cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trade secret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade secrets
Senses: examples: text: 'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:
topics: business
glosses: A type of intellectual property comprising confidential business information that provides a company with a competitive edge.
Related terms: industrial espionage
bolognese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɒləˈneɪz/
ipa: /ˌbɒləˈnjeɪz/
ipa: /ˌbɒləɡˈneɪz/
ipa: /ˌboʊləˈniz/
ipa: /ˌboʊləˈneɪz/
ipa: /ˌboʊləˈnjeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
rhymes: (US only) -iːz
Forms: form: bologneses
form: bolognaise
Etymology: From Italian bolognese (literally “from Bologna”).
Senses: synonyms: Bolognese sauce
bol
meat sauce
glosses: An Italian sauce made from ground meat and tomato, originating in Bologna.
examples: text: Handmade pasta bolognese.
synonyms: word: bol
glosses: A dish served with bolognese.
Derived terms: spaghetti bolognese
carbonara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːbəˈnɑːɹə/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹbəˈnɑɹə/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹbəˈnæɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
rhymes: -æɹə
Forms: form: carbonaras
Etymology: From the Italian carbonara, shortening of alla carbonara (literally “in the manner of charcoal burners”, or “in the manner of the Carbonari”), ultimately from carbone (“coal”).
Senses: examples: text: One of my own grand carbonaras, some crisp and spicy greens, a clean Tuscan white, a pint of raspberry sorbet, a pot of freshly ground strong coffee, and a long beguiling night on my couch in pajamas with cannabis, good TV, and no qualms about the future, please.
ref: 1999, Roger D. Skillings, Where the Time Goes, page 10:
glosses: A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper.
glosses: A spaghetti dish made using such a sauce.
glosses: A spaghetti dish made using a similar sauce made from a different type of cured pork than guanciale (such as bacon, pancetta, lardons, gammon or ham).
napoletana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napoletanas
Etymology: From Italian napoletana.
Senses: glosses: A Neapolitan flip coffee pot.
puttanesca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʊtəˈnɛskə/
ipa: /ˌputəˈnɛskə/
rhymes: -ɛskə
Forms: form: puttanescas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian puttanesca (feminine of puttanesco, literally “whorish, sluttish”), from puttana (“whore”).
Senses: glosses: A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples.
puttanesca
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʊtəˈnɛskə/
ipa: /ˌputəˈnɛskə/
rhymes: -ɛskə
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian puttanesca (feminine of puttanesco, literally “whorish, sluttish”), from puttana (“whore”).
Senses: examples: text: spaghetti puttanesca
glosses: Served with puttanesca sauce.
ragù
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɡuː/
ipa: /ɹaˈɡuː/
ipa: /ɹæˈɡu/
ipa: /ɹɑˈɡu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: ragùs
form: ragu
Etymology: From Italian ragù, from French ragoût, from Middle French ragoûter (“to awaken the appetite”), from goût (“taste”), from Latin gustus. Doublet of ragout.
Senses: hyponyms: Bolognese sauce
glosses: An Italian pasta sauce containing ground meat cooked with sautéed vegetables in tomato sauce or some other kind of liquid.
vongole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒŋɡɒleɪ/
ipa: /ˈvɑŋɡəleɪ/
Etymology: From Italian alle vongole (“with clams”). See vongola.
Senses: examples: text: Got my pasta vongole with giant clams. And then a Vespa ride with you. You're wearing the shirt that I gave you. You made my Italian dream come true.
ref: 2022 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge), via HBO:
glosses: Said of pasta served in a sauce with clams and other ingredients, such as olive oil and tomatoes.
Brussels sprouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brussels sprout
sprouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprout
sprouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sprout
cappuccio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cappuccios
form: cappucci
form: capuccio
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cappuccio.
Senses: examples: text: Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad / In a discolour'd cote of straunge disguyse, / That at his backe a brode Capuccio had, / And sleeves dependaunt Albanesè-wyse […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Instead of a cappuccio, he wears a hat.
ref: 1988, Christiansen, Kanter & Strehlke (Eds.), Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, p. 171
text: Within the Franciscans, a reformist group split off from the order in 1529 to restore the rigor of the original Rule of St. Francis, even to the point of emulating his four-cornered hood, called a cappuccio.
ref: 1991, James North, A History of the Church, page 388:
glosses: A hood, especially of a cloak; a capuche.
kohlrabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊlˈɹɑb.i/
ipa: /kəʊlˈɹɑː.bi/
rhymes: -ɑːbi
Forms: form: kohlrabis
form: kohlrabies
form: kohl rabi
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kohlrabi, from Kohl (“cabbage”) + Italian rape (“turnips”), from cavoli rape, the plural of cavolo rapa (“cole rape”).
Senses: synonyms: word: nol-kole
glosses: Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of the cabbage, having a turnip-shaped edible stem.
deek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: deeks
form: deekin
form: deeked
form: deeked
Etymology: Borrowed from Angloromani [Term?], from Romani dikhel; compare Hindi देखो (dekho, “look”).
Senses: examples: text: Hoo man, deek at this.
glosses: To look.
Related terms: word: deeky
word: deeksies
alt: Cumbrian
word: deekabout
deek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: deeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Angloromani [Term?], from Romani dikhel; compare Hindi देखो (dekho, “look”).
Senses: examples: text: Take a deek at it.
glosses: A look.
red cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red cabbages
Senses: glosses: A form of cabbage having red leaves, Brassica oleracea var. capitata f. rubra .
glosses: Food made from the leaves of the plant.
Midas touch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪdəs ˈtʌt͡ʃ/
Etymology: From the Greek legend of King Midas, related in chapter XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 C.E.), whom Dionysus (the god of, among other things, wine and winemaking) gave the power to turn things to gold by touching them.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ability to turn everything one touches into gold.
synonyms: golden touch
antonyms: reverse Midas touch
glosses: The ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently.
Derived terms: reverse Midas touch
Related terms: chrysopoeia
changing room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changing rooms
form: changing-room
Senses: examples: text: We changed into our swimsuits in the changing room next to the pool.
text: John Betjeman would later recall that the railway 'smelt of feet', and the carriages may have continued to smell of feet after they were taken out of service in the 1920s because some of them found use as changing rooms beside the playing fields of southern England.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 104:
synonyms: word: dressing room
word: locker room
glosses: A room, especially in a gym, sports center, school, swimming pool, etc, designed for people to change their clothes.
synonyms: fitting room
glosses: A room or enclosure, e.g. in a clothes shop, where people try on clothes they are interested in buying.
Derived terms: chelfie
Related terms: dressing room
locker room
shopaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopaholics
form: shopoholic
Etymology: From shop + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: Shopaholics lose a lot of their money and possibly go broke because they've spent all of it.
glosses: One who shops excessively; a shopping addict.
Related terms: shopaholism
retail therapy
aerobicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aerobicizes
form: aerobicizing
form: aerobicized
form: aerobicized
form: aerobicise
Etymology: From aerobic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform aerobics.
chocoholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chocoholic + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: chocomania
glosses: The state of being a chocoholic, being addicted to chocolate.
Related terms: chocoholic
red-light district
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-light districts
form: red light district
Etymology: From red, light and district. Referring to the red lights that were used as signs for brothels.
Senses: glosses: A part of an urban area where prostitution and sex-oriented businesses are concentrated.
aerobicized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aerobic + -ize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: toned by the use of aerobics
raw_tags: of a person's body
communist bandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communist bandits
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 共匪 (gòngfěi).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese communist.
best of breed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the award at dog shows.
Senses: glosses: Any product thought to be the best of its type.
red light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red lights
Senses: examples: text: We ran three red lights on the way to the hospital.
text: Paddington [the GWR HQ] saw the red light, however, and the extension to Nantgarw was withdrawn on the G.W.R. agreeing "to lay down the narrow gauge [actually standard gauge as compared to broad gauge] from Didcot over the whole of their system in South Wales."
ref: 1955 April, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 447:
glosses: A warning light, especially as a traffic signal indicating stop.
examples: text: Roxanne, you don't have to put on your red light.
ref: 1978, Sting, “Roxanne”:
glosses: A sign of a brothel.
glosses: A denial to proceed a ruling out of any possibility.
Synonyms: sense: traffic signal for stop
word: stoplight
sense: traffic signal for stop
word: stop light
Coordinate terms: green light
yellow light
Derived terms: red light camera
red-light district
run a red light
Related terms: 🔴
🟡
🟢
celebutante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɛb.juːˌtɑːnt/
ipa: /səˈlɛb.juˌtɑnt/
Forms: form: celebutantes
form: celebutant
Etymology: Blend of celebrity + debutante. Reportedly coined by Walter Winchell in 1939.
Senses: examples: text: Lisa Edelstein, a nice girl from a New Jersey suburb, is explaining how she got to be Lisa E., New York's reigning Queen of the Night, Girl of the Moment, new Edie Sedgwick and top "celebutante" of 1986. "Being a celebutante means you're famous for not really doing anything," the 20-year-old says. "You just try to get to know as many people as you can, so that you know everybody."
ref: 1986 November 9, Maureen Dowd, “Lisa in Wonderland: Creating her own celebrity”, in New York Times, sec. 6, page 32:
text: Paris Hilton, the United States’s first name in famous-for-being-famous, got her come-uppance. . . . Her ubiquitous nightlife presence, perceived aura of fabulousness and inane conduct made her a tabloid fixture, and she is perhaps our first celebutante, someone who does nothing but exist.
ref: 2007 May 24, Jessica Coen, “A media Frankenstein”, in Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa:
glosses: A young, usually female socialite, especially one of limited accomplishment, who is the focus of sufficient media attention and public interest to be regarded as a celebrity.
wikipedia: Walter Winchell
Coordinate terms: debutant
debutante
elephant in the room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephants in the room
Etymology: Likely US origin, or possibly from Ivan Andreyevich Krylov's 1814 fable, The Inquisitive Man, which tells of a man going to a museum and noticing all sorts of things apart from an elephant.
Senses: examples: text: There is an elephant in the room that nearly every politician and green campaigner is ignoring. It’s called population growth.
ref: 2008 January 6, Nicholas Rufford, “Motormouth: The car of the future, at £1,300”, in Sunday Times (UK):
text: While the Swiss bank remained positive on the sector through 2022, the coronavirus situation remained “the elephant in the room,” he added.
ref: 2022 January 17, Martin Choi, “Macau’s gaming law reforms positive for casino industry, but outlook clouded by Covid-19 uncertainty, UBS, JPMorgan analysts say”, in South China Morning Post:
synonyms: 800-pound gorilla
gorilla in the room
glosses: A problem or difficult issue that is very obvious, but is ignored for the convenience or comfort of those involved.
wikipedia: Ivan Krylov
Michael Quinion
Derived terms: 800-pound gorilla in the room
gorilla in the room
chor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: chore
Forms: form: chors
form: chorrin
form: chorred
form: chorred
Etymology: See chore (“steal”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chore (“to steal”).
hardscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardscapes
Etymology: From hard + -scape.
Senses: glosses: The permanent, artificial features of a landscape made from stone etc, rather than plants.
Coordinate terms: softscape
hardscape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hardscapes
form: hardscaping
form: hardscaped
form: hardscaped
Etymology: From hard + -scape.
Senses: glosses: To provide (a landscape) with man-made elements.
mentee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mentees
Etymology: Back-formation from mentor. Although mentor comes from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr), the name of a mythological figure, it was mistakenly analyzed as terminating in the suffix -or (“doer”), leading to a form using the French patientive suffix -ee on the model of pairs such as donor–donee and employer–employee. Attested since at least 1958.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: apprentice, buddy (in training sense), intern, pupil, student, trainee
text: The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions
ref: 1958, Laurence E. Leamer, “Economic Education in Colleges”, in Educating Youth for Economic Competence (American Business Education Yearbook), volume 15, Eastern Business Teachers Association, page 49:
text: [T]he two characters form a beautiful mentor-mentee relationship in which each derives tremendous strength from the other
ref: 1979 April 11, Robert A. Cohn, “'Norma Rae' Gets an 'A'”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, page 14:
text: In some mentorship programs, the mentees get a say in whom they will be paired with. A 'mentee may be drawn to make certain connections based on a sense of their professional influence.
ref: 2022 November 29, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Must I Mentor a White Law Student When I Requested a Black Mentee?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: Her assistant, played by Noémie Merlant (another would-be conductor) appears to be someone else she is keeping on an emotional string, and she is being stalked by another former mentee who has become obsessed with her;[…]
ref: 2023 January 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Tár review – Cate Blanchett is perfect lead in delirious, sensual drama”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: mentoree
protégé
antonyms: mentor#Noun
teacher
coordinate_terms: aid
assistant
helper
glosses: A person who is being mentored.
Derived terms: e-mentee
menteeship
mesotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesotherapies
Etymology: From meso- + therapy.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any treatment that involves the injection of vitamins or other substances into the mesoderm of the skin
Related terms: mesotherapic
lolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lolos
Etymology: See also Tagalog lolo.
Senses: glosses: a grandfather
Related terms: lola
ponzu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒnˌzuː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ポン酢 (ponzu), in turn from Dutch pons (“punch”, obsolete, superseded by punch), from English punch, ultimately from Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan, “five”). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, pimp (“five”), punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
Senses: glosses: A sour citrus-based sauce usually made from the juice of the 橙 (daidai), an Asian variety of bitter orange, mixed with soy sauce.
wikipedia: Daijirin
Daijisen
ja:松村明
Related terms: toyomansi
mirin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirins
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 味醂 (mirin).
Senses: examples: text: Although naturally brewed mirin is made from only water, sweet brown rice, and rice koji, much of the mirin sold in natural food stores and Oriental markets is sweetened with sugar or corn syrup; read labels carefully.
ref: 1989 November, Drew DeSilver, Jan Gahala, “What is that stuff?”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 43:
text: Teriyaki sauce, a mixture of mirin, sake, soy sauce, and sometimes sugar, may be brushed on meats, fish, or vegetables […]
ref: 2017, James Peterson, Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
glosses: A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than saké and used in cooking.
dand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dands
Senses: glosses: A kind of push-up in Indian gymnastics.
muter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mute + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mute: more mute
muter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muters
Etymology: From mute + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The violinist often uses a muter when she practices.
glosses: Something that mutes sound.
Related terms: mute
spag bol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spag bols
form: spag bog
Etymology: 1970s, of uncertain origin, perhaps UK or Australia.
Senses: examples: text: At the time I started making it, it didn't seem unusual to me that my spag bol was constituted from the contents of tins and jars—pretty much everything we ate back then was.
ref: 2019, Pete Brown, Pie Fidelity: In Defence of British Food, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of spaghetti bolognese.
whip up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whips up
form: whipping up
form: whipped up
form: whipped up
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: cook up
text: I'll whip up a quick meal for our unexpected guests.
text: Whipping up a healthy breakfast has never been easier. Neither has knocking off your fave Starbucks snack either, thanks to this TikTok-approved egg bite maker.
ref: 2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: rustle up
whomp up
throw together
coordinate_terms: mix up
glosses: To produce (something) quickly, especially food.
synonyms: whip
glosses: To beat (stir) (a liquid) quickly so to introduce air and form foam.
examples: text: His speech whipped the crowd up into a frenzy.
text: There was the sight of numerous Arsenal players ­whipping up the crowd, including after the breakthrough goal, which had been advertised. From a Raya throw, ­Martinelli switched on the afterburners to glide away from Konaté before crossing for Bukayo Saka, who had timed his run. Saka’s headed connection was not true.
ref: 2024 February 4, David Hytner, “Arsenal ignite title hopes as Gabriel Martinelli punishes Liverpool error”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: stir up
word: urge
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To arouse or excite.
examples: text: High tides and severe gales are by no means uncommon on the East Coast of England, and in the Thames Estuary, but on the night of January 31, the two acted in concert to such an extent that the sea rose several feet higher than was predicted, with the gale whipping up wave action.
ref: 1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 301:
text: Hurricane force winds damaged the North Clydeside catenary on January 17 and 18 and on February 12, causing interruptions to the Helensburgh services; in the neighbourhood of Craigendoran and Cardross, the seas in the Firth of Clyde were whipped up to the height of the conductor wires and the insulators themselves.
ref: 1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways, page 285:
text: Greater Anglia 745005 whips up snow as it passes Fox Street (near Colchester) on February 8, with the 1000 Norwich-London Liverpool Street.
ref: 2021 February 24, “Network News: ... but snow and ice forces Greater Anglia to sideline Class 745s”, in RAIL, number 925, page 13, photo caption:
glosses: To lift or snatch up suddenly.
Derived terms: whip up a storm
log out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: logs out
form: logging out
form: logged out
form: logged out
Senses: examples: text: Please don't forget to log out after you finish your work.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: log off#Verb
sign off#Verb
sign out#Verb
antonyms: log in#Verb
log on#Verb
sign in#Verb
sign on#Verb
glosses: To exit a user account in a computer system, so that one is not recognized until signing in again.
glosses: To remove fallen trees that block a trail, campsite, etc.
Derived terms: word: combat log
word: logout
word: PvP log
seinen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.nən/
rhymes: -eɪnən
Forms: form: seinen
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 青年 (seinen).
Senses: glosses: A kind of manga written for an older male audience, generally 18-30 years old (and older).
Olympia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈlɪmpi.ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient city in Greece, home of the very first Olympic Games.
examples: text: The Olympia City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night against adopting a Workers’ Bill of Rights and raising the minimum wage across the city to $20. Mayor Dontae Payne cast the deciding vote.
ref: 2025 July 24, Ty Vinson, “Olympia City Council sends $20 minimum wage, Workers’ Bill of Rights to Nov. ballot”, in The Olympian, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2025:
text: The Olympian has posted similar stories on the Port of Olympia, Olympia City Council, and Olympia School Board primaries elsewhere on our website.
ref: 2025 August 2, Ann Duan, “Primary Primer: 3 questions for Tumwater School Board candidates”, in The Olympian, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2025:
glosses: A place in the United States:
The state capital of Washington, and the county seat of Thurston County.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Lowndes County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bath County, Kentucky.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cedar County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Richland County, South Carolina.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek; quite rare in English.
analyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analytes
Etymology: From ana- + -lyte.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Any substance undergoing analysis.
Derived terms: bioanalyte
multianalyte
wor
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
ipa: /wɐ/
ipa: /wə/
Etymology: Likely ultimately a borrowing into Northumbrian Old English from Old Norse várr (“our”) (from the same Proto-Germanic root *unseraz that produced Standard English our). Compare Scots wir.
Senses: examples: text: If ye gannin oot the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy.
glosses: Our.
Derived terms: word: wor kid
word: wor lass
wor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
ipa: /wɐ/
ipa: /wə/
Etymology: From an altered pronunciation of was.
Senses: examples: text: “I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie.
ref: 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Lawrence Edition, Penguin, published 1994, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: Was; were.
honey wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey wagons
form: honeywagon
Senses: synonyms: honey cart
w:cesspool emptier
glosses: A vehicle used to collect sewage from septic tanks, cesspools, or aircraft.
synonyms: muck spreader
glosses: A type of manure spreader for liquid manure; an instance of this type.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A type of multi-room trailer with toilet facilities for use by film and television crews.
Related terms: honey barge
honey dipper
power line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power lines
form: powerline
form: power-line
Senses: glosses: An electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or buried underground, used for the carrying of electricity either from a power source such as a generating station to a substation, or from a substation to a building such as a plant, commercial building or a home.
Related terms: power transmission line
Smoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡi
Forms: form: Smoggies
Etymology: From smog, the fumes given off from large industrial areas and buildings, for which Middlesbrough is famous.
Senses: glosses: A person from Middlesbrough.
utility pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility poles
Senses: examples: text: A utility pole shone yellow like a sick bruise high up over them.
ref: 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 34:
glosses: A tall cylinder, often made from the trunk of a tree, usually topped by a cross beam, used by a public utility to carry wire, cable or conduit through the air, for the transportation of electricity, cable television, telephone or similar services.
Synonyms: word: telegraph pole
word: telephone pole
word: hydro pole
Related terms: transmission tower
Smoggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Smoggy
wap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waps
Senses: glosses: A blow, hitbeating; a whap.
glosses: A breast.
glosses: A bundle.
synonyms: word: firearm
word: gat
word: gun
word: iron
word: piece
glosses: A weapon, gun.
wap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waps
form: wapping
form: wapped
form: wapped
Senses: examples: text: Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “How king Arthur commanded to cast his sword Excalibur into the water and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge”, in Le Morte d'Arthur, London: MacMillan & Co, published 1919, book 21, chapter 5, page 480:
text: I[…]wapped him over his head
ref: 2006, George Jachimowicz, The Wizard King:Book One:
glosses: To beat; to whap.
examples: text: Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
ref: 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:
text: No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.
ref: 1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:
text: Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.
ref: 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse.
glosses: To wrap or bind.
Synonyms: sense: beat
word: attack
sense: sexual intercourse
word: copulate
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: mort wap-apace
sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: wappened
sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: wappered
sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: wapping cove
sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: wapping dell
sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: wapping ken
sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: wapping moll
sense: Terms derived from wap (sexual intercourse)
word: wapping mort
pharo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharos
Senses: glosses: A pharos; a lighthouse.
pharo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of faro (card game).
lon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lons
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: lat
glosses: Clipping of longitude.
tita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titas
Etymology: From Tagalog tita, from Spanish tita.
Senses: glosses: an aunt; auntie
glosses: a young adult woman exhibiting the stereotypical characteristics of a Filipina aunt
Coordinate terms: sense: of a man
word: tito
styles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of style
styles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of style
pentateuchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Pentateuchal
Etymology: From Pentateuch + -al.
Senses: examples: THE ATHÆNIAN - Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama. July to December, 1894. LONDON
The Darwinianism of some has apparently its one solid root in aversion to orthodoxy and a “pentateuchal” “creationary” theory; to avoid acceptance of that they fly to the camp of Darwin, with no absolute conviction of, and perhaps no very strong confidence in, his views. (No. 3496, Oct. 27, ’94, p. 573)
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch, also known as the Torah.
Synonyms: Torahic
infimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfaɪməm/
ipa: /ɪnˈfiːməm/
ipa: /ɪnˈfaɪməm/
Forms: form: infima
form: infimums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infimum (“lowest part”), from infimus (“lowest”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of a subset) the greatest element of the containing set that is smaller than or equal to all elements of the subset. The infimum may or may not be a member of the subset.
Synonyms: greatest lower bound
Derived terms: essential infimum
borzoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.zɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.zɔɪ/
Forms: form: borzois
form: borzoi
form: Zoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian борзо́й (borzój), from бо́рзый (bórzyj, “swift”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (whence English brief, brace and merry).
Senses: examples: text: Pia loves Rob, she had written it with her lipstick on the walls of the vespasienne in the Rue Colombe, waiting for him to finish, holding her pampered borzoi on the leash.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 171:
synonyms: Russian Hunting Sighthound
Russian Wolfhound
noodle
hose goat
glosses: A dog of a particular breed, similar in shape to a greyhound but with longer silkier hair.
bosun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bosuns
form: bo'sun
form: bo's'n
form: bos'n
Etymology: Corruption of boatswain.
Senses: examples: text: They tied us up—the fellow who handled me could tie like a bosun—and there we lay with our toes up, beneath a tree, while a great brute stood guard over us with a club in his hand.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”).
Derived terms: bosun's chair
rum bosun
supremum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹiːˌmʌm/
Forms: form: supremums
form: suprema
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin supremum.
Senses: examples: text: A sublattice of a lattice is a subset that is closed under pairwise infima and suprema.
ref: 2006, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Kim C. Border, Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide, 3rd edition, Springer, page 8:
text: The best way to describe the supremum of S is to say that it wants to be the greatest element of S. In fact, if S has a greatest element, then that element is the supremum.
ref: 2010, James S. Howland, Basic Real Analysis, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 9:
text: The key to an approach to vector optimization based on infimum and supremum is to consider set-based objective functions and to extend the partial ordering of the original objective space to a suitable subspace of the power set. In this new space the infimum and supremum exist under the usual assumptions.
ref: 2011, Andreas Löhne, Vector Optimization with Infimum and Supremum, Springer, page vii:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: (real analysis): Given a subset X of R, the smallest real number that is ≥ every element of X; (order theory): given a subset X of a partially ordered set P (with partial order ≤), the least element y of P such that every element of X is ≤ y.
Synonyms: sense: element of a set greater than or equal to all members of a given subset
word: least upper bound
sense: element of a set greater than or equal to all members of a given subset
word: LUB
sense: element of a set greater than or equal to all members of a given subset
word: sup
Coordinate terms: infimum
Derived terms: essential supremum
Related terms: maximum
spying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From spy + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spy
spying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: spyings
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English spyinge, spiyng, spyeng, equivalent to spy + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There are two ways in which the obsessive character of jealousy tends to exert itself: one is in the need to know, the endless tests and investigations and spyings that are so characteristic of jealousy.
ref: 1980, Amélie Rorty, Explaining Emotions, page 472:
glosses: espionage; the act of secretly gathering information
bracero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɹəˈsɪəɹəʊ/
Forms: form: braceros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bracero (“laborer”).
Senses: glosses: A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945.
zep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeps
Etymology: Shortened from zeppelin.
Senses: examples: text: Anywhere else, it might be called a hoagie, or a sub, or a hero. In Two Mills it's a zep. And even though at first it might look like the others, it's not. Like, you'll never find lettuce on a zep. Or mayonnaise.
ref: 1991, Jerry Spinelli, Dump Days, page 10:
glosses: A certain type of submarine sandwich
tricenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtraɪ.sɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌtraɪ.səˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: tricenarians
Etymology: From Latin trīcēnārius, equivalent to tricenary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Following the reign of Scptimius Severus (193-211), the emperor's patrimonium, his personal properties, was merged with a new department, the ratio privata (private accounts) headed by the magister rationis summae privatae at the tricenarian level.
ref: 1983, The Journal of Library History - Volume 18, page 154:
text: In the honorific inscription CIL to his son-in-law he is described as vir perfectissimae memoriae, and thus must have risen to tricenarian rank.
ref: 2008, Jörg Rüpke, David Richardson, Fasti Sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499:
text: At first there were three pay levels: sexagenarian (sixty thousand sesterces), centernarian (one hundred thousand sesterces), and duocenarian (two hundred thousand sesterces). At the end of the second century a fourth level was added, tricenarian (three hundred thousand sesterces). The procurators never went higher than duocenarian; the directors of imperial offices, originally at the duocenarian level, were raised to tricenarian.
ref: 2010, Michael Gagarin, Elaine Fantham, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: The highest rank and pay grade for prefectures in Ancient Rome.
examples: text: « I sure hope so » agreed the tricenarian, « it would be a real shame to have been on this island without having really seen its treasures » he observed, his attitude revealing that he actually expected the unsatisfactory outcome.
ref: 2011, 2206 : Window Onto A New World, page 203:
text: (see title) Celebrate 30 to 39 years old and show your love for the best dad, daddy, mom, mother, stepdad, papa, stepmom, uncle, aunt godmother or godfather ever with this themed Thirty 3Oth Gifts Tricenarian birthday notebook planner.
ref: 2019, Elderberry's Outlet, Warning Official Tricenarian, →ISBN:
text: It was that sentiment that attracted freshly minted thirty-year-old Pia Dickenson. Seventeen divorces in such a milestone year had left the blonde-haired and rosy-cheeked tricenarian with ample emotional baggage, along with a discontent toward her use of her youthful years spelled out in scarlet letters.
ref: 2019, Logan Hunder, Astro-Nuts, →ISBN:
synonyms: thirtysomething
glosses: A person in their thirties, a person aged between 30 and 39 years (inclusive).
Coordinate terms: vicenarian (20–29)
quadragenarian (40–49)
quinquagenarian (50–59)
sexagenarian (60–69)
septuagenarian (70–79)
octogenarian (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
centenarian (100–199)
supercentenarian (110+)
appropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appropriate
appropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: set aside for a specified purpose
Derived terms: misappropriated
nonappropriated
unappropriated
buttonwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttonwoods
Etymology: From button + wood.
Senses: examples: text: On the opposite bank was a fresh ’gator wallow. The mud had been packed smooth where they turned and rolled their hard bodies. Penny dropped to his haunches behind a buttonwood bush.
ref: 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 24, in The Yearling, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 303:
glosses: The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
The mangrove tree (Conocarpus erectus, family Combretaceae) a tropical and subtropical species.
examples: 1824, Washington Irving (as Geoffrey Crayon), “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams” in Tales of a Traveller, Volume 2, Part 4, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, p. 55,
Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty buttonwood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace.
1835, Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence in America, Paris: A. and W. Galignani, entry dated Sunday, 13 January, 1833, p. 234,
When near, the trees look singularly deplorable and untidy, although at the distance, the red-brown of the faded oaks mingling with the bright, vivid, green cedars, and here and there a silver-barked buttonwood tree raising its white delicate branches from among them, produce a very agreeable and harmonious blending to the eye.
glosses: The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
The American sycamore or American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis, family Platanaceae).
glosses: The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
California sycamore or western sycamore (Platanus racemosa).
Derived terms: Florida buttonwood
Harvey's buttonwood
swamp buttonwood
Related terms: Conocarpus erectus
Platanus occidentalis
Platanus racemosa
lamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambas
form: lamba
form: lamber
Etymology: From Malagasy (Highlands dialect).
Senses: examples: text: […] the Lances flew briskly at one another; one of which went thorow my Lamber, and scratch’d me […]
ref: 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 135:
text: I was, from the first, surprised by the reverent manner in which public worship is conducted—especially by the outward respect shown during prayer. Almost everyone has his face covered with the folds of the lamba, and even young children seem instinctively to know that prayer is a solemn act, and often lie at full length on the ground perfectly still, with their little heads covered by their dress.
ref: 1870, James Sibree, chapter 17, in Madagascar and its People, London: The Religious Tract Society, page 520:
text: Wind stirred the grass, leaving streaks of gold-green light, and the patterns of lambas on women coming home from the market took on the vividness of a Degas painting.
ref: 2017, Colleen J. McElroy, chapter 5, in Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar, Seattle: University of Washington Press, page 99:
glosses: The traditional garment worn by men and women in Madagascar, consisting of a rectangular length of cloth wrapped around the body.
feti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetus
wikipedia: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Southern Fandom Confederation
catalpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtælpə/
ipa: /kəˈtɒlpə/
Forms: form: catalpas
Etymology: * A variant of catawba that originated when Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, the describing botanist, incorrectly transcribed the name.
* Sometimes alternatively said to derive from Creek kvtvrpv.
Senses: glosses: Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.
wikipedia: Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Derived terms: word: catalpic
taxonomic: Catalpa ovata
word: Chinese catalpa
taxonomic: Catalpa longissima
word: Haitian catalpa
taxonomic: Catalpa speciosa
word: hardy catalpa
taxonomic: Catalpa bungei
word: Manchurian catalpa
taxonomic: Catalpa speciosa
word: northern catalpa
taxonomic: Catalpa bignonioides
word: southern catalpa
word: umbrella catalpa
taxonomic: Catalpa speciosa
word: western catalpa
taxonomic: Catalpa ovata
word: yellow catalpa
Calvinball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Calvin + ball. From a fictional game without rules, played in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
Senses: examples: text: And every time I would play serious tackle Nerf Calvinball out in the park somewhere, it played over and over in the back of my mind -- what would I do if I broke an arm?
ref: 1996 June 17, Wayne Lockwood, "Nobody without health insurance is a slacker or a loser", Knight-Ridder
text: At first my humans very much disliked it when I played croquet with them.... But eventually they decided to accept my participation, and renamed the game “Calvinball,” after the game of some comic book character
ref: 1998, Chris Glaser, Unleashed: The Wit and Wisdom of Calvin the Dog, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 71:
text: 2002 March–April, Bret Rappaport and Joni Green, “Calvinball Cannot Be Played on This Court: The Sanctity of Auction Procedures in Bankruptcy”, Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, volume 11, pages 189–212
text: They are required to play the game of Nomic, in some form, or alternatively, the games Calvinball or Mao, which are basically the same.
ref: 2005, The Grate^([sic]) Book of Moo, Church of MOO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page ccclvii:
text: A more unusual sport is calvinball, which involves spontaneous rules that are never the same twice.
ref: 2006, Lee Mothes, The New Island Relocation Guide: How to Live on the Island of Possibility, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Chick Lit, and pretty much all of publishing, plays a lot like Calvinball. There aren’t any rules.
ref: 2006, Cathy Yardley, Will Write for Shoes: How to Write a Chick Lit Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 148:
text: “House rules parcheesi” is distinct from “Calvinball” in that the latter has no set rules, whereas the former seems to have very specific rules, which are never divulged in the strip, under any circumstances.
ref: 2006, D. C. Simpson, Prehistrionics: Ozy and Millie, 1997-2000, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 76:
text: If the limitations of life were like the rules in Calvinball, someone like Nozick might ask if there would be anything left for people to do.
ref: 2007, David H. Guston, John Parsi, Justin Tosi, “Anticipating the Ethical and Political Challenges of Human Nanotechnologies”, in Fritz Allhoff, editor, Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology, →ISBN, page 196:
text: The Court’s conservative majority is playing constitutional Calvinball, in which it’s never too late to change the rules.
ref: 2021 December 14, Adam Serwer, “The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball”, in The Atlantic:
topics: games
glosses: A deliberately absurd sport without fixed rules.
stottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stotties
form: stotty
Etymology: From stot, stott (“to bounce”), + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A round flat loaf of bread, traditionally pan-fried rather than oven-baked.
Synonyms: stottie-kyek
stottie cake
stotty cake
fadge
catawba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtɔ.bə/
Forms: form: catawbas
Etymology: From Catawba catawba (“catalpa tree”). See also catalpa.
Senses: glosses: The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca.
glosses: A light sparkling wine made from this kind of grape.
glosses: Any of various species of America catalpa trees Catalpa especially (Catalpa bignonioides (southern catalpa) or Catalpa speciosa (northern catalpa).
glosses: The catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense).
stotties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stottie
glosses: plural of stotty
stotty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stotties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stottie.
Derived terms: stotty cake
stottie cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stottie cakes
form: stotty cake
Senses: glosses: A stottie.
stotty cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stotty cakes
form: stottie cake
Senses: glosses: A stottie.