cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Vegas rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vegas rules
form: Las Vegas rule
Etymology: Derived from the popular saying in Las Vegas, Nevada: What Happens Here, Stays Here.
Senses: glosses: A tacit agreement between two parties not to publicly discuss or verbally repeat events, conversations, or other sensitive information.
wikipedia: What Happens Here, Stays Here
Related terms: omertà
wall of silence
Vegas rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vegas rule
washes one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wash one's dirty linen in public
washing one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wash one's dirty linen in public
washed one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash one's dirty linen in public
airs one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air one's dirty laundry in public
airing one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of air one's dirty laundry in public
aired one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of air one's dirty laundry in public
wears one's heart on one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wear one's heart on one's sleeve
wearing one's heart on one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wear one's heart on one's sleeve
wore one's heart on one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of wear one's heart on one's sleeve
worn one's heart on one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wear one's heart on one's sleeve
air one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airs one's dirty linen in public
form: airing one's dirty linen in public
form: aired one's dirty linen in public
form: aired one's dirty linen in public
Senses: glosses: Synonym of air one's dirty laundry in public.
synonyms: word: air one's dirty laundry in public
wash one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes one's dirty laundry in public
form: washing one's dirty laundry in public
form: washed one's dirty laundry in public
form: washed one's dirty laundry in public
Senses: glosses: Synonym of air one's dirty laundry in public.
synonyms: word: air one's dirty laundry in public
washes one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wash one's dirty laundry in public
washing one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wash one's dirty laundry in public
deconjugases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deconjugase
washed one's dirty laundry in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash one's dirty laundry in public
airs one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air one's dirty linen in public
airing one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of air one's dirty linen in public
aired one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of air one's dirty linen in public
speaks out of turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speak out of turn
spoke out of turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of speak out of turn
spoken out of turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of speak out of turn
talks out of turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of talk out of turn
talked out of turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talk out of turn
tells tales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tell tales
telling tales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tell tales
told tales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tell tales
tells tales out of school
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tell tales out of school
telling tales out of school
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tell tales out of school
told tales out of school
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tell tales out of school
gun jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The act or practice of soliciting orders for a new issue of a security before it has been registered with the SEC, or before its registration has been approved.
glosses: An act or instance of jumping the gun.
mixes it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mix it up
mixing it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mix it up
mixed it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mix it up
gets ahead of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get ahead of oneself
getting ahead of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get ahead of oneself
got ahead of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get ahead of oneself
gotten ahead of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get ahead of oneself
Bangi Me
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bangime.
sets one's watch by someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set one's watch by someone
setting one's watch by someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set one's watch by someone
runs like a top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run like a top
running like a top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run like a top
ran like a top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run like a top
podmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podmates
Etymology: From pod + -mate.
Senses: glosses: A person or animal of the same pod (section, group, etc.).
Cantor's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after German mathematician George Cantor (1845-1918) who stated and proved this theorem.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A theorem in set theory which states for any set A, the set of all subsets of A (the power set of A, denoted by 𝒫(A)) has a strictly greater cardinality than A itself.
wikipedia: George Cantor
Trumpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Trump-less
Etymology: From Trump + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Trump casinos now Trumpless; The Donald quits
ref: 2009 February 14, Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., page A12:
text: It’s going to be an interesting year, all right, starting with the Trumpless debate on Fox tonight.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Donald playing the Trump card”, in Desert Dispatch, volume 106, number 120, Barstow, Calif., page A4, column 1:
text: But they haven’t abandoned their dreams of a Trumpless ticket just yet.
ref: 2016 February 25, John Kass, “Trump: The barbarian at the Republican gates”, in Chicago Tribune, 168th year, number 56, Chicago, Ill., page 2, column 3:
glosses: Without Donald Trump.
Trump-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Though the tower is now Trump-less, interest remains in the 1-acre site at 111 S Ashley Drive on the Hillsborough River.
ref: 2007 May 30, James Thorner, “Trump pulls out of project”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 123, number 310, St. Petersburg, Fla.: Times Publishing Co., page 10A, column 2:
text: Former New Yorkers are our signature human resource. Without them, we’d be a Trump-less backwater, an oceanfront Bradenton, a place where full-contact shopping, recreational medical treatment and Liza Minnelli tickets would be unattainable fantasies.
ref: 2009 February 25, Frank Cerabino, “New Yorkers need to feel more at home”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 101, number 18, West Palm Beach, Fla., page 1B, column 1:
text: In a normal (meaning Trump-less) campaign, Bush’s address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California would have made more of a splash.
ref: 2015 August 13, E.J. Dionne, “Meanwhile, as Jeb and Hillary were saying …”, in The Record, North Jersey Media Group Inc., page A-17, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Trumpless.
out-of-course
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The inspector estimated that the whole "Condor" schedule is at least 45 min. easier than the diesels' potential, but of course some margin must be left for out-of-course delays.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:
text: It [greater service frequency] also removed the need to enhance services for out-of-course peak demand. There were fewer occasions when additional services were needed to cater for large-scale cultural and sporting events.
ref: 2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:
glosses: Not occurring in the normal course of things.
Havisham-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Havisham-esque
form: most Havisham-esque
Senses: examples: text: Imagine a party in full swing, with everyone roaring drunk and falling over. My no-work-while-the-sun-shines ethos has meant that the garden is rather grandly Havisham-esque.
ref: 2012, Laetitia Maklouf, “July”, in Sweet Peas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 141:
text: When she told me she hadn't seen it [the film Grey Gardens (1975)], I launched into an enthusiastic gush about this legendary seventies Maysles brothers documentary about a mother and daughter who lived in Havisham-esque decay in East Hampton.
ref: 2013, Simon Doonan, “Lipstick on Your Kneecaps”, in The Asylum: A Collage of Couture Reminiscences … and Hysteria, New York, N.Y.: Blue Rider Press, Penguin Group, →ISBN:
text: What did Dad think, I wondered, after showing and selling all those painstakingly cleaned, repainted, and remodeled houses every day, when he came home to ours? Was he blind to the Havisham-esque decay? Or did he find the evidence of time’s passage comforting, a reminder that there would be an end to the sadness he endured just as there would be an end to the house, to all the sad things people lived in and lived through?
ref: 2013, Natalie Brown, “Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)”, in The Lovebird, Doubleday, →ISBN:
text: From five floors above, our home seemed to be watching us. I imagined the rooms slipping into a Havisham-esque decay as we failed them, the idea of us that I cherished receding.
ref: 2015, Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, How to Be a Grown-Up, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Detailed, white washed wood with a distressed element and plenty of rococo detailing creates a Havisham-esque feel.
ref: 2016 October, The Angel Resident, page 43:
text: With the Havisham[-]esque, eerie interpretation of Mankowitz’s well known photograph of Marianne Faithfull (right) and an indulgent, Borgias royalty type interpretation of Mankowitz’s Hendrix prints (above), these two visionaries have made history, a joint art force to be reckoned with.
ref: 2017 June, “Evoking Hendrix”, in The Resident, page 12, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Havishamesque.
Miss Havisham-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Miss Havisham-esque
form: most Miss Havisham-esque
Senses: examples: text: Poor Lavinia, jilted two years ago by Piers, the fiancé whose feet had frozen solid just as the invitations were going out and the presents were rolling in. She’d never quite got over it, and whilst not exactly Miss Havisham-esque in her grief, had nevertheless gone into a steep decline.
ref: 2002, Catherine Alliott, A Married Man, BCA, CN 108881, page 63:
text: In the days immediately after the bridge opened in 1971, the shadowy figure of a woman in a long Victorian black dress was reputedly seen walking over the bridge. Press articles from the period wondered, though never especially seriously, if this might be the transplanted ghost of a jilted Miss Havisham-esque bride who had committed suicide, or a murdered cockney prostitute whose body was dumped in the Thames.
ref: 2013, Travis Elborough, “We Were Somewhere Around Barstow: Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 2011”, in London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing, London: Jonathan Cape, pages 240–241:
text: She’s a tall, thin woman who, whilst wearing glasses, has disappointingly opted against a half-moon style over which she could peer schoolmistress-like at overly exuberant brides. It is a mystery; why do truly miserable, unhelpful people choose to make their living in jobs that are completely reliant on their ability to be friendly and provide a service? In this case, I can only guess that some past trauma has left her with some Miss Havisham-esque compulsion towards bridalwear.
ref: 2015, Alison May, Sweet Nothing (21st Century Bard series; book 1), Choc Lit, →ISBN, chapter nineteen, page 112:
glosses: Alternative form of Miss Havishamesque.
Nightalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nightall
Gimberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gimbert
Rothchilds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rothchild
Tramontana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tramontanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tramontana.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tramontanas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tramontana
Thoringtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thorington
Summit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Summits
Etymology: Unknown origin for the surname. In place names, it usually represents a point of high elevation, perhaps the highest in the area.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Blount County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Pima County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Marion County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County and Santa Clara County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Cook County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana, named after the old Summit Mine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hendricks County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Pike County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Union County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Schoharie County, New York, named for Mount Wharton nearby.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Benton County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in the town of Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lexington County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Roberts County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Iron County, Utah, situated on a divide.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Douglas County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Juneau County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Summit Township.
Stash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stashes
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Stasch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stashes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stash
Summits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Summit
infultrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of infiltrate.
Soulier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Souliers
form: Soulliere
Etymology: Borrowed from French Soulier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Bernard-Soulier syndrome
Qualey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Qualeys
form: Qualley
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Variant of Quealy.
* Americanized spelling of Norwegian Kvaløy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States.
Qualeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Qualey
Souliers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Soulier
Gerwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
wikipedia: + Capon
+ Edwards
+ Price
+ Williams
Pilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pille
Papillions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Papillion
Paragases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paragas
Mofield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mofields
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Moffat.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Momon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Momons
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Momons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Momon
Mofields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mofield
McCue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCues
Etymology: Variant of McCoy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: McCuetown
eremomela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eremomelas
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Eremomela of passerine birds.
eremomelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eremomela
Türkish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: (Publ. ITU, Mining Journal, Vol. 4, Nr. 5, - in Türkish) / Ketin, I. - On the North Anatolian Fault Line (Bull. Mineral Res. and Expl. Inst. of Turkey, Nr. 72 - in Türkish).
ref: 1971, Comptes Rendus Des Séances, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior, page 11:
text: Numerous versions of this epic have been written in Mongol, Türkish, Lepcha, Burushaski, etc.
ref: 1977, Louis Frédéric, Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations, page 59, column 1:
text: Baba, A. and Tokgöz, S. (1999) Impact of Izmir Harmandalı Sanitary Landfill Area on Surface Water and Groundwater (in Türkish), Izmir Su Kongresi, Izmir, pp. 263-275.
ref: 2002, Ken W.F. Howard, Rauf G. Israfilov, editors, Current Problems of Hydrogeology in Urban Areas, Urban Agglomerates and Industrial Centres (NATO Science Series: IV. Earth and Environmental Sciences; volume 8), Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 489:
text: S. Yaman, “Bayindir Fluorit Filonlarinin Termo-Optik Analizi,” Yerbilimleri 11, 23–33 (1984) [in Türkish].
ref: 2007, Geochemistry International, page 517:
text: “Qazan Türkleri” [Kazan Türks] (in Türkish, Arabic script).
ref: 2017, Azade-Ayse Rorlich, The Volga Tatars: A Profile in National Resilience:
glosses: Rare spelling of Turkish.
Türkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is, therefore, hardly reasonable to connect the component -man with the verb man- which in the Türkish, Jagataic, Kazan Tatar and Coman languages «to plunge into water».
ref: 1970, Trudy VII Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa antropologicheskikh i ėtnograficheskikh nauk: […], page 730:
text: In north west India and Afghanistan, Türkish rule was established by Ton Yabghu Kaghan about ad 625. He advanced up to the Indus river and installed local Türkish dynasties.
ref: 1994, Sigfried J. de Laet, José Luis Lorenzo, R. B. Nunoo, History of Humanity: From the Seventh Century BC to the Seventh Century AD, Routledge; UNESCO, page 477, column 2:
text: If such a translation direction was possible in the mid-sixth century, the probability that the two Türkish letters presented to China, during the late sixth and the early seventh centuries, might be Chinese translation cannot be ruled out entirely.
ref: 2011, Rachel Lung, “Türkish diplomatic correspondence to Sui China (581–618)”, in Interpreters in Early Imperial China, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, section “The historical argument”, page 57:
text: Gecekondu is taken from the combination of two Türkish words: gece, which means “at night,” and kondu, from the verb kondurmak, “to happen” or “to appear.”[…]Taking advantage of Türkish law, which stipulates that if one is already moved into a residence and its structure is sound, a gecekondu dweller cannot be evicted without being taken to court.
ref: 2012, P. H. Liotta, James F. Miskel, “Too Far, Too Fast—The Real Population Bomb”, in The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security & the Map of the Future, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Rare spelling of Turkish.
Türkic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪk
Senses: examples: text: “In Türkic poetry, a banner I did hoist, and master of this land I did become.” (In those days the Uzbek language was known as Türkic.)
ref: 1947, Soviet Literature, page 66, column 1:
text: In the sixties of the sixth century Central Asia was conquered by the Türkic nomads and came under the rule of the Türkic Kaghanate that was established in the Altai region and in Semirechye.
ref: 1965, A Short History of the USSR, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 29:
text: These toponyms cannot be Türkic by origin, for they are encountered in places where Türks have never lived.
ref: 1970, Trudy VII Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa antropologicheskikh i ėtnograficheskikh nauk: […], page 730:
text: In terms of the Türkic writing, the Uighürs and the Kirghiz had, at some points in their histories, used the Türkic script as well, on top of employing other scripts or alphabets in their written languages.
ref: 2011, Rachel Lung, “Türkish diplomatic correspondence to Sui China (581–618)”, in Interpreters in Early Imperial China, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, section “The Türk and its relations with Sui China”, page 48:
glosses: Rare spelling of Turkic.
Loonan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Loonans
form: Lunan
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Luanáin (“descendant of Luanán”), a personal name deriving from a diminutive form of Middle Irish lúan (“light, warrior's halo, warrior”). Compare Looney
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Loonans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Loonan
McCues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCue
Quealys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Quealy
be on days
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: see conjugation of "be"
Senses: antonyms: be on nights
glosses: To work day shifts.
Related terms: shiftwork
be on nights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: see conjugation of "be"
Senses: antonyms: be on days
glosses: To work night shifts.
Related terms: at night
graveyard shift
night job
nightly
night owl
night shift
nightwork
night work
shiftwork
button day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: button days
Senses: examples: text: A certain day each month is observed as button day. Buttons are supplied to the local unions by the district office, and there is a new button with a distinguishing mark or color for every month in the year.
ref: 1925, Report of the United States Coal Commission, page 104:
text: In late November 1917, the editor of the Melbourne Argus was urged to spread the word about a possible 'button day' specifically aimed at prisoner-of-war relief: 'As an ardent supporter of the Button Fund collections I should like to urge the organisers . . . to arrange for a Prisoners' Day and that without delay . . . Can we not have a button day 'for all prisoners and captives'?
ref: 2018, Kate Ariotti, Captive Anzacs, page 101:
glosses: A day on which money is raised for a group or cause by selling buttons for people to wear.
Related terms: flag day
take a step back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a step back
form: taking a step back
form: took a step back
form: taken a step back
Senses: examples: text: By establishing GBR, the Department for Transport intends to "take a step back" from the day-to-day running of the railways, which will be music to the ears of many.
ref: 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “DfT sets out its plans with rail reform consultation”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 28:
glosses: To withdraw temporarily from a situation in order to evaluate it; to cease one's course of action and take a moment to reflect on it; to try and gain some perspective.
Related terms: step back
turn one's life around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns one's life around
form: turning one's life around
form: turned one's life around
form: turned one's life around
Etymology: From turn around (“to change in a fundamental way”).
Senses: glosses: To make drastic changes to one's way of life as a form of self-improvement.
Pyrgos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Elis, Peloponnese, Greece, not far from Olympia.
Türkman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Türkmans
form: Türkmen
Senses: examples: text: The wild Kürd and Türkman, wandering predatory shepherds, pitch their tents there;
ref: 1842, Eli Smith, “Moral and Religious Condition of Western Asia”, in Missionary Sermons and Addresses, New York, N.Y.: Saxton & Miles, […], page 27:
text: The tekfur of Trebizond had such a bride, but that means descending from the freedom of the open pastures of the Türkmans through the dark valleys of the Pontos with its agach denizi (sea of trees), where armed men lurked, to the alien and enclosed world of the coastal Greeks: a world fraught with danger.
ref: 1983, Anthony Bryer, “Greeks and Turks”, in Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray, editors, Greece Old and New, The Macmillan Pres Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 103:
text: The most popular poet is, perhaps, Makhdūm-ḳuli (1733–ca. 1782), an educated Türkman, who cultivated the forms of folk poetry in secular love lyrics, and also wrote didactic works and religious songs.[…]Local languages were now elevated to independent literary status. The largest among these were Uzbek, Kazak, Türkman and Kirghiz.
ref: 1976, Eleazar Birnbaum, “Turkish literature through the ages”, in R. M. Savory, editor, Introduction to Islamic Civilisation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81, column 2:
text: Altan Gokalp has suggested that the terms Türkman and Yörük as used in these documents were not ethnic-linguistic labels but referred to different statuses for purposes of taxation; he believes that neither Yörük nor Türkman were necessarily turcophone (personal communication; cf. Gokalp 1989, 530–532).
ref: 1997, Martin van Bruinessen, ““Aslını inkar eden haramzadedir!” The Debate on the Ethnic Identity of the Kurdish Alevis”, in Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean, editors, Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: […], Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 10:
glosses: Rare spelling of Turkman.
Türkman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Part of the Seljuk and Türkman success in breaking local economies and sense of Orthodox patrida in Anatolia comes from the way in which they extinguished these local shrines and their lands, for once a pilgrim town has been wrecked it is very difficult to revive.
ref: 1983, Anthony Bryer, “Greeks and Turks”, in Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray, editors, Greece Old and New, The Macmillan Pres Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 101:
text: The Salor tribe, who held the city, had not been in the habit of making marauding incursions into Persia for the purpose of plunder and capturing slaves; but they were charged by Abbāss Mirza with supplying arms to other Türkman tribes, and of receiving Persian prisoners in return, whom they either retained as slaves or sold in Khīva and Bokhāra.
ref: 1995, Charles Ellison Bates, John Moubray Trotter, Central Asia: A Contribution Towards the Better Knowledge of the Topography, Ethnology, Resources, & History of Persia, page 502:
text: Amir Khan was the leading amir of the Türkman tribe, which had come to regard Azerbaijan as its fief. The other Türkman amirs were incensed not only by his imprisonment, but also by his replacement with an Ustajlu.
ref: 2009, Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd:
glosses: Rare spelling of Turkman.
Türkmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Türkman
Madgwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Madgwicks
Etymology: English habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, with the second element being -wick.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Turkmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkman
shawoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawomen
Etymology: Alteration of shaman with -woman by analogy with -man.
Senses: examples: text: Even Doreen Seaweed the west coast shawoman never reached the public with such an impact.
ref: 1991, George Bowering, “The Stump”, in Douglas Barbour, editor, Beyond Tish, Edmonton, Alta.: NeWest Publishers Limited, →ISBN, page 35:
text: […]running up against some powerful shawoman[…]
ref: 1993, Gregory A. Scofield, “Just Medicine”, in The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel, Vancouver, B.C.; Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 38:
text: The figure of shaman appears often, but I wonder why not shawoman, since so many of the impressive three-dimensional sculptures are made by women.
ref: 2007, Soraya Erian, Mystic Loon, Ottawa, Ont.: Borealis Press, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: A female shaman.
Synonyms: shamaness
shawomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawoman
Busselton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bussell + -ton, being named after the Bussell family.
Senses: glosses: A coastal city in the South West region, Western Australia.
glosses: A local government area in Western Australia; in full, the City of Busselton.
DEIB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Related terms: DEI
DEIA
EDI
JEDI
how do you like
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: How do you like your steak, sir?
text: How do you like like it here?
text: How would you like it if I did the same to you??
glosses: Used to ask someone for their opinion.
examples: text: How do you like this guy!
glosses: Used to deride the character or personality of someone.
postage code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postage codes
Senses: examples: text: Buy a postage code online whenever you want.
ref: 2021, “Portokoder”, in PostNord.se, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2022:
glosses: An (often handwritten) alphanumeric matrix proving paid postage, used in place of postage stamps.
Related terms: postcode
postal code
Ashton-on-Ribble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of the city of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5130).
rutway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rutways
Etymology: From rut + way.
Senses: examples: text: Similar rutways built by the Romans were examined with care by Monsieur H. Ferrand [...], and he gave the following dimensions: 1.44 metres (4 ft. 8¾ in.) centre to centre of the grooves; [...].
ref: 1941 February, Charles E. Lee, “The "Railways" of Ancient Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
glosses: A type of road surface employed by the Ancient Greeks and Romans with ruts or grooves a certain distance apart, in which the wheels of the vehicles of the day were guided.
rutways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutway
pick oneself up off the floor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks oneself up off the floor
form: picking oneself up off the floor
form: picked oneself up off the floor
form: picked oneself up off the floor
Senses: examples: text: There will be a time when you need to pick yourself up off the floor and get moving, but that time is not right away. If you did not let yourself have a time to grieve, you would cripple the sadness and loss within you, stifling the natural healing and your ability to progressively repair.
ref: 2012, Lisa Cypers Kamen, Harvesting Happiness for Heroes:
text: Now, pick yourself up off the floor and be a man about it.
ref: 2016, B.J. Scott, The Connected Seven, page 10:
text: How do you pick yourself up off the floor when you feel so stuck?
ref: 2017, Jon Hershfield, Shala Nicely, Everyday Mindfulness for OCD:
glosses: To resume normal activities after a period of being incapacitated by grief or circumstances.
examples: text: More maniacal laughter ensued as John quickly picked himself up off the floor and scooted on hands and knees back to a sitting position against the rough stone face.
ref: 2013, Erik Yeager, The Narrow Road: A Pilgrim's Progress, page 89:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick up, off, floor.
Related terms: pull oneself together
turn one's life around
red-nigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-niggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red nigger.
red-niggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-nigger
jumps the rattler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump the rattler
jumping the rattler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump the rattler
jumped the rattler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump the rattler
Madgwicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Madgwick
/pol/tard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: /pol/tards
form: pol-tard
Etymology: From /pol/ - Politically Incorrect, an imageboard on 4chan. Taken from political to indicate /pol/'s main theme. Portmanteau with retard.
Senses: synonyms: /pol/lack
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: A habitual poster on the /pol/ - Politically Incorrect board on 4chan; a member of the /pol/ community.
/pol/lack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: /pol/lacks
form: pol-lack
form: /pol/ack
Etymology: From /pol/ - Politically Incorrect, an imageboard on 4chan; and the word Polack, a slur used against Polish people that depicts them as backwards.
Senses: synonyms: /pol/tard
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: A habitual poster on the /pol/ - Politically Incorrect board on 4chan; a member of the /pol/ community.
/r/obot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: /r/obots
Etymology: From Robot9000, an open-source chat moderation script created by the American cartoonist and author Randall Munroe, used by the board to temporarily mute members who post content identical to earlier content, used in order to discourage spam and low-effort posting.
Senses: glosses: A habitual poster on the /r9k/ - ROBOT9001 board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.
wikipedia: Randall Munroe
Robot9000
Dorseys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorsey
Haneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haney
rattler-jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattler-jumpers
Senses: glosses: A person who jumps the rattler.
rattler-jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattler-jumpings
Senses: glosses: An act or incident of jumping the rattler.
rattler-jumpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattler-jumping
rattler-jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattler-jumper
player's card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A casino loyalty card offering various benefits.
badmaash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badmaashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of badmash.
badmaashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badmaash
homoeopathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homeopathism.
homeopathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeopathism
Senses: glosses: Synonym of homeopathy.
synonyms: word: homeopathy
Kilgores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kilgore
goes to extraordinary lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to extraordinary lengths
isolatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isolato
going to extraordinary lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go to extraordinary lengths
went to extraordinary lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go to extraordinary lengths
gone to extraordinary lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go to extraordinary lengths
put oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts oneself out
form: putting oneself out
form: put oneself out
form: put oneself out
Senses: examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
M from upstairs has been sleeping on my couch. It's pretty easy to have him around—he puts himself out to do things for me like driving me to & from work etc.
glosses: Alternative form of put oneself about.
Kilgour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kilgours
form: Kilgore
form: Killgore
Etymology: Habitational surname from a place in Fife, from Scottish Gaelic coille (“wood”) + gobhar (“goat”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Kilgours
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kilgour
follows through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of follow through
following through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of follow through
followed through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of follow through
put oneself out of the way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts oneself out of the way
form: putting oneself out of the way
form: put oneself out of the way
form: put oneself out of the way
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put oneself about.
puts oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put oneself out
putting oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put oneself out
puts oneself out of the way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put oneself out of the way
putting oneself out of the way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put oneself out of the way
passgrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passgrips
Etymology: From pass + grip.
Senses: glosses: A special grip of the hand used by a freemason during a handshake, covertly communicating his freemason status to the other person.
passgrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passgrip
kitty's titties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the kitty's titties
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme, based on cat's meow.
Senses: examples: text: I wish I hadn't thrown out my > clown shoes...boo hoo. THOSE were the kitty's titties, yo-
ref: 1998 January 20, BaronVon, “my trip.”, in alt.punk (Usenet):
text: Hrm, which WMs did I use in the past? FVWM2, WM, BB, a few others that were supposed to be the kitty's titties but I uninstalled in about 5m flat because they were completely lacking.
ref: 2005 June 14, Steve C. Lamb, “Request for window manager recommendations”, in linux.debian.user (Usenet):
text: "Besides have you seen Homeland? That show is the kitty's titties," she added.
ref: 2013, The Quinnipiac Barnacle Staff, The Quinnipiac Barnacle 2012-2013, page 112:
text: According to Sylvester, the only chile commonly grown in Pima gardens was miitol vippi ko'okol, more frequently called just miitol vippi, which he glossed 'kitty's titties.'
ref: 2016, Amadeo M. Rea, At the Desert's Green Edge - An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, page 296:
glosses: Synonym of cat's meow.
synonyms: word: cat's meow
Logooli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Logoli
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Kenya and Tanzania, spoken by the Maragoli.
Logoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Logooli.
Treasure Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Treasure Coast
Etymology: Coined in the 1960s by John J. Schumann Jr. and Harry J. Schultz of the Vero Beach Press Journal, referring to the 1715 Treasure Fleet, lost off Sebastian, Florida.
Senses: glosses: A seaboard region comprising the Florida Atlantic coastal counties of Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin.
wikipedia: 1715 Treasure Fleet
Sebastian, Florida
Vero Beach Press Journal
Related terms: First Coast
Space Coast
Honeysuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Jamies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamie
Related terms: Jaimes
James
Jameses
shipped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ship out
shipping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ship out
powder-forte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A medieval spice mixture similar to powder-douce, but incorporating more pungent flavours such as pepper.
factographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factographers
Senses: glosses: A person involved in factography.
factographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factographer
nonassented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + assented.
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: unassented
glosses: Not assented.
postage codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postage code
noncoagulability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of not being coagulable.
noncommonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + commonable.
Senses: glosses: Not commonable.
uncommonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + commonable.
Senses: glosses: Not commonable.
uncommodifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of not being commodifiable.
noncommodifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of not being commodifiable.
noncolloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncolloids
Etymology: From non- + colloid.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a colloid.
noncolloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncolloid
nonconciliating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + conciliating.
Senses: glosses: Not conciliating.
nondetect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondetects
Etymology: From non- + detect.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A measurement in which the property or substance sought is not detected.
nondetects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondetect
unimbricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + imbricated.
Senses: glosses: Not imbricated.
nonimbricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + imbricated.
Senses: glosses: Not imbricated.
nonimbricate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + imbricate.
Senses: glosses: Not imbricate.
ale conner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ale conners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aleconner.
ale conners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ale conner
North Greenwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area on the Greenwich Peninsula, borough of Greenwich, Greater London, England, which gained this name about 1999 (OS grid ref TQ3979).
glosses: A former locality north of the Thames in the Isle of Dogs, London, now a part of Millwall (OS grid ref TQ3878).
buccinatores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buccinator
noninterchangeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of not being interchangeable.
nonintegrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + integrity.
Senses: glosses: Absence of integrity.
nonvinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vinous.
Senses: glosses: Not vinous.
nontutorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tutorial.
Senses: glosses: Not tutorial.
nonstooping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stooping.
Senses: glosses: Not requiring the user to stoop; applied to a bricklayer's scaffold that rises in height to match the wall as it is built.
nonsharing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sharing.
Senses: glosses: Not sharing.