cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
understringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understringent
form: most understringent
Etymology: From under- + stringent.
Senses: glosses: Not stringent enough
colder-blooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cold-blooded: more cold-blooded
coldest-blooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cold-blooded: most cold-blooded
tofulike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tofulike
form: most tofulike
Etymology: From tofu + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The bugs are processed into powders and oils used in pet food, fish and farm feeds, and textured tofulike “meats” for human consumption. The company also sells the shed shells of the growing mealworms as fertilizer.
ref: 2022 February 3, Tess Joosse, “Insect ranchers pour $5 million into world’s first large-scale genetic breeding facility”, in Science Magazine:
text: The mind is "embodied" in the sense that it exists within the body--specifically, in the three pounds of tofulike tissue we call the brain--and engages in bidirectional communication with it, so that the state of the mind influences the body, and the state of the body influences the mind.
ref: 2012 March, Richard J. Davidson with Sharon Begley, The Emotional Life Of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--and How You Can Change Them, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of tofu.
both sidesism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Both sides" -- let us call it "both sidesism" and acknowledge what a fitting theme it is for this year's holiday season, even though it has its origin in our politics, not our religion.
ref: 1979 December 25, Meg Greenfield, “The 'Both Sides' Bind”, in The Washington Post:
text: Berger-Sweeney said, “we have an unshakable commitment to free expression and inquiry, open debate and discourse, and the valuing of all voices.” Some will certainly view Berger-Sweeney’s take on the club as "both sidesism."
ref: 2019 April 30, Colleen Flaherty, “Speech on Blast (Again) at Trinity”, in Inside Higher Ed:
glosses: Alternative form of bothsidesism.
Anah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ana
form: 'Ana
form: Anna
Etymology: From Arabic عَانَة (ʕāna), from Classical Syriac ܐܢܐ, ultimately from Akkadian Anat under Assurnasirpal II and ⁽ᵈ⁾Ha-na-atᴷᴵ in the Old Babylonian Period, sometimes connected to worship of the war goddess Anat, whose name is probably Semitic.
Senses: examples: text: Two Iraqi men drove through the city streets of Anah, Iraq, when their suspicions were aroused.
ref: 2007 Dec. 18, Billy Hall, "Brothers in Arms", Marines.mil
glosses: A town in Anbar, Iraq, originally on an island in the middle Euphrates River.
wikipedia: Assurnasirpal II
Old Babylonian Period
Synonyms: word: Anat
word: Anatha
word: Anatho
word: Charmande
bothsiderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊθˈsaɪ.də.rɪ.zəm/
ipa: /boʊθˈsaɪ.dər.ɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: both-siderism
form: both siderism
Etymology: From both side + -er + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: After the Capitol protest, this instinctive “bothsiderism” has become genuinely dangerous.
ref: 2021 January 12, Jeff Sparrow, “Australian conservatives go to extraordinary lengths to deny the reality of rightwing extremism”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Bothsidesism.
both-siderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 2021 October 15, Jackie Calmes, “Column: Why journalists are failing the public with ‘both-siderism’ in political coverage”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: Veteran journalist Jackie Calmes says political journalists are failing the public when they indulge "both-siderism."
ref: 2021 October 24, “The "both sides" problem with American news coverage”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of bothsiderism.
both siderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When talking to PK, Zoe Daniel sought to embrace both siderism. How about that? She declared that “the grief and the pain is not only in the Jewish community in Australia, obviously” but also in “Palestinian and Muslim communities”.
ref: 2023 November 18, “‘Both siderism’ at play when ABC interviews Zoe Daniel about Israel-Hamas conflict”, in The Australian:
glosses: Alternative form of bothsiderism.
bothsideism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊθˈsaɪ.dɪ.zəm/
ipa: /boʊθˈsaɪ.dɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: both-sideism
form: both-sidism
form: bothsidism
Etymology: From both side + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Not only does criticism not come in equal shapes and sizes, appropriate for all presidents and both political parties (a journalistic curse called “bothsideism”), but, when unfairly applied, as it has been in covering Biden, it runs the serious risk of further damaging our still free press and weakening our already shaky democracy.
ref: 2022 July 21, Marvin Kalb, “Press “bothsideism” has failed Biden, and America”, in Brookings:
glosses: Bothsidesism.
Related terms: both-sides
both-sideism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Forcing him out does nothing to address the toxic “both-sideism” he represents and that has crept over American education, politics and journalism in recent years.
ref: 2019 July 14, Leonard Pitts Jr., “America’s toxic ‘both-sideism’”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: Alternative form of bothsideism.
both-sidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His new-found exasperation with “both-sidism” has less to do, I suspect, with a commitment to revolutionary theory than with impatience—the sense that now it’s time to move beyond abstract debate, and get on with the business of actually establishing social justice.
ref: 2020 September 8, William A. Schambra, “The other side of “both-sidism””, in Philanthropy Daily:
glosses: Alternative form of bothsideism.
bothsidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This trend of “Bothsidism” or “false balance” has been the focus of much discussion relating to environmental issues such as global warming, and it has been quite noticeable in recent vaccine discussions, contributing to the issue of vaccine hesitancy.
ref: 2024 February 14, Robert M. Califf, “Remarks by FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf at the National Press Club Headliners Luncheon”, in Speeches by FDA Officials, Food and Drug Administration:
glosses: Alternative form of bothsideism.
pull someone's plonker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls someone's plonker
form: pulling someone's plonker
form: pulled someone's plonker
form: pulled someone's plonker
Senses: examples: text: Last night I lay in bed and pulled my plonker,
It did me good, I knew it would, […]
ref: c. 1920s, “Last Night I Lay in Bed”, in Alan Bold, editor, The Bawdy Beautiful: The Sphere Book of Improper Verse, London: Sphere Books, published 1979, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: To masturbate (someone).
examples: text: […] I said, ‘Given that you’ve denied in print that you’re a screaming woofter, how d’you account for the little Filipino back-door boy you’ve had in your trendy mews flat all night?’ And he says ‘Are you pulling my plonker! I don’t know what you’re on about.’
ref: 1985, Doug Lucie, “Progress”, in Progress & Hard Feelings, London: Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, act I, scene iv, page 22:
glosses: Synonym of pull someone's leg (“to tease or goad someone by jokingly lying to them”).
synonyms: word: pull someone's leg
extra: to tease or goad someone by jokingly lying to them
Los Nietos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Cartagena municipality, Murcia, Spain.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Whittier-Los Nietos census-designated place, Los Angeles County, California, United States.
wombadelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of womb + psychedelia. Coined by Alternative Press' editor by Dave Segal in 1992, to describe My Bloody Valentine's music.
Senses: examples: text: When My Bloody Valentine released their debut album Isn't Anything in 1988 they essentially created a new genre of rock that one may venture to call "wombadelia". At once ethereal and sexual, oceanic and astral, blissed-up and fucked up, beautiful and noisy, […]"
ref: 1992 March, Dave Segal, “My Bloody Valentine: Rise of Wombadelia”, in Alternative Press, number 45, page 46:
text: My Bloody Valentine is another group you may want to investigate if you are into the pretty-female-vocal-mixed-with-powerful-rhythms-and-high-density-sound genre (known in some critical circles as "wombadelia").
ref: 1992 April 6, MXP...@psuvm.psu.edu, “Cranes”, in rec.music.misc (Usenet):
text: Then comes Comet's true forte: starry-eyed, slowcore webs of patiently brushed cymbals and madly reverberated guitar. At their best, on "Sputnik," the Stones' slow-burning waves of woozy wombadelia creep up and double over into melodic explosions of bombast and beauty.
ref: 2005 August 12, Michael Chamy, “Comet's Feathers From the Wing EP Review”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 24, number 50, page 61:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of shoegazing.
synonyms: word: shoegazing
wikipedia: Alternative Press (magazine)
My Bloody Valentine (band)
Derived terms: wombadelic
goonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːˈnɛt/
ipa: /ɡuˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: goonettes
Etymology: From goon + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female gooner.
bodicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bodice + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Her bosom—for her summer bodicing / Clung with such loving closeness to her shape / And told as traitor what it should have hid— / Stood with obtrusion’s modest veiling out / Demurely perfect.
ref: 1901, Heather Bigg, “What impression Nell creates on Robert”, in Nell. A Tale of the Thames., London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., Ltd., […], page 71:
text: WOMEN’S ORLON-NYLON TAFFETA SLIPS / Regularly $11. Lavish lace bodicing, zip closing.
ref: 1955 March 15, “Macy’s M-O-M”, in Daily Independent-Journal, 94th year, number 301, San Rafael, Calif., page 3, column 5:
text: The bloom of fashion / Figure-following silk, aglow with Spring flowers (species: anonymous) and a new twist in bodicing that’s stunningly becoming! Poppy red or island blue on white; misses’ sizes.
ref: 1959 February 20, “Jelleff’s”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald, 82nd year, number 77, Washington, D.C., page A19, column 5:
text: A cunning (but comfortable) piece of stiff bodicing showed off more cleavage than she was used to, and emphasized her narrow waist and curvaceous hips.
ref: 1998, Maxine Barry, Dark Desire, London: Scarlet, →ISBN, page 246:
text: I could tell that beneath her skirt frame and her stiff bodicing she was a small thin figure and she was getting old.
ref: 2001, Moira Butterfield, The Diary of a Young Elizabethan Actor, London: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Meanwhile a fixation with Bridgerton’s bodicing been catered for by retailers - Asos reports that it has sold, on average, three corsets every minute this year - while #Regencycore has had 32.9m views on TikTok.
ref: 2022 April 16, Fleur Britten, “Hold on to your corset: Gilded Age brings back the bodice”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, page 27, column 2:
glosses: The design, construction, or wearing of a bodice.
wombadelic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bass sound in today's jungle lacks the wobbly glee and wombadelic warmth of hardcore rave; instead, there's the sinister radioactive glow of the 'Dread Bass' sound, or dry, metallic, atonal B-lines that palpitate joylessly and tunelessly.
ref: 1996 May, Simon Reynolds, “Wargasm: Militaristic imagery in popular culture”, in Frieze, number 28:
text: At times, it adds up to an earthier version of My Bloody Valentine's wombadelic bliss, most apparent on the standout "Electric Surgery."
ref: 2000 November 24, Michael Chamy, “Experimental Aircraft (Devil in the Woods)”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 20, number 13:
text: The band’s playing cuts off their new album MAKE OUT ROOM (release date TBA). They do what Black Kids are doing, but rather than lean on the wombadelic shoegazer side, they tend more towards Gary Numan. In such a good way.
ref: 2010 May 17, “New Wave rockers LIVING DAYS play a free show tonight at Silverlake Lounge”, in Music Zeitgeist, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024:
text: To this day, listening to Loveless feels like swimming in a warm bath of opiates and lust. It’s a primal, wombadelic, every-direction, every-color echo of what it feels like to be human, to be a mess of synapses, sexual desire, anxiety, obsession, fears, and hopes.
ref: 2013 February 16, Jonathan Patrick, “Review: My Bloody Valentine, m b v”, in Slant Magazine, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024:
text: Is there anything more comforting than drone? It’s the wombadelic sound of pre-ego existence, the sonic warmth of a life free from the burdens of the world, music awash in the primal need to express our thoughts through sound.
ref: 2013 May 3, Jonathan Patrick, “sunn 0))) entire discography up for free streaming on Bandcamp; this will forever be newsworthy”, in Tiny Mix Tapes, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024:
text: As tempting as it is to indulge my wee-lad love of all things dream pop and compare Star’s fresh take on shoegaze to early-90s wombadelic practitioners
ref: 2020 October 29, Steve Krakow, “Chicago trio Star become modern noise-pop greats on Violence Against Star”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pertaining or related to wombadelia; shoegazey.
bhakri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhakris
Senses: examples: text: Once the grains were dry, she ground them and made bhakris.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 93:
glosses: A type of round, coarse flatbread, typically made from millet.
bhakris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bhakri
snow pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow poles
Senses: glosses: a reflective pole or bamboo stick used as a driveway marker during winter time
older-fashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of old-fashioned: more old-fashioned
oldest-fashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of old-fashioned: most old-fashioned
community services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of community service
urlfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urlfest
South West Rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Kempsey Shire, on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Madhesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali मधेश (madheś).
Senses: glosses: A province of Nepal.
Bagmati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali बागमती (bāgamatī).
Senses: glosses: A province of Nepal.
examples: text: Two people take cover under an umbrella as they stand on a bridge overlooking the flooded Bagmati River after torrential rains in Kathmandu, Nepal, 06 July 2024.
ref: 2024 July 7, “Nepal landslides, floods kill 14, dozens injured”, in EFE, sourced from Kathmandu, (EFE), archived from the original on 07 Jul 2024:
glosses: A river in Nepal.
Gandaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali गण्डकी (gaṇḍakī).
Senses: glosses: A province of Nepal.
fourpeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fourpeat
four-peating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of four-peat
fourpeated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fourpeat
four-peated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of four-peat
Kempsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8549).
glosses: A town and local government area (Kempsey Shire) on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Norton-juxta-Kempsey
Karnali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali कर्णाली (karṇālī).
Senses: examples: text: Rescuers worked through the day to push through roads blocked by landslides and debris to reach the mountainous villages of Karnali Province where the earthquake struck. Officials cautioned that the death toll was likely to rise as communication was restored with areas that had been cut off.
ref: 2023 November 3, Bhadra Sharma, “Earthquake in Western Nepal Kills More Than 150”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A province of Nepal.
Sudurpashchim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali सुदूरपश्चिम (sudūrapaścim).
Senses: glosses: A province of Nepal.
footballify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: footballifies
form: footballifying
form: footballified
form: footballified
Etymology: From football + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: But after a decade, the network is ditching that song, replacing it with Underwood’s footballified version of her 2014 Miranda Lambert duet “Somethin’ Bad,” which will be called “Oh, Sunday Night.”
ref: 2016 June 20, Carl Williot, “Carrie Underwood Is Reworking “Somethin’ Bad” Into New ‘Sunday Night Football’ Theme”, in Idolator:
text: The loser has to stand at a distance, in a free kick scenario, turn their back to the others, and allow them to kick the ball at them in a footballified form of “brandy” or “brandings.”
ref: 2022, Raiford Guins, Henry Lowood, Carlin Wing, EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game, page 191:
text: In a new episode of Eli's Places—which is essentially a footballified Parts Unknown-style series on ESPN—the former New York Giants QB donned horrifying prosthetics so he could look like a 20-year-old kid.
ref: 2022 September 20, Brady Langmann, “This Eli Manning Sketch Is the Best Thing You'll See All Week”, in Esquire:
glosses: To make more like or about a game of football.
examples: text: In the process, history has been footballified […] It's been turned into a game, with sides and jeering supporters.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 44:
text: So everything they do is an attack on your position. Thus the process is “footballified”. And you are playing the game.
ref: 2024, Richard Harrison, Footballification, litigation and elucidation:
glosses: To make more like or about a game of football.
To make into a contest between two teams where group loyalty is more important than anything else.
Derived terms: footballification
footballified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of footballify
footballification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From football + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a sea change going on in cycling, a kind of footballification of support, as a non-traditional team sport is shoehorned into a one-size-fits-all model.
ref: 2015 July 22, Suze Clemitson, “Chris Froome, Team Sky and the rise of the tribal fan at the Tour de France”, in The Guardian:
text: This is footballification – the ‘my club right or wrong’ modus operandi and it has leaked into other areas of society. You will have seen the sack of stained washing that passes for the Prime Minister getting booed as he went into St Paul’s with his wife. Within hours this had been subjected to footballification and a defence of the PM had been invented.
ref: 2022 June 6, John Nicholson, “Raging royalism is just another example of footballification: Do you support Queen FC?”, in Football 365:
text: It’s not just the debates around the ‘stolen’ designs, or the potential threat of a lawsuit from Nintendo (and the footballification of this issue).
ref: 2024 January 26, Stacey Henley, “What Are The Positives Of Palworld’s Success?”, in The Gamer:
glosses: The act or process of footballifying.
footballifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of footballify
footballifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of footballify
pre-history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-histories
Senses: examples: text: To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow the elect righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present day to participate already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righteous and wise ones of pre-history, through the "literary" medium of the book.
ref: 1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132:
text: The dig was led by 41-year-old Robert Wetzel, a palaeontolgist, university professor and dedicated Nazi who had jointed Hitler's NSDAP in 1933 and was now head of pre-history at the University of Tübingen.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of prehistory.
pre-histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-history
libo stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libo stacks
Senses: qualifier: marines
glosses: A ribbon rack containing ribbons not earned by the marine displaying them.
neoclassical darkwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoclassical dark wave
Senses: examples: text: The leads, two thin girls with dark eyes and darker threads, unleashed a sticky brand of soul. With a blend of ethereal and neoclassical darkwave, they kicked off their set with a slow song about lost love, isolation and melancholy.
ref: 2010, Stephen Pytak, The Wild Damned, Mazz Press, page 144:
text: Her music's what they call "neoclassical darkwave." It sounds like a chorus of dark angels took their harps and violins and staged a revolt against heaven, all crashing, soaring and broody, layered over with Euphoria's smokey-smexy vocals.
ref: 2018, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, chapter 1, in Derailed: A Moribund Prequel Novella, Monster House Books, LLC, page 10:
text: Some other bands, like Dead Can Dance and In the Nursery, began incorporating elements of classical orchestral and chamber music to create a style known as classical darkwave.
ref: 2019, Eric S. Strother, edited by Janet Sturman, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications, page 1304:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of darkwave that emerged in mid-1980s, characterized by a dark and melancholic atmosphere combined with elements of Western classical music.
neoclassical dark wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neoclassical darkwave.
Cardiff-by-the-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Cardiff
glosses: A community in the city of Encinitas, San Diego County, California, United States.
Faragist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faragists
Etymology: From Farage + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Drax is tribute to the Faragist takeover of the Tory Party.
ref: 2018, Will Hutton, Andrew Adonis, Saving Britain: How We Must Change to Prosper in Europe:
text: As with the Vote Leavers and Fargists of 21st-century Britain, naysayers and critics of the misadventure were ignored or ridiculed.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 58:
text: Gove, the liberal-minded, carefully considered Conservative intellectual, had become a foam-flecked Faragist warning that the entire Turkish population was about to come to Britain.
ref: 2021, Michael Cockerell, Unmasking Our Leaders:
glosses: A proponent of Nigel Farage, current party leader of Reform UK and former leader of UKIP and the Brexit Party.
Faragists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Faragist
gheyer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ghey: more ghey
gheyest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ghey: most ghey
angries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of angry
grapefruit ade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grapefruit ades
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grapefruitade.
kooler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kool: more kool
Janakpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali जनकपुर (janakpur).
Senses: glosses: A sub-metropolitan city, the capital of Madhesh Province, Nepal.
Hetauda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali हेटौँडा (heṭa͠uḍā).
Senses: glosses: A city in Bagmati, Nepal.
Egg Harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A town and village in Door County, Wisconsin, United States.
pass around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes around
form: passing around
form: passed around
form: passed around
Senses: glosses: To distribute something through a group by giving several items to one or more people to then give to others in a row, line or circle; to spread something to be used by each person in group in turn; to gather contributions for a cause.
glosses: To spread claims or gossip.
pass along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes along
form: passing along
form: passed along
form: passed along
Senses: glosses: To deliver a message or item to its intended recipient.
glosses: To increase a price in order to recoup an increased cost earlier in the production cycle.
stupidisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stupidism
xuc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish xuc.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A danceable traditional music style from El Salvador developed in the 1940s; a dance related to said style.
Edenesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Edenesque
form: most Edenesque
Etymology: From Eden + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Sand underscores the allusion to Eve with the creation of an Edenesque climate in the description of the living space Mother and Daughter occupy.
ref: 1994, Tamara Alvarez-Detrell, Michael G. Paulson, The Traveler in the Life and Works of George Sand, page 146:
text: Moving inland, thick rain forests harbor a rich abundance of flora and fauna, while proud mountain peaks stand watch over the Edenesque kingdom.
ref: 2005, Richard I. Merrell, Gangway Regular Navy!, page 129:
text: Niditch points out that "the river imagery has Edenesque qualities—all is provided in an ultimate fulfillment of the Deuteronomic blessings.
ref: 2012, Brian Neil Peterson, Ezekiel in Context, page 323:
text: The notion that European exploration of South America upended some Edenesque paradise is deeply flawed and something we will be looking at later on in the book.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 64:
glosses: Like the Garden of Eden; idyllic.
DSBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of depressive suicidal black metal.
depressive suicidal black metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of depressive black metal.
synonyms: word: depressive black metal
Linda Vista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish, meaning "pretty view".
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: A neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States.
glosses: A community in Tlacotalpan municipality, Veracruz, Mexico.
spits it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spit it out
spitting it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spit it out
spat it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spit it out
Klemetsson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Klemetssons
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
religionisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That religionisation of events has grown unabated since 1940.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 85:
glosses: Alternative form of religionization.
SOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOTs
Etymology: Acronym of sound on tape.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Audio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over.
topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
glosses: Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.
Meriams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Meriam
funkot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electronic dance music genre from Indonesia that combines eurodance and trance synths with the syncopated rhythm from dangdut koplo.
exo-cannibalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their tradition of exo-cannibalism, the eating of enemies—was done in remembrance of him.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of exocannibalism.
cuts it close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut it close
cutting it close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut it close
Tlacotalpan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
has it in one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have it in one
having it in one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have it in one
had it in one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have it in one
has it easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have it easy
having it easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have it easy
had it easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have it easy
leaves to chance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave to chance
leaving to chance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave to chance
left to chance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave to chance
Zoozve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːz.viː
ipa: -veɪ/
Etymology: Accidentally coined by Alex Foster by misreading the asteroid's provisional designation "2002VE". Later requested to be the official name by Brian A. Skiff (the discoverer of the asteroid) to the WGSBN (Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature), and approved February 5, 2024.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A temporary quasi-satellite of the planet Venus.
fly trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly traps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flytrap.
fly traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly trap
fly-trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-traps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flytrap.
fly-traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-trap
anodyne-necklace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anodyne necklace.
suntiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Venezuelan suntiger.
Deukhuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali देउखुरी (deukhurī).
Senses: glosses: A city in Lumbini, Nepal.
Birendranagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali वीरेन्द्रनगर (vīrendranagar).
Senses: examples: text: “They didn’t give us his clothes or the watch and rings he wore. If they had given us even his shoes, I could have said: ‘My husband is dead’,” Dhakal said at the school in the midwestern town of Birendranagar, where she teaches. “There was no proof, I haven’t even performed the last rites.”
ref: 2017 February 9, “Time runs out for victims of Nepal’s civil war as deadline to investigative abuses expires”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, Nepal:
glosses: A city in Karnali, Nepal.
touring member
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touring members
Senses: examples: text: Pino Palladino, the Welsh bassist ... who is now a permanent touring member of the Who.
ref: 2009 June 14, Graeme Thomson, “Pop stars anonymous”, in The Observer, London:
text: White was a touring member of Green Day from 1999 until 2012, playing lead guitar at the majority of their live shows. In late 2012, he became the official fourth member of the band.
ref: 2014 December 6, Brian Kraus, “Green Day guitarist Jason White diagnosed with tonsil cancer”, in Alternative Press magazine:
text: After playing on many Beach Boys sessions, Mr. Campbell became a touring member of the band in late 1964, when its leader, Brian Wilson, decided to leave the road to concentrate on writing and recording. He remained a Beach Boy into the first few months of 1965.
ref: 2017 August 8, Michael Pollak, “Glen Campbell, Whose Hit Songs Bridged Country and Pop, Dies at 81”, in The New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A person, not credited as a full member of a music group, who performs as part of the group while it is on tour
Related terms: word: session musician
word: backing
decasualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decasualization
Senses: glosses: The process of decasualising.
treeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treesh
leaktivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaktivists
Etymology: Blend of leak + activist.
Senses: examples: text: According to the leaktivist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) roughly 70 gigabytes of posts, private messages, profiles and plaintext passwords were obtained in the hack.
ref: 2021 March 1, Chris Mills Rodrigo, “Fringe social media platform Gab hacked”, in The Hill, Washington, D.C.: Nexstar Media Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023:
text: Some comes from anonymous ‘leaktivists’, like the mole who released the Panama Papers in 2016, raising questions about the financial dealings of all sorts of people, from Putin’s friends and Xi Jinping’s brother-in-law to Mark Thatcher and several members of the Spanish royal family.
ref: 2022, Ian Shircore, Conspiracy: History’s Greatest Cover-Ups and Unsolved Mysteries, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, pages 5–6:
text: Threat actors today include not only the old standbys—Russia and China—but also North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and almost certainly the Saudis, Israelis, Turkey, and many others hungry for an edge in dealing with the United States; non-state actors, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda hoping to exploit American security weaknesses; transnational criminal organizations and ideologically driven entities, such as hacktivists, leaktivists, and public-disclosure organizations (think WikiLeaks); not to mention freelance secrets-brokers harvesting sensitive data and intellectual property to sell on the black market.
ref: 2022, Lis Wiehl, A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen―America's Most Damaging Russian Spy, New York, N.Y.; London: Pegasus Books, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: Someone who advocates for a political cause by leaking secret information to the public; a person who practices leaktivism.
Related terms: hacktivism
hacktivist
leaktivism
leaktivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaktivist
Mitrofanoff procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mitrofanoff procedures
Etymology: After creator Paul Mitrofanoff.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical procedure in which the appendix is exsected and connected between the bladder and navel.
Related terms: appendicovesicostomy
cross brace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross braces
Senses: glosses: Diagonally crossing struts that add stability and rigidity to a structure.
drainage divide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drainage divides
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watershed.
synonyms: word: watershed
water divide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water divides
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watershed.
synonyms: word: watershed
drainage area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drainage areas
Senses: examples: text: The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently he was a marrying monk) multiplied and spread out to inhabit the drainage area of the Chin Ch'uan or Gold River. During the early Ch'ing period when feudatories were conferred by the Manchu rulers, this region was divided up into the Ta-chin-ch'uan or Great Gold River, and the Hsiao-chin-ch'uan or Little Gold River territories.
ref: 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “Tribal Uprisings”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 192:
glosses: Synonym of watershed.
synonyms: word: watershed
water basin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water basins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watershed.
synonyms: word: watershed
water divides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water divide
drainage divides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainage divide
drainage areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainage area
water basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water basin
Xmas tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xmas trees
Senses: examples: text: You'll miss me
With effigies
Lighting up your house like X-mas trees
As tears roll down, below your knees
ref: 1988, “You'll Miss Me”performed by They Might Be Giants:
glosses: Alternative form of Christmas tree.
Xmas trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xmas tree
Malibu Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subdivision in Flint, Texas, United States.
glosses: A gated community in Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States.
glosses: The portion of the bay that stretches from El Matador State Beach to Redondo Beach that is adjacent to Malibu, California.
Derived terms: Malibu bay breeze
Assange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɑːnʒ/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: Assanges
Senses: examples: text: Rohrabacher, who is considered to be among the most pro-Russia members in Congress, met with Assange earlier this month and claims Assange told him that Russia was not involved in the hacking.
ref: 2017 August 29, Andrew Kaczynski, “Rep. Rohrabacher says ‘rendezvous’ being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks’ Assange on DNC hack”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from French.
dopemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dopeman
Lincoln City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Dennis Anderson, 45, and Brandy Goldsbury, 46, were traveling from the beach in Lincoln City on the Oregon coast back to their home in Tigard around 8:30 p.m. July 13 when they spotted a black BMW 3 Series trying to pass them, according to reporting in The Oregonian.
ref: 2022 July 21, Snejana Farberov, “Dad shot dead in road-rage attack after splashing windshield fluid on BMW”, in New York Post:
glosses: A city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, incorporated in 1965 and named after the county.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Carter Township, Spencer County, Indiana, United States, named after the Lincoln family.
glosses: Former name of Lincoln, Delaware.
dead catting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead cat
dead catted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead cat
think tanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: think tankers
Senses: examples: text: On 20th July 2007, another think tanker, the historian Tristram Hunt, deliberately name-checked Our Island Story on BBC Breakfast and sales immediately rocketed, much to the delight of Civitas and its supporters.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 200:
glosses: Alternative form of think-tanker.
think tankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of think tanker
Grand Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of lakes in Canada and the United States.
glosses: A village in Sunbury County and Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada, incorporated in 2023.
glosses: A lake in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A town and lake in Grand County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Oakland, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A township and lake in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
town mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town mails
Senses: examples: text: When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatholds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262:
glosses: A piece of green pasturage attached to a house.
town mails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town mail
herb twopence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Suggested by Maud Grieve to be due to the leaves looking like rows of paired pennies.
Senses: examples: text: Herbe 2 pence
ref: [1551, William Turner, A new Herball:
text: Have you one name? I have many: / “Wandering Sailor”, “Creeping Jenny”, / “Money-wort”, and of the rest / “Strings of Sovereigns” is the best, / (That’s my yellow flowers, you see.) / “Meadow Runagates” is me, / And “Herb Twopence”.
ref: [1934, Cicely Mary Barker, “The Herb Twopence Fairy”, in A Flower Fairy Alphabet:
glosses: Moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia).
White Eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: White Eyes was a Lenape-Delaware chief in the 18th century.
Senses: glosses: A township in Coshocton County, Ohio, United States.
wikipedia: White Eyes
devoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛvəʊd/
Forms: form: more devoed
form: most devoed
form: devvoed
Etymology: Shortening of devastated, or possibly devo + -ed
Senses: examples: text: Others (like Lewis, 16, unemployed) expressed equally strong negative views about the prospect of having children. 'I'd be devoed [devastated] really, 'cos I'm only sixteen ––– 'cos you haven't got a job or fuck all or a house or owt like that'.
ref: 2005 August 1, R. MacDonald, J. Marsh, Disconnected Youth?: Growing up in Britain’s Poor in Neighbourhoods, Springer, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Sheetal makes a dejected noise. "Well now I'm proper devoed, like. Me parents are in finance. An absolute snore. I have no famous family or long - lost siblings"
ref: 2022 March 8, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Bad Reputation, K.B. Ritchie, →ISBN:
text: Can't believe he's gone. Legit devoed man.
ref: 2023 November 28, Tash McAdam, No One Left But You, Soho Press, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Devastated.
devvoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more devvoed
form: most devvoed
Senses: examples: text: Proper devvoed we didn't spend more time together, you cracked me up whenever we had the same class, though. Top bloke.
ref: 2023 October 3, Charlotte Bigland, The Confession: A totally addictive psychological thriller with a heart-stopping twist, Embla Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of devoed.
brown ocean effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A weather phenomenon involving tropical cyclones which, after landfall, maintain their strength or intensify over warm, moist land surfaces.
meat pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat pads
Etymology: From meat + pad.
Senses: examples: text: 37 violations, including blood dripping into box of meat pads, meat pad container with "old meat and blood residues on all surfaces," sour meat in meat case, "bug zapper" too close to equipment/processing tables, foreign produce not marked.
ref: 1998 March 30, “Supermarket Inspections”, in Mike Hoyem, compiler, The News-Press, page 4A:
text: Precisions' meat pads are used in tray-packed meat, poultry and fish packaging to absorb fluids.
ref: 2003 January 28, “P&G license product”, in The Cincinnati Post, page 6C:
text: There have been some developments with moisture absorbers. Dri Fresh Resolve (Sirane Ltd.) is an absorbent meat pad with a breathable surface. During storage, cut red meat can become brown on the base where it is in contact with the moisture absorber because of the lack of oxygen.
ref: 2011, B. P. F. Day, L. Potter, “Active Packaging”, in Richard Coles, Mark J. Kirwan, editor, Food and Beverage Packaging Technology, 2 edition, Wiley, →ISBN, 9.6 Moisture Absorbers:
text: Packtech deals with the technical textiles products used for packaging applications. Packtech products include the following: polyolefin woven sacks, flexible intermediate bulk container, leno bags, jute hessian sacks, tea bags (filter paper), soft luggage, absorbent meat pad, etc.
ref: 2023, Nimisha Rana Chaudhary, Reema Varshney, Innovation and Recent Advancement In Fashion and Textile, HOW Academics, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: In plastic packaging, an absorbent pad placed underneath raw meat in order to absorb excess moisture and fluids (like blood) so as to prevent the buildup of harmful bacteria on the meat itself.
Synonyms: meat diaper
soaker pad
meat pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat pad
meat diaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat diapers
Etymology: From meat + diaper, because the absorbent pad which soaks up liquid from the raw meat resembles the functions of that of a diaper for urine.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the remains of meat in fresh garbage or at a landfill are not the most pleasing archaeological artifacts that one can handle. The packaging is bathed in blood and in a kind of clear slime whose viscosity feels to the touch like that of molten gristle. The associated artifacts include the familiar absorbent deli pad, or "meat diaper," that drips sanguinary rivulets on the garbage-sorters' aprons.
ref: 2001, William L. Rathje, Cullen Murphy, Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 72:
text: In a world where our steak usually arrives pre-ground in a polystyrene tray, sitting on a meat diaper in a modified-atmosphere bubble, perhaps the cow tunnels represent the city’s agricultural unconscious, returning in the form of rumour and legend.
ref: 2013 October 31, Nicola Twilley, “The Lost Cow Tunnels of New York City”, in Gizmodo Australia:
text: The meat diaper plays a crucial role in maintaining cleanliness when serving meat dishes such as steak, burgers and fried chicken.
ref: 2023 July 11, Mohamed Dabo, “Understanding the functions of an absorbent pad in meat packaging”, in Packaging Gateway:
glosses: Synonym of meat pad.
synonyms: word: meat pad
meat diapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat diaper