cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fuckuva
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of fuck of a.
Senses: examples: text: […] But we're gonna have one fuckuva casting problem for Captain Mediafreak and Chocolate Graham."
ref: 1981, Paul Krassner, Tales of Tongue Fu, And/Or Press, →ISBN, page 94:
text: "He's lost a fuckuva lot of blood," the medic says.
ref: 1985, Donald Bodey, F. N. G., Viking, →ISBN, page 97:
text: For every square inch of wax, there were somewhere in the area of 19,000 hairs to be yanked. That is—to put it in technical terms—a fuckuva lot of adhesive force.
ref: 2007, Steve Almond, (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Fuck of a; extreme; major.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Synonyms: heckuva
helluva
AHRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AHRSs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of attitude heading reference system.
Related terms: english: inertial reference system
translation: inertial reference system
word: IRS
word: gyroscope
decriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more decriable
form: most decriable
Etymology: From decry + -able.
Senses: examples: text: "By taking this action, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has proven itself a leader in a commendable move to end the present decriable economic depression. […]
ref: 1931, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, volume 91, page 196:
text: This discounting of the future as, in effect, an externality, like the environment and the poor, remains one of the most decriable aspects of current economic theory, brushed aside from the time of Adam Smith onward with the cold caveat that "every individual . . . intends only his own gain" […]
ref: 1977, The Ecologist, page 276:
text: An understanding of it can give unique insight into other forms of equally decriable discrimination.
ref: 2006, Jane Anna Gordon, “Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to Social Scientific Method by the Study of Race”, chapter 19 of Lewis Ricardo Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon (editors), A Companion to African-American Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, page 294
glosses: Worthy of being decried; condemnable.
yero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeros
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gyro (Greek sandwich)
souflaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: souflakis
form: souflakia
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of souvlaki (“a Greek dish”)
yeros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yero
give one's head a shake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives one's head a shake
form: giving one's head a shake
form: gave one's head a shake
form: given one's head a shake
Senses: examples: text: If you're thinking about topping your burger with ketchup, mustard, relish and perhaps a couple of pickle slices, you might want to "give your head a shake."
ref: 2009 August 20, Joanne Chianello, “New program asks you to pass on the sodium”, in The Windsor Star:
text: But give your head a shake, people. Stop pushing for Wi-Fi at campgrounds around B.C. The entire premise of going camping is to escape from the hustle and bustle of our busy lives.
ref: 2011 August 19, Roxanne Hooper, “Please, keep the wilderness wild”, in The Record, New Westminster, British Columbia:
text: Talk about focussing on the unimportant. Give your head a shake, Google.
ref: 2011 December 5, Cam Cole, “Leafs lying scandal blown out of proportion”, in National Post:
glosses: To reassess the common sense of one's behaviour, ideas, etc.
GROVER
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Greenland rover and Goddard remotely operated vehicle for exploration and research.
Las Vegan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Las Vegans
Etymology: From Las Vegas + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Vegan
glosses: Someone living in or originating from Las Vegas.
Las Vegan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Las Vegan
form: most Las Vegan
Etymology: From Las Vegas + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Las Vegas.
Vegan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡən/
rhymes: -eɪɡən
Etymology: From Vega + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the star Vega.
Vegan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡən/
rhymes: -eɪɡən
Forms: form: Vegans
Etymology: From Vega + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Tommy looked deflated. He stepped back slightly, shaking his head. "Never saw such a resemblance. Are you a Vegan?" "No," Bart lied flatly. "Aldebaran. David Briscoe."
ref: 1963, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Colors of Space:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Someone from the vicinity of the star Vega.
Vegan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡən/
rhymes: -eɪɡən
Forms: form: Vegans
Senses: examples: text: […] James G. Scrugham (later to become governor of the state, and a congressman) and Vegans Roy W. Martin , James Cashman and E. W. Griffith.
ref: 1969, Nevada Highways and Parks, volumes 29-30, page 41:
glosses: Ellipsis of Las Vegan (“someone from Las Vegas”).
glosses: Someone from Vega in Norway.
glosses: Someone from Vega in Sweden.
have a fable for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a fable for
form: having a fable for
form: had a fable for
form: had a fable for
Etymology: From the French "avoir un faible pour". Faible is cognate with foible and feeble.
Senses: examples: text: I had always had a fable for nudes. Unfortunately my wife did not feel the same way.
ref: 2007, Helmut W. Horchler, Native Friendships, page 137:
text: “My mother, just like your wife, had a fable for Gaelic names, and Seamus is the Gaelic version of James.”
ref: 2009, Wilfried F. Voss, The Bleeding Hills, Copperhill Media Corporation, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Those that have a fable for good music combined with excellent food will love the unique concept of this club!
ref: 2012, "Exclusive Hot-Spot", Vienna Deluxe, Winter 2012, page 67
glosses: To have a weakness for.
morphonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of morpho- + phonology: morphophonology with applied haplology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of morphophonology.
laminarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laminaria
photoconsistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoconsistencies
Etymology: From photo- + consistency.
Senses: glosses: The property of being photoconsistent.
photoconsistencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoconsistency
adjacentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adjacent + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the visit that you made today to the machine works in Perry, one of the reasons that that is such an ideal location is its adjacentness to a highway in which movement by truck is possible.
ref: 1971, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Rural development: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, page 11:
glosses: The quality of being adjacent.
Islamicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪzˈlamɪsɪst/
Forms: form: Islamicists
Etymology: From Islamic + -ist. Compare Islamist.
Senses: glosses: An expert or scholar in Islam.
glosses: An Islamic fundamentalist.
Islamicist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪzˈlamɪsɪst/
Forms: form: more Islamicist
form: most Islamicist
Etymology: From Islamic + -ist. Compare Islamist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Islamic scholarship.
examples: text: With strong US support, the Bouteflika regime has to some extent been successful in suppressing the Islamicist revolt, winning over the pious middle classes, and providing the Pentagon with a staunch ally in the war on terror […].
ref: 2006, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 16:
glosses: Pertaining to Islamic fundamentalism.
Islamicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Islamicist
inoculatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inoculatrices
Senses: glosses: A female inoculator.
inoculatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inoculatrix
ladybird spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladybird spider
interstitial nephritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interstitial nephritides
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a kidney disorder in which the interstitial spaces between the kidney tubules become inflamed
Derived terms: tubulo-interstitial nephritis
springed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒd
Etymology: From springe + -ed (“past participle suffix”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of springe
springed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒd
ipa: /spɹɪŋd/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒd
Forms: form: more springed
form: most springed
Etymology: From spring + -ed (“having, equipped with”).
Senses: examples: text: They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.
ref: 1970, Kazimierz Godłowski, “The chronology of the Late Roman and early migration periods in Central Europe”, in Acta scientiarum litterarumque: Schedae archeologicae, Nakładem Uniwersytetu Jagiellonśkiego, page 22:
text: Snibbing down the springed catch to secure a slatted wooden barrier, mindful of pained fingers past, she strategically pulled her hand back, thinking of it as a smart mouse stealing cheese from a trap.
ref: 2008 December 2, Irvine Welsh, Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Michael Reid sat, leaning against the footboard at the end of the weak-springed bed, watched a cockroach walk boldly across the headboard at the other end, and tried to figure out what day it was.
ref: 2012, Robert Laurence, Departure Lounge: A Novel, Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Having (a given type of) springs; equipped with (a given type of) springs.
raw_tags: with preceding modifier
springed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒd
ipa: /spɹɪŋd/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
rhymes: -ɪŋd
ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒd
ipa: /spɹɪŋd/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
Etymology: From spring + -ed (“past participle suffix”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spring (“spend the springtime”)
racketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of racket
racketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racketings
Senses: examples: April 1, 1828, Walter Scott, letter to Robert Surtees
My daughter is not quite so well (thanks to balls and racketings'), and I think visiting will suit us better on our return, as the weather will be more favourable.
glosses: A carouse; a reckless dissipation.
racketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of racket
cunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cun
abstractifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstractification
abstracticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstracticism
logistic growth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pattern of growth that can be represented by a logistic function.
cercarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cercaria
Lusophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌluːsəˈfəʊbɪə/
Forms: form: lusophobia
Etymology: From Luso- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A dislike or hatred for the Portuguese.
glosses: A negative sentiment towards the Portugal.
glosses: A negative sentiment towards Portuguese culture.
lusophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lusophobia.
coming at a price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come at a price
Greekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Greekly
form: most Greekly
Etymology: From Greek + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:
text: Originally all the Delta waterways had been natural, but after the Greekly scientific Ptolemies came to rule Egypt, they connected Nilus's network of arms with thousands of canals, […]
ref: 2007, Colleen McCullough, The October Horse, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 82:
text: They were termed agons (or, to pluralize more Greekly, agones), which word, despite the evident connection to our agony or agonize, originally had nothing to do with the duress or anguish these words now convey.
ref: 2011, Robert Metcalfe, Simpson Agonistes: A History of a Crime, iUniverse, published 2012, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: In a Greek manner; in a way characteristic of Greeks.
ophiophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ophiophobic
form: most ophiophobic
Etymology: From ophio- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: The red-sided garter snake, while harmless to all but the most ophiophobic of humans, is a fearsome predator of frogs, salamanders and slugs.
ref: 1986, Nature Canada, volumes 15-17, unnumbered page:
text: Not for the ophiophobic, this made-for-cable original features rattlesnakes running amok in a small town, mediocre acting (on the humans' part, that is), dull dialogue, and laughable scenes in snake-o-vision.
ref: 2000, Mick Martin, Marsha Porter, Video Movie Guide 2001, Ballantine Bokos, →ISBN, page 895:
text: The ophiophobic Indy also has a touchingly neurotic streak (played down in later films), which counterbalances the mounting absurdity of his relentless adventures.
ref: 2005, Alec Worley, Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Méliès to, The Lord of the Rings, McFarland & Co,, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: Afraid of snakes.
Synonyms: ophidiophobic
incurvating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incurvate
incurvates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incurvate
incurvated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incurvate
misreference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈɹɛfəɹəns/
/mɪsˈɹəfɹəns/
Forms: form: misreferences
Etymology: From mis- + reference.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect reference.
misreference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈɹɛfəɹəns/
/mɪsˈɹəfɹəns/
Forms: form: misreferences
form: misreferencing
form: misreferenced
form: misreferenced
Etymology: From mis- + reference.
Senses: glosses: To incorrectly reference (something).
misreferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misreference
misreferences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misreference
coulibiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coulibiac
pitieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pity + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pity
pitiest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pity + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of pity
holeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊl.ləs/
ipa: /ˈhoʊl.ləs/
ipa: [ˈhoʊɫ.ləs]
Etymology: From hole + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a hole or holes.
Derived terms: holelessness
pitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pit or pits.
NAPLAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy.
proselytute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proselytutes
Etymology: Blend of proselytize + prostitute.
Senses: examples: text: I've heard from a number of Christian proselytutes that if what they're saying hurts me, then it must be because i was involved with a group that twisted the bible and "wasn't *really* Christian," and that i should listen to them & their version because *they* have it *right*.
ref: 1995 March 27, The Answer is to Question [username], “Re: PURGATORY: PART I”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):
text: Frankly, I think that evangelism is a profoundly obnoxious activity, particularly when proselytutes claim that they are morally superior to those who do not share their delusions.
ref: 1999 October 2, John C. Randolph, “Re: Firewalking and Sharks”, in alt.paranet.science (Usenet):
text: Hey, that's nothing; you should see the stuff I hurled at the Buddhist proselytute formerly known as Dhamma Dog.
ref: 2001 May 30, Delia, “Re: An enlightened TM adept?”, in alt.meditation.transcendental (Usenet):
glosses: A person given to excessive religious proselytizing.
proselytutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proselytute
SHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Sheung Shui in Hong Kong.
SHS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: ETS
glosses: Initialism of second-hand smoke.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of senior high school.
intertonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertonics
Etymology: From inter- + tonic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound occurring between stressed syllables; as the /har/ in philharmonic
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound occurring between a stressed syllable and the beginning or end of a word; as the o in Deborah.
Amano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Amanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 天野 (Amano).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
notaries publics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notary public
directors generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of director general
directors-generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of director-general
bad seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad seed
surgeons-generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeon-general
surgeons generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeon general
surgeon general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surgeon generals
form: surgeons general
form: surgeons generals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Surgeon General.
protected title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protected titles
Senses: glosses: A title or job description that can only legally be used by persons who have completed a specific training course or are members of a particular trade association.
habitual aspect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitual aspects
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A feature of the verb which specifies an action as occurring habitually, usually, ordinarily, or customarily
dry lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry lunches
Senses: glosses: A lunch that is not accompanied by alcohol.
examples: text: Who's the dry lunch?
That's Terry. He's the one you headbutted.
Oi, lunch, show us your face.
ref: 2009, The Firm:
glosses: A contemptible or uncool person.
hupokeimenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hupokeimena
form: hypokeimenon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon, “that which lies beneath”), present participle of ὑπόκειμαι (hupókeimai, “to underlie”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which underlies, or lies beneath; substratum.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Subject.
hupokeimena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hupokeimenon
spin off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spins off
form: spinning off
form: spun off
form: spun off
Senses: examples: text: a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series
text: For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.
ref: 1987, PC Tech Journal, volume 5, page 23:
text: Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent.
ref: 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times:
glosses: To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.
Coordinate terms: spin down
spin out
spin up
split off
Derived terms: word: spin-off
word: spinoff
sharqi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chergui
form: sharki
Etymology: From Arabic شَرْقِيّ (šarqiyy, “eastern”).
Senses: examples: text: Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 47:
text: The Ghibli is a hot wind in Libya, usually blowing from the Sahara; this wind in Morocco is called the Chergui.
ref: 2005, Encyclopedia of World Climatology, page 749:
text: The sharqi is a wind from the south and southeast that blows in early summer and early winter.
ref: 2010, April Fast, Iraq: The Land, third edition, p. 15
text: The harmattan, which is also called sharqi in Morocco, is a hot wind that blows out of the interior of the Sahara.
ref: 2012, Morocco Baedecker Guide, page 24:
glosses: A hot desert wind in an Arabic country, especially in North Africa.
chergui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sharqi.
pieds noirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pied noir
dot balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dot ball
Chis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chi
cleit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleits
form: cleitean
Senses: glosses: A stone storage hut or bothy.
cleits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleit
cleitean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleit
lost generation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the lost generation
Etymology: Attributed to Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.
Senses: glosses: The generation that came of age during World War I.
glosses: A group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.
Related terms: greatest generation
Silent Generation
control structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control structures
Senses: examples: text: In C++ you can and often will nest control structures: place one conditional within another; put a loop within another loop; have a conditional within a loop; and so forth.
ref: 2005, Larry Ullman, Andreas Signer, C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide, Pearson Education, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: data structure
glosses: A structure used to direct the flow of execution of a program.
Hyponyms: branch
loop
switch
baggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæɡɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bagging
prigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prig
prigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priggings
Senses: examples: text: The minister of state and I alike for booty ax,
Only I confess its priggings, v'ile he calls his swag a tax.
ref: 1837, “The Fate of Percy”, in The Knickerbacker, Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 9, page 453:
text: Vhy^([sic]), if I an't changed the coats without taking the priggings out ov my pocket, and have let him valk off vith all the plunder […]
ref: 1847, “The Golden Farmer”, in The Minor Drama: A Collection of the Most Popular Spring Comedies, Vaudevilles, Burlettas, Travesties, Etc, volume 1:
glosses: stolen goods
Synonyms: booty
prigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prig
cowardliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cowardly: most cowardly
cowardlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cowardly: more cowardly
white whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪt ˈweɪl/
ipa: /ʍaɪt ˈʍeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: white whales
Etymology: From white + whale. The figurative senses refer to the novel Moby-Dick (1851) by the American writer Herman Melville (1819–1891), in which Captain Ahab relentlessly pursues a rare albino sperm whale.
Senses: examples: text: The English called the beluga the "white whale", a name often still used (and not to be confused with the white whale of Moby-Dick, which was an albino sperm whale).
ref: 2007, Nancy Lord, “Prologue”, in Beluga Days: Tracking the Endangered White Whale, pages 22–23:
synonyms: word: melonhead
word: sea canary
word: beluga
extra: (“the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), a cetacean found in the Arctic Ocean”)
glosses: Synonym of beluga (“the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), a cetacean found in the Arctic Ocean”)
glosses: Any whale of the family Monodontidae, which comprises the beluga whales and narwhals (Monodon monoceros), and some extinct species.
examples: text: No … no sapphires. It looks like Lester Velasquez was chasing his white whale. There never were any sapphires inside that diner.
ref: 2008, Glen Inglis, Broken Heroes, page 228:
text: For nearly four years, Snapchat has been Facebook’s white whale.
ref: 2016 August 2, Mike Isaac, “Instagram takes a page from Snapchat, and takes aim at it, too”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: After being lofted into space by a Falcon Super Heavy, his next rocket, the Starship, will light out for the moon, land there, take off and return to Earth, with no stages expended on the lunar journey. This so-called single-stage-to-orbit model has been the white whale of rocket designers for generations.
ref: 2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: An obsession, a monomania.
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A printing plate, used to manufacture a particular sports card, that is then issued as a collectible itself.
white whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white whale
sulphurated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Situated on the River Cherwell", Banbury also benefits from "sulphurated water" and close by "a spring of chalybeate water".
ref: 2024 April 3, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: destination Harrow”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of sulfurated.
sulphurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sulphurate
sulphurating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sulphurate
BGH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bovine growth hormone.
Related terms: HGH
BGH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: BGHMC
glosses: Initialism of Baguio General Hospital.
glosses: Initialism of Benguet General Hospital.
synonyms: BGHMC
glosses: Initialism of Bataan General Hospital.
glosses: Initialism of Basilan General Hospital.
glosses: Initialism of Batanes General Hospital.
glosses: Initialism of Brockville General Hospital.
Derived terms: BGH Compound
intragalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + galactic.
Senses: examples: text: The morphology-radius and the intragalactic medium cluster observations support the movement of matter from Source galaxies to Sink galaxies.
ref: 2006, John C. Hodge, “Scalar potential model of redshift and discrete redshift”, in arXiv:
text: Generally tidal collisions of satellite galaxy produce stars which escape into the intragalactic space even if the satellite itself is on a bound orbit.
ref: 2011, Tilmann Piffl, Mary Williams, Matthias Steinmetz, “Kinematics in galactic tidal tails - A source for Hypervelocity stars?”, in arXiv:
glosses: Occurring between two or more points within a galaxy.
the cake is a lie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the video game Portal (2007), in which a self-aware computer, GLaDOS, lures the player into participating in dangerous experiments with the promise of cake. As the game progresses, the player discovers graffiti left by the only previous test subject to survive GLaDOS' murderous scheme, including the warning "the cake is a lie".
Senses: examples: text: The jokes are cake, and the cake is a lie — fan-service tricking nerds into watching a show designed for adults who vote Republican (Middle America!).
ref: 2011 December 15, Nick Martin, “A Hit Sitcom In Just Five Easy Steps!”, in Buzz Weekly, page 6:
text: The assumption that a degree will vastly improve future earnings is increasingly misleading. By their very nature high paid jobs are exclusive and limited in number. "The cake is a lie."
ref: 2012, James Margeson, "The quiet assault on public education", The Sphinx (University of Liverpool), March 2012, page 9
text: “One shitty leader doesn't mean the cake is a lie. One man's decisions don't invalidate everything else—the ideals, the history, the words etched in marble and the sacrifices of all the people who make the United States a just and safe place to live.”
ref: 2012 November 12, J. L. Hilton, Stellarnet Prince, Carina Press, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: The end being pursued is unattainable or misguided; the reward promised is false.
Related terms: chase a rainbow
wild-goose chase
mirage
jam tomorrow
pie in the sky
unshingled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shingled.
Senses: glosses: Not shingled.
proprietaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proprietary
aclang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + clang.
Senses: examples: text: His rumpled clothes were streaked with soot from the day-coach of the Richmond train that could be heard now, bell aclang, grinding away from the southbound side of the depot.
ref: 1953, May Davies Martenet, Taw Jameson, Alfred A. Knopf, page 143:
text: This morning church bells were ringing too. Aclang all over the city and not to summon the faithful.
ref: 2001, Michael Lynch, The Casinghead Company, Authors Choice Press, →ISBN, page 439:
text: Yes, under director Sidonie Garrett, this show is crisp in its action, plush in its pageantry, and all aclang with speeches and swordplay.
ref: 2006 June 29, Alan Scherstuhl, “War's a Picnic”, in The Pitch:
glosses: Clanging.
groundline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundlines
Etymology: From ground + line.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A line drawn to signify the surface of the ground, especially in architectural blueprints and in drawings by children which lack dimension.
glosses: In equestrian show jumping, a marker such as a row of flowers which signifies the point from which a horse should begin a jump over an obstacle.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A weighted fishing line that lies along the floor of the body of water in which the user is fishing.
Related terms: landline
groundlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundline
halfro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfros
Etymology: Blend of half + afro.
Senses: examples: text: He met us at the door with this big 'fro, or half an afro, halfro—he slept on his right side evidently.
ref: 2007, Richard Peabody, Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix, Paycock Press, →ISBN, page 149:
text: But I think the pitchman’s Art Garfunkel-esque halfro is more offensive, since it looks different in nearly every frame.
ref: 2007 June 25, Tim Nudd, “Nothing says style quite like Members Only”, in Adweek:
text: One had a halfro and a Kobe Bryant Jersey that appeared to be unaccompanied by pants, toddler-sized Nikes peaked out from the bottom.
ref: 2013, Matthew T. Bell, “Earth Drum”, in The Elderly Kids: Short Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: An afro hairstyle that only covers half the head or is otherwise of below average size.
basenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseness
coteach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coteaches
form: coteaching
form: cotaught
form: cotaught
form: co-teach
Etymology: From co- + teach.
Senses: glosses: To teach pupils with special educational needs alongside those without.
glosses: To teach in collaboration with another teacher.
Related terms: coteacher
coteaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coteach
coteaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coteach
cotaught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coteach
ghettotech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ghetto + tech.
Senses: examples: text: The second album features a 38-track mix featuring many of the "booty" or "ghettotech" anthems produced by the popular Detroit duo.
ref: 2001, Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to Electronica:
text: The club benefits from crowd-pleasing regular appearances from the Party and the occasional drop-in from ghettotech MC Prince William.
ref: 2008 January, SPIN, volume 24, number 1, page 110:
text: Ghettotech consists largely of four-on-the-floor dance beats at a faster tempo with lyrics that are sexually explicit and derogatory in nature.
ref: 2010, Emmett George Price, Encyclopedia of African American Music, volume 3, page 942:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of electronic dance music from Chicago, combining elements of house music with electro, hip-hop, and techno.
works councils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of works council
Rolanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Roland with feminine suffix?
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
djoundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: djounoud
Etymology: From Algerian Arabic جُندِي.
Senses: examples: text: Enlistment of the first F.L.N. djounoud, however, proceeded slowly […]
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 84:
text: Frantz Fanon had been dead for six months when Kahn visited Ghardimaou, and it is possible that some of the djounoud he met there had been part of the honour guard that saluted Fanon's body […]
ref: 2012, David Macey, Frantz Fanon: A Biography:
text: The djoundi with the fat red moustache grunts: "You heard, shepherd: what are you doing here?"
ref: 2004, Anouar Benmalek, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, The Lovers of Algeria, page 15:
glosses: An Algerian Muslim soldier fighting for independence during the Algerian War.
djounoud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of djoundi
pressganging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pressgang
pressganged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pressgang
fellagha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellaghas
form: fellagha
Senses: examples: text: one French colonel, when told that a hundred armed fellagha had been spotted in the Aurès exclaimed contemptuously: ‘Monsieur le Préfet, I've been patrolling the roads for a very long time, and I've never yet seen a fellagha in front of my jeep!’
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 86:
glosses: A guerrilla soldier fighting for independence in Algeria or Tunisia under French rule.
countersignatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersignatories
Etymology: From counter- + signatory.
Senses: examples: text: A British passport application requires two countersignatories.
glosses: One who makes a countersignature.
countersignatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersignatory
adviceline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advicelines
Etymology: From advice + line.
Senses: glosses: A telephone service offering advice; a helpline.
advicelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adviceline
rameish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rawmaish
Etymology: From Irish ráiméis (“nonsense, poppycock”), from Norman romance. Doublet of romance.
Senses: examples: text: Don't listen to him, said my father. He talks rameish.
ref: 2011, Dermot Healy, Sudden Times, . Random House, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: nonsense, foolish talk
rameish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rameishes
form: rameishing
form: rameished
form: rameished
form: rawmaish
Etymology: From Irish ráiméis (“nonsense, poppycock”), from Norman romance. Doublet of romance.
Senses: examples: text: ‘She’s so childish to be going on with all that kind of rawmaishing out of her,’ Kate snapped.
ref: 1987, Maeve Binchy, Firefly Summer, . Random House, →ISBN, page 439:
text: “I hope he wasn’t delayed rameishing on with some customer today of all days,” Benny heard her mother say to Patsy.
ref: 1990, Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends, . Random House, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Mario grinned and in a perfect parody of her voice said: ‘And it’d tear the ears off you to listen to this one rawmaishing all day!’
ref: 1995, Martina Cole, The Jump, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: to talk nonsense, talk idly
becos
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of because.
becos
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of because.
link bait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkbait
form: link-bait
Etymology: From link + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).
Senses: examples: text: Sustainable link bait is rooted in quality content.
ref: 2007, Amelia Painter, Opening and Operating a Bed & Breakfast in the 21st Century, page 183:
text: A good link bait tool will create 'brand evangelists' — people who will talk positively about you.
ref: 2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0:
text: Link bait content is typically written about a hot, real-time topic such as breaking news.
ref: 2011, Susan Gunelius, Content Marketing For Dummies, page 53:
text: I've seen link bait succeed in the form of a downloadable scientific research paper, and I've seen it succeed in the form of a picture of a golden retriever in a tutu.
ref: 2013, Evan Bailyn, SEO Made Easy:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Articles, infographics, videos, and other content on websites created as part of a strategy to attract links and go viral.
examples: text: Many bloggers write false story headings about search topics that are trending as well, resulting in high bounce rates, abandonment by subscribers, and raising the ire of other bloggers in the industry. You should never write false headings or try to manipulate your readers with link bait.
ref: 2010, Douglas Karr, Chantelle Flannery, Corporate Blogging For Dummies, page 384:
text: Link bait is content or a feature on a website that is expressly designed to get users' attention so they click through to another website.
ref: 2014, Sunni Brown, The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently:
text: There is also content that appears on the bottom of many websites with link bait type headlines like, "See the Dinner Hack that Millennials are Crazy for."
ref: 2017, Jayne Barnett, Advertising Nuggets:
text: Further black hat examples could be misleading link bait from ads for poorly targeted news articles, clicking on links spawning extra windows, or simply only dealing with robots (in a shady way).
ref: 2017, Anne Ahola Ward, The SEO Battlefield, page 22:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Provocative headlines designed specifically to persuade people to click or share by using loaded terminology (e.g. incredible, secret, shocking, unbelievable), posing provocative questions, or tying themselves in to hot topics.
Synonyms: clickbait
churnalism
Derived terms: linkbaiting
Pan-Arabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pan-Arabism.
postcyberpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-cyberpunk
Etymology: From post- + cyberpunk.
Senses: glosses: A fiction genre arising from cyberpunk and other science fiction, without the presence of dystopia associated with cyberpunk.
Francization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of francization.
greenhouse effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenhouse effect
xorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zoɹn/
ipa: [zo̞ɹn]
Forms: form: xorns
form: xorn
Etymology: First appeared in the original Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual (1977).
Senses: examples: text: Various monsters can tunnel through rock - either humanoid monsters with picks or rock eaters like rock moles and umber hulks; and some monsters like xorns and ghosts can pass through it without digging.
ref: 2002, David Damerell, “Where are they come from?^([sic]) ;)”, in rec.games.roguelike.development (Usenet):
text: Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows at me and more pouring in through both doors a few nights ago didn't work the first two times, then when it did work it landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn!
ref: 2007, bear, “Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):
text: That afternoon, I summoned a Xorn—an earth elemental noted for its speed—and asked it to scout the caves of the Dragon's lair for me.
ref: 2010, Roger Bourke White, Rostov Rising: The Tales of Baron Rostov, page 229:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
wikipedia: Monster Manual
xorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xorn
hitpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitpoints
Senses: examples: text: Azathoth will no longer instantly permakill anyone who offends it. Instead 60% of max hitpoints are lost until amends are made.
ref: 2012, getter77, “Triangle Wizard R 13.02 released”, in rec.games.roguelike.announce (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of hit point.
hitpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitpoint
capitania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitanias
Etymology: From Portuguese capitania.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of captaincy (“former division of Spanish and Portuguese empires”).
synonyms: word: captaincy
extra: former division of Spanish and Portuguese empires
lipomeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Congenital absence of a limb
soulboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soulboys
Etymology: From soul + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Paul Gorman: The soulboy emerged early- to mid-seventies. And he was one of the later outcrops of mod. Clothes-obsessed, dance music-obsessed, usually black music dance-obsessed.
ref: 2012, Fred Perry Presents Subculture:
glosses: An adherent of any of a variety of British subcultures of the 1970s and 1980s that focused on soul or funk music and dancing, most notably the northern soul movement.
soulboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soulboy
old chaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old chap
XACML
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of eXtensible Access Control Markup Language.
wind-up merchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind-up merchants
Senses: examples: text: Jay: He's such a wind-up merchant.
ref: 2010, "The Gig and the Girlfriend," episode 2 of series 3 of The Inbetweeners
glosses: One who enjoys winding others up in the sense of making fun of them or playing practical jokes.
twice as less
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: twice + as + less.
Senses: examples: ref: 1987, Eleanor Wilson Orr, Twice as Less, W. W. Norton & Co.:
text: The governing party receives twice as less votes here than it does on average across Russia.
ref: 2015 July 27, Yaroslav Vlasov, “Electioneering games in Siberia”, in Open Democracy:
text: But this^([sic]) two oncoming waves move with velocity approximately twice as less as previous component: […].
ref: 2002, Claude R. Phipps, editor, High-power Laser Ablation III, SPIE, page 415:
text: The children also are able to construct a table to assist them in determining how many runs must be made by a truck and a trailer in order to transport 1080 tons of coal, if the truck can haul 30 tons per load and the trailer can carry twice as less coal per load.
ref: 2011, Cai Jinfa, Eric J. Knuth, editors, Early Algebraization: A Global Dialogue from Multiple Perspectives, Springer, page 83:
glosses: Half as much.
wastes away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of waste away
wasted away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waste away
manarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manarchists
Etymology: Blend of man + anarchist.
Senses: examples: text: Is it a reaction to the manarchists who don’t believe gender privilege exists or is a valid topic of conversation?
ref: 2010, Queen of the Neighbourhood Collective, Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils, page 14:
text: He continues how manarchists "co-opt revolutionary rhetoric to perpetuate sexism and patriarchy."
ref: 2017, Chris Robé, Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas, pages 250-251:
text: The manarchist who leaves his dishes for his female housemates to wash.
ref: 2019, Aric McBay, Full Spectrum Resistance: Building Movements and Fighting to Win, unnumbered page:
glosses: A masculinist anarchist, especially one who downplays women's issues.
Coordinate terms: brocialist
brogressive
manarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manarchist