cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
any thing
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: 1600, translation attributed to Thomas Nashe, The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by Tomaso Garzoni, London: Edward Blount, Discourse 6, pp. 32-33,
The intemperature of the braine is the cause of al this (as phisitions affirme) which maketh all the officiall, and functiue parts full of heauines and indisposition, and so through this hebetude (to vse their terme) vnapt to keepe in minde any thing.
text: I am not sensible of having done any thing wrong in walking over Mrs. Smith’s grounds, or in seeing her house.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 161:
text: The driver […] neither knew any thing, said any thing, or did any thing but watch a dozen equine ears, and keep six reins taut in his hands, and coax the off wheel[-]horse with the belly of his whip-lash every two minutes, invariably accompanying the stroke with a tremendous solitary cluck.
ref: 1869 September, E. P. Willard, “A Night and a Day on the Sierra Nevada”, in The Western Monthly, volume II, number 9, Chicago, Ill.: Reed, Browne & Co., publishers, No. 18 Tribune Building, →OCLC, page 179, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of anything.
examples: text: All this may clarify what I mean by the other thing, by the distinction between object and thing, but such clarity comes, of course, at the expense of the local detail where any thing occurs.
ref: 2015, Bill Brown, “Things—in Theory”, in Other Things, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2019, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, thing.
Irkutskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Irkutsk + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: By far the most exciting occasion in the Irkutskian social calendar for 1891 was the visit of the Tsarevich (later Nicholas II) who only stayed a day but still had time to visit the museum, the gold-smelting laboratory and the monastery, […]
ref: 1994 April, Bryn Thomas, Trans-Siberian Handbook, 3rd edition, Hindhead: Trailblazer Publications, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: Of or relating to the city of Irkutsk, Russia.
Irkutskian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irkutskians
Etymology: From Irkutsk + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Today's Irkutskians are rather better behaved, although mafia-related crime is on the increase. A city of over half a million, Irkutsk is still one of the largest suppliers of furs to the world markets, although engineering is now the main industry.
ref: 1994 April, Bryn Thomas, Trans-Siberian Handbook, 3rd edition, Hindhead: Trailblazer Publications, →ISBN, pages 162–163:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Irkutsk, Russia.
Irkutskians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irkutskian
blunder'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: So, as the Devil would have it, before I was aware, out I blunder’d, / Parſon, ſaid I, can you caſt a Nativity, when a Body’s plunder’d?
ref: 1708, [Jonathan Swift], “To Their Excellencies, &c. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who Must Starve, and Die a Maid, if It Miscarries.”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 13:
text: But in this matter it is you who are to lead. You must set the example,—If others have blunder’d, it is your place to put them right, and shew them what true delicacy is.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 293:
text: Some people thought the ship was lost, and some / That he had somehow blunder’d into debt, / And did not like the thoughts of steering home; […]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, The Works of Lord Byron, volume II, London: John Murray, […], page 454:
text: “Forward, the Light Brigade!” / Was there a man dismay’d? / Not tho’ the soldier knew / Some one had blunder’d: / Their’s not to make reply, / Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die, / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 6, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 162:
glosses: simple past and past participle of blunder
rly.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A rly. is in course of construction from Poti to Tiflis. When completed, it will attract a great number of tourists to the Caucasus, a fuller description of which must be reserved for a new edition.
ref: 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 320:
related: word: rly
glosses: Abbreviation of railway.
Erh-li-t'ou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 二里頭 (Èrlǐtóu), Wade–Giles romanization: Êrh⁴-li³-tʻou².
Senses: examples: text: Of the other Honan sites reported since 1954 which have been assigned to the Erh-li-t'ou culture, none are as rich as Erh-li-t'ou itself.
ref: 1979, Katheryn McAllister Linduff, “Local Styles”, in Tradition, Phase and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 111:
text: The Shang civilization itself arose in a relatively small area of western Honan province. At Erh-li-t’ou and Cheng-chou excavations have documented the transition from the Lung-shan to the earliest stage of the Shang. Erh-li-t’ou has yielded evidence of bronze metallurgy, a highly stratified society, craft specialization and the presence of large structures with pounded earth (hang-t’u) foundations.
ref: 1980, Donn Bayard, “East Asia in the Bronze Age”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168, column 1:
text: Until recently, the Hsia Dynasty was considered a purely mythic expression of Chinese prehistory, but archaeological finds in the 1970s established its reality. According to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China,¹ its capital was at Erh-li-t'ou in Honan Province.
ref: 1998, Herbie Brennan, Martian Genesis: the Extraterrestrial Origins of the Human Race, Piatkus, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 172–173:
glosses: Alternative form of Erlitou.
Geranios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geranioses
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
shrub ox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrub oxen
Senses: glosses: Euceratherium, an extinct bovid related to the muskox
stag moose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stag moose
Senses: glosses: Cervalces scotti, an extinct species of large deer that lived in North America.
null-gravs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of null-grav
Demopoulos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Demopouloses
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Δημόπουλος (Dimópoulos). Variant of Dimopoulos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Dukakis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dukakises
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Δουκάκης (Doukákis).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Related terms: Doukakis
Doukakis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doukakises
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Δουκάκης (Doukákis).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek surname Δουκάκης (Doukákis).
Related terms: Dukakis
smh one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smhes one's head
form: smh one's head
form: smhing one's head
form: smh one's head
form: smhed one's head
form: smhed one's head
form: smh one's head
form: smh one's head
Etymology: From smh (“shaking my head”), humorously reinterpreted as a verb.
Senses: examples: text: how could you do this... smhing my head rn
text: he smh his head and went back to solving his crossword
text: Hold up, I need to use the ATM machine.[…]I forgot my personal PIN number. SMH my head. Lemme go inside the bank, I'll BRB right back ASAP as possible.
ref: 2022 June 2, Cyanide & Happiness:
glosses: Alternative form of SMH.
Glassey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
year-rounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: year-rounders
form: all-the-year-rounder
form: all-year-rounder
Etymology: From year-round + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 1921, The Literary Digest, Volume 69, 30 April, 1921, “Nantucket’s Losing Fight against the Motor-Car,” p. 48,
Next “season” this order [banning cars] was modified to cover only the summer months—a safe enough proviso, since no year-rounder had descended to interest in motor-driven vehicles.
text: That’s how you could tell the newcomers from the old-timers among the summer people—anyone who called it Spiro’s wasn’t around two summers ago. Of course, the all-year-rounders called the place by its original name, Smith’s Dock.
ref: 1981, Robert Lipsyte, Summer Rules,, New York: Harper & Row, page 88:
text: […] many year-rounders have a lot of friends who are part-time Florida residents and who they miss during the off-season.
ref: 1991, Barbara Brumm LaFreniere, Edward N. LaFreniere, chapter 2, in The Complete Guide to Life in Florida, Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, page 21:
text: The few families who owned holiday homes were at the top, then came those who could afford to put up at hotels […] then there were the house renters, and then us. All-the-year-rounders did not figure in this hierarchy; villagers in general […] were a class apart, their presence no more than the blurred background to our intenser, sun-shone-upon doings.
ref: 2005, John Banville, The Sea, London: Picador, Part 1, pp.108-109:
synonyms: local#Noun
coordinate_terms: snowbird
summerite
sunbird
glosses: A person who lives in a place throughout the year (as opposed to a seasonal vacationer).
examples: text: Herbs have their season, they sing of spring! The onion is an all-year-rounder, but in winter, above all, it is a little of the earth’s springtime preserved in its fleshy bulb.
ref: 1973, Robert Courtine, The Hundred Glories of French Cooking, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 330:
text: The Holy Grail is a suit that earns the privilege of becoming a “year-rounder”—that is, light enough to breathe comfortably in the summer months but with ample girth to get its wearer through a winter in the Great Lakes region.
ref: 2004, Peter Hyman, The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life, New York: Villard Books, Chapter , p. 237:
glosses: Something suitable for use throughout the year.
year-rounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of year-rounder
storm-swept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more storm-swept
form: most storm-swept
form: storm swept
form: stormswept
Senses: examples: text: With the sea below us grey and storm swept, and the coast line vague in the driving rain, we forged our way up the bank to breast the summit at 37 m.p.h.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
glosses: Usually relating to coastlines or sea areas affected by storms that sweep in or across.
Related terms: windswept
Macabebe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pampanga, Philippines.
wheeling around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wheel around
nibe croaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nibe croakers
Senses: glosses: A marine fish found near Japan and in the East China Sea, Nibea mitsukurii.
Related terms: croaker
Sciaenidae
poisonpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poisonpies
Senses: glosses: A mushroom of the genus Hebeloma
arrowweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowweeds
Etymology: From arrow + weed.
Senses: glosses: Pluchea sericea, a North American shrub.
nimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nimble
nimbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nimble
nimbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nimble
BHL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Hockey League.
glosses: Initialism of Biodiversity Heritage Library.
BHL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of bleeding-heart libertarianism.
Puttenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English personal name Putta, genitive case Puttan + hām (“homestead, settlement”).
Senses: glosses: An English surname.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Dacorum borough, Hertfordshire, England.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Surrey, England.
nibe croakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nibe croaker
luxier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of luxe: more luxe
luxest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of luxe: most luxe
luxiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of luxe: most luxe
Javel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Javel.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Paris, France.
Derived terms: Javel water
Auteuil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Auteuil.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Paris, France.
glosses: A commune of Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A commune of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, France.
Related terms: Auteuillois
Chaillot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Chaillot.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Paris, France.
Montparnasse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Montparnasse.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Paris, France.
Usenetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Usenetian
form: most Usenetian
form: Usenettian
Etymology: From Usenet + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This is a nice, theoretical Usenetian argument. The problem is that we would need much, MUCH better crystal balls to predict these things.
ref: 1992 November 11, Peter Nelson, “Protectionism as investment”, in sci.econ (Usenet):
text: | This is really approaching theater of the absurd proportions....
Or, in modern-day terms, this is rapidly approaching Usenetian proportions... ;)
ref: 1994 October 26, Dianne Hackborn, “Ignore Ford Thaxton, maybe...”, in sci.econ (Usenet), retrieved 21 Mar 2023:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Usenet.
Usenetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Usenetians
form: Usenettian
Etymology: From Usenet + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Now imagine that someone wanders into your house and starts loudly lecturing your about the miraculous benefits of vitamin C. You would probably, being a polite Usenetian, ask this person to leave.
ref: 1994 April 23, Andrew Lias, alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: lol, Derek, thanks for the window-washing. I can see more clearly now that the dust is gone. Hi, you Usenetian, you...
ref: 2000 March 15, zoe_a...@my-deja.com, “OZONE layer -- its history?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 21 Mar 2023:
glosses: A user of Usenet.
Synonyms: Usenetite
Usenetizen
Usenetter
Usenetians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Usenetian
Hintsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hintsas
Senses: glosses: A surname
la la
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɑ˨ ˈlɑ˦/
Forms: form: lala
form: la-la
Etymology: From Hokkien 啦啦 (la-la), a reduplication of 蜊 (lâ, “clam”).
Senses: examples: text: For good measure, a serving of "la la" clams adds decoration and a pleasant brininess.
ref: 2017 September 18, Jaime Ee, “Fresh seafood delights from farm to fork at Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong”, in The Straits Times:
glosses: Venus clams (as food)
Related terms: english: ark clams
translation: ark clams
word: hum
goose-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goose-like
form: most goose-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gooselike.
polymacrocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymacrocycles
Senses: glosses: A polymer containing a macrocycle.
Moshchun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Мощу́н (Moščún).
Senses: glosses: A village in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Chornobaivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Чорноба́ївка (Čornobájivka).
Senses: glosses: A village in Kherson Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine.
Kirschenman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kirschenmans
Etymology: A rarer respelling of Kirschenmann, from German Kirschenmann. Ultimately from Middle High German.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kirschenmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kirschenmanns
form: Kirschenman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kirschenmann. Ultimately from Middle High German.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glabrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A neurotoxin produced by Cnestis polyphylla and Rourea minor with IUPAC name 4,5-dihydroxy-1-methylpiperidine-2-carboxylic acid
fridgesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fridgeful
Staten Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Staten Islanders
Etymology: From Staten Island + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Come on, now, you’re gonna make everybody believe that old saw about Staten Islanders talking too much.”
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 94:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Staten Island, New York.
Staten Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Staten Islander
fraudstress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fraudster + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps we should also have the concept of fraudstress or, if we are to eliminate such terminology from out^([sic]) vocabulary, we should talk about a fraud person.
ref: 1986, Great Britain Parliament, House of Commons, Official Report of the Standing Committees, page 25, column 2:
text: […] 25-year-old benefit fraudstress […]
ref: 1995, Fortean Times, page 18:
text: After all, there have must have been at least a dozen American serial killers who used newspaper personal and want ads to locate potential victims. They were essential to the modi operandi of Belle Gunness, the turn-of-the-century Western insurance fraudstress who may have killed 40 people before disappearing mysteriously, […]
ref: 2009 May 15, Colby Cosh, “From Craigslist to Johns’ List”, in National Post, volume 11, number 166, page A15:
text: She was quite certain now there was a divine conspiracy to expose her for who and what she really was—Katherine Baxter, hopelessly on-the-shelf spinster, and just as hopelessly inept fraudstress—and banish her back to Bellingham Hall where she’d never see the light of day again.
ref: 2013, Karen Lingefelt, chapter 3, in Wagered to the Duke, Siren-BookStrand, →ISBN, page 35:
text: The sources, however, tell a different story, that of a fraudstress [Diana Stewart] who adapted to her circumstances like a chameleon in order to make a living, relying on female networks to gain credibility, and in the process hoodwinking both the Royalists and [John] Thurloe, while managing to keep her sexual reputation intact.
ref: 2018, Nadine Akkerman, “The Credibility and Archival Silence of She-Intelligencers: Women on the Council of State’s Payroll”, in Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74:
text: The cast of characters she [Annette Messager] embodied in her projects included “the practical woman”, “the collector”, “the fraudstress” and “the artist”.
ref: 2022, Olga Smith, “1970s: Engagement and Subjectivity”, in Contemporary Photography in France: Between Theory and Practice (The Lieven Gevaert Series), Leuven University Press, →ISBN, section “Mythologies of the Self: Photography in Artistic Practices”, page 49:
glosses: A female fraudster.
wooden leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooden legs
Senses: synonyms: word: timber-toe
glosses: A stick used as a substitute for somebody who has lost a leg; a peg-leg.
Derived terms: wooden-legged
wooden legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooden leg
Mount Everest syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Resist falling prey to the “Mount Everest syndrome” of inserting images simply because you can.
ref: 1996, Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy, HTML: The Definitive Guide, O’Reilly & Associates, →ISBN, page 189:
text: “People have been interested in Indian land ever since they knew it was there. Sort of like the Mount Everest syndrome, I guess.”
ref: 2014, Nancy Morse, chapter 8, in Sacred Places, →ISBN, page 97:
text: The regime turn in IR started with Robert Keohane (1969) accusing UN studies of suffering from a ‘Mount Everest syndrome’. It is not sufficient, he argued, to study the UN because it is there.
ref: 2017, Rafael Biermann, “The Role of International Bureaucracies”, in Rafael Biermann, Joachim A. Koops, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, section 3 (Theories and Approaches), page 250:
glosses: Alternative form of Everest syndrome.
Mt. Everest syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There exists in medicine, as in most pursuits, a certain degree of the Mt. Everest syndrome: When asked why he climbed the mountain, an adventurer replied, "Because it is there." It is useful to pause in our enthusiasm to label and ask ourselves to what end we do it.
ref: 1978, Iatrogenesis: Just What the Doctor Ordered, The Rand Corporation, page 12:
text: When it is in the anterior chamber, the lens can and should be easily extracted for the reasons just given and not because of Chandler’s “Mt. Everest syndrome” (the urge to meet and conquer a challenge).
ref: 1979, Nicholas G. Douvas, editor, Symposium on Cataracts: Transactions of the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology, Mosby, →ISBN, page 170:
text: He suggests that it is probably due to the Mt. Everest syndrome at work, i.e., the TPS metric was “there.”
ref: 1990, Capacity Management Review, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of Everest syndrome.
eat the mic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats the mic
form: eating the mic
form: ate the mic
form: eaten the mic
Senses: examples: text: The sound engineer, frustrated with constantly having to adjust the levels, told the singer to eat the mic.
glosses: To speak or sing with one's mouth close to, or in contact with, a microphone.
ate the mic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of eat the mic
eats the mic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat the mic
eating the mic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat the mic
Knightley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪ.tli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
Forms: form: Knightleys
Senses: glosses: A surname
hepatic tanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatic tanagers
Senses: glosses: A bird native to the Americas, Piranga flava
hepatic tanagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatic tanager
apotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apotope
apotransaminases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apotransaminase
apovitellenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apovitellenin
apparators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apparator
appendant bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendant body
appendicostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicostomy
appendicovesicostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicovesicostomy
sleeeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […]instead the grandmother began to croon in a lullaby voice, "Little one eye sleeeeep, Little one eye sleeeeeep, Little one eye sleeeeeep. Little one eye sleeeeeep.
ref: 2006, Sandra Stokes, One Eye Sleep, page 185:
text: sleeeeeeep
flour egg marmalade
sleeeeeeep
 flour egg marma — TUG
 sleeeep
ref: 2011, Allan Wolf, The Watch that Ends the Night, page 181:
glosses: Elongated form of sleep.
appersonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appersonation
applauzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applauze
apple moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple moth
apple roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple rose
applecores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applecore
apprehendees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apprehendee
approach shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approach shoe
aquaglycoporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquaglycoporin
Girdle Ness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:
glosses: A headland in Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9705).
light house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light houses
Senses: examples: text: Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of lighthouse.
Arabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arabber
light houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light house
Arabian ostriches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arabian ostrich
arabinofuranosyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinofuranosyltransferase
arabinogalactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinogalactin
CoCo bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CoCo bonds
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A contingent/convertible bond; a fixed income bond which can be converted into equity if certain trigger conditions are met.
CoCo bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CoCo bond
top snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top snails
Senses: glosses: A topshell (Trochidae spp. etc.)
top shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top shells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of topshell.
topsnail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topsnails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top snail.
waxes down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wax down
waxing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wax down
waxed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wax down
Totland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, England; the westernmost parish on the island (OS grid ref SZ3286).
skales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skale
masked crimson tanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masked crimson tanagers
Senses: glosses: A bird native to South America, Ramphocelus nigrogularis
masked crimson tanagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masked crimson tanager
Coltness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8056).
southern masked weaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern masked weavers
Senses: glosses: A bird native to Africa, Ploceus velatus
southern masked weavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern masked weaver
Bengali script
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengali scripts
Senses: glosses: The Bengali alphabet.
qualifier: more precisely
glosses: The script (set of symbols) rooted in the Bengali alphabet of Bengal, it corresponds to a family of alphabets rather than a single alphabet.
Bengali alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengali alphabets
Senses: glosses: The 46-letter abugida, consisting of 11 vowels and 35 consonants.
Synonyms: word: Bengali script
sense: ISO 15924
word: Beng
Beng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ben
Senses: glosses: A Mande language of Ivory Coast.
Related terms: Ah Beng
Milnwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An eastern suburb of Bellshill, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7459).
Gartsherrie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7266).
Virginia rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virginia rails
Senses: glosses: A small waterbird in the family Rallidae, of species Rallus limicola.
Virginia rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Virginia rail
night adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night adders
Senses: glosses: An African viper of the genus Causus.
Ramzan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramzans
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani रमज़ान (ramzān) / رمضان (ramzān) / Bengali রমজান (romzan) and other South Asian languages, from Classical Persian رمضان (ramazān), from Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān).
Senses: examples: text: In Hyderabad, the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee meets on the 29th of Ramzan to declare when Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated. Their decision is based on the sighting of the crescent.
ref: 2023 April 18, Sameer Khan, “Know Eid-ul-Fitr holidays in Telangana”, in The Siasat Daily:
glosses: Alternative form of Ramadan.
glosses: A male given name.
aanchal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aanchals
form: anchal
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi आँचल (ā̃cal), from Sanskrit अञ्चल (añcala).
Senses: examples: text: 'it behoves you to act in accordance with your age. It's time to let go of your mother's aanchal and set up house with your wife; it seems shameful for you to still behave like a little boy.'
ref: 2012, Rabindranath Tagore, Chokher Bali, India: Random House, page 5:
synonyms: pallu
glosses: The end of a sari that hangs loose over the shoulder.
Glanzmann's thrombasthenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Eduard Glanzmann (1887-1959), the Swiss pediatrician who originally described it.
Senses: glosses: A rare coagulopathy in which the blood platelets contain defective or low levels of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GpIIb/IIIa), which is a receptor for fibrinogen.
Ivys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ivy
NCLT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of noncirculating legal tender.
oppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppie
sepultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sepultural
form: most sepultural
Etymology: From sepulture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: If the sepultural spot could be ascertained, he would erect a stately monument over it.
ref: 1789, J. Lewis’s Mem. Dk. Glocester, page 72; quoted in “Sepultural”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 483, column 2:
text: No remains of sepultural enclosure were discernible.
ref: 1821 January 14, “Provincial Intelligence”, in John Bull, number 5, page 40, column 1:
text: Besides the works already described, [Pierre] Belon published a history of conifers and a treatise on the funeral monuments and sepultural usages of the ancients and the substances used by them for the preservation of bodies.
ref: 1889, “Sketch of Pierre Belon”, in William J[ay] Youmans, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume XXXIV, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], page 697:
glosses: Of or pertaining to sepulture.
conneg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While this is very useful to help service different types of clients, it's not the main purpose of conneg.
ref: 2009, Bill Burke, RESTful Java with JAX-RS, page 115:
text: In this exercise, you will override conneg and let ASP.NET Web API use the media formatter that you specify to serialize the resource.
ref: 2013, Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan, Practical ASP.NET Web API, page 66:
glosses: Abbreviation of content negotiation.
gelotological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to gelotology.
muthah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muthahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutha (“muthafucka”).
muthahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muthah
young fogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young fogies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of young fogey.
young fogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of young fogy
cervices uterorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervix uteri
coppishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coppish
capisch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capisce.
capishe
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capisce.
capische
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capisce.
hard jades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard jade
creeped on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creep on
creeping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creep on
creeps on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creep on
crash-hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crash-hot
form: most crash-hot
Senses: examples: text: If she wanted me to be filming 24–7 then she wasn't setting a crash-hot example.
ref: 2012, Fleur Beale, The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves:
text: Quip's wide shoulders drooped—he had a crash-hot body from going to the gym every day.
ref: 2020, Claire McNab, The Quokka Question:
glosses: Excellent; superb.
craps on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crap on
crapping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crap on
crapped on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crap on
shortcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortcasts
Etymology: From short + -cast.
Senses: glosses: A short podcast, especially one that summarizes the key points from a longer one.
shortcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortcast
imshy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of imshee.
imshi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The driver told him that Al Zia had paid for the cab ride and he should go now—Imshi—quickly.
ref: 2008, Douglas Mullis, Gideon's Warriors: A Tale of Forgiveness and Redemption, page 114:
text: 'OK mate, you can run along now, imshi OK, imshi, but Shh, OK, Shh, OK' the boy seemed to understand and nodded, and mumbled 'Okay' through Mikes ^([sic]) hand.
ref: 2010, Simon Peters, Breakfast at Babs', page 169:
glosses: Alternative form of imshee.
pajama cardinalfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pajama cardinalfishes
Senses: synonyms: coral cardinalfish
polkadot cardinalfish
spotted cardinalfish
glosses: A small marine fish (up to 8.5 cm) of the Indo-Pacific, Sphaeramia nematoptera, usually found near coral reefs, popular as an aquarium fish.
perfumed cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfumed cherries
Senses: glosses: The mahaleb cherry
halloo'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.
ref: 1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6:
text: […] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]
ref: 1694, Robert Ferguson, A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, London, page 8:
text: […] the servants halloo’d out their excuses from the kitchen.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 177:
glosses: simple past and past participle of halloo
Vršovice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Prague, Czech Republic.
glosses: A village and municipality in Louny District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic.
glosses: A village and municipality in Opava District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.
short-neck'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-neck'd
form: most short-neck'd
Senses: examples: text: […] we were reduc’d to make our Extractions in ſhort-neck’d Glaſs-Eggs or Vials exquiſitely ſtop’d […]
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Propos’d in Familiar Discourses to a Friend, by Way of Invitation to the Study of It, second part, page 329:
text: In Short-neck’d People the Paſſage between the Heart and the Brain being proportionally ſhort, the Force or Momentum of the Circulation in the Brain, is by ſo much the greater; […]
ref: 1735, “Explanation of an Essay on the Use of the Bile in the Animal Oeconomy, by Alexander Stuart, […]”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labors of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World., volume XXXVIII, London: […] W. Innys and R. Manby, […], page 13:
text: But “no, he was a short-neck’d, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: Archaic form of short-necked.
Dezzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Desmond.
Desmonds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Desmond
plate carrée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An equirectangular map projection in which latitude and longitude form the y and x of a coordinate plane.
mimodramatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimodramatists
Senses: glosses: A performer of mimodrama.
mimodramatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimodramatist
mimodrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimodramas
Senses: glosses: The performance of a dramatic work through mime.
Related terms: mimodramatic
mimodramatist
mimodramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimodrama
baby gay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby gays
form: babygay
Senses: hypernyms: baby queer
glosses: A gay (homosexual) person who is newly out or newly active in the community.
wage thief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wage thieves
Senses: glosses: One who commits wage theft.
Bluetooths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Bluetooth
Bluetoothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Bluetooth
Bluetoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Bluetooth
slam poetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slam poetry
slam poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slam poems
Senses: glosses: A work of slam poetry.
slam poems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slam poem
wage thieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wage thief
wage shares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wage share
labor shares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labor share
yawnsville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yawn + -s- + -ville, evoking a fictional town.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dullsville (“a boring place, or state of being bored”).
synonyms: word: dullsville
extra: a boring place, or state of being bored
Emina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
sucker-punches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sucker-punch
sucker-punched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sucker-punch
sucking face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suck face
obstropulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obstropulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being obstropulous.
Mozzers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒzə(ɹ)s
Senses: examples: text: You see, in my estimation, Mozzers does the best of the supermarket meal deals, because of the sheer breadth of choice available.
ref: 2021 June 28, Kirsty Bosley, “I ate Morrisons meal deals all day and this is what I found”, in birminghammail.co.uk, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2021:
text: Mozzers says its trading prospects are just dandy for the coming year, but there's no way the share price would surge on its own back to the price Clayton Dubilier & Rice is offering today.
ref: 2021 July 21, Jim Armitage, “Morrisons future isn't entirely out of its hands - it could asset strip itself”, in standard.co.uk, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2021:
text: While another added: "@Tesco well that's me going back to Morrisons then. The free EV charging compensated the extra drive to the store. Mozzers is at the end of the road. #lostbusiness"
ref: 2022 November 5, Andrew Smart, “Tesco anger electric car users after introducing EV fees to UK stores”, in gazette and herald.co.uk, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2022:
glosses: Morrisons, a British supermarket.
grapheme-color
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: grapheme-colour
form: grapheme color
form: grapheme colour
Etymology: From grapheme + color.
Senses: examples: text: Almost as frequent as grapheme-color synesthesia is the type of crosssensory perception in which sounds are perceived as colored (sound-color synesthesia or colored hearing).
ref: 2013, Dani Cavallaro, Synesthesia and the Arts, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, →ISBN, page 8, →ISBN:
text: Hence, grapheme-colour synaesthetes could often experience a negative emotional response and anger if they read a text with the 'wrong colours' on billboards, on television, or in books.
ref: 2015, Aleksandra Maria Rogowska, Synaesthesia and Individual Differences, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 133, →ISBN:
text: Grapheme-color synesthesia wasn't a skill or talent, no matter how much she wished it was at times.
ref: 2015, Colby Marshall, Double Vision, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 76, →ISBN:
text: In this chapter, we explore how grapheme-color synesthesia might be expressed in second languages.
ref: 2018, Edward M. Hubbard, Julia Simner, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165, →ISBN:
text: There were eight participants […] whose number of grapheme-colour pairings differed between the rounds.
ref: 2019, Jan Chromý with Marianna Borůvková, Lucie Malá, and Tereza Sudzinová, “Long-term versus short-term consistency in the grapheme-colour synaesthesia: Grapheme-colour pairings can change in adulthood”, in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, volume 81, page 1810:
glosses: Relating to the perception of colors caused by the sensing of graphemes. Often modifies the term "synesthesia" or "synesthete".
stoagie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoagies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stogie (“a cigar”).
stoagies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoagie
unagreable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unagreable
form: most unagreable
Senses: examples: text: The next Charge upon us is, That inſtead of giving his Majeſty ſatisfaction, we publiſhed a Declaration concerning that buſineſſe, as an appeal to the people, and as if our intercourſe with his Majeſty, and for his ſatisfaction, were now to no more purpoſe, which courſe is alleadged to be very unagreable to the modeſty and duty of former times, and not warrantable by any Preſidents, but what our ſelves have made.
ref: 1643, An Exact Collection of All Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proclamations, Petitions, Messages, Answers, and Other Remarkable Passages Betweene the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and His High Court of Parliament Beginning at His Majesties Return from Scotland, Being in December 1641, and Continued Untill March the 21, 1643. […], London: […] Edward Husbands, T. Warren, R. Best, […], page 264:
text: But I believe it is not more frequently introduc’d by any thing then the vanity of Wit, which has no where a more free and exorbitant range than in cenſuring and deriding; nay, finds not only Exerciſe but Triumph too, vain Perſons ſeldom conſidering the Infirmities or Follies of others, without ſom Complacencies, and aſſuming reflections on themſelves; which how unagreable it renders this liberty of talking to that Modeſty we recommend, is ovious enough .
ref: 1673, [Richard Allestree], The Ladies Calling, second impression, at the Theater in Oxford, pages 10–11:
text: Lady D. was of middle height, stout, upright & alert in her motions, with a shrewd eye, & self-satisfied air—but not an unagreable Countenance—& tho’ her manner was rather downright & abrupt, as of a person who valued herself on being free-spoken, there was a good humour & cordiality about her—a civility & readiness to be acquainted with Charlotte herself, & a heartiness of welcome towards her old friends, which was inspiring the Good will, she seemed to feel;—[…]
ref: 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 6, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 74–75:
english: Sanditon
translation: Sanditon
glosses: Obsolete spelling of unagreeable.
Stepfords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stepford
deppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depper