cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cheersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheersome
form: most cheersome
Etymology: From cheer + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In more cheersome vein, there are young Edward's “boules,” which could not be “marbles,” although they so obviously are.
ref: 2008, Margaret Frazer, The Apostate's Tale:
text: More sarcastic than the last, Gallion answered back, “I see your cheersomemood has really blossomed on this ship.”
ref: 2013, Neil Martin, The Black Phoenix Cycle:
glosses: Characterised or marked by cheer
slivercasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sliver + broadcasting
Senses: examples: text: That’s bad news for those who have high hopes for “narrowcasting,” material aimed at small audiences interested in specific programs and, therefore, prime audiences for specific products — fitness, business, cooking, you name it. As 50- and 100-channel systems come into being, narrowcasting could become slivercasting. A shrinking audience will limit advertiser interest.
ref: 1982 May 24, Thomas O'Donnell, Jay Gissen, “A vaster wasteland?”, in Forbes:
text: Aimed at niche markets that take advantage of the long tail concept, slivercasting is the practice of showing TVstyle content on the web – and nowhere else.
ref: 2007, Alan Charlesworth, Key Concepts in e-Commerce, →ISBN:
text: The New York Times coined the term “slivercasting” to characterize the new sector of the media industry, and today there is slivercasting for vegans (VegTV), sailboat enthusiasts (Sail.tv), lovers of classic TV comedy (Yuks TV), the betrothed (The Knot TV), and even surgery buffs (OR Live).
ref: 2013, Ricky W. Griffin, Gregory Moorhead, Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations, →ISBN, page 509:
glosses: The delivery of video programming targeted at specialized niche audiences.
slivercasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Blend of sliver + broadcasting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slivercast
slivercast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slivercasts
Etymology: Back-formation from slivercasting.
Senses: examples: text: Yet slivercast services can be a valuable part of the basic cable package.
ref: 1989, Rajeev Batra, Rashi Glazer, Cable TV Advertising: In Search of the Right Formula, →ISBN, page 20:
text: The promises of interactive WebTV or downloadable “slivercasts” raise the possibility of dramatically altering how we watch and even use the television.
ref: 2006, Bart Beaty, Rebecca Sullivan, Canadian Television Today, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Because most viewers are accustomed to the way television delivers information, slivercasts are a logical extension of this format.
ref: 2007 June, Marcus Field, Vanessa Stoykov, “Online branding: the new frontier”, in InFinance: The Magazine for Finsia Members, volume 121, number 2:
glosses: A video program targetted at a niche market.
slivercast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slivercasts
form: slivercasting
form: slivercast
form: slivercast
form: slivercasted
form: slivercasted
Etymology: Back-formation from slivercasting.
Senses: examples: text: Also symptomatic of the new order of things has been the slivercasting of radio, television, and cyberspace audiences, as we have also noted above.
ref: 2011, Wilbur Zelinsky, Not Yet a Placeless Land: Tracking an Evolving American Geography, →ISBN:
glosses: To deliver a slivercast on TV or the internet.
slivercasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slivercast
slivercasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slivercast
babblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more babblesome
form: most babblesome
Etymology: From babble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Americans have yet to learn, that each generation must fight out its own good fight, and not rely for the preservation of its hardihood and independence, upon moth-eaten parchments nor on fraudulent statesmen, now in the graveyard — statesmen who spent their petty babblesome lives; not in doing heroic things, but in founding and enthroning the abominations that afflict us all to-day like a palsy. Our national hero-worship badly wants reconstruction.
ref: 2015, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right:
glosses: Characterised or marked by babbling
slivercasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of slivercast
slivercaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slivercasters
Senses: examples: text: The slivercasters must address another fundamental question: should they attempt to attract revenues from advertising support or from affiliate fees?
ref: 1989, Rajeev Batra, Rashi Glazer, Cable TV Advertising: In Search of the Right Formula, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Another Roo-based slivercaster is Yuks TV (www.yuks.com), started by Dailey Pike, a Los Angeles comedian who earns most of his money these days warming up studio audiences for sitcoms.
ref: 2006 March 12, Saul Hansell, “As Internet TV aims at niche audiences, the slivercast is born”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A business that distributes slivercasts.
slivercasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slivercaster
bubblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌbəlsəm/
rhymes: -ʌbəlsəm
Forms: form: more bubblesome
form: most bubblesome
Etymology: From bubble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Let us retreat, for the tired brook has ceased its song; And the bubblesome springs are drained of their copious weeping; And their cautious old hills have stored away their colourful garments.
ref: 1906, Kahlil Gibran, The Life of Love:
text: Once he'd had his wicked way with her bubblesome derriere atop the desk and his booted feet on the rug, Miss Bubbles shyly confessed she'd been saving another treat for him and suggested he haul down his tweed pants a mite more and [...]
ref: 2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270: Longarm and the Lady Bandit:
text: "Whither away, boys?" he asked; in his usual bubblesome manner.
ref: 2014, John Kendrick Bangs, The Booming of Acre Hill:
text: Nay, hush thee, hush! and listen to yon blithesome, bubblesome, babbling brook how it sigheth 'mid the willows, whispereth under reedy bank and laugheth, rogue-like, in the shallows!
ref: 2015, Jeffery Farnol, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn:
text: This air's like champagne, dry and bubblesome.
ref: 2016, The Old Farmer's Almanac 2017: Special Anniversary Edition:
glosses: Characterised by bubbles, bubbling, or bubbliness
Synonyms: abubble
bubbly
fizzy
effervescent
roarsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roarsome
form: most roarsome
Etymology: From roar + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by roaring.
goresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goresome
form: most goresome
form: gore-some
Etymology: From gore + -some.
Senses: examples: text: This gross and goresome act is certainly capable of turning the staunchest butcher's stomach, but still it pervades my very being and feeds my mental sails with its hot and hoary winds.
ref: 2000, Francis DiPietro, Nest: 28 Tales of Pulp Fiction:
glosses: Characterised or marked by gore
torturesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
enpr: tôr'chərsəm
ipa: /ˈtɔɹtʃəɹsəm/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈtɔːtʃəsəm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more torturesome
form: most torturesome
Etymology: From torture + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I was able to make a grab at the center rope with my toes. After a torturesome struggle, I pulled myself upright again. I hung there for a few seconds, then turned to see my Braves shouting encouragement and sending up birdlike wails.
ref: 2000, Steven Siebert, Cleopatra's Needle:
text: Instead of being a palate-tingling delight, these complex-carbohydrate foods in their natural state are a torturesome affair.
ref: 2012, Douglas Graham, The 80/10/10 Diet:
glosses: Characterised or marked by torture; torturous.
mist over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mists over
form: misting over
form: misted over
form: misted over
Senses: examples: text: As the moon misted over and disco music waned, the grooms and their new brides stepped out into the cool summer night, laden with kata, to give blessings and thanks to each departing guest.
ref: 2010 August 9, Madeline Uranek, “Double blessings: Weddings of two brothers connect modern Madison and traditional Tibet”, in Isthmus:
text: Kelly remarked that visibility was a huge problem on both stages as his windscreen misted over.
ref: 2012 June 3, “Colm Murphy secures victory in Munster Rally”, in RTE:
glosses: To become covered with mist.
examples: text: Shama had maintained her martyr’s attitude throughout, sitting on the low bench, her skirt draped over her knees, one hand supporting her chin, her staring eyes misting over with tears.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 3:
glosses: To become tearful.
examples: text: […] the play, rather than tingling with the anguish of a man torn between his country and his conscience, is merely misted over with sadness.
ref: 1969 April 4, “Television”, in Time:
glosses: To cover (something) as if with a mist.
PICS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Platform for Internet Content Selection: a former technology for protecting children from online adult content, etc.
glittersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glittersome
form: most glittersome
Etymology: From glitter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Most likely it is the wrench of leaving so glittersome and jovial an estate, which the learned doctor had in mind.
ref: 2007, Bouck White, The Carpenter and the Rich Man:
glosses: Characterised by glitter or glittering
ausbau
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Ausbau
Etymology: From German Ausbausprache.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the Hindi/Urdu situation was created by an ausbau process, not unlike the process which created Norwegian as distinct from Danish, and Afrikaans as distinct from Dutch.
ref: 1988, “Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindi-Urdu”, in Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter, editors, Languages and Cultures, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 745:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: Constituting a standard; being deliberately shaped and standardized; having the social, political, or legal status of a standard language.
raw_tags: of a language or dialect
Coordinate terms: abstand
Related terms: Ausbauization
ausbau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ausbaus
form: Ausbau
Etymology: From German Ausbausprache.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Hindi ausbau was created long before separation and thus had to compete with its model — a competition which could only succeed if the ausbau was made on the basis of the religious symbols of the 75% Hindu population.
ref: 1988, “Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindi-Urdu”, in Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter, editors, Languages and Cultures, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 745:
glosses: The process of standardizing a language; the resulting standard language.
blustersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blustersome
form: most blustersome
Etymology: From bluster + -some.
Senses: glosses: stormy and rainy with blustery winds
raw_tags: of weather
daudle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daudles
form: daudling
form: daudled
form: daudled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dawdle.
clustersome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clustersomes
Etymology: From cluster + -some.
Senses: examples: text: […] led to identification of the putative replicational machinery which underlies the proposed “clustersome”. […] Consistent with this clustersome model, DNA polymerase alpha, primase and other replicative components have been found associated with isolated nuclear matrix […]
ref: 2012, P.-C. Cheng, T.H. Lin, W.L. Wu, Multidimensional Microscopy:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cluster of replisomes
strugglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strugglesome
form: most strugglesome
Etymology: From struggle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “I think the last week here is just going to be strugglesome anyways.”
ref: 2010, Ralph Fletcher, Pyrotechnics on the Page:
glosses: Characterised or marked by struggling
scandalsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scandalsome
form: most scandalsome
Etymology: From scandal + -some.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, I'll think — when I get through this scandalsome play I" Nan laughed again.
ref: 1922, Youth's Companion, volume 96, page 6:
text: But right now I got to sucker some of the other boys for the management.... So, maybe later?” He just smiled and she flounced off in her scandalsome outfit to drink tea water at scandalsome prices with those she had down as poor working stiffs.
ref: 2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm 292: Longarm and the Lady Hustlers:
glosses: Characterised or marked by scandal; scandalous
wigglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡl̩səm/
ipa: /ˈwɪɡ(ə)lˌsəm/
Forms: form: more wigglesome
form: most wigglesome
Etymology: From wiggle + -some (suffix denoting things characterized by specific conditions or qualities, usually to a considerable degree).
Senses: examples: text: "She's as wigglesome and unsettled as ever a sailor on land, or a fish out of the sea," said Granny, […]
ref: 1866 August, “Little Gooseberry; or, The Book that Brought Bags of Gold”, in The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany, London: The Religious Tract Society […], →OCLC, page 201:
text: No 'm; Baby Palmer 's so squirmy and wigglesome!
ref: 1882, Sophie May [pseudonym; Rebecca Sophia Clarke], “Flaxie Stays to Tea”, in William T[aylor] Adams, editor, Our Little Ones: Illustrated Stories and Poems for Little People, London: Griffith and Farran (successors to Newbery & Harris,) […], →OCLC, page 10:
text: Our children are unusually wigglesome—something, anything to quiet them, and we deal out toothpicks, shoe pegs, or something equally as foolish, hoping that quiet will again be restored, forgetting that we are only amusing, or soothing our little friends, when we might be giving them pleasant seat work, that would make the thought of some previous lesson more fully alive in their little minds.
ref: 1899, Eva E. Mixer, “Original Devices for Interesting the Little Folks”, in Proceedings of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Nebraska State Teachers’ Association Held at Lincoln, Nebraska, December 27, 28 and 29, 1898, Fremont, Neb.: […] Fremont Tribune, →OCLC, page 119:
text: I wonder what she will say when she sees a certain pink parasol that I saw in that box, and a white sash with pink rosebuds on it, and slippers that I'm sure wouldn't fit anything else in the house but her own wigglesome little feet.
ref: 1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, “‘One Flew West’”, in The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, published February 1923, →OCLC, pages 56–57:
text: Of course I helped you, you wigglesome clunker!
ref: 1947–1948, Edward E[lmer] Smith, “Constance Out-Worsels Worsel”, in Children of the Lens (FP Science Fiction), Reading, Pa.: Fantasy Press, published 1954, →OCLC, page 101:
text: You would think that the problem with painting children is that they are so wigglesome you cannot take a likeness, but the real problem is that they don't have much in the way of features except big eyes and foreheads and round cheeks.
ref: 1996, Judith Merkle Riley, “[Introductory passage before chapter 10]”, in The Serpent Garden, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 116:
text: “Grander scale?” he repeated, this time allowing that wigglesome eyebrow to rise.
ref: 2016 November, David Weber, chapter 6, in Shadow of Victory, Riverdale, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 63:
synonyms: squirmy
wiggly
glosses: Characterized or marked by wiggling.
Related terms: wrigglesome
wrigglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡl̩səm/
ipa: /ˈɹɪɡ(ə)lˌsəm/
Forms: form: more wrigglesome
form: most wrigglesome
Etymology: From wriggle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I hear that you are without a wife at the present time. How would you like a wrigglesome bed-warmer, just fourteen and in the prime of her looks?
ref: 2015, Angus Donald, The King's Assassin:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wriggling
nigglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nigglesome
form: most nigglesome
Etymology: From niggle + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by niggling
caliculato-ramose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Both calicular and ramose
tricklesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tricklesome
form: most tricklesome
Etymology: From trickle + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by trickling
bleaksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleaksome
form: most bleaksome
Etymology: From bleak + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He heedeth not the bleaksome air /Whilst to his work he doth repair; [...]
ref: 1842, George King Matthews, Poems: to which is added, Belmont house, a play:
text: No student will be seen, / White-coated, fresh and green, / Trampling those bleaksome steps with groanings loud.
ref: 1901, St. Mary's Hospital Gazette
text: A bleaksome'n'dark choice to settle, Zachry, she replied.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bleakness; bleak
Trumpista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trumpistas
Etymology: From Trump + -ista.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Trumper
Trumpite
Trumpster
MAGAt
glosses: A Trumpist.
Trumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpi/
Forms: form: Trumpier
form: Trumpiest
Etymology: From Trump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Trouble was, that made him [Ron DeSantis] too Trumpy for those Republicans eager to move on, and not Trumpy enough for the Maga hardcore.
ref: 2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Characteristic of Donald Trump.
examples: text: Trump is in trouble. Trumpy Republicans want the real thing, not an imitation. Non-Trumpy Republicans just aren’t impressed.
ref: 2023 August 16, Jonathan Rauch, “Why Not Pence?”, in The Atlantic:
text: The Senate GOP has gotten much Trumpier in the eight years since Mr. Trump first won office.
ref: 2024 November 13, Cameron Joseph, “John Thune’s leadership win shows limits of MAGA’s reach in Senate”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Supportive of Donald Trump.
Derived terms: Trumpiness
Trumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpi/
Forms: form: Trumpies
Etymology: From Trump + -y.
Senses: glosses: A political supporter of Donald Trump.
Trumper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpɚ/
Forms: form: Trumpers
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Trümper.
* Occupational surname for one who played the horn or trumpet, from Old French trompeur.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German or Old French.
Trumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpɚ/
Forms: form: Trumpers
Etymology: From (Donald) Trump + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Political observers who say that Youngkin was a Never Trumper — proving the viability of that movement — are deluding themselves. He was a Stealth Trumper and Sorta Trumper who took pains not to offend or alienate Forever Trumpers.
ref: 2021 November 3, Frank Bruni, “There’s a New Wizard of Oz. It’s Donald Trump.”, in The New York Times:
text: But it wasn’t just Mr. Thune’s victory but the poor showing by the MAGA favorite in the race that signaled most Senate Republicans are still a breed apart from hardcore Trumpers.
ref: 2024 November 13, Cameron Joseph, “John Thune’s leadership win shows limits of MAGA’s reach in Senate”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: MAGA#Noun
Trumpian
Trumpist
Trumpista
Trumpite
Trumpster
glosses: A political supporter of Donald Trump or his MAGA movement.
Derived terms: non-Trumper
Related terms: never Trumper
never-Trumper
Never Trumper
Never-Trumper
Trump
Trumpet
Trumpette
Trumpian
Trumpist
Trumpista
Trumpite
Trumpster
sniggersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sniggersome
form: most sniggersome
Etymology: From snigger + -some.
Senses: examples: text: This was to be a minstrel show for the most sniggersome of private audiences, a minstrel show of the sort that would certainly receive a standing (or as near as they could manage) ovation at Papa Brinkman's club when tits and feathers and garters palled.
ref: 2001, Peter Rushforth, A Dead Language:
text: The former comprise placenames that were perfectly innocent once but which became funny (or sniggersome at least) with the passage of time; [...]
ref: 2013, Allan Brown, The Glasgow Smile:
glosses: Characterised or marked by sniggering
Trumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Trumpy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But if you put all these theories aside, and look instead at his personality, then something different emerges--not Trump, but Trumpiness.
ref: 2016, Martin Boroson, “The Rise of Trumpiness”, in Huffington Post:
text: The increased Trump-iness of the second debate, in 2 charts
ref: 2016, “The increased Trump-iness of the second debate, in 2 charts”, in Washington Post:
text: The overwhelming, suffocating, insurmountable Trumpiness may work at some place like Disney World, where the brand stands for decades of family-friendly, unadulterated joy.
ref: 2016, Emily Jane Fox, “Trump’S D.C. Hotel is a Frightful Dump — And A Scary Metaphor For The Trump Presidency”, in Vanity Fair:
text: If there were a cure for Trumpiness, the Koch brothers would be sneaking it into Trump’s soft drinks the way Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agents allegedly sneak polonium-210 into journalists’ cocktails.
ref: 2016, Jason Sattler, “Trump finds a foe he can beat in November: Trump”, in Visalia Times-Delta:
glosses: The property of being Trumpy, being like Donald Trump.
Cohenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cohenites
Etymology: From Cohen + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A fan of the musician Leonard Cohen.
Related terms: Cohenist
Cohenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cohenite
Cohenist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cohenist
form: most Cohenist
Etymology: From Cohen + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen or his ideas.
Synonyms: Cohenistic
Related terms: Cohenite
Cohenistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cohenistic
form: most Cohenistic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cohenist.
synonyms: word: Cohenist
vonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vonces
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish וואַנץ (vants, “bedbug”), by analogy to the English slang term roach. Attested since the 1950s.
Senses: glosses: Marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug.
examples: text: Last week, I was coming home in the secluded dark of the just-post-solstice Hudson River Greenway. I vaguely make out a... well, a vonce would be the correct term. A little annoying thing in my mirror.
ref: 2006 January 10, Andy Gee, “Two events having to do with China”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet):
text: “Promise you'll come and visit your tanteh soon or I won't let you go, my little vonce!” said his aunt, tightening her hold.
ref: 2005, Jack Henry Markowitz, The Practice and Other Stories and Selected Poems, →ISBN, page 49:
qualifier: Yiddish
glosses: Something or someone small and annoying. Used more as a term of endearment than a criticism.
Synonyms: sense: marijuana
word: marijuana
sense: something small and annoying
word: nuisance
vonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from German Schwanz (“tail, slang for penis”) or Yiddish שוואַנץ (shvants, “penis”).
Senses: examples: text: Like we first met' and Checking in a lot of Hotels with those Twin Beds, my my how Lucille + I suffered every time that we did the Vonce (sex) you know?
ref: 2001, Louis Armstrong, Thomas David Brothers, Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings, →ISBN:
text: When you ain't sharin' sex with the one you love, you jest havin' sex, or, like the young folk say, you doin' the nasty. Doin' the vonce, what they called it back in my day.
ref: 2001, Aine A. Thang, Ms. Thang's Guide to Fly, →ISBN, page 23:
text: ... Soldiers, but whatever it stood for, it was a place where we could drink our rum, smoke our cigarettes, and “do the vonce”—a nickname for making love.
ref: 2011, Clark Terry, Gwen Terry, Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Sexual activity.
examples: text: Re-hearing the Curtis Mayfield-avant soul of "Judgment", the proto-acid jazz groove vonce of "Tune Up", the neo-soul slow drag prophecy of "Rosemary Blue" (penned by Neil Sedaka!) 25 years later, I know now that I totally slept on a most seminal pop vocal album.
ref: 1999, Jazz Times - Volume 29, Issues 6-10, page 38:
text: "Man, when I was with Basie," he'd say, "we'd come up on the vonce, and the man would put the ding-ding here."
ref: 2009, George Wein, Nate Chinen, Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Blowin' out here would be more like wailing into the heavenly vonce, rather then huffing and puffing changes in a dark cellar.
ref: 2009, Skoot Larson, The Dig You Later, Alligator Blues: A Lars Lindstrom Zen-Jazz Mystery, →ISBN:
text: Feeling his vonce before the soulfully enspirited Baltimore congregation, Gordon counts off the tempo for “Blues Up and Down,” the ritualistic set-closer, “roaring out the blocks hotter than a bowl of three-alarm chili, expatiating inventive verse after verse until the total rings up to an astounding 40,” in the words of Hollis.
ref: 2012, The Complete Prestige Recordings of Dexter Gordon (liner notes):
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A state in which the musician produces great improvisation intuitively.
vonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vonces
Etymology: Uncertain; Possibly either of the etymologies listed above. Attested since the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: That "Legs," I hate it and the little vonce knows it, so of course he's hittin me where I live, my lousy bowlegs.
ref: 1963, Irvin Faust, Entering Angel's world: a student-centered casebook, page 57:
text: Is that strict, you fucking vonce? Sorry to use such language in front of a woman
ref: 2001, David Mamet, Heist, Burbank, CA: Warner Bros, →ISBN:
text: That little vonce – that cockroach – shouldn't be anywhere near my place.
ref: 2011, Linda Fairstein, Death Dance, →ISBN:
qualifier: term of abuse
glosses: A jerk; an unpleasant person.
vonce
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: See once.
Senses: examples: text: I vonce lov'd a maid, and vished much to tell her / I vanted to make her Mrs. Sam Veller
ref: 1843, William Evans Burton, The Yankee Among the Mermaids, and Other Waggeries and Vagaries, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, page 190:
text: Shoost tells me vonce, what kind of emigrashun talk you tinks it pe to say, coom now to dis country und vork, und vork, put pe so pig a fool ash to leave your appetite pehint ! Ish dat you tink for vat de revolooshun vas?
ref: 1889, Henry Whitcomb Holley, Random Shots at Living Targets, page 57:
text: The ship it must pe going vonce again now. You vill pe again careful that the bottom of the sea it does not come up to hit her und stick her fast vonce?
ref: 1920, Dillon Wallace, The Ragged Inlet Guards, Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of once, imitative of German-accented or non-native English.
Danava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit दानव (dānava).
Senses: glosses: Name of a race descending from Daksha. They were the sons of Danu, who in turn was a daughter of Daksha. Danu is connected with the waters of heavens and she is probably associated with the formless, primordial waters that existed prior to the creation.
weak reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak references
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: strong reference
glosses: A reference that does not protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector.
Hyponyms: reference
strong reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong references
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: weak reference
glosses: A reference that does protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector.
Hyponyms: reference
weak references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weak reference
strong references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong reference
phantom reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom references
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A weak reference, where the memory of the object could be reclaimed.
Hyponyms: reference
soft references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft reference
soft reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft references
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A weak reference that is garbage-collected less aggressively.
Hyponyms: reference
phantom references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantom reference
circular reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular references
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A series of references, where the last object references the first.
Hyponyms: reference
circular references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circular reference
forward reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forward references
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The actual use of an entity before any declaration.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of forward declaration.
synonyms: word: forward declaration
Hyponyms: sense: reference
word: 1
sense: declaration
word: 2
forward references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forward reference
Dharmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)mɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪk
Forms: form: more Dharmic
form: most Dharmic
form: dharmic
Etymology: From Dharma + -ic, influenced by Sanskrit धार्मिक (dhārmika).
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or practicing Dharmism.
glosses: Pertaining to dharma.
antonyms: adharmic
glosses: Aligned with dharma.
glosses: Of Indian or Eastern origin, especially in a religious context.
Dharmic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)mɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪk
Forms: form: Dharmics
form: dharmic
Etymology: From Dharma + -ic, influenced by Sanskrit धार्मिक (dhārmika).
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of the philosophy of Dharmism.
allylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of allylate
arylsulfonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylsulfonyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aryl sulfonyl radical
Related terms: arylsulfonylation
botryococcene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botryococcenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of triterpene hydrocarbons, produced by the alga Botryococcus braunii, that have applications as biofuel.
botryococcenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botryococcene
bromamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The bromo derivative of ammonia H₂NBr
carbonazidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonazidates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The azido-carboxylate anion or group N⁻=N⁺=N-COO-; any salt or ester of this anion/group
carbonazidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonazidate
carboxyanhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxyanhydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid anhydride of a carboxylic acid
carboxyanhydrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxyanhydride
carboxybenzyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical -COO-CH₂-C₆H₅
chrysanthemyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from chrysanthemol
chrysanthemol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyclopropane alcohol 2,2-dimethyl-3-(2-methylpropenyl)cyclopropanemethanol
Synonyms: chrysanthemyl alcohol
copolypeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copolypeptides
Etymology: From co- + polypeptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polypeptide that is a copolymer
copolypeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copolypeptide
deflavination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + flavination.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of flavin moieties, especially from a flavoprotein
florivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: florivores
Etymology: From flori- + -vore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that consumes flowers as the main part of its diet
Derived terms: florivorous
florivory
florivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florivore
fluoroaryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroaryls
Etymology: From fluoro- + aryl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluoro derivative of an aryl radical
Balaam basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balaam baskets
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: A receptacle for rejected articles.
Synonyms: Balaam box
Balaam baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Balaam basket
guanylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guanylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Conversion (especially of an amine) into a guanidine
haloamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloamines
Etymology: From halo- + amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-halogen-substituted amine
Related terms: haloamide
bromoamine
chloroamine
fluoroamine
iodoamine
heteronucleation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteronucleations
Etymology: From hetero- + nucleation.
Senses: glosses: heterogeneous nucleation (for example, caused by particles of impurities)
hydroxysqualene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxysqualenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydroxy derivative of squalene, but especially 12-hydroxysqualene or 26-hydroxysqualene
imidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imidations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Conversion (especially of an amine) into an imide
Derived terms: sulfimidation
iminoiodinane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iminoiodinanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hypervalent iodine compound of general formula R-N=I-R'
iminoiodinanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iminoiodinane
levomilnacipran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌliː.vəˌmɪlˈnæs.əˌpɹæn/
Etymology: From levo- + milnacipran.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor used to treat major depressive disorders.
mechanochromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A change in colour of a solid when under mechanical stress
Related terms: mechanochromic
methoxystyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methoxystyrenes
Etymology: From methoxy- + styrene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methoxy derivative of styrene, but especially 4-methoxystyrene
Synonyms: vinylanisole
hold onto your hat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: hold on to your hat
Senses: examples: text: Hold onto your hat—intersecting planes are planes that cross, or intersect.
ref: 2011, Mark Ryan, Geometry Essentials For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 14:
synonyms: hang onto your hat
glosses: One should prepare for a surprise or shock.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, onto, hat.
nosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of nitrobenzenesulfonyl.
synonyms: word: nitrobenzenesulfonyl
Related terms: nosylate
oligophenylenevinylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligophenylenevinylenes
Etymology: From oligo- + phenylenevinylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomer of phenylenevinylene
Related terms: polyphenylenevinylene
oligophenylenevinylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligophenylenevinylene
oxene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The monatomic diradical -O- derived from oxygen
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric, six-membered heterocycles containing one oxygen atom and one double bond
oxenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxene
pentablock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + block.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a block copolymer composed of five different monomers
pentamorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentamorphs
Etymology: From penta- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: A polymorph that has five forms
phosgenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosgenations
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with phosgene (or with triphosgene)
photoisomerizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + isomerizable.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to undergo photoisomerization
isomerizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to undergo isomerization
Derived terms: photoisomerizable
polyammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyammoniums
Etymology: From poly- + ammonium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protonated polyamine
presqualene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + squalene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A metabolic precursor of squalene composed of two farnesyl moieties
`lt`g`gt`
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: Call me old fashioned, but the cyberdong virtual dildo just didn't do it for me. […] PS= Does that make the cyberdong a dildon't? ... okay I apologize '
ref: 2007 May 12, FastWolf, “Re: Re: i like paris hilton (off topic, am i ever on topic?)”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet; in English), message-ID <ft2d43t7k9injhqvlhfssg5c8n89eejim3@4ax.com>
text: My soninlaw's Dad (lives here too) has had season tix to the Red Sox all his life and he bet on the Red Sox to go to the World Series before the season started. He is now VERY RICH ' because of that bet!
ref: 2004 October 22, Thankyou4beinAFriend, “Going NUTS here!!”, in alt.wisdom (Usenet):
glosses: A grin.
dildon't
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dildon'ts
Etymology: Blend of dildo + don't.
Senses: examples: text: Call me old fashioned, but the cyberdong virtual dildo just didn't do it for me. […] PS= Does that make the cyberdong a dildon't? ... okay I apologize <g>
ref: 2007 May 12, FastWolf, “Re: Re: i like paris hilton (off topic, am i ever on topic?)”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet), message-ID <ft2d43t7k9injhqvlhfssg5c8n89eejim3@4ax.com>:
text: She can't. The big strap-on dildo she's wearing for the day will get in the way!
And when its batteries run out, it becomes a dildon't!
ref: 2010 August 31, Nemo, “Re: Women's Equality Day”, in alt.humor.puns (Usenet), message-ID <uHZeo.2695$w13.2148@newsfe08.ams2>:
text: [the link points to an NSFW webcomic]
We've tried a few dilDON'Ts in our life... But I assure you that [dildo brand names] are our top two dilDOs.
ref: 2015 November 28, Erika Moen, Matthew Nolan, “The Toys That Live in our Bedroom”, in Oh Joy Sex Toy, retrieved 11 Nov 2016:
glosses: A poor-quality dildo.
dildon'ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dildon't
race-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more race-blind
form: most race-blind
form: raceblind
Etymology: From race + blind.
Senses: glosses: Having no regard as far as considerations of race or racial characteristics are concerned; color blind
glosses: Having difficulty in telling members of another race apart (as in eyewitnesses)
Derived terms: race-blindness
race-blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raceblindness
form: race blindness
Etymology: From race-blind + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being race-blind; colour-blindness
Big Red One
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Big Red One
Etymology: The shoulder insignia of this unit is emblazoned with a red numeral one.
Senses: glosses: The United States 1st Infantry Division.
Cassi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tribe of Iron Age Britain in the first century BCE, known only from a brief mention in the writings of Julius Caesar.
Darios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dario
Empordà
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Girona, Catalonia.
cupidinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cupidinous
form: most cupidinous
Etymology: From Latin *cupīdinōsus, from cupīdō, cupīdinis (“desire; greed”).
Senses: glosses: Characterized by or related to cupidity (greed, desire for wealth).
Derived terms: cupidinously
Fígols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Catalan Fígols.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Berguedà, Barcelona
sound plural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound plurals
Etymology: Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).
Senses: antonyms: broken plural
glosses: In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, “Muslims”), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَاتٌ (muslimātun, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun).
full angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full angles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: round angle
full angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full angle
complete angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complete angles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: round angle
complete angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complete angle
Khas Nepali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Khas-Nepali.
Vlachic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vlachic
form: most Vlachic
Etymology: From Vlach + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Vlachs.
whitelash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)waɪtlæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: whitelashes
form: white lash
form: white-lash
Etymology: Blend of white + backlash.
Senses: examples: text: This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.
ref: 1970 January 24, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7:
text: There are four ‘whitelash’ bills currently before Congress, designed to seriously undermine Native American rights [and] sovereignty, and treaty land.
ref: 1996, “'The Lash', 1977”, in Classroom Activities on Wisconsin Indian Treaties and Tribal Sovereignty, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, →ISBN, page 266:
text: for more on 'whitelash' reactions to militant black writing.
ref: 2000, David Myles Jones, A "new Breed" of Black Consciousness: Re-reading Gender, Ideology, and Generational Change in Neo-black Literature and Criticism, 1965-1975, Volume 2, University of Minnesota, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 406:
text: There has been a particularly acute white backlash or 'whitelash' in the United States against affirmative action programmes which promote women and black men.
ref: 2001, Fiona Mackay, Love and Politics: Women Politicians and the Ethics of Care, Continuum, →ISBN, page 75; n. 3.:
text: See how the white-lash gave Blacks and Latinos the blues! No way to claim investment profits shareholders lose!
ref: 2010, William Hairston, Suburban-Ghetto: A Novel, →ISBN, page 56:
text: The best example of this is when CNN's Van Jones characterized Trump's election as revenge, or a 'whitelash,' against black voters, who overwhelmingly voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
ref: 2016, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Building a Multiracial Movement in the Trump Era”, in Anand Gopal, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Owen Jones, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editors, The Anti-Inauguration: Building resistance in the Trump era, Haymarket Books, →ISBN:
text: My sense is that even Obama didn't see Trump coming; he didn't see the full extent of the whitelash. And it is that whitelash, the likes of which we have yet to see fully, that drives home the fierce urgency of now.
ref: 2017, George Yancy, On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
text: And while many accomplishments exist for celebrating during the Obama years, specifically in the midst of a Trump whitelash, Obama's immigration policies have been devastating to migrants south of the border
ref: 2018, Miguel A. De La Torre, “Chapter 11: Deporter-in-Chief: Why Reject Christian Hospitality?”, in Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Anthony B. Pinn, editors, Religion in the Age of Obama, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: blacklash
glosses: A backlash by white people against other ethnicities.
white-lash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-lashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whitelash.
revoltades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revoltade
menstrual sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstrual sponges
Senses: glosses: A sponge designed to be inserted into the vagina, to absorb menstrual blood.
menstrual sponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menstrual sponge