cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carpet knight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet knights
Etymology: In the sense of a non-military knight: so called because they were created while kneeling on a carpet, not the field.
Senses: glosses: One made a knight during a time of peace and therefore for some reason other than military distinction or service.
examples: text: He is knight dubbed with unhatched rapier and / on carpet consideration
ref: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 3, scene 4:
glosses: A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field.
glosses: One who avoids hard work; a fop; an idler.
glosses: A lady's man.
Synonyms: sense: one who avoids hard work
word: dandy
word: idler
time attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time attack
lip bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip bits
Senses: glosses: pod auger
dry light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry lights
Senses: glosses: Pure unobstructed light.
examples: text: The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and colour the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects.
ref: 1881, John Campbell Shairp, Aspects of Poetry:
text: The human understanding is not composed of dry light, but is subject to influence from the will and the emotions
ref: 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:
glosses: A clear, impartial view.
stand in the gate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands in the gate
form: standing in the gate
form: stood in the gate
form: stood in the gate
form: stand in the gates
Senses: examples: text: "What brings you to my poor door?" she cried, speaking high through her nose. "I cannot bar it. The males of my house are dead and buried; I have neither son nor husband to stand in the gate for me; any beggar can pluck me by the baird[2]—and a baird there is, and that's the worst of it yet!" she added partly to herself.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence.
Montaignian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Montaignian
form: most Montaignian
Etymology: From Montaigne + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), influential writer of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
Hello Worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hello World
farmers' satin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmers' satins
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: Venetian cloth
glosses: A light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings.
superplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superplays
Etymology: From super- + play.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A playthrough of a computer or video game in which the whole game or a select part of it, such as a single level, is played as skilfully as possible, optionally with certain prerequisites.
Related terms: speedrun
superplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superplay
call bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call birds
Senses: glosses: A captive bird used by hunters to lure free-flying birds into a snare or trap.
examples: text: An example is the 'Kenwood Chef', a product which is so well known to the public that it is used as a 'call bird' by the discounters: the machine is given a conspicuous place in the shop [window]
ref: 1983, David Mellor, Report to the Design Council on the Design of British Consumer Goods, page 21:
glosses: Anything desirable used to lure somebody.
wash barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash barrels
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
fisheries
natural-sciences
glosses: A barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting.
wash leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash leathers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wash-leather.
grapple plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grapple plants
Senses: glosses: A South African herb (Uncarina leptocarpa) with woody fruits armed with long hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle.
rail train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail trains
Senses: qualifier: iron and steel manufacture
glosses: A set of rollers in a rolling mill, for making rails for railroads from blooms or billets
glosses: a railway train
Glover's tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glover's towers
Etymology: Invented in 1859 by John Glover.
Senses: glosses: A large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulfuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalyst, effect the conversion of sulfurous to sulfuric acid.
tower mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Turritis glabra (syn. Arabis glabra), a tall, slim, grey-green plant with small creamy flowers at the top of the stem.
Synonyms: tower rockcress
tower bastion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tower bastions
Senses: topics: fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath it, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.
window back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window backs
Senses: glosses: The inside face of the low, and usually thin, piece of wall between the window sill and the floor below.
honey ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey ants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of honey-pot ant.
synonyms: word: honey-pot ant
mother of coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently named by analogy with mother of pearl and mother of vinegar, on the theme of a matrix that produces (or was believed to produce) the end product and also coexists therewith.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of fusain.
synonyms: word: fusain
mineral coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: coal
coordinate_terms: charcoal
;
bitumen
;
coal
glosses: Coal coming from the ground, as opposed to charcoal produced by recent burning.
interlaminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interlaminates
form: interlaminating
form: interlaminated
form: interlaminated
Etymology: From inter- + laminate.
Senses: glosses: To arrange in alternating laminae or layers.
Related terms: interlamination
interlaminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interlaminate
interlaminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interlaminate
turkey pout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey pouts
Senses: glosses: A young turkey.
Hosmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity:
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A minor city in Edmunds County, South Dakota, United States.
lip comfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Comfort or support given only by talking.
mountain blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
mountain soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It soils either strongly, as chalk and mountain soap; or slightly, as molybdana, lead glauce, and graphite. Besides this, there are three other distinctions connected with this character to be attended to.
ref: 1805, Robert Jameson, A Treatise on the External Characters of Minerals, page 76:
text: […] seven different minerals possessing the same formula, namely, fahlunite, esmarkite, pyrargillite, bole, iron lithomarge, halloylite from La Vouth and from Thiviers, and mountain soap from Thuringia.
ref: 1848, American Journal of Science and Arts, page 72:
text: Sometimes, after removing the coating of calcspar from the crystals, they appear to be covered with a mass resembling steinmark or mountain soap. The compact and crystalline hornblende occurs almost everywhere as a constituent of the[…]
ref: 1859, Gustav Bischof, Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology ..., page 311:
glosses: A soft earthy mineral, of a brownish colour, which has a greasy or soapy feel and is used as a filler in crayons.
Synonyms: rock soap
saponite
stub iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails; once used in making gun barrels.
stub end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stub ends
Senses: glosses: The enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened.
stub twist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.
big-boob
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-boob
form: most big-boob
form: big boob
Etymology: From big + boob.
Senses: glosses: Having large breasts, busty.
Synonyms: big-boobed
kick the beam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks the beam
form: kicking the beam
form: kicked the beam
form: kicked the beam
Etymology: Referencing a loaded balance, whose lighter arm would rise up and strike the beam.
Senses: examples: text: The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam; / Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1004-1005:
text: Is the dollar only real? God and truth and right a dream?
Weighed against your lying ledgers must our manhood kick the beam?
ref: 1846, John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pine-Tree (poem):
text: To-day she is at war; she has no surplus resources; all her energy is concentrated on herself, and will be until she is ready and equipped for battle. When that happens—when her vast potential energy has been converted into dynamic energy—she will step heavily into that scale of the balance recently vacated by Russia, and Prussian militarism will kick the beam.
ref: 1918 March 27, Ian Hay, “America At War”, in The Times:
glosses: To lack in weight, importance, or strength compared to another.
bigboob
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of big-boob.
big boob
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big boob
form: most big boob
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big-boob.
peacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peace
peace offerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peace offering
cheek tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheek teeth
form: cheektooth
form: cheek-tooth
Etymology: From Middle English cheketoth, equivalent to cheek + tooth. Compare English wangtooth (“molar”, literally “cheek-tooth”).
Senses: glosses: A hinder or molar tooth.
wolf tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf teeth
Senses: glosses: One of the small, peg-like teeth just in front of (or rostral to) the first cheek teeth of horses and other equids.
Related terms: canine tooth
dog tooth
dogtooth
chump block
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chump blocks
form: chump blocking
form: chump blocked
form: chump blocked
form: chump-block
Senses: examples: text: This is a bad Pacifism, as it allows the creature to stay around and at least chump block for a turn.
ref: 1998 September 17, Mark Justice with Beth Moursund, Magic: The Gathering Advanced Strategy Guide: The Color-Illustrated Guide to Expert Magic, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 49:
text: And, in the mid-late game, random 1-2 fighting guys get chucked out there just to get them out of hand and to chump block.
ref: 2001 June 14, Julian Lighton, “Re: [FIST] Netherworld 2: Spoiler and Commentary - Part 3 (Long)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.misc (Usenet), message-ID <oiUV6.66$9d.31806@newshog.newsread.com>:
text: The problem is that if you don't get your Bum's Rush in at stealth or before I manage to create a few chump block babies, then one of them blocks, goes to torpor, and then I just create two more next turn.
ref: 2004 March 22, Peter Oh, “Re: Toreador Anti - Legion Deck”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet), message-ID <aGG7c.2598$ze2.677@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>:
text: He puts out a Suq'ata Firewalker the next turn, perhaps to advance his own strategy or just to chump-block.
ref: 2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 years of decks, thoughts, and theory!, To Be Continued LLC, →ISBN, page 121:
text: There are times when you simply have to chump block, since that's the only play that will allow you to survive an incoming attack. Then there are times when chump blocking is a foolish choice that will see you sacrifice a potentially crucial resource (a creature) to protect a resource that you have no shortage of (your life total).
ref: 2012 August 22, Steve Sadin, “Chump Blocking”, in Magic: The Gathering, retrieved 17 May 2014:
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: To block an attack from a powerful attacker with a weak defender that will neither survive the attack nor destroy the attacker.
Derived terms: chump blocker
holy grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holy grasses
Etymology: It was traditionally sometimes strewn on the floors of churches on festival days.
Senses: glosses: Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), fragrant grass native to northern Eurasia and North America.
chump blocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chump blockers
Senses: qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A weak defender used to block an attack it will not survive from a stronger attacker which it will not destroy.
chump blockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chump blocker
chump blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chump block
chump blocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chump block
chump blocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chump block
mill cinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: slag from a puddling furnace
cast in one's lot with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts in one's lot with
form: casting in one's lot with
form: cast in one's lot with
form: cast in one's lot with
form: cast one's lot with
Senses: glosses: To join with; to share the fortunes of (a person or group).
Synonyms: throw in one's lot with
Magdeburg hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magdeburg hemispheres
Etymology: They were designed by Otto von Guericke, a German scientist and mayor of Magdeburg, in 1656.
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of large copper hemispheres, with mating rims, that were used to demonstrate the power of atmospheric pressure. When the rims were sealed with grease and the air was pumped out, the sphere contained a vacuum and could not be pulled apart even by teams of horses.
Magdeburg hemispheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magdeburg hemisphere
play-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: play-throughs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of playthrough.
play-throughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of play-through
stub nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stub nails
Senses: glosses: An old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off.
glosses: A short, thick nail.
Related terms: stub iron
frindles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frindle
wheel stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel stitches
Senses: glosses: A stitch resembling a spider's web, worked into the material, and not over an open space.
wheel horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel horses
Senses: examples: text: As in most other accomplishments, practice alone can make a skilful rider of velocipedes. The tyro can, however, profit by the experience of others, and I give a few rules for his guidance, as well as directions for his practice. The first point is to gain confidence in, and familiarity with, his wheel horse.
ref: 1869, Velox [pseudonym], “The Velocipede of the Past; and The Art of Velocipede Management”, in Velocipedes, Bicycles, and Tricycles: How to Make and How to Use Them. With a Sketch of their History, Invention, and Progress, London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate; New York, 416, Broome Street, →OCLC, page 77; reprinted in “Velocipedes. The Velocipede of the Day.”, in Edmund Routledge, editor, Routledge’s Every Boys Annual: An Entertaining Miscellany of Original Literature, London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate; New York, 416, Broome Street, 1870, →OCLC, page 414:
text: The cannoneer posted nearest the left wheel of the limber engages the end of the pole of his carriage in the pole ring of the neck yoke and then hitches the near wheel horse; the cannoneer posted nearest the right wheel of the limber hitches the off wheel horse.
ref: 1916, War Department, Office of the Chief of Staff, “The Driver”, in Provisional Drill and Service Regulations for Field Artillery (Horse and Light) 1916 (War Department Document; no. 538), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part III (Mounted Instruction), section IV (Mounted Instruction), paragraph 437, page 181:
glosses: Alternative form of wheelhorse.
unelevated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + elevated.
Senses: glosses: Not elevated.
uninsulting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninsulting
form: most uninsulting
Etymology: From un- + insulting.
Senses: examples: text: This unrivalled picture is the most powerful because the most quiet, uninsulting, unexasperating satire.
ref: 1864, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity, page 249:
glosses: Not insulting.
insultee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insultees
Etymology: From insult + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is insulted.
insultees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insultee
wheel ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of bournonite with wheel-shaped twin crystals.
wheel urchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel urchins
Senses: glosses: Any sea urchin of the genus Rotula having a round, flat shell; a type of sand dollar.
unpainfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpainfully
form: most unpainfully
Etymology: From unpainful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not painful.
alienologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: alienologists
Etymology: From alien + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: someone who studies aliens
milk parsley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Peucedanum palustre, an almost glabrous biennial plant in the family Apiaceae. A thin, foetid, milky latex is found in its young parts.
one-upmanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-upmanship
psychoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: psychometry (the paranormal ability)
psychoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychoscopy.
bastard type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
typography
glosses: A type having the face of a larger or smaller size than the body.
bastard ashlar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry.
Guirl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: girl
Etymology: Possibly from an alteration of French guirlande (“garland”), which suggests that the name may have originated as an occupational surname for someone who makes and sells garlands.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Guirl is a native of Indiana, and his partner, Mr. H. A. Daggett, who was born in Maine, joined him at Clay City about six years ago.
ref: 1905, Edgar Harvey Defebaugh, Barrel and Box and Packages, volume 10, page 50:
text: The rosette for the best succulent went to Mrs. H. Guirl for her Gibbaeum heathii, a splendid plant with some 20 heads.
ref: 1969, Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain:
glosses: A surname. Of American usage.
Related terms: McGuirl
squoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: now rare and nonstandard outside dialects
glosses: simple past and past participle of squeak
dead block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead blocks
Senses: glosses: Either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car.
Franklin's bumblebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Franklin's bumblebees
Etymology: Named after American entomologist Henry J. Franklin, who monographed many bees throughout North & South America in the early 20th century.
Senses: glosses: Bombus franklini, an endangered bee of the western United States.
poppy bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poppy bees
Etymology: So-called because it uses pieces cut from poppy petals for the lining of its nest.
Senses: glosses: A leaf-cutting bee (Hoplitis papaveris)
Synonyms: upholsterer bee
upholsterer bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upholsterer bees
Senses: glosses: poppy bee
cult following
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cult followings
Senses: glosses: A group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of culture.
Derived terms: cult follower
Related terms: cult film
cult followings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cult following
blue-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blue-balls
form: blue-balling
form: blue-balled
form: blue-balled
form: blueball
Etymology: From blue balls.
Senses: examples: text: “Stop blue-balling the guy and give in already.”
ref: 2009, Kate Brian, Paradise Lost, Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: I'm not even upset; I'm just tired of being blue-balled and tired of being rejected. It's just sad to see that I have to argue about having sex with my wife.
ref: 2010, Doctor Lover, Dr. Lover, Mr. Lies: Cheating 101, E. C. Publishing (2010), unnumbered page
text: I thought it would be a good way to go out—to blue-ball him into submission and then leave, the way all of the cool girls did in the movies.
ref: 2012, Zoe Fishman, Saving Ruth, William Morrow, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: To leave (a person, usually a man) sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact.
examples: text: Stop blue-balling me and tell me what happened!
synonyms: tease
lead on
tantalize
glosses: To lead someone on or tease them with the promise of something desirable without actually delivering it, causing them to feel frustrated and unsatisfied.
Derived terms: blue-baller
Related terms: cock tease
cockblock
edge
tank-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tank-worms
Etymology: So-named as it was commonly found in the mud in water tanks of India in the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A small nematoid worm, likely to be the young of the guinea-worm.
cramp bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cramp bones
Senses: examples: text: He could turn crampbones into chessmen.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 17, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: The patella of a sheep, formerly used as a charm against cramp.
cult follower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cult followers
Senses: glosses: A person who is part of a cult following.
cult followers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cult follower
cult film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cult films
Senses: examples: text: As John Waters once said, nobody wants to direct a cult film because that invariably means birthing a failure. Cult films are adopted orphans and what defines them is the intensity of their fandom ‘beyond all reason’, as J. P. Telotte, quoting Andrew Sarris, put it in one of the first academic collections on the phenomenon.
ref: 2016, I.Q. Hunter, Cult Film as a Guide to Life, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 3:
synonyms: cult movie
glosses: A film that has acquired a cult following.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cult, film.
spirit of vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formerly obtained by the distillation of green vitriol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfuric acid
cult films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cult film
Shakespeares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shakespeare
Shakespeares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shakespeare
Shakespeares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Shakespeare
ta-dah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ta-da.
cotton stainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton stainers
Senses: glosses: Any of various insects of the family Pyrrhocoridae whose feeding activities leave an indelible brownish-yellow stain on cotton crops.
suck my dick
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of suck my cock.
synonyms: word: suck my cock
suck my penis
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suck my cock.
oldfield mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldfield mice
Etymology: * (Peromyscus polionotus): ?
* (Thomasomys): Named for Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858 – 1929), a British zoologist.
Senses: examples: text: In the wild, deer mice and oldfield mice never interbreed.
ref: 2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Peromyscus polionotus, a nocturnal rodent in the family Cricetidae, found in the southeastern United States.
glosses: Thomasomys, a genus of rodent found in South America.
Synonyms: sense: Peromyscus polionotus
word: beach mouse
sense: Peromyscus polionotus
word: oldfield deermouse
Brandophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brandophiles
Etymology: From Brando + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Despite Cole Porter's advice that brushing up one's Shakespeare would wow the women, the Brandophile Dustin was never interested in classical acting, especially not of the English variety.
ref: 1991, Ronald Bergan, Dustin Hoffman, Virgin, →ISBN, page 33:
text: A former actress, she is an ardent but critical Brandophile, who elegantly puts life and art into context (though she does slightly skew the plot of "Last Tango in Paris"), paying necessary attention to Brando's politics and complicated marital life.
ref: 2001 September 9, Gary Giddins, “'Marlon Brando': From Kowalski to Corleone”, in New York Times:
text: Several other Brandophiles, including Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, and John Cazale, would work alongside him in "The Godfather."
ref: 2004 July 3, Bill Ervolino, “Brilliance on stage and screen wasn't enough for him”, in The Record, Bergen County, New Jersey:
glosses: A fan of American actor Marlon Brando.
carne asada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish carne asada (“grilled meat”).
Senses: examples: text: We stood in the kitchen as I heated beans and carne asada, some tortillas Consuela had made, my hands shaking.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 307:
glosses: Grilled, sliced beef steak, as an element of Latin American cuisine.
blufftop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blufftops
Etymology: From bluff + top.
Senses: glosses: The top of a bluff (steep bank or cliff).
blufftops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blufftop
kagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kagan
traiteurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traiteur
Mexican hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican hogs
Senses: glosses: peccary
hog cholera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: swine fever, caused by Pestivirus C (CSFV)
pig plague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: swine fever, caused by Pestivirus C (CSFV)
fruit dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit dots
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sorus.
kininogenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kininogenin
Mister Big
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mister Bigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mr. Big.
LOVEINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Parody of SIGINT, HUMINT, etc., suggesting "love intelligence".
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, when analysts thought about abusing the system, they were far less interested in what it could do for them professionally than in what it could do for them personally. This led to the practice known as LOVEINT, a gross joke on HUMINT and SIGINT and a travesty of intelligence, in which analysts used the agency’s programs to surveil their current and former lovers along with objects of more casual affection—reading their emails, listening in on their phone calls, and stalking them online.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The use of government espionage tools or techniques to investigate one's love interests.
Mr. Bigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mr. Big
Mister Bigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mister Big
Mr Nice Guys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mr Nice Guy
Mister Nice Guys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mister Nice Guy
no more Mr Nice Guy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no more Mr. Nice Guy.
no more Mister Nice Guy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no more Mr. Nice Guy.
nonprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + programme.
Senses: glosses: Not of or relating to a programme.
Mr Right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mr Rights
Senses: examples: text: Women looking for a Mr Right should give up after 30 and settle for a Mr ­Second Best or a Mr Right Now.
ref: 2010 January 24, Amelia Hill, social affairs correspondent, “Women told to stop looking for Mr Right”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: Ms Right
glosses: Alternative form of Mister Right.
ornithoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ornithoid
form: most ornithoid
Etymology: From ornitho- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bird.
Derived terms: ornithoidichnite
ornithoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithoids
Etymology: From ornitho- + -oid.
Senses: topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Any bird-like creature.
ornithoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithoid
pollyanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollyannas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pollyanna.
Ms. Right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We also believe that being Ms. Right goes a long way in helping women find or attract Mr. Right. There are certain qualities for which a Mr. Right is looking.
ref: 2001, Stephen Arterburn, Finding Mr. Right: And How to Know When You Have, Thomas Nelson Inc, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: Mr. Right
glosses: Alternative form of Miss Right.
Ms Right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: Mr Right
glosses: Alternative form of Miss Right.
poofery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poof + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: He wore a black, embroidered smoking jacket, over his shirt which was all ruffles and poofery, particularly the flaring, foppish cuffs, which looked like doily sweatbands, or garter belts for the wrist.
ref: 2003, Larry Keveson, Before We Croak!, page 85:
glosses: Behaviour characteristic of homosexuals.
Brandophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brandophile
fennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenne
polygender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: […] those whose gender identity or expression is at odds with conventional understandings of dichotomous sex/gender categories (gender-neutral, polygender or genderqueer).
ref: 2012, Richard Ward, Ian Rivers, Mike Sutherland, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing:
text: Androgyny—the presence of male and female characteristics in one individual. Androgynous individuals describe themselves as ambigender, polygender, or genderless.
ref: 2014, Manivong J. Ratts, Paul B. Pedersen, Counseling for Multiculturalism and Social Justice:
glosses: Having a mixture of genders; neither purely male nor purely female.
Synonyms: polygendered
Related terms: multigender
omnigender
pangender
polygendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + gendered.
Senses: glosses: Having a mixture of genders; neither purely male nor purely female.
Synonyms: polygender
papeda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papedas
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian papeda.
Senses: glosses: Sago congee, a staple food of native people in Maluku and Papua.
glosses: The subgenus Papeda of the genus Citrus, a citrus species native to Asia.
glosses: Citrus ichangensis, the Ichang papeda.
press officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press officers
Senses: examples: text: But that's nothing compared to Victoria Station, where a million gallons a day are pumped away, most of it from the Tyburn brook. There's a pumping house underneath the station that an Underground press officer once refused to let me see, sadistically adding, 'It resembles the set of Phantom of the Opera '.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31:
text: I followed this with a call in which a DfT press officer said he was urgently chasing answers and would reply later.
ref: 2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 50:
glosses: press secretary
press secretary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press secretaries
Senses: glosses: A senior advisor who provides advice on how to deal with the news media and helps the employer to maintain a positive public image.
Synonyms: press officer
Related terms: spin doctor
public information officer
Pavillion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Wyoming, United States.
reflex camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflex cameras
Senses: glosses: A camera that permits the photographer to view the exact image that will be captured, unlike earlier viewfinder cameras.
Romanophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophiles
Etymology: From Romano- (“Rome”) + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.
ref: 2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires, page 50:
text: A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.
ref: 2012, Jon E. Lewis, Rome: The Autobiography:
antonyms: Romanophobe
glosses: One who has a love of Ancient Rome.
Related terms: Romanophilia
Romanophilic
Romanophilism
Romanophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophiles
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romania”) + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Its first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc […]
ref: 2010, Paul R. Magocsi, A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, page 644:
antonyms: Romanophobe
glosses: One who has a love of Romania.
Romanophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophiles
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romani”) + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow".
ref: 1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Khristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 199:
antonyms: Romanophobe
glosses: One who has a love of the Roma people.
Romanophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanophile
Romanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Romano- (“Roma”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear or hatred of the Roma people.
Romanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romanian”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear or hatred of Romanian people.
ROTMFFLMMFAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the motherfucking floor laughing my motherfucking ass off.
ROTMFFLMAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the motherfucking floor laughing my ass off.
purlicues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purlicue
satellite television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of cable television service that is broadcasted by a communications satellite and is received by an outdoor antenna or satellite dish.
satellite TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: satellite television
Southern Oscillation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The atmospheric component of El Niño; an oscillation in surface air pressure between the tropical eastern and the western Pacific Ocean waters.
storylining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From storyline + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The creation of a storyline.
surfacy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surfacy
form: most surfacy
Etymology: From surface + -y.
Senses: glosses: superficial
Edgerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From edger + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Allen County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A city in Kansas.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
glosses: A city in Missouri.
glosses: A village in Ohio.
glosses: A city in Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Wyoming.
stf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɛf/
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Abbreviation of scientifiction.
Derived terms: stf-
stfan
stfandom
stfantasy
stfanzine
stfcon
stfdom
stfield
stfilm
stfnal
stfnist
stfsy
stfzine
tucker-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tucker-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuckerbox.
Basin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming.
portless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From port + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a port.
Related terms: airportless
man-of-the-earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man of the earth
stfnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stfnal
form: most stfnal
form: stefnal
Etymology: Abbreviation of scientifictional.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to scientifiction or science fiction.
scientifictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scientifictional
form: most scientifictional
Etymology: From scientifiction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to scientifiction
Synonyms: science fictional
Derived terms: sfnal
stefnal
Mainlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mainlander
Mainlander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Pan-ch’iao of Taiwan county, people gathered at the railway station on the morning of February 28 and began beating Mainlanders or rounding them up and assembling them in one place.
ref: 1991, Tse-han Lai, Ramon H. Myers, Wei Wou, “The Uprising”, in A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mainlander (“a person from mainland China”).
stfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛ.fæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: stfans
form: stfen
Etymology: Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + fan
Senses: examples: text: Los Angeles Futurians were entertained last nite by Walt Sullivan, visiting stfan
ref: 1940 January 3, Le Zombie, page 3:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: fan of science fiction
stfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfan
stfen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfan
escutcheon of pretence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escutcheons of pretence
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: An escutcheon used to display the arms of the bearer's wife; not commonly used unless she is an heiress.
Related terms: impalement
fork beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fork beams
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur.
Laramie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jacques La Ramie, a fur trapper who visited the area in the early 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States.
Derived terms: Laramide
Laramie County
Laramidia
Evansville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛvənzvɪl/
Etymology: From Evans + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A community in Burpee and Mills, Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A community in West Nipissing, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Arkansas.
glosses: A ghost town in Butte County, California.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
glosses: A village in Randolph County, Illinois.
glosses: A small city in Douglas County, Minnesota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Missouri.
glosses: A city in Rock County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Natrona County, Wyoming.
unhex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhexes
form: unhexing
form: unhexed
form: unhexed
Etymology: From un- + hex.
Senses: glosses: To remove a hex or curse from.
unhexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhex
unhexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhex
unhexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhex
weather strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather strips
Senses: glosses: A strip of wood, rubber, or other material applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
Hyponyms: draught excluder
ROTFLMMFAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing my motherfucking ass off.
bill of adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of adventure
Senses: glosses: A document stating that goods to be shipped are shipped at the owner's risk.
Shitsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From shits + -ville.
Senses: glosses: Any contemptible town, place, or situation.
unchauffeured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chauffeured.
Senses: glosses: Not driven by a chauffeur.
chauffeuress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauffeuresses
Etymology: From chauffeur + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female chauffeur; a chauffeuse.
chauffeuresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chauffeuress
king skins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king skin
king card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king cards
Senses: examples: text: If the ace and king of a suit have been played, the queen is the king card of the suit.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In whist, the best unplayed card of a suit.
baes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bae
baes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bae
blue pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue pigeons
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Alectroenas of the pigeon family.
examples: text: "Now I'll learn you something Long Jack can't," shouted Tom Platt, as from a locker by the stern he produced a battered deep-sea lead hollowed at one end, smeared the hollow from a saucer full of mutton tallow, and went forward. "I'll learn you how to fly the Blue Pigeon. Shooo!"
[…] The lead sung a deep droning song as Tom Platt whirled it round and round.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lead used for sounding.
Derived terms: Comoros blue pigeon
Madagascar blue pigeon
Mauritius blue pigeon
Réunion blue pigeon
Rodrigues blue pigeon
Seychelles blue pigeon
Related terms: blue pigeon flyer
fly the blue pigeon
green pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green pigeons
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Treron of the pigeon family.
Derived terms: thick-billed green pigeon
sympathetic powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathetic powders
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: Synonym of powder of sympathy.
synonyms: word: powder of sympathy
RTSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Real Time Streaming Protocol: a network protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers.
aizoaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Aizoaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Aizoaceae of fig-marigolds.
fig marigold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fig marigolds
Senses: glosses: Any of the South African flowering plants of the family Aizoaceae, including ice plants, living stones, pebble plants, and split rocks.
pigeonwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonwoods
Etymology: From pigeon + wood.
Senses: glosses: Oriental trema, an evergreen tree of species Trema orientalis, widely distributed throughout much of the tropics.
glosses: A tree of species Hedycarya arborea, endemic to New Zealand.
glosses: Sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera).
paper wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper wasps
Senses: glosses: Any wasp in the vespid subfamily Polistinae, known for making paper-like nests out of fibers from dead wood and plant stems.