cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quarter day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter days
form: quarter-day
Senses: examples: text: [T]he money was deposited in the hands of the mortgager, who, in the hearing of the lender, laid strong injunctions on his steward to pay the interest punctually at quarter-day.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The effect was that the line from Trades Lane to Carolina Port became part of the joint railway, as from Whitsunday, 1904. This date, of course, was the Scottish quarter day (May 15) and not the movable ecclesiastica festival.
ref: 1958 February 24, Charles E. Lee, “The Dundee & Arbroath Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 123:
glosses: Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.
Related terms: quarterly
quarterly court
jack-tar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jacktar.
baby talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babytalk
form: baby-talk
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: babble word
text: [...] while not a super-goof like some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with. Her whole aspect was that of a girl who at the drop of a hat would start talking baby talk.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter III, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: babyese
child-directed speech
hypocorism
motherese
parentese
coordinate_terms: childspeak
;
adultspeak
glosses: The form of speech used by adults in talking to very young children.
examples: Meronyms: babble word, goo goo ga ga
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: child language
childspeak
glosses: The prelanguage, and subsequent developing language, used by small children, incorporating crying, cooing, and babbling in sequence before the acquisition of adult language capabilities.
Related terms: word: baby steps
word: babytalk
rummage sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rummage sales
Senses: glosses: An informal sale of donated items, usually to fund the programs of a church or charity.
qualifier: Upper Midwestern US
glosses: A garage sale or tag sale.
glosses: A sale of unclaimed goods.
Midsummer Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Midsummer Days
Senses: synonyms: Midsummer's Day
glosses: 24th June, an English quarter day.
midsummer madness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Why this is very midsummer madness.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: "Madness. Midsummer madness," muttered Gulliman.
ref: 1959, Isaac Asimov, “All the Troubles of the World”, in Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Madness attributable to the heat of summer, or to the midsummer moon.
midsummer moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midsummer moons
Senses: glosses: The full moon or the lunar month around midsummer.
Derived terms: midsummer-moon madness
lunar month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar months
Senses: glosses: A period from one new moon until the next.
glosses: A synodic month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase.
glosses: A sidereal month of approximately 27.32 days, the length of time taken by the moon in its orbit about the Earth to return to the same point as viewed against the background of stars.
Synonyms: sense: 27.32 days
word: sidereal month
sense: 27.32 days
word: stellar month
sense: 29.53 days
word: lunation
sense: 29.53 days
word: synodic month
lunar phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar phases
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the near-monthly cyclically occurring aspects or appearances presented by a moon as seen from its planet (unless otherwise specified, the Moon as seen from Earth).
Synonyms: moonphase
phase of the moon
Hyponyms: crescent moon
dark moon
first quarter moon
full moon
gibbous moon
last quarter moon
new moon
old moon
waning crescent moon
waning gibbous moon
waxing crescent moon
waxing gibbous moon
waning moon
waxing moon
Related terms: word: blood moon
word: blue moon
word: strawberry moon
english: these are recurrent but less frequently than near-monthly
translation: these are recurrent but less frequently than near-monthly
word: harvest moon
first quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first quarters
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The waxing lunar phase, from new moon to half way between new moon and full moon.
Related terms: new moon
full moon
gibbous moon
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last quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last quarters
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The waning lunar phase halfway between full moon and new moon.
Related terms: new moon
full moon
gibbous moon
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gibbous moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibbous moons
Senses: examples: text: A bat, against the gibbous moons,
Danced, implike, with its lone delight;
The glowworm scrawled a golden rune
Upon the dark; and, emerald-strewn,
The firefly hung with lamps the night.
ref: 1911, Madison Cawein, Garden Gossip:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A lunar phase either side of the full moon when the moon's disc as seen from the Earth is larger than a semicircle.
Related terms: new moon
first quarter
last quarter
full moon
jim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jims
form: jimming
form: jimmed
form: jimmed
Etymology: Shortening of jimmy.
Senses: glosses: To jimmy (something); to mess up or mess with (something).
jim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jims
Etymology: Clipping of Jimmy O'Goblin, rhyming slang for a sovereign.
Senses: examples: text: He was tearin' ratty t' raise another jim.
ref: 1906, Edward Dyson, Fact'ry 'Ands:
glosses: A one-pound banknote.
jim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jims
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jeem (“Arabic letter”).
jim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jims
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gym
Related terms: jim hat
jim-jams
jim-swinger
jim up
Tunis cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tunis cakes
Etymology: Tunis + cake
Senses: glosses: A sponge cake topped with a thick chocolate layer.
DVR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DVRs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of digital video recorder.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of discrete valuation ring.
Synonyms: PVR
DVR
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: DVRs
form: DVRing
form: DVRed
form: DVRed
Senses: glosses: To record (a broadcast) using a digital video recorder.
nong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒŋ/
ipa: /nɔŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: nongs
Etymology: Probably shortened from ning-nong.
Senses: examples: text: ‘In there, you nong,’ Max said, pointing out a pink-brick home with a 1950s skillion roof.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 126:
text: ‘You guys are such nongs! Why would you want to face up to Shoaib Akhtar when you could win a World Cup against the young blond Aussie star at the home of cricket?’
ref: 2008, Michael Panckridge, Hat Trick! Toby Jones, Books 1-3, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: […]and spend every second Saturday defiant and one-eyed among the opposition nongs at the Barkly Street end.
ref: 2010, John Dale, editor, Best on Ground: Great Writers on the Greatest Game, unnumbered page:
glosses: An idiot.
synodic month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synodic months
Etymology: synodic + month
Senses: glosses: a month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase. The long-term average duration is 29.530 588 days (29 d 12 h 44 min 2.8 s), or about 29 ½ days.
glosses: the variably cyclic period from one new moon until the next.
Synonyms: lunation
lunar month
lunation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: lunations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin lūnātiō.
Senses: examples: text: And there is not the moon seen in all the lunation, save only the second quarter.
ref: 1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, modernized spelling edition:
text: The seventh annual Lunar Calendar challenges the traditional structure of the calendar from a feminist perspective. The Lunar Calendar bases its months bases its months on lunations or 28 day lunar cycles, giving us thirteen in a calendar year.
ref: 1982 December 25, J. Grainger, “Gay-by-Gay Calendars at a Glance”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 9:
glosses: A month of an average of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase.
glosses: The irregular period from one new moon until the next.
Synonyms: synodic month
lunar month
Derived terms: interlunation
Ascension Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Holy Thursday
glosses: The fortieth day of Easter, that is the Thursday 39 days after Easter Day.
Derived terms: Ascension Sunday
Ascension Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Sunday after Ascension Day.
branches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹænt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑːntʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of branch
branches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹænt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑːntʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of branch
intendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intendments
Etymology: From intend + -ment.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: the sense in which the legal system interprets something, especially the intention of legislation
damaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: more damaging
form: most damaging
Etymology: From damage + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
text: Heatwaves are especially damaging to children, as they are less able to regulate their body temperature compared to adults, the statement said, adding that the more heatwaves children are exposed to, the greater the chance of health problems including chronic respiratory conditions, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases.
ref: 2022 October 26, “Over two million Cambodian children exposed to constant heatwaves, says Unicef”, in The Star:
synonyms: word: harmful
word: damaging
word: deleterious
word: detrimental
word: hurtful
word: inimical
word: injurious
word: mischievous
word: nocent
word: nocuous
word: noxious
word: noisome
word: prejudicial
word: scathand
word: scathel
word: sullen
word: venom
antonyms: beneficial
undamaging
glosses: Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
Derived terms: damagingly
damagingness
neurodamaging
nondamaging
photodamaging
damaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: damagings
Etymology: From damage + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.
ref: 1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words:
glosses: gerund of damage: an act of causing damage.
damaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Etymology: From damage + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damage
Ash Wednesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ash Wednesdays
form: Ashwednesday
form: Ash-Wednesday
Etymology: From Middle English Aschewednysday, Axwednesdai, from asshe, axe (“ash”) + Wednesdai, Wednysday (“Wednesday”), from the custom of using the blessed ashes of the previous year's palm fronds (cf. Palm Sunday) to mark the heads of the congregation on the day. By surface analysis, ash + Wednesday.
Senses: examples: text: Pope Gregory the Great introduced the sprinkling of ashes... which gave it the name of Ash-Wednesday.
ref: 1834, Penny Cyclopaedia, volume II, page 454:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Wednesday 46 days before Easter in a given year, (Catholicism) traditionally observed as the beginning of Lent and a day of strict abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
qualifier: cocktail
glosses: A cocktail made from a mix of gin, heavy cream, honey syrup, and blackberries
Derived terms: Ash Monday
libelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.bəl.əs/
Forms: form: more libelous
form: most libelous
form: libellous
Etymology: From libel + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The accusation was libelous, full of falsehoods, spite and malice.
glosses: Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.
examples: text: The court found the statement was not libelous because it was true.
glosses: Meeting the legal standards for libel.
Derived terms: libelously
fauxhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauxhawks
form: fohawk
form: faux-hawk
form: faux hawk
Etymology: Blend of faux + Mohawk.
Senses: glosses: An imitation of the Mohawk hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
Derived terms: fauxhawked
Related terms: frohawk
fohawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fohawks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fauxhawk.
dyspraxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpɹæksiə/
Forms: form: dyspraxias
Etymology: From dys- + -praxia.
Senses: examples: text: Many people with dyspraxia have difficulty with tying shoelaces.
text: It is not clearly known what causes dyspraxia. It appears to be a developmental delay specifically in areas affecting motor function, which may involve gross motor, fine motor or articulatory skills. Some dyspraxic children also have other learning difficulties, while some are of average or above-average intelligence.
ref: 2010, Maureen Boon, Understanding Dyspraxia: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: developmental coordination disorder
glosses: A genetic neurological disorder where a person has motor skills severely below average due to their brain's inability to consistently send messages accurately to the body during the planning and execution of motor movements.
Derived terms: dyspraxic
fauxhemian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauxhemians
Etymology: Blend of faux + Bohemian.
Senses: examples: text: A far cry from the tie-dyed life I pictured for him, squeezing out the last drops of the long-depleted Woodstock spirit with a bunch of fauxhemians a third his age who want to touch the hem of his garment (or, more likely, smoke him out) because he used to hang with Dylan.
ref: 2006, Kevin Shay, The End As I Know It, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 140:
text: The bar where we're playing — a dank little hole in Manhattan's East Village that attracts a following every three years or so when some young fauxhemian "discovers" the place and writes about it for Time Out New York or The Village Voice, usually under a catchy headline like "Dives We Love" — is quiet, almost empty if you don't count the regulars.
ref: 2007, Heather Byer, Sweet: An Eight-ball Odyssey, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 2:
text: By then many of the artists and writers who had generated all this interest had fled the Village and North Beach, abandoning them to the tourists and fauxhemians.
ref: 2013, John Strausbaugh, The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, Ecco, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
libellous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more libellous
form: most libellous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of libelous.
Derived terms: libellously
unlibellous
fauxlex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊlɛks/
Forms: form: fauxlexes
Etymology: Blend of faux + Rolex
Senses: glosses: A fake Rolex watch.
fauxtatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊˈteɪtəʊz/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /foʊˈteɪtoʊz/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /-təz/
ipa: /-ɾəz/
Etymology: Blend of faux (“artificial, fake”) + potatoes.
Senses: examples: text: Cauliflower Purée (a.k.a. "Fauxtatoes") This is a wonderful substitute for mashed potatoes with any dish that has a gravy or sauce.
ref: 2010, Dana Carpender, “Sides”, in 1,001 Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes from Dinner to Dessert that Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back, Beverly, Mass.: Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 209:
text: Are your kids begging for mashed potatoes with their grilled chicken and Brussels sprouts (hooray for you if your kids eat Brussels sprouts!)? Make a healthier choice by switching to faux-tatoes, a blend of pureed cauliflower and coconut milk.
ref: 2014, J. J. Virgin, “Top Swaps and the Virgin Plate”, in The Virgin Diet Cookbook: 150 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Lose Weight and Feel Better Fast, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Life & Style, →ISBN:
text: Fauxtatoes are a great stand-in for mashed potatoes, especially if you have a super tasty gravy to soak up.
ref: 2015, Dana Carpender, “Hot Vegetable Sides”, in Paleo/Primal in 5 Ingredients or Less: More than 200 Sugar-Free, Grain-Free, Gluten-Free Recipes, Beverly, Mass.: Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: A dish of mashed cauliflower used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
fauxtatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊˈteɪtəʊz/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /foʊˈteɪtoʊz/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /-təz/
ipa: /-ɾəz/
Etymology: Blend of faux (“artificial, fake”) + potatoes.
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxtato.
libeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of libel
freeganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freegan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of living as a freegan.
libelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of libel
movieoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of movie + karaoke
Senses: glosses: an entertainment in which someone acts out a scene from a movie, against a silent version of it as background
latte factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In reference to coffee as a typical recurring purchase.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon whereby many small purchases add up to a significant expenditure over time.
N/A
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of n/a.
libeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libelers
form: libeller
Etymology: From libel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who libels.
menstrual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.stɹu.əl/
ipa: /ˈmɛn.stɹəl/
Forms: form: menstruall
form: menstral
Etymology: From Middle English menstruall, from Latin mēnstruālis, from mēnstrua (“menses”), from neuter plural of mēnstruus (“of a month, monthly, of menstruation”), from mēnsis (“month”) + -ālis (“-al”); see moon.
Senses: examples: text: Recent studies in physiology have noted that women who live in close proximity to one another - nurses in a hospital or coeds in a college dormitory - tend to have their menstrual periods at the same time.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 96:
glosses: Of or relating to the menses.
glosses: Occurring once a month; monthly.
examples: text: a menstrual flower
glosses: Lasting for a month.
Synonyms: catamenial
mensal
menstruous
Derived terms: intermenstrual
menstrual cramp
menstrual cup
menstrual cycle
menstrual fluid
menstruality
menstrually
menstrual pad
menstrual period
menstrual sponge
menstrual synchrony
nonmenstrual
paramenstrual
perimenstrual
postmenstrual
premenstrual
semimenstrual
Related terms: menstruation
menstruous
menstruum
menstrual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.stɹu.əl/
ipa: /ˈmɛn.stɹəl/
Forms: form: menstruals
form: menstruall
form: menstral
Etymology: From Middle English menstruall, from Latin mēnstruālis, from mēnstrua (“menses”), from neuter plural of mēnstruus (“of a month, monthly, of menstruation”), from mēnsis (“month”) + -ālis (“-al”); see moon.
Senses: examples: text: “All that drama for what” I thought. All she had to do was tell me that I was having my menstrual. So much for band aids.
ref: 2012, Miryom Willis, Shirley Fisher, Trials, Tragedy, Triumphs, page 11:
glosses: A menstrual period.
libeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libellers
form: libeler
Etymology: From libel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He always contrived to sit next the door, to which he paid more attention than to his hearer; his eye always wandering to it as if he meditated an escape, and yet this man was the most audacious libeller of his time.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: One who libels.
xylophonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylophonists
Etymology: From xylophone + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a xylophone.
buying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From buy + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buy
buying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: buyings
Etymology: From buy + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] Reckonings of all and every his Dealings, Doings, Buyings and Sellings and Employments, touching and concerning the Premises […]
ref: 1707, A General Discourse of Commerce, page 126:
text: "He's hanging back to make an excuse of going to town for the spring buying, and it won't do."
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 37:
text: Paying for these buyings, and arranging for their cartage to the shop, she got away, feeling physically tired but mentally elated, and very anxious to hear what Peter would say about the quality of her period pieces, and what prospects they offered for restoration.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 75:
glosses: The act of making a purchase.
Derived terms: buying the dip
homebuying
housebuying
impulse buying
nonbuying
panic buying
revenge buying
unbuying
libelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libelists
form: libellist
Etymology: From libel + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who libels, a libeler.
libellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libellists
Etymology: From libel + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of libelist.
pilcrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪl.kɹəʊ/
enpr: pĭl′-krō
ipa: /ˈpɪl.kɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: pilcrows
Etymology: Probably an alteration of Middle English pylcrafte, modification of Late Latin paragraphus.
Senses: examples: text: The pilcrow was a simple punctuation symbol used by medieval scribes to indicate the start and end of a paragraph.
ref: 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 167:
glosses: The symbol ¶.
A symbol designating the beginning of a new paragraph.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The symbol ¶.
A symbol designating a paragraph break.
Synonyms: paragraph character
paragraph mark
paragraph marker
paragraph sign
paragraph symbol
Derived terms: silcrow
impulse buying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulse buyings
Senses: examples: text: Often one partner is prone to impulse buyings, plunges the couple deeply into debt without evaluating their capability to pay, and in the eyes of the other partner, is generally "irresponsible" from a fiscal standpoint.
ref: 1976, A. L. Gary, John A. Glover, Eye color, sex, and children's behavior, page 155:
glosses: The act of making unplanned or otherwise spontaneous purchases.
Related terms: impulse buyer
impulse good
panic buying
AUP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AUPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of acceptable use policy.
savior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪvjɚ/
ipa: /ˈseɪvjə/
rhymes: -eɪvjə(ɹ)
Forms: form: saviors
form: saviour
Etymology: First attested in 1300 as Middle English saveour, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvātor, from salvō. Doublet of salvator. Displaced native Old English hǣlend.
Senses: glosses: A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)
Derived terms: savior complex
saviour sibling
saviouress
saviourhood
saviourship
Related terms: Savior
Saviour
salvor
salvager
salvator
El Salvador
Salvador
Salvatore
backspin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băkʹ-spĭn'
ipa: /ˈbækˌspɪn/
other: [ˈbækˌspɪn]
rhymes: -ækspɪn
Forms: form: backspins
Etymology: From back + spin.
Senses: synonyms: underspin
glosses: Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of spinback.
synonyms: word: spinback
backspin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: băkʹ-spĭn'
ipa: /ˈbækˌspɪn/
other: [ˈbækˌspɪn]
rhymes: -ækspɪn
Forms: form: backspins
form: backspinning
form: backspun
form: backspun
Etymology: From back + spin.
Senses: glosses: To spin (a ball) with this motion.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
Related terms: check spin
sidespin
topspin
backsliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backslide
backsliding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: more backsliding
form: most backsliding
Senses: glosses: sliding back
backsliding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: backslidings
Senses: examples: text: democratic backsliding
text: We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.
ref: 1918, Walter Raleigh, England and the War:
text: If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.
ref: 1851, Harvey Newcomb, A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females:
text: All their struggles, disappointments, failures, backslidings, which made them unhappy here, because they could not perfectly do the will of God, are past and over for ever.
ref: 1906, Charles Kingsley, Out of the Deep:
text: That is why any backsliding – disappearing to the toilet at last orders; ordering crazily expensive drinks on other people’s rounds; abruptly leaving after two pints – is sacrilege.
ref: 2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.
costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔsts/
ipa: /ˈkɒsts/
ipa: /ˈkɑsts/
rhymes: -ɔsts
rhymes: -ɒsts
rhymes: -ɑsts
Senses: glosses: plural of cost
costs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔsts/
ipa: /ˈkɒsts/
ipa: /ˈkɑsts/
rhymes: -ɔsts
rhymes: -ɒsts
rhymes: -ɑsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cost
Savior
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Savior
form: Saviour
Etymology: From savior. Doublet of Salvador.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Jesus Christ
glosses: A male given name from English.
glosses: A female given name from English.
back-slapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backslapping.
amplitude modulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amplitude modulations
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
synonyms: AM
glosses: A method of sending information by modifying (modulating) the intensity (amplitude) of a carrier wave.
Derived terms: quadrature amplitude modulation
Related terms: amplitude-modulated
frequency modulation
phase modulation
wrestlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrestler
backslapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backslap
backslapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backslappings
Senses: glosses: action of the verb to backslap
phase modulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phase modulations
form: PM
Senses: glosses: A method of sending information by modifying (modulating) the difference in phase (fraction of a wave length) between a signal and a reference.
Related terms: phase modulator
amplitude modulation
frequency modulation
backslap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backslaps
form: backslapping
form: backslapped
form: backslapped
Etymology: From back + slap.
Senses: examples: text: In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed would be hostile to his friendly advances.
ref: 1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 14:
glosses: To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.
Derived terms: backslapper
backslapping
suppose to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of supposed to.
modulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of modulate
modulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modulators
Etymology: From modulate + -or.
Senses: coordinate_terms: regulator
mediator
arbitrator
glosses: A person who modulates.
examples: text: [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
coordinate_terms: regulator
attenuator
governor
synchronizer
glosses: A device or thing that modulates.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.
Derived terms: biomodulator
comodulator
cryomodulator
immunomodulator
myomodulator
neuromodulator
oncomodulator
phase modulator
pulse modulator
radiomodulator
selective androgen receptor modulator
vasomodulator
Related terms: modulation
turkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkey
Wild Turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When tie had gotten a steroid prescription then, the doctor's office had been seedy and the doctor himself had smelled of Wild Turkey.
ref: 1994, Tim Green, Ruffians: A Novel, page 51:
text: From behind a cardboard grocery carton of toilet paper I took a bottle of Wild Turkey.
ref: 1999, Anne Rivers Siddons, Low Country, page 142:
text: "Want to check out Waikiki East. I hear they got a fresh shipment of Wild Turkey."
ref: 2005, Gregory G Sarno, When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again: Three Soldiers, Three Wars, page 262:
glosses: A brand of bourbon whiskey from Kentucky.
give someone the cold shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the cold shoulder
form: giving someone the cold shoulder
form: gave someone the cold shoulder
form: given someone the cold shoulder
Etymology: First recorded use of the expression was in 1816 by Sir Walter Scott in Scots (“The Countess’s dislike didna gang farther at first than just showing o’ the cauld shouther”.) This expression and its German equivalent are mistranslations of dederunt umerum recedentem from the Book of Nehemiah 9:29 from the Vulgate Bible, which actually means "stubbornly they turned their backs on you", which comes from the Septuagint Bible's equivalent ἔδωκαν (édōkan) νῶτον ἀπειθοῦντα. Latin umerus means both "shoulder" and "back".
Senses: examples: text: I must have made him angry with my comment. He’s been giving me the cold shoulder ever since I said it.
glosses: To snub, resist or reject somebody; to regard somebody distantly.
interchangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒəbl̩/
ipa: [ɪɾ̃ɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒəbl̩]
Etymology: From interchange + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts was a breakthrough for modern manufacturing. Prior to that, each part had to be made custom.
text: Sometimes the same words mean opposite things. Sometimes the opposite is true. Shock absorbers are called shocks. Slow down and slow up are interchangeable.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 104:
text: The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England.
ref: 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: equivalent
glosses: Freely substitutable; that may be swapped at will.
glosses: Following each other in alternate succession; alternating.
Derived terms: interchangeability
interchangeableness
interchangeably
noninterchangeable
uninterchangeable
interchangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒəbl̩/
ipa: [ɪɾ̃ɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒəbl̩]
Forms: form: interchangeables
Etymology: From interchange + -able.
Senses: glosses: Anything that can be interchanged; a substitute.
substitutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more substitutable
form: most substitutable
Etymology: From substitute + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Stevia is not substitutable for sugar in baking: the recipes won't work; they taste terrible.
glosses: Capable of being used as a substitute; valid as a replacement or alternate item.
glosses: Capable of being substituted.
substitutable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substitutables
Etymology: From substitute + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something that can be substituted for something else; a viable replacement.
man-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-eaters
form: maneater
form: man eater
Senses: examples: text: And particularly, he knows where to find the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat or perspiration.
ref: 1776, Thomas Boston, The Human Nature in its Fourfold State, page 336:
text: Man-eaters are more newsworthy than three-foot-long harmless sharks with tiny teeth.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 146:
text: His origin amongst monsters and man-eaters signals the play's recurrent concerns with monstrification, with eating others or being eaten by them, and with issues of specularity […]
ref: 1995, Bradley William Johnson, Birthed Effects: Shakespeare's Generation of Monsters, page 67:
glosses: An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
glosses: A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
examples: text: For how a race of Man-eaters should spring up in these islands, when none of the nations on the continents from whence they must derive their original are charged with these savage customs, is not easy to conceive[.]
ref: 1724, Thomas Salmon, Modern History, Or, The Present State of All Nations, page 287:
text: A stout ferocious-looking fellow, with muscular bandy legs, came in as I was conversing on the subject of cannibalism, and was pointed out to me as a celebrated marksman and man eater.
ref: 1827 February 2, The Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, Hobart, page 2, column 2:
glosses: A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
examples: text: "That only proves she has affairs with them too. She's a man-eater."
ref: 1945, Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, page 233:
text: Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up
(Oh-oh, here she comes)
She's a maneater
ref: 1982 September 28, Sara Allen, Daryl Hall, John Oates, “Maneater”, in H₂O, performed by Hall & Oates:
synonyms: word: femme fatale
word: enchantress
word: femme fatale
word: man-eater
word: mantrap
word: seductress
word: she-wolf
word: siren
word: temptress
word: vamp
word: vixen
word: wolfess
coordinate_terms: lady-killer
glosses: A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.
Related terms: man-eating
diddly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdəli/
Forms: form: diddlies
form: tiddley
Etymology: Short for diddly-squat.
Senses: examples: text: They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don't say diddly. They don't talk. Not a word, like they're deaf and dumb.
ref: 1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried:
synonyms: word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small amount of no worth.
Derived terms: diddly-squat
diddly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdəli/
Forms: form: tiddely
form: tiddly
form: tiddledy
form: tiddley
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: On the handcar mornings or evenings he would amuse his companion by pumping away to a triple-tongued pattern, which he would hum emphatically as they rolled along: "dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee dee-dum dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee..."
ref: 1993, Hugh Hood, Be sure to close your eyes: a novel:
text: ...When combined with the following picked note, this gives a rhythmic 'diddly-dum' effect.
ref: 2005, Gordon Giltrap, Total Giltrap: Guitar Encounters of the Fingerstyle Kind:
text: It's easy enough for him to go “diddly-diddly-diddly-dum” a thousand and one times, whereas with me it's “diddly-diddly-diddly- omigodIcan'tbreathe-dum!”)
ref: 2008, Kristie Theobald, Irish Angels:
glosses: A written representation of a trill sound.
diddly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdəli/
Forms: form: diddlies
Etymology: Possibly shortened from diddlywhacker.
Senses: examples: text: "My child is going to be taught all about sex as soon as he can understand. Mother-in-law is always clucking to him about his diddly. No, no, I say, you must call it penis."
ref: 1968, Monica Dickens, The Landlord's Daughter, Doubleday & Company, page 268:
synonyms: word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: penis
Related terms: diddly bow
scrum-diddly-umptious
stevia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːvɪə/
ipa: /ˈstɛvɪə/
Forms: form: stevias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Stevia, after 16th century Spanish botanist Pedro Jaime Esteve (latinized as Petrus Jacobus Stevus).
Senses: examples: text: A naturally sweet herb called stevia is gaining in popularity as a sugar substitute, especially in beverages. Food additives must provide evidence of their safety and effectiveness before receiving FDA approval, and stevia lacks this approval for use as a sweetener because so little is known about its effects on human health, save that it can be absorbed by the human digestive tract.
ref: 2006, Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney, Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies, 10th edition, page 49:
text: Another natural sweetener comes from the stevia plant. In December 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave a “generally recognized as safe” status to Truvia and PureVia, both of which are wholly derived from the stevia plant and have no calories.
ref: 2010, Rita Girouard Mertig, What Nurses Know...Diabetes, page 18:
text: My absolute preference for a sweetener is the herb stevia—not the white crystalline extract, but the chopped green leaves. Stevia has no calories and does not cause any insulin response.
ref: 2010, Sam Graci, The Food Connection: The Right Food at the Right Time, page 139:
synonyms: word: sweetleaf
glosses: Any of the sweet herbs of genus Stevia, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America and western North America.
examples: text: Stevia is a natural, non-fattening sweetener that is 30 to 100 times sweeter than sugar and without any of the aftertaste that is common in many sugar substitutes.
ref: 2003, M. Sara Rosenthal, The Natural Woman's Guide to Living with the Complications of Diabetes, page 42:
text: Around 1970, Japan approved stevia as a sweetener and flavor enhancer, and, in the last 35 years of Japanese employment, not a single case of toxic or deleterious effect has been brought to light.
ref: 2008, Jack Staub, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, page 563:
text: Stevia is made from the leaves of a small shrub found largely in South America and China, and has been used by indigenous peoples for hundreds of years. It is considered one of the healthiest sweeteners available, and often used as a tonic for healing wounds.
ref: 2011, Mary D Martino, Natural Health: Alternatives and Prevention of Disease, page 365:
glosses: A sweetener, many times sweeter than an equal amount of sugar, extracted from Stevia rebaudiana, that can be substituted for sugar for some purposes.
Synonyms: sense: any species of genus Stevia
word: candy leaf
sense: any species of genus Stevia
word: sugar leaf
sense: any species of genus Stevia
word: sweet honey leaf
sense: any species of genus Stevia
word: sweet herb of Paraguay
Derived terms: steviol
convinced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪnst/
Forms: form: more convinced
form: most convinced
Senses: examples: text: He was convinced he was a great singer, though others were not so sure.
glosses: In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.
Derived terms: convincedly
convincedness
unconvinced
convinced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪnst/
Senses: examples: text: We convinced him with our skillful arguments and supporting evidence.
glosses: simple past and past participle of convince
fusiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fusiform
form: most fusiform
Etymology: From Latin fusus (“spindle”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: Fusobacteria are fusiform bacilli (spindled rods).
text: Acorns come in spherical and fusiform varieties.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.
Synonyms: spindle-shaped
Derived terms: bifusiform
fusiform gyrus
subfusiform
Related terms: fusee