie covered in twee, cloying, dwarfish bears, I'm going to need a bottle myself.
ref: 1998, P. J. O'Rourke, “The CEO of the Sofa”, in Forbes, volume 161, numbers 7-12:
text: Sometimes one of those children that the others dare not argue with points to an old lady, one of the many who live in the rows of old brick cottages between the church and the main streets of the city, and calls out – old Blue Nancy with blowflies in her pantsie, and starts to run as if the woman is chasing him.
ref: 2008, Tamarisk Row:
glosses: Underpants.
pantsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantsie
toesie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toesies
Etymology: From toe + -sie.
Senses: examples: text: While between her little brown toesies is puddle-mud, gathered last fall.
ref: 1915, H. Coffen, The Teepee Book:
text: He knew what toes were because I played a game of "I'm going to get your toesies!" with him every day.
ref: 1999, Allen Anderson, Linda C. Anderson, Angel Animals: Exploring Our Spiritual Connection with Animals:
text: Dear God, I am thankful for ears that can wiggle For lips that can pucker and bellies that jiggle. For legs that can gallop and gambol and mosey. And thanks for each hair and each footsie and toesie.
ref: 2014, Jean Fischer, A Star for Me:
glosses: Toe.
Rushwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8253).
oriental rug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental rugs
Etymology: From oriental + rug. Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The pile is made by fastening tufts of woolen yarn into the warp, and in this respect an Axminster is woven like a handmade oriental rug, except that on the power loom ingenious nippers take the place of the deft fingers of the oriental weaver.
ref: 1889, “Floors and floor coverings”, in Farmers’ Bulletin, pages 22–23:
text: As to appearance and durability, no carpets made are handsomer or can stand the wear that a good Oriental rug will not only endure, but will actually be benefited by.
ref: 1895, “From the Farthest Parts of the World”, in Outing, page xxvi:
glosses: A handwoven rug or carpet in one of various styles made in or associated with the Orient, especially the Middle East or Asia.
Synonyms: oriental carpet
oriental carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental carpets
Etymology: From oriental + carpet. Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: It must be emphasized at once that in the narrow sense one cannot identify an oriental carpet simply by its design. The classical method used by experts in the carpet trade is to study the weave.
ref: 1989, P.R.J. Ford, The Oriental Carpet, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: A handwoven carpet in one of various styles made in or associated with the Orient; an oriental rug.
Oriental rug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oriental rugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of oriental rug.
nailfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nail + fast.
Senses: examples: text: For carrying structures concrete must be expected to be used in the future, and if the concrete can be made nailfast and with a cement of a considerably quicker setting, it will satisfy the demands of to-day.
ref: 1957, W. R. Simonsen, Johannes F. Munch-Petersen, Prefabrication in Denmark, page 100:
text: She arranged that the great bedsteads and such other things as were nailfast and heirlooms, should remain for the use of the tenants, that they might the better entertain travelling Friends.
ref: 1880, Frances Anne Budge, Annals of the Early Friends: A Series of Biographical Sketches:
text: On 9 May 1631 Experience Mitchell sold to Samuel Eddy for £20 "his dwelling house, garden plot & fence, with all things nailfast in the same," reserving a portion of the garden plot [PCR 12:18].
ref: 1996, Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633:
glosses: Permanently attached.
reënactment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reënactments
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of reenactment.
nakedize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nakedizes
form: nakedizing
form: nakedized
form: nakedized
form: nakedise
Etymology: From naked + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It was alleged, moreover, that the practive of stripping young persons sometimes is eminently conducive to their health, to strength of body, symmetry, beauty, and to morality, and virtue ; and that even grown persons may derive much benefit from remaining some hours, in mild weather, without their clothes. It was most manifest that the children liked to nakedize—such was the term of art—exceedingly; but it was something new and different from the ordinary routine of jackets, trowsers, and petticoats; — in a word, it was a change.
ref: 1858, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Volume 2, page 289:
text: For several hours during the day they were stripped and made to nakedize that their bodies might receive the benison of nature's light and air. The parents, too, nakedized in the privacy of their rooms.
ref: 1935, Frances Winwar, The Romantic Rebels, page 156:
text: They were allowed to "nakedize" as a privilege on a theory of "philosophic nakedness".
ref: 1936, Robert Palfrey Utter, Mrs. Gwendolyn (Bridges) Needham, Pamela's Daughters, page 392:
glosses: To go naked.
nakedizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nakedize
nakedizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nakedize
nakedized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nakedize
nakedise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nakedises
form: nakedising
form: nakedised
form: nakedised
Etymology: From naked + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: I gained some credit by communicating that I had sometimes nakedised, under the authority and by the advice of the celebrated Dr. Franklin, who wrote with earnestness in commendation of air-baths, for so he called and esteemed the remaining naked for some hours in the early morning.
ref: 1888, Félix Rabbe, Shelley: the Man and the Poet, page 188:
text: The five children were required to spend some hours of each forenoon without any clothes on, nakedising as Mr. Newton called it, as a return to primitive innocence.
ref: 1897, Macmillan's Magazine - Volume 75, page 128:
text: But the children did; they were left to the tender mercy of their old Mother and were allowed to enjoy nearly a full hour of nakedising.
ref: 1920, Words in Pain, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of nakedize.
nakedises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nakedise
nakedising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nakedise
nakedised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nakedise
red-zone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: red-zones
form: red-zoning
form: red-zoned
form: red-zoned
Etymology: From the system of classifying areas of Christchurch, New Zealand as red zone (irreparable), green zone (reparable), or orange zone (more investigation needed) after the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.
Senses: examples: text: And in the event their land is red-zoned, at least they know they will ultimately get a new house under their AMI insurance policy.
ref: 2013, Rebecca Macfie, Report from Christchurch, page 26:
text: As a result of severe and recurrent liquefaction damage, and the infeasibility of timely and effective land repair, more than 7000 residential properties in Christchurch were red-zoned (designated as currently uneconomic to repair) and purchased by central government at a cost exceeding NZ$1.6 billion.
ref: 2016, James Goff, C. R. de Freitas, Natural Hazards in Australasia, page 133:
text: His house in the Loop was red-zoned.
ref: 2017, Gerald Murnane Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 336:
glosses: To categorize as too damaged to repair, and requiring the owners to vacate (a property).
red-zones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of red-zone
red-zoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of red-zone
red-zoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of red-zone
kilogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kilo- + -gon.
Senses: examples: text: Find the constant of proportionality for a decagon, kilogon, and megagon.
ref: 1999, Mark Dugopolski, College Algebra and Trigonometry, page 505:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon having 1000 sides.
Synonyms: chiliagon