cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
battleworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more battleworthy
form: most battleworthy
Etymology: From battle + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh yes, sir. Seaworthy enough with the weather moderating. And we'll have the holes patched in a brace of shakes." "Seaworthy but not battleworthy," said Krause.
ref: 1955, C S Forester, The Good Shepherd:
text: The Americans had proved themselves so eminently battleworthy in their first confrontals with the hard-pressing Germans that [Ferdinand] Foch wanted an American regiment attached to each French division as a stiffening element.
ref: 1961, Richard O’Connor, “Cantigny . . . Belleau Wood . . . Soissons”, in Black Jack Pershing: A Candid Biography of the United States’ Only Six-Star General since George Washington, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, part two (Soldier on the Western Front), page 265:
glosses: Fit for service in battle.
pericopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pericopic
form: most pericopic
Etymology: From pericope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a pericope.
xylemlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xylemlike
form: most xylemlike
Etymology: From xylem + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In the medulla of callus formed in this fashion, a number of lignified cells occurred resembling the xylemlike cells often found in callus tissue.
ref: 1963, Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a xylem.
chuck in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks in
form: chucking in
form: chucked in
form: chucked in
Senses: examples: text: Blake shocked everyone by chucking in his job, selling his flat and returning home to take up the flagging reins of the family company.
ref: 1995, Miranda Lee, Marriage in Jeopardy:
text: 28 May 2000, St. Petersburg Times - The good and the bad of Spanish travel writing Series: BOOKS
Rather he gives a convincing impression of someone who wants to chuck in his old life in England and build a new life, not just a summer villa,
text: So in February 1987, when a colleague suggested it was time to chuck it in, Murphy agreed without emotion. Members who had reached the age of fifty-five or had thirty years of service could now take an early retirement
ref: 2009, Adam Shand, The skull: informers, hit men and Australia's toughest cop:
glosses: To give up, to quit.
glosses: To contribute (something) as a bonus; to throw in (something).
pack in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: packs in
form: packing in
form: packed in
form: packed in
Senses: examples: text: Goodbye, old sleepyhead / I'm packing you in like I said / Take care of everything / I'm leaving my wedding ring
ref: 1947, Willard Robison, “Don't Smoke in Bed”, performed by Peggy Lee:
text: I rode 700 miles one day before packing it in for the night, yet after 15 minutes of rest in my hotel room, I realized that I could have gone farther.
ref: 1989 January, “Riding Harley's flagship”, in American Motorcyclist:
text: As the Senate deliberated in Washington – and packed it in for the night without finalizing a deal — Obama brushed pressed House Democrats to finalize
ref: 2009 February 6, “At Dem retreat, a partisan love fest”, in Yahoo! News:
text: LAST year I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and had to pack in my job as a full-time cleaner as I needed chemo and radiotherapy
ref: 2009 November 7, “Captain Crunch compares 'greener' light bulbs”, in The Sun:
glosses: To give up, to quit.
examples: text: Though co-star Keanu Reeves considered this new trip unnecessary, the "Speed 2" crew has packed in lots of references from the original.
ref: 1997 June 13, “MOVIE REVIEW Speed 2: Cruise Control”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: An unexpected downside was a new generation of trains where the principal aim was to 'pack them in', leading to a sharp slump in ambience and passenger comfort.
ref: 2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, number 992, page 3:
glosses: To include (especially of a large amount).
qualifier: mountain climbing
glosses: To transport to base camp, especially by backpack.
chocolate tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate trees
Senses: glosses: Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree.
Hypernyms: tree
Christmas disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Christmas + disease
Named for Stephen Christmas, the first patient described with the disease.
Senses: glosses: haemophilia B
circuit training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of exercise involving a variety of different disciplines, each a few minutes long.
cissy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
homophone: sissy
Forms: form: cissies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sissy (“wimp”).
cissy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
homophone: sissy
Forms: form: cissies
Etymology: From cis(gender) + -y, on the analogy of tranny and punning on sissy.
Senses: examples: text: > Cis- is a Latin prefix meaning "on this side" or, less correctly, "near", as opposed to trans-, Latin for "across" or "through".
Gee, I guess that makes most folks cissies! :-)
ref: 1998 June 10, Karen Ross, “Re: what does cisgendered stand for anyway ...”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):
text: "She could be a straight cissy who just had a bunch of plastic surgery done," Tabitha said. A cissy was a 'cisgendered' person, someone who wasn't transsexual, someone happy with being and dressing like whatever gender they were born as.
ref: 2003, Brian St.Claire-King, Fates Worse Than Death: Sunrise Hotel, →ISBN, page 104:
text: If a coalition of queer and trans-rights groups came together and called for a big demonstration outside the Fox News studeios in midtown Manhattan, I would be there along with tons of other gay, lesbian, straight and bi cissies. How about it?
ref: 2014 January 8-15, Dan Savage, in Philadelphia Weekly
glosses: A cisgender or cissexual person.
citriculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citricultures
Senses: glosses: The cultivation of citrus fruits.
Derived terms: citriculturist
chiliburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiliburgers
Etymology: From chili + -burger.
Senses: glosses: A burger made with chili con carne.
agnosias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agnosia
rocketplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocketplanes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of rocket plane.
chilidog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chilidogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chili dog.
Balaclava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbæl.əˈklɑːvə/
Etymology: From Balaklava, from Russian Балакла́ва (Balakláva), from Ottoman Turkish بالقلاوه (balıklava), from بالقلاغه (balıklaga, “fishing ground”)
* (Jamaica): From Balaklava or the Battle of Balaclava.
Senses: glosses: A town in St. Elizabeth parish, Jamaica.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Balaklava
Baldassarre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baldassarres
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Baldassarre.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
PAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Postcode Address File (“the UK Post Office's list of every postal delivery point, which is licensed to most delivery companies and banks, and many retailers”).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Pakistan Air Force.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Philippine Air Force.
PAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of platelet-activating factor.
balista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balistas
form: balistae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ballista.
Olari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Olari.
Senses: glosses: Various villages and communes of Romania.
palmchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmchats
Etymology: From palm + chat.
Senses: glosses: Dulus dominicus, a small, long-tailed species of bird native to Hispaniola.
palpigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpigrades
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Palpigradi.
Senses: synonyms: microwhip scorpion
glosses: A small invertebrate arachnid of the taxonomic order Palpigradi.
pal up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pals up
form: palling up
form: palled up
form: palled up
Senses: examples: text: He'd happened to pal up with a Free French bloke who'd been in the orthopaedic wards, and when this fellow went home with a couple of bone grafts Rushleigh got an invitation to stay at his place down at Nice, buckshee.
ref: 1955, Richard Gordon, Doctor At Large, House of Stratus:
text: ... you could make a bit of conversation.' 'I don't want to. I'm on holiday with my family. I don't want to pal up with some bloke from the Pru, just because he's asked me to pass the sauce.'
ref: 1996, Laurie Graham, The Ten O'Clock Horses, Hachette UK:
text: Normally in the CID you'd pal up with somebody, but nobody seemed to be his pal. 'He was creepy, a creepy type of bloke, you know. He always seemed to be hanging around, and he always seemed to be bloody listening to other people's[…]
ref: 2006, David Seabrook, Jack of Jumps, Granta Publications:
glosses: To become friends.
examples: text: WHEN union-busting coal operators and the sowers of red philosopies "pal" up together it is the beginning of a situation that affects the entire country.
ref: 1928, United Mine Workers Journal - Volume 39, page 6:
text: Governmental and/or non-governmental organizations may "pal up" with schools for migrant children to provide assistance — such as contributions, teaching and protecting the students' rights and interests.
ref: 2006, Women of China, page 14:
text: Recreating the Scottish enlightenment-inspired liberalism of the 1790s, Ulster would cancel out a Catholic authoritarianism only too prone to pal up with the Tom Broadbents of British capitalism.
ref: 2008, Christopher Harvie, A Floating Commonwealth, page 103:
glosses: To form an alliance.
Synonyms: buddy up
suscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of subscribe.
pan-fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pan-fries
form: pan-frying
form: pan-fried
form: pan-fried
form: panfry
form: pan fry
Senses: glosses: To fry in a pan with minimal oil.
Related terms: braise
sauté
Closetgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From closet + -gate; from the name of the South Park television episode "Trapped in the Closet" (referring to the figurative "closet" that homosexuals who have not disclosed their sexual orientation are said to be in).
Senses: examples: text: Closetgate is heating up! Paramount has joined Tom Cruise's public relations rep in denying reports that the movie star strong-armed the studio into spiking a "South Park" episode that ridicules him and Scientology.
ref: 2006 March 18, Scott Collins, “Clamor outside `South Park' closet”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: The Los Angeles Times dubbed the flap Closetgate. "For Stone and Parker, Closetgate will be the gift that keeps on giving," it said.
ref: 2006 March 19, David Usborne, “South Park declares war on Tom Cruise”, in The Independent:
text: Viacom says it's dropping actor Tom Cruise for his strange behaviour. You fans will remember the South Park 'Closetgate' episode and 'couch incident' on the popular talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show of May 23, 2005.
ref: 2006 August 23, Anu Anand, “Congo, Iran & Tom Cruise”, in BBC World Service:
text: Dubbed Closetgate, Comedy Central, a network owned by Viacom, pulled a rerun of this Emmy-nominated episode, supposedly under pressure from Tom Cruise, who threatened to bail out of promoting his upcoming film "Mission: Impossible III," which was being released by Paramount, a division of Viacom.
ref: 2009, David Lake, “The 10 Most Controversial 'South Park' Episodes”, in MSN TV, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2009:
text: Matt Stone and Trey Parker – the show’s fearless creators – were not afraid to call out Cruise on his power play – being dubbed “Closetgate” by The L.A. Times – even taking out ads, proclaiming tongue-in-cheek that they themselves were "servants of Xenu" and that the "million-year war for Earth" had only just begun, presumably now that their show had been screwed with backdoor deals.
ref: 2009, “Tom Cruise - Biography”, in Turner Classic Movies:
text: Loony toon ... Controversy erupted in March over a South Park episode that made light of Tom's religion, Scientology. The LA Times dubbed it "Closetgate" as Comedy Central pulled the episode at the last minute.
ref: 2009, “Off-screen antics cost Cruise”, in Herald-Sun:
glosses: A scandal following the airing of the South Park television episode "Trapped in the Closet", which was a satirical parody of Scientology and Scientologist actor Tom Cruise.
Related terms: -gate
Watergate
closet
pappyshow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pappyshow
form: most pappyshow
form: poppy show
Etymology: Early 20th-century alteration of Scottish dialect puppy show, meaning "puppet show".
Senses: glosses: ridiculous, ludicrous
pappyshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pappyshows
form: poppy show
Etymology: Early 20th-century alteration of Scottish dialect puppy show, meaning "puppet show".
Senses: glosses: A fool, a buffoon
glosses: mockery, ridicule
pappyshow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pappyshows
form: pappyshowing
form: pappyshowed
form: pappyshowed
form: poppy show
Etymology: Early 20th-century alteration of Scottish dialect puppy show, meaning "puppet show".
Senses: glosses: to mock, to make fun of
paradoxical frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈdɒksɪkəl fɹɒɡ/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl fɹɑɡ/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl fɹɔɡ/
Forms: form: paradoxical frogs
Etymology: So called because it is larger as a tadpole than as an adult frog.
Senses: glosses: Pseudis paradoxa, a species of frog unusual because it is larger as a tadpole (up to 25 cm or 10 in. long) than as an adult (about a quarter of that length).
Synonyms: shrinking frog
hacendados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hacendado
paramatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramattas
Etymology: So named from Parramatta, in Australia.
Senses: glosses: A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino.
parcourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcourses
Etymology: From French "parcours du combattant", a military obstacle course, from Latin "percurrere", to move through, influenced by English "course".
Senses: glosses: A path or course, usually public, consisting of various obstacles or areas, designed for exercise purposes.
Synonyms: fitness trail
Related terms: parkour
parbuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parbuckles
form: parbunkell
form: parbunkel
form: parbunkle
form: parbuncle
Etymology: Earliest forms are parbuncle, parbunkel and parbunkle. Of unknown earlier origin. Influenced by buckle and French boucle (“loop”)
Senses: glosses: A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.
glosses: A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
parbuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parbuckles
form: parbuckling
form: parbuckled
form: parbuckled
form: parbunkell
form: parbunkel
form: parbunkle
form: parbuncle
Etymology: Earliest forms are parbuncle, parbunkel and parbunkle. Of unknown earlier origin. Influenced by buckle and French boucle (“loop”)
Senses: glosses: To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
sole traders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sole trader
sole proprietors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sole proprietor
sole proprietorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sole proprietorship
cui bono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cicero’s Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino, 84 & 86: Latin cui bonō fuisset (“to whom it would have benefited”), a so-called double dative construction.
Senses: examples: text: If the principle of cui bono is applied, it is evident that the gainers were the party of the triumvirs, whose popularity would be increased by a belief being created that their opponents the Optimates were prepared to adopt extreme measures to get rid of them.
ref: 1900, Evelyn Shuckburgh, Letters to Atticus, translation of original by Marcus Tullius Cicero:
glosses: The principle that the ultimate initiator of an action is likely the person who stands to gain from the action.
wikipedia: double dative
Synonyms: cui prodest
Related terms: follow the money
agnosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agnosy
apparats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apparat
aquiline nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquiline noses
Senses: examples: text: She was delicately fair, with an aquiline nose, and a mouth the size of which was forgotten in its white teeth and pleasant smile. She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful;...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:
synonyms: hooknose
Roman nose
glosses: A nose with a hooked, bent shape.
aquiline noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquiline nose
Roman nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman noses
Senses: glosses: An aquiline nose.
Roman noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman nose
AVN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /eɪ viː ˈɛn/
Senses: glosses: Adult Video News, an American magazine of the pornographic industry.
AVN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪ viː ˈɛn/
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of atrioventricular node.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of avascular necrosis.
non-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stop.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the non-stop Heathrow Express service, there is a Transport for London stopping service to London Paddington: this is the Heathrow Connect service taken over by TfL in May 2018.
ref: 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of nonstop.
non-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + stop.
Senses: examples: text: The through Moorgate service has been most handsomely speeded up, and suburban trains in both directions now run non-stop between Kings Cross (Underground) and Elstree.
ref: 1960 February, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:
glosses: Alternative form of nonstop.
non-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-stops
Etymology: From non- + stop.
Senses: examples: text: The Victoria-Brighton non-stops, the Victoria-Eastbourne and Hastings, Victoria-Worthing and Littlehampton, Victoria-Bognor and Portsmouth and Victoria-Oxted line services were, with a very few exceptions, all re-routed to and from London Bridge.
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: Victoria shut-down”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136:
glosses: Alternative form of nonstop.
Related terms: limited-stop
nakharar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nakharars
form: naxarar
Etymology: From Armenian նախարար (naxarar).
Senses: glosses: A hereditary title of the highest order given to houses of the ancient and medieval Armenian nobility.
Related terms: azat
money shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money shot
naxarar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naxarars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nakharar.
naxarars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naxarar
nakharars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nakharar
skaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skaiter
pass up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːs ˈʌp/
Forms: form: passes up
form: passing up
form: passed up
form: passed up
Senses: examples: text: He passed up my invitation for dinner, saying he was too busy.
text: Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
text: But he also feared that if he passed up the opportunity, he’d never learn the skills necessary to take his clients to the next level.
ref: 2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: To refuse (not accept); forgo.
examples: text: The teacher told us to pass up our English homework.
text: Be punctual and pass up schoolwork on time.
ref: 1979 September 16, “THE TWENTY MAXIMS”, in The Straits Times, page 1:
text: The teachers called me, she doesn't do her work, she doesn't pass up work, she'll hide her papers everywhere.
ref: 2004, Lana Yiu Lan Khong, Family Matters: The Role of Parents in the Singapore Education, page 159:
text: At times, when I had to pass up assignments, I did them whenever I had any free time at work.
ref: 2015 May 11, Hafsah Ali, Shhhh!!! Can Airport Talk?:
glosses: To submit (hand in) items to a person, usually one's teacher.
examples: text: Can you pass up this box to the guy on the ladder?
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, up.
Synonyms: withgo
Derived terms: pass up like a white chip
patch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: patches up
form: patching up
form: patched up
form: patched up
Senses: examples: text: I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.
glosses: To repair by adding a patch.
glosses: To mend quickly.
examples: text: You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument.
text: But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.
ref: 1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
text: Nixon was very curious about developments on the Chinese mainland. He particularly wanted to know whether the Vice-Premier saw any possibility of Peking and Moscow patching up their feud in the foreseeable future. Chiang Ching-kuo answered in the negative.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Signs of Change”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: To repair relations; to improve relations.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To overlay.
MAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛm.eɪ.ɛf/
Forms: form: MAFs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of minor allele frequency: the frequency of the less-common allele at a SNP.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of mass airflow.
MAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɛm.eɪ.ɛf/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: ATM
glosses: Initialism of Malaysian Armed Forces.
MAFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAF
paternity test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternity tests
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
law
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: maternity test
glosses: A test performed to determine the biological father of a child.
paternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternity
paternity tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternity test
pattern baldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gradual loss of hair, common in humans, especially males.
Synonyms: androgenic alopecia
Related terms: male pattern baldness
peace sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peace signs
Senses: glosses: A hand gesture of peace, made with the middle finger and index finger
glosses: A symbol consisting of three lines within a circle, originally the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Synonyms: V sign
deuce
peace symbol
Related terms: english: Unicode symbol for the peace sign gesture
translation: Unicode symbol for the peace sign gesture
word: ✌
english: Unicode symbol for the peace sign symbol
translation: Unicode symbol for the peace sign symbol
word: ☮
jubés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jubé
learning diffculty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learning difficulty
form: learning difficulties
Senses: glosses: Any medically recognized condition (as opposed to a disease) that inhibits a person's ability to function in the world.
Related terms: learning difficulties
nonlobotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lobotomized.
Senses: glosses: Not lobotomized.
draw bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draw bridges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drawbridge.
draw-bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drawbridge.
commercium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional academic feast, known and held at universities in most Central and Northern European countries.
niggerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggerhoods
Etymology: From nigger + -hood. First use appears c. 1853 in a publication by James Henry Skene. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Slip-shod menials scowled cross-legged on the narrow poops, now pipe-filling automata in cloudy paletots and cloudier Tatar faces, now livery harem-slaves in all the pride of flat-nosed, thick-lipped, wooly niggerhood.
ref: 1853, James Henry Skene, Anadol - The Last Home of the Faithful, page 3:
text: But this time, black literature will be pressed to meet also the cry that is abroad for images of a positive niggerhood.
ref: 1972, George E Kent, Blackness and the adventure of Western culture:
text: He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.
ref: 2001, Steve Yarbrough, Visible spirits:
text: During Black History Month, to put a class of toothless urchins in touch with our disparate niggerhoods, Ms. Murphy assigned us to make family trees.
ref: Quoted in: 2001, Lynda Koolish, African American Writers: Portraits and Visions (page 12)
text: The New School rap performer aspired to a heroic badness by embracing an antiheroic niggerhood.
ref: 2014, Scott F. Parker, Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, page 161:
synonyms: niggerdom
glosses: The state or period of being a nigger.
niggerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggerhoods
Etymology: Blend of nigger + neighborhood;
Senses: examples: text: He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.
ref: 1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross:
text: The next freeway entrance was Vernon. He'd drive up there and find it. If he didn't run across a decent location on the way, he'd just have to vacate the niggerhood and do it somewhere else.
ref: 2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211:
text: We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.
ref: 2020, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Martina Althoff (editors), Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment, page 155:
glosses: A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents.
hyperalgesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperalgesia
antihyperalgesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hyperalgesic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Serving to counter hyperalgesia
antihyperalgesic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihyperalgesics
Etymology: From anti- + hyperalgesic.
Senses: glosses: Such a drug
hypoalgesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypoalgesia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hypoalgesia.
hyperalgesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyperalgesia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
Derived terms: antihyperalgesic
dyrosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyrosaurid
unincluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + included.
Senses: examples: text: Generally speaking, phase-in plans gradually introduce the costs of the plant into the rate base, with the unincluded portion of the plant accumulating both interest and the allowed return on equity until it enters the rate base.
ref: 1986, Financial Condition of the U.S. Electric Utility Industry, page 29:
synonyms: excluded
nonincluded
omitted
glosses: Not included; excluded.
unincluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uninclude
nonprobabilistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + probabilistic.
Senses: glosses: Not probabilistic.
nonproven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + proven.
Senses: glosses: Not proven; unproven.
scrat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: scrats
form: scratting
form: scratted
form: scratted
Etymology: From Middle English scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish kratta (“to rake”). Also compare German kratzen (“to scratch”).
Senses: examples: text: Euclio […] as he went from home, seeing a crow scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen, an ill sign […].
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286
glosses: To scratch; to use one's nails or claws.
examples: text: He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.
ref: 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden, Vintage International, published 1992, page 89:
glosses: To rake; to search.
scrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: scrats
Etymology: Compare Old English scritta (“a hermaphrodite”), which had an earlier sense of "effeminate person, castrated man," presumably related to sċieran (“to cut”). Liberman notes that Germanic glossators, not familiar with Ovid, did not know exactly how to translate Latin hermaphroditus and instead matched it with more native words related to sexual deficiencies.
Senses: examples: text: three on the right side for males , three on the left side for femals , and one in the midst for Hermophrodices or Scrats
ref: 1649, Thomas Johnson, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey:
glosses: A hermaphrodite.
scrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: scrats
Etymology: From Middle English scrat, from Old English *scrætt, from Proto-Germanic *skrattuz (“troll, forest monster”). Compare German Schratt and Old Norse skratti.
Senses: glosses: A devil.
Related terms: Old Scratch
textbooky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more textbooky
form: most textbooky
Etymology: From textbook + -y.
Senses: glosses: textbooklike
textbooklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more textbooklike
form: most textbooklike
Etymology: From textbook + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a textbook; dry and pedagogic in tone, comprehensive in scope, etc.
Synonyms: word: textbook
word: textbooky
uniparental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From uni- + parental.
Senses: synonyms: monoparental
glosses: From or with only one parent.
nonexceptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exceptional.
Senses: glosses: Not exceptional; normal, unremarkable.
overdemanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdemanding
form: most overdemanding
Etymology: From over- + demanding.
Senses: examples: overdemanding parents
glosses: Excessively demanding.
bamboolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bamboolike
form: most bamboolike
Etymology: From bamboo + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bamboo.
unknighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + knighted.
Senses: glosses: Not knighted.
juniperlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juniperlike
form: most juniperlike
Etymology: From juniper + -like.
Senses: examples: juniperlike needles
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of juniper.
paranoid personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranoid personality disorders
form: paranoid-personality disorder
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.
Synonyms: word: PPD
Related terms: paranoid schizophrenia
schizoid personality disorder
schizotypal personality disorder
schizothymia
premature ejaculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premature ejaculations
Senses: synonyms: ejaculatio praecox
ejaculum praecox
glosses: A medical condition where a man, when initiating sexual intercourse, will experience an orgasm and expel semen after a time period far below the average, generally defined as one minute or less.
Related terms: premature ejaculator
NoCall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NoCalls
Senses: examples: text: The number of NoCalls was higher in regions where changes from heterozygous to homozygous calls occurred and might therefore indicate LOH[=loss of heterozygosity].
ref: 2008 December, Marieke J.H. Coenen, et al., "Allelic Imbalance Analysis Using a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Microarray for the Detection of Bladder Cancer Recurrence", Clinical Cancer Research number 14, doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-1103, page 8201
glosses: An SNP (in an individual) for which insufficient information is available to determine genotype.
NoCalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NoCall
depressive disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depressive disorders
Senses: glosses: Either mild depression (the blues; symptoms include sadness and fatigue) or major depressive disorder.
GWAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒiː.wɒs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒi.wɑs/
Forms: form: GWASs
form: GWASes
Senses: glosses: Acronym of genome-wide association study, an analysis of allelic association for genes or genetic markers throughout a genome.
Related terms: GWA
GWA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis
Senses: examples: text: The results of large-scale GWA studies are increasingly populating leading scientific journals and facilitating family-based linkage analysis and disease association studies, she [Debbie Nickerson, Ph.D.] noted.
ref: 2010, Vicki Glaser, “Turning Data into Genomic Medicine”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, volume 30, number 21, page 36:
glosses: Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.
Related terms: GWAS
GWASes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GWAS
blue movies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue movie
loosey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loosies
form: loosie
Etymology: From loose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Killed Over a Loosey. A 30-year-old man was chased down by four women and stabbed more than 20 times early Sunday after arguing with them over a broken cigarette, sources said.
ref: 2009, Peter Moskos, Killed Over a Loosey, Cop in the Hood blog, February 2, 2009
text: After a few months of sloppy, half-asleep patronage, the Egyptians started calling me “boss” and readily accepted my fifty cents when I asked for a loosie, which I did often.
ref: 2018, Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Vintage, published 2019, page 5:
glosses: A single cigarette, sold individually ("loose").
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A track that is not part of an album.
Related terms: loosey-goosey
loosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loosey
glosses: plural of loosie
loosie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loosies
Etymology: By analogy with loosey, and by back-formation from plural loosies.
Senses: examples: text: Smokers aren’t surprised at the escalating price, reminiscing about recent months gone by when a loosie cost only 25 cents.
ref: 2008 June 15, Barry Paddock, Kristen Brown, Stephanie Gaskell, “Loosies’ lousy tax price hike: Cig costs a drag, but may force smokers to quit”, in New York Daily News:
glosses: Alternative spelling of loosey.
chatlog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatlogs
Etymology: From chat + log.
Senses: glosses: A log of an online chat between users or between a user and one or more chatbots.
chatlogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatlog
baltei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balteus
mantis crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantis crab
Dracon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn).
Senses: examples: text: The archaic law of Dracon which dealt with unintentional homicide, passed over a century before Cleisthenes, but reaffirmed in 409 as the law of the state, appoints that if the dead man has no close relatives ten members of his phratry shall settle with the killer.
ref: 1967, Antony Andrewes, “Tribes and kinship groups”, in The Greeks (The History of Human Society), London: Hutchinson, →OCLC, page 85:
text: A little later, perhaps c.620, Dracon drew up the first published Athenian law code. A probably trustworthy fifth-century BC copy of his homicide law survives, but the account of the ‘Draconian constitution’ given by Aristotle is almost certainly spurious.
ref: 1987, Ian Morris, “Introduction: the argument”, in Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State (New Studies in Archaeology), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
text: In 620 BC the lawgiver Dracon drafted Athens’ first criminal code, and extremely draconian (i.e. severe) it was too, since Dracon argued that, as small crimes deserved the death penalty, so must big ones (his laws were ‘written in blood, not ink’, a later politician said).
ref: 2014, Peter Jones, “Curse and Crime”, in Eureka! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask, London: Atlantic Books, published 2015, →ISBN, section IV (c. 700–593 BC: Tyranny, poetry and speculation), pages 91–92:
glosses: Alternative form of Draco (“Athenian lawgiver”).
learning disabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of learning disability
conger eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conger eel
shotgun weddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotgun wedding
unselectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + selectability.
Senses: glosses: The inability to be selected.
RANSAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹænsæk/
homophone: ransack
Senses: glosses: Acronym of random sample consensus (an iterative method to estimate parameters of a mathematical model from a set of observed data which contains outliers).
beluine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːljuˌaɪn/
Forms: form: more beluine
form: most beluine
Etymology: From Latin bēluīnus (“animal, bestial; brutal”): see further at belluine.
Senses: examples: text: […] God ſuffereth his Church to be ſo afflicted, and more, eſpecially to be conſidered in ten, a perfect and compleat number, the compleat ripeneſſe of ſinne and impiety in that Belua (beast); and as an indefinite number ten, being underſtood for many, as ſex centa pro infinito numero, the often aſſaults of his beluine homes and fury: […]
ref: 1643, W[illiam] S[latyer], “Part. 5. Of the Sacraments.”, in The Compleat Christian, and Compleat Armour and Armoury of a Christian, Fitting Him with All Necessary Furniture for that His Holy Profession: Or, The Doctrine of Salvation: […], [s.l.]: Printed for the authour, →OCLC, section 2 (Of Baptisme), page 674:
text: When a great truculent, bull-headed man, who has been living in the indulgence of the most beluine parts of his nature, begins to be subdued by home influences, and the little child is able to lead him; when his great strength begins to be brought under the control of his tenderer domestic affections, everbody says, “ How beautiful the sight is!” It is beautiful.
ref: 1870 March–September, Henry Ward Beecher, “Beauty”, in The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. […] (Plymouth Pulpit; [Fourth] Series), New York, N.Y.: J. B. Ford & Company, […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: Alternative spelling of belluine.
beluin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beluin
form: most beluin
Etymology: As beluine, the final -e (used to lengthen the preceding i, likewise long in the Latin etymon) omitted.
Senses: examples: text: [H]ad you ſtaid, you would have taken but little comfort in your life, in regard that ever ſince ther have bin the fearfulleſt diſtractions here that ever happen'd upon any part of the earth, a Beluin kind of immanity never rag'd ſo among men, inſomuch that the whole Countrey might have taken its appellation from the ſmalleſt part thereof, and be call'd the Iſle of Dogs; for all humanity, common honeſty, and that Manſuetude with other Moral Civilities which ſhould diſtinguiſh the rational Creature from other Animals, have been loſt here a good while; […]
ref: 1647 May 15 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XV. To Sir K. D. at Paris.”, in [Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ.] A Third Volume of Familiar Letters of a Fresher Date. […], 3rd edition, volume III, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section, page 25:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of belluine .
pâté chinois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French pâté chinois.
Senses: examples: text: The golden baked pâté chinois, a shepherd's pie, uses a recipe brought back to Quebec by miners working in China, Me.
ref: 1991 December 8, Nancy Lyon, “Quebec's Cuisine Has a New Flavor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: Chinese pie
glosses: A French-Canadian dish of layered ground beef, sweetcorn and mashed potatoes, similar to shepherd's pie.
suretyships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suretyship
quadru-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadri- (“four”).
plate appearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plate appearance
Liebercrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Liebercrat
bayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baya
to hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Einhorn had a teaching turn […] And with his son at the university I was the only student he had to hand.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives."
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 26:
glosses: Readily available; within easy reach; nearby.
Synonyms: at hand
handy
on hand
to one's hand
quadriportico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadriporticos
form: quadriporticoes
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A four-sided portico.
venditate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: venditates
form: venditating
form: venditated
form: venditated
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin venditare, frequentative of vendere (“to sell”).
Senses: examples: text: We brag and venditate our own works, and scorn all others in respect of us […]
ref: , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.293
glosses: To exhibit, as though for sale; to show off.
mother-fuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother-fucker
mother fuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother fucker
quadriportici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadriporticus
swivelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swivelly
form: most swivelly
Etymology: From swivel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ...Elvis, the truck driver with the curvy, vampy pout, the lady-killer revered for the kind of swivelly hips that once we admired only in ladies.
ref: 1984, Robert Duncan, The noise: notes from a rock 'n' roll era:
text: Restless, he spun the chair around - it was one of those swivelly office chairs that are brilliant for spinning...
ref: 2003, Tim Kennemore, Sabine:
text: Henry seen dat boy talkin at you, de one wit a head as swivelly as a owl's. Seen him teachin you games. Seen you understands.
ref: 2008, Tricia Dower, Silent girl: stories:
glosses: With a swivelling motion.
rapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rapable
form: most rapable
form: rapeable
Etymology: From rap(e) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: To the Adam in man, woman is no more than a rapable receptacle.
ref: 1984, Bruce Woodcock, Male mythologies: John Fowles and masculinity:
text: His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable.
ref: 2005, Patricia Vettel-Becker, Shooting from the hip: photography, masculinity, and postwar America:
text: The rapable female body is the terrain on which all of this is played out […]
ref: 2006, Sharon Stockton, The economics of fantasy: rape in twentieth-century literature:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.
Derived terms: rapability
unrapable
Related terms: rappable
rapeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rapeable
form: most rapeable
Senses: examples: text: […] the nonresistance of the fruit signaling the passive and somatic nature of Stephen's sense of himself as a rapeable body.
ref: 2000, Joseph Valente, Quare Joyce, page 167:
text: As I noted in Chapter 7, Sharon Marcus and others have argued that reiterations of representations of women as passive and vulnerable and men as sexually aggressive may in fact actually render women's bodies more rapeable […]
ref: 2013, Nicola Gavey, Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, page 216:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rapable.
Derived terms: rapeability