cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Altay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ǎlʹtīʹ
Forms: form: Altai
Etymology: Transliteration of Kazakh التاي (Altay) and Uyghur ئالتاي (altay), from Mongolic, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣:𐰖𐰃𐱁 (l¹t¹un¹:y¹iš /⁠altun yïš⁠/, literally “Golden Mountain”).
Senses: examples: text: The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner.
ref: 1982, The Desert Realm, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 221:
glosses: Alternative form of Altai.
examples: text: The Kazaks were struggling in poverty before liberation. Some 2,000 people died of starvation in the Altay Prefecture from 1944 to 1945, and 40 per cent of the Kazak herdsmen in Altay County alone were homeless in 1946.
ref: 1989, 马寅 [Ma Yin], editor, 中国少数民族 [China's Minority Nationalities], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 161:
english: China's Minority Nationalities
translation: China's Minority Nationalities
text: In January 2010, a blizzard of such force which had not occurred in six decades attacked the Altay Prefecture, and the minimum temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius.
ref: 2014, 李欣凭 [Li Xinping], 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:
english: Modern Xinjiang
translation: Modern Xinjiang
text: When Saliye Hobay, a Kazak ethnic woman born in Altay Prefecture in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was laid off in 2002 after the clothing factory in which she had worked for six years went bankrupt, she fell into momentary depression.
ref: 2015 August 27, Liu Xinlian, “The Joy of Work”, in Beijing Review, volume 58, number 35, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:
text: Yilamujiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang. Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old. Locals still use hand-carved wooden skis covered in a horsehide, although mostly now for the benefit of tourists.
ref: 2022 February 5, Adam Kilgore, Christian Shepherd, “A cauldron-lighting flashpoint one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2022, Olympics:
text: Torchbearer Dinigeer Yilamujiang hails from the mountainous terrain of Xinjiang's Altay prefecture.
ref: 2022 February 9, “Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise”, in France 24, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2022:
glosses: A prefecture in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A county-level city of Altay prefecture, in far northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: A'ertai
word: A-erh-t'ai
Derived terms: Altaic
Altay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ǎlʹtīʹ
Forms: form: Altai
Etymology: Transliteration of Kazakh التاي (Altay) and Uyghur ئالتاي (altay), from Mongolic, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣:𐰖𐰃𐱁 (l¹t¹un¹:y¹iš /⁠altun yïš⁠/, literally “Golden Mountain”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Altai.
Related terms: Altai Republic
Altay Republic
Altai Krai
Altay Kray
Sea of Okhotsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiː əv əˈxɒtsk/
Forms: form: the Sea of Okhotsk
Etymology: Named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East, whose name is derived from Even окат (okat, “river”).
Senses: glosses: A sea between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
wikipedia: Okhotsk
Territorial evolution of Russia
housewright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housewrights
Etymology: From house + wright (“builder”).
Senses: examples: text: The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.
ref: 1828, Charles Caldwell, A discourse on the genius and character of the Rev. Horace Holley, LL. D.: late president of Transylvania University, Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, pages 208–209:
text: The names of the colonial craftsmen had changed. The joiner and the turner and the housewright had become the cabinet-maker, the chair-maker, and the carpenter.
ref: 1902, Virginia Robie, Colonial furniture, in The House Beautiful (An Illustrated Magazine of Household Art), October 1902 (vol. 12, number 5), Herbert S. Stone, page 270
text: John Johnson resided in Woburn, Mass., and was by occupation a housewright or carpenter and owned a saw-mill in Woburn.
ref: 1914, Alfred Johnson, History and genealogy of one line of descent from Captain Edward Johnson: together with his English ancestry, 1500-1914, Stanhope Press (F.H. Gilson Company), page 63
glosses: A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).
Related terms: carpenter
wright
sledge hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A version of ice hockey where the players are seated on sledges and have use of two sticks.
Synonyms: ice sledge hockey
ice sled hockey
sled hockey
Related terms: ice sledge hockey
inline sledge hockey
roller sledge hockey
para ice hockey
para hockey
sledge racing
NVOCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NVOCCs
form: NVOCC's
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
antonyms: VOCC
glosses: Initialism of non-vessel-operating common carrier.
herbose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hûrbōsʹ
ipa: /hɜːˈbəʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Etymology: From the Latin herbōsus (“grassy, full of grass or herbs”).
Senses: glosses: Having an abundance of herbage; full of herbs.
Derived terms: word: herbosity
Related terms: herbous
herbous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herbous
form: most herbous
Etymology: From herb + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to herbs; herbaceous
Related terms: herbose
absolute time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut taɪm/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut taɪm/
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: absolute space-time
Newtonian time
glosses: The Newtonian concept of an unchanging and unchangeable reference system of time (and spatial) coordinates that is the same for all observers.
Related terms: equivalence principle
carry oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries oneself
form: carrying oneself
form: carried oneself
form: carried oneself
Senses: examples: text: [Y]et all the vvhile they are the tradeſmens vvives, they endeavour to preſerve the distinction of their fancied character; carry themſelves as if they thought they were ſtill above their ſtation, […]
ref: 1725 (indicated as 1726), [Daniel Defoe], “Letter XXI. Of the Tradesman Letting His Wife be Acquainted with His Business.”, in The Complete English Tradesman, in Familiar Letters; Directing Him in All the Several Parts and Progressions of Trade. […], volume I, London: […] Charles Rivington […], →OCLC, page 363:
text: She was thin, but always carried herself bolt upright, and would never even lean back in her chair.
ref: 1876 May – 1877 July, Anthony Trollope, “The Paragon’s Party at Bragton”, in The American Senator […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 78:
text: He was carrying himself with less than his usual stoop.
ref: 1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 22, in Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo:
glosses: To move, especially emphasizing the manner in which one moves.
examples: text: "Do I not carry myself well in the hour of defeat?" / "You do, Your Majesty." / "Am I pale, Le B—?" / "No—no—oh, no, not at all, Sire." / "Tell me the truth, Le B—. We must not let the enemy find us broken when they arrive. How do I look? Out with it."
ref: 1895, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 11, in Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica:
text: [S]he carried herself with a little touch of hauteur—an air of aloofness, as it were.
ref: 1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 5, in The Splendid Folly:
glosses: To behave, especially with respect to how one's speech, body language, facial expressions, and grooming convey one's opinion concerning oneself.
Synonyms: sense: behave
word: bear oneself
Related terms: deportment
absolute space-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: absolute time
Newtonian time
glosses: The Newtonian concept of an unchanging and unchangeable reference system of time and spatial coordinates that is the same for all observers.
Related terms: equivalence principle
body odor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body odors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of body odour.
crack a fat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks a fat
form: cracking a fat
form: cracked a fat
form: cracked a fat
Senses: glosses: To get an erection of the penis.
centrifugated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: separated by centrifugation; centrifuged
Derived terms: cytocentrifugated
clustercore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clustercores
form: cluster core
Etymology: From cluster + core.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The central part of a star cluster, where stars are most densely packed.
extremized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extremize
extremized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extremized
form: most extremized
Senses: glosses: converted into an extreme form
Related terms: extremization
interleavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interleaving
meridionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From meridional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a meridional manner
glosses: With regard to, or in the direction of a meridian
nonmonotonicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmonotonicity
nonmonotonicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmonotonicities
Etymology: From non- + monotonicity.
Senses: examples: text: By the way, the nonmonotonicity of social data provides an easy formula for news outlets to accentuate the negative.
ref: 2018, Steven Pinker, chapter 4, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Allen Lane (Penguin Books), →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: The condition of being nonmonotonic
nonnegativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnegativities
Etymology: From non- + negativity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonnegative
nonnegativities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonnegativity
nonstationarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstationarities
Etymology: From non- + stationarity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonstationary.
parallelised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parallelized.
rethermalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rethermalize
unsatisfiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsatisfiabilities
Etymology: From un- + satisfiability.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being unsatisfiable
back gammon players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back gammon player
backheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backheel
backheels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backheel
backheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backheel
backheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backheel
remords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭmôrdzʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈmɔːdz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remord
ballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baller
balls-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balls-up
balthazars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balthazar
balsamic vinegars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsamic vinegar
bankrupt carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankrupt cart
get one's head around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's head around
form: getting one's head around
form: got one's head around
form: got one's head around
form: gotten one's head around
Senses: examples: text: How did you get this number? / I can't get my head 'round you
ref: 2002, Frou Frou, “Psychobabble”, in Detail:
text: When my mum did pass away I fell out with God because I couldn't get my head around why he'd taken away the one person that we needed in our lives, because dad was no good to us.
ref: 2009, Wahida Shaffi, Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women's Voices, →ISBN:
text: Throughout this book I have been trying to get my head around my head. And now I am about to try to get my head around the very processes by which I have been trying to get my head around itself: I am going to think about thought.
ref: 2014, Raymond Tallis, The Kingdom of Infinite Space […] , Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 274:
synonyms: wrap one's head around
glosses: To understand; fathom; solve.
raw_tags: in the negative
dandiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dandiacal
form: most dandiacal
form: dandical
Senses: examples: text: For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: That open neck that met with Hilton Kramer's bourgeois disapproval, like the Harley Davidson Bob affected, may remind us of that ocker strain which the dandiacal Barry Humphries caught in his comment: "There is no truth in the rumour that Les Patterson has been admitted to a funny farm and has changed his name to Robert Hughes."
ref: 2010, Peter Coleman, Quadrant, March 2010, No. 464 (Volume LIV, Number 3), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 87
synonyms: word: dandyish
word: dudish
word: beauish
word: buckish
word: coxcombical
word: dandiacal
word: dandified
word: dandy
word: dandyish
word: dandyistic
word: dudish
word: foppish
word: foppy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: lily-handed
word: macaronic
word: swellish
word: Woosterian
glosses: Dandyish; like a dandy.
Derived terms: dandiacally
leasebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaseback
sentimentalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentimentalisations
Etymology: From sentimental + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sentimentalization.
sentimentalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentimentalization
sentimentalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentimentalisation
sentimentalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentimentalizers
form: sentimentaliser
Etymology: From sentimentalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sentimentalizes.
sentimentalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentimentalizer
three-finger salute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-finger salutes
Senses: examples: text: THE THREE-FINGER SALUTE … to suddenly find that your keyboard is frozen or to watching the screen fill up with garbage. You may not even be aware of the two different types of crashes, the soft crash (recoverable by the three-finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del) or the hard crash (big red switch and count to 5 slowly).
ref: 1986, February 25, Charles Petzold, PC Magazine, volume 5, number 4, article "Operating in a New Environment"
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.
Related terms: one-finger salute
two-finger salute
three-finger salutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-finger salute
sentimentaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentimentalisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sentimentalizer.
sentimentalisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentimentaliser
unbuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un + buff + -ed.
Senses: examples: ref: 1933, James Loughman, Robert S McKay, Comparison of the performance of buffed and unbuffed leather belts:
text: The usefulness of acid leveling copper can be expanded to plate many more unbuffed die castings.
ref: 1973, William H Safranek, E W Brooman, Finishing and electroplating die cast and wrought zinc:
glosses: Not having been buffed.
scumware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scum + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: malware
salsalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salsalike
form: most salsalike
Etymology: From salsa + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of salsa (the spicy tomato sauce).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of salsa (the style of music).
bardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bardlike
form: most bardlike
Etymology: From bard + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Wolfe saw himself in this bardlike role, vanquishing death and oblivion with timeless words.
ref: 1968, Andrew Turnbull, Thomas Wolfe:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bard.
ObamaCare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Obamacare
form: Obama-care
form: Obama Care
Etymology: Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare.
Senses: examples: text: For some reason, Obama's senior economist, Austan Goolsbee, chooses not to believe this about Obamacare, possibly because he figures the private-but-regulated health-care plans in Obama's National Health Insurance Exchange would be more generous than Obama's public health-care plan.
ref: 2007 July 5, Timothy Noah, “Edwardscare: A Trojan Horse, in Slate Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: This is a trick. This is a trick that's going on here. This idea that, that whether it's HillaryCare, or ObamaCare, or EdwardsCare, that idea that it's not socialized medicine is a trick. It's a massive growth in government control of medicine.
ref: 2007 September 26, Rudy Giuliani, address to the New Jersey Republican Party (about 12 minutes 30 seconds in)
text: Those who designed ObamaCare were willing to sacrifice marriage for the sake of seeming to be “progressive and equitable,” even though social science research reveals a clear link between single motherhood and poverty.
ref: 2010, Richard McKenzie Neal, We the People: A Christian Nation, page 161:
text: This book will tell you what is right and wrong with Obamacare and will offer solutions to improve healthcare in our country so that it remains of high quality and sustainable financially in the future for all Americans.
ref: 2011, Tony Maglione, Obamacare: A Doctor's Guide to Saving Healthcare:
text: Of course ObamaCare is socialism. It has been designed along explicitly socialist lines[…]
ref: 2011, Kevin Williamson, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, page 237:
text: We have a disaster called the big lie: Obamacare. Obamacare.
ref: 2015 June 16, Donald Trump, “Transcript: Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy”, in CBS News:
text: Tonight, for our main story, we’re going to look at Obamacare. Basically, the opposite of this photo which is more “Obama don’t give a fuck”!
ref: 2017 March 12, “American Health Care Act”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
glosses: Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthcare reform plan that was passed in 2010 and signed into law by him.
Synonyms: Affordable Care Act
ACA
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
PPACA
Related terms: Obamamania
Obamunism
Obamanomics
Hillarycare
Romneycare
Trumpcare
Bidencare
Obamunism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Obama + communism.
Senses: examples: text: Both are interesting choices as poster children for corporate American promoters of Obamunism.
ref: 2010, Chris Horner, Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America, page 142:
text: More recently, Patrick Michaels, a longtime critic of climate science and policy scholar at the Cato Institute, criticized plans for a cap and trade system to control greenhouse gases as “Obamunism.”
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, page 253:
text: It's amusing to listen to the moonbats continue to blame Bush for everything wrong now in the second term of Obamunism.
ref: 2013, Jay Kennedy, "Bush admin. had nothing to do with 'fast & furious', look it up" (letter to the editor), The Laconia Daily Star (Laconia, NH), 14 May 2013, page 5
glosses: The economic or political policies of the Obama administration, viewed as socialism, communism, or government overreach.
Related terms: Obamunist
Arthur Daley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arthur Daleys
Etymology: From the character of the same name in the British television series Minder.
Senses: examples: text: 2003 July 15, in news.bbc.co.uk Tories blast 'Arthur Daley' Blair
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are the Arthur Daleys of British politics, according to the Conservative leader.
text: He was a bit of a ducker and diver, an Arthur Daley type who sold stuff out of the back of his Volvo, like tracksuits, alcohol and cigarettes.
ref: 2011, Ken Doherty, Life in the Frame: My Story:
glosses: A person who is devious, who cheats people, and who often resorts to confidence tricks.
forearm bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forearm bone
Arthur Daleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arthur Daley
pig fucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig fuckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pigfucker.
examples: text: Phillip: Terrance, why would you call me a pig fucker?
Terrance: Well, let's see. First of all, you fuck pigs.
Phillip: Oh, yeah!
ref: 1999 June 30, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut (Film), spoken by Terrance and Phillip (Matt Stone and Trey Parker):
text: If you want to allege an MP is a pig fucker you don't have to produce the pig. You just have to get him to deny it.
ref: 2004 November 9, Peter C. Newman, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, →OL:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pig, fucker.
pig-fucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig-fuckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pigfucker.
pig fuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig fucker
pig-fuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig-fucker
neoclassicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoclassicists
Senses: glosses: a follower of neoclassicism
neoclassicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoclassicist
absency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absencies
Senses: glosses: absence
absencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absency
re-express
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-expresses
form: re-expressing
form: re-expressed
form: re-expressed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reexpress.
orphanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orphanlike
form: most orphanlike
Etymology: From orphan + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Left orphanlike (his mother dies and his father later moves to Denver and disappears from the novel), he lives with his distinguished uncle...
ref: 2003, Willa Cather, Susan J Rosowski, A Lost Lady:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an orphan.
air photo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air photos
form: air-photo
form: airphoto
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of aerial photograph.
glosses: Abbreviation of aerial photography.
unskiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unskiable
form: most unskiable
Etymology: From un- + skiable.
Senses: examples: text: The steepest side of the mountain was regarded as unskiable.
glosses: Not skiable; unsuitable for skiing.
gloominesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloominess
reëxpress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëxpresses
form: reëxpressing
form: reëxpressed
form: reëxpressed
Senses: examples: text: Since, as Baer-Hasse show, (𝐹) holds for subgroups of 𝐴 of finite index and the corresponding finite adjunctions onto the rational domain 𝕽, we can reëxpress their formulae […]
ref: 1934, Annals of Mathematics, Princeton University Press, page 360:
text: […] to explain how he was able to absorb and reëxpress intellectual currents of the greatest complexity and diversity.
ref: 1957: Harvard Historical Monographs, volume 33: William James Bouwsma, “Concordia Mundi: The Career and Thought of Guillaume Postel, 1510–1581”, page 63 (Harvard University Press)
text: In truth, the plain demonstration which this record gives of the injury which would arise from and the promotion of the wrongs which the statute was intended to guard against which would result from giving to the statute a narrow, unreasoning and unheard of construction, as illustrated by the record before us, if possible serves to strengthen our conviction as to the correctness of the rule of construction, the rule of reason, which was applied in the Standard Oil Case, the application of which rule to the statute we now, in the most unequivocal terms, reëxpress and re-affirm.
ref: 1967, Hearings, Reports and Prints, page 755:
glosses: Alternative spelling of reexpress.
reëxpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reëxpress
phaenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaenomena
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of phenomenon.
phaenomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phaenomenon
ficklenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fickleness
misanthropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misanthropy
neglecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neglecters
Etymology: * from neglect + -er
Senses: examples: text: Handel resembles Lully somewhat in his reputation for being a lover of the table and a neglecter of womankind.
ref: 1903, Rupert Hughes, The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1:
glosses: A person who neglects, or takes no notice of something
neglecters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neglecter
Gogolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gogolian
form: most Gogolian
Etymology: From Gogol + -ian, from Russian Го́голь (Gógolʹ) and Ukrainian Го́голь (Hóholʹ) from Ukrainian го́голь (hóholʹ, “common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula”), from Old East Slavic гоголь (gogolĭ) < Proto-Slavic *gogolĭ.
Senses: examples: text: Tchernuishevski presented and criticised John Stuart Mill's “Political Economy,” the æsthetic criticism of the Gogolian period, the party quarrels in France during the Restoration, Lessing and his age, etc., treated with the same superiority subjects of widely different kinds, but had his principal interests centred on the solution of certain great social problems,—the arrangement of the relations between the sexes, the abolition of serfdom, the abrogation of all individual property in land for the good of the community.
ref: 1889, Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Samuel C. Eastman transl., Impressions of Russia, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, p 263
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works.
hosehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoseheads
Etymology: After Hosehead, the dog in The Great White North, a recurring SCTV sketch featuring Bob and Doug McKenzie.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic.
glosses: A person from Canada.
Related terms: hoser
sundews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sundew
sunfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunfast
form: most sunfast
Etymology: From sun + fast.
Senses: glosses: Colorfast in a way that will not fade in sunlight.
Hypernyms: nonfading
unfadeable
Hyponyms: lightfast
Derived terms: sunfastness
sungazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sungazers
Etymology: From sun + gazer.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in sungazing, staring at the Sun.
glosses: Smaug giganteus, a large burrowing lizard of South Africa.
sungazers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sungazer
suntrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suntraps
Etymology: From sun + trap.
Senses: examples: text: Limestone absorbs the heat, making this south-facing coastline a suntrap, with temperatures as much as 10 degrees higher than in nearby Sorrento.
ref: 2007, Rick Steves, Rick Steves' Italy 2008:
glosses: A warm place that captures the heat of the sun.
suntraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suntrap
relisten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relistens
form: relistening
form: relistened
form: relistened
Etymology: From re- + listen.
Senses: glosses: To listen again.
relistening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relisten
relistens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relisten
relistened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relisten
relitigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relitigations
Etymology: From re- + litigation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of relitigating.
relitigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relitigation
retained mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mode in which the application updates a set of graphical objects which are stored and displayed by the graphics library, contrasting with immediate mode.
immediate mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mode in which the application is directly responsible for rendering graphics to the display, contrasting with retained mode.
farthingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːðɪŋɡeɪl/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹðɪŋɡeɪl/
Forms: form: farthingales
form: fardingale
form: vardingale
form: verdingall
form: verdugal
Etymology: Hobson-Jobson of earlier forms vardingale, etc., borrowed from Middle French verdugale, from Spanish verdugado, from verdugo (“rod”).
Senses: examples: text: women […] make trunk-sleeves of wyre and whale-bone bodies, backes of lathes, and stiffe bumbasted verdugals, and to the open-view of all men paint and embellish themselves with counterfeit and borrowed beauties[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
text: In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.
ref: 2003 May 3, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian:
synonyms: hoop skirt
glosses: A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
Derived terms: farthingale chair
farthingales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farthingale
bits and pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “I mean, what is she even talking about? Got her pregnant at the Halloween party? What does that mean? I don't even remember that party. I was wasted.” “Yeah, me too. I browned out that evening.” “"browned out"? What's "browned out"?” “Oh, it's when you drink so much that everything goes brown. It's not as severe as a blackout, 'cause I remember bits and pieces. I like to call it "browning out."”
ref: 2010 October 28, Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney, “Who Got Dee Pregnant?” (2:13 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 6, episode 7:
text: Fortunately, Dad was an ingenious sort. He had found lots of the bits and pieces he needed for the van from the rubbish dump.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A random assortment of things; small remaining pieces and things.
Synonyms: sense: small random items
word: bits and bobs
cinnabars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinnabar
streetful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetfuls
form: streetsful
Etymology: From street + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It took the police an hour to arrest the whole streetful of rioters.
glosses: As much as a street will hold.
streetsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streetful
streetfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streetful
streetfight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetfights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of street fight.
streetfights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streetfight
streetlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: streetlight + lit
Senses: examples: text: We squinted at the streetlit scene. They were all holding rifles!
ref: 1990, Gordon Korman, Losing Joe's place:
text: He began emptying another bag, placing food on the streetlit patch of sidewalk, just out of reach of the hatch.
ref: 1994, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad love:
glosses: Illuminated by streetlights.
streetlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From street + lighting.
Senses: glosses: Illumination by streetlights.
hackery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackeries
Etymology: Uncertain. Variously derived from corruption of hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”), from Hindi चक्र (cakra, “wheel”) under influence from -ery, and from Gujarati ચક્રો (cakro, “ox-cart, rickshaw”), the latter two both from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”).
Senses: examples: text: Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas.
ref: 1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019:
glosses: A 2-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
glosses: A 2-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.
Synonyms: chakra
Hypernyms: oxcart
hackery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hack + -ery. In its computing sense, from Middle English hakken (“to cut violently or coarsely”) etc., q.v. In its pejorative sense, from hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”).
Senses: glosses: Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
examples: text: All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.
ref: 2012, Seymour Bosworth, M. E. Kabay, Eric Whyne, Computer Security Handbook, page 57:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
hackeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackery
altarwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From altar + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: But usually, when not used, the tables stood altarwise against the east wall.
ref: 2009, George Gresley Perry, A History of the English Church:
glosses: Placed in the manner of an altar, against the eastern wall of the chancel with the longer side parallel to that wall.
leg man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg men
Senses: examples: text: [page 136] This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. [...] [page 140] City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations.
ref: 1913, Irvin S[hrewsbury] Cobb, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 185, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23; republished in “The Third Stick”, in Stickfuls: (Myself—To Date) (The Works of Irvin S. Cobb), New York, N.Y.: The Review of Reviews Corporation publishers; published by arrangement with George H[enry] Doran Company, 1923, →OCLC, part 1 (Getting Set in New York: In Three Takes), pages 136 and 140:
text: During the nine-month Great Lakes shipping season, the ore hogs—shovelers, "larry" car weighers, bulldozer operators, car pushers and "leg" men—unite in this miracle of supply that stock-piles enough iron ore to last through the winter. The leg man on a Hulett iron-ore unloader must possess a special blend of brawn, brains and a "go for broke" attitude. He must also be conscious of the safety of fellow workers below him as he deftly maneuvers a 75-ton vertical ramrod and iron-jawed grab bucket.
ref: 1953 May, Dwight Boyer, “Giant Jaws Unload Ore Ship”, in H[enry] H[aven] Windsor, Jr., editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 99, number 5, Chicago, Ill.: Popular Mechanics Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76:
text: LEG MEN cover local events and phone the information to a rewrite man. The leg man must have a good nose for news and the ability to give information over the phone quickly and accurately. He seldom writes his own stories.
ref: 1973, “Newspaper and Wire Service Operations”, in Journalist 3 & 2: Naval Training Command Rate Training Manual (NAVTRA 10294-C), Washington, D.C.: Published by Naval Training Command; United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 153, column 2:
text: Of course newspapers have to have "leg men," especially for afternoon editions, who seldom write their own stories but have to telephone in facts to be hurried into type for press time. But leg men nowadays are expected to be literate, though sometimes barely.
ref: 2008, Louis M. Lyons, “Leg Men”, in M. A. Lyons, editor, A Pause to Copy: Memoirs of Louis M. Lyons, Journalist, volume IV, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Alternative form of legman.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leg, man.
unbathed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bathed.
Senses: glosses: Not bathed; unwashed.
flotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊˈtɛl/
ipa: /ˈfləʊtl̩/
enpr: flō-tĕlʹ
ipa: /floʊˈtɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
rhymes: -əl
Forms: form: flotels
form: floatel
Etymology: Blend of float + hotel
Senses: synonyms: boatel
glosses: a ship converted to a permanently moored hotel.
glosses: living quarters built on a floating platform, such as near an offshore oil rig.
junkiedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From junkie + -dom.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a junkie
Synonyms: junkiehood
junkieness
junkiehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From junkie + -hood.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a junkie
Synonyms: junkiedom
junkieness
junkieness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From junkie + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a junkie
Synonyms: junkiedom
junkiehood
niggerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nigger + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It proved to niggerdom what a good nigger could be if he only fear God and obey his master in all things.
ref: 1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
text: We were assured therefore, by the learned doctors, that the Thebans were not Africans, but a nobler race, and had none of the particularities of niggerdom.
ref: 2004 November 19, Scott Trafton, Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania (New Americanists), Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 45:
text: In the words of the Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Independent Monitor, “The cutting [that is, castration]” of a local black “in [the] presence of crowds of his fellow niggers, has had a salutary influence over the whole of niggerdom hereabout. […]”
ref: 2013 April 26, Randall D. Law, Terrorism: A History (Themes in History), John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: The collective, realm, sphere, or activity of niggers.
examples: text: That is the other side of the shield; is the price the hired nigger pays for his occasional freedom from his niggerdom, It is not in the least material however that we should settle which of the two slaveries is best or worst.
ref: 1886, Plain Diogenes Hunt (Pseud.), Property; a Bottom Enquiry Into Its Management in England and in Other Such 'Christian' Countries..., page 269:
text: Suddenly feeling his “niggerdom” in a white environment, he determined to live in a black society.
ref: 1996 February 1, Jules Archer, They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass...MalcolmX, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: niggerhood
niggerness
glosses: The state of being a nigger.
Related terms: niggership
niggerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nigger + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Now if this scourge, this blues, this niggerness is so terrible; if it has been inflicted upon us for all these years; if it has infected the whole social and political body of this country and damaged its soul in the process, and if we have survived because we were “too damn mean to cry,”—not only because we “got good religion,” but because we “got good bread,” then we shouldn't even forget the experience, because it is a part of our uniqueness. We shouldn't ever forget the experiences of niggerness—the whole range of it.
ref: 1967 August 24, Johnson Publishing Company, Black World/Negro Digest, Johnson Publishing Company, page 16:
text: The new millennium brings a new appreciation of niggerness not as resistance but collective embrace. Moreover, much like the Pet Rock or Pokémon fads that have captivated commercialized America, Dela declares that blackface has a craze that sweeps the nation.
ref: 2005 December 2, Harry Justin Elam, Kennell A. Jackson, Kennell Jackson, Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 355:
text: Because to them it was only as if you were hiding your long black snake-writhing niggerness under your clothes while showing another color in your face, camouflaging yourself like a lizard. Nor did anything seem to confirm their their suspicions about the snake rubbery blackness of your hidden niggerness more convincingly than the sight of you dancing.
ref: 2012 September 19, Albert Murray, South to a Very Old Place, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or period of being a nigger (all senses).
Synonyms: niggerdom
niggerhood
slutdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slut + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: I don't really feel much like watching my descent into slutdom captured on tape after I've carried Lys back into her room.
ref: 2007, Stevi Mittman, Whose Number Is Up, Anyway?, page 127:
text: She thinks I'm one mass of inhibitions and hang-ups just because I prefer serial monogamy to perpetual slutdom.
ref: 2008, Natale Stenzel, Pandora's Box, page 51:
text: […] while the whole table turned to the question of just what constituted sluttiness. Was it a matter of attitude? Of specific behavior? Was one born to slutdom, or was the status acquired? Was it solely a female province? Could you have male sluts?
ref: 2011, The Best American Mystery Stories: 2011, page 42:
glosses: The state or quality of being a slut.
examples: text: She is the Grand Poobah of slutdom.
glosses: The world of sluts; sluts collectively.
Synonyms: sluthood
slutness
sluthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slut + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Race enters into it only insofar as race enters into the Blue Angel Syndrome; the combination of a white woman and a black man has traditionally been "proof" of her sluthood […]
ref: 1976, Florence King, Southern ladies and gentlemen, page 55:
text: Somewhere I started drinking again but because of my beliefs and the fact I have a wonderful women for a wife, I managed not to return to my days of male sluthood.
ref: 2004, Bob Martin, Ernest Naspretto, The Thick Blue Line, page 411:
ref: 2011, Ruby Pearl Saffire, Second Sluthood: A Manifesto for the Post-Menopausal, Pre-Senilic Matriarch:
glosses: The state or period of being a slut.
Synonyms: slutdom
slutness
slutness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slut + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Annie Sprinkle, the lover of men and women alike, the oversexed goddess who celebrates her slutness finally announces after an hour of packing, primping and phoning that she is now ready to leave.
ref: 1995, Michael Lane, Pink highways: tales of queer madness on the open road, page 67:
text: […] it had been long enough since the sexathon in Budapest that I had the energy for full-time slutness.
ref: 2010, Marshall Moore, Black Shapes in a Darkened Room, page 275:
text: There is already a girl that I am involved with so stay away with your slutness.
ref: 2010, Mark Hunter, Love in the Time of AIDS, page 189:
glosses: The state of being a slut.
Synonyms: sluthood
slutdom
loserhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loser + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: When Nietzsche sees the Judeo-Christian emphasis on the other world or God or the true life, he sees the resentment of losers who elevate “loserhood” to place themselves above the true winners in the world.
ref: 2015, Shawn R. Tucker, The Virtues and Vices in the Arts: A Sourcebook, page 250:
glosses: The state of being a loser.
Synonyms: loserdom
loserness
cunthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cunt + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a cunt.
Synonyms: cuntdom
cuntdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cunt + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a cunt.
Synonyms: cunthood
hosebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosebag
hoseheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosehead
sluttiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slutty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As a teenager, she dresses like a punk rocker in outfits "ingeniously designed to disguise sluttiness as irony" yet still finds she cannot bring herself to spit her gum on the sidewalk, her rebellion stifled by the fact that she "cared too much about making other people cross with her."
ref: 2009 February 1, Emily Donaldson, “Junior high is no place for the faint-hearted”, in Toronto Star:
synonyms: easiness
glosses: The characteristic or state of being slutty.
Related terms: slutness
sluthood