cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
covie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭvʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌvi/
rhymes: -ʌvi
Forms: form: covies
Etymology: See covey.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of covey.
covie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭvʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌvi/
rhymes: -ʌvi
Forms: form: covies
form: covying
form: covied
form: covied
Etymology: See covey.
Senses: examples: text: Our fortunes and our ſelves, are things ſo cloſely linked, that vve knovv not vvhich is the cauſe of the love that vve finde, vvhen theſe tvvo ſhall part, vve may then diſcover to vvhich of them affection vvill make vvinge; vvhen they are covied together vve knovv not vvhich is in purſuit; vvhen they riſe and breake, vve ſhall then ſee vvhich is aimed at.
ref: 1649, Edw[ard] Burton, “Of the Triall of Faith and Friendship”, in The Fathers Legacy: Or Burtons Collections. […], London: […] John Clowes, for Mathew Walbancke […], →OCLC, page 117:
text: The lapwing's covied tribes forsake / The fens, to seek the glassy lake.
ref: 1832 January, Charles May, “Sonnets. Day-break on the Scotch Coast.”, in The Pocket Magazine, volume I, London: James Robins & Co. […], →OCLC, sonnet no. I, page 252:
glosses: Alternative spelling of covey (“to gather into a group”).
covie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭvʹē
ipa: /ˈkʌvi/
rhymes: -ʌvi
Forms: form: covies
form: covying
form: covied
form: covied
form: couvey
Etymology: A variant of couve, cove, possibly influenced by covey (“brood or family of partridges”).
Senses: examples: text: Their [tortoises'] manner is to go aland, vvhere among the graſſe they lay egges as bigge as birds egs, to the number commonly of an hundred. […] [I]n the night time ſit upon them: they couvie a whole yeere before they hatch.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book IX.] Of Sea Tortoises, and How They are Taken.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: Darling, of all the sweet thoughts that ever covied in thy heart and took wing from thy pretty lips, that is to me the noblest, sweetest, best.
ref: 1869, A[manda] M[etcalf] Bright, “The Cascade”, in The Three Bernices; or, Ansermo of the Crag, Philadelphia, Pa.: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, […], →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: Synonym of cove (“of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs)”).
synonyms: word: cove
extra: (“of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs)”)
Yorùbáland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yorùbá + -land.
Senses: examples: text: In Yorùbáland as a whole, long narrative ijálás may be more frequent.
ref: 1971, Black Orpheus, page 5:
text: The Ẹ̀gbá and Ifẹ̀ chiefs, representing prominent Yorùbá-speaking clans in the southwestern region of Yorùbáland, were known to have welcomed missionaries and incorporated new techniques of knowledge forms to achieve victorious political ends.
ref: 2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
text: With Awólọ́wọ̀’s death in 1987, the daily and unending struggle to claim, and/or succeed to, his legacy, creed, position, authority, aura or eliteness, has been central to understanding the politics of Yorùbáland.
ref: 2014, Wale Adebanwi, Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ and Corporate Agency, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Yorubaland.
clovering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The making of a cloverleaf tongue.
cloverleaf tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloverleaf tongues
Senses: glosses: A person's tongue folded in a certain configuration with multiple bends, thought to resemble a cloverleaf. The ability to form this shape with one's tongue is thought to be genetically inherited.
Related terms: clovering
tongue rolling
cloverleaf tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloverleaf tongue
tongue rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hyponyms: clovering
glosses: The ability to roll the lateral edges of one's tongue upwards into a tube, widely believed to be a genetically inherited trait.
FAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FAP
vacuum activity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuum activities
Senses: glosses: An innate fixed action pattern of animal behavior that is performed in the absence of the usual releaser.
vacuum activities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum activity
conorfamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conorfamide
cloverleaf model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloverleaf models
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A model that depicts the molecular structure of tRNA, showing how its chain consists of two "business ends" and three arms.
cloverleaf models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloverleaf model
conorfamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conorfamides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a certain family of venom peptides from cone snails.
colliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colliculus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a surface with small rounded bumps.
pseudocoxalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + coxalgia.
Senses: glosses: Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease.
non-injurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + injurious.
Senses: examples: text: A non-injurious preparation is used to prevent damage to the track, and avoid any risk of polluting local water supplies.
ref: 1950 August, “Notes and News: Weed-Killing Trains, British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
glosses: Alternative form of noninjurious.
magnesiophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnesiophile
magnesiophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnesiophiles
Etymology: From magnesio- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism (plant or bacterium) that thrives in the presence of magnesium.
pseudocompressibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pseudocompressible.
entitulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entitulate
entitulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entitulate
Teumessian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the town of Teumessus or Teumessos in ancient Boeotia, situated in the plain of Thebes; applied to the Teumessian fox, an enormous fox in Greek mythology that was destined never to be caught.
Derived terms: Teumessian fox
Hac Sa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 黑沙.
Senses: examples: text: Coloane, where the Portuguese defeated some pirates in 1910, is supposed to have the nicest beaches, but I found them muddy. Hac Sa is a black sand beach. Ka Ho is a white sand beach. Cheoc Van is best for swimming.
ref: 1982 October 24, Pamela G. Hollie, “CHINA WITH A PORTUGUESE ACCENT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Travel, page 9:
text: Stretching for three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) in a gentle crescent, Hac Sa Beach offers Macau residents a seaside retreat from their hectic urban lives. Most locals say Hac Sa is the best of the three strips of sand on Coloane, as it is much larger than scenic Cheoc Van Beach.
ref: 2007, Steven K. Bailey, “Coloane Island: Macau's Countryside”, in Strolling in Macau: A Visitor's Guide to Macau, Taipa, and Coloane, ThingsAsian Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:
text: One greyhound who has already found a home is retired racer Garlic, who loves strolling down the territory’s Hac Sa, or “Black Sand,” beach.
ref: 2018 July 30, “AP PHOTOS: Macau dog track closure prompts adoption pleas”, in AP News, archived from the original on 04 May 2024:
glosses: A beach in Coloane, Macau.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Dineh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Two Dineh grandmothers and a number of Indian activists spoke to more than three hundred people here, March 21, as part of a national campaign to prevent the forced relocation of thousands of Dineh and Hopi people living in Big Mountain, Arizona.
ref: 1986 April 5, Kim Westheimer, “Relocation Means Death”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Diné.
cross-culturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Leubrie ignores the extraordinary diversity of religions, collapsing everything from tribal "storytellers" and "polytheistic Norsemen" to the Rev. Moon into a single, simplistic whole, thereby promoting a superficial and ahistorical understanding of religion cross-culturally and over the millennia.
ref: 1986 April 5, Jeanne Bergman, Jackie Urla, “Needed: A Better Critique of Religion”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Across cultures.
keep one's eyeballs peeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's eyeballs peeled
form: keeping one's eyeballs peeled
form: kept one's eyeballs peeled
form: kept one's eyeballs peeled
Senses: examples: text: I need legal books and materials. […] Postage is a blessing. All material marked 'LEGAL' from any organization that is of a legal nature comes right in to me, unopened. (No hard back books, except from publishers.) Please keep your eyeballs pealed ^([sic]) for these things!
ref: 1987 April 4, Joey Robbins, “help me squeeeze! (letter)”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of keep one's eyes peeled.
in-bred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in-bred
form: most in-bred
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inbred.
pseudolinearization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pseudolinear approximation of a nonlinear system.
press down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses down
form: pressing down
form: pressed down
form: pressed down
Senses: examples: text: Giue, and it shall bee giuen vnto you, good measure, preassed downe, and shaken together, and running ouer, shall men giue into your bosome: for with the same measure that ye mete withall, it shall bee measured to you againe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 6:38:
english: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
translation: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
bold_translation_offsets: 52
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text: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
ref: 1896 July 9, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see press, down.
examples: text: Or, as the same poet goes on, "when awful old age pressed down upon him, she put him away in an inner room of the house and shut the shining doors".
ref: 2014 May 9, Mary Beard, “A Point of View: The paradox of growing old”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2022:
text: Time is pressing down on us, fastening each moment to the railroad of our lives.
ref: 2022, Chitra Ramaswamy, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, Canongate Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To exert an oppressive influence.
glosses: To press or push, especially for a long time.
bowl down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowls down
form: bowling down
form: bowled down
form: bowled down
Senses: examples: text: to bowl down the wickets
glosses: To knock over.
covied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of covie
sober down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sobers down
form: sobering down
form: sobered down
form: sobered down
Senses: synonyms: sober up
glosses: To become, or make, sober
hew down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hews down
form: hewing down
form: hewed down
form: hewed down
form: hewn down
Senses: glosses: To violently cause to fall down
tread down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: treads down
form: treading down
form: trod down
form: treaded down
form: trodden down
form: trod down
form: treaded down
Senses: glosses: To trample
push down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes down
form: pushing down
form: pushed down
form: pushed down
Senses: glosses: To force downwards (literally or figuratively).
toss down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses down
form: tossing down
form: tossed down
form: tossed down
Senses: synonyms: throw down
glosses: To cause something held to fall to the ground
wet down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wets down
form: wetting down
form: wet down
form: wet down
form: wetted down
form: wetted down
Senses: coordinate_terms: rinse down
wash down
glosses: To make (something) wet, especially as a preliminary step in cleaning it.
Derived terms: word: wetdown
tomato soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomato soups
Senses: examples: text: Lunch on their farm was usually something quick and filling, such as a grilled cheese with a bowl of tomato soup.
hypernyms: soup#Noun
glosses: Any soup having tomato as its main ingredient; especially, a condensed soup mainly of tomatoes and wheat flour and sold as canned food.
tomato soups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomato soup
Merioneth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Meirionnydd.
Senses: examples: text: Henry Haydn Jones, MP for Merioneth
glosses: Synonym of Merionethshire.
synonyms: word: Merionethshire
wikipedia: Meirionnydd
errday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of every day.
englishman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: englishmen
Senses: examples: text: In Chꝛiſt there is nether frẽch ner engliſh: but the frenchman is the engliſhmans awne ſelfe / and the engliſh the frenchmans awne ſelfe.
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Prayer”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio cxxiij, verso:
text: Adꝛian the .iiii. an engliſhman boꝛne, conſtreigned the Conſulles and Senatours of Rome to depoſe theym ſelfes, and to committe all theyꝛ rule vnto the churche.
ref: 1549, William Thomas, “Abbridgement of the Liues of the Romaine Bishoppes”, in The Historie of Italie, a Boke Excedyng Profitable to Be Redde: Because It Intreateth of the Astate of Many and Diuers Common Weales, How Thei Haue Ben, & Now Be Gouerned, London: […] [I]n the house of Thomas Berthelet, folio 54, recto:
text: HAuing at this preſent publiſhed the Hiſtory off the Church of England, compiled by Venerable Bede, a lerned light of our countre aboue 800. yeares paſt, wherein the Faith firſt planted amonge vs engliſhmen, and ſo many hundred yeares continued, is expreſſed, I neuer doubted but the peruſall thereof ſhoulde be to the Catholike and true ſtedfaſt beleuers, bothe comfortable to reade, and neceſſary to vnderſtande.
ref: 1565, Thomas Stapleton, “To the Deceiued Protestants of England, Thomas Stapleton Wisheth Grace, Humilite, and Vnderstanding”, in A Fortresse of the Faith: First Planted Amonge Vs Englishmen, and Continued Hitherto in the Vniuersall Church of Christ. The Faith of Which Time Protestants Call, Papistry., Antwerp: […] Ihon Laet, […], folio 2, recto:
glosses: Obsolete form of Englishman.
englishmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of englishman
pushes down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push down
pushing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push down
pushed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push down
plant food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plant foods
Senses: examples: text: Pour the nitrogen solution into the water and use it as plant food.
glosses: Commercially available nutrients intended to enhance the growth of plants, especially in gardens.
examples: text: Today, in India, vegetarians form a nonhomogenous group consisting of semivegetarians (plant food, dairy products, eggs, and fish), lacto-ovo vegetarians (plant food, dairy products, and eggs), and vegans (plant food only).
ref: 2010, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga, Jason Jerome D’Souza, Raghavendra Haniadka, Rajesh Arora, “Indian Vegetarian Diet and Cancer Prevention”, in Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, editors, Bioactive Foods and Extracts: Cancer Treatment and Prevention, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 68:
text: You’ll see below, when we talk about health benefits associated with plant foods, that replacing one kind of animal food with another is not really the best route to better health.
ref: 2014, Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman, Virginia Messina, Never Too Late to Go Vegan: The Over-50 Guide to Adopting and Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet, New York, N.Y.: The Experiment, LLC, →ISBN:
text: Vegans (sometimes called strict vegetarians). They do not eat meat or fish, or any animal products at all. This means no milk, cheese or eggs. They will eat only plant food.
ref: 2016, Helen Buckland, Jacqui Keepin, WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition, Hodder Education, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: animal food
glosses: Food from plants.
gigification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gig + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: The Covid-19 epidemic could well prove to be a pivotal point in the gigification of knowledge work, and many firms will be attracted by the prospects of the direct and indirect cost savings that the gig economy model seems to offer.
ref: 2020 June 1, Sameer Hasija, et al, “Will the Pandemic Push Knowledge Work into the Gig Economy?”, in Harvard Business Review:
text: Some of [the] central provisions [of the contract] […] will serve to put brakes on the relentless erosion of the number of writing jobs available—the sort of deadly, profit-driven gigification of once-stable careers that afflicts taxi drivers, college professors, and screenwriters alike.
ref: 2023 October 7, Hamilton Nolan, “Screenwriters won a historic victory against AI. The rest of us should follow”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
glosses: The process whereby stable, full-time jobs are replaced by freelance ones.
game sense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've been practicing my mechanics, but my game sense is still trash.
text: Dorje took to the game not long after we arrived. Already a keen inline skater, he picked up the new skills quickly and suddenly found himself in the selection squad for a hockey tournament in Canada. For a twelve-year-old, Dorje's skills and game sense were good, but his fitness was lacking.
ref: 2007, Lincoln Hall, Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest, New York, N.Y.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a tactical, team-based, objective-driven first-person shooter that rewards cooperation and game sense over a positive kill/death ratio.
ref: 2015 August 22, Chloi Rad, “How to Watch Counter-Strike: Global Offensive”, in IGN, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2015:
text: Ishould say here that we've never met — never video chatted, even. So I don't have any beautiful scenes with him for you, no anecdotes that describe the kind of food he orders for dinner and what that says about his game sense, nothing about what it's like to play in a squad beside him, or what it might say about his character if he declined to revive me at a particularly crucial moment. Which probably makes me a lot like you, the person reading this.
ref: 2021 April 22, Bijan Stephen, “The Competitor”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
text: Heroes have been reworked across to board: ultimate ability charges have been reduced, there are fewer shields and crowd control abilities have been removed or greatly toned down, bringing "Overwatch 2" closer to being a competitive shooter that rewards sound fundamentals such as aim and game sense over grossly overtuned abilities.
ref: 2022 October 7, Jonathan Lee, “’Overwatch’ died for ’Overwatch 2.’ It was totally worth it.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
text: In the original Destiny, it was the raids, pinnacle six-player activities that challenged your patience, game sense, loadout, and team communication. The barrier for raids was so high that it was a frustrating pain point for many players, with many on social media lamenting that they felt like they couldn't ever run one.
ref: 2023 February 10, David Ahmadi, “How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Destiny 2's LFG”, in GameSpot, archived from the original on 12 May 2023:
text: Duncanas displays solid mechanical plays and a strong game sense, surprising players on Reddit. "This will be all of us when we are 57, still gaming and loving it. I just hope I retain most of my awareness," one player said. "I feel old out there just in my early 30s," another joked.
ref: 2023 May 31, Eva Martinello, “This 57-year-old streamer is way better at Apex Legends than you”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 31 May 2023:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
glosses: One's ability to understand a sport or competitive video game at a strategic level; situational awareness.
all that glitters
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of all that glitters is not gold.
lacto-ovo vegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæk.təʊˌəʊ.vəʊ ˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæk.toʊˌoʊ.voʊ ˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: lacto-ovo vegetarians
Senses: examples: text: Some research,⁷⁶⁻⁷⁸ but not all,⁷⁹⁻⁸² suggests that lacto-ovo vegetarians have greater bone density than meat eaters. In women aged 50 to 87, lacto-ovo vegetarians were found to lose about 50% to 60% less bone mass in comparison with omnivores,^(78.83) although a recent study did not confirm these findings.⁸¹
ref: 1996, Mark Messina, Virginia Messina, The Dietitian’s Guide to Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications, Aspen, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Today, in India, vegetarians form a nonhomogenous group consisting of semivegetarians (plant food, dairy products, eggs, and fish), lacto-ovo vegetarians (plant food, dairy products, and eggs), and vegans (plant food only).
ref: 2010, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga, Jason Jerome D’Souza, Raghavendra Haniadka, Rajesh Arora, “Indian Vegetarian Diet and Cancer Prevention”, in Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, editors, Bioactive Foods and Extracts: Cancer Treatment and Prevention, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Lacto vegetarians. These eat the same as lacto-ovo vegetarians, but they do not eat eggs.
ref: 2016, Helen Buckland, Jacqui Keepin, WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition, Hodder Education, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
lacto-ovo vegetarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacto-ovo vegetarian
Shoults
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
swordography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sword + choreography. By surface analysis, sword + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Do you know what? I had so much fun. The swordography... you know, I think we needed more swordography, to be honest. Loved the sword fight.
ref: 2023, 31:26 from the start, in Strictly Come Dancing, season 21, episode 3, spoken by Zara McDermott:
topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
theater
glosses: Choreography using (prop) swords.
bow-tied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of bowtied.
pons Varolii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pons.
synonyms: word: pons
stand-up meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stand-up meetings
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A meeting in which attendees typically participate while standing.
stand-up meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stand-up meeting
Taco Smell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Taco Bell (a chain of fast food restaurants).
Related terms: Jack in the Crack
Taco Hell
clockwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clockwatches
form: clockwatching
form: clockwatched
form: clockwatched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clock-watch.
clockwatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clockwatch
clockwatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clockwatch
smart watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart watches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smartwatch.
smart watches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smart watch
vampire ground finch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampire ground finches
Senses: glosses: Geospiza septentrionalis, a small bird native to the Galapagos Islands that occasionally feeds by drinking the blood of other birds.
vampire ground finches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampire ground finch
cough-syrupy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cough-syrupy
form: most cough-syrupy
Etymology: From cough syrup + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Cayenne hated the cough-syrupy taste of liqueur, but because she was nervous, she drank it.
ref: 1994, Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, New York, N.Y.: Grosset/Putnam, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 34:
text: The sweet reek and disgusting, cough-syrupy taste of the local plum brandy, raffia or something.
ref: 2002, Michael Crow, Red Rain (a Luther Ewing thriller), New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 89:
text: With its catchy name, addictive cough-syrupy taste (gentian root and wintergreen drove the flavor), chipper orange-and-blue logo, and kicky slogan and jingle ("Make Mine a Moxie!"), it became the nation's most popular beverage in the early 20th century.
ref: 2060, Elizabeth Bougerol, New England’s Favorite Seafood Shacks: Eating Up the Coast from Connecticut to Maine, Woodstock, Vt.: The Countryman Press, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of cough syrup.
narm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: närm
ipa: /ˈnɑː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: narms
Etymology: Coined by TV Tropes in 2007, referring to a scene in Six Feet Under's final season where main protagonist Nate Fisher complains about his arm being numb while suffering a brain embolism and repeats the words "numb arm", quickly slurring them into the single syllable "Narm".
Senses: glosses: A television or movie scene that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.
wikipedia: Six Feet Under
chalcogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalcogel
chalcogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalcogels
Etymology: From chalco- + gel.
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: A metal chalcogenide aerogel.
R0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R₀s
Senses: glosses: plural of R₀
cobaltoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobaltoprotein
cobaltoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobaltoproteins
Etymology: From cobalto- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metalloprotein that contains cobalt.
ophthalmomycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmomycoses
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + mycosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An eye disease caused by a fungus.
gwans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gwan
geekhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geekheads
Etymology: From geek + -head.
Senses: glosses: A geek.
geekheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geekhead
thermocracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + cracking.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Chemical cracking by heating.
qualifier: materials
glosses: Surface cracking caused by heat.
Edlingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish south-west of Alnwick, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU1109).
Related terms: english: Northumberland
translation: Northumberland
word: Eglingham
recollars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recollar
fish-and-chippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-and-chippies
form: fish and chippy
form: fish and chippie
Etymology: From fish and chip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy.
ref: 1993, Giles Gordon, Aren’t We Due a Royalty Statement? A Stern Account of Literary, Publishing, and Theatrical Folk, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 342:
text: The trattoria was becoming popular and was edging out the ‘greasy spoon’ and even the fish-and-chippy.
ref: 1997, Nigel Grant, “Intercultural education in the United Kingdom”, in Derek Woodrow, Gajendra K. Verma, Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Giovanna Campani, Christopher Bagley, editors, Intercultural Education: Theories, Policies and Practices, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 140:
text: In 1993–94, I lived in the picturesque southern English town of Canterbury, Kent, in a very small apartment above a health-food shop and a “fish-and-chippy.”
ref: 1999, Eve Darian-Smith, “Preface”, in Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page xv:
text: ‘That will happen wherever I go, because most of the chefs around here couldn’t tell the difference between a brûlée and a blowfly.’ / ‘But you won’t be working anywhere else. You’ll be on garden leave. Unless you fancy opening a fish-and-chippy in Ulladulla?’ Jim offers.
ref: 2016, J.D. Barrett, The Secret Recipe for Second Chances, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:
synonyms: chipper
chippy
chip shop
fish-and-chipper
fish and chippery
glosses: A shop that sells fish and chips.
fish-and-chippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fish-and-chippy
form: most fish-and-chippy
form: fish and chippy
form: fish and chippie
Etymology: From fish and chip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Spouting hot oil, and with the fish-and-chippy odour characteristic of internal combustion when it goes external with a bang, the blue E.R.A. drew over and nuzzled in close to the hedge, yielding precedence to the works three-speeder, which thereafter had the race in the basket, going on to win at a decimal under 91 m.p.h. from the four-cylinder Maseratis of Bianco and Sofietti.
ref: 1944, Autocar, volume 89, page 266:
text: Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!
ref: 1946, Dorothy Macardle, Fantastic Summer, London: Peter Davies, page 37:
text: […] 25 minutes went by before the cruelly overheated engine was clearly visible through the fish-and-chippy miasma rising off it.
ref: 1958, Sports Cars Illustrated, volume 4, page 45:
text: As he packed, the hearty fish-and-chippy smell of Swansea was coming on the evening wind over the sea, and the sound of the Mumbles train loudening coming back to the Pierhead.
ref: 1970, John Summers, Dylan, New English Library, →ISBN, page 26:
text: I was sure the Brits had their share of murderers. It was just a matter of finding the right one. Or, if I was lucky, one that tasted good. Without the fish-and-chippy smell. Sorry, that was a stereotype.
ref: 2019, Arthur Slade, Amber Fang: Betrayal, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN:
text: I quickly tuck in to some chips, then try a crispy ring. It’s good. It’s very good. Sort of half chickeny and half fish-and-chippy.
ref: 2021, Charlie Higson, Worst. Holiday. Ever., Puffin Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fish and chips.
fish and chippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish and chippies
Senses: examples: text: Britain’s best known fish and chippy with a lot more to offer, including Yorkshire pudding and onion gravy.
ref: 2005, Annie Bullen, Brighton (City-Break Guides), Jarrold Publishing, →ISBN, pages 73–74:
text: Gargrave also has good pubs and a first-class fish and chippy.
ref: 2015, Derek Pratt, Great Waterways Journeys: 20 Glorious Routes Circling England, by Canal and River, Adlard Coles Nautical, →ISBN, page 127:
text: He waved one hand toward the door. “Fish and chippy, or should we try the oyster bar?”
ref: 2017, Kayla Drake, Daring Sarah (Windy City Weddings; 2), Four-Ply Publishing, →ISBN:
text: A fish and chippy stood near St Thomas’ Church with a Co-op and a post office shop. High Clarence also had a fish and chip shop and post office.
ref: 2018, Janet Hodgson, Mission From Below: Growing a Kingdom Community, Durham: Sacristy Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: […] I like my chips big and chunky from a proper fish and chippy; […]
ref: 2020, Jenny Eclair, Older and Wider: A Survivor’s Guide to the Menopause, London: Quercus Editions Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fish-and-chippy.
fish and chippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fish and chippy
form: most fish and chippy
Senses: examples: text: It doesn’t have the typical taste of the ‘fish and chippy’ Lisbon lemon (Citrus limon ‘Lisbon’), as it is less acidic and more like a combination of orange and lemon.
ref: 1995, Jane Edmanson, Jane Edmanson’s Favourite Plants, Lothian, →ISBN, page 67:
text: The café beckons, or rather the smell of coffee does, but the fish and chippy perkiness of the place is too much.
ref: 2010, Natasha Lester, What Is Left Over, After, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 49:
text: He was just getting into his second ‘Blam-a-dee-Blam’ when, wrong-sighted by being fifer-less, he stepped into a puddle of fish and chippy spew, slipped backwards, over-corrected and went forwards, to the point where Newton’s Law of Gravity took over, due to the weight of the Lambeg Drum, and he began a slow motion roll forward to the gate.
ref: 2016, Seamus McNinch, The Conversion of Ignatius Moriarty, Xlibris, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fish-and-chippy.
fish-and-chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish and chip
Senses: examples: text: Efforts by Horn and Hardart to diversify into gourmet restaurants, office catering services, a fish-and-chip chain and drive-in ‘Burger Kings’ proved unavailing, resulting in a nugatory profit in 1975 and a loss of $2·7 million last year.
ref: 1977, The Accountant, volume 177:
text: A few hours later, twenty miles west of Dumfries, on a dark, miserable Saturday afternoon, I pulled up in the town of Castle Douglas, hoping for a bite to eat. But the Indian restaurant was closed, the Chinese restaurant was closed, the fish-and-chip store was closed, and the big old Douglas Arms Hotel, which Morton wrote about so enthusiastically, refused to serve me, because everybody was getting ready for a large party of Danish veterinarians who had booked the place for their evening meal, several hours from now.
ref: 1999, David W[illiam] McFadden, An Innocent in Scotland: More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters, McClelland & Stewart, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: I had a pre-Christmas luncheon at Harry Ramsden’s Fish and Chip Shop at Guiseley, where the menu was dominated by Harry’s Challenge, a fish-and-chip dish so gigantic that if you got through it you were given a free pudding and a signed certificate.
ref: 2009, Jan Morris, Contact! A Book of Encounters, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: Attributive form of fish and chips.
fish and chippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish and chippies
Etymology: From fish and chips + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: He runs a fish and chippie, so he’s brought smoked salmon.
ref: 1998 November 28, Josie Barnard, “Rail, Rhythm and Blues”, in Michael Kerr, editor, Last Call for the Dining Car: The Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys, Aurum, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: There’s always the good old standby of pub food, which is becoming far more adventurous, and the local Chinese takeout, which often doubles as a fish-and-chippie.
ref: 2000, David Downing, editor, Great Britain: The Guide That Gets You to the Heart and Soul of Great Britain (Fodor’s Up Close), Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 8:
text: ‘We’re going to open a fish-and-chip shop in Marbella,’ he said. ‘You’re going off to Spain to sell fish and chips?’ ‘No, this is a fish-and-chip place with a difference.’ ‘Whether it’s in Maryhill or Marbella, a fish and chippie is a fish and chippie.’ ‘No, this will be a fish-and-chip restaurant. It will have the very best of everything, the decor, furnishings, and we’ll be having lobster and smoked salmon on the menu.’
ref: 2006, David Leslie, The Happy Dust Gang: How Sex, Scandal and Deceit Founded a Drugs Empire, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN:
text: When I got back to Swansea in time for the show that evening, Peter and Malcolm were in the hotel room having an early supper bought at a fish and chippie.
ref: 2020, David Barry, Please Sir! The Official History, Acorn Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fish-and-chippy.
ten toes down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ten toes down
form: most ten toes down
Etymology: From the notion that a person’s dedicated or loyal friend would stand their ground to protect them rather than walking or running away and would therefore keep all ten toes on the ground. Coined and popularised by the rapper Kodak Black, the phrase first appears in two tracks on his 2014 album Heart of the Projects.
Senses: examples: text: Do it for the fam dog, ten toes down dog
Love and the loyalty; that's what we stand for
ref: 2016, “Sucker For Pain”, in Suicide Squad: The Album, performed by Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Logic, Ty Dolla $ign:
glosses: Dedicated, loyal.
wikipedia: Kodak Black
DEAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːd/
enpr: dēd
homophone: deed
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
coordinate_terms: SEAD
EAD
AD
AA
EW
ECM
glosses: Acronym of destruction of enemy air defense(s).
breadseed poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breadseed poppies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of opium poppy, Papaver somniferum.
synonyms: word: opium poppy
word: Papaver somniferum
State of Washington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Washington state.
sleep it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleeps it out
form: sleeping it out
form: slept it out
form: slept it out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sleep off.
blatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blatt
milliblatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliblatts
Etymology: From milli- + blatt.
Senses: glosses: A unit of odor that is equivalent to one thousandth of a blatt.
milliblatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliblatt
sleeps it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep it out
sleeping it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of sleep it out
sparrow-hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrow-hawks
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of sparrowhawk.
slept it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep it out
sparrow-hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparrow-hawk
donkeypower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkeypowers
form: donkeypower
Etymology: From donkey + power, based on horsepower.
Senses: examples: text: How to talk about units of power less than 1 horsepower? Use a smaller creature, of course. Roughly 1/3rd of a single unit of horsepower—or roughly 250 watts—is now labelled one donkeypower.
ref: 2020 December 27, Paul Anthony Jones, “Donkeypower”, in Haggard Hawks:
glosses: A unit of power equal to 250 watts, or about one-third of a horsepower.
donkeypowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkeypower
t distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of t distribution
Student's t tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Student's t test
Student's t distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Student's t distribution
Student's ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Student's t
t-distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of t-distribution
ta-ta theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ta-ta theory
colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: colourless green ideas sleep furiously
Etymology: Composed by Noam Chomsky in his work Syntactic Structures (1957).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but is semantically nonsensical.
wikipedia: Noam Chomsky
Syntactic Structures
lumpy dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumpy dicks
Senses: glosses: A porridge made by stirring flour into boiling milk.
Related terms: spotted dick
mess uniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mess uniforms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mess kit (“A formal uniform, worn for occasions such as mess dinners”).
synonyms: word: mess kit
extra: A formal uniform, worn for occasions such as mess dinners
mess uniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mess uniform
Stoke Holy Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2301).
Ulez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ulezes
Senses: examples: text: Ministers in the Conservative government last week claimed that Labour “vilified” Britain's hard-pressed drivers—a jibe stemming from the backlash against London mayor Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez).
ref: 2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It's not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
text: Similarly in London, saboteurs calling themselves the “blade runners” have attacked the number-plate recognition cameras that enforce Ulez.
ref: 2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ULEZ.
green revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Green Revolution.
licorice wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licorice wheels
form: liquorice wheel
Senses: glosses: A type of candy that consists of a string of licorice rolled up to form a wheel.
licorice wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licorice wheel
liquorice wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquorice wheels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of licorice wheel.
liquorice wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquorice wheel
Tooros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tooro
lyre-guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyre-guitars
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad instrument in the late 1800s.
lyre-guitars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyre-guitar
Maariv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maarib
form: Ma'ariv
Etymology: From Hebrew מַעֲרִיב.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish prayer service held in the evening or at night.
Maarib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maariv.
Simpsonwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Simpson + -wave.
Senses: examples: text: Vaporwave and its more developed form, Simpsonwave, are of course concerned with an entirely different set of tropes–but they are no less hauntological for it. Both are recognizably hauntological by virtue of the techniques they employ—VHS crackle, Windows start-up sounds, etc.
ref: 2019, Tom Whyman, “Oh, They Have the Internet on Computers Now?”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, punctum books, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: A genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.
Malbecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malbec
maculacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is no coincidence that the honor code and limpieza statutes shared a rhetoric of maculacy and immaculacy (the former associated with adultery and semitic blood, the latter with marital chastity and cristiano viejo origins), or that both applied this rhetoric to a narrative of blood.
ref: 2001, Georgina Dopico Black, Perfect Wives, Other Women, page 42:
antonyms: immaculacy
glosses: The quality of being maculate, stained or blemished.
maenadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maenad + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The frenzied state of a female follower of Dionysus.
pohuehue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Any of various climbing plants of the genus Muehlenbeckia.
maidenhair vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidenhair vines
Senses: glosses: The climbing plant Muehlenbeckia complexa.
maidenhair vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidenhair vine
maidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidie
glosses: plural of maidy
man-woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-women
Senses: examples: text: According to Louisa, the lesbians she met were "these hardcore women who either look like men, or, yeah, they all looked like men, I think, or these man-women, I don't know how I should describe that".
ref: 2016, Christina Scharff, Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World, page 81:
glosses: A masculine woman.
examples: text: Gordon MacDonald postulates that the way God created Eve, "leads me to think that the original Adam, a kind of man-woman, is now two: a man and a woman."
ref: 2011, R. James Tasker, Restoring Cultural Foundations, page 178:
glosses: A hybrid of man and woman; hermaphrodite.
Related terms: he-she
man-women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-woman