cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
delinquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/
Forms: form: more delinquent
form: most delinquent
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.
Senses: examples: text: Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
glosses: Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
examples: text: The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
text: The station's financial difficulties came to a head last week when the Internal Revenue Service had its bank accounts frozen as a result of delinquent taxes.
ref: 1981 February 7, David Morris, “Money Troubles May Close WCAS”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 3:
glosses: Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
glosses: Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
Synonyms: sense: late or failing to pay a debt
word: defaulting
Derived terms: delinquency
delinquently
juvenile delinquent
nondelinquent
predelinquent
Related terms: derelict
relic
relict
relinquish
delinquent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/
Forms: form: delinquents
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.
Senses: examples: text: She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of "guid King James's whipping-boy," when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 269:
glosses: One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.
glosses: A person who has not paid their debts.
glosses: A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).
Synonyms: cavalier
sticky bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticky buns
Senses: glosses: A bun with a coating of melted sugar on top.
glosses: Synonym of slippery jack (“type of mushroom”).
synonyms: word: slippery jack
extra: type of mushroom
ungodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɡɒdli/
ipa: /ʌnˈɡɑdli/
Forms: form: more ungodly
form: most ungodly
Etymology: From Middle English ungodli (“cruelly, maliciously, wickedly; unfairly, unlawfully, wrongly; discourteously, rudely”) [and other forms], from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’), + godli (“excellently; pleasingly, splendidly; courteously, graciously; gladly, willingly; righteously; properly, rightly; at all, possibly; much”). Godli is probably derived from Old English gōdlīċe (“goodly”), from gōd (“good”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to join, unite; to suit”)) + -līċe (suffix forming adverbs); thus, equivalent to un- + good + -ly. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch ongodelike, ongodlike (modern Dutch ongoddelijk), Middle High German ungöttlich, Swedish ogudelike, ogudlike (both obsolete), ogudligt.
Senses: examples: text: Beholde⸝ the lorde ſhall come with thouſandꝭ of ſayntꝭ⸝ to geve iudgement agaynſt all men⸝ and to rebuke all that are vngodly amonge them⸝ of all their vngodly dedes⸝ which they have vngodly cõmitted⸝ [...]
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Pistle off Sanct Judas j:[14–15], folio cccxx, verso:
text: It is ungodly made, fashioned by man, a beast spun from fire and steel.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste
, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 123:
glosses: In an impious, irreverent, or ungodly manner; ungodlily.
binturong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪn.t(j)ʊəˌɹɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɪn.tuˌɹɔŋ/
ipa: /-tju-/
ipa: /-t(j)ʊɹ-/
ipa: /-ɹɑŋ/
Forms: form: binturongs
Etymology: From Malay binturung.
Senses: glosses: A large species of civet, Arctictis binturong, of southern Asia.
Synonyms: Asian bearcat
bearcat
Palawan bearcat
shake one's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes one's ass
form: shaking one's ass
form: shook one's ass
form: shaken one's ass
Senses: examples: text: I see you baby, shaking that ass, shaking that ass.
glosses: To perform a dance which involves lots of movement in the buttock area.
Related terms: get groovy
shake it
chin up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Ellipsis of keep one's chin up.
Senses: examples: text: Chin up: it’s your birthday.
glosses: Be happy; cheer up.
chin up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chins up
form: chinning up
form: chinned up
form: chinned up
Etymology: Ellipsis of keep one's chin up.
Senses: examples: text: You'll have to chin up to get through this.
glosses: To face a situation cheerfully or with confidence.
Paarl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːrl/
Senses: glosses: A town in the Western Cape, South Africa.
paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪntɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of painting
pair bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹˌbɑnd/
Forms: form: pair bonds
Senses: glosses: A relationship, often permanent, formed between a male and female animal; initiated during courtship and maintained after mating.
Derived terms: pair-bond
pair-bonder
Related terms: monogamy
coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), German kommend (“coming”), Swedish kommande (“coming”), Icelandic komandi (“coming”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come
Derived terms: a long time coming
have it coming
intercoming
latecoming
newcoming
non-coming
offcoming
oncoming
outcoming
there's a good time coming
upcoming
coming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: comings
Etymology: From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).
Senses: examples: text: The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.
text: But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of arriving; an arrival.
Derived terms: aftercoming
coming into the world
forecoming
forthcoming
gaincoming
homecoming
second coming
shortcoming
coming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).
Senses: examples: text: We expect great things from you this coming year.
text: She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
text: Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,
ref: 1807, George Gordon Byron, To the Earl of Clare:
glosses: Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
examples: text: Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.
glosses: Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
examples: text: How coming to the poet every muse!
ref: 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
text: That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.
ref: 1697, John Dryden, “Dedication of the Æneis”, in The Works of Virgil:
glosses: Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
Synonyms: sense: of the future
word: unborn
word: future
Derived terms: coming on
this coming
up-and-coming
lived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪvd/
ipa: /laɪvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live
lived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪvd/
ipa: /laɪvd/
Senses: examples: text: a short-lived recycling scheme
glosses: Having a specified duration of life.
Derived terms: lived experience
lived time
short-lived
unlived
continued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuːd/
Senses: examples: text: 1797, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hiſtory, page 20,
[…] and for the pronunciation of F, a more continued ſound is neceſſary than for that of any of the conſonants.
text: 1819 [1736], Joseph Butler, Andrew Kippis (biography of the author), Samuel Hallifax (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, page 93,
But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued, oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.
text: Instead of becoming more continued, intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.
ref: 1820, A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers, page 57:
glosses: Prolonged; unstopped.
glosses: Uninterrupted.
Derived terms: continuedness
uncontinued
Related terms: continuedly
continued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuːd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of continue
vats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vat
vats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vat
BSAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Business Software Association of Australia.
glosses: Initialism of British South American Airways.
hips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of hip
hips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hip
BPL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of broadband over power line.
BPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bangladesh Premier League.
palæoanthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palæoanthropologists
Etymology: From palæo- + anthropologist.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of palæanthropologist.
palaeoanthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoanthropologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleoanthropologist.
maculature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækjʊlətjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmækjʊlət͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: maculatures
Senses: glosses: Blotting paper.
glosses: Paper waste; printed materials that may not be read, such as junk mail.
ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: ramps
Etymology: ]See ramson.
Senses: examples: text: A ramp is a potently flavored wild scallion, a vegetable with staying power.
ref: 2006, Su Clauson-Wicker, Off the Beaten Path West Virginia, volume 6, page 61:
glosses: An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
examples: text: And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]
ref: 1728, John Dennis, Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the lock. In several letters to a friend. With a preface, occasion'd by the late Treatise on the profound, and the Dunciad., London: J. Roberts, page 16:
glosses: A promiscuous man or woman.
glosses: A worthless person.
Synonyms: sense: Allium tricoccum
word: ramps
sense: Allium tricoccum
word: rams
sense: Allium tricoccum
word: ramson
sense: Allium tricoccum
word: ramsons
sense: Allium tricoccum
word: wild leek
Related terms: buckram
paleoanthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoanthropologists
form: palaeoanthropologist
form: palaeanthropologist
Etymology: From paleo- + anthropology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who specializes in paleoanthropology.
palæoanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palæo- + anthropo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaeanthropology.
palaeoanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + anthropo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleanthropology.
paleoanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleanthropology
form: palaeoanthropology
form: palæoanthropology
Etymology: From paleo- + anthropology.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The scientific study of ancient human remains.
Derived terms: paleoanthropologist
paleoanthropological
puppetmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppetmasters
Etymology: From puppet + master.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puppet master.
fighting fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fighting fishes
form: fighting fish
Senses: glosses: A small aggressive freshwater fish originating from Thailand, popular as aquarium fish, Betta splendens.
dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɛlə/
ipa: /ˈdwɛlɚ/
rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dwellers
Etymology: From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The new couple are apartment dwellers.
text: To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315:
text: As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.
ref: 1963, Colin Clark, Australian Hopes and Fears, page 75:
synonyms: word: inhabitant
word: dweller
word: resident
word: denizen
glosses: An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
Derived terms: basement-dweller
basement dweller
bydweller
cave dweller
cellar dweller
city dweller
citydweller
country dweller
fringe dweller
indweller
mirror dweller
night dweller
outdweller
shackdweller
slum dweller
slumdweller
town dweller
town-dweller
towndweller
urban dweller
valley dweller
Related terms: dwell
cudgel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌd͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -ʌdʒəl
Forms: form: cudgels
Etymology: From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“stick with a rounded end”).
Senses: examples: text: The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates.
text: Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Turns Butcher”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part second, page 48:
text: So when he aroſe, he getteth him a grievous Crab-tree cudgel, and goes down into the Dungeon to them; and there firſt falls to Rateing of them, as if they were dogs: […]
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
examples: text: As above said, legibility depends also much on the design of the letter; and again I take up the cudgels against compressed type, and that especially in Roman letters: […]
ref: 1893, William Morris, The Ideal Book, published 1908:
text: Mrs. Clinton’s Senate tenure, however, also demonstrated the risks of overcompensation: Not wanting to give Republicans fodder to portray her as soft on defense, she authorized President Bush to use force in Iraq and handed Mr. Obama a political cudgel to use against her.
ref: 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times:
text: [Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
text: Mr. Cruz has been able to use his pseudo-intellectualism and his Ivy League pedigree as a cudgel.
ref: 2021 January 11, Mimi Swartz, “Never Forget What Ted Cruz Did”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
Derived terms: becudgel
take up the cudgel for
cudgel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌd͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -ʌdʒəl
Forms: form: cudgels
form: cudgeling
form: cudgelling
form: cudgeled
form: cudgeled
form: cudgelled
form: cudgelled
Etymology: From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“stick with a rounded end”).
Senses: examples: text: The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
text: I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Poets like Cudgel'd Bullys, never do / At firſt, or ſecond blow, ſubmit to you; / But will provoke you ſtill and ne're have done, / Till you are weary ſirst, with laying on: […]
ref: 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, prologue:
text: Aboard the barge and so off the trail, the blessing lost its puissance and the barge-tender, who coveted Guyal's rich accoutrements, sought to cudgel him with a knoblolly.
ref: 1950, Jack Vance, “Mazirian the Magician”, in Dying Earth:
glosses: To strike with a cudgel.
examples: text: “Most remarkable,” murmured Tarzan, cudgeling his brain for some pretext upon which to turn the subject.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 102:
glosses: To exercise (one's wits or brains) in an effort to force a memory or solution; to rack (one's mind).
Derived terms: cudgeler
cudgel one's brain
uncudgeled
uncudgelled
Related terms: club
singlestick
Swift Current
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In Saskatchewan, apparently named after Swift Current Creek.
Senses: glosses: A city in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural municipality surrounding the city in south-west Saskatchewan; in full, the Rural Municipality of Swift Current No. 137.
glosses: A community and designated place in eastern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
topmast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒpmɑːst/
ipa: /ˈtɒpməst/
ipa: /ˈtɑpmæst/
ipa: /ˈtɑpməst/
Forms: form: topmasts
Etymology: From top + mast.
Senses: glosses: The highest mast in a fore-and-aft-rigged ship.
glosses: The mast below the topgallant mast in a square-rigged ship.
Derived terms: maintopmast
limitrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmɪtɹəʊf/
Etymology: From French limitrophe, from Latin limitrophus.
Senses: examples: text: As was stipulated in the Firman of 1249, Servia shall be bound to send back home all emigrants from the limitrophe provinces, and, with the exception of the fortresses which exist in Servia ab antiquo, all fortifications subsequently erected […]
ref: 1877, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 272:
text: The total westward movement of ground water into Mexicali Valley adjacent to the limitrophe section, thus, was about 36,000 acre-feet in 1960. The data on which the foregoing estimate is based are very meager.
ref: 1973, Franklin Howard Olmsted, Omar Joseph Loeltz, Burdge Irelan, Geohydrology of the Yuma Area, Arizona and California:
text: Ongoing Cooperation with Mexico Concerns regarding the riparian and estuarine ecology of the Colorado River in the limitrophe section (the approximately 24-mile portion of the Colorado River where the river forms the border […]
ref: 2011, Katherine Ott Verburg, Colorado River Documents 2008 (Hardcover Book and Autoloading DVD), Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 14:
text: The problem lies in the rhizome – in the plane of understanding of the difference between mental space-aggressors and mental space-victims, which include all the limitrophe states.
ref: 2017, Oleg Bazaluk, The Theory of War and Peace: The Geophilosophy of Europe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Border, frontier; being or existing along a border or frontier.
limitrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmɪtɹəʊf/
Forms: form: limitrophes
Etymology: From French limitrophe, from Latin limitrophus.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:limitrophe.
glosses: A border state or area.
torsade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Forms: form: torsades
Etymology: Borrowed from French torsade.
Senses: examples: Harper's Magazine
the crown decked with torsades of pearls
glosses: A decoration, especially on hats, made from twisted ribbon
examples: text: Magnesium infusions for atrial fibrillation & torsade
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: torsade de pointes
Derived terms: torsadogenesis
torsadogenic
sidestroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidestrokes
Etymology: From side + stroke.
Senses: glosses: A swimming stroke swum on the swimmer's side.
doggy style
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡi staɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɔ.ɡi staɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡ.i staɪl/
Forms: form: doggie-style
form: doggie style
form: doggiestyle
form: doggy-style
form: doggystyle
Etymology: Adverbial phrase composed of the elements doggy (a "dog") and style ("a particular manner of doing something"). From the resemblance to the manner in which dogs mate.
Senses: examples: text: […]chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys usually copulate face to face though on occasion will perform that act "doggy" style.
ref: 1968, Dear Doctor Hip Pocrates; advice your family doctor never gave you, page 5:
text: And then we'll do it doggy style so we can both watch "X-Files"
ref: 1999, Jimmy Pop, “The Bad Touch”, in Hooray for Boobies, performed by Bloodhound Gang:
glosses: In a position whereby one partner is on all fours and the other partner is penetrating from behind.
raw_tags: of sexual intercourse
Synonyms: doggy fashion
doggy
doggy style
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡi staɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɔ.ɡi staɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡ.i staɪl/
Forms: form: doggie-style
form: doggie style
form: doggiestyle
form: doggy-style
form: doggystyle
Etymology: Adverbial phrase composed of the elements doggy (a "dog") and style ("a particular manner of doing something"). From the resemblance to the manner in which dogs mate.
Senses: glosses: The position assumed for doggy style intercourse.
Synonyms: retrocopulation
doggy style
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.ɡi staɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɔ.ɡi staɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡ.i staɪl/
Forms: form: doggie-style
form: doggie style
form: doggiestyle
form: doggy-style
form: doggystyle
Etymology: Adverbial phrase composed of the elements doggy (a "dog") and style ("a particular manner of doing something"). From the resemblance to the manner in which dogs mate.
Senses: examples: text: Doggy style sex can provide better stimulation for the receiving partner than the missionary position.
glosses: With one partner on all fours and the other penetrating from behind.
raw_tags: of sexual intercourse
Related terms: take from behind
note to self
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notes to self
Senses: examples: text: Note to self: Back up files more frequently.
text: Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters. (Note to self: if ever in Budapest on New Year’s ...)
ref: 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A reminder to oneself to do something important.
collecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/
Forms: form: collectings
Etymology: From collect + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.
ref: 2009, Melissa A Hardy, Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis, page 568:
glosses: A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
Derived terms: ballot collecting
grievance collecting
injustice collecting
stamp collecting
wound collecting
collecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/
Etymology: From collect + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collect
collected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪd/
Forms: form: more collected
form: most collected
Etymology: From collect + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the collected works of Charles Dickens
synonyms: bunched
compiled
glomerate
glosses: Gathered together.
examples: text: He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.
text: In an instant Francesca would become perfectly collected—every past event would stand out singularly clear, and she would turn, take one look at Guido, and then breathe again.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 285:
text: There is no man here so young—and we have some very young members—but he must have observed, must have known from the impulses of his own mind and his own feelings, that, when in a state of high excitement, a man's judgment is not so accurate, not so effectual, not to be relied upon to such an extent, as when he is cool, calm and collected. That is an axiom in morals, in the history of human life, about which I suppose there will be no question. Are we now in that condition?
ref: 1864 June 16, Ezekiel F. Chambers, edited by W. M. Blair Lord and Henry M. Parkhurst, The Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Maryland:
text: He became very cool and collected all at once.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
synonyms: word: calm
word: cool
word: composed
word: together
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus.
Derived terms: calm and collected
collectedly
collectedness
cool, calm and collected
precollected
uncollected
Related terms: garbage-collected
garbage collected
collected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪd/
Etymology: From collect + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: simple past and past participle of collect
items
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.təmz/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.təmz/
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəmz]
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩z]
ipa: /ˈɑɪ.təmz/
ipa: [ˈɑɪ.ɾəmz]
Senses: glosses: plural of item
items
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.təmz/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.təmz/
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəmz]
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩z]
ipa: /ˈɑɪ.təmz/
ipa: [ˈɑɪ.ɾəmz]
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of item
dawned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: donned (cot–caught merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dawn
Derived terms: undawned
accumulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accumulate
amasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amass
amasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He amasses his wealth in secret.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amass
stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæmps/
rhymes: -æmps
Senses: glosses: plural of stamp
stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæmps/
rhymes: -æmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stamp
amassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amass
stamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæmpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɛəmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stamp
stamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæmpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɛəmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmpɪŋ
Forms: form: stampings
Senses: examples: text: But that night there were stampings, boots against the thick wall of darkness
And when they were gone I heard the wailing of women, wives and mothers […]
ref: 1970, Westerly, page 44:
glosses: The sound or action of one who stamps.
glosses: A method of manufacturing using dies and extreme pressure.
glosses: A part made by such a method.
Derived terms: stamping ground
stamping mill
ticket stamping machine
ticket-stamping machine
amassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amass
amassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been gathered or assembled in a large group.
Derived terms: unamassed
stamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæmpt/
rhymes: -æmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stamp
adhesives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhesive
conceited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conceited
form: conceiteder
form: most conceited
form: conceitedest
form: conceipted
Etymology: From conceit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
ref: c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady:
text: Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness.
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
text: And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, ‘Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
ref: 1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 480:
glosses: Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
examples: text: Conceited wit showed its character towards the end of the fifteenth century in the work of poets who made it their aim to exercise their hearers' minds with cleaver plays of metaphor and ingenious reasoning.
ref: 2006, A. J. Smith, Metaphysical Wit, page 20:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
examples: text: AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: Endowed with fancy or imagination.
examples: text: A conceited chair to sleep in.
ref: 1644 November 20 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 10 November 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
Derived terms: unconceited
conceited as a barber's cat
conceitedly
conceitedness
self-conceited
conceited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conceipted
Etymology: See conceit (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conceit
May Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May Days
Senses: glosses: The first day of May, a festival celebrating the beginning of the spring season; originally, and still among neopagans, a fertility celebration.
glosses: Labour Day, the first day of May, a worldwide workers' holiday.
Synonyms: sense: workers' holiday
word: Labor Day
sense: workers' holiday
word: Labour Day
word: International Workers' Day
Derived terms: May Day sweep
May-day sweep
Related terms: maypole
May Queen
Jack in the green
'Obby 'Oss
pay day
snaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snap
snaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snap
spans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of span
spans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of span
Zuber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Zuber or Polish Żuber.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
wreckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wreckless
form: most wreckless
Etymology: From wreck + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Hence to where our all-hallowed ark uprears / Its safe and wreckless sides.
ref: 1822, [Lord Byron], “Heaven and Earth, a Mystery, […]”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South., volume I, number II, London: […] John Hunt, […], part I, scene III, page 200:
glosses: Without causing or suffering a wreck.
wreckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of reckless.
pets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: plural of pet
pets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pet
fundaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundament
fundament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌn.də.mənt/
ipa: /ˈfan.də.mənt/
Forms: form: fundaments
form: foundament
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”). Doublet of fondamento.
Senses: glosses: Foundation.
examples: text: It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
ref: 1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized:
text: ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]
ref: 1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119
text: Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.
ref: 1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9:
text: I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.
ref: 2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38:
glosses: The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
glosses: The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
Related terms: fundamental
pests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pest
steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛps/
rhymes: -ɛps
Senses: examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: plural of step.
steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛps/
rhymes: -ɛps
Senses: examples: text: She followed the steps of the girl beside her
text: Her mother was a writer and Con had always determined to follow in her steps.
glosses: a course followed by a person in walking or as walking
examples: text: He clumped up the steps.
glosses: a flight of stairs, especially out of doors
glosses: stepladder
steps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛps/
rhymes: -ɛps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of step
AIIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Information Industry Association.
immigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
Forms: form: immigrants
Etymology: From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).
Senses: examples: text: Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.
text: What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.
ref: 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:
text: However, an accompanied undocumented immigrant child should not be removed from his or her family , unless there are grounds for removal in terms of section 14(4) of the Child Care Act, 1983.
ref: 2001, South African Law Commission, Review of the Child Care Act, page 1123:
text: [Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
ref: 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
text: Hamtramck is described in the resolution as “one of the most diverse cities in the United States.” The city has a large immigrant presence and all the city council members are of the Muslim faith, city manager Max Garbarino told CNN Thursday. Hamtramck was also the first known city in the US to inaugurate an all-Muslim government, CNN previously reported.
ref: 2023 June 15, Eli Masket and Michelle Watson, “A city in Michigan votes to permanently ban Pride flags from display on public property during Pride Month”, in CNN:
glosses: A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
glosses: A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
Derived terms: anti-immigrant
antiimmigrant
crimmigrant
digital immigrant
economic immigrant
Euroimmigrant
illegal immigrant
landed immigrant
new immigrant
nonimmigrant
trimmigrant
undocumented immigrant
immigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
Etymology: From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
Related terms: expatriate
gynosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynosexual
form: most gynosexual
Senses: examples: text: Where do these arguments leave tango women, with their hetero- and gynosexual interests and practices and their possible gynosocial bondings?
ref: 1994, Marta Savigliano, Tango and the Political Economy of Passion:
text: I do not say this to question anyone’s firm concept of themselves as either heterosexual or homosexual/gynosexual.
ref: 2003, Eden E Torres, Chicana Without Apology:
glosses: Alternative form of gynesexual.
gynosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynosexuals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynesexual.
interlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: All societies have three key interlocking elements: Religion, economics, and politics.
glosses: present participle and gerund of interlock
interlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlockings
Senses: examples: text: There was still no attempt to arrange interlocking between points and signals; that came later. In 1856, John Saxby carried out the principle involved in interlocking—the prevention of signals and points being in conflicting positions—and erected apparatus to do that at this same junction.
ref: 1955 April, R. H. Warring, “Some Early Railway Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 233:
text: In addition to the usual interlocking between conflicting signal and point levers achieved by electric locks, track circuits, when occupied, hold signals governing entry to the relevant line at danger; [...] The up main through inner home signal was held at danger by interlocking, because the track circuits of a conflicting route ahead of it were occupied by another train [...].
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through a set of intersecting tracks, such as junctions or crossings.
Derived terms: interlocking tower
iconify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iconifies
form: iconifying
form: iconified
form: iconified
Etymology: From icon + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make into an icon.
glosses: To add icons to.
fall guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall guys
form: fall-guy
form: fallguy
Senses: synonyms: word: dupe#Noun
word: patsy#Noun
word: chump
word: chumpion
word: cousin
word: cull
word: cully
word: dupe
word: dotterel
word: easy mark
word: fall guy
word: fish
word: gudgeon
word: gull
word: juggins
word: live one
word: mark
word: mug
word: muggins
word: pigeon
word: rube
word: sap
word: saphead
word: schlemiel
word: sheep
word: simp
word: Simple Simon
word: soft touch
word: steamer
word: stiff
word: stooge
word: sucker
glosses: One who is gullible and easily duped.
examples: text: Clemons's supporters have over the years given a different rendition of events. In the racially heated atmosphere of St Louis in the early 1990s, they say, Clemons was made the fall guy. Of the four men who were charged with the murders, the three black men were all put on death row while the one white man is now free on parole.
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
text: Marples, who later fled to Monaco to escape prosecution for fraud, was the driving force behind The Reshaping of British Railways report published on March 27 1963. Dr Richard Beeching [who wrote the report] was just his fall guy.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
synonyms: word: patsy#Noun
word: sacrificial lamb
word: escapegoat
word: fall guy
word: folk devil
word: goat
word: Joe Soap
word: patsy
word: scapegoat
word: whipping boy
glosses: A scapegoat.
Related terms: fall for
take the fall
yak shaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Carlin Vieri in his time at the MIT AI Lab (1993–1998) after viewing a segment at the end of "The Boy Who Cried Rat!" (1991), the sixth episode of the first season of The Ren and Stimpy Show. The segment featured "Yak Shaving Day", a Christmas-like holiday where participants watch for the shaven yak to float by in his enchanted canoe.
Senses: examples: text: I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off.
glosses: Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing one to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows one to solve a larger problem.
examples: text: I looked at a reference manual for my car just to answer one question, but I spent the whole afternoon with my nose buried in it, just yak shaving, and got no work done on the car itself.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:yak shaving.
glosses: A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
Related terms: bikeshedding
when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp