cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
copatient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copatients
Etymology: From co- + patient.
Senses: examples: text: One of my copatients in the psychiatric hospital kept me awake with his muttering and yelling.
glosses: A patient in the same institution.
copatients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copatient
auxiliary ego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxiliary egos
Senses: qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: A therapist or copatient who acts out a role in a patient's psychodrama.
auxiliary egos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auxiliary ego
copathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + pathogenic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a copathogen.
go face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes face
form: going face
form: went face
form: gone face
Senses: examples: text: Aggro decks often have a singular goal in mind, and that is to hit the opponent (“go face”) and kill their hero.
ref: [2015 December 11, Ben Russell, “Types of Decks in Hearthstone – All Four Deck Types”, in The Gazette Review:
text: If they play Fandral and you have an easy way to kill it, do so, but otherwise simply keep going face to end the game quickly.
ref: 2016 June 19, Stephen Draper, “Pirate Warrior Guide”, in Esports Edition:
text: All of [the Charge card's] power level has to be balanced around "what if they go face with this?" so it becomes uninteresting to use in any other way.
ref: 2018 March 21, Tim Clark, quoting Dean Ayala, “Hearthstone's Iksar on The Witchwood, how Corridor Creeper got missed, and the mysterious best ladder player ever”, in PC Gamer:
text: It costs one more mana, but it comes with an extra two Attack, two Health, and, most importantly, the ability to go face.
ref: 2019 November 25, Jerome Heath, “Deranged Netherwing joins the Warlock class in Hearthstone’s Descent of Dragons expansion”, in Dot Esports:
qualifier: Hearthstone
glosses: To attack or target the opponent directly, rather than their minions.
unlevelized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + levelized.
Senses: glosses: Not levelized.
unevened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uneven
unevens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uneven
unevening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uneven
AWACS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: AEW&C, AEW
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Airborne Warning and Control System.
glosses: An aircraft that contains an AWACS system; especially, the Boeing E-3 Sentry.
summoning sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many times creatures with summoning sickness will not get an opportunity to be used before they are destroyed.
ref: 1995, Charles Wolfe, Deep Magic: Advanced Strategies for Experienced Players of Magic: The Gathering, page 44:
text: The Factory may not be tapped to increase its own toughness if it suffers from summoning sickness.
ref: 1997, George H. Baxter, Baxter on Magic: A Guide to Proper Playing Techniques for Magic: The Gathering, page 22:
text: Perhaps the niftiest card in Duel Masters: Sempai Legends, Diamond Cutter enables all blockers to attack and cancels the effects of summoning sickness
ref: 2004, Mike Searle, Duel Masters: Sempai Legends: Prima Official Game Guide:
synonyms: word: jet lag
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: The inability of a creature to attack or use certain abilities during the turn when it comes into play.
rug ranking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An allusion to the carpets in the offices of prestigious officials.
Senses: examples: text: But it was found during the course of this study that many middle-sized and small corporations had never heard of rug-ranking (while practicing it) or were convinced that it was strictly a Public Service concern.
ref: 1977, Louise Dulude, The status of women in Federal crown corporations, page 20:
text: It created an impression among staff members that they were not trusted. In assigning individual offices, “rug-ranking” was fairly obvious.
ref: 1999, Barbara Wake Carroll, David Siegel, Service in the Field: The World of Front-line Public Servants, Canada: Institute of Public Administration, page 114:
glosses: The practice of setting a secretary's pay in proportion to the status of the person the secretary works for.
Rule 43
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Solitary confinement imposed to protect a vulnerable prisoner from other inmates.
corrigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corrigates
form: corrigating
form: corrigated
form: corrigated
Etymology: Ultimately Latin corrigō, whence standard English words like corrigible, probably influenced by words like Danish korrigere, French corriger and German korrigieren; see -ate (verb-forming suffix)
Senses: examples: text: A third critic, and an alleged eye-witness at the front, corrigates all preceding guesses by announcing, with the air of finality, that the Austrians, not the Prussians, are the chaps who have placed the big guns at the front, […]
ref: 1915, Hrolf von baron Dewitz, War's New Weapons: An Expert Analysis in Plain Language of the Weapons and Methods Used in the Present Great War, page 58:
text: The values are corrigated for air pressure and temperature and expressed as […].
ref: 1949, Opuscula entomologica: Supplementum, volumes 10-15, page 221:
text: In the H. C. C. care has been taken to corrigate for this change of hue. In the colours the various hues of yellow, green, blue, red etc. may present themselves with different intensity or strength, when the hue-giving part of the reflected light has ...
ref: 1953, Yearbook (Aug. Bangs Boghandel), page 92
text: In these groups tooth wear itself is insignificant, but great variation in tooth wear index occurs in spite of efforts to corrigate for variation in actual tooth size. This variation no doubt continues later and adds to other drawbacks of the method, ...
ref: 1977, Dansk naturhistorisk forening, Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk forening, voluems 140-141, page 73
text: Here further modifications are required to corrigate for example the loss of characteristic electrotonic length.
ref: 2001, Stefan Wermter, David Willshaw, Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience: Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 207:
text: Note that, in this case, the investor has to rebalance his portfolio after each trading day to “corrigate” the daily price shifts of the invested stocks.
ref: 2012, László Györfi, György Ottucsák, Harro Walk, Machine Learning for Financial Engineering, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 85:
qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: To correct.
corrigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corrigate
corrigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corrigate
corrigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corrigate
rummage squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rummage squads
Senses: examples: text: On our first visit, we had come from El Salvador and were boarded by a rummage squad from the Mexican DEA who carried out a thorough drugs search (supervised by a large Alsatian).
ref: 2001, Guide to Port Entry, volume 2, page 1588:
text: On berthing at Shell Haven we were greeted by the rummage squad and we got the full treatment.
ref: 2014, Anthony Holten, High Kings To Seakings, page 151:
glosses: A team of customs officers who search a ship, aircraft, etc. and its crew for contraband.
rummage squads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rummage squad
run like a dry creek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs like a dry creek
form: running like a dry creek
form: ran like a dry creek
form: run like a dry creek
Etymology: A pun on two senses of run: to flow (as in "running water") and to stand for election.
Senses: examples: text: The Scripps-Howard newspapers, which are supporting Eisenhower, criticized Ike for "running like a dry creek."
ref: 1952, LIFE, volume 33, number 10, page 49:
text: The last of the six candidates, Stephen Dorrell, did not even get off the starting-blocks. His campaign ran like a dry creek from day one.
ref: 1997, New Statesman, page 18:
text: One Illinois delegate said, "I saw Lodge on television today, and he'll run like a dry creek."
ref: 2009, W. J. Rorabaugh, The Real Making of the President:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: simile
glosses: To run for political office with little chance of success.
examples: text: Carlyle had a brief trial in the big leagues with the Red Sox and the Yankees. But he ran like a dry creek and was weak of arm.
ref: 1956, American Mercury, volume 83, number 390, page 153:
text: The League knew little about lobbving and its cash flow ran like a dry creek. Small and big business were against a consumer cooperative bank bill.
ref: 1985, Jay Richter, Where credit was due: the creation of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank, page 24:
text: The days stretch ahead, dull and tedious, and the camp seems to be doing nothing, going nowhere, running like a dry creek.
ref: 1989, David L. Moore, Dark Sky, Dark Land:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To run (in various senses) badly or not at all.
Related terms: run for the exercise
could not get elected dogcatcher
ran scared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run scared
runs scared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run scared
RURP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RURPs
Etymology: Brand name, originally an acronym for realized ultimate reality piton.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A very tiny piton used in thin, shallow seams.
RURPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RURP
bandspreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandspread
varicap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛə.ɹi.kæp/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvæɹ.iˌkæp/
note: US, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.iˌkæp/
Forms: form: varicaps
Etymology: Blend of variable + capacitance, shortened.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of varactor (“type of diode”).
synonyms: word: varactor
extra: type of diode
varicaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicap
NCLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NCL
turfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turfers
Etymology: From turf + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The work should be carried out by experienced turfers, the turf being laid with broken joints, each being closely butted to the adjoining turves.
ref: 1990, Sports Turf Bulletin, numbers 168-179, page 23:
glosses: A person who lays turf.
turfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turfer
nidopallium caudolaterale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: nidopallium + caudolaterale
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
ornithology
sciences
glosses: The avian equivalent of the primate prefrontal cortex. A region of a bird's brain, located at the rear, that coordinates cognition in the pallium layer of the brain.
Synonyms: word: NCL
Hypernyms: nidopallium
pallium
cerebrum
Derived terms: word: NCL
fligger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fliggers
form: fliggering
form: fliggered
form: fliggered
Senses: examples: text: Then Nature has with beauty, more with scorne,
That they must fligger, scoffe, deride, and jeere,
Appoynt their servants certaine houres t' appeare.
ref: 1628, Nathaniel Whiting, Le Hore di Recreatione: or, The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama:
glosses: To sneer.
examples: text: I met with a Barber with Razor and Balls,
He fligger'd and told me for all my brave alls;
He would have a stroke, and his words they were blunt,
I could not deny him the use of my—
ref: 1720, Thomas d'Urfey, “Tom Tinker”, in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, volume 6, page 267:
glosses: To grin.
Synonyms: sense: sneer
word: deride
word: jeer
word: scoff
word: deride
sense: grin
word: smile
word: to smile
fliggers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fligger
fliggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fligger
fliggered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fligger
turntable hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turntable hits
Senses: glosses: A commercial song that enjoys a great deal of airplay but limited sales.
turntable hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turntable hit
bosie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bosies
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of bosey.
bosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosie
indivisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indivisive
form: most indivisive
Etymology: From in- + divisive.
Senses: examples: text: […] especially since it is conceived it may be evinced without any pre-existence in the platonic notion, or the least violence to other truths, and solve its immortal and indivisive nature; nor stands in need of new fabrics and creations to attend every human conception.
ref: 1850, John Evelyn, Richard Macdonnell Evanson, The history of religion, ed. with notes by R.M. Evanson, page 162:
text: The pattern of bilateral conflict that emerges in Southeast Asia is determined by considerations of indivisive sovereignty, primarily focusing on territorial rights and economic interests without any particular time constraints.
ref: 1992, Kernial Singh Sandhu, The ASEAN reader, page 90:
text: No act of theirs disjointed, no subservient bud doth flower For equal in the Godhead reigns the indivisive power.
ref: 2003, Cyril Hart, Learning and Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England and the Influence of Ramsey Abbey on the Major English Monastic Schools:
glosses: Indivisible.
lactose intolerances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactose intolerance
caudolaterale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: caudolateral + Latin -e (neuter form of -is).
Senses: glosses: caudolateral
raw_tags: with Latin-like nouns
Derived terms: nidopallium caudolaterale
induratize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: induratizes
form: induratizing
form: induratized
form: induratized
Etymology: From indurate + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Thy hart gainst me, not still induratize, But my sad thoughts in me retranquillize.
ref: 1994, Robert Tofte, Jeffrey Norman Nelson, The Poetry of Robert Tofte, 1597-1620, page 156:
text: There are many, many reasons why one would choose to induratize themselves. Heartache is painful, agonizing, and at times it feels like it’s just too much to endure, and as a defense mechanism one induratizes themselves.
ref: 2017, Ella Patrice, La Whimsy:
text: The man clings to his need to induratize as if it's indentured servitude.
ref: 2018, Jody Kaye, Cavanaugh: A Kingsbrier Quintuplets Novel:
glosses: To make or become hard-hearted.
induratizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of induratize
induratizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of induratize
induratized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of induratize
bob jerom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bob jeroms
Senses: examples: text: “Why this is talking quite wide of the mark,” said Mr. Hobson, “to suppose a young lady of fortunes would marry a man with a bob jerom.”
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, V.ix.4:
glosses: A bob wig.
biethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biethnic
form: most biethnic
form: bi-ethnic
Etymology: From bi- + ethnic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of two ethnic groups.
Derived terms: biethnicity
biethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biethnics
form: bi-ethnic
Etymology: From bi- + ethnic.
Senses: glosses: A member of two ethnic groups.
wouldn't harm a fly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wouldn't hurt a fly.
synonyms: word: wouldn't hurt a fly
get one's hooks into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's hooks into
form: getting one's hooks into
form: got one's hooks into
form: got one's hooks into
form: gotten one's hooks into
Senses: glosses: Synonym of get one's claws into.
synonyms: word: get one's claws into
set the tone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the tone
form: setting the tone
form: set the tone
form: set the tone
Senses: examples: text: Jesus, a comparative bargain at £45m, sets the tone with relentless pressing and goals that have already made him an indispensable part of Arteta's plans, while Zinchenko brings quality, calm and creation.
ref: 2022 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Create the emotional quality to be expected for something.
Related terms: set the pace
set the scene
set the stage
Bleasdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5745).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: bleasdaleite
beat someone at their own game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats someone at their own game
form: beating someone at their own game
form: beat someone at their own game
form: beaten someone at their own game
form: beat someone at their own game
form: play someone at their own game
Senses: glosses: To successfully use someone's methods and strategies against them.
Related terms: the biter bit
turn the tables
hoist(ed) by one's own petard
play someone at their own game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays someone at their own game
form: playing someone at their own game
form: played someone at their own game
form: played someone at their own game
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beat someone at their own game.
Serpell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
on one's game
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: at the top of one's game
antonyms: off one's game
glosses: Performing as well as one can.
on-train
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Cost analysis revealed that on-train catering lost money and Travellers Fare, the BR division that dealt with all the railway's catering, commissioned consultants to report on options.
ref: 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in RAIL, page 65:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Taking place on a train.
examples: text: These agents are members of rail staff who have been trained by RAIB to gather and safeguard evidence such as on-train monitoring and recording equipment.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 28:
glosses: Aboard or fitted to a train.
Related terms: on-board
onboard
on one's hands and knees
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: […] the fireman has to divide his time between getting up into the bunker to throw more turfs into the cab, and getting down on his hands and knees to get it into the firebox, and even then a reserve supply of turf must be carried on a truck behind the engine, and stops must be made on each steep ascent to raise more steam.
ref: 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Firing with Turf”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
text: He would walk and rage and drag the steel pole and the wagon and he would drink what anyone would give him and his place as the tragic figure of Frenchtown was coalesced after he was seen on his hands and knees lapping at a puddle to rid his throat of the whiskey burn.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 159:
glosses: With one's body bent over so that the knees and palms of the hands are touching the floor.
Related terms: on one's knees
on all fours
make up for lost time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes up for lost time
form: making up for lost time
form: made up for lost time
form: made up for lost time
Etymology: From make up for and lose time.
Senses: glosses: to do something that should have been done earlier but was not, especially when done with energy or enthusiasm.
Related terms: make time
fifteen megabytes of fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 15 megabytes of fame.
current sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: current sheets
Senses: glosses: An electric current that is confined to a surface, rather than being spread through a volume of space.
current sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of current sheet
bubble pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble packs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bubble wrap.
synonyms: word: bubble wrap
glosses: Synonym of blister pack.
synonyms: word: blister pack
bubble packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble pack
sit up and take notice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits up and takes notice
form: sitting up and taking notice
form: sat up and took notice
form: sat up and taken notice
Senses: examples: text: But when we streaked through Doncaster at all but a mile-a-minute, with a miraculously clear road, in no more than 37 min. 18 sec. from the York start, I began to sit up and take notice.
ref: 1949 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 365:
glosses: To start to pay attention suddenly.
Synonyms: prick up one's ears
Buchmanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buchmanites
Etymology: From Buchman + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Frank Buchman (1878–1961), Protestant Christian evangelist who founded the Oxford Group.
Buchmanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buchmanite
buddy pod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy pods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of buddy store.
synonyms: word: buddy store
buddy pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy packs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of buddy store.
synonyms: word: buddy store
buddy pods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy pod
buddy packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy pack
disco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: disko-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Latin discus (whence also English discus, disc, and disk).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a disc.
glosses: Disc-shaped.
Bukharinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bukharinites
Etymology: From Bukharin + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Union politician.
Bukharinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bukharinite
sitting member
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitting members
Senses: glosses: a current member of parliament.
wencheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wench + -eth.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wench
sitting tenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitting tenants
Senses: glosses: A tenant who is already in occupation of a premises, especially when there is a change of owner. The tenant is not evicted when the property is sold to a new owner.
on one's conscience
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to have something on one's conscience
text: to be on someone's conscience
text: to weigh on someone's conscience
glosses: making somebody feel guilty.
Kings Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: King's Heath
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0781).
glosses: A suburb of Northampton, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP7362).
guilt complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guilt complexes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A persistent or excessive sense of guilt.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A persistent belief that one has done something wrong or will attempt to do something wrong.
King's Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kings Heath.
filing tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filing trays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in-tray.
synonyms: word: in-tray
filing clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filing clerks
Senses: synonyms: file clerk
glosses: An office worker whose chief responsibility is filing documents.
file clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: file clerks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of filing clerk.
synonyms: word: filing clerk
bunny dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny dips
Senses: glosses: A maneuver in which a bunny girl gracefully leans backward while bending at the knees with the left knee lifted and tucked behind the right leg, allowing her to serve drinks etc. while keeping her low-cut costume in place.
bunny dips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunny dip
burn bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burn bags
Senses: glosses: A bag for securely holding sensitive or classified documents which are to be destroyed by fire or pulping after a certain period of time.
burn bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burn bag
bored stiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: bored to tears
bored out of one's mind
bored shitless
glosses: Extremely bored.
Related terms: scared stiff
office landscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office landscapes
Etymology: Calque of German Bürolandschaft
Senses: glosses: A form of open-plan office space promoted in the early 1950s, typically having irregular geometry and organic circulation patterns.
office landscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of office landscape
Mouldsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5171).
glosses: A surname, mostly of older usage.
bus-stop flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus-stop flights
Senses: examples: text: It was a coastal "bus stop" flight, calling at Carnarvon, where banana plantations line the Gascoyne river […]
ref: 1967, The Metal Bulletin, page 17:
text: The only short-haul, inter-city air service in the country is closing down: Channel Airways has announced that its bus-stop flights that went from Southend to Scotland by way of Luton, Bradford and Newcastle […]
ref: 1969, The Economist, volume 233, page 78:
text: Every day RAE runs a special aircraft from Farnborough on a bus-stop flight to these outstations in the same way that industrial groups maintain their own car services.
ref: 1964, Education and Training, volume 6, page 184:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A regular short-haul flight that carries passengers.
bus-stop flights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus-stop flight
Kelsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5268).
glosses: A surname.
on one's honor
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: upon one's honor
form: on one's honour
Senses: glosses: used to emphasize that one is behaving or going to behave in a trustworthy manner.
examples: text: When I was young and fever fell / My spirit I will not tell / You're on your honor not to tell
ref: 1986, R.E.M., “I Believe”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
glosses: expected to do what one has promised, expected to uphold one's promise.
sealing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seal off
seals off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seal off
buyoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buyoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buy-off.
buyoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buyoff
FEBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FEBAs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of forward edge of the battle area.
FEBAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FEBA
do the honor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the honor
form: doing the honor
form: did the honor
form: done the honor
form: do the honour
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of do the honors.
do the honour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the honour
form: doing the honour
form: did the honour
form: done the honour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of do the honor.
feevee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of fee + teevee
Senses: examples: text: Most providers of "feevee" have promised to make available programs of types not usually available […]
ref: 1978, Harrison Boyd Summers, John H. Pennybacker, Broadcasting and the Public, page 177:
text: To be sure, pay-cable's under 200,000 subscribers nationwide is still a very small number. And even the most optimistic of cable enthusiasts agree that "feevee" isn't going to rob broadcast television of any sizable number of viewers […]
ref: 1980, Jay S. Harris, TV guide, the first 25 years, page 232:
glosses: Pay TV.
RAOC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
First Australian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪliən
Forms: form: First Australians
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal.
First Australians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of First Australian
first olive out of the bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The first paragraph of each month's article is the hardest to get out, it is like getting the first olive out of the bottle and after the first one is out the rest come easy.
ref: 1940, The Elevator Constructor, volume 37, page 26:
text: To me the important thing was to get the first olive out of the bottle. Once we got the first debate on, whether it was a debate or a “Face the Nation” or “Meet the Press” kind of program, this did not trouble me.
ref: 1961, Columbia Broadcasting System, “Comments of Senator John O. Pastore”, in Inc.:
text: Now that Great Canadian have fished the first olive out of the bottle, Cities Services, Shell and Can-Amera all wanted development permits and were either applying for permission or countering someone else's application.
ref: 1963, Engineering and Contract Record, volume 76, page 125:
synonyms: first olive out of the jar
glosses: An initial obstacle or hindrance, preventing further progress until it is dealt with.
first olive out of the jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of first olive out of the bottle.
synonyms: word: first olive out of the bottle
fitting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fit up
fits up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fit up
fitted up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fit up
Five Mile High Club
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Five Mile High Club
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mile High Club.
synonyms: word: Mile High Club
bull-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bull-speaks
form: bull-speaking
form: bull-spoke
form: bull-spoken
Senses: examples: text: He is doubtful, but yet he is sure he knows him. What a bulfinch is this! Sure, ’tis his language they call bull-speaking.
ref: 1629, Richard Brome, The Northern Lass, act 2, scene 3:
glosses: Alternative form of bullspeak (“to speak nonsense”).
bull-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullspeak (“nonsense”).
bull-speaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bull-speak
bull-speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bull-speak
bull-spoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bull-speak
bull-spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bull-speak
Otford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Ottanford.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5259).
glosses: A town, a suburb of Sydney in the City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Jacobinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Jacobinizes
form: Jacobinizing
form: Jacobinized
form: Jacobinized
form: jacobinize
form: Jacobinise
form: jacobinise
Etymology: From Jacobin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Happily, France was not then Jacobinized.
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks upon his Person:
text: We are threatened by a most unprincipled system of agitation—the Tories actually doing their best to Jacobinize the poor, in the hope of turning an outbreak against the whig government to their own advantage.
ref: 1845, Thomas Arnold, The Edinburgh Review - Volume 47; Volume 81, page 211:
text: If labourers were barred from pleasures they would Jacobinize the whole country, he declared.
ref: 1998, Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800:
glosses: To convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government.
Derived terms: Jacobinization
Jacobinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Jacobinize
Jacobinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Jacobinize
Jacobinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Jacobinize
jacobinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jacobinise
jacobinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jacobinise
Jacobinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Jacobinises
form: Jacobinising
form: Jacobinised
form: Jacobinised
Etymology: From Jacobin + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: He contended that a Reform of Parliament had long been the pretext of those clubs and societies, but never any thing but a pretext, to cover their treasonable and seditious intentions, and they had found it a successful one, when their views were to destroy men or establish systems: and their wish now clearly was to Jacobinise this country, and introduce the fatal systems which had ruined France.
ref: 1794, Great Britain. Parliament, An Impartial Report of the Debates on the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus, page 56:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Jacobinize.
Jacobinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Jacobinise
Jacobinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Jacobinise
Jacobinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Jacobinise
buddy memory allocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of memory allocation that divides memory into partitions to try to satisfy a memory request as suitably as possible.
Related terms: buddy block
buddy system
kennel-raker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kennel-rakers
form: kennel raker
Senses: examples: text: For scouring the water-courses through the cities; A fine periphrasis of a kennel-raker!
ref: 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Prophetess:
text: The Link-boy, on the same scale of declension, scorned the kennel-raker; but we know not, though doubtless he could, who he thought more contemptible than himself.
ref: 1827, W. H. Pyne, The World in Miniature; England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 257:
text: The vagabond kennel-raker, the nomadic coster, the houseless thief, the man of the lowest order of intellect or of morals, sees the majesty of the law descending to the punch-and-judy level.
ref: 1852 March, “Public Executions in England”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 4, number 22, page 544:
text: He has been in all situations and occupations of life, according to his own account ; a potboy at Hampstead, a shoeblack, a chimney-sweeper, an East India Director, a kennel-raker, a gold-finder, an oyster-woman, a Jew cast-clothesman, a police justice, a judge, a keeper of Newgate, and, as he styles it, 'His Majesty's law iron-monger for the home department:' nay, he has even been Jack Ketch, and has hung hundreds; he has been a soldier, and has killed thousands; a Portuguese, and poniarded scores; a Jew pedlar, and cheated all the world; a member of Parliament for London, and betrayed his constituents; a Lord Mayor, a bishop, an admiral, a dancing-master, a Rabbi, Grimaldi in the pantomime, and ten thousand other occupations, that no tongue or memory but his own could enumerate.
ref: 1841, Thomas Cogswell Upham, Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, page 449:
text: Why you upstart ignoramus! do you take me for an ironmonger? I'll leave you to dabble in your little shabby brook like a kennel- raker as you are, but I'll help the Lord of the Manor to freight all the herring-boats in the bay with glorious bullion.
ref: 1981, John O'Keeffe, Frederick M. Link, The plays of John O'Keeffe - Volume 4, page 177:
glosses: A poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment.
kennel-rakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kennel-raker
kennel raker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kennel rakers
Senses: examples: text: All the information that could be got was from a butcher in Paternoster Row, who saw a kennel raker take up such like a ring out of the kennel next morning, who supposed it was a stone ring, and carried it away.
ref: 1895, Stephen Martin Leake, Sir Clements Robert Markham -, Life of Captain Stephen Martin, 1666-1740 - Volume 5, page 174:
text: A number of the carmen [many of them named] collected money among themselves and got Thomas Acres, a poor silly kennel raker, to put a bill in Star Chamber full of false accusations.
ref: 1935, Wallace Notestein, Frances Helen Relf, Hartley Simpson, Commons Debates, 1621: Appendices: A. Bills. B. pt. 1, page 477:
text: The early sixteenth-century poem 'Cock Lorell's Bote' includes caricatures of an Irish 'gong' (dung) farmer and kennel raker.
ref: 1996, Martha Carlin, Medieval Southwark, page 242:
glosses: Alternative form of kennel-raker.
kennel rakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kennel raker
Mitford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Madford
form: Meaford
form: Medford
form: Metford
form: Midford
Etymology: From either Old English midd (“middle”) + ford (“ford”), thus "the middle ford", or from Old English ġemȳþe (“a stream junction”) + ford (“ford”), "the meeting ford", to denote the village situated where the rivers Font and Wansbeck meet.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Mitfordesque
Mitfordian
Plum Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Plum Book
Etymology: From the color of its cover, and perhaps a pun on plum (“cushy position, sinecure”).
Senses: glosses: United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, a publication listing presidentially appointed positions within the federal government.
SUD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SUDs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of subjective unit of disturbance.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: Acronym of substance use disorder.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: SIDS
SUNDS
SCD
glosses: Acronym of sudden unexplained death.
SUDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SUD
suicide squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide squads
Etymology: An allusion to the risk of injury.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: suicide club
glosses: A unit assigned to a particularly risky task.
examples: text: The most violent men in pro football play on the suicide squads.
ref: 1971, LIFE, volume 71, number 23, page 3:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of special team.
synonyms: word: special team
suicide squad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the suicide squad
Etymology: In reference to the councillors' mission to abolish their appointed office and position.
Senses: examples: text: Prime Minister Sidney Holland is New Zealander of the Year for appointing a parliamentary suicide squad to abolish the undemocratic upper house, the Legislative Council.
ref: 1950 October 17, “1950, Sydney Holland: Honourable suicide squad”, in New Zealand Herald:
text: Popularly known as the suicide squad, they accepted office on the understanding that they would do away with it.
ref: 1999, Lord Cooke of Thorndon, “Unicameralism in New Zealand: Some Lessons”, in Canterbury Law Review, volume 7, page 233:
text: It was decided that twenty-six councillors be appointed for this purpose’, but before the Cabinet could discuss the mechanics of the very political act of appointing the ‘suicide squad’ the Cabinet Secretary was asked to absent himself from this crucial meeting.
ref: 2010, H. Kumarasingham, “Unicameralism: The Strange Eventful Death of the Legislative Council of New Zealand”, in Australasian Parliamentary Review, volume 25, number 2, page 73:
text: When National came to power in 1949, it restacked the Council — this time with the ‘suicide squad’. These members would accept a law to end the Council altogether.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Legislative Council”, in Parliament of New Zealand:
glosses: a group of legislative councillors appointed by Prime Minister Sidney Holland to abolish the New Zealand Legislative Council (upper house)
suicide squads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide squad
subclipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subclip
subclipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subclip
sync up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: syncs up
form: syncing up
form: synching up
form: synced up
form: synced up
form: synched up
form: synched up
form: synch up
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To synchronize (footage) so that the audio and video components play together in correct alignment.
sunk up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The sound was then sunk up take by take directly on the Rank Cintel.
ref: 1985, American Cinematographer, volume 66, page 97:
text: Most film and television projects have their dailies sunk up at the telecine house, so you may be able to skip this process […]
ref: 2009, Norman Hollyn, The Film Editing Room Handbook:
glosses: past participle of sync up
superdynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdynamic
form: most superdynamic
Etymology: From super- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Exceptionally dynamic.
sweet savagery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The genre of sweet savage romance.
swifty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swifties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tom Swifty.
examples: text: I have just enough time for a "swifty" in the reopened (but on this day just about to close) '301' bar on Platform 4 before boarding a two-car Northern Class 158 working the 1824 to Leeds. [In this case, meaning a quick beer.]
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of swiftie.
vision mixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vision mixers
Senses: synonyms: switcher
glosses: A device used to select between different video sources and sometimes to create composite effects.
glosses: The person who operates such a device.
vision mixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vision mixer
Hienadz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Henadz
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Гена́дзь (Hjenádzʹ).
Henadz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hienadz
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Гена́дзь (Hjenádzʹ).
Yahor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yahors
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Яго́р (Jahór).
Ihar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ihars
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name І́гар (Íhar).
Mikalai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mikalais
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Мікала́й (Mikaláj).
Ihnat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: -s
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Ігна́т (Ihnát).
Piatro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: -s
form: Pyatro
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Пятро́ (Pjatró).
Leanid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leanids
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Леані́д (Ljeaníd).
Aliaksandr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aliaksandrs
form: Alyaksandr
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Алякса́ндр (Aljaksándr).
Alyaksandr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alyaksandrs
form: Aliaksandr
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Алякса́ндр (Aljaksándr).
Bahdan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bahdans
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Багда́н (Bahdán).
Aleh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: -s
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Але́г (Aljéh), equivalent to Oleg.
Artsiom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Artsioms
form: Artsyom
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Арцём (Arcjóm).
Artsyom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Artsyoms
form: Artsiom
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Арцём (Arcjóm).