cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Etymology: From the 1945 film Herr Meets Hare, often repeated in several Bugs Bunny cartoons afterwards.
Senses: examples: text: Against the glacial backdrop he looked like a lost minstrel who'd taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
ref: 2008, Paul Beatty, Slumberland, page 158:
text: Anyways, he must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque because I walked in on him using our restroom facilities and appearing to be very confused.
ref: 2010, Elaine Chaney, Sanity, Interrupted.., page 18:
text: Since cardiac embryology can be summed up as 9 months of looping and unlooping, you can think of the congenitally malformed heart as having taken the wrong turn at Albuquerque, and not just one time.
ref: 2013, Liliana Cohen, Daniel M. Shindler, “17: Congenital Heart Disease”, in Christopher Gallagher, John C Sciarra, Steven Ginsberg, editors, Board Stiff TEE: Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2nd edition, page 163:
text: But somewhere on the road to creating a useful tool for psychiatry, in my opinion the wheels fell off the bus, or, more accurately, the carpool's navigators took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
ref: 2014, Michael W. Corrigan, Debunking ADHD: 10 Reasons to Stop Drugging Kids for Acting Like Kids, page 44:
text: It takes 25 minutes for Bugs Bunny to tunnel his way into that sequel, becoming the first Looney Tune to appear in this supposed Looney Tunes movie. Maybe the rabbit and his studio both took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
ref: 2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros. properties”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: To take a wrong turn or miss a turn in a journey, so reaching a place distant from the original goal.
wikipedia: Bugs Bunny
Herr Meets Hare
Related terms: left turn
takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: taking the wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: took the wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: taken the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
takes the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
taking the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
took the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
taken the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
semaphoront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semaphoronts
Etymology: From sema- + -phore + -ont.
Senses: examples: 2024, Andea Cau, "A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution", Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63, page iii.
[…] coding such characters for taxonomic units based uniquely on immature specimens is believed to be misleading, because it cannot be excluded that the states expressed by the immature semaphoronts differ from those expressed by the mature semaphoronts of the same taxon.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism as seen in a specific time during its ontogeny or life cycle, as the object of identification or basis for systematics.
onomatophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomatophores
Etymology: From onomato- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A specimen that serves to bear a taxonomic name, as a type.
EOG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EOGs
Senses: examples: text: A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.
ref: 2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of electrooculogram or electrooculography.
metaventrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaventrites
Etymology: From meta- + ventrite.
Senses: examples: text: The anterior pronotal angles are produced forward, the metaventrite is very short and the hind wings are absent.
ref: 2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys:
text: Mesocoxal cavities usually subcircular, narrowly to moderately widely separated, usually open laterally but occasionally closed by confluent meso- and metaventrites.
ref: 2014, Richard A.B. Leschen, Morphology and Systematics: Phytophaga, page 203:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ventral plate of the thorax lying behind and between the mesocoxal cavities.
Related terms: mesoventrite
metaventrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaventrite
ventrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventrites
Etymology: From ventro- + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The plesiomorphic condition of abdominal ventrites II and III in Rhagovelia is interpreted to be one in which these ventrites are flat or broadly arched and of form similar to ventrites IV-VI.
ref: 1997, Dan Avery Polhemus, Systematics of the Genus Rhagovelia:
text: A rather widespread modification affecting the ventrites of beetles is what is known as “connation”, involving a reduction or complete loss of mobility at the junction between particular ventrites, usually starting with the basal ones.
ref: 2013, R. A. Crowson, The Biology of the Coleoptera, page 61:
text: Ventrites that are fused together, as evidenced by shallow or obsolete sutures, are said to be fused or connate, while “free” ventrites are those that are separated by distinct membranes.
ref: 2014, Arthur V. Evans, Beetles of Eastern North America:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ventral plate.
Hypernyms: sternite
Derived terms: mesoventrite
metaventrite
ventrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventrite
go screw yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of screw you.
synonyms: word: screw you
movie hop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: movie hops
form: movie hopping
form: movie hopped
form: movie hopped
Senses: glosses: To buy a ticket for a movie, see it and then go into another movie without getting another ticket.
airbagless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From airbag + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not equipped with airbags.
onomatophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomatophore
EOGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EOG
Ekadanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit एकदन्त (ekadanta, “one-toothed”); ultimately from एक (eka, “one”) + दन्त (danta, “tooth, tusk”).
Senses: glosses: The Hindu lord Ganesha.
corpsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corpsy
form: most corpsy
Etymology: From corpse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But I must acknowledge there was something truly corpsy in the solemnity with which he would “lay out” a clean shirt.
ref: 1866 December, J. W. Palmer, “My Heathen at Home”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 18, page 732:
text: How it came back to me! That peculiar feeling—it was only a feeling, you couldn't describe it as an activity—that we used to call 'Church'. The sweet corpsy smell, the rustle of Sunday dresses, the wheeze of the organ and the roaring voices […]
ref: 1939, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Coming Up for Air:
text: Christmas Eve Father took us into town to see the shops lit up. Every lamp post had a fir tree tied to it—not corpsy old trees but fresh cut firs.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Christmas”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling a corpse; resembling that of a corpse.
sitophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sito- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: foodplay
Synonyms: foodplay
semaphoronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semaphoront
compost heaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compost heap
Haridwar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hardwar
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हरिद्वार (haridvār).
Senses: examples: text: Sadhana and Sanjeev Prasad, who live in Haridwar, a city in northern Uttarakhand state, filed a petition this month seeking 50 million Indian rupees (about $643,000) in damages from their son, 35, and his wife, 31.
ref: 2022 May 17, Esha Mitra and Jessie Yeung, “Indian couple sue only son for not giving them grandchildren”, in CNN:
glosses: A city and municipality of Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, India.
wikipedia: Haridwar
Harishchandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit हरिश्चन्द्र (hariścandra, “having golden splendour”).
Senses: glosses: A legendary Indian king known for his commitment to truth and, in the Puranas, selling his kingdom, his family and ultimately himself to repay Vishwamitra after insulting him
Zhoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Joshi.
Zosi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Joshi.
in tact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intact.
supraoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From supra- + oral.
Senses: glosses: Located on, or above the mouth.
bol'shak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bol'shaks
Etymology: From Russian больша́к (bolʹšák).
Senses: examples: text: If the bol'shak mismanaged the family farm, or was too often drunk and violent, the commune could replace him under customary law with another household member.
ref: 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 112:
text: Let us imagine an elderly bol'shak with two married sons, the elder of which has three married sons, and the younger only one.
ref: 2002, Michel Verdon, Rethinking Households, page 95:
glosses: The head of a Russian peasant household; a family patriarch.
autexousious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autexousious
form: most autexousious
Etymology: autexousy, from Ancient Greek αὐτεξούσια (autexoúsia) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Inclinations in all rational beings, vitally united to bodies, and that as autexousious, or free-willed, they should have a power of determining themselves more or less either way.
ref: 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, volume 1, The California University Press, published 1820, page 454:
text: Moreover, these materials are sufficient, Cudworth holds, for a kind of "animal" obligation. It is possible that the soul may be here defective in the exertions of this autexousious faculty ... in not exerting or continuing sufficient conatus.
ref: 1995, Stephen Darwall, The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought', The Michigan University Press & The Cambridge University Press, page 144:
text: Naturally, one would not want to exert certain idolisms on a nation and such imperialisation will be an act of the promotion of an autexousious auturgy.
ref: 2015 April 30, “The British Empire Party”, in Radley College Chronicle, volume 25, number 0.5, Radley: Radley College, page 5, column 1:
text: Because it was too focused on hindsight, the 1648 world order failed to forsee major upcoming events which were to threaten this world order and cause an upheaval in the internal arena. These upheavals occurred almost homoplasiously with European states agitating to be autexousious.
ref: 2022, Everisto Benyera, The Failure of the International Criminal Court in Africa, Abingdon-on-Thames, England: Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exercising free will; volitient.
Related terms: homousious
from top to toe
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He was armed from top to toe.
text: She was tattooed from top to toe.
glosses: of a person's appearance or equipment, completely, all over
Synonyms: head to toe
completely
frommarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fromward + -ing.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
qualifier: Gloucestershire dialect
glosses: The ploughing done by turning the horses to the right-hand side.
bayong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayongs
Senses: glosses: A kind of bag made from woven dried leaves or various modern substitutes, used in the Philippines.
skaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skaws
form: scaw
Etymology: Of North Germanic origin, from Icelandic skagi (“peninsula, promontory”). Also related to Icelandic skaga (“to protrude, to jut out”).
Senses: glosses: A promontory.
Ruthe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Undaunted by the occasion, Ruthe went on to become the first 15-year-old to run a sub-four-minute mile, even managing a nonchalant shrug of the shoulders as he crossed the finish line.
ref: 2025 March 29, George Ramsay and Patrick Snell, “Aged 15, New Zealander Sam Ruthe has already run a four-minute mile. He would ‘love to try and qualify’ for the 2028 Olympics”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Bottomer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bottomers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bottomers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bottomer
self-discrimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self discrimination
Etymology: From self- + discrimination.
Senses: glosses: The practice or habit of discriminating against oneself; being too hard upon oneself.
Synonyms: self-recrimination
self-loathing
self-hatred
Turia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Túria
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Turia or the Catalan Túria, from the Latin Tūria.
Senses: glosses: the Túria, a river in eastern Spain, flowing from the Montes Universales in southwestern Aragon, where it is also known as the Guadalaviar, into the Balearic Sea, having its mouth in Valencia
Turia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turía
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Turía.
Senses: glosses: the Turía, a small river of Galicia which is a tributary of the Eo
buzgut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzguts
Etymology: From Cornish boos (“food, meal, fare”) + gut.
Senses: glosses: A person who eats or drinks a substantial amount.
Synonyms: pig
trencherman
glutton
buzguts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzgut
how manyth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: how-manyth
form: how manieth
form: how-manieth
form: how manyeth
form: how-manyeth
form: how many-eth
form: how-many-eth
Etymology: From how many + -th (ordinal suffix). Equivalent constructions are perfectly standard in many of the world’s languages (compare the translations below).
Senses: examples: text: I'm telling you for the how manyth time: I don't know!
glosses: Standing for an unknown or queried ordinal number.
Synonyms: whatth
umpteenth
gonidangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the gonidangium.
arkload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arkloads
Etymology: From ark + load.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill an ark.
arkloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arkload
tamponage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamponages
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of a tampon; a tamponade.
tamponages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamponage
sons of whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of a whore
ark load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ark loads
Etymology: From ark + load.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arkload.
airbagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From airbag + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Equipped with airbags.
unshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshaking
form: most unshaking
Etymology: From un- + shaking.
Senses: glosses: Standing firm; unwavering.
unshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unshake + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshake
interparticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + particulate.
Senses: glosses: Between particles.
Derived terms: interparticulately
lekë
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lek
benralizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + [Term?] + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A monoclonal antibody being developed for the treatment of asthma.
HKCU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, part of the registry containing settings specific to the logged-on user.
Coordinate terms: HKCC
HKCR
HKLM
HKU
mathematicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mathematicizations
Etymology: From mathematic + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: It is there that the measures of quantities are suited to the mathematicizations of nature itself with its accruing necessities.
ref: 2010, C. B. Martin, The Mind in Nature:
text: Its “mathematicizations”, as Martin has called them, entail taking what Martin calls only a “partial consideration” of the phenomena studied.
ref: 2017, Edward Feser, Five Proofs for the Existence of God, page 45:
glosses: The process or result of mathematicizing.
mathematicizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mathematicization
antineurotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antineurotic
hang-bies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hang-by
hang-bys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hang-by
crowdfunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowdfunders
Etymology: From crowdfund + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Under the donation-based scheme, crowdfunders donate money to projects or ventures because they believe it is a worthwhile undertaking.
ref: 2014, Darek Klonowski, Strategic Entrepreneurial Finance: From Value Creation to Realization:
glosses: One who donates to a crowdfunding project.
crowdfunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowdfunder
gunproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gunproof
form: most gunproof
Etymology: From gun + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: The Fairy had provided King Giglio with a suit of armour, which was not only embroidered all over with jewels, and blinding to your eyes to look at, but was water-proof, gun-proof, and sword-proof […]
ref: 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring:
glosses: Resistant to guns.
guestfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From guest + -free.
Senses: glosses: Without guests; free of guests.
dikelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dikelets
Etymology: From dike + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small dike.
dikelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dikelet
dykelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dykelets
Etymology: From dyke + -let.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dikelet.
dykelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dykelet
snake fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake fences
Senses: examples: text: Snake fences were extravagant in land and in wood, but wood and land were cheaper in Canada in early days than were nails and hinges.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: A breaker of green uniforms plunges down the slope of Lime Ridge, curls around sugar bushes and thickets, cascades over stone walls and snake fences, as the Fenians come howling down on them, rifles snapping.
ref: 2011, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 22, in A Good Man, McClelland & Stewart:
synonyms: split rail fence
Virginia fence
Virginia rail fence
worm fence
glosses: A zigzag fence built from interlocking split logs or young trees, not secured with nails.
snake fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake fence
ark loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ark load
queen out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queens out
form: queening out
form: queened out
form: queened out
Senses: examples: text: After the concert, I totally queened out when I met Cher in person backstage.
glosses: To behave in a submissively appeasing, accommodating, overly flattering, or flamboyant way, especially when excited.
human zoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human zoos
Senses: glosses: An exhibition of aboriginal humans in a facsimile of their normal cultural setting.
human zoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of human zoo
humanphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊb
Etymology: From human + -phobe, based on homophobe, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Gays are no more 'different' and 'special' than anyone else.
Change 'homophobe' to 'humanphobe' and you'll get the label for all sexual types today.
ref: 1994 September 24, Segonax, “Re: Doc's 5,6 & 7 were reflection of JNT's attitude”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), message-ID <g9106936-240994152016@graneekmac6.anu.edu.au>:
text: > I'll have to tell Jim that I'm now a homophobe. He'll be as surprised as I was to learn it.
Are we adding that to your femphobe, heterophobe, religiousphobe, conservative phobe, and humanphobe list?
ref: 2015 April 17, ScottW, “A noiseless patient Spider”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet), message-ID <mgrhil$l4c$1@dont-email.me>:
text: Humans can't do any sort of magic and are physically fragile. But I appreciate your race's many accomplishments, all things considered. I'm not a humanphobe or anything. I've had plenty of human friends over the years.
ref: 2015, Genevieve Jack, Logan: A Knight World Novel, Carpe Luna Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Someone prejudiced, bigoted against humans.
Related terms: misanthrope
the drinks are on me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that speaker is going to pay for the drinks consumed (at a bar, restaurant, etc.)
Related terms: I'm thirsty
I need a drink
swing that way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swings that way
form: swinging that way
form: swung that way
form: swung that way
Senses: glosses: To be homosexual.
Coordinate terms: swing both ways
pot-belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-bellies
Senses: examples: text: And as for his pot-belly, I will not be in service any longer to that pot.
ref: 2004, Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, Ian S. Laurie, Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems, →ISBN:
text: Pañcika's iconography depicts him with a pot-belly, holding a skin purse (probably full of gold coins or jewels) and an offering bowl.
ref: 2007, Material Matters, →ISBN:
text: Belching loudly, he sat back in his chair, letting his pot-belly protrude out so much that it touched the edge of his desk.
ref: 2008, James M. Campbell, One Night in the House of the Creepy Santas, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of potbelly.
pot-bellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-belly
pot belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot bellies
Senses: examples: text: The book shows you a simple and fast way to give yourself a flat, firm stomach — even if other attempts to lose your pot belly failed.
ref: 1995 January, “Flatten Your Belly! (Advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 246, number 1, page 89:
text: When my dad was about thirty or so, he acquired a huge pot belly, but everything else was quite skinny; legs, arms, etc.
ref: 2007, Jeffrey Smith, Mischief Makers, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Little Maggie, though a new victim, already suffered from “marked anemia, pot belly and dry hair.”
ref: 2009, Jonathan Daniel Wells, Sheila R. Phipps, Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South, →ISBN:
text: Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy.
ref: 2011, James W. Pennebaker, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of potbelly.
pot bellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot belly
Didache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διδαχή (didakhḗ, “teaching”).
Senses: examples: text: Ever since its first publication at the end of the nineteenth century, Didache has attracted scholars because of its—in many ways—unique form and content.
ref: 2008, Jürgen Zangenberg, “Reconstructing the social and religious milieu of the Didache: observations and possible results”, in Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt, Jürgen Zangenberg, editors, Matthew, James, and Didache: Three Related Documents in their Jewish and Christian Settings, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 44:
topics: Christianity
glosses: An early Christian treatise, written in the first or second century AD. and published in the 19th century.
preswell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preswells
form: preswelling
form: preswelled
form: preswelled
Etymology: From pre- + swell.
Senses: examples: text: In order to secure uniform depth development it is often necessary to preswell the gelatin to facilitate access of the developer to the deepest grains.
ref: 1949, Herman Joseph Yagoda, Radioactive measurements with nuclear emulsions, page 60:
text: Dioctyl phthalate is used to preswell the polymers up to 50% by volume.
ref: 1964, Government Reports Announcements:
text: Most workers, nevertheless, have attempted to interpenetrate the cell wall with monomer by preswelling with water or an oxygenated solvent.
ref: 1968, Forest Products Journal - Volume 18, page 50:
text: The principal areas covered are deep grouting with several variations, French drains, and forced water techniques designed to preswell the clay.
ref: 1984, Robert Wade Brown, Residential Foundations: Design, Behavior, and Repair, page 65:
text: While incubating with the primary antibody, preswell the protein A–Sepharose beads overnight.
ref: 2001, Roberto Bruzzone, Christian Giaume, Connexin Methods and Protocols, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: To cause to become engorged with fluid prior to some other operation.
preswells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preswell
preswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preswell
preswelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preswell
geographically challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geographically challenged
form: most geographically challenged
Senses: examples: text: My geographically challenged uncle stated that France is the capital of Paris.
glosses: Unskilled in geography.
examples: Geographically challenged relationship = long-distance relationship.
glosses: Long-distance; over a great length.
examples: text: This geographically challenged hospital is in the middle of nowhere: it's a 4-hour drive, with no gas stations nearby.
glosses: Located in an unhospitable place.
lactation station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactation stations
Senses: glosses: A booth where somebody can breastfeed privately.
lactation stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactation station
metanym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtənɪm/
homophone: metonym
Forms: form: metanyms
Etymology: From meta- + -nym.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A name that is rejected because a valid name (based on another member) already exists for the same group.
Related terms: metonym
feckful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛk.fəl/
Forms: form: more feckful
form: most feckful
Etymology: From feck + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Powerful, effective, efficient, vigorous.
Derived terms: feckfully
soccer moms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soccer mom
ballet dads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballet dad
metanyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanym
latebricole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ləˈtɛ.bɹəˌkoʊl/
Forms: form: more latebricole
form: most latebricole
Etymology: From Latin latebricola, from latebra + -cola.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of an animal, especially a spider: living concealed in a hole.
stage moms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage mom
axiologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: axiologizes
form: axiologizing
form: axiologized
form: axiologized
Etymology: From axiology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The Buddhists, by attacking Brahma, simultaneously attack Brahman and then axiologize the latter in such texts as the Tevijja Sutta.
ref: 2006, Gananath Obeyesekere, Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, page 177
text: Merleau-Ponty is prone to axiologize such a distinction.
ref: 2013, Ted Toadvine & Lester Embree, Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl, page 119
text: As early as in The German Ideology, M. Stirner's bourgeois-philistine tendency to axiologize economic categories and relations was refuted.
ref: 1969, International Arts and Sciences, Soviet Studies in Philosophy - Volumes 8-9, The Michigan University Press, page 395
glosses: To evaluate with or as if with the manner of an axiologist; to appraise.
simsim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He(Ali Baba) then went to the door and saying, "Open, O Simsim!" he pushed in and beheld the dead lich of Kasim, …
ref: 1882-1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Alaeddin; Or, The Wonderful Lamp
text: The residents mainly cultivate food crops (maize, rice, sweet potatoes and beans) and cash crops (tobacco, groundnuts, simsim and sunflower).
ref: 2015 August 8, Justine A. Assenga et al., “Epidemiology of Brucella infection in the human, livestock and wildlife interface in the Katavi-Rukwa ecosystem, Tanzania”, in BMC Veterinary Research, volume 11, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of sesame.
synonyms: word: sesame
spongionecrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongionecroses
Etymology: From spongio- + necrosis.
Senses: examples: text: In patients with devastated bulbous urethra, that is, spongionecrosis, failed fasciocutaneous repairs and a “watering can perineum” repair options are limited by paucity of reliable local tissue suitable for reconstruction.
ref: 2015 July 16, Dmitriy Nikolavsky, “Prelaminated Gracilis Flap with Buccal Mucosal Graft for Salvage of Devastated Urethra”, in Case Reports in Urology, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: spongy necrosis
transendocardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + endocardial.
Senses: examples: text: 2 Reduced MSC-mediated T-cell suppression capacity in patients with atherosclerosis and type 2 diabetes. a MSCs from patients with atherosclerosis (ATH; n = 18; * p = 0.02) have a decreased capacity to suppress CD4 + T-cell proliferation at 1:8 MSC:CD4 + T cell ratio compared to age-matched controls without atherosclerosis (non-ATH, n = 9). b MSCs from patients with ATH (n = 12) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) (n = 12) have impaired suppressive capacity compared to age-matched ATH controls (* p = 0.04). c MSC function is compromised in age-matched patients with chronic inflammatory diseases (non-ATH < ATH < ATH+T2DM; n = 7 per group; * p = 0.02, ** p = 0.002) The PRECISE trial demonstrated the feasibility, safety and potential therapeutic benefit of the transendocardial administration of autologous adipose-derived MSCs in no-option patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy [ 7 ].
ref: 2015 August 8, Ozge Kizilay Mancini et al., “Age, atherosclerosis and type 2 diabetes reduce human mesenchymal stromal cell-mediated T-cell suppression”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Through or across the endocardium
tubularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tubularizes
form: tubularizing
form: tubularized
form: tubularized
Etymology: From tubular + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To organize tissue into the form of tubes.
Related terms: tubularization
tubularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In the final stage the pendulous neourethra is created and tubularized similar to a hypospadias repair.
ref: 2015 July 16, Dmitriy Nikolavsky, “Prelaminated Gracilis Flap with Buccal Mucosal Graft for Salvage of Devastated Urethra”, in Case Reports in Urology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of tubularize
urethrocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urethro- + cutaneous.
Senses: examples: text: The wire had preferentially passed into the urethrocutaneous fistula. (a) Augmented Perineal Urethrostomy .
ref: 2015 July 16, Dmitriy Nikolavsky, “Prelaminated Gracilis Flap with Buccal Mucosal Graft for Salvage of Devastated Urethra”, in Case Reports in Urology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the urethra and the skin (of the penis)
meta-universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meta-universes
Etymology: From meta- + universe.
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of multiverse.
synonyms: word: multiverse
meta-universes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meta-universe
ziconitide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Six medications obtained from venom proteins and derivatives – namely captopril (Capoten®), eptifibatide (Integrilin®), tirofiban (Aggrastat®), bivalirudin (Angiomax®), ziconitide (Prialt®), and exenatide (Byetta®) – have been approved by the U.S.
ref: 2015 August 8, Victoria Monge-Fuentes et al., “Neuroactive compounds obtained from arthropod venoms as new therapeutic platforms for the treatment of neurological disorders”, in The Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases, volume 21, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of ziconotide.
out of a nightmare
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Terrifying; shocking.
antelabra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antelabrum
kiddlywink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddlywinks
form: kiddle-a-wink
form: kiddleywink
Etymology: Possibly related to tiddlywink or kiddywink.
Senses: examples: text: "And we have a notion how much he had to drink in the kiddlywink."
ref: 1974, Marjorie Watson, Heir to Polventon, →ISBN:
text: 1980, John Hugh Norton Mason, West country walks and legends, Academy Chicago Pub
Bessie's Cove was said to be named after a Bessie Burrows who kept a small 'kiddlywink' inn on the cliff-top.
text: There's a kiddlywink there where my crew and l have spent many a happy hour.”
ref: 2011, Patricia Gaffney, Lily, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
synonyms: kiddly
glosses: A small pub only licensed to sell beer or cider.
glosses: A small village shop.
examples: text: 'My sweet kiddlywinks, we are going on a car trip into the mountains and there we 'll stay in Danny's house in the rainforest.'
ref: 2007, Ally Blake, Millionaire to the Rescue, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Frankie wasn't sure he liked being called a kiddlywink but, as the air fizzed around him, he felt his worries dissolve like a spoonful of sherbet
ref: 2013, Anna Kemp, The Great Brain Robbery, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: 'Well, kiddlywinks' –she touched her face round the edges– 'we've somebody coming tos ee us. Tomorrow, first thing.'
ref: 2014, Andrea Ashworth, Once in a House on Fire: Picador Classic, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: A child.
kiddlywinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddlywink
pasticciotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: pasticciotti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pasticciotto (literally “small pie”).
Senses: synonyms: word: pustie
english: regional shortening
translation: regional shortening
glosses: An Italian pastry from Apulia, resembling a miniature pie, often filled with egg custard or ricotta cheese.
pustie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: pusties
Etymology: Shortening of pasticciotto.
Senses: examples: text: A lot of the old timers like to come in for a coffee and a pustie and relive memories of the old days here.
ref: 2015, Chuck D'Imperio, Taste of Upstate New York: The People and the Stories Behind 40 Food Favorites, Syracuse University Press, page 68:
glosses: Synonym of pasticciotto.
synonyms: word: pasticciotto
bolt ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolt rope
pusties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pustie
phantom call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom calls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ghost call.
synonyms: word: ghost call
microfridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfridges
Etymology: From micro- + fridge.
Senses: examples: text: Each room is furnished with twin beds with extra long mattress, desk, chair, chest of drawers, built-in closet, and microfridge.
ref: 2007, Department of Music, Idaho State University, The Clarinet, Volume 35
glosses: A small refrigerator.
microfridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfridge
Halwai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi हलवाई (halvāī), from हलवा (halvā) + -ई (-ī). Cognate with halwa.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Indian
glosses: A person who makes halva.
glosses: An Indian caste or community traditionally associated with confectionery and sweet-making.
dolmadakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolmadaki
dolmadaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolmadakia
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek ντολμαδάκι (ntolmadáki).
Senses: topics: cuisine
food
lifestyle
glosses: A rice mixture with fresh herbs such as mint and parsley and, sometimes, pine nuts, with tender grape leaves, served with a thick and creamy, lemony sauce. Also, in some regions, minced meat is added tightly wrapped.
glosses: dolma.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: September 19, a humorous holiday during which observers are supposed to talk like pirates.
Derived terms: ITLPD
cup noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a trademark brand of Nissin, Japanese カップヌードル (“cup noodle”).
Senses: examples: text: Nobody felt like eating, and just as well, because Kian had cup noodles and a box of tea.
ref: 2014, Ann Aguirre, Mortal Danger, Feiwell and Friends:
glosses: Any dried, instant noodles (usually ramen) that are sold in and eaten from waterproof polystyrene cups.
wikipedia: Nissin Foods
legislative branches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legislative branch
executive branches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executive branch
judicial branches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judicial branch
unhospitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unhospitable + -ness or from un- + hospitableness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being unhospitable; of not being hospitable.
Related terms: unhospitality
unhospitality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + hospitality.
Senses: glosses: Lack of hospitality; rudeness towards guests.
Related terms: unhospitableness
unhospitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhospitably
form: most unhospitably
Etymology: From unhospitable + -ly or from un- + hospitably.
Senses: glosses: In an unhospitable manner.
nanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanner
glosses: bananas (crazy).
anti-Jewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-Jewish
form: most anti-Jewish
Etymology: From anti- + Jewish.
Senses: examples: text: Of the declared Antisemites, 66.32% (or 34.11% of the total replies) found the anti-Jewish measures to be insufficient.
ref: 1953 April, Leon Poliakov, “An Opinion Poll on Anti-Jewish Measures in Vichy France”, in Jewish Social Studies, volume 15, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 135–150:
text: Twenty-five years have passed since the anti-Jewish farhud in Iraq.
ref: 1966, Hayyim J. Cohen, “The Anti‐Jewish Farhūd in Baghdad, 1941”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 3, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR:
text: Biden on Monday unveiled new measures to tackle antisemitism on college campuses and senior officials underscored the need to combat anti-Jewish hate.
ref: 2023 October 31, Stephen Collinson, “A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world”, in CNN:
glosses: Opposed to Jews.
Synonyms: anti-Semitic
anti-semitic
antisemitic
Derived terms: anti-Jewishness
Related terms: anti-Jewism
Jewishness
pro-Jewishness
anti-Zionism
antigoyism
anti-goyism
anti-Goyism
anti-Arabism
anti-Arab
anti-Arabic
Arabophobia
Arabophobic
Arabophobe
Islamophobia
Islamophobic
Islamophobe
nationalism
tribalism
racism
xenophobia
Judeophobia
Judeophobic
Judeophobe
unbiasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbias
Laughead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Lawhead.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lawhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Laughead.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cudding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cud
cudded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cud
jannissaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jannissary
acidotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acidotropic
form: most acidotropic
Etymology: From acid + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: In order to investigate further the nature of the enlarged multilamellar structures in the AP-5 patient lines, we used cryo-immunoelectron microscopy and acidotropic and hydrolytic-activity-dependent fluorescent probes.
ref: 2015 June 17, Jennifer Hirst et al., “Loss of AP-5 results in accumulation of aberrant endolysosomes: defining a new type of lysosomal storage disease”, in Human Molecular Genetics, volume 24, →DOI:
glosses: That accumulates in acidic environments.
antennulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Even small details, such as aestetaschs of antennulae, so important for terrestrial isopods taxonomy, can be easily shown, e.g. in Trichoniscidae, fine lines between articles of antennal flagellum, or other characters that are often used for species taxonomy.
ref: 2015 July 30, Giuseppe Montesanto, “A fast GNU method to draw accurate scientific illustrations for taxonomy”, in ZooKeys, →DOI:
glosses: plural of antennula
anteroventrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mid tibia with two rows of setae dorsally nearly 2× longer than width of tibia (each row consists of 4–5 setae), row of short posteroventral setae, anteroventrals more irregularly arranged and somewhat longer than posteroventrals.
ref: 2015 July 27, Miroslav Barták, Štěpán Kubík, “Palaearctic species of Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) anfractuosa group (Diptera, Empididae)”, in ZooKeys, →DOI:
glosses: plural of anteroventral
basicosta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basicostae
Etymology: From basi- + costa.
Senses: examples: text: Wing measurements: M 2 /d = length of vein M 2 : greatest length of discal medial cell (discal cell); CuA 1 ratio = length of apical: preapical sections of vein CuA 1 ; lw/ww = greatest length of wing (from basicosta to apex): greatest width of wing.
ref: 2015 July 27, Miroslav Barták, Štěpán Kubík, “Palaearctic species of Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) anfractuosa group (Diptera, Empididae)”, in ZooKeys, →DOI:
glosses: The distal plate in the axillary area of the wing of an insect along which the costa of the wing articulates
cardiopexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiopexies
Etymology: From cardio- + -pexy.
Senses: examples: text: Total fundoplication and cardiopexy were performed as described by D'Netto et al .
ref: 2015 July 27, Ruelan V. Furtado et al., “Massive hiatus hernia complicated by jaundice”, in Journal of Surgical Case Reports, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The fixing in place of the heart by means of a ligature
ruminatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruminating
connatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + natal.
Senses: examples: text: Also patients III-4 and III-5 had persistence of deciduous teeth (premolars), while III-4 had two connatal teeth in the lower jaw.
ref: 2015 June 8, Melanie May et al., “ZC4H2, an XLID gene, is required for the generation of a specific subset of CNS interneurons”, in Human Molecular Genetics, volume 24, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of congenital (But note that congenital implies anomaly present before birth whereas connatal means an anomaly present at birth but possibly caused by the birth process, e.g.cranial trauma during labour)
synonyms: word: congenital
extra: But note that congenital implies anomaly present before birth whereas connatal means an anomaly present at birth but possibly caused by the birth process, e.g.cranial trauma during labour
derepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more derepressive
form: most derepressive
Etymology: From de- + repressive.
Senses: examples: text: The same outcome occurred when glutamine was re-fed to nitrogen-starved cells or those growing in a derepressive nitrogen source ( Figure 8 ).
ref: 2015 May 29, Jennifer J. Tate et al., “GATA Factor Regulation in Excess Nitrogen Occurs Independently of Gtr-Ego Complex-Dependent TorC1 Activation”, in G3: Genes, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: That counters repression
distalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distalizations
Etymology: From distal + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The influence of tibial component slope on epicondylar distance could be attributed to a more posterior shift and a distalization of the femur in relation to the tibia, and therefore a more proximally placed contact point between the patella and the femoral component.
ref: 2015 July 21, Armin Keshmiri et al., “The influence of component alignment on patellar kinematics in total knee arthroplasty”, in Acta Orthopaedica, volume 86, →DOI:
glosses: A change in position to the distal side