cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Metal Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: metal age
Senses: glosses: The age characterised by the use of metal tools.
glosses: The Copper Age.
envirotard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envirotards
Etymology: From enviro- + -tard.
Senses: glosses: An environmentalist.
Synonyms: ecocrazy
ecofreak
ecohippie
econazi
enviro
environazi
tree hugger
ecocrazy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecocrazies
Etymology: From eco- + crazy.
Senses: glosses: A fanatical environmentalist.
Synonyms: ecofreak
ecohippie
econazi
enviro
environazi
envirotard
tree hugger
ecohippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecohippies
Etymology: From eco- + hippie.
Senses: glosses: An environmentalist.
Synonyms: ecocrazy
ecofreak
econazi
enviro
environazi
envirotard
tree hugger
Chicagorilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicagorillas
Etymology: Blend of Chicago + gorilla, coined by Walter Winchell.
Senses: glosses: A thug; a gangster.
wikipedia: Walter Winchell
Winchellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winchellisms
Etymology: Named after American radio commentator Walter Winchell, from Winchell + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word coined by Walter Winchell.
glosses: Behaviour that is associated with Walter Winchell.
Related terms: Winchellese
Winchellese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after American radio commentator Walter Winchell, from Winchell + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The writing and speaking style of Walter Winchell.
Related terms: Winchellism
Baltimoron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baltimorons
Etymology: Blend of Baltimore + moron.
Senses: examples: text: He styled himself both a Prohibition-flouting "Baltimoron" and "an incurable snob," the voice of "the intelligent minority" determined "to stir up the animals."
ref: 2001, Richard P. Horwitz, The American Studies Anthology, page 50:
glosses: Someone from Baltimore, Maryland.
Ciceronical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪsəˈɹɒnɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɒnɪkəl
Forms: form: more Ciceronical
form: most Ciceronical
form: ciceronical
form: Ciceronicall
Etymology: Either the Latin Cicerō (stem: Cicerōn-) or the Middle English Ciceroun suffixed with the English -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Hee and Isabel…began to be as Ciceronicall as they were amorous.
ref: 1590, Robert Greene, Never too Late, published 1600, page 32:
text: But this man’s words are spirit itself, and burn their niche in Time, to last as long as that will. Take two of them: “Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you!” and again, “Behold the sun of Austerlitz!” When you speak, speak thus to men; such words are deeds; and come not as from one who beateth the air to the pitchpipe of the tibicen Ciceronical, but as the bullet to its butt; speak swordpoints, that press between the joints and marrow.
ref: 1891, Charles A. Ward, “Napoleonic Rule”, in Oracles of Nostradamus, page 251:
text: He had a very pleasant smile, had old Thomas Richardson, and a gracious way of performing his ciceronical duties. It was plainly a labor of love, due to the old mansion and the master who had made it famous.
ref: 1914, Western Christian Advocate, LXXX, page 10:
glosses: = Ciceronian
Related terms: cicerone
Ciceronian
pseudoenvironmentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoenvironmentalists
Etymology: From pseudo- + environmentalist.
Senses: glosses: A false environmentalist.
pseudoenvironmentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudoenvironmentalist
form: most pseudoenvironmentalist
Etymology: From pseudo- + environmentalist.
Senses: glosses: Falsely promoting environmentalist goals.
Kinkadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kinkadian
form: most Kinkadian
Etymology: Named after American painter Thomas Kinkade, from Kinkade + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to American painter Thomas Kinkade or his style.
pseudo-inspirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo-inspirational
form: most pseudo-inspirational
Etymology: From pseudo- + inspirational.
Senses: glosses: Falsely inspirational.
Hoaxocaust
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of hoax + Holocaust.
Senses: glosses: The Holocaust, seen as a hoax.
raw_tags: used by Holocaust deniers
Synonyms: Holohoax
Related terms: Holocaustianity
Jewsrael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Jew + Israel.
Senses: examples: text: If I had my way I'd withdraw all support for Jewsrael and let the Jew-Islam race war go on without USA intervening.
ref: 2002 April 12, Mississippi Master [username], “Re: USA=ISRAEL”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet):
text: Why can I find maps of Palestine then, before the British rule of the area? Can't find any maps of Jewsrael though... funny that.
ref: 2003 October 13, TheMan [username], “Re: Israel - Palestine: Facts Worth Noting”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: >In tribute to the United States of America and the State
>of Jewsrael, two bastions of strength in a world filled with strife and
>terrorism and peple^([sic]) killing the crap out of each other in the Middle East.
ref: 2004 January 6, Totality of Lunar Mu_n Eclipsed [username] (quoting RK), “Re: alt support diabetes dot org ??”, in alt.support.diabetes (Usenet):
text: Ah, Jewsrael is actually the 53rd after Canada and Mexico. We might have to settle for 54th?
ref: 2005 February 17, Kevin V. Russell, “I want Australia to be 51st state of USA”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):
text: Nigger Albinos? Heh. Reminds me of the tourists who went to Jewsrael. They were sitting in a cafe discussing the surroundings. One of them said, "Huh, you don't see very many niggers around here. I wonder if they have Afro-Jews?" The other fellow said, "Ask the waiter". So when the waiter walked by the first guy asked, "Hey, excuse me, but I was just wondering if you guys have Afro-Jews". The waiter replied, "No, we have orange juice and tomato juice, but no nigger juice.""
ref: 2010 April 12, Mark, “Re: Gypsy Rock?? It's the NIGGER ALBINOS!!”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
text: You know what you all happier in North koria [sic] or back in Jewsrael. get OUT of our country!
ref: 2015 February 11, Karolina Dean...Where the HELL is my monkey?, “'Christian' Hate Mail Activists Received for Challenging Religious Indoctrination in the Military”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
glosses: Israel.
Related terms: Jewkraine
payada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payadas
Etymology: From Spanish payada, from payo (“hick”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional performance art of the Southern Cone, consisting of a duel between two payadores who take turns singing improvised ten-line verses in response to the previous payador, accompanied by guitar.
wikipedia: payada
Related terms: payador
Southern Cone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Southern Cone
Etymology: Calque of Spanish Cono Sur.
Senses: examples: text: Some words are therefore in order to clarify why Bolivia is excluded from our definition of the Southern Cone, and by extension from the Southern Cone Model.
ref: 2004, Nicola Phillips, The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America, Routledge, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: The southern portion of South America, consisting of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, sometimes southern Brazil, São Paulo state and Paraguay.
Related terms: Mercosur
engenho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engenhos
Etymology: From Portuguese engenho (“machine; sugar mill”), from Old Galician-Portuguese engenno, from Latin ingenium. Doublet of engine.
Senses: glosses: A sugar mill in colonial Brazil.
vactrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vactrains
Etymology: From vacuum + train.
Senses: glosses: A theoretical maglev running in vacuum tunnels.
ecohysteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecohysterias
Etymology: From eco- + hysteria.
Senses: glosses: Hysteria over environmental issues.
ghostflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostflowers
Etymology: From ghost + flower.
Senses: glosses: Mohavea confertiflora, a flower native to the Sonoran and Mojave deserts.
wikipedia: ghostflower
Yehudi lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Developed, in part, by the US Navy's "Project Yehudi" from 1943 onwards. Yehudi in then-contemporary slang meant "the little man who wasn't there". The slang term may perhaps allude to the popular catchphrase and novelty song Who's Yehoodi? The catchphrase is said to have originated when violinist Yehudi Menuhin was a guest on the popular radio program of Bob Hope, where sidekick Jerry Colonna, apparently finding the name itself humorous, repeatedly asked "who's Yehudi?"
Senses: glosses: Lights placed under aeroplanes that raise their brightness to the same level as that of the sky, as a form of camouflage.
wikipedia: Who's Yehoodi?
Yehudi Menuhin
countershading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countershadings
Etymology: From counter- + shading.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pattern of animal coloration, existing as a form of camouflage, characterised by darker pigmentation of the upper side and lighter of the underside.
wikipedia: countershading
ghost marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost marriages
Senses: synonyms: necrogamy
posthumous marriage
glosses: Marriage with a dead person or between dead people.
wikipedia: ghost marriage
ash dieback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ash dieback is a major concern. Only ten years after its identification in the UK, the risks posed by dead and diseased trees is rising, says NR. In 2020, ash dieback was present in 73% of ash trees in England, 92% in Wales, and 21% in Scotland, with a rapid increase in tree mortality rates over the next six years expected.
ref: 2023 August 9, Mel Holley, “Network News: Scotland's £4.2bn plan to ensure network stability”, in RAIL, number 989, page 24:
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: Dieback of ash trees caused by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus.
wikipedia: ash dieback
Synonyms: chalara
oak processionary moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oak processionary moths
Senses: examples: text: The oak processionary moth is a native of southern Europe but its range has been expanding northwards over the past 20 years and it has become established as far north as the Netherlands and northern Germany.
ref: 2018 April 28, Robin McKie, The Observer:
glosses: Thaumetopoea processionea, a processionary native to oak forests across southern Europe, also occurring as an invasive species in northern Europe.
wikipedia: oak processionary moth
acute oak decline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Oak decline.
wikipedia: acute oak decline
slug slime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slugslime
Senses: glosses: Slime produced by slugs.
Barnum effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barnum effects
Etymology: Named after American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum.
Senses: glosses: The tendency of individuals to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
Synonyms: Forer effect
New Castile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of Spain consisting of the provinces of Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Madrid and Toledo.
glosses: A Spanish governorate in South America that existed from 1528 to 1542.
Quiviran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Quivira + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the legendary region of Quivira.
hobo stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobo stoves
Senses: glosses: A type of improvised stove, consisting of a can without the top and with openings near the bottom.
wikipedia: hobo stove
Shinigami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌʃɪn.ɪˈɡɑːmi/
Etymology: From Japanese 死神 (Shinigami).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The deity and/or personification of death. (Compare Izanami and Enma).
Related terms: psychopomp
Death
Grim Reaper
reaper
pale rider
rider
angel of death
Ciceronicall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ciceronicall
form: most Ciceronicall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Ciceronical.
lalophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λᾰλῐᾱ́ (lălĭā́, “speech”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An irrational fear of speaking
Related terms: glossophobia
lateroflexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From latero- + flexion.
Senses: glosses: Lateral flexion (bending to one side).
Related terms: lateroflexive
sumpah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsumpa/
ipa: [ˈsump˭ä]
ipa: [ˈsum˧p˭ä˦˧]
ipa: [ˈsum˨˧-]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay sumpah (“to swear, to make a promise”).
Senses: examples: text: I don’t know anything about this scandal — sumpah.
text: I sumpah (promise) mak! Anybody can come to see you mak. I won’t tell bapak mak. If you are happy, I am happy mak. Don’t kill me mak.
ref: 2004, Elangovan, O$P$, Singapore, →ISBN, page 16:
text: And because of the gravity of the matter, I voluntarily made my submissions to the Ministerial Committee in the form of sworn statutory declarations or, as they say in the coffee shops – sumpah.
ref: 2017 July 4, Lee Hsien Loong, “38 Oxley Road (Debate on Ministerial Statements)”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 94:
glosses: To promise; to earnestly swear that something is true.
watering pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watering pots
Senses: examples: text: ...but there must be luxury in the glare of lustres to a man who has drudged at his desk by the light of a tallow candle, and how much handsomer must a floor appear to him when splendidly bechalked by a capital designer, than when besprinkled with a watering pot by a slipshod apprenticel
ref: 1856, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland:
glosses: Synonym of watering can.
synonyms: word: watering can
oxyd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒksɪd/
Forms: form: oxyds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of oxide.
ride the circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides the circuit
form: riding the circuit
form: rode the circuit
form: ridden the circuit
Senses: examples: text: "Although commissioned, Hale J did not ride the circuit, his place being taken by Francis Swanton, the clerk of assize."
ref: 1972, J. S. Cockburn, A History of English Assizes, 1558-1714, page 284:
text: "Likewise, other local lawyers would ride the circuit for a session or two, briefly joining the core group as it traveled the circuit, and return home."
ref: 1999, Timothy R. Mahoney, Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West, page 184:
text: Usually Methodists dealt with this problem by having their ministers "ride the circuit" by periodically visiting homes and class meetings.
ref: 2001, Catherine L. Albanese, American Spiritualities: A Reader, page 191:
text: Dr. Strang was the superintendent of the Home Missionary Work. He took a liking to Stanley and told him that they would give him work in the ministry, if he would ride the circuit.
ref: 2011, Keith Earnest Andersen, The Last of the Pioneers, page 92:
glosses: To travel between small towns on horseback, usually to preach or preside over courts of law.
examples: text: “But we don't have to. We can ride the circuit with you. It might take days."
ref: 1949, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, page 197:
glosses: To move someone who has been arrested from police station to police station, thereby hindering release.
Related terms: circuit rider
lepidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈpɪ.di.əm/
Forms: form: lepidiums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Lepidium, from Latin lepidium and Ancient Greek λεπίδιον (lepídion, literally “little scale”), diminutive of λεπίς (lepís, “scale, flake”).
Senses: examples: text: Danziger’s new Green Dragon, a delicate and airy Lepidium, is a unique green filler for flower arrangements that blends harmoniously in any centerpiece or bouquet. Green Dragon has a heavier stem than other lepidiums, which won’t tangle with each other, ultimately decreasing breakage.
ref: 2019 February 19, “Green Fillers for Flower Arrangements”, in Danzinger Online, Danzinger:
text: There are about 175 different Lepidiums, no doubt some native to your area and some imported.
ref: Green Deane, “Peppergrass: Potent Pipsqueak”, in Eat The Weeds and other things, too:
text: Many of the native lepidiums are rare or restricted in distribution, and some have become extinct. […] Aborigines in South Australia steamed bundles of lepidium leaves in earthen pits.
ref: Valda Dedman, “Spiny Peppercress! - A miserable little endangered plant”, in Articles, Geelong Field Naturalists Club:
glosses: Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts.
Related terms: Lepidium
serveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servery
SLBSTM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sounds like bullshit to me.
bicamerally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bicameral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Not only the voices of gods, but also of dead kings, could still be heard bicamerally, as we have earlier suggested was the origin of gods themselves.
ref: 1976, 1990, Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, page 327
glosses: In a bicameral manner; based on or indicating bicameral organization.
ecocommunalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + communalism.
Senses: glosses: An environmental philosophy based on ideals of simple living, self-sufficiency, sustainability, and local decentralized economies.
ecocommunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecocommunal
form: most ecocommunal
Etymology: From eco- + communal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecocommunalism.
Coushatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coushattas
form: Coushatta
form: Koasati
Etymology: Borrowed from Koasati Kowassa:ti (“bobcat people”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people found mainly in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Coushatta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koasati
Etymology: Borrowed from Koasati Kowassa:ti (“bobcat people”).
Senses: glosses: Their Muskogean language.
glosses: A town, the parish seat of Red River Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Coushattas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coushatta
sociolectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sociolect + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a sociolect.
taramasalatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taramasalata
train set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train sets
Senses: examples: text: It has its charms though. Royal Oak is like a country branch line dropped down amid the main line approaches to Paddington. It's as if two very different train sets got mixed up in the same box.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: A toy consisting of one or more miniature model trains and the tracks, equipment, scenery, etc. that go with them.
examples: text: In a review of operating experience with the Southern Region diesel-electric multiple-units on the Hastings line, read to the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in October, Mr. W. J. A. Sykes, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer of the S.R., revealed how the somehat unprepossessing appearance of these train sets came about.
ref: 1960 December, “The Hastings Line diesel-electric multiple units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 732:
glosses: Alternative form of trainset.
train sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of train set
cupula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupulas
form: cupulae
Etymology: Latin cupula
Senses: glosses: A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A moveable object in the ampullae of the ear's semicircular canals that is involved in sensing head rotation
Derived terms: cupulolithiasis
seifuku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seifuku
Etymology: From Japanese 制服 (seifuku), from Middle Chinese 制服 (MC tsyejH bjuwk).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese school uniform modelled on the sailor suit.
fuckbunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckbunnies
Etymology: From fuck + bunny.
Senses: examples: text: Like he had a right to be uptight about Liv screwing whoever she pleased. He'd worked through six condoms—or was it seven?—in a tequila haze with the fuckbunny duo from the Hole.
ref: 2009, Shannon McKenna, Edge of Midnight:
text: 'Sounds like you're His^([sic]) new fuckbunny,' I said. 'Congratulations.'
ref: 2011, Jackie Kessler, The Road to Hell:
text: Blue was a fuckbunny on a grand scale, yeah—but she also liked being with him.
ref: 2012, Electra Shepherd, Love Machine, page 84:
glosses: A sexually active and available woman.
fuckbunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckbunny
musterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muster + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being mustered.
Derived terms: unmusterable
unmustered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mustered.
Senses: glosses: Not mustered.
unbadged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + badged.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing, or not furnished with, a badge.
panharmonicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panharmonicons
Senses: glosses: A mechanical musical instrument that could imitate various instruments and generate sound effects.
panharmonicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panharmonicon
apothegmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apothegmic
form: most apothegmic
Senses: glosses: apothegmatic
nut roasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nut roast
deterreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: deter + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deter
quarter tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter tones
form: quarter-tone
form: quartertone
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The musical interval equal to one quarter of a tone or 1/24 of an octave; half a semitone.
yesterday-today-tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yesterday-today-tomorrows
Etymology: From the three shades of blue and violet on each plant, which can vary over the course of a few days.
Senses: examples: text: Within a few months[,] little creepers were climbing the rose bushes, covering the yesterday-today-tomorrows, hanging down in stringy swathes from the cypress trees.
ref: 2006, Helen Brain, Here Be Lions:
glosses: An evergreen shrub, Brunfelsia australis.
Related terms: yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
stone-fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone-fences
form: stone fence
Senses: examples: text: Dick Sparrow appeared carrying a pitcher of stone-fence, a concoction of rum and hard cider, followed by Miriam bearing a tray of glasses. […] Dick passed the pitcher of stone fence and James got speedily and contentedly drunk.
ref: 1946, Christine Weston, The Dark Wood, pages 284–5:
glosses: A mixed drink of cider with either rum, brandy, bourbon, or rye.
cream sodas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cream soda
oxyt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪt/
rhymes: -ɒksɪt
Senses: examples: text: II. oxyt., as Adj., ἀσφοδελὸς λειμών the asphodel mead which the shades of heroes haunted, Od.11.539, 24.13: generally, flowery mead, h.Merc.221, 344. (On the accent v. Hdn.Gr.1.160.)
ref: 1940, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, “ἀσφόδελος”, in A Greek-English Lexicon:
glosses: Abbreviation of oxytone.
oxyt.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪt/
rhymes: -ɒksɪt
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of oxytonic.
bluiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluiters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blooter.
bluiter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluiters
form: bluitering
form: bluitered
form: bluitered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blooter.
camera phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camera phone
feature phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feature phone
car phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carphones plural of car phone
bar phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar phones
Senses: coordinate_terms: brick phone
clamshell phone
flip phone
slider phone
glosses: A mobile phone shaped like a bar of soap or candy.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bar, phone. (a phone in a bar)
brick phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brick phones
form: brickphone
Senses: examples: text: He pulls out a Foundation brickphone from his pack. He pushes some buttons, entering coordinates, and then retreats far down the road. He retains visual contact with the dead man for as long as possible, then turns away and kneels, placing the phone on the road beside him. Following the detailed instructions he found in the control room, he grinds his palms into his eyes and presses his face against the ground. And he says:
ref: 29 February 2020, qntm, “Blood/Brain”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: A cellular telephone with proportions and weight similar to a brick.
glosses: An older cellular telephone that is not a smartphone.
Coordinate terms: english: flip phone
translation: flip phone
word: clamshell phone
word: slider phone
word: slide phone
word: bar phone
timbrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timbrical
form: most timbrical
Etymology: From timbre + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The flag bearer for this prestigious category is, without a doubt, Jose Mardones (Fontecha, Alava 1869 - Madrid 1932) who had a voice which was unique for its volume and timbrical beauty.
ref: 1999, Enrico Stinchelli, Greatest Stars of the Opera: The Lives and Voices of Two Hundred Golden Years, Biblio Distribution, →ISBN, page 196:
text: As Voyage was exploring the timbrical, melodic and rhythmical aspects of a sound generator (actually a string), […]
ref: 2001, Double Bassist, numbers 16-19, page 4:
text: Sounds were dull, without life and identity; the imitation of existing instruments (strings, brass,...) was a failure, their timbrical qualities not even remotely recognizable.
ref: 2004, Elena Prestini, The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis: Models of the Real World, Birkhäuser, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: Of, relating to, or having timbre.
brick phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brick phone
yleft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of leave
slide phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide phones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of slider phone.
synonyms: word: slider phone
slider phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slider phones
Senses: synonyms: slide phone
coordinate_terms: bar phone
brick phone
clamshell phone
flip phone
glosses: A style of mobile phone that allows an additional keypad to slide open for use.
slider phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slider phone
slide phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slide phone
lambel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambels
Etymology: Borrowed from French lambel.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A label (charge from which pendants are hung).
unfinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfinal
form: most unfinal
Etymology: From un- + final.
Senses: examples: text: Huge French Revolutions, Napoleonisms, then Bourbonisms with their corollary of Three Days, finishing in very unfinal Louis-Philippisms: all this ought to be didactic! All this may have taught us, that False Aristocracies are insupportable; that No-Aristocracies, Liberty-and-Equalities are impossible […]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter I, Aristocracies”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
text: So this was suicide. How unfinal it appeared to be.
ref: 1997, Thomas Mallon, Dewey Defeats Truman, Vintage, published 2013, →ISBN, page 329:
text: This resistance, on the writer's part, could well account for his mildly enigmatic, unfinal and anti-climactic denouements, often narrativised as happy endings of sorts, without actually being felt to be so by the characters, not even ironically.
ref: 2013, Maria Grazia Nicolosi, “'And to defeat that shadow…he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities of conscious reparation': Adam Thorpe's Unsentimental Historical Romances”, in Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega, editors, Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: Not final; unresolved; inconclusive.
roosterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roosterish
form: most roosterish
Etymology: From rooster + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Jimmy Lah was pouring some soapy blender concoction for the bar's only customer besides himself, a fruitcake with a roosterish yellow Mohawk and oversized pink eyeglasses.
ref: 1988, Peter Straub, Koko, Anchor Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 62:
text: When Kayak Boy was mad he put his shoulders back and stuck his head forward, a roosterish stance that reminded me of Travis.
ref: 2012, Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN:
text: Perhaps in reference to its spectacular, arguably roosterish, red comb-like frontal plate.
ref: 2013, Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide, CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rooster.
examples: text: "Poor boy," said Patience sympathetically, and Fisher eyed her with suddenly aroused manhood. "And that's all?"
His big shoulders drooped, and the roosterish look went out of his eyes.
ref: 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 24
text: […] and when it was over he would blink and smirk around at the ladies, with a roosterish pride quite engaging to behold.
ref: 1955, Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar, Little, Brown and Company, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: He is very handsome, though too roosterish for me, with his big yacht and yellow sports car and overenthusiastic swimming.
ref: 2012, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Triurbia, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
glosses: Cocky, arrogant, prideful.
reunderstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reunderstands
form: reunderstanding
form: reunderstood
form: reunderstood
Etymology: From re- + understand.
Senses: examples: text: A large part of the weekend service is designed to help people reunderstand who God is.
ref: 1996, G. A. Pritchard, Willow Creek Seeker Services: Evaluating a New Way of Doing Church, Baker Books, →ISBN:
text: But as I came to know each of them in the confines of this room, I began to reunderstand that each man's humanity and capacity to love expresses itself in different forms.
ref: 2007, Brian Keenan, “The Tollund Men”, in Michael Marland, editor, Ideas, Insights and Arguments: A Non-fiction Collection, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 227:
text: It seemed to me like I either had to radically reunderstand the men on this hilltop or I had to acknowledge the power of a place like this to change men.
ref: 2010, Sebastian Junger, War, Twelve, →ISBN:
glosses: To reach a new or renewed understanding.
pedophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -phagic.
Senses: examples: text: However, Annable represents on his part the masculine aspect of the uroboros, the pedophagic father of archetypal mythology, the Moloch figure, and is thus equally as dangerous and destructive as his female counterpart.
ref: 1987, Barbara A. Miliaras, Pillar of Flame: The Mythological Foundations of D. H. Lawrence's Sexual Philosophy, Peter Lang, published 1987, →ISBN, page 82:
text: The description of the preparation of the children for the play's pedophagic banquet recalls the Messenger's description in Seneca's Thyestes, […]
ref: 1997, A. J. Boyle, Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition, Routledge, published 1997, →ISBN:
text: I have already discussed the key visionary scene in Metropolis, Freder's vision in which he sees the central machine of the city transform itself into a demon, the cannibalistic, pedophagic god, Moloch.
ref: 2000, Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity, British Film Institute, published 2000, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Engaging in, involving, or related to the eating of children.
Related terms: pedophagy
lithosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithosomes
Etymology: From litho- + -some.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A uniform mass of rock that has different lithology to that of the surrounding rock.
pornonormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From porno- + normativity.
Senses: examples: text: Female same-sex sexuality is represented in ways which are circumscribed by the conventions of pornonormativity and heteroflexibility.
ref: 2010, Alison Rooke, Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, “Beyond 'Key Parties' and 'Wife Swapping': The Visual Culture of Online Swinging”, in Feona Attwood, editor, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 234:
text: Sadomasochism has been analyzed in recent times by sociologists, social psychologists and others in terms of 'pornonormativity', i.e. sexual scripts derived from images and narratives of porn […]
ref: 2010, Hastings Donnan, Fiona Magowan, The Anthropology of Sex, Berg, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Don Slater makes use of a similar term, "pornonormativity," when discussing the repetition of heterporn conventions in IRC porn exchanges. The aspects of "pornonormativity" include the recycling of sex acts, body types, fetishes, and kinks familiar from so-called mainstream porn, deeply gendered self-representatives ("young blonde bombshells and well-hung dudes"), […]
ref: 2011, Susanna Paasonen, Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: The phenomenon of human sexual expression being shaped by the conventions of mainstream pornography.
Related terms: pornonormative
pornonormative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pornonormative
form: most pornonormative
Etymology: From porno- + normative.
Senses: examples: text: Yet this pornonormative depiction of SM is only one aspect of the story.
ref: 2009 April, Eleanor Wilkinson, “Perverting Visual Pleasure: Representing Sadomasochism”, in Sexualities, volume 12, number 2, page 185:
text: If an image of SM exists in mainstream culture that is not pornonormative, badass topping is likely it.
ref: 2011, Staci Newmahr, Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 109:
text: Spam material can be seen as “pornonormative” in that it includes no ads for gay porn yet plentiful displays of girl-on-girl action.
ref: 2011, Susanna Paasonen, Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Of or relating to pornonormativity.
logismography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: glosses: An early form of double-entry bookkeeping
Related terms: logismographic
nubivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nubivagant
form: most nubivagant
Etymology: From Latin nubes (“cloud”) + vagant (“wandering”).
Senses: examples: text: On the whole, although a man must do his duty, "painful as it is," (as a Judge would say to a felon whom he is going to sentence to death,) yet it would be better for a collineomaniac to think, now and then, of the desolation he is bringing down upon happy nests; of how many little broods he may cause to starve; of how many robbed mates he will send, nubivagant, whistling and singing tremulous love-notes through the air, vainly searching and calling for their lost spouses, never, never to return!
ref: 1839 October, J. Cypress, Jr., “More Collineomania: A Fit, Brought On By Looking At The Picture”, in American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine:
text: I suspect I will never again see a crowd of 35,000 transform with such speed into nubivagant hip-swivelling beasts.
ref: 2011 August 12, Katie Abrahams, “Audience gets the royal treatment from Prince”, in The University Times:
text: Aircraft are all nubivagant, gorillas are all nemorivagant, and a holiday in Snowdonia could be described as a montivagant weekend.
ref: 2012, Mark Forsyth, The Horologian: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words, Berkley, →ISBN:
glosses: Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air.
katrillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katrillionaires
Etymology: From katrillion + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: […] a sort of modern-day Sabrina-esque story where a young woman, Abby (played by the lovely Chloe Eliot), the daughter of a deeply indebted, widowed summer cook in the Hamptons, ends up living happily ever after with a self-made katrillionaire Bill Gates type (but he's handsome, young, and hip) whose life isn't as easy as it sounds, […]
ref: 2006, Eliza Minot, The Brambles, Knopf, →ISBN, page 58:
text: But nowhere else has the cachet-turned-baggage of Greenwich, long a home to blue-blood families (this is where the Bush family dwelled for years) and more recently a haven for Wall Street's new money, such as hedge-fund katrillionaire Steve Cohen.
ref: 2008 October 28, David Segal, “Lost Souls”, in The Washington Post:
text: When I am reading I hold the world right here in the palm of my hand. The stars are my fingertips. I am Queen and ruler of all nations. I am the healer of the poor. I am a katrillionaire.
ref: 2010, Jacquinita A. Rose, Shhh, Grown Folks Is Talking: The Stuff I Learned from the Kitchen Door, Grown Folks' Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: An extremely wealthy person.
katrillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katrillionaire
native tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of native tongue
groundwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundwood
fatsploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fat + -sploitation, after the pattern of blaxploitation, etc.
Senses: examples: text: And two points reflect the cynicism at the core of this fatsploitation flick.
ref: 1995 February 17, George Meyer, “'Heavyweights' makes light of weighty issues”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
text: The appetite for "fatsploitation" entertainment isn't yet sated.
ref: 2009 July 20, Nick Harding, “Unhealthy appetite: Is 'Fatsploitation' fuelling the obesity crisis?”, in The Independent:
text: ITV's fatsploitation claptrap The Biggest Loser... and the telly tubbies aren't shedding much weight.
ref: 2011 February 6, Kevin O'Sullivan, “Same Old Kerry On”, in Sunday Mirror, UK:
glosses: The exploitation of fat people in the media (especially film and television).
discoursings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoursing
r-word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: r-words
form: r-wording
form: r-worded
form: r-worded
form: R-word
Senses: glosses: To rape.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
cisnormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cis- + normativity.
Senses: examples: text: The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity.
ref: 2012, Matthew Heinz, “Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses”, in Karen Ross, editor, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 336:
text: These are the bodily consequences of cisnormativity—the prevalent and presumptuous assumption that cissexuality is the only acceptable and legible form of gender identity—which show us why, when we engage in feminist activism and inquiry, we must be trans-inclusive in our efforts to ensure that every human being deserves decency and justice when wronged.
ref: 2012 Fall, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, “Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity”, in Bluestockings, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016, page 41:
glosses: The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches their biological sex.
Coordinate terms: word: transnormativity
english: see there for more
translation: see there for more
word: homonormativity
Derived terms: cisnormative
Related terms: cissexism
cisgenderism
peptize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peptizes
form: peptizing
form: peptized
form: peptized
form: peptise
Senses: examples: text: Alphaltenes have a tendency to aggregate and flocculate, but resins contained in the crude oil peptize them and keep them in solution.
glosses: To disperse in a medium so as to form a colloidal solution.
Derived terms: peptizable
peptizer
r-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of r-word
r-words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of r-word
t-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t-words
form: T-word
Senses: examples: text: Some will claim these tax hikes aren't really taxes. They'll search the dictionary to find every possible way to avoid using that “T” word.
ref: 1995, Bill Clinton, “The President's Radio Address, October 7, 1995”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Book 2: July 1 to December 31, 1995, page 1553:
glosses: tax or taxes, treated as if it were taboo.
glosses: The word tranny, regarded as offensive and taboo.
glosses: Any of several other words beginning with t when regarded (sometimes humorously) as taboo, for example tit, twat, turd, terrorist or terrorism, treason, Trump.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
feint of heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of faint of heart.
minoratyve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of minorative.
minoratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minorative
Istro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪstɹəʊ/
Etymology: Istr(ia) + -o-
Senses: examples: Istro-Romanian
glosses: denoting Istrian origin or character, or a variety of [the prefixed element] associated with or pertaining to Istria
ciceronical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ciceronical
form: most ciceronical
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ciceronical.
xenophobian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenophobians
Senses: glosses: A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
Synonyms: xenophobiac
xenophobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenophobiacs
Senses: glosses: A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
Synonyms: xenophobian
xenophobiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenophobiac
xenophobians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenophobian
quarter farthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter farthings
form: quarter-farthing
Senses: examples: text: [‘]The score, however, was only 10 thalers, 4 groschen, 6 pfennigs’ (30 shillings, 5 pence, and 2 or perhaps 3 quarter-farthings), ‘for what I had run-up in eight weeks[.]’
ref: 1750 June–August, Thomas Carlyle, in The Works of Thomas Carlyle III (2010), ed. Henry Duff Traill, page 257
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A British coin, produced for circulation in Ceylon 1839–1853, which, at a face value of ⅟₁₆d. (£⅟₃₈₄₀), is the lowest denomination of coin ever minted for the United Kingdom.
zupas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zupa
judicial review
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judicial reviews
Senses: examples: text: Since it appears that judicial review is here to stay, some who remain troubled by it urge that at the very least the enterprise of judges deciding constitutional questions should be limited to discovering the intent of the Framers.
ref: 1987 January 2, Irving R. Kaufman, “Opinion: No Way to Interpret the Constitution”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Oct 2013:
topics: law
glosses: The doctrine, implemented in varying ways in differing jurisdictions, that authorities within the judicial branch of government may examine and make rulings on the legal validity of decisions and actions of the legislative and executive branches of government and, in some jurisdictions, of others within the judicial branch itself.
examples: text: [T]he senate committee on interstate commerce adjourned until next Thursday without having taken a vote on the bill or considered an amendment for a judicial review of the orders of the interstate commerce commission.
ref: 1906 February 17, “Senate Shied at Rate Vote”, in Lewiston Morning Tribune, Idaho, USA, retrieved 24 Oct 2013, page 1:
text: After one of Britain's most politically sensitive judicial reviews, a three-judge court today upheld the convictions of six men for the murder of 21 people in the bombing of a Birmingham pub in 1974.
ref: 1988 January 29, Steve Lohr, “British Back Guilt of 6, Upsetting Irish”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Oct 2013:
text: "The Obama Administration continues to shield Bush-era torturers from accountability in civil proceedings by blocking judicial review of their illegal behavior," said Steven Watt, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.
ref: 2010 November 18, Nick Assinder, “Gitmo Inmates Settlement: Why Britain Decided to Pay”, in Time, retrieved 24 Oct 2013:
text: Rowley called the federation branch “crazy” and “perverse” for throwing its weight behind Di Maria’s judicial review, painting the federation as the roadblock to much-needed reform.
ref: 2025 April 5, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer:
topics: law
glosses: A judicial process undertaken under this doctrine.
Stoicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stoick