cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moids
Etymology: Presumably from male + -oid, after the pattern of foid, itself a clipping of femoid.
Senses: examples: text: […] not to mention foids calling themselves femcels for not getting a Chad and copying many of our viewpoints and perspectives and terms(LOL Pinkpill? Moids?), […]
ref: 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 162
text: Does this moid even know the meaning of the term ‘butterface’? If this woman is ugly, there is no hope for most of the female population.
ref: 2021, anonymous, quoted in Ella Guest, Bertie Vidgen, Alexandros Mittos, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, & Helen Margetts, "An Expert Annotated Dataset for the Detection of Online Misogyny", Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021), page 1343
text: No one here will be debating with any moids about her femcel status.
ref: 2021, Trufemcels Reddit, quoted in Jilly Boyce Kay, "Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability", Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (eds. Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra), unnumbered page
qualifier: Femcel slang
glosses: A man.
Coordinate terms: word: femoid
word: foid
word: troid
misopen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misopens
form: misopening
form: misopened
form: misopened
Etymology: From mis- + open.
Senses: examples: text: But this argument hadn't really been about trust, or homework, or misopened mail, and we both knew it.
ref: 1978, Norma Johnston, If You Love Me, Let Me Go, page 18:
text: The fresh air hit him, and for a moment he could almost put a name on the stink that came out of the misopened gate.
ref: 2014, R. A. MacAvoy, The Book of Kells:
text: "Shen Yong, did you misopen the car?" Jiang Jing asked in confusion.
ref: 2019, Xie Yingning, Light Warmth: Right Time, Our Time:
glosses: To open what one should not open.
examples: text: Tensely, Michael removed pieces of cork from a misopened bottle.
ref: 1986, Janet Hobhouse, November, page 59:
glosses: To do a bad job of opening.
misopens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misopen
misopening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misopen
misopened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misopen
go ER
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes ER
form: going ER
form: went ER
form: gone ER
Etymology: Initialism referring to Elliot Rodger, who carried out a series of deadly mass shootings in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 with the intent of punishing women for rejecting him and men he envied.
Senses: examples: text: As far as I know, femoids going ER are extremely rare or maybe non-existent.
ref: 2018, anonymous, quoted in Rebecca Karlén, "Incels: En kartläggning av diskursen på forumetincels.is", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 30
text: Arguably, the most effective way to prevent an incel from “going ER” is by proactively addressing his suicidal impulses.
ref: 2020, Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware, Ezra Shapiro, “Assessing the Threat of Incel Violence”, in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, volume 43, number 7:
text: Yes, because there will always be some self-proclaimed incel out there who will go ER.
ref: 2021, anonymous, quoted in Rosa Auf der Strasse & Ebba Philipson, "My loneliness is killing me (and everyone else): En kvalitativ studie om hur incels diskuterar våld online", thesis submitted to Kristianstad University, page 29
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: To commit an indiscriminate mass murder, particularly one that targets women.
wikipedia: 2014 Isla Vista killings
Elliot Rodger
soycuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soycucks
Etymology: Blend of soyboy + cuck
Senses: examples: text: Guys today are either soycucks, limp pussy-whipped foid worshippers or violent impulse lunatics that don’t understand the term restraint.
ref: 2020, anonymous, quoted in Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, pages 70-71
text: It is only jealous older roasties and soy cucks, who complain about men fucking younger females (Especially if it is an ugly man).
ref: 2020, anonymous, quote in Katri-Maaria Kyllönen, "'The Incel Rebellion Has Already Begun!': Diskurssianalyysi vihan oikeutuksen representaatioista Incels.co -palstan keskusteluissa", thesis submitted to the University of Lapland, page 65
text: Fifth, it pisses off normies, soycucks and feminists.
ref: 2020, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer:
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: A weak or effeminate man; a beta male.
Synonyms: soyboy
proportionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proportionises
form: proportionising
form: proportionised
form: proportionised
Senses: examples: text: It should not be a mere example of decorative art or just a proportionising of various parts but creation of a lively and realistic object in tune and in sympathy with the surroundings.
ref: 1957, Bhagirath - Volume 4, page 83:
text: By properly proportionising the sizes of the driving pulleys, the quantity of pitch delivered to the conveyor, e, can be varied as desired.
ref: 1901, Herbert William Hughes, A Text-book of Coal-mining, page 507:
text: Other writers there are, that would haue him signifie Tyme, as that with his sythe he should measure and proportionise the length of Time, and therewith to decurtate and cut away all things contained therein.
ref: 1973, Sōji Iwasaki, The Sword and the Word: Shakespeare's Tragic Sense of Time, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of proportionize.
proportionises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proportionise
proportionising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proportionise
proportionised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proportionise
proportionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proportionizes
form: proportionizing
form: proportionized
form: proportionized
form: proportionise
Etymology: From proportion + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.
ref: 1892, Occident - Volume 22, page 36:
text: The New Tesstament precepts do need, if not to be re-written, at all events to be interpreted and, as it were, proportionized, before they can be wholesomely and wisely applied to the special needs of our, or any, generation.
ref: 1892, Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman - Volume 2, page 12:
text: They come in regular dress sizes, but are proportionized to tall, medium, and short figures.
ref: 1949, Successful Farming - Volume 47, page 132:
text: If a single capitalist sends money abroad where he gets 10 per cent interest, although he could provicde employment within his own country for a mass of surplus people, he deserves a civic crown from the capitalistic standpoint, since this virtuous bourgeois carries out the law which apportions capital within the world market just as within the walls of a society just in accordance with the rate of profit which particular spheres of production offer, and precisely thereby equalizes the rate of profit and proportionizes production.
ref: 1976, Karl Marx, John Albert Dragstedt, Value: Studies, page 144:
glosses: To ensure that everything is in proper proportion to form a harmonious or properly functioning whole.
proportionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proportionize
proportionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proportionize
proportionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proportionize
de-internationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-internationalisation
form: deinternationalisation
form: deinternationalization
Etymology: From de- + internationalization.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, these firms may postpone the deinternationalization decision longer …
ref: 2016, Timothy Devinney with Gideon Markman, Torben Pedersen, and Laszlo Tihanyi, Global Entrepreneurship: Past, Present & Future, page 49:
antonyms: internationalization
glosses: The reverse of internationalization.
de-internationalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-internationalization.
deinternationalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + internationalisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-internationalization.
deinternationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + internationalization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-internationalization.
rage quitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rage quit
rage quits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rage quit
rage quits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rage quit
rage quitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rage quitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ragequitter.
rage quitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rage quitter
de-internationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-internationalizes
form: de-internationalizing
form: de-internationalized
form: de-internationalized
form: de-internationalise
form: deinternationalise
form: deinternationalize
Senses: antonyms: internationalize
glosses: To reverse or remove internationalization
deinternationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deinternationalizes
form: deinternationalizing
form: deinternationalized
form: deinternationalized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-internationalize.
deinternationalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deinternationalises
form: deinternationalising
form: deinternationalised
form: deinternationalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-internationalize.
de-internationalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-internationalises
form: de-internationalising
form: de-internationalised
form: de-internationalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-internationalize.
de-internationalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-internationalize
de-internationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-internationalize
de-internationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-internationalize
Catradora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Catra + Adora.
Senses: examples: text: I'm firmly on team Catradora, I mean, are they blind to each other or something?
ref: 2019, Erik Schubach, The Pike: New Beginnings, unnumbered page:
text: From Charlize Theron kicking *ss in The Old Guard to the final season of She Ra and The Princess^([sic]) of Power finally giving us Catradora.
ref: 2020 August, Jamal Grootboom, “Cursed”, in TV Magazine, South Africa, page 19:
text: While many comparisons have now been made between “Korrasami” and “Catradora,” in light of the critical success of She-Ra's final season and its open depiction of Catra and Adora's love, […]
ref: 2021, Lauren Chochinov, “'What's Going On with You Two?': Queerness, Fandom, and Adaptation in The Legend of Korra Franchise”, in Reginald Wiebe, editor, Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, page 131:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Catra and Adora from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
wikipedia: Catra
She-Ra
Finnrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Finn + Rey.
Senses: examples: text: People have started to look at fandom through a social justice lens, so there are now progressive/good ships (Finnrey = interracial, good) and regressive/bad ships (Reylo = white, racist, abusive and sexist = bad).
ref: 2020, Shuang, quoted in Adrienne E. Raw, "Fandom Discussion: Knowledge, Intersections, and Tensions of Self, Community, and Social Justice", dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, page 280
text: FinnRey fan art
ref: 2020, Abigail Reed, "Interpretations and Receptions of Alternative Subjectivities in the Disney-Produced Star Wars Films", dissertation submitted to Florida State University, page vi
text: I've been following "Finnrey" a lot, which is a dark horse in the realm of shipping. Even people who don't love Finnrey recognize that the first movie did set up that Finn (played by black actor John Boyega) and Rey (white actor Daisy Ridley) had a deep emotional connection that producers later dropped.
ref: 2021, Greg Carter, quoted in "UWM historian takes on race, relationships, and representation", In Focus (University of Wisconsin-Millwaukee), January 2021, page 11
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Finn and Rey from Star Wars.
crêper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crêpers
Senses: examples: text: Strip coagulation in tanks is more economical than mass coagulation as the strip will go easily through a macerator without being cut up, rollers can be set fairly close for the first roll, and once through the macerator brings the rubber to a stage where the crêper and smooth finisher can deal with it. The macerator and crêper should be hard chilled rollers with uneven speeds, the number of teeth in the cogs being 21 for the front roller and 18 for the back one.
ref: 1917, Proceedings of the First Agricultural Conference, Malaya: Held at the Chamber of Commerce, Kuala Lumpur, April 25th to 28th 1917, page 103:
text: Generally speaking the V-groove is seen on the macerators, the U-groove on the crêpers.
ref: 1926, Archief voor de rubbercultuur in Nederlandsch-Indië, page 222:
text: On plant side, the mill had two MG machines and an off-machine crêper.
ref: 1979, Paper Technology and Industry, page 91, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of creper.
crêpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crêper
Karrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karriers
Etymology: Possibly an alteration of carrier
Senses: glosses: A former make of commercial vehicle manufactured in England, which included lorries, buses and trolleybuses.
Karriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karrier
head-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: head-hunts
form: head-hunting
form: head-hunted
form: head-hunted
Senses: examples: text: But the beginning of the end to the rivalry came with the appointment of Sir Josiah Stamp as General Manager in 1926, and the LMS became a proper united front when William Stanier was head-hunted from the GWR in 1932 to become Chief Mechanical Engineer.
ref: 2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of headhunt.
head-hunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of head-hunt
Hugenholtzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hugenholtz
Hunses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hunse
Pataky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Patakys
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Pataky, from the noun patak (“creek”). Compare Patak.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Sillman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sillmans
Etymology: Variant of German Sillmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sillmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sillman
Patakys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pataky
Nour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nours
Etymology: Variant of Noor.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Skehan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skehans
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Sceacháin (“descendant of Sceachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of sceach (“briar, thornbush”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Stettner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stettners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stettner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stettners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stettner
Skehans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Skehan
Suciu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania.
Lincolnomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Lincoln + economics, equivalent to Lincoln + -nomics.
Senses: examples: text: It’s little wonder the Republicans are always so anxious about midterm elections. They lost ground in the very first one — when Abraham Lincoln was in the White House, in 1862. The Democrats picked up 38 House seats in that election, and they might have won more if President Lincoln hadn’t used federal troops to intimidate the opposition in some of the border-state contests. Democrats even won a majority of the House seats from Lincoln’s home state of Illinois. Was it a signal to Washington that Lincolnomics had failed? Not at all.
ref: 1982 November 14, “The missing message”, in Craig Klugman, Larry J. Hayes, editors, The Journal~Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.: Richard Inskeep, column 1:
text: THE LITTLE boy next door reports that his class now is studying the Civil War and Lincolnomics.
ref: 1982 December 8, William D. Tammeus, “Starbeams”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 103, number 69, Kansas City, Mo., page 16A:
ref: 1984, John H. Hotson, Rooseveltonomics, Reaganomics, and Lincolnomics, or, How Come the Bankers Are Charging Ron 10 Percent, when FDR Got His Money at 2 Percent, and Honest Abe Got His for Nothing?, Waterloo, Ont.: Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, →OCLC
text: The only people practicing Lincolnomics these days are the Soviets, which may be why they can afford more missiles and tanks than we can despite a much smaller economy.
ref: 1987 February 2, Charley Reese, “Today’s civil-rights and welfare groups would jump on Lincoln”, in The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., page A-10, column 2:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Economic policies associated with the administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861–1865.
Sekerak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sekeraks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Sekerák.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Sekeraks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sekerak
Steineses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Steines
Takakis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Takaki
Swadleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Swadley
Sheu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shü
Forms: form: Sheus
form: Hsu
form: Hsü
form: Syu
form: Xu
Etymology: From Mandarin 許 /许 (Sheu) in Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization.
Senses: examples: text: "The pace of internationalization and liberalization will be made slower and more careful" because of Asia’s financial turmoil, the Central Bank of China's governor, Sheu Yuan-dong, said in an interview.
Mr. Sheu's policies and views are followed closely throughout Asia.
ref: 1998 January 19, Thomas Crampton, “Taipei Plans to Delay Reform of Economy”, in International Herald Tribune, number 35,732, Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 5:
text: Premier Lin Chuan (林全) yesterday said he does not see why Minister of Finance Sheu Yu-jer (許虞哲) should resign, amid media reports that Sheu would follow Financial Supervisory Commission chairman Ding Kung-wha (丁克華) in stepping down over the Mega International Commercial Bank (兆豐銀行) scandal.
ref: 2016 October 5, Alison Hsiao, “No reason for finance minister to quit: Lin”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2016, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: Yilan County native Sheu Fang-yi (許芳宜) has long been one of Taiwan’s great exports, as well as an inspiration to many young Taiwanese dancers, but her appearances at home have been few and far between.
ref: 2017 August 31, Diane Baker, “A salute from a Taiwanese treasure”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2017, Features, page 13:
text: Foundation chairman Wayne Sheu (許惠恒) said this year is the 16th campaign since it was launched in 2006.
About 70 percent of people are aware of the “80cm and 90cm” healthy waistline standard, but 46.8 percent did not measure their waist in the past year, Sheu said, citing a foundation survey.
ref: 2022 August 7, Lee I-chia, “Foundation touts app to help people watch waist data”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2022, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: A surname from Mandarin.
wikipedia: Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Shed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sheds
Etymology: Variant of Shedd.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sheds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shed
Sheus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sheu
Ryburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ryburns
Etymology: Variant of Rayburn.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
superultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəɹˈʌltɪmɪt/
ipa: /suːpəɹˈʌltəmɪt/
Forms: form: super-ultimate
Etymology: From super- + ultimate.
Senses: examples: text: This article is the superultimate in misrepresentation and inaccuracy.
ref: 1963, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 13639:
text: We can no longer speak glibly of revolution in an era when war could bring on the superultimate repression: death of the human race.
ref: 1972, Otto Rank Association, Otto Rank, Journal Volumes 7-8, page 99:
text: The essence of these divinities is that of intermediaries between a being and a supreme superultimate Being.
ref: 2003, Journal of Religious Studies, Volume 34, Department of Religious Studies, Punjabi University, page 90:
glosses: Beyond what is usually ultimate; truly ultimate.
Ryburns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ryburn
Albelo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Albelos
Etymology: Borrowed from Galician Albelo. This surname is mostly found in Argentina.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Galician.
Blevens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blevenses
Etymology: Variant of Blevins.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
taxi dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi dances
form: taxi-dance
Senses: examples: text: Another of Broadway's most characteristic features is the dance hostess, who works in any one of the six or seven taxi-dance halls that occupy six or seven second floors in buildings on or near the Main Stem.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87:
glosses: A dance taken with a taxi dancer.
Derived terms: word: taxi-dance
taxi dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi dance
Blevenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blevens
Albelos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Albelo
dance hostess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance hostesses
Senses: examples: text: Another of Broadway's most characteristic features is the dance hostess, who works in any one of the six or seven taxi-dance halls that occupy six or seven second floors in buildings on or near the Main Stem.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87:
glosses: A woman whose occupation is to dance with male clients for a price per dance.
dance hostesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dance hostess
McGuffey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGuffeys
form: McGuffie
Etymology: It could be a variant of the surname McDuffie. Alternatively, it may be an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Dhabhoig (“son of Davuc”), a diminutive of the personal name David.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.
xylaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylarium
xylariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylarium
fungariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungarium
Castledine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Castledines
Etymology: Perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation typical of Derbyshire of the surname Castleton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Castledines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Castledine
McGuffeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGuffey
Roigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roig
bottle fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle fights
Senses: examples: text: Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89:
glosses: A hand-to-hand fight or brawl in which glass bottles are used as extempore weapons.
accidental death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accidental deaths
Senses: examples: text: However, the 'accidental death' verdict of the jury in the inquest into the Croydon tram accident of November 2016 is the latest episode in a saga that seems likely to prevent the full story of this eminently preventable disaster from ever being exposed.
ref: 2021 August 25, Christian Wolmar, “Croydon tram crash: the questions haven't been answered”, in RAIL, number 938, page 58:
glosses: A death caused by involvement in an accident, defined in particular as a verdict in an inquest or inquiry into the death.
Related terms: AD&D
accidental deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accidental death
Wilson cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson clouds
Etymology: Named after Scottish physicist and meteorologist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959).
Senses: glosses: A transient condensation cloud surrounding large explosions in humid air.
Wilson clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilson cloud
plumber wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumber wrenches
Senses: glosses: Other type of pipe wrench used to rotate plumbing pipes.
Synonyms: Swedish wrench
Coordinate terms: pipe wrench
Stillson wrench
adjustable pliers
Channellocks
tongue-and-groove pliers
water pump pliers
plier wrenches
gnede
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: scarce, scanty, small; barely
gneeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːv/
ipa: /ɡniːv/
note: after Irish
ipa: /ɡəˈniːv/
note: after Irish
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: gneeves
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish gníomh, from Old Irish gním, from Proto-Celtic *gnīmus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.
Senses: glosses: A twelfth part of a ploughland / carucate
gnib
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: smart, eager
gnip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gnips
form: gnipping
form: gnipped
form: gnipped
form: gnyp
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps an alteration of knip (“to bite, crop, nip”).
Senses: glosses: To nip, bite; to champ at the bit
gnomide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnomides
Etymology: From French gnomide.
Senses: topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: gnomess
gnomette
glosses: A female gnome
gnomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnomists
Senses: glosses: A gnomic writer
Synonyms: gnomograph
gnomograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnomographs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gnomist.
synonyms: word: gnomist
gnomometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of gnomes (maxims)
gnostology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gnosiology.
synonyms: word: gnosiology
goafing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goafings
Senses: glosses: waste material in a mine typically used as a filler
Synonyms: goaf
goashore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goashores
Etymology: From go ashore.
Senses: glosses: A three-legged cooking pot.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailor's best clothes, to be worn when going on land.
goatrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatrels
form: goatrill
Etymology: From goat + -rel.
Senses: glosses: A kid (young goat).
Brzozów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Brzozów.
Senses: glosses: A town and county of Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
goave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goaf.
goave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goaves
form: goaving
form: goaved
form: goaved
Senses: glosses: To make a goaf (stack).
broadcastress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadcastresses
Etymology: From broadcaster + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: To the Broadcastresses.[…]Your voice, be’t ne’er so sweet and low, / Is raucous on the radio.
ref: 1931 July 5, F. P. A., The Kansas City Star, volume 51, number 291, Kansas City, Mo., page 10 D, column 6:
text: Jane Wyman (right), Kansas City broadcastress, whom Warner has placed under contract for screen roles.
ref: 1936 June 6, “This Week in Pictures”, in Motion Picture Herald, volume 123, number 10, page 44:
text: The interest in people she developed on those trips is responsible for her present success as a broadcastress, she believes.
ref: 1937 September 17, Norman Siegel, “Kathryn Cravens, Flying Reporter, Is Radio Version of ‘Sob-Sister’”, in Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page 26:
text: But I suppose one can’t steal the time a dozen or two sponsors are paying for to talk personal stuff even if it’s about their own broadcastress!
ref: 1943 October 23, “Zoe Beckley’s Column”, in Muncie Evening Press, volume L, number 266, Muncie, Ind., page 2, column 6:
text: Lotus Long is portraying the broadcastress named in the title, and Osa Massen, Byron Barr and Don Douglas are in the cast.
ref: 1945 September 22, “New High of 51 in Work; Five Finished, 8 Shooting”, in Motion Picture Herald, volume 160, number 12, page 47, column 2:
text: The WCBS (N. Y.) broadcastress, with three other vimful and vigorous grannies, are here encased in a series of Anglo-French-Italo travelogs done with diverting prose and an eye on the anecdotal snapper.
ref: 1954 March 10, “Literati”, in Variety, volume 194, number 1, New York, N.Y., page 69, column 1:
glosses: A female broadcaster.
broadcastresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadcastress
gobbetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: One gobbet at a time
Synonyms: gobbetmeal
gobbetmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gobbetly.
synonyms: word: gobbetly
glosses: Synonym of piecemeal.
synonyms: word: piecemeal
goblinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goblin + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief in the existence of goblins and of their magical power.
vimful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vimful
form: most vimful
Etymology: From vim + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The WCBS (N. Y.) broadcastress, with three other vimful and vigorous grannies, are here encased in a series of Anglo-French-Italo travelogs done with diverting prose and an eye on the anecdotal snapper.
ref: 1954 March 10, “Literati”, in Variety, volume 194, number 1, New York, N.Y., page 69, column 1:
text: You are, however, constantly aware that you’re driving a Sports Car. Like Prospero’s isle, the C-5 is full of noises. Some have been left in on purpose; it’s supposed to sound vimful and virile.
ref: 1997 July 31, Ed Hailwood, “The Big Red One”, in The Financial Post, Toronto, Ont., page 53, column 2:
text: Their album, Bengali Bantam Youth Experience, even has musical merit in its vimful conjoining of beats, guitar and Bollywood strings.
ref: 1999 September 4, Caroline Sullivan, “Choque full of bull”, in The Guardian, London, page 19, column 4:
glosses: Full of vim.
Europasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Europe + Asia.
Senses: examples: text: In conclusion, Mr. Gardner said—I think we may assume that the old land upon which this flora grew formed a part of the continent of Europasia as it existed in eocene times, and, further, that it formed or was not distant from its western coast line.
ref: 1884 April 10, “Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club”, in The Belfast News-Letter, year CXLVII, number 21,443, Belfast, page 8, column 3:
text: The long duration of areas of high pressure over Europasia appears to be due to the favorable conditions for the formation of such areas which prevail in this part of the world during the winter months. During this period, areas of low pressure of extreme violence prevail almost uninterruptedly over the Atlantic Ocean, and the air which here ascends moves eastward and settles down over Europasia.
ref: 1887, Elias Loomis, Contributions to Meteorology. Areas of high pressure. Their magnitude and direction of movement. Relation of areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure., page 14:
text: The Great, Little and White Russians still occupy their original sites about the Moskva, the Dnieper and the Pripet, respectively numbering some 56,000,000, 22,000,000, and 6,000,000, the Great Russians predominating and mingling with the other races all over Europasia.
ref: 1928, “an English Europasian”, “The Races”, in Russia in Resurrection: A Summary of the Views and of the Aims of a New Party in Russia, London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., page 18:
text: Over two million years a species of archaic human we know as Homo erectus emerged and left its African homeland in one or more waves to search farther afield. They spread across much of what we know now as Europasia where they formed small hunting and gathering societies that moved with the seasons to exploit different floral and faunal resources.
ref: 2016, James T. Carson, “Who Was First and When?: The Diasporic Implications of Indigeneity”, in Amitava Chowdhury, Donald Harman Akenson, editors, Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Synonym of Eurasia.
synonyms: word: Eurasia
Related terms: Europasian
on trial
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: in the dock
glosses: Undergoing a trial in a court of law. (of a person)
Related terms: stand trial
Gowanus Canal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈwɑːnəs kəˈnæl/
Senses: glosses: a canal in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
picking quarrels and stirring up trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
picking quarrels and making trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
catastematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catastematic
form: most catastematic
Senses: examples: text: Let us see how Epicurus considered catastematic pleasure, which he proclaimed as the supreme good, a defense against all these adversities.
ref: 1985, Giovanni Reale, translated by John R. Catan, A History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 3: The Systems of the Hellenistic Age, State University of New York Press, page 171:
text: Catastematic pleasure results from a state of contemplation untroubled by any active desire.
ref: 1998, Richard Jenkyns, Virgil's Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places, Clarendon Press, page 224:
text: However, happiness (eudaimonia), according to Epicurus, is not simply a neutral or privative condition but rather a form of pleasure in its own right — what Epicurus called catastematic or (following Cicero’s Latin translation) “static” as opposed to “kinetic” pleasure.
ref: 2018, David Konstan, “Epicurus”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
glosses: Alternative form of katastematic.
pepper-and-salt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pepper-and-salt
form: most pepper-and-salt
Senses: glosses: Of a feeling, intense, spirited, or vigorous.
examples: text: She paused on the cleanest of steps; a lad in pepper-and-salt livery opened the door; and she entered the hall and an atmosphere of most savoury soup, where she seemed likely to remain...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 127:
glosses: Alternative form of salt-and-pepper.
pepper-and-salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of harbinger-of-spring (“Erigenia bulbosa”).
synonyms: word: harbinger-of-spring
extra: Erigenia bulbosa
Weston-on-the-Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5318).
brown holland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With a shiver at the thought of the cold blue best room, always in papers and brown holland, Emily took the offered seat by the fire, almost glad she was wet, as it delayed her explanation.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: unbleached holland linen
brown hollands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown holland
enough to make a cat laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Very outlandish or outrageous.
combination pliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of pliers used by linemen, electricians, and other tradesmen primarily for gripping, twisting, bending and cutting wire, cable and small metalwork components.
Synonyms: word: lineman's pliers
english: genericized trademark
translation: genericized trademark
word: Kleins
word: linesman pliers
word: side-cutting pliers
Marchbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marchbanks
Etymology: Variant of Marjoribanks.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Facebook jail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A period of time in which a user is banned or blocked from accessing or posting to their Facebook account.
lineman's pliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of pliers used by linemen, electricians, and other tradesmen primarily for gripping, twisting, bending and cutting wire, cable and small metalwork components.
Synonyms: word: combination pliers
english: genericized trademark
translation: genericized trademark
word: Kleins
word: linesman pliers
word: side-cutting pliers
Doumbouya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doumbouyas
Etymology: From French Doumbouya, from West African languages.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lichterfelde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany.
glosses: A village in Stendal district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
caouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caouks
Etymology: Borrowed from French caouk, from Ottoman Turkish قاوق (kavuk); compare Turkish kavuk.
Senses: glosses: a high stiff Turkish hat around which a turban is typically wound or folded
glosses: the headdress formed by the caouk and the cloth wrapped around it: turban, bulbous cap
caouks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caouk
green door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While this cannot be done in all cases, no commander should accept the notion that whole blocks of intelligence are permanently behind a special “green door” until his intelligence officer has carefully examined the regulations.
ref: 1976, Michael T. Chase, “All-Source Intelligence”, in Military Review: Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, volume LVI, number 7, page 45:
text: The so-called “green door”, behind which intelligence is alleged to hoard its secrets has always been, and forever will be, a problem. […] Arranging for dissemination of a specific, known product is relatively easy—it’s the products you don’t know about that the green door hides.
ref: 1995, Douglas H. Dearth, R. Thomas Goodden, Strategic Intelligence: Theory and Application, second edition, page 66-67:
text: The NSA is the opposite of the NGA in that the controlled serendipity of its collection-management processes is hidden not only from those beyond the “green door” but from many intelligence community insiders as well.
ref: 2005, editors Burton Gerber, Jennifer E. Sims, Transforming U.S. Intelligence, page 151:
text: This information on how the enemy conducted fighter operations came to the Aggressors from many sources behind the “green door” of the US intelligence gathering and interpreting community.
ref: 2012, Gaillard R. Peck, Jr, America’s Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The barrier between compartmentalized intelligence information and those without access to it, especially military personnel who may need it.
plier wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An adjustable hand tool with a sliding mechanism, that combines a tongue-and-groove pliers / water pump pliers with an adjustable spanner. It is a water pump pliers with a flat head.
Coordinate terms: adjustable pliers
Channellocks
tongue-and-groove pliers
water pump pliers
pipe wrench
Stillson wrench
plumber wrench
Swedish wrench
Cubillas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cubillases
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
pædiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of paediatric.
protein powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protein powders
Senses: glosses: A food supplement created to provide a greater share of protein than natural nutrition.
protein powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protein powder
scientess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientesses
Etymology: From scientist + -ess (the suffix -ist is removed).
Senses: examples: text: Even Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, was more artiste in her day than scientess (word fully protected by contemplated copyright).
ref: 1945, “The Editor Has a Notion”, in The Writer’s Monthly, volume 66, page 351, column 2:
text: On account of your female Burbank, your scientess (scientistess is a twister. Peder Piber et a peg of piggled pebbers) won’t play ball with W R.
ref: 1947, Ward Moore, “Consequences of a Discovery”, in Greener Than You Think, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, Inc., page 53:
text: ELEANOR M. GLEASON / gay, energetic “scientess” … / full of clever and original ideas / Science
ref: 1957, “Counselors”, in Portal; Weaver High School; Hartford, Connecticut, page 17:
text: I shall be an aviatrix scientess!
ref: 1969, Norma Rosen, Touching Evil, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →LCCN, page 151:
text: Beauteous Nancy Kwan stars as mad scientess, Suzy Wrong.
ref: 1973 July, “The Monster Times Teletype”, in The Monster Times, volume 1, number 24, page 24:
text: Anyway, one scientist (a guy scientist, not a, whatchacallit, scientess) said maybe women just need to use their whole brain.
ref: 2000 December 11, Doug Robarchek, “Does his brain hear hers? 2 halves make a whole new battle”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 131, number 346, Charlotte, N.C., page 1E, column 6:
text: Four dudes trying for a hot-air balloon world record crash and wash up on an island populated by hippie cave girls who smoke skull bongs and zombie hordes under the control of Katherine Victor’s mad scientess Sheila Frankenstein.
ref: 2010, Michael Adams, “Jerry, Jerry Bad”, in Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic’s Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made, It Books, →ISBN, page 274:
text: The trendy new word rikejo refers to young women in the sciences — something like a sci-girl or scientess.
ref: 2017, Kittredge Cherry, Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women, Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN:
text: only mu’s blackstars can protect rann now, scientess alanna.
ref: 2019 June, The Green Lantern, number 6:
glosses: A female scientist.
Upper Parkstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Poole in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0492).
Picto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Pict and -o-.
Senses: glosses: A combining form relating to Pictland (prehistoric northern and eastern Scotland) or Pictish people (Picts).
Derived terms: english: eclectic arts, nonhistoric
translation: eclectic arts, nonhistoric
word: Picto-Scot
english: eclectic arts, nonhistoric
translation: eclectic arts, nonhistoric
word: Picto-Saxon
english: eclectic arts, nonhistoric
translation: eclectic arts, nonhistoric
word: Picto-Anglic
County Gates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historical crossing point between two English counties, between Poole, Dorset, and Bournemouth, Hampshire, now entirely within Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0691).
Bozhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bǔʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Po-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 亳州 (Bózhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Han Shan-t’ung of Pochou, the leading White Lotus propagandist in northern Anhwei, advertised himself to his followers as a descendant of the artist-emperor Sung Hui-tsung (r. 1100-25), whose capture by the Jurchen invaders had ended the Northern Sung dynasty (960-1126).
ref: [1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352–1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355–1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: In the meantime, LGFVs like Anhui Bozhou Jianan Investment Holding Co Ltd, the financing vehicle for the Bozhou city government in Anhui province, one of China's poorest regions, will continue to struggle to service per capita debt that stood at about 3,100 yuan in 2013 from per capita revenue of just 1,635 yuan.
ref: 2015 March 9, Koh Gui Qing, Matthew Miller, Beijing Newsroom, Nate Taplin, Pete Sweeney, “China's deficit plans put squeeze on local government financing”, in John Mair, Will Waterman, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2016:
text: Finally, Ms. Wang and her boyfriend took an early train to the northwestern city of Bozhou from Shanghai’s Hongqiao station, then car-pooled with other residents to her hometown near Zhoukou in Henan Province.
ref: 2023 January 21, Chang Che, John Liu, “China Cautiously Takes to the Road for Lunar New Year”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
Marchbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marchbankses
Etymology: Variant of Marjoribanks.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Marchbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marchbank
double hoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double hoes
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A tool with a flat blade and a set of metal prongs across from one other (typically extended by a pole handle); hoe with a pitchfork attached.
Blevinses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blevins