cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kleptocat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kleptocats
Etymology: First attested in 1977. From klepto- + cat.
Senses: examples: text: 1977 June 25, Michael Fox, response in "Ask Your Vet: Dr. Michael Fox", The La Crosse Tribune, page 25.
There’s no solution to the problem of a “kleptocat" except to keep precious items (rings, eyeglasses, etc.) in safe drawers and closets. Our kleptocat, Mocha, a female Burmese, just sticks to socks.
text: On closer inspection it definitely is a fox-shaped hand puppet! I wonder where the little kleptocat got that from!
ref: 1999, Joe Inglis, It Really Does Happen to a Vet! The Journal of Joe Inglis in Practice:
text: I knew Smut was an excellent climber, but I didn't know she was a criminal. So Smut was a kleptocat?
ref: 2011, Victoria Twead, Two Old Fools - Olé!, self-published, page 207:
glosses: A cat that is prone to stealing; a kleptomaniac cat.
kleptocats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kleptocat
Siquijor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪ.kɪˈhoɾ/
ipa: /sikiˈhɔː(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Enrique Villanueva, Larena, Lazi, Maria, San Juan, Siquijor — municipalities of Siquijor
glosses: A province of the Negros Island Region, Visayas, Philippines
examples: Meronyms: Banban, Bolos, Caipilan, Caitican, Calalinan, Canal, Candanay Norte, Candanay Sur, Cang-adieng, Cang-agong, Cang-alwang, Cang-asa, Cang-atuyom, Cang-inte, Cang-isad, Canghunoghunog, Cangmatnog, Cangmohao, Cantabon, Caticugan, Dumanhog, Ibabao, Lambojon, Luyang, Luzong, Olo, Pangi, Panlautan, Pasihagon, Pili, Poblacion, Polangyuta, Ponong, Sabang, San Antonio, Songculan, Tacdog, Tacloban, Tambisan, Tebjong, Tinago, Tongo — barangays of Siquijor
glosses: A municipality, the capital of the province of Siquijor, Philippines.
glosses: An island of the Bohol Sea, Visayas, Philippines.
klinkii pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klinkii pines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of klinki pine.
klinkii pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klinkii pine
Mars Bar parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mars Bar party
antimicrophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + microphonic.
Senses: glosses: insensitive to sound vibrations
ooplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ooplasm
holy smokes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊks
Senses: examples: text: Stomp on the moon and spit in the ocean / Razzamatazz and I love you / Holy smokes and Land o' Goshen / You can do anything that you want to do.
ref: 1971, “Suicide Song”, in Loudon Wainwright III (lyrics), Album II, performed by Loudon Wainwright III:
glosses: Alternative form of holy smoke.
saboteuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saboteuses
Etymology: From French saboteuse.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Our spies’ are heroes or better still heroines (Nurse Cavell, who was less a spy than a saboteuse) although we can of course say nothing about them until they are caught and executed.
ref: 1976, Constantine FitzGibbon, Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, published 1977, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Then there is Haebangt’ap (Liberation Tower, 1953), whose adolescent but motherly heroine Chŏmsun, a saboteuse in UN-occupied Pyongyang, is constantly striving to cultivate the spontaneity of her younger male comrades.
ref: 1994, Brian Myers, Han Sŏrya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK (Cornell East Asia Series), →ISBN, page 106:
text: These conspicuous “professionals” were facilitating a more diffuse sexual/national sabotage, where abortion really represented treason, where women were the symbolic saboteuses of France.
ref: 1998, Miranda Pollard, Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 193:
text: I won't detail the conspiracy theories too deeply here, because I'm reluctant to give them air, but since her emergence as an NFL fan, [Taylor] Swift has been portrayed by conservative U.S. commentators as a distraction, a saboteuse, and an undercover government agent dispatched to brainwash football fans.
ref: 2024 February 2, Morgan Campbell, “Taylor Swift's NFL presence a high-octane boost for American right-wing grievance machine”, in CBC.ca, Ottawa, Ont.: CBC/Radio-Canada, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
glosses: Female equivalent of saboteur.
saboteuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saboteuse
intrapontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + pontine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the pons.
diminutize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diminutizes
form: diminutizing
form: diminutized
form: diminutized
form: diminutise
Senses: examples: text: […] her name is Concepcion, diminutized: Concha […]
ref: 1904, Annetta Halliday-Antona, “Women Gem-Workers of the Far East”, in Gustav Stickley, Volume Six, editors, The Craftsman, page 143:
text: […] Marie Antoinette is referred to in the literature of the Revolution as the “Widow Capet”—a title containing no name of her own or any she herself had ever used. Elsewhere her given name is diminutized as “Toinon” and “Toinette.”
ref: 2000, Robin Lakoff, chapter 5, in The Language War, Berkeley: University of California Press, page 192:
text: 2007, Bruce Donaldson, German: An Essential Grammar, London: Routledge, Section 6.3, p. 41,
All diminutized nouns, whatever their original gender, become neuter once they take either of [the] endings [-chen or -lein].
glosses: To put (a word, name) in a diminutive form.
examples: text: You must remember that it takes two to make a bargain. On your side you look through a telescope so that it will magnify the value of your holdings, while the buyer, on the contrary, looks through the reverse end of the instrument so as to diminutize it as much as possible.
ref: 1898, James Blanchard Clews, chapter 9, in Fortuna: A Story of Wall Street, New York: J.S. Ogilvie, page 81:
text: 1986, Jim Godbolt, All This and Many a Dog, London: Northway, revised edition, 2007, Part Two, Chapter 2, p. 140,
The lady owner came out of the store, snatched the ticket from the windscreen, flung it to the ground and screamed: ‘You silly little man!’ at the warden, who was completing his entry of the offence in his book. He was of average height, but the rich invariably diminutize those who upset them.
text: [He] was a small wizened man whose face was diminutized by a large flat-brimmed black stetson.
ref: 1988, Gerald Hausman, chapter 2, in Stargazer, Santa Fe: Lotus Press, page 21:
text: From that evening on—Christ, her father was a Nobel laureate and dead to boot—I could not look in the mirror without seeing a hamster […] Her billions diminutized me. I was a kept man. A gigolo. A rodent.
ref: 1995, Mark Helprin, “Constance”, in Memoir from Antproof Case, New York: Perennial, published 2002, page 137:
text: 2016, Miranda July, quoted in Diana Wichtel, “The July Plot,” New Zealand Listener, 23 January, 2016, p. 34,
I think the quirky thing is often not used in a positive way. It is, as we know, a belittling kind of word. A man might be called ground-breaking or genius or something. Quirky is a diminutising way to say that.
glosses: To make (someone or something) appear smaller (often in a figurative sense).
diminutized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diminutize
diminutizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diminutize
diminutizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diminutize
plantain-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: plantain-eaters
Etymology: From plantain + eater.
Senses: glosses: Any bird in the African genus Crinifer.
plantain-eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantain-eater
boghead coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boghead coals
Senses: glosses: Torbanite.
burhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burheads
Senses: glosses: Any plant in genus Echinodorus.
burheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burhead
pyrazolyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrazolyl
Nal Bino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by Sebestian Verheggen in 1886, related to Volapük.
audiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audiographs
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure a person's hearing
autodiffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + diffusion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The diffusion of atoms or molecules among similar entities, especially in a solid
Uropi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by Joël Landais
celebricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celebricides
Etymology: From celebri(ty) + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Mark David Chapman's celebricide of John Lennon and John Hinckley, Jr.'s attempted assassination of President Reagan were neither politically motivated acts of terror nor psychologically motivated […].
ref: 1991, Joël Black, The Aesthetics of Murder, page 188:
text: “This started with O.J.,” he declares. […] Not only were we sanctioning celebricide, but we were watching it as a daily ritual.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
glosses: The killing of a celebrity.
autoprotonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + protonation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction of two identical molecules, one of which acts as a proton donor and the other as a proton acceptor
autoprotonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoprotonizations
Etymology: From auto- + protonization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of autoprotonation.
synonyms: word: autoprotonation
Ithkuil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iθˈkwɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology: An anglicization of Iţkuîl in the constructed language Ithkuil. Coined by John Quijada, the inventor of the conlang.
Senses: examples: text: While working on Ilaksh, it occurred to me that the morpho-phonological structure of Ilaksh could be applied to a new version of Ithkuil as well, allowing Ithkuil to be made even more concise than it is now.
ref: 2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, in The Conlanger's Library, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025, page 11:
text: An article titled “The Speed of Thought” noted remarkable similarities between Ithkuil and an imaginary language cooked up by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein for his novella “Gulf,” from 1949.
ref: 2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2018:
glosses: An experimental constructed language created by John Quijada, designed to try to minimize vagueness and semantic ambiguity, and to express complex ideas briefly but clearly.
glosses: The constructed script used to express the language.
diminutization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diminutizations
form: diminutisation
Senses: examples: text: A strain in Dickinson’s letters and some—though by far a minority—of her poems was a self-diminutization, almost as if to offset and deny—or even disguise—her actual dimensions as she must have experienced them. And this emphasis on her own “littleness,” along with the deliberate strangeness of her tactics of seclusion, have been, until recently, accepted as the prevailing character of the poet […]
ref: 1979, Adrienne Rich, “Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson”, in Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, editors, Shakespeare’s Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, page 106:
text: 1987, Carolyn James, Paul Hogan: A Biography, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Glossary, pp. 211-212,
No real Aussie can be safely left with the monicker he or she was first endowed with. Barry is Bazza; Charles is Chilla; John is Johnno; Shirley is Shirl; Bruce is Brucie […] ; Douglas is Duggie; and so on. If by chance a first name isn’t readily amenable to such diminutization, then the surname gets the treatment. Thus, Paul Hogan is always called Hoges in Australia.
glosses: The act or process of diminutizing.
diminutizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diminutization
useless eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: useless eaters
Etymology: Calque of German unnützer Esser.
Senses: examples: text: Gerhard Kretschmar seemed perfectly to fit Hitler's idea of a “useless eater,” and when the KdF men informed him of the case, he leapt into action, summoning his personal physician, Karl Brandt, and ordering him to travel immediately to Leipzig to investigate.
ref: 2021, Charlie English, The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art, Random House, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: In the ideology of Nazi Germany, a person with a serious medical problem or disability, seen as requiring assistance from society but offering nothing in return.
useless eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of useless eater
Kēlen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by Sylvia Sotomayor.
Valyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: valerian
Etymology: From Valyria (“fictional location”) + -n.
Senses: examples: text: The most developed of these families is the Valyrian family of languages, which Martin based on Romance.
ref: 2015, David J. Peterson, “The Languages of Ice and Fire”, in Jes Battis, Susan Johnston, editors, Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, page 18:
text: Among its most innovative features were Dothraki and Valyrian languages specially created by US linguist David J. Peterson and subtitled on screen.
ref: 2015, Jared Shurin, “Game of Thrones”, in Paul Condon, editor, 1001 TV Series You Must Watch Before You Die, page 827:
text: Not surprisingly, it was this society that HBO contacted when it wanted to flesh out both the Dothraki language and the Valyrian languages for Game of Thrones, the television adaption of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novels; the society’s president, linguist David J. Peterson, got the job.
ref: 2019, Kate Burridge, Tonya N. Stebbins, For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics, page 97:
glosses: A family of constructed languages created by David J. Peterson for the television adaptation of Game of Thrones.
Derived terms: High Valyrian
Valyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: valerian
Forms: form: Valyrians
Etymology: From Valyria (“fictional location”) + -n.
Senses: examples: text: The far-away House Targaryen and its handful of dragons survived the cataclysmic event and rose to power after the downfall of the Valyrians.
ref: 2022 August 28, Lorraine Ali, “‘House of the Dragon’ recap: The girl who would be king”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:
glosses: A fictional person who speaks the language in A Song of Ice and Fire and its adaptation Game of Thrones.
Teonaht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ.oʊnɑːθ/
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by Sally Caves.
woody breast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Results suggest that severe degrees of white striping and woody breast, individually or in combination, negatively impact meat quality, especially water holding capacity attributes such as marinade uptake and cook loss.
ref: 2016 April 14, Tijare VV, “Meat quality of broiler breast fillets with white striping and woody breast muscle myopathies”, in Poultry Science:
text: White Striping (WS) is a condition characterized by the occurrence of white striations parallel to muscle fibers on breast, thigh, and tender muscles of broilers, while Woody Breast (WB) imparts tougher consistency to raw breast fillets.
ref: 2016 November 1, VA Kuttappan, “White striping and woody breast myopathies in the modern poultry industry: a review”, in Poultry Science, volume 95, number 11, page 2724:
text: The MORS and BMORS methods have evolved at a time when the poultry industry is faced with complex meat texture due to woody breast myopathies.
ref: 2017, Massimiliano Petracci, Cecile Berri, Poultry Quality Evaluation: Quality Attributes and Consumer Values:
glosses: A condition of farmed chickens causing their breast meat to become tough and chewy.
Verdurian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Verduria + -an, the language of the fictional country Verduria.
Senses: examples: text: Well, Mark has posted a "secret dictionary" for Verdurian, a descendant of Cadhinor, containing words for modern concepts; it has an entry for "atomic bomb" which could possibly be back-ported to Cadhinor.
ref: 2001, Philip Newton, “Re: Niuman debutio”, in alt.language.artificial (Usenet):
text: After resolving to recommit herself to aesthetic dermatology and cosmetic surgery , Johanna turns to her professional work, which at the moment consists of feminist linguistic research on grammatical gender in Hebrew, Verdurian, and various other languages in which verbs as well as nouns are masculine, feminine, or, in some instances, neuter.
ref: 2007, Susan Conant, Gaits of Heaven, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Rosenfelder derived Verdurian originally from French and Russian, and was influenced by other constructed languages.
ref: 2011, Stephen D. Rogers, The Dictionary of Made-Up Languages: From Elvish to Klingon, The Anwa, Reella, Ealray, Yeht (Real) Origins of Invented Lexicons, Adams Media, →ISBN:
glosses: A constructed language invented by Mark Rosenfelder in 1995.
Wenedyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by Jan van Steenbergen
head band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head bands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headband.
eat to live, not live to eat
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: live not to eat, but eat to live
Etymology: Often attributed to Socrates and Benjamin Franklin.
Senses: examples: text: Balance can be used to heighten matched pairs of ideas, as in the maxim "one should eat to live, not live to eat."
ref: 2013, Carl H. Klaus, A Self Made of Words: Crafting a Distinctive Persona in Nonfiction Writing, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: It is best not to be gluttonous; eating shouldn't be one's favorite activity, but one should eat only to supply health.
wikipedia: Benjamin Franklin
Socrates
set one's hair on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets one's hair on fire
form: setting one's hair on fire
form: set one's hair on fire
form: set one's hair on fire
form: light one's hair on fire
form: run around with one's hair on fire
Etymology: Possibly from stories of Viking marauders said to have set their hair and beards on fire when running into battle in order to appear fanatical and fearsome.
Senses: examples: text: "It was perceived that we were opening a party house where people could drink and run amok and generally set their hair on fire," said Bill Hobson, executive director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center.
ref: 2009 March 31, Vanessa Ho, “Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4 million”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
text: [T]he problem is the extreme shortage of affordable housing. You can do as the city has decided to do, which is set up a task force to deal with affordable housing. . . . Or you can set your hair on fire and blame Chinese foreigners.
ref: 2012 April 5, Allen Garr, “Blaming Chinese for high house prices in Vancouver is racist”, in Vancouver Courier, Canada, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
text: As the impeachment investigation proceeds, it’ll be important for us Trump critics to not set our hair on fire every day, to evaluate the evidence as if it were against a president we ourselves voted for.
ref: 2017 May 23, David Brooks, “Opinion: The Alienated Mind”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
text: It is difficult to sum up the speech, despite having taken notes while watching on three screens, because the whammos, the bone chips and viscera, came at us faster than they could be wiped away.
ref: 2017 September 19, Heather Mallick, “Trump sets his hair on fire at the UN”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
glosses: To become wildly impassioned; to behave crazily.
Synonyms: freak out
lose it
Derived terms: word: hair-on-fire
light one's hair on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lights one's hair on fire
form: lighting one's hair on fire
form: lit one's hair on fire
form: lit one's hair on fire
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Romney has sought to portray himself in recent days as a more measured candidate than Mr. Santorum, declaring that he would not “light my hair on fire” to court conservatives.
ref: 2012 February 29, Michael Barbaro, Erik Eckholm, “Romney Sets Off Furor on Contraception Bill”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
text: “We're not panicked, we're not lighting our hair on fire,” Mr. Greenwood of Bio said. “We are remaining calm.”
ref: 2016 December 9, Katie Thomas, “Wary Drug Makers Move to Fend Off Further Attacks Under Donald Trump”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
glosses: Alternative form of set one's hair on fire.
run around with one's hair on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs around with one's hair on fire
form: running around with one's hair on fire
form: ran around with one's hair on fire
form: run around with one's hair on fire
Senses: examples: text: By early 2001, when the Bush administration took office, Mr Tenet was "running around with his hair on fire", in the words of Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorist tsar, warning senior officials about an impending al-Qaida attack.
ref: 2004 June 4, Julian Borger, “Farewell to the fall guy blamed for terror blunders”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
glosses: Alternative form of set one's hair on fire.
contact binary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact binaries
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A binary star whose component stars are in physical contact (share an upper atmosphere).
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A bilobated small Solar System body formed from two bodies that gravitated together and fused into one.
stellar nova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellar novas
form: stellar novae
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of nova.
synonyms: word: nova
stellar novae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stellar nova
recurrent nova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recurrent novas
form: recurrent novae
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of nova in which the sudden brightening and gradual diminishing is repeated (for any of several reasons)
recurrent novae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recurrent nova
hair-on-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking.
ref: 2003 September 9, Ben Ratliff, “Music Review: Fluttering Rat-a-tats to Celebrate a Birthday”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
text: [T]he most common reactions to Ryan ranged from gnawing apprehension to hair-on-fire anger.
ref: 2012 August 14, Tom McCarthy, “U.S. Politics: Paul Ryan heads west as convention slate unveiled”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
text: I’ve made something of a career in debunking nonsense when it comes to science, from people who think the Moon landings were faked to hair-on-fire UFOlogists who think every lens flare and dust mote in a photo is the precursor to an alien invasion.
ref: 2016 December 16, Phil Plait, “Trump Adviser Turns the Anti-Science Up to 11”, in Slate, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:
text: This race [between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel, for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court] wasn’t the only contest of the night that suggested that Democrats are hair-on-fire to vote.
ref: 2025 April 2, Cameron Joseph, “Democrats’ big election night gives them first hope since Trump’s victory”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic.
Related terms: set one's hair on fire
sticks it to the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stick it to the man
sticking it to the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stick it to the man
stuck it to the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stick it to the man
anthropocentrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropocentrists
Senses: glosses: A person who accepts the ideas of anthropocentrism
anthropocentrist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anthropocentrism
Mount Tai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tī
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Mount T'ai
Etymology: Partial calque of Mandarin 泰山 (Tàishān).
Senses: examples: text: He dedicated Mount Tai to the worship of the genii, and raised a sacred mound at the foot of the mountain.
ref: 1879, Robert K. Douglas, Confucianism and Taouism, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, →OL, page 240:
text: Mount T’ai bestrides the Ch’i and Lu districts [of' Shantung], while its most remarkable scenery is at Lung-yen.
ref: [1985, Early Chinese Texts on Painting, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 182:
text: The Feng and Shan were probably the state rituals in premodern China imbued with the most momentous religious and political symbolism. Traditionally held at Mount T’ai 泰山 and a nearby hill in modern Shantung 山東, the rituals represented a confirmation of the ruler’s receipt of the Heavenly Mandate.
ref: [1994, Chen Jo-shui, “Empress Wu and Proto-Feminist Sentiments in T’ang China”, in Frederick P. Brandauer, Chün-chieh Huang, editors, Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China, Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 83:
text: Mount Tai, in the eastern province of Shandong, represents longevity in Chinese tradition.
ref: 2016 February 15, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China’s Legal Professionals, Under Limits at Home, Note Scalia’s Death”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2016, Asia Pacific:
text: Taishan, or Mount Tai, is China’s most sacred mountain. For centuries, emperors climbed it to pay homage to heaven and earth. Philosopher Confucius is said to have stood at the towering top, looked down and pronounced the world a small place indeed.
ref: 2017 May 9, Louise Watt, “Climbing Mount Tai: 6,000 steps up China’s sacred mountain”, in AP News, sourced from TAISHAN, China (AP), archived from the original on 08 Feb 2025:
glosses: A mountain in Taishan district, Tai'an, Shandong, China.
Synonyms: Tai Shan
Yunfu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yünʹfo͞oʹ
Forms: form: Yün-fu
Etymology: From Mandarin 雲浮 /云浮 (Yúnfú).
Senses: examples: text: (44) WESTERN KUANGTUNG
[...]Tatai Formation. Ferruginous sandstone interstratified with beds of limonite which contain Tertiary plants. A thick conglomerate or breccia cemented by ferruginous sands and clays forms the basal part. Typically developed at Tataiyung and Shanshuiwei in the vicinity of the city of Yunfu.
ref: 1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, London: Thomas Murby & Co., →OCLC, page 478:
text: China's 13 large foreign fertilizer plants ordered a few years ago are all scheduled to be in operation in a year or two.[…]China's biggest pyrite mine (openpit), being built in Yunfu, Kwangtung Province, was near completion.
ref: 1978 November 9, K. P. Wang, “China's Mineral Economy”, in Chinese Economy Post-Mao: A Compendium of Papers, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 387:
text: The fields of Aoshi and surrounding hamlets have been swallowed up by economic development unfurling at breakneck speed across the plains and hills here in Guangdong province, about 175 miles northwest of Hong Kong.
Like the stooped peasant working the soil, many farmers here have been reduced to tilling vacant strips along the borders of new buildings and construction sites, raising crops on ground that is no longer legally theirs to work. Their land, on the edge of fast-growing Yunfu city, has been marked for development, and they have been marked for obsolescence.
ref: 2006 March 26, Edward Cody, “Bulldozed by Growth, Stonewalled by Government Pleas by Peasant Farmers for Fair Payment for Land Are Left Unanswered”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2017:
text: Mr. Yan, the general manager of Yunfu Citistone Manufactory, a maker of decorative tiles and wash basins located in Yunfu, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province, said he had resisted cutting prices even as each dollar in export revenue covered more renminbi of his costs.
ref: 2014 April 25, Keith Bradsher, “A Policy-Making Mystery in the Renminbi’s Decline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2014, International Business:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Wanfow
word: Yün-fou
the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: On these last two points the Chancellor could have given way. He was adamant because he and Hebert wanted to demonstrate their power. The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it is broken at last.
ref: 1957, Norman Rich, M.H. Fisher, The Holstein Papers, volume 2, page 317:
text: She couldn't have expected her luck to last forever: The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it is broken at last, wasn't that what they said?
ref: 2006, Nigel McCrery, Still Waters, Book 1, page 267:
text: Madame knew her hour was fixed and she would not live a minute beyond it; nor did she want to, for, as she said, "The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last." They bled her when she was too weak to resist, as doctors always do what they like when the patient is feeble.
ref: 2005, Julie Baumgold, The Diamond: A Novel, page 116:
glosses: When something is used enough times, it will eventually break down.
Synonyms: the jug goes to the well until it breaks
Related terms: go to the well
Olano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Olanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Olano, a surname of Basque origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lazarte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lazartes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Lazarte, from Basque Lasarte. This surname is mostly found in Argentina.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
poda patti
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam പോടാ പട്ടീ (pōṭā paṭṭī, “go away, dog”).
Senses: examples: text: The puppy seized the opportunity and tried to stage a combined entry. Kochu Maria hit the floor fiercely with her hands and said, "Hup, Hup! Poda patti!" So the puppy, wisely, desisted. It appeared to be familiar with this routine.
ref: 2008, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things: A Novel:
text: A servant's snot-nosed child smiled up at him before stomping the ground to scare away a straggly cat by shouting, 'Poda patti' - Go away, you miserable dog!
ref: 2009, Janhavi Acharekar, Window seat: rush-hour stories from the city:
text: The world mocked me when i sent my resumes to consulting firms and investment banks. Rahul Gupta's exact words were, 'Einstein, you are a complete idiot.' IN YOUR FACE RAHUL GUPTA ! PODA PATTI! Bastard.
ref: 2016, Sidin Vadukut, Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Varghese:
glosses: An insult: go away, you dog!
Rhoxolani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Roxolani.
ratfinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rat finking
form: rat-finking
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ratfink.
ratfinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rat finked
form: rat-finked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ratfink.
pleonasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Forms: form: more pleonasmic
form: most pleonasmic
Etymology: From pleonasm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to pleonasms.
raw_tags: of a writing or speech
glosses: Given to pleonasmic speech or writing.
raw_tags: of a person
Andal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andals
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Galician Andal, a surname predominantly established in the Philippines.
* Borrowed from Norwegian Andal, probably a compound of ahn (“elm”) and dal (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Andal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil ஆண்டாள் (āṇṭāḷ).
Senses: synonyms: Nachiyar
Godadevi
glosses: a poet saint, considered an avatar of Bhudevi; daughter of Periyalvar.
glosses: A female given name from Tamil.
boatward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boatward
form: most boatward
Etymology: From boat + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Returning boatward by a new route, we passed through some queer little courts, where I was welcomed by various very clean, nice-looking, neatly dressed women, with glossy hair, and wearing pretty silver ornaments in the shape of butterflies or dragon-flies marked with lucky symbols, the colour being given by bright blue and green enamel.
ref: 1886, Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming, Wanderings in China:
text: I see his long, slender, golden shape plowing boatward near the surface.
ref: 1903, Charles Hallock, William A. Bruette, Forest and Stream, volume 61:
text: By the time we had examined it we were quite ready to turn boatward.
ref: 1906, Minnie Stuart Crawford Ross, Around the Mediterranean:
text: The horse-guards drive their shaggy rabble in
From nightlong grazing. Voyageurs, with packs
Of folded tents and camp gear on their backs,
Slouch boatward through the reek. But when prevails
The smell of frying pans and coffee pails,
ref: 1998, John G. Neihardt, The Giving Earth: A John G. Neihardt Reader:
text: Frank Thomas, in fact, tried to jerk so many balls boatward down the 279-foot left-field line that Stengel is said to have chastised him at one point, saying, "If you want to be a sailor, join the navy!"
ref: 2007, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation:
text: And then you see a stallion and his harem, eight small horses gazing curiouly boatward, tails switching, an egret plucking bugs off the back of one.
ref: 2013, Keith Bellows, 100 Places That Can Change Your Child's Life: From Your Backyard to the Ends of the Earth:
text: All along the waterfront are a number of night clubs and cabarets, traditional last syops for travelers boatward bound.
ref: 2013, Consuelo Hermer, Havana Manana: A Guide To Cuba And The Cubans:
text: His tail went down, a front paw slipped, and without thinking, without breathing, I released my single-handed hold on the rail and pushed him boatward.
ref: 2013, Laurie Cass, Lending a Paw:
text: He and I were now at the tail-end of the procession hastening boatward, or almost at the tail, for there were but four or five other passengers—a family party with fat nurse and crying baby—behind us.
ref: 2016, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, C. N. WILLIAMSON & A. N. WILLIAMSON Ultimate Collection: 30+ Mystery Classics & Adventure Novels in One Volume (Illustrated):
glosses: Toward a boat.
outdin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdins
form: outdinning
form: outdinned
form: outdinned
form: out-din
Etymology: From out- + din.
Senses: examples: text: 1664, James Howell, Florus Hungaricus, London: Hen[ry] Marsh, Book 2, p. 49,
[…] divine Providence was pleased by these frequent and ruinous losses and slaughters, upon the neck of one another, to bring these barbarous Huns to an humble sense of their calamitous and ruinous condition, and by that prepare and soften their minds to the Reception of the great Evangelicall truth, against whose Innocent Doctrine, the applauses of their Triumphs and the noising loud Fame of their puissance and successe had out-dinn’d the Trumpets of the Prince of Peace […]
text: Anon, came on a crew that swift outsped,
And soon outdinned with more relentless curse,
This bitter cursing crowd.
ref: 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides. A Prison-Rhyme, London: Jeremiah How, Book 2, Stanza 50, p. 67:
text: He stood there, his heart beating so loud that it seemed to outdin the patter of the rain upon the leaves, until the mysterious figure disappeared from view.
ref: 1899, A. Eric Bayly, chapter 3, in The House of Strange Secrets: A Detective Story, New York: Dutton, page 26:
text: 1900, Richard Hovey, “When the Priest Left” in Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1903, p. 53,
What did he say?
To seek love otherwhere
Nor bind the soul to clay?
It may be so—I cannot tell—
But I know that life is fair,
And love’s bold clarion in the air
Outdins his little vesper-bell.
glosses: To din more loudly than, make a louder noise than (someone or something).
outdins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outdin
outdinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outdin
outdinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outdin
like a duck to water
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Alternative form of like a duck takes to water.
dinnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinning
Garchitorena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
kasiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caxiri (“alcoholic drink made from manioc/cassava”).
Policarpio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Policarpios
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Policarpio, a variant of Policarpo; this surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
eye bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brain bleach.
synonyms: word: brain bleach
Related terms: english: literal
translation: literal
word: eyewash
chromatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chromatises
form: chromatising
form: chromatised
form: chromatised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chromatize.
chromatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chromatise
chromatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chromatizes
form: chromatizing
form: chromatized
form: chromatized
Etymology: From chromate + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat a metal surface with chromate
eye colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye color
eye colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye colour
cosmonuclide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmonuclides
Etymology: From cosmo- + nuclide.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nuclide / isotope produced by the action of cosmic rays on terrestrial atoms
mandu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandu
form: mandoo
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 만두(饅頭) (mandu), in turn from Chinese 饅頭 /馒头 (mántou). Doublet of manju, manti, and mantou.
Senses: examples: text: Mandu are the traditional fast food of the region and make a great meal or snack for the road.
ref: 2012, Matthew Waterhouse, “Man exists not on bread alone: Every day’s a feast in the East”, in Konglish: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Teaching English in South Korea, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 103:
text: Preheat the oil to 350°F (180°C) and fry the mandu in batches until golden and crispy.
ref: 2014, Dan Whalen, Stuffed: The Ultimate Comfort Food Cookbook: Taking Your Favorite Foods and Stuffing Them to Make New, Different and Delicious Meals, Salem, Mass.: Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 82:
text: When you have made all the mandu, heat about a tablespoon of groundnut oil in a non-stick frying pan or a wok that has a lid.
ref: 2014, Si King, Dave Myers, The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure: Over 100 Amazing Recipes from the Kitchens of Asia to Cook at Home, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN:
text: It isn’t a particularly busy evening for Kim’s Dumplings, so we should be able to enjoy some strangely public privacy. / “Why here?” / “I wanted dumplings.” She gestures to a plate of mandu, covered in hot sauce.
ref: 2019, Lydia E. Marcell, “Signal”, in The Reality Trust: A Stuntwoman’s Last Will & Testament, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Mandu are found in soups or eaten on their own as an appetizer with a dipping sauce and come in a variety of shapes and sizes.
ref: 2022, Taekyung Chung, Debra Samuels, The Korean Table: From Barbecue to Bibimbap 100 Easy-To-Prepare Recipes, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dumpling in Korean cuisine.
pair of colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of colors
form: pair of colours
Senses: glosses: A national flag and a regimental flag when carried together.
pair of colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of colours
form: pair of colors
Senses: examples: text: [T]he old general assured him of his protection and interest for a pair of colours, if he was disposed to enter into the Dutch Service.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: The commission of an ensign in the infantry or a cornet in the cavalry; an ensigncy or cornetcy.
glosses: A national flag and a regimental flag when carried together.
bow-legged wi' brass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rustic
ipa: /ˈbaʊ ˌlɛːɡd wɪ ˈbɹaːs/
Etymology: Humorous, from the fact that coins in pockets add weight.
Senses: examples: text: Wi t'car shoo's drivin, Aw bet thee shoo's bow-legg'd wi brass.
glosses: Wealthy; having lots of money.
Related terms: couldn't stop a pig in a passage
mehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, so it was a combo of my being over-excited and the rumor that this was some kind of shoot fight spotfest that left me with a case of the mehs.
ref: 2015 September 9, “WWE NXT recap, reactions, video highlights”, in Cageside Seats:
text: So shake off the mehs and get ready for some elite-level boxing.
ref: 2016 April 5, Kelsey McCarson, “Manny Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley: Everything You Need to Know for Upcoming Fight”, in Bleacher Report:
text: Ordinary rather than extraordinary and average rather than epic, the much-anticipated The Dark Tower feature film suffers from a case of the mehs".
ref: 2017 August 4, “'The Dark Tower' Movie Review”, in Showbiz Junkies:
glosses: ennui; blahs.
examples: text: Will it be a list of laugh-out-loud, knee-slapper films or a record collection of "mehs?"
ref: 2012 August 3, Abby Koenig, “Is Ben Stiller the Most Overrated Comedian in Hollywood?”, in Houston Press:
text: At Salt, a mix of wows and mehs.
ref: 2014 October 22, Peter Hum, “Dining Out: At Salt, a mix of wows and mehs”, in Ottawa Citizen:
text: If the phrase "family-friendly festival" induces a series of yawns and "mehs" from you and yours, consider the gauntlet thrown.
ref: 2017 July 29, Stephanie Smittle, “Itchy-O to close Hot Water Hills Festival”, in Arkansas Times:
glosses: plural of meh.
ehs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of eh
ehing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eh
ehed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of eh
ehh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise
glosses: Alternative form of eh (a request for clarification)
ehh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ehhs
form: ehhing
form: ehhed
form: ehhed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eh.
ehhs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of ehh
ehhing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ehh
ehhed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of ehh
Neopangaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neopangea
Etymology: From neo- + Pangaea.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pangaea Ultima.
synonyms: word: Pangaea Ultima
Coordinate terms: sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Amasia
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: New Pangaea
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Novopangaea
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea II
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea Proxima
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea Ultima
Pangaea Ultima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pangea Ultima
Etymology: From Pangaea + Latin ultima (“last, final”), from being the ultimate end of the current supercontinent cycle, the next mass supercontinent. Coined by Christopher Scotese.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical future supercontinent.
wikipedia: Christopher Scotese
Coordinate terms: sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Amasia
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Neopangaea
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: New Pangaea
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Novopangaea
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea II
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea Proxima
Novopangaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Novopangea
Etymology: From Latin novo (“new”) + Pangaea.
Senses: examples: text: In about 250 million years a new supercontinent, Novopangaea, would form on the opposite side of Earth from the original Pangaea, as the Americas and Asia crunch in around northbound Australia.
ref: 2018, New Scientist, This Book Will Blow Your Mind: Journeys at the Extremes of Science, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A hypothetical future supercontinent.
Coordinate terms: sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Amasia
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Neopangaea
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: New Pangaea
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea II
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea Proxima
sense: other projected next future supercontinents
word: Pangaea Ultima