cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
petit four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛti ˈfɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɛti ˈfɔɹ/
Forms: form: petits fours
form: petit fours
form: petit-four
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French petit four (literally “small oven”).
Senses: glosses: A small cake generally eaten at the end of a meal or served as part of a large buffet.
confidence tricksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confidence trickster
Muntenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mʊnˈtɛni.ə/
Etymology: From Romanian Muntenia.
Senses: glosses: A historical region in southern Romania which makes up the eastern part of Wallachia.
tried and true
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tried and true
form: most tried and true
Senses: examples: text: He liked to stick to tried and true methods in his garden.
synonyms: tried and tested
tried and trusted
time-tried
;
proven#Adjective
glosses: Well-established and tested; known to work or succeed based on extensive experience.
Related terms: true blue
ready, set, go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: On your mark, get set, go.
Synonyms: on your mark, get set, go
ready, steady, go
Related terms: lights, camera, action
ready, aim, fire
invasionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invasionists
Etymology: From invasion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who advocates invasion
invasionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invasionist
form: most invasionist
Etymology: From invasion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Advocating invasion
lights, camera, action
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The traditional cue to the members of a (silent) film crew at the beginning of a take.
Related terms: on your mark, get set, go
ready, aim, fire
ready, set, go
ready, steady, go
ready, aim, fire
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: !
Senses: glosses: A sequence of commands used to order soldiers to carefully fire their weapons.
Related terms: lights, camera, action
on your mark, get set, go
ready, set, go
ready, fire, aim
on your mark, get set, go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: !
form: on your marks, get set, go
Senses: examples: on your mark (get in one's lane or spot)
get set (get to the starting position)
go! (take off)
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A three-command start when racing
Synonyms: ready, set, go
ready, steady, go
Related terms: lights, camera, action
ready, aim, fire
on your marks, get set, go
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on your mark, get set, go.
puter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjuː.tə/
ipa: /ˈpju.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjʉː.tə/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: puters
form: 'puter
Senses: examples: text: I love my puter. All my friends are inside it.
synonyms: comp
glosses: Clipping of computer
scaly anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaly anteaters
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of pangolin (Manis spp.).
syndication agency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syndication agencies
Senses: glosses: A news agency
telephone pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone poles
Senses: glosses: A utility pole that supports telephone lines.
Synonyms: telegraph pole
telegraph post
utility pole
Chinese pangolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese pangolins
Senses: glosses: Any of species Manis pentadactyla of pangolins.
Indian pangolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian pangolins
Senses: glosses: A pangolin of species Manis crassicaudata.
Synonyms: sense: Synonyms
word: thick-tailed pangolin
sense: Synonyms
word: scaly anteater
Sunda pangolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunda pangolins
Senses: glosses: A pangolin of species Manis javanica, of Southeast Asia.
giant pangolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant pangolins
Senses: glosses: A pangolin of species Manis gigantea of tropical parts of western Africa and western central Africa.
Related terms: pangolin
ground pangolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground pangolins
Senses: glosses: A pangolin of species Smutsia temminckii (syn. Manis temminckii).
tree pangolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree pangolins
Senses: synonyms: white-bellied pangolin
three-cusped pangolin
glosses: A pangolin of species Phataginus tricuspis (syn. Manis tricuspis), found in southeastern Asia and northern Australia, especially in mangroves.
long-tailed pangolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-tailed pangolins
Senses: synonyms: African black-bellied pangolin
glosses: A pangolin of species Phataginus tetradactyla (syn. Manis tetradactyla).
bilberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilberry
baneberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baneberry
archons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archon
barberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barberry
crowberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowberry
hackberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackberry
snowberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowberry
wolfberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfberry
ant beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ant beetles
Senses: glosses: A species of beetle that resembles a large ant, Thanasimus formicarius.
low-hanging fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-hanging fruits
form: low hanging fruit
Senses: examples: text: Low-hanging fruits are those actions that garner early agreement and that are obtainable in the short run.
ref: 2004, Sarah James with Torbjörn Lahti, The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to, page 201:
text: the low-hanging fruit are picked first
ref: 2007, Nick Johnstone, Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour, page 97:
text: But, Florida aside, the low-hanging fruit is not in Dixie.
ref: 2008, Thomas F. Schaller, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, page 166:
text: But, we want to identify, the low-hanging fruit that we can harvest this year.
ref: 2010, Dany Shukran, Best Practices: On Conducting International Meetings, page 18:
text: Meanwhile, it is nearly a year and a half since the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) came up with a lower-cost plan to electrify key freight routes, with added benefits for passenger services. The link to London Gateway could be wired for £8 million, which it called the "the lowest of low-hanging fruit".
ref: 2024 June 26, Paul Clifton, “Rail freight's agenda to survive and thrive”, in RAIL, number 1012, page 41:
antonyms: high-hanging fruit
glosses: Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means.
Related terms: easy money
easy pickings
like a ripe plum
Cape buffalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape buffalos
Senses: glosses: A large African bovid, of species Syncerus caffer.
glosses: A large African bovid, of species Syncerus caffer.
of the subspecies Syncerus caffer caffer found in southern and eastern Africa.
Synonyms: African buffalo
African buffalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African buffalos
Senses: glosses: A large African bovid, Syncerus caffer.
Synonyms: Cape buffalo
PBGV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpibiˈd͡ʒivi/
Forms: form: PBGVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen, a breed of dog.
sociopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊ.ʃi.əˌpæθi/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.si.əˌpæθi/
Forms: form: sociopathies
Etymology: From socio- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The property of being a sociopath, a person showing antisocial behavior as part of psychiatric pathology compassing mainly antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder and/or other Cluster B personality disorders or dark triad traits.
Derived terms: sociopath
sociopathic
sociopathology
Related terms: psychopathy
unfaltering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfaltering
form: most unfaltering
form: unfaultering
Etymology: From un- + faltering.
Senses: examples: text: We will proceed with unfaltering courage, until we reach our goal or are defeated.
glosses: Without faltering, continuous, steadfast.
Derived terms: unfalteringly
unfalteringness
unfeminine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeminine
form: most unfeminine
Etymology: From un- + feminine.
Senses: glosses: Not feminine; not characteristic of, typical of, or appropriate for a woman.
Derived terms: unfemininity
Related terms: unmasculine
underseas
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From under- + seas.
Senses: glosses: Under the surface of the sea or ocean, underwater.
undershorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + shorts, by analogy with underpants, etc.
Senses: examples: text: I have one clean pair of undershorts.
text: I have to buy more undershorts.
text: It being very warm, I removed all of my clothing except my undershorts and lay down to sleep.
ref: 1934, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in Pirates of Venus, page 41:
text: […] like a mouse [I] hop frantically about on my toes, trying to clear my feet of my undershorts before anybody can peek inside, where, to my chagrin, to my bafflement, to my mortification, I always discover in the bottommost seam a pale and wispy brushstroke of my shit.
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, “The Jewish Blues”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 47:
text: I have been debriefed—I believe that is the current expression, though I am always tempted, when I hear it, to make sure I still have my undershorts on—by the mandarins of the External Affairs Ministry.
ref: 1989, Shashi Tharoor, “The Thirteenth Book: Passages through India”, in The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade, published 1993, page 268:
glosses: Underpants, type of underwear worn in skin contact with the hip portion of the body, small enough to be worn invisibly under shorts. Typically refers to male, not female, underpants.
Related terms: briefs
boxer shorts
jockey shorts
under the table
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: under-the-table
Senses: glosses: Secret; covert; undisclosed.
examples: text: I was paid under the table, so I didn't have to pay taxes on the income but I couldn't complain when I was cheated.
text: 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
The men tie up their dogs, retrieve what’s left of the lion’s kill, and sprinkle it with a generic form of Furadan, a cheap, fast-acting pesticide that’s readily available under the table.
glosses: Secretly; covertly; undisclosedly.
glosses: In or into a state of stupification or boredom.
synonyms: under the mahogany
glosses: In or into a state of drunkenness.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see under, table.
Related terms: drink under the table
talk someone under the table
under the counter
underhanded
undervaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undervaluations
Etymology: From under- + valuation.
Senses: synonyms: undervalue#Noun
underweening
antonyms: overvaluation
coordinate_terms: underpricing
overpricing
glosses: The act of undervaluing, of assigning too low a value to something.
synonyms: undervalue#Noun
underweening
antonyms: overvaluation
glosses: An assigned value that is inappropriately low.
Related terms: misestimation
underestimation
undervalues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undervalue
undervaluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undervalue
undervaluing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undervaluings
Senses: glosses: An undervaluation.
undervalued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undervalued
form: most undervalued
Senses: glosses: Assigned an inappropriately low value.
undervalued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undervalue
unhandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unhandier
form: unhandiest
Etymology: From un- + handy.
Senses: examples: text: Bradly collected Pippies; their trick vanishing was not too swift for his unhandy clutches.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 177:
text: "Strike your father, eh?" Syed Omar launched an unhandy cuff, then another.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514:
glosses: Of a person, or movement: not handy; inept; clumsy; not dexterous.
glosses: Awkward; not convenient.
Derived terms: unhandiness
unapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapt
form: most unapt
Etymology: From Middle English unapt, equivalent to un- + apt.
Senses: examples: text: [N]eyther the love of theyr countrye, the feare of theyr enemyes, the avoydinge of punishment, nor the receyvinge of any profite that might come by it, could make them to be good archers: which be unapte and unfitte thereunto by Gods providence and nature.
ref: 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 1, page 110:
text: “[...] And you have been able to explain the difference between Liberal and Liberal, which, as you and I know, is something like the difference between fish and fish.” / “Your comparison is not unapt, sir,” said Mr. Lyon, still holding his spectacles in his hand, [...]
ref: 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVI, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 20:
text: Some leap to the strains with unapt foot, and make a halting figure in the universal dance.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pan’s Pipes”, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC, page 283:
text: Maybe it's unfair to link the epic (and epically expensive) "Les Misérables" with fast food. But it's not an entirely unapt allusion, either.
ref: 1988 July 3, Joe Brown, “MCMIZ”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
qualifier: obsolete except in negative phrases
glosses: Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited.
examples: text: I am a Souldier, and vnapt to weepe, / Or to exclaime on Fortunes fickleneſſe.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 116, column 2:
text: The glance of fear, rather than surprise, with which she had watched the motion of the tapestry over the concealed door, implied an apprehension of danger which I could not but suppose well grounded, for Diana Vernon was little subject to the nervous emotions of her sex, and totally unapt to fear without actual and rational cause.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 59–60:
glosses: Unaccustomed.
Derived terms: unaptly
unaptness
eosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈi.əsɪn/
Forms: form: eosins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eosin, coined by Heinrich Caro, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the fluorescence of the familiar dye eosin can be excited quite well by ultra-violet or short-wave blue light, but is much better excited by visible green light with a wavelength close to that of the emitted radiation.
ref: 1999, Dan J. Goldstein, Understanding the Light Microscope, page 91:
text: Eosins are acid xanthene or phthalein dyes. Eosin Y, eosin B, phloxine and erythrosin (which unlike other eosins, is halogenated with iodine), are the common members of this group of dyes.
ref: 2000, J. Ochei, A. Kolhatkar, Medical Laboratory Science: Theory And Practice, page 450:
text: The hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is the most widely used histological stain.
ref: 2012, John D. Bancroft, Christopher Layton, “10: The hemotoxylins and eosin”, in S. Kim Suvarna, Christopher Layton, John D. Bancroft, editors, Bancroft's Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques, 7th edition, page 173:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains.
wikipedia: Heinrich Caro
Derived terms: carboxyeosin
eosin B
eosinic
eosinic acid
eosinocyte
eosinopoiesis
eosinotactic
eosinotaxis
eosin Y
H&E
Related terms: eosinophilic
syntagmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syntagmatic
form: most syntagmatic
Etymology: From French syntagmatique, from Ancient Greek συνταγμᾰτικός (suntagmătikós).
Senses: synonyms: syntagmic
glosses: Of or pertaining to a syntagma.
contradictions in terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contradiction in terms
strikes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike out
striking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strike out
struck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strike out
perseveringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perseveringly
form: most perseveringly
Etymology: From persevering + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: perseverantly
glosses: In a persevering manner; with perseverance.
sing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings out
form: singing out
form: sang out
form: sung out
Senses: examples: text: “But I have known men sing out dreadfully when punished; if they had got enough of rum, it would have supported them, and they would not have sung out.” “Not one drop for me, Charley Hunter; I shall not sing out, I promise you, if they cut me to pieces
ref: 1848, The Autobiography of a Working Man, page 285:
text: “My lad,” said Captain Cuttle, “don’t you sing out afore you’re hurt.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 134:
text: Didcot had one definite pleasure. We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out, "Banbury cakes! Banbury cakes!" And mother would crane out and buy some, just to encourage the crew.
ref: 1948 November and December, “By Broad Gauge to Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
glosses: To cry out, e.g. when in pain.
examples: text: The pilot would sing out, “Ready about ship,” and the seamen would return answer, “Ay, ay, Sir,”—again he would sing out, “All ready,” and would be answered with “All ready, Sir.”
ref: 1836, Richard Weston, A Visit to the United States and Canada in 1833, page 9:
text: Vehemently pausing, he [Ahab] cried:—"What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?" "Sing out for him!" was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “ch. 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: This was the first time I had taken a weather earing, and I felt not a little proud to sit astride of the weather yard-arm, pass the earing, and sing out, “Haul out to leeward!”
ref: 1854, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, page 143:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To call out; yell.
examples: text: I’m gonna sing out: / I sing my song to the wide open spaces, / I sing my heart out to the infinite sea!
ref: 1971, Pete Townshend, The Song is Over:
glosses: To start singing.
upholsterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upholsterer
highlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highlander
dedications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedication
insult to injury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From add insult to injury.
Senses: examples: text: The cross-examination of the plaintiff was just insult to injury, blaming the victim.
glosses: Harm, especially verbal, added to another, usually more substantive.
abnormities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abnormity
compassionate conservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I do not challenge the conservatism of this Administration. I do challenge its failure to exhibit a compassionate conservatism that adapts itself to the realities of a society ridden by class and race distinction.
ref: 1981 July 23, Vernon Jordan, New York Times, page 17:
text: I believe in a visionary and compassionate conservatism
ref: 1984 September 20, Ray Shamie, Christian Science Monitor, page 19:
text: 1984 November 8, James Robert Jones (interviewee), New York Times
I think we should adopt the slogan of compassionate conservatism.... We can be fiscally conservative without losing our commitment to the needy and we must redirect our policy in that direction.
glosses: A political philosophy that stresses using traditionally Conservative techniques and concepts in order to improve the general welfare of society.
Related terms: compassionate conservative
numbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numbats
Etymology: From Nyunga nhumbad.
Senses: glosses: A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.
Synonyms: sense: Myrmecobius fasciatus
word: banded anteater
banded anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banded anteaters
Senses: qualifier: former common name
glosses: The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus).
unmorality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmoralities
Etymology: From un- + morality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unmoral; amorality.
unnameable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnameable
form: most unnameable
Etymology: From un- + nameable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot, or should not, be named.
Related terms: nameless
unname
unnamed
unshakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshakable
form: most unshakable
form: unshakeable
Etymology: From un- + shake + -able.
Senses: antonyms: shakable
glosses: Not able to be shaken; firm, solid
glosses: resolute, unfaltering, unwavering
glosses: Having no errors or loopholes; unassailable
unshaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshaped
form: most unshaped
Etymology: From un- + shaped.
Senses: glosses: Having no distinct shape; formless or amorphous
Synonyms: shapeless
unshapely
amorphous
unshapely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshapely
form: most unshapely
Etymology: From un- + shapely.
Senses: glosses: Not having a distinct shape
Synonyms: formless
shapeless
amorphous
unsnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsnaps
form: unsnapping
form: unsnapped
form: unsnapped
Etymology: From un- + snap. Compare Dutch ontsnappen (“to elude; escape”, literally “to snap out of; break free from”).
Senses: glosses: To unfasten (something held by snaps).
unthought-of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthought-of
form: most unthought-of
Senses: glosses: unexpected
glosses: unimagined
untraveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untraveled
form: most untraveled
form: untravelled
Etymology: From un- + traveled.
Senses: glosses: Bearing few travellers
raw_tags: of a road etc
glosses: Not having travelled
raw_tags: of a person
bunco-steerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunco-steerers
form: bunko-steerer
Senses: examples: text: Reef need act as no more than bunco-steerer, all the research chores and assumptions of risk to be borne by Archie as principal party
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 404:
glosses: A swindler; a cheat or con-man.
Related terms: bunco booth
steerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪəɹə/
ipa: /ˈstɪɹɚ/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈstɪəɹə(ɹ)/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈstiɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈstiəɹə/
ipa: /ˈstiɹəɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈstɛːɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə(ɹ)
homophone: starer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: steerers
Etymology: From steer + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that steers.
examples: text: It isn't long before the casino help are telling their friends not to patronize the joint, and they in turn tell their friends, and in a very short time hundreds of people know all about it. At this point, the only way to get action is to hire a flock of steerers […]
ref: 1961, John Scarne, Complete guide to gambling, page 232:
synonyms: lugger
picker-up
roper
runner
glosses: A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
Derived terms: bunco-steerer
steerer tube
silky anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silky anteaters
Senses: glosses: Any species of anteater in the genus Cyclopes.
Synonyms: pygmy anteater
double-dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-domes
Senses: examples: text: these double-domes [were] in Reef's experience never quite as retiring as they looked, some of them damned touchy, as a matter of fact.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 404:
glosses: Alternative spelling of doubledome.
visiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visieres
Etymology: From French visière (or a forerunner).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of visor.
collared anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collared anteaters
Senses: glosses: The tamandua.
Synonyms: lesser anteater
lesser anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser anteaters
Senses: glosses: The tamandua.
Synonyms: collared anteater
severance payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: severance payments
Senses: examples: text: And it gets worse. Barcelona will have to pay even more if he is fired in the interim. Last week, TV3 reported that a high severance payment - amounting to a total of about 12m euros - is on the table.
ref: 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Money that an employer pays to an employee when the employee leaves the company in case of layoffs, often in exchange for some kind of waiver.
Synonyms: severance pay
severance
simit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simits
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish simit (“simit”), Ottoman Turkish سمید (simit), from Persian سمید (semid, “semolina”), from Arabic سَمِيد (samīd, “semolina”), from Aramaic סְמִידָא / ܣܡܻܝܕܳܐ (səmīḏā), from Akkadian 𒆠𒅔𒆠𒅔𒄯𒄯 (/⁠samīdu⁠/, “a type of fine groats, coarse flour, semolina”), related to Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒄯𒄯 (/⁠samādu⁠/, “to grind fine”).
Senses: glosses: A ring-shaped bread roll covered with sesame seeds.
African anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African anteaters
Senses: glosses: The aardvark.
glosses: The pangolin.
underpayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpayments
Etymology: From under- + payment.
Senses: glosses: An insufficient payment
glosses: The act of making such a payment
glosses: The amount by which a payment is insufficient
underpopulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpopulated
form: most underpopulated
Etymology: From under- + populated.
Senses: glosses: Having an insufficient population for economic viability
underproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underproductions
Etymology: From under- + production.
Senses: glosses: The production of an insufficient amount.
underwhelm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underwhelms
form: underwhelming
form: underwhelmed
form: underwhelmed
Etymology: From under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.
ref: 2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
Related terms: anticlimax
damp squib
undreamed-of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undreamed-of
form: most undreamed-of
form: undreamed of
form: undreamt-of
Senses: examples: text: Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were?
ref: 1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow:
glosses: Not remotely imagined or expected.
undreamt-of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undreamt-of
form: most undreamt-of
Senses: examples: text: Their business model of the 1920s and 1930s, which had catapulted the business to undreamt-of heights, had then turned into something of a ball and chain.
ref: 2011, John Bradley, Cadbury's Purple Reign: The Story Behind Chocolate's Best-Loved Brand:
glosses: Alternative spelling of undreamed-of.
unexcused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexcused
form: most unexcused
Etymology: From un- + excused.
Senses: examples: text: Mothers descended en masse on the school, beseeching Mr. Elly to release their boys from peril. “I told them that their boys were free to leave, but that an unexcused absence would be marked against them. They called me the cruelest-hearted man they had ever known.”
ref: 1952 April 13, William McDonald, “Today ‘Barnes Boys’ Are Legion—Positivism Of Mister Elly Helped Educator Build One Of South’s Finest Boys’ Schools”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, 124th year, number 15, Montgomery, Ala., page ten—C, column 3:
glosses: That has not been excused.
Related terms: unexcusable
unexposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexposed
form: most unexposed
Etymology: From un- + exposed.
Senses: glosses: That has not been exposed
Sazerac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæzəɹæk/
Forms: form: Sazeracs
form: Sazarac
form: sazerac
Etymology: Named for the Sazerac de Forge et Fils brand of cognac that was its original prime ingredient.
Senses: examples: text: […] a night that began at the establishment of Monsieur Peychaud, where the Sazeracs, though said to've been invented there, were not a patch, it seemed to Reef, on those available at Bob Stockton's bar in Denver, though those Absinthe Frappés were another matter.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 368:
glosses: A cocktail made from whisky, Pernod or absinthe, bitters, and syrup.
Sazarac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sazaracs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sazerac.
unfitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfitting
form: most unfitting
Etymology: From Middle English unfitting, equivalent to un- + fitting.
Senses: examples: text: Haley looked down at her unfitting clothes and answered. “I don't really have anything else. I was traveling a lot, so I didn't have much stuff to carry around.” Sam frowned and got up. “I can give you some of my clothes[…]”
ref: 2014 July 2, Lauren Kaye, RUN FOR REVENGE, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: I discarded my old, unfitting clothes off to the bottom of the staircase and tried on the new garments Sue had retrieved for me. When they hit the bottom, I heard a small rattle and ting noise.
ref: 2016 October 28, Nathan J. Gregory, Lost Shadows: A Novel, Nathan J. Gregory:
text: Whereas Mary-Tate's clothes further drive home that she truly does not belong in this milieu other than for sex, Craig's again reveal his façade. The severely unfitting clothes she wears are clearly not her own and are so loose that[…]
ref: 2020 September 9, Lennard Dominic Lennard, Other Hollywood Renaissance, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 289:
glosses: Not fitting (e.g., of clothes).
examples: text: So the puzzle of the unfitting answer is solved immediately by the interviewee himself, and interactionally recognized as such by the laughing mode in which the participants deal with it.
ref: 2004 January 15, Paul ten Have, Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology, SAGE, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Long term, what do these unfitting remarks (filthy words, silly words, and coarse words) do to the spirit of a wife or husband? What do they do to you?
ref: 2008 April 1, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, Cracking the Communication Code Workbook: The Secret to Speaking Your Mate's Language, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 149:
text: Although it has been already hinted at the link between the human ability to exchange roles and the citizens' right to retroactively adjust unfitting remarks or gestures to the situation, the same connection could perhaps be better[…]
ref: 2014 March 31, Kirill Postoutenko, Totalitarian Communication: Hierarchies, Codes and Messages, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: That is not fitting for its purpose; unsuitable; improper.
Derived terms: unfittingly
unfittingness
unfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfixes
form: unfixing
form: unfixed
form: unfixed
Etymology: From un- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To unfasten from a fixing.
examples: text: If a problem automatically fixes itself, you probably encountered a problem that will find a way to unfix itself soon.
ref: 2025, Kevin Focke, The Code Monster Manual:
glosses: To break again (something previously fixed).
unfroze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɹəʊz/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɹoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: simple past of unfreeze
ungoverned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungoverned
form: most ungoverned
Etymology: From un- + governed.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a government.
examples: text: He sat down for a moment, even before he dusted his ungoverned floury hands.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 35:
glosses: Lacking control or discipline.
glosses: Lacking restraint.
Related terms: ungovernable
ungrudging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrudging
form: most ungrudging
Etymology: From un- + grudging.
Senses: glosses: Lacking envy or resentment
Derived terms: ungrudgingly
bengaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛŋɡəliːn/
Forms: form: bengalines
Etymology: From French bengaline, from its resemblance to a kind of fabric imported from Bengal.
Senses: examples: text: Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415:
glosses: A fabric made from silk and worsted; poplin.
unhoped-for
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhoped-for
form: most unhoped-for
Etymology: From un- + hoped for.
Senses: glosses: Not expected or imagined.
Medici collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Medici collars
form: de Medici collar
Etymology: A style popularized by fashionable members of the Medici family in the seventeenth century.
Senses: examples: text: Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415:
glosses: A fan-shaped (especially lace) collar, standing upright behind the head and sloping down to meet a square neckline in front.
Ramos gin fizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramos gin fizzes
Etymology: Named after Henry C. Ramos, a New Orleans barman who invented it in 1888.
Senses: examples: text: “What was that everybody at your table was drinking? Can I get you one?” “Ramos gin fizz. Get yourself one, too.”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 416:
glosses: A cocktail particularly associated with New Orleans, made from gin, lemon and lime juice, egg white, sugar, cream, orange flower water and soda water.
gin fizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin fizzes
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and fizzy water.
Derived terms: Ramos gin fizz
emancipations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emancipation
multiarticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiarticular
form: most multiarticular
Etymology: From multi- + articular.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple joints.
jass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jas/
rhymes: -as
Etymology: Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.
Senses: examples: text: A Swiss jass master and I teamed up against my wife and an American, who were both rank beginners.
ref: 1986, Kenneth Hsu, The Great Dying:
text: Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.
ref: 2010, Diccon Bewes, Swiss Watching, page 244:
text: When Nonna plays cards, she moves her teeth from side to side. It makes a bit of a racket. It distracts the other jass players – that's why Nonna's so good at jass.
ref: 2014, Arno Camenisch, translated by Donal McLaughlin, Behind the Station:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
jass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jas/
rhymes: -as
Senses: examples: text: “Yet I've noticed the same thing when your band plays—the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the same brain.”
“Sure,” agreed “Dope,” “but you can't call that organization.”
“What do you call it?”
“Jass.”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 417:
glosses: Obsolete form of jazz.
nontarnishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tarnishable.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be tarnished.
nuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: nusses
form: nussing
form: nussed
form: nussed
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of nurse.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Mar'get wur the first chile as ever I nussed, forty years ago come this next August
ref: 1851, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Shannodale ..., page 125:
text: Two tender babes I nussed
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “A Many Years Ago”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
text: I nussed all his chillun and den later, 'long come dey's chillun and I nussed dem, and I'se even nussed de great gran 'chillun.
ref: 1996, T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker, The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nurse.
murali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Likely borrowed from Tamil முளரி (muḷari, “bramble”).
Senses: glosses: The matrimony vine (Lycium barbarum).
mutiliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mutilate.
maguey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɡeɪ/
Forms: form: magueys
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.
Senses: examples: text: Tequilla and mescal are similar, both liquors being distilled fom the maguey plant.
ref: 1899, Consular Reports: Commerce, manufactures, etc, page 375:
text: “Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 138:
text: […]and they rode through strange forests of maguey—the aloe or century plant—with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
text: through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 424:
synonyms: agave
pita
century plant
glosses: Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
Derived terms: word: Cebu maguey
word: maguey worm
taxonomic: Comadia redtenbacheri
word: red maguey worm
taxonomic: Aegiale hesperiaris
word: white maguey worm
agaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agave
can't've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːn.təv/
ipa: /ˈkæn.təv/
Forms: form: can’t’ve
Senses: examples: text: They can’t’ve seen us yet or they would have come over to say hello.
glosses: Cannot have.
that'll've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: that’ll’ve
Senses: glosses: That will have.
-n't
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /(ə)nt/
Forms: form: -'nt
Etymology: Univerbation of not and some preceding words (see usage notes) and following elision of medial vowel, or univerbation of n't and some preceding words. Compare n't.
Senses: examples: text: It is a beautiful bouquet! You needn't've bothered, thank you.
qualifier: unless humorous
glosses: Negates the meaning of the clause in which it occurs.
catch-breath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch-breaths
form: catch breath
Senses: examples: text: […] it is possible to obtain the desired effect by allowing sections or individuals within a section to take an unobtrusive catch-breath at different times.
ref: 1940, Van Ambrose Christy, Glee Club and Chorus: A Handbook, page 55:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
qualifier: singing
glosses: A pause to take a breath.
corne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornes
Senses: examples: text: I may ſhut vp this booke of plantes with a moſt famous and renowmed concluſion, I will heere declare how all kind of corne and pulſe, together with the vines themſelues ſhall recompence all our labours with great encreaſe.
ref: 1600, Hugh Platt, “Whether it be good to fill the holes with common earth, and to prepare the ſeed before it be ſet” (chapter 6), in The New and Admirable Arte of ſetting of Corne, page 24:
text: […] Finally , at this our Sauiour alſo aymeth in the Parable of the rich Man, who abounding in all prouiſion, and hauing more Corne and Fruits then roome to beſtow them in,[…]
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of corn.
maiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maizes
Senses: examples: text: Corn, maiz, canvass and every kind of vegetables are growing on with the least amount of culture, the land being so fat and rich in virtues. So a ploughshare and a rake of epinous branches are sufficient to sow corn; what is to be done since the 15th of May until the 15th of July, without any need of other work to the harvest-time.
ref: 1888, Mariano A. Pelliza, Manual of the Immigrant to the Argentine Republic, "Courrier de la Plata,", page 10:
text: INDIAN CORN (Maiz).—Consular statements to the contrary, this is an important product for local consumption in many portions of the island, especially flourishing on the uplands.
ref: 1898, William Jared Clark, Commercial Cuba: A Book for Business Men, page 202:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of maize.
power train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power trains
Senses: examples: text: These three-car sets used a power train comprising two British United Traction (BUT, an alliance of Leyland Motors and AEC) 150hp diesel engines coupled to a four-speed gearbox, and two of the three cars each had one power train.
ref: 2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of powertrain.
drivetrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drivetrains
form: drive train
Etymology: From drive + train.
Senses: examples: text: If you wait until later, your drivetrain is liable to misshift under the hard pedaling load.
ref: 1990, Joe Kita, Bicycling Magazine's New Bike Owner's Guide, page 28:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: powertrain
glosses: The mechanical parts of the powertrain, the gears and shafts, that connect the engine to the wheels in a vehicle.
how about that
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A general statement of surprise or bemusement with regard to a particular event.; isn't that good, or unexpected, etc.
wherewithall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of wherewithal.
fightest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fight + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of fight
twelfty
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: twelvety
Etymology: From twelve + -ty, from Old English hundtwelftiġ. Compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatig, hundniġontiġ and hundtēontiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety and one hundred, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system. This hund was used for counting higher decades, and eventually became the root of hundred. Hund originally meant 120 (now called a long hundred or great hundred, and preserved in the term hundredweight), but was used to translate multiples of Latin centum (“100”), and eventually picked up that value when used in isolation as well.
Senses: examples: text: Thirty-six from a hundred and twenty-nine? [twelvety-nine.]
ref: 1854, Thomas H. Palmer, Arithmetic, Oral and Written, page 36:
text: The twelfty-six [126] weeks' strike taught us the value of being organized
ref: 1922, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Report and Proceedings of the Convention, page 1:
glosses: One hundred (and) twenty; 120.
Related terms: eleventy
bitest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bite + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of bite
serialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serialises
form: serialising
form: serialised
form: serialised
Etymology: From serial + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Perfect for The Railway Children, which coincidentally was first serialised in 1905 in The London Magazine, being subsequently published in book form (1906).
ref: 2021 August 11, Stephen Roberts, “Beeching to Brief Encounter... in a heartbeat”, in RAIL, number 937, page 52:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of serialize.
serialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serialisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of serialization.
serialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serialisation