cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bagman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagmen
form: bag man
Etymology: From bag + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The accused are only the latest in a string of alleged bagmen, vote-riggers and ward-heelers charged with wrongdoing.
ref: 2006 September 15, James Graff, “In France, a Vintage Chirac Scandal is Uncorked”, in Time:
glosses: A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A caddy.
glosses: A staff assistant to a senior police officer (such as a Detective Sergeant for a Detective Inspector).
glosses: A secretary of (and keeper of equipment for) a Morris dancing side.
glosses: A bookmaker.
synonyms: vagrant
tramp
bum
hobo
swagman
glosses: A tramp, hobo.
glosses: A travelling salesman.
examples: text: […] in a locked metal suitcase carried on the President's travels by a warrant officer irreverently known as "the bagman."
ref: 1968, Newsweek, volume 72, numbers 10-18, page 28:
text: The bagman clutching the nuclear football like an undertaker at a wedding. Cameras flashed and clicked, recording the scene. 'Good morning, Mr President,' they chorused.
ref: 2013, Richard Doyle, Executive Action:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An officer assigned to travel with the president and carry the "nuclear football".
examples: 2016, David Akin, "Tory 'bagman' boasts about party's bank account, Toronto Sun, 28 May,
Proud to call himself the "bagman" of the Conservative Party, former senator Irving Gerstein boasted about the financial health of his party Friday.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A prominent fundraiser for a political party or similar cause.
Big H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: street name
glosses: The drug heroin.
Big Q
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: San Quentin prison.
sneaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnikɚ/
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sneakers
Etymology: From sneak + -er. The shoes sense is a reference to the quietness of the shoes.
Senses: examples: text: Beshrew the man who on such a day as this, the general festival, should affect to stand aloof. I am none of those sneakers. I am free of the corporation, and care not who knows it.
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who sneaks.
glosses: An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.
examples: Spectator
I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons!
glosses: A vessel of drink.
glosses: A large cup (or small basin) with a saucer and cover.
examples: text: These sneakers may go on this way indefinitely, or, if one of the big males somehow dies or disappears, a sneaker male's hormones will trigger a huge growth spurt and he'll metamorphose into an alpha male.
ref: 2008, Faye Flam, The Score: The Science of the Male Sex Drive:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sneaker male.
Synonyms: sense: sports shoes
word: kicks
word: tennis shoe
word: trainer
word: runner
word: takkie
word: rubber shoe
word: running shoe
word: sports shoe
Hypernyms: sports shoe
Derived terms: sneaker sock
sneaker wave
autonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː.təˈnɒm.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɔt.əˈnɑm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒmɪk
Forms: form: autonomical
Etymology: From autonomy + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.
Derived terms: autonomically
autonomic ganglion
autonomicity
autonomic nervous system
autonomics
cardioautonomic
dysautonomia
neuroautonomic
nonautonomic
panautonomic
preautonomic
Related terms: autonomous
dysautonomic
chicken hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken hawks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chickenhawk.
autonomic nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autonomic nervous systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: In humans and other vertebrates, the part of the nervous system that regulates the involuntary activity of the heart, intestines and glands. These activities include digestion, respiration, perspiration, metabolism, and the modulation of blood pressure.
Synonyms: word: vegetative nervous system
word: visceral nervous system
word: autonomic nervous system
Meronyms: parasympathetic nervous system
sympathetic nervous system
Related terms: somatic nervous system
central nervous system
ganef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑnəf/
/ˈɡɑnɪf/
Forms: form: ganefs
form: ganevim
form: ganif
form: ganof
form: gonef
form: gonif
form: goniff
form: gannef
form: gonof
form: gonoff
form: gonoph
form: gonnof
Etymology: From Yiddish גנבֿ (ganef), from Hebrew גנב (ganáv, “thief”).
Senses: examples: text: Right to the end of the street he dragged her, pursued by a hooting crowd. Then he stopped, worn out. "Will you give me that sixpence, you Ganef!"
ref: 1914 [1892], Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People:
text: Packed in airtight against the bite of the steely out-of-doors, most of the village of Vodna—except the children and the half-witted Shimsha, the ganef—huddled under its none-too-plentiful coverings that night and prayed and trembled.
ref: 1922, Fannie Hurst, “Roulette”, in The Vertical City:
text: The streets swarmed with hucksters, ganefs, and handkerchief girls who solicited in the shadows of buildings draped in black bunting.
ref: 1999, Steve Stern, The Wedding Jester, Graywolf Press, page 86:
text: I would love to have a little inside knowledge that my grandfather's friends took down a president, but the reality is an endless procession of desperate little ganefs—and most of them are very small—trying to stay one step ahead of cops in suits from Sy Syms.
ref: 2011, Eric Dezenhall, The Devil Himself, St. Martin's Press (Thomas Dunne Books), page 12:
glosses: A thief; a rascal or scoundrel.
gunsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnsəl/
Forms: form: gunsels
Etymology: From Yiddish גענדזל (gendzl, “gosling”), from Middle High German gensel, diminutive of gans (“goose”).
Senses: examples: text: The boy’s eyes […] ran over Spade’s body from shoulders to knees […]
“Another thing,” Spade repeated, glaring at the boy: “Keep that gunsel away from me while you’re making up your mind. I’ll kill him […] ”
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, [p. http://books.google.com/books?id=1uVajyyVaVkC&pg=RA1-PA13 13]
glosses: Synonym of catamite: a young man kept by an elder as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.
synonyms: word: catamite
extra: a young man kept by an elder as a (usually passive) homosexual partner
glosses: Synonym of bottom: a passive partner in a male homosexual relationship.
synonyms: word: bottom
extra: a passive partner in a male homosexual relationship
glosses: Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship.
synonyms: word: bitch
extra: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship
Synonyms: male homosexual
gunsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnsəl/
Forms: form: gunsels
Etymology: By misunderstanding of the 1929 Maltese Falcon quotation above (1.1) (which survived in a popular 1941 film adaptation). The novel was originally serialized in a magazine, Black Mask, whose editor refused to allow vulgarities. Hammett used the word gunsel knowing that the editor would likely misunderstand it as relating to gun, and therefore allow it.
Senses: examples: text: There's somebody comin. I think it's that gunsel.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN:
text: The two gunsels waited for him on each side of the doorway, gun-hands bulging in their coat pockets.
ref: 1944, Brett Halliday, Murder and the Married Virgin, →ISBN:
glosses: A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal.
Related terms: gunzel
peripheral nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peripheral nervous systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The part of the nervous system which is not the central nervous system.
Synonyms: word: systema nervosum periphericum
word: peripheral nervous system
Meronyms: somatic nervous system
autonomic nervous system
Related terms: central nervous system
highball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highballs
Etymology: From high + ball, of the same railroad origins as lowball.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
examples: text: A white ball hauled up to the crossbar indicated that the track was clear; a black ball, run up half way, meant stop. This was the origin of the use of the word "highball" to indicate a clear line ahead, which is still used in U.S.A. railway practice.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: The American Highball”, in Railway Magazine, page 382:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
examples: 2014, EpicTV.com
Austrian all rounder Alex Luger climbs what he describes as a highball boulder problem and what most people would call a solo.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
examples: text: It's great for serving heavier drinks in. Highballs and pint glasses are excellent substitutes.
ref: 2021, Kate Calder, Three Ingredient Cocktails: 60 Drinks Made in Minutes:
glosses: Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
Derived terms: highballer
highball glass
highball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: highballs
form: highballing
form: highballed
form: highballed
Etymology: From high + ball, of the same railroad origins as lowball.
Senses: examples: text: If we highball the price, it comes out to $240. If we lowball it, it's closer to $200.
antonyms: lowball
glosses: To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
examples: text: Booster-equipped 628 highballs west at Glen Lake, Minn., back in 1947.
ref: 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co. (photo caption)
text: The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
ref: 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:
glosses: To move quickly; to hightail.
grotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: grottier
form: grottiest
Etymology: Clipping of grotesque + -y. Piecewise doublet of grody, the American equivalent. Compare Middle English groti, grooti (“slimy, muddy”), from Old English grotiġ (“earthy, dirty”) (modern dialectal English groaty, Scots grotty), which is equivalent to groat + -y. Compare also Scottish Gaelic grod (“rotten, lousy, terrible”), Middle Irish grot (“bitter, sour”).
Originated or popularised by the 1964 film A Hard Day's Night, starring the Beatles and written by Alun Owen.
Senses: examples: text: George: I wouldn't be seen dead in them. They're dead grotty.
Simon: Grotty?
George: Yeah, grotesque.
ref: 1964, Alun Owen, A Hard Day's Night:
glosses: Unpleasant, dirty, slovenly or offensive.
Synonyms: grody
gross
gro
Derived terms: grottily
grottiness
Related terms: grody
grotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: grottier
form: more grotty
form: grottiest
form: most grotty
Etymology: See groaty.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of groaty.
brain cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain cells
form: braincell
Senses: examples: text: Did you know that you have brain cells in your stomach?
ref: 2018 October 12, Naomi Alderman, “What the gut knows”, in New Statesman:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell in the brain, such as a neuron or a glial cell.
A neuron.
examples: text: Those two morons only have one brain cell to share between them.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell in the brain, such as a neuron or a glial cell.
Taken as a unit of intelligence, especially in small quantities.
Derived terms: two brain cells to rub together
shanks' pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shanks's pony
form: shanks's pony
form: shank's pony
form: shanks pony
Etymology: Believed to be of Scottish origin, from shanks' nag (shanks-naig, attested 1774).
Senses: examples: text: When we pointed out that we cared nothing, absolutely nothing, for convention, and would go in quest of the gods “on Shanks′ pony,” Anqui utterly mistook our meaning and had a pony in waiting for us when the hour came for leaving! This we dismissed after attempting to make clear our meaning.
ref: 1930, G. E. O. Knight, Intimate Glimpses of Mysterious Tibet and Neighbouring Countries, published 1992, page 56:
text: 1989, Charles Hyatt, When Me Was a Boy, Institute of Jamaica Publications, page 43,
After all, mos′ everybody had to walk because yuh doan only get to meet people but ‘shanks pony’ was the cheapes′ form of transportation.
text: That was the end of the vehicle track: from then on it was shanks′s pony.
ref: 1993, John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began, page 18:
text: Young Jim shook his head. ‘The nearest station′s about fifty miles from there. We′ll hail a lift if we′re lucky. Otherwise it′s shanks′s pony.’
ref: 1994, Jackie French, Somewhere around the Corner, HarperCollins Australia, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: 1999, Richard Thompson, Walking the Long Miles Home, (Mock Tudor),
And the rhythm in my shoes keeps the blues all away / When you ride Shanks's Pony you don′t have to pay
text: He pointed toward a groaning tram packed with malnourished workmen, rickets, and penury. Preferred shank’s pony, drizzle or no drizzle.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: Then four more meetings around Manhattan travelling mostly by Shanks′s pony, before arriving back at JFK for their overnight standby flight.
ref: 2007, John Forbat, Entrepreneurship: The Seeds of Success, UK: Harriman House, page 60:
text: Apart from the Ravenglass steam railway and Shanks′ pony, there′s no public transport to Eskdale.
ref: 2009, David Else, England, Lonely Planet, page 723:
text: At the bottom of the hill, Dean Stewart says, let′s get out of the automobiles and proceed as usual—by shanks′ pony.
By shanks′ pony? Mrs. Landes says.
Is that Shakespeare? Jenny asks.
No, Dean Stewart says laughing, just an expression from the folk in Missoula.
ref: 2012, Kass Fleisher, Dead Woman Hollow, State University of New York Press, page 10:
glosses: One's feet or legs, regarded as a means of transport.
Related terms: word: shank-nag
word: shanks' mare
word: shanks' nag
word: Bayard of ten toes
word: on foot
word: walk
kipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪp/
Forms: form: kipes
form: kype
Etymology: From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”).
Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).
Senses: examples: text: The completed kipe looks like a crinoline made for a giantess; from the slender waist the skirts swell to a diameter of eight feet at the hem.
The kipe is only the mouth to the fisherman's elaborate trap and is fixed so that it faces up-river.
ref: 1947, Brian Waters, Severn Tide, J. M. Dent, page 149:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: An osier basket used for catching fish.
kipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪp/
Forms: form: kipes
form: kiping
form: kiped
form: kiped
form: kipp
form: kype
form: kypp
Etymology: Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).
Senses: examples: text: Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop.
ref: 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 189:
synonyms: word: steal
word: abduct
word: abstract
word: appropriate
word: bag
word: bandit
word: bash and grab
word: bone
word: boost
word: burgle
word: burglarize
word: borrow
word: cheat
word: chore
word: commandeer
word: confiscate
word: convert
word: cop
word: cozen
word: crib
word: embezzle
word: filch
word: fleece
word: flog
word: gaffle
word: gilravage
word: half-inch
word: heave
word: heist
word: jack
word: kidnap
word: knock off
word: kipe
word: kyper
word: liberate
word: lift
word: loot
word: make off with
word: mill
word: misappropriate
word: mooch
word: moonlight requisition
word: nick
word: nip
word: own
word: peculate
word: pickpocket
word: pilfer
word: pinch
word: pillage
word: pirate
word: plunder
word: poach
word: pocket
word: prig
word: purloin
word: raid
word: relieve
word: rape
word: ransack
word: reave
word: rip
word: rip off
word: rob
word: run off with
word: snag
word: snatch
word: sniggle
word: snitch
word: swindle
word: swipe
word: thieve
word: walk off with
glosses: To steal.
kipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪp/
Forms: form: kipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”).
lamster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamsters
Etymology: From lam + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A fugitive from justice.
Related terms: on the lam
Mickey Finn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mickey Finns
form: Mickey Flynn
Etymology: Probably named for the manager and bartender of a Chicago establishment, the Lone Star Saloon and Palm Garden Restaurant, which operated from 1896 to 1903, who was accused of using "knockout drops" to incapacitate and rob some of his customers.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious.
Derived terms: mickey
shtup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃtʌp/
ipa: /ʃtʊp/
rhymes: -ʌp
rhymes: -ʊp
Forms: form: shtups
form: shtupping
form: shtupped
form: shtupped
form: schtup
form: schtoop
form: shtoop
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שטופּן (shtupn), which see.
Senses: synonyms: shove
glosses: push
examples: text: And shikse cunt, to boot! Chasing it, sniffing it, lapping it, shtupping it, but above all, thinking about it.
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint:
text: Doug: (mansplaining): “What Ann means is that everyone was shtupping in the shtetl.”
ref: 2018 December 7, Liane Kupferberg Carter, “23andMe Informed Me My Husband and I Are Related”, in The Cut:
synonyms: shag
fuck
screw
glosses: have sex (with)
bootjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootjacks
Etymology: From boot + jack.
Senses: glosses: A V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.
glosses: A former leaf base on the trunk of a palm that resembles the device.
bootjack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bootjacks
form: bootjacking
form: bootjacked
form: bootjacked
Etymology: From boot + jack.
Senses: glosses: to steal
kindergarten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹd(ə)n/
ipa: [ˈkʰɪn(d)əɹˌɡɑːɹt̬(ə)n]
ipa: [ˈkʰɪɾ̃əɹˌɡɑːɹʔn̩]
ipa: /ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːt(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: kindergartens
form: kindergärten
form: kindergarden
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Kindergarten (“kindergarten”, literally “garden of children”), coined by German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel (early 19th century).
Senses: glosses: An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
glosses: The elementary school grade before first grade.
glosses: The two levels between nursery and prep; the second and third years of preschool.
Synonyms: word: nursery school
word: preschool
word: KG
Derived terms: word: kindergarchy
word: kindergartener
word: kindergartenize
word: kinderwhore
word: kindy
word: nonkindergarten
word: prekindergarten
Related terms: kindergartner
daycare
neuralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuralgias
Etymology: From New Latin neuralgia, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, neur- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
examples: text: A century later, the UK’s post-Brexit dispute with Brussels about Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements with the EU has stirred the same neuralgia.
ref: 2022 December 8, Philip Stephens, “Neuralgia clashes with exceptionalism in Northern Ireland”, in Financial Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2023:
text: Ukrainian strikes on legitimate military targets far in the Russian rear continue to be points of neuralgia for the Russian milblogger community.
ref: 2022 December 26, Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, George Barros, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26”, in understandingwar.org, Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2022:
glosses: Acute emotional distress.
Synonyms: neuralgy
neurodynia
Hyponyms: sciatica
Derived terms: corneal neuralgia
neuralgic
neuralgiform
odontoneuralgia
red neuralgia
trigeminal neuralgia
Related terms: analgesia
neuritis
neuropathy
pantalgia
polyneuropathy
roust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊst/
rhymes: -aʊst
Forms: form: rousts
form: rousting
form: rousted
form: rousted
Etymology: 1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.
Senses: examples: text: "Why didn't you roust me out?" / "Well, I tried to, but I couldn't; I couldn't budge you." / "Well, all right. Don't stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there's a fish on the lines for breakfast. I'll be along in a minute."
ref: 1884, Mark Twain, chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Yesterday morn at 6:30 they rousted me up & gave me 2 shots in the behind.
glosses: to rout out of bed; to rouse.
examples: text: My client is an ex-convict. He's been constantly harassed by the police... subjected to extreme mental cruelty and public degradation. He's even been denied an adequate place to live! To be very blunt, gentlemen, my client has been thoroughly rousted.
ref: 1962, 00:28:45 from the start, in Cape Fear:
glosses: To harass, to treat in a rough way.
glosses: To arrest.
glosses: To drive strongly.
Synonyms: sense: rout out of bed
word: bring round
word: knock up
word: awaken
sense: arrest
word: collar
sense: arrest
word: nick
sense: arrest
word: pinch
roust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊst/
rhymes: -aʊst
Forms: form: rousts
form: roost
form: rost
Etymology: From Old Norse rǫst (“current, stream in the sea”).
Senses: examples: text: At the north point of this island, called Ska, goes a very rapid current; like the Roust of Sumburghead
ref: 1786, Thomas Gifford, An Historical Description of the Zetland Islands:
glosses: A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
shakedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪkdaʊn/
Forms: form: shakedowns
form: shake-down
Etymology: Deverbal from shake down. An improvised bed would originally have been made by shaking down straw.
Senses: examples: text: What is this, a shakedown?
text: Four Thai police officers charged with murder in connection with the deadly shakedown of a suspected drug dealer in custody were arrested Wednesday after a video clip of the incident shared on social media caused a public furor.
ref: 2021 August 25, Tassanee Vejpongsa, “Four Thai Police Charged in Drug Suspect’s Death After Video Surfaces”, in Bloomberg, Bloomberg, retrieved 25 Aug 2021:
glosses: Extortion, especially through blackmail
glosses: A thorough search; a frisk
examples: text: It was planning to use an '807' for one day only as part of a shakedown test, ahead of the fleet's formal entry to service which is currently planned for November.
ref: 2024 October 30, “Network News: Avanti prepares for Class 807s to enter traffic”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 12:
glosses: A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
examples: text: All sorts of gossip floated about; one story told was that a selector, and not the youngest of that staid and sober party, was found putting his boots into his shakedown at night, and lying outside the entrance of his tent, giving careful directions to some one to call him in time for the morning mail.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79:
text: "There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown?" -- "No, sir."
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
text: ‘You two,’ he says, ‘you're not going back tonight. […] I can make you shake-downs on the veranda and we'll have a bite to eat.’
ref: 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 107:
glosses: An improvised bed.
shakedown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪkdaʊn/
Forms: form: shake-down
Etymology: Deverbal from shake down. An improvised bed would originally have been made by shaking down straw.
Senses: glosses: that tests the performance of a ship or aircraft
from the word go
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Suggesting a footrace that is begun with the word "go".
Senses: examples: text: I watched him closely from the word go because I did not trust him.
text: "I promise to take care of myself. Yes; I won't take any risks. Not a single blessed risk. Of course not. I mean to hang out. Don't worry. Jove! I feel as though nothing could touch me. Why! this is luck from the word Go."
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxiii. 177:
glosses: From the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting.
Synonyms: the get-go
politically incorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politically incorrect
form: most politically incorrect
Senses: examples: text: The 1960s counterculture created a moral and spiritual vacuum that weakens the foundations of American society. The new elite of its adversary culture has disdained traditional morality— the stress on hard work, thrift, frugality, deferred gratification, the sanctity of marriage, fidelity, sexual self-control, and individual accountability. Those who still believe in these values are branded by the new elite as quaint, politically incorrect throwbacks who "just don't get it."
ref: 1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
glosses: Not politically correct; not conforming to correct political positions.
examples: text: The word "geezer" is a politically incorrect term for an old person.
glosses: Not politically correct; considered to be disrespectful to a particular group of people.
Synonyms: non-PC
un-PC
liability insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liability insurances
Senses: glosses: Any insurance against a potential loss due to the insured's liability for injury or damage to others.
porphyry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɹ.fɪ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹ.fə.ɹi/
Forms: form: porphyries
Etymology: From Old French porfire, from Ancient Greek πορφυρίτης λίθος (porphurítēs líthos, “purple stone”), from πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish, purple dye”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix.
examples: text: A quartet of porphyry warriors, locked for all time in stern embrace outside St. Mark's Basilica, were probably carved in the Fourth Century. They are believed to represent the Roman Emperor Diocletian and the three men who held power with him.
ref: 1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 43:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix.
A purple-red rock of this kind.
Derived terms: porphyraceous
porphyric
porphyrogenite → porphyrogenitism
porphyrogeniture
porphyroid
porphyrous
porphyry shell
freshers' week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshers' weeks
Senses: synonyms: word: freshman week
glosses: The week before the academic aspects of a university start, when students may socialize and undergo induction.
colocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colocations
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of collocation.
colocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colocations
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-location.
Related terms: colocate
blood cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌd ˌsɛl/
Forms: form: blood cells
form: blood-cell
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the cells normally found in blood, namely erythrocytes and leukocytes, sometimes including the platelets.
Synonyms: word: blood corpuscle
word: hemocyte
word: blood cell
Hypernyms: word: cell
Hyponyms: word: erythrocyte
word: leucocyte
word: leukocyte
word: platelet
word: RBC
word: red blood cell
word: WBC
word: white blood cell
word: lymphocyte
word: B cell
word: T cell
anucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + nucleate.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Which does not have a nucleus.
platelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪt.lət/
Forms: form: platelets
Etymology: From plate + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: blood platelet
thrombocyte
glosses: A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots.
Derived terms: antiplatelet
giant platelet disorder
gray platelet syndrome
grey platelet syndrome
Harris platelet syndrome
interplatelet
intraplatelet
nanoplatelet
nonplatelet
platelet function test
plateletpheresis
proplatelet
sticky platelet syndrome
blue moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: blue moons
Senses: glosses: An extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, namely:
The third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.
glosses: An extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, namely:
The second of two full moons that occur in the same calendar month (a definition created by mistake in the 20th century).
glosses: The moon tinted towards blue as it appears in the sky, caused by dust or smoke in the atmosphere.
glosses: A long time.
glosses: A bright blue, sweet-flavored ice cream that is popular in the Midwestern U.S. and is a component of Superman ice cream.
Derived terms: once in a blue moon
breaststroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛstˌstɹoʊk/
Forms: form: breaststrokes
Etymology: From breast + stroke.
Senses: glosses: A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's
Derived terms: breaststroker
breaststroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛstˌstɹoʊk/
Forms: form: breaststrokes
form: breaststroking
form: breaststroked
form: breaststroked
Etymology: From breast + stroke.
Senses: glosses: to swim using this stroke
backstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌstɹoʊk/
Forms: form: backstrokes
Etymology: From back + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: He observed that Cid Ruy-dias was an excellent knight; but not equal to the Lord of the Flaming-sword, who with one back-stroke [translating revés] had cut two fierce and monstrous giants through the middle.
ref: 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.1:
glosses: A backhanded stroke or blow.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
glosses: The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
Synonyms: back crawl
Derived terms: backstroker
Related terms: breaststroke
butterfly stroke
sidestroke
backstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌstɹoʊk/
Forms: form: backstrokes
form: backstroking
form: backstroked
form: backstroked
Etymology: From back + stroke.
Senses: glosses: To swim the backstroke.
Related terms: front crawl
freestyle
medley
trudgen
Gaelic football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡeɪlɪk ˈfʊtbɔːl/
ipa: /ˌɡæ-/
ipa: [-ˈfʊʔ-]
ipa: /ˌɡeɪlɪk ˈfʊtbɔl/
ipa: [-ˈfʊʔ-]
Etymology: From Gaelic (adjective) + football.
Senses: examples: text: Armagh (and it is one of the most memorable chapters in the history of Gaelic football) were fated to fall at the last hurdle when they were beaten by Kerry in the All-Ireland decider.
ref: 2001, Brian Cosgrove, “Sport, Politics and the ‘Other Side’”, in The Yew Tree at the Head of the Strand, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, pages 143–144:
glosses: An Irish form of football played by two teams of 15 players each, who score by kicking or punching a ball into the opposing team's goal or over a crossbar and between two upright posts above the goal.
wikipedia: 2008 Ulster Senior Football Championship
Derry county football team
Donegal county football team
Francis McEldowney
Hypernyms: Gaelic games
Coordinate terms: camogie
Gaelic handball
hurling
rounders
dog paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog paddles
form: doggy paddle
form: dogpaddle
form: dog-paddle
Senses: examples: text: The self-taught small boy usually begins with the so-called “dog-paddle.” There his instinct is thoroughly right, and the method is especially valuable for children too young to do much formal practicing. Dog-paddle is the most natural of all strokes, and therefore the easiest of all to learn.
ref: 1908 April, Edwin T. Brewster, “The Bathtub Swimming School”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 46, page 387:
text: He would still go down for his daily dog paddle in the faculty swimming pool, and would still nibble the raisins he likes to keep in his briefcase.
ref: 1949 April 23, “Exit Growling”, in Time:
glosses: A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming.
dog paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dog paddles
form: dog paddling
form: dog paddled
form: dog paddled
form: doggy paddle
form: dogpaddle
form: dog-paddle
Senses: examples: text: He pretended that an alligator was behind him and swam desperately. He passed one spot and then, laboriously, another, dog-paddling.
ref: 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 11, in The Yearling:
text: Last week, as the latest escapee dog paddled his way to freedom across the Spandau ship canal, the Grepos machine-pistoled him down with seven slugs. Sinking in mid stream, he became the 58th victim—and the first dog—to die since 1961 while trying to enter West Berlin from the East German democratic workers’ paradise.
ref: 1965 April 23, “Dream of a Bigger Bone”, in Time:
text: They were of course distantly related to Eliza and me, too, since our Vermont ancestors had once been content to dogpaddle endlessly, so to speak, in the same tiny genetic pool.
ref: 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 2, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 31:
glosses: To swim in dog paddle style.
doggy paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: doggy paddles
form: doggie paddle
form: doggie-paddle
form: doggy-paddle
Senses: glosses: A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming. The swimmer lies on their chest and moves their hands and legs alternately.
glosses: The swimming method used by dogs and other four-legged mammals, with head above water and front legs vigorously paddling.
doggy paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: doggy paddles
form: doggy paddling
form: doggy paddled
form: doggy paddled
form: doggie paddle
form: doggie-paddle
form: doggy-paddle
Senses: examples: text: Number one immediately leapt into the water and doggy-paddled [...] across to the other side[.]
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 127:
glosses: To swim in this style.
swimming pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪmɪŋ ˌpuːl/
Forms: form: swimming pools
form: swimming-pool
Senses: examples: text: He was chilling out with his girlfriend in the swimming pool.
text: Fortunately, a waterfall thrums down the nearby mountains and forms a natural swimming pool at the entrance.
ref: 2009, Sean Harvey, The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic, →ISBN, page 321:
synonyms: word: swimming bath
glosses: A pool of water used for swimming, usually one which has been artificially constructed.
Related terms: diving board
synchronized swimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: artistic swimming
water ballet
glosses: A swimming event where swimmers perform a synchronised routine of dance moves in the water.
foie gras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfwɑː ˈɡɹɑː/
ipa: /ˌfwɑ ˈɡɹɑ/
Forms: form: foies gras
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).
Senses: examples: text: Foies Gras are now sold in cans in every large grocery establishment in the United States.[…]Bake this paste, and then fill in with the foies gras.
ref: 1901, The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, 2nd edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune, page 130, columns 1–2:
text: Foies gras are supplied either by geese or ducks.
ref: 1907, “Poultry”, in A Guide to Modern Cookery, London: William Heinemann Ltd., translation of Le guide culinaire by Auguste Escoffier, section “1726—Foie Gras”, page 547:
text: Many foies gras put up by French canneries aren’t really French at all.
ref: 1948, Town & Country, page 166:
text: Fresh duck foies gras are so highly prized in the southwest of France[…]
ref: 1963, Réalités, section “Louisa Porter’s Comments”, page 87, column 3:
glosses: The fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.
wikipedia: Singapore
Synonyms: english: shortening
translation: shortening
word: foie
Derived terms: faux gras
foie
Related terms: pâté de foie gras
fatty liver
poilu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpwɑːluː/
Forms: form: poilus
Etymology: Borrowed from French poilu (“brave”). Doublet of plew.
Senses: glosses: A French infantryman during the First World War
ghazwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghazwas
form: ghazwat
form: ghazawat
Etymology: From Arabic غَزْوَة (ḡazwa). Doublet of razzia.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of the battles in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad personally participated.
glosses: A battle or raid against non-Muslims for the expansion of Muslim territory and/or conversion of non-Muslims to Islam.
Related terms: ghazi
ghazw
Ghazwa-e-Hind
siryah
aug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Clipping of augmented.
aug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augs
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Clipping of augmentation.
SAW
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Arabic
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: PBUH
AS
glosses: صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)
SAW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAWs
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: LMG
MG
coordinate_terms: DMR
glosses: Acronym of squad automatic weapon or section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of surface acoustic wave.
glosses: Acronym of solar array wing
SAW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Stock Aitken Waterman, an English songwriting and record production trio.
ignosticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ig- (from ignorant) + gnostic + -ism, modeled after agnosticism; coined by Rabbi Sherwin Wine.
Senses: synonyms: igtheism
glosses: Nescience towards the meaning (if any) of the word, "God," or the phrase, "God exists."
Related terms: agnosticism
apatheism
ignostic
nontheism
self-conjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + conjugate.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a subatomic particle that is identical to its antiparticle; includes all gauge bosons except the charged W-boson and gluons.
gauge boson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauge bosons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the fundamental particles that carry the fundamental forces of nature.
Synonyms: word: gauge boson
Hypernyms: word: boson
word: elementary particle
Hyponyms: word: photon
word: W-boson
word: Z-boson
word: gluon
word: graviton
Related terms: english: strong nuclear force
translation: strong nuclear force
word: gluon
english: gravity
translation: gravity
word: graviton
topics: electromagnetism
physics
electrical-engineering
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: photon
english: weak nuclear force
translation: weak nuclear force
word: W-boson and Z-boson
fundamental particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundamental particles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the subatomic particles that does not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
ignostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignostics
Etymology: From ig-, as in "ignorant", and gnostic (“knowing”).
Senses: glosses: One who holds to ignosticism.
ignostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ignostic
form: most ignostic
Etymology: From ig-, as in "ignorant", and gnostic (“knowing”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to ignostics.
glosses: Of or relating to ignosticism.
Related terms: agnostic
agnosticism
atheist
W-boson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: W-bosons
form: W boson
Etymology: Coined by Chinese physicists Tsung-Dao Lee and by Yang Chen-Ning in 1960; the W is believed to stand for weak.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the Z-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of ± 1
Z-boson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Z-bosons
form: Z boson
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1961. The use of Z was not explained but may stand for zero.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the W-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of 0
Z boson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Z bosons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Z-boson.
GAA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GAAs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: goals against average, a sports statistic
GAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Gaelic Athletic Association (the governing body of the Irish sports of Gaelic football, hurling, camogie, handball, and rounders).
glosses: Abbreviation of General Appropiations Act (the annual legislated national budget of the Phillipines).
ordered pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordered pairs
Senses: examples: If an ordered pair were defined (in terms of sets) as (x,y):=a,a,b then the "first element" of an ordered pair S could be defined as CAR(S) where CAR(S) = x if and only if (∀y∈S.,x∈y). Likewise, the "second element" of S could be defined as CDR(S) where CDR(S) = x if and only if (∃y∈S.,(∃z∈y.,x∈z)). If the two elements happened to be equal, then the ordered pair would still have cardinality two as would be naturally expected.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: An object containing exactly two elements in a fixed order, so that, when the elements are different, exchanging them gives a different object. Notation: (a, b) or ⟨a,b⟩.
Related terms: triple
triplet
tuple
dui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duo
electron neutrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron neutrinos
Senses: glosses: A leptonic elementary particle, having near-zero mass and no charge
elementary particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elementary particles
Senses: examples: text: The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref: 2012 March 24, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
Synonyms: word: elementary particle
word: fundamental particle
Hypernyms: word: subatomic particle
Hyponyms: word: lepton
word: quark
word: gauge boson
Related terms: word: :Category:Elementary particles
n-tuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: n-tuples
Senses: examples: text: Two probabilistic interpretations of the n-tuple recognition method are put forward in order to allow this technique to be analysed with the same Bayesian methods used in connection with other neural network models.
ref: 1995, Rohwer, R.J., Fourth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Two Bayesian treatments of the n-tuple recognition method, Aston Univ., Birmingham http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=497811
text: The continuous n-tuple classifier was proposed by the author as a new type of n-tuple classifier that is ideally suited to problems where the input is continuous or multi-level rather than binary.
ref: 1998, S.M. Lucas, Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings: Continuous n-tuple classifier and its application to real-time face recognition, Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester:
text: Therefore an image processing technique that utilises a trainable n-tuple pattern recognition algorithm is under investigation.
ref: 1999, D. Chan,1 S. Hockaday, R.D. Tillett, and L.G. Ross, 7th International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications: A trainable n-tuple pattern classifier and its application for monitoring fish underwater http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=IEECPS0019990CP465000255000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A tuple containing n terms.
Synonyms: tuple
muon neutrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muon neutrinos
form: muon-neutrino
Senses: examples: text: Here, OPERA's scientists told their colleagues in Kyoto that they have spotted a so-called muon-neutrino (of the sort whipped up at CERN) turn into another, tau-flavoured one.
ref: 2012 June 8, “Back to the future”, in The Economist:
glosses: A leptonic elementary particle having about half the mass of an electron and no charge.