cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kamyshin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.
Novoshakhtinsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Rostov Oblast, Russia.
surtop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surtops
form: surtopping
form: surtopped
form: surtopped
Etymology: From sur- + top.
Senses: examples: text: In so much that at Rome Liberius, at Hierusalem Cyrillus, at Alexandria George, did filchingly and shamefully gouerne all Churches with hereticall dissembling, and so vehemently persecuted the Catholickes, that this persecution seemed to surtop all passed persecutions of former tyrants.
ref: 1619, John Favour, Antiquitie Triumphing Over Noveltie […], page 389:
text: At the head of the principal division, and the one that was to be in the lead, was the formidable king himself, whose giant frame, surtopped with the tallest of plumes, was the most conspicuous figure in the whole army.
ref: 1888, California Three Hundred and Fifty Years Ago […], page 238:
text: Today if we should see a physician on the highway a-la-Prince Albert, surtopped by a plug hat, we should almost immediately regard him as a “quack.”
ref: 1927, Your Health: A National Health Magazine, volume 8, page 713:
glosses: To overtop, to be on top of.
surtopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surtop
Saintfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J4058).
gangster lean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangster leans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gangsta lean.
kleptotrichy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From klepto- (< Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)) + Ancient Greek θρῐ́ξ (thrĭ́x) (compare tricho-).
Senses: examples: 2022 November, P. J., S; Morris, S.: "First report of kleptotrichy by Large-billed Crows (Corvus macrorhynchos culminatus) from a live mammal", The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, DOI: 10.1676/22-00054
glosses: the act by birds of stealing hair from live mammals for the purpose of nestbuilding
kugel fountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kugel fountains
Etymology: From German Kugel (“sphere, orb”).
Senses: glosses: A water feature or sculpture having a sphere that sits in a fitted hollow in a pedestal, supported by aquaplaning on a thin film of water, so that despite its weight it can be turned by hand.
kugel fountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kugel fountain
thopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɒptə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: thopters
Etymology: Clipping of ornithopter.
Senses: examples: text: Another ’thopter glided in over the cliff wall above Hawat. He drew in a sharp breath as he saw it—a big troop-carrier. It flew with the slow, spread-wing heaviness of a full load like a giant bird coming to its nest.
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 225:
text: I'm sending down five more dropships, combat EMVs, and a thopter gunship.
ref: 1997 September 24, Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion, New York: Bantam, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 363:
text: Flowstone Thopter gets +1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.
ref: 2000 February 14, “Flowstone Thopter”, in Magic: The Gathering, Nemesis, Wizards of the Coast:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of ornithopter (“birdlike aircraft”).
synonyms: word: ornithopter
extra: birdlike aircraft
Sterlitamak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Стерлитама́к (Sterlitamák).
Senses: glosses: A city in Bashkortostan, Russia.
pop-up books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pop-up book
Nizhnekamsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
rag-and-bone men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rag-and-bone man
Crossgar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Down, Northern Ireland, between Saintfield and Downpatrick (Irish grid ref J4552).
Troye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Troy.
glosses: A female given name, masculine equivalent Troy.
glosses: A surname.
whitesplainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitesplainers
Etymology: From whitesplain + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in whitesplaining.
whitesplainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitesplainer
fecky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: feckier
form: more fecky
form: feckiest
form: most fecky
Etymology: From feck + -y.
Senses: glosses: fucky (messed up, awful, horrible)
feckier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fecky: more fecky
feckiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fecky: most fecky
boarding craft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarding crafts
form: boarding craft
Senses: examples: text: ‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.
ref: 1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:
text: Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em!
ref: 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
text: A Colicoid creation (like the droideka), this Separatist boarding craft looks like a flying spike—until that spike divides into four sharp prongs that can stab through an enemy hull, revealing a central hatch used by a boarding party.
ref: 2008 July 26, Jason Fry, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide, Dorling Kindersley, →LCCN, page 105:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel
thopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thopter
later, skater
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Goodbye, see you later.
Related terms: later, gator
later, tater
you later alligator
powery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more powery
form: most powery
Etymology: From power + -y.
Senses: glosses: Powerful, having much power.
chadmaxx
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chadmaxxes
form: chadmaxxing
form: chadmaxxed
form: chadmaxxed
Etymology: From chad + -maxx.
Senses: antonyms: transmaxx
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: To act in an exaggeratedly masculine way in a bid to increase one's sexual market value.
Hypernyms: looksmaxx
chadmaxxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chadmaxx
chadmaxxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chadmaxx
chadmaxxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chadmaxx
marmorealizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marmorealize
marmorealizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of marmorealize
marmorealized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marmorealize
marmorealise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marmorealises
form: marmorealising
form: marmorealised
form: marmorealised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marmorealize.
marmorealises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marmorealise
marmorealising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of marmorealise
marmorealised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marmorealise
femininise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: femininises
form: femininising
form: femininised
form: femininised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of femininize.
femininises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of femininise
femininising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of femininise
femininised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of femininise
for real life
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of for real + real life. Popularised by the 2018 Australian animated children's TV series Bluey, but attested earlier.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, letting the neighbourhood kids set up a doctor's surgery in your loungeroom can end in chaos and crocodile attacks (as in the episode, The Doctor). But when Bingo goes to hospital for real life, the neighbours are at the ready with healing help (episode: Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound).
ref: 2020 January 17, Mary Bolling, “What parents can keep learning from Bluey”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
glosses: Synonym of in reality, occurring in real life as opposed to play or make believe.
synonyms: word: in reality
word: occurring in real life as opposed to play or make believe
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see for, real life.
calvalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Accounts have been received of the ſailing of a grand Spaniſh armament, conſiſting of 8 ſhips of the line, three frigates, three bomb-veſſels, two fire-ſhips, and a vaſt number of tranſport veſſels, having on board 18,000 infantry, and 2000 calvalry; but where deſtined is not publicly known.
ref: 1775 June, “Historical Chronicle”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 45, number 6, London: […] D. Henry, […], page 303, column 1:
glosses: Misspelling of cavalry.
pussyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [pʏs̪ɪjow]
Forms: form: pussyos
Etymology: From pussy + hole.
Senses: glosses: A coward.
pycnoxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pycno- + xylic.
Senses: examples: text: The significance of pycnoxylic versus manoxylic organisation of wood is still not well understood. Pycnoxylic wood is a primitive feature of progymnosperms with regard to manoxylic wood with wide and high rays.
ref: 1991, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth sciences, page 122:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: manoxylic
glosses: Compact, dense with small rays of xylem, and not having much pith or cortex.
raw_tags: of wood
gambrinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gambrinous
form: most gambrinous
Senses: examples: text: Interviewing then quoting gambrinous informants for other people to read presents an opportunity to infringe on or violate research ethics.
ref: 2019, John W. McEwen, People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars: An Ethnographic Study in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Dante stopped and grinned out his golden white teeth. "Gambrinous galligaskins ghostshipping in the glacis of the glabella."
ref: 2019, A. L. Benalla, Apophenia, Xlibris US, →ISBN:
text: So when the Roman Empire declined, foundered and fell, the wine trade continued the best it could, supplying the needs of the vinous Vandal and gambrinous Goth.
ref: 2017, Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness, Penguin Books Limited, →ISBN:
text: When they returned two hours later, they had the look of two gambrinous men.
ref: 2014, Carole McCall, Lotus Generation, Arena Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Full of beer.
AoY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AoYs
form: AotY
form: AOTY
form: Aoty
form: AOY
form: Aoy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AOTY (“«A...» of the Year”).
AOY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AOYs
form: AotY
form: AOTY
form: Aoty
form: AoY
form: Aoy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AOTY (“«A...» of the Year”).
AotY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AotYs
form: AOTY
form: Aoty
form: AOY
form: AoY
form: Aoy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AOTY (“«A...» of the Year”).
Aoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aoys
form: AotY
form: AOTY
form: Aoty
form: AOY
form: AoY
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AOTY (“«A...» of the Year”).
Aoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aoys
Etymology: From Spanish Aoy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
fifteensome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifteensomes
Etymology: From fifteen + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It was one of those magical evenings during which our threesome became a fifteensome, including the pianist and Cuban expatriates from Puerto Rico, Mexico the U.S.
ref: 1998, George Jacunski Guiteras, “A Return to Cuba”, in Assembly, volume 57, page 23:
text: There would be an excellent chance that all of us would be in one hollering, protesting, club-slinking fifteensome, betting $800 million.
ref: 2015, Dan Jenkins, The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: In this week’s episode of “Is it in Yet?”, The Tab’s sex podcast we’ve heard from lots of naughty listeners who’ve somehow ended up having spontaneous threesomes, foursomes, and even – yes – a fifteensome.
ref: 2020 March 12, “‘Our first date ended in a foursome’: Group sex stories that actually happened”, in The Tab:
glosses: A group of fifteen people or things.
unenumerated rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unenumerated right
thirteensome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirteensomes
Etymology: From thirteen + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Their search through the musical archives of our folk literature has brought to light a “Hawaiian Serf Surf Song,” which they are arranging for a “thirteensome” made up of eleven ukuleles, one mixed voice and a snare drum.
ref: 1916, Musical Courier and Review of Recorded Music, volume 73, page 24:
text: Sometimes Jim and I would play golf together as part of a thirteensome. Jim would get about 13 guys together, all hitting balls on the same hole at the same time.
ref: 1986, Jerry Greene, “A Young McMahon waits his turn”, in The Orlando Sentinel, (November 9, 1986), p. C-11:
text: So if you have an eightsome, it should be five girls and three guys. A thirteensome should be eight girls and five guys.
ref: 2009, Razorcake, RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 30:
text: And watch as Loki tried his damnednest to orchestrate a threesome, foursome, possibly thirteensome with his so-called supermodel [...]
ref: 2012, James Ashton, Le Town Empire, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: A group of thirteen people or things.
greatpox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of great-pox.
Lungtan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 龍潭 (Lóngtán) Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-tʻan².
Senses: examples: text: The four-day competition held at Lungtan, Taoyuan, attracted many people from all over Taiwan.
ref: 1979 August 26, “ROC-Singapore parachute contest thrills spectators”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XX, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: S. sonnei isolates collected from Pingchen city and Pateh city of Taoyuan county were of pattern 1; those from the primary schools, kindergartens and factories of Lungtan township, Taoyuan county, were of pattern II.
ref: 2001, Epidemiology Bulletin, volume 17, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 87:
text: An army press statement said the helicopter took off at 9:38am from its base in Lungtan to perform a routine training mission around the Lungtan and Pingchen Township (平鎮) area.
ref: 2008 July 17, Rich Chang, “Two soldiers die as helicopter crashes into building”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2008, Front Page, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Longtan.
water-coolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-cooler
Barmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipal subdivision in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
UOM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UOMs
Senses: examples: text: Unit of measure (UOM) is used for all material transactions. UOM Classes define the high-level groupings of UOMs.
ref: 2002, Bastin Gerald, Nigel King, Dan Natchek, Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 483:
glosses: Initialism of unit of measure.
UOMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UOM
water-cooler effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-cooler effects
Senses: examples: text: A whistleblower will inevitably become distant from friends and colleagues. And these water-cooler effects, the social effects, I think, can provide a strong disincentive, a disincentive which bounty programs are meant to overcome.
ref: 2011 May 11, Legislative Proposals to Address the Negative Consequences of the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provisions: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session (Serial No. 112-29), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 15:
text: This improvised way of coming together helped employees shoot the breeze from a safe distance and enjoy a bit of that water-cooler effect everyone was starting to miss.
ref: 2022 August 21, “The future is coming together at MGKF”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 194th year, number 82, page 37, column 1:
text: The Super Bowl, the biggest TV show of the year, became a secular holiday gathering that rivals Christmas. And before the work-from-home era, networks were conscious of the “water-cooler effect” in offices.
ref: 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of water cooler effect.
water-cooler effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-cooler effect
watercooler effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watercooler effects
Senses: examples: text: One of his first acts established public wells so that the nobility could no longer control the peasants’ critical access to water; this also generated a so-called watercooler effect that inspired people to gather freely and schmooze.
ref: 2004, Barton Kunstler, The Hothouse Effect: Intensify Creativity in Your Organization Using Secrets from History’s Most Innovative Communities, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Now programmes are lucky if they have a viewing figure reaching 8 million and this has changed both the parameters within drama and the way the industry measures what audiences think about a particular programme. It has also changed the notion of the ‘watercooler effect’.
ref: 2009, Kristyn Gorton, Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion, Edinburgh University Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Perhaps by organizing company retreats, firms can make up for some of the lost watercooler effects.
ref: 2021 spring, Joel Mokyr, “The Great Fake”, in City Journal, archived from the original on 29 May 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of water cooler effect.
watercooler effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watercooler effect
prod.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of produced by.
complexology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complex + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of complexity theory
glosses: The study of complex systems.
glosses: The study of medical complexes, disease complexes.
glosses: The study of chaotic systems and chaos theory.
Derived terms: complexologist
Related terms: complex
complexitism
complexitist
complexity
complexologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexologists
Etymology: From complexology + -ist and complex + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of complexology
glosses: A chaotician
Related terms: complex
complexitism
complexitist
complexity
LGFV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LGFV
form: LGFVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of local government financing vehicle.
LGFVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LGFV
kink on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kinks on
form: kinking on
form: kinked on
form: kinked on
Senses: examples: text: That said, there are people - men and women - who kink on the idea of non-reciprocated service; they enjoy feeling "used".
ref: 2009 November 23, Tom Allen, “doing fantasy”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet):
glosses: To have a kink (abnormal sexual interest) for.
play all one's cards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays all one's cards
form: playing all one's cards
form: played all one's cards
form: played all one's cards
Senses: examples: text: I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play
ref: 1980, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, in Super Trouper, performed by ABBA:
text: We composed a calm email stating our 'interest in football in the region' and desire to 'find out more', deciding not to play all our cards at this stage.
ref: 2012, Paul Watson, Up Pohnpei:
synonyms: play all one's cards at once
glosses: To use all one's resources.
the winner takes it all
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of to the victor go the spoils.
synonyms: word: to the victor go the spoils
Related terms: winner-take-all
super trouper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super troupers
Etymology: From the brand name for a type of spotlight.
Senses: examples: text: From the corner of his eye, he saw Ursula under the super troupers, fixing a stray lock of hair and eying him with marvel.
ref: 2017, Gerald Hansen, Derry Women Series Box Set:
text: To be frank, having been banished to the super troupers for four hot hours, he wasn't about to break any more sweat worrying about it. He shut down his spotlight and was relieved to depart with the punters.
ref: 2016, James C. Lee, The End of the Pier:
glosses: A spotlight.
caigua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caiguas
Etymology: From Spanish caigua, from Quechua kaywa.
Senses: glosses: Cyclanthera pedata, a South American vine cultivated for its fruit.
slipper gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipper gourds
Senses: glosses: The caigua.
stuffing cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuffing cucumbers
Etymology: Probably a calque of Spanish pepino de relleno.
Senses: glosses: The caigua.
wall-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall-papers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wallpaper.
fagosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of phagocyte.
wall-papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall-paper
Pengwern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Pengwern, from pen+gwern.
Senses: glosses: A former city, the former capital of Powys, Wales region, Britannia, Great Britain island. Predecessor of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK. The city was burned to the ground by the Lloegrin. The city was capital of Powys during the Roman Era.
glosses: Synonym of Powys: A former kingdom in the Wales region, Britannia, Great Britain island; a kingdom during the Roman Era; which would split into medieval Powys and Pengwern.
synonyms: word: Powys
extra: A former kingdom in the Wales region, Britannia, Great Britain island; a kingdom during the Roman Era; which would split into medieval Powys and Pengwern
glosses: A former kingdom in the Wales region, Britannia, Great Britain island. Capital: Pengwern; a medieval kingdom, successor kingdom to the Roman Era's Powys; along with medieval Powys. The kingdom was extinguished by the Lloegrin.
grandancestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandancestors
Etymology: From grand- + ancestor.
Senses: examples: text: In concluding this sketch, it affords the writer much pleasure to state that the time-stained pages of the old record shows not a single case of theft, petit larceny, forgery or perjury on the part of the grandancestors of our old Norfolk families.
ref: 1898, E[gbert] A[mericus] Owen, Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement or Norfolk’s Foundation Builders and Their Family Genealogies, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, […], page 396:
text: One more thing then I’ll stop dear parents on your mountaintop I and my fellow animal-creatures down here in the swamp are as closely related to the extraterrestrials over your heads as the rats to the stars and beyond where ancient grandancestors call the tune of the words of the singer I would croon if I had the cords […]
ref: 1980, Dory Previn, Bog-Trotter: An Autobiography with Lyrics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 126:
text: Nick takes a stick and pushes it into the sand of a blue-and-white vase so that the strand of smoke drifts up toward a portrait of some of Poppy’s grandancestors, stiff in Qing Dynasty brocades, as flat and anonymous and ornate as Elizabethan portraits.
ref: 2006, Andrea Lee, Lost Hearts in Italy, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 190:
synonyms: grandcestor
glosses: A distant ancestor.
grandancestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandancestor
rubble crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubble crabs
Senses: glosses: A crab of the family Xanthidae.
croffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croffles
Senses: examples: text: A blanket of croffles (hollow polythene or polypropylene balls) is an effective way of covering the surface of liquid in the tank. The croffles have a raised seam so that they interlock and do not rotate which would otherwise expose a wetted surface to the tank roof space.
ref: 2002, Ian Smallwood, Solvent Recovery Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A small hollow polythene or polypropylene ball used in various technical applications.
croffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croffles
form: croiffle
form: crofle
form: cruffle
Etymology: Blend of croissant + waffle.
Senses: examples: text: Whether you're in the market for a gourmet full English, vegetarian alternative, or a sweet croffle (croissant-waffle hybrid) with a coffee, this is the place to go.
ref: 2023, The Rough Guide to Thailand, Apa Publications, →ISBN:
glosses: A pastry that is hybrid of a croissant and waffle. A croissant-based waffle. A waffle made from croissant dough.
Hypernyms: breadstuff
pastry
waffle
Related terms: croissant
cronut
cruffin
waffle
croffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croffle
shitfuckery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shitfuck + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Hmm. Perhaps Ottawa is centre to some localized PS2 shitfuckery. That'd be pretty darn annoying.
ref: 2002 January 10, Jamie Rosen, “[unease] playlists for 29/12/2001 and 05/01/2002”, in rec.music.industrial (Usenet):
text: On a stool in the garage, I sat staring at utter shitfuckery scrawled across the loose pages.
ref: 2016, Tyler King, The Debt:
text: A ghast-blighted storeroom for all their dark magic shitfuckery.
ref: 2022, Selina A. Fenech, Everdark Cursed:
text: Of course, your possibly best contribution in this respect would be dropping dead, ASAP. Just think about all those tons CO2 you regularly emit while manufacturing your stinky brain farts, and all those fossil full power plants generated electrons you waste while propagating all that horrible pro fossil fuels burning advocacy-propaganda,on tops of your pro LNP shitfuckery.
ref: 2022 October 4, *Ördög* the real newsgroup Devil, “What to do with a FOX News believer?”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
glosses: Something that is worthless or despicable; bullshit.
glosses: A mess; a shit show.
glosses: Foolish or stupid behavior.
Synonyms: shitcuntery
Related terms: shitfucker
GEG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GEGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gasoline-equivalent gallon.
pink eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink eyes
Senses: examples: text: Some of the migrants, including pregnant women and small children, are ill with colds, pink eye or Covid-19, leaving volunteers and city workers scrambling to find them health services.
ref: 2023 May 10, Julie Bosman, “Open-Armed Chicago Feels the Strains of a Migrant Influx”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 May 2023:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of pinkeye.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, eye.
pink eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink eye
zhuangbility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 裝屄 /装屄 (zhuāngbī, “(vulgar) to flaunt oneself”) + -bility.
Senses: examples: text: Because of zhuangbility in diploma and tutors, many excellent students are crowded out of higher education.
ref: 2010, Kai Du, Yinyin Cai, “Culture and high education in China”, in International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, →DOI:
text: Jennifer enjoys playing zhuangbility. She is nobody but a sexretary.
ref: 2019, “Trade Deficit: Chinese Exported into English”, in T. R. Mwanaka, editor, Nationalism: (mis)understanding Donald Trump's Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, volume 2, →ISBN:
text: To me, what Tolstoy did was simply “class transvestitism,” a kind of zhuangbility (a coined word mixing Chinese and English, which roughly means being pretentious) in disguise, because differences in family background, education, and ability cannot be concealed.
ref: 2020, Ou Ning, Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction, →ISBN, page xliii:
glosses: Pretension; the state of being a poseur.
evenstar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the evenstar
form: evestar
Etymology: From Middle English euensterre, from Old English ǣfensteorra, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþsternǭ.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: Phosphorus, Eosphorus, Lucifer, morning star, Venus
text: She came alone one evenstar, / And all my room Alhambra was.
ref: c. 1903 [1852], Théophile Gautier, “The Castle of Remembrance”, in S. C. de Sumichrast, transl., The Complete Works of Théophile Gautier, volume 12, page 155:
text: Clouds that wrap the vales below / At the hour of evenstar / Lowliest attendants are […]
ref: 1907, James Joyce, Chamber Music, poem XXV:
text: Evenstar, still evenstar / If this twilight thou dost shine / On a more unhappy head […]
ref: 1939, Robert Nichols, “Evenstar”, in The Argosy, volume 25, page 36:
synonyms: Hesperus
Vesper
glosses: Venus as the evening star; the time of its appearance.
Related terms: eventide
vacuum sealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum sealer
Burton Dassett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and shrunken medieval village in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3951).
Related terms: Avon Dassett
Little Dassett
searing-irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of searing-iron
Irish cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish car
iron chinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron chink
iron falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron fall
iron rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron ring
land ironclads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land ironclad
land cruisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land cruiser
Landsgemeindes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Landsgemeinde
pied wheatears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pied wheatear
weweias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weweia
wet meadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet meadow
wet coughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet cough
WEGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WEG
wayworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waywort
sarger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sargers
Etymology: From sarge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Atul quit sarging earlier this year – he now has therapy, a gym routine and a girlfriend (who he met online) – so instead, I shadow Phil for the day. Phil's story is typical of many sargers. A bad break up led him to the PUA community, which led him to Saturday Sarge. A sarger for four years (he started at 26) he's now a respected 'approach coach' – someone who guides the more inexperienced or nervy 'sargers' through their first few months of approaching women on the street.
ref: 2014 October 18, Gareth May, “Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2019:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: One who sarges.
sargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarger
sargings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarging
Wibsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1430).
once-over-lightly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: once-over-lightlies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of once-over (“a quick inspection, survey, etc.”).
synonyms: word: once-over
extra: (“a quick inspection, survey, etc.”).
once-over-lightlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of once-over-lightly
thirteensomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirteensome
open-toed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of opened-toe (in all senses)
synonyms: word: opened-toe
extra: in all senses
New Quay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and community with a town council in Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN3860).
opg.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: opg. night
glosses: Abbreviation of opening.
examples: text: opg. costs
glosses: Abbreviation of operating.
outfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outfighters
Etymology: Compound of out + fighter.
Senses: examples: text: The longer, more bladed stance is a more mobile in-and-out platform. Any traditional outfighter in boxing that you study will use a long, bladed stance like a fencer at least while they are working on the outside.
ref: 2018 September 27, Jack Slack, “Koreshkov Vs. Lima III is the Sleeper Fight of the Weekend”, in VICE, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2023:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
antonyms: infighter
glosses: A boxer who tends to keep a relatively large distance from their opponent.
outfighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outfighter
MacIntosh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
beauty is only skin-deep
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beauty is only skin deep.
overcrossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcrossing
pai-hua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baihua.
paklava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paklavas
Senses: examples: text: I ate a pastry filled with apricot jam and a square of paklava that rivaled my grandmother's.
ref: 2012, Chris Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 50–51:
glosses: Rare form of baklava.
paklavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paklava
panther lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panther lilies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of leopard lily (“Lilium pardalinum”).
synonyms: word: leopard lily
extra: Lilium pardalinum
panther lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panther lily
pantie girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantie girdles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panty girdle.
pantie girdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantie girdle
treesap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From fruits, berries, flowers, honey, treesap, milk, from almost any plant or substance containing carbohydrate and sugar, primitive man made alcohol and drank it to “forget his sorrows.”
ref: 1973, Corrective and Social Psychiatry and Journal of Applied Behavior Therapy, volume 19, page 30:
text: Those possessed by the spirit in Kitombo were said to be able to eat poisonous berries and treesap.
ref: 1975, J. Forbes Munro, Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889–1939, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Other species, such as those of Euptychia, are found sipping at leaking treesap, rotting fruit, muddy spots or on dung.
ref: 1975, William H. Howe, David L. Bauer, The Butterflies of North America, →ISBN, page 80:
text: When the last mine closed / and its timbers turned pliable as treesap, / the town began to tilt, to slide / back into its past like a wave.
ref: 1979, Robert Wrigley, The Sinking of Clay City; republished as “The Sinking of Clay City”, in Craig Wollner, editor, A Richer Harvest: An Anthology of Work in the Pacific Northwest, 1999, →ISBN, page 181:
text: They’re present year-round, often swarming at the bases of trees in late winter and feeding on treesap released by a trunk scar or broken branch.
ref: 1990 February 1, Tom Fegely, “Snow fleas insects of mystery”, in The News Journal, page 75:
text: Behind them came a thousand tin soldiers with slingshots in hand, pelting our fiendish foes with snowballs and gobs of sticky treesap.
ref: 2019, Jared Green, Santa: My Life and Times […], →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of tree sap.
roadscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadscapes
Etymology: From road + -scape.
Senses: glosses: The visual elements of a road, including adjoining natural and non-natural features such as trees and open spaces, etc, that combine to form the road's character.
roadscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadscape
decimater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decimaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decimator.
decimaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decimater
mad sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mad science
Jooish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jooish
form: most Jooish
Etymology: From Joo + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of Jewish.
Phall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali ফাল (phal).
Senses: glosses: Phall curry.
antilithium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + lithium.
Senses: examples: text: Heavy antinuclei, if observed, would also indicate that nucleosynthetic processes are taking place in these antimatter regions, since the usual matter-symmetric cosmologies have no other provision for manufacturing antimatter heavier than antilithium.
ref: 1987, Luis W. Alvarez, Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 194:
text: The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes.
ref: 2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN:
text: Even unshielded, it would take antilithium or highmatter to cut through the adamantine plate on the dorsal hull.
ref: 2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon In White: Book 3, Orion, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The antiatom form of lithium.
carder bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carder bee
October Revolution Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Russia in the Arctic Ocean; the largest island of the Severnaya Zemlya group.
drinking-straws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinking-straw
Lœffler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛflə(ɹ)/
/ˈlɜːflə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Lœfflers
form: Loffler
form: Leffler
form: Loeffler
Etymology: Borrowed from German Löffler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German, variant of Loeffler.
Lœfflers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lœffler
miho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mihos
form: mijo
Etymology: From Spanish mijo.
Senses: glosses: A term of endearment; dear, darling, my heart.
rock samphires
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of rock samphire
ring-necked ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring-necked duck
round-eared tube-nosed bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round-eared tube-nosed bat
mutawallis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutawalli
mutha phuckas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutha phucka
mutual combats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutual combat
painted bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of painted bat
phad paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phad painting
sick parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sick parade
Carlsberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carlsbergs
Etymology: .
Senses: examples: text: Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed.
ref: 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A surname.
exhibition halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhibition hall
exhibition matches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhibition match
mixmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mixmatch
mixmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixmatch
phosphorus matches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorus match
microlandscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlandscape
palatine glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatine gland
parentlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parentland
waste lands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waste land
parlor maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parlor maid
waiting maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiting maid
house maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house maid
houses of detention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house of detention
palaeofires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeofire
fire points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire point
fire poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire pole
fire sprinklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire sprinkler
fire strikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire striker
firehouse caucuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firehouse caucus
fire-ploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-plough
gin slings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin sling
gingerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerist
ginmills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginmill
gin joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin joint
Gipperites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gipperite
gill arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gill arch
palatoglossal arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatoglossal arch
palatopharyngeal arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatopharyngeal arch
patriarchal churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriarchal church
Sandgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sand + geat.
Senses: glosses: A suburban coastal village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2035).
glosses: A town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
glosses: A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A northern coastal suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, named after Sandgate in Kent.
Antonette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Antonettes
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Diahann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Diahanns
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
webdevs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webdev