cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kaiserish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kaiserish
form: most Kaiserish
Etymology: From Kaiser + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a Kaiser.
interanimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interanimations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of interanimating.
interanimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interanimation
Kaiserism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaiserisms
Etymology: From Kaiser + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Under Kaiserism the world could never be free, but enslaved to the will of an autocractic monarch.
ref: 1916, The Carlisle Arrow, page 5:
glosses: The system of rule of a Kaiser; autocracy.
Kaiserisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaiserism
kirri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirris
Senses: glosses: An Afghan settlement or encampment.
kirris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirri
kilty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilties
Senses: examples: text: […] boots will come in many new fashion patterns. Fringe, flaps and kilties will be integrated into boot designs, with much hardware.
ref: 1966, Boot and Shoe Recorder: The Magazine of Fashion Footwear, page 56:
glosses: A flap of fringed leather covering part of a boot's tongue and lace.
clocksmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɒkˌsmɪθ/
Forms: form: clocksmiths
Etymology: From clock + smith.
Senses: examples: text: Emperor's 100-M grandfather clock movement is produced in West Germany, the proud work of famous clocksmiths who follow a hundred-year-old tradition of manufacturing the world's finest movements.
ref: 1975, Field & Stream, volume 79, number 12, page 79:
glosses: Synonym of clockmaker.
synonyms: word: clockmaker
clocksmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clocksmith
haptene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haptenes
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hapten.
haptenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haptene
Hermean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hermean
form: most Hermean
form: Hermaean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hermes.
Hermaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hermaean
form: most Hermaean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hermean.
ladettish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /læˈdɛtɪʃ/
Forms: form: more ladettish
form: most ladettish
Etymology: From ladette + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The school, through its strong intervention at this stage, is giving them a reason not to be laddish (or ladettish!), offering them almost a face-saving device to enable them to work without undermining their own sense of ‘being a lad or a ladette’.
ref: 2005 November, Mike Younger, Molly Warrington, Ros McLellan, Raising Boys' Achievement in Secondary Schools, McGraw Hill Education, page 108:
text: Celebration is not easy to define, but is not to be confused with self-gratification, buffoonery, laddish or ladettish behaviour.
ref: 2007, Anna Kiernan, Bit on the Side : Work, sex, love, loss, and own goals, Parthian, page 156:
text: That said, the central importance of socio-culturally based strategies in challenging notions of ‘laddish’ masculinity and ‘ladettish’ femininity, and engaging peer leaders with their schooling, emerges as a compelling priority for intervention work.
ref: 2010 November, Martyn Long, Clare Wood, Karen Littleton, Terri Passenger, Kieron Sheehy, The Psychology of Education, Taylor & Francis, page 181:
text: The project also addressed “laddish masculinity” and “ladettish femininity,’ British terms for gender stereotypical attitudes and behaviors.
ref: 2012 February, Jody Heymann, Adele Cassola, editors, Lessons in Educational Equality: Successful Approaches to Intractable Problems Around the World, Oxford University Press, page 275:
glosses: Relating to, or displaying behavior associated with, a ladette.
Derived terms: ladettishness
horson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of whoreson.
horsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horson
fanfarona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanfaronas
Senses: glosses: An ornament consisting of a medal worn on a twisted gold chain.
acrasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrasia (alternative form of akrasias)
ruffles someone's feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruffle someone's feathers
ruffling someone's feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of ruffle someone's feathers
ruffled someone's feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruffle someone's feathers
neural processing unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neural processing units
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the large weight size inevitably causes latency, power, and energy overhead when transferring the weight data between the storage/memory and the processing units, such as central processing units (CPUs), graphic processing units (GPUs), neural processing units (NPUs), or accelerators, which are not desirable for resource-constrained edge devices.
ref: 2023, Arslan Munir, Joonho Kong, Mahmood Azhar Qureshi, Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: NPU
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A specialized hardware circuit designed to accelerate machine learning applications.
ruffled feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruffle feathers
ruffling feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of ruffle feathers
neural processing units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neural processing unit
ruffles feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruffle feathers
ruffles any feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruffle any feathers
ruffling any feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of ruffle any feathers
ladettishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ladettish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although television can deal brilliantly with such figures in documentary form, its current tone is anti-introvert. Loudness, gregariousness, lad- and ladettishness are imperative. You must be larky, joshy, noisy, especially if you are young.
ref: 2001 April 1, “Watch with amazement”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:
text: […] there is emerging evidence, too, that issues of ladettishness are impacting upon an increasing number of girls.
ref: 2005 November, Mike Younger, Molly Warrington, Ros McLellan, Raising Boys' Achievement in Secondary Schools, McGraw Hill Education, page 182:
text: The impact of the culture of laddishness (Yates 1997; Francis 2000; Warrington et al., 2000) and more recently of ‘ladettishness’ (Jackson 2006), as some boys and some girls develop defensive behaviours, such as the rejection of academic work and disengaged behaviour to minimise the risk of academic failure.
ref: 2007 May, Richard Teese, Stephen Lamb, Marie Duru-Bellat, editors, International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy, Springer Science+Business Media, page 255:
text: Chris Moyles (love him or loathe him, you've got to loathe him) is on hand for laddishness, Stacey Solomon for ladettishness.
ref: 2012 March 12, Sam Wollaston, “TV review: The Love Machine; Take Me Out; Come Date With Me”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:
glosses: The quality of being ladettish; the behaviour of a ladette.
ruffled any feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruffle any feathers
weeabooism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːəbuːˌɪzəm/
Etymology: From weeaboo + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An obsessive interest in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally; Japanophilia to an excessive degree.
ruffle a few feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ruffles a few feathers
form: ruffling a few feathers
form: ruffled a few feathers
form: ruffled a few feathers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ruffle some feathers.
Leann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Leanne.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
beshiver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beshivers
form: beshivering
form: beshivered
form: beshivered
Etymology: From be- + shiver.
Senses: examples: text: Tell me the people that do keep / Within the kingdoms of the deep; / Or fetch me back that cloud again, / Beshivered into seeds of rain.
ref: 1674, Robert Herrick, To Find God:
glosses: Synonym of shiver (“break into fragments”).
synonyms: word: shiver
extra: break into fragments
beshivers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beshiver
beshivering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beshiver
beshivered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beshiver
belleter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belleters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bellfounder.
synonyms: word: bellfounder
belleters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belleter
betaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We wear shoes of leather, costly in the skin, expensive in its conversion into leather, and betaxed to a disgusting extent, and yet we have not the manliness to abandon these wasteful and extravagant trappings, and to devise cheap and durable substitutes.
ref: 1834, The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, page 95:
glosses: Subject to the payment of tax.
bethorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bethorned
form: most bethorned
Etymology: From be- + thorn + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Bethorned with woe, and fruited thick with shame.
ref: 1896, William Morris, Poems by the Way & Love is Enough, page 238:
glosses: Bearing thorns.
billeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billeter
birrettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birretta
boogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boogeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boogie (“type of dance”).
glosses: Alternative form of bogey (“type of hostile supernatural creature”).
boogey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boogeys
form: boogeying
form: boogeyed
form: boogeyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boogie (“perform the dance”).
boogeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boogey
boogeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boogey
boogeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogey
boogeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boogey
Tiptoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from a surname of French origin recorded in the 13th century as "Typetot".
Senses: glosses: A small village in Hordle parish and Sway parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SZ2597).
boogier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boogiers
Etymology: From boogie + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who performs the boogie dance.
boogiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogier
brakeage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brake + -age.
Senses: examples: text: That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion […] that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, […]
ref: 1883, The Railway Engineer, volume 4, page 253:
text: […] will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage.
ref: 1985, Robert Thompson Sloss, The Book of the Automobile, page 210:
glosses: The braking of a vehicle.
buhr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buhrs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of burrstone.
synonyms: word: burrstone
buhrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buhr
bunjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunjies
Senses: examples: text: […] "bunjies" (ropes with inserted rubber strand section) were stretched taut.
ref: 1922, Aviation, volume 13, page 684:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bungee.
glosses: Alternative spelling of bunji.
bunjies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunjie
bunjee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunjees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bungee.
bunjees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunjee
frat man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frat men
form: fratman
Senses: glosses: frat boy
akrasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrasias
Senses: glosses: plural of akrasia
fratman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fratmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frat man.
frat men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frat man
bungey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bungee.
fratmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fratman
only in Ohio
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Said in response to witnessing something violent, cringe-inducing, or absurd.
androgonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His stiff-as-a-board tranditionally masculine good looks and constrained, stiff-upper lipped portrayal of Ed was a wonderful contrast to Fierstein's androgonous, physically mobile Arnold.
ref: 1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:
glosses: Misspelling of androgynous.
stiff-upper-lipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stiff-upper-lipped
form: most stiff-upper-lipped
Senses: examples: text: His stiff-as-a-board tranditionally ^([sic]) masculine good looks and constrained, stiff-upper lipped portrayal of Ed was a wonderful contrast to Fierstein's androgonous ^([sic]), physically mobile Arnold.
ref: 1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:
glosses: Possessing a stiff upper lip; stoic
transverberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transverberations
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A form of religious ecstasy characterized by a piercing sensation.
ultratraditionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Extreme traditionalism.
photoepilepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfəʊ.təʊˈɛpɪˌlɛpsi/
ipa: /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈɛpɪˌlɛpsi/
Forms: form: photoepilepsies
Etymology: Blend of photosensitive + epilepsy or from photo- + epilepsy.
Senses: examples: text: With respect to antiepileptic effects ZK 91296 is surprisingly potent against spontaneous petit mal in rats, stress-induced seizures in gerbils, photoepilepsy in baboons, and DMCM-induced seizures in particular, whereas the compound is unexpectedIy inactive against kindled seizures.
ref: 1986, E.N. Petersen, L.H. Jensen, J. Drejer, T. Hononl, “New Perspectives in Benzodiazepine Receptor Pharmacology”, in Pharmacopsychiatry, volume 19, number 1, →DOI, page 5:
text: I was unable, however, to find literature indicating a higher incidence of migraine in patients with photoepilepsy.
ref: 2003 May, Randolph W. Evans, Jack Gladstein, “Confusional Migraine or Photoepilepsy?”, in Headache, volume 43, number 5, →DOI, page 507:
text: Darigabat is an α2/3/5 subunit-selective positive allosteric modulator of GABAA receptors that has demonstrated broad-spectrum activity in several preclinical models of epilepsy as well as in a clinical photoepilepsy trial.
ref: 2022 November, Rachel Gurrell, Philip Iredale, Alexis Evrard, Venceslas Duveau, Céline Ruggiero, Corinne Roucard, “Pronounced antiseizure activity of the subtype-selective GABAA positive allosteric modulator darigabat in a mouse model of drug-resistant focal epilepsy”, in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, volume 28, number 11, →DOI, page 1875:
glosses: Photosensitive epilepsy.
Derived terms: photoepileptic
photoepilepsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoepilepsy
jack squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack squat
Etymology: Related to both jack shit and squat as in diddly-squat; apparently a blend of them. Attested since the 1970s; especially widely popularized by a Saturday Night Live sketch of 1993, "Matt Foley: A Scary Story on Halloween."
Senses: examples: text: […] into the fracas with nonsensical gibberish, pretending to be speaking intelligently in Tigrinya. We had a lot of fun like that. The class also enjoyed learning American phrases. One of their favorites was "Diddly Jack Squat".
ref: 1979, The Professional Geologist, volume 35, American Institute of Professional Geologists, page 7:
text: ANTONIO. I seen this program one time with people from Oklahoma and these places ridin' around in their Model T cars with their grandmother and the mattresses piled ten feet in the fuckin' air. I don't feel nothin' for them. I feel jack squat for them people. Hell, they were movin'. They had a damn car. The ground's right below 'em—stick a seed in it, grow somethin' to eat … ! But here, unless you ate garbage—which some people did, and some still doin' it—there's not anyplace you can go to a bush and pick berries off it for nourishment. Christ, it was chaos, the fuckin' depression.
ref: 1989, Jim Jr Leonard, V & V Only: A Play in Two Acts, Samuel French Inc, →ISBN, pages 49-50:
text: Oh, sure, I say and hand it over.
"When is it?" I ask. He's about to send me on my way and I don't know jack squat about it.
ref: 1989, Jimmy Chesire, Home Boy: A Novel, New American Library, →ISBN, page 161:
text: Mischievous teenager. Uh, really, I don't know.
Matt Foley: "I don't know." Well, that and a nickel'll get ya a hot cup of jack squat!
ref: 1993, “Matt Foley: A Scary Story on Halloween”, in Saturday Night Live, season 19, spoken by Matt Foley (Chris Farley):
glosses: Synonym of jack shit.
synonyms: word: jack shit
wikipedia: Matt Foley
Saturday Night Live
photoepileptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + epileptic or photoepilepsy + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of stroboscopic photostimulation upon an institutionalized, mentally retarded, photoepileptic male was studied.
ref: 1979 August, Glenn A. Plaster, Karen J. Lodge, Dallas E. Mulvaney, “Effect of Distance of Photostimulation on a Photosensitive Epileptic Subject”, in Psychological Reports, volume 45, number 1, →DOI, page 271:
text: The oscillating visual stimulus required to elicit an SSVEP can be (depending on the stimulation frequency) annoying for the user and even dangerous since it can trigger photoepileptic seizures.
ref: 2008 August, Gary Garcia Molina, “Detection of high-frequency steady state visual evoked potentials using phase rectified reconstruction”, in 2008 16th European Signal Processing Conference, archived from the original on 24 May 2024, page 1:
text: This report focuses on generalized photoepileptic responses (PERs) not previously reported in patients with subdural electrodes.
ref: 2013 February 12, Lakshmi Mukundan, Octavian Lie, Linda Leary, Alexander Papanastassiou, Lola Morgan, Charles Szabo, “Subdural Recording of Generalized Photoepileptic Responses in a Patient with Focal Cortical Dysplasia (P06.174)”, in Neurology, volume 80, number 7, →DOI:
glosses: Of, pertaining, affected by, or causing photoepilepsy.
Sokil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːkɪl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Со́кіл (Sókil), from Ukrainian со́кіл (sókil, “falcon”).
Senses: glosses: A residential area of Sobornyi urban district, Dnipro city, Dnipro urban hromada, Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
examples: text: Maintaining control over these positions creates a tactical advantage for the Ukrainians, as it prevents Russian assault groups from directly attacking the settlements of Sokil and Novopokrovske.
ref: 2024 May 24th, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 23 May: RUSSIANS DECIMATED! Ukrainians Launch Successful Counterattacks! | War in Ukraine Explained, via YouTube, 5:50–6:00:
glosses: A village in Ocheretyne settlement hromada, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Halych urban hromada, Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Zhvanets rural hromada, Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Kamianka-Buzka urban hromada, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Chernivtsi settlement hromada, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Rivne rural hromada, Kovel Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Rozhyshche urban hromada, Lutsk Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.
in reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Viewed in its proper historical context this reaction fits a not-unfamiliar pattern seen first after emancipation of slaves and the Thirteenth Amendment, then in reaction to blacks holding political office during reconstruction.
ref: 2016, Obi Nwasokwa, Witness to Greatness; The Consequential Presidency of Barack Obama in Perspective, page 422:
glosses: By being partially or entirely a response to a stimulus or other event, without which there would be a diminished or no such action or statement.; (while under) duress; by dint of; in the face of; in light of; in return; (in) response;.
Related terms: crime of passion
duress
coldslept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coldsleep
Novopokrovske
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nɒvɔːpəˈkɹɒvskeɪ/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Новопокро́вське (Novopokróvsʹke). Compare Novopokrovskoye.
Senses: examples: text: Maintaining control over these positions creates a tactical advantage for the Ukrainians, as it prevents Russian assault groups from directly attacking the settlements of Sokil and Novopokrovske.
ref: 2024 May 24th, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 23 May: RUSSIANS DECIMATED! Ukrainians Launch Successful Counterattacks! | War in Ukraine Explained, via YouTube, 5:50–6:00:
glosses: A village in Ocheretyne settlement hromada, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
green monardella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green monardellas
Etymology: From green + monardella, a calque of translingual Monardella viridis.
Senses: glosses: Monardella viridis, a species of plant in the mint subfamily.
Krause's sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Krause's sedges
Etymology: From Krause + -'s + sedge, a calque of translingual Carex krausei.
Senses: glosses: Carex krausei, a species of sedge.
coldsleeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coldsleep
coldsleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coldsleep
Amargosa toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amargosa toads
Etymology: From Amargosa + toad, named after Amargosa Valley, Nevada, where the toad is found.
Senses: glosses: Anaxyrus nelsoni, a species of critically endangered toad endemic to Nevada, which receives much aid from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Related terms: Anaxyrus nelsoni
rufous-crowned bee-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rufous-crowned bee-eaters
Etymology: From rufous + crowned + bee-eater.
Senses: glosses: Merops americanus, a species of bee-eater endemic to the Phillipines.
Related terms: Merops americanus
mind rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mind rapes
form: mindrape
Senses: examples: text: "Memeticists exploit the anomalous to change how people see the world," Del Olmo continued. "We make them believe things which aren't true, when that's convenient for us. We make them believe things that are true, when bad actors have occluded their vision. We make them forget things. We make them see things which aren't there. We make them see things which are there, which they nevertheless can't see. We do it with imagery, with words, with sounds. It's the parascience of suggestion." He was really getting into the speech, gesturing with increasing excitement and constantly having to push his rectangular spectacles back up the bridge of his Roman nose.
ref: 2022 September 22, HarryBlank, “Mind Over Matter”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Nonconsensual intrusion into one's mind; the reading, modification, or control, by another, of one's thoughts or memories without one's consent, especially if forcible.
mind rape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mind rapes
form: mind raping
form: mind raped
form: mind raped
form: mindrape
Senses: examples: text: "You... you mindraped my boyfriend!" "I am sorry."
ref: 2011 December 5, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To read, modify, or control (especially forcibly) another person's thoughts or memories without their consent.
mindrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindrapes
Senses: topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative form of mind rape.
mindrape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mindrapes
form: mindraping
form: mindraped
form: mindraped
Senses: topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative form of mind rape.
mindraped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mindrape
mindrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindrape
mindrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mindrape
mindraping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mindrape
mind rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mind rape
mind rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mind rape
mind raping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mind rape
mind raped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mind rape
ash-throated crake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash-throated crakes
Etymology: From ash + throated + crake.
Senses: glosses: Porzana albicollis, a species of South American crake.
Related terms: Porzana albicollis
attributableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attributable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I attribute as much as possibly can be, to the grace of God in the act of believing, saving the attributableness of the action to man himself, in the lowest sense that can be conceived.
ref: 1822, Thomas Jackson, The Life of John Goodwin, A.M.: Some Time Fellow of Queens̓ College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Saint Stephens̓, Coleman-street, London. Comprising an Account of His Opinions and Writings, and of the Controversies in which He was Engaged in Defence of Religious Liberty and of General Redemption, Longman, page 408:
text: All thought thus necessarily involves this general attribute of attributableness, and ever reveals or presents it to our intuition when properly turned towards it.
ref: 1876, Henry Noble Day, Elements of Psychology, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 194:
text: The action of Rebeca Thorne is predicated upon the attributableness of her son's death to the negligence of the defendant, Snively.
ref: 1900, Dickinson Law Review, volume 5, Dickinson School of Law, page 113:
text: And therefore, if the case could be reduced to one of attributableness, I would have no hesitation in saying that it is attributable.
ref: 1902, William John Johnston, editor, New Irish Jurist and Local Government Review, volume 2, Dollard Limited, page 228:
glosses: The state or quality of being attributable; attributability.
catbaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catbath
cat-bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-baths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catbath.
cat-baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat-bath
sōgana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sogana
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 草(そう)仮(が)名(な) (sōgana).
Senses: glosses: An archaic Japanese syllabary, representing an intermediate between man'yōgana and hiragana.
sogana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sōgana.
whole life orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whole life order
Insein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese အင်းစိန် (ang:cin).
Senses: glosses: A town in Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar.
glosses: A town in Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar.
Insein Prison, which was located in the town and known for holding political prisoners
for the plot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: All senses originate from the phrase sense. Coined as an inspirational phrase by actress and media personality Serena Kerrigan in a video posted to the social media video-sharing service TikTok on 23 July 2021, in which she alluded to every person being the main character of their own storyline: “If something works out, great, and if it doesn't, it's for the plot”. By this, she meant that negative events and obstacles are inevitable in one's life in order to advance “the plot” onto the next plot point (presumably a more positive one) in their life.
Senses: glosses: Everything happens for a reason.
for the plot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: All senses originate from the phrase sense. Coined as an inspirational phrase by actress and media personality Serena Kerrigan in a video posted to the social media video-sharing service TikTok on 23 July 2021, in which she alluded to every person being the main character of their own storyline: “If something works out, great, and if it doesn't, it's for the plot”. By this, she meant that negative events and obstacles are inevitable in one's life in order to advance “the plot” onto the next plot point (presumably a more positive one) in their life.
Senses: glosses: Suggests doing something adventurous or risky just for the sake of it.
glosses: Suggests doing something adventurous or risky just for the sake of it.
Used to dare someone to do something; take a risk; take a chance.
Related terms: for the hell of it
YOLO
for the plot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Originates from a sarcastic Internet meme from c.2011 in which users assert they watch something “for the plot”; often a video or image macro of a risqué or otherwise questionable scene from a work of fiction (originally especially of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) accompanied with the text “I watch it for the plot” or “I watch [name of the work of fiction] for the plot”.
Senses: glosses: Used to suggest that someone is viewing or reading a piece of media (generally fiction) for reasons other than the storyline, usually because of its visual or sexual appeal.
Derived terms: english: sex appeal; assets
translation: sex appeal; assets
word: plot
for the plot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see for, the, plot.
Afaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Afáka Atumisi.
Senses: glosses: A syllabary for the Aukan language.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, PPN < Neolithic, New Stone Age
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: PPNA
related: word: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
word: PPNB
glosses: The first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Pre-Pottery Neolithic, PPN < Neolithic, New Stone Age
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: PPNB
related: word: Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
word: PPNA
glosses: The second stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
PPNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: PPN
PPNB
glosses: Abbreviation of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.
PSH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSHs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of puberty-suppressing hormone.
market-share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market-shares
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of market share.
cat bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat baths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catbath.
cat baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat bath
Puddefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname
wikipedia: Puddefoot
figments of one's imagination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figment of one's imagination
Miljacka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: From up there, they can see the city dip down towards the glinting ribbon of the Miljacka and then rise up again to meet the forested flank of Mount Trebević opposite.
ref: 2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 18:
glosses: A river in Bosnia and Herzegovina which flows through Sarajevo.
Kuancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 寬城 /宽城 (Kuānchéng).
Senses: glosses: A district of Changchun, Jilin, China.
glosses: A Manchu autonomous county in Chengde, Hebei, China.
bungeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungey
Airstreamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Airstreamers
Etymology: From airstream + -er.
Senses: hypernyms: RVer
glosses: An enthusiast of the Airstream brand of recreational vehicles, known for their rounded and polished aluminum coachwork.
Airstreamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Airstreamer
Star Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, on a man-made island.
glosses: An island, one of the Isles of Shoals, in the town of Rye, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
mature minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mature minors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An unemancipated patient who has not attained the age of majority but should be permitted to choose or reject a particular health care treatment, sometimes without the knowledge or agreement of parents.
mature minors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mature minor
hand practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Masturbation.
John the Conqueror root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: John the Conqueror roots
Etymology: Named after John the Conqueror, an African-American folk hero.
Senses: synonyms: High John root
glosses: The root of Ipomoea purga, to which magical powers are ascribed in African-American folklore and hoodoo.
wikipedia: John the Conqueror
John the Conqueror roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of John the Conqueror root
High John root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: High John roots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of John the Conqueror root.
synonyms: word: John the Conqueror root
High John roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of High John root
Three Kings Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in reference to the Magi, as the islands were discovered around the time of Epiphany.
Senses: glosses: A group of 13 uninhabited islands about 55 kilometres (34 mi) northwest of Cape Reinga/Te Rerenga Wairua, New Zealand, where the South Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea converge. The largest is Great Island.
learns Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of learn Chinese
learning Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of learn Chinese
learned Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of learn Chinese
orphan-crushing machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphan-crushing machine
rustles someone's jimmies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rustle someone's jimmies
rustling someone's jimmies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rustle someone's jimmies
rustled someone's jimmies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rustle someone's jimmies
W's in the chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W in the chat
orange dwarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange dwarfs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small orange star of the main sequence.
orange dwarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange dwarf
CalVer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
coordinate_terms: SemVer
glosses: Abbreviation of calendar versioning.
delta acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-aminonaphthalene-7-sulfonic acid.
baidar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baidars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bidarka.
baidars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baidar
bassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basser
inflational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflational
form: most inflational
Etymology: From inflation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inflationary.
synonyms: word: inflationary
excitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excitational
form: most excitational
Etymology: From excitation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of excitatory.
synonyms: word: excitatory
eco-town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-towns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecotown.
eco-towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-town
bearpaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearpaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bear paw.
bearpaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearpaw
cross-plies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-ply
crossply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-ply.
crossply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossplies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-ply.
crossplies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossply
cramfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cramfull
form: most cramfull
form: cramful
Senses: examples: text: […] if we reduced […] our passenger trains by half, so that every carriage should be cramfull […]
ref: 1873, Gas Journal: Light, Heat, Power, Bye-products, volume 22, page 914:
glosses: Crammed full; packed.
conkout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conkouts
Etymology: Deverbal from conk out
Senses: examples: text: Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts
ref: 1965, Popular Mechanics, volume 123, number 3, page 140:
glosses: A mechanical failure.
conkouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conkout
declinatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declinatory
endamoebic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of endamebic.
epinikians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epinikian
figtree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figtrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fig tree.
figtrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figtree
finlit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of financial literacy.
flyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flylines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fly line.
flylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyline
gojis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goji
gymsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymsuits
Etymology: From gym + suit.
Senses: glosses: An outfit worn for gymnastics.
gymsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymsuit
hickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the hickest hick town in the United States
ref: 2003, Christian Smith, The Secular Revolution, page 245:
glosses: Most like a hick or yokel.
kiores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiore
lithoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The wall was decorated with lithoes by Keith Haring, amongst others.
ref: 2006, Marc Declercq, Just Cooking: Kristof and Stefan Boxy, page 5:
glosses: plural of litho
marshelder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshelders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marsh elder.
marshelders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshelder
marsh elder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh elders
form: marshelder
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Iva, native to North America.
Related terms: salt marsh elder
marsh elders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsh elder
multigrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multigrade
pitikins
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From pity + -kins, in allusion to God's pity.
Senses: glosses: A mild oath.
retroflexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retroflex
scungili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scungilis
form: scungili
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scungilli.
scungilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scungili
Figarol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Figarol, itself from Occitan.
Senses: holonyms: Comminges
glosses: A village in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France.
Figarol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Figarols
Etymology: Borrowed from French Figarol, itself from Occitan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
undates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undate
villiaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villiacos
form: villiacoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of viliaco.
villiacoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villiaco
villiacos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villiaco
zaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zari
jaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jari
devil's advocacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of playing devil's advocate.
videotheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videotheques
Senses: examples: text: […] a videotheque, the Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology, and the Museum of African, Oceanian, and American Indian Arts.
ref: 2016, Diana Crane, Nobuko Kawashima, Ken'ichi Kawasaki, Global Culture: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization, page 96:
text: Youp had erased her face from his videotheque, but he was still in the throes of last night's excitement, so he decided to indulge himself with another blonde tonight.
ref: 2003, Zdravka Evtimova, Bitter Sky, page 185:
glosses: A library of video material.
videotheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videotheque
weedbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weedbeds
Etymology: From weed + bed.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The lower region of the water, where many weeds grow.
Related terms: weedline
weedline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weedlines
Etymology: From weed + line.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The line formed by the edge of a weedbed.
weedbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weedbed
weedlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weedline
Green Lantern theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Green Lantern theory
Etymology: Introduced by political scientist Brendan Nyhan in 2009 https://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2009/12/the-costs-of-green-lanternism.html; named after the comic book character Green Lantern.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The misconception that the president of the United States can achieve any political or policy objective by trying hard enough or using the right tactics.
wikipedia: Brendan Nyhan
Green Lantern
gasthauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasthaus
labelscar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labelscars
Etymology: From label + scar, from label (“sign giving information about something to which it is attached”) + scar (“permanent mark resulting from damage”).
Senses: examples: text: I love a good labelscar.
ref: 2005 September 26, Steven Swain, “Eastland Mall – Tulsa, OK.”, in That Mall is sick and that Store is dead!, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
text: As I got closer to the structure, I could just begin to discern some lettering out of the labelscar, followed by the inevitable palm to the forehead.
ref: 2010 August 5, AmericanDirt, “Rolling back the pages of mega-retail history.”, in American Dirt, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2024:
text: It's not every day you see a labelscar as nasty as that one left by Old Navy.
ref: 2019 July 3, The Gone-Ton (@gone_ton), Twitter:
text: Labelscar of the Toronto Star at 1 Yonge
ref: 2023 May 11, Jamie Bradburn (@jbcurio), Twitter:
glosses: An outline left behind by the removal of a sign from a building.
swertiajaponin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A C-glycosylflavone found in the leaves of Gnetum gnemon.
Derived terms: isoswertiajaponin
Related terms: isoswertisin
swertisin
labelscars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labelscar