cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
steak-and-kidney pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak-and-kidney pies
Senses: examples: text: The only time I can remember Harry to have spoken really unkindly to me was when we had a badly-made steak-and-kidney pie for dinner, and he wasn’t very well after it, and that made him tetchy and irritable, a most unusual thing for him, and he was quite nasty with me and lost his temper over a trifle that, if the steak-and-kidney pie had been all right, he would only have laughed at.
ref: 1888, George R[obert] Sims, “The Young Play-Actor”, in Mary Jane Married: Tales of a Village Inn, London: Chatto & Windus, […], page 192:
text: The steak-and-kidney pie got burnt and the pie-dish was cracked right across . . .
ref: 1924 August 19, Sonia Gray, “Truth Untinged”, in Birmingham Gazette, number 25,087, page 3, column 5:
text: TRUE, the Americans carry their passion for iced drinks to dyspeptic lengths. But there seems no reason why, in the centre of the world’s greatest city yesterday—the hottest day of the year—there should have been such a lavish display of lukewarm beer, tepid salads and steak-and-kidney pie. Even the most despised Continental pocket-country is able to keep its food fresh and cool.
ref: 1932 July 5, “Looking at the News”, in Daily Herald, number 5113, London, page 8:
text: Mr. Coombes’s department then moved to a fried-egg sandwich containing rodent pellets, and two steak-and-kidney pies filled with a “mush” of meat and gravy for ease of filling during manufacture.
ref: 1973 February 14, John Solan, “Hazard in the feet of lead”, in The Birmingham Post:
text: Picnic on the Victoria Embankment on the Thames with carryout steak-and-kidney pies, pates, salmon or roe from the food halls at Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly Street or Harrods department store in Knightsbridge.
ref: 1985 March 17, Bettye Lee Mastin, “Here’s how to make the most of a short trip to London”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 3, number 74, Lexington, Ky., page D6, column 5:
text: Tasty snacks, like filled potatoes, steak-and-kidney pies and toasted sandwiches, are available.
ref: 1988 March 22, “Scarisbrick Hotel: Advertising feature; Popular choice as a conference venue”, in Liverpool Echo, page 13:
text: It sells like schnitzel or steak-and-kidney pie in other countries, but will it ever sell like hotcakes here? […] The rest of the world knows it and has gobbled up the Freelander like it’s hot schnitzel or steak-and-kidney pie.
ref: 2003 December 11, Jason Stein, “2004 Freelander”, in The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., page 1G:
glosses: Alternative form of steak and kidney pie.
steak-and-kidney pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steak-and-kidney pie
Desargues's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Girard Desargues.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that two triangles are in perspective axially if and only if they are in perspective centrally.
Enslen's vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the botanist Aloysius Enslen.
Senses: glosses: The vining perennial herb Cynanchum laeve.
Enslen's blackberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Enslen's blackberries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Enslen's dewberry.
synonyms: word: Enslen's dewberry
Enslen's dewberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Enslen's dewberries
Etymology: Named after the botanist Aloysius Enslen.
Senses: synonyms: Enslen's blackberry
glosses: The plant Rubus flagellaris.
Fermat's last theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fermat's Last Theorem.
endophorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From endophoric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The picture is unclear, for some verbs seem to permit all of the logical possibilities exemplified in (9)–(15) while others allow only some. I will have more to say about the conditions under which a deictic element in a sentential complement may be interpreted endophorically or exophorically in the discussion of mood and presupposition below.
ref: 1974, Richard D. Brecht, “Deixis in embedded structures”, in Foundations of Language, volume 11, number 4, pages 489-518:
text: Personal reference is a co-hyponym of textual cohesion; it deals with the first, second and third persons singular or plural; it can occur exophorically, or endophorically as anaphora or cataphora. The present paper is a descriptive study on the cohesiveness and translatability of personal reference; it describes its occurrence and cohesiveness in translating from French into English.
ref: 2019, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, “The cohesiveness of personal reference in translation: a case study of French and English”, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, volume 8, number 4, →DOI, pages 130-136:
text: Therefore, we have replaced adnominal and adverbial demonstratives with a single category: “demonstrative modifier,” which can be applied either exophorically or endophorically, i.e., to refer to referents in the immediate environment, or to refer to linguistic aspects of the unfolding discourse.
ref: 2020, Terra Edwards, Diane Brentari, “The grammatical incorporation of demonstratives in an emerging tactile language”, in Front Psychol, volume 11, →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 579992:
antonyms: exophorically
glosses: In an endophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues within an utterance or text.
exophorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From exophoric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The picture is unclear, for some verbs seem to permit all of the logical possibilities exemplified in (9)–(15) while others allow only some. I will have more to say about the conditions under which a deictic element in a sentential complement may be interpreted endophorically or exophorically in the discussion of mood and presupposition below.
ref: 1974, Richard D. Brecht, “Deixis in embedded structures”, in Foundations of Language, volume 11, number 4, pages 489-518:
text: Personal reference is a co-hyponym of textual cohesion; it deals with the first, second and third persons singular or plural; it can occur exophorically, or endophorically as anaphora or cataphora. The present paper is a descriptive study on the cohesiveness and translatability of personal reference; it describes its occurrence and cohesiveness in translating from French into English.
ref: 2019, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, “The cohesiveness of personal reference in translation: a case study of French and English”, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, volume 8, number 4, →DOI, pages 130-136:
text: Therefore, we have replaced adnominal and adverbial demonstratives with a single category: “demonstrative modifier,” which can be applied either exophorically or endophorically, i.e., to refer to referents in the immediate environment, or to refer to linguistic aspects of the unfolding discourse.
ref: 2020, Terra Edwards, Diane Brentari, “The grammatical incorporation of demonstratives in an emerging tactile language”, in Front Psychol, volume 11, →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 579992:
antonyms: endophorically
glosses: In an exophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues outside (external to) an utterance.
inaptronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inaptronyms
Etymology: From in- + aptronym.
Senses: examples: text: His girlfriend's name was a most grotesque inaptronym.
ref: 2018, Karenlee Thompson, Flame Tip:
text: The police chief, who bears the wonderful inaptronym “Danielle Outlaw,” answers to him, as do the police themselves.
ref: 2020, Kevin D. Williamson, Big White Ghetto:
antonyms: aptronym
glosses: A name that is not well suited to its owner.
inaptronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inaptronym
Flora's paintbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Emilia.
Fowler's toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fowler's toads
Senses: glosses: The North American toad Anaxyrus fowleri.
mail-carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mail-carriers
Senses: examples: text: But, have not the mail-carriers carried the printers’ papers, for theſe ſeven years paſt, without aſking one ſhilling more for ſo doing?
ref: 1792 January, Philanthropos [pseudonym], “From the Maryland Journal. On the proposed TAX on NEWSPAPERS.”, in National Gazette, volume I, number 29, published 6 February 1792, page 116, column 3:
text: At Needles, I found the tall mail-carrier at the depot looking for me.
ref: 1951, Minnie Braithwaite Jenkins, ““Teacher—Yes””, in Girl from Williamsburg, Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, part III (At Old Fort Mohave), page 259:
text: Post offices would host electric-vehicle charging stations, for instance, and mail-carriers could be asked to check in on vulnerable residents along their routes.
ref: 2019 September 25, The Canadian Press, “Trudeau, Scheer exchange fire in climate fight”, in Red Deer Advocate, page 29, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of mail carrier.
mail-carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mail-carrier
Forbush's sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forbush's sparrows
Senses: glosses: The bird Melospiza lincolnii gracilis, a subspecies of Lincoln's sparrow.
Grime's Graves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England.
Jove's beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jupiter's beard (“the houseleek”).
synonyms: word: Jupiter's beard
extra: the houseleek
Earnshaw's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First proven by British mathematician Samuel Earnshaw in 1842.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theorem stating that a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in a stable stationary equilibrium configuration solely by the electrostatic interaction of the charges.
Pa'umotuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paumotuan.
Tz'u-chou ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tz'u-chou wares
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cizhou ware.
Tz'u-chou wares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tz'u-chou ware
Cizhou ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cizhou wares
form: Tz'u-chou ware
Senses: glosses: A wide range of Chinese ceramics from between the late Tang dynasty and the early Ming dynasty, but especially associated with the Northern Song to Yuan period in the 11th–14th centuries.
Cizhou wares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cizhou ware
Islandbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From island + bridge.
Senses: glosses: An area of Dublin, Ireland, named after Island Bridge which crosses the River Liffey (Irish grid ref O 1234).
antehelix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antehelices
form: antehelixes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of antihelix.
antehelices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antehelix
antehelixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antehelix
Wildermuth's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wildermuth's ears
form: Wildermuth ear
Etymology: Named after Hermann A. Wildermuth (1852–1907), the German neurologist who identified the defect.
Senses: glosses: The congenital defect of an ear having a backwards-oriented helix and consequently a protruding antihelix.
Wildermuth ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wildermuth ears
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wildermuth's ear.
Wildermuth's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wildermuth's ear
Wildermuth ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wildermuth ear
Wilson's warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson's warblers
Etymology: Formally described in 1811 by the ornithologist Alexander Wilson.
Senses: glosses: The New World warbler Cardellina pusilla.
Wilson's thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson's thrushes
Etymology: Named after the ornithologist Alexander Wilson.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of veery.
synonyms: word: veery
copy testing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copy test
copy tested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copy test
ezafeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ezafehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ezafe.
ezafehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ezafeh
putting food on the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put food on the table
Pazuza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pazuzu.
Fazuzu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pazuzu.
Amazon sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amazon swords
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Echinodorus.
Amazon swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amazon sword
American shad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American shads
Senses: glosses: Alosa sapidissima, an anadromous clupeid fish naturally distributed on the North American coast of the North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Florida, and as an introduced species on the North Pacific coast.
American shads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American shad
Barbie pinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barbie pink
American way
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the American way
Senses: glosses: An individualist, nationalist ethos adhering to the principle of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, associated with the people of the United States.
Related terms: American Dream
American vetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: purple vetch
hyponyms: mat vetch
glosses: The plant Vicia americana.
purple vetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of American vetch.
synonyms: word: American vetch
Shinwaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shinwari
Shield of David
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Star of David (“Jewish symbol”).
synonyms: word: Star of David
extra: Jewish symbol
Siberian chipmunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siberian chipmunks
Senses: synonyms: burunduk
common chipmunk
glosses: A chipmunk of species Eutamias sibiricus.
common chipmunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common chipmunks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus)
synonyms: word: Siberian chipmunk
extra: Eutamias sibiricus
Siberian chipmunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Siberian chipmunk
common chipmunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common chipmunk
heavy icebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy icebreakers
Senses: coordinate_terms: icebreaker
medium icebreaker
light icebreaker
slushbreaker
glosses: An icebreaking ship capable of all-year, overwinter operations in polar regions, through multi-year ice.
DINCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DINC
Studholme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Studholmes
Etymology: From Old English stōd (“stud”) + holm (“islet”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Kirkbampton parish, Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2556).
glosses: A placename:
A locality east of Waimate, south Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Sister of Mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sisters of Mercy
Senses: glosses: A member of a worldwide religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland.
Sisters of Mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sister of Mercy
late in the day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more late in the day
form: most late in the day
Senses: examples: text: It appeared to him to be rather late in the day to bring in a Bill of this sort. We had gone on hitherto without the machinery which it proposed […]
ref: 1865, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 841:
glosses: Too late, or almost too late; belated.
Related terms: close the stable door after the horse has bolted
a day after the fair
Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Senses: glosses: A member of a religious institute founded at Longueuil, Québec, Canada, in 1843 for the Christian education of young girls.
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Senses: glosses: A member of a Catholic religious teaching institute for women, founded in Olot, Catalonia, Spain in 1848.
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Kirkbampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY3056).
1V-LSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: Valerie
glosses: 1-valeryl-D-lysergic acid diethylamide, a psychotropic substance artificially derived from natural lysergic acid.
overaddress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overaddresses
form: overaddressing
form: overaddressed
form: overaddressed
Etymology: From over- + address.
Senses: examples: text: Secondary problems have been overaddressed, but we should be focusing on the main issues.
glosses: To address to an excessive degree.
Bachu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pa-ch'u
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴楚 (Bāchǔ).
Senses: examples: text: Comrade (Wu-pu-lien-shan), who came from a poor Uighur peasant family, was a militiaman of the 2nd production brigade of Tungfanghung commune in Pachu County, Sinkiang.
ref: [1971 February 5 [1971 January 18], “Sinkiang Militiaman”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 25, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 3:
text: Farmhouses and schools collapsed and dormitories crumbled when the temblor, which registered 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit the western part of Xinjiang province, near China's mountainous border with Kyrgyzstan, on Monday morning.
In one village in Bachu County, more than 1,000 buildings and houses collapsed, according to the state-run New China News Agency. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.
ref: 2003 February 24, John Pomfret, “Quake Kills More Than 250 in Western China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024:
text: Details of the assault were sparse, but the news agency said the attackers in Selibuya had been armed with knives and axes. Calls to the authorities in Kashgar, about 100 miles from the police station, and in the nearby town of Bachu were not answered.
ref: 2013 November 17, Jane Perlez, “9 Attackers and 2 Officers Reported Killed in Tense Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2013, Asia Pacific:
glosses: Synonym of Maralbexi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Maralbexi
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
overaddressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overaddress
overaddresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overaddress
overaddressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overaddress
template metaprogramming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A form of metaprogramming in which templates are used by a compiler to generate temporary source code, which is then merged with the rest of the source code and recompiled.
griddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griddlers
Etymology: From griddle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: On board they ate unleavened bread cooked on a hot stone or a griddler, pancakes of yellow flour set in hot cinders and all manner of chestnut cakes cooked between two red-hot stones – dishes strongly and highly spiced with garlic […]
ref: 1955, Riccardo Bacchelli, Nothing New Under the Sun, page 302:
text: He wiped his plate with a griddler.
ref: 2010, Jack Moskovitz, Savage Highway, page 53:
text: A deep Hispanic voice uttered the words I wanted to hear. “A griddler and coffee for you and a bear claw for me.·
ref: 2014, Cynthia Arsuaga, Mike Arsuaga, Top Dog:
glosses: A pancake, especially a savory one.
Synonyms: sense: pancake
word: flatcake
sense: pancake
word: griddle cake
griddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griddlers
Etymology: Blend of grid + riddler.
Senses: examples: text: If you have used the above techniques you will have made some inroads into solving a Griddler puzzle.
ref: 2002, “How To Solve Griddlers”, in puzzle museum:
text: (see title)
ref: 2006, “Griddler of the Day”, in griddlers logic puzzles:
text: (see title)
ref: 2020, Just Puzzles, Griddler Puzzles For Beginners:
topics: games
qualifier: puzzles
glosses: A puzzle in which cells of a grid must be filled or left blank, according to sets of numbers given at the side of the grid, to reveal a hidden picture.
Synonyms: sense: puzzle
word: hanjie
sense: puzzle
word: nonogram
sense: puzzle
word: picross
griddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griddlers
Senses: examples: text: You're a griddler, ain't you? There's a gal here now, a first-rate 'un. You two'd do well together.
ref: 1883, George Atkins Brine, The King of the Beggars, page 95:
text: You hardly ever hear a griddler sing a lively song.
ref: 2013, Gipsy Petulengro, A Romany Life:
text: A griddler begs between the sunset and evening prayers and might sing if his voice is good.
ref: 2021, Al-Jahiz, Avarice & The Avaricious:
glosses: Alternative form of gridler (“singing beggar”).
Venus's comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venus's combs
Senses: glosses: A Venus comb murex (Murex pecten)
glosses: Alternative form of Venus comb (Scandix pecten-veneris)
woole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Great, good company at dinner, among others Sir Martin Noell, who told us the dispute between him, as farmer of the Additional Duty, and the East India Company, whether callicos be linnen or no; which he says it is, having been ever esteemed so: they say it is made of cotton woole, and grows upon trees, not like flax or hempe.
ref: 1663 March 9 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 27th, 1662–1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC, pages 57–58:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wool.
missource
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missources
form: missourcing
form: missourced
form: missourced
Etymology: From mis- + source.
Senses: examples: text: We are also built to give, but even our giving is in our own mode and that mode is totally different from that missourced interpersonal energy exercised by most men (and unfortunately by many women).
ref: 1991, Margarete Keulen, Radical Imagination, page 96:
text: Perhaps the most important question about the future of augmenting collective action through the use of the Internet and mobile communications is the degree to which trustworthy and accurate information can be distinguished and screened from misleading, false, missourced information.
ref: 2008, James Everett Katz, Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, page 237:
text: That raises the question, discussed in the next section, whether direct attacks on the ability of multinational taxpayers to mis-source or hide income would be more effective at dealing with the problem.
ref: 2008, Andrew T. Guzman, Alan. O. Sykes, Research Handbook in International Economic Law, page 343:
text: An extreme example of mis-sourcing would be if an agent provided the CIA with information obtained about his country's activities and plans that he attributed to a high-level government official, when in fact, he actually got the information from a janitor.
ref: 2015, Alan B. Trabue, A Life of Lies and Spies, page 82:
glosses: To source inappropriately or incorrectly.
missources
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missource
missourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missource
missourced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missource
subfora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subforum
Thanh Quang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Thanh Quang.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Nam Sách district, Hải Dương Province, Vietnam.
glosses: A commune of Thanh Hà district, Hải Dương Province, Vietnam.
Lê Chân
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Lê Chân.
Senses: glosses: An urban district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
Dương Kinh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzʊəŋkɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Dương Kinh.
Senses: glosses: An urban district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
Drainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drainers
Etymology: From drain + -er.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of Drain Gang, an artistic collective formed in 2013, focusing on music and fashion.
Related terms: Draincore
Drainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Drainer
uncatholicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncatholicize
uncategorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncategorises
form: uncategorising
form: uncategorised
form: uncategorised
Etymology: From un- + categorise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncategorize.
uncatholicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncatholicises
form: uncatholicising
form: uncatholicised
form: uncatholicised
Etymology: From un- + catholicise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncatholicize.
uncolonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncolonises
form: uncolonising
form: uncolonised
form: uncolonised
Etymology: From un- + colonise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncolonize.
unconditionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unconditionalises
form: unconditionalising
form: unconditionalised
form: unconditionalised
Etymology: From un- + conditionalise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unconditionalize.
uncrystallise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncrystallises
form: uncrystallising
form: uncrystallised
form: uncrystallised
Etymology: From un- + crystallise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncrystallize.
uncategorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncategorise
uncategorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncategorise
uncatholicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncatholicise
uncatholicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncatholicise
uncolonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncolonise
uncatholicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncatholicise
uncolonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncolonise
unconditionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unconditionalise
unconditionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unconditionalise
unconditionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unconditionalise
uncrystallises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncrystallise
uncrystallising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncrystallise
conditionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conditionalises
form: conditionalising
form: conditionalised
form: conditionalised
Etymology: From conditional + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conditionalize.
Derived terms: unconditionalise
conditionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conditionalise
conditionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conditionalise
conditionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conditionalise
uncivilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncivilises
form: uncivilising
form: uncivilised
form: uncivilised
Etymology: From un- + civilise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncivilize.
uncivilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncivilise
uncivilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncivilise
unconventionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unconventionalises
form: unconventionalising
form: unconventionalised
form: unconventionalised
Etymology: From un- + conventionalise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unconventionalize.
undenominationalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undenominationalises
form: undenominationalising
form: undenominationalised
form: undenominationalised
Etymology: From un- + denominationalise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undenominationalize.
unconventionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unconventionalise
unconventionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unconventionalise
unconventionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unconventionalise
undenominationalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undenominationalise
undenominationalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undenominationalise
undenominationalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undenominationalise
denominationalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denominationalises
form: denominationalising
form: denominationalised
form: denominationalised
Etymology: From denominational + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of denominationalize.
Derived terms: undenominationalise
denominationalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From denominational + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of denominationalization.
denominationalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denominationalise
denominationalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denominationalise
denominationalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denominationalise
Đồ Sơn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊsʌn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Đồ Sơn.
Senses: glosses: An urban district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
scrungly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌŋɡli/
Forms: form: scrunglier
form: scrungliest
form: skrungly
Etymology: A variant of scrunkly, possibly influenced by scrungy (“grungy, shabby, dirty”).
Senses: examples: text: I love this scrungly-looking bear. Just outstanding proportions on her. After a lifetime in circus captivity, this elderly girl gets to live out the rest of her days at a bear sanctuary.
ref: 2023 May 26, AJ Willingham, “5 things to know for May 26: Debt limit, White House, Abortion, Peru, Covid”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
glosses: Synonym of scrunkly.
synonyms: word: scrunkly
scrungly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌŋɡli/
Forms: form: scrunglies
form: skrungly
Etymology: A variant of scrunkly, possibly influenced by scrungy (“grungy, shabby, dirty”).
Senses: examples: text: My little scrunglies
ref: 2022 November 28, @AeroViro, Twitter, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2023:
glosses: Synonym of scrunkly.
synonyms: word: scrunkly
scrunglier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scrungly: more scrungly
scrungliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scrungly: most scrungly
scrunglies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrungly
Bischofswerda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɪʃɔfsˈvɛɹdə/
/ˈbɪʃɔfsˌvɛɹdə/
Etymology: From German Bischofswerda.
Senses: glosses: A town in Saxony, Germany.
Hải An
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪæn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hải An.
Senses: glosses: An urban district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
undercharacterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercharacterize
undercharacterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercharacterize
underimmunise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underimmunises
form: underimmunising
form: underimmunised
form: underimmunised
Etymology: From under- + immunise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of underimmunize.
underdramatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdramatises
form: underdramatising
form: underdramatised
form: underdramatised
Etymology: From under- + dramatise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of underdramatize.
undercharacterise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercharacterises
form: undercharacterising
form: undercharacterised
form: undercharacterised
Etymology: From under- + characterise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undercharacterize.
underfertilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underfertilises
form: underfertilising
form: underfertilised
form: underfertilised
Etymology: From under- + fertilise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of underfertilize.
undercontextualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercontextualises
form: undercontextualising
form: undercontextualised
form: undercontextualised
Etymology: From under- + contextualise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undercontextualize.
underimmunises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underimmunise
underimmunised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underimmunise
underdramatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underdramatise
underimmunising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underimmunise
underdramatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdramatise
underdramatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdramatise
undercharacterising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercharacterise
undercharacterises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercharacterise
underfertilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfertilise
underfertilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfertilise
underfertilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfertilise
undercontextualised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercontextualise
undercontextualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercontextualise
undercontextualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercontextualise
underevaluating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underevaluate
Cát Dài
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkætzaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Cát Dài.
Senses: glosses: A ward of Lê Chân district, Haiphong, Vietnam.
Denholme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Denholm.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0734).
Guillou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guillous
Etymology: Borrowed from French Guillou, itself from Breton.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Breton.
steak-and-kidney pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak-and-kidney puddings
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time, a gentleman in the newspaper business, who is partial to steak-and-kidney pudding—with plenty of onions—had a pudding compounded specially for him by his favourite daughter.
ref: 1890 April 11, Oculeus [pseudonym], “Oculeus”, in The Ayrshire Post and Irvine Express, number 682, Ayr, page 4, column 6:
text: "Excuse me," he said, raising his hat, "but am I right in supposing that this is a steak-and-kidney pudding?"
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:
text: They then organized a petition to the matron complaining of “corrugated cardboard pastry, steak-and-kidney pudding like cork matting and rubbery lemon-meringue pies.”
ref: 1977 August 16, “Oldsters “can” cook”, in The North Bay Nugget, 71st year, number 52, North Bay, Ont., page 9:
text: About the only time that you can safely overcook kidneys is in an old-fashioned British steak-and-kidney pie or steak-and-kidney pudding. Covered with a crust and gently simmered for a long time, the kidneys become soft and toothsome again.
ref: 1981 July 16, James Beard, “As babe he loved organs”, in The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C., page 5-F:
text: IT’S often hard to keep to any kind of diet if you are catering for the needs of a family. Nor is it much fun, you may think — there you are, nibbling a lettuce leaf, while husband and children are tucking in to a hearty helping of steak-and-kidney pudding.
ref: 1982 September 3, “How to eat well and keep your figure”, in Evening Post, number 4420, page 5:
text: Animals are slaughtered every day and have been for many years to make food for us. Perhaps people ought to think about his^([sic]) as they sit down to their steak-and-kidney puddings.
ref: 1999 September 15, L Berrymen, “Never Ending Tory..”, in The Mirror, page 29, column 1:
text: ‘What’s that?’ said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidney pudding. / ‘Bouillabaisse,’ said Hermione.
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Goblet of Fire”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: Alternative form of steak and kidney pudding.
steak-and-kidney puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steak-and-kidney pudding
Wuischke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Wuischke.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hochkirch, Bautzen district, Saxony, Germany.
glosses: A quarter in Weißenberg, Bautzen district, Saxony, Germany.
Zischkowitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtsɪʃkəwɪts/
Etymology: From German Zischkowitz.
Senses: glosses: A village in Göda, Bautzen district, Saxony, Germany.
messer-abouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messer-abouters
Etymology: From mess about with -er.
Senses: examples: text: He’s a gypsy, a wanderer, a general messer-abouter, here today and gone tomorrow and God only knows where the day after.
ref: 1965, Eric Frank Russell, The Mindwarpers, New York, N.Y.: Prestige Books, published December 1972, page 127:
text: Alan: It’s obvious really isn’t it? If you haven’t got nothing [no qualifications] you’re going to be a ‘messer-abouter’ really.
ref: 1987, Phillip Brown, Schooling Ordinary Kids: Inequality, Unemployment, and the New Vocationalism, London; New York, N.Y.: Tavistock Publications, →ISBN, page 86:
text: She wanted to give me the illusion of freedom now I was a teenager, but still felt it her duty to monitor how much time was spent studying and how much time being a ‘ruckuryu’ — which, loosely translated, means a ‘messer-abouter’ — so instead of asking where I was off to, she’d ask, ‘Am I cooking for you tonight?’
ref: 2010, Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited, Quartet, →ISBN, page 70:
text: To find out more we travelled west to Manchester, venue for the second annual Jamboree – a festival of educators, makers and messer-abouters focussed on highlighting how engaging the Pi can be.
ref: 2014 May, “Education: Teaching the world to code is a noble goal, but how is it going to work in practice?”, in Linux Voice, page 46, column 2:
text: From Sussex in the UK came a ‘memo to the great heartless transplanter. Well done, Messer-abouter. Transplanting pays you, does it not? If not, by good results, it does pay you from the money viewpoint?’
ref: 2017, David K. C. Cooper, Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared: The Man and the Story of Heart Transplantation, Fonthill, →ISBN, page 374:
text: In the words of Milton Wainwright, a microbiologist and historian of science, Fleming was eccentric, a ‘messer-abouter’. ‘He had a reputation for being a nutter and doing daft things, like creating pictures of the Queen on a petri dish using different bacteria cultures.’
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, Vintage, →ISBN:
glosses: One who messes about.
messer-abouters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messer-abouter
Kleinbautzen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /klaɪnˈbaʊtsən/
Etymology: From German Kleinbautzen.
Senses: glosses: A village in Malschwitz, Bautzen district, Saxony, Germany.
Wixford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP0854).
magic spells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic spell
lemon meringue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon meringues
Senses: examples: text: We were all dead beat, but Terry said I had better make three tray apple pies, two lemon meringues and 40 trifles.
ref: 2008, Geraldine Murfin-Shaw, Sweet Chef, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 123:
text: After my parents’ accident, the pies kept coming: chicken pot pies (sized for one person), blueberry pies, ice cream pies, peach cobblers, lemon meringues, pecan pies, pies that were still warm in their tins, apple pies, another chicken pot pie (a big square one), pies with chocolate pudding inside, rhubarb pies, cherry pies, pies with crisscross slats of crust on top.
ref: 2009, Denise Duhamel, Ka-Ching!, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN:
text: Monroe chose a slice of raisin pie and a slice of lemon meringue.
ref: 2017, Charlotte Hubbard, Weddings at Promise Lodge, Zebra Books, →ISBN:
text: “Really, I’d like a slice of lemon meringue, please.” The brownie sighed as she crossed to the lemon meringue pie stand and slid a perfectly measured slice onto a small plate.
ref: 2018, Molly Harper, How to Date Your Dragon, NYLA Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Last in line, I ordered a slice of lemon meringue.
ref: 2018, Gail Oust, The Twelve Dice of Christmas, Beyond the Page Books, →ISBN:
text: Protect us from the chess pies and lemon meringues just awaiting to attack us, sweet Jesus.
ref: 2021, Abby Rosser, Oh, to Grace, WordCrafts Press, →ISBN:
text: She’d almost tripped over a body, facedown, a slice of lemon meringue in hand.
ref: 2022, Laura Pauling, Lemon Meringue and Murder, Redpoint Press:
glosses: Ellipsis of lemon meringue pie.
lemon meringues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemon meringue
Kirkgunzeon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, historically in Kirkcudbrightshire (OS grid ref NY8666).
Kiến An
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Kiến An.
Senses: glosses: An urban district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
glosses: A rural commune of Chợ Mới district, An Giang Province, Vietnam.
gambling den
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambling dens
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gambling house.
synonyms: word: gambling house
black-bottom pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-bottom pies
Senses: examples: text: The cook’s a culinary queen at Oak Haven Inn. But Ruth’s modest. She doesn’t quite get the to-do over her skill with crab Oak Haven; her hot almond roll (tendered on silver platters by a solicitious^([sic]) staff); her delicious crab bisque; her Sunday spoon-bread breakfasts; her tasty tarts; her black-bottom pies.
ref: 1952 May 1, The Sun, volume 230, number 141, Baltimore, Md., page 5:
text: Audrey ordered a bacon cheeseburger, a Coke, a slice of black-bottom pie and a slice of peach pie à la mode, vanilla please.
ref: 1986, Gerald A[ustin] Browne, Stone 588, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 191:
text: For me, my legacy is rich with strong Ozark women who could fish, bake black-bottom pies without a recipe, balance books for the family-owned drugstore, nurture juicy tomatoes, create a princess gown from a blue bed sheet, share the secret of a great cocktail party, swirl the perfect soft-boiled egg, live in Paris for three months on her own and give me the gift of grandchildren.
ref: 2005 March 26, Bonnie Coffey, “The March of Women”, in Neighborhood Extra (Lincoln Journal Star), volume 15, number 40, page 8, columns 2–3:
text: Restaurant critic Duncan Hines (yes, that Duncan Hines) had his first slice of black-bottom pie at an Oklahoma diner, and his rave review of that decadent trifecta of chocolate custard, rum chiffon, and whipped cream immediately put this luscious pie on the map.
ref: 2015, Cook’s Country Eats Local: 150 Regional Recipes You Should Be Making No Matter Where You Live, America’s Test Kitchen, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of black bottom pie.
black-bottom pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-bottom pie