cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
boof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːf/
ipa: [bʉːf]
Forms: form: boofs
form: boofing
form: boofed
form: boofed
Etymology: Imitative. Kayaking sense from the onomatopoeic sound a kayak makes when it lands on the water after “ski jumping” the waterfall forming the backwash; generally attributed to whitewater kayaking aficionados in the eastern United States in the mid- to late 1970s.
Senses: glosses: To make this sound.
qualifier: kayaking; rafting; kayaking; rafting
glosses: To make a boof jump when whitewater kayaking, rafting, etc.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
qualifier: especially barramundi
glosses: To surface quickly and catch prey by gulping, a behaviour which produces an audible sound.
raw_tags: of fish
Related terms: hardcore
boof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːf/
ipa: [bʉːf]
Forms: form: boofs
form: boofing
form: boofed
form: boofed
Senses: examples: text: Did they attempt to put DOA2 on the recently released list and boofed?
ref: 2000 March 15, KrazieHase, “Sword Of The Bezerk - EB confuses me again...”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):
text: Grey Wolf, I apologize... I majorly boofed who said what, and tried -- really tried -- to cancel this article right after I wrote it.
ref: 2001 January 7, Timberwoof, rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
text: Something either got into their parts supply OR they simply tried to run them too lean OR they boofed on the corrected alitittude and jetted them too lean by accident.
ref: 2002 October 7, SimRacer, “Re: Hendrick engines, they should patent them!”, in rec.autos.sport.nascar (Usenet):
text: I just took this thing out of the box yesterday, so don't know if I boofed something up while exploring the options and directories.
ref: 2007 June 20, Rob B., “Nuvi 660 Shows Two Drives”, in alt.satellite.gps.garmin (Usenet):
text: So if Jesus knew, but didn't want to show his divinity and boofed the date of the Second Coming, then he deliberately lied.
ref: 2018 January 11, Teresita, alt.atheism (Usenet):
glosses: To get something wrong or make a mistake.
boof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːf/
ipa: [bʉːf]
Forms: form: boofs
form: boofing
form: boofed
form: boofed
Etymology: Spelling variant of bouffe.
Senses: examples: text: When I took the band off, her hair boofed out and just looks stunning!
ref: 2002 October 31, Morgana, “Chorus line gals”, in alt.collecting.topper-dawn (Usenet):
text: In fact, I just saw the movie Shirley Valentine (for the umpteenth time!), and couldn't even look at the adult Marjorie Majors without seeing Patsy and her boofed up hair and red lipstick and long cigarette holder.
ref: 2003 August 31, TammyM, “Re: OT: Penis Casino; free Viagra!”, in alt.support.stop-smoking (Usenet):
text: I see you featured the creatent 'Healy of Dealey' who's boofed hairdo * is as over blown as the innuendo , contradictions and mistakes of the WR .
Keynote * : After hearing the comment : "You only have to look at his head to see that he has a small brain" , Healy immediately went to Mae Brussels 'Hairdo's and Do-Do's R Us' for a complete top heavy make over .
ref: 2009 October 17, cdddraftsman, “Re: Zapruder Symposium videos on YouTube so far”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet):
text: Having one's "hair done" means so many things these days. Not too long ago, it entailed a wash, a trim, and a boofing up.
ref: 2011, Ellie Lofaro, Bonding with the Blonde Women, page 29:
glosses: To puff out in a voluminous way.
raw_tags: of hair
boof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːf/
ipa: [bʉːf]
Etymology: Spelling variant of bouffe.
Senses: examples: text: I was only 400 metres from my hotel so I thought I'd have no trouble sneaking back before anyone saw me to wash the boof out.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 114:
qualifier: Of hair
glosses: extra volume, not necessarily desired; boofiness;
Related terms: boofy
Pacific diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific divers
Senses: glosses: Gavia pacifica, a medium-sized member of the diver family that breeds on deep lakes in the tundra region of Alaska and northern Canada, having a grey head, black throat, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle.
Synonyms: Pacific loon
Scandiknavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Scandinavian + knavery. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1939 novel Finnegans Wake (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: For to sod the brave son of Scandiknavery.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
text: Mrs. Christiani twice […] guesses that Kierkegaard may be behind this bit of Scandiknavery.
ref: 1966, A Wake Newslitter, volume 3, page 114:
text: In other words, had the [Viking] site in Maine been “salted?” Was this simply a new and audacious case of “Scandiknavery?”
ref: 1990, Neil Rolde, Maine: A Narrative History, →ISBN, page 6:
text: However, some myth elements that a few other Norwegian-American promoters tried to make part of the Norwegian-American homemaking argument may more readily be dismissed as what Michael Musmanno in an angry moment has called “Scandiknavery.” One such myth was […] that George Washington was of Norwegian descent.
ref: 2000, Orm Øverland, Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Duplicity by or involving Scandinavians.
wikipedia: Finnegans Wake
churchgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchgoers
Etymology: From church + goer.
Senses: examples: text: Well, one Christmas Eve, just like to-night, she thought she would go to the morning service on the Christmas Day, for she was a great church-goer, and so she left out some coffee with the girl before she went to bed, that she might get a cup next morning she was sure a cup of warm coffee would do her a great deal of good at that early hour!
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:
text: A forced churchgoer has no religion, a terrified churchgoer has no Christianity, a bribed churchgoer has no morals.
ref: 1985, Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: One who regularly goes to church; a practicing Christian.
Coordinate terms: chapelgoer
mosque-goer
temple-goer
shrinegoer
synagogue-goer
gurdwara-goer
Derived terms: nonchurchgoer
poulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poulters
Etymology: From Middle English pulter, from Old French pouletier, from poulet (“fowl”).
Senses: glosses: A dealer in poultry; a poulterer.
Derived terms: poulteress
poulter's measure
poulterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊltəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈpəʊltəɹə/
Forms: form: poulterers
Etymology: From earlier poulter (with the addition of -er), from Middle English pulter, from Old French pouletier, from poulet (“fowl”).
Senses: glosses: A dealer in poultry.
Synonyms: word: poulter
poulter's measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poulter's measures
Etymology: Coined by George Gascoigne in 1576, because it was said that poulters gave 12 eggs for the first dozen and 14 if you bought a second dozen.
Senses: examples: text: Good ladies, ye that have your pleasure in exile
Step in your foot, come take a place and mourn with me awhile.
And such as by their lords do set but little price,
Let them sit still, it skills them not what chance come on the dice.
ref: 1547, Earl Surrey, Complaint on the absence of her lover being at sea.:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables.
poult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒlt/
ipa: /pəʊlt/
rhymes: -ɒlt
rhymes: -əʊlt
ipa: /poʊlt/
Forms: form: poults
form: powt
Etymology: From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla. For the development of the stressed vowel, see poultry. Doublet of pullet.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 82:
text: And, besides, she [the old grouse's wife] was the mother of a family, and had seven little poults to wash and feed every day; […]
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
text: After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 19:
glosses: A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).
Derived terms: heath-poult
Related terms: poultry
gatecrash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: Singaporean English
ipa: /ˈɡeɪtkɹaʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: gatecrashes
form: gatecrashing
form: gatecrashed
form: gatecrashed
Etymology: From gate + crash.
Senses: examples: text: After Walsh was seen being escorted out as he attempted to gatecrash the interview, liberal viewers shared their outrage at Walsh's mocking of their convention.
ref: 2024 August 21, Will Potter, “Matt Walsh enrages Democrats by crashing DNC in 'white dudes for Kamala Harris' disguise”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.
Derived terms: gatecrasher
gatecrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Singaporean English
ipa: /ˈɡeɪtkɹaʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: gatecrashes
Etymology: From gate + crash.
Senses: glosses: An instance of gatecrashing a party, event, etc.
examples: text: We’ve heard of stories of grooms getting nervous before their big day – not because they’re afraid of botching their vows, or welling up in unmanly but happy tears – but because of the tasks that await them during the gatecrashing ceremony.
ref: 2015 October 5, Felicia Tan, “Modern alternatives to wedding traditions”, in Her World Brides Singapore, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2017:
text: For their wedding day, Mr Koh, who's 33 and works in marketing, arrived at his bride's house for the gatecrashing ceremony wearing a Darth Vader mask, while his groomsmen were decked out in Jedi robes.
ref: 2015 December 15, Lisa Twang, “Star Wars weddings hit Singapore”, in The New Paper Singapore, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:
text: During the 30-minute gatecrash, Mr Lee and his groomsmen did challenges such as forming a human pyramid and dancing to pop tunes such as Britney Spears' Toxic.
ref: 2016 June 12, Benson Ang, “Gladiator groomsmen”, in The Straits Times:
text: Madam Quek says: "Because my husband and most of the groomsmen are not Chinese, it was their first time experiencing a Chinese wedding gatecrash."
ref: 2016 November 6, Kimberly Lim, “Wedding gatecrashers: Putting love to the test”, in The New Paper Singapore:
qualifier: Asian English
glosses: Part of a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony in which the groom and his groomsmen complete several difficult or embarrassing tasks prepared by the bridesmaids to prove his love for the bride.
mischievious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭs.chēʹ.vē.əs
ipa: /mɪsˈt͡ʃiː.vi.əs/
rhymes: -iːviəs
Forms: form: more mischievious
form: most mischievious
Etymology: From mischievous, under the influence of adjectives ending in -ious.
Senses: examples: text: 'a want of food must and will keep the popular mind in such a state of irritability as to be easily worked upon by mischievious men'
ref: 1795, a correspondent to the Home Office; quoted in 2014, John Stevenson, Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832, 2nd edition, Routledge, p. 181
text: Jenny and Lenny, the mischievious twins, With muddied knees and gap-toothed grins, And rumbling tummies - they lick their lips, It's time for fish fingers, beans and chips.
ref: 2008, Karl Woodbury, England Is Truly a Magical Place:
text: In French, the meanings of malicieux and malice have changed to mean mischievious and mischieviousness, with an implication of cleverness and perhaps a little teasing.
ref: 2009, Saul H. Rosenthal, French Faux Amis: The Combined Book, page 17:
text: Most children are mischievious, in one way or another, but the boy in this book hatches a plan like no other, and invites some friends for dinner.
ref: 2014, Chris Davis, Lizards and Snakes for Dinner with Steaks:
glosses: Alternative form of mischievous and mischevious
femme fatale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛm fəˈtæl/
ipa: /fɛm fəˈtɑːl/
Forms: form: femmes fatales
form: femme fatales
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French femme fatale (literally “deadly woman”).
Senses: examples: text: Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale) / The things she does to please (She's a femme fatale)
ref: 1967, Lou Reed, “Femme Fatale”, in The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground:
synonyms: word: enchantress
word: femme fatale
word: man-eater
word: mantrap
word: seductress
word: she-wolf
word: siren
word: temptress
word: vamp
word: vixen
word: wolfess
antonyms: ingenue
coordinate_terms: fille fatale
homme fatal
glosses: An attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.
Derived terms: femme fatale firefly
femme fatale lightning bug
Related terms: succubus
social climber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social climbers
Senses: examples: text: “Are you accusing me of social climbing!” she fumed, getting right in his face. “You are a social climber, my darling.” “They only call you a social climber if you're not good at it,” Lucy said, starting for the front door, checking her phone for what would be the last time as she exited.
ref: 2012, Tonya Hurley, The Blessed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 79:
coordinate_terms: arriviste
careerist
nouveau riche
parvenu
glosses: One who tries to improve his or her social standing, especially by means of obsequious behaviour.
Related terms: social ladder
social mobility
corporate ladder
economic mobility
monkey-branch
upwardly mobile
upward mobility
black-throated diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-throated divers
Etymology: From the fact that the species is a diver with a black throat.
Senses: glosses: Gavia arctica, a medium-sized member of the loon or diver family that breeds in Eurasia, with grey head, black throat, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle.
Synonyms: Arctic loon
black-throated loon
Arctic loon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arctic loons
Senses: glosses: The black-throated diver bird.
red-throated diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-throated divers
Etymology: From the fact that the species is a diver with a red throat.
Senses: glosses: Gavia stellata, the smallest member of the loon or diver family, breeding in northern Eurasia and Arctic Canada, with grey head, red throat, white underparts and dark mantle.
Synonyms: red-throated loon
whabby
red-throated loon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-throated loons
Senses: glosses: The red-throated diver.
unquestionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkwɛs.t͡ʃən.ə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more unquestionable
form: most unquestionable
form: unquæstionable
Etymology: From un- + question + -able, compare questionable.
Senses: synonyms: inquestionable
glosses: Undeniable, obvious.
Derived terms: unquestionably
unsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈseɪf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: more unsafe
form: unsafer
form: most unsafe
form: unsafest
Etymology: From un- (not) + safe.
Senses: examples: text: For much the same reasons that safe languages are preferred over unsafe languages, these powerful---but unsafe---capabilities in Java should be restricted.
ref: 2015 October, Luis Mastrangelo et al., “Use at your own risk: the Java unsafe API in the wild”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, volume 50, number 10, →DOI:
text: "RMT has made it clear that our members have a right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions, and the union will be closely monitoring the situation. [...]"
ref: 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, pages 7–8:
glosses: Not safe (various senses); dangerous.
Synonyms: sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: precarious
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: rickety
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: shaky
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: tottering
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: unsteady
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: unstable
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: wobbly
Derived terms: memory-unsafe
unsafe sex
unsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈseɪf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: unsafes
form: unsafing
form: unsafed
form: unsafed
Etymology: From un- (reversive prefix) + safe.
Senses: glosses: To remove the safety from (a weapon).
blue heeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue heelers
Senses: examples: text: Shorty the Sixth, as he was sometimes called, had been a very winning puppy, and they had kept him at home until he began to exhibit the same tendencies that Duane's blue heelers always exhibited, that is, a tendency to herd children in the same way they would have herded cattle or sheep: they nipped their heels.
ref: 2003, Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed, page 75:
text: He always has his blue heeler dog in his office tucked away under his feet or near the door.
ref: 2007, Graham Greenwood, A Truckie's Dream: The Allan Scott Story : His Official Biography, page 113:
text: For some time, Dan and Pat had been at me to get a dog so we took a trip to the Yagoona RSPCA and came back with a blue heeler pup.
ref: 2008, Elizabeth Bruce, A Show Off, Just Like Your Father, page 92:
glosses: A blue-coated variety of the Australian Cattle Dog breed.
examples: text: “Take a gander son, but be quick about it,” he said lighting a cigarette. “The blue heelers come by here and start snoopin about.”
ref: 2008, Deborah N. David, The Janus Project, page 382:
glosses: A police officer.
shonky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shonkier
form: shonkiest
Etymology: From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English shonk (“smart”).
Senses: examples: text: 1986, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, ANZJS: The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, Volume 22, page 475,
The argument gets even shonkier when they claim that the boundary between clerical and administrative work is difficult to define anyway, and that routinisation and fragmentation have affected lower and middle management too (pp. 95–6).
text: The committee heard much evidence that this is a farce, yet this government have continued to try to pretend that their forecast, based on the shonkiest of assumptions—their model, with the shonkiest of assumptions—is really what is going to happen.
ref: 2000, Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 13548:
text: He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything.
ref: 2002, Markus Zusak, The Messenger, page 158:
text: From no-brow beginnings, when BSG [Battlestar Galactica] still had to prove it had outwitted the shonky source material, the show gained cult respect and a few more viewers by the second year.
ref: 2008 April 15, Daniel Martin, “How will Battlestar Galactica end?”, in The Guardian:
text: That′s why it is infuriating that there are still so many sharks out there who are determined to rip men off with shonky treatments that simply don′t work.
ref: 2009, Bettina Arndt, The Sex Diaries, page 242:
text: Marred by shonky direction and factual errors, the film did nothing to enhance Kathner′s already poor reputation.
ref: 2010, Stephen Gaunson, “The Glenrowan Affair”, in Ben Goldsmith, Geoff Lealand, editors, Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, page 98:
glosses: Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
shonky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shonkies
form: shonk
Etymology: From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English shonk (“smart”).
Senses: examples: text: It is clear from Mr Boyd's evidence that the Union is hoping as a result of its application to obtain an award provision which would control the practices of the "crooks and shonkies in the industry".
ref: 1993, Australian Conciliation, Arbitration Commission, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports, volume 3, page 577:
text: Mr BILLSON—and they are being called shonkies and all sorts of things by the Labor Party[…].
ref: 2003, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), volume 257, House of Representatives, page 19422:
text: I could hear the tenants talking above me and they were laughing about how they had ripped of the public transport system. I made up my mind that as they were obvious shonkies, I wouldn't give any leeway and, if they didn't pay on the spot, I would disconnect supply.
ref: 2010, Barry McMillan, Chinaman's Lagoon, page 323:
glosses: A dishonest person.
dead marine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead marines
Senses: glosses: An empty beer bottle.
Related terms: dead soldier
inceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛptɪv/
Forms: form: more inceptive
form: most inceptive
Etymology: Borrowed from French inceptif, from the Latin inceptīvus, from incipiō (“I begin”).
Senses: glosses: Beginning; of or relating to inception.
examples: text: The inceptive aspect is often translated into English as "to start [doing something]".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning.
Derived terms: inceptively
Related terms: inception
incept
incipient
fientive
inchoative
inceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛptɪv/
Forms: form: inceptives
Etymology: Borrowed from French inceptif, from the Latin inceptīvus, from incipiō (“I begin”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An inceptive construction.
horned screamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horned screamers
Senses: glosses: Anhima cornuta, a South American bird, member of the family Anhimidae, with black upper parts, head and breast and white speckles on the crown, throat and wing coverts.
Synonyms: kamichi
lunar year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar years
Senses: glosses: a year determined by a certain number of phases of the moon, as opposed to the passage of the Earth around the sun
Related terms: lunar calendar
Chinese calendar
Islamic calendar
crested screamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crested screamers
Senses: glosses: Chauna torquata, a species of birds of the small family Anhimidae, found in South America.
Synonyms: southern screamer
southern screamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern screamers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crested screamer.
synonyms: word: crested screamer
black-necked screamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-necked screamers
Senses: glosses: Chauna chavaria, a species of the small family of birds Anhimidae, found in the northern regions of Colombia and Venezuela.
Synonyms: northern screamer
northern screamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern screamers
Senses: glosses: The black-necked screamer, Chauna chavaria.
magpie-goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magpie-geese
form: magpie goose
Senses: glosses: A bird of species Anseranas semipalmata, the only non-extinct bird of the family Anseranatidae, resident breeder in northern Australia and southern New Guinea, having black and white plumage and yellowish legs.
enforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /ɪnˈfoɹsm(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɛn-/
Forms: form: enforcements
form: inforcement
Etymology: From Old French enforcement, see enforce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
ref: 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 1st decade, folio 8, recto:
glosses: The act of enforcing; compulsion.
glosses: A giving force to; a putting in execution.
glosses: That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
Derived terms: civil enforcement officer
code enforcement
debt enforcement
enforcement agent
enforcement authority
law enforcement
nonenforcement
overenforcement
underenforcement
inclusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inclusionist
form: most inclusionist
Etymology: From inclusion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Both schools of thought on the subject of interest have the courage of their convictions. The inclusionist group thinks the inclusion of interest will accomplish certain objects. Their motives, therefore, for including interest help to explain their contentions.
ref: 1920, John Packard Jordan, Cost Accounting; Principles and Practice, page 438:
text: More recently, Carr (Carr and Vitaliano 1982) has modified his earlier analysis, maintaining a position defined below as inclusionist; he refers, for example, to biological, cultural, and environmental influences and mechanisms in learning itself.
ref: 1996, Robert A. Hahn, Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective, page 47:
text: This definition is indicative of what is often deemed a full inclusionist model, though uses more mild language than that of other full inclusionists such as Lorna Idol.
ref: 2013, Eric Shyman, Beyond Equality in the American Classroom:
antonyms: exclusionist
glosses: Advocating for inclusion.
examples: text: Regardless, the inclusionist view that all processes are supposed to operate case by case rather than determining whether broad topic areas should be included continues to prevail, though this view is subject to great debate, especially in areas of popular culture.
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, page 350:
text: Recent controversies between the so-called “deletionist” and “inclusionist” Wikipedians, as well as the brief brouhaha around the introduction of flagged and patrolled edits, commplicate Anderson's model a bit, of course, but the focus remains on the evaluation of content rather than contributors.
ref: 2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy:
text: If the deletionist philosophy prevails, as I suspect it will, the inclusionist Wikipedia will be lost forever.
ref: 2016, Nicholas Carr, Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations:
antonyms: deletionist
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Favoring the inclusion of articles rather than their deletion.
inclusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclusionists
Etymology: From inclusion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But whether this doctrine is, or is not, taught in this verse is a contested question. Ambrose is the choragus of the Inclusionists, Œcumenius of the Exclusionists.
ref: 1891, “The homage of Christ the King”, in The Dublin Review, page 333:
text: Some experts also distinguish between inclusionists and full inclusionists. Inclusionists believe that it is the classroom teacher's responsibility to educate most students with special needs, but such inclusionists also recognize the importance of providing a continuum of services (i.e., making sure that a variety of separate and more restrictive settings are available for those students who may need them).
ref: 2010, Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology, page 539:
text: Marable lists William Julius Wilson, Henry Louis Gates, Thomas Sowell, and Shelby Steele as inclusionists, all associated with the black managerial and professional elite, with public-sector employees, and stable elements of urban blue-collar workers.
ref: 2005, J. Phillip Thompson III, Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy:
glosses: One who advocates for inclusion.
examples: text: But the proliferation of rules, and the fact that select Wikipedians have learnt how to handle them to win arguments, now represents a danger, says Andrew Lih, a former deletionist who is now an inclusionist, and who is writing a book about Wikipedia.
ref: 2008, The Economist, page 56:
text: In September 2007, Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia's panjandrum — himself an inclusionist who believes that if people want an article about every Pokemon character, then hey, let it happen — posted a one-sentence stub about Mzoli's […]
ref: 2012, Nicholson Baker, The Way the World Works, page 204:
text: The deepest philosophical divide among Wikipedians is between the inclusionists (editors believing that Wikipedia, as a digital resource, should not be limited by traditional encyclopedia constraints and should cover as wide an array of topics as possible) and the exclusionists (editors believing that Wikipedia should apply criteria about the notability of described phenomena as strictly as any other encyclopedia and that the virtue of sensible exclusion increases the project's quality).
ref: 2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 23:
antonyms: deletionist
coordinate_terms: mergist
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A wiki user who favors the inclusion of articles rather than their deletion.
Related terms: Wiktionary:Administrators
Gamilaraay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈmɪlərɔɪ/
Forms: form: Gamilaroi
form: Kamalarai
form: Kamilarai
form: Kamilaroi
Etymology: From Gamilaraay Gamilaraay (“having not”), from gamil (“not”) and -(b)araay (“having”). Other dialects and languages were similarly named after their respective words for no, e.g. the Wailwan say wayil.
Senses: glosses: An Indigenous people of New South Wales in Australia.
Gamilaraay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈmɪlərɔɪ/
Forms: form: Gamilaroi
form: Kamalarai
form: Kamilarai
form: Kamilaroi
Etymology: From Gamilaraay Gamilaraay (“having not”), from gamil (“not”) and -(b)araay (“having”). Other dialects and languages were similarly named after their respective words for no, e.g. the Wailwan say wayil.
Senses: glosses: The extinct Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language, within the Wiradjuric group, formerly spoken by these people.
Related terms: kld ⁠
Wiktionary’s coverage of Gamilaraay terms
low-doc loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-doc loans
form: low doc loan
Etymology: From low + doc + loan.
Senses: examples: text: 2006, The Bulletin, Issues 6536-6544, page 61,
“You can see it here in mortgages. Low-doc loans used to carry at least 1% or more of risk premium. As everybody [piled] in, that has been driven down to half a percent. These people do not have a verifiable income, and yet you can only expect them to be charged half a percent more on the interest rate.”
text: In a no-doc or low-doc loan, the lender doesn′t require you to bring proof of your income, but you will usually have to pay a higher interest rate or extra fees to get the loan. Lenders generally charge more for no-doc/low-doc loans.
ref: 2007, Barry Leonard, Consumer Handbook on Adjustable-Rate Mortgages, page 9:
text: This kind of “no-doc loan” and its cousin, the “low-doc loan,” became quite prevalent. By 2006, low-doc loans accounted for more than one-third of all subprime mortgage originations.
ref: 2011, Robert W. Kolb, The Financial Crisis of Our Time, page 56:
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A loan or mortgage where the borrower provides only limited proof of their income.
Coordinate terms: no-doc loan
Related terms: subprime
kingdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingdom
apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăpʹ(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈæp.(ə)lz/
rhymes: -æpəlz
Senses: glosses: plural of apple
apples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăpʹ(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈæp.(ə)lz/
rhymes: -æpəlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apple
apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăpʹ(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈæp.(ə)lz/
rhymes: -æpəlz
Etymology: * (stairs): From Cockney rhyming slang apples and pears.
* (nice): From Australian rhyming slang apples and spice or apples and rice.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of apple and pears or apples and pears (“stairs”).
glosses: Testicles.
apples
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăpʹ(ə)lz
ipa: /ˈæp.(ə)lz/
rhymes: -æpəlz
Etymology: * (stairs): From Cockney rhyming slang apples and pears.
* (nice): From Australian rhyming slang apples and spice or apples and rice.
Senses: examples: text: Day like today, perfect. Wind's right, sea's easy, everything's apples. Anybody can sail today.
ref: 1988, Sandra Dengler, Code of Honor (Australian Destiny Book #1)
glosses: Nice, fine.
Derived terms: she'll be apples
she's apples
lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lion
coins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪnz/
rhymes: -ɔɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of coin
coins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪnz/
rhymes: -ɔɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coin
believes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈlivz/
ipa: /bɪˈlivz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of believe
arises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arise
arises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of arise
arises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of aris
hangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang
nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nest
nests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nest
teaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teach
teaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teach
glosses: plural of teache
gems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gem
gems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gem
Zachary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzækəɹi/
Forms: form: Zacharys
form: Zackary
Etymology: See Zacharias.
Senses: examples: text: Unto whom I will giue for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Ioel, Abdias, and Ionas, Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zacharie, and Malachie, which is called also an Angel of the Lord.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Esdras 1:39-40:
text: Albeit in our late Reformation, some of good consideration have brought in Zachary, Malachy, Josias, &c. as better agreeing with our faith, but without contempt of countrey names (as I hope), which have both good and gracious significations,
ref: 1605, William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith, published 1870, page 56:
text: "Zachary!" Her lips smacked at the name. "That's not a...well,a...Jewish name, is it?"
"Oh yes, Zechariah, my father was born in the U.S.S.R., in Podolsk, and my mother's family came from Russia also, a long time ago. I suppose it's Russian or something."
"Russian? It doesn't sound Russian."
"Well I don't know exactly; my mother liked Zachary Scott in the pictures."
ref: 2003, Alan Grayson, Mile End, PageFree Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 366:
text: Zachary Block chats with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen about their new show, Portlandia, which airs on IFC, Fridays at 10:30.
ref: 2011 January 25, “Portlandia”, in BOMB:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Zac
sense: pet forms
word: Zak
sense: pet forms
word: Zach
sense: pet forms
word: Zack
mesoappendix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoappendixes
form: mesoappendices
Etymology: From meso- + appendix.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Part of the mesentery found near the appendix and the terminal ileum.
inhumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inhume
stomachic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomachic
form: most stomachic
form: stomachick
Etymology: From Latin stomachicus.
Senses: examples: text: This will usefully blunt the keenness of the stomachic ferment.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 107:
glosses: Of or relating to the stomach.
glosses: Beneficial to the stomach or to digestion.
Related terms: stomachal
stomachic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomachics
form: stomachick
Etymology: From Latin stomachicus.
Senses: examples: text: CALUMBÆ RADIX (Kalumbo, Portuguese). The root of the Cocculus palmatus, one of our most useful stomachics and tonics. It contains a bitter principle, called calumbin.
ref: 1844, Richard Dennis Hoblyn, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences:
glosses: A medicine for the stomach.
ack-ack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ack-acks
Etymology: From ack (“A”) + ack (“A”), RAF WWI signalese for AA (“anti-aircraft”). (In modern signalese it would be called alpha-alpha.)
Senses: examples: text: The army fired upon us with ack-ack.
text: Ack-acks were set up in the square.
text: He had thought how down there on the ground, on enemy soil, there were probably hundreds of Ivys, nice Fräuleins with buck teeth and fiancés on U-boats, manning the German ack-ack, all united in an effort to kill him.
ref: 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 140:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Antiaircraft artillery.
examples: text: The bomber flew through heavy ack-ack.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Antiaircraft fire.
Synonyms: sense: anti-aircraft gun
word: AAA
sense: anti-aircraft gun
word: AA
countersign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersigns
Etymology: From Middle French contresigne. Equivalent to counter- + sign.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A second signature added to a document to affirm the validity of the signature of the first person.
examples: text: Only those who give the countersign may enter the Masonic Lodge.
glosses: The response to a sign or signal.
countersign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countersigns
form: countersigning
form: countersigned
form: countersigned
Etymology: From Middle French contresigne. Equivalent to counter- + sign.
Senses: glosses: To sign on the opposite side of (a document).
synonyms: witness#Verb
glosses: To add a second signature to a document, affirming the validity of the signature of another person.
Derived terms: countersigner
call out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls out
form: calling out
form: called out
form: called out
Senses: examples: text: They call out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum.
glosses: To specify, especially in detail.
examples: text: The Governor called out the National Guard.
text: Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
ref: 1984, Nena, 99 Red Balloons (lyrics written by Kevin McAlea)
synonyms: summon
glosses: To order into service; to summon into service.
examples: 1971, Carole King, “You’ve Got A Friend”, Tapestry, Ode Records
You just call out my name / And you know wherever I am / I'll come running to see you again.
glosses: To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
glosses: To challenge (someone).
To challenge (someone) to a duel.
glosses: To challenge (someone).
To challenge (someone) to a fight.
examples: text: He was very insulting. Finally Jack called him out and shut him up.
text: She called them out on their lies.
text: He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.
ref: 2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7:
glosses: To challenge (someone).
To criticize or denounce (someone); to bring up previously unspoken criticisms about (someone); to point out (someone's) faults.
synonyms: denounce
point out
charge
examples: text: I had to call out from work. […] I barely ate yesterday. The only thing that stayed in my stomach was soup and crackers.
ref: 2012, Earliecia J. Ebron, Regress:
text: I had to call out from work a few Saturdays to Dj at kid's party because they would normally start somewhere around 4:00 p.m.
ref: 2015, Brasford Love, My Life: The Journey to Here:
text: On this particular day, I felt ill, mostly from exhaustion, and had to call out from work. This callout caused a stir and a display of animosity.
ref: 2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse:
qualifier: Connecticut
glosses: To contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short for call out sick; much more commonly: call in sick.
Derived terms: word: call-out
word: callout
call out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of callout.
right off the bat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of off the bat.
synonyms: word: off the bat
chakram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chakrams
Etymology: From Sanskrit चक्रम् (cakram), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos. Doublet of chakra, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, and wheel.
Senses: synonyms: chalikar
glosses: A disc-like throwing weapon from India.
chakram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chakrams
form: chuckram
form: chuckrum
form: chukram
Etymology: ]
From Malayalam ചക്രം (cakraṁ, “wheel”), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra).
Senses: glosses: A former currency of Travancore in present-day India.
Coordinate terms: cash (1
16 chakram)
fanam (4 chakrams)
rupee (28 chakrams)
lunar calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar calendars
Senses: glosses: A calendar that measures the passage of the year according to the phases of the moon, as opposed to the revolution of the earth around the sun; a calendar of the lunar year.
Hyponyms: Islamic calendar
Coordinate terms: solar calendar
lunisolar calendar
in love
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I think John is in love.
text: Isn't it nice to see two people in love?
text: Romeo was in love with Juliet.
text: “Don’t misunderstand me. I was quite honest with him. I told him, what was true, that I liked him very much, that I hoped to come to like him more, but that I was not in any way what the world calls ‘in love’ with him. He declared that that satisfied him, and so—we were married.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 141:
text: So she said "What's the problem, baby?" / What's the problem? I don't know / Well, maybe I'm in love (love) / Think about it every time / I think about it / Can't stop thinking 'bout it
ref: 2004 May 3, Adam Duritz, Dan Vickrey, David Bryson, Matt Malley, David Immerglück, “Accidentally in Love”, in Shrek 2: Motion Picture Soundtrack, performed by Counting Crows:
info_templates: extra_data: words: with
expansion: [with with]
glosses: Enamored (of a person, etc.)
examples: text: I'm not exactly in love with the idea of having to start again from scratch.
info_templates: extra_data: words: with
expansion: [with with]
glosses: Very fond (of an idea, etc.)
Synonyms: alt: alt. enamored
word: enamoured
tur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʊə/
ipa: /tʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
homophone: tour
Forms: form: turs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus.
Senses: examples: text: Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 90:
glosses: Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.
lur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: lurs
form: lure
form: lurr
Etymology: From a North Germanic language.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A long natural blowing horn without finger holes, played by embouchure.
baby-snatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-snatchers
Senses: glosses: One who kidnaps a baby.
snatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snatchers
Etymology: From snatch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He'd thought it through and decided that he needed a swift reaction team to outsnatch the snatchers.
ref: 2016, Allan Graybyrd, Masi'shen Stranded:
glosses: One who snatches, or steals by snatching.
Derived terms: baby-snatcher
bag snatcher
body snatcher
cradle snatcher
crumb snatcher
purse snatcher
snatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snatcher; ones who snatch
sericious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sericious
form: most sericious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sericeous.
munter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌn.tə/
rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: munters
Etymology: Late 1990s, presumably from munt (“to vomit”) and munted (“inebriated; disgusting”) + -er, perhaps with influence from Turkish mantar (“mushroom”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm never going to date her; she's a right munter.
synonyms: word: biffer
word: boner-shrinker
word: bonerkiller
word: buttface
word: choad
word: frump
word: minger
word: monkey
word: monkeyface
word: munter
word: pukeface
word: schlub
word: stinka
word: troll
word: trollface
word: uggo
word: ugly duckling
glosses: An ugly person.
examples: text: He's a real munter; he was really munted at the party.
glosses: A person often impaired by alcohol or recreational drugs.
Derived terms: munting
Related terms: english: drunk
translation: drunk
word: muntered
english: drunk
translation: drunk
word: munted
munter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌn.tə/
rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)
note: without the foot-strut split, without approximant /r/
ipa: [ˈmʊn.tər]
ipa: /ˈmʌn.tə/
rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: munters
form: monter
form: mounter
form: muntour
form: montour
form: mountour
form: muntoure
form: muntor
form: muntar
Etymology: From Middle French montre.
Senses: examples: text: […] asked the other what a clocke it was in his mounter; to whom he replyed, About the howre just that yee should give watter to your mare.
ref: 1831, Archaeologia Scotica: Or Transactions of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, page 80:
text: […] clocks, watches, and munters, boots and shooes, shal be given up by the merchant-sellers there-of, under declaration to the commissioners, "&c. Acts Cha. I. Ed. 1814, VI. 152. […]
ref: 1841, John Jamieson, Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. Kab-Zic, page 141:
glosses: A watch (portable timepiece).