cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: pingoes
form: pingos
Etymology: From Greenlandic pingu or Inuktitut pingu (“hummock, small hill”).
Senses: examples: text: The greatest variation in cover thickness, as determined from collapsed pingos, is in irregularly shaped pingos, or those with asymmetrically located ice-cores.
ref: 1963, J[ohn] Ross Mackay, The Mackenzie Delta Area, N.W.T. (Memoir (Geographical Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Canada); 8), Ottawa, Ont.: Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, →OCLC, page 74:
text: Considerable progress has been made on the discovery and mapping of many open system pingos in central Alaska and Yukon Territory[…], as well as the discovery of pingo-like mounds in the shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea north of the mouth of the Mackenzie River. The greatest advance in pingo research in the last decade has been a consideration and understanding of theory and rate of pingo growth […]
ref: 1973, Roger J. E. Brown, Troy L. Péwé, “Distribution of Permafrost in North America and Its Relationship to the Environment: A Review, 1963–1973: 13–28 July 1973, Yakutsk, U.S.S.R.”, in Permafrost: North American Contribution: Second International Conference, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, →ISBN, page 80, column 2:
text: With the exception of small pingos, most pingo ice cores have several ice types. The bulk of the core can be segregated ice, intrusive ice formed from the freezing of bulk water, or any combination of the two types. In addition, dilation-crack ice (tension-crack ice, Brown and Kupsch, 1974) is commonly the main ice type beneath the summit of pingos with craters.
ref: 1983, J[ohn] Ross Mackay, “Oxygen Isotope Variations in Permafrost, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula Area, Northwest Territories”, in Current Research Part B = Recherches en Cours Partie B (Geological Survey Paper; 83-1B), Ottawa, Ont.: Geological Survey of Canada, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Larger scale frost-heave features, such as pingoes, are rare because there is insufficient water available, generally, for the growth of large ice bodies.
ref: 1987, I. B. Campbell, G. G. C. Claridge, Antarctica: Soils, Weathering Processes and Environment (Developments in Soil Science; 16), Amsterdam; New York, N.Y.: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
synonyms: hydrolaccolith
glosses: A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year.
Related terms: palsa
pinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinges
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A wedge-, ditch-, or funnel-shaped depression in the terrain resulting from mining activities.
Stacie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Stacey.
Susannah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And trust me, Susy, added the corporal, turning to Susannah, whose eyes were swimming with water, before that time comes round again, a bright eye will be dim.
ref: 1765, Laurence Sterne, chapter VIII, in Tristram Shandy:
text: Had she changed the baby's name? They had decided to call her Susannah for no very clear reason; they had both liked it, and it seemed to fit the crumpled little face.
ref: 1985, Margaret Yorke, Intimate Kill, page 54:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.
kuksi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kuksu (“Korean noodle dish”).
Susanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from German [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Susan.
stingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪŋɡəʊ/
Etymology: From sting + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, if I vvas vvorthy to adviſe you, I vvou'd have a Bottle of good October by me. Shall I ſet a Cup of old Stingo at your Elbovv?
ref: 1716 March 21 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], The Drummer; or, The Haunted House. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1716 (indicated as 1715), →OCLC, Act V, page 46:
text: The elevated cavaliers sent […]for two tubs of merry stingo.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: For my outside I never need fear me / While warm with real stingo within.
ref: c. 1824, John Clare, The Toper's Rant:
glosses: Any strong beer.
stinge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: stinges
form: stinging
form: stinged
form: stinged
Etymology: From stingy.
Senses: glosses: To act stingily or parsimoniously.
stinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: stinges
Etymology: From stingy.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t be such a stinge, and let me try some of your ice cream, mate!
glosses: A person who has a stingy demeanour or who lacks generosity.
Related terms: stinge out
stingy
stingily
stinginess
tingi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinguy
Senses: glosses: A Brazilian tree, Magonia pubescens, whose seeds yield soap.
tinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish tinga.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican dish made with shredded beef or chicken in a red chili sauce.
caricatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caricaturas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of caricature.
noone
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊwʌn/
rhymes: -əʊwʌn
Etymology: From no + one. Compare Middle English noone, noon, noan (“noone”). More at none.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of no one.
noone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊwʌn/
rhymes: -əʊwʌn
ipa: /ˈnuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
ipa: /ˈnəʊwʌn/
rhymes: -əʊwʌn
Forms: form: noones
Etymology: From Middle English none, noune, from Old English nōn (“noon; the ninth hour”). Cognate with Dutch noen, Icelandic nón. More at noon.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of noon.
daffodowndilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæfədaʊnˈdɪli/
Forms: form: daffodowndillies
Senses: examples: text: She had put a daffodowndilly behind each ear, and twisted a dandelion chain around her neck.
ref: 1911, Margaret Deland, The Iron Woman, page 15:
text: ye might as soon send the white hawthorn or the yellow daffodowndilly to school as my Elfine.
ref: 1932, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm:
glosses: the daffodil.
material fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: material facts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A fact essential to make a case or a defense, or the absence of which negates a case or defense.
topics: law
property
glosses: A fact that might alter a person's decision to buy a property or change the terms and price a buyer is willing to accept.
topics: business
insurance
law
glosses: A fact that might alter an insurer's decision to agree to provide insurance to a person or alter the terms and conditions or the rate of premium on a policy.
polysyllabicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1943, John de Francis, "The Alphabetization of Chinese," Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 63, no. 4 (Oct/Dec), p. 235,
The drift of the Chinese language toward greater polysyllabicity is seen even more clearly in the fact that not more than 15 percent of the Chinese equivalents of foreign technical terms consist of only one syllable.
text: "Polysyllabicity" and "utterableness" each has the word-property it designates.
ref: 2005, Jay Newhard, “Grelling's Paradox”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 126, number 1, Springer, page 2:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being polysyllabic.
Related terms: polysyllable
polysyllabicism
polysyllabism
polysyllabicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysyllabicisms
Etymology: From polysyllabic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It will only facilitate the acquirement of a sesquipedalian diction, having the polysyllabicism without the precision of Johnson.
ref: 1807, W. Taylor, Annual Review, page 274:
text: If polysyllabicism is considered more 'scientific,' should we not seize the opportunity to call the study of micro-organisms 'mico-organicology'?
ref: 1973, C. G. Dobbs, “Book Review of Soil Micro-Organisms by T. R. G. Gray and S. T. Williams (1971)”, in The Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 10, number 2, page 665:
text: Vocabulary is the meat, blood and bones of language.
ref: 2005 Feb. 15, Susan Elkin, In praise of polysyllabicism, Telegraph.co.uk, Telegraph Media Group
glosses: The state or characteristic of having a polysyllabic or overly complex style.
raw_tags: of linguistic expression
Related terms: polysyllable
polysyllabicity
polysyllabism
polysyllabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysyllabisms
Senses: examples: 1936, Martin Joos, "Book Review: The Psycho-Biology of Language by George K. Zipf," Language, vol. 12, no. 3 (July/Sep), p. 202,
Chinese polysyllabism is a sort of synthesis, or aggregation, or 'addition' of morphemes and their meanings.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The state or characteristic of having or using words containing multiple syllables, sometimes as a stage in the development of language.
examples: text: Cumbrous compounds are formed as the names of objects and a character of tedious and time-wasting polysyllabism is given to the language.
ref: 1867, William Dwight Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, New York: Scribner, page 348:
glosses: Polysyllabicism.
Related terms: polysyllabic
polysyllabicity
polysyllable
genuine issue of material fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genuine issues of material fact
Senses: examples: text: We think there is nothing in these three asserted facts which has a direct bearing upon, or casts doubt as to, the particular and detailed circumstances presented by the Ambassador. They are inadequate to show a genuine issue of material fact as to the existence of the original documents.
ref: 1940 Banco De Espana v. Federal Reserve Bank, 114 F.2d 438, 447 (2d Cir. 1940)
text: The mere existence of some alleged factual dispute between the parties will not defeat an otherwise properly supported motion for summary judgment; the requirement is that there be no genuine issue of material fact.
ref: 1986, Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 247-248 (1986)
text: The principles of law applicable to a motion for summary judgment are well settled. To grant such a motion, the trial court must determine that the evidence does not create a genuine issue of material fact and that the movant is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. Rule 56(c)(3), Ala. R. Civ. P. When the movant makes a prima facie showing that those two conditions are satisfied, the burden shifts to the nonmovant to present "substantial evidence" creating a genuine issue of material fact.
ref: 1989, Scrushy v. Tucker, 955 So. 2d 988, 1006 (Ala. 2006) quoting Bass v. SouthTrust Bank of Baldwin County, 538 So. 2d 794, 797-98 (Ala. 1989)
text: Once the moving party has demonstrated the absence of a genuine issue of material fact, the party opposing the motion must then "set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial."
ref: 1999, Adam L. Brookman, Trademark Law: Protection, Enforcement and Licensing, s. 9.04H:
text: Summary judgment is granted if a judge finds that there is no "genuine issue of material fact" for decision by a jury.
ref: 2004, Alan L. Durham, Patent Law Essentials: A Concise Guide, page 180:
text: The main question in this appeal is whether Harrold raised any genuine issues of material fact requiring a trial.
ref: 2006, Harrold v. Artwohl, 132 P.3d 276, 277 (Alaska 2006)
text: Beyoncé successfully moved for summary judgment, contending that Armour had not established any genuine issues of material fact.
ref: 2007, Armour v. Knowles, 512 F.3d 147 (5th Cir. 2007)
topics: law
glosses: A dispute over a material fact upon which the outcome of a legal case may rely, and which therefore must be decided by a judge or jury; a dispute which precludes summary judgment.
amigas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amiga
abditories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abditory
ground proximity warning systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground proximity warning system
is't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Senses: examples: text: How now? moodie? / What is't thou canſt demand?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
glosses: Contraction of is it.
shunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shunters
Etymology: From shunt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.
ref: 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: shunting engine
switcher
switch engine
glosses: A railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).
examples: text: The electric locomotive is accompanied by a shunter who, in addition to his normal duties, flags the trains over the unprotected level crossings and opens the gates through which the line passes.
ref: 1957 December 24, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 872:
text: The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: switchman
word: ;
word: switcher
word: hostler
word: yard jockey
glosses: A person who carries out shunting operations.
topics: business
finance
glosses: One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).
Derived terms: cocoa shunter
mutton shunter
shunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shunter
malfatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Italian malfatti.
Senses: examples: text: No need to explain where the lamb went or to shape your malfatti to look like hens' eggs.
ref: 2009 January 11, Amanda Hesser, “1971: Mrs. Sebastiani’s Malfatti”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of hand-rolled dumpling, or gnocchi
one under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one unders
Senses: examples: text: 2002, "Tube Troll", ">Incident @ Hangar lane tube <", uk.transport.london http://groups.google.com/group/uk.transport.london/browse_thread/thread/9a749f81e7f414b9/04825cc24c006db5?lnk=st&q=%22one+under%22+train&rnum=3#
The twist in this tale is that the driver (who was at the back and hadn't seen anything) booked off with stress (as drivers often do after a one under) and the guard who had been driving and witnessed the whold [sic] traumatic event had to creep into work the next day and pretend that nothing had happned...
text: About a one under on the Northern line.
ref: 2004, "Joe", "TV Alert: BBC3 9pm Trauma TONIGHT", uk.railway http://groups.google.com/group/uk.railway/browse_thread/thread/dacc3df5d74e3501/4b2dff0298b19cc4?lnk=st&q=%22one+under%22+train&rnum=39#4b2dff0298b19cc4
text: 2005, "Neilw001", "'One under'", uk.transport.london http://groups.google.com/group/uk.transport.london/browse_thread/thread/2a2f71c4882d54ca/96db8446353aa28d?lnk=st&q=%22one+under%22+train&rnum=7#96db8446353aa28d
I've been on a train when some [sic] has gone under. Actually heard the thump and then the driver on the radio saying "I've got one under".
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A person under a train; a person hit by a train after jumping or falling in front of it.
Synonyms: english: London Underground, official
translation: London Underground, official
word: person under train
word: track pizza
bare-breasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The young drama student performed bare-breasted in the school play.
glosses: Having the breasts and nipples exposed, often implying a less salacious atmosphere than topless.
raw_tags: of a woman
Synonyms: english: of a woman
translation: of a woman
word: topless
word: topfree
Hypernyms: half-naked
semi-naked
semi-nude
one unders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one under
intrenchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrenchments
Senses: examples: text: This steepness was intensified on all sides by an artificial intrenchment which divided the promontory from the mainland.
ref: 1928, Edith Heal, Robin Hood, Rand McNally & Company, pages 31–2:
glosses: Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
intrenchments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrenchment
photographic memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photographic memory
fido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidos
Etymology: An acronym of the words freaks, irregulars, defects, oddities, from the 1960s.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A coin that is defective, having been incorrectly minted, often prized by collectors.
foodaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodaholics
Etymology: From food + -aholic.
Senses: glosses: A lover of food; a foodie.
patsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpætsi/
rhymes: -ætsi
Forms: form: patsies
Etymology: The term dates back at least to the 1870s in the United States, close to the peak of Irish migration.
The OED's recent revisions link Patsy with Pat and Paddy, the stereotype of the bogtrotter just off the boat.
The American Heritage Dictionary and Online Etymology Dictionary quotes the OED it may derive from the Italian pazzo (“madman”), and south Italian dialect paccio (“fool”).
Another possibility is the term derives from Patsy Bolivar, a character in an 1880s minstrel skit who was blamed whenever anything went wrong, in Broadway musical comedies, for example in The Errand Boy [1904] and Patsy in Politics [1907].
Senses: examples: text: And now it's quite obvious that instead of Mr Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney listening attentively to Mr Blair's sage advice, they've simply been using him as a patsy—a convenient fig-leaf.
ref: 2003 March 16, Terry Jones, “Poor Tony Blair wakes up”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.
Synonyms: sense: by being cheated
word: sucker
word: dupe
sense: by being blamed
word: scapegoat
word: scapegoat
sense: by being blamed
word: fall guy
pashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pash
pashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pash
enquirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enquirers
Etymology: From enquire + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inquirer.
agflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡˈfleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: Blend of agricultural + inflation; compare stagflation.
Senses: glosses: An increase in the price of food crops, especially due to increased demand, and to diversification into the production of biomass
volcanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanisms
form: vulcanism
Etymology: From French volcanisme, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This rejuvenation-stage or post-erosional volcanism produces lava even more alkalic than late-stage volcanism.
ref: 2004, Peter Morrison Vitousek, Nutrient Cycling and Limitation: Hawai'i as a Model System, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
synonyms: volcanicity
glosses: Any of the natural phenomena and processes associated with the action of volcanos, geysers and fumaroles
Derived terms: cryovolcanism
glaciovolcanism
paleovolcanism
volcanic
volcanist
volcanize
Related terms: volcanology
atelectatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atelectasis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to atelectasis
attentate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attentates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attentat.
unleashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unleasht
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unleash
unleashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unleasht
Senses: examples: text: Some trails are extremely narrow, and people might become easily intimidated by passing an unleashed dog in a confined space, especially a large, nosy dog.
ref: 2007, Karen Chavez, Best Hikes With Dogs: North Carolina, page 31:
glosses: Not leashed; without a leash on it.
examples: text: unleashed potential
glosses: Freed from any restraint, physical or otherwise.
unlimber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlimbers
form: unlimbering
form: unlimbered
form: unlimbered
Etymology: From un- + limber.
Senses: examples: text: The gun he drove had been unlimbered near Horsell, in order to command the sand-pits, and its arrival had precipitated the action.
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “At the Window”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 83:
glosses: To detach (an artillery piece) from its limber to deploy for firing.
glosses: To clumsily put into employ (a large weapon or object).
glosses: To unsling (something, as a backpack, carried on the body with a strap); to bring (something carried) into the hands for use.
examples: text: "I fancy," said Psmith, "that this is one of those moments when it is necessary for me to unlimber my Sherlock Holmes system. […] Do you follow me, Comrade Maloney?" / "That's right," said Billy Windsor. "Of course." / "Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith.
ref: 1909 October – 1910 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “In Pleasant Street”, in Psmith Journalist, London: A[dam] & C[harles] Black, […], published October 1923, →OCLC, page 140:
text: Bony jumped down and unlimbered his cramped muscles before going after his camels.
ref: 1963, Arthur Upfield, The Lake Frome Monster, London: Pan Books, published 1969, page 111:
glosses: To stretch (limbs, muscles, etc., that have been cramped or unused for some time).
unlimber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlimber
form: most unlimber
Etymology: From un- + limber.
Senses: glosses: Not limber; lacking flexibility.
overmodest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overmodest
form: most overmodest
Etymology: From over- + modest.
Senses: glosses: Excessively modest.
Derived terms: overmodestly
accept service
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accepts service
form: accepting service
form: accepted service
form: accepted service
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To receive and acknowledge receipt of service of process.
Related terms: refuse service
dying declaration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dying declarations
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A statement that would normally be deemed inadmissible as evidence in a court of law as hearsay, but is deemed admissible because it was made by a person who believed himself to be dying, is about the circumstances of that person's death, and (in some cases) was followed by that person's actual death.
court of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courts of law
form: law court
Senses: glosses: A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes.
glosses: A court which was empowered to decide questions of law and award monetary damages, but could not provide equitable relief, which was reserved for a court of equity.
Synonyms: court of justice
zippo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈzɪpoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪpəʊ
Etymology: From zip + -o.
Senses: examples: text: “The whole situation is magnificent news, especially when the problem has been zippo investment by large corporations in Africa,” says Robert H. Bates[…].
ref: 2007 January 14, G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, in New York Times:
glosses: Zero; none whatsoever.
zippo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈzɪpoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪpəʊ
Etymology: From zip + -o.
Senses: examples: text: We got 200 consoles and we sold 200 consoles and 200 minus 200 is ZIPPO, so I can't sell you anything right now.
glosses: Zero. Typically used for emphasis, as when the listener might expect a positive quantity.
zippo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈzɪpoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪpəʊ
Forms: form: zippos
form: zippoing
form: zippoed
form: zippoed
form: Zippo
Etymology: Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.
ref: 1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song:
text: Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.
ref: 2009, Nigel Cawthorne, Vietnam:
text: The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.
ref: 2012, Tom Knox, The Lost Goddess:
glosses: To light on fire.
rinforzando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪnfɔːˈtsændəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɹɪnfɔɹˈtsændoʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
Forms: form: rinforzandos
form: rinforzandi
Etymology: From Italian rinforzando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mark that indicates that a note is to be played with special emphasis.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
rinforzando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪnfɔːˈtsændəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɹɪnfɔɹˈtsændoʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
Forms: form: more rinforzando
form: most rinforzando
Etymology: From Italian rinforzando.
Senses: examples: (abbreviation) rf, rfz, rfz., rinf.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In this style.
rinforzando
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪnfɔːˈtsændəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɹɪnfɔɹˈtsændoʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
Forms: form: more rinforzando
form: most rinforzando
Etymology: From Italian rinforzando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in this style.
court of equity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courts of equity
Senses: glosses: A court empowered to provide only equitable relief, but not to make rulings on questions of law, nor to award monetary damages.
Synonyms: chancery court
equity court
Related terms: court of law
LQG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LQGs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of loop quantum gravity.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of large quasar group.
LQG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: linear-quadratic-Gaussian
loop quantum gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theory which attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity, according to which space can be regarded as an extremely fine fabric of finite loops.
Synonyms: word: LQG
Derived terms: word: LQG
zitterbewegung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German zittern (“to tremble, jitter”) + Bewegung (“motion”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An extremely fast oscillation of free electrons (and other particles) predicted by some solutions of the Dirac equation
Dirac equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dirac equations
Etymology: Named after English physicist Paul Dirac.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A relativistic wave equation that describes an electron (and similar particles); it predicted the existence of antiparticles
tifoso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tifosi
form: tifosi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Italian tifoso.
Senses: glosses: An Italian fan (of a sports club, etc.).
glosses: A fan of an Italian club or team, especially Scuderia Ferrari
meatman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːtmən/
ipa: /ˈmiːtman/
Forms: form: meatmen
Etymology: From meat + man.
Senses: glosses: A butcher; one who prepares or sells meat.
tifosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tifosi
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tifoso (a fan of an Italian team, who is not necessarily Italian themselves)
tifosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: glosses: plural of tifoso
overbuild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbuilds
form: overbuilding
form: overbuilt
form: overbuilt
Etymology: From over- + build.
Senses: examples: c. 1962, Philip Larkin on John Betjeman
How much more interesting & worth writing about Betjeman's subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting to us as the overbuilding' of rural Middlesex.
glosses: To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
examples: text: The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office.
glosses: To build over or on top of another structure.
glosses: To build with excessive size or elaboration.
glosses: To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
Derived terms: overbuilder
overbuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbuild
overbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbuild
overbuilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbuild
overbuilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbuilt
form: most overbuilt
Senses: examples: text: in the overbuilt exurbs of the megalopolis
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: Having had excessive construction (building) carried out, as:
Overdeveloped.
examples: text: the extra wind protection provided by the overbuilt framing
glosses: Having had excessive construction (building) carried out, as:
Built for heavier duty than might be predicted to be necessary.
qualifier: mechanical devices; buildings; mechanical devices; buildings
Related terms: built like a brick shithouse
overengineered
overfond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfond
form: most overfond
form: over-fond
Etymology: From over- + fond.
Senses: glosses: Excessively fond.
Derived terms: overfondly
overfondness
meatmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatman
punition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punitions
Etymology: From Latin punitio: compare French punition. See punish.
Senses: examples: text: Yee judges vpon earth, let our iuste punitions
Teach you to shake off bribes, and kepe your handes pure.
ref: 1559, “Tresilian”, in George Ferrers, editor, The Mirror for Magistrates:
text: The corrections of the scholars consist of penitences and punitions; the former are, keeping a boy standing, or on his knees, or in an ignominious place; the latter are pensums (i. e. impositions), or, rarely, the use of a leather thong on the hand.
ref: 1845, The English Review, volume 4, page 145:
glosses: punishment
Related terms: penal
punishment
punitive
punitively
impunity
Pyrrhic victories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pyrrhic victory
Moenkopi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moencopi
form: Mùnqapi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi Mùnqapi.
Senses: hypernyms: exclave
holonyms: Hopi Reservation
meronyms: Lower Moenkopi
Upper Moenkopi
glosses: A census-designated place and Hopi community located in Coconino County, Arizona.
Derived terms: Lower Moenkopi
Moenkopi Formation
Moenkopi Wash
Upper Moenkopi
Related terms: Oraibi
Tuba City
1990s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪn.tiːnˈnaɪn.tiːz/
ipa: /ˈnaɪn.tinˈnaɪn.tiz/
ipa: [ˈnaɪn.tʰinˈnaɪɾ̃iz]
Forms: form: 1990's
form: 90s
form: '90s
Senses: examples: text: KIRK: We're reading it, Lieutenant. I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel.
SPOCK: I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.
KIRK: An emotional Earth weakness of mine. There it is.
KIRK: An old Earth vessel, similar to the DY-500 class.
SPOCK: Much older. DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s.
KIRK: Then it's a derelict, its signal left on automatic.
SPOCK: Or an old Earth ship being used by aliens.
ref: 1967 February 16, Space Seed (Star Trek), season 1, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television:
text: That programme, begun in the early 1990s, cost billions of Taiwan dollars, but eventually tamed the river, especially because of the Yuanshanzih flood diversion tunnel (sluiceway), which helps redirect run-off from the upper reaches of the river to the sea on the north-east coast, thus saving the often flooded townships of Rueifang and Hsichih (Sijhih)⁷ when future typhoons and heavy rains hit the area.
ref: 2008, Jack F. Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang, “Back from the brink: resolving Taiwan's environmental problems”, in Taiwan's Environmental Struggle: Toward a Green Silicon Island, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
text: But it wasn’t until the 1990s and 2000s that CDG reached prominence under the stewardship of Osiel Cardenas Guillen.
ref: 2025 February 22, Max Saltman, Avery Schmitz, Sebastian Jimenez Valencia and Rocio Munoz-Ledo, “The US now considers these cartels and gangs terrorist groups. Here’s what to know about them”, in CNN:
glosses: The period from year 1990 to 1999; almost the same period as the 10th (and last) decade of the 20th century, which, however, was from 1991 to (the end of) year 2000
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
oggy oggy oggy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oggie oggie oggie
Senses: glosses: A simple chant to rouse a crowd.
conscionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔn.ʃən.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔnʃ.nə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔn.ʃən.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.ʃən.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑnʃ.nə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.ʃən.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.ʃən.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.ʃən.bəl/
Forms: form: more conscionable
form: most conscionable
Etymology: From conscions, obsolete variant of conscience, + -able.
Senses: glosses: In accordance with conscience; defensible; proper.
Derived terms: conscionableness
conscionably
unconscionability
unconscionable
unconscionableness
Related terms: conscion
contrapositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrapositives
Etymology: From contra- + positive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The inverse of the converse of a given logical implication.
Derived terms: contrapositively
Related terms: converse
inverse
baby oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby oils
Senses: examples: text: Oil-based lubricants like Crisco, Vaseline, and baby oil may make condoms break.
ref: 1990 April 7, “Safer Sex and Drug Use Guidelines”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: A mineral oil used primarily to moisten the skin of babies after bathing.
baby grand piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby grand pianos
Senses: synonyms: baby grand
glosses: A small grand piano.
game the system
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: games the system
form: gaming the system
form: gamed the system
form: gamed the system
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: play the system, beat the system, work the system
text: Huge spikes in wholesale electricity prices in South Australia have been a result of energy companies “gaming” the system and exploiting their unusual market power to charge “monopoly rents”, according to an in-depth report by the Melbourne Energy Institute.
ref: 2016 August 11, Michael Slezak, “Electricity price spikes caused by energy companies 'gaming' the system, report finds”, in The Guardian:
text: The moral appears to be that wealthy individuals can game the system, and if the pressure becomes unbearable they can make a settlement – otherwise off they go.
ref: 2017 March 1, Prem Sikka, “Philip Green has shown the rich can game the system. We need to stop another BHS”, in The Guardian:
text: It’s incumbent on all of us to take a responsible approach and tell our constituents that tests are available in large numbers and the average distance travelled is 5.8 miles … And people should take this seriously and not game the system.
ref: 2020 September 15, Mattha Busby, quoting Matt Hancock, “UK families having to 'hack' system to get coronavirus test”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To use the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order to instead manipulate the system for a desired outcome.
Related terms: gamification
gamify
games the system
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of game the system
gaming the system
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of game the system
gamed the system
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of game the system
GRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GRPs
Senses: topics: architecture
coordinate_terms: GFRP
glosses: Initialism of glass-reinforced plastic.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of gross rating point.
catamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəmaɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of catamite
attributed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹɪb.juː.tɪd/
ipa: /əˈtɹɪb.(j)ə.tɪd/
ipa: [əˈtɹɪb.(j)ə.ɾɪd]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attribute
attributed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹɪb.juː.tɪd/
ipa: /əˈtɹɪb.(j)ə.tɪd/
ipa: [əˈtɹɪb.(j)ə.ɾɪd]
Senses: examples: text: This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.
ref: 2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell, page 536:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: decorated with an attribute
Derived terms: unattributed
graaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graafs
Etymology: From Dutch graaf. Doublet of graf and grave.
Senses: examples: text: The knights of St. John once had here their dwelling, or commandery, as it was called, but had removed in 1312 to a new building within the city of Haarlem, where they were richly endowed by Graaf William the Good, who also conferred on them numerous privileges, of which not the least was, that the commander of the order should thenceforth be the host of the graafs.
ref: 1847, J[acob] van Lennep, translated by Frank Woodley, The Rose of Dekama; or, The Friesian Heiress. A Tale. (The Library of Foreign Romance, and Novel Newspaper: Comprising Standard English Works of Fiction, and Original Translations from the Most Celebrated Continental Authors, volume VIII), London: Bruce and Wyld, […], page 36, column 1:
text: However, when I tell you that the Queen of England and the Duke of Edinburgh were there, and the King of Norway, and the Shah of Persia and Queen Farah Diba, and the Prince Michael of Greece, and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and Prince Bertil of Sweden, plus nearly fifty assorted princes and princesses, dukes, barons, graafs and gravins, meurows and heers, you will begin to see just how high a high point it was in the Amstel’s history.
ref: 1976, Christopher Matthew, A Different World: Stories of Great Hotels, Paddington Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 17:
text: And they always had an excuse, didn’t they? They, them, those—the rich men, the graafs and their bullyboys, the freemen, the knights, the mercenary chiefs, the militiamen, the lords and ladies… And now he was one of them. Would that he hadn’t drowned his old da, so the wicked asshole could have seen his son become a graaf before being hanged for whatever crimes Sander saw fit to charge him with.
ref: 2012, Jesse Bullington, The Folly of the World, Orbit, →ISBN, page 231:
text: And so the graafs mounted their huge steeds and fled, breaking through the enemy lines.
ref: 2016, Daniel O’Malley, Stiletto, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: A Dutch earl or count.
heal-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heal-alls
Etymology: From heal + all.
Senses: synonyms: selfheal
glosses: A small, herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers; Prunella vulgaris.
examples: text: Widely used in Argentina as a heal-all, propoleum is found in a variety of forms, from candies to syrups.
ref: 1996, Public Health Reports, volume 111, number 4, page 554:
synonyms: cure-all
panacea
glosses: A remedy for all diseases.
selfheal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfheals
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English selfhele, selfehale, sylfhele, from Old English self-hǣlu, equivalent to self + heal.
Senses: glosses: A small, herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers from any species of genus Prunella.
glosses: A small, herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers from any species of genus Prunella.
Especially, Prunella vulgaris.
Synonyms: heal-all
healee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healees
Etymology: From heal + -ee.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A character who is healed.
whitewashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From whitewash + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whitewash
whitewashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whitewashed
form: most whitewashed
Etymology: From whitewash + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a fence or wall that has been painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
examples: text: Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser and still-influential MAGA voice, posed the question others were already repeating: "How does an anti–deep state administration put out something this whitewashed? This is not what people voted for."
ref: 2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
examples: text: Hiro's a Japanese guy, Kim's an Indian guy. The transition for the three of us, goin' from a very mixed Chicago area to the very whitewashed Northwest, was kinda weird. It took me years to kinda deal with, Is this a real city? Where are the other people?
ref: 2012, Stuart Hallerman, quoted in Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, Crown, page 59
text: […] the “scandal” over actress Kerry Washington's seemingly whitewashed skin on the cover of the February 2015 InStyle Magazine, […]
ref: 2015, JeffriAnne Wilder, Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 12:
text: By casting Paulson in this role while continuing to describe her characters in this way, the show applies racist speech to a whitewashed body, thereby appropriating the history but erasing the bodies of Chang and Eng. This whitewashing ignores the [...] racism [...] that inform[s] both Chang and Eng's story […]
ref: 2017, Rebecca Janicker, Reading American Horror Story: Essays on the Television Franchise, McFarland, →ISBN:
text: She tries to portray that she is the Japanese American woman. That she is very cultured in a Japanese way but she is not! She is very whitewashed.
ref: 2016', anonymous pageant participant, in Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants, U of Minnesota Press, page 86
text: "Beyond that the thinking was, 'Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago, so how is the United States still racist?' That's kind of the mind-set I grew up in. Going to a public school in a very white state, I was given a very whitewashed education."
ref: 2021, Dave Zirin, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World, The New Press, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Having been subjected to racial whitewashing: made to be or seem more white (Caucasian); for example, having been made to appear whiter via makeup, or by being illustrated in pictures or portrayed in films as white (despite originally or properly being nonwhite).
mightiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mighty: most mighty
amalgama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈmælɡəmə/
Senses: examples: text: They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of amalgam.
spie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /spaɪ/
Forms: form: spies
form: spying
form: spied
form: spied
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of spy.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: spie chart
punte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punty or pontil, a glassblowing tool.
adumbrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adumbrate
adumbrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adumbrate
adumbrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adumbrate
adumbrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adumbrated
form: most adumbrated
Senses: examples: text: We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings.
ref: 1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43:
glosses: Obscured.
glosses: Foreshadowed.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Depicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further reading" below.)
Coordinate terms: umbrated
shadowed
Derived terms: unadumbrated
Related terms: adumbration
obfuscates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obfuscate
parles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parle
parles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parle