cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flare up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flares up
form: flaring up
form: flared up
form: flared up
Senses: examples: text: The fire flared up after we added more wood to it.
glosses: To burn brightly again.
examples: text: Reports indicate that tensions have flared up in the Middle East again.
text: The pain in my shoulder flares up when I turn my head.
glosses: To become more intense suddenly.
examples: text: The insult made him flare up.
text: “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: "It's my Welsh half that comes out when I flare up. Let the conjurors take their dirty money and let the rich folk keep their purses shut."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: To burst out suddenly, as in anger.
raw_tags: with “out” instead of “up”
flare up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flare ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flare-up.
lemon drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemon drop
average joes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of average joe
there's no fool like an old fool
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool. The man's twenty years younger than you, and don't you fool yourself as to what he married you for. Money!
ref: 1920 October, Agatha Christie, “I Go to Styles”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published March 1927, page 24:
glosses: If a person does not develop wisdom with age, then their foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful.
Related terms: you can't put an old head on young shoulders
int'l
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All Koreans to become one or even two years younger under int'l system
ref: 2023 June 26, Jun Ji-hye, “Korea's age system to change from Wednesday”, in The Korea Times, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2024:
glosses: Abbreviation of international.
cont'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of continued.
hill-forts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hill-fort
by-products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-product
compilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compilator
compilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compilate
compilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compilate
compilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compilate
pre-emptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pre-emptively
form: most pre-emptively
Etymology: From pre-emptive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: By acting pre-emptively, Network Rail was able to remove critical equipment from the ground, preventing some of the damage that could have been experienced.
ref: 2022 March 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Three named storms in a week cause havoc on the railways”, in RAIL, number 952, page 11:
glosses: Alternative spelling of preemptively.
etymological hybrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etymological hybrids
Senses: glosses: A word derived from etyma in two or more source languages; especially a word combining both Latin and Ancient Greek elements, such as quadrilogy, oscilloscope, or automobile.
Synonyms: heteroradical
hybrid derivative
macaronic
hybrid
sight word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sight words
Senses: examples: text: Our program will teach your child 200 sight words.
text: Aside from the handful of words directly taught by teachers, every sight word was once not a sight word; at least once its identity had to be figured out through some combination of decoding and context skills.
ref: 2000, Nancy C. Lewkowicz, “On the Question of Teaching Decoding Skills to Older Students”, in Struggling Adolescent Readers, →ISBN, page 191:
topics: education
glosses: A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.
sight words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sight word
bemusingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bemusingly
form: most bemusingly
Etymology: From bemusing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner likely to bemuse.
chargrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: char-grilled
form: char grilled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chargrill
chargrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chargrilled
form: most chargrilled
form: char-grilled
form: char grilled
Senses: glosses: grilled on burning charcoal
conservatoire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɝvətwɑr/
Forms: form: conservatoires
Etymology: Borrowed from French conservatoire. Doublet of conservatory.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A music academy.
Synonyms: college of music
conservatory
conservatory of music
musical school
music conservatory
music school
school of music
doorline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorlines
Etymology: From door + line.
Senses: glosses: The line formed by the edge of a door, especially that of a motor car.
improper integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improper integrals
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integral where at least one of the endpoints is taken as a limit, either to a specific number or to infinity.
jaikies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaikie
jaikie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaikies
Senses: glosses: A lad (especially a hard-drinking young man in an urban environment)
josser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: jossers
Senses: examples: text: Becoming a josser – an outsider who joins the circus – is probably one of the few dreams almost everyone has had.
ref: 1999 May 20, Dea Birkett, “Books: In the world of exotic humans”, in The Independent:
glosses: An outsider working in a circus.
examples: text: As I neither answered nor raised my eyes Mahony exclaimed again: 'I say . . . He's a queer old josser!'
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: A man, especially one who seems foolish or simpleminded.
glosses: A clergyman.
komatsuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 小松菜 (komatsu-na, literally “Komatsu vegetable”).
Senses: glosses: A leaf vegetable, a form of Brassica rapa, used in Japanese cooking
Synonyms: Japanese mustard spinach
managership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: managerships
Etymology: From manager + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or period of a manager.
mibuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 壬生菜.
Senses: glosses: A leaf vegetable used in Japanese cooking, Brassica rapa nipposinica or Brassica rapa japonica
Related terms: Brassica rapa
mizuna
permutate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːmjʊteɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɝmjʊteɪt/
Forms: form: permutates
form: permutating
form: permutated
form: permutated
Senses: synonyms: permute
glosses: To carry out a permutation upon.
permutating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permutate
pursuiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈsuːtə(ɹ)/
/pə(ɹ)ˈsjuːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pursuiters
Etymology: From pursuit + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person (especially a cyclist) who takes part in a pursuit race
shopworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopworker
ferroconcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛɹoʊˈkɑnkɹit/
Forms: form: ferroconcretes
Etymology: From ferro- + concrete.
Senses: glosses: A building material made from Portland cement concrete with a matrix of steel bars or wires (rebars) to increase its tensile strength.
Synonyms: reinforced concrete
Derived terms: ferroconcreted
smartish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smartish
form: most smartish
Etymology: From smart + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Rather smart
smartish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smartish
form: most smartish
Etymology: From smart + -ish.
Senses: glosses: smartly
examples: text: The work's to be done smartish, for inside the hour we'll have Mr Drew's visitors on our necks.
ref: 2012, Josephine Cox, Whistledown Woman:
glosses: rapidly; without dawdling
tagetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagetes
Etymology: From Tagetes.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Tagetes.
Synonyms: tagete
tagetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagete
tagete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagetes
Etymology: Apparently back-formed from translingual Tagetes, taking it to be plural.
Senses: examples: text: The wound was washed with the juice of a young green coconut, sutured with a fine coconut fibre using the sharpened wing bone of a flying fox and then dressed with a "tagete" leaf over which was laid the outer layer of a banana flower. The whole was then sealed from the air with a mixture of pepper, lime and young betel nut chewed together. Mrs. Parkinson said she knew a man who had lived for thirty years after this operation, but she thought this was exceptional.
ref: 1979, Ellen Kettle, That they might live, page 3:
text: […] The little girl wears a white death mask and holds a tagete (sunflower):
ref: 2008, Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo: "I Paint My Reality", page 62:
text: "She would no more confuse a calendula with a tagete than you'd mistake a water gun for a pistol."
ref: 2013, Sandra Orchard, Deadly Devotion (Port Aster Secrets Book #1): A Novel, Baker Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).
synonyms: word: tagetes
extra: individual plant of the genus Tagetes
thalassotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalassotherapies
Etymology: From thalasso- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: thalasso
coordinate_terms: halotherapy
glosses: The therapeutic use of seawater.
Related terms: thalassotherapeutic
thalassotherapist
uncosted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + costed.
Senses: glosses: Not costed.
vaguenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagueness
wranglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrangling
yachtsfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yacht + -s- + folk.
Senses: glosses: People who spend time on yachts.
palm-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm-trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palm tree.
palm-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm-tree
witcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: witchers
Etymology: From witch + -er, from the popular belief that dowsing was a supernatural act.
Senses: glosses: A dowser.
Derived terms: water witcher
Related terms: word: witch
word: water-witch
witcher
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Etymology: Contraction of with + your.
Senses: examples: text: ... an' t'hell witcher ponies I says
ref: 1934, Henry Roth, Call It Sleep:
text: And Wiltz said, 'Come on witcher conversation, Mr. Avery. Come on witcher conversation.'
ref: 1974, Paul R. Clancy, Just a Country Lawyer: A Biography of Senator Sam Ervin, page 103:
text: Whyncha quit? You can do construction work witcher ol man.
ref: 1999, Richard Price, Bloodbrothers, page 113:
text: How's it feel to be drinkin' and smokin' witcher big-time, freelance gunman. Huh? Pretty exciting or what?
ref: 2010, Rex Miller, Profane Men, page 45:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of with your.
witcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: witchers
Etymology: From witch + -er, a male equivalent of witch using the -er suffix as masculine, as in widower vs. widow, a calque of Polish wiedźmin. Possibly influenced by witchery.
The Polish word was coined in 1986 by author Andrzej Sapkowski as a male equivalent of wiedźma (“witch”) for his The Witcher book series and media franchise. The English calque witcher was popularized by the series' English translation.
Senses: glosses: A male witch; warlock.
Related terms: word: witch
dring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drings
form: dringing
form: dringed
form: dringed
Etymology: Dialectal variant of thring.
Senses: glosses: To press; squeeze; crowd; push.
Derived terms: dringing
dring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drings
Etymology: Dialectal variant of thring.
Senses: glosses: A throng; crowd.
glosses: A narrow passage.
Related terms: drang
dringe
baker's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakers'
Senses: glosses: A shop where bread and other baked food is sold.
Synonyms: bakery
baker's
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baker's
form: most baker's
Senses: glosses: One more than. (baker's dozen)
furrier's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furriers'
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells fur clothing.
Related terms: furrier
fishmonger's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells wet fish and seafood.
Synonyms: word: fish shop
word: fishmarket
word: fishmonger
Related terms: fishmonger
wet fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Plaice] is a difficult fish to manage, and in poor neighbourhoods an important one to manage well. The old hands make a profit out of it; new hands a loss. There’s not much cod or other wet fish sold to the poor, while plaice is in.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, G. Woodfall and Son, page 68:
text: 2007, Virginia Ironside, review of You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker, Literary Review, April 2007, p. 39,
Posing as [Henry] Root, a wildly right-wing wet-fish merchant, Donaldson wrote to a variety of political figures and celebrities […]
glosses: Fresh fish intended to be cooked.
gold mines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold mine
chrysography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From chryso- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The use of gold lettering in manuscripts
Related terms: chrysograph
kgosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kgosis
form: dikgosi
Etymology: Borrowed from Tswana kgosi (“chief, chieftain; king”).
Senses: examples: text: Then Rasebolai said that, as was customary, he would ask the visiting dikgosi to speak.
ref: 2006, Susan Williams, Colour Bar, Penguin, published 2007, page 295:
text: Botswana National Front President, Otsweletse Moupo said he had no doubt that Motshidisi would serve the Palapye community well as kgosi.
ref: 2007, Mmegi, 1 Jun 07:
glosses: A tribal chief among the Tswana people of southern Africa.
ASLO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O.
Synonyms: ASO
Related terms: streptolysin
ASO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASOs
Senses: synonyms: ASLO
glosses: Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O.
glosses: Abbreviation of antisense oligonucleotide.
coordinate_terms: SEO
glosses: Initialism of app store optimization.
examples: text: The PEOPLE WITH AIDS who are the most important and needy clients of ASOs get shortchanged when education, "program development," and other such Volvo-era machinations suck up needed funding and energy.
ref: 1989 December 17, Steve Rose, “Over-Emphasis On Safer Sex Ed Among Gay White Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 4:
text: To sensitize their staffs, ASOs can offer in-service trainings about incest and its impact on unsafe sex and other high-risk behavior, both to professionals and to peer-educators.
ref: 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 10:
glosses: Initialism of AIDS service organization.
Related terms: sense: anti-streptolysin O
word: streptolysin
sense: antisense oligonucleotide
word: antisense
sense: antisense oligonucleotide
word: oligonucleotide
baise-mains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baisemains.
baisemains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French baisemains, from baiser (“to kiss”) + mains (“hands”).
Senses: glosses: respects; compliments
streptolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streptolysins
Etymology: From strepto- + lysin.
Senses: glosses: Any of various exotoxins that destroy red blood cells by breaking their membranes, and are produced by certain strains of streptococcus
Hypernyms: hemolysin
Related terms: streptolysis
task forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of task force
mischieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʃiːv/
Forms: form: mischieves
form: mischieving
form: mischieved
form: mischieved
form: mischief
Etymology: From Middle English myscheven, from Old French meschever, from mes- + chever.
Senses: glosses: To destroy.
examples: text: thenne sire Tristram wold make no lenger delayes but lasshed at sir Lamorak / & thus they foughte longe /[…]/ Thenne sir Tristram seid to sir Lamorak in alle my lyf mette I neuer with suche a knyght that was soo bygge and well brethed as ye be / therfore said syre Tristram hit were pyte / that ony of vs both shold here be meschyeued
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
text: I have read of Augustine, that once by wandring out of his way, he escaped one who lay in wait to mischieve him;
ref: 1650, Moses his choice, with his eye fixed upon heaven, page 54:
text: […] ſo when the two Ladders were taken down, no Man living could come down to me without miſchieving himſelf; […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: To damage, do harm to; to injure.
lybard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lybards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of leopard.
thripple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thripples
Etymology: From Middle English, attested as a plural therrepillis.
Senses: glosses: A ladder-like extension fitted to the front, rear, and sometimes sides of a haywagon or other towed agricultural trailer so as to increase its capacity.
Heley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cohærent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cohærent
form: most cohærent
Senses: examples: text: A treatiſe of truth, written in French, ſo highly prized beyond the ſeas, and (they ſay) it is extant at this day with great honour in the pope’s vatican ; and an hiſtory of king Henry the eighth ; wherein his collections are full and authentick ; his obſervation judicious ; his connexion ſtrong and cohærent, and the whole exact.
ref: 1766, David Lloyd, State⸗⸗Worthies: or, The Statesmen and Favourites of England from the Reformation to the Revolution (J. Robson); volume II, “Obſervations on the Life of the Lord Herbert of Cherbury”, page #340
glosses: Archaic spelling of coherent.
Derived terms: incohærent
BSCCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: BSCCO wires are typically made by putting a powder inside a tube of silver that is then heated and drawn out.
ref: 2006, Graham P. Collins, “The Next Generation”, in Scientific American, 295(3): 22:
glosses: Initialism of Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide, a high-temperature superconducting material.
BSCCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Balancing and Settlement Code Company, which administers the wholesale electricity balancing and settlement arrangements for Great Britain.
YBCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "YBCO had other problems that early on left BSCCO in the driver's seat."
ref: 2006, Graham P. Collins, “The Next Generation”, in Scientific American, 295(3): 22:
glosses: Initialism of yttrium, barium, copper, oxygen: component elements used in the manufacture of one type of high-temperature superconducting material.
douchey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: douchier
form: douchiest
form: douchy
Etymology: From douche + -y; see douche bag.
Senses: examples: text: So I have compiled some tips to help Harvard students act less douchey when they are faced with foreign situations this weekend.
ref: 2005 November 18, Carl Williott, “Dear Harvard, publicly enjoy yourself. Love, Yale.”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 11 May 2010:
text: Helms describes Andy as "a yacht-clubby guy who's a little douchey but still earnest."
ref: 2008 September 14, Adam Sternbergh, quoting Ed Helms, “The Jerk”, in New York Magazine:
text: Very had to incite Lavinia to stop dropping that douchey "resumé" word already.
ref: 2010, Rachel Cohn, Very LeFreak, Random House, →ISBN, page 109:
text: "True. That's not such a big deal, but he's also taking away my Valedictorian status. All because he doesn't want the pregnant girl in his school to become news. Looks bad for the school or whatever." "Mm... okay. That's worse. And kinda douchey."
ref: 2016 July 3, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 854 - Punishment:
text: In the first season of Stranger Things, no character was more extra than Steve Harrington — Nancy Wheeler’s frequently possessive, largely confused, often douchey boyfriend. Though he eventually got with the program and helped fight some monsters, he wasn’t exactly what you’d call the pick of the litter.
ref: 2017 November 7, Aja Romano, “The unlikely breakout star of Stranger Things 2 is unlikelier babysitter Steve Harrington”, in Vox:
glosses: Characteristic of a douche (jerk) or douchebag; obnoxious.
Douchey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /du.ʃeɪ/
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A surname.
et seqq.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: seqq.
form: & seqq.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of et sequentia; (of sequential things, such as pages and lists) and those which follow.
Synonyms: ff.
Related terms: et alibi
braggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: braggier
form: braggiest
Etymology: From brag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "'That was only getting the pumpkin ready,' says Bassett, braggy and cheerful.
ref: 1909, O. Henry, The Gentle Grafter:
text: He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
ref: 1931, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:
text: He was bombastic and braggy to the point of trash talking fellow performers.
ref: 2001 February 2, Ben Joravsky, “When the Star Comes Out”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Prone to brag.
Derived terms: braggily
bragginess
paisano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈzɑ.noʊ/
ipa: /paɪˈsɑ.noʊ/
Forms: form: paisanos
form: paisan
Etymology: From Neapolitan and Spanish paisano. Doublet of peasant.
Senses: glosses: Among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent: a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian.
glosses: A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
examples: text: Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 178, column 2:
glosses: A roadrunner.
paisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paisans
Senses: examples: text: When Santa visits his paisans with Dominick he'll be, because the reindeers cannot climb the hills of Italy.
ref: 1960, Lou Monte, Dominick the Donkey:
glosses: Alternative form of paisano.
secret of Polichinelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secrets of Polichinelle
Etymology: Calque of French secret de Polichinelle.
Senses: examples: text: In October and November 1910 there was a great secret of Polichinelle. Conceivably we may learn from some future historian even more about it than we knew at the time.
ref: 1915, Frederick Scott Oliver, Ordeal by Battle:
text: It is said that Polst fell because he revealed in an unlucky interview the Secret of Polichinelle, the secret which all the world knew, the secret that there was a claque at the Metropolitan Opera House.
ref: 1926, W. J. Thorold, Arthur Hornblow, Perriton Maxwell, Stewart Beach, editors, Theatre magazine, volumes 43-44:
text: British public life specializes in an elegant variation of the secret of Polichinelle. After a secret is disclosed it may still be treated as if it were a secret.
ref: 1992, Hyman Gross, Ross Harrison, Jurisprudence: Cambridge Essays:
synonyms: open secret
glosses: A supposed secret known to everyone.
paisans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paisan
paisanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paisano
sou'easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sou'easters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of southeaster.
sou'easters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sou'easter
shaly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shalier
form: shaliest
form: shaley
Etymology: From shale + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The hillside at this point is composed of shaly rock overlaid with a peaty loam which carries a growth of heather, and its unstable condition has resulted in two landslides in the course of the railway's history.
ref: 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling shale.
shaley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shaley
form: most shaley
form: shaly
Etymology: From shale + -y.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or resembling shale.
millidarcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millidarcys
form: millidarcies
Etymology: From milli- + darcy.
Senses: glosses: A unit of area that is 1/1000 darcy. Symbol mD.
Neanderthal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nē.ănʹdə.täl'
ipa: /niːˈæn.dəˌtɑːl/
enpr: nē.ănʹdər.thäl
enpr: nē.ănʹdər.täl
ipa: /niˈæn.dɚˌθɑl/
ipa: /niˈæn.dɚ.θəl/
ipa: /niˈæn.dɚˌtɑl/
Forms: form: neanderthal
form: Neandertal
Etymology: From obsolete German Neanderthal, now spelled Neandertal, the name of a valley (German Tal, older also spelled Thal) near Düsseldorf where the first Neanderthal was discovered in 1856. A hollow near the valley was known as Neanderhöhle (“Neander Hollow”) and Neandershöhle (“Neander’s Hollow”) in the early 19th century, and the valley had been renamed to Neanderthal in 1850, in honour of the German Calvinist theologian and hymn writer Joachim Neander (1650–1680). Before, the valley was known as das Gesteins (literally “The Rocks [sg.]”) and Hundsklipp (literally “Dog Cliff”).
The name of Joachim Neander is based on the Ancient Greek translation (νέος (néos) + ᾰ̓νήρ (ănḗr)) of his original surname Neumann (“Newman”).
The pronunciation with the "th" sound (/θ/) is a spelling pronunciation; the original German word is pronounced with a "t" sound (/t/).
Senses: examples: text: The capacity of the Neanderthal skull was 10% larger than that of modern humans.
text: […]In short, many assessments conclude that East Asians have more Neanderthal ancestry than Europeans, who have more Neanderthal ancestry than people in the Middle East.
ref: 2019, Razib Khan, Arabia between Africa and Eurasia:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis.
glosses: Old-fashioned, opposed to change.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Neander Valley in Germany.
Neanderthal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nē.ănʹdə.täl'
ipa: /niːˈæn.dəˌtɑːl/
enpr: nē.ănʹdər.thäl
enpr: nē.ănʹdər.täl
ipa: /niˈæn.dɚˌθɑl/
ipa: /niˈæn.dɚ.θəl/
ipa: /niˈæn.dɚˌtɑl/
Forms: form: Neanderthals
form: neanderthal
form: Neandertal
Etymology: From obsolete German Neanderthal, now spelled Neandertal, the name of a valley (German Tal, older also spelled Thal) near Düsseldorf where the first Neanderthal was discovered in 1856. A hollow near the valley was known as Neanderhöhle (“Neander Hollow”) and Neandershöhle (“Neander’s Hollow”) in the early 19th century, and the valley had been renamed to Neanderthal in 1850, in honour of the German Calvinist theologian and hymn writer Joachim Neander (1650–1680). Before, the valley was known as das Gesteins (literally “The Rocks [sg.]”) and Hundsklipp (literally “Dog Cliff”).
The name of Joachim Neander is based on the Ancient Greek translation (νέος (néos) + ᾰ̓νήρ (ănḗr)) of his original surname Neumann (“Newman”).
The pronunciation with the "th" sound (/θ/) is a spelling pronunciation; the original German word is pronounced with a "t" sound (/t/).
Senses: examples: text: These injuries may reflect the rigors of hunting with the Neanderthals' limited repertoire of weapons; the Neanderthals never seem to have developed projectiles, so they would have to have gotten more or less on top of their prey in order to kill them.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, pages 250–251:
synonyms: Neandertaler
Neanderthalian
glosses: A specimen of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis.
glosses: A primitive, savage or uncivilized person.
Derived terms: meanderthal
Neandersovan
Neanderthalian
Neanderthalic
Neanderthaloid
sheanderthal
tight ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tight end
football fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of football field
pancake landings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancake landing
pancake tortoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancake tortoise
sg.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of singular.
dom.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of domestic.
non obst.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of non obstante.
l.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ll.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of leaf.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of line.
related: word: l
coordinate_terms: word: d.
english: pence
translation: pence
word: s.
english: shilling
translation: shilling
glosses: Abbreviation of pound (sterling), derived from Latin libra.
l.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: l. com. car. a.
translation: left common carotid artery
english: left common carotid artery
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text: Glogau Stat.—Inns: Deutsches Haus; Westphal’s Hotel. A fortress of the 2nd rank on the l. bank of the Oder, 17,000 Inhab. The Dom upon an island dates from 1120, and contains a madonna by Cranach, sen., his masterpiece.
ref: 1868, “Sect VI.—Prussia, continued. Route 81”, in A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland. […], Sixteenth edition, London: John Murray, page 437:
glosses: Abbreviation of left.
i.p.i.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: i. p. i.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of in partibus infidelium (“in the regions of unbelievers”).
sce.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sci.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of scenario.
imps.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imp.
impp.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imp.
Akita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)田(た) (Akita).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Akita Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Akita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Akitas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)田(た) (Akita).
Senses: examples: text: […] Hokkaidos or Ainus (smaller versions of the Akita); Akitas, Japanese Spitz, Japanese Chin, Nippon Terriers and Kai Ken.
ref: 1983, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette, page 11:
glosses: A large dog of a Japanese breed from the mountainous northern regions of Japan.
Yamagata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yamagatas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 山県 (Yamagata), 山方 (Yamagata), 山形 (Yamagata) or 山像 (Yamagata).
Senses: glosses: A city in Japan.
glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
look book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: look books
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lookbook.
Fukushima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fukushimas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 福島(ふくしま) (Fukushima).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
examples: text: Fukushima prefecture, located just south of Miyagi, was also part of the ancestral lands of the Emishi.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:
glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
lookbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lookbook
going snake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go snake
goes snake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go snake
gone snake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go snake
Yamaguchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑməˈɡut͡ʃi/
Forms: form: Yamaguchis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 山口(やまぐち) (Yamaguchi).
Senses: glosses: A city in Japan.
glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
screwtaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screwtape
screwtapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of screwtape
screwtapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwtape
screwtaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screwtape
Tokushima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 徳(とく)島(しま) (Tokushima).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: The capital city of Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
bauf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baufs
form: bauffing
form: bauffed
form: bauffed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boff (to have sexual intercourse).
glosses: To hit the ground with one's shoes.
Synonyms: sense: to have in sexual intercourse
word: bang
word: do it
word: get it on
word: copulate
word: copulate with
netraising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of net-raising.
Kochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kōchi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高(こう)知(ち) (Kōchi).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
Kochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kochis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 幸地 (Kōchi) or Japanese 高地 (Kōchi).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Kochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cochin
form: Cochi
form: Kochin
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam കൊച്ചി (kocci).
Senses: glosses: A city in Kerala, in southwestern India.
Kochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kochis
form: Kuchi
Senses: glosses: A member of a nomadic pastoral group of primarily Ghilji Pashtun people.
Kōchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kochi (city in Japan)
Ryūkyū
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Ryūkyū is itself an extended archipelago, and geographic dispersion sustained considerable linguistic divergence and cultural differences among the islands (Matsumori 1995:30-31).
ref: 2001, John Lie, Multiethnic Japan, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:
text: The Ryūkyū performing arts entered the Japanese mainland through performances by artists from Ryūkyū, after which they developed in new directions distinct from their origins.
ref: 2013, Hiroi Eiko, “The Creation of Exotic Space in the Miyako-odori: 'Ryūkyū' and 'Chōsen'”, in Hugh De Ferranti Alison Tokita, editors, Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond, Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:
text: According to George Kerr’s book, “Okinawa, The History of an Island People,” beni imo was brought to Okinawa in 1606 by Noguni Sōkan, who was stationed at a Ryūkyū (Okinawa) trading post in the southern coastal district of the Fukien Province, China.[...]On June 19, 1615, Richard Cook, the English trader at Hirako, recorded in his diary that he planted the first potatoes from Ryūkyū in Japan. According to a document, “History of Okinawa,” prepared by Ijichi Sadaka in 1878, a Japanese named Ryuiemon brought the sweet potato from Ryūkyū to Yamakawa Village in Satsuma in southern Kyüshü between 1665 to 1675.
ref: 2021 November 19, Dan Nakasone, “Featured Story – GETTING TO THE ROOT OF BENI IMO”, in The Hawaiʻi Herald, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2022:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Ryukyu.
adæquate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adæquate
form: most adæquate
Etymology: From ad- + æquate.
Senses: examples: text: The covenant sealed, or, A treatise of the sacraments of both covenants, polemicall and practicall: especially of the sacraments of the covenant of grace. In which, the nature of them is laid open, the adæquate subject is largely inquired into, respective to right and proper interest […]
ref: 1655, Thomas Blake, The covenant sealed, or, A treatise of the sacraments of both covenants, polemicall and practicall: especially of the sacraments of the covenant of grace. In which, the nature of them is laid open, the adæquate subject is largely inquired into, respective to right and proper interest […], main title (Abel Roper)
glosses: Archaic spelling of adequate.
Derived terms: adæquately
Yair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jaʔiɹ/
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up".
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
clockwork oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clockwork orange
trosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: troshes
form: troshing
form: troshed
form: troshed
Senses: glosses: thresh
troshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trosh
amelodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amelodic
form: most amelodic
Etymology: From a- + melodic.
Senses: examples: text: Though her savagely amelodic vocals were mixed unfortunately low, Gordon gave the noise-hungry the most to work with, and seemed to ignite the potential for chaos that Moore and Ranaldo were keeping tastefully in check, saving themselves for the long haul.
ref: 1998 May 29, Monica Kendrick, “Sweet Self-Indulgence”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Unfortunately Harrison decided to sing on the bulk of the record, and he's got a quavery, amelodic whine like Dave Matthews.
ref: 2005 February 25, Liz Armstrong, Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, J. Niimi, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
qualifier: sound
glosses: Not melodic
Derived terms: amelodically
airhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airholes
Etymology: From air + hole.
Senses: examples: text: "This wall is badly built," he went on in a careless tone; "look, there is another space there at the back;" and he actually came up to it and held the lantern close to the airhole in such fashion that its light shone through into Jess's eyes and nearly blinded her.
ref: 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Jess:
text: For if they touch one another, and so do not leave airholes and admit draughts of air to blow between them, they get heated and soon begin to rot.
ref: 1914, Morris Hicky Morgan, Ten Books on Architecture:
text: The youngest son, Vardaman, is unable to cope with Addie's death and drills airholes in her coffin (and accidentally into her head) and insistently declares, "My mother is a fish"--like the big one he recently caught and gutted.
ref: 1995 July 14, Albert Williams, “Words First”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A hole provided for ventilation or breathing.
examples: text: Through these and through countless airholes, the water began to sweep across the surface of the ice, and by the time he pulled into a woodchopper's cabin on the point of an island, the dogs were being rushed off their feet and were swimming more often than not.
ref: 1901, Jack London, The God of His Fathers:
text: "Even if it is hard enough, there may be airholes around."
ref: 1914, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys in Alaska:
glosses: A hole in ice through which air escapes.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An air pocket.
airholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airhole
agewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From age + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: They mix the classes up agewise so the older children lead the younger ones.
ref: 1999 February 26, Ben Joravsky, “Take Our Children, Please”, in Chicago Reader:
text: On the other hand, agewise, Deb admits to being 32, while Liz, with her latent maternal reflections, sounds like she is pushing 35--advantage Pickett.
ref: 2005 October 21, Ed Margolis, “Who's Debra Pickett?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In terms of age
aht
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aht
form: most aht
Senses: examples: text: 'Git aht!' said Liza, pushing him away, not too gently.
ref: 1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:
text: "Kick aht at 'em!" though, indeed, she went now with Christian meekness, resenting only the thrusting policemen's hands.
ref: 1909, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Ann Veronica, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin:
text: "Look aht, Percy," enjoined a hollow but reassuring voice, "'ere comes another!"
ref: 1916 February 23, “Underground Game”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 150:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of out
achronologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From achronological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Moving achronologically through the last decades of the 20th century, the pieces are snapshots of the life of a single protagonist and the people and events in his orbit.
ref: 2004 January 16, Ulysses Smith, “In Print: Eugene Wildman has stories to tell”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Without chronological order; in an achronological manner
acount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His banker's acount, I fear, is in a horrid state."
ref: 1856, William Makepeace Thackeray, Burlesques:
text: No objection could be made to her admission, except on acount of her complexion, and Miss Crandall decided to receive her as a pupil.
ref: 1883, George Washington Williams, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2):
glosses: Misspelling of account.
afoxe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese afoxé.
Senses: examples: text: "Afros E Afoxes de Bahia" offers a sampling of afros and afoxe groups and features singers such as Gilberto Gil and Margareth Menezes.
ref: 1990 December 28, Fernando Gonzalez, “Two Daring Journeys into Brazilian Music”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:
text: It now brings together son, guajira, guaracha with New Orleans funk, Nigerian Afrobeat, South American cumbia, James Brown rhythms, Haitian compas, Brazilian afoxe, New York City boogaloo and even jam-band stuff predicated on electric guitars as much as hand drums.
ref: 2007 May 17, Ben Ratliff, “Cuban Music, Good for Dancing, and for Thinking About as Well”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Afro-Brazilian music
ahn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: "Ah, go ahn," replied the other argumentatively.
ref: 1893, Stephen Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets:
text: "Mister Penrod," she bellowed forthwith, "come ahn down fr'm up there!
ref: 1914, Booth Tarkington, Penrod:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of on.
brassnecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brassnecked
form: most brassnecked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brass-necked.
cinderella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinderellas
Etymology: From cinder + -ella.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cinderella.
Related terms: cinderella stamp
crowdsourced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The movement took on its modern form as it grew together with hackerspaces, crowdsourced science projects and online forums.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 200:
glosses: Obtained by crowdsourcing.
Derived terms: noncrowdsourced
crowdsourced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crowdsource
cutesie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cutesier
form: cutesiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cutesy.
duopolistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duopoly + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a duopoly.
Derived terms: duopolistically
intimidatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɪmɪˈdeɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: more intimidatory
form: most intimidatory
Etymology: From intimidate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: The remarks have to be nothing less than intentionally intimidatory behavior.
text: by May the so-called ‘Flour War’ (‘guerre des farines’) was brought to a close in a flurry of intimidatory public executions.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 297:
glosses: That intimidates; intimidating.
overscored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overscore
overscored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overscored
form: most overscored
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: scored for too many instruments (or types of instrument)
sarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saree
sansevieria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: sansevierias
Etymology: From the genus name, after the Neapolitan Prince of Sanseviero (1710-71).
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Sansevieria of flowering plants native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia.
Related terms: mother-in-law's tongue
clamp stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clamp stand
transmissibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmissibility
tobacconist's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobacconists'
Senses: synonyms: tobacco shop
smokeshop
tobacconist
glosses: A shop that sells tobacco products.