cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chalkwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chalkwhite
form: most chalkwhite
Senses: examples: text: The meadow heaves in chalkwhite waves, all creatures run who can; the sudden flood drains from the landscape as sudden-swiftly as it had begun:
ref: 1968, Gyula Illyés, A tribute to Gyula Illyés, page 134:
text: Those riding on the floats have been reduced to dwarfed mimes with chalkwhite skins, and the faces of the spectators have been transformed into the impermanent and inhuman fragility of Mardi Gras confetti.
ref: 1989, Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner: The Abstract and the Actual, →ISBN, page 189:
text: The setting sun gave out no warmth on that chalkwhite desert, and the rising nightwind did nothing to cool the arid air.
ref: 2015, Dan Clore, The Unspeakable and Others, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of chalk-white.
left main
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left mains
Senses: examples: text: left main disease
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of left main coronary artery.
chalk-white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chalk-white
form: most chalk-white
form: chalkwhite
Etymology: From chalk + white.
Senses: examples: text: I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet / chalk-white and oh so frail / I see our time has gotten stale
ref: 1998, Eve 6, “Inside Out”, in Eve 6:
text: Six utterly chalk-white people were cramped together beneath the parasol, sharing the little circle of shadow it was casting down onto the moderately sundrenched beach.
ref: 2015, Arne Dahl, Europa Blues, →ISBN:
glosses: Chalky white.
UPJO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of ureteropelvic junction obstruction.
Dutches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Dutch
Dutching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Dutch
Dutched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Dutch
phony up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phonies up
form: phonying up
form: phonied up
form: phonied up
form: phoney up
Senses: examples: text: They're in it up to their ears if they're phonying up a record of nonexistent checks.
ref: 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 237:
text: He phonies up some documents, plants them with CBS, and doesn't say a word when the story breaks. He lets others dispute their authenticity while he remains in the shadows.
ref: 2005 -, Case Wagenvoord, Open Letters to George W. Bush:
text: The sheriff said, “What in hell makes you think Jones phonied up evidence?”
ref: 2014, Ken Oder, The Closing, →ISBN, page 207:
synonyms: fake#Verb
coordinate_terms: mock up
glosses: To create a false version of something.
phonies up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phony up
phonying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phony up
phonied up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phony up
makurakotoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makurakotoba
Etymology: From Japanese 枕詞.
Senses: glosses: A pillow word
phonyed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: It is too bad that they phonyed-up what might have been a fine play with gangsters and pistols and hoke
ref: 1944 May 20, “Hickory Stick”, in Billboard, volume 56, number 21:
text: You shot a bunch of Cubans, you kept me in captivity, you phonyed up a phone call so you could kidnap a person in state custody.
ref: 2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Depraved Indifference, →ISBN:
text: Where's the guy who phonyed up those Kyben monsters for the bond drive ghosters, for the holos that got all of us to join up before we'd learned to wipe our asses?
ref: 2016, Harlan Ellison, Slippage, →ISBN:
glosses: simple past and past participle of phony up
phoney up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phoneys up
form: phoneying up
form: phoneyed up
form: phoneyed up
Senses: examples: text: If you take time to edit a person's answers or phoney up the story in any way, the public viewers, millions of them throughout the country, are getting a distorted view of what is actually happening.
ref: 1972, United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Inquiry Into Alleged Rigging of Television News Programs, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Investigations .., 92-2, May 17, 18, and 23, 1972:
text: And it worked. He realized it was just like reading a lock and phoneying up an electronic ID for it.
ref: 2001, Peter Carnahan, The Ethnic Wars, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Maybe we can use her we find a way to maintain that Silver's people phoneyed up the evidence we found.
ref: 2012, Harris Baseman, The President's Jihadist, →ISBN, page 404:
glosses: Alternative form of phony up.
phoneys up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phoney up
phoneying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phoney up
phoneyed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phoney up
nittier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nitty: more nitty.
glosses: comparative form of nittie: more nittie.
crowd pleaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowd pleasers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crowdpleaser.
flossible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flossible
form: most flossible
Senses: examples: text: The fully flossible, life-size upper and lower teeth create a teaching environment that is funny, effective, and memorable
ref: 2001, Dental Economics, volume 91, Issues 1-6, page 118:
glosses: Alternative form of flossable.
flossable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flossable
form: most flossable
form: flossible
Etymology: From floss + -able.
Senses: examples: text: bridges that have flossable pontics, and do not obliterate embrasures with overcontouring or over-large soldered areas
ref: 1988, General Dental Practice: A Handbook of Primary Dental Care, volume 1:
glosses: Capable of being flossed.
eGFR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eGFRs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of estimated glomerular filtration rate.
Big Stone County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Big Stone Lake.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Ortonville.
wikipedia: Big Stone Lake
streetfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetfronts
Etymology: From street + front.
Senses: glosses: The side of a building facing the street.
Ortonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Orton + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Ventura County, California, United States.
glosses: A village in Oakland County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Chisago County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Chisago Lake.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Center City.
wikipedia: Chisago Lake
Center City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪti
Senses: glosses: A central business district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A central business district of Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Chisago County, Minnesota, United States.
Cottonwood County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Cottonwood River.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Windom.
wikipedia: Cottonwood River (Minnesota)
Crow Wing County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Crow Wing River.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Brainerd.
wikipedia: Crow Wing River
Hubbard County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Lucius Frederick Hubbard.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Park Rapids.
wikipedia: Lucius Frederick Hubbard
domestic policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic policies
Senses: coordinate_terms: foreign policy
glosses: A government's policy relating to issues and activity within a nation's borders.
Park Rapids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States.
state park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state parks
Senses: glosses: a park managed by the federal state in which it is situated.
Coordinate terms: national park
provincial park
state parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state park
Kanabec County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ojibwe ?? / Ginebigo-ziibi - the modern spelling, Kanabecosippi - the old spelling (“Snake River”), from ᑭᓀᐱᒃ / ginebig (“snake”) and ?? / ziibi (“river”), an Ojibwe compound word for the Snake River, which flows through the county.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Mora.
wikipedia: Snake River (St. Croix River tributary)
Koochiching County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an Ojibwe or Cree word for Rainy Lake and the Rainy River.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: International Falls.
wikipedia: Rainy Lake
Rainy River (Minnesota-Ontario)
Related terms: english: lac à la pluie; Rainy Lake
translation: lac à la pluie; Rainy Lake
word: Lac à la Pluie
english: rivière à la pluie; Rainy River
translation: rivière à la pluie; Rainy River
word: Rivière à la Pluie
International Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States.
Lake of the Woods County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Lake of the Woods on the Canada-US border.
Senses: glosses: The northernmost of the 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Baudette. The northernmost part of the county is an exclave (Northwest Angle) on the west side of the lake, accessible by land via Manitoba in Canada.
South Vietnamese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From South Vietnam + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or from South Vietnam.
Baudette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. Named after Joseph Baudette.
Lake of the Woods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large lake in Ontario, Manitoba and Minnesota on the Canada-US border.
glosses: Any of several other lakes in California, Indiana, Oregon and Wyoming in the United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A subdivision in Peoria County, Illinois.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Orange County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A township in the Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Any of various First Nations reserves in Ontario.
Derived terms: Lake of the Woods County
Related terms: Lake of the Pines
suck-pint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suck-pints
Etymology: From suck + pint.
Senses: examples: text: Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM:
text: As he was back in London 'in the first months of 1736,' running 'the little French theatre in the Haymarket,' and 'the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians' […], and producing Pasquin, Murphy's 'three years' of 'entertainments, hounds, and horses' gets so hard a knock that, if we had not all been brought up (as it were) in the strong persuasion that Fielding was a squandering suck-pint, it would, I believe, have been held long since a common lie.
ref: 1903, William Ernest Henley, Henry Fielding; republished in Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921, page 33:
glosses: A drunkard.
Synonyms: sucker
tosspot
drunkard
Related terms: suck-bottle
suck-can
suck-pot
suck-spigot
suck-pints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suck-pint
Lithuanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lithuanisation
form: Lithuanianization
Etymology: Derived from Lithuanize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of assimilating a non-Lithuanian culture into a Lithuanian one; the process of making something Lithuanian.
Mahnomen County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an Ojibwe word meaning "wild rice".
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Mahnomen.
Mahnomen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ojibwe manoomin (“wild rice”).
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Derived terms: Mahnomen County
Mille Lacs County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Mille Lacs Lake, from French mille lacs (“thousand lakes”).
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Milaca.
wikipedia: Mille Lacs Lake
Milaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A condensed form of the county name, or of Mille Lacs Lake.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States.
wikipedia: Mille Lacs Lake
Nobles County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aʊnti
Etymology: Named after William H. Nobles.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Worthington.
wikipedia: William H. Nobles
Nobles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Henry County, Tennessee, United States.
Derived terms: Nobles County
shock worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock workers
form: shockworker
Etymology: Calque of Russian уда́рник (udárnik), from уда́р (udár, “strike, blow, shock”) + -ник (-nik).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of udarnik.
synonyms: word: udarnik
shock workers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shock worker
chopsticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chopstick
chopsticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chopstick
dermaplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The exfoliation of the skin by means of a scalpel.
Related terms: dermaplane
dermaplaner
dermaplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dermaplane
dermabrasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From derm- + abrasive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dermabrasion.
drummie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drummies
Etymology: From drum + -ie, from drumstick.
Senses: glosses: A drumstick of poultry.
drummies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drummie
spectralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrality
Bergerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bergerian
form: most Bergerian
Etymology: From Berger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and Lutheran theologian.
examples: text: In the Bergerian world, masks are often peeled away to reveal further masks, yet just as often what was mistaken for a mask turns out to be a face.
ref: 2003, Jonathan Lethem, “Berger’s Ambivalent Usurpations”, in Thomas Berger, Meeting Evil, Penguin, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Louis Berger (1924–2014), American novelist.
examples: text: This is what a Bergerian philosophy of life, art and politics equally constitutes: poetic as well as pragmatic, a Marxism somehow beyond time.
ref: 2013, Andy Merrifield, John Berger, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Of or relating to John Berger (1926–2017), English art critic and novelist.
affectually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affectually
form: most affectually
Etymology: From affectual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an affectual manner.
affectuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affectual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being affectual.
misconvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconvergences
Etymology: From mis- + convergence.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect convergence.
misconvergences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconvergence
misconverge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misconverges
form: misconverging
form: misconverged
form: misconverged
Etymology: From mis- + converge.
Senses: glosses: To (cause to) converge incorrectly.
misconverging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misconverge
misconverges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misconverge
misconverged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconverge
indirecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indirect
off tap
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: If your number comes up you are off tap and that is that. Dead as a bloody mackerel, no questions asked.
ref: 2012, Mark Brandon Read, Chopper Unchopped:
text: Patty said I was placed in isolation as some members of the aboriginal community had placed me in a category known back then as "OFF TAP" meaning I was to be hurt in some way, shape or form. This would later be retracted as Ray had done one of the most stupid things one could do as an aboriginal in prison 'rape one of his own kind'.
ref: 2013, Edgar William, Defined By What I Do or Who I Am, What Makes Me Me?:
glosses: Ostracized and made the target of revenge or punishment.
dead as a kipper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Utterly dead.
dead as a herring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Utterly dead.
moss-cheeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moss-cheepers
Senses: glosses: The titlark (Anthus pratensis).
moss-cheepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moss-cheeper
moss-hag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moss-hags
Senses: examples: text: […] now a splash would be heard, followed by a roar, as some luckless wight fell into a moss hagg […]
ref: 1895, William Fraser, The Whaups of Durley, page 119:
glosses: A pit or slough in a bog.
moss-hags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moss-hag
drastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drastic
purgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purgingly
form: most purgingly
Etymology: From purging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to purge.
baetylus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baetyli
Etymology: From Latin baetulus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baetyl (“sacred stone”).
baetyli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baetylus
replacing switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replacing switches
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: A pair of iron plates fitting over the rails, used as a bridge to replace on the track derailed railway stock.
replacing switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replacing switch
car replacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car replacers
Senses: glosses: A device on American railways for replacing derailed wheels on the track.
car replacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car replacer
mineral black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An impure carbon used as a pigment.
mineral caoutchouc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Elaterite.
mineral salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineral salts
Senses: glosses: A salt of a mineral acid.
mineral salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineral salt
untransfixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transfixed.
Senses: glosses: Not transfixed.
Hartmann's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after American pediatrician Alexis Hartmann, who modified the original solution in the 1930s for the purpose of treating acidosis.
Senses: glosses: Ringer's lactate solution
compound proportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound proportions
Senses: glosses: A proportion between two quantities, each of which is the product of two or more, those of the first set being in their order proportional to those of the other.
compound proportions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound proportion
share-herder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share-herders
Senses: examples: text: In a society in which the members of the noble (chieftain) class derived their main support from the contracted services of share-herders, such tribal principles obviously would present barriers to class differentiation.
ref: 1994, Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race - Volume 1, →ISBN, pages 39–40:
glosses: Alternative form of shareherder.
share-herders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of share-herder
shareherder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shareherders
form: share-herder
form: share herder
Etymology: By analogy to sharecropper
Senses: examples: text: Other shareherders were not quite as reckless and managed to build up their herds by claiming small losses.
ref: 1991, Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier, page 176:
text: However, such arrangements also lead to sub-optimal use of the resource base because the shareherder is less motivated.
ref: 1992, Idriss Jazairy, Mohiuddin Alamgir, John Stanier, The State of World Rural Poverty, →ISBN:
text: Shareherding is analogous to sharecropping: the owner of an animal gives it to be cared for by a shareherder, and the animal's progeny are divided between the owner and the shareherder.
ref: 2001 -, Marguerite Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor, →ISBN:
glosses: One who cares for herd animals owned by someone else, in exchange for a share of the profits or offspring.
shareherders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shareherder
share herder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share herders
Senses: examples: text: For this reason, less affluent settlers on the community grants took over the care of the large herds of the wealthier settlers, as share herders, or partidarios, on their own community range...
ref: 1976 Winter, Frances Leon Swadesh, “Archeology, ethnohistory and the first plaza of Carnuel”, in Ethnohistory, volume 23, number 1:
text: The protection of their herds is entrusted to a stockman the investors are related to, or more generally to salaried or migrant share herders from pastoral ethnic groups who have left their original group.
ref: 2012, Osman Mahgoub, Osman Mahgoub, Isam T. Kadim, Edward Webb, Goat Meat Production and Quality, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Outside of these wealthy kin groups, poorer households, particularly those that have repeatedly lost livestock in winter disasters, now ﬁnd themselves forming a laboring class of hired herders and share herders working for myangat.
ref: 2015 February, Daniel Murphy, “From Kin to Contract”, in Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 42, number 3:
glosses: Alternative form of shareherder.
share herders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of share herder
up to one's neck in alligators
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: An expressive image, derived from the proverb "when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp".
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:up to one's neck in alligators.
glosses: Extremely busy; having many pressing obligations, distractions, etc., consuming one's time.
sediles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedile
share-herd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: share-herds
form: share-herding
form: share-herded
form: share-herded
form: share herd
Senses: examples: text: Another goal was to raise the general level of herd productivity to that of herder-owned and managed herds from the lower level of productivity in herds containing a significant number of share-herded animals.
ref: 1988, Jeremy Swift, Major Issues in Pastoral Development:
text: She share-herds two sheep from her aunt's son.
ref: 2013, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter Little, Michael Carter, Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa, →ISBN:
glosses: To care for the livestock that belong to someone else, in exchange for a percentage of the profits or offspring; to work as a shareherder.
share-herd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share herd
Senses: examples: text: Little et al. (2006) reported that households who lost animals during drought remained vulnerable and poor six years after the drought in Ethiopia, and poor families had to borrow animals (often on a share-herd basis) to restock their herds after the 1998-2000 drought.
ref: 2011, A.J. Jordaan, Drought Risk Reduction in the Northern Cape, South Africa. PhD thesis, University of the free State, South Africa:
text: At a time when the very poor were desperate to recover their few animal assets they also took on animals from wealthier households on a share-herd basis (that is, a contract where in exchange for herding the poor share in herd offspring usually on a 50/50 basis), permitting the best off households to avoid labour and feed costs while reaping gains in herd growth.
ref: 2013, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter Little, Michael Carter, Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa, →ISBN:
qualifier: most often used attributively
glosses: The practice by which someone works as a shareherder; shareherding.
share-herds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of share-herd
Coia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Coia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
share-herding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of share-herd
share-herding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Share-herding or purchase of small livestock are livelihood strategies within the reach of households headed by women, aided by children herders, but constraints including shortage of pasture and animal feed.
ref: 2003, Priscilla Stone, Peter Castro, “Gender Dynamics and Household Drought Coping and Recovery Strategies in South Wollo and Oromiya Zones, Ethiopia”, in Summary Proceedings of the Workshop on the SIS/IDR Research Programme in Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia, June 2003:
text: Burckhardt described share-herding (I, 17-18) between the tribes and the villagers of the Hawran, and it is implicit in the descriptions of livelihood attached to tribal listings in French Mandate records.
ref: 2005, R. Khanam, Encyclopaedic ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia, →ISBN:
text: The cattle raising on the basis of share-herding is also popular.
ref: 2011 January-June, Anwar Shaheen, “Living on the Margins: A Socio-historical Profile of the Nomads in Pakistan”, in Pakistan Perspectives, volume 16, number 1:
glosses: Alternative form of shareherding.
shareherding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From share + herding, by analogy to sharecropping.
Senses: examples: text: Describing the shareherding contracts by which young men acquired the wherewithal to marry, he asserted that, "consequently, even in the homes of the poorest New Mexicans, there is never a dearth of the means to satisfy the necessities of life and even to afford the comfort and luxuries of the wealthiest class in the country.
ref: 1991, Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier, page 175:
text: Although the new shareherding arrangements are generally inequitable, and are disliked by herders, they are accepted because the alternative - exclusion from the pastoral economy and society - is even less attractive.
ref: 1992, Idriss Jazairy, Mohiuddin Alamgir, John Stanier, The State of World Rural Poverty, →ISBN:
text: Overall, the disadvantages of saving in animals (opportunity cost for household labor, liquidity problems, lack of space, and the risks of shareherding) were usually considered to outweigh the advantages (relatively high returns given normal propagation).
ref: 1994, María Otero, Elisabeth Rhyne, The New world of microenterprise finance, →ISBN:
text: In some cases animals are given out on a shareherding basis, to be cared for by people who live near better grazing lands.
ref: 2001, Marguerite Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor, →ISBN:
glosses: The practice by which one herder cares for the livestock of another, in return for a percentage of the profits or offspring.
assentatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assentatorily
form: most assentatorily
Etymology: From assentatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an assentatory manner.
weather a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weathers a point
form: weathering a point
form: weathered a point
form: weathered a point
Senses: glosses: To gain an advantage or accomplish a purpose against opposition.
share-herded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of share-herd
weather anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather anchors
Senses: examples: text: […] the weather anchor is likelier to go clear of the ship than the lee one […]
ref: 1791, William Hutchinson, A Treatise Founded Upon Philosophical and Rational Principles:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The anchor lying to windward.
glosses: A television presenter who presents the weather forecast.
weather anchors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather anchor
share herd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: share herds
form: share herding
form: share herded
form: share herded
Senses: examples: text: Some very poor households actually came out of the recent drought better than when the event began, while some of the wealthier households benefited both from a favourable livestock market and increased opportunities to share herd out animals in the post-drought period.
ref: 2006, Peter D. Little, M. Priscilla Stone, Tewodaj Mogues, A. Peter Castro, Workneh Negatu, “'Moving in place': Drought and poverty dynamics in South Wollo, Ethiopia”, in Journal of Development Studies, volume 42, number 2:
glosses: Alternative form of share-herd.
weather-glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather-glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weatherglass.
weather-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather-glass
share herds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of share herd
poor man's weatherglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poor man's weatherglasses
Etymology: Scarlet pimpernel flowers open only when the sun shines, and even close in overcast conditions.
Senses: examples: text: Pimpernel (poor man's weather glass) was also a protection, but as the gatherer collected the herbs, he must chant a certain incantation and continue to do so twice a day for 15 days[.]
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 272:
glosses: A scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
share herding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of share herd
share herding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Share herding is the best example where major share is taken by real owner of the animals and share harder get share as per agreed condition.
ref: 2013 July, Nabam Nakha Hina, “Customary Laws of Nyishi Tribe in India”, in International Journal of Advance Research, volume 1, number 7:
text: Yet these contractual forms of labor exchange (i.e. hired herding and share herding), described in detail below, exist alongside other forms of inter-household cooperation and interaction including forms of patron-clientelism and, as such, have a diverse array of political effects and implications.
ref: 2015 February, Daniel Murphy, “From Kin to Contract”, in Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 42, number 3:
glosses: Alternative form of shareherding.
share herded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of share herd
centagenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centagenarian
hippity-hoppity
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hippity-hoppity
form: most hippity-hoppity
form: hippity hoppity
Senses: examples: text: Just imagine Mr. Bird, with his poor sciatic leg, standing at the head of State Street with a bucket of water in one hand and a little engine in the other, and see him, when the telegraph strikes an alarm, starting off with all his might, hippity, hoppity, almost two miles an hour, for a fire which may be one or five miles away !
ref: 1873, Joseph W. Bird, Protection Against Fire, and the Best Means of Putting Out Fires in Cities, Towns, and Villages, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of hippity-hop.
houndsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houndsmen
Etymology: From hound + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: The person in charge of dogs used for hunting.
houndsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houndsman
hounfours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hounfour
sobrassadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sobrassada
irrepudiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrepudiable
form: most irrepudiable
Etymology: From ir- + repudiable.
Senses: glosses: Not to be repudiated.
unrepudiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepudiable
form: most unrepudiable
Etymology: From un- + repudiable.
Senses: glosses: Not to be repudiated.
furciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furciform
form: most furciform
Etymology: From Latin furca (“fork”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: fork-shaped
hippity
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hippity
form: most hippity
Etymology: Fanciful extension hip, a regional variant of hop, with the expressive suffix -ity. Attested since the nineteenth century.
Senses: examples: text: “W’at’ll de rab’its do w’en de pile am burnin’?” ¶ “Dey’ll jes hippity, skippity, an’ git hout, an’ now min’ I w’at tell yer,” replied the old negro.
ref: 1889, Carlisle B. Holding, Her Ben: A Tale of Royal Resolves, page 159:
text: Sammy Squirrel slept inside the tortoise's house until nightfall and then he came out and, skippity-hippity, away he went to Owl's Barn.
ref: 1955, Time & Tide, volume 36, page 1582:
glosses: Unevenly; by hopping.
stormworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stormworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being stormworthy.
sharemilk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sharemilks
form: sharemilking
form: sharemilked
form: sharemilked
form: share-milk
form: share milk
Etymology: From share + milk.
Senses: examples: text: Young men sharemilk on farms for absentee owners who are prepared to put their money into development and increased production.
ref: 1962, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 327, page 1903:
text: The Kleyngelds sharemilk a 135-hectare dairy farm for Tasman Agriculture, converted from sheep in 1990.
ref: 1992, New Zealand Grassland Association, Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association:
text: Anne-Mary and I currently sharemilk 740 cows on a 235 hectare property at Morrinsville.
ref: 1996, Proceedings of the Ruakura Farmers' Conference:
text: This cadet will assume primary responsibility for managing the 150-cow herd that the Berrys sharemilk on Wayne's father's farm.
ref: 1996, G. W. Stevenson, Russell O'Harrow, Douglas Romig, Dairy Farmer Career Paths:
glosses: To participate in sharemilking.
sharemilks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sharemilk
sharemilked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sharemilk
share-milker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share-milkers
Senses: examples: text: This gentleman bought a farm, unimproved, thirty years ago, and he has had his present share-milker for fourteen years.
ref: 1940, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 257, page 256:
text: At Karsha they said that cattle on the Pensi-La would produce about 5kg of butter, and that a share-milker would take half of this.
ref: 2001, John Crook, Henry Osmaston, Himalayan Buddhist Villages, →ISBN:
text: An interesting system to facilitate the entry rate of young people into the industry is provided by the share-milker program of New Zealand.
ref: 2009, Rattan Lal, Agricultural Sciences - Volume I, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Alternative form of sharemilker.
GOMADs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GOMAD
share-milkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of share-milker
share milker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share milkers
Senses: examples: text: The usual form of contract is a 50 per cent agreement whereby the share milker provides the herd and farm machinery, and is responsible for all farm operations, in return for which he receives half the butterfat cheque, plus a proportion of any additional income such as bobby calves.
ref: 1968 -, Agriculture: The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, page 371:
text: The milking and day-to-day management on the main farm is carried out by a share milker, who shares both the costs and profits, and the other block has a young manager who has some, but lesser, profit-share arrangements.
ref: 2010, Peter Leslie Nuthall, Farm Business Management: The Human Factor, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Often dairy farms were owned and operated by different individuals and the operator, the share milker, carried enormous burdens in poor economic times.
ref: 2014, John C. Weaver, Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900–2000, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of sharemilker.
share milkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of share milker
forklifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forklifters
Etymology: From forklift + -er.
Senses: synonyms: forklift operator
forklift driver
glosses: A person employed to operate a forklift.
forklifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forklifter
out at elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out at elbow.
share-milk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: share-milks
form: share-milking
form: share-milked
form: share-milked
Senses: examples: text: Sections will be allotted later this year with herds either milked on wages or share-milked for one season.
ref: 1947, Appendix to the journals / New Zealand. Parliament.:
text: Till then Grant had share-milked on the family's Waikato dairy farm.
ref: 2001, The Orchardist, page 38:
text: He share-milked and did timber contracting in the off season with the farmer.
ref: 2015, Nick Farrell, Hermetic Tablet Winter, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: Alternative form of sharemilk.
examples: text: Suckling stimulates milk production and the removal of milk is crucial for maintaining lactation. University of WA trials show share-milked ewes produced more milk than...
ref: 2001, Farming Ahead with the Kondinin Group - Issues 109-120, page 448:
text: I also planned to share-milk the house cow I'd get.
ref: 2003, Lyn McConchie, Elizabeth Underwood, Daze on the Land: The Further Adventures of a Middle-aged Woman Farmer, →ISBN:
text: One of his school holiday jobs at the Robbs farm had been tending the two cows share-milked with their calves; a system of penning the calves over night, and in the morning hand-milking the mothers first.
ref: 2010, Nicco McKenzie, Rhythms of Water, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.
share-milks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of share-milk
at one's elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Near at hand; within easy reach.
share-milking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We bought a herd of 200 cows and did a 50/50 share-milking deal with a local farmer.
ref: 2017, Lorraine Wood, Love and Addiction, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of sharemilking.
examples: text: Further observations on smaller groups have shown even more share-milking by calves.
ref: 1969, The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture - Volume 119, page 69:
glosses: The practice of allowing the calf, young sheep, etc, continue to suckle while milking the mother for human consumption.
share-milking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of share-milk
share-milked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of share-milk
share milk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: share milks
form: share milking
form: share milked
form: share milked
Senses: examples: text: The same farm, share milked, would normally have a lower level of fixed costs, particularly labour and machinery, and possibly a slightly higher gross income to give a net income of £2,000 a year for the share milker, and rather less for the owner, this depending on interest charges and the amount spent on repairs and maintenance.
ref: 1968 -, Agriculture - Volume 75, page 431:
glosses: Alternative form of sharemilk.
examples: text: This work showed that although share milked lambs had slower growth rates than their counterparts, their carcases did not differ in composition.
ref: 2001 -, Proceedings of the Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium:
glosses: Alternative form of share-milk.
share milks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of share milk
share milking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tasman Agriculture, as the Paterson operation was called, went over to one hundred per cent share milking and within another eighteen months went public with 17,000 cows.
ref: 2006, Anthony Rosen, An UnOrdinary Life, →ISBN, page 137:
text: About 30 per cent of the dairy farms are operated on a share milking basis where, for example, the owner is responsible for the farm maintenance and the fertilizer costs, whilst the share milker owns and milks the cows.
ref: 2008, Anthony H. Andrews, Roger W. Blowey, Hugh Boyd, Bovine Medicine: Diseases and Husbandry of Cattle, →ISBN, page 1177:
text: Share milking is fairly common in years with good springs; a woman who has time will milk and process the milk of a flock where the women have no time, and share the produce.
ref: 2013, Fidelity Lancaster, People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of sharemilking.
examples: text: In this case share milking meant keeping the mother from her calf during the night and seeing that the family's requirements were met first in the morning.
ref: 1966, Farm Mechanization and Buildings:
text: “Share milking,” as it is called, was challenged in Indiana, and it took a lengthy battle with the bureaucracy and finally the help of the governor personally before Mark and Debbie were allowed to proceed
ref: 2004, Gene Logsdon, All Flesh is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, →ISBN:
text: Another option for OAD is “share milking"—leaving the calf with the cow while still milking.
ref: 2015, Carol Ekarius, The Essential Guide to Hobby Farming, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of share-milking.
share milking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of share milk
share milked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of share milk
sharingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sharing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sharing.
tintypist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tintypists
Etymology: From tintype + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A maker of tintypes.
cloveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clove + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without cloves.
cloved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clove + -ed.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Flavoured with cloves.
tintypists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tintypist
Butlinesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Butlinesque
form: most Butlinesque
Etymology: From Butlin + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the Butlins chain of British holiday camps, with various family-oriented activities and entertainments supervised by redcoats.
Butlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Butlinesque
totall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more totall
form: most totall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of total.
flipperty-flopperty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flippety-floppety
form: flippity-flop
form: flippity-floppity
Senses: glosses: Moving loosely back and forth; floppy.
Related terms: flip
flop
flippety-floppety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flipperty-flopperty.
flippity-floppity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flipperty-flopperty.
tinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Forms: form: more tinglish
form: most tinglish
Etymology: From tingle + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: They pass: for them the panels may thrill, / The tempera grow alive and tinglish— / Rot or are left to the mercies still / Of dealers and stealers, Jews and the English!
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Old Pictures in Florence”, in Men and Women […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 29, page 44:
glosses: Tingly.
titteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From titter + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Tittering; giggling.
parthenogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to parthenogenesis.
nonallegorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not allegorical.