cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
go brrr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡoʊ bɝː/
ipa: /ɡoʊ br̩ː/
Forms: form: goes brrr
form: go brrr
form: going brrr
form: went brrr
form: gone brrr
Etymology: In reference to the "Money Printer Go Brrr" meme, created on March 9, 2020, in which a Boomer Wojak representing the United States Federal Reserve uses a literal money printer (which is making the sound brrr like a traditional printer) to create large amounts of money to counter the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the possibility of increasing inflation. Likely ultimately derived from the line "Money counter go brrr" in the song "No New Friends" by DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Drake, and Lil Wayne.
Senses: examples: text: The government, in his view, has simply printed too much money—and that "Fed go brrr," is not just funny, but dangerous.
ref: 2020 May 12, Jeff John Roberts, “'Fed go brrr': Federal Reserve meme strikes chord with Bitcoin believers”, in Fortune:
text: (title)
ref: 2020 August 21, Matthew Gault, “'Marvel Strike Force' Lootbox Printer Accidentally Goes Brrr”, in VICE:
text: (title)
ref: 2020 December 23, Justine Harper, “2020 Was The Year Bitcoin Funding Went Brrr”, in Bitcoin Magazine:
text: The ad, which ran for an hour on Friday (January 30) courtesy of digital billboard maker Matei Psatta, shows symbols indicating vastly rising stock prices with the caption "$GME GO BRRR" – alluding to the stock's ticker symbol on the NY Stock Exchange.
ref: 2021 January 31, Matthew Neale, “GameStop Redditors buy playful Times Square billboard ad”, in NME:
text: The multicurrency regime should reduce the RBZ's capacity to print money but we saw how within just a few years of the reintroduction of the Zimdollar, the printers had already gone brrr. Now, the RBZ is trying to mop up the excess local currency in the market that’s driving up inflation.
ref: 2022 January 12, Leonard Sengere, “Zimbabwe should brace for economic turbulence as USD set to strengthen – IMF”, in Techzim:
text: Canada's central bank has been going Brrr, and it’s not because of the frigid winters in Ottawa. Bank of Canada (BoC) data shows that the money supply is still expanding rapidly in October.
ref: 2022 January 18, Stephen Punwasi, “Over 1 In 5 Canadian Dollars Created Didn’t Exist Two Years Ago”, in Better Dwelling:
text: The money printer is about to stop going brrr.
ref: 2022 March 16, James Ramsay, “Early Addition: Ranger fans, you really booed the governor on Women's Empowerment Night?”, in Gothamist:
glosses: To go out of control; to increase or thrive despite opposition.
wikipedia: Covid-19 pandemic
United States Federal Reserve
goes brrr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go brrr
going brrr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go brrr
went brrr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go brrr
learner permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learner permits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of learner's permit.
gone brrr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go brrr
learner permits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of learner permit
money printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money printers
Senses: examples: text: The shakiness hitting Wall Street isn't just because the Federal Reserve's money printer that’s supporting markets is slowing, but that it may soon go into reverse.
ref: 2022 January 13, Stan Choe, “As the Federal Reserve's money printer quiets, markets shake”, in AP News:
glosses: A notional "printer" representing a government's ability to issue money.
Related terms: go brrr
money printers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money printer
gathers steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gather steam
gathering steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gather steam
gathered steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gather steam
gain steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gains steam
form: gaining steam
form: gained steam
form: gained steam
Senses: examples: text: Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto fraud trial gained steam on Thursday when the co-founder of his fallen exchange, Gary Wang, took the stand as a government witness in Manhattan federal court.
ref: 2023 October 5, Victoria Bekiempis, “FTX co-founder testifies he committed crimes with Sam Bankman-Fried”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of gather steam.
synonyms: word: gather steam
gains steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gain steam
gaining steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gain steam
gained steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gain steam
pick up steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks up steam
form: picking up steam
form: picked up steam
form: picked up steam
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gather steam.
synonyms: word: gather steam
picks up steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick up steam
picking up steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pick up steam
picked up steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pick up steam
New York state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of New York State.
casualty department
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casualty departments
form: casualty
Senses: synonyms: word: A&E
word: accident and emergency
word: ;
word: emergency department
word: emergency room
glosses: (also casualty ward) the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.
pineapple opal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineapple opals
Senses: topics: business
gemology
geography
geology
jewelry
lifestyle
mining
natural-sciences
hypernyms: opal pseudomorph
opal
glosses: A large raw opal spheroidal gemstone with pineapple-like projection points
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of opal pineapple.
Related terms: black opal
boulder opal
fire opal
opal pineapple
pipe opal
Atlantic tarpon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic tarpons
form: Atlantic tarpon
Senses: examples: text: 1996, Marty Snyderman, Clay Wiseman, Guide to Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, Aqua Quest Publications, page 161,
Atlantic tarpon are among the most dramatic and unusual of all Caribbean fishes.
text: It may look nothing like an eel, but the Atlantic tarpon is related to these ancient snakelike fish.
ref: 2009, John Dawes, Andrew Campbell, David Alderton, Richard Beatty, Exploring the World of Aquatic Life, Infobase Publishing (Chelsea House), page 36:
text: It seems that any Atlantic tarpons found there could only be stragglers from Brazil.
ref: 2016, Stephen Spotte, Tarpons, Wiley, page ix:
synonyms: silver king
glosses: A ray-finned fish, of species Megalops atlanticus, that inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons and rivers about the Atlantic Ocean, typically in tropical and subtropical regions.
opal pineapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opal pineapples
Senses: topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: A pineapple-shaped-cut opal gem as a part of jewelry
topics: business
gemology
geography
geology
jewelry
lifestyle
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of pineapple opal.
Related terms: black opal
boulder opal
fire opal
pineapple opal
pipe opal
Atlantic tarpons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atlantic tarpon
noodle whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noodle whores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noodlewhore.
noodlewhores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noodlewhore
noodle whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noodle whore
Habesha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Habesha
form: Habeshas
form: Habeshah
Etymology: From Tigrinya ሓበሻ (ḥabäša) or Amharic ሐበሻ (ḥäbäša) (also attested in many other variants: ሀበሻ (häbäša), ሃበሻ (habäša), ሀቢሻ (häbiša), አበሻ (ʾäbäša)), from Ge'ez ሓበሠት (ḥabäśät), ሓበሥ (ḥabäś), from earlier inscriptional and unvocalized Ge'ez ሐበሠተ (ḤBŚT) as attested in at least one 4th-century inscription from the Kingdom of Aksum.
Senses: examples: text: Portugal, the first power to circumnavigate Africa and enter the Indian Ocean, displayed primary interest in this potential ally of the West and sent a representative to Ethiopia in 1493; the Habesha, in turn, sent an envoy to Portugal in 1509 to request a coordinated attack on the Muslims.
ref: 1981, American University (Washington, D.C.), Foreign Area Studies; Harold D. Nelson, Irving Kaplan (editors), Ethiopia, a Country Study page 15
text: Some of these people became known as the Habesha. Abyssinia – an ancient name for Ethiopia that is still sometimes used – is thought to have evolved from the name Habesha.
ref: 1988, Dennis B. Fradin, Ethiopia page 21
glosses: a member of a Semitic-speaking ethnic group, of Christian faith, between the Blue Nile and the Red Sea (whether Amhara, Tigrayan or Tigrinya)
glosses: the region of Ethiopia and Eritrea, particularly as inhabited by Semitic-speaking Christians
examples: text: Ethiopia ኢትዮጵያ / Habesha አበሻ. The outside world has at times referred to Ethiopia and Ethiopians as Habesha or Abyssinia and Abyssinians.
ref: 1998, Negussay Ayele, Wit and Wisdom of Ethiopia page 124
glosses: the country of Ethiopia
misrelay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrelays
form: misrelaying
form: misrelayed
form: misrelayed
Etymology: From mis- + relay.
Senses: examples: text: The nurse apparently misrelayed the message, telling her to go to her doctor in Dallas.
ref: 1999, Health Law: Adaptable to Courses Utilizing Furrow, Johnson, Jost and Schwartz's Casebook on Health Law, page 87:
text: He had misrelayed Mercy's number, but he had given Crawford all the information he needed to make his fortune serious.
ref: 2011, Imogen De La Bere, The Welcoming Committee:
text: In this translational disjuncture lay not the kind of unintended misrelaying of information that occurs in the children's game of “telephone,” but, rather, motive and method.
ref: 2020, Sho Konishi, Anarchist Modernity, page 182:
glosses: To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.
misrelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrelays
Etymology: From mis- + relay.
Senses: examples: text: In [6], [7], the author proposed a simple mechanism to detect the link withholding and misrelay launched by MPR nodes based on overhearing of traffic generated by one-hop neighbors.
ref: 2010, Vinu V Das, R. Vijayakumar, Narayan C. Debnath, Information Processing and Management, page 430:
text: In colluding misrelay attacks, multiple attackers work in collusion to modify or drop routing packets to disrupt routing operation in a MANET.
ref: 2012, MS Ali, PM Jawandhiya, “Security aware routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks”, in Kamaljit I. Lakhtaria, editor, Technological Advancements and Applications in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Research Trends:
text: A study by Kannhavong et al. (2007) shows the impact of a colluding misrelay attack on a mobile node network using OLSR as the routing algorithm.
ref: 2018, Khaleel Ahmad, Nur Izura Udzir, Ganesh Chandra Deka, Opportunistic Networks, page 206:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.
misrelays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrelay
misrelays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrelay
misrelaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrelay
misrelayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrelay
misrelease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misreleases
form: misreleasing
form: misreleased
form: misreleased
Etymology: From mis- + release.
Senses: examples: text: First, 17,000 copies of an unknown Dylan composition were misreleased in California under the title 'Positively 4th Street.'
ref: 1965 November 23, Don Davis, “Talking Rock”, in The Tech, page 6:
text: Should, for example, intentionally misreleasing or destroying a key be criminalized?
ref: 1995, Coping with U.S. Export Controls, page 925:
text: It is thus possible that they may meet different cystatins both in specific compartments where the cysteine protease activity should be carefully regulated and balanced by a reversible inhibitor (as perhaps is the case in endosomes at antigen presentation) and in disease when the enzymes may be misrouted or misreleased to the extracellular space.
ref: 2006, Eva Zerovnik, Human Stefins and Cystatins, page 24:
text: Madigan says no such hold showed in this case, but officers don't always follow protocol and the Cuyahoga County jail has misreleased inmates before.
ref: 2016 September 22, Vince Grzegorek, “Alleged Heroin Dealer Released From Cuyahoga County Jail Despite Federal Indictment”, in Cleveland Scene:
glosses: To release incorrectly, i.e. to release something that should not be released, or to release in the wrong way.
misrelease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misreleases
Etymology: From mis- + release.
Senses: examples: text: I also want to correct a little misrelease in the press release: I was not attached ever to the 101st Regiment in Vietnam, the 541st Military Intelligence Detachment .
ref: 1971, James S. Kunen, Standard Operating Procedure: Notes of a Draft-age American, page 178:
text: This distance should ideally be 25-30 mm; when the elasticity is smaller than this value, frequent misrelease may occur, and , when it is larger, release may fail to take place.
ref: 1994, Japanese Journal of Tribology, volume 39, numbers 1-3, page 18:
text: According to Barlow (2002, pp. 106–7), panic constitutes intense fear—a false alarm involving the misrelease of the otherwise adaptive fight/flight response.
ref: 2009, David Sander, Klaus Scherer, Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, page 299:
text: When virtual hand grasps an object, the hand will inevitably shake slightly. The judgment rules allow this kind of shaking slightly, avoiding misrelease.
ref: 2019, Masaaki Kurosu, Human-Computer Interaction. Recognition and Interaction, page 323:
text: Cleveland.com reporters received a tip about the Saturday misreleases.
ref: 2020 October 23, “No excuse for Cuyahoga County’s silence on mistaken jail releases”, in Cleveland.com:
glosses: The act of misreleasing.
misreleases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrelease
misreleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrelease
misreleasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrelease
misreleased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrelease
scientify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scientifies
form: scientifying
form: scientified
form: scientified
Etymology: From scient(ific) + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: I am aware it is not so flattering to scientify men into atoms, as if, with others, I were to mystify them into angels. But I can only regret to find it impossible to humour them in this serious matter, consistly with their own interest and that of truth.
ref: 1851, James O'Connell, Vestiges of Civilization: Or, the Ætiology of History, Religious, Æsthetical, Political, and Philosophical, New York: H. Baillière, page 183:
text: Textbooks were written that portrayed Chinese medicine as a theoretical and practical whole, and they were taught in newly founded academies of so-called “traditional Chinese medicine,” […]. Needless to say, the academies were anything but traditional, striving valiantly to “scientify” the teachings of classics that often contradicted one another and themselves.
ref: 2013 October 22, Alan Levinovitz, “Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine”, in Slate:
synonyms: scientize
glosses: To make scientific; to subject to scientific rules.
Sunakites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunakite
Brigham City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Box Elder County, Utah, United States, named after Brigham Young.
alternational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alternation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to alternation.
Lake Providence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the parish seat of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States, named after an oxbow lake in the Mississippi River.
Tamanaku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tamanaku terms
dogmatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dogmatization.
Hahnville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hahn + -ville, named after Michael Hahn.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place, the parish seat of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States.
wikipedia: Michael Hahn
Mylod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hog mollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog molly
offensive guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensive guards
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lineman for the team in possession of the ball located on either side of the center and inside of the offensive tackles.
Hyponyms: left guard
right guard
offensive guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offensive guard
Makedonski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Macedonian Маке́донски (Makédonski).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian surname Македонски (Makedonski)
Related terms: word: Makedon
word: Makedonka
word: Makedonska
khua kling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Thai คั่วกลิ้ง (kûua-glîng).
Senses: glosses: A spicy southern Thai dish made with meat and curry paste.
Pendarovski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Macedonian Пенда́ровски (Pendárovski).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian surname Пендаровски (Pendarovski)
Related terms: Pendaroska
Pendaroski
Pendarovska
Pendaroski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Macedonian Пенда́роски (Pendároski).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian surname Пендароски (Pendaroski)
Related terms: Pendaroska
Pendarovska
Pendarovski
UMDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UMD
orangecello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orangecellos
Etymology: Blend of orange + limoncello
Senses: glosses: A drink resembling limoncello but made with oranges rather than lemons. In Italian, this drink is actually called arancello, from arancia (“orange”)
orangecellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orangecello
wax the dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waxes the dolphin
form: waxing the dolphin
form: waxed the dolphin
form: waxed the dolphin
Senses: synonyms: word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.
sailorproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sailorproof
form: most sailorproof
form: sailor-proof
Etymology: From sailor + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Don't throw away those special tools though — 'cause, after all, nothing is absolutely sailorproof!
ref: 1978, Coast Guard Engineer's Digest, numbers 198-204, page 50:
text: Vessels can be foolproof but not sailorproof
ref: 1981, Western Fisheries, volume 103, page 46:
coordinate_terms: soldier-proof
glosses: Resistant to damage caused by sailors.
sailor-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sailor-proof
form: most sailor-proof
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sailorproof.
visionproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vision + -proof.
Senses: examples: a visionproof grille
visionproof glass
glosses: That cannot be seen through; preventing looking or spying.
smutproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smutproof
form: most smutproof
Etymology: From smut + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to the smut fungus.
upbuoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upbuoys
form: upbuoying
form: upbuoyed
form: upbuoyed
Etymology: From up- + buoy.
Senses: glosses: To buoy up.
upbuoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbuoy
upbuoys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upbuoy
upbuoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upbuoy
carried up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carry up
carries up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry up
carrying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carry up
upcarried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In winter's chill, with storms o'ercast, / When frowns the mist-clad sky, / And leaves upcarried by the blast, / And nature yields—to die!
ref: 1833, The New Casket, page 96:
glosses: Carried upward.
upsplash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upsplashes
Etymology: From up- + splash.
Senses: examples: text: It half disintegrated on the way, crust and filling slapping against the train like an upsplash of mud.
ref: 2009, Glen David Gold, Sunnyside:
text: The mist was like backwards rain, upsplash from the falls, and it pelted us so hard I thought I'd lose my balance.
ref: 2016, Melanie Mah, The Sweetest One:
text: […] as she plummets back her hair falls slower, splayed like water's upsplash, buoyed on the air, but then pulled down with her […]
ref: 2021, Peter Leggatt, Doll, page 199:
glosses: An upward splash; material splashed upwards.
upsplash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsplashes
form: upsplashing
form: upsplashed
form: upsplashed
Etymology: From up- + splash.
Senses: glosses: To splash upward.
upsplashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upsplash
upsplashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upsplash
upsplashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upsplash
upsplashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upsplash
upshut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upshuts
form: upshutting
form: upshut
form: upshut
Etymology: From up- + shut.
Senses: examples: text: Now in due order all again
 Into its place he puts;
 The Sanctuary arranges; then
 Withdraws, and that upshuts.
ref: 1854, Friedrich Schiller, Montagu Montagu, The Song of the Bell: And Other Poems, page 133:
glosses: To shut up; to close.
upshutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upshut
upshuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upshut
upbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upbraces
form: upbracing
form: upbraced
form: upbraced
Etymology: From up- + brace.
Senses: examples: to upbrace the nerves
glosses: To brace up.
upbraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbrace
upbraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upbrace
upbracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upbrace
braces of shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brace of shakes
braced sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brace sharp
braces sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brace sharp
bracing sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brace sharp
Uppard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
upwhirr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upwhirrs
form: upwhirring
form: upwhirred
form: upwhirred
Etymology: From up- + whirr.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, he did not shy at things lying in the road or rabbits darting from bushes or at the upwhirring of birds.
ref: 1924, Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon:
text: […] spearing the wild turkeys gossiping stupidly in a line along the branches, flushing the partridges, wing-shooting as they upwhirred […]
ref: 1977, Terrence Kilpatrick, Swimming Man Burning, page 122:
glosses: To rise with a whirring sound.
upwhirred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upwhirr
upwhirrs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upwhirr
upwhirring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upwhirr
unanimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French unanimisme.
Senses: glosses: A French literary movement based on ideas of collective consciousness and collective emotion.
unanimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unanimists
Senses: glosses: A member of the unanimism literary movement.
unanimists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unanimist
unapproximated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + approximated.
Senses: glosses: Not approximated.
unborder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unborders
form: unbordering
form: unbordered
form: unbordered
Etymology: From un- + border.
Senses: examples: text: Highlight the picture in question by giving it a border. Don't foget ^([sic]) to "unborder" the others.
ref: 2008, Nick Symmonds, Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET, page 237:
text: How to threshold the threshold. How to live in the crossings of a threshold. How to unborder a border.
ref: 2020, Kathryn Mockler, Watch Your Head:
text: Moïse and Alexander both show interest in the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat whose obsession with unbordering the body is pointed out.
ref: 2020, Myriam Moïse, Fred Réno, Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces, page 12:
glosses: To remove a border or borders from.
unborders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unborder
unbordering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unborder
arklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arklike
form: most arklike
Etymology: From ark + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an ark.
arclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arclike
form: most arclike
Etymology: From arc + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an arc.
scriptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scriptor
unconditionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conditionate.
Senses: glosses: Not conditionate.
unconditionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unconditionate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unconditionate manner; not subject to conditions.
unconnived at
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not connived at.
naqareh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naqarat
form: nagada
form: nagara
form: naqqara
form: naqarat
Etymology: From Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra).
Senses: glosses: A Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a head made of hide, usually played in pairs.
uterotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uterotomists
Senses: glosses: One who performs a uterotomy.
glosses: An instrument used in uterotomies.
uterotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uterotomist
pearlcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pearl + -core.
Senses: examples: text: Up first? Pearlcore, the lovechild of our obsession with all things Regency, Baroque and Rococo this year. Keep your grandma’s pearls on hand to clutch alongside your three-strand Vivienne Westwood choker because it seems like our love of this iridescent gem isn’t dying down just yet.
ref: 2021 December 7, Gladys Lai, “5 fashion trends that will define 2022, according to Pinterest”, in Vogue Australia:
text: No longer relegated to buttons, pearls are as chic as when Coco Chanel made them trendy in the 1930s. From pearl-themed bridal showers to pearl-detailed wedding receptions, the “pearlcore” trend is currently big in bridal.
ref: 2022 October 20, Ivy Manners, “What We Saw at New York Bridal Fashion Week”, in The New York Times:
text: The pearl anklet
For #pearlcore enthusiasts, here's a modern take on a strand of pearls, featuring glass pearls set between long gold beads.
ref: 2023 June 3, “Accessories”, in Toronto Star, page L 12:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A fashion trend and aesthetic, popular in the 2020s, characterized by the use of pearl jewelry and similar iridescent items.
uncombustible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncombustible
form: most uncombustible
Etymology: From un- + combustible.
Senses: examples: text: You also have trash which is uncombustible, such as bedsprings, cans, and other metal objects?
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. House. Appropriations, Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill: 1967, Hearings..., page 279:
glosses: Synonym of incombustible.
synonyms: word: incombustible
lachrymal vases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lachrymal vase
lachrymal urn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lachrymal urns
Senses: examples: text: We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]
ref: 1802, Maria Guthrie, Matthew Guthrie, A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the other countries on the north shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the peace of Kainardgi and Jassy, page 439:
glosses: Synonym of lachrymal vase.
synonyms: word: lachrymal vase
lachrymal urns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lachrymal urn
romcommy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romcommy
form: most romcommy
form: rom-commy
Etymology: From romcom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Charlie and Marnie fought at brunch and then confessed their undying love for each other; Ray got promoted by his coffee-shop boss and then dumped by his croissant-purse-toting girlfriend; and Hannah, with a deadline looming, her OCD blaring, and all her friends elsewhere, desperately FaceTimed Adam—who took a shirtless, rom-commy gallop across Brooklyn to meet her.
ref: 2013 March 18, The "Girls" Roundtable, “The 'Girls' Season-Finale Gut Check: And Hannah Lived Happily Ever After?”, in The Atlantic:
text: Another Carney-directed effort features Sophie Okonedo and Tobias Menzies as divorced parents in a shamelessly romcommy London who might get back together. The pair are almost irresistibly likable – but that only draws attention to the mystery of why on earth they gave up on their film-worthy chemistry in the first place.
ref: 2021 August 13, Jack Seale, “Modern Love season two review – these second-rate romcoms won’t win your heart”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a romantic comedy.
no-fault divorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-fault divorces
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A divorce requested simply because of the breakdown of the marriage, without the requirement to prove a fault on the part of one of the spouses.
topics: law
glosses: Law permitting this type of divorce.
rom-commy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rom-commy
form: most rom-commy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of romcommy.
undivertibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Without the possibility of being diverted; single-mindedly.
sugar belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar bellies
Etymology: From sugar + belly, modelled after beer belly.
Senses: glosses: A protruding belly caused by excess fat stored in the abdomen attributed to the over-consumption of sugar.
sugar bellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar belly
micropatrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropatriology
Etymology: From micro- (“very small”) + Latin patria (“country”) + -ology (“branch of learning; a study of a particular subject”), coined by the International Micropatrological Society in 1973. Perhaps a classical compound via translating micronation into Latin as micropatria (literally “microcountry”).
Senses: examples: text: Blaustein is associated with the Micropatrology Society, a group that exchanges information on micronations whose claims to existence have varying degrees of credibility. The society assesses these claims in five categories: B (for bogus), E (for extinct), F (for fiction), T (for traditional) and O (for other).
ref: 1976 March 28, Roy Bongartz, “Nations Off the Beaten Track”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2017:
text: Again, welcome new LOSS [League of Secessionist States] members and good luck furthering the cause of micronationalism and the science of micropatrology!
ref: 1996 September 23, [Robert] Ben Madison, “L.O.S.S. News Update!”, in alt.talk.hypothetical (Usenet):
text: As micropatrology ... is a relatively new field, and largely neglected in terms of serious scholarly research, the literature which has been devoted to de facto states and their claims to legitimacy and sovereignty may be instructive in regard to an evaluation of modern micronations.
ref: 2009 May 24, Bennie Lee Ferguson, What is a Nation: The Micronationalist Challenge to Traditional Concepts of the Nation-state (Master thesis), Wichita State University, pages 37–38:
text: I'm interested in micropatrology, so it was kind of interesting to see -- uh, this.
ref: 2014 September 3, voxelindon, Twitter:
glosses: Synonym of micropatriology.
synonyms: word: micropatriology
examples: text: These people make a hobby keeping track of small countries, both established ones (like Monaco and Liechtenstein) and new countries. "Micropatrology" is their word for "the study of small countries."
ref: [1999 [1979], Erwin S. Strauss, How to Start Your Own Country, 3 edition, Paladin Press, →ISBN, page 162:
text: At least in Andorra and Malta, the subject of micropatrology is taken quite seriously.
ref: 2005, Thomas M. Eccardt, Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 142:
text: [See title]
ref: 2014 February 15, u/vivosmith, “Books on Micropatrology/Economics in Micro-countries (Such as UAE, Monaco, and Hong Kong).”, in r/a:t5_2ztvo, Reddit:
glosses: The study of microstates; sovereign countries with very small populations, land areas, or both.
Derived terms: micropatria
micropatriology
micropatrological
micropatrologist
uneffective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneffective
form: most uneffective
Etymology: From un- + effective.
Senses: examples: text: The usual formal protest which I am making will be uneffective unless the Legation is prepared to take other measures such as the releasing of seized cargoes by our Navy.
ref: 1942, Foreign Relations of the United States, United States: Department of State, page 419:
glosses: Synonym of ineffective.
synonyms: word: ineffective
unelectrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unelectrifies
form: unelectrifying
form: unelectrified
form: unelectrified
Etymology: From un- + electrify.
Senses: glosses: To cease to electrify; to remove the electric current from.
unelectrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unelectrify
unethic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unethic
form: most unethic
Senses: examples: text: […] but though the mythic hero may thus be made to figure in a moral apologue, an imagination so little in keeping with his unethic nature jars upon the reader's mind.
ref: 1891, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture, page 409:
glosses: Archaic form of unethical.
gets away with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get away with
unfashion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfashions
form: unfashioning
form: unfashioned
form: unfashioned
Etymology: From un- + fashion.
Senses: glosses: To undo the fashioning of; to take apart, or unmake.
unfashions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfashion
unfashioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfashion
scientifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scientify
scientifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scientify
scientified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scientify
undestroy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undestroys
form: undestroying
form: undestroyed
form: undestroyed
Etymology: From un- + destroy.
Senses: examples: text: People could then UNDESTROY files which they had deleted by mistake.
ref: 1975, Newsletter, volumes 5-8, University of Michigan Computing Center, page 4:
text: Do you think we should be getting into how to undestroy it or put it back to normal?
ref: 1993, Elwood Babbitt, Perfect Health: Accept No Substitutes:
text: But taken together and contextualized within the film's pragmatic designs, they become an invitation to undestroy everything by learning to read the already written future.
ref: 2018, Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology, page 213:
glosses: To undo the destruction of; to restore or recreate.
undestroys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undestroy
undestroying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undestroy
unparcel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unparcels
form: unparceling
form: unparcelling
form: unparceled
form: unparceled
form: unparcelled
form: unparcelled
Etymology: From un- + parcel.
Senses: glosses: To unpack from a parcel.
unparcels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unparcel
unparceling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unparcel
unparcelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unparcel
unruminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ruminated.
Senses: glosses: Not chewed by a ruminant.
unslate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unslates
form: unslating
form: unslated
form: unslated
Etymology: From un- + slate.
Senses: examples: to unslate a roof
glosses: To remove slates from.
unslates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unslate
unslating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unslate
unslopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slopped.
Senses: examples: text: When he had returned with what remained unslopped of two glasses of fizz, she was still there, waiting for him.
ref: 2020, Alan Jones, Surrogate:
glosses: Not slopped.
unthicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unthickens
form: unthickening
form: unthickened
form: unthickened
Etymology: From un- + thicken.
Senses: examples: text: Ricouer's theory helps unthicken the images in these ancient texts, and there's a way in which this “unthickening” can be seen as exactly the work of the university.
ref: 2004, Chris Anderson, Teaching as Believing: Faith in the University, page 47:
glosses: To make less thick.
examples: text: The darkness unthickens and a blowsy moon appears at the window.
ref: 2020, Rick Lee, The Lies Will Haunt Us:
glosses: To become less thick.
unthickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unthicken
unthickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unthicken
weapon of mass disruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weapons of mass disruption
Senses: examples: text: When terrorists use computer technology as a weapon of mass disruption, their goal is to undermine a civilian populace's faith in stability and reliability of essential infrastructure components such as mass transit, power supplies, communications, financial institutions, and health care services.
ref: 2009, Susan W. Brenner, Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
coordinate_terms: weapon of mass destruction
glosses: A weapon used to create large-scale disruption instead of destruction.
weapons of mass disruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weapon of mass disruption
hypervalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervalues
Etymology: From hyper- (“over, above, beyond, excessive”) + value.
Senses: examples: text: Who gets how much of these is no longer organized according to the hypervalue that the physician's presence, in itself, can be healing.
ref: 2009, Arthur W. Frank, The Renewal of Generosity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Hypervalues are those values that inform secondary, derivative values. Hypervalues are appealed to in defence of these secondary values, but they themselves have no further appeal.
ref: 2016, Oscar Tranvag, Oddgeir Synnes, Wilfred McSherry, Arthur W. Frank, Ann Gallagher, Stories of Dignity Within Healthcare, M & K Update Limited, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A value more important or beyond an ordinary value.
examples: text: But it is not only this functional explanation that allows us to understand the hypervalue attached to archeology.
ref: 2009, Maria N. Todorova, Bones of Contention, Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 111:
text: America’s currency is used extensively to buy and sell goods around the world, and its hypervalue is exacerbating the pain of surging prices for energy and other imports caused by the war in Ukraine and the pandemic.
ref: 2022 October 4, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Ben Dooley, “Businesses Brace for Currency Chaos in Asia, a Region With a History of Crisis”, in New York Times:
glosses: An extreme amount of value.
hypervalue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypervalues
form: hypervaluing
form: hypervalued
form: hypervalued
Etymology: From hyper- (“over, above, beyond, excessive”) + value.
Senses: examples: text: To the missionaries other ways of reasoning were perceived as contending against their long established and hypervalued truth.
ref: 1991, Identity, Rationality, and the Post-colonial Subject, Columbia University, Institute of African Studies:
text: For one thing, even in cultures like those of premodern South Asia that hypervalue orality—an attitude possible only given the presence of literacy, by the way—writing claims an authority the oral cannot.
ref: 2009, Sheldon Pollock, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: To value extremely highly or closely.
examples: text: There are many examples where men's attempts to support women are hypervalued. Such disproportionate rewards for being a 'good man' can shore up patriarchal social structures instead of undermining or dismantling them.
ref: 2019, Working Across Difference, Macmillan Education UK, →ISBN, page 113:
text: The study’s authors recommend new legislation that would "decouple neighborhood demographic characteristics from home values," and urge policymakers to consider reparations to compensate for "the systemic hypervaluing of White neighborhoods and devaluing of neighborhoods of color."
ref: 2020 September 21, Brentin Mock, “A Neighborhood's Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980”, in Bloomberg:
glosses: To assign a higher value than is necessary or appropriate; to overvalue.
Derived terms: hypervaluation
hypervalues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypervalue
hypervalues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypervalue
hypervaluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypervalue
hypervalued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypervalue
Garbage Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Garden Grove + garbage.
Senses: glosses: The city of Garden Grove, California, used in reference to the high poverty rates in the city.
lets bygones be bygones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let bygones be bygones
letting bygones be bygones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of let bygones be bygones