cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
findfault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: findfaults
Etymology: From find + fault.
Senses: glosses: A faultfinder.
findfaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of findfault
King's Bench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The superior court in a number of jurisdictions in some parts of the Commonwealth.
Synonyms: english: when the monarch is female
translation: when the monarch is female
word: Queen's Bench
outwin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outwins
form: outwinning
form: outwon
form: outwon
Etymology: From Middle English outwinnen, equivalent to out- + win.
Senses: examples: text: It is a darksome delve farre under ground, / With thornes and barren brakes environd round, / That none the same may easily out-win […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To win a way out (of); to escape (from).
outwinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outwin
outwins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outwin
outwon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outwin
voyageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more voyageable
form: most voyageable
Etymology: Compare French voyageable.
Senses: glosses: That may be sailed over or travelled across; navigable.
enclitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enclitically
form: most enclitically
Etymology: From enclitic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: it is not pronounced enclitically like omnipotence
ref: 1791, John Walker, Critical Pronouncing Dictionary:
glosses: In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.
jacqueminot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʒɑkmɪˈnoʊ/
Forms: form: jacqueminots
Etymology: Named after General Jacqueminot of France.
Senses: glosses: A variety of rose with a deep crimson color.
jacqueminots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacqueminot
forejudger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forejudgers
Etymology: From forejudge + -er.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A judgement by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
forejudgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forejudger
outgaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outgazes
form: outgazing
form: outgazed
form: outgazed
Etymology: From out- + gaze.
Senses: glosses: To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking.
glosses: To stare out of countenance.
outgazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outgaze
outgazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outgaze
outgazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outgaze
stereotypography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From stereo- + typography.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The act or technique of printing from stereotype plates.
Related terms: stereotypographer
jedding ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jedding axes
form: jedding axe
Senses: glosses: A stonemason's tool with a flat face and a pointed part.
Related terms: Jeddart axe
jedding axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jedding ax
outfeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfeats
form: outfeating
form: outfeated
form: outfeated
Etymology: From out- + feat.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in feats, to outperform.
outfeated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfeat
outfeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfeat
outfeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfeat
feather-heeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feather-heeled
form: most feather-heeled
Senses: examples: text: The wit of the Germans is not feather-heeled; their humor is somewhat sedate
ref: 1840, Thomas Hood, Up the Rine:
synonyms: light-heeled
glosses: nimble; frolicsome.
neglective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /nɪˈɡlɛktɪv/
Forms: form: more neglective
form: most neglective
Etymology: From neglect + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t is a wonder they ſhould be ſo neglective of their own children.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Common-wealth of the Mammalukes Described, Presenting Us with Many Unexampled Remarkables”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 202:
glosses: Neglectful.
Derived terms: neglectively
unconform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Not unconform to other shining globes
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Unlike.
unconform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unconforms
form: unconforming
form: unconformed
form: unconformed
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you've tried your whole Christian life to "unconform" yourself and transform yourself.
ref: 2001, Will Wyatt, Discovery: God's Answers to Our Deepest Questions, page 131:
text: Being too young to be able to unconform I now present the reader their chance to learn from Hunchy.
ref: 2018, Bic Rogers, Don't Call Me Hunchy:
text: It's time to unconform; to dispense with the same–same 'pastel and marble' way of doing things.
ref: 2022, Nicola Moras, Into the Spotlight:
glosses: To behave in a nonconformist manner; to reject conformity.
subcompressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + compressed.
Senses: examples: text: subcompressed spikelets
text: subcompressed whorls
topics: biology
botany
conchology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Not fully compressed; partially or somewhat compressed.
unsanctification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + sanctification.
Senses: examples: text: Although from present unsanctification, a man cannot infer that he is not elected; for the decree may, for part of a man's life , run (as it were) underground; yet this is sure, that that estate leads to death, and unless it be broken, will prove the black line of reprobation.
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion, page 65:
text: To say that death to sin is incompatible with living in sin, is merely to say that sanctification is incompatible with unsanctification, which is so self-evident that no one would even think of the contrary. But to say that justification is incompatible with unsanctification is not so evident as to be a mere truism, and affords ground for an argument,—which St. Paul furnishes, by examining the intrinsic relation of atonement to self-indulgence, of justification to sanctification.
ref: 1879, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, A Critical and Doctrinal Commentary Upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, page 147:
text: In the liturgical sphere of worship, indeed, the idea of creatural unsanctification, of distance between Creator and creature, is the prevailing one.
ref: 1900 April, Hermann Schultz, “The Significance of Sacrificein the Old Testament”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 4, number 2, page 289:
text: He brought with him an odor of disrespectability, rum and unsanctification.
ref: 2023, William Sydney Porter, “The Bruised Reed”, in O. Henry Encore:
glosses: Absence or lack of sanctification.
overshadower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overshadowers
Etymology: From overshadow + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that overshadows.
overshadowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overshadower
ulmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulmates
Etymology: From ulmic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: ulmate of ammonia
text: ulmate of potassa
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of ulmic acid.
ulmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulmate
navarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪvɑː(ɹ)k/
/ˈnævɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: navarchs
Etymology: From Latin navarchus, from Ancient Greek ναύαρχος (naúarkhos, “leader of the ships”), corresponding to navy + -arch.
Senses: examples: text: The commander of a fleet was called Navarch
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The commander of a fleet.
navarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navarch
overburn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overburns
form: overburning
form: overburned
form: overburned
form: overburnt
form: overburnt
Etymology: From over- + burn.
Senses: glosses: To burn too much or for too long.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To record more than the usual available data capacity onto (an optical disc).
glosses: To be overzealous.
Related terms: word: burn out
word: overfire
overburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overburns
Etymology: From over- + burn.
Senses: examples: text: The furnace with the hickory wood was at a great heat and in danger of an overburn.
ref: 1884, The Clay Worker, T. A. Randall & Co., page 214:
text: But this is not possible in our ordinary commercial kiln, nor would it be practicable to try it, for the reason that the reduction taking place in the top of the kiln would be so great that the alkalis and other fluxes present in the clay would enter into combination with the ferrous oxide and result in what we term melted brick or an overburn.
ref: 1911, Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield-Leach, page 179:
text: A 1.2-sec overburn of LM ascent propulsion system caused by incorrect manual switching sequence prevented automatic shutdown of engine and resulted in insertion velocity 32 fps greater than planned, placing LM in orbit with 71.4-mi (114.9-km) apolune and 10.6-mi (17.1-km) perilune.
ref: 1970, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Astronautics and Aeronautics, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, page 377:
glosses: An excessive burning.
Related terms: word: burnout
word: overfired
overburned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overburn
overburning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-burning
Etymology: From overburn + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overburn
overburning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overburnings
form: over-burning
Etymology: From over- + burning.
Senses: glosses: The action of overburning; excessive burning.
overburns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overburn
overburns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overburn
uvulatomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uvulatomy
uvulatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uvulatomies
Etymology: From uvula + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of the uvula.
shaftmond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaftmonds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shaftment.
goneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonenesses
Etymology: From gone + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
ref: 1999, Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust:
glosses: The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.
glosses: A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger.
operculiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From operculum + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: operculiferous lobe
text: operculiferous body
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Bearing an operculum.
ultimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultimities
Etymology: Latin ultimatus extremity, from Latin ultimus the last.
Senses: examples: text: The constantest notion of .concoction is , that it should signify the degrees of alteration , of one body into another , from crudity to perfect concoction ; which is the ultimity of that action or process
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The final stage or consequence; finality.
undeserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undeserves
form: undeserving
form: undeserved
form: undeserved
Etymology: From un- + deserve.
Senses: examples: text: With fair equality, fraternal state,
Will arrogate dominion undeserved
Over his brethren, and quite dispossess
Concord and law of nature from the earth
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To fail to deserve, to be unworthy of
undeserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undeserve
shaftmound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaftmounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shaftment.
polepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polepieces
form: pole piece
Etymology: From pole + piece.
Senses: glosses: A structure composed of material of high magnetic permeability that serves to direct the magnetic field produced by a magnet.
synonyms: pole-strap
glosses: A heavy strap which attaches the end of a carriage pole to the collar of a draught animal.
in the crosshairs
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Targeted at the point of intersection of the two perpendicular lines in a gunsight or scope.
examples: text: Industry experts are concerned that if the railway doesn't change tack, it would soon find itself out of step with the needs of the nation and in the crosshairs of a Treasury looking to slash spending.
ref: 2021 October 20, Ben Jones, “The benefits of (and barriers to) more leisure travel by rail”, in RAIL, number 942, page 32:
glosses: Subject to close scrutiny.
examples: text: Nettles lives in the crosshairs, with the secret police, his sympathizers, and his now and would-be lovers making impossible demands on him.
ref: 1989 November 3, “Brilliant acting, conception drive ‘Largo Desolato’”, in The Advocate, Louisiana, USA, retrieved 27 Oct 2011:
text: The German industrial giants that exploited slave labor during the war, from Volkswagen to Krupp, are in the crosshairs of class-action suits from Holocaust survivors.
ref: 1998 December 2, Frank Rich, “Opinion: What's Good for General Motors . . .”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2011:
text: U.S. Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, has found herself in the crosshairs of a potential scandal.
ref: 2009 April 22, Alex Altman, “2 Minute Bio: California Rep. Jane Harman”, in Time:
glosses: Singled out for blame, harassment, or other unwanted attention.
likeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more likeless
form: most likeless
Etymology: From like (noun) + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Likeless, unlikeness, extra-ordinariness, preeminence, — these are the terms.
ref: 1910, William Fraser McDowell, In the school of Christ:
glosses: Unlike; dissimilar in form; different.
likeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more likeful
form: most likeful
Etymology: From Middle English likful, licvol, equivalent to like + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: […] that they put the said word in al their English Bibles, with the likeful consent as before, when it is not in the Greeke at al.
ref: 1973, original 1582, Gregory Martin, A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures:
text: […] and can sometimes even churn up a huge and hazy cloud of closeknit mindgropings, which when written down might, with luck, reach across to other thinkbeasts and in them trigger wonderings of a likeful kind.
ref: 1995, Allen Sture, Of Thoughts And Words:
text: "This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful.
ref: 2007, Brian Jacques, High Rhulain:
glosses: Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
a la minute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑ.lə.miˈnut/
Forms: form: à la minute
Etymology: Borrowed from French à la minute.
Senses: examples: text: Most of our sauces are a la minute.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
antonyms: sandbagged
glosses: Prepared to order, not prepared in advance.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Prepared in the same pan as the item it accompanies when served.
raw_tags: of a sauce
a la minute
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑ.lə.miˈnut/
Forms: form: à la minute
Etymology: Borrowed from French à la minute.
Senses: examples: text: You make these a la minute? Kudos.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To order, not in advance.
Related terms: at the minute
in the moment
at the moment
foot rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot rests
Senses: glosses: A horizontal bar fixed on the bottom of a chair to provide support for the feet.
mega-becquerel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-becquerels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megabecquerel.
megacoulombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacoulomb
micro-weber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-webers
Etymology: From micro- + weber.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of microweber.
microcandelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcandela
millikelvins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millikelvin
nanocandelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocandela
nanosieverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanosievert
pico-coulomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pico-coulombs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picocoulomb.
picocoulombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picocoulomb
prad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prads
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch paard (“horse”). Doublet of palfrey.
Senses: examples: text: Horse Stealers, they go together always the Day before, to look over the Grounds for a good Prad or Prads […]
ref: 1754, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, Sherborne, page 39:
text: We had fixed our eye on a horse-dealer, and had some conversation with him about the purchase of a prad; but we could not agree, and parted, on account of a deeker, who was eyeing us closely, and I observed him speak to the jockey.
ref: 1821, David Haggart, The Life of David Haggart, written by himself while under sentence of death, London: W. and C. Tait, page 22:
text: 'Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?' said the officer; 'he's in the gig, a-minding the prad. […]'
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “chapter XXXI”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: 1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600691h.html
"Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."
text: So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212:
glosses: A horse.
tera-becquerel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tera-becquerels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terabecquerel.
teraamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teraampere
teracycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teracycle
uC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of microcontroller.
usr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usrs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of user.
Xs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X
Xs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of X
XT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XTs
Senses: synonyms: ET
glosses: Abbreviation of extraterrestrial.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extended technology: a version of the IBM PC with a built-in hard drive, released in 1983.
Related terms: ALF
AOO
EBE
ETI
OVNI
UFO
zepto-ampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zepto-amperes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zeptoampere.
zepto-amperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zepto-ampere
zepto-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zepto-joules
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zeptojoule.
zeptomoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeptomole
zetta-ampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zetta-amperes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zettaampere.
zetta-amperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zetta-ampere
zettaamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zettaampere
augmented ninth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augmented ninths
Senses: examples: text: An augmented ninth on C
1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: an interval that is one octave wider than an augmented second
augmented ninths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augmented ninth
demilitarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demilitarization
milliare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliares
Etymology: From milli- + are.
Senses: glosses: A unit of area, one thousandth of an are.
Related terms: heloma milliare
yottagramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yottagrammes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yottagram.
leading question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading questions
Senses: examples: text: He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there - putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:
glosses: A question that suggests the answer or that contains the information for which the examiner is looking.
Related terms: english: loaded question
translation: loaded question
word: wife-beating question
leading questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leading question
minjung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 민중(民衆) (minjung), from Middle Chinese 民眾 (MC mjin tsyuwngH, “common people, the masses”). Compare Mandarin 民眾 /民众 (mínzhòng).
Senses: examples: text: The minjung have learned to dream of a world from which oppression, conflict and suffering have been removed; a world where they are no longer the ruled, but the rulers of their own lives and destinies, and the subjects of their own history.
ref: 1996, Sang Taek Lee, Religion and Social Formation in Korea, page 171:
text: Therefore the theologians' main concern was not dealing with individual poor people but rather to do with social process and the system which prevents the minjung from coming out of their misery.
ref: 2008, Sebastian CH Kim, Christian Theology in Asia, page 140:
text: Jesus was minjung and the friend of the minjung, teaching forgiveness and love of enemies, but Moses was also minjung, political leader of his people against oppression.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 978:
topics: government
lifestyle
politics
religion
theology
glosses: In South Korea, peasants or working-class people.
swishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swisher
sub out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subs out
form: subbing out
form: subbed out
form: subbed out
Etymology: Short for substitute out or subcontract out
Senses: examples: text: It's this single word also that Dickenson's editors subbed out for the 1896 edition of her poems, rendering the line instead, “But sequence ravelled out of reach / like balls upon a floor.”
ref: 2010, Kazim Ali, Orange Alert, page 183:
text: I've listed sample habits to demonstrate how you might sub out an unproductive one with a productive one.
ref: 2013, Karen Elizaga, Find Your Sweet Spot, page 87:
text: While McGraw subbed out Wilson, he allowed pitcher Lon Warneke to hit for himself.
ref: 2014, Lew Freedman, The Day All the Stars Came Out, page 103:
text: The thyme can be subbed out for rosemary or sage, if you prefer.
ref: 2018, Rebecca Sullivan, The Art of Herbs for Health:
coordinate_terms: sub in
glosses: To replace with a substitute: to substitute (something or someone).
examples: text: Near-synonym: farm out
text: On the other hand, we sub out all our basement excavation work simply because we found an expert sub who could beat our costs.
ref: 1963, House & Home - Volume 24, page 122:
text: You hate drywall, why are you doing it yourself? You shoulda subbed that out.
ref: 2011, Max Kelly, Stress Failure, page 24:
text: They will also sub out to investigators who are not insured or licensed as a PI in the case area.
ref: 2015, Richard A. Brooks, Private Investigators & The Dirty Little Secret of Subcontracting:
text: So when I sub-out, it becomes a problem for the sub-cons to handle, not me.
ref: 2018, Low Sui Pheng, Sim Jia Zheng, Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System, page 274:
glosses: To hire a subcontractor (to complete a task): to subcontract (something).
subs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sub out
subbing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sub out
subbed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sub out
power top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power tops
form: powertop
Senses: examples: text: He was one power top that who was giving my ass a complete and thorough pummeling
ref: 2010, Neil Plakcy, Skater Boys: Gay Erotic Stories:
glosses: An especially aggressive or energetic active partner in sex.
glosses: An electrically operated roof on a convertible vehicle
Coordinate terms: power bottom
power tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power top
ménages à trois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ménage à trois
canonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canonry
ennuyé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ennuyé
form: most ennuyé
Etymology: Borrowed from French ennuyé.
Senses: examples: text: Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
text: You must open your doors to your friend at all hours; if when inside it suit him to sing, sing he will; and until you learn solitude in a crowd, or the art of concentration, you are apt to become ennuyé and irritable.
ref: 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 49:
glosses: Affected with ennui; bored.
devil dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil dog
LGB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There is no LGB movement. Not one that doesn't stand side by side with trans people. Speaking as a bisexual guy, no less is acceptable, and you definitely don't speak for me.[…]
ref: 2019 October 24, Olivia Petter, quoting Josh Alex Cairo, “‘LGB Alliance’ group faces criticism for being transphobic”, in The Independent:
text: Having both cis LGB and trans friends, I know well that some families will accept a gay child but refuse to accept a trans one: the change in names, pronouns and physicality is simply too overwhelming for them to embrace.
ref: 2021 September 2, Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue, →ISBN:
text: Adding the + to LGB gives the green light to paraphilias like bestiality - & more - to all be part of one big happy "rainbow family". Wake up policy makers. LGB people refuse to be used in your artificial & dangerous argument that we must all be lumped together #NoToHomophobia
ref: 2022 September 14, Lily Wakefield, quoting LGB Alliance, “LGB Alliance: Anti-trans lobby group’s troubling, ugly history”, in Pink News:
glosses: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual.
Related terms: the list at LGBT
LGB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LGBs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of laser-guided bomb.
LGB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "[…]The congressman who had an alleged affair with a Chinese spy for several years and inexplicably still sits on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees jumped to Twitter on Christmas Day to attack the Oregon father who delivered the LGB joke during the White House holiday call."
ref: [2021 December 27, Proud Progressive, “Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell Blasts Pathetic Dad Who Said Lets Go Brandon to Biden”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
text: Got gas the other day and there were two LGB stickers on the gas pump.
ref: 2021 December 27, Frank, “Do you suppose anyone told the venal, senile what LGB means?”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):
text: Unfortunately for Brown, the reaction was negative. Despite being a rising NASCAR star, he said it became “extremely difficult” to attract sponsors because major corporations saw his unintentional association with the LGB meme to be divisive.
ref: 2022 January 5, “NASCAR rejects ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sponsorship”, in RT:
text: That represents a 99.5 percent decline over the last 30 days, leaving a singular LGB coin effectively worthless.
ref: 2022 February 13, Technobarbarian, “‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Crypto Coin Turns Into Total Dumpster Fire”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):
text: The gift shop is rammed. [...] I'm slightly surprised to see an "LGB" clutch above the till, until I realise it stands for "Let’s Go Brandon", code for "Fuck Joe Biden"[.]
ref: 2024 March 15, Jemima Kelly, “How the least divided place in America feels about Trump's return”, in Financial Review, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2024:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of let's go, Brandon.
iced out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iced out
form: most iced out
Etymology: From iced + out; see ice (“diamonds”).
Senses: examples: text: I drive up and down Harlem blocks, iced-out watch
Knots in my socks, cops think I'm sellin' rocks
ref: 1997, Big L, “The Enemy”:
text: The bright lights, iced-out jewels, expensive cars all this shit came with a price on it.
ref: 2005, Noire, Candy licker: an urban erotic tale, page 8
glosses: copiously decorated with jewelry such as precious stones and metals
iced out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From iced + out; see ice (“diamonds”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ice out
gayface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gayfaces
Etymology: From gay + face.
Senses: examples: text: he has gayface
text: Not just because of his famously homoerotic sonnets but because Shakespeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a serious case of gayface.
ref: Details, Volume 27, Issues 7-9
antonyms: straightface
glosses: An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.
examples: text: in gayface
coordinate_terms: transface
;
blackface
whiteface
redface
yellowface
brownface
glosses: The practice in which a straight person portrays a caricature of a gay person.
Related terms: femme
bull dyke
girly man
tom boy
gayfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gayface
recase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recases
form: recasing
form: recased
form: recased
Etymology: From re- + case.
Senses: glosses: To repair (a book) by replacing the case.
glosses: To change (text) from upper case to lower case, or vice versa.
straightface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹeɪtˌfeɪs/
Forms: form: straightfaces
Etymology: From straight + face.
Senses: antonyms: gayface
glosses: An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of heterosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by effeminacy in females and masculinity in males.
glosses: The quality of sincerity or convincingness.
Related terms: with a straight face
macho man
girly girl
straightfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straightface
hypomasculinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + masculinity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or exhibition of unmasculine behavior or traits, especially emotions and those of a gentle, feminine, or weak nature
sexual minority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual minorities
Senses: glosses: The state of being a minor in sexual matters.
examples: text: Many U.S. states do not protect any sexual minority from discrimination or retribution.
glosses: A (member of a) group outside of the mainstream of accepted sexual expression or orientation in a given culture. (Also used attributively.)
Coordinate terms: english: GM
translation: GM
word: gender minority
english: sexual and gender minority
translation: sexual and gender minority
word: SGM
sexual minorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual minority
tom boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tom boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tomboy.
tom boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tom boy
girlyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girlymen
form: girly man
Etymology: From girly + man.
Senses: examples: text: 1988, Schwarzenegger, Arnold, during the 1988 United States presidential election
"They all look like a bunch of girlymen, right?"
text: "You whuss! ... I thought Blake was the only girlyman on the team. I guess there are two."
ref: 1993, Kevin Walter Johnson, Why Is God Looking for Friends?:
glosses: An effeminate man.
Synonyms: cockney
nancyboy
sissy
effeminate man
girlymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlyman
girly man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girly men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of girlyman.
girly men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girly man
macho man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macho men
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: alpha male, he-man; see also Thesaurus:hypermasculine man
text: Call him Mister Ego, dig his chains / You can best believe that he's a macho man
ref: 1978, “Macho Man”, performed by Village People:
text: You better run, you better do what you can / Don’t wanna see no blood, don’t be a macho man
ref: 1982, Michael Jackson, “Beat It”, in Thriller:
text: The young Machoman in summer makes a beautiful sighting — bare chested, hat sparkling in the sun.
ref: 1984, Julia Runk Jones, Milo Trump, Livingston's Field Guide to North American Males:
related: word: machoman
antonyms: manbaby
manboy
man child
manchild
man-child
;
beta male
gamma male
sigma male
;
girly girl
girlie girl
girlie
babygirl
baby girl
glosses: A hypermasculine, sexually attractive, virile man.
Related terms: machismo
machoism
macho men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macho man
machoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machomen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macho man.
machomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machoman
reluctate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlʌkteɪt/
Forms: form: reluctates
form: reluctating
form: reluctated
form: reluctated
Etymology: See reluct.
Senses: examples: text: to delude their reluctating consciences
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To be reluctant; to resist or oppose.
kid sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kid sisters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of younger sister.
synonyms: word: younger sister
kid brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kid brothers
Senses: glosses: A little brother.
kid sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kid sister
kid brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kid brother
Wildrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
CBRN
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
war
glosses: Initialism of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear, used to remember the four types of weapons of mass destruction.
Synonyms: B-NICE
Related terms: ABC
NBC
refutanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refutandum
refutandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refutanda
Etymology: From Latin refūtandum, neuter of refūtandus.
Senses: glosses: Something that is to be refuted.
remollient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remollient
form: most remollient
Etymology: From Latin remolliens, present participle of remollire (“to mollify”). Compare French rémollient. See mollient.
Senses: glosses: mollifying; softening; soft
reparanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reparandum
reparandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reparanda
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An error in speech that is subsequently corrected ("repaired") by the speaker.
Schulz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Common German and Jewish surname, from the archaic Schulze (“mayor, headman”), similar to Schultheiß. Compare Schultz, and the common Slavic form Sulc, Szulc.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Arndt-Schulz law
Schöpf-Schulz-Passarge syndrome
Schultz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃʊlts/
/ʃʌlts/
Forms: form: Schultzes
Etymology: From German Schultz, an occupational surname derived from Schultheiß (“a mayor in medieval Germany”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pleasants County, West Virginia, United States.
Scholz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Schulze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Schulze method
Hoffmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoffmanns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hoffmann.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hoffman (“surname”).
Derived terms: Bouveret-Hoffmann syndrome
diphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίφυλλος (díphullos), from φύλλον (phúllon); compare French diphylle.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: bifoliate
glosses: Having two leaves.
Joseph's flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joseph's flowers
Senses: synonyms: Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon
glosses: A flower, Tragopogon pratensis.
Joseph's flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Joseph's flower
telejournalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + journalism.
Senses: glosses: Journalism for the medium of television.
Hofmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Hofmann degradation
Hofmann elimination
Hofmann-Martius rearrangement
Hofmann product
Hofmann rearrangement
Maier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A German surname.
Mayer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Mear, from the noun mere (both senses).
* Also as an English surname, from Middle English mire, a borrowing from archaic French mire (“physician”). Compare Myer.
* Also as an English name, from the noun mayor. Compare Mayor, Mair.
* As a German and Dutch surname, variant of Meyer, Myers.
* Also as a Dutch surname, variant of Maijer, from the noun maaier (“mower, reaper”).
* As a French Canadian surname, variant of Maille, itself of Breton origin, from the adjective maget (“nourished”), from Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: A city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A town in northern Syria.
Derived terms: Mayer-Norton theorem
Mayersville
Mayerthorpe
Kuhn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kuhns
Etymology: * As a German surname, from Kuhn. Compare Kühn, Kuehn.
* As a Jewish surname, a variant of Cohen, Kohn.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Kuhnian
Brandt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brandts
Etymology: German and Alemannic German surname for someone who lived in an area cleared by fire, from Brandt. Compare Brand.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Brandt-Daroff exercise
Brandt's bat
Brandt's myotis
Brandt syndrome
Waldo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Waldeve
form: Waldef
form: Waltheof
Etymology: English surname, from the obsolete English given name Waltheof, from Old English weald (“power”) + þēof (“thief”), as in "one who snatched victory from battle." Comparable to, or ultimately Anglicized from, the Old Norse equivalent Valthiófr, from vald + *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ). Compare Walthall, Waldie.
Senses: examples: text: He was our first baby, born September 4, 1939, our only boy. Named Waldo after a kind of bakin powder I liked. 'Waldo's Cream Powder.'
ref: 2002, Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: A male given name from Old English, in modern American use transferred back from the surname.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Derived terms: Waldo County
endictments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endictment
revisitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revisitors
Senses: glosses: One who revisits.
BFFL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BFFLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of best friend(s) for life.
sacrificature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Sacrifice.
sectile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sectile
form: most sectile
Etymology: From Latin sectilis.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being cut.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Capable of being cut.
Capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
glosses: Having the appearance of being divided.
Derived terms: sectility
sedilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedilia
Etymology: From Latin sedilium.
Senses: glosses: One of a row of seats in an Ancient Roman amphitheatre.
glosses: A seat in the chancel of a church near the altar, for the officiating clergyman.
Synonyms: sense: seat in a church
word: sedile
U-pick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: you-pick
Etymology: From u (“an abbreviation of you”) + pick.
Senses: examples: text: I live near a U-pick strawberry farm.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
marketing
synonyms: pick-your-own
glosses: Of a farm operation, in which a customer can harvest the produce they wish to purchase.
U-pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-picks
form: you-pick
Etymology: From u (“an abbreviation of you”) + pick.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
marketing
glosses: A U-pick farm operation.
cyberhate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + hate.
Senses: examples: text: In short, although the temptation is great to look to legislation and regulation as a remedy to cyberhate, our commitment to free speech must always take precedent over our fears.
ref: 2004, Deanna D. Sellnow, Confident public speaking, page 23:
text: One such example is the phenomenon of cyberhate. Cyberhate is a unique phenomenon because it does not necessarily involve negative one-to-one communication.
ref: 2008, Elly Konijn, Mediated interpersonal communication, page 204:
text: We have termed this the anonymous cyberhate view of the internet, or the idea that the internet provides a haven for racists who, using the cover of anonymity, engage in inflammatory and aggressive attacks on other groups[…]
ref: 2011, Zachary Birchmeier, Beth Dietz-Uhler, Garold Stasser, Strategic Uses of Social Technology, page 151:
glosses: Hatred expressed by means of computer networks.
kosher salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kosher salts
Etymology: From its use in drawing blood out of meat as part of the process of rendering meat kosher.
Senses: glosses: A variety of edible salt with a large grain size and usually no additives.
Synonyms: koshering salt
kosher salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kosher salt
anticlumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + clumping.
Senses: examples: an anticlumping agent used in table salt
glosses: Preventing the formation of clumps.
recombobulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1970 — Amanda Cross, Poetic Justice, p.42, Knopf, 1970 OCLC 76577.
...to the conversation of last night, why has misrule and horseplay brought you to such a state of discombobulation? Or, since it has, may I offer my help in recombobulation?
text: "Is that any way to treat a lady?" she said, adjusting her adipose folds and swatting leaves from her thick wool sweater.
"Oh," I stammered, attempting to help her in her huffing recombobulation. "Oh."
ref: 2001, William L. Biersach, The Endless Knot, Lightning Source Inc, →ISBN, page 308:
text: Jesus had shown an intense lack of interest in this, or any of the other animal-centric schemes that his mother devised such as Wombat Wrangling and Poaching or Bear Wrestling, as he had his own inventiveness to attend to, such as soap recombobulation.
ref: 2010, John DeGraffenried, The Amish Catapult: A Tale of Love and Adventure, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: The act of recombobulating; putting back into order; removing confusion.
Related terms: discombobulate