cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bicoherences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicoherence
nanodimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanodimer
nanodimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodimers
Etymology: From nano- + dimer.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Either of a pair of nanoparticles (usually metallic) that remain in close proximity
ackees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ackee
rites of passage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rite of passage
blessed events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blessed event
Nintendinitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭn-tĕn'-dĭn-īʹ-tĭs
ipa: /nɪnˌtɛn.dɪnˈaɪ.tɪs/
rhymes: -aɪtɪs
Forms: form: Nintendonitis
Etymology: Blend of Nintendo + tendinitis
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: Nintendo thumb
glosses: A form of repetitive strain injury affecting frequent video gamers, often from the excessive use of the d-pad on a game controller.
OD'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of OD
underpair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpairs
Etymology: From under- + pair.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pocket pair of a lower rank than all of the community cards on the board.
Coordinate terms: overpair
unaspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaspiring
form: most unaspiring
Etymology: From un- + aspiring.
Senses: examples: text: But American women are not unawakened or unaspiring. To many of them, life has grown painful, because their advancing ideal is dishonored by a sense of violated justice.
ref: 1882, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage: 1861-1876:
text: A more contented, fruitful and unaspiring conifer could not be conceived. All the species we have been sketching make departures more or less distant from the typical spire form, but none goes so far as this. Without any apparent cause it keeps near the ground, throwing out crooked, divergent branches like an orchard apple-tree, and seldom pushes a single shoot higher than fifteen or twenty feet above the ground.
ref: 1912, John Muir, The Yosemite:
text: First you have to realize the Highest. Only then can you dare to mix with unaspiring people. When you mix with unaspiring people, it is as if you are going to visit a mental hospital. Unless you yourself are very powerful, you will also be affected.
ref: 2000, Sri Chinmoy, The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy:
glosses: Lacking ambition; not aspiring to any goal.
Derived terms: unaspiringly
unaspiringness
underpairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpair
ragg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ragstone
thousandaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thousandaires
Etymology: From thousand + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: “Obviously, no tears will be shed for the fact that billionaires have gone down in their net worth,” Steve Forbes, the magazine’s editor in chief, told a gathering of thousandaires, more commonly known as journalists.
ref: 2009 March 13, Clyde Haberman, “The Rich: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them”, in New York Times:
text: Plus, you’ve been in Cyrodiil for less than a week and have already become a hundredaire. A high-end hundredaire too, over halfway to thousandaire.
ref: 2020, Kazerad, Katia: Try a few more things, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), July 20 2020
glosses: Somebody whose wealth is greater than one thousand units of the local currency.
Derived terms: hundred-thousandaire
multithousandaire
ten-thousandaire
thousandairess
hundredaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hundredaires
Etymology: From hundred + -aire; modeled on existing words such as millionaire using hundred.
Senses: examples: text: Plus, you’ve been in Cyrodiil for less than a week and have already become a hundredaire. A high-end hundredaire too, over halfway to thousandaire.
ref: 2020, Kazerad, Katia: Try a few more things, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), July 20 2020
glosses: Somebody whose wealth is greater than one hundred dollars (or the local currency).
gourbis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gourbi
keerfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more keerfully
form: most keerfully
Senses: examples: text: "Look keerfully arter that baggage, Kernel," said the expressman, with affected concern, as he looked after Colonel Starbottle, gloomily bringing up the rear of the triumphant procession to the waiting-room. Mr. Hamlin did not stay for dinner.
ref: 1875, Bret Harte, “Brown of Calaveras”, in The Tales of the Argonauts:
text: 'The loryer yere, hes spread hisself on Mulock's motive fur doin' this thing; 'sistin' thet fur seventeen yar he's ben a nussin' suthin--nussin' it as keerfully as a mother nusses her chil'ren.
ref: 1863, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of carefully.
quissets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quisset
GCWR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GCWRs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
hypernyms: GWR
coordinate_terms: GAWR
GVWR
glosses: Initialism of gross combination weight rating: the maximum weight rating of a vehicle including its contents and the weight of anything being towed.
Related terms: english: heavy goods vehicle
translation: heavy goods vehicle
word: HGV
GVWR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GVWRs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
hypernyms: GWR
coordinate_terms: GAWR
GCWR
glosses: Initialism of gross vehicle weight rating, the maximum allowed weight of a vehicle and its contents.
Related terms: english: heavy goods vehicle
translation: heavy goods vehicle
word: HGV
refidex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refidexes
form: Refidex
Etymology: From the name (Refidex) of a particular brand of street directory, possibly from ref(erence) + (i)n(dex).
Senses: examples: text: And with a refidex in the glovebox, she couldn't see any huge problems.
ref: 1997, Melissa Lucashenko, Steam pigs, page 76:
text: The refidex shows that Clayfield and Hendra are 500 metres apart, and "Airport" and "Eagle Farm" are 1.1km apart.
ref: 1998 December 10, Roy Wilke, “Shortest distance between stations”, in aus-rail (Usenet):
text: The meetings themselves are held in Hawken Building at UQ (building 50 on the campus refidexes), and the next one will be Saturday week.
ref: 1999 April 6, Ben Fowler, “Linux user groups for Brisbane??I”, in aus.computers.linux (Usenet):
text: I'm driving, Kristy's navigating. For somebody who isn't used to reading a refidex she does a damn fine job.
ref: 2001 December 28, Cruiser, “The Week in Review (v long)”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):
text: Even when UBD (Universal Business Directory’s) bought out Refidex, they continued to put Refidex on the front cover. Actually any street directory to a Brisbanite is a “refidex”.
ref: 2010, https://groups.google.com/group/daily_devotionals/browse_thread/thread/f6671e669a0de4cc/8cc50e20e115de5d?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=refidex#8cc50e20e115de5d
glosses: Any street directory.
agreers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agreer
indictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indiction
kurrajongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kurrajong
shee
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: There, on the other side, I did behold A Woman sitting sorrowfullie wailing, Rending her yeolow locks, like wyrie golde 10 About her shoulders careleslie downe trailing, And streames of teares from her faire eyes forth railing*: In her right hand a broken rod she held, Which towards heaven shee seemd on high to weld, [* Railing, flowing.]
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: Afterward shee sent a Gentleman aboord of vs, who declared that her Maiestie had good liking of our doings, and thanked vs for it, and also willed our Captaine to come the next day to the Court to take his leaue of her.
ref: 1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:
text: ...but Eve
[...]
Stood to entertain her guest from Heav'n; no vaile
Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no thought infirme
Alter'd her cheek...
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: I'le take thy noble Work (and like the trade Where for a heap of Salt pure Gold is layd) I'le lay thy Volume, that Huge Tome of wit, About in Ladies Closets, where they sit Enthron'd in their own wills; and if she bee A Laick sister, shee'l straight flie to thee: But if a holy Habit shee have on, Or be some Novice, shee'l scarce looks upon Thy Lines at first; but watch Her then a while, And you shall see Her steale a gentle smile Upon thy Title, put thee neerer yet, Breath on thy Lines a whisper, and then set Her voyce up to the measures; then begin To blesse the houre, and happy state shee's in.
ref: 1679, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes:
text: Lavater reporteth a historie of a parish priest in Germanie, that disguised himselfe with a white sheete about him, and at midnight came into the chamber of a rich woman that was in bed, and fashioning himself like a spirit, hee thought to put her in such feare, that shee would procure a conjuror or exorcist to talke with him, or else speake to him herselfe.
ref: 1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of she.
sheene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: sheener
form: sheenest
Senses: examples: text: If Saphyres, loe! her eies be Saphyres plaine; / If Rubies, loe! hir lips be Rubies sound; / If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles, both pure and round; / If Yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; / If Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; / If Silver, her faire hands are silver sheene: / But that which fairest is but few behold, / Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold."
ref: 1887, Various, Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sheen.
sheepcotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepcote
sheepdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sheep + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Harry sat between them, like a sheep as he was, very meekly--not without some enjoyment of his sheepdom, but still feeling that he was a sheep.
ref: c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings:
text: In the shape of a wedge with a leader at the point of it, they were running with a definite purpose and as though all the dogs in sheepdom were heeling them.
ref: 1919, Caroline Lockhart, The Fighting Shepherdess:
glosses: The quality or state of being a sheep.
sheepe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepe
Senses: examples: text: "Gladly," said he, "what ever such like paine Ye put on me, I will the same sustaine: But gladliest I of your fleecie sheepe (Might it you please) would take on me the keep. 290 For ere that unto armes I me betooke, Unto my fathers sheepe I usde to looke, That yet the skill thereof I have not loste: Thereto right well this curdog, by my coste, (Meaning the Foxe,) will serve my sheepe to gather, And drive to follow after their belwether."
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: The grasse and herbe doth fat sheepe in very short space, proued by English marchants which haue caried sheepe thither for fresh victuall and had them raised exceeding fat in lesse then three weekes.
ref: 1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:
text: Nay, Number it selfe in Armies importeth not much where the People is of weake courage: For (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a Wolfe, how many the sheepe be."
ref: 1756, Prosper Paleologus Constantine, Sir John Constantine:
text: Hen. VIII. (Black letter), in Bodleian Library, occurs:-- "There was two men of _Gottam, and the one of them was going to the market to Nottingham to buy sheepe, and the other came from the market; and both met together upon Nottingham bridge.
ref: 1850, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850:
text: And when th'art wearie of thy keeping sheepe Upon a lovely downe, to please thy minde, Ile give thee fine ruffe-footed doves to keepe, And pretie pidgeons of another kinde: A robbin-redbrest shall thy minstrell bee, Chirping thee sweet and pleasant melodie.
ref: 1594, Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepherd:
text: So, too, He leared his sheepe as he him list When he would whistle in his fist; and the shepherd still guides and encourages his sheep by whistling.
ref: 1880, Richard Jefferies, Round About a Great Estate:
text: They will make a sheepe valiant, a lion fearefull.
ref: 1905, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois:
text: And haue ye cattell too? and sheepe too?
ref: 1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister:
glosses: Obsolete form of sheep.
sheephook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheephooks
Etymology: From sheep + hook.
Senses: examples: text: You then shall for my fake this sheephook keep,
Adorn'd with Brass[…]
ref: a. 1701, John Dryden, The Fifth Eclogue Daphnis:
text: O'er both their marks it flew; till fiercely flung From Polypoetes' arm the discus sung: Far as a swain his whirling sheephook throws, That distant falls among the grazing cows, So past them all the rapid circle flies: His friends, while loud applauses shake the skies, With force conjoin'd heave off the weighty prize.
ref: 1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, published 1899:
text: For the shepherd of that unhappy sheepfold also had climbed up some other way before he knew how to hold a sheephook, till, week after week, the hungry sheep looked up and were not fed.
ref: 1894, Alexander Whyte, Samuel Rutherford:
glosses: crook, a staff used by shepherds
sheephooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheephook
sheepless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sheep + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I was president of both these flourishing organizations, was chairman of the parish committee of the Unitarian Church, leading to its enlargement and extended usefulness, was a member of the congressional committee of the district which wrested a congressman from the Democrats, electing, after a desperate struggle, John W. Candler, to the National Legislature in place of Russell, "the sheepless Shepherd."
ref: 1903, James Henry Foss, The Gentleman from Everywhere:
text: The pastures are herdless and sheepless, No pasture or shelter for herds: The wind is relentless and sleepless, And restless and songless the birds; Their cries from afar fall breathless, Their wings are as lightnings that flee; For the land has two lords that are deathless: Death's self, and the sea. 4.
ref: 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Studies in Song:
glosses: Without sheep.
sheepshearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepshearings
Etymology: From sheep + shearing.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the best thing about Ken Hannam's 1975 film about sheepshearing in central Australia in 1956 is that he doesn't try to impose too much structure on the action.
ref: 1996 May 24, Fred Camper, “Sunday Too Far Away”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In another Epode (Epod. ii) he recalls his boyish memories in praise of country life: the vines wedded to poplars in the early spring, after that the sheepshearing, later still the grape-gathering and honey harvest; when winter comes, the hunting of the boar by day, at night the cheery meal with wife and children upon olives, sorrel, mallows, beside the crackling log-piled hearth.
ref: 1905, William Tuckwell, Horace:
glosses: The act of shearing sheep.
Related terms: shepster time
sheeprun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepruns
Etymology: From sheep + run (“animal enclosure; place where something can run”).
Senses: examples: text: 1900, William Bulfin, Tales of the Pampas, quoted in 2003, Katherine Mullin, James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity, 63,
Over the richest sheepruns in the province of Buenos Ayres you may gallop during every hour of the summer without crossing a single rood of land that is not owned by some son of the Emerald Isle.
text: 1910, Catherine Helen Spence, Jeanne Young (posthumous completion), Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography, 2004, page 26,
It had surprised him when he travelled overland to Adelaide to see from Willunga 30 miles of enclosed and cultivated farms, and it surprised me to see sheepruns close to Melbourne.
text: 1978, Juliet Astley (Norah Lofts), Copsi Castle, page 67,
Here was she, cancelling her visit to the sheeprun, that part of Sheppey Lea of which she was most proud since it had been reclaimed literally from a waste of near-derelict land, all bracken and gorse and coarse grass.
text: When contemporaries complained that the extension of sheepruns left a trail of deserted villages they were commenting on the enclosures of the previous century, but later complaints bear witness to a more profound upheaval.
ref: 1979, Joan Simon, Education and Society in Tudor England, page 169:
text: The irony was that many of the Scottish Highlanders found themselves manning sheepruns in the antipodes having been eliminated from their own economy by precisely the same forces that had caused the Highland clearances.
ref: 1993, Eric Richards, “Margins of the Industrial Revolution”, in Patrick O′Brien, Roland Quinault, editors, The Industrial Revolution and British Society, page 221:
glosses: A sheep farm.
Related terms: running of the sheep
sheepruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheeprun
sheete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheetes
Senses: examples: text: Lavater reporteth a historie of a parish priest in Germanie, that disguised himselfe with a white sheete about him, and at midnight came into the chamber of a rich woman that was in bed, and fashioning himself like a spirit, hee thought to put her in such feare, that shee would procure a conjuror or exorcist to talke with him, or else speake to him herselfe.
ref: 1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,:
text: No, no, most happie in this happles case, To die with thee, and dieng thee embrace: My bodie ioynde with thine, my mouth with thine, My mouth, whose moisture burning sighes haue dried: To be in one selfe tombe, and one selfe chest, And wrapt with thee in one selfe sheete to rest.
ref: 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sheet.
sheetful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheetfuls
form: sheetsful
Etymology: From sheet + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Of cheese and butter we had a sufficient supply; and the yellow corn-meal which we had brought for the teams furnished sheetful after sheetful of johnny-cake, which Aunt Olive split, toasted, and buttered well, as a groundwork for the white monkey.
ref: 1922, Charles Asbury Stephens, A Busy Year at the Old Squire's:
text: One sheet may be filled while baking another sheetful of cakes.
ref: 1915, Edith M. Thomas, Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit:
text: Then, after an anonymous draughtsman, "M.S.R.," had appeared with a single cut ("Candles"), Mr. F. Wilfrid Lawson, the elder brother and teacher of Cecil Lawson, contributed a sheetful of initials and vignettes which dribbled forth in the paper up to 1876; and Mr. T. Walters, a half-a-dozen, up to 1875. Mr. E. J. Ellis, now better known in other fields than comic draughtsmanship, began on December 12th, 1867.
ref: 1895, M. H. Spielmann, The History of "Punch":
text: But as the glimpse of A was not to be had, it was resolved to send for selection by himself glimpses of other letters of the alphabet, actual heads as well as fanciful ones; and the sheetful I sent out, which he returned when the choice was made, I here reproduce in fac-simile.
ref: 1875, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete:
glosses: The amount that fits on a sheet (any meaning)
plenteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plenteously
form: most plenteously
Etymology: From plenteous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thys Lepidium that Pliny & Paul [of Aegina] deſcribe, groweth plentuouſly about the water ſyde that rynneth thorow Morpeth in Northumberland, in ſuche places as great heapes of ſtones are caſten together wyth the myght of a great ſpat or flood.
ref: 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Lepidium or Dittani”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 35, recto:
text: What was the effect of his widow's dedication to Cecil, is not known: it may be hoped that Ascham's works obtained for his family, after his decease, that support which he did not, in his life, very plenteously procure them.
ref: 1742, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6:
text: The old woman ate greedily, and drank still more plenteously of the sweet wine.
ref: 1831, Ludwig Tieck, The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano:
text: My liege Lord, my full trust is that ye will have consideration, though that my person be of no value, your high goodness, where God hath set you in so high estate to every liege man that to you longeth plenteously to give grace, that you like to accept this mine simple request for the love of Our Lady and the blissful Holy Ghost, to whom I pray that they might your heart induce to all pity and grace for their high goodness.
ref: 1838, J. Endell Tyler, Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2:
text: He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
ref: 1919, Nixon Waterman, The Girl Wanted:
glosses: copiously; plentifully; in abundance.
GINO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the construction of RINO and DINO, using -INO in conjunction with "G" for Galactica.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Acronym of Galactica in name only—a derogatory term used by partisan fans of the original Battlestar Galactica to refer to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
overtask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtasks
form: overtasking
form: overtasked
form: overtasked
Etymology: From over- + task.
Senses: examples: text: We were almost always under fire from the enemy; but with the utmost cheerfulness, and even, I may say, good-humour, the whole of the infantry did all in their power to lighten the work of the overtasked artillerymen: comrades we were, all striving for the accomplishment of one purpose--that of bringing swift and sure destruction on the rebels who had for so long a period successfully resisted our arms.
ref: 1910, Charles John Griffiths, A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi:
text: Each man, after death, was called upon to make the "Negative Confession," to prove that he had not sinned against his fellows, that he had not oppressed or taken bribes, had not judged wrongfully, had not injured a slave or overtasked the poor man, had not murdered or stolen, lied or committed adultery, had not given short weight or robbed the gods and the dead, had made none to "hunger" or "weep."
ref: 1899, Archibald Sayce, Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations:
text: Think of it! the strength of one hundred horses overtasked day by day to provide this magic powder, through which the tired real horse is to drag the plough in so many thousands of distant acres!
ref: 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science:
text: But when, on the contrary, he is overtasked, and more ideas are forced upon his attention than his capacity can receive, the mind becomes disturbed and confused, the mental perception becomes cloudy and indistinct, and all that is communicated in these circumstances is absolutely lost.
ref: 1840, James Gall, A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education:
glosses: To task too heavily; to give someone or something too many tasks; to overburden.
overtasked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtask
overtasking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtask
overtasks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtask
DINO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DINOs
Etymology: Attested 1994; modelled after RINO (“Republican in name only”).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of Democrat in name only, typically used by liberal members of the U.S. Democratic Party to describe Democrats whose views are conservative or perceived as conservative.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: Acronym of developer in name only, a real estate development company or individual that is still active, but does not have any developments underway due to a downturn in the market or in the economy in general.
Coordinate terms: Blue-dog Democrat
Related terms: -INO
INO
RINO
LINO
GINO
War Democrat
Dixiecrat
lipothymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipothymies
Senses: glosses: A fainting; a swoon.
Synonyms: lipothymia
fatigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle French fatigation.
Senses: glosses: Fatigue.
palestric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palestric
form: most palestric
Etymology: From palestra + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the palestra, or to wrestling.
glosses: weary; tiring; exhausting.
Synonyms: palestrical
rototill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.toʊˌtɪl/
Forms: form: rototills
form: rototilling
form: rototilled
form: rototilled
Senses: examples: text: We had to rototill the garden before we planted the flowers.
glosses: To break up and turn soil using a rototiller.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To make extensive and pervasive changes to a piece of code without altering its functionality.
work like a horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works like a horse
form: working like a horse
form: worked like a horse
form: worked like a horse
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To work very hard; to toil.
Synonyms: work like a dog
work like a mule
work like a nailer
work like a Trojan
Related terms: workhorse
piss like a racehorse
eat like a horse
set one's shoulder to the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets one's shoulder to the wheel
form: setting one's shoulder to the wheel
form: set one's shoulder to the wheel
form: set one's shoulder to the wheel
Senses: glosses: Synonym of put one's shoulder to the wheel.
synonyms: word: put one's shoulder to the wheel
operoseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From operose + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being operose; tedium.
Synonyms: operosity
hurry-skurry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hurry-skurries
form: hurry-skurrying
form: hurry-skurried
form: hurry-skurried
form: hurry-scurry
Senses: examples: text: […] Besides, you are perfectly able to protect Telemachus, and to see him safely home again, while the suitors have to come hurry-skurrying back without having killed him.
ref: 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 62
glosses: To hurry; act hurriedly.
hurry-skurry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurry-skurries
form: hurry-scurry
Senses: examples: text: An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]
ref: 1793, Arthur Young, “1788 [chapter]”, in Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France. […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Dublin: Printed for Messrs. R. Cross, […], →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.
hurry-skurry
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: hurry-scurry
Senses: glosses: With confusion and bustle.
push on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes on
form: pushing on
form: pushed on
form: pushed on
Senses: examples: text: The rider, to whom the paths of these wilds seemed intimately known, pushed on at a rapid pace, managing, with much dexterity, to chuse the safest route, […]
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:
text: The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
synonyms: press on
glosses: To persist, persevere.
examples: text: Push on the door if it doesn't open automatically.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on.
lethargical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lethargical
form: most lethargical
Senses: glosses: lethargic
dead asleep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Sleeping in a deep sleep
Synonyms: fast asleep
stack z's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stacks z's
form: stacking z's
form: stacked z's
form: stacked z's
Etymology: See z's. Sleeping cartoon characters are often depicted with a string of z's rising from the nose or mouth.
Senses: glosses: To sleep; to be asleep.
lay it on thick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays it on thick
form: laying it on thick
form: laid it on thick
form: laid it on thick
Senses: examples: text: She really laid it on thick when her pet died.
text: […] Everybody else was lookin' and listenin' to me and I laid it on thicker and heavier as I went.
ref: 1973, Charlie Daniels, Uneasy Rider:
glosses: To exaggerate or overstate a feeling or emotion.
examples: text: He knew he needed to lay it on thick in his job interview.
glosses: To flatter.
examples: text: Her mother laid it on thick, telling her to call home more often.
glosses: To guilt, guilt-trip.
Related terms: blow out of proportion
laborous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laborous
form: most laborous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of laborious.
Derived terms: laborously
labyrinthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labyrinthic
form: most labyrinthic
Etymology: From labyrinth + -ic.
Senses: glosses: labyrinthine
Related terms: labyrinth
labyrinthically
lacertine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacertine
form: most lacertine
Senses: glosses: Lizard-like; lacertian.
lacertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacertines
Senses: glosses: A lizard-like creature.
lacertian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈsəːtɪən/
ipa: /ləˈsəːʃən/
Forms: form: more lacertian
form: most lacertian
Etymology: From Latin lacerta (“lizard”) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: None of these lacertian giants survived the Pleistocene era. For the Javan and Timorese varanids, only a handful of bones remind us of their existence, and the timing of their extinctions remains unknown.
ref: 2017 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling a lizard; lizard-like.
lacertian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈsəːtɪən/
ipa: /ləˈsəːʃən/
Forms: form: lacertians
Etymology: From Latin lacerta (“lizard”) + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Lacerta.
lacery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laceries
Etymology: From lace + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Lace or laces collectively.
examples: text: The room contained a lacery of wires and cables.
glosses: Something interlaced.
lachrymary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lachrymary
form: most lachrymary
form: lacrimary
form: lacrymary
Senses: glosses: Containing or made to contain tears; lachrymal.
lachrymate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lachrymates
form: lachrymating
form: lachrymated
form: lachrymated
form: lacrimate
Etymology: From a medieval spelling of Latin lacrimātus, perfect passive participle of lacrimō, see + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Alternatively, directly from Medieval Latin lachryma (“a tear”) + -ate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To cry or weep.
Derived terms: lachrymator
Related terms: lachrymal
lachrymation
lachrymose
lachrymosity
lachryphage
lachryphagous
lachryphagy
lack-lustre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lack-lustre
form: most lack-lustre
Senses: examples: text: Once the cobwebs of a lack-lustre first half were blown away, Spurs were irresistible and Arsenal were simply unable to cope with the power of Mousa Dembele in midfield and the creation and running of Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli - combined with the inevitable goalscoring prowess of Kane.
ref: 2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lackluster.
blood libels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood libel
softens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soften up
softening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soften up
softened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soften up
Sturgeon's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The humorous remark, attributed to science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, that "ninety percent of everything is crap".
Synonyms: Sturgeon's revelation
primitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitivities
Etymology: From primitive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being primitive; primitiveness.
receivability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˌsi.vɑˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
Etymology: From receive + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being receivable.
short and sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short and sweet
form: shorter and sweeter
form: most short and sweet
form: shortest and sweetest
Senses: examples: text: The staff meeting was short and sweet today.
text: Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:
glosses: Efficiently brief in duration, especially when referring to a task that becomes unpleasant when prolonged.
Related terms: KISS
manurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnʌɹ.i.əl/
ipa: /məˈnjʊəɹ.ɪ.əl/
ipa: /məˈnjɔːɹ.ɪəl/
Forms: form: more manurial
form: most manurial
Etymology: From manure + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
I understood from Anscra that all the filth and refuse of the settlement—except a certain portion kept for manurial purposes, and sent to the plantation—was thrown into this torrent nightly and swept perhaps hundreds of miles away.
text: Birds' dung has been held in high regard since time immemorial as a fertiliser, and the fact that this wonderful new manure was composed of birds' dung, and had a strong manurial smell, undoubtedly helped it to come rapidly into favour among farmers.
ref: 1917, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland:
glosses: Of or pertaining to manure.
Derived terms: manurially
reupholstery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-upholstery
Etymology: From re- + upholstery.
Senses: examples: text: Sofas and chairs can be coordinated into any design through reupholstery or slipcovers. Reupholstery requires a fabric selection appropriate for your piece.
ref: 2000, Mary Ann Young, David Nussbaum, The complete idiot's guide to decorating your home, Penguin:
glosses: The act of reupholstering furniture
exhortative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛɡˈzɔːtətɪv/
Forms: form: more exhortative
form: most exhortative
Etymology: From late Middle English exhortatyf, from Latin exhortātīvus, from exhortātus + -ivus. By surface analysis, exhort + -ative.
Senses: synonyms: exhortatory
hortative
glosses: Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
examples: text: In sections (5.2.7-10.) three special prohibitive moods were identified and described: negative imperative, negative exhortative and monitory.
ref: 1994, Hein van der Voort, A grammar of Kwaza, Mouton de Gruyzer, page 528:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: hortative
cohortative
glosses: Inflected hortative verb form that a speaker uses to avidly encourage a listener.
Derived terms: exhortatively
exhortative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛɡˈzɔːtətɪv/
Forms: form: exhortatives
Etymology: From late Middle English exhortatyf, from Latin exhortātīvus, from exhortātus + -ivus. By surface analysis, exhort + -ative.
Senses: synonyms: hortative
cohortative
glosses: The exhortative mood.
exhortatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhortative
foster father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foster fathers
Senses: glosses: A male adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
Related terms: foster brother
foster care
foster child
foster dam
foster daughter
foster family
foster feeder
foster home
foster mother
foster parent
foster sib
foster sibling
foster sire
foster sister
foster son
foster mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foster mothers
form: fostermother
Senses: glosses: A female adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
Related terms: foster brother
foster care
foster child
foster family
foster father
foster home
foster parent
foster sister
ploughings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ploughing
proems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proem
VTHL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of vertical takeoff and horizontal landing.
Coordinate terms: VTVL
HTVL
HTHL
HVTL
VHTL
V/HTL
H/VTL
Related terms: CATOBAR
CTOL
HTOL
STOBAR
STOL
STOVL
SVTOL
S/VTOL
V/STOL
VSTOL
VTOL
VTOSL
rocket
JATO
RATO
ZLTO
ZLL
syntonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syntonins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of fibrin found in muscle tissue, or produced by the action of acids on myosin
Synonyms: musculin
bicycle clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicycle clips
Senses: synonyms: cycle clip
glosses: Either of a pair of clips, worn around the ankles of a cyclist, that prevent the trousers becoming entangled with the chain.
poste restante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French poste restante.
Senses: examples: text: This was in the old days, before the expansion of the internet, so we hadn’t received any news from Norway. The only exceptions were letters from girlfriends, friends and family that were sent poste restante to the harbors where we were expected.
ref: 2017, Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise, page 50:
glosses: A postal service in which a mail is held at a post office to be collected by the recipient
Synonyms: word: general delivery
word: to be called for
word: care of post office
Related terms: accommodation address
paletôt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paletôts
Senses: examples: text: I need scarcely say, this paletôt added much to the elegance of her appearance, or, that these interchanges of attractive civility had great effect in cementing our family acquaintance.
ref: 1852, John Morgan, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Thirty-two Years a Wanderer, Hobart, Tasmania: Archibald MacDougal, page 31:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paletot.
pheromonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pheromone + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a pheromone
Derived terms: nonpheromonal
pheromonally
bullshido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bullshit + bushido. Attested from 1996, and popularized by the bullshido.net website from 2002.
Senses: examples: text: We understand the spirit of Bushido better than anyone. Or was that Bullshido?
ref: 1996 August 22, Tony Lovell, “An afternoon with Japanese ace Saburo Sakai”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Mar 2025:
glosses: Martial arts fraud, especially exaggerated or fraudulent claims regarding the biography, lineage, skills or experience of martial arts instructors.
HTOL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of horizontal takeoff and landing.
Hyponyms: CTOL
STOL
STOCL
CTOSL
STOBAR
CTOBAR
CATOBAR
Coordinate terms: SVTOL
S/VTOL
V/STOL
VSTOL
STOVL
VTOSL
CTOVL
VTOCL
VTOBAR
Derived terms: HTOVL
VTOHL
HVTOL
VHTOL
V
HTOL
H
VTOL
Related terms: VTVL
VTHL
HTVL
HTHL
HVTL
VHTL
V/HTL
H/VTL
RATO
JATO
CATO
ATO
ZLTO
ZLL
Bromma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough in Stockholm, Sweden.
Cannois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cannois
Etymology: From French Cannois.
Senses: examples: text: He was unobtrusive, an elderly Cannois whose daughter worked in the Eden-Olympia shopping mall.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 46:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Cannes on the French Riviera, Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
nardus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos).
Senses: examples: text: Then toke Mary a pounde off oyntment called nardus, perfecte and precious, and anoynted Jesus fete, and wept his fete with her heer, and all the housse smelled off the savre off the oyntment.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John:
glosses: The ointment nard.
glosses: The plant nard.
glosses: Matgrass (Nardus spp.).
shedless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shed + -less.
Senses: examples: text: MEDIEVAL RURAL LIFE AND ORGANIZATION. The manorial village. Let us refresh our memory at first with a glance at country life in England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. All rural life in England at this time was village life. Farmhouses were gathered into clusters sheltering a population ranging from fifty to a thousand persons. Radiating from and circling around each village were the plowlands, pastures, meadows, and woodlands, spreading open; for the most part houseless, barnless, shedless, mill-less, even fenceless, clear to the similar lands, commons, and open fields belonging to the inhabitants of each adjoining village. The landscape picture presented, then, is a village cluster, surrounded at the extremities of irregular radii by a ring of similar clusters, all varying in size but separated from one another by open, unfenced, agricultural land. But the memory of each villager sticks to his own parcels of land, whether held individually or in common, so definitely, that, even without ditch, wall, or survey stakes, a clean-cut, psychological boundary, very irregular in shape it may be surmised, divides the lands of one village from the lands of every adjoining village, and sets apart a certain group of villagers as a distinctive agricultural community.
ref: 1922 [1918], Charles Josiah Galpin, “Chapter IV: Structure of rural society”, in Rural Life, New York: Century Company, page 67:
text: The train landed us on a shedless shelterless platform and we had to run through the downpour across the line to the shelter.
ref: 1997, Helen J. Simpson, The day the trains came, page 136:
text: The only problem with being shedless was what to do with the clutter from the garden. For a few years I commandeered the kitchen.
ref: 2009, Martyn Cox, Big gardens in small spaces: out-of-the-box advice for boxed-in gardeners, page 181:
coordinate_terms: barnless
glosses: Without a shed (outbuilding).
Related terms: roofless
hammer headline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer headlines
Senses: glosses: A brief larger headline above a smaller main headline.
Manav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मानव (mānava).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
dehook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈhuːk/
ipa: /diːˈhʊk/
Forms: form: dehooks
form: dehooking
form: dehooked
form: dehooked
Etymology: From de- + hook.
Senses: examples: text: There is no way an angler or guide should ever dehook a toothy specimen without gloves and pliers.
ref: 2006, Hartt Wixom, Fishing: the extra edge, page 37:
glosses: To remove a hook or hooks from.
dehooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehook
dehooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehook
far post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: far posts
Senses: examples: text: United looked on course to end the season empty-handed as well as missing out on Champions League football when substitute Jason Puncheon's powerful far-post finish put Palace ahead with 12 minutes left.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The goalpost furthest from where a cross is made.
near post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near posts
Senses: examples: text: This was a small element of a remarkably assured performance that started with a crucial early save from Christian Pulisic and also saw him deny Chelsea a last-gasp win with a near-post block from Romelu Lukaku in the closing seconds of extra time.
ref: 2022 February 27, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The goalpost nearest from which a cross is made.
baccer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tobacco.