cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
no-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Short for no hormones.
Senses: coordinate_terms: no-op
glosses: Having chosen not to undergo hormone replacement therapy.
raw_tags: of a transgender or transsexual person
no-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-hos
Etymology: Short for no hormones.
Senses: examples: text: So the no-ho's & crosslivers tend to push buttons among the usually more mainstream ts's, esp at alt.support.srs which is supposed to be a support group reserved for srs-related issues (not that one can tell any more).
ref: 2005 February 13, cat-o-matic, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):
coordinate_terms: no-op
glosses: A transgender or transsexual person who has chosen not to undergo hormone replacement therapy.
ingle nooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingle nook
cross-live
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-lives
form: cross-living
form: cross-lived
form: cross-lived
form: crosslive
Etymology: From cross- + live. Possibly modelled after cross-dress.
Senses: examples: text: For example, there apparently is a clinic in Canada that makes people crosslive for a year before giving them hormones!
ref: 1996, Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot, Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual, New York, NY: Masquerade Books, →ISBN, page 332:
text: Although some of these subjects were lesbians inclined to cross-dress and to cross-live in order to cope with social prohibition of woman-to-woman sexual relationships, it is likely that at least some male-identified subjects who were biologically born as female had come to realize a psychological transgender male identity.
ref: 2002, Billy E. Jones, Marjorie J. Hill, editors, Mental Health Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities (Review of Psychiatry; 21), Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:
text: [Transgenderists] will probably, although not necessarily, cross-live (see next section) and/or take part in hormonal therapies that would cause certain sex characteristic changes.
ref: 2005, Liz Winfeld, Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization, London: Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page unknown:
text: I also don't consider Transgenderists to be a different creature from a Transsexual -- I consider the two to be two points on a spectrum. Some people can get by with crossliving, while others need to take further steps.
ref: 2009 July 22, Nicole Massey, “Re: So...”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet), retrieved 13 Nov 2021:
glosses: To live full-time in a gender role different from that associated with the sex one was assigned at birth.
Derived terms: cross-liver
crosslive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosslives
form: crossliving
form: crosslived
form: crosslived
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-live.
cross-liver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-livers
form: crossliver
Etymology: From cross-live + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Maybe the stigma comes from being either a TV or a TS—but there is a middle ground that I've never considered...what Georgia calls a "cross-liver." Someone who takes hormones & lives their desired gender role, but who have not necessarily made a decision on having surgery.
text: And that doesn't invalidate or lessen the T*ness of the person. Some people believe that being afull^([sic]) time crossliver makes them somehow more than a person who dresses up on the odd Tuesday night.
ref: 1998 February 11, Katheryn D'Medici, “Re: Close Calls - Comments?”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing (Usenet), retrieved 12 Nov 2021:
text: My point was that if someone got m2f SRS and continued to 'present' as a crossliver rather than as an 'f', you would have fewer objections to 'her' as a person than to someone who wished to disappear into 'cisgendered' society.
ref: 1999 July 5, Jan, “Re: Rubber ckickens and other lawn ornaments”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):
text: So the no-ho's & crosslivers tend to push buttons among the usually more mainstream ts's, […]
ref: 2005 February 13, cat-o-matic, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):
glosses: A person who cross-lives.
crossliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosslivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-liver.
crosslivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossliver
cross-livers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-liver
go at it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡoʊ ˈæt ɪt/
Forms: form: goes at it
form: going at it
form: went at it
form: gone at it
Etymology: From go + at it or go at + it.
Senses: examples: text: I can't figure out this problem. I've been going at it [going at the problem] for hours now.
glosses: As go at + it; spoken emphasis typically on 'go'.
examples: We were all going at it like crazy, trying to get the job finished before the deadline.
glosses: As go + at it; spoken emphasis typically on 'at'.
To engage in some activity, especially vigorously or enthusiastically.
examples: text: Joe accidentally spilled his drink on Eric, Eric got up and insulted his mother, and before you know it, they were going at it.
glosses: As go + at it; spoken emphasis typically on 'at'.
To fight.
synonyms: get into it
mix it up
throw down
let someone have it
examples: text: I walked into my dorm room and caught my roommate and his girlfriend going at it.
glosses: As go + at it; spoken emphasis typically on 'at'.
To have sex.
synonyms: word: do it
word: get it on
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
cross-lives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-live
cross-living
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-live
cross-lived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross-live
crosslives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crosslive
crossliving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crosslive
crosslived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crosslive
wake robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wake robins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wakerobin.
Chełm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in Poland, including
glosses: A number of places in Poland, including:
A city and county in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland.
itsself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From its + -self.
Senses: examples: text: It will appear therefore, an ungrounded Hypotheſis to maintain, as ſome have done, that every Fruit or Seed ſhould contain in itsſelf all thoſe Trees and Fruits in Miniature, that were poſſible to be produced hereafter from them. / It is abundantly ſufficient, I think, that all ſuch Fruit, or Seed, as come to Maturity, are productive of their own Species, and that when ſuch Species ſhall be produced, it is from the Seed in itsſelf that conſtitutes it ſuch a Species, ſince without its Seed in itsſelf it is not the Species it was firſt created, and therefore the Seed remaining in the Species is that, which thro’ all Generations maintains their different Kinds, and will one with another be for ever continued.
ref: 1745, Benjamin Parker, A Survey of the Six Days Works of the Creation: Philosophically Proving the Truth of the Account Thereof, as Deliver’d by Moses in the First Chapter of Genesis, page 65:
text: The affection for ſongs in the vulgar tongue began firſt to ſhew itsſelf in the provinces. […] All the old Lais were not, however, of this caſt, nor, indeed, is the etymology itsſelf to be haſtily admitted, the term being frequently applied to ſongs on the moſt light and joyous ſubjects. […] The ſong will ſpeak for itsſelf: […] The French tongue alone was uſed at court, and in the houſeholds of the Norman barons (who deſpiſed the Saxon manners and language), for many centuries after the Conqueſt, and continued till, at leaſt, the reign of Henry VIII. the polite language of both court and country, and as well known as the Engliſh itsſelf: […]
ref: 1783, A Select Collection of English Songs, page xix, xlvii, liii:
text: Q. 290. But does this calculation confine itsself to the length of the day, that is to say: from day-break untill growing of night? / A. No, the time stipulated in the different regions — and as we find it in various works,.— confines itsself solely to the rising- and setting of the Sun; while the day, — if we suppose this to be from the dawn-of-day until the dusk-of-night, — is longer.
ref: 1834, William van Houten, Mathematical Geography, page 94:
glosses: Synonym of itself.
synonyms: word: itself
Twyford and Thorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England, which includes the settlements of Twyford (Leics.), Thorpe Satchville and John O'Gaunt.
intervieweresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intervieweress
restaurateuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restaurateuse
Broughton and Old Dalby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England, which includes Nether Broughton and Old Dalby.
Nether Broughton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Broughton and Old Dalby parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6925).
Related terms: alt: in Nottinghamshire
word: Upper Broughton
Six Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Charnwood borough and Broughton and Old Dalby parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6420).
restauranteuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pseudo-Gallicism, formed by application of French rules to restauranteur (see French -eur, -euse), itself an English blend of restaurant and restaurateur, from French restaurateur. Note that the -euse form is more common in English than in French, where the more common feminine form of restaurateur is restauratrice.
Senses: examples: text: Fighting on his side are a handful of his tenants: Cappy Fells, tough and fearless head of the fishing fleet; Lancy and her burleycue strippers; Ya Valkun, political refugee turned restauranteuse; and Dayton Frederick, the girl who won’t get out of his hair and whom he can’t put out of his mind.
ref: 1953, Richard Llewellyn, A Flame for Doubting Thomas:
text: Surrounded b[y] rare art and hosted by an ancient restauranteuse I dined with Adolf Musch[g] in Zurich.
ref: 1979, Dimension, page 226:
text: When she’d picked through the bun, lettuce, burger, and tomato (tossing the pickle), she twirled behind the counter to the tiny cubic offices behind, and found the restauranteuse.
ref: 2011, Stuart F. Taylor, Tales from Pareidolia, published 2012, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of restaurateuse.
Upper Broughton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6826).
Related terms: alt: in Leicestershire
word: Nether Broughton
mumble rap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mumble + rap. First coined by hip hop artist Wiz Khalifa in 2016 during an interview.
Senses: examples: text: Derided by some, artists such as Future and Migos have been wildly successful mumble rap artists.
ref: 2018, Nick J. Sciullo, Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture, page 40:
text: "Mumble rap" is the most active and vigorous scapegoat rap has had in years, in part because the internet — particularly social media — has created a landscape for it to thrive and be a hotly debated topic, engaging in the ideas of language and whether or not rappers should have to adhere to them, or whether or not this so-called mumble rap is actually pushing the genre forward, past some of its bowing to establishments.
ref: 2019, Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, page 201:
text: The logical culmination of this tendency is today's mumble rap, featuring rhythmically monotonous phrasal and verbal repetition, strongly auto-tuned and, in some cases, literally mumbled.
ref: 2020, Macklin Smith, Aurko Joshi, Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat, page 256:
text: There was an exciting proliferation of punk rap, mumble rap, emo rap and trap-influenced SoundCloud artists.
ref: 2020, Adrian Besley, Billie Eilish: From e-girl to Icon, Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
hypernyms: hip hop
rap
coordinate_terms: emo rap
cloud rap
SoundCloud rap
trap music
glosses: A microgenre of hip hop with mumbling or unclear vocal delivery by artists, and may generally refer to rappers who do not share the genre's typical emphasis on lyricism.
freedom units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare freedom fries.
Senses: glosses: The customary units of measurement used in the United States.
Beirutis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beiruti
Muscati
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Muscat + -i.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Muscat, Oman; Muscatian.
Muscati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muscatis
Etymology: From Muscat + -i.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Muscat, Oman; a Muscatian.
Muscatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muscati
acrobatesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrobatess
Hope under Dinmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in north Herefordshire, England, served by Hope under Dinmore and Newton Group Parish Council (OS grid ref SO5052).
wikipedia: Dinmore Hill
Dinmore, Herefordshire
inward-looking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inward-looking
form: most inward-looking
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: self-absorbed, insular
glosses: Concerned primarily with one's own objectives, priorities, etc.
Derived terms: inward-lookingness
waist bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waist bags
form: waistbag
Etymology: From waist + bag.
Senses: glosses: A fanny pack or bum bag.
Gramscianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gramscian + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Gramsciism
Gramscism
glosses: The political ideology of Antonio Gramsci
Related terms: Gramscist
necropolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necropolitic
form: most necropolitic
Senses: examples: text: The Necropolitic part of the city was terminated on one side by a grand street, that extended from the gate which went under that name to the gate of Canopus, which is said to have been an hundred feet wide, and had, doubtless, in it many magnificent buildings, as sufficiently appears from the granite pillars still remaining in two or three parts.
ref: 1761, A Complete History of the Arabs, volume 1:
text: The earliest settlement, according to them, corresponds to a race of cave-dwellers, and the later one to a necropolitic culture.
ref: 1958, Bertrand Flornoy, The World of the Inca, page 137:
text: At this stage of her life Prudence is paying more attention to what she calls necropolitic architecture.
ref: 1995, Judy Schultz, Looking for China: Reflections on a Silk Road, page 157:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a necropolis.
pharaohesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharaohess
Pharaohesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pharaohess
astronomeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astronomeress
criticesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criticess
wagonsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonsheets
form: wagon-sheet
Etymology: From wagon + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: A wet wagonsheet wrapped around it served both to keep the flies off and to cool the carcass.
ref: 1966, Squire Omar Barker, Little World Apart, page 92:
text: We found out he would go out into a pasture, stretch a wagonsheet in the gate and drive the sheep across . The wagonsheet kept them from leaving leaving tracks.
ref: 1969, The Ranch Magazine - Volume 50, page 10:
text: He had no physician here except for Dust Devil and her medicinal herbs, and no shelter either, save for the pitched wagonsheet, or two wagonbeds.
ref: 2002, Richard S. Wheeler, The Rocky Mountain Company, page 153:
glosses: A large cloth, usually canvas, that covers the bed of a wagon to keep dust off the load.
wagonsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagonsheet
decoratresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decoratress
wagon-sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagon-sheets
Senses: examples: text: The downpour was terrific, and the lightning a blaze of light, intense, with thousands of flashes on the wagon-sheet.
ref: 2012, J. Evetts Haley, Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman:
glosses: Alternative form of wagonsheet.
wagon-sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagon-sheet
Bourton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Heterographic variant of Burton.
Senses: glosses: A suburb and former hamlet in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP7033).
glosses: A village and civil parish in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7730).
glosses: A civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England, which includes Great Bourton and Little Bourton.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU2387).
glosses: A village in Much Wenlock parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5996).
glosses: A village in Wick St Lawrence parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3864).
glosses: A hamlet in Bishops Cannings parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0464).
Derived terms: Bourton-on-the-Water
Flax Bourton
Great Bourton
Little Bourton
austrovenetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual austrovenetus + -in.
Senses: glosses: A yellow-green pigment found in the fungus Cortinarius austrovenetus.
overplusage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overplusages
Etymology: From overplus + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Soho became an attracting and eradiating centre of scientific mechanism and artistic taste and skill, which not only supplied the manufacturing industries of Birmingham with their remarkable and diversified faculties, but diffused the overplusage throughout the kingdom and the world.
ref: 1868, Walks in the Black Country and its Green Border-Land (Chapter 7, page 107)
text: Under certain conditions, an overplusage of feminine elements in a masculine portion of mind will produce a poet.
ref: 1896, The Esoteric, volume 9, page 156:
text: I do not remember your reporting any that cost more than the sum set forth. Do you attempt to report those? You report the savings; do you report the overplusage?
ref: 1953, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military and Naval Construcition Authorization. Hearings, page 236:
glosses: Overplus; excess.
overplusages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overplusage
demonomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonomachies
Etymology: From demono- + -machy.
Senses: examples: text: For other conceptual symmetries are apparent between the overall patterning of Christian history and the notion that devils could both take possession of and be forced out of individual Christians. They stem from the depiction of the whole historical process as a demonomachy and its subdivision into stages marked by the relative strengths of God and the devil.
ref: 1997, Stuart Clark, “Possession, Exorcism, and History”, in Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 411:
glosses: A battle between or against demons or devils.
demonomachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonomachy
fisheresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisheress
angelomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angel + -o- + -machy.
Senses: glosses: A battle between angels.
Lisus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lisu
Syria Palaestina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin Syria Palaestina.
Senses: glosses: The renamed Roman province formerly known as Judaea.
Guardianesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Guardianesque
form: most Guardianesque
Etymology: From guardian + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: A right-wing factionalist in the 1980s, he had become unpopular with the Guardianesque social workers and doctors by siding with the parents in the Cleveland child abuse scandal.
ref: 2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 666:
text: Against such 'Guardianesque' idealism and misguided liberalism, Thatcher depicted herself as a supreme realist in international relations.
ref: 2016, Andrew S. Crines, Timothy Heppell, Peter Dorey, The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher, page 85:
glosses: Reminiscent of The Guardian, a left-wing British daily national newspaper.
butterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more butterish
form: most butterish
Etymology: From butter + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of or resembling butter.
Synonyms: butterlike
buttery
swivel-chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swivel-chairs
Senses: examples: text: Up in the city, I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock , then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.
ref: 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby:
text: A flat topped desk stood by the window; there was a swivel-chair upholstered in worn, black leather.
ref: 2010, W.J. Burley, Wycliffe and the Scapegoat:
text: The gentleman he was facing, and whose name he did not know, swung his swivel-chair to the left so that he, too, could look down over the park.
ref: 2012, Margaret Pemberton, Zadruga:
glosses: Alternative form of swivel chair.
swivel-chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swivel-chair
swivelchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swivelchairs
Senses: examples: text: The man fell back through his swivelchair knocking it over and went to the floor and lay there twitching and gurgling.
ref: 2010, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men:
text: Beeton leaned back with an air of luxury, his heavy bulk overflowing the swivelchair; he was the archetypal countryman, slow but intuitive, blank of eye yet with a vein of simple cunning such as all those who trap or shoot animals tend in time to acquire.
ref: 2011, Edmund Crispin, Beware of the Trains:
text: As JoAnn Treat prepared two coffees Barbara Roberts slid into her swivelchair, removed her thermos from her bag, and poured a cup of decaffeinated coffee.
ref: 2014, Keith Laufenberg, The Profit Factor, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of swivel chair.
swivelchairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swivelchair
cigar smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigar-smoke
form: cigarsmoke
Senses: hypernyms: smoke
coordinate_terms: firesmoke
glosses: Smoke that comes from a cigar.
Related terms: second-hand smoke
cigar-smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At Mrs. Fisher's, through the cigar-smoke of the studio, a dozen voices greeted Selden.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth:
text: In the front room, full of stale cigar-smoke, the Germans began their interrogation.
ref: 2013, Airey Neave, Little Cyclone: The Girl who Started the Comet Line:
text: In the place of the old symptom, a new one emerges, this time the smell of cigar-smoke.
ref: 2014, Ian Parker, Psychology After the Unconscious: From Freud to Lacan:
glosses: Alternative form of cigar smoke.
cigarsmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] when bars and supperrooms and cafés throw out floods of light upon the pavement, crowded with sauntering figures; when the air is heavy with cigarsmoke and filled with the rustle-rustle of stiff silks —then the Haymarket is the Haymarket.
ref: 1873 June, “Our London Scrap-Book: The Haymarket”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 47, number 277, page 155:
text: The room smelled of old cigarsmoke.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 11:
text: There were waiters in the hall outside the suite and cigarsmoke and a great sound of social voices pouring out the open door.
ref: 2000, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, page 168:
glosses: Alternative form of cigar smoke.
ducking coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ducking coats
Senses: examples: text: That he had collected the money on some promissory notes due him, and put it in the pocket of a ducking coat, fastened the pocket with a wire, and when he went to bed, put the coat under his head.
ref: 1896, The Texas Criminal Reports, page 413:
text: The frost got to biting my fingers and toes. But I was plenty warm inside my new ducking coat that had a red blanket lining.
ref: 1954, William Peery, Twenty-one Texas Short Stories, page 207:
text: The satchel had belonged to his grandfather and the blanketlined duckingcoat he wore had been his father's.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Powerless to help, I had to watch both him and my horse drown. My boots, leggins, spurs, six-shooter, and ducking coat seemed to weigh tons.
ref: 1998, J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young, A Vaquero of the Brush Country, page 120:
glosses: A short, warmly lined waterproof jacket, made in neutral colors or camouflage.
ducking coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ducking coat
cattle-buyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle-buyers
form: cattlebuyer
Senses: examples: text: It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.
ref: 2009, Annie Proulx, Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog:
glosses: One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
cattle-buyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattle-buyer
cattlebuyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattlebuyers
Senses: examples: text: How happy everybody! neighbor talking with neighbor, merchant with merchant, politician with politician, Baptist with Presbyterian, cattlebuyer with banker, druggist with saloonkeeper—everybody with somebody.
ref: 1893, Anson Uriel Hancock, Silhouettes from Life: On the Prairie, in the Backwoods, page 85:
text: His father had been a roving cattlebuyer in Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas who packed his family around with him and named his children after their birthplaces.
ref: 1965, The Sage of Petaluma: Autobiography of a Teacher, page 184:
text: The man nodded at the satchel with its straps and brass catches. I said are you a cattlebuyer.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of cattle-buyer.
cattlebuyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattlebuyer
to oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more to oneself
form: most to oneself
form: to-oneself
Etymology: From keep to oneself.
Senses: examples: text: John was very shy and to himself when he went to school that day.
glosses: Tending not to interact with others; introverted; reserved.
Related terms: english: to oneself
translation: to oneself
word: All pages with in the title
to-oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more to-oneself
form: most to-oneself
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to oneself.
French twist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French twists
Senses: examples: text: She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld / She's wearing Ambush and a French twist
ref: 1982, Donald Fagen, “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:
glosses: An updo hairstyle in which the hair is twisted behind the head before being pinned over the top of the head.
omniglot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omniglots
Etymology: From omni- + -glot.
Senses: examples: text: Not for the first time Miranda, the omniglot, had to force herself not to get lost in all the little intricacies of translating back and forth.
ref: 2022, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory, Tor, page 260:
qualifier: theoretically
glosses: A person or entity who has mastered all languages.
Synonyms: panglot
Coordinate terms: word: 1
word: monoglot
word: 2
word: diglot
word: 3
word: triglot
english: but not all
translation: but not all
word: many
word: polyglot
omniglots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omniglot
philophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philophobes
Etymology: From philo- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: Someone who suffers from philophobia; someone who fears falling in love.
philophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philophobe
Great Bourton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Bourton parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4545).
Related terms: Little Bourton
discoverie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoveries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of discovery.
Little Bourton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Bourton parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4544).
Related terms: Great Bourton
Wick St Lawrence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3665).
doomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduː.məˌɹɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈdu.məˌɹɪ.zəm/
rhymes: -uːməɹɪzəm
Etymology: From doomer + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: As a writer, she often balances rigorous thinking with a sense of wonder: being a scientist, she wrote in an essay challenging the climate doomerism of novelist Jonathan Franzen, “means I believe in miracles. I live on one. We are improbable life on a perfect planet.”
ref: 2020 September 22, Jeff Goodell, quoting Kate Marvel, “A Conversation With Climate Scientist Kate Marvel”, in The Rolling Stone:
text: Also, the slow uptake is not all that surprising — numerous studies on climate communication suggest that ‘doomerism’ is not an effective way to mobilize people. And, that is exactly what we see, both in the fictional world on the verge of collapse, and in our own.
ref: 2021 December 28, Priya Shukla, “How This Climate Scientist Felt After Watching ‘Don’t Look Up’”, in Forbes:
text: A question from, probably mispronouncing it, Gemma. And she writes, "I have found it hard to avoid doomerism. How do I avoid losing all hope?"
ref: 2022 July 21, Bernie Sanders, “We can't give in to doomerism.”, in YouTube:
glosses: Despair and apathy caused by disbelief in the possibility of change; the mindset of doomers.
Related terms: doomerist
doomism
hopeium
wildfire-fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildfire-fighters
Etymology: From wildfire + fighter.
Senses: glosses: A firefighter trained in fighting wildfires.
Hypernyms: firefighter
Uchentein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Uchentein.
Senses: glosses: A village in Ariège department, Occitania, France.
Massat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Massats
Etymology: Borrowed from French Massat, itself from Occitan Massat.
Senses: holonyms: Couserans
glosses: A village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A surname from Occitan.
Bishops Cannings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Bisshopescanyngges 1314; Cannings is from the family or followers of Cana + -ingas. The manorial affix is for early possession by the Bishops of Salisbury.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish north-east of Devizes, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0364).
Related terms: All Cannings
put a dent in the universe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts a dent in the universe
form: putting a dent in the universe
form: put a dent in the universe
form: put a dent in the universe
Senses: examples: text: Will the World Class Woman who wants to put a dent in the universe with me please respond by sending a photo and letter?
ref: 1988 June 20, “Personals”, in New Your Magazine:
text: To truly be inspired for great work, you need to know that you’re making a difference. That you’re putting a meaningful dent in the universe.
ref: 2008 December 2, “Put a dent in the universe”, in Signal v. Noise:
text: Steve Jobs once remarked: “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here?”
ref: 2019 September 18, Chunka Mui, “How Will You Put A Dent In The Universe? Here’s My Plan.”, in Forbes:
text: (see title)
ref: 2020 February 28, “Laurene Powell Jobs Is Putting Her Own Dent in the Universe.”, in The New York times:
text: “Take a deep breath, accept the ambiguity, and trust God’s plan. Today marks the beginning of our forever. I urge you to put a dent in the universe through the impact you create in your respective professions,” she continued.
ref: 2021 May 8, Melody Dixon, “Graduates strut the stage in 69th Commencement Ceremony”, in Coahoma Community College:
synonyms: change the world
glosses: To leave a positive mark on many people's lives; to bring about a revolutionary change that benefits mankind.
cowlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowlet
Tilstone Fearnall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5660).
Four Lane Ends
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5561).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A locality in Kirkby-in-Furness, South Lakeland district, Cumbria (OS grid ref SD2382).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7612).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Blackburn, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6729).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in West Lancashire district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD4505)
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK3984).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A metro station and crossroads in Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside borough, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ2768).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1333).
Ch'ing-hai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 青海 /靑海 (Qīnghǎi) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-hai³.
Senses: examples: text: The Yellow River (黃河) rises in small lakes in the southern part of Ch'ing-hai (青海) and flows in a very crooked channel toward the north-east to Lan-chou Fu (蘭州府).
ref: 1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 5:
text: Leaving this town and the Sining River valley the road ascends a grassy valley with some recently started cultivation to a pass, 10,780 feet, over the Jih-yüeh Shan range, 27 miles from Tangar. This is the boundary between the Kansu and Ch'ing-hai Provinces. It is also the real boundary between China and Tibet, though the present frontier is the Tang-la Range, running east and west, the divide between the Salween and Mekong rivers.
ref: 1925, Francis Younghusband, Peking to Lhasa, London: Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 112:
text: In the west, the outer periphery of the Inner Zone is the great divide separating Pacific Ocean and South China Sea drainage on the one hand, from drainage oriented towards Hsin-chiang in the northwest and towards the Indian Ocean in the southwest, on the other. This divide also represents a fairly pronounced stress zone between the tenuous power China has been able to maintain over Tibet to the west and the firmer control she has been able to exercise over Hsi-k'ang and Ch'ing-hai to the east.
ref: 1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
text: For centuries the area of ethnic Tibet was divided into the following: Dbus and Gtsang (comprising central Tibet), Mnga’-ris, Khams, and A-mdo.[…]A-mdo, the northeastern part of ethnic Tibet, passed under Manchu control in 1724 following the suppression of a Mongol revolt against the throne. This area was officially incorporated into the Chinese provincial system as Ch’ing-hai Province in 1928.
ref: 1972, T. V. W., “TIBET”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1108, column 2:
text: The Yangtze River first formed millions of years ago, a by-product of continental drift. Although the process itself took many millennia, the Ch'ing-hai (Qinghai) Plateau, from which the Yangtze descends, rose from the Earth's crust some 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent and Eurasia crashed into one another, forming a single landmass.
ref: 2007, Laurie Burnham, Rivers (The Extreme Earth), Chelsea House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of Qinghai.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Encyclopædia Britannica
kudzued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kudzued
form: most kudzued
Etymology: From kudzu + -ed.
Senses: glosses: overgrown with the kudzu vine
kudyapis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kudyapi
excisanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual excisa -n- + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of diterpenoids isolated from Rabdosia excisa.
mirabile visu
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mīrābile vīsū (literally “strange to see”).
Senses: examples: text: But still, I edged forward, stepping around other runners until I could - mirabile visu - actually see the bony arms of the men who expected to win this thing.
ref: 2018, Peter Sagal, chapter 9, in The Incomplete Book of Running:
glosses: Wonderful to behold.
Related terms: mirabile dictu
umbrosianin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpenoid isolated from Rabdosia umbrosa.
toothcombed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a toothcomb (“a comb-like dental structure found in certain primates”).
toothcombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tooth-combed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toothcomb
tooth-comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooth-combs
Senses: examples: text: When the Arabs speak of things as alike in respect of good qualities, they call them 'as like as the teeth of a tooth-comb;' whereas, if they speak of similarity in bad qualities, they say 'as like as the teeth of an ass.'
ref: 1850, Al Hariri of Basra, “The Makamah of Damietta. The Words of Hareth ibn-Hammam.”, in Theodore Preston, transl., Makamat: Or Rhetorical Anecdotes of Al Hariri of Basra […], London: […] W[illia]m H[oughton] Allen & Co., […]; Paris: B. Duprat, →OCLC, footnote 4, page 374:
text: Thin-skinned dunces, too, in power, hate satire, to use Sidney [i.e., Sydney] Smith's simile, for the same reason as "fleas detest tooth-combs," because they cannot escape it.
ref: 1854, Octavius Freire Owen, “The Degenerate Bees”, in John Gay, The Fables of John Gay Illustrated. […], London: George Routledge & Co. […], →OCLC, footnote 2, page 228:
text: Must interest has centered on the first appearance of the prosimian tooth-comb or tooth-scraper [...]. The tooth-comb is formed by lower incisors and canines that are elongated and slender, and that form a procumbent unit in the anterior mandible. Upper incisors are lost, reduced, or moved to accommodate the tooth-comb.
ref: 2015, Susan Cachel, “The Eocene Primate Radiation”, in Fossil Primates (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: Alternative form of toothcomb.
tooth-comb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tooth-combs
form: tooth-combing
form: tooth-combed
form: tooth-combed
Senses: examples: text: 8.15 am. Tooth-combed seven heads, had grand sport; mixed bag, measured one teaspoonful; cleanliness is next to godliness!
ref: 2013, Judith Lissauer Cromwell, “Nursing”, in Florence Nightingale, Feminist, Jefferson, N.C.; London: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: Alternative form of toothcomb.
tooth-combs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tooth-comb
tooth-combs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tooth-comb
tooth-combing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tooth-comb
CEFR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Common European Framework of Reference.
Synonyms: CEF
CEFRL
tooth-combed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tooth-comb
jumps on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump on
jumping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump on
shikoccidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene found in Rabdosia shikokiana.
shikos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiko
rabdolatifolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpenoid found in Rabdosia umbrosa var. latifolia.
isodomedin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ent-kaurenoid diterpene found in Isodon skikokianus var. intermedius.
Lyman-alpha forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lyman-alpha forest
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A series of absorption lines in the spectra of distant galaxies and quasars, arising from the Lyman-alpha electron transition of the neutral hydrogen atom.
stay-cation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stay-cations
Senses: examples: text: We need to encourage stay-close-to-home vacations, or "stay-cations," and check out nature's splendor, recreational opportunities and entertainment attractions nearby.
ref: 2009 June, Tom Turnipseed, “Simplicity, Simply Put”, in Cecile Andrews, Wanda Urbanska, Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, →ISBN, part 1 (Simplicity Defined), page 77:
text: If you can't afford to travel this year for a vacation, try a stay-cation. A stay-cation is enjoying your time off work while staying at home or some place close by, and it can be just as fun. [...] During your stay-cation, you may want to explore different parks, a museum or a free concert.
ref: 2010, Kim Bady, “Authenticity Defined: Steps to Living Your Truth”, in Authentically Me: A Woman’s Journey of Self-discovery, [Camarillo, Calif.?]: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: [...] Melissa uses some of her annual leave to add two days to a three-day weekend, and these five spontaneous days off became not only a Greenwich Village stay-cation but also something of the honeymoon we were too busy to take together in our hectic "uni-moon" days. But what to do on our stay-cation? Ten thousand Big Apple activities beckon.
ref: 2014 November, William Powers, “Rooftoop Bees and Beans”, in New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City, Novato, Calif.: New World Library, →ISBN, part 1 (Spring to Summer: The Natural City), page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of staycation.
stay-cations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stay-cation
Headon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Headon cum Upton parish, Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7477).
glosses: A surname.
meedja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of media.
defibrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defibrators
Etymology: In 1931, the Swedish engineer Arne Asplund patented what he called the defibrator method.
Senses: glosses: A thermomechanical refining machine used to produce wood fibres from wood chips as part of the manufacture of fibreboard.
wikipedia: Arne Asplund
defibrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defibrator
Barnetby le Wold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0509).
Synonyms: word: Barnetby
Messingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8904).
police barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police barriers
Senses: examples: text: The support structure was so good that if a vehicle sustained damage while running a police barrier, repairs were affected overnight, leaving no telltale traces.
ref: 2000, Douglas Ranmuthugala, Tales of the Blue Elephant, page 124:
glosses: A barrier erected by the police, usually as a checkpoint.
Related terms: crowd control barrier
security barrier