cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: trugs
Etymology: Compare trough.
Senses: glosses: A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
glosses: A trough or tray.
glosses: A hod for mortar.
examples: text: the Tobacco seller, with their companion Trugs, must be coached to […]many other places, like wild haggards prancing up and down
ref: 1630, John Taylor, “The World Runs on Wheels”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet:
glosses: A concubine; a harlot.
jiggery-pokery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒɪɡ.ə.ɹiˈpəʊ.kə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌdʒɪɡ.ɚ.iˈpoʊ.kɚ.i/
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots joukery-pawkery (“trickery; deceit”) Attested in English since the nineteenth century. The earliest known use was in the Berkshire Chronicle in 1845.
Senses: examples: text: 'Jiggery-pokery,' said Helena, 'you talk jiggery-pokery. Stop it, can't you?'
ref: 1975, Pamela Hansford Johnson, A Summer to Decide, Scribner, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Much as 'off-balance sheet' jiggery-pokery and other 'creative accounting' allowed banks to get away with false impressions of their true financial position...
ref: 2015, Peter Hain, Back to the Future of Socialism:
glosses: Trickery or misrepresentation.
examples: text: ...under the present law, the averages were made up so faithfully and fairly as to prevent any jiggery-pokery.
ref: 1845 December 27, “Protection to Agriculture”, in Berkshire Chronicle:
text: ...what my friend Singleton calls "rigging, cornering, and general jiggery-pokery methods,"...
ref: 1892, Philip Stanhope, Lightning (journal), Letter XXVII
text: Indeed, there was some highly questionable jiggery-pokery with couplings and continuous brakes in this agreeable story, which featured Moore Marriott as an old driver who averts a disaster on his last run.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
text: The hon. Member for Dover is suggesting that if all the facts were revealed, there would be less danger of people thinking that there was jiggery-pokery.
ref: 1964, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report, Volume 707, H.M. Stationery Office, page 805:
glosses: Manipulation.
examples: text: ...the males, like most birds, have no penis. But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.
ref: 2002, Olivia Judson, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: sense: trickery
word: hanky-panky
sense: trickery
word: skulduggery
sense: trickery
word: trickery
sense: sexual intercourse
word: copulation
unilamellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + lamellar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single layer or lamella.
unimpeachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimpeachable
form: most unimpeachable
Etymology: From un- + impeachable.
Senses: examples: text: a gentleman of unimpeachable integrity
text: “Patriotism” makes for a slogan that is so unimpeachable it’s arguably even manipulative; as a matter of strategy, it’s harder for opponents to vote against the USA PATRIOT Act than, say, the Enhanced Security Act.
ref: 2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Not able to be impeached or reproached.
glosses: Blameless.
examples: text: an unimpeachable alibi
text: On the previous day, the prisoner had purchased strychnine at the village chemist’s shop, wearing a disguise by means of which he hoped to throw the onus of the crime upon another man—to wit, Mrs. Inglethorp’s husband, of whom he had been bitterly jealous. Luckily for Mr. Inglethorp, he had been able to produce an unimpeachable alibi.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 153:
text: (in Farsi) Today I have proof from an unimpeachable source you are a traitor.
ref: 2017, “Imminent Risk” (28:50 from the start), in Homeland, season 6, episode 7, spoken by Naser (Anthony Azizi):
glosses: Beyond doubt.
uniquely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uniquely
form: most uniquely
Etymology: From unique + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a uniquely gifted musician
text: components that are uniquely numbered for identification
text: This hospitability to established acts is part of what makes country music unique and, these days, uniquely profitable.
ref: 2008 February 24, Kelefa Sanneh, “A Country Music Veteran Proves He’s No Mere Hat Act”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2018:
text: “The NBA and FIBA are uniquely positioned to build on the rich tradition of European basketball. We look forward to collaborating with FIBA to explore the creation of a new league for fans across the continent,” Silver added.
ref: 2025 March 27, Matias Grez, “NBA and FIBA in talks with European soccer teams over new basketball league”, in CNN:
glosses: In a unique manner.
mendicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mendicities
Etymology: From Old French mendicité, from Latin mendicitas.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary
pseudologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudologues
Etymology: From Latin pseudologus (“liar”), from Ancient Greek ψευδολόγος (pseudológos, “speaking falsely, lying”). Equivalent to pseudo- + -logue.
Senses: examples: 1996, Charles V Ford Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! http://print.google.com/print?id=_FSc5C2bFYUC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&sig=65p2wlZfcRu3nutVAX-2YsZv2tk
Unlike a delusional psychotic person, the pseudologue will abandon the story or change it if confronted with contradictory evidence or sufficient disbelief.
1997, Alan J. Cunnien, “Psychiatric and Medical Syndromes Associated with Deception,” in Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception, Richard Rogers ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=YZ6uK4Cjd_MC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&sig=U2ylaYiNPRuZhU8c6xYEif8SV8E
Unlike the common braggart, however, the pseudologue falsifies a substantial amount of information with bearing upon activities, acquaintances, or personal identity.
2004, Ralph Keyes, The Post-Truth Era http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=eKRyyOIJgqQC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&sig=Mu90a_dMEhkqCOXth_drbJZhk3s
Even a grandiose pseudologue, he writes, must be evaluated carefully to see if he is a compulsive liar or simply “someone for whom truth is temporarily unavailable.”
glosses: A pathological liar
Derived terms: pseudologist
pseudology
admonition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædməˈnɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: admonitions
Etymology: From Middle English amonicioun, from Old French amonicion, from Latin admonitio, stem of admonere. The -d- was restored in English in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: But modesty cannot be implanted by admonition only—the elders must set the example.
ref: 1892, Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Laws (Plato):
glosses: A rebuke by an authority that one has erred and should not persist in their actions; a reprimand.
Synonyms: reproof
Derived terms: admonitional
admonitionist
admonitive
preadmonition
Related terms: admonish
GSTQ
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of God Save the Queen.
webcomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webcomics
Etymology: From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).
Senses: examples: text: Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling[…]
ref: 2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, →ISBN, page 275:
text: Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.
ref: 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
text: Almost six years ago, Andrew Hussie began another one of a series of webcomics on his website, MS Paint Adventures. These early comics were experiments in fan-sourced storytelling: He’d create and monitor forums for character and story suggestions, then fold them into the story.
ref: 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic:
topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.
nonuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonuplets
Etymology: From nonuple + -et.
Senses: glosses: A group of nine, particularly (music) a tuplet of nine notes.
glosses: One of a group of nine, particularly one of nine babies born from the same mother at one time.
hxc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hardcore (music genre).
ballpark estimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballpark estimates
Etymology: See ballpark figure.
Senses: glosses: A ballpark figure; a very rough approximation.
bird of paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds of paradise
form: bird-of-paradise
Etymology: The first Europeans to encounter their skins were the voyagers in Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the Earth. Antonio Pigafetta wrote that "The people told us that those birds came from the terrestrial paradise, and they call them bolon diuata, that is to say, 'birds of God"."
"Bolon diuata" appears to be closer to Malay burung (“a bird”) and dewata (“a god”).
Senses: examples: text: She had a jonquil silk pelisse, a bonnet of the same colour, with a bird of paradise plume, looking very much like an illuminated butterfly.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: Any of various passerine birds of the family Paradisaeidae native to Oceania. In many of the species the breeding plumage of the males is brightly coloured.
glosses: A showy tropical flower of the genus Strelitzia, native to South Africa.
Derived terms: Wilson's bird of paradise
turnstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnstones
Etymology: From turn + stone.
Senses: glosses: Either of two species of coastal wading bird, Arenaria interpres and Arenaria melanocephala, that breed in the Arctic and readily turn stones or seaweed looking for hidden invertebrates.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Arenaria melanocephala
word: black turnstone
taxonomic: Arenaria interpres
word: ruddy turnstone
bluebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluˌbɝd/
Forms: form: bluebirds
Etymology: From blue + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any of various North American birds of the genus Sialia in the thrush family. Their plumage is blue or blue and red.
glosses: Any of various African starlings of the genus Lamprotornis, family Sturnidae, having predominantly glossy blue plumage.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An unexpectedly profitable or large deal that comes to a salesperson with minimal effort.
Derived terms: bluebird of happiness
boobird
fairy bluebird
mountain bluebird
gey
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.
Senses: examples: text: I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 207:
text: But I'll put a gold chain around his neck, An' a gey good chain it'll be.
ref: 2001, David Thomson, The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk, Canongate Books, page 213:
glosses: Very.
gey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: geyer
form: geyest
Etymology: Originally a variant form of gay, now associated with distinct senses.
Senses: examples: text: They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:
glosses: Fairly good; considerable.
all square
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: With all players or teams having the same score; tied, drawn.
art form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art forms
Senses: examples: text: Pottery is an art form.
glosses: Any activity or piece of work that has artistic merit.
Derived terms: turn something into an art form
all-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: alltime
Etymology: From all + time.
Senses: examples: text: Sales have reached an all-time low, so the business may have to declare bankruptcy.
text: And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.
ref: 2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
text: During the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 38:
glosses: Of all time; unsurpassed up to the present time.
all told
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From all + told (“counted”), from the original, now archaic sense of tell, which see.
Senses: examples: text: I think they had over 300 people there, all told.
synonyms: altogether
all in all
all things considered
in total
glosses: With everything included, counted, or summed; in total.
Related terms: all in all
foison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɪzən/
rhymes: -ɔɪzən
Forms: form: foisons
Etymology: From Middle English foisoun, from Old French foison, from Latin fūsiōnem. Doublet of fusion.
Senses: examples: text: The earth did never mean her foizon
For those who crown life’s cup with poison
Of fanatic rage and meaningless revenge—
But for those radiant spirits, who are still
The standard-bearers in the van of Change.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
glosses: An abundance, a rich supply of.
examples: text: Gon. […]Treaſon, fellony, / Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine / Would I not haue : but Nature ſhould bring forth / Of it owne kinde, all foyzon, all abundance / To feed my innocent people.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 7:
glosses: Harvest.
glosses: Strength, power.
spadework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spade + work.
Senses: examples: text: It is this help that the present book attempts to give, and the moment of its appearance, during a partial lull of excavation, is an opportune one. There is a chance to take breath and gather up the threads, with the possibility that the next month's spade-work will not put us out of date.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page vii:
glosses: Work done by digging with a spade.
examples: text: There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented.
text: Removing a portion of chair which had got entangled in my back hair, I said with a candour that became me well: “I was looking for a mouse.” If she had replied, “Ah, yes, indeed. I understand now. A mouse, to be sure. Quite,” everything would have been nice and smooth, but she didn't. “A mouse?” she said. “What do you mean?” Well, of course, if she didn't know what a mouse was, there was evidently a good deal of tedious spadework before us, and one would scarcely have known where to start.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
text: Some essential spadework, on which certain details of the plan will be founded, is yet unfinished.
ref: 1964 February, “British Railways' passenger plans”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
glosses: Work done in preparation for something else.
Synonyms: sense: work done by digging with a spade
word: digging
sense: work done in preparation
word: prep
sense: work done in preparation
word: prep work
sense: work done in preparation
word: preparatory work
sense: work done in preparation
word: groundwork
sense: work done in preparation
word: homework
Related terms: spadeworker
almshouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almshouses
form: alms-house
Etymology: From Middle English almeshous, almassehous, equivalent to alms + house.
Senses: examples: text: Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door, and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations.
Synonyms: poorhouse
by all means
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: By all means take as much salt as you need: that's what neighbors are for.
text: "By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it."
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: absolutely
of course
to be sure
undoubtedly
glosses: Emphatically yes; certainly; definitely.
examples: text: He vowed to attack her by all means possible, suggesting their war was only just beginning.
ref: 2015 May 5, Angelique Chrisafis, “Front National family feud goes nuclear as Jean-Marie Le Pen disowns Marine”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by, all, means.
Related terms: by any means
by no means
help yourself
leigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: lea
homophone: Lea
homophone: Lee
homophone: Leigh
homophone: li
homophone: Li
homophone: Lie
Forms: form: leighs
form: lea
form: ley
form: -leigh
form: -ley
form: -ly
Etymology: From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.
Senses: glosses: A meadow.
Derived terms: Bentleigh
butter bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter beans
Senses: glosses: Any bean of certain species, including:
A lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), especially when yellow or yellowish-white in colour.
synonyms: double bean
Madagascar bean
sieva bean
civet bean
glosses: Any bean of certain species, including:
A wax bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
butterbean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterbeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butter bean.
bushfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushfires
form: bush fire
Etymology: From bush + fire.
Senses: examples: text: 1985, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, Weekly Hansard, Issues 4-6, page 1322,
Many homes, a great deal of property and a number of lives were lost as a result of the bushfires in this country.
text: It should also be kept in mind that often bushfires start and move quickly and the information relating to their location and activity may take some time to assemble and make available.
ref: 2011, Tracey Dickson, Tonia Gray, Risk Management in the Outdoors: A Whole-of-Organisation Approach for Education, Sport and Recreation, page 199:
text: The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of apocalyptic blazes that burned on – and for some weeks after – Saturday, 7 February 2009. As a result of the bushfires, 173 people died. It was the nation′s largest loss of life from a bushfire event, and 414 people were injured.
ref: 2011, Larry Writer, The Australian Book of Disasters, unnumbered page:
glosses: An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
Synonyms: sense: uncontrolled fire in a wooded area
word: forest fire
sense: uncontrolled fire in a wooded area
word: wildfire
betaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪkən
Senses: glosses: past participle of betake
copyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑpiɪst/
ipa: /ˈkɒpiɪst/
Forms: form: copyists
Etymology: From copy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes manual copies of works such as manuscripts or paintings.
Derived terms: autocopyist
copyedit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copyedits
form: copyediting
form: copyedited
form: copyedited
form: copy edit
form: copy-edit
Etymology: Back-formation from copy editor.
Senses: examples: text: Memoirs of a Bastard Angel contains so many amazing howlers that it seems barely to have been copyedited or proofread.
ref: 1990 April 28, Duncan Mitchell, “A Dazzling Parade Of Celebrity Names”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: subedit
glosses: To correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and prepare it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.
Derived terms: uncopyedited
Related terms: copyediting
copyeditor
line edit
proofread
copyedit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyedits
form: copy edit
form: copy-edit
Etymology: Back-formation from copy editor.
Senses: examples: text: A copyedit is the final type of edit performed on documents.
ref: 1996, Dorothy L. Cady, Bulletproof Documentation: Creating Quality Through Testing, page 89:
text: The copyedit may be strictly mechanical or may include stylistic changes.
ref: 2016, Leslie Vermeer, The Complete Canadian Book Editor, page 35:
glosses: The process or act of copyediting a document.
examples: text: Your production editor will probably not contact you until the due date of the copyedit is established in-house.
ref: 2006, Brian Fagan, Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories About the Past, page 129:
glosses: The result of copyediting a document.
examples: text: For example, if the author is responsible for inserting the copyedits into the source files, then there are repercussions later on when changes are made during the page formatting stage.
ref: 1991, TEX Users Group, TUGboat, volume 12, page 365:
text: The copyedits in science.net — a game designed for middle school students — were somewhat less blunt, but they were supposed to retain the other salient features of the original.
ref: 2012, Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab, Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age, page 418:
glosses: A single change to the text of a document that is an instance of copyediting.
copyediting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copy editing.
copyediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copyedit
Related terms: copyeditor
copyeditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyeditors
Senses: examples: text: Then it’s off to a copyeditor, who from my experience are these superhuman, eagle-eyed monsters that catch continuity errors unseen to the naked eye.
ref: 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 62:
glosses: Alternative spelling of copy editor.
Related terms: copyedit
copy edit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copy edits
form: copy editing
form: copy edited
form: copy edited
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copyedit.
copy edit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy edits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copyedit.
copy editing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyediting
form: copy-editing
Senses: glosses: The correction of the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and preparation of it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.
Related terms: copy edit
copy editor
copy editor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy editors
form: copyeditor
form: copy-editor
Senses: glosses: Someone who corrects printed material (copy) and prepares it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.
Synonyms: subeditor
Related terms: copy edit
copy editing
retype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪp
Forms: form: retypes
form: retyping
form: retyped
form: retyped
Etymology: From re- + type.
Senses: glosses: To re-enter (text) using a keyboard.
Related terms: type
holme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holmes
Etymology: From Middle English holm (“island”), from Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holm.
Derived terms: Gauxholme
vachery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvæʃəɹi/
Forms: form: vacheries
Etymology: From French vacherie, from vache (“a cow”), Latin vacca. Compare vaccary.
Senses: glosses: A dairy, a vaccary.
Related terms: vacher
eschaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕs'kə-tŏn
ipa: /ˈɛs.kə.tɑn/
ipa: /-tɒn/
Forms: form: eschatons
form: eschata
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔσχατον (éskhaton, “last thing”), from the neuter singular of ἔσχατος (éskhatos, “last”).
Senses: examples: text: Only in the eschaton will God’s purpose gain its final fulfilment, a fulfilment, be it noted, which may still include some form of movement within a time-series.
ref: 1953, F. W. Dillistone, “The Church and Time”, in Scottish Journal of Theology, volume 6, page 163:
text: And this is also true of the revelation of the eschata: they do not reach us in a discourse about the future still to come, but in an action, in which God has already really begun them in us.
ref: 1966 [1962], Karl Rahner, “The Hermeneutics of Eschatological Associations”, in Karl Rahner, translated by Kevin Smyth, Theological Investigations, volume 4, page 336:
text: Without these sayings, the textual basis for saying Jesus expected an imminent eschaton becomes very slender.
ref: 1994, Marcus J. Borg, Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship, →ISBN, page 86:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The apocalypse; the arrival and the era of God’s reign immediately preceding the end of the world; a conception of or circumstance pertaining to this era.
examples: text: He, too, constructs a philosophical history towards an eschaton. In a peculiarly inverted manner he is among the believers in progress—the goal being the undoing of the things done.
ref: 1949 December, Helmut Kuhn, “[Review of Karl Löwith, Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History]”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 46, number 25, →JSTOR, page 825:
text: The most major of these eschatons involves the 65-million-year Cenozoic era, which began with the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event that decimated the dinosaurs and is now closing with another mass extinction event.
ref: 2011, Darrin Drda, The Four Global Truths: Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times, →ISBN, page 152:
text: From predictions of an imminent technological eschaton to theologically inflected ideas of human perfectibility achieved through technological means, there is ample warrant to see transhumanism as culturally other.
ref: 2016, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Introduction: Technology, Utopianism and Eschatology”, in J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, editors, Perfecting Human Futures: Transhuman Visions and Technological Imaginations, →ISBN, page 10:
text: And I think there is this eschaton that they [Silicon Valley's technologists] want to bring about in which the world ends in something like 2027. And they don’t have a great vision beyond 2027.
ref: 2025 September 4, Ross Douthat, quoting Dan Wang, “This Is Why America Is Losing to China”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: An end or fulfilment of history in general.
Related terms: eschatology
millennium
Dakota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈkəʊtə/
rhymes: -əʊtə
Forms: form: Dakotas
form: Dacota
form: Dacotah
form: Dahcotah
form: Dakhóta
Etymology: Borrowed from Dakota dakhóta (“ally”).
Senses: glosses: The Santee branch of the Sioux people.
glosses: The language of these people.
glosses: Either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota.
glosses: The Dakota Territory; an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.
examples: text: 'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. You'd never hear it the other way around; you're not going to hear about an American kid called Warrnambool or Kooweerup― [- - -] and they said,'Okay okay, we won't call her Montana.' So they called her Dakota.
ref: 2002, Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
Derived terms: Dak
Dak.
Dakota City
Dakota County
Dakota group
Dakota Territory
Lost Dakota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Territory of Dakota
Dakota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈkəʊtə/
rhymes: -əʊtə
Forms: form: Dakotas
form: Dacota
form: Dacotah
form: Dahcotah
form: Dakhóta
Etymology: Borrowed from Dakota dakhóta (“ally”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Dakota people
glosses: A Douglas DC-3 aircraft
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Out of air-to-ground ordinance.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Dakota terms
gamecock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamecocks
Etymology: From game + cock.
Senses: synonyms: fighting cock
glosses: A rooster used in cockfighting.
Related terms: cockfight
cockfighting
custard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌs.təd/
ipa: /ˈkʌs.tɚd/
rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: custards
Etymology: Alteration of croustade.
Senses: glosses: A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.
glosses: A similar sauce made from milk and cornflour or custard powder (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat.
Derived terms: African custard apple
all over the place like a mad woman's custard
boiled custard
confectioner's custard
cowardy custard
cup custard
custard apple
custard arm
custard brains
custard cannon
custard Christian
custard-chucker
custard coffin
custard cream
custard cup
custard-cups
custard glass
custard launcher
custardlike
custard peach
custard-pie
custard pie
custard powder
custard slice
custard squash
custard tart
custard wind
custardy
egg custard
egg custard tart
frozen custard
fruit custard
love custard
turn to custard
Related terms: bavarois
cream puff
crème brûlée
crème caramel
custard winds
floating island
panna cotta
pannacotta
trifle
vanilla slice
vla
zabaglione
custard pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custard pies
Senses: glosses: A pie made from an uncooked custard mixture added to an uncooked or partially cooked crust and then baked as a whole.
glosses: A prop used in slapstick, consisting of an open pie filled with custard or cream (or, more often nowadays, simply a paper plate covered with shaving foam or a similar substance) that is pushed into another person's face.
fighting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪtɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English feghtyng, fyȝtynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, feȝtand, viȝtinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, struggle, contend with”), equivalent to fight + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Engaged in war or other conflict.
examples: text: It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
ref: 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26
text: Them's fighting words in my country!
ref: 1947, Hold That Lion! (film)
text: Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
ref: 2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, →ISBN, page xi:
glosses: Apt to provoke a fight.
Derived terms: Fighting Bob
fighting chance
fighting hole
fighting little judge
fightingly
fighting word
nonfighting
unfighting
fighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪtɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English feghtyng, fyȝtynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, feȝtand, viȝtinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, struggle, contend with”), equivalent to fight + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fight
fighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: fightings
Etymology: From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fiȝtinge, feȝtyng, from Old English fihtung (“fighting”), equivalent to fight + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
examples: text: Then here the warres end, here our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.
ref: 1613, “The Costlie Whore”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
text: Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.
ref: 1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History:
text: A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.
ref: 1860, John Yeardley, Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel:
glosses: A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
Derived terms: antifighting
armored combat fighting
armored fighting vehicle
armoured combat fighting
armoured fighting vehicle
bullfighting
bushfighting
cage fighting
Chinese fighting stick
cockfighting
cock-fighting
crimefighting
fighting chair
fighting cock
fighting fish
fighting fit
fighting game
fighting irons
fighting spirit
fighting stick
fighting words
firefighting
fire fighting
footfighting
freedom fighting
gunfighting
infantry fighting vehicle
infighting
in fighting trim
kite fighting
shootfighting
Siamese fighting fish
snowfighting
stickfighting
stick-fighting
stink fighting
streetfighting
street fighting
sword fighting
warfighting
z-fighting
cheapo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːpəʊ
Forms: form: more cheapo
form: most cheapo
Etymology: From cheap + -o (“person with characteristic”, colloquialising suffix).
Senses: examples: text: They wanted crystal champagne glasses for the party but the caterers provided cheapo plastic cups instead.
glosses: Inexpensive and of poor quality.
Synonyms: cheap
cheapie
cheapo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːpəʊ
Forms: form: cheapos
Etymology: From cheap + -o (“person with characteristic”, colloquialising suffix).
Senses: glosses: A person who is stingy, a miser.
examples: text: The better half's Lupo was transformed when the cheap and nasty Nankang ditchfinders came off (and they were well above the legal limit) and mid-price Kumhos went on. The cheapos compromise on grip and can become noisy.
ref: 2012 February 26, Chris Bartram, “Re: tyres”, in uk.rec.driving (Usenet):
glosses: Something produced and sold for low cost.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A primitive trap, often set in the hope of swindling a win or draw from a losing position.
Synonyms: cheapie
piker
skinflint
tightwad
Related terms: el cheapo
consisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consist
xenonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛnənɪm/
ipa: /ˈzɪnənɪm/
Forms: form: xenonyms
Etymology: From xeno- (“foreign”) + -onym (“name”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of exonym.
synonyms: word: exonym
Derived terms: xenonymous
Related terms: ethnonym
glossonym
ethnonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθnə(ʊ)ˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈɛθnoʊˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈɛθnəˌnɪm/
Forms: form: ethnonyms
Etymology: From ethn- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: The name of an ethnic group, nation, nationality, tribe, tribal alliance, clan, or other ethnic community.
Derived terms: autoethnonym
endoethnonym
ethnonymic
ethnonymics
ethnonymous
exoethnonym
Related terms: autonym
demonym
endonym
exonym
xenonym
Steph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Etymology: Female: shortened from Stephanie, from French Stéphanie.
Male: shortened from Stephan.
Senses: examples: text: Gilmore, a guitarist, first performed with Spiderbait at Falls Festival in Byron Bay a decade ago, and has since joined the Australian rockers for a number of surfing-adjacent gigs. “Steph is a double mega shredder!” the band said recently.
ref: 2025 May 8, Kieran Pender, “Steph Gilmore: ‘I was looking for something more, in myself and in my surfing’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
examples: text: Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has accepted the role of assistant general manager for the basketball programs at alma mater Davidson College.
ref: 2025 March 11, Matias Grez, “Steph Curry accepts assistant general manager role at alma mater Davidson College”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Stephan or Stephen.
glossonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒ.sə.nɪm/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑ.sə.nɪm/
Forms: form: glossonyms
Etymology: From glosso- + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: Irish is the glossonym of the native language of Ireland.
glosses: The name of a language.
Synonyms: glottonym
linguonym
Related terms: endonym
autonym
exonym
xenonym
autoglossonym
autoglottonym
autolinguonym
endonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛndə(ʊ)nɪm/
ipa: /ˈɛndəˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈɛndoʊˌnɪm/
Forms: form: endonyms
Etymology: From endo- (“inside”) + -onym (“name”).
Senses: examples: text: The endonym is the basic toponymic exemplar and as such it needs to be understood properly. To do so we need to appreciate the context of space and place that produces it. Most endonyms arise from the elemental human relationship with space and place, and possess an intrinsic and enduring value which cannot normally be either bestowed or removed by political arbitrariness.
ref: 2009 May 24, Paul Woodman, “The Nature of the Endonym”, in UN, page 2:
synonyms: autonym
selfname
antonyms: exonym
xenonym
glosses: A name used by a group or category of people (an ingroup) to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups (outgroups).
Derived terms: endonymic
endonymous
Related terms: ethnonym
glossonym
autoglossonym
brown recluse spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown recluse spiders
Senses: glosses: A venomous American spider, of species Loxosceles reclusa, that has a mark on its back in the shape of a violin.
Synonyms: brown recluse
RBW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of resolution bandwidth.
nominator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominators
Etymology: From nominate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who nominates, the enactor of a nomination.
Derived terms: nominatrix
nominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nominate
strike rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strike rates
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The number of runs of a batter divided by the number of balls faced.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The number of runs scored by a batsman per 100 balls faced; the number of balls bowled by a bowler divided by the number of wickets taken.
examples: text: Cold calls are hard work, the strike rate, calling on people out of the blue (even when based on some research), is low.
ref: 2003, Patrick Forsyth, Marketing Stripped Bare: An Insider's Guide to the Secret Rules, page 77:
qualifier: sales
glosses: Sales success as a ratio of the number of customers to the number of potential leads who were approached.
naiads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naiad
interpreters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtəːpɹɪtəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of interpreter
webcomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webcomic
inhibitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhibition
Bandjin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Australian aboriginal people of Queensland.
Bandjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
basilectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basilect + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I prepared the three Matched Guise samples myself, controlling the forms carefully to represent basilectal, mesolectal, and acrolectal levels of usage.
ref: 1985, Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes, Language of Inequality, →ISBN, page 158:
text: It is tremendously important to study basilectal speech, but this valorization process has had some unfortunate byproducts.
ref: 1996, James E. Alatis, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, →ISBN:
text: While the use of basilectal French in colonial novels serves principally to depict the linguistic realities of interaction between colonial rulers and their subjects during the colonial era, the inclusion of basilectal French in novels set in the post-independence era generally functions to provide information on the social or educational status of a character.
ref: 2014, Kathryn Batchelor, Decolonizing Translation, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: of, or relating to a basilect
Derived terms: basilectalize
basilectally
nonbasilectal
basilect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæsɪlɛkt/
/ˈbeɪsɪlɛkt/
Forms: form: basilects
Etymology: From basi- (“base, bottom”) + -lect (“speech”).
Senses: examples: text: The highest level of good English has been called the acrolect; the lowest level of poor speech, the basilect; both are contrasted with the matrilect, the general native language.
ref: 1977, Joseph Twadell Shipley, In praise of English: the growth & use of language, page 78:
text: In both regions English is used extensively, the spoken form ranging from, in the language of linguisticians, the basilect to the mesolect and the matrilect or acrolect (prestige English) .
ref: 1987, Douglas N. Young, Language--planning and medium in education:
text: If only the basilect is a true creole, then the mesolect is relegated to limbo -- not a creole, certainly not a standard.
ref: 1996, James E. Alatis, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
coordinate_terms: acrolect
hyperlect
mesolect
;
vernacular#Noun
vulgate#Noun
glosses: A variety of a language that differs substantially from the standard form, and is only considered suitable for very informal contexts by speakers.
Derived terms: basilectal
Related terms: code-switching
matrilect
post-creole continuum
register
back yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back yards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backyard.
bardolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ).dɒlətɹɪi/
Forms: form: bardolatries
Etymology: From bard + -latry, coined by George Bernard Shaw in 1901.
Senses: glosses: excessive or religious worship of William Shakespeare
Derived terms: bardolatrous
Related terms: Janeiteism
poetolatry
antiphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiphonies
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: singing
glosses: Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
examples: text: Besides that Cardan pleases himself with that Antiphonie in Nature, that as the Ostrich being a Bird, yet never shes in the Aire, so this Bird of Paradise should alwayes be in the Aire, and never rest upon the Earth.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 76
glosses: Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
examples: text: Still another phase of language which interests Professor Orr is that of vowel antiphony in the functional development of language; e.g. the “front-back” vowel sequence (tittle-tattle, et patati et patata, etc.).
ref: 1953, The French Review, volume 27, page 300:
text: Roman Jakobson gives evidence to show how language uses ‘antiphony’ or vowel opposition in pairs of words with opposite meanings: ‘gleam’ and ‘gloom’, ‘here’ and ‘there’, or in French ‘petit’ and ‘grand’.
ref: 2000, Edward Nye, Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France: From Nuances to Impertinence, →ISBN, page 175:
text: The various types of reduplication […] include full reduplication (tum-tum), […] vowel antiphony (flip-flop, criss-cross) […]
ref: 2019, Paul Rastall, Bottom-Up Linguistics: Perspectives and Explorations with a Postscript on Language and Reality, →ISBN, page 36:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
synonyms: word: apophony
extra: contrastive vowel modification
pointillé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointillés
Etymology: Borrowed from French pointillé.
Senses: glosses: A style of finishing consisting of dotted lines and curves on the covers of a book.
Related terms: pointillism