cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phrasal typology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of phrasal verbs, idioms, and hyphenated nouns and adjectives (and of rhetorical and literary terminology) and how they are categorized or typed.
box-to-box midfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box-to-box midfielders
Senses: examples: text: When Rice signed for Arsenal from West Ham for £105m in 2023, he spent the first six months as a more traditional holding midfielder, before he moved to a box-to-box role following a winter training camp in January 2024.
ref: 2025 October 21, Alex Howell, “The evolution of Rice - how midfielder became Arsenal's all-rounder”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: a central midfielder who plays both defensively and attackingly, who runs a lot up and down the pitch.
rhetorical device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhetorical devices
Senses: glosses: A phrase (set phrase or created phrase) that uses reduplication, onomatopoeia, or other phonetic markers that increase memorability and “musicality” (making rhetoric pleasing or entertaining).
good cop bad cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good cop, bad cop
form: Good Cop, Bad Cop
form: good-cop, bad-cop
form: good cop/bad cop
form: Good Cop/Bad Cop
form: good-cop/bad-cop
form: good cop-bad cop
form: good cop–bad cop
form: good-cop-bad-cop
form: good-cop bad-cop
Senses: glosses: A psychological tactic used for interrogation, involving one police officer playing the role of intimidating adversary, and another that of friend with whom the subject is encouraged to bond.
glosses: An analogous negotiation or interrogation tactic.
hedges one's bets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hedge one's bets
hedging one's bets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hedge one's bets
hedged one's bets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hedge one's bets
error messages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of error message
undeadliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Middle English undedlynesse (or, in some cases, a continuation rather than a calque), from Old English undēadlīcnes (“immortality”); equivalent to undeadly + -ness; compare German Unsterblichkeit, a similarly formed compound.
Senses: examples: text: Although the holy fathers, who were before us, very certainly knew about that which thou formerly askedst; that is, about the undeadliness of men's souls, which was very clear in this that they naught doubted, […]
ref: 1852, “A Modern English Version of King Alfred's Blossom-Gatherings from Saint Augustine”, in The whole works of King Alfred the Great, volume 2, page 83:
text: "If a man might die, and have done with it all! But to meet God! And 'tis no sweven,¹ ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness² — it is real."
1. Dream 2. Immortality.
ref: 1875, Emily Sarah Holt, The White Rose of Langley: a story of the court of England in the olden time, page 2:
text: to find the same / Old traits of time’s undeadliness and fame / In Dante’s visions, and in Shakespeare’s lore, / And Chaucer’s quaint and graphic strains of yore.
ref: 1880, Richard Robert Madden, “Farewell lines to an old friend”, in The Memoirs (chiefly autobiographical) from 1798 to 1886 of Richard Robert Madden, published 1891, page 152:
text: So is the righteous man white in cleanness of soul, and therefore shall he have a white stole of undeadliness in the high Lebanon that is the bliss of heaven.
ref: 1929 [p. 1350, a.1396], Dorothy, transl. Jones, Minor works of Walter Hilton, translation of original by Walter Hilton:
text: He that dwelleth between the terms hath near-hand forsaken deadliness, but not fully, and hath near-hand gotten undeadliness, but not fully.
ref: 1957 [p. 1154, a. 1162], Ray C., transl. Petry, “Capitulum VII”, in Late Medieval Mysticism, translation of Benjamin by Richard of Saint Victor, page 106:
text: To this will I answer thee, that He had been dead, and was clad with undeadliness, and so shall we be at the Day of Doom.
ref: 2007 [p. 1350, a. 1400], Evelyn, transl. Underhill, The Cloud of Unknowing, translation of The Cloude of Unknowyng:
glosses: The condition of not being susceptible to death; immortality.
Synonyms: deathlessness
immortality
hissy-fits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hissy-fit
rocket-packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocket-pack
no-lone zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-lone zone
wha-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wha-up
e-tailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-tailer
ki-yis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ki-yi
orrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orris
iambuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iambus
pre-games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-game
mésalliances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mésalliance
Lutons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Luton
chowder-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowder-head
Z-cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z-car
all-up services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of all-up service
porte cochères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porte cocheres
form: porte-cocheres
form: porte-cochères
Senses: glosses: plural of porte cochère
Bashkirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bashkir
armings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arming
slowmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slowmatch
buffos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffo
color coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of color coordinate
color coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of color coordinate
color coordinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of color coordinate
color coordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: color-coordinated
form: colour-coordinated
form: colour coordinated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of color coordinate
color coordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: color-coordinated
form: colour-coordinated
form: colour coordinated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colour coordinated.
anatman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑn ˈɑːtman/
Etymology: From an- + atman.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The doctrine that there is no transcendental ego or soul; that the perceived true self is an illusion. Corresponds to the Hinayana or Theravada Buddhist doctrine of anattā.
glosses: That which is other than the atman (self), such as the body.
Related terms: ātman
Sutratman
Progesterex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably from progesterone + -ex.
Senses: glosses: A hoax date rape drug claimed to cause sterilization.
Mars Bar party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mars Bar parties
form: Mars bar party
Senses: examples: text: ‘It's like a Mars bar party,’ she told them, over her shoulder, grinning like a very sexy Cheshire kitten. ‘Only different.’ Mr Dictator and his Minister, drinking at the bar with Doug Hutton, the Few's security chief, simultaneously choked on their beer.
ref: 2021 [2002], Gwyneth Jones, Castles Made Of Sand, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: A supposed party or orgy where Mars chocolate bars are eaten from the vagina or anus.
sex bracelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex bracelets
Senses: examples: text: Sex bracelets, rainbow parties, and sexting were all new concerns. Each quickly went from something that no one had ever heard of to activities that seemed ubiquitous.
ref: 2014, Joel Best, Kathleen A. Bogle, Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A gel bracelet, in the context of an urban legend according to which the girl wearing the bracelet will engage in a sex act determined by the color of the bracelet, with whoever snaps it from her wrist.
Synonyms: word: shag band
sex bracelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex bracelet
handkerchief code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handkerchief codes
Senses: examples: text: Because S&M is in the news this year: the Village Voice, Boston Globe, Time. They tell of all those big, mean men in leather and denim, keys dangling from leather straps, spiked dog collars around the necks. Between the key code (keys on the left—S; keys right—M) and the handkerchief code (color worn denotes favorite sexual act), the men don't even have to talk to each other.
ref: 1976 February 7, Rosenjoy, “Sadomasochism: The Theory And The Practice”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 10:
synonyms: hanky code
bandana code
flagging
glosses: The display of handkerchiefs of various colors used as a coded way to indicate the sexual interests of the wearer.
handkerchief codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handkerchief code
gerbilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gerbil
gerbiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gerbil
gerbilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gerbil
gerbiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gerbil
anguishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anguishly
form: most anguishly
Etymology: From anguish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And so longe dured there the batayle that Sir Bors sate up all angwyshlye and behylde Sir Collegrevaunce, the good knyght, that fought with his brother for his quarell.
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:
glosses: With anguish; anguishedly.
Game of Life
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Game of Life
Senses: glosses: An American board game simulating progress through life, with job, marriage, etc.
glosses: A cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Horton Conway, consisting of a grid of cells that are either "alive" or "dead" and grow or diminish based on the number of adjacent living cells.
complanate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more complanate
form: most complanate
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1848, the verb in 1643; borrowed from Latin complānātus, perfect passive participle of complānō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Flattened, level.
complanate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: complanates
form: complanating
form: complanated
form: complanated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1848, the verb in 1643; borrowed from Latin complānātus, perfect passive participle of complānō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To make level; to flatten.
read-only access
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If they want read-only access for political purposes — fine. But don’t give them write access.”
ref: 2025 February 18, Jeanne Sahadi, “DOGE’s request for IRS data systems access may pose risks to tax filers”, in CNN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A permission to access files or directories where the user is only allowed to read or view, not to make changes.
Related terms: read-only memory
compunctis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A compound neume consisting of one or more notes appended both before and after a neume.
Scooby-Doo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskuːbiˈduː/
homophone: scoubidou
Forms: form: Scooby-Doos
form: Scooby Doo
Etymology: Uncertain. Scooby doo appears as a vocable scatted in "The Boppenpoof Song" written in 1954, as the name of a band (The Scooby-Doo All-Stars) in 1956 and the title of a song by the Jerry Lieber Beat Band published by Zephyr Records in 1959 (both of which were signed to Zephyr Records). It is likely that such uses were an influence on the creators of the cartoon but they may also have been partially influenced by Frank Sinatra's "doo-be-doo-be-doo" improvisation in "Strangers in the Night" released in 1963 a few months prior to the first episode of Scooby-Doo being shown (also in 1963).
Senses: examples: text: I knew I had to be very careful when I was crafting the story, so that it wouldn't be a Scooby Doo moment—you know, the one where the villain rips off his mask and tells you why he did it—and that he would have gotten away with it, if not for those pesky kids!
ref: 2007, Jodi Picoult, "Reader's Companion" (Washington Square Press) to the author's Plain Truth (Simon and Schuster, 2000) p.414
text: A mile out of town, off the Combe Martin road, discover a real Scooby Doo experience at Chambercombe Manor. It's shrouded in ghost stories and has starred in TV shows about the paranormal.
ref: 2008, Simon Heptinstall, Devon (Crimson Publishing) page 137
text: It was a Scooby-Doo moment: everybody looks down, everybody looks up. Maddy looks surprised. Pat looks guilty. Oh, those meddlesome kids.
ref: 2010, J. Wachowski, In Plain View, Carina Press, page 314:
text: "I love the Scooby-Doo of it all." And it was fun, combing through old books and papers for recognizable names.
ref: 2010, Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist, Simon and Schuster, page 171:
glosses: An American cartoon franchise, named for one of the main characters, a large dog, and featuring as protagonists four "meddling" teenagers who unravel seemingly supernatural mysteries.
examples: ref: 2006, Sue Owens Wright, How to Determine If Your Dog Is an Einstein—and What to Do If He's a Scooby Doo:
text: And trying to sell him on carrots when he's yearning for Scooby-Doos poses a challenge similar to selling George W. Bush on tax increases.
ref: 2007, Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days, Simon and Schuster, page 28:
text: It was like she was talking to me. Not barking, not growling. More of a Scooby Doo sort of thing.
ref: 2008, Gabriella Herkert, Doggone: An Animal Instinct Mystery, Penguin, page 17:
text: Zack chose to work with “Ronald Reagan,” which is very Zack; at one point I think he almost convinced Ronald to speak in a Scooby-Doo accent.
ref: 2009, Douglas Coupland, Generation A, Simon and Schuster, page 76:
glosses: The cartoon dog from that cartoon, noted for his trouble-causing lack of sense and almost understandable vocalization.
Derived terms: Scooby
scooby
Scooby snack
Scooby gang
Related terms: ruh-roh
Scooby-Doo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskuːbiˈduː/
homophone: scoubidou
Forms: form: Scooby-Doos
form: Scooby Doo
Etymology: Uncertain. Scooby doo appears as a vocable scatted in "The Boppenpoof Song" written in 1954, as the name of a band (The Scooby-Doo All-Stars) in 1956 and the title of a song by the Jerry Lieber Beat Band published by Zephyr Records in 1959 (both of which were signed to Zephyr Records). It is likely that such uses were an influence on the creators of the cartoon but they may also have been partially influenced by Frank Sinatra's "doo-be-doo-be-doo" improvisation in "Strangers in the Night" released in 1963 a few months prior to the first episode of Scooby-Doo being shown (also in 1963).
Senses: examples: text: For the journey home, you'd take the Scooby-Doo. Now, though, everything has changed. The new Subaru is about as much fun as a church service. And it doesn't look good in photographs because, like me, it doesn't look good at all.
ref: 2012, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend:
glosses: A Subaru automobile.
examples: text: It was past ten o'clock at night and I hadn’t a Scooby-Doo where I was. After a tough twelve-hour day in the saddle, cycling more than 130 miles through rain, wind and sleet, I was tired, soaked through and miserable.
ref: 2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A clue.
glosses: A shoe.
examples: text: There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga (rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel.
ref: 1996, Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, Waterside Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A screw (a prison warder)
Humeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Humean
Humeians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Humeian
Humians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Humian
staddle stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staddle stones
Senses: examples: text: [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.
ref: 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:
related: word: steddle stone
hypernyms: staddle#Noun
support#Noun
stone#Noun
glosses: One of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.
Related terms: standing stone
pier
pile
stilt
staddle stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staddle stone
jigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jigos
Senses: examples: text: The result of the game was a jigo.
text: Two of these games were jigos.
glosses: A draw in the game of go.
jigos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jigo
unike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unikes
Etymology: Clipping of unicycle, modelled on bike.
Senses: examples: text: These very kinds of monkeys, that ride bikes and trikes and was it unikes in American circuses.
ref: 2014, Jina Ortiz, Rochelle Spencer, All about Skin, University of Wisconsin Pres, page 68:
glosses: Synonym of unicycle.
synonyms: word: unicycle
folden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊldən
Etymology: From Middle English folden, yfolden, From Old English fealden, ġefealden, from Proto-Germanic *faldanaz, past participle of *falþaną (“to fold”), equivalent to fold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gevouwen, German gefalten.
Senses: glosses: past participle of fold
beat the stuffing out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the stuffing out of
form: beating the stuffing out of
form: beat the stuffing out of
form: beaten the stuffing out of
form: beat the stuffing out of
Senses: examples: text: If you ever use that kind of language in front of my girlfriend again, I am going to beat the stuffing out of you.
text: At the fiesta, the kids beat the stuffing out of the pinata, and their parents beat the stuffing out of a drunk who walked up and made threats.
glosses: To beat very severely.
examples: text: The U.S. ski team beat the stuffing out of the Austrians in Alpine, but Norway took the gold home in Nordic.
glosses: To trounce, outdo, or triumph over.
Synonyms: trounce
clobber
hen harrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen harriers
Senses: glosses: A bird of prey, Circus cyaneus, which breeds in the northern parts of Eurasia.
hen harriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen harrier
sex aids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex aid
what, me worry
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: As an interrogatory, indicative of a nonchalant attitude towards potential criticism, not caring about what other people think, confident and self-possessed.
Synonyms: could care less
couldn't care less
not give a tinker's damn
not give a tinker's cuss
fiddling while Rome burns
Firangi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Firangi
Senses: examples: text: ‘There is no higher feature this side of the river than your house. You could be the first to notice the Firangi army when it nears Kalinadi.’
ref: 1996, Keki N. Daruwalla, “The Day of the Winter Solstice”, in The Minister for Permanent Unrest & other stories, page 126:
text: We watched the Firangi as they struggled through the pass, their hands frozen and fingers unable to load their heavy muskets.
ref: 2007, Feryal Ali Gauhar, No Space for Further Burials, page 99:
glosses: Alternative spelling of firangi.
capno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
smoking
qualifier: combustion
glosses: smoke
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: carbon dioxide
Derived terms: capnomancy
capnomor
misocapnic
capnography
capnometer
capnophile
capnophilic
hypercapnia
hypocapnia
Related terms: carbo-
law of cosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: A generalization of the Pythagorean theorem that relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles.
Synonyms: cosine formula
cosine law
cosine rule
Related terms: law of sines
internecion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈniʃən/
ipa: /ˌɪntəˈniːʃən/
Forms: form: internecions
Etymology: From Latin interneciō.
Senses: examples: text: that natural propension of Self-love, and natural principle of Self-preservation, will necessarily break out into Wars and Tnternecions.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: destruction, massacre
glosses: Mutual destruction.
Goofy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From goofy.
Senses: glosses: A Disney character: a slow-witted anthropomorphic dog with a goofy laugh.
Synonyms: Goof
Related terms: Dippy Dawg
effluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: flowing
Related terms: effluent
efflux
Faizan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic فَيْضَان (fayḍān); compare فَيْض (fayḍ, “grace, favor”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
card key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: card keys
Senses: glosses: A keycard.
card keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of card key
keycard lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keycard locks
Senses: glosses: An electronic lock operated by a keycard.
keycard locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keycard lock
video gamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video gamers
form: video-gamer
form: videogamer
Senses: glosses: A person who plays video games.
video gamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video gamer
flotant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: floatant
form: flottant
Etymology: Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”).
Senses: examples: text: a banner flotant
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Represented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water.
flotant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flotants
Etymology: Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”).
Senses: examples: text: ... (flotants) occur in abandoned distributaries and throughout the upper Mississippi Delta Plain. Flotants can be found in 3 settings : 1) an active or "live" flotant of various ages. 2) a flotant that is being transgressed by marine[…]
ref: 1985, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. Midyear Meeting, Abstracts:
text: ... flotants. Flotants generally occur in very low-energy environments. They are held together by surrounding shorelines and a weave of slowly deteriorating plant materials and living roots. Forested wetlands are not very common in[…]
ref: 2007, Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 2007-2012, Western Planning Area Sales 204, 207, 210, 215, and 218, Central Planning Area Sales 205, 206, 208, 213, 216, and 222: Environmental Impact Statement, page 14:
text: […] flotants, covered 75 percent of the western Terrebonne marshes. By 1998 thick-mat maidencane flotants had converted to fragile thin-mat floating marshes, vegetated in spikerush with no evidence as to why. Louisianans had lumped flotants[…]
ref: 2010, Quinta Scott, The Mississippi: A Visual Biography, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A mass of floating vegetation, especially on the waters of the Mississippi delta.
examples: text: ... flotants, sinking solutions, absorbent granules for drying flies, line cleaners and leader straighteners. Flotants, which are considered the most important, come in several forms. Spray containers are easy to use but they waste a[…]
ref: 1993, James A. Casada, Modern Fly Fishing, →ISBN:
text: Flotants and Sinkants / When nymphing it is essential that the tip of the floating fly line floats, for this is a major indicator that a fish has taken the fly. Carry a small tub of grease (e.g. Mucelin) and if the tip of the fly[…]
ref: 2004 12, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Malcolm Greenhalgh and Denys Ovenden, The Flyfisher's Handbook: The Natural Foods of Trout and Grayling and Their Artificial Imitations, COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS, →ISBN, page 263:
text: ... flotants were homemade concoctions of paraffin with lighter fluid or carbon tetrachloride to keep the wax in suspension. Most fly flotants today are made with silicone, and it can either be dissolved in a quick-drying solvent, in[…]
ref: 2010 November 7, Tom Rosenbauer, The Orvis Encyclopedia of Fly Fishing: Your Ultimate A to Z Guide to Being a Better Angler, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 77:
coordinate_terms: sinkant
glosses: Alternative form of floatant.
Related terms: floating island
angulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angulose
form: most angulose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angulous.
Nortia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Etruscan goddess of time, fate, destiny and chance.
Tiggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tigger
Tinkerbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tinkerbell
Munchkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Munchkin
textblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textblocks
Etymology: From text + block.
Senses: glosses: The block of pages making up a book, excluding the binding.
heresiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heresio- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of heresy.
heresiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heresiologists
Etymology: From heresio- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies heresiology, who studies heresy.
heresiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heresiologist
fratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: fratches
Etymology: From Middle English fracchen (“to make a harsh or strident noise; creak”). Cognate with Scots fratch (“to quarrel”).
Senses: examples: text: -I ha' never had no fratch afore, sin ever I were born, wi' any o' my like; Gonnows I ha' none now that's o' my makin'.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “read online”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A dispute, a quarrel; a fight or brawl.
Derived terms: fratchety
fratchy
fratch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: fratches
form: fratching
form: fratched
form: fratched
Etymology: From Middle English fracchen (“to make a harsh or strident noise; creak”). Cognate with Scots fratch (“to quarrel”).
Senses: examples: text: "I am just talking to relieve myself, John. I know better than to fratch with anyone—at least I think I do."
ref: 1915, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Measure of a Man:
glosses: To argue, to quarrel; to fight.
beamster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beamsters
Etymology: From beam + -ster.
Senses: examples: Harper's Magazine
the beamsters bending to their tasks
glosses: A workman engaged in beaming or slicking hides.
buck the trend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bucks the trend
form: bucking the trend
form: bucked the trend
form: bucked the trend
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.
ref: 2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*A5OWo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
text: However, one region bucking this trend by combatting the current deficiencies in skills development while simultaneously addressing sector demand is the West Midlands.
ref: 2021 November 17, Davie Carns, “Addressing the skills gap”, in RAIL, number 944, page 62:
text: Party has been relegated to near-irrelevance as Spain bucks European trend of shift towards far right[.]
ref: 2023 July 24, Ashifa Kassam, “Vox party’s hardline attitudes appear to have turned off Spanish voters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: buck the tide
glosses: To go against the norm or the current stand of the main population; have a differing opinion from the majority.
Synonyms: go against the grain
bearward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəwɔːd/
ipa: /ˈbɛəɹˌwɔɹd/
Forms: form: bearwards
form: bear-ward
form: berrord
Etymology: From Middle English bereward (“someone who handles and keeps bears, bear keeper”), from ber, bere (“bear”) + ward, warde (“care, keeping”). By surface analysis, bear + ward.
Senses: examples: text: But now how many men are there proude of that that is not theyrs at al? Is there no man proude of keping another mannes gate? […] [W]hat a brag-kyng maketh a beareward wͭ [with] his ſyluer buttened bawdrike, for pride of another mannes bere?
ref: 1534 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatice vpon the Passion of Chryste (Vnfinished) […]. The Fyrst Poynt, the Fall of Aungelles.”, in Marye Basset [i.e., Mary Basset], transl., edited by Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, page 1272, column 2:
text: The former prohibition against bearwards is omitted iii this Act, probably because it had proved futile for the purpose intended, as a writer in "Notes and Queries," speaking of this period, says:– "I was never a witness of a bear-bait, but I well remember a poor brute who was kept alive for this sole purpose, at F——, in Lancashire.[…]"
ref: 1887, Charles James Ribton-Turner, A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging:
text: Congleton had a reputation for bearbaiting and went to some lengths to protect it, sending messengers to Knutsford and Bunbury to ensure that the bearwards got to the Congleton bearbait […]
ref: 2007, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills, Cheshire including Chester, page lxxv:
synonyms: bearleader
bear warden
glosses: Someone who handles and keeps bears (and sometimes other animals such as apes and bulls), especially for use in public entertainments such as baiting or dancing displays; a bearherd.
bear-whelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear-whelps
Etymology: From Middle English bere-hwelp, equivalent to bear + whelp.
Senses: glosses: The whelp of a bear.
Synonyms: bear cub
bearlet
bearling
bearcub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearcubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bear cub.
beastlyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beastly + -head (“-hood”).
Senses: examples: text: Sicke, sicke, alas! and little lack of dead, / But I be relieved by your beastlyhead.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The character or quality of a beast; beastliness.
beath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːð/
rhymes: -iːð
Forms: form: beaths
form: beathing
form: beathed
form: beathed
Etymology: From Middle English bethen, from Old English beþian, beþigean, beþþan, bæþþan (“to heat, warm, foment, wash, cherish; bathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþþjan, *baþigōn, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Middle Dutch betten, bessen (“to moisten with hot water, humidify”).
Senses: examples: text: And in his hand a tall young oake he bore,
Whose knottie snags were sharpned all afore,
And beath'd in fire for steel to be in sted
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To bathe (with warm liquid); foment.
glosses: To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it.
pasques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasque
ppb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ppb
Senses: examples: text: . Therefore, Great River Energy expects ozone and NO concentrations associated with the Project to be negligible, and well below all federal standards (nitrogen dioxide (NO2) – 100 parts per billion (ppb) as one-hour average, 53 ppb as annual average; ozone 70 ppb as 8-hour average).
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 56:
glosses: Initialism of parts per billion.
Related terms: ppbv
ppm
ppt
ppq
percent
permille
permyriad
ppq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ppq
Senses: glosses: Initialism of parts per quadrillion.
Synonyms: sense: parts per quadrillion
word: fU
sense: parts per quadrillion
word: femtouno
Related terms: ppm
ppb
ppt
percent
permille
permyriad
per myriad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It is found that in the two epidemics, that of 1849 and 1853-4, the mean mortality by cholera was at the rate of 43 per myriad in the three most open districts, and 28 in the three most dense districts.
ref: 1855, The Medical Times and Gazette, New Series, volume 11, page 350:
glosses: Alternative spelling of permyriad.
planetessimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetessimals
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of planetesimal.
planetessimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetessimal
sanguinolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæŋˈɡwɪnələnt/
Forms: form: more sanguinolent
form: most sanguinolent
Etymology: From Middle English sanguinolent, from Old French sanguinolent, from Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”).
Senses: examples: text: On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid.
ref: 1829 July, M. Portal, “Pleuritis Hæmorraghica — Operation for Empyema — Death — Dissection”, in The Medico-Chirurgical Review:
text: When the desire to urinate manifests itself chiefly at night, with burning pains when urinating, or emission, drop by drop, of sanguinolent urine.
ref: 1862, George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, William Radde, page 537:
text: He still walked about London with his dreams, but as months succeeded months and he left the year behind him they were dreams not so much of success as of revenge. Success seemed a colourless name for the reward of his patience; something fiercely florid, something sanguinolent was more to the point.
ref: 1892, Henry James, Nona Vincent:
text: They are caused by an accumulation of blood or sanguinolent liquid inside the dental follicles, they may occur in the deciduous as well as permanent dentition.
ref: 2010, Tatjana Dostálová, Michaela Seydlová, editors, Dentistry and Oral Diseases, Grade Publishing, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: Containing or tinged with blood.
Synonyms: bloody
tin tabernacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin tabernacles
form: tin tab
Senses: glosses: A church, usually nonconformist, clad in corrugated iron.
galbuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galbulus
silour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of celure.
silours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silour
rough collie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rough collies
Senses: glosses: A dog of a long-haired breed originating from Scotland, originally used as sheepdogs.
almsdeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almsdeeds
form: alms-deed
Etymology: From Old English ælmesdæd, analyzable as alms + deed.
Senses: examples: text: Truly sayd the good man and ye myghte lyue as longe as the world myght endure ne myghte ye haue done soo grete an almesse dede as this.
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII, Chapter viii leaf 337r:
english: Truly, said the good man, and ye might live as long as the world might endure, ne might ye have done so great an almsdeed as this.
translation: Truly, said the good man, and ye might live as long as the world might endure, ne might ye have done so great an almsdeed as this.
bold_translation_offsets: 113
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text: Now there was at Ioppa a certain disciple, named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: This woman was full of good works, and almes deeds, which she did.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 9:36:
text: Many kinds of good deeds are there ; but the apostle exhorts us to one of them, that is almsdeed, and saith that we ought to give alms to destitute men, but, as the holy Psalmist David said, distribute it so that every needy man that craves it may receive something thereof.
ref: 1868, Richard Morris, Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises:
text: Mindful of his overall contention that women's teaching activities should be restricted to the private sphere, he concludes that the way in which women are to fulfil the “almsdeed” of teaching, is to follow the biblical advice: “when thou dost an almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before thee." (Matt. 6.2)
ref: 1995, Viator - Volume 26, page 150:
text: People slip you a donation, Bill, or try to, for something like Arf and think they're not only building themselves up with you, which may be so, but performing an act of true charity, an almsdeed—not so.
ref: 2012, J.F. Powers, Wheat That Springeth Green:
glosses: The giving of alms; an act of charity, a good work.
almsdeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almsdeed
Baskerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæs.kɚˌvɪl/
ipa: /ˈbæs.kəˌvɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
examples: text: Caslon or Garamond or Baskerville is shouted as the compositors search for as many cases of these types as can be found.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 381:
glosses: A family of serif fonts derived from the work of John Baskerville.
Derived terms: Baskervillean
Baskerville effect
Baskervillian
bullshat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bullshit
coxcombry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏksʹkəmrĭ
ipa: /ˈkɒkskəmɹɪ/
Forms: form: coxcombries
Etymology: From coxcomb + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: He was clean shaved; clean shaving is a favorite coxcombry of the deacon class.
ref: 1865, Theodore Winthrop, chapter IX, in John Brent:
glosses: A behaviour or manner that is characteristic of a coxcomb; a foppish behaviour.
examples: text: His manner was perhaps the more seductive, / Because he ne'er seem'd anxious to seduce; / Nothing affected, studied, or constructive / Of coxcombry or conquest: no abuse / Of his attractions marr'd the fair perspective, / To indicate a Cupidon broke loose, / And seem to say, "Resist us if you can" -- / Which makes a dandy while it spoils a man.
ref: 1824 March 26, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XV. and XVI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and H[enry] L[eigh] Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XV, stanza XII:
text: He paused, grimly regarding it, while a dash of pleased coxcombry seemed to mingle with the otherwise savage satisfaction expressed in his face.
ref: 1855, Herman Melville, chapter XI, in Israel Potter:
text: There was a half-sigh floating through his pages for those days of intellectual coxcombry, when ideas come to us affecting the embraces of virgins, and swear to us they are ours alone, and no one else have they ever visited: and we believe them.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 1, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: A man emasculated by coxcombry may spend more time upon the arrangement of his clothes than any woman, but even then there is no fetichism in his idea of them--they are still only a covering he uses for a time.
ref: 1871, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in Desperate Remedies, part 13:
glosses: Behaviour or airs characteristic of a coxcomb; foppishness.
sling one's hook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slings one's hook
form: slinging one's hook
form: slung one's hook
form: slung one's hook
Senses: examples: text: ‘I don’t want none of your apologies, and I don’t want none of you neither; I don’t like the looks of you, and so I tell you. Before I let anybody into my house you’ll have to sling your hook.’
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: Placing his hand on the doorknob he could hear his father's indignant voice: "If he's no job he can damn well sling his hook, he's not living under my roof free gratis, I want him out."
ref: 2005, Kevin Muir, Run For Freedom:
text: Landlady: O'Brien? He don't live here any more. Not lived here for months. I made him sling his hook. Never paid his lodgings.
ref: 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
glosses: To leave, depart, especially if forced to do so.
sash windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sash window
pant legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pant leg
biotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotches
Senses: examples: text: What you thought it was, fool? You knowhamsayin'? Biotch.
ref: 1998, Theatre Communications Group, American theatre, volume 15, page 34:
text: My glass is half full, biotch.
ref: 2003 Nov, Travis Keller, “Buddyhead's Los Angeles”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, page 52:
text: You ugly ass, twig figure, dirty foot biotch.
ref: 2005, Citrine Topaz, Da Color of My Love, iUniverse, page 58:
text: "All right, all right! You are one sexy biotch," Johnny said, laughing even harder.
ref: 2006, Judy Rae, When a Man Loves a Man, iUniverse, page 116:
text: Yeah, yeah I'm rich, biotch.
ref: 2009, Jr. Arthur E. Perkins, Circumnavigating the Globe, AuthorHouse, page 70:
text: There's no way not to sound like a cold-hearted biotch here.
ref: 2010, Meredith O'hayre, The Scream Queen's Survival Guide, Adams Media, page 154:
glosses: Alternative spelling of biatch.
biotches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotch
Berkeleio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Berkelei- + -o-
Senses: examples: text: Are we entitled, therefore, to force this on the Catholic youth of Ireland, with or without its Berkeleio-Humeian developments, or its farther mystification of German verbiage; or shall we cut it out, and substitute for Locke, and Butler, and Hallam, and Macaulay, “Catholic” History, Metaphysics, and Sociology?
ref: 1868, Humphrey Lloyd, James MacIvor, Paul Cullen, et al., University Education in Ireland, page 7:
glosses: Berkeleian
adminiculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That which gives support to a part.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The expansion of fibers extending from the superior pubic ligament to the posterior surface of the linea alba.
sliddery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slidderier
form: more sliddery
form: slidderiest
form: most sliddery
Etymology: From Middle English slidery, sliderye, slideri, equivalent to slidder + -y. Compare also Swedish sliddrig (“slippery”). More at slidder.
Senses: glosses: Slippery.
sligh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sligh
form: most sligh
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sly.
delenite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːləˈnaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: delenites
form: deleniting
form: delenited
form: delenited
Etymology: From de- + lenite; also analyzable as a back-formation from delenition.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To undergo delenition.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To subject to delenition.
dance studio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance studios
Senses: synonyms: dance school
glosses: A studio where dancing skills can be practiced and trained.
dance school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance schools
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dance studio.
synonyms: word: dance studio
confused flour beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confused flour beetles
Etymology: Said to be named after the fact that it is easily confused with the red flour beetle. Both eat flour.
Senses: glosses: A beetle of the species Tribolium confusum.
confused flour beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confused flour beetle
strip loin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip loins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of striploin.
actially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.ʃə.li/
Etymology: Back-spelling of the reduced pronunciation of actually.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of actually.
Katakana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of katakana.
Orthodox Jews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orthodox Jew
secondary sex characteristic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary sex characteristics
Senses: examples: text: Breasts in females and facial hair in males are examples of secondary sex characteristics in humans.
coordinate_terms: primary sex characteristic
glosses: A feature that distinguishes between the two sexes in adult members of a species, but is not directly part of the reproductive system.
secondary sex characteristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary sex characteristic