cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Enceladus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɛnˈsɛlədəs/
Etymology: From Latin Enceladus, from Ancient Greek Ἐγκέλαδος (Enkélados).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A giant in Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Saturn.
Derived terms: Enceladan
Enceladean
Gaia-Enceladus
kiloware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kilo + -ware.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Postage stamps bought by weight, rather than numerical quantity, and commonly still on paper.
blubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌbə/
ipa: /ˈblʌbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈblʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈblʊbə/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blubbers
Etymology: From blub + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!
ref: 1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “[James] Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, published 1839, →OCLC, page 147:
text: It was really emotional. I am a blubber at the best of times. I had only been there for 18 months and found it upsetting so it was really hard for the people that had been there for 18 years.
ref: 2011 April 13, Nikki Sanderson, quotee, “Nikki Sanderson: from the Street to the stage”, in Geordie Greig, editor, Evening Standard, London: Evening Standard, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023:
text: As an auctioneer, you tend to come into people's lives when they are going through an awful lot, and it is very difficult not to get emotionally involved. You feel responsible for helping them to achieve their goal, and that's quite a weight to carry on your shoulders. I am a blubber at the best of times – it doesn't take a lot to set me off!
ref: 2022 October 24, Christina Trevanion, quotee, “The Repair Shop’s Will Kirk and Antiques Road Trip’s Christina Trevanion Become The Travelling Auctioneers in Idyllic New BBC One Series”, in BBC, published 25 October 2022, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023:
synonyms: sobber
hypernyms: crier
weeper
glosses: One who blubs (“cries or weeps freely and noisily”); a blubberer.
blubber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌbə/
ipa: /ˈblʌbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈblʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈblʊbə/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Etymology: A variant of blabber and blobber, probably influenced by blub and blubber (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Henry Blomfield Grocer in Bungay in Suffolk, about 30 years of age, of a middle ſtature, round viſag'd, of a ruddy complexion, having full blubber lips very remarkable, ſhort brovvn hair curling at the ends, on a ſad gray horſe 14 hands high, did on VVedneſday evening the 20 of this inſtant June, leave his Family, and run avvay vvith a Sum of Mony in tvvo black leather Bags. VVhoſoever ſhall diſcover the ſaid Henry Blomfeild,^([sic]) ſo as to be apprehended, and ſhall give notice to Mr. John Uffing at the Green Dragon in Biſhopſgate-ſtreet, ſhall have five pounds revvard.
ref: 1677 July 5–8 (Gregorian calendar), The London Gazette, number 1211, In the Savoy [London]: Tho[mas] Newcomb, →OCLC, page [2], column 2:
text: And what like is the Nubian slave, who comes ambassador on such an errand from the Soldan? […] with black skin, a head curled like a ram's, a flat nose, and blubber lips—ha, worthy Sir Henry?
ref: 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume IV (The Talisman), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 253:
glosses: Especially of lips: protruding, swollen.
morbidly obese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morbidly obese
form: most morbidly obese
Senses: examples: text: Which raises an interesting question: Is Trump actually morbidly obese?
ref: 2020 May 19, Chris Cillizza, “Nancy Pelosi called President Trump ‘morbidly obese.’ Is he?”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Obese to an extent that is life-threatening.
Related terms: morbid obesity
kennels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kennel
kennels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kennel
sniffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snifflers
Etymology: From sniffle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who sniffles.
glosses: A slight breeze.
between the jigs and the reels
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Possibly related to the apparent chaos in Irish dancing.
Senses: glosses: eventually, despite all the confusion.
hehe
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛhɛ/
ipa: /hihi/
Forms: form: he-he
form: hee-hee
form: hihi
Etymology: From Middle English hehe, from Old English he he.
Senses: examples: text: And then his trousers fell down, hehe.
glosses: An approximation to the sound of a mischievous giggle.
Related terms: haha
lol
teehee
fallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæləʊ/
enpr: fălʹō
ipa: /ˈfæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: fallows
Etymology: [Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Uncultivated land.
examples: text: By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
ref: 1832, Sir John Sinclair, The Code of Agriculture:
glosses: The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
Derived terms: bastard fallow
cropped fallow
dead-fallow
ecofallow
fallow-break
fallowchat
fallow chat
fallow crop
fallow-field
fallowfinch
fallow finch
fallow ground
fallowist
fallow land
green fallow
pin-fallow
rag-fallow
summer fallow
winter fallow
fallow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæləʊ/
enpr: fălʹō
ipa: /ˈfæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: more fallow
form: most fallow
Etymology: [Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).
Senses: glosses: Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
raw_tags: of agricultural land
glosses: Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
raw_tags: of agricultural land
examples: text: a fallow period in one's career
text: After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 316:
glosses: Inactive; undeveloped.
Synonyms: sense: figuratively inactive
word: abeyant
word: dormant
word: latent
word: inactive
Derived terms: apple-fallow
fallow chat
fallow finch
fallowist
fallowness
lay fallow
lie fallow
fallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæləʊ/
enpr: fălʹō
ipa: /ˈfæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: fallows
form: fallowing
form: fallowed
form: fallowed
Etymology: From Middle English falowen, falwen, from Old English fealgian (“to fallow; break up land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgōn (“to fallow”). Cognate with Dutch valgen (“to plow lightly; fallow”), German Low German falgen (“to till; dig a hole”).
Senses: glosses: To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
Derived terms: fallowed
fallower
fallowing
re-fallow
summer-fallow
thry-fallow
trifallow
twifallow
twyfallow
fallow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæləʊ/
enpr: fălʹō
ipa: /ˈfæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: more fallow
form: most fallow
Etymology: [Alt: A photograph of a light brown deer.]
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealu, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (compare West Frisian feal, Dutch vaal, German falb, fahl), from Proto-Indo-European *polwos (compare Lithuanian pal̃vas (“sallow, wan”), Russian поло́вый (polóvyj, “wan, light yellow”), Serbo-Croatian plâv (“blond, blue”), Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós, “grey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“pale, gray”).
Senses: examples: text: a fallow deer or greyhound
text: How does your fallow greyhound, sir?
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 1:
glosses: Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
Related terms: fallow deer
doormat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːˌmæt/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹˌmæt/
ipa: /ˈdoːˌmæt/
Forms: form: doormats
Etymology: From door + mat.
Senses: examples: text: Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
text: Mr. Simpson adds that the station at Stanmore appears practically unchanged from the time of its opening, even to the L.N.W.R. rubber doormat, which "shows no signs of wearing out."
ref: 1942 September and October, “Notes and News: The Stanmore Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 311:
text: Dimple glanced at an expensive-looking doormat with the words ‘LOSE THE SHOES’ woven into it and wondered why anyone would bother spending so much money on something people were going to wipe their feet on.
ref: 2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, pages 257–258:
glosses: A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
examples: text: He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
text: If you flipped through certain magazines at this time you could be forgiven for thinking that there was no right way to be a woman, only wrong ones — bimbo or frump, slut or prude, shrew or doormat.
ref: 2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
Synonyms: bootlicker
simp
footwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtwɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: footwears
Etymology: From foot + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.
ref: 2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.
Synonyms: feetwear
footgear
Derived terms: nonfootwear
drum head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum heads
form: drumhead
Senses: examples: text: […] out bounced the pudden itself, hoppin', as nimble as a pea on a drum-head, about the floor.
ref: 1845, William Carleton, “The Pudding Bewitched”, in Tales and Sketches: Illustrating the Character, Usages, Traditions, Sports and Pastimes of the Irish Peasantry, Dublin: James Duffy, page 227:
text: […] I noticed with surprise, that when I struck the ice with the head of my axe, it resounded like a gong for many rods around, or as if I had struck on a tight drumhead.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter XVII, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 398:
text: Deer as mythological flying creatures appear to have played a vital role in the religious life of Zhang Zhung. It is written in Tibetan texts that its body parts were sought after in the manufacture of ritual objects such a[s] drumheads and tabernacles.
ref: 2014, John Vincent Bellezza, chapter 2, in The Dawn of Tibet: The Ancient Civilization on the Roof of the World, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, page 43:
glosses: The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic.
examples: text: The Savoy is best for boiling; drum-head and purple for Cole-Slaw.
ref: 1896, Fanny Merritt Farmer, chapter XIX, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., published 1918:
glosses: A drumhead cabbage.
Synonyms: skin
drumskin
Derived terms: drumhead cabbage
drumhead clock
drumhead court-martial
drumhead tribunal
Solarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛəɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /səˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Solarian
form: most Solarian
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Of or relating to the Sun.
examples: text: He grinned at the profanity that came out of the communicator-speaker. Then—back at the irreverently nicknamed Galloping Cow which was the base ship of the Extra-Solarian Research Institute expedition to this star-cluster—McRae cut off.
ref: 1947 April, Murray Leinster, “Skit-Tree Planet”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 42:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Of or relating to the Solar System.
examples: text: The Solarian one-man ships were even smaller than the Nigrian one-man ships, and some of these did a tremendous amount of damage.
ref: 1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “The Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 521:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Of or relating to the inhabitants of the Solar system.
Solarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛəɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /səˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Solarians
Senses: examples: text: It will be proved that a Solarian, supposing him to have a stature equal to our own, would do as much work as seven of our cultivators; and yet the Solarians are the happiest of beings; their lot is the highest degree of happiness to which we can aspire until the epoch when there shall exist stars of a more exalted rank, that are not yet to be found in our young universe.
ref: 1851, Charles Fourier, The Passions of the Human Soul, page 225:
text: "There has been another dive since our meeting, Jacob, and on that dive, we are told, only the first and more prosaic species of Solarian was observed. Not the second variety which has caused Dr. Kepler so much concern." Jacob was still confused by the hurried explanations Kepler had given of the two types of Sun-creatures so far observed.
ref: 1980, David Brin, Sundiver, page 49:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of the Sun.
examples: text: The small ships of the Nigrians were beginning to take a terrific toll in the thin ranks of the Solarians. The coming of the Rocket Squad had been welcomed indeed!
ref: 1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “The Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 521:
text: Is it true that all Terrans, and other Solarians are frightfully rich, and go simply everywhere, and do as they please, and that almost nobody works?
ref: 1956 August, Charles Stearns, “The Golden Ones”, in Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 4, number 4, page 30:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of any part of the solar system of the Sun.
Hyponyms: sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Mercurian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Venusian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Earther
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Earthian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Earthican
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Earthling
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Gaian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Tellurian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Terran
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Lunarian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Selenite
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Martian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Belter
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Jovian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Jupiterian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Europan
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Ganymedean
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Callistan
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Callistoan
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Saturnian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Titanean
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Titanian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Neptunian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Uranian
sense: inhabitant of the solar system
word: Plutonian
earthling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɝθlɪŋ/
Forms: form: earthlings
Etymology: From Middle English erthling (“farmer, ploughman”) [and other forms] (in glossaries), from Old English ierþling, eorþling (“farmer, husbandman, ploughman”) [and other forms], from eorþe (“ground; dirt; planet Earth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”)) + -ling (suffix forming personal nouns). The English word is analysable as earth + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Eoꞃðlinᵹ [Eorthling], is a Husbandman, or Earthling.
ref: 1714, John Fortescue-Aland [i.e., John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan], “Hereafter is Schewyd, What of the Kyngs Lyvelood Gevyn Away, may Best be Takyn Ageyne”, in John Fortescue, The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy; as is More Particularly Regards the English Constitution. […], London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, […], for E. Parker […], and T. Ward […], →OCLC, footnote a, page 79:
text: And we have not imagination enough to believe, that either the Danish boors, who were earthlings (yrthlingas) in the country, or the Danish soldiers, who, as history tells us, were dandies at the court of King Canute, could, in the brief space of twenty years, have so overlaid or interlarded the pure Anglo-Saxon with their provincialisms, as to give it a new character, and thus form a new period in its history, as was afterwards done by the Normans.
ref: 1838 July, [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow], “Art. IV.—1. A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, […] [book review]”, in The North American Review, volume XLVII, number C, Boston, Mass.: Otis, Broaders, & Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 94:
qualifier: obsolete except historical
glosses: One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman.
earthling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɝθlɪŋ/
Forms: form: earthlings
Etymology: See Earthling.
Senses: examples: text: VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
ref: 1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], →OCLC, folio 60, verso:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Earthling.
stamp collecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: philately
glosses: The hobby of collecting and displaying postage stamps and related items.
examples: text: All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
ref: a. 1937, attributed to Ernest Rutherford
text: He really changed the field of paleontology from the stamp-collecting type of science where you just catalog fossils.
ref: 2002 May 21, Michael Shermer (quoted), “Stephen Gould, 60”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Collection of items or information of no intrinsic value.
Related terms: stamp collection
stamp collector
garbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbos
Etymology: Clipping of garbage + -o (colloquialising suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning.
ref: 1986, Emily George, Merri Lee: A Feminist Fantasy, page 124:
text: The referendum papers, accompanied by a strong statement of Council′s position, was to be letterboxed by the Council′s “garbos” (rubbish collectors) and inspectors on a Thursday and collected by volunteers over the weekend.
ref: 1998, Hall Greenland, Red Hot: The Life & Times of Nick Origlass, 1908-1996, page 253:
text: As far as Jasper was concerned, his mum being a garbo was pretty cool. She got to drive a truck and be home in time to take his little sisters to school. Before she got the job as a rubbish collector, his mum had done shift work and it was left to Jasper to get his sisters to school.
ref: 2010, Zana Fraillon, Monstrum House: Locked In, unnumbered page:
text: The priest would bring salvation while the garbo took the rubbish.
ref: 2010, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia′s Toughest Cop, page 350:
glosses: A rubbish collector; a garbage man.
examples: text: "Any quartz in the Mountain?" / "Just garbo quartz, not enough to produce any electrical fields." / "No disruption in the magnetic field?" / "No, sir."
ref: 2012, Mickael Taddeo, Gabriel's Mountain, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 229:
text: Then they beat me and burned me and locked me up, before handing me back like a piece of garbo, when I acted up or they got tired of me.
ref: 2016, Clare Revell, Violets in February, Pelican Book Group, →ISBN:
text: Another Twitter user wrote, "I could lie to you and say that I'm totally not interested in that game [but] I am interested. It sucks so much that JKR is a transphobic piece of garbo. ... I think if I do play it, I'll make it clear in all promotions my feelings about JKR and also promote a trans charity for folks to donate their funds towards. Maybe it's not enough, and I might not have a lot of funds, but I do wanna use my voice to do what I can to support my trans friends."
ref: 2022 March 19, Dan Clarendon, “'Hogwarts Legacy' Will Reportedly Welcome Transgender Characters — You Hear That, J.K.?”, in Distractify, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022:
text: Then Noelle told me she's a Paralympian and I was like, "Well, my lie was just garbo. That was terrible. Noelle, you're a beast!"
ref: 2022 December 7, Mike Bloom, quoting Sami Layadi, “'Survivor 43's' Sami Layadi Explains Why He Never Went After Cody and Jesse”, in Parade, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
glosses: Garbage; something considered worthless.
Synonyms: word: bin man
word: dustman
word: garbage collector
word: garbage man
word: refuse collector
word: sanitation engineer
word: trashman
word: garbage collector
ape shit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ape shit
form: most ape shit
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of apeshit.
tucker fucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tucker fuckers
Etymology: From tucker (“food”) + fucker (“one who ruins”).
Senses: examples: text: I never made it as a ‘Tucker Fucker’ (a cook), but I made it as a grunt—crap food and buggered and wet, or buggered and dry, all the time.
ref: 2001, Peter Haran, Robert Kearney, Crossfire: An Australian Reconnaissance Unit in Vietnam, unnumbered page:
text: 2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane, Zeus Publications, eBookIt, unnumbered page,
‘Let's have a cuppa tea,’ he said. ‘The tucker fuckers (cooks) always do a bit extra, the bloody instructors always knock it off.’
text: “[…]Yer see, young feller, cooks is graded up here. On top yer gets cooks. After ′em comes tucker fuckers. Then bait layers. An′ last of all yer gets yer willful bloody murderers.”
ref: 2010, Jim Nicolson, Long Creek, iUniverse, page 10:
glosses: A cook, especially a second-rate one.
glosses: A microwave oven.
glosses: Tomato sauce.
dumpster-diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumpster-divers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dumpster diver.
sniffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
ipa: /ˈsnəf.əl/
Forms: form: sniffles
form: sniffling
form: sniffled
form: sniffled
Etymology: From sniff + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare snivel.
Senses: examples: text: Her dad heard her sniffling and passed her a handkerchief.
glosses: To make a whimpering or sniffing sound when breathing, because of a runny nose.
examples: text: He sniffled a pathetic apology.
glosses: To utter with a whimpering or sniffing sound.
Related terms: word: snivel
word: snuff
word: snuffle
sniffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
ipa: /ˈsnəf.əl/
Forms: form: sniffles
Etymology: From sniff + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare snivel.
Senses: examples: text: I sometimes have a sniffle during allergy season.
glosses: The act, or the sound of sniffling; the condition of having a runny or wet nose, as from a cold or allergies.
Related terms: word: snuff
word: snuffle
sniffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sniffle
sniffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniffle
sniffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the sniffles
Senses: examples: text: Many people have suffered from colds, the sniffles and other childhood illnesses.
text: Danny has been having the sniffles and the sneezes all week.
glosses: Any minor ailment causing a runny nose; the symptom of a runny nose itself.
Synonyms: the snifters
upclomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [F]ar off, three mountaintops, / Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 109:
glosses: simple past and past participle of upclimb
gravedigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪvˌdɪɡ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪvˌdɪɡ.əɹ/
Forms: form: gravediggers
Etymology: From grave + digger.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to dig graves.
glosses: A necrophore, or burying beetle.
Related terms: sexton
pipsqueak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipsqueaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pip-squeak.
Derived terms: pipsqueakery
pip-squeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pip-squeaks
form: pipsqueak
Senses: glosses: A small and insignificant person.
Derived terms: pipsqueakery
-nasty
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ναστός (nastós, “pressed”), from the verb νάσσω (nássō).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: relating to a nastic change
-plasty
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-ˈplæsti/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλαστός (plastós, “molded, formed”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Repair or restoration of a part or function.
glosses: Molding or shaping through a surgical procedure.
Related terms: -ectomy
-ostomy
-tomy
clear the air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clears the air
form: clearing the air
form: cleared the air
form: cleared the air
Senses: examples: text: After much bitter in-fighting over the issue of the BF and other issues, I felt it was time to clear the air rather than deal in back-biting.
ref: 1976 August 7, Kathy Guilmette, “Devil's Advocate”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
text: This relationship began when you went to the Father and cleared the air by asking Him to forgive your past mistakes and sins.
ref: 2014, David Judson, Are You Attackable?: Embracing God During the Battles In Life:
text: Good table manners?Yep. He cleared the air by expressing his nervousness about using chopsticks.
ref: 2023 December 23, “Blind date: ‘He said he’d like to marry me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: add fuel to the fire
glosses: To assuage a hostile or uncomfortable situation.
Related terms: dust settles
pour oil on troubled waters
halituous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halituous
form: most halituous
Etymology: From Latin halitus (“breath, vapor”), from halare (“to breathe”): compare French halitueux.
Senses: glosses: Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
halfbeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfbeaks
Etymology: From half + beak.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hyporhamphus acutus
word: acute halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus picarti
word: African halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus meeki
word: American halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus intermedius
word: Asian pencil halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus unifasciatus
word: Atlantic silverstripe halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus neglectissimus
word: Australian neglected halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus balao
word: balao halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus balinensis
word: Balinese halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus balao
word: ballyhoo halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus brasiliensis
word: ballyhoo halfbeak
taxonomic: Zenarchopterus pappenheimi
word: Bangkok halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus far
word: barred halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus marginatus
word: barred halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus bermudensis
word: Bermuda halfbeak
alt: Oxyporhamphus micropterus
word: bigwing halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus far
word: black-barred halfbeak
taxonomic: Zenarchopterus buffonis
word: Buffon's halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus rosae
word: California halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus capensis
word: Cape halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus roberti hildebrandi
word: Central American halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus gilli
word: choelo halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus collettei
word: common halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus limbatus
word: common halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus naos
word: common halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus picarti
word: common halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus unifasciatus
word: common halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus limbatus
word: Congaturi halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus affinis
word: coral reef halfbeak
taxonomic: Hyporhamphus dussumieri
word: Dussumier's halfbeak
word: Japanese halfbeak
taxonomic: Zenarchopterus gilli
word: viviparous halfbeak
taxonomic: Dermogenys pusilla
word: wrestling halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus marginatus
word: yellowtip halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus lutkei
word: yellowtip halfbeak
taxonomic: Hemiramphus archipelagicus
word: yellowtip halfbeak
hallucal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hallux + -al.
Senses: examples: text: hallucal artery
text: hallucal nerve
text: hallucal sex
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hallux or big toe
Related terms: subhallucal
standard deviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard deviations
Etymology: Coined by English mathematician Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves".
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ (sigma).
wikipedia: Karl Pearson
Synonyms: standard error
sigma
predella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: predellas
form: predelle
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian predella, from Lombardic pretil.
Senses: glosses: A raised step near the base of a Christian altar.
glosses: A carving or painting on this step.
Related terms: superaltar
mass of maneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A body of troops held in military reserve by a general for striking a blow on an exposed flank or wherever the enemy reveals a weak spot.
proslepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek πρόσληψις (próslēpsis).
Senses: glosses: The pretence of passing over a subject while at the same time describing it fully.
Related terms: prosleptic
apophasis
paraleipsis
Wadjet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wadjit
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian wAD-t-I12 (wꜣḏt, “Wadjet”, literally “green one”), an allusion to the skin of the cobra. Doublet of Buto.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The patron goddess and namesake of the Ancient Egyptian city of Per-Wadjet, known as Buto to the Greeks. Wadjet takes the form of a cobra and is associated with the Eye of Horus.
hypallage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈpælədʒi/
ipa: /hʌɪˈpælədʒi/
rhymes: -ælədʒi
Forms: form: hypallages
Etymology: From Latin hypallage, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή (hupallagḗ), from ὑπό (hupó, “hypo-”) + ἀλλάσσειν (allássein, “to exchange”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as a literary device.
Synonyms: transferred epithet
Related terms: enallage
Hehe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Bantu people of Tanzania.
Synonyms: urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20060217085739/http://www.worldsurface.com/browse/static.asp?staticpageid=128
word: Wahehe
word: Kihehe
Hehe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of the Hehe people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Hehe terms
Russians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russian
Russians
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Russian
eructation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪ.ɹʌkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: eructations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ērūctātiōnem, accusative of ērūctātiō (“a belching forth, burp”), from ērūctāre (“to belch, burp”). Compare Middle English eructuacioun (“belching, burp”), borrowed from the same root.
Senses: examples: text: His eyes were as restless as his limbs, and seemed ever to be seeking for something upon which they could definitely alight, and not finding it. He performed eructations with the disarming naturalness of a baby.
ref: 1914, Arnold Bennett, The Price of Love:
text: "Move along, you coxcomb," Ignatius belched, the gassy eructations echoing between the walls of the alley.
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 10, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: The act of belching, of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth.
glosses: An erumpent blast of gas, wind, or other matter ejected from the depths of the earth.
Related terms: eruct
Comet Halley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Halley's Comet.
synonyms: word: Halley's Comet
transverse flow effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transverse flow effects
Senses: glosses: vibration in the rotor of a helicopter due to differential drag
discretionary fiscal policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discretionary fiscal policies
Senses: glosses: A fiscal policy achieved through government intervention, as opposed to automatic stabilizers.
Halley's Comet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌhæliːz ˈkɒmɪt/
/ˌheɪliːz ˈkɒmɪt/
Forms: form: Halley's comet
Etymology: Circa 1758. Named after English astronomer Edmond Halley, who first computed its orbit and established its periodicity. Halley predicted the return of the comet (then last seen in 1682) in 1705; when it did return in late 1758, it quickly acquired this name.
Senses: examples: text: In the London papers of May 3 we have the following accounts […] It had a short broad tail in a direction opposite the sun ; as Dr Halley's comet ought to have ; being much foreshortened […]
ref: The Scots Magazine, Vol. XXI (April 1759), p. 208
synonyms: word: 1P/Halley
english: official IAU designation
translation: official IAU designation
word: Comet Halley
word: Halley
glosses: A great comet which can be seen from Earth every 75–76 years.
extension cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extension cords
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices.
Synonyms: word: extension lead
word: extension
word: power extender
word: drop cord
word: trip cord
Related terms: extension reel
extension cord reel
power board
powerboard
power strip
happy holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: In the United States people say Happy Holidays to include all people on the earth: the Jewish people Celebrating Hanukah, Africans celebrating Kwanza, Middle Eastern people celebrating Eid, Christians celebrating Christmas, […]
ref: 2009, Ruben Santos Claveria, Holiday Songs and Kisses: Christmas Songs And other Poems:
text: Madeleine Mayfair, What Should I Write? 101 Holiday Wishes for Greeting Cards
Season's greetings and happy holidays!
glosses: A greeting used during the Christmas and winter holiday season to recognize the celebration of many holidays, sometimes starting with Thanksgiving and including Hanukkah, the winter solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day.
Related terms: Merry Christmas
season's greetings
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers
form: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Senses: examples: text: In the yards of the houses, the pink flamingos were eclipsed by huge plastic Santa Clauses and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers, their red noses tinting the shadows on the snow rose red, and on the roof ridges of every other house, Santa Claus and his sleigh had landed weeks earlier.
ref: 1989, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Buffalo Afternoon, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 513:
text: The only buildings on the street across from the Yellow Panda were an abandoned warehouse and a lonely souvenir stand, also closed until tourist season, its carved Smokey the Bears and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers looking like lost Christmas decorations in the rain.
ref: 1997, Roger L[ichtenberg] Simon, The Lost Coast, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 194:
text: Window cling-ons are the same kind you see at Christmas time, with cute Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers and Frosty the Snow Mans on them.
ref: 2003, Tiffany Lambert, Restaurant Promotion and Publicity: For Just a Few Dollars a Day, Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:
text: Light posts, storefronts and other businesses were lined with garlands of silver, gold, green and red; as well as the occasional Santa Claus and more than a few Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers.
ref: 2008, William Pepper, In the St. Nick of Time, Carnival of Glee Creations, →ISBN, page 10:
text: These days, you see more of those giant inflatable Frosty the Snowmen and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers.
ref: 2014, Greg Laurie, Red: The Color of Christmas, 15 Favorite Christmas Messages, Allen David Books, →ISBN, page 307:
text: Good job you don’t have kids, mate. You’d go mad this time of year with all the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers going on.
ref: 2019, Alison Roberts, Single Dad in Her Stocking, Harlequin, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: Rudolph
alt: by ellipsis
glosses: A legendary reindeer with a nose that glows red, the subject of a comic Christmas song; often added among Santa Claus's reindeer as the leading one.
Coordinate terms: sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Blitzen
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Comet
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Cupid
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Dancer
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Dasher
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Donner
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Prancer
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Vixen
Mrs. Claus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mrs. Clauses
form: Mistress Santa Claus
form: Mrs Claus
form: Mrs Santa Claus
form: Mrs. Santa Claus
Senses: examples: text: A relatively new gala, the Celebrate Santa Convention boasts a sea of Santas, Mrs. Clauses, elves, and reindeers, […]
ref: 2011, Kristin Luna, Tennessee Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 167:
text: In normal years, he runs a roving school for Santas and Mmes. Claus and supplies a workforce of bearded men to malls and corporate events around the country. […] He led a neighborhood tree-lighting in a blue surgical mask with a Mrs. Claus friend near his apartment in Upper Manhattan, and a few buddies volunteered for a socially distanced Christmas parade.
ref: 2020 December 25, Emma Green, “The Christmas Crisis”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2020:
text: “Why do I get the feeling that ‘we’ includes me?” I said warily. “Of course it includes you. You’re Mrs. Claus.” She reconsidered. “One of the Mrs. Clauses, at any rate. I signed you up for two shifts and some cookies. Surely that’s not too much to ask?”
ref: 2021, Liz Ireland, Mrs. Claus and the Halloween Homicide, Kensington Books, →ISBN:
text: In 1937, a Michigan school was established in Midland, and it has been training Santas and Mrs. Clauses for eighty-five years.
ref: 2022, Bill Loomis, Christmas in Detroit, Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: Mother Christmas
Mrs. Christmas
Ms. Claus
glosses: The wife of Santa Claus.
Related terms: 🤶
commode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈməʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: commodes
Etymology: Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo.
Senses: glosses: A low chest of drawers on short legs.
synonyms: washstand
glosses: A stand for a washbowl and jug.
examples: text: Changing bandages and emptying the commode doesn’t exactly create a sexy environment, but we never talk about doctors’ appointments or heart problems when we’re in our room – we preserve that little bit of space for ourselves.
ref: 2025 October 26, Olivia Ladanyi, quoting Zach, “This is how we do it: ‘When his grandma heard us having sex, she asked if we’d been “having a fun dance” upstairs’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A chair containing a chamber pot.
glosses: A toilet.
examples: text: Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. […] You nuzzle your Noſes into their Hoods and Commodes, […]
ref: 1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14:
text: Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect,
Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.
ref: 1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants:
glosses: A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
Synonyms: sense: chamber pot
word: chamber pot
sense: toilet
word: toilet
Related terms: word: accommodation
word: commodious
word: discommode
word: incommode
english: unrelated etymology
translation: unrelated etymology
word: air commode
word: bidet
bathroom tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathroom tissues
Senses: glosses: toilet paper.
pizza cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza cutters
Senses: glosses: A wheel-bladed knife used for cutting pizzas.
glosses: A model train with inappropriately large flanges, so that its wheels run along the ties rather than the railhead.
Synonyms: sense: wheel-bladed knife
word: pizza wheel
Related terms: pizza dish
pizza oven
pizza pan
pizza stone
pizza wheel
blacklight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacklights
Etymology: From black + light.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”).
wuzzup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wassup.
stop sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop signs
form: stopsign
Senses: examples: text: No stop signs, speed limit
Nobody's gonna slow me down
ref: 1979, AC/DC, Highway to Hell:
glosses: A sign by the side of a road or street, often at an intersection, instructing vehicle drivers to stop.
Derived terms: Texas stop sign
Related terms: give way sign
rumbustious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rumbustious
form: most rumbustious
form: rambustious
form: rumbumptious
Etymology: From rum- (“strong, very”) + bust + -ious.
Alternatively, possibly from an alteration of robustious.
Senses: examples: text: “Childer! Borne ’em I ’ave, an’ buried ’em I ’ave, but now I can’t seem to do wi’ their clatter no more—young things is that restless an’ rumbustious.”
ref: 1912, Blanche Edith Baughan, “Red and Yellow and Ripe”, in Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven:
text: In the rumbustious atmosphere of the mania years, 1845 and 1846, this state of things gave rise to acrimony which both sides faced with confidence; but as the reaction set in during 1847, it seemed better to come to terms.
ref: 1955 February, Michael Robbins, “A Railway Treaty: The Brighton and South Eastern Agreement of 1848”, in Railway Magazine, page 98:
text: Joe Githongo had paid a personal price during the Moi era, and proved his credentials during the rumbustious multi-party years, working as a fundraiser for Kibaki’s Democratic Party.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
synonyms: word: rambunctious
glosses: Boisterous and unruly.
Derived terms: rambunctious
rumbustiously
rumbustiousness
nominal clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominal clauses
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of noun clause.
synonyms: word: noun clause
odalisque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊd(ə)lɪsk/
ipa: /ˈɒd(ə)lɪsk/
ipa: /ˈoʊdlɪsk/
ipa: /oʊdlˈisk/
Forms: form: odalisques
form: odalisk
Etymology: Borrowed from French odalisque, from Ottoman Turkish اوطهلق (odalık, “chambermaid”), from اوده (oda, “room”).
Senses: examples: text: When the young Mauretanians were his guests in the little houses before the town gates, and he was of a good humour, it would come about that he displayed his odalisques as others would their jewels.
ref: 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:
text: They grew fat, but successfully resisted the enticing odalisques with whom they were confronted.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 96:
text: Though I could see the titan odalisques and their garden and knew them to be no more than dream-stuff recalled, I could not escape from their fascination and the memory of the dream.
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:
text: The Sector is borne in a padded Waggon, like some mechanickal Odalisque.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 30, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 296:
glosses: A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
glosses: A desirable or sexually attractive woman.
Related terms: sultana
logrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒɡˌɹəʊlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑɡˌɹoʊlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɔɡ-/
Etymology: From log + rolling, the figurative senses from the practice of neighbors helping each other do heavy work such as rolling logs in connection with clearing land and building.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of logroll.
Related terms: backscratching
blogroll
Argus-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek mythological figure Argus.
Senses: glosses: ever vigilant
work-in-progress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: work in progress
Senses: examples: text: We've worked hard to reduce work-in-progress inventory by speeding up production.
glosses: Attributive form of work in progress.