cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
people's warden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people's wardens
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A type of churchwarden elected annually by the congregation as a whole.
people's wardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of people's warden
tutti-fruttis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutti-frutti
Fengchieh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 奉節 /奉节 (Fèngjié), Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-chieh².
Senses: examples: text: One of the reasons for the decline of the peasants’ income from subsidiary occupations in 1955 was the low purchasing prices offered by the state for many agricultural side-products. For example, the price set for dried sunflower in Fengchieh county, Szechuan province (in 1955) was 5 yuan per 110 lbs., which was only one-third the pre-war price. As a result there was a decline of 60 per cent in the total value of sunflowers sold by the peasants in 1955 as against 1954.¹⁵⁵
ref: 1960, Kuo-chun Chao, “Current Agrarian Policy, 1953-59”, in Agrarian Policy of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1959, New Delhi: Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, pages 228–229:
text: FROM my sick-bed in Yun-an² / I now move to Kweichow;
ref: 1962, Tu Fu, “MOVING HOUSE TO KWEICHOW¹”, in Rewi Alley, transl., edited by Feng Chih [冯至], Tu Fu Selected Poems [杜甫诗选], 3rd edition (Poetry), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, translation of original in Chinese, published 1990, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136:
english: 杜甫诗选
translation: 杜甫诗选
text: IN Fengchieh County, Szechuan, the Yangtze cuts through the Wushan Mountains bordering Szechuan and Hupeh, then flows east.
ref: 1977 September, “The Three Gorges”, in China Pictorial, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages https://archive.org/details/ChinaPictorial/CP1977-09/page/n37/, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Fengjie.
Ergun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: IN THE CITY of Ergun, about 60km from China’s border with Russia, the feast of Pascha last month was one that Father Pavel Sun Ming will long remember. Because of covid-19, he could not open his Eastern Orthodox church for celebrations of Christ’s resurrection. Police wearing surgical masks stood outside, stopping passing cars to check people’s health. But it is last year’s Pascha in Ergun that will go down in history. For the first time in more than six decades, the church’s midnight service was led by a local. Father Pavel had recently returned from his ordination in Russia. At last, Ergun’s flock had a priest again.
ref: 2020 May 7, “Near China’s border with Russia, the Orthodox Church regains a toehold”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 09 May 2020, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Yakeshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yäʹkǔʹshûʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 牙克石 (Yákèshí).
Senses: examples: text: Temperatures in Yakeshi in Inner Mongolia (內蒙古) dropped to minus 28 degrees Celsius yesterday, while Harbin (哈爾濱) in Heilongjiang (黑龍江) province experienced minus 19 degrees.
ref: 2016 January 21, Alice Yan, Lai Ying Kit, Mimi Lau, “Incredible scenes as mainland shoppers strip supermarket shelves ahead of big chill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2016, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Jiagedaqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 加格達奇 /加格达奇 (Jiāgédáqí).
Senses: glosses: An administrative zone in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Songling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 松嶺 /松岭.
Senses: examples: text: The Daheishan porphyry Mo deposit is located in the Songling District, Heilongjiang Province. The deposit yields proven resources of 0.06 Mt Mo accompanied with thousands of tons of Cu and Pb–Zn.
ref: 2014 April [2014 March 27], Xinlu Hu, Shuzhen Yao, Mouchun He, Zhenju Ding, Yubao Cui, Jun Shen, Bin Chen, Bopeng Zhu, “Geochemistry, U–Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope Studies of the Daheishan Porphyry Mo Deposit in Heilongjiang Province, NE China”, in Resource Geology, volume 64, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 104, column 2:
glosses: An administrative zone in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Morin Dawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Daur are the primary minority and namesake of the Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous County, though they are still outnumbered by the Han eight-to-one countywide. While Morin Dawa primarily consists of these two ethnic groups, Dular and several smaller neighboring villages boast a thriving Ewenki community.
ref: 2009, Colin Legerton, Jacob Rawson, “Hunters of the Hinterlands: The Oroqen, Daur, Ewenki, and Hezhen”, in Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: The ministry said that on average, 87 millimetres of rain fell in Hulunbuir over the weekend and as much as 223 millimetres at the Morin Dawa monitoring station.
ref: 2021 July 19, David Stanway, “Two dams in China's Inner Mongolia collapse after torrential rain”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2021, China:
glosses: A Daur autonomous banner in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
tread upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: treads upon
form: treading upon
form: trod upon
form: trodden upon
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tread on.
tread on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: treads on
form: treading on
form: trod on
form: trodden on
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tread, on.
examples: text: That political party is treading on minority rights.
glosses: To harm the interests of; to inhibit or diminish.
Zalantun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Few Ewenki in this part of China have ever heard the Gospel, although a different subgroup of the Ewenki, living near Hailar much further northwest of Zalantun, is reported to contain more than 100 Ewenki Orthodox Christians.
ref: 2001 February, Paul Hattaway, China's Unreached Cities, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108, column 2:
text: Xinhua reported that Zhalantun county in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region had set a goal of within 12 months giving public opinion 60 per cent weighting when evaluating officials for promotion.
ref: [2009 June 3, “Public will get bigger say on who is promoted”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2025:
glosses: A county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Old Barag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A banner in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
New Barag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A left banner in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Jalainur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Mongolian Далай нуур (Dalaj nuur, “the Hulun Lake”), from далай (dalaj) and нуур (nuur, “lake”).
Senses: glosses: A district of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
hol' up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular; always imperative; African-American Vernacular; always imperative
glosses: Alternative form of hold up (to wait or delay)
go tutti-frutti
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes tutti-frutti
form: going tutti-frutti
form: went tutti-frutti
form: gone tutti-frutti
Senses: glosses: To become angry or act crazily.
goes tutti-frutti
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go tutti-frutti
going tutti-frutti
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of go tutti-frutti
went tutti-frutti
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go tutti-frutti
gone tutti-frutti
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go tutti-frutti
wild dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild dog
black swallowtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black swallowtail
black-throated magpie-jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-throated magpie-jay
white-throated magpie-jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-throated magpie-jay
roseate spoonbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roseate spoonbill
cecropia moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cecropia moth
ruby-throated hummingbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruby-throated hummingbird
sugar up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sugars up
form: sugaring up
form: sugared up
form: sugared up
Senses: examples: text: The kids sugared up good last night.
glosses: To ingest a large amount of sugar, e.g. in candy.
examples: text: I sugared up your coffee.
glosses: To add sugar to (something).
examples: text: Please don't sugar up the kids tonight.
glosses: To give sugary foods to others to eat.
examples: text: She's been sugaring him up for months.
glosses: To flirt with and give signals of romantic intent for the purposes of seduction
examples: text: I sugared up my stories to get those guys on my side.
glosses: To make (something) more attractive; to touch up to add appeal.
examples: text: I don't wanna have to sugar up to Mr. Snyder.
glosses: Synonym of suck up (to adulate or flatter).
synonyms: word: suck up
extra: to adulate or flatter
downputting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downputting
form: most downputting
Senses: examples: text: You may also recall Weaver's response on the other thread. He was sarcastic, downputting and in every way wonderfully contemptuous of Brian's self-righteous chest-pounding.
ref: 1994 May 27, Carl Beaudry, “Hasta Luigi!”, in alt.society.generation-x (Usenet):
text: Now, are you beginning to understand why he gave you a "perhaps" impatient and "perhaps" downputting look? He realized, no doubt, that he had before him --- in the flesh, so to speak --- a ditzy student, who probably had not absorbed much else of what he had to say about Art
ref: 1997 October 13, D. Spencer Hines, “does "veronica" = "vera icon"?”, in soc.history.medieval (Usenet):
text: Before everyone jumps on the word "scene" in the original poster's request, please be aware that "scene" is an accepted synonym for "community" in the vocabulary of many younger people. You would never (I hope!) attack someone for asking how they can become active in the Wiccan community, and I ask that you rethink any downputting comments you may have for this person because they used the word scene instead.
ref: 1997 October 25, ro...@127.0.0.1, “The Wicca Scene (was Re: Novice)”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet):
glosses: That puts down; insulting.
damn up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dam up.
bid down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bids down
form: bidding down
form: bid down
form: bid down
Senses: glosses: To lower the price of (something, such as a financial security or a contract) by bidding lower and lower prices.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To bid by offering low interest rates on a lien, such that the lowest bidder will win.
bid off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bids off
form: bidding off
form: bid off
form: bid off
Senses: glosses: To receive property immediately after winning an auction for the property.
leprosie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leprosies
Senses: examples: text: Wheras young men also with hauntynge of whores (as it is dayly seene) catche the newe leprosie, nowe otherwyse named Jobs agew, and some cal it the scabbes of Naples, throughe
ref: 1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure:
text: As if to cure a Leprosie, a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child: So in the Church, some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience, then can be discover'd.
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640–1641, →OCLC, page 104:
text: Amongst other diseases the Leprosie was one epidemicall infection which tainted the Pilgrimes coming thither.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 5, Chapter 15, p. 254:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of leprosy.
shacklest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of shackle
shackleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shackle
mmol/d
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mmol/d
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of millimole per day.
paint over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paints over
form: painting over
form: painted over
form: painted over
Senses: examples: text: He painted over the graffiti on the wall.
glosses: To coat with a substance by painting it on.
μmol/d
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: μmol/d
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of micromole per day.
window up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: windows up
form: windowing up
form: windowed up
form: windowed up
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To create a window to access (a file, website, etc); to put (a file, website, etc.) in a window.
glosses: To view (something) through a window.
glosses: To roll the windows up.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
winnow down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winnows down
form: winnowing down
form: winnowed down
form: winnowed down
Senses: glosses: To reduce the number of candidates for something by judging their quality and rejecting some.
window down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: windows down
form: windowing down
form: windowed down
form: windowed down
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of winnow down.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reduce in scope, resolution, capacity, bandwidth, etc. so as to enable or focus on a target.
window over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: windows over
form: windowing over
form: windowed over
form: windowed over
Senses: examples: text: He windowed GPS data over the map.
glosses: To superimpose or overlay (something) atop (something else); to move a (figurative) window over a target.
Boundy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
window out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: windows out
form: windowing out
form: windowed out
form: windowed out
Senses: examples: text: This info should be windowed out in a chart.
glosses: To be placed in a box to the side of the main text in a document.
Related terms: time window out
time window out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time windows out
form: time windowing out
form: time windowed out
form: time windowed out
Senses: glosses: To be removed or disqualified through a time window.
stuff out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stuffs out
form: stuffing out
form: stuffed out
form: stuffed out
Senses: examples: text: He stuffed his pockets out with stolen money.
glosses: To fill to overflowing.
winnow up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winnows up
form: winnowing up
form: winnowed up
form: winnowed up
Senses: examples: text: He winnowed up all of those oats.
glosses: To winnow (something).
at someone's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Following someone very closely.
Related terms: hot on someone's heels
snap at someone's heels
live down to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives down to
form: living down to
form: lived down to
form: lived down to
Etymology: Opposite version of live up to.
Senses: examples: She lived down to her reputation as an awful person.
glosses: To fulfill low or bad expectations.
shingle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shingles up
form: shingling up
form: shingled up
form: shingled up
Senses: glosses: To apply shingles to (a roof).
BHSc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BHScs
Senses: qualifier: post-nominal title
glosses: Abbreviation of Bachelor of Health Science.
ballast up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ballasts up
form: ballasting up
form: ballasted up
form: ballasted up
Senses: examples: The ship was ballasted up with sand and rocks.
glosses: To ballast (stabilize or load with a weight) (something, e.g. a ship).
examples: text: The workers ballasted up the tracks last month.
glosses: To ballast (lay a material on the bed of a railroad track) a track.
roadlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadlets
Etymology: From road + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The hedgerows of this roadlet were adorned in all seasons but winter with luxuriant wild flowers. Its especial pride were its roses and foxgloves.
ref: 1871 August 24, Annie Beale, “Katto and Her Coal-cart: A South Wales Sketch”, in Temple Bar, volume 33, page 74:
text: Cooler yet where bursts a rill
 In the roadlet down the height,
 Like a naked beam of light,
 Or a mountain bather naked,
 Chilled by tourists overtaked.
ref: 1899 [1870], George Alfred Townsend, “South Mountain”, in Poems of Men and Events, Gapland edition, E. F. Bonaventure, page 147:
text: Only at the very highest point does the village faintly assert its identity, where a roadlet of very second-class character, coming hesitantly up from the creek below, slides into the main road round the corner of a church, […]
ref: 1937, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, “Dead Man's Watch”, in The Fourth Crime Club Omnibus, W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, Police! (section I), page 9:
text: Very careful driving and fairly dry weather are needed if you take your car to the end of the roadlet that ascends beyond the village of Saviore on the way to the Rifugio Salarno below the highest peak of the Adamello; […]
ref: 1939, Robert Lock Graham Irving, “Central Alps” (chapter VI), in The Alps, B. T. Batsford, page 104:
text: "Little road, little roadlet," a white dove said to the White Road but the White Road did not hear.
ref: 1945, Miguel Ángel Asturias, translated by H. R. Hays, edited by Charles Henri Ford, A Night With Jupiter, and Other Fantastic Stories, View Editions, page 13:
glosses: A small road.
roadlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadlet
allot upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allots upon
form: allotting upon
form: allotted upon
form: allotted upon
Senses: examples: text: He allots upon going to the fair.
glosses: To count upon; to intend to; to form a purpose of.
light on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lights on
form: lighting on
form: lit on
form: lit on
form: lighted on
form: lighted on
Senses: glosses: Synonym of light upon.
synonyms: word: light upon
SOOBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SOOB
pall on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: palls on
form: palling on
form: palled on
form: palled on
Senses: examples: text: He enjoyed the game at first, but it had palled on him over the years.
glosses: To come to be annoying, boring or grating to (someone).
nisinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nisin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to nisin.
glosses: Referring to all-cis-6,9,12,15,18,21-tetracosahexaenoic acid, which was named after nisin.
scoop in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scoops in
form: scooping in
form: scooped in
form: scooped in
Senses: examples: text: We'll scoop him in to the plan for sure.
glosses: To entice, trick or manipulate (someone) into joining up with a group or activity.
non-dairy milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-dairy milks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plant milk.
synonyms: word: plant milk
non-dairy milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-dairy milk
NOTA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of none of the above.
glosses: Initialism of no one turned away.
Related terms: sense: no one turned away
english: no one turned away for lack of funds
translation: no one turned away for lack of funds
word: NOTAFLOF
sense: no one turned away
english: pay what you can
translation: pay what you can
word: PWYC
dairy milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairy milks
Senses: glosses: Milk (in the traditional sense; that is, that produced by a mammal); as opposed to plant milk aka non-dairy milk
dairy milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dairy milk
lagoonlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagoonlets
Etymology: From lagoon + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Wangava is said to have a tidal lake in the centre, while in Namuka and the two Ongea, the water has broken through the reefs of the former atolls, and opened lagoonlets to the sea;
ref: 1898 March 7, J. Stanley Gardiner, “The Coral Reefs of Funafuti, Rotuma and Fiji together with some Notes on the Structure and Formation of Coral Reefs in general”, in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, volume IX, page 471:
text: In some atolls, each constituent island of the ring is itself an atollon and encloses its own lagoonlet ; […]
ref: 1909 June 15, F. Wood Jones, “The Coral Island Question”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 672:
text: One in long Island is only a few yards across, the banks are of coral conglomerate and loose blocks, and the floor of the lake or lagoonlet of coral with a deposit of mud.
ref: 1919 January 23, W. J. Dakin, “The Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions to the Abrolhos Islands”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology, volume XXXIV, number 226, page 158:
text: Behind the ridge is a lagoonlet about 4' deeper.
ref: 1964 September 30, Alan J. Kohn, “Notes on Indian Ocean atolls visited by the Yale Seychelles Expedition”, in Atoll Research Bulletin, number 101, page 6:
glosses: A small lagoon.
lagoonlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagoonlet
cyanidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanidine
EACJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of East African Court of Justice.
waterbasket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbaskets
form: water basket
form: water-basket
Etymology: From water + basket.
Senses: examples: text: There was a — what is it called — a big waterbasket lying there. His mother had practically filled it with what she was gathering and was ready to go home.
ref: 1970, Hansjakob Seiler, Cahuilla Texts with an Introduction, page 122:
text: That is where the Squaw Dance started; and that is where the hand-bundle (drumstick) for beating the waterbasket originated.
ref: 1977, Karl W. Luckert, Navajo Mountain and Rainbow Bridge Religion, page 86:
text: Horda pulverized a small amount of mugwort and willow bark and set it in a waterbasket to brew into strong tea.
ref: 2009, Grace Anne Schaefer, As Shadows Fall, page 123:
text: Apt decided her visitor's arrival would be a while yet, so went back to her cottage to fetch some sweet-root scones and a woven birch waterbasket of herbal tea.
ref: 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise, page 84:
text: For the first time he smokes, and for a wonder he creates a house "with smoke coming out of it—that is, a real domestic house, manmade as it were, out of which steps a beautiful woman, already carrying a waterbasket.
ref: 2016, Jarold Ramsey, Reading the Fire: The Traditional Indian Literatures of America, page 20:
glosses: A basket that is woven tightly enough for carrying liquids, especially water.
waterbaskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterbasket
water basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water baskets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waterbasket.
water baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water basket
water-basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-baskets
Senses: examples: text: A fine, large, and quite perfect specimen, of the jug or water-basket, with ears of horse-hair and string attached for use.
ref: 1881, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue of The Collections Obtained From The Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1880-81, page 541:
text: His water-basket was beside him, and as the people turned from baiting Taku-Wakin to believing him, I saw Opata push the bottle secretly with his spear-butt.
ref: 1918, Mary Hunter Austin, The Trail Book:
text: "I will get some water," Coyote said, and he picked up a water-basket and went down to the base of the cliff and filled it with water.
ref: 1990, Mourning Dove, Heister Dean Guie, Coyote Stories, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of waterbasket.
water-baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-basket
Sheinbaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sheinbaums
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שיינבוים (sheynboym, literally “beautiful tree”).
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Sheinbaum will legislate from buildings in downtown Mexico City near the Palace of the Inquisition, where crypto-Jews—a term used to describe Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity by the Spanish crown in the 15th century but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy—were tortured during the colonial period.
ref: 2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2024:
glosses: A surname from Yiddish.
heterobactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterobactin
maniaclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maniaclike
form: most maniaclike
Etymology: From maniac + -like.
Senses: examples: text: And Smallin’s voice was responsible for the maniaclike cackle that taunts listeners in the song’s opening moment.
ref: 2010 November 3, Steph Rodriguez, “An unforgettable laugh”, in SN&R:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a maniac.
heterochromations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterochromation
chromating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chromate
heterotetraploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterotetraploid
hexacations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexacation
hexachlorothallates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexachlorothallate
Razavi Khorasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Iran. Capital: Mashhad.
post-Catholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈkæθəlɪk/
Forms: form: more post-Catholic
form: most post-Catholic
form: postcatholic
form: postCatholic
Etymology: From post- + Catholic.
Senses: examples: text: It was predictable that this post-Catholic American-Lebanese writer would be highlighted from a Lebanese-Egyptian journal that had long pioneered pan-Arab national consciousness in Egypt.
ref: 2001, Dennis Walker, “Catholic Lebanese Writers under the French Mandate: The Response to High Arabic Literature Penned Beyond Lebanon”, in The Harp. A Review of Syriac, Oriental, and Ecumenical studies, volume 16. Festschrift G. Panicker, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, published 2012, →DOI, →ISBN, page 118:
text: “The Left has a hard time admitting that the core of its message could go hand-in-hand with a coherent and politically mobilized group of voters who are Catholic or post-Catholic,” Wojciech Przybylski of the Res Publica think-tank in Warsaw says.
ref: 2021, Jo Harper, “3: Modern Poland’s Shifting Political Blocs”, in Our Man in Warszawa. How the West Misread Poland, Budapest: Central European University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Pertaining to a society where Catholic values are no longer relevant.
post-Catholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈkæθəlɪk/
Forms: form: post-Catholics
form: postcatholic
form: postCatholic
Etymology: From post- + Catholic.
Senses: examples: text: Like Hunt, I am a postCatholic, but it is difficult for me to define Christians as justice-seeking.
ref: 1991, Carol Anne Douglas, “[Review of] Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship, Mary E. Hunt”, in Off Our Backs, volume 21, number 4, page 18b:
glosses: An advocate of a society with values postdating Catholicism.
Related terms: post-Christian
postreligious
post-Muslim
postmodernist
postideological
postcommunist
turbo broiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbo broilers
Senses: glosses: tabletop convection oven
Synonyms: air fryer
religion of piss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the religion of piss
Etymology: A parody of religion of peace.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, yes, the religion of piss strikes another blow for allah the satanic moon goddess.
ref: 2006 December 1, Arash on my Ass, “Re: Disembowelled and murdered for teaching girls”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet):
text: Good heavens. You are using a PC! Guess who invented *that*? Certainly not the followers of the religion of piss. What ever came out of Islam? Death, destruction and bigotry.
ref: 2008 September 28, VH, “USA : VIDEO - Sarah Palin exorcisée en 2005”, in be.politics (Usenet):
text: Just another wonderful day for the Religion of Piss.
ref: 2015 December 6, Lord Valve, “Daily musloid kill report”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet):
text: Why this religion of piss is churning up these confused followers who r killing innocent ppl?
ref: 2016 July 3, brianl...@gmail.com, “The Istanboool gunman must have been frustrated”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
glosses: Islam, seen as encouraging its followers to commit acts of violence and terrorism.
Related terms: Pisslam
religion of peace
Barningham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0810).
glosses: A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9676).
glosses: A surname.
post-ideological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postideological.
PX goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From PX (“Post Exchange of the U.S. Military”) + goods, due to the initially illegal import trade in the then-US military bases in the Philippines, particularly Pampanga's Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base in Subic Bay. Its illicit trade died out when trade was liberalized around the 1990s, opening the door for legal freeport zones in Clark and Subic Bay for more legalized imported goods in duty-free stores and supermarkets instead.
Senses: glosses: An import-restricted imported grocery item.
wikipedia: Clark Air Base
Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone
Pampanga
Post Exchange
Subic Bay
Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone
U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay
Related terms: PX store
PX store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PX stores
Etymology: From PX (“Post Exchange of the U.S. Military”) + store, due to the initially illegal import trade in the then-US military bases in the Philippines, particularly Pampanga's Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base in Subic Bay. Its illicit trade died out when trade was liberalized around the 1990s, opening the door for legal freeport zones in Clark and Subic Bay for more legalized imported goods in duty-free stores and supermarkets instead.
Senses: glosses: a store that sells import-restricted imported grocery items
wikipedia: Clark Air Base
Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone
Pampanga
Post Exchange
Subic Bay
Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone
U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay
Related terms: PX goods
Guy and Pip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The loveteam of Filipino actors Nora Aunor and Tirso Cruz III.
Goicoechea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goicoecheas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Goicoechea, itself from Basque Goikoetxea.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
prionopterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).
trisectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be divided into three equal angles using a compass and straightedge.
trisectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Ability to be divided into three equal angles using a compass and straightedge.
pentasectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be divided into five equal angles using a compass and straightedge.
cold-aridiphilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Liking cold and arid conditions.
Coordinate terms: thermo-humidiphilous
eopterosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eopterosaurian
eopterosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eopterosaurians
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the Eopterosauria clade of pterosaurs.
gigaword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪɡəˌwɜːrd/
ipa: /ˈdʒɪɡəˌwɜːrd/
Forms: form: gigawords
Etymology: From giga- + word.
Senses: examples: text: Frank let him have two white mice, a rabbit, and an elderly Airedale, along with a large time slice on the hospital's MEG-computational facilities, a few gigawords of data storage capacity, petty cash for wiring, and a stern warning that "any human 'volunteers' had better be named Robbins, Chun, or Hostler" to avoid repetitions of unfortunate past misadventures with patients who had not quite understood to what they were agreeing.
ref: 1969 September, JOHN W. CAMPBELL, editor, Analog, volume LXXXIV, number 1, page 98:
text: It has been calculated that a 100 ps pulse width would be short enough for a 1-Gigaword/second, 6 bit converter and …
ref: 1977, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, AGARD Conference Proceedings, number 219, AGARD, pages 23-16:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of this value to 10⁹.
gigawords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigaword
lunarpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lunar + -punk, modeled after cyberpunk.
Senses: coordinate_terms: solarpunk
glosses: A movement and subgenre of speculative fiction that focuses on spirituality, utopia, and cycle of life.
cozys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cozy
hirsutene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic hydrocarbon with IUPAC name (3aR,3bR,6aS,7aR)-3a,5,5-trimethyl-3-methylidene-1,2,3b,4,6,6a,7,7a-octahydrocyclopenta[a]pentalene
Mayduke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maydukes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of May Duke.
May Dukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May Duke
Clifton Maybank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in north Dorset, south of Yeovil, England (OS grid ref ST5713).
Tempeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tempean
flap off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flaps off
form: flapping off
form: flapped off
form: flapped off
Senses: examples: text: Don't keep flapping off about someone you don't know.
qualifier: almost always with about
glosses: To talk excessively, ignorantly and/or wrongly.
glansplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glansplasty
pamoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to pamaquine.
Derived terms: pamoic acid
Maruic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maruic
form: most Maruic
Senses: glosses: Relating to a subgroup of Burmish language families.
New Whittington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Chesterfield borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3975).
Related terms: Old Whittington
Whittington Moor
scooch over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scooches over
form: scooching over
form: scooched over
form: scooched over
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scoot over.
synonyms: word: scoot over
Mengrelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mengrelia (ſometime Colchis) adioyneth to the Euxine ſea
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 291:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Mingrelia.
non-interactively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noninteractively.
May lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May lilies
Senses: synonyms: false lily of the valley
glosses: A low, white-flowered plant (Maianthemum bifolium) native to Eurasia, from France to Japan.
Teflis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Georgians (girt in with two mightie aduerſaries, the Perſian, and the Turke) haue endured mcuh grieuance from them both: and, in the late warres, eſpecially from the Turke, who hath taken and fortified many of their principall places of importance, Gori, Cliſca, Lori, Tomanis, Teflis, the chiefe citie of Georgia, vnto which from Derbent there yet remaine the foundation of a high and thicke wall built by Alexander.
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 292:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Tiflis.
Canada mayflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canada mayflowers
Senses: glosses: A low, white-flowered plant (Maianthemum canadense) native to Canada and the Eastern US.
talonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Anagrammatically from galactonic acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (2S,3S,4S,5R)-2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoic acid, an epimer of galactonic acid.
Related terms: talomucic acid
talose
talonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to talonic acid.
prairie rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prairie roses
Senses: glosses: Any of various roses (genus Rosa) native to North America.
wood avens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Geum urbanum, herb bennet.
brookward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From brook + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Did you ever go a fishing ? If you have not, I advise you to buy a rod and line, and start brookward on such an adventure;
ref: 1860, Joseph Holt Ingraham (writer), “Letter XX”, in The Sunny South; or, The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton, G. G. Evans Publisher, page 159:
text: "'T won't be Tryphosy Clark that 'll hev the buyin' of it, nor yet the makin'," said the bride-elect, as she rose and led the promised way, brookward.
ref: 1880, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “The Dam Pasture” (chapter XVII), in Odd, or Even?, Houghton, Osgood and Company, page 167:
text: […] when every wee water-course seems to snicker gleefully as it romps along bound on business brookward.
ref: 1897 May 24, Ed. W. Sandys, “Two Days' Trout-Fishing”, in Outing, volume XXX, number 2, page 172:
glosses: In the direction of a brook, toward a brook.
Trappaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Lord of Dohna is come vnto Iagendorff, with 3. Companies of foot, and 4. peeces of Artillery, and ſo put a Garriſon the rein, from whence he went vnto Trappaw, and tooke with him the Ordnance that were in Iagendorff, getting a great bootie by the way.
ref: 1621, anonymous author, The Certaine and True Newes, From All the Parts of Germany and Poland, to This Present 29. of October, 1621, page 3:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Troppau.
Troppau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trappaw
Senses: glosses: Former name of Opava.
spooky-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spooky-ass
form: most spooky-ass
Etymology: From spooky + -ass.
Senses: glosses: Very spooky.
Walkaway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A corruption of an Aborigine term, wagga wah.
Senses: glosses: A small town in the City of Greater Geraldton, Western Australia.
Greater Geraldton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area, the City of Greater Geraldton, in the Mid West region, Western Australia, with its seat in the town of Geraldton.
fair trades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fair trade
equity languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equity language
yoghurt knitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoghurt knitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yoghurt-knitter.
yogurt knitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yogurt knitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yoghurt-knitter.
yogurt-knitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yogurt-knitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yoghurt-knitter.
Crimea river
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A jocular play on the phrase cry me a river, due to its similar pronunciation. Popularized c. 2014, during Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Senses: glosses: A sarcastic and unsympathetic response to someone who is complaining or whining.
Sheinbaums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sheinbaum
yogurt-knitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yogurt-knitter
yogurt knitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yogurt knitter
yoghurt knitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoghurt knitter
Murrica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'Murica.
Pembrey and Burry Port Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) with a town council in Carmarthenshire, Wales, which includes the named places.
xertzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of xertz
Izhar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew יִצְהָר (yits'hár).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: father of Korah.
clean URL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean URLs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: clean link
glosses: A web address or URL intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website, web application, or Web service by being immediately and intuitively meaningful to nonexpert users.
clean link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean links
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clean URL.
synonyms: word: clean URL
clean links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean link
clean URLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean URL
Wye Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the valley of the River Wye, on the border between England and Wales.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Monmouthshire, Wales, which includes the villages of Tintern and Llandogo.
florigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more florigraphic
form: most florigraphic
Etymology: From florigraphy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese, whose chronicles antedate the historic records of all other nations, have, and ever seem to have had, a simple but complete mode of communicating ideas by means of florigraphic signs.
ref: 1869, John Henry Ingram, “Introduction”, in Flora Symbolica; or, The Language and Sentiment of Flowers, F. W. Warne and Co., page 1:
text: The plant world is far vaster and older than man or perhaps even than animals, and vernacular names are of the highest antiquity and connect flowers with animals, stars, ancient gods, Christ, angels, historic persons, fairies, Naiads, elves, Puck, demons, trolls, witches, medicine, magic, are wrought into proverbs, festivals, calendars, and many miraculous plants have been invented as if there was once a full florigraphic language.
ref: 1905, G. Stanley Hall, “Adolescent Feelings Toward Nature and a New Education in Science” (chapter XII), in Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, volume II, D. Appleton & Company, page 209:
text: The index of attributes given below makes it quite easy both to compose and interpret florigraphic “documents.”
ref: 1988, “The Language and Meanings of Flowers”, in The Complete Book of Fortune, Blaketon Hall Limited, →ISBN, page 571:
text: Records of florigraphic signs exist from ancient Chinese, Assyrian, Egyptian and Indian cultures.
ref: 1989, Deni Bown, Alba: The Book of White Flowers, Timber Press, page 23:
glosses: Rare spelling of floriographic.
Bosporan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: Bosporanic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Bosporan Kingdom.
Bosporan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bosporans
Senses: glosses: A person from the Bosporan Kingdom.
Bosporans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bosporan
Llandogo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Wye Valley community, Monmouthshire, Wales, previously in Trellech United community (OS grid ref SO5203).
Yeak Lom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Yeak Laom.
Yeak Loam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Yeak Laom.
servaline genet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servaline genets
Senses: glosses: a genet species native to Central Africa (Genetta servalina)
servaline genets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servaline genet