cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
herpetoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From herpeto- + culture.
Senses: glosses: The keeping of live reptiles and amphibians in captivity, whether as a hobby or for commercial breeding.
Derived terms: herpetoculturist
herpetoculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herpetoculturists
Etymology: From herpetoculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in herpetoculture.
herpetocultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From herpeto- + cultural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to herpetoculture.
Derived terms: herpetoculturally
herpetoculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herpetoculturist
herpetoculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From herpetocultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of herpetoculture.
multikilohertz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kilohertz.
Senses: glosses: On the order of several kilohertz.
multikilocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kilocycle.
Senses: glosses: On the order of several kilocycles.
multimegacycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + megacycle.
Senses: glosses: On the order of several megacycles.
multigigacycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gigacycle.
Senses: glosses: On the order of several gigacycles.
detotalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detotalizations
Senses: glosses: A process of detotalizing.
detotalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detotalization
detotalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detotalizes
form: detotalizing
form: detotalized
form: detotalized
Etymology: From de- + totalize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semiotics
glosses: To cause (something) no longer to be the total state of things, by means of adding something further that is not a part of it; to make incomplete by addition.
Related terms: detotalization
detotalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detotalize
detotalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detotalize
detotalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detotalize
pavement ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavement apes
Senses: examples: text: Colon, as an Italo-Afro-American, YOU are one of those pavement apes.
ref: 2015, NEMO, “Re: What does NAACP stand for?”, in uk.rec.driving (Usenet):
text: If the cops have to kill him, they will,^([sic]) claim he committed suicide. Otherwise every pavement ape in Virginia will be out protesting. You know how they love their criminals.
ref: 2015, Gary, “Re: 2 white TV journalists shot and killed during an ordinary interview about a store.”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):
text: “Dear Black America, 'Let go of your “black victimhood” and bring yourself to the point of admission that “you hoodrats and pavement apes are the ones destroying black lives and communities.” And in closing, “don't blame Whitey!”
ref: 2018 April 15, George Yancy, Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 48:
text: So, as a "hoodrat" and a "pavement ape," it is believed that I am ontologically those horrible things. Think here of how the Jews were depicted as "vermin." This is more than racist biology, but a racist metaphysical way of construing the being of Jews.
ref: 2020 February 15, George Yancy, Across Black Spaces: Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher, →ISBN, page 19:
text: White readers responded to Yancy with angry, profanity-laced denunciations ranging from death threats to comments calling him a “pavement ape” that needed to “go back to Africa” (Yancy, 2018).
ref: 2020 October 12, Todd M. Mealy, Race Conscious Pedagogy: Disrupting Racism at Majority White Schools, McFarland, →ISBN, page 118:
synonyms: gutter ape
street ape
yard ape
glosses: A black person.
camera clara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An optical instrument similar to the camera obscura but without the need for a source of illumination.
Dogribbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dog + ribbed.
Senses: glosses: Belonging or relating to the Dogrib people.
Dogribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dogrib
hotdoggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hot dog + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour of a hotdogger, or sporting show-off.
refeminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refeminizes
form: refeminizing
form: refeminized
form: refeminized
Etymology: From re- + feminize.
Senses: glosses: To make feminine again.
remasculinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remasculinizes
form: remasculinizing
form: remasculinized
form: remasculinized
Etymology: From re- + masculinize.
Senses: examples: text: The white male body is both feminized and remasculinized through self-castration. Pontius is rejecting and redeeming his manhood by punishing its essence.
ref: 2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 62:
glosses: To make masculine again.
refeminizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refeminize
refeminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refeminize
refeminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refeminize
remasculinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remasculinize
remasculinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remasculinize
remasculinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remasculinize
rapefugees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapefugee
fuckskulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckskull
biopark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioparks
Etymology: From bio- + park.
Senses: glosses: Any place where biological organisms are exhibited to the public, such as a zoo, botanical garden, or aquarium.
bioparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopark
anallatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anallactic.
anallactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anallatic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναλλακτικός (anallaktikós), from ἀλλάσσω (allássō, “to change”).
Senses: glosses: Being or involving a special kind of convex lens for a telescope that reduces the stadia constant to zero.
Related terms: anallatism
actinozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinozoa
form: actinozoans
Etymology: From translingual Actinozoa + -n.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of actinozoon.
synonyms: word: actinozoon
actinozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinozoan
activo-passive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mediopassive.
synonyms: word: mediopassive
dougie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dougies
Etymology: From Dougie. Named after 1980s rapper Doug E. Fresh who performed similar moves.
Senses: glosses: A hip-hop dance generally performed by moving one's body in a shimmy style and passing a hand through or near the hair on one's own head.
dougie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dougies
form: dougying
form: dougied
form: dougied
Etymology: From Dougie. Named after 1980s rapper Doug E. Fresh who performed similar moves.
Senses: examples: text: Teach me how to dougie, all my bitches love me.
ref: 2011, Cali Swag District, Teach Me How To Dougie, Capitol Records:
glosses: To perform this dance.
quasimiraculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + miraculous.
Senses: examples: text: The symbolism of the king's regalia recalled the exalted nature of his sovereign authority, while the ritual of unction celebrated the quasimiraculous powers that only French kings enjoyed.
ref: 1995, Jennifer Carpenter, Sally-Beth MacLean, Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, page 182:
glosses: Almost miraculous; having aspects of miracle.
dougies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dougie
dougied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dougie
dougying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dougie
cringling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cringle
cringled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cringle
cringled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Fitted with a cringle.
alterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alterated
form: most alterated
Senses: glosses: altered; changed
mustied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mustied
form: most mustied
Etymology: From musty + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But ſeveral ſovving of VVheat at that time, becauſe 'tvvas the uſual time of doing of it, it lay in the Ground till Rain came, vvhich vvas the latter end of October firſt, and then but part of it came up neither, becauſe it was muſtied and ſpoiled vvith lying so long in the Ground; […]
ref: 1708, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Of Sowing of Corn”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, book II, page 52:
text: The air in a cask is musty, or mustied, because it is bound or confined.
ref: 1825, William Samuel Cardell, Essay on Language:
glosses: Made musty.
mustied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From musty + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of musty
social engineered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of social engineer
social engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social engineer
social engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of social engineer
donkra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkras
Etymology: Blend of donkey + zebra
Senses: examples: 2011, unnamed reporter, What's black and white and kicks like a mule? (in The Daily Mail, 4 July 2011) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010968/Whats-black-white-kicks-like-mule-Meet-baby-donkra--donkey-crossed-zebra.html
This donkra was born on Sunday morning to the only zebra in the park.
glosses: A hybrid animal, the offspring of a donkey sire and a zebra dam.
donkras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkra
Steller's sea cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Steller's sea cows
Etymology: Named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.
Senses: synonyms: rhytina
glosses: Hydrodamalis gigas, an extinct herbivorous marine mammal related to the dugong.
wikipedia: Georg Wilhelm Steller
Steller's sea cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Steller's sea cow
vlei rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vlei rats
Senses: glosses: Any of various groove-toothed rats of the genus Otomys, found in sub-Saharan Africa.
vlei rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vlei rat
illegit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illegit
form: most illegit
Etymology: Clipping of illegitimate.
Senses: glosses: illegitimate
de-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈteɪl/
Forms: form: de-tails
form: de-tailing
form: de-tailed
form: de-tailed
Etymology: From de- + tail.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, six or eight "freezer-boats," which originally had been commissioned for general fishing, were modified by installing improved refrigeration, thus enabling the whole de-tailing and freezing process to be carried out on board.
ref: 1962, Fisheries Bulletin, numbers 1-11, page 69:
text: "The fish has been beheaded, de-tailed, de-boned and is ready for de-frying pan," his Dad announced in a really bad Italian accent.
ref: 2014, Cameron Elliott, Camp Hero: Where Time Travel Began, page 63:
glosses: To remove the tail from.
de-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-tail
de-tails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-tail
de-tailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-tail
mermaids' tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small plastic pellets, or nurdles, found as marine pollutants.
pickled punk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickled punks
Senses: glosses: A human foetus preserved in a jar, exhibited as part of a carnival sideshow.
pickled punks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickled punk
merprinces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merprince
merprincesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merprincess
service item
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service items
Senses: examples: text: There are 5,000 in-flight service items on a 747, ranging from aspirins to toothbrushes.
ref: 1995, Francis McInerney, Sean White, The Total Quality Corporation, page 88:
text: Before landing, the flight attendants pick up any remaining food and beverage service items […]
ref: 2016, John G. Wensveen, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective, page 262:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the consumer products (food, cosmetics, etc.) handed out or sold on board a passenger aircraft.
service items
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service item
swarmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: swarmier
form: swarmiest
Etymology: From swarm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There are those who will dispute this statement, but the fact of the matter is that swarminess is an inherited character and young queens produced by a swarmy colony will, most probably, also head swarmy colonies.
ref: 2004, John Ellis Dews, Eric Milner, Breeding Better Bees, page 6:
glosses: Of bees: inclined to swarm.
examples: text: This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.
ref: 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian note-books:
glosses: Swarming with people or activity; teeming.
glosses: Unscrupulous, sleazy, sneaky.
raw_tags: of a person
swarminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swarmy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There are those who will dispute this statement, but the fact of the matter is that swarminess is an inherited character and young queens produced by a swarmy colony will, most probably, also head swarmy colonies.
ref: 2004, John Ellis Dews, Eric Milner, Breeding Better Bees, page 6:
glosses: The quality of being swarmy.
Rathergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rather + -gate, from the involvement of news anchor Dan Rather.
Senses: synonyms: Memogate
glosses: The Killian documents controversy, a 2004 controversy involving apparently forged documents critical of George W. Bush's military service.
wikipedia: Dan Rather
Memogate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From memo + -gate.
Senses: synonyms: Rathergate
glosses: The Killian documents controversy, a 2004 controversy involving apparently forged documents critical of George W. Bush's military service.
glosses: A 2011 controversy about an alleged Pakistani memo seeking the help of the United States government.
Fajitagate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From fajita + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A legal and political controversy in San Francisco that began in 2002 when a demand by off-duty police officers for a citizen's fajitas led to a street fight.
Koreagate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Korea + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A United States political scandal in 1976 involving South Korean political figures seeking the influence of ten Democratic members of Congress.
protest vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protest votes
Senses: glosses: A vote cast in an election to demonstrate the voter's dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates or refusal of the current political system.
protest votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protest vote
wingwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingwomen
Etymology: From wing + woman, modelled on earlier wingman.
Senses: examples: text: By the time we return home, I'm not sure who's more nervous about Gen's future dating adventures—her, or me as her wingwoman, thrust in front of tempting, attractive men.
ref: 2014, Jules Barnard, Deep Blue:
glosses: A female friend who accompanies one to offer support.
wingwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingwoman
junshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 殉死.
Senses: glosses: In medieval Japan, the practice of vassals committing seppuku (ritual suicide) upon the death of their lord.
lotus foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lotus feet
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 蓮花腳 /莲花脚 (liánhuājiǎo).
Senses: examples: text: Well I made some exhibition, I lost my will to eat / The only thing that matters to me is to touch your lotus feet
ref: 2002, George Harrison, “Stuck Inside a Cloud”, in Brainwashed:
text: The tiny “lotus foot” in its delicate silken shoe was seen as one of the most attractive qualities in a prospective bride; the smaller the foot, the more sexually pleasing the girl was. More recent studies have shown that foot-binding was likely practiced not purely for the sake of marriage, but also to keep girls at home and engaged in handicrafts, such as spinning cotton, in order to contribute to their family’s income.
ref: 2020 February 14, Antonia Malchik, “The Neglected Consequences of Foot-Binding”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A foot whose shape has been altered by footbinding.
Related terms: lotus shoe
lotus feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotus foot
lotus shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lotus shoes
Senses: glosses: A specially shaped shoe used for footbinding.
Related terms: lotus foot
lotus shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotus shoe
antiophidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + ophidic.
Senses: glosses: Countering snakebite.
ophidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ophidia + -ic
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the Ophidia: the snakes and related reptiles.
Derived terms: antiophidic
pseudofruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudofruit
anthocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthocarps
Etymology: From antho- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various forms of fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal.
Lower part of a perianth containing the fruit, the upper part having dropped away, well seen in plants of the family Nyctaginaceae.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various forms of fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal.
In the Nyctaginaceae, individual apetalous flowers have a tubular, petaloid calyx that resembles a sympetalous corolla. The lower portion of the calyx tightly enwraps the one-seeded achene and is persistent around the fruit as an anthocarp. The calyx base plus the enclosed seed-bearing achene is the unit of dispersal.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various forms of fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal.
A collective, composite or aggregated fruit formed from an entire inflorescence, as in the sorosis of a pineapple or the syconus of a fig.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various forms of fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal.
A fruit resulting from many flowers, such as the pineapple; a fruit of which the perianth or the torus forms part.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various forms of fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal.
A composite false fruit, consisting of the actual fruit and the perianth.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various forms of fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal.
A fruit formed by the union of the floral organs or part of them, with the fruit itself, as in Nyctagineae; also applied to fruits with accessories, sometimes termed pseudocarps, as the strawberry and pineapple.
Related terms: infructescence
sorosis
anthocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthocarp
tuggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuggies
Etymology: From tug + -ie.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The pilot who tows a glider.
examples: text: Hank Schrader: Yeah. I want Shania Twain to give me a tuggie. Guess what? That ain't happening, either.
ref: 2008, Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad:
glosses: The act of masturbating a penis; a hand job.
Related terms: tuggy
tuggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuggie
dockleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dockleaves
Senses: examples: text: He stung his arms, and while he was rubbing them with a dockleaf the witness saw some tattoo marks on his left arm.
ref: 1874, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, The Tichborne Trial, page 271:
glosses: Alternative form of dock leaf.
dockleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dockleaf
dock leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dock leaves
form: dockleaf
Senses: glosses: The leaf of the dock plant, traditionally rubbed against the skin as a remedy for the sting of nettles.
dock leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dock leaf
strings of pearls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string of pearls
string of pearls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strings of pearls
Senses: examples: text: The duchess wore a valuable string of pearls around her neck.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see string, pearl.
glosses: The flowering plant Curio rowleyanus (syn. Senecio rowleyanus).
string of beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strings of beads
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see string, bead.
glosses: The succulent vine Senecio rowleyanus, which has spherical, fleshy leaves spaced along its stems like beads.
strings of beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string of beads
smock mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smock mill
oasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oasis + -al.
Senses: glosses: oasitic
guepard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guepards
Etymology: Borrowed from French guépard.
Senses: glosses: A cheetah.
guepards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guepard
red rock crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red rock crabs
Senses: glosses: Any of the red crabs often found living on rocky coasts.
Cancer productus, common along the western coast of North America
glosses: Any of the red crabs often found living on rocky coasts.
Grapsus grapsus, common along the western coast of South America
glosses: Any of the red crabs often found living on rocky coasts.
Guinusia chabrus (formerly Plagusia chabrus), found in the southern Indian and Pacific Oceans from South Africa to Chile
Gagarin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈɡɑːɹɪn/
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Гага́рин (Gagárin).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Гага́рин (Gagárin).
examples: text: Khrushchev’s answer came 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard a spacecraft called Vostok 1.
ref: 2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN:
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Гага́рин (Gagárin).
Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and first man in space.
gallerying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gallery
white as a ghost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very white, especially of a person's face as a result of fear.
part exchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of part exchange
part exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: part exchanges
Senses: examples: text: When I bought my new car, it was a part exchange: I traded in my old car and paid some cash along with it.
glosses: A contract where one party pays money and supplies goods or services, and the other supplies goods or services in exchange.
part exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: part exchanges
form: part exchanging
form: part exchanged
form: part exchanged
Senses: glosses: To supply (an item of goods), along with money, in exchange for other goods or services.
God's work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He had done God's work by killing a man and would now gladly pay the earthly penalty, because he thought his reward would be in heaven.
ref: 2007, Angelo Letizia, The Battle for Existence, page 110:
text: We go along the walk-ways, among trees, shrubs and flowers. In that world, the buzzing of insects is rife. Once settled, they preen, crawl or sting, as is their wont. Yet they too do God's work.
ref: 2014, Terence Park, “The Old House”, in Ice Made and Other Stories, page 87:
text: His father was one of those delusional souls who believed that making money was doing God's work.
ref: 2014, Douglas Preston, The Kraken Project:
text: "[…] The good book says when we act on behalf of another in need; we are doing God's work.”
ref: 2014, Daniel Carnahan, The Manipulator, page 222:
glosses: Work in accordance with the will of God.
examples: text: “Well, Walker, I think you'll enjoy the job. It's a lot of work at times, but baking is God's work, you know—feeding the people who need food to live.”
ref: 2007, Tom Walsh, Walker, page 40:
text: I just wanted to say, I am proud to know you. What you're doing with this kid's important.” “Thanks, Eric. Like my old psychiatry professor used to say, we're doing God's work.
ref: 2011, Kristin Stefanos, Avenging Angel's Scythe, page 325:
text: "This is not a garbage dump; it's a special place," an emotional Chief of Detectives William Allee said during a tour on Monday. "It is sacred ground to all of us. We're doing God's work and I feel honored to be here."
ref: 2002 January 14, Richard Pyle, “At Fresh Kills, `God's work' is under way”, in The Associated Press:
glosses: Work that accomplishes good.
glosses: Work that is very important and necessary, especially that which receives little or no recognition or pay.
Synonyms: the Lord's work
Related terms: supererogation
konze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: About 3 P.M. I went out to look for game, and, coming across a herd of zebras and konze antelope, managed to kill two, one of each.
ref: 1881, Frederick Courteney Selous, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, page 308:
text: Among these fertile uplands, where wooded ridge alternates with grassy hollow, the sable and the roan antelopes, the noble eland, the forest-loving kudu, and the konze love to wander, and are but rarely disturbed by the hunter.
ref: 1893, The Geographical Journal - Volume 1, page 111:
text: Hence they got up to the high country and shot a little game, including some konze (Liechtenstein's hartebeest), the first Selous had seen.
ref: 1975, John Guille Millais, Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., page 113:
glosses: A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), similar to the hartebeest, but without a black patch on the face and with shorter and flatter horns.
wheel arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel arch
part exchanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of part exchange
part exchanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of part exchange
part-exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: part-exchanges
form: part-exchanging
form: part-exchanged
form: part-exchanged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of part exchange.
teleconversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleconversations
Etymology: From tele- + conversation.
Senses: glosses: Conversation taking place over a telephone or other means of telecommunication such as a computer network.
teleconversations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleconversation
fireland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firelands
Etymology: From fire + land.
Senses: examples: text: The use of annual burning to manage pasture for cattle grazing in these areas further perpetuates a fireland degraded environment (Styger et al. 2007).
ref: 2007 August 28, Ndegwa Ndiang'ui, Climate and Land Degradation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: Land that is characterized by, or has been degraded by, fires.
firelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireland
Maltraljan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Maltese language spoken in Australia.
rezala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rezalas
form: rizala
Senses: glosses: A Bengal dish of meat in a thin yogurt and cardamom gravy.
rezalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rezala
bug up one's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugs up one's ass
Senses: glosses: A state of continual annoyance or upset about a particular topic.
Related terms: bee in one's bonnet
buttass
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: butt-ass
Etymology: From butt + ass.
Senses: examples: text: At least he isn't butt-ass ugly. He was probably the shit during his time. Look at him in his multi-colored, polyester suit. He's sharper than a tack.
ref: 2015, Teresa D. Patterson, Wolf in the Pulpit, page 194:
glosses: Synonym of very.
synonyms: word: very
buttass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttasses
form: butt-ass
Etymology: From butt + ass.
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse.
like a bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: My shoulder itches like a bitch!
synonyms: word: like a big dog
glosses: A lot; a a great deal.
pervily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pervily
form: most pervily
Etymology: From pervy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stella whistles pervily, and I race to get away before I start shooting my mouth off.
ref: 2012, Leanne Hall, Queen of the Night:
glosses: In a pervy manner.
illiberty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illiberties
Etymology: From Latin illibertatem (“unfreedom”), equivalent to il- + liberty.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unfreedom.
synonyms: word: unfreedom
hogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogel
hogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogels
Etymology: Coined in a 1994 paper by Mark Lucente, from holographic element; compare earlier pixel, voxel, etc.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small portion of a computer-generated light-field hologram, representing the direction and intensity of light rays from many perspectives.
Derived terms: alt: HPU
word: hogel processing unit
wrongthink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrongthinks
Etymology: Compound of wrong + think, probably modelled on earlier crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: In other words I spent yesterday in bed with a headache not merely because of my bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers and wrongthink, but because both my grandmothers had migraine, my father has migraine and my mother has migraine.
ref: 1979, Joan Didion, The White Album:
text: The third, and most grievous of all the wrongthinks, is suggesting that men and women are, in general, physiologically and psychologically different from each other, and thus they tend to excel at different things.
ref: 2017 August 8, Ben Domenech, “Could This Man Work At Google?”, in The Federalist:
text: Fang, fearing for his job, had to issue a Maoist-style apology for reporting wrongthink.
ref: 2020 November 6, David Bernstein, “The Revolution is Eating its Own”, in The Volokh Conspiracy:
synonyms: badthink
crimethink
wrongthought
glosses: Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing or mainstream orthodoxy.
Derived terms: wrongthinker
wrongthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wrongthinks
form: wrongthinking
form: wrongthought
form: wrongthought
Etymology: Compound of wrong + think, probably modelled on earlier crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: Post a conservative story on Facebook or search for it on Google and out pops Snopes, a partisan site, to warn you of wrongthinking.
ref: 2017 June 30, Henry Wolff, “The Freedom Center Beats the Southern Poverty Law Center”, in American Renaissance:
text: Hasbro has sent a clear signal to men, to Trump supporters, and to anyone who wrongthinks: you are not welcome, and we will purge you.
ref: 2017 December 21, Ganker, “A joke, a media storm, and a destroyed life... Is ‘Magic: The Gathering’ the next Gamergate?”, in Ganker:
text: Wrongthinking friends are kicked off of PayPal and Etsy and Twitter, of course, with increasing frequency.
ref: 2022 June 13, Abigail Shrier, “Welcome to the Party, Pal”, in The Truth Fairy:
glosses: To engage in wrongthink.
heterotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + therapy.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: vaccination with foreign proteins
Novorossia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Novorossiya.
rat flood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat floods
Senses: glosses: A large invasion of black rats caused by the flowering of the bamboo Melocanna baccifera every 48 years in parts of India.
Related terms: Mautam
Thingtam
rat floods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat flood
shweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shweeter
form: shweetest
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sweet.
shweet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sweet.
oleogustus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in 2015 by researchers at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, from oleo- (“oil”) and Latin gustus (“taste”).
Senses: examples: ref: 2015, C. A. Running, B. A. Craig, R. D. Mattes, Oleogustus: The unique taste of fat, Oxford University Press:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proposed basic taste sensation triggered by fatty acids.
Dynamation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of dynamic + animation?
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A stop-motion technique involving animated models integrated into live-action scenes.
Related terms: Supermarionation
folkadelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folkadelic
form: most folkadelic
Etymology: Blend of folk + psychedelic
Senses: examples: text: The material ranges from folkadelic pump to post-core guitar-rant, and this is a fairly necessary thing to own.
ref: 1989, SPIN, volume 5, number 5, page 85:
text: The Velvets melded folkadelic songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young — and thereby invented dronology, a term that loosely describes 50 per cent of today's post-rock activity.
ref: 2004, Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, page 359:
glosses: Having elements of folk music and psychedelic music.
dronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drone + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The Velvets melded folkadelic songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young — and thereby invented dronology, a term that loosely describes 50 per cent of today's post-rock activity.
ref: 2004, Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, page 359:
text: […] label founder Jon Mueller, whose approach to percussion sits comfortably alongside Catlin's guitar dronology.
ref: 2007, The Wire, volumes 281-286, page 49:
glosses: The use of repeated lengthy droning sounds in music.
floor piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor pianos
Senses: examples: text: String instruments such as a guitar, ukulele, autoharp, a folk harp, and a small violin provide exploration with vibrating strings, and electronic keyboards and a floor piano give children experience on keyboards.
ref: 2007, Katharine Smithrim, Rena Upitis, Listen to Their Voices, page 40:
text: One of the items on display was a floor piano on which I played a swinging version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" and was rewarded with spontaneous ambivalence from those around me.
ref: 2008, David Smiedt, Are We There Yet?: Chasing a Childhood Through South Africa:
glosses: A large, flat novelty electronic piano-style keyboard played by stepping on the keys.
floor pianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floor piano
Ardrah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ardra: a former city of West Africa and its kingdom.
Ardra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ardrah
Senses: glosses: A city on the Slave Coast of West Africa, the present-day Allada, Benin.
glosses: The kingdom formerly controlled by this city; the nation of its people.
Synonyms: Great Ardra
Allada
laterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laterizations
form: laterisation
Senses: glosses: The weathering process by which rock is changed to laterite.
Related terms: laterize
Brazilian blowout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brazilian blowouts
Senses: glosses: A method of temporarily straightening the hair by sealing a liquid keratin and preservative solution into the hair with a hair iron.
Brazilian blowouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brazilian blowout
koronion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koronions
Senses: examples: text: TCor: Thickness of Coronoid Process - Taken at a point 15mm below koronion.
ref: 1995, Anthropological Science:
text: 15) coronoidal height: greatest height from basal plane of mandible (gonion) to koronion;
ref: 1997 January, Carlos Henrique de Freitas Burity, Carlos Alberto Mandarim-de-Lacerda, Alcides Pissinatti, “Craniometric sexual dimorphism in Leontopithecus Lesson, 1840 (Callitrichidae, Primates)”, in Primates, volume 38, number 1:
text: This method is used to treat simple olecranon fracture proximal to the koronion.
ref: 2002, Y. Y. Chu, L. C. Zhao, Shape Memory Materials and Its Applications:
glosses: Alternative form of coronion.
koronions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koronion
laterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laterization
coronion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronions
form: koronion
Etymology: From coronoid + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: It has been demonstrated that practically every patient under a general anaesthetic has traces of blood below the larynx, while in almost 50 per cent of the cases this strain extends to the coronion.
ref: 1924, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Volume 19, page 353:
text: Common to both subtypes are, to mention this briefly, a low, padded forehead ; rather pronounced coronions ; and a small mouth with curved, fairly fleshy lips.
ref: 1955, Anthropos - Volume 50, page 820:
text: The jaw of Callithrix, by contrast, shows a less aggressive coronion and a condylar pivot which lies nearer to the occlusal plane, reflecting the marmosets' greater emphasis on exudate-gouging, although not to Cebuella's extreme.
ref: 2009, Susan M. Ford, Leila M. Porter, Lesa C. Davis, The Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation, →ISBN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The tip of the coronoid process of the mandible.
coronions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronion
coronoid process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronoid processes
Senses: examples: text: At the outer side of the coronoid process is a shallow depression, the radial notch, for reception of the head of the radius (pivot joint).
ref: 1951, Stephen Rogers Peck, Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist, →ISBN, page 42:
text: The significance of the coronoid process to weight transfer in the canine elbow is unknown. Some authors state that the coronoid process contributes to increasing surface area of the elbow joint but contributes minimally to weightbearing function.
ref: 2003, Douglas H. Slatter, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 1943:
text: Hyperplasia of the coronoid processes of the mandible is an uncommon condition that is often associated with limited mandibular motion.
ref: 2016, Joseph A. Regezi, James J. Sciubba, Richard C. K. Jordan, Oral Pathology: Clinical Pathologic Correlations, →ISBN, page 310:
glosses: A sharp triangular projection from a bone.
executive-produce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: executive-produces
form: executive-producing
form: executive-produced
form: executive-produced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of executive produce.
coronoid processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronoid process
executive-produces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of executive-produce
executive-producing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of executive-produce
executive-produced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of executive-produce
dynamothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dynamo- + thermal.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: (usually of metamorphism) Involving the effects of directed pressures and shearing stress as well as a wide range of confining pressures and temperatures.
cataclasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataclasites
Senses: glosses: A type of cataclastic rock that is formed by fracturing and comminution during faulting.
cataclasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cataclasite
microfracturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfracturings
Etymology: From micro- + fracturing.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Process of rock formation involving breaking of another rock into fragments.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An instance of this process.
Related terms: microfracture surgery
microfracturings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfracturing
microfracture surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfracture surgeries
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An articular cartilage repair surgical technique that works by creating tiny fractures in the underlying bone.
microfracture surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfracture surgery
kraurosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krauroses
Senses: examples: text: I believe, as mentioned by Dr. Tyrone, that in leukoplakic conditions, krauroses and other chronic lesions of the vulva, simple vulvectomy will afford practically 100 per cent prophylaxis against carcinoma.
ref: 1953, Transactions of the Southern Surgical Association:
text: Originally, the concept of kraurosis was established for a disease consisting of sclerosis, atrophy, and flattening of the genital profile, followed by shrinkage and stenosis of the vaginal introitus; later, the same expression of kraurosis was applied to a similar condition of the male genitals.
ref: 1976, Günter Waldemar Korting, R. Denk, Differential diagnosis in dermatology, page 216:
text: The incidence of malignancy in kraurosis or leukoplakic vulvitis recorded in the papers of Berkely and Bonney (in all, 19 cases in 10 years) was not stated but, in every case of carcinoma encountered by the authors (58 in 10 years), leukoplakic vulvitis was present.
ref: 2009, Sallie Neill, Fiona Lewis, Ridley's The Vulva, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of the genitals characterized by atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membranes.
Derived terms: kraurosis vulvae
krauroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kraurosis
cataclasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataclases
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: cataclastic rock (a type of metamorphic rock that has been wholly or partly formed by the progressive fracturing and comminution of existing rock)
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A process of formation of such rock.
cataclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cataclasis
freefaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freefallers
Etymology: From freefall + -er or free + faller.
Senses: glosses: One who freefalls.
freefallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freefaller
semiprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + protective.
Senses: glosses: Offering a certain degree of protection.
terracette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terracettes
Etymology: From terrace + -ette.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of landform, a ridge on a hillside formed when saturated soil particles expand, then contract as they dry, causing them to move slowly downhill.
Synonyms: catstep
sheeptrack
Related terms: downhill creep
terracettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terracette
catstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catsteps
Etymology: From cat + step.
Senses: examples: text: A catstep is a narrow, back-tilted terrace or bench on a grassy slope, formed when a hillside slumps beneath its own weight.
ref: 2011, Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape:
glosses: Synonym of terracette.
synonyms: word: terracette
catsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catstep
backslopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backslope