cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transpassivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpassivations
Etymology: From trans- + passivation.
Senses: glosses: The electrochemical breakdown of the surface of a passivated metal
Related terms: transpassive
transpassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + passive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or subject to transpassivation
trapezoidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a trapezoidal manner
cut about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts about
form: cutting about
form: cut about
form: cut about
Senses: examples: text: Calum’s always cutting about spouting shite about his pals.
glosses: To go around (move from person to person).
trialwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trial + -wise.
Senses: glosses: One trial at a time
tryptophandione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diketone formed by oxidation of tryptophan
boaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊbi/
Forms: form: boabies
Senses: glosses: A penis.
glosses: A stupid person.
diluting juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diluting juices
Senses: glosses: A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water; squash.
Colwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Colwicks
form: Collick
Etymology: Probably from Old English col (“coal”) + wīc (“abode, dwelling place, village”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban village and civil parish in Gedling borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6140).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Ocotepeque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Ocotepeque.
Senses: glosses: A city in Honduras.
glosses: A department of Honduras.
Barkston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Barkston and Syston Parish Council) in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9341).
Derived terms: Barkston Ash
ultramutated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + mutated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: very mutated
Related terms: ultramutation
ultramutator
univectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + vectorial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or by means of a single vector
vapocoolant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapocoolants
Senses: glosses: A liquid that cools the skin by evaporation
vapocoolants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapocoolant
venulopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venulopathies
Etymology: From venulo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the venules
venulopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venulopathy
vesicolitholapaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesicolitholapaxies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of litholapaxy.
synonyms: word: litholapaxy
vicariantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vicariant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vicariant manner
virodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virodiversities
Etymology: From viro- + diversity.
Senses: glosses: viral diversity
visuomotoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of visuomotor.
vomocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The expulsion of an organism from capture by a leucocyte or macrophage
Lieh Hsü
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 烈嶼 (Lieh⁴ Hsü⁴).
Senses: examples: text: Peiping's defection appeals for the first time have been directed to Lieh Hsu (Little Quemoy). A 1 September broadcast called on the commander and his subordinates to "send someone to contact us" and to "be ready to lead all personnel" to cross over. The appeal was coupled with the warning that before long Communist artillery fire will "completely demolish your positions."
ref: [1958 September 2, “Central Intelligence Bulletin”, in CIA, page 1:
text: A shoal, with general depths of less than 3 fathoms, extends about 1 ½ miles southward of the entire south shore of Lieh Hsü. Foul ground extends about ⅔ mile west-northwestward from Feng Hsü, the southwest extremity of Lieh Hsü.
ref: 1959, Sailing Directions for the Coast of China, 6th edition, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 191:
glosses: Alternative form of Lieyu.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
xylematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzaɪ.ləˈmæ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Etymology: From xylem + -atic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Via xylem
xylemian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to xylem
zearalenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zearalenone
zigomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of zygomatic.
Santon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE9312).
glosses: A depopulated village near Santon Downham, in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL8287).
glosses: A parish of the sheading of Middle, Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC3273).
make the best of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the best of
form: making the best of
form: made the best of
form: made the best of
Senses: examples: text: So make the best of this test and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
ref: 1997, Green Day, “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”, in Nimrod, Reprise Records:
glosses: to derive what limited advantage one can (from an unpleasant outcome or situation)
glosses: to use (a resource) as well as possible; to be resourceful
makes the best of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make the best of
making the best of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make the best of
made the best of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make the best of
Birtley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Lingen parish, north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3669).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in mid Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY8778).
glosses: A hamlet near Ticklerton, Eaton-under-Heywood parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO4790).
glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2756).
up the boohai
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Possibly from Puhoi.
Senses: glosses: Utterly and completely lost; lost in a remote location.
wikipedia: Puhoi, New Zealand
Longhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: Lung-hai
form: Lunghai
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍海 /龙海 (Lónghǎi).
Senses: examples: text: Longhai, in Zhangzhou municipality, is offering a profit tax rebate as an incentive to lure foreign investment.
ref: 1996 September 11, “Longhai tax breaks to attract foreigners”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2021:
glosses: A district of Zhangzhou, Fujian, China.
Gangwei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gängʹwāʹ
Forms: form: Kang-wei
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 港尾 (Gǎngwěi).
Senses: examples: text: Also on 30 April, Trawler No. 1107 of Jinyu Island, Gangwei Town, Longhai County, Zhangzhou City was fishing a few nautical miles off Penghu Island when it was forcibly towed away by a KMT gunboat. The 16 crew members on board were detained for seven days by the garrisoned troops and were only released on 8 May.
ref: 1990 May 31 [1990 May 30], “Incidents of Kuomintang Troops Shooting at and Towing Away Fishing Boats Along the Coast of Fujian Province Occur Over and Over Again”, in Daily Report: China, number 105, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from China News Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67, column 1:
text: The Shenwo gneissic granite (DS-24-2) in the Gangwei area, south of Xiamen, belongs to the southern PDMB.
ref: 2012 October, Qian Liu, Jin-Hai Yu, Qin Wang, Bin Su, Mei-Fu Zhou, Hai Xu, Xiang Cui, “Ages and geochemistry of granites in the Pingtan–Dongshan Metamorphic Belt, Coastal South China: New constraints on Late Mesozoic magmatic evolution”, in Lithos, volume 150, →DOI, →ISSN, page 277:
text: An entrance guard clears mud at the gate of government of Gangwei Township in Longhai of Zhangzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, July 19, 2013.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Cimaron brings heavy rains to Fujian”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2013:
text: […]we left Amoy at Four, arrived near Kang Beh [Gangwei 港尾] at 5 1⁄2, and walked Sunday morning before breakfast to the hot springs;[…]
ref: 2017, Koos Kuiper, quoting De Grijs, The Early Dutch Sinologists (1854-1900), Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188:
glosses: A town in Longhai, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, formerly a township.
Synonyms: Chiang-wei
Fence Houses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fencehouses
Senses: glosses: A village partly in the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and partly in Little Lumley parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3250).
Fencehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fence Houses.
soul-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul-cakes
Senses: examples: text: The griddle-cake mentioned by your correspondent as being made on All- hallows Eve is, I suppose, the same as the soul-cake.
ref: 1869 June 26, “Griddle”, in Notes and Queries, volume 78, number 3, page 602:
text: The "Soul-cake," however, was rather a Halloween celebration than a Christmas-tide usage.
ref: 1882 December, J.L.W., “Soul, Soul, For a Soul-cake!”, in St. Nicholas, volume 10, number 2, page 93:
text: The older forms of request are interesting as they show pre-Reformation Catholic phraseology, for in return for the cakes, prayers were apparently offered for the donor's soul: "A soul-cake; a soul-cake, have mercy on all Christian souls, for a soul-cake."
ref: 1930, New Catholic World - Volume 132, page 213:
text: I have been told that a century ago, in some parts of England, Wiltshire and Dorset were named, on or just after the feast of SS Simon and Jude, 28th October, there was made a kind of fairing, buns in the shape of men and women with currants for the eyes, and it seems quite possible that these were the traditional soul-cake.
ref: 2012, Montague Summers, The Vampire in Lore and Legend:
glosses: Alternative form of soul cake.
soul-cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soul-cake
community spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The transmission of an illness through unknown untraced members of the greater community, indicative of a reservoir of anonymous infected individuals.
Synonyms: community transmission
community-acquired transmission
airline bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airline bags
Senses: examples: text: A small pick was pushed through his belt and a four cell torch in an airline bag at his feet.
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 17:
glosses: A small carry bag designed for in-cabin use during a plane journey, especially one emblazoned with an airline logo and fitted with a shoulder strap.
airline bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airline bag
carry bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carry bags
Senses: glosses: A small bag, typically made of cloth, vinyl, or some other pliable material, used for carrying items when walking.
carry bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carry bag
soulsearch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soulsearches
Senses: examples: text: Since its theoretical/quantitative revolution of the late fifties, geography is now undergoing another general soulsearch, usually termed the "social/spatial justice" approach.
ref: 1973, Duncan MacRae, Symposium on interdisciplinary approaches to policy studies, page 35:
text: After having done a soulsearch regarding the role computers have to play in chemical and metallurgical undergraduate training, we at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering of the University of Stellenbosch arrived at similar conclusions as those given by Evans.
ref: 1989, The International Journal of Applied Engineering Education, page 97:
text: Femi Taiwo, my companion for this season of soulsearch, is still looking for someone who could relieve him of his brains.
ref: 1992, West African Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, WAACLALS lecture series, page 40:
text: He ingeniously concocted original and memorable tunes that perfectly suited his endearing and challenging stories, observations, brainwaves, and soulsearches, holding the mirror to himself and his listeners.
ref: 2017, Lutgard Mutsaers, Gert Keunen, Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music:
glosses: Alternative form of soul-search.
soulsearch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soulsearches
form: soulsearching
form: soulsearched
form: soulsearched
Senses: examples: text: I soulsearched for a long time. I sought out my spiritual adviser — a dear old nun from college.
ref: 1992, Marie Christine N. Bantug, Hugot sa sinapupunan, page 43:
text: We try to get parents to read, talk to others, learn developmental issues and then really soulsearch, but most learn the hard way.
ref: 1999, Trish Maskew, Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child, page 61:
text: As a poet with taste and sensibility and "growing old gracefully", she "soulsearches for feel of things. "
ref: 2004, Poet - Volume 45, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of soul-search.
soulsearches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soulsearch
soulsearches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soulsearch
soulsearched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soulsearch
Kang-wei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 港尾 (Kang³-wei³).
Senses: examples: text: On the south bank of the seaport at the end of the Chiu-lung River in southern Fukien there is a prosperous people's commune named the Kang-wei Commune of Lung-hai Hsien,...Since the beginning of this year, the cadres and members of the Kang-wei Commune, after concluding the evaluation of past experiences since its communization, have further strengthened Party policies with...
ref: 1961 October 27 [1961 August 30], The Achievements of the Kang-wei Commune in the Last Three Years, United States Joint Publications Research Service, pages 30, 33:
glosses: Alternative form of Gangwei.
Chiang-wei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 港尾 (Chiang³-wei³).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gangwei.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
TERF bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terf bangs
Etymology: Originated on social media platform Tumblr circa 2014 from the (possibly jocular) association of women with this hairstyle and trans-exclusionary feminist views.
Senses: examples: text: TERF bangs: My tumblr post critiquing modern beauty standards got over 100,000 reblogs, but it's so important to uphold these values in day-to-day life, too. I don't even know what TERF stands for!
ref: 2017, "How To Dress Like an Art Hoe", Jerk Magazine (Syracuse University), March 2017, page 67 (caption pointing to an image of someone with such bangs)
text: Basically, you can pry my TERF bangs from my cold, dead forehead—unless you tell me they’re actively doing harm, in which case I guess it’s headbands for a while.
ref: 2019, Anonymous, quoted in Danny M. Lavery, "Help! My Stepfather Told Me He Had a Sex Dream About Me.", Slate, 6 August 2019
text: […] tell your hair stylist at Brown Sugar you need a chin length blunt bob with terf bangs stat.
ref: 2019, "Assimilation Advice from a fellow SoCoDu", The Piranha (Trinity College, Dublin), September 2019, page 6
glosses: Short, straight, blunt-edged bangs, especially when paired with a bob on a woman.
Synonyms: baby bangs
Related terms: Karen haircut
cut and sew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: customized from raw fabric rather than purchased from a third-party supplier and then screenprinted or altered (of a garment)
beach hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach hats
Senses: examples: text: Dressed always in jeans, a loose long sleeved top and large brimmed straw beach hat [...] she stood out from the tanned seasoned locals.
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 120:
glosses: A light, wide-brimmed hat, typically made of straw or some similar material, designed to offer protection from the harsh sunlight when at the beach.
beach hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach hat
soul-search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul-searches
form: soulsearch
form: soul search
Senses: examples: text: Thus she willingly journeys with me in my soul-search.
ref: 2004, Linda Elaine Thomas, Living Stones in the Household of God, page 158:
text: Do not do a large soul-search if it is the first time that you have attempted something like this, but find one or two simple things that will be easy to put right once identified.
ref: 2011, Gail Duff, The Wheel Of The Wiccan Year, page 200:
text: After several years of reading Shiv Khera books and millions of minutes spent in meditative soul-searches, he had eventually found something that he believed he was good at and was able to execute without any trouble.
ref: 2014, Sirpy, Smashed!::
glosses: An act or instance of soul-searching.
examples: text: Moreover, just as the adherents of the new protest ideologies have been involved in a soul-search of their own identities and thus involved in struggles to make and to declare choices, so likewise the national society is engaged in soul-search and choice.
ref: 1968, Curriculum Imperative: Survival of Self in Society:
text: On my cheek I can still feel the child's kiss—a kiss that has triggered some soul-search inside me.
ref: 1998, United Nations Population Fund, A Guidance Resource Manual on the Growing Filipino Adolescent:
text: This chapter defines the scope of the book by limiting it to the dialogue between the soul-search of Haizi and his generation through Haizi's poetry, and Jesus Christ predominantly in the Gospel of Luke.
ref: 2018, Xiaoli Yang, A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke, page 6:
glosses: The process of deep and critical self-examination.
soul-search
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soul-searches
form: soul-searching
form: soul-searched
form: soul-searched
form: soulsearch
form: soul search
Senses: examples: text: These are the times when you should take a deep breath and deeply soul-search your own actions to see whether you could have done anything at all that would have increased your tip.
ref: 2006, Peter Stokes, How's Everything?:
text: Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and experts in a great many fields are noting that what we are losing in the information age is the ability to soul-search.
ref: 2011, Brian Luke Seaward, Managing Stress: A Creative Journal, page xi:
text: The quiet times I steal back from you for myself has given me time to soul-search.
ref: 2013, Sherika Moore, Just Listen, page 52:
glosses: To engage in deep and critical self-examination.
soul-searches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soul-search
soul-searches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soul-search
soul-searched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soul-search
Turnham Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜnm ɡriːn/
Senses: glosses: A park or open space (called a green) and neighbourhood in Chiswick, borough of Hounslow, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2078).
soul search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul searches
Senses: examples: text: Maybe, after some soul search, he concluded that he had an "unalterably closed mind."
ref: 1991, Charles H. Koch, Administrative Practice and Procedure: Cases and Materials, page 530:
text: Because after a deep soul search, I realized how my life was run by many fears.
ref: 2009, Bo Sanchez, Don't Worry, Be Happy:
text: Developing an impactful and lasting green management and employee plan requires nothing less than that the organization perform a complete soul search.
ref: 2009, Ted Hart, Adrienne D. Capps, Matthew Bauer, Nonprofit Guide to Going Green:
text: Provide time for the soul search necessary for the influx of new ways of generating growth.
ref: 2009, William F. Snyder, Messages for Today and Tomorrow, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of soul-search.
soul search
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soul searches
form: soul searching
form: soul searched
form: soul searched
Senses: examples: text: Kindness and support may not show immediate results, but when that person begins to soul search, he or she will remember those kind words.
ref: 2003, Sonja Lauren, The Covered Smile: A True Story, page 81:
text: When you download the document off the RetailerNOW website, we give you many questions to ask and soul search under each category below.
ref: 2013, Bill Napier, Create and Define your Brand:
text: To this day, when I look back on the beginning stages of heartbreak with Robert and how early in our courtship it was, I have to soul search to discover how I gave up on my dream of love so quickly.
ref: 2014, Sarah Jakes, Lost and Found: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life:
glosses: Alternative form of soul-search.
soul searches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soul search
soul searches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soul search
soul searched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soul search
loosening ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loosening up
spade man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: spade men
form: spade-man
form: spademan
Senses: examples: text: Keep up cultivation and hoeing until it freezes and then give them a good coat of mulch, then trust to God for the balance, and He will, I assure you, reward your efforts with berries that will capture and hold any market you desire to put them in at from one-half to one-third more per quart than the spade man can get.
ref: 1907, Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, page 429:
text: After the ejected case has cleared the loading tray, the spade man depresses the spade release lever to drop the spade.
ref: 1944, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Training Division, Naval Ordnance and Gunnery, page 136:
text: He holds both arms out from his sides as if to show he's not armed (is this really not TV?), then comes flying backwards through the door again, almost taking the spade man with him as he tumbles down the steps, managing just to stay on his feet.
ref: 2010, Deirdre Purcell, Children of Eve: An unforgettable novel about a family in crisis:
glosses: A man who works with a spade.
spade men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spade man
spade-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spade-men
Senses: examples: text: It is necessary to have another man to put in the grafts; he should put in two, each two inches outside of the mark left as a guide, holding them till the first or spade-man repeats the operation with the spade, which will be about two and a half inches from the edge of the first hole.
ref: 1862, May Read, The Cultivator, page 142:
text: One man with a gang plow with three 14-inch plows drawn by a 10-20-horse power tractor can plow 7z½ acres in 10 hours, or 120 times as much land as the spade-man.
ref: 1917, I.H.C. Bulletins - Volume 5, page 58:
text: They are divided up into small parties consisting of a pick-man, a spade-man, and three or four basket-men.
ref: 1942, Elmer Pendell, Society Under Analysis: An Introduction to Sociology, page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of spade man.
spade-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spade-man
spademan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spademen
Etymology: From spade + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The earth of this under stratum furrow a number of spademen threw into the old original furrow.
ref: 1784, Present state of husbandry in Scotland, page 97:
text: This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale:
text: All the chiefs and greater men landed with a sufficient number of spademen to assist them with the work, while the others lay off in the ships and watched in silence.
ref: 2018, J. Storer Clouston, Vandrad the Viking, page 119:
glosses: Alternative form of spade man.
spademen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spademan
baby bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-bangs
Senses: examples: text: This is the famous Harold Halma shot of young Capote supine on a sofa, facing the camera with his baby bangs and seductive gaze.
ref: 2012, Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America:
text: On her feet were black socks with platform sport sandals, and her face was framed by John Lennon glasses and blue baby bangs.
ref: 2015 June 21, Amy Sohn, “Women who dress for themselves, and nobody else”, in Sierra Vista Herald, page C3:
text: Bangs are being reinvented this season in a big way, and baby bangs are all the rage during the warm summer months.
ref: 2016, Katelyn Bongiorno, "Hair Flair", Cliche Magazine, August/September 2016, page 38
text: Baby bangs will emphasise beautiful brows; […]
ref: 2019 September, Karen Campbell, “Big Bang Theory”, in Hampton Gazette, page 27:
glosses: Short, straight, blunt-edged bangs (hairstyle), especially when paired with a bob.
Synonyms: TERF bangs
raw-boned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raw-boned
form: most raw-boned
Senses: examples: text: A young nurse, a big raw-boned country lass, plodder her way down to the building.
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 194:
synonyms: bare-boned
glosses: Not plump or muscular; thin so that the outline of bones may be seen; gaunt.
let's get this circus on the road
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Then he'd take a quick look at the script and say, 'Let's get this circus on the road.' The cameras would turn."
ref: 1982, Norm Goldstein, Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes, page 57:
text: The keys were in the ignition. "Come on," Jargodin said. "Let's get this circus on the road. I'll follow you."
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 232:
glosses: Let's start; let's begin (a journey, undertaking, etc.).
calceology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A classical compound (modern coinage), with components derived from Latin calcei ("shoes") + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, "-logy, branch of study, to speak").
Senses: examples: text: Such is the gist of the laborious Benedict's researches in Calceology, which are valuable in so far as they are based on passages from writers contemporary, or nearly so, with the shoes and shoe-customs which they describe.
ref: 1888 September, “Calceolaria Quædam”, in The Antiquary, volume 18, page 96:
text: Having introduced myself, and having learned that Lyubomir's name was Lyubomir and that his shoes and his good self were Bulgarian (as a science, calceology is still in its infancy), I ascertained that he was a twenty-four-year-old film student from Sofia.
ref: 1999, Philippe Meyer, A Parisian's Paris: Chronicle for the Millennium, page 159:
topics: anthropology
fashion
human-sciences
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: The study of footwear, especially historical footwear.
wikipedia: Ancient Greek
Latin
classical compound
thraller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrallers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of enthraller.
synonyms: word: enthraller
thrallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thraller
threadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more threadish
form: most threadish
Etymology: From thread + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Pulse is fast, and full, and threadish; Skin is hot, and dry, and reddish;
ref: 1898, The Medical Counselor - Volume 17, page 126:
text: Meat is not popular with me — too threadish, especially beef.
ref: 1996, Beryl Gilroy, Gather the Faces, page 47:
text: He tied the splint into place with cord he'd made from long, threadish needle-grass awns.
ref: 2000, Terry Schiffman, Adam and Even, page 130:
glosses: Threadlike or thready.
thronedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thronedoms
Etymology: From throne + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In Scripture, we read of thronedoms and principalities ; of the angelic hosts.
ref: 1832, Robert Taylor, Natural history of religion, page 81:
text: The thronedom of Bulgaria once secured, Our conquering arms shall further southward tend ;
ref: 1855, Mrs. Thulia Susannah Henderson, Olga, Or Russia in the Tenth Century: An Historical Poem, page 226:
text: First, he consolidated his thronedom.
ref: 1993, D. V. Randall, Once Upon the Eighth Day: A Romance of an Industrial Theocracy:
glosses: A realm; a kingdom, principality, etc.
examples: text: Well, my dear friends, aspire to this spiritual thronedom: subdue your own heart, and become a king of men.
ref: 1852, Emigration, in its moral and religious aspects. A sermon, etc, page 15:
text: But the Western Powers, and Great Britain especially, had ever taken Turkey under their nominal protection ; at any rate, they would not quietly sit by and see Russia seize upon that key to the thronedom of the world without a word.
ref: 1855, Fanny Mayne, The Life of Nicholas I., Emperor of Russia, page 129:
text: You must remember that within a very few years — in fact, within the memory of each one of us — this child of yours has sprung from the gutter to the thronedom of kings, and for that reason only you should get him back into your fold.
ref: 1927, The Photographic Journal:
text: Though his observation was occasioned on the ascension of one historic house to an European thronedom after centuries of struggle with an entrenched rival, it is a truism as surely applicable to individual as to nation, clan or institution.
ref: 1934, The Spectator - Volume 132, page 5:
glosses: Sovereignty.
examples: text: Better I ween the harmlessness that passeth on its path, In the quiet light of the inner sight where deep thought thronedom hath ;
ref: 1839, Miss Sarah Wilkinson, Historical reveries, page 109:
text: it is made known to her that an ideal husband and father whose home was to him a sacred temple, and who, in the thronedom of his heart sate his devoted wife and two children and their progeny only one seat below that which in loving faith he gave the Christ; and in that home a great State who loved his history would hereby leave memoriam.
ref: 1902, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate, Journal, page 480:
text: The return of the fresh little splinter of wood to the thronedom of radio was not accomplished as easily as his victory of last year, but he did manage to stay a comfortable span ahead of Jack Benny, his closest competitor.
ref: 1939, Fame, page 269:
glosses: A position of dominance; ascendancy.
thronedoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thronedom
Lutheranly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Lutheranly
form: most Lutheranly
Etymology: From Lutheran + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ... ordained (?) in 1540 priest by Martin Skytte, the previous Bishop of Abo (who was consecrated (?) Lutheranly, as we have seen, by Peter Monsson of Westeriis), and did not, therefore, as seems probable, possess even valid priestly orders.
ref: 1864, The Scottish guardian, page 97:
text: Dr Schniewind does this very forcibly and pertinently, though of course, to our English minds, very Lutheranly too. When, however, he endeavours to theorize the problem of mythology on his own account, he does not achieve an equal […]
ref: 1953, Rudolf Bultmann, Kerygma and Myth: A Theological Debate:
text: Lutheran God-talk, after all, has been the main impetus for everything from modern "death of God" talk — all those Nietzscheans were brought up Lutheranly — to numbing, sterile, crabby, and cramping sectarianisms […]
ref: 1988, Candida Lund, God and me, Thomas More Pr, →ISBN:
text: "One of these practices is ethics—the disciplined reflection on Christian moral life, Lutheranly construed. Lutheran ethics is critical and constructive reflection on Christian moral practice. As such it is both descriptive and normative."
ref: 1998, Karen L. Bloomquist, John R. Stumme, The Promise of Lutheran Ethics, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: In a Lutheran way or manner.
thrump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrumps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Feel the thrump thrump thrump of the wheels beneath me.
ref: 2001, Mary Pershall, Asking for Trouble, page 252:
text: There it was, the familiar sound thrump, thrump, thrump, as the honor guards took turns in casting shovelfuls of earth on the coffin, a sound Peter had grown to dread.
ref: 2006, Charles Casimer Krawczyk, Remembrance: As Long As We Live, page 238:
text: The thrump, thrump, thrump of the drums helped troops locate their units amid the noise and smoke surrounding them, and told soldiers how to position themselves.
ref: 2007, Walter A. Hazen, Everyday Life the Civil War:
text: Alex Martin watched the helicopter until it was no longer even a tiny speck in the early morning sky, until the pulsating thrump, thrump, thrump of its blades faded into the natural rhythms of the forest.
ref: 2013, Kate Douglas, Carved in Stone:
text: A car door closed, but it didn't have the loud squeaky thunk of a taxi door. It was a soft thrump, like a valve closing on a vacuum.
ref: 2014, Mary Kay McComas, Kiss Me, Kelly:
glosses: The sound or vibration from a dull, heavy, pounding blow or pulsation.
thrump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thrumps
form: thrumping
form: thrumped
form: thrumped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Our dandy, as we are informed, is also a great favourite among the ladies — goes to parties, balls, and concerts — knows semibreve from a demisemiquaver, and can thrump a piano considerably.
ref: 1830, John B. Skillman, Skillman's New-York Police Reports, page 121:
text: She heads out the back of the hospital barracks, and there, under the new sprinkle of snow, the cold soaking through her gumboots, Esme splits the wood with an axe. Thrumps it open at the heart.
ref: 2007, Emily Ballou, Aphelion, page 238:
text: As Clay thrumps back and forth behind the bar, Duncan changes his mind repeatedly, and if he pauses in deliberation when Clay returns, Clay does not wait but continues on behind the bar.
ref: 2013, Thomas O'Malley, This Magnificent Desolation, page 297:
glosses: To cause a thrump.
thrumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrump
thrumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thrump
thrumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrump
thrumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrump
femcel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmˌsɛl/
rhymes: -ɛmsɛl
Forms: form: femcels
Etymology: From fem- + cel.
Senses: examples: text: Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.
ref: 2018 December 5, Nick Chester, “Meet the women of the incel movement”, in Huck:
text: While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.
ref: 2020 February 19, Arwa Mahdawi, “Why do we only care about incels when they are men?”, in The Guardian:
text: A “femcel support group” on Facebook, with over 800 members, offers a safe space for women who self-define as involuntarily celibate, […]
ref: 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:
coordinate_terms: AFChick
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: A female incel.
glosses: A woman associated with and/or adjacent to the incel aesthetics or other connotations.
Derived terms: femcelcore
femceldom
transfemcel
weird flex, but OK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: weird flex but OK
form: weird flex, but ok
form: weird flex but ok
Senses: examples: text: In an ACU blog written in 2010, GATA's claim to fame is that they are the "oldest continuously named social club on the ACU campus" (weird flex, but OK).
ref: 2018, Lauren Franco, "Pink and green since 1919, ACU's oldest club", The Optimist (Abiline Christian University), 12 October 2018, page 10
text: To the girl who kept sending snapchats during lecture with her front flash on...weird flex but ok
ref: 2018, Courtney, quoted in "Shoutout," The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin), 13 November 2018, page 21
text: Pencil – Doing assignments in pen? Weird flex but ok.
ref: 2019 September, Abby Paul, “What essential school supply did you forget?”, in The Bridge, University of Alberta, page 15:
text: Much like when an actor in a play breaks the fourth wall and speaks to the audience, but the other characters on stage, who also witnss the actor speaking and acting, don't understand to whom the actor is actually talking, and in this case neither does the actor himself, as it is an unconscious address. One is left asking, "why are you telling me this or doing this?" Or in more modern lingo, "that's a weird flex, but OK."
ref: 2020, Bethany Morris, Chase Kelly O'Gwin, Sebasteinne Grant, Sakenya McDonald, Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Used to indicate that one finds an action or statement to be showy and strange, and possibly unwittingly unflattering to the speaker.
Related terms: sir, this is an Arby's
Takhtajyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takhtajian
form: Takhtajan
form: Takhtadzhyan
Etymology: From Armenian Թախտաջյան (Tʻaxtaǰyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
thaw-drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaw-drop
levash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Almost immediately, the table was cleared and then piled high with the family's treasures to share with the unexpected guests—delicious pickles, cheese, a meaty stew, levash bread and, of course, Armenian brandy.
ref: 1994, Thomas Goltz, Requiem for a would-be republic: the rise and demise of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan : a personal account of the years 1991-1993, page 341:
text: Besides the high piles of levash bread, cheese and bean khachapuri, there were enormous bowls of various dishes from greens including my own favorite, jon-johi. There were round bowls the size of soccer balls containing […]
ref: 1999, Frank H. Columbus, Russia Upside Down, Nova Science Publishers:
text: “I don't know,” she replied, baking some levash bread over a twig fire. “I wasn't here then—I am from Yerevan.” Nor were most of the other residents in this section of relief housing, it seemed: most were Armenian refugees from Baku.
ref: 2015, Thomas Goltz, Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic, Routledge, →ISBN, page 302:
glosses: Alternative form of lavash.
Martinverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Martin + -verse, from the surname of author George R. R. Martin.
Senses: examples: text: Wargs in the Martinverse uniquely involve the act of “warging,” in which a human links to a particular animal, sees through its eyes and sometimes controls its body.
ref: 2015, T. A. Leederman, "A Thousand Westerosi Plateaus: Wargs, Wolves and Ways of Being", in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Battis & Susan Johnston), page 190
text: Words from the Martinverse start creeping into your normal conversations, like “smallclothes,” “jape,” and “mummer’s farce.”
ref: 2015 November 25, Dana Ryals, Kelley Minica, “Winter is Here: A Game of Thrones Reading Group”, in The Clarion, Madison Area Technical College, page 2:
text: One of the few truly honourable warriors in the Martinverse, Brienne of Tarth, the lady knight, concludes resignedly that “the good lords are dead and the rest of them are monsters” (GoT 5.1).
ref: 2018, Stefanie Lethbridge, “Entangled Agency: Heroic Dragons and Direwolves in Game of Thrones”, in helden. heroes. héros., number 3, page 8:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Hyponyms: word: Thronesiverse
word: Thronesverse
english: show-only
translation: show-only
word: Throneverse
Throneverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From throne + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: AND FINALLY, we get to the best current pairing in the Throneverse — Arya and the Hound.
ref: 2014, David Malitz, "‘Game of Thrones’ recap: ‘The Lannisters aren’t the only ones who pay their debts.’", Washington Post, 6 April 2014 (image caption)
text: Unless he's not on her side any more, in which case she's screwed: loyalties do tend to shift a bit in the Throneverse.
ref: 2015 May 24, Bob Pobjie, “What's on TV Monday: Game of Thrones”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the television series Game of Thrones.
Synonyms: Thronesiverse
Thronesverse
Hypernyms: english: books and show
translation: books and show
word: Martinverse
Thronesverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From thrones + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: This is The Empire Strikes Back of the Thrones'''-verse — except on this show, the Empire always seems like it’s striking back.
ref: 2013 April 1, James Hibberd, “Game of Thrones season premiere recap: 'Valar Dohaeris'”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: Graeme of Thrones broadly follows that template with the drama shifting between the hysterically bad renditions of key moments of the Thronesverse […]
ref: 2017 October, “Graeme of Thrones”, in KCW Today, page 45:
text: So, over the last couple of years, we've had a gradual dribble of information about a slew of potential spin-offs set in the Thronesverse.
ref: 2018 June 11, Tom Nicholson, “Everything We Know About The 'Game Of Thrones' Prequel 'House Of The Dragon'”, in Esquire:
glosses: Synonym of Throneverse.
synonyms: word: Throneverse
Hypernyms: english: books and show
translation: books and show
word: Martinverse
Thronesiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of thrones + universe or thrones + -i- + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: (Here's a brief primer on the religions of the Thronesiverse, if you're curious.)
ref: 2015 April 26, Jeremy Egner, “‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: The Faith and the Crown”, in New York Times:
text: The good news is, it looks like George R.R. Martin is into the idea of another series set in the Thrones'''-iverse.
ref: 2016 September 30, Laura Bradley, “Is HBO Mulling a Game of Thrones Spin-Off or Not?”, in Vanity Fair:
text: The mock heraldic strains of the Game of Thrones theme, borrowed straight from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, accompany a nifty dragon’s eye view of a beautifully wrought clockwork Thronesiverse.
ref: 2017 November 25, Patrick Freyne, “The TV theme songs that make you drool with pleasure”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: Synonym of Throneverse.
synonyms: word: Throneverse
Hypernyms: english: books and show
translation: books and show
word: Martinverse
I'll be in my bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a scene in the episode "War Stories" (2002) of the television series Firefly, in which Jayne Cobb reacts to seeing courtesan Inara walk off with a female client by stating, "I'll be in my bunk."
Senses: examples: text: It was exhausting in all the wrong ways, but I made it through the two weeks without succumbing to temptation. Will I give up for good? Hell no. But I now appreciate it a whole lot more.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be in my bunk.
ref: 2013, James Haydon, "Going Without: Masturbating", Vertigo (University of Technology, Sydney), Issue 2 (2013), page 12
text: Speaking of people in the Thor movies, Idris Elba—Marvel's Heimdall, and the guy everyone wants to be the new James Bond—just set the date for his first turn as the host of Saturday Night Live. People's Sexiest Man Alive will take the stage in studio 8H on March 9 and will be promoting his new Netflix film, Turn Up Charlie. Said fans everywhere, "I'll be in my bunk."
ref: 2019 February 21, Angela Watercutter, “Thor Is Going to Be Playing the Hulk”, in Wired:
text: I'm still working my way through the Bao Bun Bennie menu (plus the curry-spiced hash browns are godlike), but the Crispy Fried Chicken French Toast is also... Well, let's just say I'll be in my bunk.
ref: 2019, Rosemary Rowe, in Gail Johnson, "Notables share ideal Vancouver days", The Georgia Straight, 13 June 2019, page 13
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Used to imply that one needs to excuse oneself to privately indulge in a pleasurable activity, particularly masturbation.
Parsons Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parson's Green
Senses: glosses: A residential area of London, with a small green in Fulham, Hammersmith and Fulham borough, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2476).
Lossiemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒsiməθ/
rhymes: -ɒsiməθ
Etymology: From Lossie + mouth; at the mouth of the River Lossie.
Senses: glosses: A town and port in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ2370).
wikipedia: River Lossie
Anuket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anqet
form: Anukit
Etymology: From Egyptian a:n-q:t-B1 (ꜥnqt).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Ancient Egyptian goddess of the cataracts (“rapids”) of the Nile River. Sometimes treated as an aspect of the god of the Nile.
Synonyms: word: Anaka
word: Anoukis
word: Anqet
word: Anukis
sense: Egyptian-Greek-Roman equivalency
word: Hestia
word: Vesta
Hypernyms: english: the triple-deity, god representing the Nile
translation: the triple-deity, god representing the Nile
word: Khnum-Satet-Anuket
english: the triple-deity, god representing the Nile
translation: the triple-deity, god representing the Nile
word: Khnum-Satis-Anqet
Lossie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Moray council area, Scotland.
Derived terms: Lossiemouth
aceroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acerosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoside of acerose
adrenoleucodystrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenoleucodystrophies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adrenoleukodystrophy.
aminoketose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoketoses
Etymology: From amino- + ketose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aminosugar derived from a ketose
aminoketoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminoketose