cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mistriggered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistrigger
reputation management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In future, the rise of reputation management as a profession will impact the management of reputation. A LinkedIn search for ‘reputation management’ in June 2018 yielded nearly one million results[…]
ref: 2018, Tony Langham, Reputation Management: The Future of Corporate Communications and Public Relations, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 220:
qualifier: public relations
glosses: The influencing, controlling, enhancing, or concealing of an individual's or group's reputation.
ADMM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of alternating direction method of multipliers.
o11y
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ollie
Senses: examples: text: You may find observability documentation, tools, and courses by searching for o11y, which we pronounce “ollie.”
ref: [2023, Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami, Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of observability.
mistrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistrips
form: mistripping
form: mistripped
form: mistripped
Etymology: From mis- + trip.
Senses: examples: text: For example, individual bottles may leak chronically, may contaminate the samples being taken, e.g. chlorofluorocarbons, or may consistently mistrip or otherwise malfunction.
ref: 1994, Requirements for WOCE Hydrographic Programme Data Reporting, page 38:
text: However, relay C mistripped for one backward fault case, and showed unexpected performance for forward faults, as it tripped faster for a fault at 17% along the line than for a close-in fault.
ref: 1998, Proceedings of the American Power Conference, page 114:
text: The results were compared with the CTD salinity in order to verify that the rosette bottle did not mistrip or leak.
ref: 1998, Peter F. Worcester, Report on the Office of Naval Research Long-Range Propagation Workshop, page 3:
glosses: To trip by mistake.
mistrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistrips
Etymology: From mis- + trip.
Senses: examples: text: This system takes out all the guesswork, when for example, a mistrip occurs and the drill has to be tripped in a second time.
ref: 1980, British Power Farmer and Agricultural Engineer - Volume 59, page 97:
text: At present, it has a 2/3 logic base, which may be subject to mistrip, as it is switched to the trip mode during test or maintenance.
ref: 1984, International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control: A Guidebook, page 350:
text: In some cases it may be subsequently discovered that failure to trip may be a mistrip with the next bottle closing at the depth of the empty bottle.
ref: 1994, Requirements for WOCE Hydrographic Programme Data Reporting, page 34:
glosses: The act of mistripping or an instance of mistripping.
mistrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistrip
mistrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistrip
mistripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistrip
mistripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistrip
RUM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: RUM may involve sniffing the network connection, adding JavaScript to pages, installing agents on end user machines, or some combination thereof.
ref: 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring: Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 354:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of real user monitoring.
keep it 100
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps it 100
form: keeping it 100
form: kept it 100
form: kept it 100
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keep it one hundred.
MELT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another way to describe APM suites is that they are the monitoring technology that makes MELT data collection possible and useful for SREs.
ref: 2023, Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami, Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 73:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of metrics, events, logs, and traces.
retrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retriers
Etymology: From retry + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] a retrier of facts passed upon by the trial court when the conclusion reached is supported by competent testimony.
ref: 1915, Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Kansas Reports (volume 93, page 243)
text: In case of lambda failures, messages can be […] picked up by a retrier service, typically built using AWS Step functions.
ref: 2018, Hardik Trivedi, Ameya Kulkarni, Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin, page 307:
glosses: One who or that which retries.
retriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrier
BWIR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of British West Indies Regiment.
silver vixen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver vixens
Etymology: Modelled on earlier silver fox.
Senses: examples: text: I saw a very dark silver fox slip across the road just in front of me. After a while I discovered that they were a mated pair—the biscuit-colored dog fox and the smaller silver vixen.
ref: 1968, The foxes of Beachy Cove, page 25:
glosses: A female silver fox (animal).
synonyms: silver fox
hypernyms: vixen
fox
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person#Noun
coordinate_terms: silver fox
glosses: An attractive woman who has graying hair.
Related terms: silver-haired
silver vixens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver vixen
trunk or treating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trunk or treat
AIOps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of AI + DevOps
Senses: examples: text: Enterprises are discovering AIOps because it helps them in optimizing their IT infrastructure. But how do companies start with AIOps?
ref: 2023, Jeroen Mulder, Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 395:
glosses: Synonym of MLOps.
synonyms: word: MLOps
MTTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: MTBF
MTTF
MTTR
glosses: Initialism of mean time to detect.
sclerema neonatorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: skinbound disease
glosses: A rare severe skin condition characterized by diffuse hardening of the subcutaneous tissue with minimal inflammation.
Battle of the Beams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Battle of the Beams
Senses: glosses: A period early in World War II when Luftwaffe bombers used a number of increasingly accurate radionavigation systems for night bombing in Britain, which fought back with a variety of increasingly effective means involving jamming and deception signals.
Nasiriyah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nasiriya
form: Nassiriya
Etymology: From Arabic ٱلنَّاصِرِيَّة (n-nāṣiriyya).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iraq on the lower Euphrates, founded in the late 19th century.
Nasiriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nasiriyah.
Nassiriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nasiriyah.
TSDB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TSDBs
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of time series database.
TSDBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TSDB
85er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 85ers
Etymology: From 85 + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine that, the best Muslim without even doing my prayers, but the best Muslim because I used my mind and thought it out while these 85ers just banged their heads on the floor and never asked a question.
ref: 2009, Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam:
glosses: According to the Five-Percent Nation movement: a member of the ignorant majority of humanity (85%), who are neither 5 percenters nor part of the controlling elites (10%).
Related terms: normie
NPC
sheeple
85ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 85er
gigascale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From giga- + scale.
Senses: glosses: On a gigantic scale.
Moser's worm problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formulated by the Austrian-Canadian mathematician Leo Moser in 1966.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An unsolved problem asking for the region of smallest area that can accommodate every plane curve of length 1, i.e. the curve can be rotated and translated to fit inside the region (which in some variations of the problem is restricted to be convex).
intercept theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the intercept theorem
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: basic proportionality theorem
side splitter theorem
Thales's theorem
glosses: An important elementary theorem about the ratios of various line segments that are created if two rays with a common starting-point are intercepted by a pair of parallels. It is equivalent to the theorem about ratios in similar triangles.
razor-billed curassow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razor-billed curassows
Senses: glosses: A cracid bird of species Mitu tuberosum, found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
razor-billed curassows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of razor-billed curassow
moving sofa problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the moving sofa problem
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: sofa problem
glosses: A two-dimensional idealization of furniture-moving problems, asking for the rigid two-dimensional shape of largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with legs of unit width.
Related terms: sofa constant
sofa problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the sofa problem
Senses: glosses: Synonym of moving sofa problem.
synonyms: word: moving sofa problem
sofa constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the sofa constant
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The area that is the solution to the moving sofa problem.
SORR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SORRs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of sequence-of-returns risk.
SORRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SORR
MDCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MDC
Tammari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people of Benin.
Tammari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Gur language.
Tammanyization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of Tammanyizing.
nonabuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Your body's ability to fight all disease, including AIDS and its related illnesses may be benefitted by general good health — good nutrition, lots of rest, exercise and nonabuse of alcohol, poppers and other drugs.
ref: 1989 February 12, “Safer Sex and Drug Use Guidelines”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 12:
glosses: Absence of abuse; the act of not abusing.
abilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Obviously, the male, Anglo, middle-class, "no fats or femmes" youth culture is less open to confronting abilism than the lesbian community. Yet, I've found hardcore abilism from many hardcore radical dykes that dream of an "ideal" Amazon society (where disabilities just have no place).
ref: 1982 April 17, Teresa Davidson, “Dealing With Disability”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of ableism.
choreopoem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choreopoems
Senses: glosses: A performance combining a poem-reading with bodily movement.
testectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testectomies
Senses: glosses: orchiectomy; removal of one or both testes
spideret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiderets
Etymology: From spider + -et.
Senses: examples: text: What shrieks and groans of widow spideresses and orphaned spiderets must haunt his guilty slumbers!
ref: 1830 September 11, Horace Guilford, “The King of the Spiders”, in The Olio; or, Museum of Entertainment, volume VI, number XII, London: […] Shackell and Carfrae, […] Joseph Shackell […], published 1831, page 187, column 1:
text: See! what a busy region we disturb when we lift this stone! Half-a-dozen scarlet-bodied spiderets, “soldiers,” scampering away in most unmilitary haste to hide under crumbs of brown earth; here a grey-brownish slug, there a jet black one, larger and fatter, put out first one and then another tentacle, resenting the intrusion on their slumber, while you wonder how such big, soft animals can lie, to say nothing of sleeping, under a mass of stone like this.
ref: 1885, F. R. Coles, “[Communications.] I. A Leaflet from the Book of Nature.”, in The Transactions and Journal of Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Society, sessions 1883-84, 1884-85, 1885-86, Dumfries: […] [T]he Courier and Herald Offices, published 1887, page 89:
text: Yesterday coming in from the garden Annie called my attention to a something in a cobweb that I had thought was a spider and had left undisturbed, but on looking at it through my glasses it seemed a cluster of tiny eggs, with one or two tiny spiderets in motion.
ref: 1918 May 10, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1879-1922, volume II, London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, […], published 1926, page 354:
text: Mr. Merrywinkle, the spider, crawling through the corn, / Spotted Mistress June Bug on a summer morn / Oh, how he loved Ms. June Bug! […] And the couple settled, happily, within the spinach row, / To raise a thousand spiderets, each a handsome lad, / All proud as punch to call Mr. Merrywinkle, “Dad.”
ref: 2011, Ken Layton, “Mr. Merrywinkle”, in Light Verse & Limericks, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 20:
synonyms: spiderlet
spiderling
glosses: A baby spider.
spiderets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spideret
spider cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider cloth
gayization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gay + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: DeGeneres' confession [of lesbianism] was instrumental in the cultural shift and the "gayization" of American TV, landing her on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “Yep, I'm Gay.”
ref: 2016, The Illuminati in Hollywood, Mark Dice:
text: This gayization — or fagatizing, if you will — of advertising is the product of several factors. Inroads made by both feminism and the gay movement […] have allowed men to be different — to loosen up a bit, […]
ref: 1982 April 17, Michael Bronsky, “What Are These Men Really Selling and Whom Are They Trying to Fool”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: The act or process of making something gay (homosexual).
Qhara Qhara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Bolivia.
trashola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trash + -ola.
Senses: examples: text: Last week's hit single will fall prey to the newest English import; last month's cult film is this month's trashola; and the starlets that parade the covers of People usually fade before their four-color posters hit the remainder tables.
ref: 1982 April 17, Michael Bronsky, “What Are These Men Really Selling and Whom Are They Trying to Fool”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: […] trashola prose features regular dollops of sub-literate laziness (including non-words like "arousement" and "assertation").
ref: 1986, Daniel G. Marowski, Contemporary Literary Criticism, page 382:
text: […] trashola you think he is. He just happens to be incredibly exuberant.
ref: 1989, Kansas Quarterly (volume 21, issues 1-2, page 163)
glosses: Trash; rubbish; anything worthless.
body control module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body control modules
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An electronic unit responsible for monitoring and controlling various electronic accessories in the body of a motor vehicle, such as windows, mirrors, air conditioning, and central locking.
body control modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body control module
referential transparency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: referential opacity
glosses: A property of a linguistic construction where, for any expression built from it, replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the same value does not change the value of the expression.
referential opacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: referential transparency
glosses: A property of a linguistic construction where, for an expression built from it, replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the same value may change the value of the expression.
referentially transparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting the property of referential transparency.
referentially opaque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting the property of referential opacity.
dearmour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dearmours
form: dearmouring
form: dearmoured
form: dearmoured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dearmor.
dearmours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dearmour
dearmouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dearmour
dearmoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dearmour
dearmor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dearmors
form: dearmoring
form: dearmored
form: dearmored
form: dearmour
Etymology: From de- + armor.
Senses: glosses: To remove the armor from (a combat vehicle, etc.).
qualifier: spirituality
glosses: To release emotional tension from the body by means of touch and massage, supposed to confer health benefits.
dearmored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dearmor
dearmors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dearmor
dearmoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dearmor
T4Ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T4T
pacifical letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: letters of peace
letters pacifical
pacificae
glosses: Documents recommending the bearer as one in peace and fellowship with the church.
letters of peace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pacifical letters.
synonyms: word: pacifical letters
letters pacifical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pacifical letters.
synonyms: word: pacifical letters
post-Dobbs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + Dobbs, after Thomas E. Dobbs, former health officer of Mississippi.
Senses: examples: text: “What we're seeing now is this post-Dobbs backlash,” said Jessica Taylor, an analyst at the non-partisan Cook Political Report. “And Republicans have clearly not come up with an effective message for this.”
ref: 2023 November 11, James Politi, Alex Rogers, quoting Jessica Taylor, “Democrats take heart from voter backlash against abortion curbs”, in FT Weekend, page 3:
synonyms: post-Roe
glosses: After the decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), holding that abortion is not a constitutional right in the United States.
wikipedia: Thomas E. Dobbs
MSDH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mississippi State Department of Health.
press money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prest money (“money paid to enlisted men”).
glosses: Synonym of earnest money (“money paid as a deposit”).
synonyms: word: earnest money
extra: money paid as a deposit
schizmogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schismogenesis.
dwyle flonking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwile flonking.
dwile flunking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwile flonking.
dwyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwyles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwile.
dwyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwyle
stone canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone canals
Senses: synonyms: sand canal
glosses: A duct, commonly lined with calcareous material, forming part of the water vascular system.
stone canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stone canal
Rose Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rose Cross
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosy Cross.
betterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From better + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be bettered or improved.
toasted raviolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toasted ravioli
sit loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits loose
form: sitting loose
form: sat loose
form: sat loose
form: sit loosely
Senses: examples: text: […] the man who, sitting loose to the objects of the world, has become altogether a Christian.
ref: 1848, Thomas Chalmers, Sermons on public occasions, page 286:
text: […] get used to dealing directly with God and feel that He is the one sure thing, then they get accustomed to sitting loose to all else, and aren't ready to take anything else, finally speaking, on authority — much as they may respect authority.
ref: 1955, James Albert Pike, John W. Pyle, The Church, Politics, and Society: Dialogues on Current Problems, page 130:
glosses: To be careless or indifferent (to something).
sit loosely
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits loosely
form: sitting loosely
form: sat loosely
form: sat loosely
Senses: examples: text: Oh, blessed position to be in waiting for the Master's coming, sitting loosely to everything on earth, and living in comparative indifference to all the world calls good or great.
ref: 1864, The Gospel magazine, and theological review (series 5, volume 3, page 407)
glosses: Alternative form of sit loose.
think good
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks good
form: thinking good
form: thought good
form: thought good
Senses: examples: text: […] if you think good to go on with the course you have propounded.
ref: 1676, Thucydides, The History of the Grecian War: In Eight Books, page 229:
text: […] an account, as wherewith we doubt not you will be satisfied, if you think good to require it of us.
ref: 1681, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, page 188:
glosses: To be disposed; to be willing.
spiderlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiderlet
evidentiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evidentiate
womana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /wʊˈmɑːnə/
Forms: form: womanas
Etymology: Alteration of woman.
Senses: examples: text: You might know her [Pearl Liaison] as the runner-up of season seven, but since leaving the show she's become the creator of an iconic YouTube channel which both venerates and undermines the classic tutorial format. In one, she goes full womana, before dragging herself older by 80 years; in another, she introduces Roxanne -- the all singing, all smoking international bachelorette: "right now, I've been sober for fourteen hours, and... it's goin' okay... still smoking, but you've got to start somewhere."
ref: 2018 November 8, Tom Rasmussen, “Pearl of wisdom: the iconic drag queen offers her thoughts on beauty”, in Dazed Digital, London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2023:
text: With someone like Monét, who's known for being a really great performer and a lip sync assassin, I was like, 'Girl, don't even try me when it comes to being sexy. I am gonna give WOMANA!' And then crazy Tammie Brown at the end.
ref: 2019 June 20, Sam Damshenas, quoting Valentina, “Drag Race star Valentina opens up about her non-binary identity in her most vulnerable interview to date”, in Gay Times, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2022:
text: This is like trying to be more of a womana, with the hairlined wig and muted make up, and a lot of body on top of it.
ref: 2020 June 30, Ernesto Macias, quoting Naomi Smalls, “Drag Superstar Naomi Smalls Invites Us to Smell the Fantasy”, in Interview, New York, N.Y.: Interview, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2023:
text: That change has manifested in these six canna-companies, which have eschewed the established THC-driven, heavy-lidded, mostly white and male stoner archetype for something arguably truer to the cannabis plant entirely—big womana energy.
ref: 2022 April 20, Brianna Wheeler, “The Five Best Cannabis Accessories Created by Local Femme-Identifying Artisans”, in Willamette Week, volume 48, number 24, Portland, O.R.: City of Roses Media Company, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023, page 17:
qualifier: drag slang
glosses: An extremely feminine woman.
rough slant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rough slants
Senses: glosses: A partially enclosed shed used for shelter.
rough slants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rough slant
lay salt on someone's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays salt on someone's tail
form: laying salt on someone's tail
form: laid salt on someone's tail
form: laid salt on someone's tail
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put salt on someone's tail.
tableword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablewords
Etymology: From table + word. Calque of Esperanto tabelvorto.
Senses: examples: text: And how many little words and particles that fit nowhere must we learn? Esperanto's inventor Zamenhof had a stroke of genius on that: the so-called table words.
ref: 1991 June 11, Daniel Pfeiffer, “Common Language”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
text: There is a table of words for what/when/where / that/then/there etc, but that's about it... ¶ If you are learning just by reading the text, a useful trick to know is that words and word-roots can be stuck together to make bigger words. (But the above-mentioned tablewords are *not* made that way.)
ref: 1996 June 21, Jiri Baum, “Re: Help”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet):
text: Doubters may wish to investigate the 600+ page _Plena analiza gramatiko de Esperanto_ by Kalocsay & Waringhien. The sixteen "rules" are of the second type, and even for this they are not complete (they do not address the table-words, for instance).
ref: 1998 February 4, Don HARLOW, “Re: Multilingual Americans: A rare breed???”, in sci.lang.translation (Usenet):
text: While I like the table words (tabelvortoj), there is a fundamental flaw in it: The question words are also overloaded for use as relative pronouns. This is clearly a highly Eurocentric design.
ref: 2004 June 25, LEE Sau Dan, “Re: Learning a language”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
text: The grammar of Esperanto provides good opportunities to create pithy and catchy PUs, especially proverbs. Zamenhof, for example, made extensive use of a set of Esperanto correlatives, the so-called table-words. This is a closed subsystem that allows the completely regular formation of 45 pronouns and adverbs through cross-reference in a table [15].
ref: 2015, Sabine Fiedler, “Esperanto Phraseology”, in Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 255:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of the basic correlatives in Esperanto, often displayed in a table.
tablewords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tableword
have got the face on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has got the face on
form: having got the face on
form: had got the face on
form: had got the face on
Senses: examples: text: Oh, but it's right hard to remember
That on a day like today
When you're all argumentative
And you've got the face on
ref: 2006, “Mardy Bum”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
glosses: Alternative form of have a face on.
cannamom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannamoms
form: canna-mom
form: canna mom
Etymology: From canna (“a clipping of cannabis”) + mom.
Senses: examples: text: Brazill “absolutely” believes consuming cannabis made her better at being a mom. ¶ “I know it did,” Brazill, 57, said of her experiences with being a “cannamom,” a hashtag on social media given to mothers who enjoy marijuana while parenting.
ref: 2022 May 4, Adam Tschorn, “‘I’m not doing anything wrong’: Pot-smoking L.A. moms on parenting while high”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A mother who regularly consumes cannabis.
flight cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight case
Pela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Burmish language spoken in western Yunnan, China.
coming into the world
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come into the world
coming into the world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comings into the world
Senses: glosses: The act of being born; a birth.
put and take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional children’s gambling game similar to dreidel.
smoke grinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke grinders
Senses: glosses: An ellipsograph used as a toy.
glosses: A small pump drill used as a toy.
what does it matter
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: big deal
meh
whatever
who cares
whoopee do
so what
what of it
glosses: A reply indicating uncaring.
grab hag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grab hags
form: grab-hag
Etymology: From grab + hag. Originally applied to older women who engaged in the practice, but now can be applied to individuals of any age or gender.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a certain type of auntie in China, OK? We call them grab hags. […] There’s a specific demographic of these grab hags, we call them, which are, like, the most infuriating people you’ll ever meet. […] They’re basically like these vile creatures that will take anything they can. If they see an opportunity to take something for free, they do.
ref: 2022 November 8, China Fact Chasers, “The Evil Grab Hags of China!”, in YouTube:
glosses: One who takes excessively or takes all that is available, without regard for the needs or considerations of others.
Derived terms: word: grab-hag
Related terms: grab-haggery
fly killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly killers
Senses: glosses: A small toy pellet gun.
grab hags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grab hag
WWOOFer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WWOOFers
Senses: examples: text: There was a survey completed recently by a Lund University student named Maggie Melin, in which over 1,400 WWOOFers participated.
ref: 2012, Astra Lincoln, Vocational Vagabond, Volunteer Vacationer:
glosses: Alternative form of wwoofer.
WWOOFers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WWOOFer
WWOOFs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of WWOOF
WWOOFed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of WWOOF
water blink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water blinks
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A spot of cloud hanging over open water in Arctic regions.
water blinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water blink
water blinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blinks (“the plant Montia fontana”).
synonyms: word: blinks
extra: the plant Montia fontana
water deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water decks
Senses: glosses: A decorated canvas cover for a dragoon's saddle.
water decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water deck
ropehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropeheads
Etymology: From rope + head.
Senses: glosses: A dreadlocked individual.
Derived terms: ropeheaded
ropeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropehead
smurfable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smurf + -able.
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Susceptible to a smurf attack.
bandwith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the Hoop/Column antenna, a satisfactory controller design meeting the desired bandwith of .1 rad/sec and ensuring stability with unmodelled high frequency modes was obtained using only a colocated pair of 3-axis attitude sensors and torque actuators.
ref: 1985 December 24, N. Sundararajan, Gene L. Goglia, “Robust Controller Synthesis for a Large Flexible Space Antenna”, in Adaptive Control of Large Space Structures Using Recursive Lattice Filters, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center, page 35:
text: The additional bandwith requirement of a DSSS modulation scheme reduces the system bandwith efficiency, while the processing gain of symbol-by-symbol detection may help to compensate it.
ref: 2002 October 24, Haitao Zhanga, et al., “Performance of DSSS techniques in multi-spot diffusing links for infrared wireless access”, in Georgi Graschew, Peter M. Schlag, editors, SPIE, Applications of Broadband Optical and Wireless Networks, volume 4912, Bellingham, Wash.: The International Society for Optical Engineering, →ISBN, page 79:
text: [title]
ref: 2010 October 21, John C Abell, “Netflix Instant Accounts For 20 Percent of Peak U.S. Bandwith Use”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023:
glosses: Misspelling of bandwidth.
family reunification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family reunifications
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The bringing together of family members so that they can live in the same country.
womanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womana
besullied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of besully
besullies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besully
besullying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of besully
Dysart et al
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
sleepingwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sleeping + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: This new sleepingwear is made out of Carlsbad processed fabric—a luxuriously soft and comfortable material for which we claim exceptional warmth. The garments meet all the requirements of winter sleeping comfort and can be worn as you wear any nightwear.
ref: 1913 October 11, H. B. Glover Company, “Don’t Let Poisoned Air Steal Your Vitality at Night!”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 15, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 42:
text: Canton flannel was a fabric much used in the time of Crane’s boyhood for sleepingwear, undergarments, even sheets.
ref: 1972, Leedice Kissane, “Interpretation Through Language: A Study of the Metaphors in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat””, in Thomas A. Gullason, editor, Stephen Crane’s Career: Perspectives and Evaluations, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 411:
text: Keeping your legs warm is also important. A lot of people are actually cold when they sleep. That contributes to muscle cramps and aches. Long, warm socks help. An electric blanket helps. Warm sleepingwear helps. Too much air conditioning at night does not help.
ref: 1986 June 16, Lawrence Lamb, “Stretching May Relieve Leg Cramps”, in Durham Morning Herald, Durham, N.C.: Durham Herald Co., Inc., page 7B, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of sleepwear.
synonyms: word: sleepwear
l8rs
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: mad maddie:and maybe the pope will fly. l8rs, chickie!
ref: 2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, New York, NY: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Abbreviation of laters.
Related terms: cul8r
l8
l8r
theophory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θεόφορος (theóphoros, “bearing a god”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Micah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), and means "Who is like God?" The name is sometimes found with theophoric extensions. Suffix theophory in Yah and in Yahweh results in Michaiah or Michaihu. Suffix theophory in El results in Michael.
qualifier: given names
glosses: The property of bearing the name of a deity.
raw_tags: of words
Related terms: theophoric
epithetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epithet + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Chang Loi’s ancestry with choice bits of elephant-folk epithetry so tangful they made even Barnsdale’s accustomed ears to pringle with their novelty and warmth.
ref: 1919 August 24, George Gilbert, “The Mottled Slayer”, in Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, volume 43, number 2, →OCLC, page 20:
text: Political epithetry of course is quite different from gobbledygook or bafflegab, which means bureaucratic lingo; we are keeping our pulse on bafflegab, too, but have time here only to report one new addition: 'quid pro quid.
ref: 1956, Eric Sevareid, Small Sounds in the Night: a Collection of Capsule Commentaries on the American Scene, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 39:
text: But the theater can still inch toward total outcry: the stir of imagery inside the prose of Tennessee Williams, the crackle of wit that polarizes our attention in A Man for All Seasons (mote riveting on the stage because of our undeflected concentration on a mind), the undisguised rhetoric of Shaw and the onrushing epithetry of Albee and Osborne at their best all intimate the compulsion we have toward speech that sears, and, in the searing, seals.
ref: 1969, Walter Kerr, “Film, Stage, Novel”, in Thirty Plays Hath November: Pain and Pleasure in the Contemporary Theater, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: The art or practice of using epithets.
cut someone off at the knees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts someone off at the knees
form: cutting someone off at the knees
form: cut someone off at the knees
form: cut someone off at the knees
form: cut someone off at their knees
Senses: glosses: To abruptly thwart someone, shut them down, or put them in their place.
keeping in mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep in mind
keeps in mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep in mind
lands in someone's lap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of land in someone's lap
landing in someone's lap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of land in someone's lap
landed in someone's lap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of land in someone's lap
Andean fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.di.ən fɑks/
Forms: form: Andean foxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of culpeo (“A canid native to the Andes region of South America”).
synonyms: word: culpeo
extra: A canid native to the Andes region of South America
Andean foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andean fox
rowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rown
rowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rown
Tibetan sand fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tibetan sand foxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tibetan fox.
synonyms: word: Tibetan fox
Tibetan sand foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tibetan sand fox
wolf's-fists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf's-fist
bastard fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard foxes
Senses: examples: text: One curious mutation, or coat variation, is the one known best as the Samson fox, but sometimes called the burnt, scorched or bastard fox. This animal lacks the long guard hairs and remains throughout its career a woolly, nondescript character without adequate protection from the cold of the winter.
ref: 1967, Mammals of pennsylvania, page 188:
glosses: A cross between a standard red fox and a silver fox, featuring fur coloration of both.
bastard foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard fox
cross fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross foxes
Senses: glosses: A red fox color morph with dark fur along its face, underside, paws, and tail. Named for the dark cross-shape across its back.
cross foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross fox
platinum fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinum foxes
Senses: glosses: A red fox color morph with mostly white fur, with grey fur across the back and sides of the face.
platinum foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platinum fox
marble fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marble foxes
Senses: glosses: A red fox color morph of mostly white fur with a line of dark fur going down the back and across the face.
marble foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marble fox
Samson fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Samson foxes
Etymology: From the Biblical story of Samson and the foxes, Judges 15:4–5.
Senses: examples: text: Captive foxes have been selectively bred for other colours, but wild foxes usually appear in only two other variations: a Samson fox is a genetic mutation with no guard hairs, only soft, tightly curled underfur
ref: 1997, Nature of foxes : hunters of the shadows, page 29:
glosses: A red fox mutation that lacks guard hairs, thus having a wooly appearance.
Samson foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samson fox
pampas fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pampas foxes
Senses: glosses: A tan-colored South American canid, of species Lycalopex gymnocercus.
pampas foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pampas fox
Sechuran fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sechuran foxes
Senses: glosses: Lycalopex sechurae, a South American fox.
Sechuran foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sechuran fox
hoary fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoary foxes
Senses: glosses: Lycalopex vetulus, a wild canid endemic to Brazil.
glosses: the Blanford's fox (Vulpes cana).
hoary foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoary fox
lightning bruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning bruisers
Senses: glosses: A very strong and fast, usually violent person.
everlasting syllabub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: everlasting syllabubs
Etymology: From everlasting (“continuing indefinitely”) + syllabub, in reference to the fact that whipping the cream allowed it to stay fresh for several days.
Senses: synonyms: solid syllabub
glosses: A syllabub made using whipped cream and served as a dessert.
everlasting syllabubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of everlasting syllabub
solid syllabub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solid syllabubs
Etymology: From solid + syllabub, in reference to the fact that the cream was whipped into a semi-solid form.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everlasting syllabub.
synonyms: word: everlasting syllabub
solid syllabubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solid syllabub
hearth-pennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearth-penny
Reynardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Common sense compels us to believe that the whole affair was merely a ruse by which Yale, with true Reynardian craft, hoped to win the cup.
ref: 1888, The Harvard Advocate, page 130:
text: This was Mr. Fox's position ; but he was not a man to submit tamely to an adverse fate — even the fox when driven to the wall will show his teeth — and his human name-sake was not false to this Reynardian quality.
ref: 1909, A beautiful rebel: a romance of Upper Canada in eighteen hundred and twelve, page 200:
text: The Chabon kid had that Reynardian way of looking inattentive when he was measuring someone—in this case, my mother—to the millimeter.
ref: 2017, Moonglow : a novel, page 332:
synonyms: cunning
shrewd
sly fox
sly as a fox
glosses: Of or pertaining to the folk character of Reynard the fox and his mannerisms; cunning.
kitsune udon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 狐 (kitsune, “fox”) + Japanese 饂飩 (udon). In Japanese folklore, tofu is a favored dish of the kitsune.
Senses: glosses: Japanese hot udon soup topped with seasoned fried tofu, and scallions.
pea-soup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pea-soup
form: most pea-soup
Senses: examples: text: It is great to live in the U.S.A. Here we get the pea soup, while in London they get the pea-soup fog.
ref: 1924, Shoe and Leather Reporter, volume 156, number 12, page 22:
text: […] the Game Boy's energy-efficient pea-soup LCD screen made it the original green machine!
ref: 2006, Nintendo Power, volumes 243–245, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of pea soup.
Derived terms: pea-soup fog
PIJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
forespells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forespell
forespelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forespell
forespelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forespell
forespelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forespell
PDAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of Priority Development Assistance Fund.
PGMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: GMA
glosses: Initialism of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines.
Related terms: PBBM
PNoy
PRRD
PRRD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Peace River Regional District, a regional division of British Columbia, Canada.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: DU30
PDU30
glosses: Initialism of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
Related terms: PBBM
PGMA
PNoy