cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unreject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrejects
form: unrejecting
form: unrejected
form: unrejected
Etymology: From un- + reject.
Senses: examples: text: As with favorites, you can unreject a rejected selection by selecting it and then clicking the Unmark Selection button I just mentioned.
ref: 2009, Christopher Breen, The Flip Mino Pocket Guide, page 117:
text: If you want to unreject an image, select it and set its rating to something other than rejected, be it unrated or one to five stars.
ref: 2010, Josh Anon, Ellen Anon, Aperture 3 Portable Genius:
text: Karlan and Zinman, the ones who later wrote “Lying about Borrowing,” persuaded lenders in South Africa and the Philippines to randomly “unreject” some people who had applied for loans. No one was randomly rejected.
ref: 2012, David Roodman, Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry Into Microfinance, page 157:
glosses: To undo the rejection of; to accept back.
unrejects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unreject
unrejecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unreject
unaccepts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unaccept
unacceptables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unacceptable
Dumfriesshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dumfries + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A historical county of Scotland which was abolished in 1975 and absorbed into Dumfries and Galloway Region. Its county town was Dumfries.
dirty thunderstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty thunderstorms
Senses: glosses: A weather phenomenon that is related to the production of lightning within a volcanic plume.
Synonyms: volcanic lightning
thunder volcano
dead oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead oil
pattersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pattersome
form: most pattersome
Etymology: From patter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Of course among lilts so light many are unequal — some, if we may so term them, too "pattersome" for their subjects ; but if all are not poetry, all are at least verse — a rarer quality in these pretentious days than some imagine.
ref: 1888, Time: A Monthly Magazine - Volume 19, page 255:
text: Of course I know that gnomes do not exist; neither could I have believed that the Bamileke people were real until I saw them working in the fields, scuttering down the roads under colossal burdens, so pattersome and twinklefoot are they.
ref: 1936, J.C. Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, The London Mercury - Volume 33, page 594:
glosses: Characterised or marked by pattering
filled milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filled milk
preflighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preflight
preflighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preflight
acronyctous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: acronycal
acrotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκρότομος (akrótomos, “cut off sharp”). By surface analysis, acro- + -tomous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a cleavage parallel with the base.
π-mers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of π-mer
acrase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acrases
form: acrasing
form: acrased
form: acrased
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acraze.
acrased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acrase
acrases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acrase
acrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acrase
Berlin black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; used for coating the better kinds of ironware.
Berlin shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Berlin shops
Senses: glosses: A shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.
Berlin shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Berlin shop
Berlin work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: worsted embroidery
Related terms: Berlin shop
Berlin worsted
Berlin iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.
cast irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cast iron
LCAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LCA
flash memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash memory
ejulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ejulation
miniport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniports
Etymology: From mini- + port.
Senses: examples: text: Attempts to access the SCSI port directly are actually blocked by the operating system. However, the same operating system provides you with the ability to control the device via an SCSI miniport.
ref: 2004, Kris Kaspersky, CD Cracking Uncovered: Protection against Unsactioned CD Copying, →ISBN:
text: Miniport drivers use a port driver interface instead of the device driver interface, and the port driver simply implements a collection of device driver support routines that interface miniport drivers to Windows.
ref: 2012, Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu, Windows Internals - Part 2, →ISBN, page 132:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A port that uses a lightweight driver that relies on built-in support from the operating system.
miniports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniport
cashapona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashaponas
Senses: glosses: The walking palm.
cashaponas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashapona
midget golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Midget golf has reduced golf's perspective to half an acre, and what was lately a social privilege turns out to be a Rube Goldberg whimsy.
ref: 1930 May, Earl Sparling, “The Midget Golf Revolution”, in Vanity Fair, volume 34, number 4, page 70:
text: "Midget" golf, a national passion 25 years ago, has been making an unspectacular but steady comeback.
ref: 1956 June, “Some people make money from golf”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 10, number 6, page 17:
text: I was a fad that year — the way midget golf was once a fad, or flagpole sitting.
ref: 1963 December 6, Brenda Frazier, “I Was a Fad -- like Midge Golf”, in LIFE, volume 55, number 23:
text: This garden-turned-golf-course, named Thistle Dhu, was not only the first midget golf course to contain all the pleasurable elements of the real game, but may have also been the reason early miniature golf was referred to as garden golf.
ref: 2001, Dale Samuelson, Wendy Yegoiants, The American Amusement Park, →ISBN:
text: The first miniature golf course was laid out on the summit of Lookout Mountain. It was an 18-hole course complete with doglegs, sand traps and water hazards and was the brainchild of hotelier John Garnet Carter, who patented the name Tom Thumb, the name of a midget golf system.
ref: 2010, Paul Donnelley, Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Golf, →ISBN:
glosses: Miniature golf.
come-here
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: come-heres
Senses: examples: text: There are many other ways of catching crabs, including chicken-necking (a sure sign of a come-here), and traps or pots.
ref: 1997, William H. Turner, Chesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy, page 189:
glosses: A recent arrival to a place; a person who has only lately come to live in the area.
Synonyms: blow-in
comeling
newling
offcomer
newcomer
come-heres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of come-here
go to the goat's house for wool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to the goat's house for wool
form: going to the goat's house for wool
form: went to the goat's house for wool
form: gone to the goat's house for wool
Senses: glosses: To go to the wrong place for something; to seek help from a source that cannot provide it.
Related terms: coals to Newcastle
marry out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marries out
form: marrying out
form: married out
form: married out
Senses: examples: text: E. B. Tylor's idea that humans have only one choice, namely either to marry out or to die out, has become the most commonplace functional explanation. The necessity to marry out is always a corollary to the prohibition to marry sisters.
ref: 1991, Trudeke Vuyk, Children of One Womb:
text: Most of us take it for granted that we must marry out—that is, we cannot marry members of our immediate families.
ref: 1994, Beatrice Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Over time, groups that marry out had an advantage over those that did not, so eventually all groups developed incest taboos.
ref: 2008, James Peoples, Garrick Bailey, Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, →ISBN:
glosses: To marry someone who is from another family; To avoid incest.
examples: text: The opposite supposition is that younger people are more receptive to social change and unconventional ways, thus more likely to marry out at a higher rate.
ref: 1990, Betty Lee Sung, Chinese American Intermarriage, →ISBN, page 27:
text: The support of language proficiency associated with the home and endogamous marriage is absent in the case of women who marry out. In addition, men who marry out have more extrafamilial ethnic associations (visiting of Greek ethnic friends, memberships in Greek ethnic organizations) than women who intermarry, giving intermarrying men greater support for Greek language proficiency than their female counterparts.
ref: 1994, Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal, Ethnic Women: A Multiple Status Reality, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Jews who marry out — especially women who marry out, marry substantially later than Jews who marry in.
ref: 1994, Steven Bayme, Gladys Rosen, The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To marry someone from a different religion or ethnic group.
TOGAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of The Open Group Architecture Framework.
helico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: helix, spiral
glosses: snails
Related terms: english: indirectly related through the root for spiral/helix
translation: indirectly related through the root for spiral/helix
word: heli-
photorecombinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photorecombination
Genesee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnɪˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Seneca Gen-nis'-hee-yo (“pleasant valley, beautiful valley”).
Senses: glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A community in Leduc County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Plumas County, California. Former spelling: Geneseo.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Colorado.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Latah County, Idaho.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Whiteside County, Illinois.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Lansing, Michigan.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Genesee County, Michigan.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Allegany County, New York.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Potter County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in west Seattle, Washington.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
glosses: The name of various places in North America:
A number of places in the United States:
A river with its headwaters in Pennsylvania, which flows through western New York to Lake Ontario.
Derived terms: Genesee County
Genesee epoch
Genesee epoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So-named because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The latter subdivision of the Hamilton period in the now obsolete American Devonian system.
wikipedia: Genesee, New York
DUP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Democratic Unionist Party.
foundherentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foundherentist
female ejaculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of female ejaculation
potabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: potabilizes
form: potabilizing
form: potabilized
form: potabilized
Etymology: From potable + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To purify (water) to make it safe to drink.
Derived terms: potabilizer
potabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potabilize
potabilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potabilize
potabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potabilize
monosemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoseme
multimedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: more multimedial
form: most multimedial
Etymology: From multi- + medium + -al.
Senses: synonyms: plurimedial
polymedial
glosses: Pertaining to multiple media.
Derived terms: multimediality
museal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more museal
form: most museal
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to museums.
Derived terms: musealist
museality
musealization
musealize
museally
teach the controversy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teaches the controversy
form: teaching the controversy
form: taught the controversy
form: taught the controversy
Senses: examples: text: Recent developments in some of the states suggest that all public high school biology teachers may soon have to prepare themselves - whether they like it or not - to teach the controversy.
ref: 2008, Patrick H. Clancy, Teaching the Controversy: A How-to Guide for Public (Government) School Biology, Xulon Press, →ISBN:
text: Senator Rick Santorum is a Pennsylvanian in the same circles (author of the ' Santorum Language' that encourages schools to teach the controversy) ...
ref: 2009, Lauri Lebo, The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma V. Darwin in Small-town America, The New Press, →ISBN, page 111:
text: To the extent that ID is a religious idea, and teaching the controversy is not about teaching a real scientific controversy, there are significant endorsement problems .
ref: 2010, Frank S. Ravitch, Marketing Intelligent Design: Law and the Creationist Agenda, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To teach that life forms may have been created (almost) in their current form by a sentient being in a manner consistent with Christian dogmata, rather than as a result of ordinary evolution, and that the theory of evolution is controversial.
Menzies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Scotland, traditional elsewhere
ipa: /ˈmɪŋɪs/
note: Scotland, traditional elsewhere
ipa: /ˈmɪŋɡɪs/
note: widespread spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈmɛnziːz/
homophone: menses
Forms: form: Minges
Etymology: From Early Scots Menȝies, from Scottish Gaelic Mèinnearach, from Anglo-Norman Mesnières.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname.
glosses: A suburb of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A town in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
glosses: A local government area in Western Australia, of which the town is the seat; in full, the Shire of Menzies.
Derived terms: Menzies Ferry
Maybot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Maybot
Etymology: From May + -bot. Popularised by John Crace for political sketches published since November 8th 2016.
Senses: examples: text: Whirr. Clunk. Clang. The Maybot’s eyes rotated into life.
ref: 2016 November 8, John Crace, “Theresa struggles to take back control – from her own Maybot”, in The Guardian:
text: Theresa Villiers, the former Northern Ireland Secretary, sacked in the Maybot takeover, sported a vacuous grin throughout the whole mechanical exercise, confirming perhaps that the election chip had been successfully inserted.
ref: 2017 May 8, Michael Settle, “Election sketch: the Maybot repeats herself - strong and stable leadership; me not him”, in The Herald Scotland:
text: Her campaign team seemed to have found a patch for the Maybot.
ref: 2017 June 3, Andrew Rawnsley, “The Maybot and Monsieur Zen. A drama that didn’t obey the script”, in The Guardian:
text: 2018 November 21, Brian Smith, letter to the editor in "‘Queue-jumping’ comment reveals the Tories’ moral vacuum", The Guardian.
The perils of AI decision-making incorporating false assumptions is nicely illustrated by the Maybot’s latest output: EU citizens will no longer be able to “jump the queue ahead of ... software developers from Delhi”.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A nickname for Theresa May.
wikipedia: John Crace (writer)
reeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːb
Forms: form: reebs
Etymology: First appeared in the UK in the 19th century. Back slang for beer.
Senses: examples: text: Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 11:
text: It is still in considerable vogue, and the enquirer will at times hear some good examples—though the chances are a hundred to one against his ever understanding them. A couple which were interpreted for my benefit were: "Hi, yob, kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom. Sap her a top of reeb and a tib of occobat," and "Islema, ogda the opperca." After the reader has sufficiently puzzled over these hieroglyphics he or she may be glad to learnt hat the quotations respectively mean: "Hi, boy, look at that fine girl with the lean moke. Pass her a pot of beer and a bit of tobacco," and "Misle, dog the copper!"
ref: 1912 May 11, A. J. Heighway, “Whitechapel”, in The Evening Post (New Zealand), volume LXXXIII, number 112, page 9:
qualifier: costermongers
glosses: Beer.
Synonyms: beer
reebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reeb
Kincardineshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kincardine + -shire, after a town that ceased to exist in the Middle Ages (not from other places named Kincardine).
Senses: glosses: A historical county of Scotland abolished in 1975, the county town was Stonehaven. Most of the county was taken into Kincardine and Deeside district in Grampian Region.
♥'s
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [newspaper headline shown at the beginning of the movie]
Why NY ♥'s Spidey
How this mysterious masked man became New York's most eligible bachelor.
ref: 2007, Spider-Man 3 (film)
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ♥
LQA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LQAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of linguistic quality assurance.
glosses: Initialism of language quality assurance.
glosses: Initialism of language quality assessment.
glosses: Initialism of link quality analysis.
LQE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LQEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of linear–quadratic estimator.
synonyms: Kalman filter
glosses: Initialism of linear–quadratic estimation.
glosses: Initialism of language quality evaluation.
well duh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: empathic of duh
California sheephead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Semicossyphus pulcher, a species of wrasse native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Synonyms: fathead
redfish
hatriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatriots
Etymology: Blend of hate + patriot. Introduced or popularized by The David Pakman Show in a feature called “Hatriot Mail”.
Senses: glosses: A reactionary political conservative who criticizes liberal or progressive stances as unpatriotic.
wikipedia: The David Pakman Show
Related terms: hatriotic
hatriotism
hatriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatriot
hyperprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperprotective
form: most hyperprotective
Etymology: From hyper- + protective.
Senses: glosses: Very overprotective.
foruming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forum + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In a foruming context, positioning, thus, implies the use of a set of available tools that are mostly linked to cognitive artifacts around the exchanged texts. […] It is especially interesting to see how social identities arise and develop, all the more since most of them are explicitly given and affirmed in online forums.
ref: 2010, Russell W. Belk, Research in Consumer Behavior, page 297:
glosses: Participation in an Internet forum.
crucible steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crucible steel
lexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lexie (unit of reading)
lexias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexia
Iolcus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iolchos
form: Iolcos
Senses: glosses: An ancient town of Thessalia situated at the foot of Mount Pelium, and birthplace of Jason.
carissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carissas
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Carissa.
usurpeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: usurp + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of usurp
wheelsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelsmiths
Etymology: From wheel + smith.
Senses: glosses: A wheelwright.
wheelsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelsmith
Antarctic pearlwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Colobanthus quitensis, a flowering plant found in the Antarctic, with yellow flowers and a cushion-like growth habit that gives it a mossy appearance.
beshears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beshear
beshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of beshear
beshearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beshear
discretionary spendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discretionary spending
Stonehaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊnˈheɪvən/
Etymology: By surface analysis, stone + haven.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland. It was the county town of Kincardineshire until 1975 (OS grid ref NO8786).
glosses: A small settlement west of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A rural community of Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
Machiavellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Machiavelli + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The theory and practice dealt with in this essay are all related to what I call Machiavellism, by which I mean the disregard of moral scruples in politics, that is, the political use, limited only by expediency, of every kind of deception and force.
ref: 2014, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll: Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: Machiavellianism
Kincardine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Cinn Chàrdainn, possibly adapted from an earlier Pictish *Pencarden, equivalent to Welsh pen (“head, top”) + cardden (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A town on the River Forth in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9387).
glosses: The former county town of Kincardineshire, Scotland, abandoned in the Middle Ages.
glosses: A hamlet near Ardgay, Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH6089).
glosses: A municipality and community in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Kincardine O'Neil
Related terms: Kincardine and Deeside
Kincardineshire
not one's first rodeo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Look, honey, this ain't my first rodeo, OK? I was doing this when you were in short pants.
glosses: Not the first time one has been in a particular situation; used to indicate past experience.
Related terms: old hand
seasoned
someone didn't just fall off the turnip truck
someone wasn't born yesterday
veteran
warhorse
disinfo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of disinformation; compare info.
Senses: glosses: Disinformation.
Kincardine and Deeside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former local government area in Grampian region, north-east Scotland, created in 1975 and abolished in 1996. It was absorbed into the Aberdeenshire council area.
KPPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KPP
Banchory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town on Deeside, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6995).
highleg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From high + leg.
Senses: glosses: Being a style of briefs with narrow sides that sit high on the wearer's waist.
inwanderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inwanderers
form: in-wanderer
Etymology: From inwander + -er and/or in- + wanderer.
Senses: examples: text: Here the first settlements were made by the Mexican inwanderers of a century ago, who huddled round the coast-line missions, which strove for the submission.
ref: 1890, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, History of California: 1848-1859, page 519:
text: Traders were simply one of many different kinds of in-wanderers, with the main difference being that some in-wanderers came and stayed while the traders came and left.
ref: 2011, Andrejs Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic States:
glosses: One who wanders in; an immigrant
inwanderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inwanderer
photomedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + medical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photomedicine.
hot lab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot labs
Senses: examples: text: Noveria is a cool, rocky world, with most of its hydrosphere locked up in massive glaciers. A privately-chartered colony world, the planet is owned by the Noveria Development Corporation holding company. The NDC is funded by investment capital from two dozen high technology development firms, and administrated by an Executive Board representing their interests.
The investors built remote hot labs in isolated locations across Noveria’s surface. These facilities are used for research too dangerous or controversial to be performed elsewhere, as Noveria is technically not part of Citadel space and therefore exempt from Council law.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Noveria Codex entry:
glosses: hot laboratory
hot labs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot lab
mesopsammon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mesopsammic + -on. Compare psammon.
Senses: examples: text: The body, however, is always extremely slender with a diameter of not more than 500 μ, thus enabling the animals to move through the interstitial system without actively replacing the sand grains; all the listed species, therefore, are considered to be mesopsammon forms sensu Broaden (1962)
ref: 1971, Smithsonian contributions to zoology - Issues 72-77, page 18:
text: The mesopsammon of intertidal environments and the many physical, chemical and mineralogical factors which affect their presence are very complex.
ref: 2003, Italian Habitats: Sand dunes and beaches, →ISBN, page 71:
text: As is the case with mesopsammic representatives of other major taxa, interstitial nemertines constitute a unique biological grouping recognizable by specializations that are characteristic of mesopsammon (see Swedmark, 1964, for review of the nature of interstitial organisms).
ref: 2012, Per Sundberg, R. Gibson, G. Berg, Recent Advances in Nemertean Biology, →ISBN:
glosses: Community of small species that live in mesopsammic spaces where water is filtered between grains of sand and fine gravel.
Related terms: endopsammon
epipsammon
bedecketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedeck
negrobilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Birdie's negrobilia provides both identity and security, reminders of a time when she was black and had a sister.
ref: 2007, Deborah Clarke, Driving Women, →ISBN:
text: Then the third thought, and the tears would have begun to fall now as she saw that the box of negrobilia was missing. That the Golliwog was missing.
ref: 2013, Danzy Senna, From Caucasia, with Love, →ISBN, page 306:
text: ... along the way stopped for pounds of coffee, items of negrobilia, chunks of pralines, a glance at a drugstore window that featured both vintage advertising and bold examples of soft-core pornography (“Medicine for some, I suppose," Tenn quipped), and, desiring a brief respite, a stop in the Central Grocery, where Tenn had a beer and one of the city's cherished muffuletta sandwiches, which he cut into four wedges and ate as carefully as he chose his words, which came forth at a slow, painful pace.
ref: 2015, James Grissom, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Negrobilia.
Negrobilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of negro + memorabilia.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Giovanni, who majored in history at Fisk University in Nashville, says this in a big room full of Negrobilia, including sculptures of three black boys eating watermelon and of a black man driving a white man in a buggy.
ref: 1996, The New York Times Biographical Service - Volume 27, page 1128:
text: Inside, it was covered in Negrobilia, advertising signs from the first half of the century that featured big-lipped Sambos.
ref: 1998, Christopher John Farley, My Favorite War: A Novel, →ISBN, page 246:
text: As new production dwindled, and many people threw away the old stuff, what was left came to be seen as rare, antique and collectible. A lively aftermarket for Negrobilia and Black Americana developed in the 1980s.
ref: 2007, John Strausbaugh, Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture, →ISBN:
glosses: Collectibles that portray stereotypes of black people.
oolong teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oolong tea
japanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: japanizes
form: japanizing
form: japanized
form: japanized
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Japanize.
Srtas.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Srta.
husman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌz ˌmæn/
Etymology: From a blend of husband + man.
Senses: examples: text: “Wife, su'mit. As your husman I'm ordering you to su'mit.”
ref: 2007, Bill Spevacek, Millen County Standoff:
text: "You know my husman works on a giant forklift for this company for years. […]"
ref: 2010, Jeannie Cheatham, Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music, page 179:
text: Whosoever that hoochefied, home wrecking heifer is she ain't gon steal my husman from under my nose.
ref: 2014, The Skegeehawk!, Zee: An Original Naughty Narrative, page 357:
glosses: One's man who is also one's husband; husband.
attention deficit disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attention deficit disorder
drag-queendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag queendom
Etymology: From drag-queen + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: He hoped I would avoid the downward spiral into thick-rouged drag-queendom he had seen take the lives of several other homosexuals.
ref: 2014, Jim Tushinski, Jim Van Buskirk, Identity Envy Wanting to Be Who We're Not:
glosses: The world of drag queens; drag-queens collectively
EHS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EHSs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of environment, health, safety.
glosses: Abbreviation of electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
glosses: Abbreviation of exploding head syndrome.
Synonyms: sense: Environment, health, safety
english: health, safety, environment
translation: health, safety, environment
word: HSE
marries out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marry out
marrying out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marry out
married out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marry out
pawb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːb/
ipa: /pɔb/
ipa: /pɑb/
rhymes: -ɔːb
Forms: form: pawbs
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of paw.
pawb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːb/
ipa: /pɔb/
ipa: /pɑb/
rhymes: -ɔːb
Forms: form: pawbs
Senses: coordinate_terms: pawg
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of PAWB.
calthemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calthemites
Etymology: From Latin calx (“lime”) + Latin < Ancient Greek θέμα (théma, “what is laid down”), (also Mediaeval Latin thema, "deposit") and the Latin -īta < Ancient Greek -ίτης (-ítēs) – used as a suffix indicating a rock or mineral.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any secondary calcareous deposit, created by the action of water outside the natural cave environment. They are typically found on man made structures and mimic the shapes and forms of cave speleothems, such as stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone etc.
gentle murder paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A paradox of deontic logic, whereby the plausible statements (i) if you murder, you ought to murder gently, (ii) you do commit murder, and (iii) to murder gently you must murder imply the less plausible statement (iv) you ought to murder.
tactical voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: strategic voting
glosses: The placing of a tactical vote.
Related terms: tactical vote
tactical voter
Russophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russo- + -philism.
Senses: glosses: A love for the country, culture or people of Russia.
Related terms: Russophile
conjunctivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjunctivist
confused deputies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confused deputy
confused deputy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confused deputies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that is innocently fooled by some other party into misusing its authority.
ghetto palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghetto palms
Etymology: From its tendency to grow wild in weeded-over urban areas of the United States.
Senses: examples: text: Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.
ref: 2006, Mark Chalkley, Hampden-Woodberry:
glosses: Synonym of tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
synonyms: word: tree of heaven
extra: Ailanthus altissima
Related terms: ghetto bird
nerval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nerve + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In the late, by causing absorption of inflammatory products, the repeated mechanical effect of manipulation and percussion upon old neuralgia bennumbs and lessens the sensibility of the nerval filaments, and gradually decreases it, hence its use in chronic sciatica […]
ref: 1889 September 14, “Chronic Sciatica”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association:
glosses: Of or relating to nerves.
tracrRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracrRNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Trans-activating crRNA.
tracrRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracrRNA
bhurji
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਭੁਰਜੀ (bhurjī), ultimately from Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “roasts, fries”). Related to fry and bhujia.
Senses: examples: eggs bhurji
qualifier: Indian cooking
glosses: scrambled
crRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crRNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of CRISPR RNA.
crRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crRNA
flag semaphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of telegraphy, using hand-held flags or similar, typically used at sea.
anaphrodisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anaphrodisia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or related to, anaphrodisiacs or anaphrodisia.
anaphrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaphrodites
Etymology: From anaphrodisia + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: It is infinitely easier for an anaphrodite to be a saint than for the ultra-virile to be even decent.
ref: 1922, Jennie June, The Female-Impersonators:
glosses: One who has a low libido.
Related terms: anaphroditic
anaphroditous
two-hand sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-hand swords
form: two-handed sword
Etymology: From Middle English thwahandswerd, to hond swerd, twa hand swerde, twohande sworde.
Senses: examples: text: Come with thy two-hand sword.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Faria on the other side […] with a zealous feruour reached Coia Acem, such a blow with a two hand Sword on his Head-piece of Maile, that he sunke to the ground […]
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henrie Fetherstone, Volume 3, Chapter 2, Section 1, p. 257:
text: 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume I, Chapter 6, p. 111,
[…] Charlie, growing wroth, squeezed the Lady Jane so strait with the left arm, that she was forced to cry out; and putting his right over his shoulder, he drew out his tremendous two-hand sword […]
text: He stepped forward as he spoke, and his esquire gave him the two-hand Sword of State, heavy enough to behead a bisonoid.
ref: 1963, H. Beam Piper, chapter 4, in Space Viking, New York: Ace Books, page 18:
glosses: A sword with a handle or grip that is intended to be grasped with both hands.
two-hand swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-hand sword
FMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Filipino martial arts.
glosses: Abbreviation of Fullmetal Alchemist (“manga and anime series”).
campeador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campeadors
form: campeadores
Etymology: From Spanish campeador.
Senses: glosses: A warrior, in Spanish contexts.
mass spectrometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass spectrometry
overlaminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlaminate
overlaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlaminate
abrasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrasure
trigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + genic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: produced by (the interaction of) three genes
Derived terms: trigenic acid
admined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of admin
admining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of admin
ironworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironwort
needle girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle girls
Senses: examples: text: Of course he finds the fabric, but even then he wrings a profit which any honest man would be ashamed to extort from the labour of the needle girl.
ref: 1859, Arthur Mursell, Lectures to Working Men, page 171:
text: What a child must I be, that the flimsy used up jargon which captivated the milliner should have disturbed my good sense! Yet, the hypocrite spoke of marriage ! I required a nicer temptation than the needle girl— -I was beyond the fascinations of a cheap, tea-garden courtship!
ref: 1872, August Mayhew, “Cupid's Diary”, in The Musical World, volume 50, page 35:
text: A girl, tho' she's poor, she must live. The poor needle girl, God defend her! With feelings as keen and as tender As your proud city ladies remember — Mr. Bull, can you wonder at crime?
ref: 2000, James G. Hepburn, A Book of Scattered Leaves: Poetry of Poverty in Broadside Ballads, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of needle-girl.
needle girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needle girl
needle-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle-girls
form: needle girl
Senses: examples: text: Her complexion is pure and warm, though pale, as if from too close confinement; for I have now no doubt that she is a needle-girl.
ref: 1848, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Jennette Alison; Or, The Young Strawberry Girl:
text: Indeed I soon, found that the poor needle-girl was not the orphan with property.
ref: 1856, Green Peas Picked From the Patch of Invisible Green Esq., page 133:
text: There is the needle-girl, with her helplessness, her nerveless imbecility, her utter ignorance, her dolorous prettiness, her thriftless marriage, her half-starved children dying about her like flies.
ref: 2013, Pierre Coustillas, Collin Partridge, George Gissing: The Critical Heritage, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery.
needle-girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needle-girl
landscape gardeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landscape gardener
crumbleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: crumble + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crumble
bullvalones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullvalone
e-journalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-journalists
Etymology: From e- + journalist.
Senses: glosses: cyberjournalist
e-journalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-journalist
Eurocrisis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Euro- + crisis.
Senses: glosses: The European debt crisis.
longplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longplays
Etymology: From long + play.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A full recording of a video game being played from start to completion.
longplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longplay
consolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From console + -ization.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The conversion of a game to run on a games console.
Related terms: consolized
hotlining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotline
hotlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotline
CTCF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CTCFs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A transcription factor that in humans is encoded by the CTCF gene.
CTCFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CTCF
montubio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: montubios
form: Montubio
form: montuvio
form: Montuvio
Senses: glosses: A member of a mestizo ethnic group of coastal Ecuador.
campeadores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campeador
montubios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montubio
occultistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From occultist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Related to occultists or to occultism
ocnophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ocnophilic
form: most ocnophilic
Etymology: From ocnophil + -ic. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: philobatic
text: The philobatic environment consists of friendly spaces littered with unpredictable objects; the ocnophilic world consists of objects 'separated by horrid empty spaces'.
ref: 2017, Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain, New Haven, C.T.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 92:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of an ocnophil (someone who tends to avoid dangerous or unfamiliar situations).
ocnophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocnophils
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀκνέω (oknéō, “to shrink from, fear, hesitate”) + -o- + -phile with the final "e" dropped. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: philobat
text: People who need other people around them much of the time are people whose well-being depends massively on the feelings of others towards them. This alarms the philobats (the spacebats), but the ocnophils (the homebodies) like it that way.
ref: 2018, Josephine Klein, Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: A personality type characterised by avoidance of dangerous of unfamiliar situations, and the reliance on other people for security.
Derived terms: ocnophilic
VCSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VCSEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of voluntary, community or social enterprise.
VCSEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VCSE
spherolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spherolith + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a spherolith.
deputational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deputation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a deputation.