cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fast-moving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: faster-moving
form: fastest-moving
Senses: examples: text: Most of the "railroad" films of the next decade were suspense features exploiting the dramatic quality of the fast-moving train in danger or^([sic]) threatening the beautiful heroine tied to the permanent way by the villains.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
text: As a Hitchin signalman once pointed out to me, when a regulating quandary arises concerning a fast-moving Class A train there is no time to consult Control and get their answer before the express is on one's doorstep.
ref: 1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 343:
glosses: Moving rapidly.
glosses: Being a situation in which events follow each other in quick succession.
examples: text: fast-moving consumer goods
glosses: That is sold quickly.
unautistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + autistic.
Senses: synonyms: allistic
nonautistic
glosses: Not autistic.
unflapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flapping.
Senses: glosses: Not flapping
raw_tags: of wings
Cousteron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commercial French cow's-milk cheese
hairshirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hair-shirted
Etymology: From hairshirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The Gospels, contrasting Jesus with the hairshirted John the Baptist, and placing him with revelers and at dinner tables, […]
ref: 2002, James Carroll, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Wearing a hairshirt.
examples: text: Even a hairshirted Calvinist derived pleasure from his righteous self-deprivation: Sacrifice can be its own reward and source of perverse joy.
ref: 2010, Andrew Benett, Ann O'Reilly, Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 113:
text: Distinguished scientists are beginning to confront the notion that to save the planet, an age of hair-shirted austerity is now necessary.
ref: 2011, Andrew Marr, A History of 20th Century Britain, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Humble and penitent; ascetic.
buyup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buyups
Etymology: From buy + up, from the phrasal verb.
Senses: glosses: The act of buying land or some other commodity whose value is about to increase.
glitterball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glitterballs
Etymology: From glitter + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs. Glitterballs. Lassies writhing on little checkerboard handkerchiefs of dancefloor.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125:
glosses: Synonym of mirror ball.
synonyms: word: mirror ball
undivinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undivinely
form: most undivinely
Etymology: From undivine + -ly or un- + divinely.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not divine or holy
set out one's stall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛt‿aʊt wʌnz ˈstɔːl/
ipa: /ˌsɛt‿aʊt wʌnz ˈstɔl/
ipa: /-ˈstɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: sets out one's stall
form: setting out one's stall
form: set out one's stall
form: set out one's stall
Etymology: Probably a reference to someone setting out a stall (“bench or table for the sale of merchandise; small open-fronted shop”) and publicly displaying the goods they intend to sell.
Senses: examples: text: John has obviously set out his stall for the Green Party.
text: This interview is at RDG [the Rail Delivery Group]'s request: it wants to set out its stall for the most challenging of years ahead.
ref: 2021 January 27, Paul Clifton, “What is the Future of the RDG?”, in Rail, number 923, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: To make publicly clear one's position with reference to a particular idea or philosophy, or what one can do.
glosses: To decide to do something.
glosses: To do something which creates a favourable impression.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To (decide to) play (especially to defend) in a determined manner.
Related terms: hang out one's shingle
set up shop
whelk stall
Lunden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lunden.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Dithmarschen district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
lubriciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lubricious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: slipperiness
glosses: lewdness, salaciousness
overdependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdependencies
Etymology: From over- + dependency.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overdependence.
timebank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timebanks
Etymology: From time + bank.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time bank.
Related terms: timebanking
timebanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timebank
pureblood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purebloods
Etymology: From pure + blood.
Senses: synonyms: purebred
thoroughbred
glosses: A person or animal of unmixed ancestry.
synonyms: unvaccinated
antonyms: vaccinated
glosses: A person who has refused a COVID-19 vaccine.
overdirecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + directing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdirect
overdirecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + directing.
Senses: glosses: excessive directing of an actor to the detriment of his/her natural talent
spinetingling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinetingling
form: most spinetingling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spine-tingling.
tenora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenoras
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tenor form of the Catalan shawm
stulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin stultus.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stult
stulted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stulted
form: most stulted
Etymology: From Latin stultus.
Senses: examples: text: But Herrera, who so far had followed him pretty closely, maintains an even tenor, borrowing now from more varied sources wherewith to fill his bald and stulted decades.
ref: 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Mexico. 1883-1888:
text: ...toward the whole of Norwich Town, which in truth was crude and stulted to one of his high breed and spirit.
ref: 1916, Margaret Fuller, A New England Childhood, page 268:
text: This man has a stunted and stulted life.
ref: 1975, Charles R. Wood, Evangelistic Sermon Outlines, →ISBN, page 11:
text: The sky was clear. The breeze stalled, stulted.
ref: 2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, →ISBN:
glosses: Deprived of strength and vigor.
reburnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reburnishes
form: reburnishing
form: reburnished
form: reburnished
Etymology: From re- + burnish.
Senses: glosses: To burnish again.
reburnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reburnish
reburnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reburnishings
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, the story that he wants to tell the American people demands a reburnishing of traditional notions of American exceptionalism, mission and leadership.
ref: 2009 January 22, Timothy Garton Ash, “Obama's grand narrative may unite his country but divide the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A second or new burnishing
farmstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From farm + stock.
Senses: examples: text: The high impact derives from the farmstock fodder grown with chemicals, transport fuels, and the potent greenhouse gas methane from belching cattle and sheep.
ref: 2009 January 23, Kate Connolly, “Schnitzel off the menu as Germans are told to cut down on eating meat”, in The Guardian:
glosses: livestock on a farm
frontbenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Politics pines for "big beasts" returning from the tar pits of extinction as a consoling presence on the frontbenches.
ref: 2009 January 23, Simon Jenkins, “Old is new. Even Gutenberg's ghost has returned to live in Silicon Valley”, in The Guardian:
glosses: plural of frontbench
technodazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-dazzle
form: techno dazzle
Etymology: From techno- + dazzle.
Senses: examples: text: In San Francisco, capital of Silicon Valley and boom town of the internet, innovators have devised the latest in computerised technodazzle.
ref: 2009 January 23, Simon Jenkins, “Old is new. Even Gutenberg's ghost has returned to live in Silicon Valley”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An overhyped presentation of a new technological product
attorneying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attorney + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I'm presumed to know already what attorney generals do, so I'll pose no crass questions about the attorneying business, and whether it's getting more or less general these days.
ref: 2009 January 26, Jon Canter, “Just don't say the J word”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The work of an attorney
remutualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remutualisations
Etymology: From re- + mutualisation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent mutualisation
examples: text: That will mean that high street banks will no longer be as profitable, and it would pave the way for remutualisation of a large chunk of the banking sector.
ref: 2009 January 26, Larry Elliott, “Banks need to go back to being boring”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A mutualisation of a company that had previously been demutualised
musicaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musicaholics
Etymology: From music + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: I'm such a compulsive musicaholic in my life and always have been, so music inevitably becomes monstrously important in the finishing of a movie, and in this one maybe more during the shooting of it.
ref: 1987, The Reggae & African Beat, volumes 6-7, page 29:
text: I am a musicaholic. I admit it; I'm even proud of it. Yes, I do spend far too much money on compact disks and tapes, but they give me great pleasure, and we all know that music can be a healing addiction.
ref: 1994, Zenith Buck, "Not So New Age", Yoga Journal, September/October 1994, page 122
text: I'm a musicaholic. Losing my hearing is one of the worst things I can think of. I'd have a lot of trouble living in a world without sound.
ref: 1999 August 16, Chance [username], “Re: Quick!”, in alt.romance.teen (Usenet):
glosses: A person who loves music.
musicaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicaholic
caraholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caraholics
Etymology: From car + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: FWIW, we drove a Renault Megane when we were in France a couple of years ago. I'm not a caraholic, all I usually care about is that it get me from point A to point B, which the Megane did very nicely. Of course, it was almost brand new...
ref: 2001 June 12, Alden Hackmann, “Re: What were they thinking?”, in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet):
text: 'I live about two minutes away from here. I could actually walk here faster than I can drive – if I wasn't such a lazy caraholic. […]
ref: 2005, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: "I am a caraholic, so I have several models at my disposal. I like variety in my vehicles."
ref: 2008, Gloria Morgan, Love's Best Gift, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A person who is addicted to driving or collecting cars.
caraholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caraholic
B-moviesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more B-moviesque
form: most B-moviesque
Etymology: From B-movie + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: A busty, bespectacled blonde stalks off at the start of Legends of Evil, Anne Caulfleld's B-moviesque fantasia on the evils of British imperialism.
ref: 1990, London Theatre Record, volume 10, numbers 14-26, page 1154:
text: "We rented a laser machine for Ricky Potts', song, 'Space Aged Bachelor Man' because it takes place in outer space with cats. It's a very B-moviesque vision of outer space," says Britt Small, who is directing the play alongside writer and Atomic Vaudeville co-founder, Jacob Richmond.
ref: 2011, Mary Ellen Green, "Rollercoaster of tragedy, comedy and musical theatre", Monday Magazine (Victoria, British Columbia), 30 June 2011 - 6 July 2011, page 17
text: Given the B-moviesque title of the show, the reviews are primarily of genre pictures: horror, sci-fi, action and comedy.
ref: 2012 May 12, Jason Hewlett, “From the basement they come: B-moviesque reviews”, in Kamloops Daily News:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a B-movie.
Synonyms: B-movieish
vegetable juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetable juices
Senses: glosses: A juice drink made of blended vegetables, or from a powder.
vegetable juices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetable juice
brillo pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brillo pad
sports writers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports writer
wine racks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine rack
knows someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of know someone
knowing someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of know someone
knew someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of know someone
orders of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of order of business
carpet snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpet snake
effects units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effects unit
cisfemale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I think about the horror of going bald—a permanent loss of vitality. I think about how it would destroy the feeble androgyny that is my only comfort in this body. I think about my grandmother, bald from cancer, and what that did to her. And I hear my proudly misandrist-identifying cisfemale friends making fun of bald men as if it were a shortcoming or decision of the men themselves.
ref: 2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium:
glosses: Alternative form of cis female.
cisfemale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cisfemales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis female.
Pahvant Valley plagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pahvant Valley plague
cis-female
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis female.
cis-female
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cis-females
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis female.
cismale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis male.
cismale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cismales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis male.
cis-male
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis male.
cis-male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cis-males
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis male.
finished products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finished product
transmale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: During one of their days together, Melissa, who was immersed in campus gender activism, mentioned the concept of being a “transman” and spoke of her transmale friends.
ref: 2008 March 16, Alissa Quart, “When Girls Will Be Boys”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of trans male.
transmale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trans male.
trans-male
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trans male.
trans-male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-males
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trans male.
Linna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
hypernaturalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + naturalistic.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, Mr. Baker has released three other hypernaturalistic films over the last decade.
ref: 2015 July 2, “Movie Listings for July 3-9”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely naturalistic.
cyberactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberactivities
Etymology: From cyber- + activity.
Senses: examples: text: “It provides the legal basis for managing cyberactivity on China’s soil and resisting activities which jeopardize China’s cybersecurity.”
ref: 2015 July 2, Paul Mozur, “Jitters in Tech World Over New Chinese Security Law”, in New York Times:
glosses: Activity in cyberspace or on the Internet.
reswell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reswells
form: reswelling
form: reswelled
form: reswollen
form: reswelled
Etymology: From re- + swell.
Senses: examples: text: For membranes which have been dried out and reswollen, conditioning to the solvent is accomplished in a much shorter time than for the highly swollen cellulose.
ref: 1949, CR Masson, HW Melville, “Osmometry of high polymer solutions”, in Journal of Polymer Science:
text: Then gel pieces were reswelled in 50 µL of 50 mM NH4HCO3 buffer containing 12.5 ng/µL trypsin (modified porcine trypsin sequence grade, Promega, Madison, WI, USA), and incubated for 1 h at 4 °C.
ref: 2015, Aurore Chevin et al., “Characterisation of Structural Proteins from Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus (CBPV) Using Mass Spectrometry”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To add liquid so as to cause a dried substance, such as a gel, to expand.
reswells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reswell
reswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reswell
reswelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of reswell
reswollen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of reswell
nonwaywardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: non-waywardly
Etymology: From non- + waywardly.
Senses: glosses: Not in a wayward manner
selldown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selldowns
form: sell-down
Etymology: Deverbal from sell down.
Senses: examples: text: Telstra Corporation was down 11 cents, or 3.17 per cent, at $3.36 continuing Friday's drop that followed a selldown by the Future Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund.
ref: 2009 August 24, “Market takes a big leap forward”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2009:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The selling of sufficient shares to significantly reduce their price.
Related terms: sell-off
sellout
doin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of doing.
prickly ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickly ashes
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of trees and shrubs in the genus Zanthoxylum containing Sichuan pepper and the American Midwest invasive species.
glosses: Aralia spinosa, a plant native to eastern North America
glosses: Orites excelsus, a plant native to Australia
glosses: Papilio pelaus, a butterfly
Derived terms: taxonomic: Zanthoxylum nitidum
word: shiny-leaf prickly ash
prickly ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickly ash
white sapote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white sapotes
Senses: glosses: A Mexican and Central American fruit tree, Casimiroa edulis
white sapotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white sapote
freedom rides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Freedom Rides
Senses: glosses: plural of freedom ride
Amur cork tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amur cork trees
Senses: glosses: A large Asian tree with corky bark, grown ornamentally in colder climates and used in traditional Chinese medicine (Phellodendron amurense).
Amur cork trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amur cork tree
Hercules' club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hercules' clubs
Senses: glosses: Either of two not closely related trees with thorny bark:
An American spikenard (Aralia spinosa).
glosses: Either of two not closely related trees with thorny bark:
A toothache tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis).
skin job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin jobs
form: skinjob
form: skin-job
Senses: topics: science-fiction
glosses: A robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin.
examples: text: had a skin job for a hairdo, yeah you looked pretty cool.
ref: 1988, Queensryche, “Operation Mindcrime”:
text: Johnny, Dude, Joe and I all got a skin job with a small tuft in front. Johnny looks pretty good with a spit curl in front but I got the feeling I look like 'The Angel.'
ref: 2002, William True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II:
text: Of course, the first one I'm sure most of the servicemen remember, well, for that was our first skin job.
ref: 2011, Paul Schwertmann, From My Earliest Memory: Peek Into My Past:
glosses: A short haircut such that the skin of the scalp is visible.
examples: text: It is possible that many men can be trusted to make no mistakes and are above a skin job, but that the plumbing trade has assumed a great breadth in the present day is also true , and it is not well to take the risk of every man being capable of correctly designing all work which he may be called on to execute.
ref: 1895 November 16, The Metal Worker:
text: As a matter of course, it would be a skin job, for the architect sold his right of protest by this action.
ref: 1908 December, Carpentry and Building, volume 30, page 410:
text: Unquestionably it was a botch job, and far from being sanitary, and the real plumber had good cause to feel hurt that he should lose both reputation, a friend and profit on such a skin job.
ref: 1912 June 1, J. J. Cosgrove, “Plumbing for Profit”, in Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting:
text: The poor sill hasn't even proper dirt support at the corners. Probably as raw a skin job as ever constructed to fool the public.
ref: 1926 June, “Killing the Golden Goose”, in Building Age and National Builder, volume 48:
glosses: A hastily or shoddily done piece of work.
Maracanaço
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmæɹəkəˈnɑːsəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Maracanaço, from Maracanã, the stadium that hosted the match.
Senses: examples: text: OK. But will you, Mr Scolari, be able to make the Brazilians forget about O Maracanaço defeat?
ref: 2014, Luca Caioli, Neymar: The Making of the World’s Greatest New Number 10, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 198:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The final match (Uruguay 2 – Brazil 1) in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, remembered in Brazil as a painful defeat.
the longest pole knocks the persimmon
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the longest purse knocks the persimmon
Senses: examples: text: Every official in Morocco from the Sultan down is for sale, and it is a case where the longest pole knocks the persimmon.
ref: 1905, The Rosary Magazine, volume 26, page 517:
glosses: Whoever has the most advantages has the best chance of success.
Derived terms: knock the persimmon
knock the persimmon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks the persimmon
form: knocking the persimmon
form: knocked the persimmon
form: knocked the persimmon
Etymology: From the expression the longest pole knocks the persimmon.
Senses: glosses: To succeed; to obtain success.
backpeddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backpeddles
form: backpeddling
form: backpeddled
form: backpeddled
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of backpedal.
Angaria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /æŋˈɡɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Angria.
fraxinella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: fraxinellas
Senses: glosses: A fragrant herb in the rue family, Dictamnus albus
Synonyms: sense: Dictamnus albus
word: dittany
sense: Dictamnus albus
word: burning bush
sense: Dictamnus albus
word: gas plant
fraxinellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraxinella
gas plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas plants
Senses: glosses: A fragrant perennial in the rue family, Dictamnus albus, that gives off so much volatile essential oil that it sometimes can be lit and will burn briefly without harming the plant.
glosses: Synonym of gasworks.
synonyms: word: gasworks
Synonyms: sense: Dictamnus albus
word: fraxinella
sense: Dictamnus albus
word: dittany
sense: Dictamnus albus
word: burning bush
fibroadenomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibroadenoma
planktonophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plankton + -o- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: The blue is stenophagous and planktonophagous, the North Atlantic minke largely ichthyophagous.
ref: 1982, David Edward Gaskin, The Ecology of Whales and Dolphins, page 69:
text: Finally, coral reef POM constitutes a source of OM for planktonic invertebrates and planktonophagous fish.
ref: 2015 July 2, Briand MJ, Bonnet X, Goiran C, Guillou G, Letourneur Y, “Major Sources of Organic Matter in a Complex Coral Reef Lagoon: Identification from Isotopic Signatures (δ 13 C and δ 15 N)”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Consuming plankton.
Synonyms: planktivorous
Cape chestnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape chestnuts
Senses: glosses: An African flowering tree often planted as an ornamental (Calodendrum capense)
Cape chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cape chestnut
antidiabetogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidiabetogenic
form: most antidiabetogenic
Etymology: From anti- + diabetogenic.
Senses: examples: text: For example conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a trans-fatty acid, offers anticarcinogenic, antiatherogenic and antidiabetogenic properties [7 –9 ].
ref: 2015 July 2, Kippenberger S, Zöller N, Kleemann J, Müller J, Kaufmann R, Hofmann M, et al., “STAT6-Dependent Collagen Synthesis in Human Fibroblasts Is Induced by Bovine Milk”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Preventing the onset of diabetes.
antidiabetogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidiabetogenics
Etymology: From anti- + diabetogenic.
Senses: glosses: Any agent or substance that prevents the onset of diabetes.
cryodamage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryodamages
Etymology: From cryo- + damage.
Senses: examples: text: Because mouse primary cells (mBMCs and MEF cells) are susceptible to cryodamage, cryopreservation using BuOF needs further investigation.
ref: 2015 July 2, Varma VP, Devi L, Venna NK, Murthy CLN, Idris MM, Goel S, “Ocular Fluid As a Replacement for Serum in Cell Cryopreservation Media”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
glosses: Damage from cold and freezing
cryodamage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryodamages
form: cryodamaging
form: cryodamaged
form: cryodamaged
Etymology: From cryo- + damage.
Senses: glosses: To damage by means of cold
corndodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corndodgers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corn-dodger.
splatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatchers
Etymology: From splatch + -er?
Senses: glosses: A wide item of footwear (usually worn over shoes or boots) to distribute the weight while walking over muddy ground.
bushrue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushrues
Etymology: From bush + rue.
Senses: glosses: An aromatic shrub native to California, Cneoridium dumosum
bushrues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushrue
corn-pone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn-pones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cornpone.
begigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "They go about tricking out their […] phantasies in sorts of Montezuma cloaks of painted feathers, and presto ! one fine day they wake to find themselves begigged over a squaw or a Lapland wench."
ref: 1914, Amélie Rives, World's-End, page 334:
text: "She's as begigged about you as any of them."
ref: 1950, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Richard Walden's Wife, page 206:
glosses: Infatuated, crazy.
curry tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curry trees
Senses: glosses: A tree (Murraya koenigii), related to citrus, native to South Asia and used for flavoring in the local cuisines.
curry trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curry tree
African cherry oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African cherry orange
curry leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curry leaves
Senses: glosses: The leaf of the curry tree, Murraya koenigii, which is used in Indian and Thai cooking (but not in curry powder).
bloodynoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodynouns
Senses: examples: text: "Keep it out! keep it out!" sung the Katydids; "Down with it!" groaned the bloody-nouns; "Disunion, disunion!" cried the musquitoes; [...]
ref: 1856, American Baptist Memorial: A Statistical Biographical, and Historical Magazine, page 236:
glosses: Alternative form of bloody noun (“bullfrog”).
buckberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckberries
Etymology: From buck + berry.
Senses: glosses: The deerberry, Vaccinium stamineum.
glosses: The huckleberry, Gaylussacia ursina, found in the Southern United States.
glosses: The silver buffaloberry, Shepherdia argentea.
pleasure principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts.
ref: December 28 1998, Richard Lacayo, "Where The Right Went Wrong," Time (retrieved 4 July 2015)
text: Health, too, was a consideration, though it was very much pleasure-principle health—the right to wring out every last throb of ecstasy from one's knackered organs.
ref: 2002 January 26, Howard Jacobson, “A vision that took me back to adolescence, and a lot of American women to childhood”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 04 Jul 2015:
text: They can’t seem to decide if the moral imperative is more crucial than the pleasure principle, or the other way around.
ref: 2008 March 16, Claire Dederer, "Brownstoners" (book review of The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott), New York Times (retrieved 4 July 2015)
text: The pleasure principle is, on the whole, a sound one, then: having what you like is fine so long as you don't have too much of it in one go.
ref: 2009 January 3, Blake Morrison, “A little of what you fancy”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 04 Jul 2015:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
Related terms: reality principle
makrut lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makrut limes
Etymology: From Thai มะกรูด (má-grùut) + English lime.
Senses: glosses: A type of Southeast Asian lime with small, fragrant fruits, and the leaves of which are used in cooking for their citrus flavor.
makrut limes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makrut lime
detribalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + tribalisation.
Senses: examples: text: Award-winning Sydney photographer Stephen Dupont’s latest exhibition focuses on change and detribalisation in Papua New Guinea .
ref: 2015 July 3, “The Outside Land”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of detribalization.
threefolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threefold
threefolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of threefold
wildmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildmeats
Etymology: From wild + meat.
Senses: examples: text: The parks and sanctuaries are 'protected' only on paper, due to community ownership of forest land, social sanction for hunting and local traditions like giving 30 basketfuls of smoked wildmeats as 'bride price'.
ref: 2008 April 8-14, Outlook, volume 48, number 15, page 67:
text: Also known as wildmeat or game meat, the term refers to non-domesticated mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds hunted for food.
ref: 2015 July 3, “As Ebola fears return, Congo-Brazzaville steps up fight against illegal bushmeat”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Meat from a wild animal.
Synonyms: bushmeat
game
wildmeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildmeat
spoofball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoofball
form: most spoofball
Etymology: Blend of spoof + goofball.
Senses: examples: text: The documentary traces the Foo Fighters’ ceaseless touring and chapters of internal drama that you’d hardly expect from a band that looked as though its members were having so much fun in their spoofball music videos.
ref: 2011 April 8, Chris Richards, “For Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, a ginger look back before blasting forward”, in Washington Post:
text: In so many ways, Michael Showalter and David Wain’s spoofball, gross-out, sex-fuelled, rom-com, summer camp satire was a Wet Hot American Mess.
ref: 2015 July 3, Alan Evans, “Wet Hot American Summer is back – but did it typecast its comedy all-stars?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Involving both goofy and spoofing behavior.
rentings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renting
fucktwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucktwits
Etymology: From fuck + twit.
Senses: glosses: An extremely foolish person.
North Carolina stratagem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: "They [judges] are awake to what is called the 'North Carolina stratagem', whereby an application is made, late on Friday with a thick pile of affidavits, to a judge unfamiliar with an area of law in the hope that the judge will grant the injunction sought out of caution".
topics: law
glosses: A legal tactic in court proceedings, intended to place the opponent on to the wrong foot by unethical use of court procedures
Armen-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Armeno-.
armenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armenisms
form: Armenism
Etymology: From Armen- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word or other feature originating in the Armenian language that has been borrowed by another language.
Armenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Armenisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of armenism.
armenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armenism
becket bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: becket bends
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sheet bend, especially when hitching to a becket.
synonyms: word: sheet bend
extra: especially when hitching to a becket
Related terms: becket hitch
weaver's knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaver's knots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sheet bend.
synonyms: word: sheet bend
weaver's hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaver's hitches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sheet bend.
synonyms: word: sheet bend
pea-brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea-brains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peabrain.
pea-brain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pea-brain
form: most pea-brain
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peabrain.
pea-brains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pea-brain
pea brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea brains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peabrain.
pea brain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pea brain
form: most pea brain
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peabrain.
pea brains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pea brain
no time to lose
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, Japan must bolster its own defenses and substantially increase defense spending to meet new threats. Tokyo should swallow some of its suspicions and move more quickly to rebuild frayed ties with South Korea. It should make cooperation with the United States a cornerstone of its engagement throughout the Indo-Pacific and with NATO. It is a full agenda and there is no time to lose.
ref: 2022 July 1, The Japan Times Editorial Board, “Groundbreaking NATO summit means work for Japan”, in The Japan Times, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022, Editorials:
glosses: It is important to do something immediately
Synonyms: time is of the essence
Jacksonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacksonite
preictally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preictal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring prior to an epileptic seizure.
postictally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postictal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally there is marked alteration in mood and behaviour postictally; less often a true psychosis occurs postictally which, although typically self-limiting, sometimes dominates the presentation.
ref: 2015, Simon Shorvon, The Treatment of Epilepsy:
glosses: Occurring after an epileptic seizure.
HVLS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high-volume low-speed: describing a type of slow-moving mechanical fan used in commercial and industrial settings.
skeleton suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeleton suits
Senses: examples: text: Although he could not have been less than eighteen or nineteen years old, and was tall for that age, he wore a skeleton suit, such as is usually put upon very little boys, and which, though most absurdly short in the arms and legs, was quite wide enough for his attenuated frame.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
glosses: An outfit for small boys, popular from about 1790 to the late 1820s, consisting of a tight coat or jacket buttoned to a pair of high-waisted trousers.
skeleton suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeleton suit
Yorkshire pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yorkshire pies
Senses: examples: text: A young servant-girl then brought in a Yorkshire pie and some cold beef; which, being set upon the table, the boy called Smike appeared with a jug of ale.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
glosses: A very large, tall pie filled with mixed meats.
Yorkshire pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yorkshire pie
thermosyphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermosyphons
Etymology: From thermo- + syphon.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thermosiphon.
Related terms: thermic syphon
thermosyphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermosyphon
neck eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neck eel
clutzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clutz
speaks volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speak volumes
speaking volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speak volumes
spoke volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of speak volumes
black and white village
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black and white villages
Senses: glosses: Any of several old English villages characterised by timbered and half-timbered houses with black oak beams and white walls.
black and white villages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black and white village
cockentrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockentrices
Senses: glosses: A medieval dish consisting of a pig's upper body sewn onto the bottom half of a capon or turkey, or other similar combinations.
Related terms: cockatrice
cockentrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockentrice
peenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peenies
Etymology: From penis + -ie.
Senses: glosses: penis
tenderloin steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderloin steak
document cameras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of document camera
introduction agencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of introduction agency
paid-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: paid-in capital
glosses: Having already contributed capital, especially of an investor purchasing shares in a corporation.
mode of production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modes of production
Etymology: Calque of German Produktionsweise.
Senses: examples: text: The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity.
ref: 1887, Karl Marx, translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by Frederick [i.e., Friedrich] Engels, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production: Translated from the Third German Edition, volume I, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., […], →OCLC, part I (Commodities and Money), page 1:
text: But once you understand what a “mode of production” is the meaning becomes clear. What you are watching is the collapse of feudalism and the emergence of early capitalism.
ref: 2014 November 2, Paul Mason, “What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: MOP
glosses: A combination of productive forces such as labour power and means of production, and social and technical relations of production such as property, power, laws and regulations, etc.
modes of production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mode of production
misdrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdrives
form: misdriving
form: misdrove
form: misdriven
Etymology: From mis- + drive.
Senses: examples: text: Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail,
And made the dreaded Ursa Major quail;
Destined but once before her fear to prove,
When Phaeton the Solar car misdrove.
ref: 1857, Thomas Baker, The Steam-engine, Or, The Powers of Flame, page 93:
text: It removes culpability from any distortion and makes anything, no matter how heinous, a complete accident. A drunk driver who crashes a car into someone can now apologise for miscounting his alcohol intake before going on to misdrive into someone he mistook for a road.
ref: 2009, Armando Iannucci, The Audacity of Hype:
glosses: To drive badly or wrongly.
misdriven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of misdrive
misdrives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdrive
misdriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdrive
misdrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of misdrive
ruling classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruling class
actuarial science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In actuarial science alone the theory^([of generalized linear models]) has been used to model problems dealing with premium rating, mortality, multiple state models and claims reserving.
ref: 2007, Philip J. Boland, Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial Science, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press: Chapman & Hall), page 221:
text: The use of Bayesian concepts and techniques in actuarial science dates back to Whitney (1918) who laid the foundations for what is now called empirical Bayes credibility.
ref: 2014, Luis Nieto-Barajas, Enrique de Alba, “14: Bayesian Regression Models”, in Edward W. Frees, Richard A. Derrig, Glenn Meyers, editors, Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science: Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, page 334:
text: This book aims to provide a broad introduction to computational aspects of actuarial science in the R environment. We assume that the reader is either learning or is familiar with actuarial science.
ref: 2015, Arthur Charpentier, Computational Actuarial Science with R, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press: Chapman & Hall), page xvii:
topics: business
finance
insurance
qualifier: applied mathematics
glosses: The discipline within applied mathematics dealing with risk assessment and the modelling of uncertainty; the rigorous application of mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk, in industries including insurance and finance.
Related terms: actuary
back pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back pain
beach towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach towel
duping delight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duper's delight
Etymology: Neologism coined by Paul Ekman in his book Telling Lies (1992).
Senses: examples: text: High-stake lies may also generate emotions that don't fit what the person is saying: fear of being caught, guilt about lying, or what I call 'duping delight', may leak in the face, body or voice and suggest the person is not being truthful. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/apr/27/ukcrime9
ref: 2003
text: Weiner smiled inappropriately during many interviews, revealing what interrogators refer to as "duping delight" -- a flash of a smile at the unconscious pleasure of "getting away with it." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-meyer/seven-big-lies-about-lyin_b_874899.html
ref: 2011
text: Of course, this sent a tsunami of duping delight gushing through my veins.
ref: 2012, Alex Stone, Fooling Houdini: Adventures in the World of Magic, →ISBN, page 276:
text: It is important to draw the distinction between duping delight and pathological lying.
ref: 2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, →ISBN, page 320:
text: The duping delight increases when the liars have successfully deceived people with high reputation of being difficult to be fooled.
ref: 2015, Chee Seng Leow, Saiful Amin Jalun, Maisarah Ahmad, Trapping the Cunning Fox, page 79:
text: Unfortunately, dealing with a human being displaying duping delight is not so simple. https://web.archive.org/web/20150917064650/http://familyarrested.com/what-is-duping-delight/
ref: 2014
glosses: The pleasure of being able to manipulate and/or deceive someone, often made visible and obvious to others by flashing a smile at an inappropriate moment; getting delight out of duping an unsuspecting person.
rainbow eucalyptus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow eucalyptuses
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Eucalyptus deglupta with striking coloured streaks on its bark, native to New Guinea, Mindanao, and islands off Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Eucalyptus deglupta
word: Mindanao gum
sense: Eucalyptus deglupta
word: rainbow gum
sense: Eucalyptus deglupta
word: Indonesian gum