cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Rehnquist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rehnquists
Etymology: Americanized form of Swedish Rehnqvist, an ornamental surname composed of the elements ren (“strip of land”) + kvist (“twig”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Catlos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Catloses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dolowich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tisserant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tisserants
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Voluck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Volucks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
faggot-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faggot-faces
Senses: examples: text: Eat my shorts, faggot-face.
ref: 2007 March 27, radium ant farm, “At work: the ideological soulmates of clocktowerboy, homo-uth, shatzie, cor, coughman, et.al”, in seattle.politics (Usenet):
text: Drop dead, faggot-face.
ref: 2009 June 7, Is Ken Darian, “OBAMA: Your Obama Assessment”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):
text: As soon as I opened it a ninth-grader took a cigarette out of his mouth and said, “Watta you lookin' at, faggot-face?”
ref: 2014 July 15, Jerry Spinelli, Jason and Marceline (A Jason Herkimer Novel), Hachette UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of faggotface.
Beijing Biden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A Republican coinage, in the belief that Joe Biden is either amenable to or in direct allegiance with the People's Republic of China.
Senses: examples: text: He described Biden as "Beijing Biden" and soft on China, but a review of Biden's China policy by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC and RFE/RL found that there are actually many similarities between Biden's[…]
ref: 2021 March 14, David Rong, William Luo, Haitian Liu, Contemporary China Review (Quarterly Journal): 当代中国评论（英文季刊）, Bouden House, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: U.S. president Joe Biden.
Coordinate terms: Moscow Mitch
Moscow Mitch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Referring to Mitch McConnell's opposition to sanctions voted by the Senate against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2018.
Senses: examples: text: "Moscow Mitch" has acted as a Trojan horse for crony capitalists, allowing them to wield domineering control over our national politics and decision-making. He has been diabolically opposed to fairer political representation and[…]
ref: 2016 May 21, Tiffany Twain, Big Picture Perspectives and A Pursuit of Social Activism, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Moscow Mitch won't allow it. The Senate Republican majority leader told us he didn't like that nickname. So in deference, I will not call him that. Even before the House impeachment hearings began, Leningrad Mitch pledged that[…]
ref: 2020 May 26, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:
text: The efforts earned McConnell the moniker "Moscow Mitch." In September 2019, Sen. McConnell finally agreed to a bill authorizing $250 million for election security. The bill did not require that states use the funds for secure[…]
ref: 2021 February 9, Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Cringleford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Perhaps from Old Norse kringla (“circle”) + Old English ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG1905).
Hoe and Worthing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England, which includes these two villages.
Related terms: Hoe
Worthing
San Severo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy.
Rehnquists
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rehnquist
stricken out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of strike out
Volucks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Voluck
Peschici
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and municipality in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy.
Outwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English ūt (“out, outer”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF5103).
Catloses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Catlos
hand-screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-screens
Senses: examples: text: I must have a large bouquet of wax flowers, and a new set of baskets for glass dishes—they look very pretty and hold little—then, I have not a hand-screen in the house; all went to Brighton, more pity;...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Alternative form of hand screen.
hand-screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-screen
Injustice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Injustices
Senses: examples: text: We want now to build toward electing enough progressive populist reform
Congressmen and senators that we can lead to the impeachment of the
illegitimate Bush and Cheney and the Three Chief Injustices of the Supreme
Kangaroo Court, Herr Rhinequest and his lap dogs, Scalia and Thomas.
ref: 2000 December 15, pn...@takiweb.com, “[RHETORIC] You don't lick 'em by joining 'em”, in alt.thebird (Usenet):
text: Tell Chief Injustice Rehnquist to shove it right up his activist,
goose-stepping, shriveled up ass.
ref: 2002 March 1, CUE - CARD BUSH, “Chief Justice Rehnquist requests Indian woman take off head-wrap”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: In my view, the tenure of the thirty-seventh Chief Injustice of India
Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan, also known as K. G.
Balakrishnan, which lasted from January 14 2007 and ended on May 12
2010, was the darkest age in the history of Justice and Jurisprudence
in India.
ref: 2010 December 29, and/or www.mantra.com/jai, “Chief Injustice of India K. G. Balakrishnan in Sonia-stricken Bharat - V. Sundaram”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
glosses: Justice (title of a justice of court), seen as being unjust.
Injustices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Injustice
depidginize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depidginizes
form: depidginizing
form: depidginized
form: depidginized
Etymology: From de- + pidginize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of a pidgin language, to become the native language of a population.
Derived terms: depidginization
Related terms: decreolize
depidginizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depidginize
depidginizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depidginize
depidginized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depidginize
ASMRotica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ASMR + erotica.
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to traditional ASMR, every view, take or comment comes with the same question: is this sexual? Should I be turned on? ASMRotica makes it easy: yes.
ref: 2015 August 15, Kathryn Lindsay, “Inside the Sensual World of ASMRotica”, in VICE:
text: However, this couldn't be further from the truth, and ASMRotica makes up only a tiny piece of the ASMR community.
ref: 2019 February 12, Mark Andrew Choi, “Sucks to your ASMR”, in The Arrow, Westlake High School, Westlake, CA, page 16:
text: Where mainstream ASMRtists don’t appreciate comments that refer to sexuality in any way, the ASMRotica subgenre welcomes these kind of viewers (Lindsay 2015: online).
ref: 2019, Maria Isabel Bode, "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) as a marketing tool: An examination of the online phenomenon’s potential in the promotion mix of slow tourism destinations", thesis submitted to The City University of Applied Sciences, page 25
glosses: A subgenre of ASMR content intended to be sexually stimulating or appealing.
depidginization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From depidginize + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process of depidginizing.
Related terms: decreolization
cruizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cruize
cruized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cruize
chunkster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chunksters
Etymology: From chunk + -ster; compare chunky.
Senses: examples: text: Ordinary people do not leap at the opportunity to be cast as chunksters so fat they cannot even fit through a door. Ordinary people do not leap at the opportunity to deliver lines like, “I know what I am, Lieutenant. I'm a pig. I'm a wild beast.”
ref: 1995, Joe Queenan, The Unkindest Cut, Hyperion, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:
text: I can say as a curvy, chunkster all my life... I learned at a very young age to put on a mask of humor to hide my insecurities.
ref: 2022 April 6, Sandi Hall, Sunrise Ponders, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: A fat person.
chunksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chunkster
Predazzo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality in the province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.
Douchebagistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From douchebag + -i- + -stan.
Senses: examples: text: “one way ticket to Douchebagistan pls, this dude needs it so much.”
ref: 2013 November 12, Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 132:
glosses: A fictional country inhabited by douchebags.
eggcelent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So there were two eggs in a frying pan. The first one goes like, "Cor,
it's hot in here.", and the other says "AAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGHHH, a talking
egg!!!!"
ref: 1998 August 17, Luis, “An eggcelent joke”, in alt.humor.puns (Usenet):
ref: 2020 May 7, Duncan Perry, An Eggcelent Year: With Eggbert, Independently Published, →ISBN:
text: Join Basically editor Amiel Stanek as he attempts to cook an egg in almost every way possible. Which method is the best? Can there be a best method? What does 'best' even mean? Who says what's best? Not us. They're all eggcelent (besides the ones that aren't).
ref: 2020 May 8, olli...@gmail.com, “Physics of Cooking Eggs”, in sci.physics (Usenet):
glosses: Misspelling of eggcellent.
sets in stone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set in stone
setting in stone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set in stone
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A resort town and municipality of the province of Belluno, Veneto region, Italy. Short form: Cortina.
Baby Deltic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baby Deltics
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 23 locomotive.
Baby Deltics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baby Deltic
Gronks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gronk
Teddy Bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teddy Bears
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 14 locomotive.
foot patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot patrols
Senses: glosses: A person or group of people that conducts a patrol or surveillance of an area by walking.
Related terms: perimeter check
Teddy Bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teddy Bear
closing costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
real-estate
glosses: Fees which are paid at the conclusion or closing of a real estate transaction.
Chopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Choppers
Etymology: From chopper (“helicopter”), because of the distinctive beating noise of the engine.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 20 locomotive.
Choppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chopper
Warship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Warships
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 41 locomotive, dating from the late 1950s.
Derived terms: Baby Warship
Warships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Warship
windup radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windup radios
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wind-up radio.
windup radios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windup radio
Baby Warship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baby Warships
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 22 locomotive.
clockwork radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockwork radios
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wind-up radio.
synonyms: word: wind-up radio
Baby Warships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baby Warship
clockwork radios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clockwork radio
mimeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimemes
Senses: examples: text: Speech learning is a mimetic process. The linguistic signal is a ‘mimeme’.
ref: 1955, Leonard Robert Palmer, Achaeans and Indo-Europeans: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 4 November 1954, page 8:
text: Language depends on mimism – the repercussion, in the composition of an individual’s gestures, of ocular mimemes – which takes two forms: phonomimism and cinemimism.
ref: 1978, Ted Polhemus, editor, The Body Reader: Social Aspects of the Human Body, →ISBN, page 276:
text: The process of miming however, mimage, is a conscientizing process: the cosmos plays into the anthropos, and, [born] mimer, the anthropos replays its actions in mimemes or mimismic gestures.” These mimemes, and their expression, gestes, are therefore always potentially conscious, and memory, being the sum of our mimemes, is replay, anthropological replay, and therefore always with a degree of consciousness. Through mimage, actions that became mimemes are expressed as gestes:[…]
ref: 2018, Marcel Jousse, translated by Edgard R. Sienaert, Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers: The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists (Biblical Performance Criticism; volume 15), Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, →ISBN, page 3:
text: In the words of Jean-Marie Schaeffer, a fiction “should be announced as fiction, the function of this announcement being to institute the pragmatic frame that limits the space of the game at the interior of which the semblance can operate without representation induced by the mimemes being treated in the same manner as would be the ‘real’ representations mimed by the fictional device.”
ref: 2021, Éric Rebillard, The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts Nor Forgeries, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64:
glosses: A unit of mimetic information.
mimemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimeme
Haydarpaşa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Asian side of the Bosporus.
Bagpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bagpipes
Etymology: In allusion to the subclass' jumper cables, which were installed on both ends to allow push-pull operation.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 33/1 locomotive.
Related terms: english: Class 33
translation: Class 33
word: Crompton
english: Class 33/2
translation: Class 33/2
word: Slim Jim
Bagpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bagpipe
Zonguldak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.
glosses: A district of Zonguldak Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of Zonguldak district and Zonguldak Province, Turkey.
wit tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wit teeth
form: wit-tooth
Etymology: From wit + tooth.
Senses: examples: text: About this period a small molar appears at the extremity of each jaw, which is called the wisdom tooth or wit tooth, making the whole number of permanent teeth 32.
ref: 1903, Robley Dunglison, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, A Dictionary of Medical Science, page 331:
glosses: Synonym of wisdom tooth.
synonyms: word: wisdom tooth
Slim Jim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slim Jims
Etymology: In allusion to the subclass being 7 inches narrower, due to being constructed for use on the gauge-restricted Hastings line.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 33/2 locomotive.
wikipedia: Hastings line
Related terms: english: Class 33
translation: Class 33
word: Crompton
english: Class 33/1
translation: Class 33/1
word: Bagpipe
Slim Jims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slim Jim
foot patrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot patrol
closest to one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of close to one's heart: most close to one's heart
closest to one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of close to one's heart: most close to one's heart
closer to one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of close to one's heart: more close to one's heart
closer to one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of close to one's heart: more close to one's heart
track gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track gauges
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: gauge
rail gauge
glosses: The specified distance between the rails of a railway.
Related terms: standard gauge
broad gauge
narrow gauge
metre gauge
mixed gauge
break of gauge
track gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track gauge
rail gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail gauges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of track gauge.
synonyms: word: track gauge
rail gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail gauge
gauge-restricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gauge-restricted
form: most gauge-restricted
Senses: examples: text: a gauge-restricted line
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Having a restrictive loading gauge, limiting which rail vehicles may be used.
metre-gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.
ref: 1960 December, 'Voyageur', “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Built as or for metre gauge.
lime-juicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lime-juicers
Etymology: From the lime juice English ships carried, which was used by sailors to prevent scurvy. 19th Century.
Senses: glosses: An English or British sailor or ship.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lime, juicer.
Derived terms: limey
lime-juicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lime-juicer
ship-of-the-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ships-of-the-line
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ship of the line.
ships-of-the-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ship-of-the-line
first rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first rate
second rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second rate
third rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third rate
ego shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ego shooters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ego-Shooter.
Senses: examples: text: How can I make heretic2 to an ego shooter ? I already installed the update pack,but I still don't know where I can change it
ref: 1999 October 30, TruckDrivingMan, “ego shooter”, in alt.games.heretic (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: In Germany some politicians have suggested a total ban of ego-shooters no matter what they are about.
An actual discussion takes place at the moment in the guest book
ref: 2002 July 9, Unknown, “German discussion about banning ego-shooters!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: Babya Shot It, a Quake style ego shooter has been released.
Babya Shot It is a completly 3D ego-shooter with excellent graphics and sounds!
ref: 2006 May 2, aafuss, “Babya Shot It-Quake style ego shooter released”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A first-person shooter.
ego shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ego shooter
fourth-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fourth rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.
glosses: Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.
Related terms: fifth-rate
first-rate
second-rate
sixth-rate
third-rate
fourth-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth-rates
form: fourth rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A fourth-rate ship of the line.
Related terms: two-decker
fourth-rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourth-rate
fourth rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fourth-rate.
fourth rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth rates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fourth-rate.
fourth rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourth rate
fifth-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fifth rate
Senses: examples: text: [A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]
ref: 1677, Andrew Yarranton, England's improvement by sea and land, London: R. Everingham, page 96:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.
glosses: Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
Related terms: first-rate
fourth-rate
second-rate
sixth-rate
third-rate
fifth-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth-rates
form: fifth rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A fifth-rate warship.
Related terms: frigate
great frigate
fifth-rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fifth-rate
fifth rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fifth-rate.
fifth rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth rates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fifth-rate.
fifth rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fifth rate
sixth-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sixth rate
Senses: examples: text: The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.
ref: 2023, David Grann, chapter 1, in The Wager, Doubleday:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.
glosses: Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.
Related terms: fifth-rate
first-rate
fourth-rate
second-rate
third-rate
sixth-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixth-rates
form: sixth rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A sixth-rate warship.
Related terms: frigate
post ship
sixth-rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixth-rate
sixth rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sixth-rate.
sixth rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixth rates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sixth-rate.
sixth rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixth rate
low-background
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to having a significantly lower level of inherent, background radiation than usual.
Derived terms: low-background environment
low-background facility
low-background lab
low-background laboratory
low-background lead
low-background metal
low-background room
low-background steel
Herkimer Jerkimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herkimer Jerkimer
low-background lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-background leads
Senses: glosses: Lead with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
glosses: Lead sourced from ancient shipwrecks, where the deep sea environment has kept it from accumulating radiation from outside sources, and where inherent radiation has decayed away in the time it has been sunk.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see low-background, lead.
low-background steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-background steels
Etymology: Ellipsis of low background radiation steel.
Senses: glosses: Steel with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
examples: text: The high alloy steel that was recovered from the Tirpitz was valuable owing to the fact that it was one of the few sources of low-background steel—steel produced prior to the detonation of the atomic bombs.
ref: 2018, Daniel Knowles, Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship, Fonthill Media:
glosses: Steel created before 1945, and not contaminated by radioisotopes originating from nuclear bomb tests and explosions, and other nuclear technology radioactivity releases.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see low-background, steel.
heavy frigate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy frigates
Etymology: From heavy + frigate.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of frigate, characterised by its heavy armament.
Derived terms: super-heavy frigate
heavy frigates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy frigate
super-heavy frigate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-heavy frigates
Etymology: From super- + heavy frigate.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of frigate, characterised by its very heavy armament.
super-heavy frigates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-heavy frigate
suffering centipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of surprise or dismay.
LASH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Acronym of lighter-aboard-ship.
twin-masted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1 But the typical Indonesian twin-masted square-sail rig is indeed in evidence in West Africa. Picture 33 shows such a craft - a model made in Ghana.
ref: 1964, Africa and Indonesia the Evidence of the Xylophone and Other Musical and Cultural Factors, Brill Archive, page 191:
text: The most daring was that of Team Philips, the twin-masted cat skippered by Pete Goss. The boat was fast but simply not strong enough to resist the battering she received from an Atlantic storm during pre-race sea trials.
ref: 2009 October 27, Miles Kendall, Ultimate Sailing Adventures: 100 Extraordinary Experiences on the Water, Fernhurst Books Limited, →ISBN:
text: Smaller cruisers bore a variety of rigs, mostly fore-and-aft in character, such as the single-masted cutter, the twin-masted schooner, or the two- or three-masted lugger.
ref: 2014 February 28, Richard Woodman, The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson, Seaforth Publishing, →ISBN, page 348:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: two-masted
double-masted
glosses: Having two masts.
double-masted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Some years ago all the owners of racing schooners were up in arms against the Wildfire, and declared she was not one, but a double-masted cutter, or some such thing, and not a fair vessel to sail in their races, merely because she had a running bowsprit and cutter’s stem.
ref: 1866, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, page 110:
text: In the tomb of a noble called Abibi, also of the IVth dynasty, there is a scene in which men are in the act of lowering the double mast (Fig. 44), and what is probably a double-masted ship under sail is found in the tomb-sculpture of a IVth dynasty noble called Ipi (Fig. 45).
ref: 1990, Somers Clarke, Reginald Engelbach, Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 43:
text: to the 1st to 2nd century AD.19 A double-masted Satavahana ship has also been found on a seal from the Bengal Bay area (Pargadas), dated to the 2nd century AD; this oval seal is now in the National Museum of Kolkata.
ref: 2016 June 22, Ahmed Abushouk, Mahjoob Zweiri, Interdisciplinarity in World History: Continuity and Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 157:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: two-masted
twin-masted
glosses: Having two masts.
rocket garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket gardens
Senses: glosses: A collection of rockets standing upright on display outdoors
single-masted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The yacht club burgee may be displayed between morning and evening colors, at anchor, made-fast or under way, by (a) Mastless yachts or single-masted yachts with bow staff, at the bow staff, (b) single-masted yachts without bow[…]
ref: 1949 07, “Motorboating - ND”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 111:
text: Until the 15th century even the largest ships were single-masted. After experimentation with double-masted ships a standard three-masted rig was settled on by most shipwrights.
ref: 2006, Cathal J. Nolan, The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 581:
text: Painting of small single-masted craft and extracted outline. In other respects, the vessel seems to resemble Boat 1, but with extra detail. We see here also the inclusion of the bow sprit or bob stay chain.
ref: 2008 June 1, Geoffrey Richard Clark, Sue O'Connor, Bryan Foss Leach, Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes, ANU E Press, →ISBN, page 405:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: one-masted
glosses: Having one mast.
triple-masted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] E'en now
He gnaws with keen exasperated tooth
The rock that holds him shorebound to his seat,
Buffets the pier and basis of the cliff,
Seizes the tilting triple-masted bark,
Light as a feather in his pow'rful grasp,
Kindles her sleeping thunder, and enjoys
Her frequent flashes of nocturnal woe.
[…]
ref: 1800, The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged: From September to December, inclusive, M,DCCC. With an Appendix., volume XXXIII, page 284:
text: Just off the coast, to the right, a fine triple-masted Dutch cog of the sixteenth century heads for the open sea, its fore and aft sails already unfurled. The sailors are visible in the rigging, about to unfurl the remaining sails.
ref: 2010 October 19, Piero Boitani, Professor of Comparative Literature Piero Boitani, Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 251:
text: If they had looked a little harder, the couple would have seen a square-rig, triple-masted clipper go by that was built in the nineteenth century. Nobody sails these kinds ofvessels anymore.
ref: 2013 July 1, Gerry Burke, Paddy’s People: Tales of Life, Love, Laughter, and Smelly Horses, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 46:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: three-masted
glosses: Having three masts.
quadruple-masted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: four-masted
glosses: Having four masts.
Marsian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Marsi + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Caso Cantovios and allies. Bronze plate found in the Fucine Lake. Dialect-Latin or mixed Marsian and Latin.
ref: 1940, E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, published 1959, page 59:
text: Though much of what remains of Marsian is of doubtful status and meaning, the following inscription (plate 3), from Antinum, is relatively unambiguous.
ref: 1999, Philip Baldi, The Foundations of Latin (Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs 117), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 128:
text: There is little evidence for Marsian, the language of the Marsi, a people who occupied the area south of the Fucine Lake. Marsian is mainly attested in a few short inscriptions from the third and second centuries bc: VM 3–7.
ref: 2004, Jane Stuart-Smith, Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic, Oxford University Press, page 125:
glosses: The extinct (since ca. 150 BC) Osco-Umbrian language of the Marsi, native to Marruvium.
Marsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Marsi + -an.
Senses: examples: text: To this signal honour many warriors aspired. Among these was distinguished the valiant Aulon, a descendant of Cacus, who, instead of a sword or javelin, carried an axe of such an enormous magnitude, that no one among the Marsi, except himself, could wield; Pentheus also, who was equally active in the practice of war, and who numbered among his ancestors the unfortunate Marsias, the father of the Marsian people;
ref: 1824, Belisarius, by Marmontel; and Numa Pompilius, by Florian. With a Biographical Introduction., London, page 223:
text: Caso Cantovios Aprufclanos [set up] pillars at the Esalican boundary in the city Casontonia; and his allies brought a sacred gift to Angitia on behalf of Marsian legions.
ref: 1940, E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, published 1959, page 59:
text: The Marsi attracted some notice. A term from this region was consiligo: Col. 6.5.3 praesens etiam remedium cognouimus radiculae, quam pastores consiliginem uocant: ea Marsis montibusplurima nascitur (‘an efficacious remedy we have also found to consist of the root which shepherds call consiligo. This grows in abundance in the Marsian mountains’),[…].
ref: 2007, J. N. Adams, The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC–AD 600, Cambridge University Press, page 214:
glosses: Relating to the Marsi.
Usenetard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Usenetards
Etymology: From Usenet + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: Wanna know a secret?
We're all Usenetards.
ref: 2007 June 26, Deathbringer, “"Lefttard" a crap insult?”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: Ubiquitous usenetards such as yourself will deny reality until everyone else dies of boredom. Been there done that.
ref: 2008 July 5, foad, “Loophole in Trust laws ? I can hardly believe what I've learned”, in misc.legal (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: TROLLS AND OTHER USENETARD BY ABUSING FLAMMING AND MALIGNING ANY MEMEBER OF THIS GROUP YOU ARE ABANDONING YOUR FAITHFUL CALLING AND CUSTOMER BASE YOU'LL ONLY HURT YOURSELF
QUIT THIS INSTANT WHILE THE QUITTING IS GOOD
ref: 2009 June 22, Proteus IIV, “STRONGER THAN MAN !”, in alt.engineering.electrical (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
glosses: A user of Usenet; a Usenetter.
Usenetards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Usenetard
triple entendre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple entendres
form: triple-entendre
Etymology: Pseudo-Gallicism. Based on double entendre.
Senses: examples: text: In a triple entendre of the highest order, Linnell summarizes the song.
ref: 1998 July 1, Christopher M. Stangl, “"Snail Shell" interp: Quetzacoatl's Cock Tease”, in alt.music.tmbg (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: Actually, that a triple entendre! And speaking of triple entendres ...
ref: 2003 May 21, Zevra and his little green guy, “The secret to being funny”, in alt.humor (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: A triple-entendre, if you will; 'purloined', as in out in the open and a way to change the subject title without losing the thread. The third part of the entendre was that anything is new if perspective can be shifted.
ref: 2004 July 28, naismith, “An Open Letter To Leesa”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: Pretty much agree with you and Pete on this one... that and the fact that every few months, a few of my friends and I get into a discussion of whether or not one of the verses from 'Grindin' constitutes a proper triple entendre...
"Them days I wasn't able/Abel, there was always cane/'caine/Kane"
...good stuff to anger and annoy any literary types you know...
ref: 2005 April 17, R. Stewart, “Clipse are good rappers, discuss”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: 'Tout de suite' is a french phrase meaning in a hurry and pronounced the same as the english 'toot sweet'. Hence it bilingual triple entendre.
ref: 2014 August 30, Siri Crews, “Think Like a Rock”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
glosses: A phrase that has three meanings, especially where some meanings are innocent and literal, the other(s) risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.
Related terms: double entendre
single entendre
triple entendres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple entendre
Harrie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Form of Harry.
Senses: examples: text: “Be careful, Logan, to remember how he spells his name. It is Harrie, and not Harry. This may be of great use to you when you come to be cross-questioned.”
ref: 1883, Caleb Harlan, chapter VII, in The Fate of Marcel, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 111:
text: Clearing up a couple of minor errors in Mrs. Thayer’s squib, we would report that Mr. Lindeberg’s first name is Harrie, not Harry, and that his one-piece garment includes a collar in addition to shirt, shorts, and tie.
ref: 1938, The New Yorker, page 8:
text: Harrie Brigham Chase, a young man on the state’s Supreme Court, was wholly unknown to Hand and his friends. As Hand told Taft, “[M]y heart sinks a little at a man who carries the name ‘Harrie.’”
ref: 2011, Gerald Gunther, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: A male given name.
treasure ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treasure ships
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 寶船 /宝船 (bǎochuán).
Senses: glosses: A type of vast, multi-masted Chinese vessel used on the Ming treasure voyages, led by Zheng He in the first half of the 15th century, used for command purposes and the transportation of treasure.
treasure ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treasure ship
Horsfields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Horsfield
Horsefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Horsefields
Etymology: Variant of Horsfield.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Horsefields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Horsefield
organs of generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Goddess again comes to his rescue and pieces him together, but she cannot find his phallus, for disincarnate specters on the astral do not possess the physical organs of generation.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 235:
glosses: The genitalia.
Little Musgrave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Musgrave parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY7513).
Related terms: Great Musgrave
Musgroves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Musgrove
bullscheisse
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From bull + scheisse.
Senses: examples: text: > Repeat after me, "Kent does NOT lie. He has no reason to lie. He tells the truth, even when it hurts."
Bullscheisse!
Ken DOES lie when he is losing an argument.
ref: 2002 November 7, Axel Van Kampen, “"I taught my kids responsible gun use, blah, blah, blah"”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: >Moron, I've already presented plenty of facts (dates, circumstances, affiliations, etc.). You and the other worm have shown nothing to refute them.
In this thread? Bullscheisse.
ref: 2004 January 15, Nick Soapdish Jr, “Jimmy Carter: 'Compassion for Mordor'”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: "Bring the material before a larger and more diverse group"??? Bullscheisse!!! How does taking information OFF of a public website and REQUIRING a donation to get a CD MAILED to you improve dissemination of the info???
ref: 2011 April 21, StevenP, “Boycott PPM! (maybe)”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
glosses: Euphemistic form of bullshit.
bullscheisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bull + scheisse.
Senses: examples: text: "Non-core promise": total bullscheisse that no one expects you to fulfill at any time.
ref: 1998 October 5, .Nisaba Merrieweather, “[I] The XXXXian Election”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: If anyone on this newsgroup can be accused of harbouring new age/wiccan bullscheisse, it's you. You have changed "magickal" names about 6 times in recent memory, you go on about trying to meld the 12 symbols of the Zodiac with the runes, and feel disconnected from the Gods if you take off your ritual jewelry to take a shower.
ref: 1999 August 27, Sylvie Charbonneau, “Edred Thorsson posting here?”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: What does paygrade have to do with it? I'm just asking for proof, for you to backup^([sic]) your statement. After all, statement without back up is nothing more than bullscheisse.
ref: 2002 November 9, Axel Van Kampen, “Somebody stop us - If you can!”, in alt.nuke.the.usa (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
glosses: Euphemistic form of bullshit.
Cronholm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cronholms
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Cronholm, an ornamental surname composed of the elements krona (“crown”) and holm (“islet”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Cronholms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cronholm
Procrustean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Procrustean
form: most Procrustean
Etymology: From Procrustes + -an.
Senses: examples: text: We should not see their intellects stunted by Procrustean attempts to teach them all the same accomplishments, to the neglect, most often, of any sound practical training of their faculties.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Charles Kingsley, “Science”, in Scientific Essays and Lectures:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of procrustean.
Low-Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Low Dutch.
Jingyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪŋˈwɑn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 涇源／泾源 (Jīngyuán).
Senses: examples: text: The sex ratio in the 35-39 and older age groups among the Mongolian people in Inner Mongolia was over 110, while that of the 65 plus age group was as high as 138. In other places, such as the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang and the Jingyuan County in Ningxia, the sex ratio of the old people was also high.
ref: 1988, “Population of Minority Nationalities”, in New China's Population, Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 205, column 1:
text: Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China, see Map 2).
ref: 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
text: A resident of Lizhuang village, Liupanshan town, Jingyuan county, Ningxia Hui autonomous region named Liu Fangying sews handbags at a factory that was established for poverty alleviation purposes in Shizi village known as Quanxiang on March 18, 2020. She commutes to work because she does not live nearby and usually packs a lunch to save time.
ref: 2020 March 24, Jingyan Teng, “Poverty alleviation factories resume operations in Ningxia”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2021:
glosses: A county of Guyuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
Jingyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪŋˈwɑn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靖遠／靖远 (Jìngyuǎn).
Senses: examples: text: North-west of Lanzhou, it attains a maximum thickness of 334 m, while in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province, a thickness of 505 m has been reported (Huang et al., 2000).
ref: 2013, Andrew S. Goudie, “Aeolian Geomorphology”, in Arid and Semi-arid Geomorphology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 133:
glosses: A county of Baiyin, Gansu, China.
Longde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔŋ.də/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 隆德 (Lóngdé).
Senses: examples: text: For fifteen miles, as far as the district city of Lung-te Hsien, the road runs direct east up a valley and was in excellent condition.
ref: [1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 146:
text: In a personal interview with Prof. Chen Zhongxiang from Ningxia University in September 1999 I was told that 85 per cent of the budget of Longde county come from taxes of its suspended village Chahu in Pingluo county.
ref: 2004, Peter Ho, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:
text: In a water pollution case of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) v. Longde County People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and other eight defendants, the plaintiff CBCGDF claimed that Longde County Government was negligent in supervision and tolerated for a longtime local enterprises to discharge pollutants into the river, resulting in pollution of the drinking water source in the downstream of Jingning County.
ref: 2020, “Claims in Environmental Civil Public Interest Litigation in China: Problems and Solutions”, in Sustainability and Law: General and Specific Aspects, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 394:
glosses: A county of Guyuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
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