cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jim-jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jimjam
Senses: examples: text: […] when I lift back the cover which is a nice bedspread, lilac and purple with little flowers, girly you’d say for a man, I see he’s just got his jim-jam top on but no bottoms, the dirty old monkey, […]
ref: 2002, Liz Jensen, War Crimes for the Home, Bloomsbury Publishing, published June 2010, →ISBN:
text: And some mornings she wakes up with just her jim-jam bottoms on, wanting to be a dog.
ref: 2007, Duncan McLaren, Looking for Enid: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton, Portobello Books, →ISBN, page 280:
text: Her Snoopy jim-jam bottoms were at half mast; she hauled them up with one hand, concerned gaze covertly raking the teenager’s damaged face.
ref: 2009, Maureen Carter, chapter 14, in Blood Money, Crème de la Crime, →ISBN:
text: He peeled up the jim-jam top. The movement set her creamy breasts to quivering.
ref: 2011, Piper Maitland, Acquainted With the Night, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN:
text: ‘Well, Mr Sheffield,’ he said mournfully, ‘ah get pains in m’back when ah put mi jim-jam bottoms on at bedtime.’
ref: 2011, Jack Sheffield, Please Sir!, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 270:
text: At the toilet I reach under my cardigan, start to pull my pyjama bottoms down… and the shower curtain swishes back. With a cry of alarm, my jim-jam bottoms drop to my knees as I fall sideways heavily into the wall. […] Delicate areas reminds me that Martha and Jack are no doubt in their birthday suits in the bath, and my jim-jam bottoms are still down.
ref: 2019, Dreda Say Mitchell [professional name; Louise Emma Joseph], Spare Room, Bloodhound Books, →ISBN:
text: Before we do, I want you to remove your jim-jam bottoms, so you’re fully exposed.
ref: 2020, Stephen Box, The Odd Patients, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: Travelling light is essential, so I shall only bring what I bear on my person – thick socks, jim-jam pants, a T-shirt with a rude word on the front – and this diary, as testament to my expedition, and written valediction should the journey go ill.
ref: 2021, Darragh McManus, “Diary of an Expedition To Leave My Bed and Venture Downstairs To Find Sustenance in the Form of Coffee and Biscuits”, in Brevity Is the Soul: Wit from Lockdown Ireland, Liberties Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Attributive form of jim-jams.
ICV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICVs
Senses: topics: health
medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of international certificate of vaccination.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Abbreviation of in-car video.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of infantry carrier vehicle.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of infantry combat vehicle.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: CV
SCV
LCV
MCV
HCV
glosses: Initialism of intermediate commercial vehicle
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of integrity check value.
glosses: Abbreviation of integral check valve.
leukophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leukophobic
form: most leukophobic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to leukophobia.
fan cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan car
fan lobsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan lobster
complexity function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexity functions
Senses: examples: text: It follows that
#92;bullet The length function l#58;A#42;#92;longrightarrow#92;mathcalN is a complexity function on A#42;.
ref: 2002, A. V. Borovnik, A. G. Myasnikov, V. Shpilrain, “Measuring Sets in Infinite Groups”, in Robert H. Gilman, Alexei G. Myasnikov, Vladimir Shpilrain, editors, Computational and Statistical Group Theory, American Mathematical Society, page 27:
text: 2003, Julien Cassaigne, Constructing Infinite Words of Intermediate Complexity, Masami Ito, Masafumi Toyama (editors), Developments in Language Theory: 6th International Conference, 6th International Conference, DLT 2002, Revised Papers, Springer, LNCS 2450, page 173,
We present two constructions of infinite words with a complexity function that grows faster than any polynomial, but slower than any exponential.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
group-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function that counts the number of distinct factors (substrings of consecutive symbols) in a string of symbols;
raw_tags: of a string
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
group-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function that counts the number of distinct factors (substrings of consecutive symbols) in a string of symbols;
(of a formal language) a function that counts the number of words of a given length.
a function that counts the number of words of a given length.
raw_tags: of a formal language
of a string
examples: text: 2003, Roberto Segala, Verification of Randomized Distributed Algorithms, Ed Brinksma, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen (editors), Lectures on Formal Methods and Performance Analysis, Springer, LNCS 2090, page 253,
Let ϕ be a complexity function.
text: A complexity function need not have a quadratic term to be in O(n²). It need only eventually lie beneath some pure quadratic function on a graph. Therefore, any logarithmic or linear complexity function is in O(n²).
ref: 2011, Richard Neapolitan, Kumarss Naimipour, Foundations of Algorithms, 4th edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 31:
text: Hence, the worst case time complexity function of Floyd's algorithm is O(n³).
ref: 2014, R. Panneerselvam, Research Methodology, 2nd edition, PHI Learning, page 512:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function representing the computational complexity an algorithm.
raw_tags: of an algorithm
Derived terms: abelian complexity function
group complexity function
time complexity function
volume complexity function
complexity functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complexity function
Firbankian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Firbankian
form: most Firbankian
Etymology: From Firbank + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In a similar way, Hollinghurst's Firbankian depictions suggest how existing power structures might be seen to encode ‘sites of erotic investment’ (Sinfield, 2000, p. 27), which while implicated in the history of heteronormative oppression, might nevertheless inform queer desire.
ref: 2017, Mark Mathuray, editor, Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Springer, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: In the style of English novelist Ronald Firbank (1886–1926); high camp.
Firbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A locality and civil parish (without a council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD6293).
Derived terms: Firbankian
endoskeleta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoskeleton
Buffalo River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Victoria, Australia, which joins the Ovens River.
glosses: A river in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa, which flows into the Indian Ocean at East London.
glosses: A river in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, a tributary of the Tugela River.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States:
A river in Arkansas, known as the Buffalo River for part of its length; in full, the Buffalo National River.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States:
A short river in Georgia, a tributary of the Turtle River.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States:
A river in Minnesota, a tributary of the Red River of the North.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States:
A river in New York, which drains into Lake Erie at Buffalo.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States:
A river in Tennessee, a tributary of the Duck River.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States:
A river in Virginia, a tributary of the Tye River.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States:
A river in Wisconsin, a tributary of the Mississippi River.
Sparkler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sparkler Galaxy
form: The Sparkler
Etymology: From sparkler, from its sparkling appearance, and sparkles surround the central object.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A galaxy in Volans constellation, in the areal region of SMACS J0723.3–7327 (SMACS 0723); at the time of discovery in 2022, containing some of the earliest known massive star clusters, globulars.
dachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian да́чи (dáči).
Senses: glosses: plural of dacha
adult bookstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adult bookstores
Senses: glosses: A store selling pornography in the form of books and video, and often selling sex toys as well.
weavers' shuttles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weavers' shuttle
Romanovas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanova
kambala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kambalas
Senses: glosses: An annual buffalo race held in Karnataka, India.
Newcomen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
misjuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misjunctures
Etymology: From mis- + juncture.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: misunion
text: The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of "misjuncture" (p.70).
ref: 2003, Rena Lederman, “Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80:
text: This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.
ref: 2012, Ranjan Ghosh, “Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally”, in Comparative Drama, 46(3): 259-281:
text: The tension between the déclassé block and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole
ref: 2015, Anna Kornbluh, “The Realist Blueprint”, in The Henry James Review, 36(3): 199-211:
text: Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by "a structure of misjuncture" (1991:285) as opposed to a "structure of conjuncture," inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290).
ref: 2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge:
synonyms: misjoin#Noun
misjoining
coordinate_terms: disjuncture
disjunction
disjunct#Noun
glosses: A poorly articulated connection; a joining of things that functions poorly.
Related terms: misjoinder
dysfunction
malfunction
Rastrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1421).
glosses: A surname.
misjunctures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misjuncture
porn-star martini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porn-star martinis
Senses: examples: text: I’m scared and I take a gulp of my cocktail – a porn-star martini, all class – before I go on.
ref: 2018, Alice Judge-Talbot, The Back-Up Plan, Coronet, →ISBN:
text: Slip into the vaulted cavern and sip on a 'smoky margarita' or a 'porn-star Martini'.
ref: 2018 February, Greece, 13th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN:
text: Keep calm and drink tea/gin/coffee/Porn-star Martinis.
ref: 2020, Jacqueline Rohen, How to Marry Your Husband, Arrow Books, →ISBN:
text: I had imagined sipping on porn-star martinis with the black New York literati on the sixty-fifth floor of somebody’s glass penthouse; […]
ref: 2021, Georgina Lawton, “City is a Pity”, in Raceless, Sphere, →ISBN:
text: To try and recreate his safe place as the centre of interest he starts to order drinks, but soon finds himself well into three rounds of porn-star martinis and snacks.
ref: 2022, Echo, Barflies and Dubai: Stories of Skyscrapers and Sundowners, Notion Press, →ISBN:
text: In the back of the Uber, I relay the cloakroom confrontation and end up having to convince Mum not to fire our so-called manager over the phone while she’s four porn-star martinis deep.
ref: 2023, Amara Sage, Influential, Faber & Faber Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of porn star martini.
porn-star martinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porn-star martini
metescufylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A phosphodiesterase inhibitor.
poly-yne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poly-ynes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polyyne.
porn-star names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porn-star name
OGA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of other government agency.
Ukronazism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ukro-Nazism
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian укронаци́зм (ukronacízm), coined to translate the op-ed What Russia Should Do with Ukraine (2022). Analyzable as Ukronazi + -ism or Ukro- + Nazism.
Senses: examples: text: Ukronazism poses a much bigger threat to the world and Russia than the Hitler version of German Nazism.
ref: 2022 April 3, Timofey Sergeytsev, “What Russia Should Do with Ukraine”, in Mariia Kravchenko, transl., Medium, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
text: After the launch Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, claimed on Twitter that the weapon was a "present to Nato and all sponsors of Ukro-Nazism", in a reference to Russia's propaganda claims about the conflict in Ukraine.
ref: 2022 April 20, Charlie Parker, “Putin warns West with long-range Satan 2 missile”, in The Times, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2022:
text: In Sergeitsev's hermetic logic, when contemporary Ukrainians look different from historical Banderites or Nazis, then that is precisely what makes 'Ukro-Nazism' so elusive and threatening for Russia.
ref: 2022 November 30, Boris Noordenbos, “Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia's mnemonic propaganda”, in Andrew Hoskins, editor, Memory Studies, volume 15, number 6, SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
ref: 2023 September 26, “Statement of the State Duma in connection with the promotion of Ukronazism and neo-fascism by the Canadian authorities”, in State Duma:
glosses: Anti-Russian sentiment in Ukraine, supposedly resembling or derived from neo-Nazism.
wikipedia: What Russia Should Do with Ukraine
Related terms: Russophobia
Ukro-Nazism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ukronazism.
delivery order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delivery orders
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: D/O
glosses: A document that orders the release of transported cargo to another party.
Related terms: purchase order
delivery note
delivery note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delivery notes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of delivery receipt.
synonyms: word: delivery receipt
Related terms: delivery order
Oga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Oga.
Senses: glosses: A frazione in Valdisotto, Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy.
Oga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 男鹿 (Oga).
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in Akita Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, projecting into the Sea of Japan; in full, Oga Peninsula.
glosses: A city in Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture, Honshu, Japan; in full, Oga City.
glosses: Ellipsis of Oga Quasi-National Park: a park in Oga City, Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.
order form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: order forms
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A standardized form that customers can fill out to order goods or services from a particular company.
Related terms: purchase order
LPU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LPUs
Senses: qualifier: library economy
glosses: Initialism of least publishable unit.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Abbreviation of latest pick-up.
qualifier: economy
glosses: Initialism of local public utility.
LPUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LPU
delivery receipt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delivery receipts
Senses: glosses: A document, signed by either the recipient or the delivery person, that attests that a letter or parcel has reached its intended destination.
glosses: An electronic message that indicates an email that was sent or a document that was uploaded has reached the person or business to which it was sent.
Related terms: advice of delivery
delivery note
delivery confirmation
read receipt
Kingston by Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of Shoreham-by-Sea, Adur district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2305).
dark academics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark academic
Dark Academic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dark Academics
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dark academic.
Dark Academics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dark Academic
exstrophied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Undergone exstrophy.
kologo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kologos
Senses: glosses: xalam
Warshington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Do you live in Washington or WaRshington? If it's the latter, you almost certainly drink waRter.
ref: 2016 March 14, Frances Stead Sellers, “How do you speak D.C.? 'Accent tags' help to define the District's dialect”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2017:
text: I grew up saying 'Warshington' until I was in about eighth grade and made fun of. Personally, I believe it was more of a regional dialect and NOT because I was poorly educated. Similar to how some people say crick instead of creek.
ref: 2019 February 25, Paul Turner, quoting Patty West, “Paul Turner: Hello, modern-day Spokane children. I scoff at your puny snow forts.”, in The Spokesman-Review, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2019:
text: This movie features a lot of old guys talking in a "Warshington" accent.
ref: 2020 September 9, John Kelly, “Danny Gatton and other DC guitar greats are celebrated in a new film”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2020:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Washington (“Washington, D.C.”).
Warshington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of war + Washington.
Senses: examples: text: "Senators live in Warshington," Maurice Levy contributed the information. "I been there.["]
ref: 1914, Booth Tarkington, Asa Don Dickinson, Penrod:
text: At a campaign rally in Ft. Dodge later that same day, he noted, "I may be just a simple country boy from Tikrit, but I know a thing or two about how Bush and them big shot fellers in Warshington, D.C. operate. They make all kinda fancy promises and big talk, and pretty soon you're out of a job."
ref: 2003 December 3, David Burge, “US Forces Capture New Dem Frontrunner”, in Iowahawk, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2022:
text: Maybe if Bush would get the military out of Iraq he could do something about the violence in Warshington D.C.
ref: 2006 June 13, “Mission Accomplished Tour '06”, in alt.politics.elections (Usenet):
text: [T]hey's risen as a community and gotten a petition to send to Warshington.
ref: 2010, Roger Lee Scout, Letters from the Hills:
text: Those folks in Warshington and those politicians know nothin' 'bout farmin'.
ref: 2011, Roy T. Matthews, Gittin' Through:
text: Maybe it's because the rest of the country's politicians go back to their constituents and tell them how evil "Warshington" is, and that mindset seeps into the confidence of the city's athletes.
ref: 2016 May 11, Beau Dure, “For the cursed Washington Capitals, another season ends in heartache”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:
text: So, all you "Warshington Warlords," look in the mirror. I believe you are the main inspiration for our endless stream of mass shootings.
ref: 2022 June 10, Jacqueline Brook, “Letter: 'Warshington Warlords' serve as examples for mass shooters”, in Brattleboro Reformer, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2022:
glosses: Washington, D.C., or (metonymic) the US government, seen as the origin and epicenter of American warmongering.
Seaview
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From sea + view.
Senses: glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
A village in Nettlestone and Seaview parish, north-east Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ6291).
glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
A neighbourhood within Saint John, Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Hawaii County, Hawaii.
glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pacific County, Washington.
glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in West Seattle, Washington.
glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
A village in Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
glosses: A number of coastal settlements:
An industrial suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Prigozhin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈɡoʊʒɪn/
Forms: form: Prigozhins
Etymology: From Russian Пригожин (Prigožin). Doublet of Prigogine.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian
Related terms: Prigogin
Prigogine
Prigojin
Prigojine
Prigogine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prigogines
Etymology: From French Prigogine, from Russian Пригожин (Prigožin). Doublet of Prigozhin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian, variant of Prigozhin
glosses: Ellipsis of 11964 Prigogine: an asteroid in Main Belt, Solar System.
Related terms: Prigogin
Prigojin
Prigojine
Prigozhin
blanids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanid
blanid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Blanidae family of worm lizards.
macroanatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macroanatomic
form: most macroanatomic
Etymology: From macro- + anatomic or macroanatomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macroanatomical.
abdicational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From abdication + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, abdication.
Nettlestone and Seaview
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in the north-east of the Isle of Wight, England, which includes the named places.
CSMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CSM
Nettlestone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Nettlestone and Seaview parish, north-east Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ6290).
tasky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: taskier
form: more tasky
form: taskiest
form: most tasky
Etymology: From task + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a task, arduous; (by extension) time-consuming, tiresome, stressful.
Old Shoreham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After much strenuous controversy the Shoreham and Chichester Railway agreed to pay the Duke of Norfolk a large sum for the presumed loss of bridge tolls that would result from the construction of the railway, and also purchased the old wooden bridge about a mile up the river, which served the alternative road through Old Shoreham. It may be remarked here that the Shoreham-Horsham branch crosses the highway on the level at the Old Shoreham end of the wooden bridge, where a block signal box is provided.
ref: 1946 January and February, G. A. Sekon, “The L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
glosses: A small settlement near Shoreham-by-Sea, Adur district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2006).
road dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road dogs
form: road dawg
Senses: examples: text: "It's a big laydown, so a few of my old road dogs and me been bustin' moves and doin' doors on some serious assholes."
ref: 2002, Stephen J. Cannell, The Viking Funeral (Shane Scully; 2), Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:
text: After she lied about the bullet going through the apartment to the police, I moved out and stayed with my road dog.
ref: 2013, Roger Griffin, Transgressions: How One Man Survived Big Intercity Corruption, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 217:
text: And I think it'll be a great thing for me, being able to see my mom a lot. That's my road dog. We do a lot together. She's one of my best friends.
ref: 2016 February 26, Jorge Castillo, quoting Markieff Morris, “For Markieff Morris, trade to Wizards will bring some home cooking”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2023:
text: Ben Kleinfelter and Zaiden Leary, they are my road dogs. It's a quick and fun way to be around your friends and make a little money on the side.
ref: 2020 November 7, Tyler Seggerman, quoting Dustin Muir, “Toledo teen sinks spot on Team USA to compete in World Junior Pool Championships”, in WTOL, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A trusted friend.
road dawg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road dawgs
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of road dog (“a trusted friend”).
road dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road dog
road dawgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road dawg
happy Near Year
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: From everyone here at "Chum central."
ref: 2002 January 1, Helpful GM, “CL: Happy near year”, in comp.sys.mac.games.adventure (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jan 2023:
glosses: Misconstruction of happy New Year.
cNeoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cNeoblast
cNeoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cNeoblasts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of clonogenic neoblast.
irisless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iris + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Whether the granite menagerie was Arbo’s idea or the sculptor’s vision is not clear. The animals—a baby rhino, a lion, a hyena, on cocked forelegs, with drooping necks, irisless eyes—watch a horizon that does not exist for the buildings, stoop to drink from an oasis that does not exist for the concrete.
ref: 1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 245:
glosses: Without irises.
raw_tags: of eyes
blattoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blattoid
blattoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæ.tɔɪd/
Forms: form: blattoids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Blattoidea, from the type genus of Blatta, from Latin blatta (“photophobic bug”). Further etymology unclear.
Senses: examples: text: This result, however, is much younger than some “roachoid” fossils and clearly invalidates the hypothesis suggesting that winged “blattoids” would date back to the Devonian.
ref: 2015 June 22, Frédéric Legendre, André Nel, Gavin J. Svenson, Tony Robillard, Roseli Pellens, Philippe Grandcolas, “Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence”, in PLoS One:
text: However, a subgroup analysis (by order) indicated that the DGC facilitated gaseous exchange in dipterans (0.43 ± 0.34; estimate ± 95% CI; p = 0.01), but not in blattoids (p = 0.89) or orthopterans (p = 0.57) (Figure 5a).
ref: 2022 January 22, Seun O. Oladipupo, Alan E. Wilson, Xing Ping Hu, Arthur G. Appel, “Why Do Insects Close Their Spiracles? A Meta-Analytic Evaluation of the Adaptive Hypothesis of Discontinuous Gas Exchange in Insects”, in Insects:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the Blattoidea superfamily of cockroaches and termites.
Hypernyms: dictyopteran
Hyponyms: anaplectid
archeorhinotermitid
archotermopsid
blattid
cratomastotermitid
cryptocercid
hodotermitid
kalotermitid
lamproblattid
mastotermitid
oulopterygid
rhinotermitid
serritermitid
stolotermitid
stylotermitid
termitid
termopsid
tryonicid
blattoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæ.tɔɪd/
Forms: form: more blattoid
form: most blattoid
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Blattoidea, from the type genus of Blatta, from Latin blatta (“photophobic bug”). Further etymology unclear.
Senses: examples: text: This age is congruent with the presence of “blattoid” ootheca in the Late Carboniferous, suggesting that Dictyoptera with reduced ovipositors were already present at that time, coexisting with “roachoids” with long external ovipositors.
ref: 2015 June 22, Frédéric Legendre, André Nel, Gavin J. Svenson, Tony Robillard, Roseli Pellens, Philippe Grandcolas, “Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence”, in PLoS One:
text: Within the animal kingdom, complex brains and high intelligence have evolved several to many times independently, e.g. among ecdysozoans in some groups of insects (e.g. blattoid, dipteran, hymenopteran taxa), among lophotrochozoans in octopodid molluscs, among vertebrates in teleosts (e.g. cichlids), corvid and psittacid birds, and cetaceans, elephants and primates.
ref: 2015 December 19, Gerhard Roth, “Convergent evolution of complex brains and high intelligence”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London:
text: The most parsimonious scenario of the origin of this pattern would be an ancient duplication of the ancestral FAD-A1 and subsequent conservation of its paralogous copy during diversification of blattoid cockroaches and termites.
ref: 2023 April 12, Stanislav Macháček, Michal Tupec, Natan Horáček, Martina Halmová, Amit Roy, Aleš Machara, Pavlína Kyjaková, Ondřej Lukšan, Iva Pichová, Robert Hanus, “Evolution of Linoleic Acid Biosynthesis Paved the Way for Ecological Success of Termites”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution:
glosses: Relating to the Blattoidea, comprised of cockroaches and termites.
Related terms: Blattoidea
garburate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: garburates
form: garburating
form: garburated
form: garburated
Etymology: Back-formation from garburator,
equivalent to garbage + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To use a garburator (on).
glosses: To undergo the process of a garburator.
garburates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of garburate
garburating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garburate
garburated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garburate
sternopleura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternopleuron
breakfast poutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hot breakfast dish that is a variation of poutine. It is composed of pan-fried cubed potatoes and cheese curds, smothered in hollandaise sauce and topped with a fried egg, sometimes with breakfast sausage medallions, diced ham, and/or bacon bits.
artificial kidney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artificial kidneys
Senses: examples: text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: A dialysis machine, an external device that cleans the blood of people with kidney failure; from the 1940s to the 2000s, not portable, but wearable versions now exist.
glosses: An implantable bionic device to replace the function of a natural kidney, long dreamed of but not yet feasible.
synonyms: kidney machine
glosses: A bioengineered (laboratory-grown) biologic kidney (from cultured cells), still experimental.
Coordinate terms: kidney transplant
artificial kidneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificial kidney
fourth-wall joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth-wall jokes
Senses: examples: text: It was cool to be able to do kind of fourth-wall jokes, where we’re treating the characters as if maybe they’re not just characters.
ref: 2005 September 27, Eric Winkler, quoting Mike Henry, “‘Untold’ heights: ‘Family Guy’ takes unrated movie straight to DVD”, in The Kansas City Star, 126th year, number 10, page E3:
text: One of the great things about 22 Jump Street, which does for sequels what the previous film did for big-screen TV adaptations, is that it incorporates all its fourth-wall jokes and references into an actual plot.
ref: 2014 June 13, Rene Rodriguez, “Funny thing, the sequel’s pretty good”, in Miami Herald, page 10G:
text: Brooks’ formula includes a tight script, likable characters, Borscht Belt humor, vaudevillian song and dance numbers, deliberately Brechtian fourth-wall jokes, intertextual references to other films and personalities, provocative innuendo, and colorful language, creating films that are outré yet have wide audience appeal.
ref: 2016, Jack Curtis Dubowsky, “Blazing Saddles: Music and Meaning in ‘The French Mistake’”, in Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness (K.J. Donnelly, editor, Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture, →ISSN), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part III (Queering of Genre), page 209:
text: Guess I really like fourth-wall jokes.
ref: 2017, T. H. Cooney, “Adolescent Humour”, in Beyond the Box: Tom’s Top Movie Peeves, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fourth wall joke.
fourth-wall jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourth-wall joke
Bikinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bikini + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Bikinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bikinians
Etymology: From Bikini + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Bikini Atoll.
Bikinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bikinian
ice-cream parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-cream parlours
Senses: examples: text: Ice-cream parlours are making a comeback at present, almost all of them finding it profitable to provide “retro”-styled furnishings: black-and-white tiled floors (the tiles preferably hexagonal), bentwood chairs, “Tiffany” lamps, mirrors, cushioned booths, marble counters and so on.
ref: 1986, Margaret Visser, “Ice Cream: Cold Comfort”, in Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 316:
text: In fact, one of the appeals of ice-cream parlours was their perceived ‘respectability’, which, unlike pubs, made them appropriate for women and children to frequent.
ref: 2009, Elisabetta Girelli, “History and Representation of Italian Immigrants in Britain”, in Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema, Bristol; Chicago, Ill.: Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 44:
text: They [paper drinking cups] became popular in ice-cream parlours and soda fountains as a way of serving ice cream in take-away portions.
ref: 2010, Caroline Weir, Robin Weir, “Glossary”, in Ice Creams, Sorbets & Gelati: The Definitive Guide, London: Grub Street, published 2012, →ISBN, entry “Dixie cup”, page 291, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream parlor.
ice-cream parlours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-cream parlour
buddy cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy cops
Senses: examples: text: Buddy cop movies were raised to an art form in the eighties.
ref: 2006, Howard Hughes, “Criminal Record: An Introduction to Crime Movies”, in Crime Wave: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Crime Movies, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page xxi:
text: Thus buddy-cop films exemplified a finding of common ground between reckless, suicidal cops and responsible family cops (Lethal Weapon), between fast-talking convicts and tough, world-weary detectives (48 Hours), between strict Russian police officers and boorish Chicago cops (Red Heat).
ref: 2015, Jeffrey A. Brown, Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:
text: More action-heavy than other buddy cop movies, Die Hard paired the gut-punching blend of eye-popping stunts (John McClane leaping from a roof with nothing but a firehose tied around his waist) and insane violence (that close-up of the bad guy’s knees being shot to pieces) that audiences adored from the money-spinning Rambo franchise with the sparky dialogue of Beverly Hills Cop, injected a dose of satire, and wrapped it all up with a new kind of action hero.
ref: 2022, Kim Taylor-Foster, Why We Love Die Hard, Running Press, →ISBN:
text: By applying elements of Joseph Campbell’s philosophy of the heroes’ journey (2008) and Jung’s archetypes (Miller & Chodorow, 2004) of the hero, the mother, the sage and the child, this chapter will explore the hero’s journey, with a specific focus on how younger partners in the buddy cop narrative transcend from boys to men, and how masculinity is defined within this space through the lens of their peer relationships.
ref: 2023, Racheal Harris, “Masculinity and the Buddy Cop Film”, in Steven Gerrard, Renée Middlemost, editors, Gender and Action Films 1980-2000: Beauty in Motion (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender), Emerald Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: A film and television genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process.
examples: text: With a long pedigree of heroic duos that can be traced back to Holmes and Watson, the original buddy cops, this genre of films tends to be more focused on inter-character chemistry than it is on big explosions or drawn-out fistfights.
ref: 2012, Katrina Hill, Action Movie Freak, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A film and television genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process.
One of the two characters.
buddy cops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy cop
blooddrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Adonis annua.
pluritopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Multiply targeted.
ejecta spherule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejecta spherules
Senses: examples: text: Back-scattered electron image, and EDS maps showing the intensity of Ca, Si, K, Mg and Fe in a typical ejecta spherule from the event deposit.
ref: 2012, “Tsunami backwash deposits with Chicxulub impact ejecta and dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the La Popa Basin, Mexico”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Micro-CT image showing cutaway of clay-altered ejecta spherule with internal core of unaltered impact glass.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Stunning Discovery Offers Glimpse Of Minutes Following ‘Dinosaur-Killer’ Chicxulub Impact”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ejecta that is roughly in the shape of a small sphere.
islay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪzleɪ/
Forms: form: islays
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish islay.
Senses: glosses: Prunus ilicifolia, a traditional Native American food plant in southern California.
Synonyms: hollyleaf cherry
evergreen cherry
diavlog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diavlogs
Etymology: Blend of dialogue + vlog, itself a blend of video and blog, itself a blend of web log.
Senses: glosses: A weblog using video of a dialogue between two people as its primary presentation format.
Related terms: blog
diavlogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diavlog
bʼakʼtuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bʼakʼtun
bʼakʼtunob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bʼakʼtun
unattributive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unattributive
form: most unattributive
Etymology: From un- + attributive.
Senses: examples: text: If Isth. 1, 14, τὸ μέν ἅρματι τεθρίππῳ γέρας be construed according to Heyne, as I understand him, a difficulty is presented; because he deems it an unattributive dative placed between article and noun without attributive.
ref: 1882, Augustus C. Merriam, “Alien Intrusion between Article and Noun in Greek”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, volume XIII, […] the Association. Cambridge: John Wilson and Son. University Press, page 39:
text: The unattributive quality of God’s name is not, of course, subject to debate.
ref: 1971, Frederick Plotkin, Milton’s Inward Jerusalem: Paradise Lost and the Ways of Knowing (Studies in English Literature; volume LXXII), The Hague; Paris: Mouton, →LCCN, page 116:
text: Formally/functionally and synchronically, we face here one of the most difficult and intriguing phenomena of syntax, viz. the junction and interdependence of noun and unattributive clause, that is (at least in languages with which I have a degree of familiarity) resolvable into the dichotomy of adnexal (“nexus-adjoining”) and “conjunctional” roles.
ref: 1989, Ariel Shisha-Halevy, “Work-Notes on Demotic Syntax, I”, in Orientalia, volume 58, page 37:
text: Since the hadiths of “the three lies” are not dubious but well-established in the two Ṣaḥīḥs, this might be an example of Bayḍāwī’s use of the unattributive passive voice in introducing a report without conveying dubiousness (tamrīḍ)—not as assumed by Munāwī in the Fatḥ (1:142) or per the convention of latter-day hadith scholars, but indifferently, as in al-Tirmidhī’s practice in his Sunan.
ref: 2016, Gibril Fouad Haddad, The Lights of Revelation & the Secrets Of Interpretation: Ḥizb I of the Commentary On The Qurʾān by al-Bayḍāwī, Beacon Books and Media Ltd, →ISBN, page 327:
glosses: Not attributive.
Synonyms: non-attributive
cash points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cash point
nail-polish remover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail-polish removers
Senses: examples: text: When nail polish gets clumpy • Add a few drops of rubbing alcohol to thin it out. • Or, a few drops of nail-polish remover.
ref: 1990, Mary Ellen Pinkham, Pearl Higginbotham, Mary Ellen’s Greatest Hints, Fawcett Crest, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Nail-polish removers are mildly irritating to the skin, but minimum precautions ameliorate this problem.
ref: 2000, P.G. Engasser, J.S. Taylor, Howard I. Maibach, “Cosmetologists”, in Lasse Kanerva, P. Elsner, Jan E. Wahlberg, Howard I. Maibach, editors, Handbook of Occupational Dermatology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 893:
text: All major brands of nail-polish remover now have an acetone-free variety, which is easy to find at major drugstores.
ref: 2005, Debra Lynn Dadd, Home Safe Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household Products, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of nail polish remover.
nail-polish removers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail-polish remover
phonesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phonaesthetics.
no, thank you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I knew just the time to come in for nursery tea, I knew just how to sit at table, I knew that when I was offered the third piece of cake I must say, “No, thank you,” even though I wanted it. I didn’t know everything though. For instance, once at nursery tea Mrs. Montgomery was in and I was offered the third piece of cake, and I said, “No, thank you, I’m full.” Now that evening I was having my nightly bath and Mrs. Montgomery came into the bathroom and said, “Irene, during nursery tea today you remember saying ‘No, thank you, I’m full?’ ” and I said, “Yes, Mrs. Montgomery.” “Well, Irene, you mustn’t say that again. In future you must say, “No, thank you. I’m quite satisfied’ Do you understand?”
ref: 1962, Brian Jackson, Dennis Marsden, Education and the Working Class, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 121:
text: ‘Have some tea?’ ‘No, thank you.’
ref: 1970, Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1979, →ISBN, page 357:
text: I was left to play my part, grudgingly, in the eternal jugalbandi of tourist life: ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘Rickshaw, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’
ref: 2009, Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Canongate, published 2015, page 226:
text: As the smell of toasting Borodinski bread wafts through the apartment, Bill goes through other frozen foods—all Costco, stuffed this-and-that. No, thank you.
ref: 2018, Paul Goldberg, “ISIS”, in The Château, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: Alternative form of no thank you.
maccaronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maccaronisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of macaronism.
buttom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bottom.
maccaronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maccaronic
form: most maccaronic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of macaronic (written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages)
pheneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenemes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A (hypothetical) linguistic item that is atomic both with respect to phonology as well as semantics; an item that is both a phoneme as well as a sememe.
Derived terms: phenemic
phenemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pheneme
allotagm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotagms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of the possible surface forms yielded by a tagmeme.
Related terms: allophone
allomorph
Lyminster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Lyminster and Crossbush parish, Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0204).
Lyminster and Crossbush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex, England, which includes the named places.
Crossbush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Lyminster and Crossbush parish, Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0306).