cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
food baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food babies
Etymology: By a jocular implication that the protruded abdomen is like that of pregnancy.
Senses: examples: text: I went to the restroom to give birth to a food baby...
ref: 2006, Sean Makiney, Belegana: Just a Silly Wite Man, Belegana, Ltd, page 153:
text: JUNO: (in low tones) Dude, I'm pregnant. LEAH: Maybe it's just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?
ref: 2008, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Juno: The Shooting Script, Newmarket Press, page 5:
text: "Becs, look, I ate so much I have a food baby," I said, pushing out my stomach for her entertainment.
ref: 2009, A. J. Walkley, Queer Greer, A. J. Walkley, page 233
text: If this hadn't been a dinner for me and I had been a little bit trashier, I totally would have undone my belt and button on my jeans, because my food baby was kicking.
ref: 2010, Jordan Pease, Don't Let Me Go: Based on A True Story, Trafford Publishing, page 140:
text: Dishes are largely composed of lighter fare - such as smoked swordfish and salmon salad - much appreciated when you're still carrying a food baby from a previous meal.
ref: 2010, Virginia Maxwell, Alex Leviton, Leif Pettersen, Tuscany & Umbria, Lonely Planet, page 191:
glosses: A protruding belly resulting from the consumption of a large quantity of food; the contents of one's digestive system causing the protrusion.
Related terms: beer baby
food baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food babies
Etymology: By a jocular implication that straining at stool is like straining at labor and delivery (childbirth).
Senses: examples: text: —Do you need help in there?
—I'm having a food baby!
glosses: A large or painful bowel movement.
Related terms: drop the kids off at the pool
sitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitches
form: sytch
form: sitche
form: sytch
form: sich
form: siche
Etymology: From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).
Senses: examples: text: This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the ford to Bromes Combe, […]
ref: 1908, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, page 107:
glosses: A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
Related terms: sike
sitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitches
Etymology: Clipping of situation, with phonetic respelling.
Senses: examples: text: So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.
ref: 2005, Lois H. Gresh, Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains, John Wiley and Sons, page 1:
text: Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.
ref: 2007, George Bennett Fain, Pandora's Box, Lulu.com, page 159:
text: Maybe one is more introspective and the other is more outgoing. Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out.
ref: 2008, Editors of TEEN magazine, Teen Uncover the Real You: A Quiz Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., page 2:
text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Great, I'll see you back in there. Also, I wouldn't lose my mind if you decided to chew a stick of gum. Thanks for understanding the sitch, Gina, you're a china doll.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: “I joined Starfleet to piss off my dad, not to be a virus bomb.” “Peanut Hamper, this is not cool!” “We're all going to die!” “Peanut Hamper! There are so many lives at stake!” “You know what? I'm just going to beam myself out of this whole sitch. Sucks to be organic. Enjoy having all your guts fly out or whatever!” “You know what? Peanut Hamper is a stupid name!”
ref: 2020 October 8, Mike McMahan, “No Small Parts” (17:52 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1, episode 10, spoken by Peanut Hamper (Kether Donohue):
text: “First off, I just want to wish you good luck. You're a nice enough guy caught in a bad sitch. I-I don't think any of us were hoping for this outcome for you.”
ref: 2023 August 31, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn & Sam Johnson & Sarah Naftalis & Paul Simms, “Exit Interview” (6:11 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 10, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: A situation.
sitch
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.
ref: 1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of such.
self-study
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + study.
Senses: glosses: Study without the aid of a formal educational institution.
Related terms: self-learning
self-study
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-studies
form: self-studying
form: self-studied
form: self-studied
Etymology: From self- + study.
Senses: glosses: To study without the aid of a formal educational institution.
self-learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + learning.
Senses: glosses: Learning done by oneself, without a teacher or instructor.
Related terms: self-study
TSRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of thunderstorms with rain.
Rube Goldberg machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rube Goldberg machine
sarment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarments
Etymology: From Latin sarmentum (“a twig”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A long slender prostrate stem or runner, such as of the strawberry.
Related terms: sarmentose
broadwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadwing
bioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioneer
Peabody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpibɑdi/
ipa: /ˈpibədi/
ipa: /ˈpiːbədi/
Etymology: From Middle English Pebody, equivalent to pea (“peacock”) + body (“body, person”).
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Marion County, Kansas, named after F. H. Peabody, a director of the Santa Fe.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Essex County, Massachusetts, named after George Peabody.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a synonym of Neighborhood Nine.
Peabody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpibɑdi/
ipa: /ˈpibədi/
ipa: /ˈpiːbədi/
Etymology: Named for George Foster Peabody.
Senses: glosses: The Peabody Award, granted annually and internationally for excellence in broadcasting.
Related terms: Peabo
regenerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regenerants
Senses: glosses: Any material that causes regeneration
regenerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regenerators
Etymology: From regenerate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: regenerator of content
glosses: One who, or that which, regenerates.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of heat exchanger where heat from the hot fluid is intermittently stored in a thermal storage medium before it is transferred to the cold fluid.
Synonyms: sense: heating device
word: recuperator
cassonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassonades
Etymology: Borrowed from French cassonade.
Senses: glosses: raw unrefined cane sugar
solidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒlɪdeɪt/
Forms: form: solidates
form: solidating
form: solidated
form: solidated
Etymology: From Latin solidatus, past participle of solidare. See solder, consolidate.
Senses: examples: text: With the sun's ray, Thy verse does solidate and crystallize
ref: 1656, Abraham Cowley, The Muse:
glosses: To make solid or firm; to solidify.
subinfers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subinfer
subinfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subinfers
form: subinferring
form: subinferred
form: subinferred
Etymology: From sub- + infer.
Senses: examples: text: it is easily subinfer'd that it is nor lawful for Christian Churches , […]to forsake the communion of each other
ref: a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, Resolutions for Religion:
glosses: To infer from an inference previously made.
obvs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒ(b)vz/
ipa: /ɑ(b)vz/
rhymes: -ɒbvz
Forms: form: more obvs
form: most obvs
Etymology: Clipping of obviously + -s (hypocoristic suffix). Compare blates (“blatantly”), totes (“totally”).
Senses: examples: text: Logan and Zoë had my number, obvs. But for once I wasn't sure that I wanted them to.
ref: 2008, Micol Ostow, Popular Vote:
text: Like those blockbusters-with-sophisticated-allegorical-aspirations, District 9's greatest asset (beyond excellent visual effects, obvs) is its fascinating setting
ref: 2009 August 14, Benjamin Sutton, Henry Stewart, “What's That in the Sky? Is it a Spaceship? No, it's a Metaphor!”, in The L Magazine, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2011:
text: The pictures in this particularly special collection show Ms H in a pink rubber catsuit (obvs) astride a motorbike
ref: 2010 December 20, 3am, “Paris never looks happier than when she’s got something between her legs”, in 3am:
text: 2017 Jailbreak, The Emoji Movie, 35min
Ding ding ding ding, you got it! We're in Candy Crush, obvs. I know a shortcut to Just Dance, which is right next to Dropbox where we can get uploaded to the cloud.
synonyms: obvi
glosses: Clipping of obviously.
in respect of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Regarding; concerning; pertaining to; with reference to.
topics: law
glosses: On account of; by reason of; because of.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to
word: as regards
word: in terms of
word: with respect to
sense: because of
word: by dint of
word: due to
hrmph
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /h(ɹ̩)m̩f/
Senses: glosses: Expressing hesitation.
glosses: Expressing mild annoyance.
glosses: Representing clearing one's throat.
cocktail dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail dresses
Etymology: Apparently coined by Christian Dior in the late 1940s to refer to early-evening wear.
Senses: glosses: A type of women's evening dress suitable for semi-formal occasions or cocktail parties.
evolutionary biologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evolutionary biologist
cocktail hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail hats
Senses: glosses: A type of small, extravagant women's hat, such as a fascinator, suitable as evening wear or for cocktail parties.
Limburgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Limburgic
form: most Limburgic
Etymology: From Limburg + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Limburgian, Limburgish (of, from, or relating to Limburg, its people or their language)
Limburgic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Limburg + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Limburgish (language)
megaretailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaretailers
Etymology: From mega- + retailer.
Senses: examples: text: Mom-and-pop stores gave up ground to a new generation of megaretailers, most of which look pretty much alike. Yet, through it all, one grocery retailer managed to survive—and flourish—by being different.
ref: 2005, Len Lewis, The Trader Joe's adventure:
text: To reignite growth, the megaretailer is pushing into new, faster-growing product and service lines, including organic foods, in-store health clinics, and consumer financial services.
ref: 2010, Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong, Principles of marketing, page 399:
glosses: A retailer that operates on a very large scale.
megaretailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaretailer
Lower Wendish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Lower Sorbian (language)
Upper Wendish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Upper Sorbian (language)
unsleek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌnˈsliːk/
Forms: form: more unsleek
form: most unsleek
Etymology: From un- + sleek.
Senses: examples: text: Then she that saw him lying unsleek, unshorn, Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself, Uttered a little tender dolorous cry.
ref: 1874, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King:
text: Bruce Nauman uses neon not to advertise a product or service but to make absurd or insulting proclamations, and his fiberglass is heavy and unsleek.
ref: 1997 September 5, Mark Swartz, “Rebuilding the Material World”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Photographs of the unsleek, inland-dwelling and mostly male clique that, with various cast shifts, has developed the Onion sensibility over 20 years, beginning at the University of Wisconsin, reveal a Midwestern chain gang that seems to know exactly what they’re about.
ref: 2007 April 2, Virginia Heffernan, “The Onion Speaks, and Sounds Familiar”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not sleek, the opposite of sleek; rough.
antijacobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antijacobins
form: anti-jacobin
form: anti-Jacobin
Etymology: From anti- + Jacobin, after the model of earlier French antijacobin.
Senses: examples: text: For Pantisocracy he once had cried
Aloud, a scheme less moral than ’twas clever—
Then turned a hearty Antijacobin—
Had turned his coat—& would have turned his skin.
ref: 1822, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement, stanza 97:
glosses: A political opponent of the Jacobins.
antijacobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antijacobin
oviductal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oviduct + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Next Reports Eight Calves Cloned from Somatic Cells of a Single Adult Yoko Kato, Tetsuya Tani, Yusuke Sotomaru, Kazuo Kurokawa, Jun-ya Kato, Hiroshi Doguchi, Hiroshi Yasue, Yukio Tsunoda * Eight calves were derived from differentiated cells of a single adult cow, five from cumulus cells and three from oviductal cells out of 10 embryos transferred to surrogate cows (80 percent success).
ref: 1998 December 11, Yoko Kato et al., “Eight Calves Cloned from Somatic Cells of a Single Adult”, in Science, volume 282, number 5396, →DOI, pages 2095–2098:
text: Eggs were collected 13 to 15 hours after the hCG injection from the oviductal ampulla region under paraffin and were placed in a 400 µl drop of TYH medium (24) equilibrated with 5% CO 2 in air at 37°C. Zona-free eggs were prepared by acidic tyrode according to the method described [B. Hogan, F. Costantini, E. Lacy, Manipulating the Mouse Embryo (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1986)].
ref: 2000 January 14, Kenji Miyado et al., “Requirement of CD9 on the Egg Plasma Membrane for Fertilization”, in Science, volume 287, number 5451, →DOI, pages 321–324:
text: [View Larger Version of this Image (106K GIF file)] A fourth surrogate in series C maintained pregnancy after the oviductal transfer of 36 cloned embryos that were derived from fibroblast cultures at passage two.
ref: 2000 August 18, Akira Onishi et al., “Pig Cloning by Microinjection of Fetal Fibroblast Nuclei”, in Science, volume 289, number 5482, →DOI, pages 1188–1190:
synonyms: oviducal
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the oviduct.
Derived terms: intraoviductal
oviductally
paraoviductal
untinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tinted.
Senses: examples: text: The hideous exposure is not untinted with fairer lines; and we see traits here and there of true devotion, mistaken but heroic.
ref: 1867, James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects:
text: A large map of Virginia and a series of hunting prints hung on the untinted walls, and there were racks for guns, and a work-bench at one end of the room, where guns might be taken apart and cleaned.
ref: 1907, Meredith Nicholson, The Port of Missing Men:
text: Why can't you look at life through a plain sheet of glass--if you must look at it through something--instead of choosing the red and the yellow and the purples--anything but the plain, the untinted reality.
ref: 1912, E. Temple Thurston, Sally Bishop:
glosses: Not tinted; having a plain or default colour.
balsamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑlsəmiː/
Forms: form: more balsamy
form: most balsamy
Etymology: From balsam + -y. Doublet of balsamic and balmy.
Senses: examples: text: Autumn was in the land, and the trees were golden and crimson, And from the luminous boughs of the over-elms and the maples Tender and beautiful fell the light in the worshippers' faces, Softer than lights that stream through the saints on the windows of churches, While the balsamy breath of the hemlocks and pines by the river Stole on the winds through the woodland aisles like the breath of a censer.
ref: 1862, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862:
text: Beyond that there was a lane between ranks of young, balsamy, white-misted firs and then an open pasture field, sere and crispy.
ref: 1904, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908:
text: It was pleasant now to sit on his own doorstep and smell the delicate perfume of the roses and the balsamy odors from the woods behind.
ref: 1920, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Poor Man's Rock:
glosses: Like balsam, as of balsam.
unmerry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmerry
form: most unmerry
Etymology: From Old English unmyriġe (“unpleasant”), from un- + myriġe (“pleasant”). By surface analysis, un- + merry.
Senses: examples: text: "Yea, much," she said; "it seems joyous to me: and I shall tell thee that I have mostly dwelt in unmerry houses, though they were of greater cost than this."
ref: 1895, William Morris, Child Christopher:
text: But the Maiden, though she might hope the more to see her friend come back whole and sound, was unmerry at the tidings, she could scarce tell for why; neither did the Carline blame her therefore.
ref: 1914, William Morris, The Sundering Flood:
text: In an impassive 17th-century mansion in the Faubourg Saint-Germain Newman finds his prize possession an unmerry widow named Claire de Cintre.
ref: 1989 March 24, Lawrence Bommer, “The American”, in Chicago Reader:
synonyms: word: bleak
word: uncheery
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Not merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
pravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pravities
Etymology: From Middle French pravité, and its source, Latin prāvitās (“crookedness; depravity”), from prāvus (“prave”).
Senses: examples: text: Doubt not but that sin
Will reign among them, as of thee begot;
And therefore was law given them, to evince
Their natural pravity, by stirring up
Sin against law to fight[…].
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: […] they alledged, That becauſe I had ſome Rudiments of Reaſon, added to the natural pravity of thoſe Animals, it was to be feared, I might be able to ſeduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the Country, and bring them in Troops by night to deſtroy the Houyhnhnms Cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averſe from Labour.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 308:
text: In some parishes the Lord's Prayer is suffered: in others it is still rejected as a form; and he that should make it part of his supplication would be suspected of heretical pravity.
ref: 1775, Samuel Johnson, “Ostig In Sky”, in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland:
text: Still, it is possible, that a man's conscience may be so obdurate, as not to perceive the pravity of mendacity, when exercised for his supposed benefit, while he yet retains a regard for truth when engaged in relating his exploits to others.
ref: 1831, Various, The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831:
glosses: Perversion, depravity; wickedness.
despumate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: despumates
form: despumating
form: despumated
form: despumated
Etymology: First attested in 1651; borrowed from Latin dēspūmātus, perfect passive participle of dēspūmō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + spūmō (“to foam, froth”), spūma (“foam, froth, scum”) + -ō. Doublet of despume.
Senses: glosses: To skim the froth or other impurities from a liquid, to clarify, purify.
glosses: To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
glosses: To throw off as foam, froth.
Related terms: despumation
revealment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revealments
Etymology: From reveal + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I know Marianne's heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 198:
text: Alas! how much guile did that seeming desperation hide, which, as the result has now shown, though it may have come from the heart, never afterward returned to the same, and made manifest later that its revealment on the face was only a lure and a delusion!
ref: 1907, James C. Brogan, La Fiammetta:
text: 1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography
Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]
text: And it's the teasing game of psychological revealment and concealment that makes Dorian Gray such a gripping tale more than a century after its publication.
ref: 1997 April 11, Albert Williams, “One-Dimentional Portrait”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021:
glosses: The act of revealing something; revelation.
hereaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From here + away.
Senses: examples: text: The Bat Black-black-bearaway Coom doon by hereaway.
ref: 1673-1915, F.W. Moorman, Yorkshire Dialect Poems:
text: "It's a purty big raigion hereaway," said Flaggan, during a brief halt to recover breath; "why shouldn't I steer for the Great Zahairy, an' live wi' the Bedooin Arabs?
ref: 1817, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City:
text: I daresay, if the truth was known, the old hag's feeding a rebel she's got hidden away in some snug hole hereaway."
ref: 1916, John Lang, Jean Lang, Stories of the Border Marches:
glosses: hereabouts, around here
animesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænɪˈmɛsk/
Forms: form: more animesque
form: most animesque
Etymology: From anime + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Whilst it doesn't include anything specifically anime, there are a variety of animesque elements to the event and I'm sure some of you will find something of interest there...
ref: 2002, Happosai, “[Event] Jam:Tokyo-London”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet):
text: His blush increasing to truly animesque proportions, the younger conjoined mutant/immortal scuffs one toe against the floor...
ref: 2003, skyefire, “AAE 8: Catch-up and wrap-up”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
glosses: Resembling or with aspects characteristic of anime.
calamancoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamanco
calamancos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamanco
feudalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːdəlɪst/
Forms: form: feudalists
Etymology: From feudal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The author is not a monarchist, an aristocrat, a democrat, a feudalist, nor an advocate of what are called mixed governments like the English, at least for his own country; but is simply an American, devoted to the real, living, and energizing constitution of the American republic as it is, not as some may fancy it might be, or are striving to make it.
ref: 1866, A. O. Brownson, The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny:
text: His revolt is not a revolt of the commercialist against the feudalist, of the Nonconformist against the Churchman, of the Free-trader against the Protectionist, of the Liberal against the Tory.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens:
text: On this point there was no difference between mercantilists and feudalists, between crowned planners and vested interests, between centralizing bureaucrats and conservative particularists.
ref: 1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 6, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 70:
text: In short, Jose Antonio, son of a benevolent Spanish dictator who'd been forced out by republicans, was a sentimental feudalist who suspected capitalism and believed in the dole.
ref: 1996 September 6, Michael Miner, “They're Right, They're Left, They're Gone”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An advocate or practitioner of feudalism.
Derived terms: neofeudalist
feudalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːdəlɪst/
Forms: form: more feudalist
form: most feudalist
Etymology: From feudal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The sole object of Caesar was, while making use of the existing dynastic, feudalist, and hegemonic divisions, to arrange matters in the interest of Rome, and to bring everywhere into power the men favourably disposed to the foreign rule.
ref: 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V:
text: The Chinese gentry, so far as they still existed, preferred to work with him rather than with the feudalist Huns.
ref: 1960, Wolfram Eberhard, A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]:
text: Had I been born in a feudalist society, I would have attempted to batter myself into the nobility.
ref: 1962, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Mercenary:
glosses: Advocating or practising feudalism, or in which feudalism is practised.
noncompete clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncompete clause
unenabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈneɪbəld/
Etymology: From un- + enabled.
Senses: examples: text: They too would employ only unindividuated and unenabled blastocysts.
ref: 2001 June 1, Louis M. Guenin, “ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Morals and Primordials”, in Science, volume 292, number 5522, →DOI, pages 1659–1660:
glosses: Not having been enabled.
raw_tags: in embryology or computing
Spanish practices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many in the newspaper business – including some who criticised Murdoch at the time – now concede that the end of Fleet Street's Spanish practices probably helped prolong the life of the British press by a good few decades.
ref: 2011 July 27, Jon Henley, “Rupert Murdoch and the battle of Wapping: 25 years on”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Irregular practices in favour of the workers at a place of work, which are implied, but not specified, in the work contract.
Kransky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kranskies
form: kransky
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovene Krȃnjskā klobasa (“Carnolian sausage”).
Senses: examples: text: Just frying up a shitload of blinis. Fried up some kranskies to put on them. Just trying to figure out which vodka to drink with them. It's a tough life.
ref: 1998, Timo Nieminen, “blinis”, in alt.drunken.bastards (Usenet):
text: At a food vendor's stall I bought a Kransky to munch on as Sally and I walked through the cavernous terminal...
ref: 2006, Ernie Palamarek, Along Came a Swagman, page 168:
text: The afternoon before making cheese kranskies, the butcher cuts the meat into large cubes. He uses a mixture of pork and beef. The cheese is cut into cubes and the correct amounts of spices are measured out.
ref: 2007, Carol Jones, “Sausage”, in Education, Australia: Macmillan, page 12:
text: ...making a cut along and through the underside of the penis as far as the urethra, a bit like preparing a Kransky sausage for pan-frying.
ref: 2010, Nicholas Evans, Dying words: endangered languages and what they have to tell us, page 245:
text: Old-fashioned things are back at this main street butcher, where you can buy relishes and sauerkraut to go with your kranskies.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Meryment, K. Gibbs, Foodies′ Guide 2012: Sydney, unnumbered page:
glosses: A Slovenian-style sausage.
Synonyms: sense: sausage
english: Polish-style
translation: Polish-style
word: kielbasa
epulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈpju.lɪs/
rhymes: -uːlɪs
Forms: form: epulides
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin epūlis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hard tumour or tumorous growth developed from the gums.
Gala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːlə/
Etymology: Clipping of Galashiels.
Senses: glosses: Galashiels, a town in Scotland.
Related terms: Gala Water
Gala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːlə/
Forms: form: Galas
Senses: glosses: A type of apple, a cross-pollination between Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious.
Gala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːlə/
Etymology: From Turkish Gala.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Galatasaray S.K. (a Turkish sports club best known for its football team)
eicosenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eicosenoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any monounsaturated fatty acid that has 20 carbon atoms
Related terms: eicosenoate
gadoleic acid
gondoic acid
paullinic acid
New Journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In some ways the New Journalism of the sixties was a response to the gap left by writers who wrote intensely subjective experimental fiction, like Burroughs, or who made use of fable and myth to create new fictional forms, like Barth and Hawkes.
ref: 2000, Thomas Newhouse, The Beat Generation and the Popular Novel in the United States, 1945–1970, McFarland, →ISBN, page 120:
text: A fan of the New Journalism, she put a premium on lively prose and colorful detail, throwing overboard the pompousness of the professional gourmets who dominated the profession.
ref: 2022 November 1, William Grimes, “Gael Greene, Who Shook Up Restaurant Reviewing, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A style of news writing and journalism of the 1960s and 1970s, employing a subjective approach and literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.
E'd up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more E'd up
form: most E'd up
Senses: examples: text: Ah should've got E'd up the first time ah made love tae Heather, eh.
ref: 1996, Irvine Welsh, The Undefeated:
text: With its churning centrifugal groove and almighty turbine-roar guitar, the song sounds exactly like the panic rush of an E'd-up raver wondering how and why the rave dream's dying all around him.
ref: 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture, page 109:
glosses: Under the influence of the recreational drug Ecstasy.
eudysmic ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudysmic ratios
form: eudismic ratio
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A ratio expressing the difference in pharmacologic activity between the two enantiomers of a drug.
Related terms: distomer
eutomer
eudismic ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudismic ratios
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eudysmic ratio.
eudismic ratios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudismic ratio
eudysmic ratios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudysmic ratio
eutomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutomers
Etymology: From eu- + enantiomer.
Senses: glosses: The more pharmacologically active of the enantiomers of a drug.
Related terms: dystomer
eudysmic ratio
eutomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutomer
distomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distomers
Etymology: dis- (or dys-?) and enantiomer
Senses: glosses: The less pharmacologically active of the enantiomers of a drug.
Related terms: eudysmic ratio
eutomer
distomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distomer
emery bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emery bags
Senses: glosses: A small bag filled with emery into which a pin can be jabbed to remove rust.
emery bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emery bag
English wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English wheels
Senses: synonyms: wheeling machine
glosses: A manually-operated metalworking apparatus used to form smooth, compound curves from flat sheets of metal.
English wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of English wheel
phonemark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊn.mɑːk/
ipa: /ˈfoʊnˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: phonemarks
Etymology: Blend of phone + earmark
Senses: examples: text: They were earmarks by another name. The techniques employed included “lettermarks,” members writing to administrators to urge that home-based projects be funded; “phonemarks,” calling executive officials to request money for projects in their states or districts; and "soft marks." simply "suggesting" to agency officials that money should be spent on the lawmaker's project.
ref: 2013, Walter J. Oleszek, Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process, page 61:
text: The current system has also allowed political interference we didn't expect. Some officials in the executive branch and others, including members of Congress, have kept the earmark tradition alive with less transparency by pressuring agencies to fund particular projects through phone calls (or "phonemarks"), letters ("lettermarks") and meetings.
ref: 2018 January 23, James T. Walsh, Melanie Sloan, Rich Gold, Craig Holman, “The case for restoring earmarks”, in Washington Post:
glosses: A non-legislative designation by a telephone call from a legislator, of specific projects for funding as part of funding for more general programs.
phonemark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊn.mɑːk/
ipa: /ˈfoʊnˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: phonemarks
form: phonemarking
form: phonemarked
form: phonemarked
Etymology: Blend of phone + earmark
Senses: examples: text: Or worse, without earmarks the members of the spending committees can "phonemark" projects without anyone ever knowing
ref: 2008 June 11, “Deseret News candidate questionnaire:”, in Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To apply pressure on a government agency to fund a specific project as part of a more general program.
Related terms: earmark
lettermark
egestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From egest + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to egestion.
Related terms: ingestive
dead key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead keys
Senses: glosses: A special modifier key on a typewriter or computer keyboard, typically used to attach a specific diacritic to another character.
dead keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead key
YUP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Yale University Press.
YUP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YUPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of young urban professional.
Related terms: yuppie
yvory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yt framed was of precious yvory.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ivory.
yups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌps/
rhymes: -ʌps
Senses: glosses: plural of yup
yups
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌps/
rhymes: -ʌps
Senses: glosses: Yes.
dyssynergia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyssynergias
form: dysynergia
form: dyssynergy
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly
Related terms: dyssynergic
dysynergia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dyssynergia.
dyssynergias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyssynergia
deviationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deviationisms
Etymology: From deviation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism.
Related terms: deviationist
rockathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockathons
Etymology: From rock + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A prolonged session of playing or listening to rock music.
rockathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockathon
rockabillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockabilly
boogie-woogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogie-woogie
judications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judication
controlment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controlments
Etymology: From control + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: What is Lauinia then become so loose,
Or Bassianus so degenerate,
That for her loue such quarrels may be broacht,
Without controulement, Iustice, or reuenge?
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: , II.12,
If he in any sort have communicated himselfe vnto thee, it is not to debase himselfe, or stoope to thy smalnesse, nor to give thee the controulment of his power.
text: 1656, Walter Charleton (translator), Epicurus’s Morals, London: Henry Herringman, Chapter 12, 2., p. 87,
[…] he is as little moved by wrongs done him by men, as by the incommodities or losses sustained by misfortune, and generally by any other event occasioned by things beyond his power of ordering & controlment.
text: 1775, Edward Jerningham, The Fall of Mexico, London: J. Robson, p. 13, lines 220-224,
Should CORTEZ o’er this valiant band prevail,
Should thro’ controlment, and thro’ stubborn force,
Pour like a torrent his destructive course,
When on this summit first he shall appear,
I will advance, with well-dissembled fear […]
glosses: Control.
urad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʊˈɹʌd/
Forms: form: oord
form: oordh
form: oorud
form: udad
form: urd
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi उड़द (uṛad), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *uẓuntu
Senses: examples: text: A lasagne that feels like lasagne except made from mung and urad beans; the whole thing is then served – as if to remind you, again, of what it is not – with a thumb of cucumber.
ref: 2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: biology
botany
cooking
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.
Synonyms: black gram
black lentil
Derived terms: urad dal
uracyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uracyl
imarti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imartis
Senses: examples: text: A sudden concentration on food followed. Uncle said, have an imarti, they're hot and good.
ref: 1994, Manju Kak, First light in Colonelpura: short stories, page 33:
text: […] fill a small basket of fresh, hot imartis.
ref: 1994, Rāhī Māsūma Razā, Gillian Wright, The feuding families of village Gangauli:
glosses: An Indian dessert made by deep-frying urad flour batter in a kind of pretzel which is then soaked in sugar syrup.
imartis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imarti
Nobel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nəʊˈbɛl/
/ˈnəʊbɛl/
/-bəl/
Etymology: From Swedish Nobel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish, especially referring to Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and philanthropist.
Derived terms: Nobelist
Nobelitis
nobelium
Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize
Nobel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nəʊˈbɛl/
/ˈnəʊbɛl/
/-bəl/
Forms: form: Nobels
Etymology: From Swedish Nobel.
Senses: examples: text: a Nobel-winning author
glosses: A Nobel Prize.
kobos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kobo
cressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛsi/
homophone: Cressy
homophone: Cressey
homophone: Crecy
Forms: form: more cressy
form: most cressy
Etymology: From cress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves.
ref: 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:
glosses: Abounding in cresses.
examples: text: a slightly cressy flavor
ref: 1942, Circular, number 633, page 25:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of cress.
curver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curvers
Etymology: From curve + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that curves.
bepearl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bepearls
form: bepearling
form: bepearled
form: bepearled
Etymology: From be- + pearl.
Senses: glosses: To deck with pearls or shiny objects resembling pearls.
bepat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bepats
form: bepatting
form: bepatted
form: bepatted
Etymology: From be- + pat.
Senses: glosses: To beat upon (as on a drum); patter upon.
benote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: benotes
form: benoting
form: benoted
form: benoted
Etymology: From be- + note (“notation, mark”).
Senses: glosses: To annotate or make notes upon, especially excessively.
sleeping partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeping partners
form: sleeping-partner
Senses: examples: text: Somewhat later, the Frenchman Charles Fourier was ridiculed for expecting day by day the sleeping-partner to turn up who would invest in his Phalanstère plan, which was based on ideas very similar to those sponsored by one of the greatest contemporary experts on finance.
ref: 1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 9, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 108:
synonyms: silent partner
glosses: A business partner who doesn't play an active role in running the day-to-day operations of a business, who instead, finances the business in the form of capital investment.
tombal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtuːmbəl/
/ˈtuːməl/
/ˈtɒmbəl/
Etymology: From tomb + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the tombal function of an Egyptian pyramid
glosses: Of or relating to tombs.
Synonyms: tombic
putter around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: putters around
form: puttering around
form: puttered around
form: puttered around
form: potter around
Senses: examples: text: I can't wait until I'm old enough to "putter around".
ref: 1994 January 21, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: To engage in meaningless activity.
awluz
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of always.
Galician-Portuguese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The division of Romance languages that encompasses Galician, Portuguese, Eonavian and Fala.
glosses: The common ancestor of these languages, spoken in the Middle Ages, also called Old Portuguese.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese-Galician
sense: common ancestor
word: Old Galician-Portuguese
WJHC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of World Junior Hockey Championships — the world IIHF under-20 championship for ice hockey.
Synonyms: IIHF WJC
IIHF U20 WC
Related terms: WJC
WC
JC
editorial we
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: editorial wes
form: editorial we's
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plural of modesty (“speaking of oneself as if multiple people, intending to seem modest”).
synonyms: word: modesty
extra: speaking of oneself as if multiple people, intending to seem modest
glosses: The first-person plural pronoun used by an editor or other spokesperson when speaking with the authority of their publication, profession, organization, or company.
glosses: The practice, common in mathematical and scientific literature, of referring to a generic third person by we (instead of the more common one or the informal you), or of implying that the writer and the reader, or all of humanity, are united as collaborators in thinking the sequence of thoughts that the narrative describes.
Synonyms: sense: in all senses, often synonymous
word: author's we
sense: in all senses, often synonymous
word: author's plural
Coordinate terms: english: sometimes humorously synonymous
translation: sometimes humorously synonymous
word: royal we
Related terms: majestic plural
nosism
plural intensive
plural of excellence
plural of majesty
STOLport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STOLports
Etymology: Blend of STOL + airport
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An airport designed for STOL or short-field operations.
Coordinate terms: sense: STOL airport
word: aerodrome
sense: STOL airport
word: airfield
sense: STOL airport
word: airport
sense: STOL airport
word: airstrip
sense: STOL airport
word: heliport
sense: STOL airport
word: jetport
sense: STOL airport
word: marine aerodrome
sense: STOL airport
word: marine air terminal
sense: STOL airport
word: short field
sense: STOL airport
word: short-field
sense: STOL airport
word: shortfield
sense: STOL airport
word: vertiport
Related terms: airport
heliport
jetport
port
S/VTOL
seaport
STOL
STOVL
V/STOL
vertiport
VTOL
VTOLport
x-ray vision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-ray visions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of X-ray vision.
x-ray visions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x-ray vision
sanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sannas
Etymology: Borrowed from Konkani सान्नां (sānnā̃).
Senses: glosses: A spongy steamed rice cake, popular in parts of India.
island-hopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of island-hop
island-hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of island-hop
island-hops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of island-hop