cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chaptersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapterful
obuncous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbʌŋ.kəs/
rhymes: -ʌŋkəs
Forms: form: more obuncous
form: most obuncous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obuncus.
Senses: examples: text: Being easily exsuscitated, and an amnicolist fond of inescating fish and broggling, with an ineluctable desire for the amolition of care, I took a punt and descended the river in a snithy gale. The water being smooth, I felt I could venture with incolumity, as I was familiar with the obuncous river.
ref: 1893 December 24, Samuel Conkey, “An Adventure with a Hackee”, in St. Nicholas, volume XXI, number 2, page 185:
text: Speaking of the garbage problem, why not incinerate some of our obuncous politicians?
ref: 1916 December 16, “Perspective Impressions”, in Town Talk, volume XXVIII, number 1269, San Francisco, page 6:
text: Obuncous stake sweating the desk / In winter / For that matter, the ashen morning of loss
ref: 2010 January 24, Brenda IIjima, “Panthering”, in If Not Metamorphic, Ahsahta Press, page 113:
text: The rabble became obuncous towards the poet's scribbiling.–
ref: 2013, Lexmilian S. R. B. de Mello, Percarus, [self-published through Xlibris]:
glosses: Crooked; bent.
over-egg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-eggs
form: over-egging
form: over-egged
form: over-egged
Senses: examples: text: But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland.
ref: 1839 September, Nimrod [pseudonym; Charles James Apperley], “A Hunting Tour in the Midland Counties: The Quorn: The Belvoir: And the Cottesmore”, in Craven [pseudonym; John William Carleton], editor, The Sporting Review, a Monthly Chronicle of the Turf, the Chase, and Rural Sports in All Their Varieties, London: Rudolph Ackermann, […], →OCLC, page 187:
text: [Seymour] Hersh vilifies the [Richard] Nixon–[Henry] Kissinger team for the way they adapted the handling of the Vietnam "peace" talks to the sordid claims of the presidential election time-table, but he over-eggs the omelette. It is reasonable to criticise them for having pretended to the American people (and perhaps themselves) that there was some way to negotiate a peace which would preserve the independence of south Vietnam. It is not reasonable to argue, as Hersh does, that the U.S. might have been able to bomb its way to such a durable peace in the spring of 1973, if the White House had not been hamstrung by the debilitating effects of the Watergate scandal.
ref: 1983 October 8, Ian Davidson, “As they were [review of Kissinger: The Price of Power by Seymour M. Hersh]”, in Financial Times, number 29,140, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 3:
text: [Hall] Caine over-eggs the omelette but it is still a strong story.
ref: 1997, Vivien Allen, chapter 24, in Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer, Sheffield, South Yorkshire: Sheffield Academic Press, →ISBN, page 353:
glosses: Alternative form of overegg.
obliquangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obliquangles
Senses: examples: text: But if it be an obliquangle triangle, to note it with the letters BCD.
ref: 1618, John Napier, translated by Edward Wright, A description of the admirable table of logarithmes, London: […] Simon Waterson, page 3:
text: Notwithſtanding in obliquangle triangles, although the ſhankes are not the heights, the caulſe of the truth hereof is the ſame.
ref: 1636, Peter Ramvs [i.e., Petrus Ramus], “Of Geometry, the ſeventh Booke, Of the compariſon of Triangles”, in William Bedvvell [i.e., William Bedwell], transl., Via Regia ad Geometriam: The VVay to Geometry, […] Thomas Cotes, […] Michael Sparke, page 100:
text: IN an obliquangle Triangle, when the termes propounded are two ſides and one Angle , or two Angles and one ſide, and yet the terme required undiſcoverable by the two laſt premiſed Problemes, you are to convert ſuch a Triangle into two Rectangle Triangles, […]
ref: 1645, Edmund Wingate, “The uſe of the Rule of Proportion in Geometrie” (chapter 5), in Edmund Wingate, transl., The uſe of the Rule of Proportion: in Arithmetique and Geometrie, London: […] M. F. for P. Stephenss, Of Sphericall Obliquangle Triangles, page 59:
text: And here we may take in by the way, another kind of tetragonall Plane, very variable in reſpect of it's angles, but regular-like, (as I may term it) being equilaterall, though notequi-angular , called Rhombus, being the onely obliquangle equilaterall Parallelogram, and which therefore is a Quadrat, […]
ref: 1650, John Wyberd, Tactometria. Seu, Tetagmenometria. Or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed; […] , […] Robert Leybourn, for Nathaniel Brooks, pages 102-103:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of oblique angle.
obliquangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obliquangle
non-team
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonteam.
non-team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-teams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonteam.
-facture
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipping of manufacture, ultimately from Latin factus (“done, made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form nouns denoting the process of producing or making something.
Related terms: facture
bad patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad patches
Senses: glosses: a difficult or challenging time
Neethling viruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neethling virus
obliquangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 12 An obliquangled triangle is either Obtuſangled or Acutangled.
The diviſion of an obliquangled triangle is taken from the ſpeciall differences of an oblique angle. For at the 15 e iij, we were taught that an oblique angle was either obtuſe or acute: Therefore an obliquangled triangle is an obtuſeangle, and an Acutangle.
ref: 1636, Peter Ramvs [i.e., Petrus Ramus], “Of Geometry, the ſeventh Booke, Of the compariſon of Triangles”, in William Bedvvell [i.e., William Bedwell], transl., Via Regia ad Geometriam: The VVay to Geometry, […] Thomas Cotes, […] Michael Sparke, page 111:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of oblique-angled.
Neethling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Derived terms: Neethling virus
CJK character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CJK characters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chinese character.
synonyms: word: Chinese character
waterfunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterfunks
form: water-funk
form: water funk
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
English funk
English waterfunk
Compound of water + funk (“a coward”).
Senses: examples: text: We remember in ancient times, when William IV. was king, on a magnificent sheet of brownish water, gracefully named Duck Puddle, a select little coterie of waterfunks (the title sufficiently explains itself—Etonicè frousts) would be unjustifiably but carefully placed on two old punts, or on a punt and an unhinged door, massive as that of Gaza, and on those treacherous rafts committed like Danae to the mercy of the waves.
ref: 1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1:
text: "'Twasn't fair—remindin' one of bein' a water-funk. My first term, too. Heaps of chaps are—when they can't swim."
ref: 1898 December, Rudyard Kipling, “Stalky”, in The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume IX, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited […], →OCLC, page 190, column 2:
text: 'Very well. I'm no waterfunk,' and as though she feared that her courage might ooze away, she rose and drew the curtain that divided the hut from the door to the back. 'Who wants to bathe?'
ref: 1933 December, R[alph] H[ale] Mottram, “A Trip to the Seaside. III. The Beach”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 148, number 888, London: John Murray, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 647:
text: Normally, I am a grade A waterfunk and the initial process of getting wet is agony but this was sheer bliss.
ref: 1999, Henry Blofeld, It's Just Not Cricket! Henry Blofeld's Cricket Year, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: Someone who is afraid to go into water; a hydrophobe.
waterfunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterfunk
CJKV character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CJKV characters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chinese character.
synonyms: word: Chinese character
obtusangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 12 An obliquangled triangle is either Obtuſangled or Acutangled.
The diviſion of an obliquangled triangle is taken from the ſpeciall differences of an oblique angle. For at the 15 e iij, we were taught that an oblique angle was either obtuſe or acute: Therefore an obliquangled triangle is an obtuſeangle, and an Acutangle.
ref: 1636, Peter Ramvs [i.e., Petrus Ramus], “Of Geometry, the ſeventh Booke, Of the compariſon of Triangles”, in William Bedvvell [i.e., William Bedwell], transl., Via Regia ad Geometriam: The VVay to Geometry, […] Thomas Cotes, […] Michael Sparke, page 111:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of obtuse-angled.
you can't polish shit
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of you can't polish a turd.
synonyms: word: you can't polish a turd
acutangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 12 An obliquangled triangle is either Obtuſangled or Acutangled.
The diviſion of an obliquangled triangle is taken from the ſpeciall differences of an oblique angle. For at the 15 e iij, we were taught that an oblique angle was either obtuſe or acute: Therefore an obliquangled triangle is an obtuſeangle, and an Acutangle.
ref: 1636, Peter Ramvs [i.e., Petrus Ramus], “Of Geometry, the ſeventh Booke, Of the compariſon of Triangles”, in William Bedvvell [i.e., William Bedwell], transl., Via Regia ad Geometriam: The VVay to Geometry, […] Thomas Cotes, […] Michael Sparke, page 111:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of acute-angled.
yogurd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yogurt.
CJKV characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CJKV character
CJK characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CJK character
hegemonic masculinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hegemonic masculinities
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The practice that legitimizes men's dominant position of men in society and justifies the subordination of the common male population and women, and other marginalized ways of being a man.
Related terms: toxic masculinity
inside scoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside scoops
Senses: examples: text: I welcome the opportunity to give you the inside scoop on the raunchiest crew of lungers who ever rode a mattress.
ref: 1952, Patients in the Iowa State Sanitorium for Treatment of Tuberculosis at Oakdale, Iowa (publisher), The Iowa Stethoscope - Volumes 30-31, page 24:
text: Whether you have heard of the center or not, or taken some of its courses, you may be interested in getting some of the inside scoop.
ref: 1954, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department (publisher), Monthly Newsletter - Volume 18, page 31:
text: Having spent weeks talking to middle-class pot-smokers (over 30) all around the city, I traveled to the tip of Manhattan for the inside scoop from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs.
ref: 1969, New York Magazine, page 42:
text: A lot of young men are getting the inside scoop about the Air Force Academy from the outside.
ref: 1974, Ebony Magazine, page 123:
glosses: The newest, exclusive, or even confidential information on someone or something, especially when it is not typically well-known or accessible to the general public.
biofacture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biofactures
form: biofacturing
form: biofactured
form: biofactured
Etymology: From bio- + -facture.
Senses: examples: text: What she had done instead was identify the short string of amino acids, peptides, that folded up to form the actual antigen of the viral protein, map out the amino acid sequence and then biofacture a combination of different peptides, matching different regions of the viral protein, in the hope that one or more of the synthetic peptides would fold up to mimic an antigenic site present on the viral protein.
ref: 1992, Nicola Griffith, chapter 1, in Ammonite, London: Grafton, published 1993, →ISBN, page 27:
text: However, the use of restriction enzymes to isolate genetic material was only the first step toward the “biofacturing” of genes. […] [Stanley Norman] Cohen, [Annie C. Y.] Chang, and their gene-splicing team were intent on harnessing the multiplicative process of e. coli to biofacture identical copies of the toad genes that had been inserted into the bacterium.
ref: 1993, Andrew Kimbrell, “Designing Genes”, in The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life, New York, N. Y.: w: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, pages 136–137:
glosses: To produce (something) using biological methods.
inside scoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inside scoop
knockout stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockout stages
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a stage of a tournament where only the winner of each match advances to the next round and losers are eliminated, often preceded by a group stage
double-sided tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-sided tapes
Senses: glosses: Any pressure-sensitive tape that is coated with an adhesive on both sides.
double-sided tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-sided tape
Etonicè
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Etonice
form: Etonicé
Etymology: From Eton + the pseudo-French suffix -icè.
Senses: examples: text: To do this in proper style, is, I assure you, reckoned a most difficult thing among the most expert performers; utterly unattainable, I am sure, by any of the rustics (Etonicè Clods) whom one sees playing at home.
ref: 1821 May 23, Samuel Rashleigh, “The Rashleigh Letter-Bag: VI. Mr Samuel Rashleigh to the Rev. Marmaduke Bradshaw”, in The Etonian, volume II, Windsor, Berkshire: Knight and Dredge; London: John Warren, published 1821, →OCLC, page 301, column 2:
text: The crew consists of ten men, besides there is or captain; they are active, willing, good-humoured fellows, and have harmonious voices, a great lounge (to speak Etonicé), as the Arab boatmen are a noisy set, constantly singing to their work, and always in chorus; one of them leads, and the rest join in, generally line by line, alternately, neither uttering more than five or six words at a time.
ref: 1838 October, Alexander Lindsay, “Lord Lindsay's Letters on Egypt and the Holy Land”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: W. Tait, →OCLC, page 659, column 2:
text: We remember in ancient times, when William IV. was king, on a magnificent sheet of brownish water, gracefully named Duck Puddle, a select little coterie of waterfunks (the title sufficiently explains itself—Etonicè frousts) would be unjustifiably but carefully placed on two old punts, or on a punt and an unhinged door, massive as that of Gaza, and on those treacherous rafts committed like Danae to the mercy of the waves.
ref: 1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1:
text: The Comte de Ségur, in his amusing 'Mémoires et Souvenirs,' observes, à propos of his first interview with Frederick the Great of Prussia, that anyone with a due allowance of 'élevation dans l'âme' (Hibericè, 'asy assurance') can undergo the ceremony of introduction to a crowned head with proper dignity and composure; but that a certain degree of émotion—(Etonicè, 'funk')—is inevitable on being first brought face to face with a really Great Man.
ref: 1863, Charles Phillips, chapter IX, in The Cream of a Life, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 135:
text: I've funk'd and stew'd¹ to think what earthly power / […] ¹Etonice for being frightened, or alarmed at, as may be illustrated by the following imaginary talk between two lower boys:—"I say, old fellow, who funks a flogging?" "Not I, my boy! but I am in a precious stew about that licking Box Major promised me!"
ref: 1869, Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe, The Lay of the Sheriff, London: Chiswick Press, page 14:
glosses: The characteristic speech or slang of Eton College.
Etonice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Etonicè.
Etonicé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Etonicè.
takes the rap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the rap
took the rap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the rap
taken the rap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the rap
taking the rap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of take the rap
carries the can
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry the can
carrying the can
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of carry the can
carried the can
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carry the can
takes the fall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the fall
taking the fall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of take the fall
took the fall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the fall
taken the fall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the fall
interpolish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interpolishes
form: interpolishing
form: interpolished
form: interpolished
Etymology: From inter- + polish.
Senses: glosses: To polish sporadically, or at intervals.
polishure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being polished; a state of smoothness or refinement.
alpine marmot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpine marmots
Senses: glosses: A marmot of species Marmota marmota, of the mountains of central and southern Europe.
interpolishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interpolish
interpolishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of interpolish
interpolished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interpolish
alpine marmots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpine marmot
nocency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.sən.si/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.sən.si/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nocentia (“guilt, transgression”), from nocēns (“harmful, guilty”). Doublet of nuisance.
Senses: examples: text: Somhampton was beſt truſted in that, for he had been verſed in queſtions and anſwers, under the nocency of Eſſex Treaſon; […]
ref: 1656, William Sanderson, “The Reign and Death of King James, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the Firſt, &c.”, in A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, And of Her Son and Succeſſor, James The Sixth, King of Scotland; […] , London, page 524:
text: Firſt, Becauſe the Commiſſioners had a Power to declare whether the Lands had been forfeited or not, […] then they would make no Declaration of the Nocency or Innocency of the Perſons holding the Lands, […]
ref: 1734, Jeffrey Gilbert, “Devit, Leſſee of Cowper, verſus the College of Dublin, in Ejectment”, in Reports of Cases in Equity, Argued and Decreed in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer, Chiefly in the Reign of King George I, […] E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for R. Goſling, page 247:
text: He inſiſted, that it was moſt agreeable to Law, as well as moſt equal for the Subject, that the Nocency or Innocency of the Iriſh ſhould be tried by the Common-Law, where every Perſon would meet with a fair Trial by Juries of their Neighbours; […]
ref: 1757, Walter Harris, Fiction unmasked; or, an answer to a Dialogue lately publiſhed by a Popiſh Phyſician, and pretended to have passed between a Diſſenter and a Member of the Church of Ireland; […] , Dublin: […] William Williamson, page 181:
glosses: Guilt; transgression.
Related terms: nocence
nocent
jelly ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly ear
Elbeuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
yohourth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yogurt.
yooghort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yogurt.
yughard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yogurt.
yughurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yogurt.
haltertop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haltertops
Etymology: From halter + top.
Senses: glosses: Alternative, especially attributive, form of halter top (“halterneck garment, or the distinctive strap of such a garment”).
benefacture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefactures
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin benefactūrus, future active participle of benefaciō (“to do good, to benefit”) + -ure (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: All theſe diſpoſitions are but incloſures; Give mee the open Champaine of a generall and illimited benefacture: Is he rich?
ref: 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, “Soliloq[uy] XXVIII: Univerſall Intereſt”, in Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloqvies: Or, Holy Self-Conferences of the Devout Soul […], Second edition, London: Printed by Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be ſold by George Lathum junior, page 101:
text: True it is he was full of pious and charitable good works and bublick Benefactures in his latter dayes.
ref: 1669, The Vulcano’s: Or, Burning and Fire-vomiting Mountains, Famous in the World: VVith their Remarkables, London: Printed by J. Darby, for John Allen; […], page 62; Collected for the moſt part out of [Athanasius] Kircher, Subterraneous World [Mundus Subterraneus], 1665:
text: Since, it is no ſmall greif to think, how this once apprized Gem is now depreciated; a diſcouragement to any ſuch kind of Benefacture.
ref: 1776, [Editor], quoting a 1674 letter from Edmund Castell to John Spencer, “Additional Remarks”, in The Origin of Printing. In Two Essays […], Second edition, Supplement to The Origin of Printing, London: Printed for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, published 1781, page 294:
text: A more sensible, well[-]intentioned benefacture could not have been devised, and it redounds all the more to the young man that in the will he considers himself to be only the almoner of his father, by whose business sagacity the handssome fortune was acquired.
ref: 1879 January 4, “A Glance at the Winn Gallery in Woburn”, in Woburn Journal, volume 29, number 1, Woburn, Mass., page 2:
antonyms: malefacture
glosses: An act of doing good; benefaction, beneficence.
antwakky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antwakky
form: most antwakky
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antwacky.
nocence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.səns/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.səns/
rhymes: -əʊsəns
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nocentia (“guilt, transgression”), from nocēns (“harmful, guilty”). Doublet of nuisance.
Senses: examples: text: The iniquities of theſe dayes are not aſhamed to ſhew their faces; but vvalke the ſtreets without feare of a Serieant, The ſinnes of the Citie are as pert and apert as the ſonnes of the Citie. I would Iniquitie was not bolder then Honeſtie; or that Innocence might ſpeed no worſe then Nocence.
ref: 1614, Thomas Adams, The deuills banket described in foure sermons, London: […] Thomas Snodham for Ralph Mab, […], pages 123-124:
text: For this Reaſon you unworthily detract from me, reviling me with taunting language, without any further ſcrutiny into matter of Fact; which I must court or urge you to, that I may cleer my ſelf, and certifie who is illiterate (as to the knowledge of things) conducible to our better State (for that's the principal end of Language) or who of us is the pretender to the Art of Physick or Chymistry, that ingenious men may underſtand the meaning of those terms, which you (like a cunning Gipſie, hoping thereby to ſuggest to the Reader, that no matter of Moment is contained in the whole Tenour of my words) call Canting: The Efficacie or Inefficacie, the Innocence or Nocence of the Stom. Esse. alias, ſtiled by you Pepper-drops, which you maliciously, ignorantly vilifie, to gratifie the Apothecaries, and their poor-ſpirited Doctors, who are forced in this Exigence to truckle, to cloſe in, and to carry fair with thoſe whom I am certain they cordially hate.
ref: 1672, George Thomson, A letter sent to Mr. Henry Stubbe wherein the Galenical method & medicaments, as likewise bloud-letting in particular, are offered to be proved ineffectual or destructibve to mankind, by experimental demonstrations: […] , London: […] Nath. Crouch, pages 5-6:
text: Sunday, Mamma, the Bride and Bridegroom, I told you, return'd to the Wells. – Monday Evening appeared at the Rooms in Splendor. Mrs. Macnamara, in all the nocence of a white-and-ſilver-full-trimm'd-French-ſack, her Hair ſo dreſſed and powdered with Jewels to the laſt Degree of Taſte, […]
ref: 1756, Elizabeth Evelyn, “Letter XXXIX: Miſs Evelyn to Lady Evelyn”, in The Complete Letter-Writer: or, New and Polite English Secretary, 2nd edition, […] S. Crowder, and H. Woodgate, page 179:
glosses: Guilt; transgression.
Related terms: nocency
nocent
Falsterbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town on a peninsula south of Malmö in Skåne county, south-west Sweden.
chisming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chism
chismed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chism
failchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: failchildren
Etymology: Compound of fail + child.
Senses: examples: text: The college admissions cheating scandal revealed the details of a formalized process for jamming the failchildren of wealthy and prominent families into otherwise credible and prestigious universities, using an expensive "side door" for parents whose wealth leaves them a rung or two shy of the opportunity to just fund a new wing on campus.
ref: 2019 July 22, Chris Thompson, “Report: The Admissions Side Door May Have Been Open For UCLA Applicants With Influential Connections”, in Deadspin, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022:
text: The bitingly funny, Las Vegas-by-way-of-L.A.-set HBO series Hacks took home three awards at the Emmys on Monday night, including the coveted prize for outstanding comedy series, and as luck would have it, one of the show's brightest spots—comedian Meg Stalter, who plays the immaculately clad Hollywood failchild Kayla—was on hand to deliver the look of a lifetime.
ref: 2022 September 13, Emma Specter, “Meg Stalter on the Showstopping Look She Wore to Her Very First Emmys”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023:
text: Third, "Succession" allowed for multiple political and philosophical readings of its narrative, beyond the simple "here's how rich failchildren enable fascism" reading that many liberal viewers took for granted and no doubt some of the writers had in mind.
ref: 2023 June 2, Ross Douthat, “Put 'Succession' in the TV Pantheon”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2024:
text: The clear thrust of the right's attack is that Biden fils was able to skate on far more serious—if never specified or documented—charges of rampant corruption in his Ukrainian and Chinese business dealings by pleading out on these lesser charges. But consider the unchecked run of Trump failchildren at the helm of shady international enterprises, or Trump's own staggering run of organized tax evasion and serial business fraud.
ref: 2023 June 22, Chris Lehmann, “A Failson Meets a Failed Justice System”, in The Nation, New York, N.Y.: The Nation Company, L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2024:
glosses: An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class child of wealthy and influential parents.
Related terms: faildaughter
failson
failchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of failchild
pickel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pickle.
pickels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickel
cool out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cools out
form: cooling out
form: cooled out
form: cooled out
Senses: examples: text: The house will cool out after dark.
glosses: To become cool; to chill.
examples: text: You better cool him out.
glosses: To pacify or calm (someone or something); to make (someone) manageable.
examples: She was just cooling out.
glosses: To relax or rest oneself.
benefactures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefacture
cop onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cops onto
form: copping onto
form: copped onto
form: copped onto
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cop on (to come to understand; twig, cotton on)
synonyms: word: cop on
extra: to come to understand; twig, cotton on
Vaggeryd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Jönköping county, Sweden.
gentle giant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentle giants
Etymology: From gentle + giant. First use appears c. 1807 in a translated work. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: ... lest he be should be brought into the like state as was the gentle giant.
ref: 1807, Francisco de Moraes, Luis Hurtado, Anthony Munday, Palmerin of England [also ascribed to L. Hurtado, originally translated by A. Munday, corrected by Robert Southey], page 112:
glosses: A person or animal of a great size or strength, yet who is of a friendly nature and not aggressive or threatening.
gentle giants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentle giant
burn the coal, pay the toll
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From burn coal, of a nonblack woman, to seek sexual relationships with black men, and pay the toll, to incur the consequences.
Senses: examples: text: Lol...burn the coal ...pay the toll.
ref: 2016 December 29, THE NI99ERS, “Black Former Student Is Charged in Killings of Wigger Ex-Teacher and Their Son”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
text: Julie went to visit granny at the hospital. Granny was old and said crazy things. She kept warning Julie about burning the coal and then paying the toll. What could that mean? Julie was puzzled.
ref: 2018, Nancy Moist, Burn the Coal, Pay the Toll:
text: Burn the coal, pay the toll!!
ref: 2020 October 31, Ted, “Sheeiiiit”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: Please note: the LORD is going to punish those who advocate forms of race-mixing. You want to be Globalist miscreants? burn the coal, pay the toll BITCH! At any rate that was on 9/12/84.
ref: 2020 November 7, eohoe, “Blast from the Past”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):
text: As stated before, "burn the coal, pay the toll" and to emphasize that point, if you'd been paying attention, you'd have known that Norton Juster, the author of "The Phantom Tollbooth" died yesterday, on Intl Womens^([sic]) Day. Hey, the Curse is On, whether you MORONS are aware of it or not. It's not me you're fighting, it's Cosmic Truth you're railing against and that's a fight you cannot win.
ref: 2021 March 10, Ed Rhodes, “Why No Biden State of Union Address?”, in alt.baldspot (Usenet):
text: On 2022-07-10, Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells wrote: "British women are travelling to The Gambia for relationships with black men" https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/sex-on-the-beach-channel-4-documentary-gambia-holiday-british-women-tourism-seyi-rhodes-664083 Burn the coal, pay the toll. "Once you go black, we don't want you back."
ref: 2022 July 11, Incubus, “British women abroad”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
text: On 26 Sep 2023, MattWalsh posted some news:uf01bk$2ora2$1...@dont-email.me: > Burn the coal, pay the toll. She deserved it.
ref: 2023 September 28, Coal burners, “More Rightists Dead In DeSantis Violent Shithole Florida by Mysterious God Sent Hurricanes”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
glosses: Used to admonish white women who have sexual relationships with black men.
Related terms: the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
cough out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coughs out
form: coughing out
form: coughed out
form: coughed out
Senses: examples: text: He coughed out blood.
text: "I'm okay," he coughed out.
glosses: To remove by coughing, especially figuratively, to say through coughs.
examples: text: Eventually the machine coughed out the money.
glosses: To give (money) to someone.
raw_tags: of an ATM
kaliphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaliphates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caliphate.
cough over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coughs over
form: coughing over
form: coughed over
form: coughed over
Senses: examples: text: Eventually, he'll cough over the money he owes.
glosses: To give money or other valuables, usually reluctantly.
semiprivatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + privatized.
Senses: glosses: Partly but not wholly privatized, as with a public-private partnership.
Related terms: word: deprivatize
word: reprivatize
english: sometimes coinstantiated
translation: sometimes coinstantiated
word: seminationalized
word: semiprivate
word: semipublic
demicanton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demicantons
Senses: glosses: Either of two halves of certain Swiss cantons.
crack along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks along
form: cracking along
form: cracked along
form: cracked along
Senses: examples: text: He has the factory cracking along.
glosses: To move quickly; to continue with work briskly.
naufragates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of naufragate
naufragating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of naufragate
naufragated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of naufragate
iseikonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Displaying the exact same image in both eyes.
crum up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crums up
form: crumming up
form: crummed up
form: crummed up
Senses: glosses: To delouse; to treat for lice.
glosses: To ruin (something).
glosses: Misspelling of crumb up.
cut into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts into
form: cutting into
form: cut into
form: cut into
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cut in (to include)
synonyms: word: cut in
extra: to include
examples: text: That's when I started cutting into them.
text: His guilt had cut into him, leaving him depressed.
glosses: To harm (someone); to insult or verbally abuse (someone); to hurt (someone).
bulldag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bulldags
form: bulldagging
form: bulldagged
form: bulldagged
Senses: examples: text: Here we have the category of homo who 'bulldags' only because of their confinement. Then we have the desperate homo who gives up 'head service' for a bar of soap and some Buglar to smoke.
ref: 1989 December 10, Glenda Edwards, “They Can't Keep Me Away From My Stink”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:
glosses: To have lesbian sex.
characteriologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characteriologists
Etymology: From characteriology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The characteriologist considers each character as fundamentally unchangeable, its strong points, shortcomings, and weak points all innate.
ref: 1967, Ignace Lepp, The Depths of the Soul: A Christian Approach to Psychoanalysis, page 101:
text: The rise of psychology as an empirical, rather than speculative, field led inevitably to the erosion of scientific support for many of the claims of characteriologists.
ref: 2007, F. Clark Power, Ronald J. Nuzzi, Darcia Narvaez, Moral Education, page 70:
text: Another characteriologist, William H. Whyte, suggests that “doors inside houses . . . marked the birth of the middle class” (The Organization Man' [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1956], p. 389).
ref: 2016, Joseph A. Cannataci, The Individual and Privacy:
glosses: One who studies characteriology.
characteriologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of characteriologist
in sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: By surface analysis, in + sequence. Possibly a confusion from Latin īnsequēns (“following, pursuing, next”, present active participle).
Senses: examples: text: He built the house brick by brick in sequence.
glosses: Sequentially, one after another.
deck up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decks up
form: decking up
form: decked up
form: decked up
Senses: examples: text: She finished decking up and headed out to the club.
glosses: To dress up; to deck out or gussy up oneself; to decorate.
authoritarianistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more authoritarianistic
form: most authoritarianistic
Etymology: From authoritarian + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to authoritarianism or to authoritarians.
enfemme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I am convinced that the tendency or at least the desire to cross dress, is many times more common than the most, liberal statistics I have read. While enfemme, I have had far too many straight men whisper to me they have thought about it and wish they had the opportunity and courage to act on it as I have for about 36 years.
ref: 1995 fall, Samantha Cole, “Mailbag: A Fortunate, Married Crossdresser”, in TV/TS Tapestry Journal: For All Persons Interested in Crossdressing & Transsexualism, number 73, Waltham, Mass.: International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
glosses: Dated form of en femme.
enfemme
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: G., a crossdresser, lived on the second floor of the hotel at which she worked. Not wanting to walk through the lobby enfemme, she climbed the fire escape. Her heels got stuck in the catwalk and the police had to rescue her.
ref: 1997 winter, Jane Ellen Fairfax, “Chapter News Update: Dateline: New York, New York”, in Femme Mirror, volume 22, number 1, Houston, Tex.: The Society for the Second Self, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2025, page 20, column 1:
glosses: Dated form of en femme.
morphopsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morphopsychological
form: most morphopsychological
Etymology: From morphopsychology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: This characteriology, coming out of the typology of Lecène and broadened by the morphopsychological studies of Louis Corman, allows him to deepen the study of psychological types and creation myths in literary works.
ref: 1976, Joseph Strelka, Literary Criticism and Psychology, page 238:
text: Here again we find disgust that is not concealed but rather rationalized by a morphopsychological " theory " of the beach .
ref: 2003, Jean-Didier Urbain, At the Beach, page 162:
text: Other studies have assigned geometric values to the mesio-distal width of the centrals to the size of the face, while Rufenacht has proposed morphopsychological determination of the ideal proportion and suggested that the width of the central incisor should be considered constant throughout life.
ref: 2008, Irfan Ahmad, Protocols for Predictable Aesthetic Dental Restorations, page 45:
glosses: Pertaining to morphopsychology (any sense).
groundstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundstreaks
Senses: glosses: Any of the butterflies of the group Lamprospilus within the tribe Eumaeini.
LTB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of La Trinidad, Benguet.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of La Trinidad.
synonyms: word: La Trinidad
great bulrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great bulrushes
Senses: examples: text: The shore here is dense with Great Bulrushes, and other rushes, too; Mary says four kinds thrive along her lake frontage.
ref: 2004, Mary Blocksma, Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor Year, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, a species of bulrush.
Synonyms: softstem bulrush
grey club-rush
blackedy-black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blackedy-black
form: most blackedy-black
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blackity-black.
comes to an end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come to an end
coming to an end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come to an end
came to an end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come to an end
free-dumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those who are familiar with the reverberations of the report of artillery at West Point, can readily believe that a similar echo among the mountains in this vicinity, from like cause, might be deemed by the credulous a voice from the dwelling of the Old Man, shouting in earnest tone the political battle-cry of the New-Hampshire electors, “Fremont and free-dumb.”
ref: 1856 July 28, J. H. W., “Letters from Cool Places”, in New-York Daily Times, volume V, number 1540, New York, N.Y., published 26 August 1856, page 2, column 2:
text: No one expects from such a man as Greeley any thing but hostility to the Constitution of our country.—And his paper is all that is left of the formidable “Herald, Tribune and Times,” which were deluging the country last fall with Fremont and free-dumb.
ref: 1857 May 14, “The Decline of Treason”, in F. L. Hagadorn, editor, Syracuse Daily Courier, volume I, number 188, Syracuse, N.Y., page [2], column 4:
text: Freedom of speech in the Secession-land is free-dumb of speech.
ref: 1861 May 17, “Dismalisms”, in Henry Reed & Co., editors, Cincinnati Daily Press, volume V, number 74, Cincinnati, Oh.: Henry Reed & Co., page [3], column 5:
text: Tondapameibomenos, Prosephe, and Podasokus (three Thessalians, who would be these aliens if they weren’t these natives:—calumnious conspirators, dreadful democrats, members of several secret societies, who demand the right of free speaking in a state of free-dumb..
ref: 1864 February 24, “Prince of Wales Theatre, Clayton Quare,^([sic]) Liverpool”, in The Daily Post, volume IX, number 2,714, Liverpool, Merseyside, page 1, column 2:
text: Dear Town Talk—I sent you a toast for the next Press dinner: The free-dumb of the Press—liberty to be silent.
ref: 1868 July 12, Brutus [pseudonym], “[Local Intelligence.] Town Talk.”, in New Orleans Times, New Orleans, La., page 10, column 1:
text: Thus Free-dumb now so seldom wakes, / The only throb she gives, / Is when some Sharp indignant squeaks, / To show that still he lives!
ref: 1908 March 8, “[Satiric Splashes.] The S⁠-⁠harp that Once.”, in John Norton, editor, Truth, number 423, Brisbane, Qld., page 10, column 8:
glosses: Alternative form of freedumb.
ice giant planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice giant planets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ice giant (“A giant planet composed mostly of astronomical ices”).
synonyms: word: ice giant
extra: A giant planet composed mostly of astronomical ices
Neptunian planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neptunian planets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ice giant (“A giant planet composed mostly of astronomical ices”).
synonyms: word: ice giant
extra: A giant planet composed mostly of astronomical ices
ice giant planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice giant planet
Neptunian planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neptunian planet
tendernesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tenderness.
owtside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of outside.
owtside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of outside.
owtside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of outside.
time-domain analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: An analysis of mathematical functions, physical signals or a time series of economic or environmental data, with reference to time.
Enghien-les-Bains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France, France, a northern suburb of Paris.
checkees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkee
catchweed bedstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: catchweed
cleavers
clivers
robin-run-the-hedge
goosegrass
sticky willy
glosses: A plant, cleavers (Galium aparine)
cider press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cider presses
Senses: glosses: a device used to crush apples or pears, used in cidermaking
Hyponyms: fruit press
cider presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cider press
Catterick Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and bridge in Brough with St Giles parish and Brompton-on-Swale parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE2299).
polyazacyclophanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyazacyclophane
polybutyrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polybutyrate
polychronizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychronization
polycysteines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycysteine
polycytokines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycytokine
polydonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydont
polyelastomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyelastomer
polyferredoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyferredoxin
polygenomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygenome
polymeryls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymeryl
polymannuronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymannuronate
polypectates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polypectate
polyoxoniobates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyoxoniobate
polypropylene glycols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polypropylene glycol
polysuccinimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polysuccinimide
polystearates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polystearate
polyricinoleates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyricinoleate
polytraumatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytraumatism
polyuronic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyuronic acid