cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tru
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tru
form: most tru
Senses: examples: text: sashaFEROCIOUS228: not
sashaFEROCIOUS228: happy
tinydancerlexi14: why???
tinydancerlexi14: cuz singles awareness day 2morro?
sashaFEROCIOUS228: ugh shut up
sashaFEROCIOUS228: i hate when ppl call it that
sashaFEROCIOUS228: i hate you
tinydancerlexi14: its tru tho
tinydancerlexi14: u dont have a bf
ref: 2014, Teddy Steinkellner, Trash Can Nights: The Saga Continues, Los Angeles, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, Disney Book Group, →ISBN:
text: Chyna: Lmao okay, that’s not true so idk why she told you that.
Chyna: My only focus rn is college and money.
Jonathan: No, not like tht. She asked me if i thought u couldve and i said yea ot wouldnt suprise me. She jus asked me.
Jonathan: And if those are ur only focuses, yd u ask me
Jonathan: She ddnt say anything about being tru
Jonathan: She jus asked if i had thought of it
ref: 2017, Chyna Moore-Smith, Orbit. A Collection of Thoughts, Poems, and Conversations from the First Time I Fell in Love., [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 29:
text: And the second-string boy said, bro you were yelling about her all night. Then, pics, u promised. / And Connor said, u think im fukkin high? no phones in the room. dunc’s rules. / The second-string boy said, bet Dunc’s rules say no trophies too. / Connor said, dammm. And then, tru tho. And then, check it out lmao.
ref: 2020, Hannah Capin, Foul Is Fair, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Abbreviation of true.
Derived terms: tru dat
Related terms: tru-
dele
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːliː/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: deles
form: deleing
form: deled
form: deled
Etymology: From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo (“delete”). Alternatively, a clipping of deleatur.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To delete.
dele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːliː/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: deles
Etymology: From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo (“delete”). Alternatively, a clipping of deleatur.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: deleatur
glosses: A sign signifying deletion.
jemmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛmi
Forms: form: jemmies
Senses: glosses: A sheep's head used as food.
glosses: An immigrant.
examples: text: your friend in the green jemmy
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: A greatcoat.
examples: text: Louisa fetched the jemmy, and they approached the house in a line;.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 217:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jimmy (crowbar).
jemmy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛmi
Forms: form: jemmies
form: jemmying
form: jemmied
form: jemmied
Senses: examples: two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred
glosses: To shoehorn, to cram.
glosses: Alternative spelling of jimmy (open with a crowbar).
Derived terms: jemmily
jemminess
jemmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛmi
Forms: form: jemmier
form: jemmiest
Senses: examples: text: I was agreeably surprised by seeing my young friend and companion, Robert Pott, driving up the avenue in a very jemmy equipage.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 209
glosses: Neat; elegant.
Related terms: jimmy
FYF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fuck your feelings.
femerell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femerells
form: femerall
form: fumerell
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle English fumerelle, from Old French fumeraille; ultimately derived from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Likely a doublet of fumarole.
Senses: glosses: The lantern, louvre, or covering placed in the ridge of a hall roof for the purpose of ventilation or letting out the smoke of the fire kindled on a central hearth.
fielty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of owing one's service (particularly of a soldier, warrior, knight, rider) to a king, queen, or other ruler.
Related terms: fealty
wirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wirers
Etymology: From wire + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool to assist in installing wire.
glosses: A person who installs wiring.
glosses: One who sets a wire, or snare.
understands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of understand
floorgrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorgrips
Etymology: From floor + grip.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A device used to steady firing and counter the effects of recoil, resulting in far more accurate fire when shooting in full auto mode. It can be incorporated in some rifles as part of the Rail Integration System.
offeree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfəˈɹiː/
ipa: /ɑfɚˈɹi/
Forms: form: offerees
Etymology: From offer + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: A unilateral contract consists of a promise on the part of the offeror and performance of the requisite terms by the offeree.
glosses: One to whom an offer is made.
offeror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôʹfərər
ipa: /ˈɔfəɹɚ/
enpr: ŏfʹərər
ipa: /ˈɑfəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈɒfəɹə/
Forms: form: offerors
Etymology: From offer + -or.
Senses: examples: text: A unilateral contract consists of a promise on the part of the offeror and performance of the requisite terms by the offeree.
text: Acceptance of the offer terminates the power of revocation that the offeror ordinarily has.
glosses: One who makes an offer to another; someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection.
gern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
homophone: gurn
Forms: form: gerns
form: gerning
form: gerned
form: gerned
Etymology: See grin.
Senses: glosses: To grin.
examples: text: [He] gaped like a gulfe, when he did gerne, / That whether man or monster one could scarse discerne
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:
glosses: To yawn.
full term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The period for which a pregnant woman carries a baby; the full nine months of gestation.
trephination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trephinations
Etymology: From trephine + -ation.
Senses: glosses: the surgical procedure in which a hole is drilled in the skull and a circular piece of bone removed
Synonyms: trepanation
dolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolosse
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from dollen os
Senses: glosses: The bones that are thrown when throwing the bones for divination.
glosses: The ankle bones of sheep or goats formerly used by children as playthings.
examples: http://www.dispatch.co.za/1999/06/28/features/FAME.HTM
glosses: Interlocking blocks of concrete, used for protection of seawalls and to preserve beaches from erosion, formerly known as Merryfield blocks.
bunny chow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny chows
Etymology: Various theories have been proposed (see the etymology of bunny chow on Wikipedia); however, the OED states that the most likely etymology is bania (“Bania caste; merchant”) + chow.
Senses: examples: text: From Indian street vendors, he regularly bought Bunny Chows — a cupful of curry in a scooped-out half loaf of fresh bread.
ref: 2006, Shelley Wood Gauld, Much Bigger Than Grownups: Chronicles of a Native South African, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Curry served in a hollowed-out loaf of bread, sold as a takeaway in some cafeterias.
wikipedia: Bania (caste)
Bunny chow#Etymology
Synonyms: bunny
Related terms: rabbit food
ceili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [keɪli]
Forms: form: ceilis
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish céilí (“Irish dancing session”), Scottish Gaelic ceilidh.
Senses: glosses: A social event with traditional Irish or Scottish music and dancing.
coryphee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coryphees
Senses: examples: text: It was likewiſe cuſtomary to drink hard at theſe kinds of feaſts; yet it ſeems, according to the ſame author [Posidonius], that the coryphee, or head-gueſt, always began firſt, and put the cup, or rather pitcher, about to his next neighbour, till it had gone round: for, it ſeems, they all drank out of the ſame veſſel, and no man could drink till it came to his turn, nor refuſe when it did.
ref: 1748, George Sale et al., “The Antient State of the Gauls, to Their Conquest by Julius Cæsar, and from thence to the Irruption of the Franks”, in An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. […], volume XVIII, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, […]; A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, book IV (The History of the Carthaginians), section IV, pages 630–631:
text: And now, whip—whip—whip—as fast as St. Francis [of Assisi] himself, or St. Dominic Loricatus, coryphee of flagellants, could himself have flagellated.
ref: 1834, [Edward Moor], “Fragments—Second. Paganism—Papacy—Hinduism—Nuns—Coronation—&c. &c.”, in Oriental Fragments, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 107:
text: Even the coryphee of the Annales school, Fernand Braudel, affirms the historian's traditional concern about time – although, as we will see below, he himself did more than any other historian to undermine the profession's preoccupation with time, movement and development.
ref: 1980, Ilse N. Bulhof, “Structure, Development, and Progress: Dilthey’s Views on the Concrete Course of History”, in Wilhelm Dilthey: A Hermeneutic Approach to the Study of History and Culture (Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library; 2), The Hague; Boston, Mass.: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: Alternative form of coryphée.
sunglints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunglint
unobtrusive research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of studying social behavior indirectly, without affecting it.
Related terms: observer's paradox
concoction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɒkʃən/
ipa: /kənˈkɑkʃɪn/
ipa: [kʰənˈkʰɑkʃɪn]
ipa: [kʰəŋˈkʰɑkʃɪn]
Forms: form: concoctions
Etymology: From Latin concoctiō.
Senses: examples: text: Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
text: Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 74:
glosses: The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
glosses: A mixture prepared in such a way.
glosses: Something made up, an invention.
examples: text: [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Digestion (of food etc.).
examples: text: At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge.
ref: 1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 469–470:
glosses: The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
examples: text: There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of perfecting or maturing.
Derived terms: inconcoction
reconcoction
concoct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɒkt/
ipa: [kʰəŋˈkʰɒkt]
rhymes: -ɒkt
Forms: form: concocts
form: concocting
form: concocted
form: concocted
Etymology: From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).
Senses: examples: text: to concoct a potion
text: to concoct a new dish
text: Their only regret was, that Mademoiselle Carrara would taste none of the conserves and the pastry they were so busily concocting.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 103:
text: Pecan shells make good fuel, and they are used by leather tanners to concoct their foul-smelling compounds, and sometimes we mix them with charcoal in hand-soap to make a really good scrubbing agent
ref: 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles, Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: The twelve include Jill (she used to be a chicken-and-potatoes girl, but now she's willing to try whatever I concoct), […]
ref: 2014, Lisa Howard, Healthier Gluten-Free, MA: Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 171:
synonyms: prepare
mix
glosses: To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
examples: text: to concoct a cunning plan
text: On the other hand, the finest argument ever concocted, the concentrated wisdom drawn from men and books, will fail to charm, like the hilarity of a dance, or the splendour of a gala, the young, gay girl, whose spirits are exuberant, and whose heart is untouched by care, and who, a dozen years afterwards, would, in calm cheerfulness, listen lovingly, and examine carefully, the pleaded reasons offered to her judgment.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 34:
text: He had two beautiful daughters who fell in love with men he approved of and he wanted to give them the most lavish double wedding he could concoct.
ref: 2005, Jean Ferris, Into the Wind: Part One, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 161:
synonyms: contrive
plot
scheme
glosses: To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
examples: text: For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Fœtus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […]
ref: 1703, Thomas Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, page 297:
glosses: To digest.
Derived terms: concocter
concoctive
concoctor
deconcoct
inconcocted
reconcoct
unconcocted
Related terms: concoction
decoct
concoct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɒkt/
ipa: [kʰəŋˈkʰɒkt]
rhymes: -ɒkt
Forms: form: concocts
Etymology: From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).
Senses: examples: text: I don't suppose these creatures are the concoct of your mind?" La Tour said. "If they're real, then Nature there is warped, no doubt by oppressive dampness and heat."
ref: 2006, Wendel Messer, The Conquest of Canada: A Novel of Discovery, Gravenhurst, O.N.: Breller Books, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A concoction.
concoct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɒkt/
ipa: [kʰəŋˈkʰɒkt]
rhymes: -ɒkt
Forms: form: more concoct
form: most concoct
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin concoctus, perfect passive participle of Latin concoquō (compare Etymology 1).
Senses: glosses: Digested or affected by heat.
candidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candidate
end of story
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: end of
Senses: glosses: That is as much as I know, am prepared to reveal or am willing to say about the subject.
examples: text: If you don't want to move back to the States, we won't. End of story.
ref: 2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Jesse (Ethan Hawke):
text: “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story,” he said, and then abruptly left the call.
ref: 2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, quoting Elon Musk, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: end of discussion
glosses: That is the definitive fact; there can be no argument.
Synonyms: sense: that is as much as I know, etc
word: end of
sense: that is as much as I know, etc
word: full stop
sense: that is as much as I know, etc
word: period
sense: that is as much as I know, etc
word: that's that
spears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spear
spears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spear
champ at the bit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: champs at the bit
form: champing at the bit
form: champed at the bit
form: champed at the bit
Etymology: From champ (verb) (“to chew noisily”) + bit (“part of horse's harness held in its mouth”); horses tend to chew their bits when impatient with waiting.
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: To bite the bit, especially when restless.
examples: text: Pittsburgh supercomputer is complete, and scientists are champing at the bit to use it.
ref: 2001: Byron Spice, Science Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PG News read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060127004638/http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/20011001terascale1001p3.asp on 14 May 2006
text: Everyone is champing at the bit to be labelled innovative.
ref: 2006: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, webpage for Ideas with wings, a radio series supporting innovation read at http://abc.net.au/science/wings/ on 14 May 2006
text: We had quite a few people in last weekend. They’re champing at the bit, ready to go.
ref: 2006: Al Rosenquist of Pastika’s Sport Shop, speaking to Terrell Boettcher of Sawyer County Record, Hayward, Wisconsin, Anglers champing at the bit read at http://www.haywardwi.com/record/index.php?story_id=218863 on 14 May 2006
glosses: To show impatience or frustration when delayed.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: chafe at the bit
Related terms: chomp at the bit
strain at the leash
dognapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡnæpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡnæpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡnæpɪŋ/
Forms: form: dognappings
Etymology: Blend of dog + kidnapping
Senses: glosses: Kidnapping or stealing of a dog owned by someone else, often done in order to sell it.
Related terms: dognap
dognapper
flotilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /floʊˈtɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: flotillas
Etymology: From Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota (“fleet”), from French flotte.
Senses: examples: text: Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 102
text: Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.
Home to 17 million quarians, the flotilla understandably has scarce resources. Because of this, each quarian must go on a rite of passage known as the Pilgrimage when they come of age. They leave the fleet and only return once they have found something of value they can bring back to their people.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians Codex entry:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
examples: text: After a few moments Chloe saw Rosamund walking towards them with a small flotilla of shopping bags.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Abandon Starbucks!”, in Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 74:
text: flotilla of tiny ducklings
ref: 2021, Liz Trenow, The Secrets of the Lake:
glosses: A small group of things or people
examples: text: For rule R(2222) a flotilla of six gliders traveling eastwards is generated.
ref: 2005 September 28, Andrew Adamatzky, Genaro Juárez Martínez, Juan Carlos Seck Tuoh Mora, Phenomenology of reaction-diffusion binary-state cellular automata, page 21:
text: Now, the smallest known Life spaceship that isn’t a glider, a *WSS, or a flotilla of *WSSs is the loafer, which has population 20 in a 9 by 9 bounding box.
ref: 2016 July 9, MathematRec, Big and natural and (5,2)c/190:
text: The resulting spaceship (shown below) has a phase with only 24 cells, making it in this respect the smallest known spaceship other than the standard spaceships and some trivial two-spaceship flotillas derived from them.
ref: 2025 October 14 (last accessed), Conway’s Game of Life:
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight spaceships that prevent the formation of destructive eggs.
Derived terms: flotillin
squadrilla
Related terms: convoy
get off someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets off someone's back
form: getting off someone's back
form: got off someone's back
form: got off someone's back
form: gotten off someone's back
Senses: examples: text: Nothing gets an overly inquisitive auntie or an uncle with unpalatable political views off your back like a Boxing Day fixture.
ref: 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football:
synonyms: get off someone's case
glosses: To cease pestering or criticizing someone; to leave someone alone.
Related terms: on someone's ass
idiot-savant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiots-savants
Senses: examples: text: That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of idiot savant.
Judas Priest
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: Judas priest
Senses: examples: text: “Judas priest!” he stammered, for here was his right-hand man as good as dead.
ref: 1919, George Allan England, Cursed, page 67:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Jesus Christ!
Related terms: Judas
no-see-um
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-see-ums
Senses: glosses: Any biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae), small flies (1–4 mm long); sometimes the species Leptoconops torrens in particular.
examples: text: Wherever we look up, there suspended against an areola of humming fluorescent white, is a shadowy funnel of tiny flies, bobbing in the air. 'No-See-Um's. This is what one employee calls them.
ref: 1995, Beloit Fiction Journal, volume 11, page 37:
text: These two examples of insect life are the scourge of the North Country, or any country in which they may be found. Many local people refer to any small black fly as a “no-see-Um" but the true bug by that name is indeed very hard to see.
ref: 2000, William W. Forgey, Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid, page 166:
text: An easy solution is to cover up, because they're not much for getting inside your clothes and they can't bite through even a thin shirt, as mosquitoes can. But it's often too hot in no-see-um country for a lot of clothing.
ref: 1998, Frank Sargeant, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Boating and Sailing, page 103:
text: ... it's not as widely known as malaria, it can be every bit as painful, tenacious, and dangerous, as some of your fellow Undercurrent readers have told us. Worse yet, the source of the infection is nearly invisible the ubiquitous no-see-um.
ref: 2000, Undercurrent: (Larkspur, Calif.), volume 15, page 14:
text: One of the biggest scams foisted on the camping community is tent manufacturers extolling their 1995 no-see-um bug netting. No-see-um netting may keep out the tiniest of insects, but unfortunately, it also barely lets air through.
ref: 2007, The Boundary Waters Journal, volumes 21-22, page 103:
glosses: Any biting bug or insect that is normally too small to see with an unaided eye.
Synonyms: word: no-see-em
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: midgie
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: sand fly
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: punkie
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: punky
sit on one's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits on one's hands
form: sitting on one's hands
form: sat on one's hands
form: sat on one's hands
Senses: examples: text: "Ministers cannot continue to sit on their hands, hoping this dispute will go away. Our members are fully prepared to fight tooth-and-nail for a negotiated settlement," RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has warned.
ref: 2023 March 8, Mel Holley, “TSSA accepts offer, but RMT sets new strike dates”, in RAIL, number 978, page 10:
synonyms: word: arse about
word: arse around
word: bludge
word: bum around
word: cabbage
word: clown around
word: dally
word: dawdle
word: dick about
word: dick around
word: diddle
word: dilly-dally
word: dretch
word: drumble
word: faff
word: faff about
word: faff around
word: fanny about
word: fanny around
word: fart about
word: fart around
word: fiddle about
word: fiddle around
word: fool about
word: fool around
word: footle
word: forslow
word: goof around
word: goof off
word: hang about
word: hang around
word: hang out
word: horse around
word: idle
word: jerk off
word: lallygag
word: lamp
word: laze
word: laze about
word: laze around
word: linger
word: loaf
word: loaf about
word: loaf around
word: loiter
word: lollop
word: lollygag
word: mess around
word: mill about
word: mill around
word: muck about
word: muck around
word: piddle
word: pingle
word: stand by
word: tarry
word: tool around
word: waste time
word: while
coordinate_terms: twiddle one's thumbs
glosses: To remain idle when action is needed, perhaps because of fear, ignorance, complacency, indecisiveness, or dislike of the person(s) or situation.
examples: text: While Boston is a "musical town," audiences here sat on their hands a good part of the time.
ref: 1946, Billboard, volume 58, number 40:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To fail to applaud when expected to.
Related terms: word: hand-sitter
word: sit on one's ass
word: take a stand
word: take sitting down
exoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoderms
Etymology: From exo- + derm.
Senses: glosses: An outer layer of skin.
glosses: The outermost layer of cells in a developing embryo.
Synonyms: sense: outer layer of skin
word: epidermis
sense: outermost layer of cells in embryo
word: ectoderm
Related terms: exodermis
eye contact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to make eye contact with someone
text: If you make the animal angry, walk slowly backwards and avoid making eye contact.
text: Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The condition or action of looking at another human or animal in the eye.
lyceum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪˈsiːəm/
Forms: form: lyceums
form: lycea
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from Λύκειος, from Proto-Greek *λύκη), "light." The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia (Λυκία) and who was identified with the wolf (λύκος). Doublet of lycée.
Senses: examples: text: At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle:
text: In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.
ref: 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 414
glosses: A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.
examples: text: We burst out laughing. She told me that one of her teachers at the "lyceum" used to say that whenever any of the students got up to anything.
ref: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.
glosses: An association for literary improvement.
lionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lionize
Abbott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæbət/
Forms: form: Abbett
form: Abbitt
form: Abbot
form: Abbotts
form: Abott
Etymology: An occupational surname for someone employed by an abbot. In the U.S., sometimes an anglicization of Italian Abate, Spanish Abad or German Abt. Doublet of Abad.
Senses: examples: text: Appearing on Fox News' Hannity, Abbott responded to Rep. Crockett by touting his leadership and accomplishments in Texas.
ref: 2025 March 26, Lalee Ibssa and Jon Haworth, “Rep. Jasmine Crockett defends 'Governor Hot Wheels' comments about Abbott amid censure threat”, in ABC News:
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clay County, Mississippi, named after F. M. Abbott.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hall County, Nebraska, named after Othman A. Abbott.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Potter County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Hill County, Texas, named after Joseph Abbott.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Craig County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, named after postmaster Charles A. Abbott.
glosses: A locality in Monte Partido, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
Derived terms: Abbotsford
Abbottabad
Abbottford
abbotti
Abbott's booby
Abbottsford
Abbottstown
Miller-Abbott tube
'um
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Contracted from them.
Senses: examples: text: They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of 'em.
Derived terms: no-see-um
awards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɔːdz/
ipa: /əˈwɔɹdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of award
awards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɔːdz/
ipa: /əˈwɔɹdz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of award
patently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪtəntli/
ipa: /ˈpætən(t)li/
ipa: /ˈpeɪtən(t)li/
Forms: form: more patently
form: most patently
Etymology: From patent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161:
synonyms: word: explicitly
word: expressly
word: unambiguously
word: demonstrably
word: clearly
word: directly
word: downrightly
word: explicitly
word: expressis verbis
word: expressly
word: patently
word: plainly
word: specifically
word: unambiguously
word: unequivocally
word: univocally
glosses: In a clear and unambiguous manner.
examples: text: abaxial surface patently pilose-puberulous
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Outspread, or spreading at right angles to the axis.
Derived terms: prepatently
subpatently
GPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPM
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gallon per minute.
GPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of general purpose mouse, a piece of software providing support for mouse devices in Linux virtual consoles.
Ader
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Ader receiver
Pflug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pflugs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pflug.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
gendered knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: According to feminist studies and gender studies, mainstream knowledge that is produced by men and privileges the masculine over the feminine.
ghetto bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghetto birds
Senses: examples: text: Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third
Cuz I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird
ref: 1993, Ghetto Bird, Ice Cube, Lethal Injection
glosses: A police helicopter, specifically in the context of patrolling or searching impoverished, high-crime urban areas (the ghetto).
goatly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goatly
form: most goatly
Etymology: From goat + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a goat.
peacefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsfəli/
Forms: form: more peacefully
form: most peacefully
Etymology: From Middle English peesfully, peasfullie, paisfulike, paisfullic, equivalent to peaceful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She and her husband managed to fix up a false floor in one of their rooms in which they fed the roosters; so whenever a picket came in sight her call would bring the whole family out of the woods and clearing into the refuge, where they remained peacefully amongst corn-cobs till the danger had passed.
ref: 1881, Thomas Hughes, Rugby, Tennessee, Macmillan and Co., page 58:
glosses: In a peaceful manner.
fibranne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈbɹæn/
Senses: glosses: A rayon fabric having some qualities of linen.
staphylococci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstæfələˈkɔki/
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylococcus
zot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zots
form: zotting
form: zotted
form: zotted
Etymology: A sound effect. Popularized by the Usenet Oracle, a humorous Internet advice service, where the word was used as an irritated dismissal of a question.
Senses: examples: text: I reached for the handle and it zotted me — an electric shock to the elbow.
ref: 1980, Kit Reed, Magic time:
text: I've heard rumors about the oracle zotting people and I have these questions about zot?
ref: 1997, Matt Lepinski, “Zotting”, in rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet):
text: When a taxi driver, convenience store clerk, pizza deliverer, etc., gets zotted, it is on the back page of the local newspaper and not in out of town newspapers at all.
ref: 1997, Terry Moore, “COPS PUT LIVES ON LINE?”, in austin.general (Usenet):
text: electric fence - zotting me was fine (well really!) but they were worried about zotting the several dozen human puppies that hang around at our house.
ref: 1998, RosieDawg, “watergardening and dogs and Rosie's new toy, OT-ish”, in rec.ponds (Usenet):
glosses: To zap, kill, or destroy.
zot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zots
Etymology: Sound effect in the comic strip B.C., first published in 1958, associated with both (1) the rapid tongue of an anteater character and (2) lightning bolts.
Senses: glosses: An anteater.
zot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Sound effect in the comic strip B.C., first published in 1958, associated with both (1) the rapid tongue of an anteater character and (2) lightning bolts.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.
zot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zots
Senses: examples: text: Regretfully there is nothing that can be done about things .. just a time bomb ticking, ticking, ticking .. until one day soon, the zots will decide to take a property here, and a property there (they have after all started with vacant land and been successful), so why not progress to property?
ref: 2000 April 9, Squirrel, “SA Silence on Mugabe's actions”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet):
text: (SA) ¶ The government has TACITLY condoned the actions of the zots by allowing them to continue their illegal occupation.
(Zimbabwe) ¶ The government condoned the illegal activities and progressed to the point where they were actively supporting it.
ref: 2000 October 29, Nude Raider, “Here are the facts...”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet):
text: The zots will destroy the barns, the homesteads, the tractors, everything - reducing them to their component parts without the aid of explosives.
ref: 2002 July 5, Alistair, “Re: Tobacco barn and other assets- disassembly instructions”, in soc.culture.zimbabwe (Usenet):
synonyms: word: BIPOC
word: BME
word: colored
word: colored person
word: minority
raw_tags: in white majority countries
word: nonwhite
word: person of color
glosses: A black person.
grillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grillages
Etymology: Originated 1770–80 from French grillage.
Senses: examples: text: Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers following Root's 'grillage' principle.
ref: 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, Vintage Books, page 144:
glosses: A foundation of crisscrossing timber or steel beams, usually for spreading heavy loads over large areas.
gripesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gripesites
form: gripe site
Etymology: From gripe + site.
Senses: glosses: A website aimed at making consumers more aware of deficient goods and services.
bren
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: brens
form: brenning
form: brenned
form: brenned
form: brent
Etymology: From Middle English brennen, from Old English bærnan, from Proto-Germanic *brannijaną (“to set on fire”). Cognate with German brennen, Swedish bränna. Doublet of burn; see there for more.
Senses: examples: text: And the greene grasse that groweth they shall bren,
That even the wilde beast shall dy in starved den
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To burn (to set ablaze).
Related terms: brending
skateboard truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skateboard trucks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: One of a pair of devices, consisting of a baseplate, cushioned axle and pivot, that allows a skateboarder to turn the board by leaning.
skateboard wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skateboard wheels
Senses: glosses: resilient polyurethane wheels designed for use on skateboards
Related terms: inline skate wheel
in-line skate wheel
rollerblade wheel
rollerskate wheel
roller skate wheel
grip tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grip tapes
Senses: glosses: Sandpaper with an adhesive on one side, used to provide added friction for skateboards, sports clubs and bats, etc.
of even date
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: SIR,— Our client, Mr. Robert Ferguson, of Ferguson & Muirhead, tea brokers, of Mincing Lane, has made some inquiry from us in a communication of even date concerning vampires.
ref: 1924, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, Norton, published 2005, page 1555:
topics: business
law
glosses: Having the same date.
skateboard trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skateboard truck
fiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: fiches
Etymology: Borrowed from French fiche.
Senses: glosses: a microfiche
microfiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊˌfiːʃ/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌfiːʃ/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: microfiches
Etymology: Borrowed from French microfiche.
Senses: glosses: A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages, read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader.
glosses: A device used to magnify and read these sheets.
Derived terms: ultramicrofiche
microfiche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊˌfiːʃ/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌfiːʃ/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: microfiches
form: microfiching
form: microfiched
form: microfiched
Etymology: Borrowed from French microfiche.
Senses: glosses: To convert (documents) to microfiche format.
hydrogen burning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: nucleosynthesis
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coordinate_terms: helium burning
carbon burning
oxygen burning
silicon burning
glosses: The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of less than 1.2 solar mass, in which hydrogen is converted to helium, deuterium and some lithium.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical oxidation of diatomic hydrogen gas.
helium burning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the nucleosynthesis process, in stars with temperatures over 10⁸K, in which helium is converted to carbon and then to oxygen, neon and magnesium
carbon burning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: nucleosynthesis
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coordinate_terms: hydrogen burning
helium burning
oxygen burning
silicon burning
glosses: The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of greater than 8 solar mass that have exhausted their helium supply, in which carbon is converted to neon, sodium, magnesium and other elements.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical oxidation of carbon.
oxygen burning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygen burnings
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: nucleosynthesis
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coordinate_terms: hydrogen burning
helium burning
carbon burning
silicon burning
glosses: The nucleosynthesis process, subsequent to carbon burning, in which neon disintegrates to oxygen which subsequently fuses to form silicon, phosphorus sulfur and other elements of atomic number up to 40.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical combustion of diatomic oxygen gas.
silicon burning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the nucleosynthesis process, in stars where temperatures exceed 3x10⁹K, in which silicon undergoes photodisintegration to form fragments which in turn produce elements of atomic number up to 60, peaking at iron
s-process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: s-processes
Etymology: The s stands for slow.
Senses: topics: astrophysics
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: the relatively slow nucleosynthesis process, in giant stars, in which neutron capture synthesizes elements up to atomic mass number 210 (at which point alpha decay becomes a deterrent to further building).
Synonyms: slow neutron-capture process
Coordinate terms: r-process
dead on arrival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Found to be dead upon arriving at hospital.
raw_tags: of a patient
glosses: Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS) or the police.
glosses: Of a new item: received broken.
glosses: Being a failure from the start, a nonstarter.
Synonyms: DOA
r-process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: r-processes
Etymology: The r stands for rapid.
Senses: topics: astrophysics
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The relatively rapid nucleosynthesis process, in supernovae, in which a large neutron flux allows rapid neutron capture and synthesis of elements up to the transuranic elements.
Synonyms: rapid neutron-capture process
Coordinate terms: s-process
LiBeB process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the chemical symbols Li, Be, B.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any nucleosynthesis process, the details of which are unclear, that accounts for the light elements lithium, beryllium and boron which cannot survive in stellar interiors because they are destroyed by proton capture.
carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle
CNO cycle
coordinate_terms: proton-proton chain reaction
p-p cycle
glosses: A group of nuclear reactions, involving the interaction of protons with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen nuclei, thought to be the main source of energy in main-sequence stars of greater than 1.4 solar mass.
CNO cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CNO cycles
Senses: topics: astrophysics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: proton-proton chain reaction
p-p cycle
glosses: Synonym of carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle.
synonyms: word: carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle
solar mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar masses
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit, equal to the mass of the sun, used to express the mass of other stars etc. 1 M_☉ = 2 × 10³⁰ kg.
Synonyms: M☉
Related terms: Earth mass
Jupiter mass
lunar mass
oil sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil sands
Senses: glosses: A relatively loose sandstone, or porous carbonate rock, impregnated with bitumen.
Synonyms: bituminous sand
tar sand
tar sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tar sands
Senses: glosses: oil sand.
bituminous sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bituminous sands
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: oil sand
Olbers' paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The observation that the night sky is mostly dark, yet, in a boundless universe of stars, every line of sight from the eye must eventually intercept the surface of a star.
wikipedia: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers