cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
toothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuː.θi/
Forms: form: toothier
form: toothiest
Etymology: From tooth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.
ref: 1970, Men's Wear, volume 161, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:
text: Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139:
text: Frances Tiafoe is coming for tennis once more. The tongue-wagging and the fist-pumping and the glare; the toothiest you-know-what-eating grin in the game; the high-energy vibes that can bring any tennis crowd into his corner.
ref: 2024 September 9, Michael Dominski, “Everything that happened on Day 9 of the US Open with Navarro, Fritz and Tiafoe advancing to the semifinal”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Having prominent teeth.
Derived terms: toothily
toothiness
tootle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːtəl/
Forms: form: tootles
form: tootling
form: tootled
form: tootled
Etymology: From toot + -le, frequentative.
Senses: examples: text: Now the scythe the morn salutes,
In the meadow tinkling soon;
While on mellow-tootling flutes
Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune.
ref: 1820, John Clare, “Summer Morning”, in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: Taylor and Hessey, page 145:
text: We know the old lady is upstairs and that she is quite alone in the house and therefore it would be perfectly useless for her to tootle on her bedroom bell.
ref: 1928, Fred M. White, chapter 27, in The Grey Woman:
text: Their booth did not have so many customers as did the other booths where the tootling laugh of Maybelle Merriwether sounded and Fanny Elsing’s giggles and the Whiting girls’ repartee made merriment.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 9, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
text: During the night, some of the locomotives began to tootle to one another, and then to move.
ref: 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a soft toot sound.
examples: text: A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn.
ref: 1917, Horace Annesley Vachell, chapter 11, in Fishpingle: A Romance of the Countryside, New York: George H. Doran, page 204:
text: […] Cecil can tootle a pretty fair sax, at that, if the play happens to come up.
ref: 1933, Damon Runyon, “Broadway Complex”, in Runyon from First to Last:
glosses: To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.
examples: text: I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom.
ref: 1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Queen’s Square”, in A Treasury of Sayers Stories, London: Gollancz, published 1958, page 48:
text: ‘When my old bike comes I shall tootle up and down the drive! Some swank!’
ref: 1949, Elsie J. Oxenham, chapter 8, in The Abbey Girls Go Back to School, London: Collins:
text: I was about to go, I thought I’d tootle down to the Coleherne perhaps, then I wouldn’t be too far away if the bleep went.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 10, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.
examples: text: […] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […]
ref: 1911, Agnes and Egerton Castle, chapter 1, in The Composer, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 4:
text: Say I pick you up and tootle you over with your hens.
ref: 1953, Angela Thirkell, chapter 3, in Jutland Cottage:
glosses: To transport (someone somewhere).
tootle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːtəl/
Forms: form: tootles
Etymology: From toot + -le, frequentative.
Senses: examples: text: 1891, Thirteen Essays on Education, London: Percival & Co., E. W. Howson, “The Teaching of Music in Public Schools,” p. 37,
No one, least of all those with a musical ear, can take a form or even read a book in close proximity to the ineffectual tootle of a flute, the maddening squeaks of a raw fiddler, or the spasmodic grunts of a euphonium.
text: The glamour of the sawdust world, the cheers of the crowd, the smell of hot dogs and cotton candy, the blare and tootle of the midway—he envied the gypsy family, here today and gone tomorrow.
ref: 1958, Eleanor Reindollar Wilcox, chapter 7, in Mr. Sims’ Argosy, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 121:
text: One blast [of the trumpet], and [the sheep] would go here, two and they would go there, some tootles and they would run up the hill, a high note and they would stop short […]
ref: 2009, Mark Helprin, chapter 5, in Digital Barbarism, HarperCollins, page 170:
glosses: A soft toot sound.
examples: text: In between, is Granny May’s only daughter Juliet. A wonderful character who still joins me on the odd tootle.
ref: 1979, Oliver Reed, chapter 4, in Reed All About Me, London: Hodder & Stoughton, published 1981, page 62:
text: On weekends you can take a short tootle over to itsy-bitsy Pelican Island on a free ferry […]
ref: 2008, Adam Karlin, “Miami & The Keys”, in Publications, Lonely Planet, page 63:
glosses: A trip or excursion.
aboundingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aboundingly
form: most aboundingly
Etymology: From abounding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hereby you may perceive, although my future Wife were as unsatiable and gluttonous in her Voluptuousness, and the Delights of Venery, as ever was the Empress Messalina, or yet the Marchioness in England; and I desire thee to give Credit to it, that I lack not for what is requisite to overlay the Stomach of her Lust, but have wherewith aboundingly to please her.
ref: 1693, Richard Baldwin, chapter 27, in Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais […] containing the heroic deeds of Pantagruel the Son of Gargantua, London, page 223:
text: How it was that they [the crew] so aboundingly responded to the old man’s ire—by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs […] all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 206:
text: [True temperance] flows logically from a wish not only to avoid the death dealt by indulgence, but to possess aboundingly the joys of life.
ref: 1967, Max Eastman, Seven Kinds of Goodness, New York: Horizon Press, pages 142–143:
synonyms: plentifully
profusely
glosses: In an abounding manner; in a manner that abounds.
examples: text: 1859, John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton dated 10 December, 1859, in Letters of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904, Volume 1, p. 91,
I have your kind letter with Lowell’s—both quite aboundingly helpful to me.
text: 1908, Henry James, letter to Edith Wharton dated 13 October, 1908, in Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James, London: Macmillan, 1920, Volume 2, p. 108,
Believe meanwhile and always in the aboundingly tender friendship […] of yours more than ever, Henry James.
text: But why on earth should he take the chance of tying himself up for life to the victim of obsessions and depressions? Particularly when a girl like Amanda Craig, rich and aboundingly healthy, had an obvious crush on him?
ref: 1997, Louis Auchincloss, “The Atonement”, in The Atonement and Other Stories,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 31:
synonyms: abundantly
greatly
enormously
immensely
glosses: To an abounding degree.
Related terms: abundantly
top-drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top drawer.
top-dress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: top-dresses
form: top-dressing
form: top-dressed
form: top-dressed
Senses: glosses: To cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer
topicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Forms: form: topicalities
Etymology: From topical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: With the return to monthly publication it is our intention to extend the variety of subjects dealt with, and it will also be possible to attain greater topicality.
ref: 1950 January, “Monthly Publication Resumed”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
text: A documentary about gun violence that has its premiere on HBO on Monday has been given extra topicality by the massacre in Charleston, S.C.
ref: 2015 June 21, Neil Genzlinger, “Review: ‘Requiem for the Dead’ on HBO Explores Gun Violence in America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: relevance
currency
glosses: The condition of being topical.
top-ranking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of the highest rank
top-secret
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: top secret
Senses: glosses: Having one of the highest secrecy classifications, "top secret".
topspin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topspins
Etymology: From top + spin.
Senses: examples: text: The tennis star was famed for her topspin.
glosses: A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion.
examples: text: Well remembered as a visual comedienne, she also had the verbal knack of putting all sorts of topspin on a line.
ref: 1994, Richard D. Heldenfels, Television's Greatest Year: 1954, page 70:
text: Flashdance had a quality known as top spin, in which the casting, the concept and the look and sound of the movie all come together.
ref: 2010, Justin Wyatt, High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood:
text: 2016, Quentin Letts, "A Very English Scandal: sex, lies and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment by John Preston - review" (in Evening Standard, 28 April 2016) https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/a-very-english-scandal-sex-lies-and-a-murder-plot-at-the-heart-of-the-establishment-by-john-preston-a3236271.html
This fluent, readable book has certainly been polished with a fair degree of what Fleet Street feature editors once called topspin: “Give it some topspin, old boy. Make the copy sing.” In this John Preston more than succeeds.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
publishing
television
glosses: An edgy, quirky or otherwise engaging quality that holds the interest of the audience.
Synonyms: forespin
Derived terms: top-spinner
topspin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topspins
form: topspinning
form: topspun
form: topspun
Etymology: From top + spin.
Senses: examples: text: He could keep winning through attrition, with a relentless barrage of topspinning ground strokes and a tireless defense of his own side, where would-be winners go to die.
ref: 2007 August 27, John Branch, “His Next Line to Cross”, in New York Times:
glosses: To spin (a ball) with this motion.
Glenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɛnə/
Etymology: From male given name Glen, from Scottish glen (“secluded valley”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, in quiet use since the 19th century.
Related terms: glen
Glen
Glenn
torchbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torchbearers
Etymology: From torch + bearer.
Senses: synonyms: word: lampadephore
word: mussaul
word: mussaulchee
glosses: A person who carries a torch (flaming brand).
glosses: The leader of a campaign, or one who gives inspiration to others.
examples: text: The Roman Empire could be considered the torchbearer of Ancient Greek knowledge and wisdom.
glosses: One who carries on a movement or organization from someone else.
Derived terms: Olympic torchbearer
torsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsos
Senses: glosses: plural of torso
torsional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From torsion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or achieved using torsion
tortoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːˈtəʊni/
ipa: /tɔɹˈtoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: tortoni
form: tortonis
Etymology: Borrowed from the Italian surname Tortoni; the dessert is usually regarded as named after Giuseppe Tortoni, a native of Naples, Italy, who was the proprietor of the famous Café Tortoni in Paris, France, in the early 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, the municipal band still played three evenings a week to great crowds on the Punta and in Central Park, the theatres were full of gayety, and the most zealous revellers continued to eat tortonis and sip ices every evening in the pretty cafés that are half outdoors and almost on the sidewalk.
ref: 1906 October 20, William Inglis, “The Collapse of the Cuban House of Cards”, in Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, volume 1, number 2600, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:
text: Soul Kiss / On a small fancy platter place a quarter of a brick of nesselrode or tortoni ice cream; on top of this put some stiff whipped cream in which lay some slices of banana; put a cherry at either end and also in the center, and sprinkle with nuts, if desired.
ref: 1915, “Soda Fountain Formulas”, in The Dispenser’s Formulary or Soda Water Guide: […], 3rd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.: D. O. Haynes & Co., […], →OCLC, page 140:
text: With my own fair hands I've made individual almond tortonis for dessert. Cook thinks I'm a wonder! Each masterpiece in a fluted silver dish, silver candies sprinkled on the pink whipped cream! O-oh!
ref: 1936 August–September, Pearl Norton Swet, “The Medici Boots”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 28, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 201, column 1:
text: A big smile from the courtly waiter named Frank at Dominick's, an Italian restaurant in the Bronx. Huge hamburger steaks. Little tortoni in paper cups, vanilla ice cream topped with macaroon crumbs.
ref: 2010, Todd Gitlin, Undying: A Novel, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Any of several sorts of ice-cream flavoured with rum or sherry, often containing chopped cherries and topped with almonds, crumbled macaroons, etc.
wikipedia: Adolphe Willette
Société des gens de lettres
The New York Times
Hyponyms: biscuit tortoni
touchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more touchable
form: most touchable
Etymology: From Middle English touchable, toucheable, equivalent to touch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being touched; tangible or palpable.
toughly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toughly
form: most toughly
Etymology: From Middle English toughli, touȝly, equivalent to tough + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tough manner.
trackball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackballs
Etymology: From track + ball.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pointing device consisting of a ball housed in a socket
tragicomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɒmɪk/
ipa: /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɑmɪk/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒmɪk
rhymes: (General American) -ɑmɪk
Forms: form: more tragicomic
form: most tragicomic
form: tragicomedic
form: comitragic
Etymology: Blend of tragic + comic
Senses: examples: text: The pirates threatened to kill Captain Phillips if attacked, and the result was tragicomic: the world’s most powerful navy vs. a lifeboat.
ref: 2009 April 12, Robert D. McFadden, Scott Shane, “In Rescue of Captain, Navy Kills 3 Pirates”, in The New York Times, page A1:
synonyms: comicotragic
comicotragical
jocoserious
coordinate_terms: tragicofarcical
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy; having both tragic and comic aspects.
abusefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbjuːsfəli/
Forms: form: more abusefully
form: most abusefully
Etymology: From abuseful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abuseful manner; in a manner that abuses.
trailblazing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trailblazing
form: most trailblazing
form: trail-blazing
Etymology: From trail + blazing.
Senses: examples: text: One can only wonder what led Rothstein to claim that Neville was such a trail-blazing pornographer.
ref: 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 120:
text: The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
ref: 2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition), archived from the original on 23 Jul 2025, page 100:
text: Traditional social codes can sometimes prove as strict as any government diktat. Late last year, Chinese e-commerce giant JD faced a boycott by customers infuriated by its casting of trailblazing woman comedian Yang Li in a promotional live stream.
ref: 2025 July 26, Chris Lau and Joyce Jiang, “Joking about her abusive husband launched this Chinese comedian to stardom. The authorities aren’t laughing”, in CNN:
glosses: Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.
Related terms: blaze
blaze a trail
blazer
blazing
trail
trailblaze
trailblazer
trailblazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trail-blazing
Etymology: From trail + blazing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trailblaze
trainman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trainmen
Etymology: From train + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Fourth, if there is a shortage of motive power or of trainmen, it is generally the lower orders of freight train which have to be curtailed or cancelled altogether.
ref: 1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A person who works on trains on a railway / railroad.
glosses: A brakeman.
Related terms: trainwoman
transactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transactors
Etymology: From Latin trānsāctor. By surface analysis, transact + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who transacts business.
abusefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From abuseful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being abuseful.
transgendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
ipa: /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹd/
ipa: /tɹæn(t)s-/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more transgendered
form: most transgendered
Etymology: From trans- + gendered (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: RAQUEL WELCH (left), moviedom's sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal's transgendered "Myra Breckinridge," will be featured in her first television special at 8 p.m. today on CBS.
ref: 1970 April 26, “Raquel Welch”, in TV Guide, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2012:
text: There are many reasons why transgendered people enter psychotherapy. One is to meet the requirements of the medical profession and obtain the procedures they seek. The desire for sex reassignment is a powerful motivator to individuals convinced that only a major physical modification of their body will relieve feelings of gender dysphoria.
ref: a. 2000, Barbara F. Anderson, “Why Do Transgenders Seek Psychotherapy - Pt 1?”, in TransGender Forum (archived copy), archived from the original on 25 Oct 2023:
glosses: Transgender; denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
transgendered
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
ipa: /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹd/
ipa: /tɹæn(t)s-/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: transgendereds
Etymology: From trans- + gendered (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: In determining how to accommodate the employee, both attorneys said it is important to take your "cue" from the employee, but also to examine what medical criteria says about transgendereds.
ref: 2002, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report, page 384:
text: In addition to ex-convicts and drug addicts, stigmas are also applied to lesbians, gays, transgendereds, and people who have been hospitalized for mental illness, even after they leave the hospital.
ref: 2008, Madeleine Cousineau, Introducing Sociology: A Whole New World, page 156:
glosses: A transgender person.
transgendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
ipa: /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹd/
ipa: /tɹæn(t)s-/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From trans- + gendered (adjective).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transgender
Related terms: transgenderal
transsexual
transvestism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transvestisms
Etymology: From transvest(ite) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Transexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an urge for gender ("sex") change, transvestism becomes "transexualism." The term is misleading; actually, "transgenderism" is meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary transvestism. Psychologically, the transexual often differs from the simple cross-dresser; he is conscious at all times of a strong desire to be a woman, and the urge can be truly consuming.
ref: 1965, John F. Oliven, “Sexual Deviations”, in Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions, 2nd edition, →OCLC, page 514:
glosses: The condition of being a transvestite.
topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A paraphilia typically found in heterosexual males characterized by compulsively seeking and deriving sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: sexual mimicry
Synonyms: transvestitism
Related terms: Transvestic fetishism
tribalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: tribalisms
Etymology: From tribal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being tribal.
glosses: A feeling of identity and loyalty to one's tribe.
examples: text: If we put an end to regionalism and normalize the flow of great energies in the body of Kyrgyzstan, then there will be a very rapid healing of the whole country and people, who have been vegetating in a semi-paralyzed state for many decades due to the grave illness of tribalism and regionalism.
ref: 2021, Rustam Atashov, Zamirbek Osorov, The Blessed Almakan:
glosses: The tendency among human beings to form socially cohesive groups within which there exists social pressure upon the individual to conform to either common behaviors, customs, habits, mores and/or norms, and which groups exhibit greater or lesser degrees of exclusivism.
Derived terms: neotribalism
Related terms: groupthink
hyperpartisanship
ingroup and outgroup
parochialism
the Other
us versus them
trickily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trickily
form: most trickily
Etymology: From tricky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tricky manner
trickle-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His name is Harry E Thompson and his Trickle-Down solar heating system is the basis for this book.
ref: 2007, John Canivan, MTD Solar Heating, John Canivan, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others.
examples: text: In addition, it examines the trickle-down effects of economic development as espoused by market theorists in the urban economic development literature. Policymakers in Rockford used the trickle-down logic of market theory to justify a […]
ref: 2002, James L. Conyers, Black Cultures and Race Relations, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 125:
text: While the trickle-down mechanism is based on market optimism (in a well-functioning economy, the poor will benefit automatically from any growth), proponents of direct and indirect policies targeting the poor are market-pessimists, in which […]
ref: 2007, Christian Schabbel, The Value Chain of Foreign Aid: Development, Poverty Reduction, and Regional Conditions, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200:
text: On the surface, the Kuznets curve seems to justify laissez-faire economics and trickle-down policies.
ref: 2012 April 30, Kentaro Toyama, “The Rise and Fall and Rise (Literally) of the Most Important Curve in Economics”, in The Atlantic:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor.
examples: text: Trickle-down patterns are very common for technological innovations, especially when new gadgets come to market with high price tags. The first black-and-white televisions cost more than some automobiles.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 8, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Describing a model of product adoption that flows vertically from the upper classes to the lower classes within society.
Derived terms: trickle-down hypothesis
Related terms: tinkle-down
trigonometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or obtained using trigonometry
Derived terms: trigonometrical station
tripodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + -podal.
Senses: glosses: Having three feet or legs.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any compound in which three (of the same) functional groups are on three separate chains.
Synonyms: tripodic
Related terms: dipodal
tripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪpə/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪpɚ/
Forms: form: trippers
Etymology: From trip + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]
ref: 2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon:
glosses: One who trips or stumbles.
glosses: A person experiencing a hallucinogenic trip.
glosses: Gonorrhea.
glosses: A tourist.
glosses: Synonym of tripman.
synonyms: word: tripman
Derived terms: cheap tripper
day-tripper
power-tripper
road tripper
round-tripper
leucoxene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucoxenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, mostly composed of rutile, occurring in igneous rocks, often by alteration of ilmenite or other titanium minerals
Derived terms: leucoxenic
leucoxenisation
leucoxenization
ring game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring games
Senses: glosses: Any of various children's games where participants form a ring or circle, often with hands joined.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A game where the chips directly represent money and players are free to leave at any time, in contrast to a poker tournament.
Synonyms: sense: type of poker game
word: cash game
evidenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evidence
cash game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cash games
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A game where the chips directly represent money and players are free to leave at any time, in contrast to a poker tournament.
Synonyms: ring game
honoree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑn.ɚˈi/
ipa: /ˌɒn.əˈiː/
rhymes: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: honorees
Etymology: From honor + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor.
ref: 2015 January 20, Jessica Bennett, “How Not to Be 'Manterrupted' in Meetings”, in Time:
text: The 18 honorees included some of the Democratic Party’s best-known leaders and boosters: Hillary Clinton, the philanthropist and major Democratic donor George Soros, and Robert F. Kennedy, who was given the recognition posthumously.
ref: 2025 January 4, Zach Montague, “Who Are the Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who receives an honor or award.
Synonyms: word: honorand
Related terms: honorary
unconvincingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconvincingly
form: most unconvincingly
Etymology: From unconvincing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The speaker argued unconvincingly.
glosses: In an unconvincing manner.
gadolinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadolinites
Etymology: After the Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark, vitreous mineral that is a complex mixture of silicates of cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, yttrium, beryllium, and iron, with the chemical formula (Ce,La,Nd,Y)₂FeBe₂Si₂O₁₀.
Derived terms: gadolinium
mazza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazzas
form: mazzaleen
Senses: examples: text: Must have thought I was one of the paigons / Left a trace and my yard got raided / It's a mazza / He was talking tough 'till I chased man down with a ladder
ref: 2018, AM Skengdo, “Diligent Members” (track 4), in Greener on the Other Side, performed by Skengdo x AM:
glosses: Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
mazza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See meze.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meze.
theophanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theophany
mazze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meze.
controverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹəvɜː(ɹ)s/
ipa: /kɒntɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: controverses
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French controverse.
Senses: examples: text: So fitly now here commeth next in place,
 After the proofe of prowesse ended well,
 The controverse of beauties soveraine grace […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Controversy.
controverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹəvɜː(ɹ)s/
ipa: /kɒntɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: controverses
form: controversing
form: controversed
form: controversed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French controverse.
Senses: glosses: to controvert
mellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellites
Etymology: From Latin mell-, stem of mel (“honey”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral that is the aluminium salt of mellitic acid; honeystone.
analoga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analogon
conservancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservancy
pillories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillory
pillories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pillory
Soja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sojas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Soja.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
tenuti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenuto
tenga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tengas
Senses: glosses: The currency of Bukhara before 1920, divided into 10 falus.
Braintree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪntɹi/
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Branca + trēow (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Essex, England.
glosses: A local government district in Essex, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the town.
examples: text: ‘I love that name, Braintree. I’ve been there. Pure irony.’
ref: 2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 205:
glosses: A city in Massachusetts.
sited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of site
sit-and-go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit-and-goes
Senses: examples: text: This sit-and-go starts once 14 people have entered the tournament. The money is awarded to the last 3 players.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A type of poker tournament which has no scheduled start time and begins once a set number of players have entered the tournament.
deuce-to-seven lowball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A version of lowball poker where the ace is the high card and straights and flushes count, making the best hand 2-3-4-5-7 (with at least two different suits).
seven card stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seven-card stud.
estadio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estadios
Etymology: From Portuguese estádio, from Latin stadium (“stadium, Roman stade”), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “stadium for footraces, stadion”). Doublet of stade, stadium, and stadion.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of distance, variously equivalent to about 185.2, 231.5, or 257.2 m depending on the number of leagues per equatorial degree.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese stade
word: Portuguese furlong
word: stade
english: in Portuguese contexts
translation: in Portuguese contexts
word: furlong
Coordinate terms: milha (3 estadios)
legua (24 estadios)
degree (432, 480, or 600 estadios)
walking sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walking stick
up and down straight draws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up and down straight draw
up-and-down straight draws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up-and-down straight draw
humanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humannesses
Etymology: From human + -ness. Piecewise doublet of humaneness.
Senses: examples: text: Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
ref: 1995, Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence, page 8:
text: Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point.
ref: 2010 November 20, “Crossing the uncanny valley”, in The Economist:
text: These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]
ref: 2014, Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things, page 101:
glosses: The condition or quality of being human.
stockage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockages
Etymology: From stock + -age.
Senses: glosses: stock; a supply of goods stored for later use
sergeant first class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeants first class
Senses: qualifier: Army
glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, ranking above a staff sergeant and below a master sergeant or first sergeant.
sergeants major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sergeant major
private first class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privates first class
Senses: glosses: An enlisted rank in the United States Army, of rank E-3, ranking above a private and below a corporal or specialist.
glosses: An enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps, of rank E-2, ranking above a private and below a lance corporal.
draw poker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Egyptologist, seeking for new light, will discover within the parchmental pages of this little papyrus roll, many facts of interest which have not been recorded elsewhere, for instance, the astonishing revelation that even the crowned heads of the ancient lands are just as susceptible to the seductive blandishments and fascinations of that elusive game of chance, known to the initiated as “draw poker,” as are the rulers of our own Republic, who are said to semi-occasionally indulge in this pernicious pastime within the precincts of our own country’s capitol.
ref: 1893, “Literary Nuggets”, in The Doctor’s Factotum, page 10, column 1:
topics: card-games
poker
coordinate_terms: stud poker
glosses: A form of poker where players can trade in cards for new ones and their cards are not shown until the showdown.
sit-and-goes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit-and-go
Bottrop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
financer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: financers
Etymology: From finance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And only a select few borrowers with pristine credit can secure the most attractive rates: for the week that ended Jan. 15, rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage sank to 5.12 percent, the 11th consecutive weekly drop and the lowest rate since the big mortgage financer Freddie Mac began tracking them in 1971.
ref: 2009 January 24, Tara Siegel Bernard, “Costs and Tighter Rules Thwart Refinancings”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: An entity that provides financing
semi-bluffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-bluff
semi-bluffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of semi-bluff
semi-bluffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semi-bluff
Westerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, seaside resort and former municipality on the island of Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
semi-bluffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: simple past and past participle of semi-bluff
Sylt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in the North Sea.
bluffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bluff
Helgoland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Heligoland.
rivering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: present participle and gerund of river
rivered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of river
rivered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a well rivered country
glosses: Supplied with rivers.
ring games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring game
razzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of razz
razzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of razz
razzing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razzings
Senses: examples: text: The stand-up comedian was able to deal with any insults and razzings that came his way.
glosses: Teasing or heckling.
razzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of razz
razzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more razzed
form: most razzed
Senses: synonyms: razzed up
glosses: Full of energy or enthusiasm.
Adria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Adria, Hadria. Compare Adriatic.
Senses: glosses: A town and comune of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy, situated on the site of an Etruscan city of the same name.
glosses: A female given name.
Derived terms: Greater Adria
Related terms: Adriatic
Omaha hold 'em
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variant of poker where individuals each receive four private cards of which exactly two can be used to form a five-card hand, and five other cards are shared between them.
Hold 'em
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Texas hold 'em
Braunschweig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Braunschweigs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Braunschweig.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lower Saxony, Germany; Brunswick
glosses: A habitational surname from German.
Kaiserslautern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaɪzɚsˈlaʊtɚn/
ipa: /ˌkaɪzəsˈlaʊtən/
Etymology: From German Kaiserslautern.
Senses: glosses: An independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, in southwestern Germany.
glosses: A rural district of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Aschaffenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Aschaffenburg.
Senses: glosses: A large independent town in the Lower Franconia region, Bavaria, Germany.
glosses: A rural district of the Lower Franconia region, Bavaria, partially surrounding but not including the town of Aschaffenburg, which nevertheless serves as its administrative seat.
Danzig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Danzig. Doublet of Gdańsk.
Senses: examples: text: Early on that Friday morning (September 1) it was announced by the Nazi Government of the Free City of Danzig that the territory desired incorporation in the German Reich, and almost immediately afterwards the German Chancellor accepted such inclusion forthwith.
ref: 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 318:
glosses: Gdańsk (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Prussia or Germany).
glosses: Free City of Danzig
glosses: A surname.
post oak bluffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: plural of post oak bluff
discerner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discerners
Etymology: From discern + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a discerner of truth, of right and wrong
text: A great observer and discerner of men's natures.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, or judges.
Glückstadt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Glückstadt.
Senses: glosses: A town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Weser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in northwestern Germany, the longest entirely in the country, flowing north from south Lower Saxony into the North Sea.
Mosel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mosels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mosel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A town and unincorporated community therein, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A village in Zwickau municipality, Saxony, Germany.
Havel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Germany.
critiquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critiquers
Etymology: From critique + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who critiques.
jugement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jugements
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of judgment.
Serpens Caput
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Pseudo-Latin from Latin serpēns (“snake”) + caput (“head”). As genitive is often mentioned Serpentis Capitis and as translation is mentioned Serpent's Head (rarely Head of the Snake).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The western half of the northern constellation Serpens, said to resemble a snake. It is said to represent the head end of the snake.
Related terms: Serpens
Serpens Cauda
Serpens Cauda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin serpēns (“snake”) + cauda (“tail”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The eastern half of the northern constellation Serpens, said to resemble a snake. It is said to represent the tail end of the snake.
Related terms: Serpens
Serpens Caput
second grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after first grade and before third grade.
Synonyms: word: grade two
word: grade 2
Derived terms: second grader
third grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after second grade and before fourth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade three
word: grade 3
Derived terms: third grader
fourth grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after third grade and before fifth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade four
word: grade 4
Derived terms: fourth grader
fifth grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth grades
Senses: examples: text: 4) The Psychology Research Institute of the China Academy of Sciences carried out an experiment in teaching arithmetic in coordination with algebra in two classes of the fifth grade in the No. 2 experimental elementary school in Peking with good results. At a unified examination in arithmetic held among all elementary schools in Hsicheng ch’ü, Peking, the grades of the students in these two classes averaged better that 94.
ref: 1976 [1960], Ting-yi Lu, “Our Schooling System Must Be Reformed”, in Shi Ming Hu, Eli Seifman, editors, Toward a New World Outlook: A Documentary History of Education in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976, New York: AMS Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 124:
topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade five
word: grade 5
Derived terms: fifth grader
sixth grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixth grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after fifth grade and before seventh grade.
Synonyms: word: grade six
word: grade 6
Derived terms: sixth grader
seventh grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventh grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after sixth grade and before eighth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade seven
word: grade 7
word: 1st year
word: first year
word: freshman
Derived terms: seventh grader
eighth grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eighth grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after seventh grade and before ninth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade eight
word: grade 8
word: 2nd year
word: second year
word: sophomore
Derived terms: eighth grader
ninth grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninth grades
Senses: examples: text: Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary.
ref: 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after eighth grade and before tenth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade nine
word: grade 9
word: freshman
word: 3rd year
word: third year
word: junior
Derived terms: ninth grader
tenth grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenth grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after ninth grade and before eleventh grade.
Synonyms: word: grade ten
word: grade 10
word: sophomore
word: 4th year
word: fourth year
word: senior
Derived terms: tenth grader
eleventh grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eleventh grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after tenth grade and before twelfth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade eleven
word: grade 11
word: junior
word: year 12
Derived terms: eleventh grader