cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
answer up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: answers up
form: answering up
form: answered up
form: answered up
Senses: examples: text: "Answer up, Tom," but Tom didn't answer up. So he said it again, and Tom didn't answer up again; and come to look, there warn't anything there but the mule—Tom was gone.
ref: c'''. 1884, Mark Twain, “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians”, in Walter Blair, editor, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, published 2011, page 63:
text: Come now, if you don't answer up at once it will be too late, "for I shall run you right to the station. What happened to the man who went overboard?"
ref: 1912, The Bradys and the Yellow Giant:
text: “Mavis?” he called out. When she didn't answer, he called again. “Mavis, goddang it, answer up.” “That you, Carl?” she called back from the dugout.
ref: 2012, Sheldon Russell, Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush:
text: I overheard a voice on the fire south radio channel trying to hail us. I answer up. “This is central, go ahead unit calling.
ref: 2012, Kelly R. Rasmussen, Call 911!: True Stories from My Life in Emergency Dispatch, page 70:
glosses: To come forth with a prompt answer.
star jasmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star jasmines
Senses: glosses: Trachelospermum jasminoides, a flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to eastern and southeastern Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Trachelospermum jasminoides
word: Confederate jasmine
sense: Trachelospermum jasminoides
word: Chinese star jasmine
long-nosed potoroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-nosed potoroos
Senses: glosses: Potorous tridactylus, an Australian potoroo with an elongated pointed rostral region.
long-nosed potoroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-nosed potoroo
Ubuntard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ubuntards
Etymology: Ubuntu + -tard
Senses: glosses: A user of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.
wikipedia: Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ubuntard
metness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From met + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Definitions of social support generally agree that it is the “metness” of needs for esteem, approval, and succorance.
ref: 2013, Cheryl Brown Travis, Women and Health Psychology: Volume II: Biomedical Issues:
glosses: The quality of being met, or satisfied.
microsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microsequences
form: microsequencing
form: microsequenced
form: microsequenced
Etymology: From micro- + sequence.
Senses: glosses: To sequence very small amounts of protein or polypeptides
microsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsequences
Etymology: From micro- + sequence.
Senses: coordinate_terms: macrosequence
glosses: A very short sequence (in a film).
microsequences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microsequence
washerwomanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more washerwomanly
form: most washerwomanly
Etymology: From washerwoman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a washerwoman.
methylene dichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: dichloromethane
minnerichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minnaritchi
form: minni ritchi
form: minniritchi
form: miniritchie
Senses: glosses: Acacia cyperophylla, a fabaceous tree of Australia.
Synonyms: red mulga
minnaritchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minnerichi.
miniritchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minnerichi.
mulga snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulga snake
Leroux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Leroux.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
schottenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sterol found in the cactus Pachycereus schottii.
Gagnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡænjɔ̃/
/ˈɡænjən/
/ˈɡæɡnən/
Forms: form: Gagnons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Gagnon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A ghost town in Quebec, Canada.
Nadeau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nadeaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Nadeau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
neohecogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + hecogenin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: sisalagenin
skyllamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyllamycin
Laporte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laportes
form: LaPorte
Etymology: Borrowed from French Laporte.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Larimer County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ingersoll Township, Midland County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Hubbard County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough, the county seat of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Named after John Laporte.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, which surrounds the borough.
glosses: A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Lapierre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lapierres
form: la Pierre
form: La Pierre
form: laPierre
form: LaPierre
form: Lapier
form: Pierre
Etymology: From French Lapierre.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, equivalent to English Stone.
Related terms: Pierre
hornets' nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornets' nest
Betancourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Betancourth
Senses: glosses: A surname.
painteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painteresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paintress.
painteresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of painteress
algumwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From algum + wood.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The wood of the algum tree.
anybody's guess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He dug through a pile of his clothes and pulled out a pair of spectacularly dirt-encrusted brown trousers. Whether they had been brown when they started their life was now anybody’s guess.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of anyone's guess.
synonyms: word: anyone's guess
ancestralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ancestral + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of venerating one's ancestors.
spiritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spirit + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a person's spirit, or to the spiritual world.
chop house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chop houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chophouse.
chop houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chop house
anomality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The system to be sought for is a system which shall make the supply of means keep pace with that of wants, and that by a pre-established chain of causes and effects, whatever be the rapidity or anomality of the progression.
ref: 1797, Jeremy Bentham, Observations on the Poor Bill:
glosses: anomalousness
sizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sizzly
form: most sizzly
Etymology: From sizzle + -y.
Senses: glosses: sizzling
fizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fizzly
form: most fizzly
Etymology: From fizzle + -y.
Senses: glosses: fizzling
fizzlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fizzling
twizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twizzly
form: most twizzly
Etymology: From twizzle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having a curly or twirling shape or motion.
anti-imperialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-imperialist
annexionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From annexion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: annexationism
transprejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans + prejudice.
Senses: examples: text: Understand that transprejudice and transphobia pervade the social and cultural foundations of many institutions and traditions and foster negative attitudes, high incidence of violence/hate crimes, and overt hostility toward transgender people.
ref: 2010, Judith A. Lewis, Michael D. Lewis, Judy A. Daniels, Community Counseling: A Multicultural-Social Justice Perspective:
glosses: Prejudice against transgender people.
Related terms: antitrans
antitransgender
transphobic
cissupremacy
homoprejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + prejudice.
Senses: examples: text: Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice.
ref: 2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 119:
glosses: Prejudice against homosexual people.
Related terms: heteroprejudice
heteroprejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + prejudice.
Senses: examples: text: Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice.
ref: 2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 119:
text: Counselors who are tuned to recognizing homoprejudice may be surprised to encounter heteroprejudice when working with gay clients.
ref: 2014, Matt Englar-Carlson, Marcheta P. Evans, Thelma Duffy, A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men, page 124:
glosses: Prejudice against heterosexual people.
examples: text: You can emotionally support survivors by sharing that they are the victims of heteroprejudice and, regardless of whom we are, nobody has a right to violate our property or us.
ref: 2001, Daya Singh Sandhu, Faces of Violence:
glosses: Prejudice expressed by heterosexual people against other groups.
Related terms: homoprejudice
Gove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊv/
ipa: /ɡoʊv/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A township in Gove County, Kansas, United States.
Derived terms: Gove City
Gove County
Govian
heliotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliotrons
Senses: glosses: A stellarator in which a helical coil is used to confine the plasma, together with a pair of poloidal field coils to provide a vertical field.
heliotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliotron
torsatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔː.səˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈtɔr.səˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: torsatrons
Senses: glosses: A stellarator with continuous helical coils, or with a number of discrete coils that produce a similar field.
torsatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsatron
heliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliac
field coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field coils
Senses: examples: text: The maximum permissible rises in temperature for both the main generators and the traction motors are 120° C. in the armature and 130° C. in the field coils, so that there is an ample margin of safety to meet abnormal conditions.
ref: 1960 May, “Testing a Brush Type "2" diesel locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 304:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electromagnet, consisting of a coil of wire through which a current flows, used to generate a magnetic field in an electromagnetic machine, typically a rotating machine such as a motor or generator.
field coils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field coil
plunge bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plunge baths
Senses: examples: text: In elaborate baths they may, for the sake of effect, be distinct apartments, while, where strict economy must be studied, they may be comprised in one room ; and where, again, space is extremely valuable, the plunge bath and douche may be also included.
ref: 1890, Robert Owen Allsop, The Turkish Bath: Its Design and Construction, page 41:
text: The Physical Remains Due to the extensive demolition of this part of the structure almost nothing now remains above the fumace to the east of the caldarium, where the plunge bath must have stood.
ref: 2001, Andrew Birley, Vindolanda's military bath houses:
text: There were no showers for the players, only a communal plunge bath.
ref: 2015, Neil Phillips, Doctor to the World Champions: My Autobiography, →ISBN:
glosses: A tub or pool large enough to immerse the entire body.
examples: text: A physician should well examine his patient's powers and be well certified of the integrity and strength of his brain circulation, before he orders the plunge bath.
ref: 1844, The Practice of the Water Cure:
text: A short (30 seconds to 2 minutes) cold plunge bath is a traditional hydrotherapy treatment which, when given regularly, stimulates the muscles of the arteries of the skin to contract more strongly.
ref: 2007, Marybetts Sinclair, Modern Hydrotherapy for the Massage Therapist, →ISBN, page 146:
text: In taking a plunge bath, always wet the head before getting the body under water then wet the chest, and then plunge in.
ref: 2014, Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson, Hatha Yoga, →ISBN:
glosses: Immersion of the entire body in water by plunging.
plunge baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plunge bath
Twizzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪzləɹ/
rhymes: -ɪzlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Twizzlers
Etymology: Brand name, established in the 1920s, from twizzle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Drive-in Party. Lug the TV into the backyard, pop a couple of videos into the VCR, and serve popcorn, sodas, and Twizzlers.
ref: 1997, Kim Goad, Magic Moments: A Busy Woman's Guide to Forgotten Pleasures:
text: Fill cars with candy; link together with Twizzlers.
ref: 2002, Parents, volume 77, numbers 5-8, page 230:
glosses: A kind of chewy candy in the form of long twists.
Twizzlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twizzler
Troxler effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Troxler effect
Etymology: First identified by Swiss physician Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler in 1804.
Senses: hyponyms: lilac chaser
glosses: An optical illusion whereby, when a person fixes the gaze on a particular point, an unchanging stimulus away from the fixation point appears to fade away and disappear.
Synonyms: Troxler fading
Troxler's fading
phi phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phi phenomena
Senses: glosses: The optical illusion whereby viewing a series of still images in rapid succession gives the impression of continuous motion.
probabilify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: probabilifies
form: probabilifying
form: probabilified
form: probabilified
Etymology: From probable + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: It might be objected that such premisses probabilify such a conclusion only in the absence of other evidence, that C's being B may be made more or less likely if we have other relevant information as well.
ref: 1973, John Leslie Mackie, Truth, Probability and Paradox: Studies in Philosophical Logic, →ISBN:
text: Given some plausible assumptions, the question of how testimony to the occurrence of an event that constitutes a miracle in the sense of Hume's first definition — say, a resurrection — can serve to probabilify a theological doctrine can be divided into two sub-questions: First, how can the testimony probabilify the naturalistically characterized miracle event? And second, how can such a miracle probabilify the doctrine?
ref: 2000, John Earman, Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Thus if we would not be justified in saying that memories probabilify the remembered events in a world in which memories were known to be regularly false, we would not be justified in saying that memories probabilify the remembered events in a world in which we had no idea whether they were or not.
ref: 2002, Evan Fales, Causation and Universals, →ISBN:
text: For this reason Owen queries the statement of W. R. Matthews that the theistic proofs make theism “highly probable” on the ground that since “the theistic postulate is wholly unique we cannot probabilify it by empirical evidence (as we can probabilify a scientific hypothesis).
ref: 2011, Alan P.F. Sell, Convinced, Concise, and Christian, →ISBN:
glosses: To render probable; to support or give confidence as to the likelihood of a conclusion.
phi phenomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phi phenomenon
probabilifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of probabilify
probabilifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of probabilify
probabilified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of probabilify
probabilification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probabilifications
Senses: glosses: The process of probabilifying.
probabilifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probabilification
cariboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cariboos
form: cariboo
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of caribou.
cariboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cariboo
Pakistanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pakistanees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Pakistani.
Pakistanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pakistanee
watchoo
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatchoo.
Pakstan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Pakistan.
goosebumples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of goosebumps + goosepimples
Senses: glosses: goose flesh
Related terms: horripilation
palm wines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm wine
double-jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From double + job + -ing.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The act of holding two or more political offices simultaneously.
angiographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiographists
Etymology: From angiography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of angiographer.
synonyms: word: angiographer
angiographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiographer
angiographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiographist
gastric dumping syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition where ingested foods pass through the stomach very rapidly and enter the small intestine largely undigested.
robocast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: robocasts
form: robocasting
form: robocast
form: robocast
form: robocasted
form: robocasted
Senses: glosses: To manufacture using the robocasting technique.
robocasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of robocast
robocasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of robocast
gryvna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gryvnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hryvnia.
gryvnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gryvna
shahiv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shah
shahy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shah
kopiyok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kopiyka
Nastaleeq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nastaliq.
untruthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + truthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Asserted truth that is untrue.
Related terms: truthiness
Co-Cola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Co-Colas
Senses: examples: text: Jem giggled. "He's got a Co-Cola bottle full of whiskey in there."
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 160:
text: His breathing was shallow and fast. His hand shook as he picked up the Coca Cola Olive had brought him. "This will pick you up," she said. "Co-cola is the best thing for any weakness."
ref: 1992, The Texas Review, volume 13, page 25:
text: Later that month, the principal called me into his office, offered some pleasantries and a Co'-Cola, then asked: “Son, are you a subversive?”
ref: 2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 286:
glosses: Coca-Cola, or (by extension) any soft drink.
taglierinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taglierini
New Zealandese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From New Zealand + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: The language we speak is New Zealandese, with its own idiom and pronunciation, and is just as distinctive as the language spoken by Americans, South Africans, Australians and Canadians.
ref: 1990, Allan Bell, Janet Holmes, New Zealand Ways of Speaking English, page 34:
text: He also won three bottles of champagne, or in New Zealandese, champers.
ref: 2005, Wolfgang Klopfer, Formula 5000 in New Zealand & Australia: Race by Race, page 227:
glosses: The variety of English spoken in New Zealand.
white-glove
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white-glove
form: most white-glove
Senses: examples: text: a white-glove inspection
text: Begin with the mass People's Riots at Stonewall. Segue into the hi-energy yet amorphous crisis-wracked Gay Liberation Front. Which clones into the Gay Activists Alliance, structured, single-issued, committee-heavy. When even this proved too unwieldy for an elite who wanted a more upscale machine tailored to their tastes, there appeared the white-glove National Gay Task Force.
ref: 1981 August 15, John Mitzel, “Meetings and Mayhem, History and Hype”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 13:
glosses: Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.
Late Bronze Age collapse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Late Bronze Age collapse
Senses: synonyms: Bronze Age collapse
glosses: A transition in the Aegean Region, Southwestern Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age that historians believe was violent, sudden, and culturally disruptive.
escapistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more escapistic
form: most escapistic
Etymology: From escapist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: One study of popular escapistic communications indicates that the recipients regarded the heroes and spokesmen as "trustworthy models and guides."
ref: 1959, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Hearings:
glosses: Of or related to escapism.
New Jerseyese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From New Jersey + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A dialect of English spoken in New Jersey.
fatmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatmobiles
Etymology: From fat + -mobile, from being stereotypically used by obese people.
Senses: glosses: A mobility scooter.
glosses: A sport utility vehicle.
fatmobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatmobile
false nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false nines
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: An unconventional lone striker or centre forward who drops deep into midfield.
false nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false nine
Gogmagog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goemagot
form: Goemot
Etymology: Often connected to the Biblical characters Gog and Magog. However, Manley Pope, author of an 1862 English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd, argued that it was a corruption of Welsh Gawr Madoc (Madoc the Giant).
Senses: examples: text: It’s funny enough now, but it wasn’t funny then, for I got in such a state that I believed, actually believed, that Fauns lived in a certain double hedgerow near the Gog Magogs, and one evening I walked a mile sooner than go through it alone.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VII [Uniform ed., p. 86]
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A legendary giant in Welsh and later English folklore, said to have been a giant inhabitant of Albion who was thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus, a companion of Brutus of Troy.
whitestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of white + mainstream
Senses: examples: text: When White people revived the Lindy Hop in the 1990s, it was also processed and commodified. The dance was used to sell whitestream products. […] Black bodies were taken out of the story in order to make the dance profitable to the whitestream.
ref: 2018, Amelia M. Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, B. Stephen Carpenter II, The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, page 485:
glosses: Mainstream views or scholarship with a bias toward white people and their history.
whitestream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whitestreams
form: whitestreaming
form: whitestreamed
form: whitestreamed
Etymology: Blend of white + mainstream
Senses: examples: text: In addition to manipulating the curriculum, Native American children were whitestreamed by severely controlling their actions and very closely monitoring their behavior.
ref: 2008, Curry Malott, A Call to Action:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: To bias toward white people and their history.
Related terms: blackstream
whitewishing
marngrook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marn grook
Etymology: From Gunditjmara, meaning "game ball".
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of traditional indigenous Australian pastimes involving kicking and catching a stuffed ball, played by large numbers of players across a wide area.
marn grook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marngrook.
woggabaliri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ngunawal [Term?] (“play”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional indigenous Australian cooperative game similar to keepie-uppie and footbag.
immersivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immersive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being immersive.
Cseh method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Andreo Cseh (1895-1979).
Senses: glosses: An immersive method of teaching Esperanto, based on conversations about current events where the learners answer in unison, and eschewing the use of textbooks and the learners' native language.
wikipedia: Andreo Cseh
CSPRNGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CSPRNG
brain zap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain zaps
Senses: glosses: A sensation akin to an electric shock in the brain, associated with the discontinuation of treatment with antidepressants.
brain zaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain zap
Truman Show delusion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Truman Show delusion
Etymology: Named after The Truman Show (1998), a comedy-drama film about Truman Burbank, a man who discovers he is living in a constructed reality televised globally around the clock. (The name is a pun on true man.)
Senses: synonyms: Truman syndrome
glosses: A persecutory/grandiose delusion in which the patient believes his/her life is a staged play, a reality television show, etc. or that he/she is being watched by means of cameras.
wikipedia: The Truman Show
Related terms: main character syndrome
octograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octogram
nonagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonagram
unpessimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpessimistic
form: most unpessimistic
Etymology: From un- + pessimistic.
Senses: glosses: Not pessimistic.
Related terms: unpessimistically
unprotectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprotectively
form: most unprotectively
Etymology: From unprotective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As much as he was committed to analytical intelligence, Irving was equally committed to good writing. He worked hard to get sentences right. His own work he edited unprotectively […]
ref: 2013, Todd Gitlin, The Intellectuals and the Flag:
text: For the technical rehearsal, Beckett reduced the size of Willie's handkerchief, ridiculously dainty when it perched unprotectively on Willie's bald head.
ref: 2014, Ruby Cohn, Just Play: Beckett's Theater, page 255:
glosses: In an unprotective manner.
Unixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Unix
Unices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed humorously on the model of Latinate plurals like matrices and (less closely) indices.
Senses: glosses: plural of Unix
wordsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wordsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The art or skill of a wordsman; adroit use of language.
unrepetitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrepetitiously
form: most unrepetitiously
Etymology: From unrepetitious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not repetitious.
unreclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreclusive
form: most unreclusive
Etymology: From un- + reclusive.
Senses: glosses: Not reclusive.
unpushily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpushily
form: most unpushily
Etymology: From unpushy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not pushy.
unpushingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpushingly
form: most unpushingly
Etymology: From unpushing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without pushing or obtruding oneself; in a retiring or modest fashion.
unpropitiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpropitiative
form: most unpropitiative
Etymology: From un- + propitiative.
Senses: examples: text: She is considered, however, an advantageous speculation; but, notwithstanding she came in for her share of the contingent spoils, no inconsiderable trifle for a country practitioner of law, Black was surly and unpropitiative.
ref: 1845?, William Gilmore Simms, Life in America: Or, The Wigwam and the Cabin (page 296)
text: All her outward serenity, so unpropitiative and inexorable, had only veiled—even as his own wild ways had veiled—a misery perhaps more complete than his own.
ref: 1887, Epoch, volume 2, page 268:
glosses: Not propitiative.
unpraiseworthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpraiseworthily
form: most unpraiseworthily
Etymology: From unpraiseworthy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unpraiseworthy manner.
floof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: floofs
form: floofing
form: floofed
form: floofed
Etymology: Possibly a deliberate mispronunciation of fluff, a back-formation from floofy, or a blend of fluff + poof (compare the etymology of floofy).
Senses: examples: text: Then she floofs out her blonde curls artlessly and opens her mouth wide, checking her teeth for spinach.
ref: 2002, India Knight, Don't You Want Me?, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
text: From a dim corner, Stella [a bird] stirred: a floofing of feathers, a dry click, click of talons across the perch.
ref: 2010, Susan Fletcher, “Things that Go Thump”, in Ancient, Strange, and Lovely (The Dragon Chronicles), New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Josette is pegging out the laundry in her garden. […] She takes a pair of trousers and floofs them so that they uncrumple. A pair of frilly knickers fly out from the leg and I laugh.
ref: 2013, Claire King, chapter 19, in The Night Rainbow, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 217:
text: She'd floofed her hair back up with military-grade hairspray, and then was painting over her nail art with sparkly silver when Annie found her and dragged her back to the dance floor […]
ref: 2015, Lindsey J. Palmer, chapter 9, in If We Lived Here, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: To make something fluffy; to fluff (up).
examples: text: She floofed down between Max and me on the Chickly Shabby sofa.
ref: 2012, Brian D'Amato, The Sacrifice Game (The Sacrifice Game Trilogy; 2), New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN:
text: Holly flung herself on an upholstered sofa, her cute retro dress floofing around her.
ref: 2014, Amylynn Bright, chapter 12, in Finish what We Started, Don Mills, Ont.: Carina Press, →ISBN:
text: I peeked over my makeup mirror to watch Stefano clamp a pasta bowl between two fingers and pet it with the yellow sponge. Suds floofed onto the counter and his shirt, the wall and the floor.
ref: 2015, Kathleen Cremonesi, “Pressure”, in Love in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To move in a floofy or fluffy manner.
Synonyms: word: fluff
Related terms: floofy
floof
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Etymology: Possibly a deliberate mispronunciation of fluff, a back-formation from floofy, or a blend of fluff + poof (compare the etymology of floofy).
Senses: examples: text: As I [the universe] was saying, I had no idea what to expect before the beginning, so to speak. Perhaps it really went floof, woosh, bang. Or bang, woosh, floof. Or even woosh, floof, bang. You know how permutations go.
ref: 1975, Paul West, “The Universe, and other Fictions”, in J[ames] Laughlin, Peter Glassgold, Frederick R. Martin, editors, New Directions in Prose and Poetry 31, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: floof [MAD #181, March 1976] A word indicating a puff of smoke has appeared, as in a smoke signal: also FLOOF [MAD #181, March 1976] The imaginary sound of a single puff of smoke created with a blanket
ref: [2006, Kevin J. Taylor, editor, KA-BOOM!: A Dictionary of Comic Book Words, Symbols & Onomatopoeia: Comprising Many Hundreds of New Words which Modern Literature, Science & Philosophy have Neglected to Acknowledge as True, Proper & Useful Terms & which have Never before been Published in any Lexicon, Surrey, B.C.: Mora Publications, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Used to indicate the (supposed) sound of moving air, as in an explosion, a puff of smoke, etc.
floof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: floofs
Etymology: Possibly a deliberate mispronunciation of fluff, a back-formation from floofy, or a blend of fluff + poof (compare the etymology of floofy).
Senses: synonyms: floofer
glosses: A long-haired dog, cat, or similar furry pet animal.
glosses: The fur of such an animal.
glosses: Hair that looks fluffy, like fur from such an animal.
handling charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handling charges
Senses: synonyms: handling fee
coordinate_terms: shipping and handling
;
service charge
glosses: A fee charged for performing certain services, such as collecting customs duty or dealing with returned goods.
wieldiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wieldy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being wieldy.
unloathsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unloathsome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: According to him, the sense impressions are to be consciously discriminated psychologically, as agreeable or disagreeable or neither, and then the resultant attitudes of loathsomeness or unloathsomeness towards them are to be discarded […]
ref: 1994, Oliver Hector de Alwis Wijesekera, M. H. F. Jayasuriya, Buddhist and Vedic Studies: A Miscellany, page 86:
glosses: The quality of not being loathsome.
handling fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handling fees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of handling charge.
synonyms: word: handling charge
unloftily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unloftily
form: most unloftily
Etymology: From unlofty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unlofty manner.
unenrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unenrols
form: unenrolling
form: unenrolled
form: unenrolled
Etymology: From un- + enrol.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unenroll.
unenrols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unenrol
undefinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undefinite
form: most undefinite
Etymology: From un- + definite.
Senses: examples: text: Besides endemic, there is another class of acute or febrile diseases, the epidemic or adventitious, which arises at uncertain periods, which continues an undefinite length of time […]
ref: 1803, Robert Jackson, Remarks on the Constitution of the Medical Department of the British Army:
glosses: indefinite
bellwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellwomen
Etymology: From bell + woman.
Senses: examples: text: Bellmen and bellwomen employed by a hotel or motel that is a member of the Association are eligible.
ref: 1988, Awards, Honors, and Prizes, volume 7, number 2, page 94:
glosses: A female bellhop.
bellwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellwoman
trustworthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of trustworthy: more trustworthy
trustworthiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of trustworthy: most trustworthy
party plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party plans
Senses: hypernyms: direct selling
glosses: A business model for marketing products by hosting social events, for example in the marketer's house, at which they are offered for sale.
party plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party plan
obliviality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌblɪ.viˈæ.lɪ.ti/
Etymology: From oblivial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: His face was one stamped with the quality of obliviality; to see him once was to insure forgetting him at least twice. But at the “Geegee” parties he was made tidy, which he usually was not, and put in prominent places.
ref: 1899, E. F. Benson, Mammon and Co.:
glosses: Liability to be forgotten.
pussyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pussyless
form: most pussyless
Etymology: From pussy + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Like the marble and bronze statues of nymphs and satyrs in the Tennessee Theater's lobbies and lounges, the gods and goddesses on the screen were peckerless and pussyless, smooth, seamless marble and bronze between the legs.
ref: 1972, The Film Journal, volume 2, page 12:
text: In front of the full length mirror stood a very peculiar sight -- a titless, pussyless woman stood in front with muscular arms and a very non-feminine face.
ref: 1999 April 15, VickieTern, “Fury 4/37”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet):
glosses: Without a pussy (the female genitalia).
examples: text: Finally, when I wouldn't let her stall any longer, after two pussyless years, we're in bed, the big pay-off, and I'm really ready to lay it in!
ref: 1974, Gerald G. Griffin, The Silent Misery: Why Marriages Fail, page 35:
text: And while the last couple of weeks Darius had been pussyless, it wasn't by his choice but Darius had accepted his father's advice and practiced dick control.
ref: 2007, Mary B. Morrison, Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This, page 111:
glosses: Without pussy (sexual intercourse with a woman).
angels on horseback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Without enthusiasm, Bond ordered caviar, grilled lamb cutlets and salad, and angels on horseback for himself
ref: 1958, Ian Fleming, Doctor No, 20th edition, Glidrose, page 126:
glosses: A dish of bacon-wrapped oysters, commonly served as an hors d'œuvre or canapé.
sunk costs fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunk costs fallacies
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon where somebody justifies an increased investment of money or other resources based on the cumulative prior investment (the sunk costs), despite new evidence suggesting that the cost of continuing now outweighs the expected benefit.
Related terms: throw good money after bad
double down
long-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-tongued
form: most long-tongued
Senses: glosses: Talkative, loquacious, especially excessively so
glosses: Prone to speaking out of turn or revealing secrets.
puppytooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puppy + tooth.
Senses: glosses: A smaller-scale version of the houndstooth pattern.
retyre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: retyres
form: retyring
form: retyred
form: retyred
form: retire
form: re-tire
Etymology: From re- + tyre.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the steam crane would have already have upended the wheels and axle with the wheel to be retyred at the lowest point.
ref: 2013, Alan Davies, Walkden Yard and the Lancashire Central Railways Colliery Locomotives:
glosses: To fit (a vehicle) with new tyres.
retyre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɹiːˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: retyres
form: retyring
form: retyred
form: retyred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of retire (“to withdraw”).
retyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɹiːˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: Now surely , Syre , I find,
That all this worlds gay showes, which we admire,
Be but vaine shadows to this safe retyre
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: retirement
retyred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retyre
retyring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retyre
retyring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retyrings
Senses: examples: text: This is done when, after successive retyrings, they have been machined to less than the minimum repair size for tyres; […]
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159:
glosses: The act of putting a new tyre on a vehicle wheel.
retyres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retyre
pseudologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pseudologizes
form: pseudologizing
form: pseudologized
form: pseudologized
Etymology: From pseudology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: ...strange conversations during which people attempt to wrap their brains around the idea that I pseudologize for a living.
ref: 2010, Dr. Koshary, Love And Disdain, page 1
text: 1965, J. NYIRÖ & C. IRÁNYI, A Contribution to the Interpretation of Ganser Symptoms
Besides the features of hypomanic psychopathy there was a marked readiness to pseudologize, therefore his psychical examination required great patience.
text: However, my trolly being slightly off I'm but auspiciously conspicuous; My presence makes me such, So lend your ears while I pseudologize.
ref: 1897, The Daily Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania, page 1
glosses: To speak in a pseudological way; to lie.
pseudologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pseudologize
pseudologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pseudologize
pseudologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pseudologize
pseudologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pseudologises
form: pseudologising
form: pseudologised
form: pseudologised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudologize.
small-small
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: little by little
pseudologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pseudologise
pseudologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pseudologise
pseudologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pseudologise
ex dividend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: x-div.
form: xd
Senses: examples: text: With respect to the cash dividend on the preferred stock, the Exchange fixed an ex-dividend date of May 1, 1975 (the ex-dividend date).
ref: 1985, U.S. Tax Cases, volume 84, number 2, page 72:
text: The ex-dividend date is three business days before the record date. Ex-dividend means without the dividend. The ex-dividend date convention assigns the dividend to the buyer or seller as follows: A buyer in a transaction that occurs before the ex-dividend date is entitled to receive the dividend and the seller is not; a seller in a transaction that occurs on or after the ex-dividend date is entitled to keep the dividend.
ref: 2007, Robert W. Hamilton, Attorney's Guide to Business and Finance Fundamentals, page 278:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Of a declared dividend, belonging to the seller rather than the buyer.
laboress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laboresses
Etymology: From labor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female laborer.
labouress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labouresses
Etymology: From labour + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laboress.
Islamopologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Islamopologists
Etymology: Blend of Islam + apologist.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, Howard is a Christian, with a sturdy set of beliefs, which is more than I can say for Crean and the rest of the Islamopologist crew.
ref: 2003, Scott, “Deane attacks Howard”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: Whereas if you're talking about no-go zones in Europe, then yes, a certain religion does "jump out at me", a minority religion (which isn't even a religion). You really one of the dumbest Islamopologists I've ever encountered.
ref: 2016, fffurken, “Re: Most dangerous cities in the world”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):
glosses: A person who makes excuses for the perceived faults of Islam.
Islamopologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Islamopologist
Iraqification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Iraq + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The gradual process of returning control of Iraq to the people of that country.
Related terms: Afghanization
Vietnamization
rainbow herbicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow herbicides
Etymology: From the colours assigned to them as code names.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of herbicides used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the best-known and mostly widely used being Agent Orange.
rainbow herbicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow herbicide
via munita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viae munitae
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: A kind of Ancient Roman road, paved with stone blocks.
viae munitae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of via munita
chiropract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chiropracts
form: chiropracting
form: chiropracted
form: chiropracted
Etymology: Back-formation from chiropractic.
Senses: glosses: To perform chiropractic (upon).