cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
macrothrombosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrothromboses
Etymology: From macro- + thrombosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A relatively large thrombosis
microdischarges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdischarge
microformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microformations
Etymology: From micro- + formation.
Senses: glosses: A very small formation
microformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microformation
Magot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Magots
Etymology: Borrowed from French Magot. Also from Sudan.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
nociceptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a nociceptive manner (by means of nociception)
ootaxonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oo- + taxonomy.
Senses: glosses: The taxonomy of eggs
Related terms: ootaxonomic
ootaxonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oo- + taxonomic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ootaxonomy
phytocenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to phytocenosis
poxvirion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poxvirions
Senses: glosses: The virion of a poxvirus
poxvirions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poxvirion
premetacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + metacyclic.
Senses: glosses: Prior to a metacyclic phase
premetacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premetacyclics
Etymology: From pre- + metacyclic.
Senses: glosses: A trypanosome in this phase
reinfestant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + infestant.
Senses: glosses: That causes reinfestation
reinfestant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinfestants
Etymology: From re- + infestant.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
truthset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truthsets
form: truth set
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A set of all true values
truthsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truthset
Longcore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Longcores
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kettell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛtəl/
Forms: form: Kettells
Etymology: Variant spelling of Kettle.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
DeVore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Devore
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kettells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kettell
Jayna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Aronowitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aronowitzes
Etymology: A Jewish (eastern Ashkenazi) surname, from a Germanized spelling of either Polish Aronowicz (“Aaron’s son, son of Aaron”) or Russian Ароно́вич (Aronóvič, “Aaron’s son, son of Aaron”). Cognate with German Aronowitsch (“Aaron’s son, son of Aaron”)
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Borchard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Borchards
Etymology: Borrowed from German Borchard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Antrobuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Antrobus
Aronowitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aronowitz
Borchards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borchard
Bodle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bodles
Etymology: Topographic surname for someone who lived or worked at a particularly large house, from Old English botl (“dwelling house”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Weisheits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weisheit
Bodles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bodle
Rilling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rillings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rilling.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ruter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ruters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rüter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ruters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ruter
Rillings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rilling
Schwaller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schwallers
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Schwaller.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Texter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Texters
Etymology: Variant of Textor.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Texters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Texter
Schwallers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwaller
Tenuta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tenutas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tenuta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Slifka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slifkas
Etymology: Variant of Slivka.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Slifkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Slifka
Tenutas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tenuta
Simer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Simers
Etymology: Occupational surname for a roper or loader, from an agent derivative of Middle English sime (“cord, rope”) or simen (“to load”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Stagliano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Staglianos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Staglianò.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Staglianos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stagliano
Simers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Simer
tête à tête
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tête à têtes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tête-à-tête.
McVarish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McVarishes
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Bharrais.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Wombwells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wombwell
McVarishes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McVarish
Bywaters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bywater
Winnik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winniks
form: Winick
form: Winnick
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Winnik.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Winniks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Winnik
Bullimore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fuggles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
two-legged tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-legged ties
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: two-leg tie
two-leg knockout
two-leg elimination
antonyms: one-leg tie
one-legged tie
single-leg tie
one-legged knockout
one-leg elimination
coordinate_terms: first leg
second leg
return leg
glosses: A competition between two teams which comprises two matches or “legs”, with each team as the home team in one leg. The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score, the sum of the scores of the two legs.
wikipedia: two-legged tie
Johnnies-come-lately
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Today there are Trappist abbeys with breweries in Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and the United States, with more in development, but most of these, save for those of the Onze Lieve Vrouw van Koningshoeven, better known as La Trappe, are Johnnies-come-lately.
ref: 2018, Stephen Beaumont, Will Travel For Beer, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of Johnny-come-lately
Béjaïa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Béjaïa, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bejaia, a city and province of Algeria.
raphanias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raphania
Bejaia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɪˈd͡ʒaɪ.ə/
Forms: form: Bejaïa
form: Béjaïa
form: Bougie
form: Bugia
Etymology: From French Béjaïa, from Arabic بجاية (Bijāya).
Senses: glosses: A city and commune, the capital of Bejaia Province, Algeria.
glosses: A province of Algeria around the city.
Synonyms: word: Saldae
fairy-tale ending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy-tale endings
form: fairytale ending
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: The ending of a fairy tale.
examples: text: Many women have ideas about what we deserve—I mean, after all, we were promised our very own version of a handsome prince and a fairy-tale ending, or at least that's how it felt when we were little. We saw Snow White and the Seven[…]
ref: 2016 January 12, Wendy Newman, 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After (Really!), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: An ideal and easy life free of hardship or struggle, similar to the lives characters live in the ending of a fairy-tale.
Related terms: happily ever after
fairy-tale endings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy-tale ending
gock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑk/
ipa: /ɡɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: gocks
Etymology: Blend of girl + cock.
Senses: examples: text: Men's dicks just don't cut it for me anymore; I need some gock.
text: Is there a term like bussy except for girlcock? Gock?
ref: 2021 March 13, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:
text: gock lovers rise up
ref: 2021 September 9, @tsunderebutt, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023:
text: when you can't tell if that's a gock or a glock in her pants but either way you wanna stuff it down your throat and swallow a load
ref: 2022 January 10, @oncloud_e, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023:
text: "will you teach me how to play magic 🥺" is a very transparent ploy for gock, but a very effective one
ref: 2022 February 6, @twinkofswords, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023:
text: i have seen gocks you people wouldn't believe
ref: 2022 August 29, @faecuddlebug, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023:
synonyms: word: ladystick
word: girldick
word: girlcock
word: princess wand
word: shenis
word: clit
word: clitoris
word: girlcock
word: girldick
word: gock
word: hen
word: ladybits
word: ladyparts
word: ladystick
word: princess wand
word: shenis
word: strapless
word: strap-off
qualifier: chiefly transgender slang
glosses: The penis of a trans woman.
Orchid Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 蘭嶼 (Lányǔ, literally “orchid island”)
Senses: examples: text: Orchid Island is a rocky, mountainous bit of land thrown up from the sea by volcanic action eons ago. It has barely more than ten and a half square miles of area, with little arable or level land. Yet it is home to some 2,600 people.
There really are orchids on Orchid Island, although they are found at higher elevations not usually seen by visitors—also sizeable trees and numerous birds and butterflies. Almost everything is green from the combination of a tropical climate and heavy rainfall.
The people of Orchid Island are Yamis, members of the smallest of the Taiwan aborigine tribes. They are handsome people. with black hair, brown eyes and complexions deeply bronzed from exposure to sun and wind.
ref: 1977 January 9, “Visitors drawn to Lanyu, Land forgotten by time”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVIII, number 2, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 4:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: While 2020 will be remembered by many as a year of travel bans and cancelled vacations, the indigenous Tao people of Orchid Island will remember it as the year unprecedented numbers of visitors descended on their once tranquil home.
ref: 2020 November 4, Sally Jensen, “Indigenous Tao way of life under threat on Taiwan island”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2020, Big Story 10:
text: A ship transporting cargo from Taitung to Orchid Island sank early Tuesday after it was struck by a large merchant vessel off Green Island, but all nine crew members were safely rescued, according to the Coast Guard Administration (CGA).
ref: 2022 April 26, Tyson Lu, Matthew Mazzetta, “Ship delivering supplies to Orchid Island sinks after collision”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2022, Society:
text: The waste site in Lanyu, also known as Orchid Island, or Ponso no Tao, has been among the highest-profile causes taken up by Indigenous Taiwanese, who were the main inhabitants of these islands until four centuries ago, when colonial settlers began arriving from mainland China, Europe and, later, imperial Japan.
ref: 2023 January 5, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “The Nuclear Dump That Created a Generation of Indigenous Activists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2023:
glosses: An island of Taitung County, Taiwan, in the Pacific Ocean (Philippine Sea), home of the Tao (Yami) indigenous people.
wikipedia: Columbia University Press
Saul B. Cohen
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Lanyu
IT cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IT cells
Senses: examples: text: YSRCP IT Cell in-charge Challa Madhusudan Reddy categorically said that his party was no way associated with Political Punch website founder Inturi Ravikiran, who was earlier questioned by police for posting graphic content berating AP Legislative Council in social media.
ref: 2017 April 26, “YSRCP IT wing incharge appears before cops”, in The Hans India:
text: The BJP’s IT cell used these influencers first, but then began ignoring them because they thought the Modi magic was enough. The party is in trouble because just the IT cell, fake accounts and bots do not achieve what needs to be accomplished through social media.
ref: 2019 January 29, “Former BJP data analyst on how the party wins elections and influences people”, in The Caravan:
text: According to him, while the IT cells of both the BJP and Congress engage in coordinated activity on Twitter, the former has a much larger and more complex structure than the latter. However, what is common to both is a set of nodal or seed accounts that act as the source of political content.
ref: 2020 January 28, Neerad Pandharipande, “Massive tweet volumes, complex hierarchies, coordinated attacks: Hacker reveals how BJP, Congress IT cells wage war on social media”, in Firstpost:
text: Journalists who are on Twitter often decide what is newsworthy based on the top few trending hashtags or keywords. Therefore, it became the goal of political IT cells to tweet enough on a particular topic to make the Twitter algorithms rank it as the number 1 trending topic.
ref: 2021 November 29, Regina Mihindukulasuriya, “From ‘I had idli’ to political megaphone, how tiny Twitter punches above its weight in India”, in ThePrint:
topics: government
politics
glosses: a department of a political party set up to promote the party and influence political discussion on social media
Wu-kung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 武功 (wǔgōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Wu³-kung¹.
Senses: examples: text: T'ai-po Shan, south of Wu-kung county, 200 li from Ch'ang-an, was a permanently snowcapped mountain.
ref: 1975, Wu-chi Liu, Irving Yucheng Lo, editors, Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:
glosses: Alternative form of Wugong.
IT cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IT cell
Ganwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Hertsmere borough, Hertfordshire, England, south of Potters Bar (OS grid ref TQ2599).
fairytale ending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairytale endings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fairy-tale ending.
fairytale endings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairytale ending
Erkrath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Mettmann district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
live in the shadow of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪv ɪn ðə ˈʃædoʊ ʌv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Forms: form: lives in the shadow of
form: living in the shadow of
form: lived in the shadow of
form: lived in the shadow of
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: To live in the shadow cast by a structure.
examples: text: Many historical personalities have lived in the shadow of great men; Harry Truman in the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Lowery in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hank Aaron in the shadow of Babe Ruth.
ref: 1995, Robert Smith, In the Shadow of C. L. Franklin:
text: Paul Fisher lives in the shadow of his older brother, Erik. Legally blind, Paul still manages to play soccer while Erik steals the family's attention as a star football kicker. Slowly the truth about Paul's blindness comes out in[…]
ref: 2004, Christie Jo Bott, The Bully in the Book and in the Classroom, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: To be overshadowed one's entire life, especially by a relative or predecessor.
lives in the shadow of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of live in the shadow of
living in the shadow of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live in the shadow of
lived in the shadow of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live in the shadow of
dashas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dasha
Raworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raworths
Etymology: Variant of Rowarth.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
acinobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bacteria of the genus Acinetobacter
chalcopyritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of chalcopyrite
cholecystocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholecystocenteses
Etymology: From chole- + cystocentesis.
Senses: glosses: cystocentesis of the gallbladder
dear diary
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Dear Diary, you do know how Ijust can't stand maths, right? My brain isn't made to deal with numbers. I was destined to read story books and write awesome stories for the rest of my life. Mum had peeped in my room to see how I was doing[…]
ref: 2014 September 19, Syazwani Izzati Azhar, Dear Diary, syazwani izzati azhar, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: The traditional first line of a diary entry, based on the first line of a formal letter.
cisheteronormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cisheteronormative.
Suleika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the same as Zuleika.
Senses: examples: Suleika Jaouad, b. 1988
glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Shateasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
decapitalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decapitalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decapitalization.
Jaouad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaouads
Etymology: Variant spelling of Jawad.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
fusogeneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusogeneities
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fusogenicity.
geoscheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geoschemes
Etymology: From geo- + scheme.
Senses: glosses: A geographic scheme of the United Nations that divides the world into countries and territories for the purpose of statistics.
gliomesenchymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: gliomal and mesenchymal
born at night but not last night
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He expects me to believe that load of bull? Hey, listen, I was born at night but not last night!
antonyms: born yesterday
glosses: Aware of one's situation; not as naive as a listener might expect.
come down in the last shower
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Compare French ne pas être né de la dernière pluie.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of be born yesterday.
synonyms: word: be born yesterday
Lampanelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Lampanelli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Taiwan Straits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Taiwan Straits
Senses: examples: text: Formosa is an island about 200 miles long and 80 miles wide. It is separated from China to the west by the Taiwan Straits.
ref: 1950 September 27, “Focus on Formosa”, in Scholastic Teacher Monthly, →OCLC, page 9:
text: Taipei lies on the east bank of the Tan-shui river between the mouths of two of its tributaries, the Hsin-tien and the Chi-lung. These rivers drain a fertile and humid basin surrounded by mountains on all sides but the northwest, where the Tan-shui flows into the Taiwan Straits facing the mainland.
ref: 1974, Stephan Feuchtwang, “City Temples in Taipei Under Three Regimes”, in Mark Elvin, G. William Skinner, editors, The Chinese City Between Two Worlds, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 264:
text: Should the Chinese communists really intend to end their hostile stance toward Taiwan, they could readily follow the example set by President Lee who announced the termination of the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion by displaying their sincerity, on their own initiative, to peacefully resolve all conflicts between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits. This would certainly be very helpful in ending the hostility between the two sides.
ref: 1993 [1992 October 1], Hau Pei-tsun, “Stability, Democracy, the Rule of Law, Development, and Reunification”, in Straight Talk, Taipei: Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: Tensions were running high over disagreements about Taiwan, nuclear proliferation, China’s sale of M-11 missiles to Pakistan and ongoing human rights abuses. Relations deteriorated even further in mid-August when the Chinese engaged in the bravado of military exercises in the Taiwan Straits.
ref: 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Women's Rights Are Human Rights”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 300:
text: There are a number of reasons for China to be wary of launching an invasion of Taiwan, but the key military reason is that it cannot safeguard a properly sized, seaborne invasion force and the follow-on shipping necessary to support it during multiple transits across the 100-plus mile-wide Taiwan Straits. Protecting such an invasion force would require complete command of the sea surface of the Straits by China, but China cannot now and most likely will not be able in the future to come close to that level of command.
ref: 2022 March 10, Owen R. Cote, Jr., “One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of Taiwan Strait.
Micăsasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Micăsasa.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sibiu County, Romania.
Sante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A male given name.
Santé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Straits of Magellan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Straits of Magellan
Senses: examples: text: Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.
ref: 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 3–4:
text: Well, as if that wern't enough, we ship together again in this vessel, and a time we had of it with the French letter-of-marque. After that, a devil of a passage we made of it through the Straits of Magellan.
ref: 1844, James Fenimore Cooper, Afloat and Ashore, page 257:
text: The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude.
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Geographical Distribution”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 349:
text: As the Panama Canal was still not ready, the fleet had to pass across the tip of South America through the Straits of Magellan.
ref: 2018 December 16, Andrew Glass, “Roosevelt dispatches U.S. fleet on goodwill voyage, Dec. 16, 1907”, in Politico, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of Strait of Magellan.
dandy cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandy carts
Senses: examples: text: Three examples of the dandy cart in which horses descended inclines at the rear of gravity-operated trains.
ref: 1942 March, “The Dandy Cart”, in Railway Magazine, page 86, image caption:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A wagon in which a horse could rest and travel downhill on a gravity-worked railway, before hauling wagons back up the incline.
Synonyms: dandy wagon
dandy waggon
dandy carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandy cart
nookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nookie
Babbage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æbɪdʒ
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Babbagian
hypereminent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.pə(ɹ)ˈɛmɪnənt/
Forms: form: more hypereminent
form: most hypereminent
form: hyper-eminent
Etymology: From hyper- + eminent.
Senses: examples: text: The hypereminent gentleman who pampers his vanity by ignoring collections is not a good citizen in the profession.
ref: 1917, Kansas Medical Society, The Journal of the Kansas Medical Society 1917-08: Volume 17 Issue 8, Kansas Medical Society, page 219:
text: Ultre to Francia nequande ha esset li lande de hypereminent singulos. Por to ja desde antiqui it ha esset disposit tro social.
ref: 1927, Societé Kosmoglott, Kosmoglott - Cosmoglotta n039 (Mar-Apr 1927), page 14:
text: I am not satisfied by the death of God announced by Nietzsche, who was too unguardedly in love in with power and hierarchy and struggle, nor even with the beautiful mystical death of God in apophatic, which is trying to affirm the still higher being of a hypereminent hyperousios.
ref: 2009, John D. Caputo, Gianni Vattimo, After the Death of God, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: Extraordinarily eminent; supereminent.
FYM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛf waɪ ɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: fym
Senses: synonyms: WTFDYM
glosses: Initialism of fuck you mean?; used to indicate confusion, or a state of rage, at something.
Christmas-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas-times
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Christmas time.
Tesco Value
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: After the low-cost “Tesco Value” range (launched in 1993) of the British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer Tesco.
Senses: synonyms: poor man's
Poundland
pound-shop
BTEC
dollar-store
Wish.com
glosses: Cheap or basic.
wikipedia: Tesco
aged like milk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of age like milk
age like a fine wine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ages like a fine wine
form: aging like a fine wine
form: ageing like a fine wine
form: aged like a fine wine
form: aged like a fine wine
form: age like fine wine
form: age like wine
Etymology: Due to the perception that wine improves with age.
Senses: antonyms: age like milk
age like vinegar
qualifier: simile
glosses: To age well; to look or become better as one becomes older.
aged like a fine wine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of age like a fine wine
baroque pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baroque pitches
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A reference tuning pitch intended to imitate those used in the baroque period; usually using the standard of A415, but sometimes as low as A392.
Related terms: concert pitch
baroque pitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baroque pitch
rectiradiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Straight (not inclined forward or backward).
raw_tags: of the ribs of a cephalopod shell
Related terms: prorsiradiate
rursiradiate
longicone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longicones
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: brevicone
glosses: A long, thin, conic shell, as of some Paleozoic cephalopods.
Related terms: longiconic
longiconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, having the form of, or composed of, longicone(s).
longicones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longicone
phragmoconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is entirely phragmoconic. The ribs are straight rectiradiate and branch at the ventral shoulder to give rise to two to three secondary ribs . As the venter is somewhat eroded little detail is visible there .
ref: 1992, Geologica romana:
text: Occasionally triplicate ribs are also seen at the phragmoconic stage. Biplicate with intercalation can also be seen. The body chamber shows regular trifurcation. The overall ornamentation is prorsiradiate which shows appreciable[…]
ref: 2006, Dr. Surendra Prasad, Ammonite Biostragigraphy of Middle to Late Jurassic Rocks of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, India:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of, phragmocone(s).
Higgs bison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Higgs bison
form: Higgs Bison
form: Higgs-Bison
Etymology: Blend of Higgs boson + bison. From being elusive, not being found after a long search, akin to how the Higgs boson proved time-consuming to find. Higgs was chosen due to the similarity between boson and bison, and its characteristic mysteriousness, due to not being found.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle.
ref: 2016 October 19, Robby Berman, “Scientists Identify the Elusive Higgs Bison”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022:
text: But now, cave art and further DNA testing have finally unraveled the origins of Higgs Bison, which turns out to be a previously undescribed hybrid animal. The research appears in the journal Nature Communications.
ref: 2016 October 19, Jason Daley, “Cave Paintings Help Unravel the Mystery of the ‘Higgs Bison’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
text: The discovery of a missing hybrid ancestor—nicknamed the Higgs-Bison after the Higgs-Boson, a particle posited by theoretical physicists before it was proven to exist—confirmed this cross-breeding had occurred.
ref: [2023, Christopher J. Preston, Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 86:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The ancestor of the European bison (Bison bonasus), a species originating from the hybridization of the aurochs (Bos primigenius) and the steppe bison (Bison priscus).
Abp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: titular
glosses: Abbreviation of archbishop.
lituiticone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lituiticones
Etymology: From or related to the genus name Lituites.
Senses: examples: text: An endogastric cyrtocone, the basal part sectioned showing the position of the siphuncle P.
A lituiticone. All side views, except M, have the shell oriented with the venter to the left a a earlier whorls.
ref: 1964, New Mexico. Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir:
text: Description A nautiloid with a shell only partially coiled in a flat spiral (lituiticone) : the coiling appears in the first whorls, which may be only slightly touching, and the shell subsequently develops in a straight line[…]
ref: 1986, Paolo Arduini, Giorgio Teruzzi, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils, Simon & Schuster:
text: […] The shells are slender orthocones or rapidly expanding lituiticones, either weakly cyrtoconic or with the apical part spirally[…]
ref: 2020 March 10, Winston Frank Ponder, David R. Lindberg, Juliet Mary Ponder, Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 2, CRC Press, →ISBN:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: A conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.
Related terms: lituiticonic
lituiticones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lituiticone
organ loft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organ lofts
Senses: examples: text: I visited the Cathedral at Cologne on the Sunday morning and sat in the organ loft with my friend, Professor Hans Bachem, who had given me a welcome on previous occasions and was anxious to come to London as a visiting recitalist at, say, Westminster Cathedral or the Albert Hall.
ref: 1942 November and December, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences—II: A Sunday in Cologne”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
glosses: The gallery or raised platform within a church or hall from which an organ is played, though not necessarily housing the organ itself.
organ lofts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organ loft
lituiticonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Conch lituiticonic, with relatively large, compressed, loosely coiled adapical spiral, and a rather rapidly expanding, somewhat compressed uncoiled segment, which has a sigmoidal ventral outline in its adapical portion.
ref: 1958, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift:
text: Lituiticonic uncoiling of nautiloid conchs foreshadows much more extensive development of a similar trend among some Cretaceous ammonoids. It was formerly thought that most of the foregoing stages constituted an evolutionary series[…]
ref: 1960, William Heyden Easton, Invertebrate Paleontology:
text: It has a rich macrofauna with Brachiopods, Gastropods, Nautiloids (orthoceraconic, cyrthoceraconic and lituiticonic) and Trilobites. The processed sample RG 68 comes from a point located on the right bank of the Guandacol River[…]
ref: 1973, Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina), Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, having the form of, or composed of, lituiticone(s).
nautiliconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, having the form of, or composed of, nautilicone(s).
Aeoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Aeoline, from Classical Latin Aeolus (see Aeolian harp) + German -ine. Piecewise doublet of aeolina.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A string stop on an organ with a very soft tone.
torticonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a torticone; having the form of a conical corkscrew.
nautilicone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nautilicones
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: A shell having the form of a coiled spiral (in which the whorls impress each other) like a nautilus.
nautilicones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nautilicone
torticone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torticones
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: A shell (as of a snail, cephalopod, etc) having the form of a conical corkscrew, a twisted cone.
torticones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torticone
string stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string stops
form: stringstop
form: string-stop
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop having the tone of a string instrument.
string stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string stop
ectocochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These may be very elongate (longicone) or short and rather swollen (brevicone). It has been generally assumed that all fossil cephalopods with straight or curved shells were ectocochlear, i.e. that the shell was wholly external to the body.
ref: 2013 July 23, E. N. K. Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: Such markings would be apparent only if they were external; this is regarded as good evidence that in such taxa the conch was ectocochlear. Additional evidence is given by cells encrusted with oriented patterns of epizoans that attached[…]
ref: 2019 June 4, Ronald Singer, Encyclopedia of Paleontology, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the shell external to the body.
flute stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flute stops
form: flutestop
form: flute-stop
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop having the tone of a flute instrument.
flute stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flute stop
Bombarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A powerful, brassy reed stop on an organ of 8', 16' or 32'.
Contra Bourdon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A flute stop on an organ, almost always of 32', characterized by a very low, dark tone.
Related terms: Bourdon
Trompette Militaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A powerful, solo reed stop on an organ with a piercing, brassy tone.
block flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block flutes
form: Blockflöte
Etymology: Calque of German Blockflöte (“block flute”), so named for Blockflöte (“recorder”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A flute stop on an organ of 4' or 2' that is imitative of a recorder.
tarphycone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarphycones
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tarphycone.
glosses: Tarphyceracone.
tarphycones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarphycone
tarphyceracone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarphyceracones
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tarphyceracone.
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
synonyms: tarphycone
glosses: A shell or conch in which the whorls or volutions are in contact (but are not deeply involute).
tarphyceracones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarphyceracone
tarphyceraconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a tarphyceracone.
Bird Whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop that is imitative of warbling birds, consisting of two or more small pipes with one end in water or a light oil.
ellipticonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, composed of, or having the form of an ellipticone.
ellipticone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ellipticones
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: A shell which has an elliptical (oval or egg-shaped, rather than e.g. spherical) shape.
ellipticones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ellipticone
cyrtoceraconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyrtoceracone + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a cyrtoceracone.
orthoceraconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, composed of, or having the form of an orthoceracone.
orthoceracone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoceracones
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: orthocone
bactriticone
glosses: A shell which has a straight cone shape.
cyrtoceracone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyrtoceracones
Etymology: From cyrto- + (from κυρτός (kurtós)) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + cone?
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: cyrtocone
glosses: A shell which has a curved cone shape.
Derived terms: cyrtoceraconic
orthoceracones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoceracone
cyrtoceracones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyrtoceracone
wimberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wimberries
Senses: examples: text: "Well; I've just made a wimberry cake, for these childer. Yo can have a bit of that, if yo'n a mind."
ref: 1879, Edwin Waugh, “The Wimberry Cake”, in The Chimney Corner, Manchester: Abel Haywood and Son, page 98:
text: Wimberry tarts and pies are sold in pubs around Shropshire and the Marches. In Yorkshire they are known as 'mucky-mouth' pies and served as part of funeral teas.
ref: 1996, Richard Mabey, “Heathers Ericaceae”, in Food Britannia, Sinclair Stevenson, →ISBN, page 163:
text: 'It's only Lancashire people, and only those who live within a small vicinity, who've heard of a wimberry pie.'
ref: 2012, Andrew Webb, “The North-West and the Isle of Man”, in Food Britannia, Random House, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: Alternative form of whimberry.
winberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winberries
Senses: examples: text: […]the French men Airelle, or Aurelie, as Iohannes de Choul writeth: and we in England Whortes, Whortle berries, Blacke Berries, Bill Berries, and Bull Berries, and in ſome places Winberries.
ref: [1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Whortes, or Whortle berries”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book III, page 1231, column 2:
text: The bilberries, or winberries, or whatever they are called, are so tasty, so delightful in flavour, that they are grand to eat by themselves, and they certainly make apple stews particularly appetising.
ref: 1908, “X. Plain Foods”, in T. H. Holding, The Camper's Handbook, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., page 103:
text: Using the example, our person's utility for winberries could be 3, strawberries 2, and smallpox 1.
ref: 2014 May 9, Vili Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova, “Theories of Human Behaviour”, in Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of whimberry.
winberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winberry
wimberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wimberry
windberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windberries
Senses: examples: text: On a nearer examination, he found this beautiful tint to arise from the young shoots of the common windberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus) which grows there in great abundance.
ref: 1806, John Evans, The Bees, Shrewsbury: W. Eddowes, Book III, page 12:
text: […]and during the season of its appearance, the windberry pudding has a “prescriptive right” to take the lead at the forester's second course.
ref: 1838 June 24, “Domestic Preserving No. I.”, in The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume 3, London: W.S. Orr & Co., page 356:
text: It is closely related to blueberries and huckleberries. Windberries are used fresh or in confections, jams and pies.
ref: 1994, “Windberry (Bilberry) Vaccinium myrtillus”, in Audrey Ensinger et al., editors, Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, volume 2, Boca Raton: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 2335:
glosses: Alternative form of whimberry.
windberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windberry
bactriticonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a bactriticone.
bactriticone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bactriticones
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: orthocone
orthoceracone
glosses: A shell which has a straight cone shape, like certain primitive Ammonoidea.
bactriticones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bactriticone
Tukde Tukde Gang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi टुकड़े टुकड़े गैंग (ṭukṛe ṭukṛe gaiṅg), from Hindi टुकड़ा (ṭukṛā, “fragment”). Coined by the journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, later popularised after an alleged video of Jawaharlal Nehru University students calling for India to be divided during a protest.
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Leftist mass-media groups and companies that oppose Narendra Modi's administration and Hindutva.
wikipedia: Tukde Tukde Gang
Synonyms: antinational
Lutyens' media
Urduwood
shitskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shit + skinned or shitskin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having dark-colored skin.
Related terms: shitskin
arrestable offence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrestable offences
Etymology: From arrestable + offence. First defined and introduced in English law by the Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58).
Senses: qualifier: criminal law
glosses: A criminal offence such that the offender may be arrested without warrant.
raw_tags: in UK
wikipedia: Criminal Law Act 1967
Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005
cumskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So won't the depleting ozone and declining population of your cumskinned race
will protect you either, boy.
ref: 1999 August 1, Eric sadler, “Aryan Brother behavior”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: You stupid cumskinned ape, Eric started this thread in
"alt.politics.nationalism.black" Learn how to use a computer you illiterate
spam-skinner..........LOMBAO!!!!!!!!!!!
ref: 1999 November 13, Sausage Fingers, “Saw a touching statistic today: Pregnancy among black females dropped faster than white females”, in alt.politics.nationalism.black (Usenet):
text: Stupid ass cumskinned,crackers..
Wet dog, smelling motherfuckers always trying hard to ease thier^([sic – meaning their]) evil
short-comings on someone else.......
ref: 2002 August 12, Skiff Izlaan, “Seen Today 6:30 PM At North Dekalb Mall”, in atl.arno (Usenet):
text: At least he is indirectly responsible for some cumskinned cracker
whores being raped
ref: 2002 September 4, DevilKiller, “Old fart Eminem is 30”, in alt.music.eminem (Usenet):
glosses: Of, or relating to a cumskin.
public utilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public utility
effortposters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effortposter
trashposters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trashposter
funposters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funposter
lovers' lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovers' lanes
form: lover's lane
Senses: glosses: A secluded area where people kiss, make out, or engage in sexual activity