cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tomb-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomb-stones
Senses: examples: text: And that for her part, ſhe deſired that no higher character, or fairer remembrance of her ſhould be tranſmitted to poſterity, than to have this inſcription engraved on her tomb-ſtone, when ſhe ſhould pay the laſt debt to nature; “Here lies Elizabeth, who lived and died a maiden Queen.”
ref: 1759, David Hume, “[Elizabeth I.] Chapter I.”, in The History of England, under the House of Tudor. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 412:
text: She often thought during her long nights of suffering, that if she were to die in this spot, only Theresa would know her name, and get it inscribed on her tomb-stone.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XVII. Corinna in Scotland.] Chap[ter] VIII.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume V, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 62:
text: “It ’s as my great-grandsire, / “Starting up at the Trump of Doom’s tone, / “Had walked this way from his painted tomb-stone!”
ref: 1842–1845, Robert Browning, “[Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.] The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child’s Story.”, in Poems […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1849, →OCLC, stanza V, page 309:
text: And therefore, how deep soever our love may be to them, however highly we have thought of them, we shall take care not to put anything which savours of boasting, or exaggeration on their tomb-stones.
ref: 1843, F[rancis] E[dward] P[aget], A Tract upon Tomb-Stones; or, Suggestions for the Consideration of Persons Intending to Set Up That Kind of Monument to the Memory of Deceased Friends, Rugeley: John Thomas Walters; London: James Burns; Oxford: J. H. Parker, page 7:
glosses: Archaic form of tombstone.
tomb-stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomb-stone
purer and simpler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pure and simple: more pure and simple
purest and simplest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pure and simple: most pure and simple
arrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arran (“spider”).
Horspools
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Horspool
Cullingtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cullington
Vanderstelt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vanderstelts
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch van der Stelt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Veley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Veleys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Veleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Veley
Vanderstelts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vanderstelt
Van Cleef
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van Cleefs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch van Cleef.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Vincelette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vincelettes
Etymology: Americanized form of French Vincelet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
bang-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bang-on
form: most bang-on
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bang on.
Vincelettes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vincelette
Van Cleefs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Van Cleef
pleasure-ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasure-grounds
Senses: examples: text: Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: The evening of Friday drew on: it was spent, not as of late it had been, in loitering among the flowers and statues of the old-fashioned pleasure-grounds, or in hanging over the stone balustrades of the steps which led on to the terrace, watching “the star that calls the bee to rest,” or scenting the mingled odours of the honeysuckle and the jasmine, friends of dull night: such tranquil pleasures were suspended,—perhaps never, in that gloomy house, to be renewed.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter VI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 130:
text: In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.
ref: 1897, “The Advertising Nuisance [Editorial Article]”, in Charles Sprague Sargent, editor, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, page 409:
glosses: Alternative form of pleasure ground.
pleasure-grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleasure-ground
suttlety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suttleties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of subtlety.
Bhaskar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bhaskars
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi भास्कर (bhāskar).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Derived terms: Bhaskar-Jagannathan syndrome
Bhaskars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bhaskar
advantagious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advantagious
form: most advantagious
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of advantageous.
Borowys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borowy
scarr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarrs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of scar.
Bernauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bernauers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bernauer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Beteta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Betetas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Beteta, a habitational surname from a small village in Castilla-La Mancha; this surname is predominantly found in Guatemala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Betetas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beteta
Bernauers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bernauer
fairy-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy-lands
Senses: examples: text: Dear Miss Woodhouse, how do you do?—Very well I thank you, quite well. This is meeting quite in fairy-land!—Such a transformation!—Must not compliment, I know—(eyeing Emma most complacently)—that would be rude—but upon my word, Miss Woodhouse, you do look—how do you like Jane’s hair?
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 18:
text: She was beautiful, and he said that he would love her always with a love unchangeable as were all things in fairy-land; […]
ref: 1852 December, G. M. C., “A Legend of the Snow-Drop”, in The Northern Magazine, Belfast: Henry Greer, […], published 1853, page 290, column 1:
text: We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.
ref: 1882 October 7, “The Life of George Cruikshank: in Two Epochs. By Blanchard Jerrold. […]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2867, London: […] John C. Francis, […], page 471, column 1:
text: It is now becoming one of the best-known facts in the history of photography that the annual meeting of the Convention, wherever it is held, is the happiest place to enjoy talking shop in the world; it is a fairy-land of make-believe, and is not only harmless, but salutary.
ref: 1896 May 1, H. P. Robinson, “Digressions. V.—The Convention.”, in The British Journal of Photography, volume XLIII, number 1878, London: Henry Greenwood & Co., […], page 277, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of fairyland.
fairy land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 28:
text: Ecstasy bears a strong resemblance to catalepsy: in both cases the patients, during the paroxysm, lose all connexion with the physical world, being deprived of sense and voluntary motion; but in ecstasy, associations of the most pleasing and enchanting nature are established with an ideal existence in an unknown region, which might perhaps be poetically designated the fairy land of an undescried Elysium.
ref: 1835 May 2, Andrew Ellis, “Clinical Lecture on a case of Catalepsy, Occurring in the Jervis-Street Hospital, Dublin”, in The Lancet, volume 2, page 130:
text: The fanciful fables of fairy land are but allegories of the young poet's mind when the sweet spell is upon him.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 25:
text: Who would rot on the moor-side forgotten, / Slaughtered bickering for some petty town, / While the rich East blooms fragrant before us, / And all fairy land beckons us on?
ref: 1848, Charles Kingsley, Junior, The Saint’s Tragedy; or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene xi, page 138:
glosses: Alternative form of fairyland.
Aschoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aschoffs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Aschoff.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Aschoff body
Rokitansky-Aschoff sinus
Bajoreks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bajorek
Aschoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aschoff
ruful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ruful
form: most ruful
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rueful.
Yem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yems
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer យ៉ែម (yaem).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Khmer.
Alessandrini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alessandrinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Alessandrini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Alessandrinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alessandrini
Yems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yem
Wootton Broadmead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Stewartby parish, Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0243).
tollerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tollerable
form: most tollerable
Senses: examples: ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “[Baconiana Politico-Moralia. […].] It is my purpoſe to give a true and plain Account, of the Deſigns and Labours of a very great Philoſopher amongſt us; and to offer to the World, in ſome tollerable Method, thoſe Remains of his, which to that end, were put into my Hands.”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Baconiana. Or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, […], London: […] J. D. for Richard Chiswell, […], published 1679, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tolerable.
Horsepool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Horsepools
form: Horspool
Etymology: Habitational surname from any of various lost settlements in England, perhaps from Old English hors (“horse”) + pōl (“pool”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Chettle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chettles
Etymology: Probably from Old English ceotol, a variant of ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”), here in the topographical sense of a "deep valley surrounded by hills".
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST9513).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Chettles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chettle
Horsepools
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Horsepool
reverse gangbanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverse gangbang
reverse gangbanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reverse gangbang
Brownbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brownbridges
Etymology: Unclear, perhaps an altered form of Brambridge or a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Scotney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scotneys
Etymology: Habitational surname of Norman origin, from a small settlement in Seine-Maritime called Etocquigny.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
Derived terms: Sutton Scotney
Scotneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotney
Brownbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brownbridge
toothpicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toothpicky
form: most toothpicky
Etymology: From toothpick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Looking at the toothpicky TV antennas which stuck up everywhere at odd angles, Daphne remembered more things.
ref: 1973, Albert Zuckerman, chapter 3, in Tiger Kittens, Garden City, N.Y.: […] [F]or the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 30:
text: “I can’t promise that I won’t dash outside during the storm, though,” I said. “A cold rain sounds like heaven right about now.” / “Absolutely not,” Nanny declared. “With all these hills and those toothpicky pine trees that’ll tip over you if you so much as blow on ’em? You will stay inside with me.[…]”
ref: 2015, A. Destiny, Elizabeth Lenhard, Our Song (Flirt), Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 152:
text: I was looking straight at the eardrum, and it was much more complicated. The top third was thin and pinkish; the rest was thicker and grayer, with a toothpicky bone down the middle.
ref: 2017, James Alan Gardner, All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 104:
synonyms: toothpicklike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a toothpick.
fulchronograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulchronographs
Senses: glosses: An instrument to record the intensity and duration of a lightning strike.
fulchronographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulchronograph
ToS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, from Facebook’s ToS, neither sexting nor bullying will be tolerated on their network.
ref: 2016, Bernadette H. Schell, Online Health and Safety: From Cyberbullying to Internet Addiction: From Cyberbullying to Internet Addiction, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 178:
text: Thus, crawlers that do not obey a website’s posted robots.txt file may be breaching the site’s ToS.
ref: 2020, Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, “Practitioner’s Guide to Ethical Web Data Collection”, in Brooke Foucault Welles, Sandra González-Bailón, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 550:
text: While a company’s ToS is a legal contract that outlines the terms between a company and a user of its services, the community standards or guidelines is a more human-readable document that explains a platform’s rules and, sometimes, the consequences for violating those rules.
ref: 2021, Jillian York, Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism, Verso, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of TOS (“terms of service”).
Flora Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A celebration of the passing of winter and the arrival of spring, taking place on 8 May in Helston, Cornwall.
furry dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furry dances
Etymology: Probably from Cornish fer.
Senses: glosses: A traditional dance held on Flora Day in Helston, Cornwall.
furry dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furry dance
fuseplug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuseplugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fuse plug.
fuseplugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuseplug
goldengage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldengages
Etymology: From golden + gage.
Senses: glosses: A large yellow plum related to the greengage.
goldengages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldengage
galaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a galaxy; galactic.
gaydiang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaydiangs
Senses: glosses: An Annamese ship with two masts, triangular sails, and a curved deck.
gaydiangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaydiang
gematrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: gematric
gene splicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gene splicing
genipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genipas
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Genipa.
genipas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genipa
genizero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The wood of the tree Samanea saman.
gerund-grinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rigid or pedantic style of teaching.
Related terms: gerund-grinder
get someone's drift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets someone's drift
form: getting someone's drift
form: got someone's drift
form: gotten someone's drift
form: got someone's drift
Senses: glosses: Synonym of catch someone's drift.
synonyms: word: catch someone's drift
unixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unix
unices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unix
Oxbridgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oxbridgey
form: most Oxbridgey
form: Oxbridgy
Etymology: From Oxbridge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Oxbridge.
Oxbridger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oxbridgers
Etymology: From Oxbridge + -er.
Senses: glosses: A student who attends the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge.
Oxbridgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oxbridger
Oxbridgians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oxbridgian
golden chinquapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden chinquapins
Senses: synonyms: giant chinquapin
western chinquapin
glosses: A plant of species Chrysolepis chrysophylla.
giant chinquapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant chinquapins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of golden chinquapin (Chrysolepis chrysophylla)
synonyms: word: golden chinquapin
extra: Chrysolepis chrysophylla
western chinquapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western chinquapins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of golden chinquapin (Chrysolepis chrysophylla)
synonyms: word: golden chinquapin
extra: Chrysolepis chrysophylla
golden chinquapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden chinquapin
giant chinquapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant chinquapin
western chinquapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western chinquapin
chocolate moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate moths
Senses: glosses: Any of various moths of the genus Argyrostrotis.
chocolate moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate moth
chitra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitras
Senses: glosses: A sandfly.
chitra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citra
Senses: glosses: An Indian genre of art that includes painting, sketches, and other forms of delineation.
chitras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitra
chirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chir
chord organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chord organs
Senses: glosses: An electronic musical instrument having a single short keyboard and a set of chord buttons, enabling the musician to play a melody or lead with one hand and accompanying chords with the other.
chord organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chord organ
chwdn.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chwdns.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of churchwarden.
chwdns.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chwdn.
confinedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confinedly
form: most confinedly
Etymology: From confined + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a confined manner.
South Petherton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish, formerly a market town, in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4316).
Related terms: North Petherton
kagurabue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kagurabues
Senses: glosses: A kind of transverse bamboo flute with six or seven holes from Japan.
khloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khloys
Senses: glosses: A kind of flute made out of bamboo from Cambodia.
katwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katwa
khlui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khluis
Senses: glosses: A kind of flute made out of bamboo from Thailand, similar to the khloy.
reconflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconflations
Senses: glosses: The act of reconflating.
reconflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconflation
reconflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconflates
form: reconflating
form: reconflated
form: reconflated
Etymology: From re- + conflate.
Senses: glosses: To conflate again.
reconflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconflate
reconflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconflate
reconflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconflate
C++er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C++ers
form: C++'er
Etymology: From C++ + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Non C++-ers have probably noticed the strange-looking WPPoint& return type declaration for all those overloaded operators: / WPPoint& operator++() { ++x; ++y; return *this;} / WPPoint& operator--() { --x; --y; return *this;} / Huh? What’s & doing there?
ref: 1992, Paul DiLascia, Windows++: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum^([sic]) attacks by noting the folly of large C++ projects (“Small is beautiful” is the appropriate rallying cry), but C++ers will often counter by pointing out the lack of disciplined development by some Smalltalkers.
ref: 1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28:
text: However, for the majority of C++ers, who either didn’t care or were more concerned with building programs than fighting holy wars, MFC hit a chord.
ref: 1999, Chris Corry, The Waite Group’s COM/DCOM Primer Plus, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 142:
text: C++ers will have to mentally pronounce interface as “pABC” (some say “pabs”; some say “pea eh bee sea”). […] And that means, given the findings of the last decade or so, that object-oriented C++ers will not usually be interested in private inheritance. […] And C++ers say member function rather than method.
ref: 2004, John Deacon, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Pragmatic Approach, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, pages 318 and 333:
text: Disagreement between Smalltalkers and C++ers gains added interest from the fact that both claim to be the direct heirs of another, older, language, SIMULA.
ref: 2004, David West, Object Thinking, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: This discussion was prompted by an e-mail exchange with Bartosz Milewski, C++er, Seattleite, and chef extraordinaire (I kid you not; Bartosz cooked the best meal I’ve ever eaten, and I’ve been places).
ref: 2005, C/C++ Users Journal, page 46:
glosses: One who uses the C++ programming language.
C++ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C++er
ebbing and flowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ebb and flow
ebbed and flowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ebb and flow
Smalltalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smalltalkers
Etymology: From Smalltalk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Questions and answers for novice Smalltalkers
ref: 1989, Byte, volume 14, page 273:
text: Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum^([sic]) attacks by noting the folly of large C++ projects (“Small is beautiful” is the appropriate rallying cry), but C++ers will often counter by pointing out the lack of disciplined development by some Smalltalkers.
ref: 1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28:
text: Even though the conference seemed heavy on Smalltalk (including invited speeches by noted Smalltalkers David Thomas and Adele Goldberg) and, to a lesser degree, Eiffel (with Bertrand Meyer), C++ still managed to squeeze its way into the conference.
ref: 1995, Dr. Dobb’s Developer Update, volume 2:
text: There is, however, a core of developers who have been producing fully OO applications for years: Smalltalkers.
ref: 1998, Michael Knapik, Jay Johnson, Developing Intelligent Agents for Distributed Systems: Exploring Architecture, Technologies, and Applications, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 314:
text: Smalltalkers feel comfortable using Smalltalk's reflective capabilities to build and integrate new programming tools into the Smalltalk environment.
ref: 1998, Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 8:
text: A humorous look at Java and its programmers. As Smalltalkers, we found it almost enough to make Java tolerable.
ref: 2001, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson, Extreme Programming Installed (The XP Series), Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 250:
text: Smalltalkers of the World Unite! Although it’s now a long time since I did anything with it, I nominate Smalltalk—I still haven’t come across anything quite like it for being able to transfer thoughts into computer code.
ref: 2001, Software Development, volume 9, Miller Freeman, Inc., page 45:
text: Disagreement between Smalltalkers and C++ers gains added interest from the fact that both claim to be the direct heirs of another, older, language, SIMULA.
ref: 2004, David West, Object Thinking, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Adrian: […] Now, there are a few people who—Smalltalkers prior to that—who bring across this whole message-passing way of understanding what is actually syntactically fairly similar on the surface.
ref: 2008, Ed Burns, Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Lispers famously claim their language “has no syntax”, while Smalltalkers proudly show that you can fit the entire grammar on an index card.
ref: 2021, Robert Nystrom, Crafting Interpreters, Genever Benning, →ISBN:
text: Smalltalkers sometimes refer to an action “to answer,” which is analogous to the action “to return” found in other languages.
ref: 2023, Norman Ramsey, Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 708:
glosses: One who uses the Smalltalk programming language.
Smalltalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Smalltalker
Husborne Crawley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9536).
Errenteria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque Errenteria.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
Berastegi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque Berastegi.
Senses: glosses: A small town and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
Altzaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque Altzaga.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
matchstalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matchstalk
Gur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language family, a subfamily of Niger-Congo, spoken in the Sahel and the African savanna
Gur
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this language family.
drunk words are sober thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: drunken words are sober thoughts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in wine, there is truth.
synonyms: word: in wine
word: there is truth
sanfoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanfoins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sainfoin.
sanfoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanfoin
sun-grebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-grebes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sungrebe.
sun-grebes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-grebe
sun lounger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun loungers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sunlounger.
sun loungers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun lounger
Orkxit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orxit
Etymology: Blend of Orkney + exit. Modelled after Brexit, Grexit, Quexit, etc.
Senses: examples: text: You've heard of Brexit, maybe even Scexit - now the UK might have to prepare for Orkxit. ¶ The Orkney Islands, which lie 20 miles north of the Scottish mainland, have voted to explore "alternative governance" which could include leaving the UK and returning to its Scandic roots with Norway.
ref: 2023 July 4, Gina Davidson, “Orkney votes to explore ways to leave UK”, in LBC:
text: This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.
ref: 2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist:
text: There’s a move in the islands to secede from Britain and join Norway or even Denmark — an Orkxit to follow Brexit.
ref: 2023 July 21, “Dinner Party Intel: Gray Lady blows the final whistle”, in Financial Mail:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The potential transfer of the Orkney Islands from the United Kingdom and Scotland to Norway, reversing its annexation by Scotland in 1472.
Coordinate terms: Brexit
Scexit
Related terms: Brexit
Calexit
Frexit
Grexit
Quexit
Texit
Wexit
storm-hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm-hunter
storm hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm hunter
storm beaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm beach
suspendible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suspendable.
suspendibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suspendability.
Svarga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swerga
form: Swergas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वर्ग (svarga).
Senses: glosses: The celestial abode of the devas.
swchmn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swchmn
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of switchman.
South Main
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: (Vancouver): From being situated on the southern portion of Main Street
Senses: glosses: An area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Synonyms: word: SoMa
Derived terms: word: SoMa
pussy torture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A sexual activity involving the application of pain or pressure to the vulva or vagina.
retainedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of retain
twincharged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twincharge + -ed.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Equipped with twincharging, with a twincharger setup, having both a power-driven supercharger and an exhaust-driven turbocharger.
twincharged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From twincharge + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past of twincharge
Related terms: twincharge
twincharging
twincharger
animalivorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From animalivorous + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: animalivory
glosses: The quality of being an animalivore.
twincharging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinchargings
Etymology: From twincharge + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of twincharge
twincharging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twincharge + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twincharged.
twincharging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From twincharge + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twincharge
Related terms: twincharge
twincharged
twincharger
twincharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twincharges
form: twincharging
form: twincharged
form: twincharged
Etymology: Back-formation from twincharger. Analyzable as twin + charge.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To equip with twincharging, to equip with twinchargers, to equip with both an exhaust-drive turbocharger and power-driven supercharger.
glosses: To use twincharging, twinchargers.
Related terms: twincharged
twincharger
twincharging
animalivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From animalivore + -y.
Senses: glosses: The eating of animals; animalivorousness.
Pythoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pythoneers
Etymology: From Python + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: The reaction to nested scopes was widespread concern about the dangers of breaking code with the 2.1 release, and it was strong enough to make the Pythoneers take a more conservative approach.
ref: 2002, Steve Holden, David [M.] Beazley, Python Web Programming, New Riders Publishing, →ISBN, page 600:
text: Whether or not you partake in an occasional beer with local Pythoneers, we encourage you to go to Python conferences.
ref: 2004, Mark Lutz, David Ascher, Learning Python, 2nd edition, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 514:
text: My story of being a language collector, finding Python, and then stopping the effort to learn new languages is not an especially unusual story among Pythoneers.
ref: 2016, Jonathan Hayward, Artemij Fedosejev, Narayan Prusty, Adam Horton, Ryan Vice, React: Building Modern Web Applications, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 200:
synonyms: Pythonist
Pythonista
glosses: One who uses the Python programming language.
Pythoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pythoneer
bye-place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bye-places
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of by-place.
imperturbated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperturbated
form: most imperturbated
Senses: examples: text: In their crowded foliage we saw the last rays of the expiring light sunk and lost; whilst the imperturbated silence of the place walked in perfect harmony with their awful gloom.
ref: 1826, Edward Richer [i.e., Édouard Richer], translated by an Irish member of the same house, A Visit to the Abbey of La Trappe, Situated at Melleray, near Nantes, in Britanny, in a Letter to Mr. P—, Naturalist. […], Dublin: […] Richard Grace, […], page 7:
text: Her forehead, which was high, was wrinkled; her mouth was wide, and from each corner of it oozed a white frothy slaver; her look was stedfast and imperturbated; […]
ref: 1843, “Copy of a Letter from Henry Foxall, Gentleman, to Charles Firebrace, Esquire”, in Mother Red Cap, London: […] J. W. Collins, […] J. Nichols, […], page 12:
text: No wonder then, that disease, infirmities, and injuries, destroy his usefulness long before his mission is accomplished, for want of that strength and health of his nervous system allotted to him by his Creator, but which he has lost by faults of his own, while it remains normal and imperturbated in animals.
ref: 1861 October 19, A. G. Walter, “Spontaneous Rupture of the Abdominal Walls, with Remarks on the Recuperative Powers of Nature”, in S[amuel] W[orcester] Butler, R. J. Levis, L. C. Butler, editors, The Medical and Surgical Reporter: A Weekly Journal, volume VII, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott & Co., […], published 1862, page 55:
synonyms: imperturbed
glosses: Not perturbated.
deerslayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerslayers
Etymology: From deer + slayer.
Senses: examples: text: He has been so often seen in pictures dressed like a deerslayer that many people feel sure that he is a dead shot in the class with Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill — yet he can not eat his soup until he puts on his glasses.
ref: 1910, Edward Garstin Smith, The Real Roosevelt, London: C. F. Cazenove; Chicago, Ill.: The States Publishing Company, page 48:
text: The Pennsylvania highlands not only provide the sport of American deer hunting with nostalgic myths, legends and famous tales of crafty old deerslayers, but set the historic background for one such deerslayer who remains a legend in his own time.
ref: 1984, Robert Wegner, Deer & Deer Hunting: The Serious Hunter’s Guide, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 6, column 2:
text: He’d enjoyed the rush of peering in a window at the deerslayers, but invariably they’d just been smoking like chimneys, drinking to excess, overeating, and acting like yahoos.
ref: 2004, Bryce Muir, Local Myths: Stories & Sculpture, Will-Dale Press, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: One who kills deer.
Derived terms: deerslayer cap
deerslayer hat
deerslayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deerslayer
Kimis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kimi
Pinagbuhatan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Pinagkaisahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Cuenca, Batangas, Philippines.
Pansol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calamba, Laguna, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Lopez, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Padre Garcia, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Pila, Laguna, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Kalusugan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Bagong Silang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calatagan, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay in northern Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Laak, Davao de Oro, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.
Balong Bato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Maybunga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Laua-an, Antique, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Balangiga, Eastern Samar, Philippines.
Unang Sigaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Payatas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Manggahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.
nuptuals
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nuptials.
Ugong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Bulihan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Malvar, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Rosario, Batangas, Philippines.
Bayanan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Pascual, Batangas, Philippines.
Simula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: SIMULA
Etymology: From simulation.
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language of the ALGOL family that pioneered many object-oriented concepts such as classes and objects.
Kaligayahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Sangandaan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Parang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Maguindanao del Norte, Philippines.
Gulod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Laurel, Batangas, Philippines.
Bolbok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Batangas, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Tuy, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Taal, Batangas, Philippines.
Mahabang Parang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Angono, Rizal, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Binangonan, Rizal, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Indang, Cavite, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Lucban, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Luis, Batangas, Philippines.
Marulas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of South Caloocan, Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines.
shag wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shag wagons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shagging wagon.
shag wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shag wagon
shit upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shits upon
form: shitting upon
form: shit upon
form: shit upon
form: shat upon
form: shat upon
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shit on.
synonyms: word: shit on
chemise lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemise lifters
Etymology: Based on earlier shirt lifter, a chemise being a feminine style of shirt.
Senses: examples: text: Maddy watched the chemise-lifter execute her caricatured saunter out of frame and back to her cell for the 8 a.m. lock-up.
ref: 2012, Kathy Lette, Mad Cows, page 114:
glosses: A lesbian.
Synonyms: female homosexual
chemise lifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemise lifter
leh chey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leh chey
form: most leh chey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leceh.
leceh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.t͡ʃeɪ/
ipa: [ˈleː˧.t͡ʃeː˦]
Forms: form: more leceh
form: most leceh
form: leh chey
form: lecheh
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay leceh.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the hawkers are not very cooperative. When it comes to paying the salary, they find it ‘leceh’ (troublesome).
ref: 1978 October 4, Mohamed Shariff, The Straits Times, page 7:
text: [A friend] was puzzled as to why the [Central Provident Fund] Board with its marvellous computerised accounting facilities couldn’t design a less lecheh (convoluted, troublesome) way of dealing with savers who already have enough to take care of rainy flat-on-their-back days.
ref: 1987 February 28, Tan Sai Siong, The Straits Times, page 21:
text: Thank you ah, Mabel. But I think now don’t need already lah, make you come all the way to Braddell so leceh.
ref: 2014, Jolene Tan, A Certain Exposure, Epigram Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: ma fan
word: lor sor
word: susah
glosses: Troublesome
common heath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common heaths
Senses: glosses: A geometrid moth of species Ematurga atomaria, of Europe and Central Asia.
glosses: Heaths of Australia and New Zealnd (Epacris spp.). of the plant family Ericaceae.
common heaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common heath
depyrogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depyrogenates
form: depyrogenating
form: depyrogenated
form: depyrogenated
Senses: glosses: To remove pyrogens from.
depyrogenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depyrogenate
depyrogenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depyrogenate
chee bye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] chow chee bye attitude! some more hor, got high-tech GSP guidan oso cannot find dhe road. […]
ref: 2010, Singrish King, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of cheebai (“cunt”).
Derived terms: chao chee bye
chee bai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheebai (“cunt”).
cheebai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡siː˧ ˈbaɪ˦/
ipa: [ˌt͡ɕ-]
Forms: form: chee bye
form: cibai
form: chibai
form: cheebye
form: chee bai
Etymology: From Hokkien 膣屄 (chi-bai). Compare Cebuano tsibay.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cheebai.
glosses: Vagina, cunt.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cheebai.
glosses: A term of abuse: a bastard, a contemptible person.
Related terms: lanjiao
sohai
artillery fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artillery fungi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cannonball fungus.
synonyms: word: cannonball fungus
shotgun fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotgun fungi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cannonball fungus.
synonyms: word: cannonball fungus
artillery fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artillery fungus
shotgun fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotgun fungus
lau kui
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈlaʊ˦˨ ˌkʰui˩]
Forms: form: more lau kui
form: most lau kui
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 落氣 /落气 (làu-khùi, “to lose face”).
Senses: examples: text: You think you are going for a vacation izzit? No wonder our athletes thought like this and we lost miserably. So lau kui.
ref: 2004, Bukit Ho Sweerean, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
glosses: Embarrassing, shameful
Related terms: sia suay
lao kui
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lau kui
form: more lao kui
form: most lao kui
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lau kui.
SNTX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of stonustoxin.