cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
megadontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From megadont + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Malformation of megalodontia
examples: text: Dens in dente, peg-shaped lateral incisors, microdontia, megadontia, fusion, gemination and connation, talon cusp, taurodontism, etc. Recognised by their appearance
ref: 2008, R. A. Cawson, E. W. Odell, Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, 8th edition, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, page 22:
text: Isolated megadontia in the permanent dentition has been estimated to occur in approximately 1% of patients. The condition may be symmetrical. Generalized megadontia has been reported in association with pituitary gigantism, unilateral facial hyperplasia, and hereditary gingival fibromatosis.
ref: 2012, P. J. M. Crawford, M. J. Aldred, “Anomalies of tooth formation and eruption”, in Richard Welbury, Monty S. Duggal, Marie Thérèse Hosey, editors, Paediatric Dentistry, 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 257:
text: With the thresholds added on the curves it also accounts for the higher prevalences of hypodontia and microdontia in females and the higher prevalences of megadontia and supernumeraries in males.
ref: 2014, AH Brook, J Jernvall, RN Smith, TE Hughes, GC Townsend, “The dentition: the outcomes of morphogenesis leading to variations of tooth number, size and shape”, in Australian Dental Journal, volume 59, number s1, page 136:
topics: dentistry
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Macrodontia.
megalodontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕ'gəlōdŏnʹtĭə
ipa: /ˌmɛɡələʊˈdɒntɪə/
Forms: form: megodontia
Etymology: From megal- + -odontia.
Senses: examples: text: Doubtless resulting from continued blending and random mating is the striking example of megalodontia (teeth too large for the jaw) or vice versa — wide spaces occurring between most of the teeth indicating too spacious a jaw for the teeth.
ref: 1943, Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Journal of Medicine (Academy Journal Pub. Co.), volume 24, page 247
glosses: The condition of having proportionately oversized teeth for the jaw in which they are set.
megodontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕ'gədŏnʹtĭə
ipa: /ˌmɛɡəˈdɒntɪə/
Etymology: From meg- + -odontia.
Senses: examples: text: In what way, if any, might climate change have precipitated the origins of Hominidae and Australopithecus, megodontia in Paranthropus, and encephalization and tool making in earliest Homo?
ref: 1995, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Report for the Fiscal Years, page 72:
glosses: Rare form of megalodontia
Late Egyptian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Egyptian language as spoken from 1069 to 700 BCE
thers
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: He had bene instrumentall in promotinge the three persons above mencioned to the Kings favour, and had himselfe in truth so greate an esteeme of them, that he did very frequently upon conference togither departe from his owne inclinations and opinions, and concurred in thers; and very few men of so greate parts are upon all occasyons more councellable then he, so that he would seldome be in daunger of runninge into greate errors, if he would communicate and expose all his owne thoughts and inclinations to such a disquicition, nor is he uninclinable in his nature to such an intire communication in all things which he conceaves to be difficulte; but his fatall infirmity is, that he to often thinkes difficulte things very easy, and doth not consider possible consequences, when the proposition administers somewhat that is delighfull to his fancy, and by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination, but when it is once affirmatively resolved, besydes that he may possibly reserve some impertinent circumstance as he thinkes, the impartinge wherof would change the nature of the thinge, if his fancy suggests to him any particular which himselfe might performe in that action, upon the imagination that every body would approove it, if it were proposed to them, he chooses rather to do it, then to communicate, that he may have some signall parte to himselfe in the transaction, in which no other person can clayme a share; and by this unhappy temper, he did often involve himselfe in very unprosperous attempts.
ref: 1918, Various, Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles:
glosses: Obsolete form of theirs.
thers
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: They've raised some fine buildings 'at's worth lookin at,-- They're a credit to th' city, thers noa daat o' that; But ther's nowt strikes a stranger soa mich as a seet O'th' craad 'at's i' Briggate at Setterdy neet.
ref: 1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics:
text: Well, Miss Susan, thers plenty for you to eat and drink.
ref: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of there's.
reinstallable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reinstallable
form: most reinstallable
Etymology: From reinstall + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be reinstalled.
travellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more travellable
form: most travellable
Etymology: From travel + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be travelled.
ischæmiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ischæmia (alternative spelling of ischemiae)
conquerours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conquerour
half notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half note
paragramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paragrammes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paragram.
withereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wither + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wither
hunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: 'Are you more content with me for the collar?'
'I am.'
'It restrains me neck like I was to be hunged.'
ref: 1913, The Atlantic, volume 112, page 734:
glosses: simple past and past participle of hang
orthographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthographists
Etymology: From orthography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who is versed in orthography.
microphages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microphage
phagocyting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phagocyte
phagocyted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phagocyte
halazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halazones
Etymology: Originally a trade name.
Senses: examples: text: In 1919 halazone was still a new compound for water treatment.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: p-sulphondichloraminobenzoic acid, a disinfectant used to sterilize water.
glosses: A tablet of this disinfectant.
hay-asthma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A severe form of hay fever in which asthma is one of the distressing symptoms of the later stage.
heart-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heartburn.
heart-failure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart-failures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heart failure.
heart-failures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart-failure
hebetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈbɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more hebetic
form: most hebetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡβητικός (hēbētikós), equivalent to ἡβητ(ής) (hēbēt(ḗs)) (“adult”; ἡβη- (hēbē-), variant stem of ἡβᾶν (hēbân, “to reach puberty”), verbal derivative of ἥβη (hḗbē, “youth”) + -τής (-tḗs, agent suffix)) + ικός (ikós, “-ic”).
Senses: glosses: Of or related to youth or to puberty.
Synonyms: sense: young
word: juvenile
word: youthful
hedonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pentan-2-yl carbamate, used as a mild hypnotic
glosses: acetic acid, used as a pesticide and herbicide
myrmecophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrmecophage
helcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helcoid
form: most helcoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, “ulcer”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an ulcer; ulcerous.
Related terms: helcology
helcology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, “open wound, injury”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study, pathology, and treatment of ulcers.
helenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helenium + -in.
Senses: glosses: A stearoptene from Inula helenium used as an internal and external antiseptic.
helicine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The children's slide had a spirally helicine shape I had never seen before.
glosses: Relating to a helix; spiral.
scraggliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scraggly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.
ref: 2002 April 5, Charles McGrath, “Rituals: Great Ways to Wreck A Quiet Weekend”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Sep 2011:
text: Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness. Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest.
ref: 2002 April 18, Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader, p. E3 (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011)
text: He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness.
ref: 2004, Carla Neggers, White Hot, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
temporary restraining orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporary restraining order
preliminarily enjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preliminarily enjoins
form: preliminarily enjoining
form: preliminarily enjoined
form: preliminarily enjoined
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To impose a preliminary injunction upon; to restrain by court order from engaging in a certain activity after a hearing and before a final resolution of a dispute.
preliminarily enjoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preliminarily enjoin
preliminarily enjoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preliminarily enjoin
preliminarily enjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preliminarily enjoin
inter partes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inter partes (“between parts”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a proceeding where multiple parties to a dispute are present.
inter partes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inter partes (“between parts”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the manner of a proceeding where multiple parties to a dispute are present.
geographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geographists
Etymology: From geography + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Now, I'm no geographist, but I don't think Oregon is anywhere near Scandinavia, which seems to be the only place left where death metal will get you any chicks.
ref: 2006 January 16, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #141: death metal”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
glosses: One versed in geography; geographer.
unforeseeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + foreseeability.
Senses: examples: text: An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.
ref: 2003 May 28, Jim Porter, "Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011)
text: No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).
ref: 2009 December 6, Matt Richtel, “A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Sep 2011:
text: This is what Derrida calls the ‘messianic’ structure of experience. . . the tacit possibility that the ‘other’ (or otherness) may surprise one. . . . [T]he very structure of experience exhibits this unforeseeability.
ref: 2009, Bert Olivier, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory: Collected Essays, →ISBN, pages 139–140:
synonyms: unforeseeableness
antonyms: foreseeability
foreseeableness
glosses: Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
wedbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedbreaks
form: wedbrek
Etymology: From Middle English wedbrek, wedbreke, equivalent to wed + breaker.
Senses: glosses: An adulterer.
wedbrek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedbreks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wedbreak.
brey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breys
form: breying
form: breyed
form: breyed
Senses: glosses: To soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.
breadcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bred corn, brede corne; equivalent to bread + corn.
Senses: examples: text: That which I drive at now is this; That Breadcorn, that brings so considerable increase by Tillage and Husbandry, would scarce be at all without it; for that which grows wildly of it self is worth nothing: but it being so wholesom and strengthning a food, that it should yield so plentiful increase, and that this should not be without humane Art and Industry, does plainly insinuate that there is a Divine Providence that intended to exercise the wit of Man in Husbandry and Tillage.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 60
glosses: Corn or grain from which bread is made.
fleak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːk/
ipa: /flik/
homophone: fleek
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: fleaks
form: fleaking
form: fleaked
form: fleaked
Etymology: A variant of flake (noun, verb).
Senses: examples: text: [M]any of them made use of flint for knives, […] this flint is of no regular form, and if they can only obtain a part of it, an inch or two in length that will cut they are satisfyed, they renew the edge by fleaking off the flint by means of the point of an Elk's or deer's horn.
ref: 1805 August 23, Meriwether Lewis, “[August 23d Friday 1805]”, in Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, edited by Gary E. Moulton, The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark: Through the Rockies to the Cascades, Nebraska edition, volume 5, Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 149:
text: Whence to flea, or to fleak, i.e. to pull off the skin. A school phrase, to be fleaked off, i.e. to have the skin fetched off by whipping.
ref: [1818, White Kennett, [B. Bandinel], “[A Glossary to Explain the Original, the Acceptation, and Obsoleteness, of Words and Phrases; and to Shew the Rise, Practice, and Alteration of Customs, Laws, and Manners.] Flesche-Axe”, in Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other Adjacent parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks. […], new edition, volume II, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, column 2:
text: [T]hey sent a perfect hail of bullets at us and we wasn't no ways disposed to stay there for them bullets were whispering to us about the head and fleaking up dirt around us and we run just because we could not fly, […]
ref: 1915 November 4, “Old Vet” [pseudonym], “Reminiscences of an old man. Experiences as a sharp shooter and trials around Vicksburg.”, in The Cullman Tribune, volume 42, number 4, Cullman, Ala.: J. C. Norwood, →OCLC, page 1, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”).
synonyms: word: flake
extra: (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”)
fleak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːk/
ipa: /flik/
homophone: fleek
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: fleaks
form: fleaking
form: fleaked
form: fleaked
Etymology: A variant of fleck (verb).
Senses: examples: text: [Edward] Young's Satires have been quite eclipsed by the fame of his Night Thoughts; a work the sublimity and dark splendour of which is fleaked with the wit and fancy which were essential constituents of his mind.
ref: 1854, James Hannay, “Lecture V. Political Satire and Squibs.—Burns.”, in Satire and Satirists. Six Lectures, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 201:
text: [W]hat am I here for? Vividly, but still calmly, he felt this in every nerve; and hope—fleaked, of course, by the gleams of tenderness and regret, which strong men feel as much as weak ones, and know that they must conquer—was burning in him like a central fire, as he turned his pony's head home.
ref: 1855, James Hannay, “Eustace Pays a Visit to Captain Turberville, R.N., and Sees Henry Mildew, Esq.”, in Eustace Conyers. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 69:
text: Even Jupiter, […] is known chiefly by the dark shifting bands that, fleaking his surface in the line of his trade-winds, belong not to his body, but to his thick dark covering.
ref: 1857, Hugh Miller, “Lecture Fourth. The Mosaic Vision of Creation.”, in The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed, Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co.; Shepherd & Elliot; London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., →OCLC, pages 182–183:
text: The leaves are broader zoned with bright redish brown and deep chocolate, and within the zone fleaked with yellow and green, the outer margin being similarly colored.
ref: 1867 December 28, “Horticultural Items”, in The Prairie Farmer: A Weekly Journal of Agriculture, Horticulture, Home Interests, Gen. News, Markets, &c., volume 20, number 26 (New Series), Chicago, Ill.: Prairie Farmer Co., →OCLC, page 403, column 2:
text: Just then a messenger arrived on a horse fleaked with foam, with orders for the Regiment to march back with all haste to Athens, as an attack was expected the next morning.
ref: 1896, George H. Puntenney, chapter 4, in History of the Thirty-seventh Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers: Its Organization, Campaigns, and Battles—Sept., ’61–Oct., ’64, Rushville, Ind.: Jacksonian Book and Job Department, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Synonym of fleck.
synonyms: word: fleck
scamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskæmbəl/
Forms: form: scambles
form: scambling
form: scambled
form: scambled
Senses: examples: text: Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61
glosses: To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
examples: text: How easy dost thou take all England up!
From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
The life, the right and truth of all this realm
Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
ref: 1596, Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III:
glosses: To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
examples: text: finding my Wood cut in Patches , and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To mangle.
glosses: To squander.
Derived terms: scambler
prelocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelocalizations
Etymology: From pre- + localization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The original localization of structures in an unsegmented embryo that become specific organs in the adult
Related terms: prelocalize
isolects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isolect
isolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolects
Etymology: Coined by Alfred Hudson in his published work on the languages of Borneo: iso- + -lect.
Senses: examples: text: Dohoi is distinctive among all the Barito isolects[…].
ref: 1967, Alfred B. Hudson, The Barito Isolects of Borneo: a Classification Based on Comparative Reconstruction and Lexicostatistics, page 53:
text: At the same time, the ordering of isolects that is finally chosen must give the right results for (virtually) all the environments.
ref: 2003, Ralph W. Fasold, The Sociolinguistics Of Language, page 200:
text: 2008, Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie, Malay, entry in Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, page 677,
While Middle Malay, Minangkabau, and Kerinci have inland and west coast variants as their origin, Malay itself developed from isolects spoken on the east coast.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A language or dialect; coined as a neutral term between ‘language’ and ‘dialect.’
Related terms: lect
isophot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isophots
Etymology: See iso- + photo-.
Senses: glosses: A line of equal luminance on a map.
Synonyms: word: equilux
isophots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isophot
foreigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreign
DRY
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The general principle here is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself (HTOO). If you duplicate information in two or more places, sooner or later, you'll forget to update one of the copies […]
ref: 2005, Greg Wilson, Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of don't repeat yourself (“software development principle aimed at reducing repetition”).
DRY
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: DRYer
form: DRYest
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: WET
glosses: Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
DRY
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: DRYs
form: DRYing
form: DRYed
form: DRYed
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
prelocalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelocalization
count off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counts off
form: counting off
form: counted off
form: counted off
Senses: examples: text: He counted off the children as they entered the coach.
text: He told the children to count off as they entered the coach.
coordinate_terms: count out#English:_enumerate
read off#Verb
glosses: To count (a number of things), typically aloud.
Derived terms: word: count-off
poop out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poops out
form: pooping out
form: pooped out
form: pooped out
Senses: examples: text: Do you poop out at parties?
ref: 1952 May 5, “Vitameatavegamin”, in I Love Lucy, spoken by Lucy Ricardo:
glosses: To quit due to tiredness.
examples: text: Climbing that hill really pooped me out.
glosses: To make very tired; to exhaust.
examples: text: He pooped out a long, large turd.
text: When trout take cased caddis larvae, they ingest them pebbles or plant stems and all.[…]They take the caddis happily, digest the nutritious parts, poop out the rest with no problems.
ref: 2004, Dave Hughes, Handbook of Hatches, Stackpole Books, page 100:
glosses: To defecate.
glosses: To give birth.
Synonyms: sense: some senses
word: shit out
pootle along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pootles along
form: pootling along
form: pootled along
form: pootled along
Senses: glosses: To walk, ride, drive etc. at a leisurely pace
pour forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours forth
form: pouring forth
form: poured forth
form: poured forth
Senses: examples: text: He poured forth all the toys he had gathered onto the floor.
glosses: To pour or emit in large quantity or large numbers.
examples: text: Water poured forth from the breach in the hull.
text: She was lost in the crowd of people pouring forth.
glosses: To pour or appear in large quantity or large numbers.
examples: text: Many great ideas poured forth in their discussion.
glosses: To be uttered, especially in a long flow of speech.
raw_tags: of words
press ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses ahead
form: pressing ahead
form: pressed ahead
form: pressed ahead
Senses: examples: text: The decision to press ahead with the rationalisation, while there is still uncertainty about the bank's strategic direction, gives the City some red meat to chew on.
ref: 1999 May 21, Alex Brummer, “Sir Peter throws the City meat to chew on”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
glosses: To continue towards an objective.
Synonyms: press on
Related terms: get ahead
prey on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preys on
form: preying on
form: preyed on
form: preyed on
Senses: examples: text: Owls prey on small mammals, such as mice.
glosses: To eat (as prey).
examples: text: Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.
ref: 2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC:
text: The food industry and its allies in the agricultural and chemical industries prey on the vulnerable by pumping out barely regulated products at low cost and then marketing them with insidious advertising campaigns.
ref: 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: To exploit or victimize.
examples: text: The past—to me, the dreadful past !—is one eternal present ; and the Promethean vulture of remorse preys on me now, and for ever.
ref: 1852, George Payne Rainsford James, “Remorse”, in A Book of the Passions, Henry G. Bohn, page 2:
text: He had met with a great trouble, and also he had allowed this story to prey on his imagination, and he was a very imaginative man.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Questions of power preyed on his mind. While the overheated citizenry was eating these many varieties of lotus, who knew what the city’s rulers were getting away with—not the Giulianis and Safirs, […] but the high ones who were always there, forever feeding their insatiable desires, seeking out newness, devouring beauty, and always, always wanting more?
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: To weigh heavily upon (a person's mind).
price up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prices up
form: pricing up
form: priced up
form: priced up
Senses: examples: text: Simply that when marketers think of pricing up, they need to think of themselves as Icarus. Their objectives may be noble, like improving profitability, being able to give their consumers a better product or experience, or being able to spend more on media, but when they get carried away in pricing up, like Icarus, they get burned.
ref: 2007, Mainak Dhar, Brand Management 101: 101 Lessons from Real-World Marketing, →ISBN, page 107:
text: 'Do I take advantage of the technical superiority of my new product and make good profits as quickly as possible by pricing up in the market segments that I know will pay?
ref: 2008, David Stokes, Wendy Lomax, Marketing: A Brief Introduction, →ISBN:
text: "Isn't this area loaded with fleabag hotels?" “Not anymore. everything's either been zoned or priced up. Ten, fifteen years ago you could rent rooms by the trick, screw, strangle, and be out in twenty. But all the streetwalkers and car johns have moved online or up to Hunts Point."
ref: 2014, Arthur Nersesian, Gladyss of the Hunt, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: To increase the price of.
examples: text: The builder is coming round this afternoon to price up the job.
text: I've priced up new bars to replace the slightly bent examples currently installed, I'll need a new stem too, about ₤50 the pair.
ref: 2013, Andi Payne, The Only Way Is Up, →ISBN, page 13:
text: It was surprisingly less migraine inducing than I thought it would be, and using the travel website, ordered my visa and priced up a return trip from London Heathrow to Brisbane 365 days apart.
ref: 2014, Daley James Francis, Walking Up a Slide, →ISBN:
text: I did as he asked with an extension that had come in from Newark Road and we both priced up the job.
ref: 2016, Geoffrey Wright, My Childhood Memories That Still Haunt Me, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: To calculate the price or cost of, especially when a number of components must be taken into account.
pull on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls on
form: pulling on
form: pulled on
form: pulled on
Senses: examples: text: I pulled on my winter coat before stepping out into the snow.
glosses: To put on (clothes) by tugging.
genkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈɡɛŋkɑn]
Forms: form: genkans
form: genkan
Etymology: From Japanese 玄関(げんかん) (genkan), from Middle Chinese 玄關 (MC hwen kwaen, literally “front door”).
Senses: glosses: The entryway to a Japanese house, where street shoes are removed and houseshoes put on before entering the house, and houseshoes removed and street shoes put on before leaving the house.
sleeky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːki/
rhymes: -iːki
Forms: form: sleekier
form: sleekiest
Etymology: From sleek + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When all is o'er, out to the door they run, With new comb'd sleeky hair, and glist'ning cheeks, Each with some little project in his head.
ref: 1790, Joanna Baillie, Poems, &c. (1790):
text: He thought that the moulting season was over, and that he was rejoicing in the fulness of a sleeky plumage, and by his side was a Java sparrowess, chirping and hopping about, rendering the cage as populous to him as though he were the tenant of a bird-fancier's shop.
ref: 1841, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 5, 1841:
text: Even when with heavy / Plume and pall / The sleeky coaches roll by, / Coffin, flowers and all, / He laughs, for he sees / Crouched on the coffin a small / Yellowy shape go by— / Death, uneasy and melancholy.
ref: 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old:
glosses: sleek; slick
examples: text: Why, I thought he was a straight-haired, sleeky, canting snake of a man.
ref: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot:
glosses: slick; sly; untrustworthy
sleekier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sleeky: more sleeky
sleekiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sleeky: most sleeky
misturn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)n/
ipa: /ˈmɪstɜː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: misturns
form: misturning
form: misturned
form: misturned
Etymology: From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.
Senses: glosses: To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
glosses: To go wrong; make a wrong turn.
misturn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)n/
ipa: /ˈmɪstɜː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: misturns
Etymology: From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.
Senses: examples: text: At one of the dim cross-roads they had made a misturn, and were now wandering around without the slightest notion of where they were going.
ref: 1916, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods:
text: They heroically struggled through the remainder of the figure, but Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other.
ref: 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit:
glosses: A wrong turn.
ratine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ratteen.
Zhuangzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 莊子 /庄子 (Zhuāngzǐ).
Senses: glosses: An influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period.
glosses: An ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher.
jizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: more jizzy
form: most jizzy
Etymology: From jizz + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I threw my jizzy sheets in the washing machine before my mum could find them.
glosses: Covered with ejaculate.
examples: text: No offense or anything, but this soup tastes a little jizzy. You'd better not have put any special ingredients in here.
glosses: Resembling or having the qualities of semen.
Synonyms: spunky
jizzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jizzers
Etymology: From jizz + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ejaculates.
cum-soaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cum-soaked
form: most cum-soaked
form: cumsoaked
Senses: glosses: soaked in ejaculate.
tangyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɑŋ.juən/
/-ju.ɛn/
/ˈtæŋ-/
Forms: form: tangyuan
Etymology: From Mandarin 湯圓／汤圆 (tāngyuán).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and then cooked and served in boiling water.
graff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ɡɹæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: graph
Forms: form: graffs
Etymology: Older variant of graft, q.v.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of graft.
graff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ɡɹæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: graph
Forms: form: graffs
form: graffing
form: graffed
form: graffed
Etymology: Older variant of graft, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christian or good-Christian pears, for I never saw better Christians than are these good Papimans.
ref: 1653-1694, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of original by Francois Rabelais, Book IV:
text: For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold.
ref: 1823, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso, translation of original by Ludovico Ariosto:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of graft.
graff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ɡɹæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: graph
Etymology: From German Graf (“count”).
Senses: glosses: A steward; an overseer.
graff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ɡɹæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: graph
Forms: form: graf
Senses: glosses: Clipping of graffiti.
Derived terms: graffer
graff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ɡɹæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: graph
Forms: form: graffs
form: graffing
form: graffed
form: graffed
form: graf
Senses: examples: text: Just two days ago, I had graffed a piece with my crew and went to Sunrise High School.
ref: 2011 March 18, Mary A. Monroe, “The Long Drive”, in Tagger: Graffiti Was His Life – and Soul, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 49:
text: There’s nothing like heat in this light. There’s only what I’m graffing—the swirls and orbs and flecks and tags, the pictures I’m making for Stefan.
ref: 2014, Beth Kephart, “SO36”, in Going Over, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Whilst living in Squatopolis, I remember returning home with a bag of sweaty skip, and finding him graffing a huge piece on to one wall: the squat logo being smashed with a fist surrounded by the words “Better Let Homes Rot Than Squat”.
ref: 2019, George F., “Down with the Shitness”, in Good Times in Dystopia, New Alresford, Hampshire: Zero Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: graff up
glosses: Clipping of graffiti
graff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ɡɹæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: graph
Forms: form: graffs
Senses: examples: text: Were I not hooked-up, and old enough to be her father, I'd be stalking Alyssa Rosenberg because of the following graff:[…]
ref: 2008 September 19, Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Why is Hollywood ignoring She-Hulk?”, in The Atlantic:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Alternative form of graf (“paragraph”).
smoke pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsməʊk ˌpəʊl/
Forms: form: smoke poles
Senses: examples: text: A little cross stick is tied to the smoke pole of the four-pole tipi where it is secured to the flap to prevent its going through too far. The cover for a four-pole tipi is cut quite differently from that for a three-pole one.
ref: 1989, Reginald Laubin, Gladys Laubin, Stanley Vestal, The Indian tipi: its history, construction, and use:
text: To keep the end of the smoke pole from going too far through the hole, a small cross-piece should be lashed to it about two feet from the end.
ref: 2000, Julian Harris Salomon, The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore:
text: Hanging on the center smoke pole high above the small smoldering fire hung two beadeye dolls.
ref: 2015, Barend Van Kimball, Tuck and Nip: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: The central, vertical pole of a teepee.
examples: text: These rafters are connected at the top by a round bar, the smoke pole, which also serves to take the hooks on which the cooking pots are suspended.
ref: 1962, Ørnulv Vorren, Ernst Mauritz Manker, Lapp Life and Customs: A Survey, page 44:
text: The support structure of the arched-post tent consists of two inclined arches joined by three transverse poles, a ridge or smoke-pole at the top and two other poles at about half the height.
ref: 1979, Philip Drew, Tensile architecture, page 16:
glosses: A ridgepole.
examples: text: Drawing a deep, steadying breath, Barefoot smelled the machine oil of the well-kept smoke pole. His very first shot put an immediate stop to Swann's barraging of Jessie.
ref: 1994, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star 144/sierra, →ISBN:
text: When first introduced to the flintlock, Steve and I worked at a State Prison and he made me promise to never utter the words “smoke pole” at work for fear of people getting the wrong idea about us.
ref: 2009, Michael Pitzer, Native Re-Enacting Made Easy, →ISBN, page 5:
text: “You reach for that smoke pole, law dog, and you're a dead man.”
ref: 2013, Robert F. (Bob) Turpin -, Gun Smoke Justice, →ISBN:
glosses: A firearm.
examples: text: I separate my swarms with my smoke-pole, holding It near the swarm already settled, which will prevent others from settling.
ref: 1885, Gleanings in bee culture, volume 13:
text: A smoke-pole is quite handy to keep two or more swarms from settling together.
ref: 1890, American Bee Journal - Volume 26, page 22:
text: Another commented on such useful bush-lore as lighting a fire with a shoe-lace, stick, and dry birch bark, and using an “Indian smoke pole” to keep bugs away.
ref: 1998, John S. Marsh, Bruce W. Hodgins, Changing Parks, →ISBN, pages 126–127:
glosses: A long stick or pole with a burning tip, used to repel insects.
smoke pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌsməʊk ˈpəʊl/
Forms: form: smokes pole
form: smoking pole
form: smoked pole
form: smoked pole
Senses: examples: December 2004, Los Angeles Magazine p. 100http://books.google.es/books?id=ll0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%22smoking+pole%22&hl=es&ei=VDl6TrbtGs34sgbe_dStDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22smoking%20pole%22&f=false
"Can you imagine," says Oddo, "the personal history that a 12-year-old little girl has to come from to start smoking pole 50 times a night for her pimp? It breaks your heart."
glosses: To perform fellatio.
Derived terms: pole-smoker
clocksucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clocksuckers
Etymology: From clock + sucker, perhaps referencing cocksucker.
Senses: glosses: A time-waster.
jaw away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jaws away
form: jawing away
form: jawed away
form: jawed away
Senses: glosses: to jabber; to gabble; to ramble
smoked pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smoke pole
smoking pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoke pole
smoke poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke pole
smokes pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smoke pole
pole-smoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pole-smokers
Etymology: From pole + smoker.
Senses: qualifier: very uncommon
glosses: A person who performs fellatio.
examples: text: God once upon a time thought it was appropriate to have pole-smokers like me killed with rocks […]
ref: 2016, Ray Cabron, Bible Studies from an Asshole, page 175:
glosses: A gay man.
Synonyms: sense: a person who performs fellatio
word: cocksucker
sense: a person who performs fellatio
word: dicksucker
Related terms: smoke pole
pole-smokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pole-smoker
hair pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair pies
Senses: examples: text: I don't mind munching on her hair pie except when I have to stop to pull her hairs off my tongue.
synonyms: word: fur burger
word: fur pie
word: axe wound
word: badly packed kebab
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: beef curtains
word: burger
word: chocha
word: clam
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: coochy
word: cookie
word: coot
word: cooter
word: crack
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: fur burger
word: fur pie
word: gash
word: gee
word: girl penis
word: hair pie
word: ham sandwich
word: honey hole
word: it
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: ladybits
word: minge
word: minnie
word: moocha
word: mooshoo
word: mott
word: muff
word: muffin
word: na-na
word: nonny
word: nooky
word: noonie
word: old hat
word: pee flap
word: pee-pee
word: pink
word: poontang
word: prat
word: pudendum muliebre
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quaint
word: quiff
word: quim
word: roast beef
word: scut
word: slit
word: slot
word: snatch
word: treasures
word: tuppence
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vagina
word: vajay
word: va-jay-jay
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
glosses: The external female genitalia with an unshaven mons veneris.
synonyms: word: brain
word: dome
word: head
word: mouth music
glosses: Cunnilingus.
Related terms: pussy
cunt
twat
hair pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair pie
break bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪk bæd/
ipa: /bɹæɪ̯k bæːd/
Forms: form: breaks bad
form: breaking bad
form: broke bad
form: broken bad
Senses: examples: text: "A woman came out from the East—Vermont, it was—and school-teaching was her line of business, only she hadn't been raised to it, and this was her first clatter at the game; but things had broke bad for her people, and ended in her pulling stakes and coming West all alone.
ref: 1908, Rex Beach, The barrier, page 212:
text: Half the bad men are only coltish cowpunchers gone wrong through rotten whiskey and luck breaking bad for them.
ref: 1913, William MacLeod Raine, Crooked trials and straight, page 134:
glosses: To go wrong; to go downhill.
raw_tags: of an event or of one's fortunes
examples: text: But somehow he broke bad when he was just a yearling boy, started running around at night with a bad crowd, drinking beer and wine, and fighting and getting in all kinds of trouble and wouldn't go to school.
ref: 2005, Will D. Campbell, The Glad River, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Nah, come on, man! Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, all of a sudden at age, what, sixty, he's just gonna break bad?
ref: 2008, “Pilot”, in Breaking Bad, spoken by Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul):
text: My nephew was breaking bad, getting deeper into the crack trade, […]
ref: 2012, John Grisham, The Racketeer, →ISBN:
synonyms: go bad
go astray
antonyms: turn over a new leaf
glosses: To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: english: see break
translation: see break
word: bad break
estated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭstāʹtĭd
ipa: /ɪˈsteɪtɪd/
Etymology: From estate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: having an estate
glosses: passed or received as an inheritance
sexful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexful
form: most sexful
Etymology: From sex + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he had heard it sung by two grey-haired men in the Papal choir in Rome, soprano voices of a rarer and more radiant timbre than any woman's sexful voice.
ref: 1893, George Moore, Evelyn Innes (2010 reprint by Forgotten Books), p. 232
text: Mark's father . . . was an actor. . . . After perishing as a Christian martyr in an epic about the last sexful days of the Roman Empire, he would come back to life only to be killed again halfway through a Western filmed in Spain.
ref: 1990, Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire, →ISBN, page 12:
text: The nature of the human soul is sexful, not sexless. It is full of the qualities of the best of both sexes. All men should have some feminine qualities, as all women should have some masculine qualities.
ref: 2005, Richard V. Shriver, The Return of Gabriel: The Gabriel Letters, Book II:
glosses: Full of sexual desire, longing, or activity; sexual.
Proto-Inupik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Inupik.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of all Inuit languages, including Greenlandic, Inuktitut and Inupiak.
Related terms: The category of Proto-Inuit on Wiktionary
mandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug MDMA.
Related terms: alt: methaqualone
word: mandies
shitneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitnecks
Etymology: From shit + neck.
Senses: glosses: An idiot; an objectionable person.