cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Maitland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maitlands
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly a nickname for an ungracious individual, from Anglo-Norman maltalent (“bad temper”). However, it could also derive from the French village of Mautalant, in Normandy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
glosses: A place name:
A city and local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia.
glosses: A place name:
A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.
glosses: A place name:
A suburban city in Orange County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A minor city in Holt County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A ghost town in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A village in East Hants municipality, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Peregrine Maitland.
Bunyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌnjən/
rhymes: -ʌnjən
homophone: bunion
Senses: glosses: An English surname; a nickname for someone with a hump or lump.
glosses: John Bunyan, English preacher and writer.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A locality in Snowy Monaro council area, New South Wales, Australia; the name is from an Aboriginal language.
Derived terms: Bunyanesque
Rosamund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrɒzəmənd/
ipa: /ˈroʊzəmənd/
Forms: form: Rosamond
form: Rosamunde
Etymology: Of Germanic origin (probably Frankish via French Rosemonde or Lombardic via Italian Rosmunda), from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”) and *mundō (“protection”). By medieval folk etymology interpreted as Latin rosa munda (“pure rose”) or rosa mundī (“rose of the world”) in reference to the Virgin Mary.
Senses: examples: text: Cooks of any seniority were always 'Mrs'. Housemaids and parlourmaids were supposed to have 'suitable' names - e.g. Jane, Mary, Edith, etc. Such names as Violet, Muriel, Rosamund and so on were not considered suitable, and the girl was told firmly, 'Whilst you are in my service you will be called "Mary"'.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, HarperCollins, published 2011, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
wikipedia: Rosamund Clifford
qintars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qintar
sawfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawfishes
form: sawfish
Etymology: From saw + fish.
Senses: examples: text: 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Sawfish, entry in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 16: Rifleman - sea slug, page 2238,
The sawlike snout that gives the sawfish its common name may represent up to one-third of its total body length. Despite its sharklike shape, the sawfish is more closely related to rays.
text: Because of their sharklike appearance, people often refer to the sawfishes as sharks. However, they are actually related to the skates and rays because the gills are ventral, the eyes are on top of the head, and the pectoral fins are attached to the head.
ref: 2006, Glenn R. Parsons, Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico: A Field Guide, page 123:
text: Smalltooth sawfish native to rivers in south-west Florida appear to have given birth without sex – essentially cloning themselves.
The sawfish (Pristis pectinata) – a type of ray that grows up to 7 metres long – is a critically endangered species.[…]The sawfish is the first vertebrate shown to use parthenogenesis in the wild.
ref: 2015 June 6, “Sawfish babies don’t need a dad”, in New Scientist, number 3024, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 17:
glosses: Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pristis pristis
word: common sawfish
alt: = Queensland sawfish
word: dwarf sawfish
alt: = largetooth sawfish
word: freshwater sawfish
alt: = longcomb sawfish
word: green sawfish
taxonomic: Anoxypristis cuspidata
word: knifetooth sawfish
word: largetooth sawfish
taxonomic: Pristis microdon; disputed
alt: may = P. pristis
word: large-tooth sawfish
taxonomic: Pristis perotteti; disputed
alt: may = P. pristis
word: large-tooth sawfish
alt: = largetooth sawfish
word: Leichhardt's sawfish
taxonomic: Pristis zijsron
word: longcomb sawfish
alt: = longcomb sawfish
word: narrowsnout sawfish
taxonomic: Pristis clavata
word: Queensland sawfish
taxonomic: Pristis pectinata
word: smalltooth sawfish
alt: = smalltooth sawfish
word: wide sawfish
Related terms: Pristidae
ray
extractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extractor
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A set of pipes fitted to the exhaust ports of an automotive engine, designed to increase its power output (essentially by altering gas pressures to get more fuel through it). https://web.archive.org/web/20060820191056/http://moonahmufflers.com.au/extractors/index.html
dry sump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry sumps
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: wet sump
glosses: A type of engine sump where oil that flows down from the crankshaft, etc. is collected into an external reservoir.
handbrake turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handbrake turns
Senses: examples: text: The man did a handbrake turn, putting the car into a wild spin.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An automobile driving manoeuvre where the driver starts turning the vehicle and then pulls on the handbrake to make the rear tyres lose adhesion and thus cause the back of the vehicle to slide around (in the direction of the turn).
examples: text: The Tony Blair who told his party conference that he has no reverse gear has performed a screaming handbrake turn for a man he once described as an 'absolute disaster'.
ref: 2003 December 21, Andrew Rawnsley, “Washed out, not washed up”, in The Observer:
text: The argument that we cannot take part because of our history no longer holds true. This volte-face - a political handbrake turn, compared with the policies that Schröder's predecessor as SPD (Social Democrats) leader had stood for - was made simpler by the fact that the shift in German public opinion was as dramatic as the politicians' change of heart.
ref: 2005, Steve Crawshaw, Easier Fatherland: Germany in the Twenty-First Century, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Can I turn now to your handbrake turn on SIPPs, where you have prohibited all investment in residential property.
ref: 2005, The 2005 pre-Budget report : second report of Session 2005-06, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee, published 2006, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Nevertheless, Rangers, hitherto wary of compromising any Champions League involvement, have now performed a handbrake turn and come out in support of such an arrangement.
ref: 2006, Gary Oliver, “Eurovision”, in Power, Corruption and Pies, volume 2, WSC Books Limited, →ISBN, page 120:
text: It might make her look a bit ridiculous (she never criticised the delegate system when she thought she was going to win), but then Mrs Clinton seems to have what one of her supporters called the "testicular fortitude" to carry off that kind of handbrake turn.
ref: 2008 May 13, Kevin Connolly, “Clinton set for West Virginia win”, in BBC News:
glosses: An abrupt change of opinion.
Synonyms: bootlegger reverse
moonshiner's turn
broadie
Coordinate terms: english: a similar maneuver with a motorcycle, to come to a stop and face the opposite direction
translation: a similar maneuver with a motorcycle, to come to a stop and face the opposite direction
word: kangaroo stoppie
archipelagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archipelagoes
Senses: glosses: plural of archipelago
archipelagos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: archipelagoes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of archipelago
Louisville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːivɪl/
ipa: /ˈluːəvəl/
text: Louisville, KY area
text: US outside Louisville, KY area
Etymology: Named after King Louis XVI of France, equivalent to Louis + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A town in Barbour County, Alabama.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A village, the county seat of Clay County, Illinois.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Winston County, Mississippi.
Howie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊ.i/
rhymes: -aʊi
Etymology: From Howard + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Howard.
Howie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊ.i/
rhymes: -aʊi
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A locality in Special Area No. 2, southern Alberta, Canada, named by postmaster James Howie.
Cheesefare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from cheese + fare.
Senses: examples: text: Cheesefare Saturday
text: Cheesefare Sunday
text: Cheesefare Week
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the day before the Lenten fast, traditionally the last day on which cheese and other animal products may be eaten until Pascha (Easter).
Related terms: Meatfare
Heliogabalus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhiː.li.əʊˈɡæb.ə.ləs/
enpr: hē'lēəgăbʹələs
ipa: /ˌhiː.li.əˈɡæb.ə.ləs/
enpr: hē'lēōgăbʹələs
ipa: /ˌhiː.li.oʊˈɡæb.ə.ləs/
Etymology: A Greek form of Elagabalus, with the first element (and the god) identified with Helios.
Senses: examples: text: But yet I think nobody, could he be sure that the soul of Heliogabalus were in one of his hogs, would yet say that hog were a man or Heliogabalus.
ref: 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, ch xxvii:
text: I spent five days in conversing with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman emperors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus's cooks to dress us a dinner, but they could not show us much of their skill, for want of materials.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan):
text: How pleaſed therefore will the Reader be to find, that we have, in the following Work, adhered cloſely to one of the higheſt Principles of the beſt Cook which the preſent Age, or perhaps that of Heliogabalus, hath produced. This great Man, as is well known to all polite Lovers of eating, begins at firſt by ſetting plain Things before his hungry Gueſts, riſing afterwards by Degrees, as their Stomachs may be ſuppoſed to decreaſe, to the very Quinteſſence of Sauce and Spices.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “The Introduction to the Work, or Bill of Fare to the Feaſt”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 5:
text: I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I am the very pattern of a modern major-general”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Synonym of Elagabalus (“Roman emperor, noted for decadence, eccentricity, femininity, and disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos”).
synonyms: word: Elagabalus
extra: Roman emperor, noted for decadence, eccentricity, femininity, and disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos
glosses: Synonym of Elagabalus (“sun deity”).
synonyms: word: Elagabalus
extra: sun deity
Synonyms: Elagabalus
stratus fractus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Stratus clouds which are scattered or ragged.
O'Dare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of O'Deere, anglicised from Irish Ó Duibhuidir. Most of the O’Dare clan now lives on the Eastern Coast of the US.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
jetstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetstreams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jet stream.
Olwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɒlwɛn/
Etymology: From Welsh Olwen.
Senses: examples: text: […] her daughter, posthumous child of Gil, to my astonishment christened in St. Aidan's with the name Marion (given by her godmother, a broadcaster friend of Esme) and Olwen (given by me as godfather, who thought Nuala's granddaughter should have a good Celtic name to sustain her through life). To my surprise and pleasure, it was Olwen that Esme chose to use when speaking of, and to, the baby - though she showed an unhappy tendency to shorten it to Ollie, in spite of my protests that this brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series.
ref: 1994, Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Welsh from Welsh legend, specifically The Mabinogion.
count angels on pinheads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counts angels on pinheads
form: counting angels on pinheads
form: counted angels on pinheads
form: counted angels on pinheads
Senses: examples: text: …secondly, because it is thought to be wholly destructive, and “something has to be taught” — which is the equivalent of teaching people to count angels on pinheads when you no longer believe in the heavenly host and, thirdly, because it has seemed to be socialist in tone, direction and intention.
ref: 1962, Flinders University of South Australia & the University of Adelaide Deptartment of Economics, Australian Economic Papers, page 12:
text: It adds to the trend that law schools and law journals are no longer content to count angels on pinheads.
ref: Date unknown: United States Congress House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, p1315
text: It is not concerned with theological disputation; he does not count angels on pinheads.
ref: 1995, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Roy Harding, Walden: an annotated edition, page 1:
text: In requesting that a closer look be given to hypothetical thinking and its role in the solving of problems, I do not suggest that counting angels on pinheads is a fruitful educational exercise. Thinking about the actual is one aspect of analytical thinking.
ref: 1951, The John Dewey Society, the Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign College of Education, Educational Theory, p185
text: Connectedness is a requirement for higher education if our academic work is not to be merely the technological equivalent of counting angels on pinheads.
ref: 1999, Carol J. Dempsey, Russell A. Butkus, All Creation is Groaning: An Interdisciplinary Vision for Life in a Sacred Universe, page VIII:
text: Such assertions are motivated by the desire to leave the independent-particle model in place as the central paradigm in nuclear theory, but they inadvertently push theoretical nuclear physics in the direction of counting angels on pinheads: “Sure they’re there! It’s just that there aren’t any observable implications of their celestial presence!”
ref: 2006, Norman D. Cook, Models of the Atomic Nucleus: With Interactive Software, page 118:
glosses: To focus on getting correct details which are largely irrelevant.
Related terms: angels dancing on the head of a pin
rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic
fiddle while Rome burns
Bronwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Bronwen.
Senses: examples: Bronwen Wallace, b. 1945
glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Branwen
Bronwyn
Gwyneth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwɪnəθ/
ipa: /ˈɡwɪnɪθ/
ipa: /ˈɡwɪnɛθ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Gwyneth.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Gwendolen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh gwen (“white, fair, blessed”) + dolen (“ring, bow, hair, brow”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Guendolen
Gwendoline
Gwendolyn
Wendy
Siwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sivan (“month of Jewish calendar”).
Gareth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɹ.əθ/
/ˈɡæɹ.ɪθ/
/ˈɡæɹ.ɛθ/
Etymology: Of Old Welsh origin and cognate with the Welsh name Geraint (from Latin Gerontius (“old man”), from Ancient Greek γέρων (gérōn, “old man”)) or perhaps the word gwareddawg, gwaredd (“gentleness”); see gwâr (“gentle”).
Senses: examples: text: The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,
And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring,
Stared at the spate.
ref: 1872, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette:
glosses: A male given name from Welsh of Welsh origin; name of a knight in the Arthurian romance.
Gareth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɹ.əθ/
/ˈɡæɹ.ɪθ/
/ˈɡæɹ.ɛθ/
Forms: form: Gareths
Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang based on the name of actor Gareth Hunt.
Senses: examples: text: He's a bit of a Gareth.
glosses: cunt.
case sensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case sensitivities
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The characteristic of being case sensitive; having different reactions to typed letters based on whether the letters are uppercase or lowercase.
Natal plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Natal plums
Senses: glosses: Any of several South African evergreen shrubs, of the genus Carissa, having white flowers and edible red berries, often cultivated as hedging
liang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liang
form: liangs
Etymology: The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩 /两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.
synonyms: word: tael
extra: a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency
nodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊdz
Senses: glosses: plural of node
arthropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthropod
demonstrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demonstrate
reconstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconstruction
counterparts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpart
proximate cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximate causes
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.
dependance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependances
Etymology: From Middle French dépendance, equivalent to depend + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependance of one fact upon another...
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon, Chapter 5
text: More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone, potable gold, or any of those Arcana's whereby Paracelsus that died himself at forty seven, gloried that he could make other men immortal.
ref: 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, book 3, chapter 12:
text: I am still doubtful at times as to marrying; if the old man would die I might not hesitate, but a state of dependance on the caprice of Sir Reginald will not suit the freedom of my spirit; […]
ref: c. 1794, Jane Austen, “[Lady Susan.] XXIX. Lady Susan Venon to Mrs. Johnson.”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 273:
text: He says, however, that he is sure he is happier, even in this situation, than are some of his cousins at this instant, who are struggling in poverty to be genteel, or to keep up a family name, and he would not change places with those who are in a state of idle and opprobrious dependance.
ref: 1814, Maria Edgeworth, chapter VI, in Patronage. […], volume I, London: […] [J. M‘Creery] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199:
glosses: Archaic spelling of dependence.
glosses: Misspelling of dependence.
Derived terms: dependancy
telephoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of telephone
gentler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gentle: more gentle
nem. con.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: nem con
Senses: examples: text: He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this recourse unnecessary, and moved that the clause be postponed. This motion was agreed to nem. con.
ref: 1787, James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787:
text: The Vote of Thanks to Sir Hyde Parker was then put, and carried, nem. con.
ref: 1845, Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson:
text: On 14 January, the deputies voted, nem. con., the guilt of the king, and rejected by roughly a two-thirds majority the appel au peuple.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 467:
glosses: Abbreviated form of nemine contradicente.
cypherpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌɪfəpʌŋk/
Forms: form: cypherpunks
form: cipherpunk
Etymology: Blend of cipher + cyberpunk, coined by American hacker and author Jude Milhon (St. Jude) in 1992.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: crypto-anarchist
glosses: A person with an interest in encryption and privacy, especially one who uses encrypted email.
diddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diddle
diddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diddle
rubbery figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Inaccurate or incomplete statistical data (especially economic) used to support misleading conclusions.
pod person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pod people
Etymology: From the science fiction novel The Body Snatchers (1955) and subsequent film adaptations, in which aliens use mysterious pods to grow replicas of humans that are perfect in every way except for their lack of personality.
Senses: examples: text: If I hadn't known better, I would have sworn that aliens had stolen the real Jessica and replaced her with some pod person.
ref: 1996, Constance Hiser, Sixth Grade Star:
text: "I'm not stalking you," she said, with all the sincerity of a pod person in The Body Snatchers.
ref: 2003, Bett Williams, The Wrestling Party:
text: Both avenues are shit. You can stay in New York and climb, climb, climb and never get where you need to go and give yourself a nervous breakdown, or you can move to the suburbs and be like, Who the fuck are these pod people? Neither seems great.
ref: 2023 February 6, Caitlin Moscatello, “The Fleishman Effect”, in New York:
glosses: A conformist person, especially one who lacks personality or originality.
wikipedia: The Body Snatchers
Plip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Plips
Etymology: Shortened from the name of Paul Lipschutz, French inventor.
Senses: glosses: A locking system for motor vehicles that uses a small, hand-held remote control.
billhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billhooks
form: bill-hook
form: bill hook
Etymology: Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.
examples: text: I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
ref: 1869, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, chapter 38:
text: With a small billhook he carefully freed the collar of the tree from twigs and patches of moss which incrusted it to a height of a foot or two above the ground, an operation comparable to the "little toilet" of the executioner's victim.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 19”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
glosses: A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
raw_tags: as bill-hook
glosses: Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”).
glosses: Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”).
Synonyms: handbill
pruning hook
hack
hacker
hedging bill
hedging-bill
hedge bill
bill
broom hook
block hook
Yorkshire bill
vine hook
Related terms: brush hook
crowbill
hawkbill
billhook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: billhooks
form: billhooking
form: billhooked
form: billhooked
form: bill-hook
form: bill hook
Etymology: Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (“a bladed pike (obsolete)”) + hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.
Senses: examples: text: Toward the end of July, Vatanen took a forestry job. It meant billhooking and chopping excessive undergrowth from the woods on the sandy ridges around Kuhmo and living in a tent with an ever more faithful, almost full- grown hare.
ref: 2010, Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare: A Novel:
glosses: To use a billhook.
tarball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarballs
Etymology: From tar + ball.
Senses: examples: 1969, Hearings By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
All of us who have been to the beaches this year have encountered tarballs that stick to our feet and mess up our rugs.
glosses: A ball of tar or crude oil found on a beach.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file that is an archive of several other files, created using the Unix tar utility.
tarball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tarballs
form: tarballing
form: tarballed
form: tarballed
Etymology: From tar + ball.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To archive into a tarball.
Triplex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name, presumably tri- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: a safety glass for car windows, consisting of three layers (glass and mica).
principled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪnsɪpəld/
/ˈpɹɪnsəpəld/
Forms: form: more principled
form: most principled
Etymology: From principle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Governors had need be well principled.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: While most of these efforts have focused on compressing the uplink, none of them provide a principled solution to compressing the downlink.
glosses: Based on, having, or manifesting principles
glosses: Based on, having, or manifesting principles
strongly adhering to, or heedful of, guiding beliefs or moral rules
principled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪnsɪpəld/
/ˈpɹɪnsəpəld/
Etymology: From principle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of principle
censored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Gory violence is usually censored.
glosses: Having had objectionable content removed.
Derived terms: censored spelling
noncensored
semicensored
censored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of censor
gene pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gene pools
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete set of unique alleles that would be found by inspecting the genetic material of every living member of a species or population.
Related terms: meme pool
chimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimers
Etymology: From chime + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She brushed a few drops from her lashes as the sweet little chimer rang out ten bells;
ref: 2004, Emma Wolf, Other Things Being Equal:
glosses: A bell that chimes.
examples: text: The venerable Dr. George W. Warren, who had recently retired, was “honorary organist,” and Alfred Toulmin continued as harpist and bell chimer, a post he had held for 30 years.
ref: 2001, J. Robert Wright, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue:
glosses: A person who rings chimes on bells.
chimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chimere (“bishop's robe”).
chinaware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinawares
form: china-ware
form: china ware
Etymology: Alternative case form of Chinaware, China-ware, &c., from China + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: According to the Japanese writer, the two first-named mountains and hills, besides several other places up and down Hizen, is made Japanese porcelain or chinaware out of a whitish fat clay, which is found there in great plenty.
ref: 1881, George Ashdown Audsley, Keramic Art of Japan, page 148:
text: So I turned my attention to setting up my new home, arranging the furniture and displaying Rita's sparkling glass and chinaware on the sideboard.
ref: 1996, Rina De'firenze, Mystery of the Mona Lisa:
text: This book includes a systematic examination of chinawares in over a thousand documented estates from the seaport communities of Salem, Boston, Newport, New York, and Philadelphia from 1690 to 1770.
ref: 2011, Caroline Frank, Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America:
glosses: Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.
synonyms: word: china
extra: porcelain tableware
Derived terms: english: as synonym of chinaware
translation: as synonym of chinaware
word: china
uncensored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + censored.
Senses: examples: text: Viewer discretion is advised for the uncensored versions of these videos.
text: 1. Stuckism is the quest for authenticity. By removing the mask of cleverness and admitting where we are, the Stuckist allows him/herself uncensored expression.
ref: 2011, Billy Childish, Charles Thomson, “The Stuckist Manifesto”, in Alex Danchev, editor, 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: The final model is an uncensored LLM with state-of-the-art performance in the 8B category.
ref: 2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, retrieved 29 May 2025:
glosses: Unedited; not having had objectionable content removed.
chinstrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinstraps
form: chin-strap
form: chin strap
Etymology: From chin + strap.
Senses: examples: text: A bridle, the chin-strap or chain.
ref: 1777, John Richardson, A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English, page 752:
text: Such a deficit was not likely long to escape notice: the regiment was halted in the midst of a manœuvre, and, in the pause that ensued, Nosey demanded, in a grunt of thunder, how, without a chinstrap, I could expect my cap to stick upon my head.
ref: 1842, “Waifs of the Waters”, in The Sporting Review:
text: I immediately spat my mouthpiece out and unbuckled my chinstrap, yanking my helmet off of my head in a determined flash.
ref: 2005, Joe Peacock, Mentally Incontinent:
glosses: A strip of leather or material used to fasten a hat or helmet under the chin.
synonyms: chin strip
glosses: A form of beard that follows the jawline but does not cover the rest of the chin.
examples: text: A miniature look-alike of the Canada Goose, with a partial white necklace instead of a white chinstrap.
ref: 2003, Roger Tory Peterson, Peter Alden, Birds, page 10:
text: The dark slate-grey plumage contrasting strongly with white 'chinstrap' is shared only by Blue Eared-pheasant, but their ranges do not overlap.
ref: 2010, Phil McGowan, Steve Madge, Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse, page 313:
glosses: A band of colour below a bird's mouth, resembling the chinstrap of a helmet.
Derived terms: chinstrapped
chinstrap penguin
chirography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌɪˈrɒɡrəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: chirographies
Etymology: From chirograph + -y under influence from geography &c., from French chirographe, from Latin chirographus and chirographum, from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos) and χειρόγραφον (kheirógraphon), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + γραφος (graphos, “writing, written thing”). Equivalent to chiro- (“hand”) + -graphy (“writing”) and handwriting.
Senses: examples: text: A flourishing style of chirography is nowhere less in place than on a physician's prescription.
ref: 1856, Edward Parrish, An Introduction to practical pharmacy:
glosses: Synonym of handwriting or penmanship, one's personal skill at writing.
synonyms: word: handwriting or penmanship
word: one's personal skill at writing
glosses: Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing.
synonyms: word: calligraphy
extra: the art of beautiful writing
glosses: Synonym of autograph, writing in one's own hand.
synonyms: word: autograph
word: writing in one's own hand
glosses: Synonym of palmistry, fortune-telling based on one's hand.
synonyms: word: palmistry
word: fortune-telling based on one's hand
Related terms: chirographic
unedited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inedited
Etymology: From un- + edited.
Senses: examples: text: The sources the citations are drawn from are significant, being printed books or newspapers subject to editorial processes and gatekeepers of language standards, as opposed to unedited texts such as blogs, chatroom logs or student writing.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:
text: That’s what prompted new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to send a “letter of inquiry” to CBS, asking the network to hand over the unedited tapes and transcript.
ref: 2025 February 3, Brian Stelter, “The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags”, in CNN:
synonyms: nonedited
antonyms: edited
glosses: Not having been altered from the original version; not edited.
Coordinate terms: unabridged
uncensored
unexpurgated
Related terms: word: unedit
word: inedita
chiropodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɪˈɹɒpədɪst/
Forms: form: chiropodists
Etymology: From chiropody + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A chiropodist says, as long as people are fools enough to abuse their feet, the prospect for his employment is good.
ref: 1863, Virginia Penny –, The Employments of Women:
glosses: A practitioner of chiropody.
Synonyms: word: podiatrist
chirrup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɜɹəp/
rhymes: -ɪɹəp
rhymes: -ɜːɹəp
Forms: form: chirrups
form: chirruping
form: chirruped
form: chirruped
Etymology: Variant of chirp.
Senses: examples: text: When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!
ref: 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 17, in The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path:
text: Face Eater Cat is a very happy, healthy animal who's found her forever home, and she chirrups along when serenaded with eighties hits. It's a match made in heaven.
ref: 2022 July 23, “A She-Cat Tamed By The Purr Of Her Humans”, in Not Always Right, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022:
glosses: To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks.
examples: text: The crickets chirruped their song.
glosses: To express by chirping.
examples: text: to chirrup a horse
glosses: To quicken or animate by chirping.
Derived terms: chirruper
chirrupy
chirrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɜɹəp/
rhymes: -ɪɹəp
rhymes: -ɜːɹəp
Forms: form: chirrups
Etymology: Variant of chirp.
Senses: examples: text: 1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First,
And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]
text: […] the music flashed by in delirious chirrups and stampings.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.
examples: text: For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: “[…]Children, say ‘thank you’ to Mrs. Samuel Josephs.” Two subdued chirrups: “Thank you, Mrs. Samuel Josephs.”
ref: 1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement.
chocolaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chocolatier
form: chocolatiest
form: chocolatey
Etymology: From chocolat(e) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Molten Chocolate Cakes are wonderfully oozy and chocolaty — many people think they're better than a chocolate layer cake.
ref: 2005, Pamela Anderson, Perfect Recipes For Having People Over:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing chocolate.
examples: 2004 Charles Einstein - Willie's Time: Baseball's Golden Age
“Chocolaty covered caramel and pea nuts” said a legend in small print on the wrapper. It had to say “Chocolaty” instead of “Chocolate” because there was no chocolate in it.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing chocolate.
Resembling chocolate in taste.
synonyms: chocolatelike
chocolately
chocolatish
qualifier: voice
glosses: Deep or rich, smooth, and alluring.
raw_tags: of the
Derived terms: chocolatiness
Related terms: milk-chocolaty
prae-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
qualifier: or pedantic
glosses: Alternative form of pre-.
chokecherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokecherries
form: choke cherry
Etymology: From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.
Senses: examples: text: The youngster-loved chokecherry grows both as a bushy shrub and as a tree seldom higher than 22 feet, its branches bending with clusters of darkening red or blackish purple berrylike drupes . . .
ref: 1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants:
glosses: Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.
examples: text: There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 72:
glosses: The fruit of this plant.
Related terms: Virginia bird cherry
bitter-berry
bird cherry
black cherry
chophouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chophouses
form: chop house
Etymology: From chop + house. For Chinese customs sense, see chop (“quality”).
Senses: examples: text: Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.
ref: 1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 231:
text: But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.
ref: 1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
glosses: Any restaurant.
examples: text: the South Chop-house on the southern shore of the river bears S.S.W.
ref: 1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants:
glosses: A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.
nemine contradicente
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /nɛˈmiˑne kɒntɹædiˈkɛnte/
/nɛˈmɪne kɒntɹədɪˈsɛnte/
Forms: form: nem con
form: nem. con.
form: n. c. d.
Etymology: From Latin nemine contradicente (“with nobody contradicting”).
Senses: examples: text: The patents of 9, 13, The 2 proclamations, the Indenture and proclamations of 16 et 18, both in the creation, makynge, grantyng, and execution, by question (nemine contradicente) found greevances.
ref: 1621, The House of Commons of the Great Britain Parliament, Commons Debates, 1621, page 279:
text: 75. On the 11ᵗʰ of May, 1759, the Lords amend a turnpike road Bill, by inſerting a clauſe, “That no gate ſhall be erected within a mile of Enſham Ferry”. The conſideration of this amendment is reſolved, nemine contradicente, to be put off for a month.
ref: 1796, John Hatsells, Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons: With Observations, page 102:
text: It was so evident that even now he had everything to learn. He did not know there were physical laws and economic laws, quantities and reactions that all humanity voting nemine contradicente cannot vote away, and that are disobeyed only at the price of destruction.
ref: 1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth:
text: Near twelve millions have been granted this year, not only nemine contradicente, but nemine quicquid dicente.
ref: 1912, Charles Stokes Carey, Letters Written by Lord Chesterfield to His Son, page 306:
text: Under the patronage of Titus and Jones the vote of the previous House was now read, and passed nemine contradicente for the first time.
ref: 2002, Jonathan Scott, Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677–1683, page 67:
topics: law
glosses: With nobody contradicting; by consensus; without dissent.
choppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Teeth.
glosses: Dentures.
glosses: plural of chopper
choppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chop(stick) + -ers.
Senses: examples: text: Another way to save trees and cut down on waste is to carry your own chopsticks around with you, which you can use instead of the ubiquitous waribashi (disposable chopsticks) that are provided in restaurants. One simple way to acquire your own personal set of choppers is to take away the first nice pair of waribashi that you are given in a restaurant.
ref: 2008, Japan: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet Publications, page 66:
text: I consider myself pretty expert with chopsticks, but I never before had to use them to retrieve noodles from a hot pot. Every time one of us fumbled with the choppers, it drew laughter from the sidelines.
ref: 2009, John Higham, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, Alyson Publications:
glosses: chopsticks
chordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chord + -al.
Senses: examples: text: They play very well together, with Vogl providing the melodic and chordal framework and Shanbaum riffing over it.
ref: 1985 December 21, Nan Donald, “Flat-picking up a Storm”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 11:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of chords.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having an accompaniment of chords rather than a countermelody.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a notochord; chordate
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: For a graph, in which all cycles of four or more vertices have a chord.
Derived terms: achordal
chordal graph
chordality
chordally
chordal space
chordal style
chordal theorem
chordal thickness
epichordal
hypochordal
nonchordal
parachordal
perichordal
prechordal
prochordal
chortler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chortlers
Etymology: From chortle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who chortles
chronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chronically
form: most chronically
Etymology: From chronic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a chronic manner, or to a chronic degree.
examples: text: They have established themselves as the greatest story of Euro 2016 and it feels almost like a trick of the imagination that it is only four years since they were ranked 133rd in the world. That, however, will not lessen the embarrassment for England, their departing manager and a set of players who chronically under-performed after Wayne Rooney’s early penalty.
ref: 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: Extremely.
Derived terms: chronically online
heterochronically
chuckhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuckholes
Etymology: From chuck + hole.
Senses: qualifier: Indiana; Ohio; Indiana; Ohio
glosses: A pothole.
chug-a-lug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chug-a-lugs
form: chug-a-lugging
form: chug-a-lugged
form: chug-a-lugged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chugalug.
chug-a-lug
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chugalug.
chug-a-lug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chug-a-lugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chugalug.
chukka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌkə
Forms: form: chukkas
Senses: glosses: chukka boot
glosses: Alternative form of chukker.
chukker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃʌ.kə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌ.kɚ/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chukkers
form: chukka
form: chukkar
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चक्कर (cakkar), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, cycle, cyclus, and wheel.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Let's have another chukker.’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 52:
glosses: One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
chummily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chummily
form: most chummily
Etymology: From chummy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chummy manner
pack horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack horses
form: packhorse
form: pack-horse
Senses: examples: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
The pack horse was sick - with a big, open sore rubbed under the belly.
glosses: A horse used for carrying luggage.
churchgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From church + going.
Senses: examples: text: Depend upon it, it is the more coarse and unrefined portion of the community who outrage the feelings of churchgoing people by Sabbath desecration.
ref: 1854, Fanny Fern, Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio:
glosses: Regularly attending church; being a practicing Christian.
Coordinate terms: mosque-going
temple-going
synagogue-going
Derived terms: nonchurchgoing