cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
occidentosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From occident (“west”) + -osis; calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ġarb-zadegi).
Senses: examples: text: When a factory rapidly producing cloth opened in the village, many people lost their jobs from the resulting occidentosis.
text: To follow the West—the Western states and the oil companies—is the supreme manifestation of occidentosis in our time.
ref: 1984, Jalal Al-i Ahmad, Hamid Algar, Occidentosis: A Plague from the West, Indiana University Press, page 63:
text: Occidentosis epitomises the idea that there is a “Western sickness” from which the Third World must rise to detox and strive to cleanse itself.
ref: 2019, Vali Mahlouji, “occidentosis, Vali Mahlouji”, in Glossary of Common Knowledge:
text: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s critique of this imitation—which was manifested not only in Iran’s ‘White Revolution’ under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi but also under the dictatorship of his father Reza Shah—in his Gharbzadegi, written originally in Persian in the 1960s but translated later into English by others, gave rise to a number of equivalent terms in English, such as Occidentosis, Westoxification, West struckenness, Westitis and Westomania.
ref: 2023, Sushil Jain, “"Westoxification" or "Garbzadhigi": Occidentosis or Hatred of the West”, in Centre for the Study of Minority Cultures & Law:
glosses: An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.
Parson Drove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A long village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF3708).
Kashas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kasha
cumulocirrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumulocirruses
Senses: glosses: A hybrid cloud type featuring characteristics of both cumulus and cirrus clouds.
false cirrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false cirruses
Senses: glosses: a term used within the field of meteorology to describe cloud formations that visually resemble cirrus clouds but are not true cirrus clouds. These may include clouds that are primarily of other types but have high, wispy features due to various atmospheric conditions.
pseudocirrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocirruses
Senses: glosses: A term used interchangeably with false cirrus
washes one's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wash one's hands
washing one's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wash one's hands
washed one's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash one's hands
High Prussian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of German Hochpreußisch.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the East Central German dialect formerly spoken in much of East Prussia
Coordinate terms: Low Prussian
inattraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inattractions
Senses: glosses: a lack or absence of attraction; nonattraction
nonattraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonattractions
Etymology: non- + attraction
Senses: antonyms: attraction
glosses: A lack or absence of attraction.
Related terms: repulsion
inattraction
nonattractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonattraction
Macintoshian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Macintoshian
form: most Macintoshian
Etymology: From Macintosh + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
ref: 1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a Macintosh computer.
Navoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Navoiy.
theorycrafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theorycrafters
Etymology: From theorycraft + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve cheated a bit here and added (F) because I know there’s a hidden crit suppression against higher-level targets, but a new theorycrafter might not be aware of that fact. […] One goal of this series of blog posts is to give prospective theorycrafters a better idea of what they’re getting into.
ref: 2014 July 15, Theck, “TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting”, in Sacred Duty:
glosses: One who theorycrafts.
theorycrafters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theorycrafter
Singapore blue tarantula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Singapore blue tarantulas
form: Singapore blue tarantulae
Senses: glosses: A large, arboreal species of tarantula from Malaysia and Singapore, Omothymus violaceopes; this species exhibits sexual dimorphism, with the males being less vibrant than the females.
Synonyms: Singapore blue
bigfin reef squid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigfin reef squids
form: bigfin reef squid
Senses: synonyms: tiger squid
glitter squid
oval squid
northern calamari
glosses: A species of loliginid squid, Sepioteuthis lessoniana, characterized by large, rounded fins resembling a cuttlefish.
bigfin reef squids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigfin reef squid
reef squids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reef squid
Thistlethwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thistlethwaites
Etymology: By surface analysis, thistle + thwaite, a clearing through thistles; compare Goldthwaite.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English, influenced by Old Norse.
Related terms: Thistlethwaite's algorithm
Teoswa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Teochew 潮汕 (dio⁵ suan¹).
Senses: examples: text: Organizations of Guangdong martial arts were initially based on this identity and thereafter developed their various styles. For example, the Cantonese style practitioners were mainly active in the center of Guangdong, the Hakka style practitioners in the east and north of Guangdong, and the Teoswa style practitioners on the east coast of Guangdong.
ref: 2019, Guo Ye, “Canton Kung Fu: The Culture of Guangdong Martial Arts”, in SAGE Open, →DOI, page 6:
text: All of the stoneware pieces in the collection are made in Wu's family studio in Teoswa, China.
ref: 2021 April 15, Caitlin Agnew, “Retail Therapy: Lineage Ceramics combines traditional methods with modern design”, in The Globe and Mail, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2025, Life:
glosses: Synonym of Chaoshan.
synonyms: word: Chaoshan
LePage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald.
ref: 2016 August 26, Tal Kopan and Theodore Schleifer, “Target of explicit LePage voicemail denies calling him a racist”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lepage.
logo edit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logo edits
Senses: glosses: A user-created video consisting of a logo modified by effects.
logo editor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logo editors
Senses: glosses: A person who makes logo edits.
Shuric scan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shuric scans
Senses: glosses: A type of video mashup that remixes a clip from a movie, video game, etc., and usually repeats in a rhythm.
Related terms: Sparta remix
sentenceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sentence + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a sentence.
biblidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biblidines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any butterfly of the subfamily Biblidinae
trapezitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈpɛ.zɪ.tin/
ipa: /tɹæˈpi.zɪ.tin/
Forms: form: trapezitines
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Trapezitinae. By surface analysis, translingual Trapezites + -ine. Further from Ancient Greek τρᾰπεζῑ́της (trăpezī́tēs, “banker”), τρᾰ́πεζᾰ (trắpeză, “table”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥-ped-ih₂- (“tripodal”), comprised of *tri- (“tri-, three”) and *pṓds (“foot”), themselves from *tréyes (“three”) and *ped- (“to walk, to step”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any skipper butterfly of the subfamily Trapezitinae.
trapezitine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈpɛ.zɪ.tin/
ipa: /tɹæˈpi.zɪ.tin/
Forms: form: more trapezitine
form: most trapezitine
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Trapezitinae. By surface analysis, translingual Trapezites + -ine. Further from Ancient Greek τρᾰπεζῑ́της (trăpezī́tēs, “banker”), τρᾰ́πεζᾰ (trắpeză, “table”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥-ped-ih₂- (“tripodal”), comprised of *tri- (“tri-, three”) and *pṓds (“foot”), themselves from *tréyes (“three”) and *ped- (“to walk, to step”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the subfamily Trapezitinae.
Related terms: Trapezitinae
geocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geocycles
Derived terms: biogeocycle
geranylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geranylic
form: most geranylic
Derived terms: geranylate
gerency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerencies
Derived terms: vicegerency
germinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more germinational
form: most germinational
Derived terms: postgerminational
arborvitæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arborvitæs
Senses: examples: text: Another conifer was met to-day,—incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens), a large tree with warm yellow-green foliage in flat plumes like those of arborvitæ, bark cinnamon-colored, and as the boles of the old trees are without limbs they make striking pillars in the woods where the sun chances to shine on them—a worthy companion of the kingly sugar and yellow pines.
ref: 1911, John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of arborvitae.
what do I care
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: I don't care
glosses: Used to indicate the speaker does not care.
spivvily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spivvily
form: most spivvily
Etymology: From spivvy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Len took a comb from his trouser pocket and ran it through his hair. He wore his hair a bit spivvily, swept back behind his ears.
ref: 2011 February 3, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: In the manner of a spiv.
LL.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LL.D.s
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lēgum doctor (literally “teacher of laws”).
The "L" is duplicated to indicate that the word lēgum is plural, similarly to pp. (“pages”).
Senses: glosses: Doctor of Laws; Legum Doctor. A doctorate in legal studies.
Related terms: LL.B.
LL.M.
JD
javelinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of javelin
javelinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Think of this, you jolly hog-hunters of India! Regret, when you next ride to pig, with a single spear in your hand, that you did not live in the past, when if you had gone after the same beast in armour, javelinned, and sworded, you might have been a hero.
ref: 1885 May, Phil[ip] Robinson, “Beasts of Chase”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume CCLVIII, number 1853, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 445:
text: Blow forth again the bright / Brave ghost of flame, a javelinned / Defiance to the crowding night.
ref: 1932 March, Ted Olson, “Against the Cold: Winter Night”, in Harriet Monroe, editor, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XXXIX, number VI, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 304:
text: In the center of the Carthaginian army was a front column of infantry with large rectangular shields and short swords, the second column was made up of battle-hardened Libyan spearmen, and then only the Cretan archers had been partially javelinned.
ref: 2016, Gabriel Daniels, chapter IXVI, in The Unparalleled Road of the Emperor, Google Play ID gUZaEQAAQBAJ:
glosses: Alternative spelling of javelined (“wielding or equipped with a javelin or javelins”).
javelinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of javelin
heigths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heigth
incathedration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incathedrations
Etymology: From incathedrate + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In Benedict IX’s Bull of November 1037, a distinction is drawn between the practice of “enthronement” and “ incathedration”, implicitly attesting to the use of the “Cathedra” by the Roman Pontiffs.
ref: 2024 October 25, “Vatican Basilica, the Cathedra of Saint Peter on display to the faithful”, in press.vatican.va:
text: One of the rituals, the “incathedration,” required the Pope to sit down on it three times, probably in memory of the three main chairs connected with Peter’s name: Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome
ref: 2024 October 28, Karlfried Froehlich, Biblical Interpretation from the Church Fathers to the Reformation, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
text: Orpheus rivaled Hermes as a prolific writer. Among his writings was one dealing particularly with various mystic rites. One was called The Enthronings of the Great Mother, which seems to refer to a rite known as Incathedration. During this ceremony the adepts enthroned the candidate and circled round him/ her in a ceremonial dance symbolic of the influence of the oversoul toward the spiritual progression of the neophyte.
ref: 1992, Earlyne Chaney, Lost Secrets of the Mystery Schools: The Coming of the Gods Initiation and Rebirth, Astara, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: the act of incathedrating
schranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schrank
Bagut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Baresbes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Barong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Bungcag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Capasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Lumbad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Mandaloque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Parado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Puruganan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Sagpatan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Saludares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Sulquiano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Kaluli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A people living in Papua New Guinea.
glosses: The language spoken by this people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kaluli terms
Dumre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Udayapur district, Koshi, Nepal.
Udayapur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Koshi, Nepal.
tmw
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: TMW
Senses: examples: text: tmw you realize that all your posts are just imitations of hackneyed internet clichés
qualifier: social media slang
glosses: Initialism of that moment when
lightwitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lightwitted
form: most lightwitted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light-witted.
lighter-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of light-witted: more light-witted
lightest-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of light-witted: most light-witted
Lamjung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Gandaki, Nepal.
Turkish teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turkey teeth.
weasel into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weasels into
form: weaseling into
form: weaselling into
form: weaseled into
form: weaseled into
form: weaselled into
form: weaselled into
Senses: synonyms: weasel one's way
glosses: To enter a place or a situation by being dishonest or by persuading someone in a clever way.
weasel one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weasels one's way
form: weaseling one's way
form: weaselling one's way
form: weaseled one's way
form: weaseled one's way
form: weaselled one's way
form: weaselled one's way
Senses: glosses: Synonym of weasel into.
synonyms: word: weasel into
transposon mutagenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A biological process that allows genes to be transferred to a host organism's chromosome, interrupting or modifying the function of an extant gene on the chromosome and causing mutation.
transposon tagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process where transposon are amplified inside a biological cell by a tagging technique.
mess cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mess cups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of canteen cup.
synonyms: word: canteen cup
mess cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mess cup
dualboot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dual-boot.
owner-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′nər drī′vər
ipa: /ˌoʊnɚ ˈdɹaɪvɚ/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: owner-drivers
Etymology: owner + driver.
Senses: glosses: a person who owns the vehicle they drive as a part of their job
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: a NASCAR driver who fully or partially owns the team they are driving for
Related terms: cabowner
owner-operator
truck driver
nanodiffraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnænoʊdɪˈfrækʃən/
Forms: form: nanodiffractions
Etymology: From nano- + diffraction.
Senses: examples: text: The methods of investigation, unique to our specially adapted instrument, include special imaging modes, electron energy loss spectroscopy and nanodiffraction (electron diffraction from regions having diameters of about one nanometer).
ref: 1983 September 15, Energy Research Abstracts, volume 8, number 17, United States Department of Energy, pages 19-6169:
text: Electron nanodiffraction refers to a set of electron diffraction techniques that enable structural analysis at nanoscale.
ref: 2019, Zuo, J. M., Electron Nanodiffraction, University of Illinois:
text: Following Crewe, Cowley extended STEM to nanodiffraction and bright-field and dark-field imaging of small crystalline particles with random orientations, whose image resolution was limited to about 1 nm.
ref: 2024, Nobuo Tanaka, Electron Nano-imaging: Basics of Imaging and Diffraction for TEM and STEM, Springer Nature, page 183:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: materials science
glosses: A diffraction technique that utilizes focused beams of electrons or X-rays to investigate the structural properties of materials at the nanometer scale, enabling analysis of individual nanostructures, defects, and microstructures.
nanodiffractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanodiffraction
owner-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′nər drī′vərz
ipa: /ˌoʊnɚ ˈdɹaɪvɚz/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of owner-driver
sea-galliwasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea galliwasp
form: sea galley wasp
Senses: examples: text: Elops Sawms, Sein Fish or Sea Galley Wasp of Jamaica.
ref: 1886, Catalogue of the Exhibits of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, London: Richards, Glanville & Co., Fishes, page 40:
text: The Saurus Maximus of Sloane, now Elops saurus, is the only known species [of the genus Elops]. It is found in Jamaica, where it is called the Sein Fish, or Sea Galley Wasp.
ref: 1832 [1808], David Brewster, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, volume 11, Ichthyology, page 136:
synonyms: ladyfish
tenpounder
sein fish
glosses: Elops saurus: A species of fish found in the west Atlantic.
rest step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I meet the others at our first resting point, maybe 40 minutes later, exhausted and out of breath. Bets teaches me the rest step, resting weight briefly on the back foot with each ste. We snack — we start again — the rest step helps — a little — I need a breath with each step and a longer and longer pause. Slowly, finally, I make it to the top of the notch.
ref: 1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9:
glosses: A method of walking uphill in which the walker rests on their back leg briefly between each step.
Sindhupalchok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Bagmati, Nepal.
dung tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dung tags
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tag (“a dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung”).
synonyms: word: tag
extra: a dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung
dung tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dung tag
tag and rag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The components or masses of the lower classes of society.
Deplorean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deploreans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of DePlorean.
area state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: area states
Etymology: Calque of German Flächenland
Senses: glosses: A state of Germany that is not a city-state.
area states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of area state
Nishiwaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
Ningyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Tai'an, Shandong, China.
normopnoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + -pnoea.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of normopnea.
bow leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow legs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bowleg.
bow legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow leg
Nanjō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Mount Lebanon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Lebanon.
Derived terms: Mount Lebanon Governorate
footfetish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footfetishes
Senses: examples: text: Farke, F.R., Frankenstein, C., & Frickenfrack, F. (1921). Flexion of the feet by footfetish feet feelers. Research Abnormal: Perception of Feet, 22, 1-26.
ref: 1985, Jerry R. Thomas, Introduction to Research in Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, page 68:
text: One of Bradley's problems is his footfetish.
ref: 1998, George Soule, Four British Women Novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym, page 360:
text: He warned, "You think all you'll be doing is getting tickled at a footfetish party? Priceless. […]
ref: 2021, Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour, unnumbered page:
glosses: Alternative form of foot fetish.
footfetishism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footfetishisms
Senses: examples: text: In comparison to handfetishism, footfetishism is rare.
ref: 1932, Jerome Gibbs, Sexual Pathology, page 88:
text: When readers note Bradley's footfetishism and his harsh sexual treatment of Julian, they may also wonder how much they can trust what he says.
ref: 1998, George Soule, Four British Women Novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym, page 359:
text: Footfetishism plays an especially important role in my pictures.
ref: 1999 February 24, Steel Dirk Westphal, “Fetis art [NSFW]”, in Secret Magazine, number 15, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of foot fetishism.
Monbetsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
ripariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riparium
Heaf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Heaf gun
Heaf test
Henle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a German diminutive of German Hans.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Henle loop
loop of Henle
Australian prowfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian prowfishes
form: Australian prowfish
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the family Pataecidae, characterized by a long dorsal fin that begins far forward on the head, forming a "prow" shape, and extends all the way to the caudal fin.
Hyponyms: warty prowfish
whiskered prowfish
red Indian fish
boombayah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Blackpink single "Boombayah". The meaning is onomatopoeic from sounds of sex. According to Know Your Meme, the first known instance of this word being defined as sex was posted on Urban Dictionary at November 6, 2023.
Senses: examples: text: Sky doesn't have scars because he was wearing a hazmat suit while doing the boombayah, I PROMISE I PROMISE
ref: 2025 March 2, skykdotidot.bsky.social, Bluesky:
text: trying to sleep but my neighbour is doing the boombayah
ref: 2024 December 31, @naariiiaaa, Twitter:
text: I read it but I dont like the fact that they start doing the boombayah like 2-3 chapters in
ref: 2023 November 6, @nagisflowstate, Twitter:
glosses: Sex.
wikipedia: Blackpink
Boombayah
Know Your Meme
Urban Dictionary
bi-fictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of bifictional.
ghoully
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ghoully
form: most ghoully
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you think it would be ghoully to begin our love-life in what may become our graves.
ref: 1963, Philip Wylie, chapter 15, in Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 267–268:
text: Dad gave me this ghoully lecture about all the designer drugs. He’s worse than the cops that come to the school.
ref: 1988 March, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Gail Harmmon”, in Taji’s Syndrome, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 17:
text: “But we didn’t have any bananas,” Shaggy protested. “That ghoully gorilla jumped out of the trees before we could eat any.”
ref: 2001, James Gelsey, chapter 6, in Scooby-Doo and the Ghostly Gorilla (Scooby-Doo), New York, N.Y.: Little Apple Paperbacks, Scholastic Inc., published January 2002, page 39:
text: Bright Night is the night we dress up as ghastly ghoully characters like witch-hunters and vampire dogs and gather in the Narrow Avoid to celebrate who we are by trying to scare each other witless!
ref: 2008, Hiawyn Oram, “One Night to Fright Night”, in My Unwilling Witch Gets a Makeover (Rumblewick’s Diary), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ghouly.
rivarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈvɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /rɪˈvɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: rivariums
form: rivaria
Etymology: From Latin rīvus (“water stream”) + -arium
Senses: glosses: A type of terrarium designed to mimic a river or stream environment, featuring flowing water.
Related terms: riparium
paludarium
glucagonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glucagonemic
form: most glucagonemic
Derived terms: hyperglucagonemic
zephyrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zephyrean
form: most zephyrean
form: zephyrian
Etymology: From zephyr + -ean
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zephyrous.
synonyms: word: zephyrous
zephyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zephyrian
form: most zephyrian
Etymology: From zephyr + -ian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zephyrean.
gravitomagnetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gravitomagnetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of gravitomagnetism.
prickly heath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickly heaths
Senses: glosses: A shrub, Gaultheria mucronata, native to southern South America.
glosses: A shrub, Leptecophylla juniperina, native to Australia and New Zealand.
Eversholt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9932).
Pitstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in east Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP9315).
Derived terms: Pitstone Green
manospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manospheric
form: most manospheric
Etymology: From manosphere + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the laughable attempts at neo-royalism (Exhibit A: the manospheric “Return of Kings”) they are not preservers of a powerful noble culture.
ref: 2017, Zach Bratich, “Reality Wars: Notes on the homicidal states”, in Fifth Estate, page 40:
text: Manospheric misogyny has latched on to this "natural" order and insists on its preservation.
ref: 2021, Rachel Guy, “Nation of Men: Diagnosing Manospheric Misogyny as Virulent Online Nationalism”, in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, volume XXII, page 609:
text: In that respect, NoFap may be part of a pipeline to manospheric beliefs or a group in which many members are fellow travelers.
ref: 2023, David S. Smith, Alice Butler-Warke, Emma-Lee Davidson, Gemma Stevens, “'The ultimate test of self-discipline': Lockdown and the NoFap community”, in Sexualities, volume 27, number 4, page 942:
glosses: Related to, characteristic of, or belonging to the manosphere.
rivariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rivarium
rivaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rivarium
Catworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL0873).
megalomartyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalomartyr
North Frodingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1053).
Great and Little Leighs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, that includes Great Leighs and Little Leighs.
don't count your chickens before they've hatched
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: “Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched,” Frank put in. “We’ll have to catch him first, and that won’t be easy.”
ref: 1971, Franklin W. Dixon [pseudonym; Andrew Edward Svenson], “Prince Cuthbert”, in Danger on Vampire Trail (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories; 50), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 103:
text: The rare privilege of being pampered will delight you, but don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched.
ref: 1996, Leslee Becker, “Correspondence”, in The Sincere Cafe: Stories, Minneapolis, Minn.: Mid-List Press, →ISBN, page 121:
text: “Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched,” I warned her. “Sure it seems like we’ve won, but you never know when something bad might happen.[…]”
ref: 2017, Eric Bower, “Luckily My Mouth Was Too Full of Muck”, in The Magnificent Flying Baron Estate (The Bizarre Baron Inventions; 1), New York, N.Y.: Amberjack Publishing, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: Alternative form of don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
Twyning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire, England, surrounded on three sides by Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8937).
diner lingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] there is plenty of cowboy food slang and diner lingo, and the curious cook will be tempted to experiment with the recipes for such oddities as nun's toast, Minnehaha cake, and an ominous-sounding colonial dessert called "grunt." And there is much to admire in Mariani's "Toward a Misunderstanding of American Food," […]
ref: 1983, The Washingtonian, volume 19, numbers 1-3, page 241:
text: His larger reproductions feature lighted interiors, working neon, and revolving signs that spell out colorful diner lingo: "Tail of the Pup," [etc]
ref: 1988, American Heritage Society, editor, American Heritage Society's Americana, volume 16, page 8:
text: Students rewrote school menus in diner lingo, and the menus were posted in the dining area. Other students had fun trying to translate the menu items.
ref: 1991, School Food Service Journal, volume 45, page 54:
hypernyms: lingo#Noun
;
slang#Noun
glosses: A lexicon of slang formerly common, and still sometimes used, among cooks and waitstaff at diners (restaurants of a certain type).
Related terms: slangonyms
Sherfield on Loddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6858).
subrectorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrectorships
Senses: glosses: The position or tenure of a subrector
aneabil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from ane (a variant of one) + -able, or an alteration of onlepy. Alternatively, from the Latin inhabilis, used to refer to an unmarried man, or Old French anable. Whether the word was used as an adjective or a noun is uncertain.
Senses: glosses: The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include
examples: text: Procreat upon ane Concubine, or as we commonlie say, upon ane aneabil or singill woman, quhom he maries thereafter, as his lawfull wife.
ref: 1609, John Skene, transl., Regiam majestatem: the auld lawes and constitutions of Scotland, 1st edition, volume 1:
glosses: The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
Unmarried (having no spouse).
aneabil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from ane (a variant of one) + -able, or an alteration of onlepy. Alternatively, from the Latin inhabilis, used to refer to an unmarried man, or Old French anable. Whether the word was used as an adjective or a noun is uncertain.
Senses: glosses: The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include
glosses: The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
A single woman or concubine.
hyoidean arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyoidean arches
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hyoid arch
median system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: median systems
Senses: qualifier: multiplicity slang
glosses: A system where the boundaries between headmates are fuzzy or imprecise.
median systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of median system
quhom
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Compare quhat and quhere, variants of what and where respectively.
Senses: examples: text: Procreat upon ane Concubine, or as we commonlie say, upon ane aneabil or singill woman, quhom he maries thereafter, as his lawfull wife.
ref: 1609, John Skene, transl., Regiam majestatem: the auld lawes and constitutions of Scotland, 1st edition, volume 1:
text: Gif ony man annalzies ony landis titulo oneroſo, to ane uther, and it happin afterwart that the famin landis be compryſit fra the buyar, for debt auchtand be the annalzier of the ſaidis landis to him be quhom thay ar compryſit, and to his aſſignay thairof, […]
ref: 1754, Sir James Balfour, compiler, Practicks, Edinburgh: Thomas and Walter Ruddimans, Of warrandice, page 328:
text: We confesse and acknawledge ane onlie God, to quhom onlie we must cleave, [quhom only we must serve,] quhom onlie we must wirschip, and in quhom onlie we must put our trust; […]
ref: 1561, The Confeſſione of the fayht ^([sic]) and doctrine beleued and profeſſed by the Proteſtantes […], Edinburgh: Robert Lekprewik, page 97; republished as David Laing, editor, Works of John Knox, volume 2, Wodrow Society, 1848:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of whom.
Rectanus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rectanuses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
North Somercotes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4296).
Related terms: South Somercotes
computer illiterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computer illiterate
form: most computer illiterate
Etymology: By analogy with computer literate.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: computer literate
glosses: Unable to operate a personal computer.
Related terms: computer illiteracy
herioting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heriot
herioted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heriot
Quadring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2233).
road concurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road concurrencies
Senses: topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
road
transport
glosses: Synonym of concurrency (“a stretch of road that is shared between two or more numbered or named routes”).
synonyms: word: concurrency
extra: a stretch of road that is shared between two or more numbered or named routes
road concurrencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road concurrency
pre-announcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-announcements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preannouncement.
midfield anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midfield anchors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of defensive midfielder.
synonyms: word: defensive midfielder
w-anchors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of w-anchor
wanchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wanchors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of w-anchor.
wanchors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanchor
bring one's arse to anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings one's arse to anchor
form: bringing one's arse to anchor
form: brought one's arse to anchor
form: brought one's arse to anchor
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bring one's arse to an anchor.
bring one's ass to an anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings one's ass to an anchor
form: bringing one's ass to an anchor
form: brought one's ass to an anchor
form: brought one's ass to an anchor
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bring one's arse to an anchor.
bring one's ass to anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings one's ass to anchor
form: bringing one's ass to anchor
form: brought one's ass to anchor
form: brought one's ass to anchor
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bring one's arse to an anchor.
optimistic concurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optimistic concurrencies
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: pessimistic concurrency
glosses: A database model that allows multiple users to update data simultaneously without locking rows.
pessimistic concurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pessimistic concurrencies
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: optimistic concurrency
glosses: A database management system strategy that locks data in order to prevent conflicts between transactions.
pessimistic concurrencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pessimistic concurrency
optimistic concurrencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optimistic concurrency
snake sea cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake sea cucumbers
Senses: glosses: A species of sea cucumber in the family Synaptidae.
snake sea cucumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake sea cucumber
South Leigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in South Leigh and High Cogges parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3908).
Related terms: North Leigh
High Cogges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in South Leigh and High Cogges parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3709).
investigatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From investigatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an investigatory manner.
slangful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slangful
form: most slangful
Etymology: From slang + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: They do not appreciate human arrogance and hence the Bolis of Puri are slangful, loud and unabated barbs at human follies.
ref: 2021 September 3, Charudutta Panigrahi, “The Intimacy Of Slangs”, in Odisha News, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
glosses: Full of slang or characterized by the use of slang.
Derived terms: slangfully
slangfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slangfully
form: most slangfully
Etymology: From slangful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a slangful way or manner.
tougarashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of togarashi.
aonori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese アオノリ
Senses: glosses: Synonym of green laver.
synonyms: word: green laver
Iceberg Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Nickname for The Atlantic Marine Ecozone.
sand reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of the North American grasses of the genus Calamovilfa.
South Leigh and High Cogges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England.
lowbush cranberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowbush cranberries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lingonberry.
synonyms: word: lingonberry
mountain bilberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain bilberries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lingonberry.
synonyms: word: lingonberry
csejka berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: csejka berries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lingonberry.
synonyms: word: lingonberry
cleromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cleromancy.
lowbush cranberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowbush cranberry
mountain bilberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain bilberry
csejka berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of csejka berry
Swasticar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swasticars
form: swasticar
form: swasti-car
form: Swasti-car
form: swastikar
form: Swastikar
form: Swastikaar
form: swasti-kar
form: Swasti-kar
Etymology: Blend of swastika + car, referencing the Nazi salutes performed by Elon Musk at the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration.
Senses: examples: text: Think about this, have you dismissed the Nazi salute by the builder of Swasticars (Elon Musk)? If not, why? Shouldn't that be important?
ref: 2025 February 19, City Pulse, volume 24, number 28, Lansing, MI, page 2:
text: And in London, an ad warning against buying a Tesla “Swasticar” has gone viral. Its tagline: “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds.”
ref: 2025 March 2, Proinsias O'Mahony, “'Don’t buy a Swasticar': Elon Musk is wrecking Tesla’s brand”, in The Irish Times:
text: Online, the Tesla has become “the Swasticar” after Musk’s Nazi salute and his support for the hard-right German AfD.
ref: 2025 March 5, Hugo Rifkind, “Fear, not ethics, is driving the Tesla boycott”, in The Times:
glosses: A vehicle manufactured by Tesla, Inc. especially the Tesla Cybertruck.
wikipedia: Elon Musk
Elon Musk salute controversy
Synonyms: DePlorean
Shustoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2290).
sea tench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of black seabream.
synonyms: word: black seabream
black seabream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: sea tench
glosses: A marine ray-finned fish of species Spondyliosoma cantharus.
sea sunflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea sunflowers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea anemone.
synonyms: word: sea anemone
short sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short seas
Senses: glosses: A sea in which the waves are choppy, irregular, and interrupted.
Hanley Castle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and small village in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England. named after a former castle (OS grid SO8342).
earlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earlish
form: most earlish
Etymology: From earl + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an earl.
Eboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eboe
ebeneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ebeneous
form: most ebeneous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ebony.
echinodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From echinoderm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of echinodermal.
synonyms: word: echinodermal
elkslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elkslips
Senses: synonyms: broadleaved marsh marigold
twinflowered marsh marigold
white marsh marigold
glosses: A North American flowering plant of species Caltha leptosepala.
elkslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elkslip
eleutherism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ideology based around freedom.
Related terms: Eleutherian
Elysiums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Elysium
embubble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embubbles
form: embubbling
form: embubbled
form: embubbled
Etymology: em- + bubble
Senses: glosses: To enclose in, or as if in, a bubble.
embubbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embubble
embubbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embubble
embubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embubble
evertebrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of evertebrate.
green goblin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the green goblin
form: Green Goblin
Etymology: Due to his short height and his frequently wearing military-style green clothing since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:green goblin.
glosses: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
wikipedia: Russian invasion of Ukraine
Green Goblin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Green Goblin
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:green goblin.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of green goblin.