cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
falsey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If the variable is set to anything except a falsey value, the test will evaluate to true.
ref: 2010, Charles Wyke-Smith, Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer's Guide, →ISBN, page 44:
text: In JavaScript, as well as the true or false Boolean values, other types of variables can be said to be truthy or falsey.
ref: 2013, Dan Wellman, jQuery Hotshot, →ISBN:
text: To remember which values are truthy and which are falsey, just memorize the five falsey values - undefined, null, 0, "" and NaN -- and remember that everything else is truthy.
ref: 2014, Eric T. Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide, →ISBN, page 292:
text: Clojure uses the Boolean operators or and and. or returns either the first truthy value or the last value, and returns the first falsey value or, if no values are falsey, the last truthy value.
ref: 2015, Daniel Higginbotham, Clojure for the Brave and True, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of falsy.
Related terms: falsie
Johnnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnny
Briggsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Briggsian
form: most Briggsian
Etymology: From Briggs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the English mathematician Henry Briggs.
Derived terms: Briggsian logarithm
hypersomniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersomniac
hunchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hunchless
form: most hunchless
Etymology: From hunch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having a straight back, without a hunch.
makeouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makeout
federalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From federalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being federalized.
unfederalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + federalized.
Senses: glosses: Not federalized.
FFTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FFT
ground and pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Relentless ground and pound limits the effectiveness of submission attacks from the bottom fighter's guard, and creates opportunities for the fighter on top to improve his position further, attempt a submission attempt of his own, or finish the fight with strikes.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Snowden, Kendall Shields, The MMA Encyclopedia, →ISBN:
text: Kirkland was a nice enough guy, distant and brusque when in his pre-fight zone and approachable afterward, when he was usually the victor courtesy of his wrestling ability and relentless ground and pound.
ref: 2011, Jim Genia, Raw Combat: The Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts, →ISBN, page 54:
text: After a run, Darren Thomas fakes the screen and hits Tuenei for a reception near mid field. A short ground and pound and an incomplete leads to a big conversion on the ground.
ref: 2015, Bryan Campbell, 40 oz. of Freedom, →ISBN:
glosses: A fighting style, primarily in mixed martial arts, in which one pins one's opponent and then strikes him or her repeatedly.
give-and-go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: give-and-gos
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fundamental maneuver in many team sports, in which two players pass the ball or puck back and forth as they move.
Related terms: one-two
tiki-taka
cofoundress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cofoundresses
Senses: examples: text: Tolerant queens keep their subordinate cofoundresses and develop a homeostatic colony that is productive in producing a large number of cells, many colony workers, and reproductives.
ref: 2017, Henry R. Hermann, Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals:
glosses: A female cofounder.
cofoundresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cofoundress
underprecision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + precision.
Senses: glosses: inadequate precision
West Greenlandic Pidgin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Greenlandic-based contact language once used between the Inuit of Greenland and European traders.
Related terms: Greenlandic Norse
Greenlandic Norse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Norse settlements of Greenland until their demise in the late 15th century.
Related terms: West Greenlandic Pidgin
synthbass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of synth bass.
pretin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pretins
form: pretinning
form: pretinned
form: pretinned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-tin.
pretinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pretin
pretinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretin
pretins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pretin
walded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wald
walding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wald
ticket booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket booths
form: ticketbooth
Etymology: From ticket + booth.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone was lined up at the ticket booth
glosses: A small stall for the sale of tickets
Related terms: word: ticket office
english: for train, bus
translation: for train, bus
word: booking office ticket window
english: for cinema and theatre
translation: for cinema and theatre
word: box office
WTGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WTG
ticketbooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticketbooth
DLUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DLU
DBU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DBUs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dialog base unit.
topics: business
law
glosses: Abbreviation of domestic banking unit.
DBUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DBU
beejay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beejays
Etymology: Respelling of the initialism BJ.
Senses: glosses: A blowjob (act of oral sex).
beejays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beejay
immunofixations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunofixation
carbofos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carbophos.
unnibbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nibbed.
Senses: glosses: Without a nib.
pioneer scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pioneer scarves
form: pioneer scarfs
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A neckerchief worn by a young pioneer, typically red in color.
Synonyms: red scarf
autocratress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From autocrator + -ess.
Senses: synonyms: autocratess
autocratrix
glosses: A female autocrat.
nuisance parameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuisance parameters
Senses: examples: text: [T]esting for the null hypothesis […] is subject to the problem of a nuisance parameter that is present only under the alternative, which makes standard asymptotic inference invalid[.]
ref: 2023, Florens Odendahl, Barbara Rossi, Tatevik Sekhposyan, “Evaluating forecast performance with state dependence”, in Journal of Econometrics, number 237, page 5 of 31:
text: For instance, applications require to specify the number of hidden layers [of a neural network], the number of neurons, the form of the activation function, the algorithm, as well as associated nuisance parameters used for training the models.
ref: 2025, Niko Hauzenberger, Florian Huber, Karin Klieber, Massimiliano Marcellino, “Bayesian neural networks for macroeconomic analysis”, in Journal of Econometrics, number 249:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A parameter of the distribution of a population that is not directly relevant to solving the significance test or estimate problem under consideration.
GTWR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GTWRs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of geographical and temporal weighted regression.
glosses: Abbreviation of gross trailer weight rating.
Hypernyms: word: regression analysis
english: Geographical Weighted Regression
translation: Geographical Weighted Regression
word: GWR
english: Temporal Weighted Regression
translation: Temporal Weighted Regression
word: TWR
gender-vague
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gender-vague
form: most gender-vague
form: gender vague
Senses: examples: text: Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun.
ref: 2000, The New York Review of Science Fiction - Issues 137-148, page 15:
text: Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.
ref: 2001, Larry Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, →ISBN:
text: Her gender-vague nickname of "Moe" suited not only her persona then, but it also fed into the modish androgyny with which the group became associated through Warhol.
ref: 2006, Richard Witts, The Velvet Underground, page 35:
glosses: Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.
Related terms: androgynous
gender vague
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gender vague
form: most gender vague
Senses: examples: text: LeGuin published a short story in Playboy and was asked to use just initials--Mid 60s I think. Andre Norton is a gender vague name. It took me years to find out that she was a she.
ref: 1993 June 22, Susan Eisenhour, “Gender Discrimination in publishing (was Re: What is this Book ??)”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: When those onnagata gender acts representing that idealized beauty are ravaged, the figure that emerges is chaotic and unbalanced, it's gender vague and ambiguous.
ref: 2005, K. Mezur, Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, →ISBN:
text: Nowadays, clothing and fashion has become more gender vague.
ref: 2017, Joanne Leung, The Book of Transgender in Hong Kong: Gossip Boys & Girls Book:
glosses: Alternative form of gender-vague.
genoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Andrew Niccol, director and writer of the 1997 film Gattaca.
Senses: examples: text: Genoism, racism, and sexism are shown to be compatible and mutually reinforcing systems for maintainng socioeconomic inequality in the not-too-distant future, just as they were within the eugenics movement and within contemporary American culture.
ref: 2013, Sidney Eve Matrix, Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture, →ISBN:
text: Branham taught a quite literal form of Christian genoism, where salvation was dependent upon one's bloodline (Douglas Weaver 123–125).
ref: 2014, John Weaver, The Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care, →ISBN:
text: There is much written about privacy, “genoism” (genetic discrimination by the likes of insurance companies), and personalized medicine.
ref: 2017, Dalton Conley, Jason Fletcher, The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History & the Future, →ISBN:
glosses: Discrimination on the basis of genetic profile.
wikipedia: Andrew Niccol
Gattaca
Hollywood cerise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the series of color pencils named Venus Paradise.
Senses: glosses: A bright purplish-red color.
ultra pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A very bright pink color, related to shocking pink.
yestercentury
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From yester- + century.
Senses: glosses: In the century preceding the current century.
yestercentury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yester- + century.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the creeds of yestercentury remain.
ref: 1920 July 24, D. R. Piper, “Have we any user for creeds”, in Homiletic Review, volume 80, page 5:
glosses: The previous century, the last century before the current one.
palatinate purple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a very dark shade of purple.
Related terms: palatinate blue
mercury sulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercury sulphide
Etymology: From mercury + sulfide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of sulfur and mercury that occurs naturally as cinnabar
mercury sulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mercury + sulphide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of mercury sulfide.
Garasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Garasias
form: Garasia
form: Gracia
form: Grasia
form: Grassia
Etymology: From Hindi गरासिया (garāsiyā).
Senses: examples: text: He was followed by another Garasia in simple attire, and a few others.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 45
glosses: A member of one of the scheduled tribes of India , settled in parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat.
pagdi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagdis
Senses: examples: text: The number of strips tied around a pagdi decides the status of a person, the colour signifies the occasion and the style shows the caste and clan.
ref: 1998, RC Sharma, Thar: The Great Indian Desert, page 80:
text: He wore a pagdi embroidered with gold and silver thread on his head, a tight-fitting intricately patterned angarkha, and tight pajamas buttoned at the ankles.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 45
glosses: A turban.
mojri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mojris
Senses: examples: text: One shoe-like slipper, probably a mojri, lies to the side, looking quite new.
ref: 2009, Githa Hariharan, Fugitive Histories, page 198:
text: Suraj looked like he had stopped breathing. Sethji pressed down on his genitals with his mojri.
ref: 2012, Shobha De, Sethji:
text: He carried a silver hookah, a dagger, a sword, and a carved knife tied to his waist. The mojris on his feet had red embroidery.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 45
glosses: Alternative form of mojari.
semi rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi rigs
form: semi-rig
Etymology: Blend of semi truck + big rig
Senses: glosses: A tractor-trailer
glosses: A semi-tractor, the tractor unit on an articulated truck
unobviously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unobviously
form: most unobviously
Etymology: From unobvious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As I have already indicated, however, there is reason to think that at least some of the principles that Kant takes to be synthetic a priori are instead unobviously analytic, and so I shall assume that if Kant shows that a principle associated with one of his categories is unobviously analytic, that too shows that the category is objectively valid.
ref: 2004, Georges Dicker, Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction, page 49:
glosses: In a way that is not obvious.
love custard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Rim sludge: the emulsion caused by the combination around the ringpiece of love custard and faecal debris upon successful completion of a blast off in someone's fudge tunnel.
ref: 2005, Hugh Janus, Rudoku: The rudest sudoku word puzzles ever, page 91:
glosses: semen
custard wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custard winds
Etymology: Probably from coastward.
Senses: glosses: Any of the cold easterly winds prevalent on the northeast coast of England in spring.
custard winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custard wind
reembarkations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reembarkation
brahmarakshasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brahmarakshasas
form: brahmarakshas
Etymology: From Sanskrit ब्रह्मराक्षस (brahmarākṣasa).
Senses: examples: text: A brahmarakshasa had been pestering the rishi to give his daughter in marriage to him.
ref: 2002, V Sasikumar, Fantasy:
text: Buddhidan stood in his drawing room like a Brahmarakshas in a forest.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 83
qualifier: Hindu mythology
glosses: The spirit of an evil Brahmin; a demon, an evil spirit.
updrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updrifts
Etymology: From up- + drift.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A rising (over time) of the pitch of the tones of a tonal language.
updrift
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From up- + drift.
Senses: examples: text: A groyne promotes the build-up of sediment on its updrift side, and reduces erosion on the downdrift side.
glosses: On the upward side of a drift.
updrifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of updrift
CTNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CTN
braideth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: braid + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of braid
semithick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + thick.
Senses: glosses: Neither thin nor very thick; of limited thickness.
thermomolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thermomoulding.
phlogistonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phlogiston + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The phlogiston theory.
Christmahanukwanzakah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chrismahanukwanzakah.
axle guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axle guard
Brunner syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Dutch geneticist H.G. Brunner.
Senses: glosses: A genetic disorder associated with mild intellectual disability, impulsiveness, sudden changes of mood, and aggressive and antisocial behaviours.
brandwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brandwash
brandwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brandwash
brandwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brandwash
brandwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandwash
RMBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RMB
Bobbittize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Bobbittizes
form: Bobbittizing
form: Bobbittized
form: Bobbittized
form: Bobbittise
Etymology: From Bobbitt + -ize, referring to John and Lorena Bobbitt.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Bobbittize.
glosses: To cut off the penis of.
wikipedia: John and Lorena Bobbitt
Bobbitt procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emasculation (severing of somebody’s penis).
synonyms: word: emasculation
extra: severing of somebody’s penis
Lorena Bobbitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lorena Bobbitts
Etymology: See bobbitt.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emasculation (severing of somebody’s penis).
synonyms: word: emasculation
extra: severing of somebody’s penis
Ekegusii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Gusii language.
payably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more payably
form: most payably
Etymology: From payable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
ref: 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:
glosses: Of a mine etc.: so as to yield profit; profitably.
xylotheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylotheques
Etymology: Borrowed from French xylothèque.
Senses: glosses: A collection of samples of various types of wood.
xylotheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylotheque
expulsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expulsations
Senses: glosses: expulsion; the act of expelling
expulsations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expulsation
jajangmyeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jjajangmyeon.
Mattatron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Metatron.
carolinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the University of North Carolina, + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: There, as more and more of the Carolinum became active, the bomb spread itself out into a monstrous cavern of fiery energy at the base of what became very speedily a miniature active volcano.
ref: 1914, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The World Set Free:
glosses: A supposed chemical element isolated from thorium.
misdispositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdisposition
chondromucoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondromucoid
teleworkshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleworkshops
Etymology: From tele- + workshop.
Senses: glosses: A workshop held via telecommunications technology between remote participants.
teleworkshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleworkshop
fried pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fried pies
Senses: synonyms: crab lantern
fry pie
glosses: A small fried dessert pastry, like a small pie or turnover, with a fruit filling.
fried pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fried pie
catboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætˌbɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: catboys
Etymology: From cat + boy.
Senses: glosses: A boy or man who wears a cat costume and plays the role of a cat.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
synonyms: neko
nekomimi
glosses: A male fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.
Coordinate terms: catgirl
Related terms: bunnyboy
foxboy
puppyboy
monster boy
monster girl
catboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catboy
unfeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + feted.
Senses: examples: text: Robinson says that by the time he was cast as Baldrick, he was almost 40 and slogging, unfeted, around provincial theatres.
ref: 2009 November 30, Moira Petty, Mail Online:
text: Except for Edith, his wife, holidays went unfeted in their house. Every Christmas she would buy a doll for herself.
ref: 2011, Glenn P. Wolfe, Mneme's Place: Book One, page 77:
glosses: Not celebrated.
olfacto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin olfactus.
Senses: glosses: smell
OHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OHCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of overhead cam.
glosses: Initialism of ocean heat content.
glosses: Initialism of outer hair cell.
glosses: Initialism of organizational health center.
OHC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Order of the Holy Cross.
OHCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OHC
borried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of borry
borries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of borry
borrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of borry
euche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek εὐχή (eukhḗ)
Senses: glosses: A vow or promise.
concatemerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concatemerizes
form: concatemerizing
form: concatemerized
form: concatemerized
Etymology: From concatemer + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To become, or convert into, a concatemer.
concatemerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concatemerize
concatemerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concatemerize
microinertias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microinertia
horsedung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horse + dung.
Senses: synonyms: horsecrap
horseshit
glosses: Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
examples: text: The dung of horses, for example, is more susceptible of quick fermentation than that of oxen. When the stable, therefore, opens upon a common yard, the horsedung should not be suffered to accumulate in a mass about the stable door, but spread abroad upon the heap.
ref: 1841, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor. Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden. Originally Published in the Cultivator; Selected and Revised for the School District Library, volume 1, Harper and Brothers, page 132:
text: During the last twelve months many analyses have been made in my laboratory of the mud from the City thoroughfares, with the view of ascertaining the relative proportions of horsedung to the matter from the abraded stones and iron […]
ref: 1867, Chemical News, page 307:
synonyms: horsecrap
horseshit
glosses: Horse feces.
cowdung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English cowedong, kowe donge; equivalent to cow + dung.
Senses: examples: text: The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.
ref: 1912, Central Provinces (India), Central Provinces District Gazetteers, page 96:
glosses: The excrement of a cow.
Hyponyms: cowturd
Yahu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jah, based on the Hebrew theophoric variant of יָהּ (yah) — ־יָהוּ (yahu)
Related terms: Yah
vigesimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigesimal.
girlmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From girl + meat.
Senses: examples: text: EDGAR. (Moving blindly, as if playing a game.) Where's my captive Princess? The Big Bad Wolf is hungry, he wants a little girl for his supper.[…]The pot's on the fire, the water's in the pot, the salt's in the water, and I want some nice juicy girlmeat.
ref: 1970, James Saunders, A Scent of Flowers, act I, page 16:
text: The girl screamed as The Bighead et out her clitoris and surroundin' folds'a girlskin. Lotta blood down there already—from the corin' he'd just given her—and Bighead liked the taste'a blood, yessir, 'specially when it were mixed with the taste'a girlmeat.
ref: 2004, Edward Lee, The Big Head, Overlook Connection Press, →ISBN, page 54:
text: […]the good Reverend was dressed only in a pair of black church boots, and then he was running from the tent, from the crowd, a pretty young girl running out the tent and after, a step or two behind him, without even the black church boots, and then the bluegreen alligator, jaws snapping at high-stepping heels, then the awestruck congregation giving chase[…]the alligator hungry for the tang of girlmeat, or so it seemed, the girl just running for her life[…]
ref: 2010, Peter Damian Bellis, The Conjure Man, page 87:
text: Girlmeat is the best meat in the world, it's delicious and nutritious and girls just have been made to be processed into meat.
ref: 2011 November 27, Curt, “Butcher is looking for North African girlmeat! Will pay $50 per pound of living girl-flesh!”, in soc.culture.maghreb (Usenet):
glosses: Human meat from a woman or girl.
Waitrosey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Waitrosey
form: most Waitrosey
Etymology: From Waitrose (after its founders Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Debit cards make you feel virtuous in a Waitrosey/Volvo kind of way, but you can't delay payment for 30 days, and, more important, you have no consumer protection.
ref: 2005, Country Life, volume 199, page 88:
text: There is no way that Tesco could justify such a massive hike. All prices at the big supermarkets are arbitrary and have little bearing on the actual intrinisc worth of any ingredient. They have a profit margin to maintain and I expect some bright spark suggested that grapeseed oil sounded a bit posh, a bit "Waitrosey", therefore the sort of product only rich people could afford, so let's whack the price up to make it seem a real luxury.
ref: 2008, MM, “Tesco's 185% increase in the price of grapeseed oil”, in uk.legal (Usenet):
text: 'Is my thatch not immaculate?' This is most obvious in west Suffolk, where the old wool-based opulence has been fortified by the wagonloads of Waitrosey weekenders.
ref: 2014, Matthew Engel, Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man:
glosses: Characteristic of the upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain
Wideawake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a nearby colony of wideawakes, or sooty terns.
Senses: glosses: Ascension Island
mammalingus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammilingus
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Oral stimulation of the woman’s breast.
clearance spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearance space
make heavy weather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes heavy weather
form: making heavy weather
form: made heavy weather
form: made heavy weather
Senses: glosses: To make progress only with difficulty.
Related terms: make heavy weather of
make the weather
IDGARA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I don't give a rat's ass.
suborgasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + orgasmic.
Senses: glosses: Less than orgasmic.
forcursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forcurse
Ravel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈvɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: * As a French surname, from Ravel.
* As an English surname, variant of Raffel.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Raffel.
* As an Indian surname, variant of Raval.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Delage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /də.laʒ/
Forms: form: Delages
Etymology: Borrowed from French Delage.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
anticinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticinematic
form: most anticinematic
Etymology: From anti- + cinematic.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Defying cinematic conventions.
undirectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undirectable
form: most undirectable
Etymology: From un- + directable.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: That cannot be directed.
Related terms: indirigible
telomerases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telomerase
douchetastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more douchetastic
form: most douchetastic
Etymology: From douche + -tastic.
Senses: glosses: Extremely douchey; highly obnoxious.
enamoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: enamorations
Etymology: From enamor + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: word: enamoredness
word: enamorment
word: infatuation
glosses: Synonym of infatuation.
mammie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mammy.
geomedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geomedium
geomedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geomedia
form: geomediums
Etymology: From geo- + medium.
Senses: examples: text: In a geomedium, the solid particles act as insulators while soil moisture acts largely as the conductor of the electric current.
ref: 2000, Donald L. Wise, Remediation Engineering of Contaminated Soils, →ISBN, page 77:
text: The fate processes and transport rates of each contaminant that is released at initial but time-variable concentration, Ca, into the surrounding geomedia are affected by the homogeneity, isotropy, and continuity of the geomedium.
ref: 2005, Calvin C. Chien, Hilary I. Inyang, Lorne G. Everett, Barrier Systems for Environmental Contaminant Containment and Treatment, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The depth of penetration is significantly reduced in electrical conducting geomediums such as clay.
ref: 2012, Alkiviadis S. Paipetis, Theodore E. Matikas, Dimitrios G. Aggelis, Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing V, →ISBN, page 479:
glosses: A geological medium or substrate such as soil, sediment, or rocks.
examples: text: In that context. I claimed that location-based media or geomedia are to space what the watch is to time. Geomedia regulate social behavior, coordinate social interactions, and regulate interpersonal communications, while organizing the exchange of information, the founding immaterial commodities constitutive of these new immaterial places.
ref: 2013, Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin, Mobile Technology and Place, →ISBN, page 224:
text: These are actors for whom physical artefacts and even human bodies are 'mashable', contiguous and combinable with the aforementioned forms of geomedia.
ref: 2013, Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller, Digital Anthropology, →ISBN:
text: Starting with context-free knowledge about the constructedness of geomedia by focusing on different constructional elements, which the map author selects, this type of knowledge will be presented and then applied by working with a geomedium.
ref: 2014, Eric Sanchez, Inga Gryl, Thomas Jekel, Learning and Teaching with Geomedia, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: A format that includes geographical information, such as that used by maps, geotagged pictures, or travelogues.
geomediums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geomedium
interlesional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + lesional.
Senses: glosses: Between lesions.
interlesion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + lesion.
Senses: glosses: Between lesions.
scaffie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaffies
Etymology: Diminutive of scavenger.
Senses: glosses: A dustman or street sweeper.
essikerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essikert
Gaudreault
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaudreaults
Etymology: French Gaudreault
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Related terms: Gaudreau
Taillon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taillons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Taillon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
prevoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-void
Etymology: From pre- + void.
Senses: glosses: Before the voiding of the bladder.
Duplessis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duplessises
form: Duplessis
form: Duplesses
form: Deplessis
form: DePlessis
form: dePlessis
form: De Plessis
form: de Plessis
form: DuPlessis
form: duPlessis
form: Du Plessis
form: du Plessis
form: Leplessis
form: LePlessis
form: lePlessis
form: Le Plessis
form: le Plessis
form: Plessis
Etymology: From French Duplessis.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Prévost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prévosts
form: Prevost
Etymology: French Prévost
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, variant of Prevost
Prévost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prevost
Etymology: French Prévost
Senses: synonyms: word: Vieux-Prévost
word: Old Prévost
extra: A district, a former municipality of Prévost, Rivière-du-Nord county, Quebec, Canada; across the river from Shawbridge in Prévost
glosses: Synonym of Old Prévost: A district, a former municipality of Prévost, Rivière-du-Nord county, Quebec, Canada; across the river from Shawbridge in Prévost
synonyms: Shawbridge
Prevost
glosses: A municipality of the county of Rivière-du-Nord, Quebec, Canada; composed of Old Prévost and Shawbridge
Parizeau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parizeaus
Etymology: From French Parizeau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Boisclair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boisclairs
Etymology: Borrowed from French Boisclair.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
phosphotransacetylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphotransacetylase
battleship grays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battleship gray
battleship greys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battleship grey
sperm counts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sperm count
trocho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
Senses: glosses: wheel
play it straight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays it straight
form: playing it straight
form: played it straight
form: played it straight
Senses: examples: text: "The position you'd put me in would be this—of playing a game—and a jolly important game at that—in which the loser loses to me on purpose. . . . If we're going to play a game," he continued, addressing Davenant, before the latter had time to speak, "for Heaven's sake let us play it straight—like men. Let the winner win and the loser lose—"
ref: 1911, Basil King, chapter 16, in The Street Called Straight:
text: He added, "I think the American people want a President who will play it straight in foreign policy, tell them the truth."
ref: 1992 July 29, Gwen Ifill, “The 1992 Campaign: Clinton counters on foreign policy”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Sep 2017:
glosses: To behave in a manner that is straightforward, honest, or sincere.
examples: text: And how can you not admire a man who could star in a stinker like Battlestar Galactica—and play it straight?
ref: 1998 March 11, Mark Coatney, “Lloyd Bridges, 1913-1998”, in Time, retrieved 02 Sep 2017:
text: Peter Schickele, the musical satirist and radio show host whose PDQ Bach Christmas concerts sell out Carnegie Hall each year, is not known for playing it straight.
ref: 2001 December 2, Leslie Kandell, “Jersey Footlights: Playing It Straight”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Sep 2017:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: To perform a role in a manner that is not comedic or exaggerated.
examples: text: "But the best thing about him is that he always played it straight with us—never double‐dealed, giving us two and keeping one for himself."
ref: 1976 July 11, Nicholas, “Don't call me an informant”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Sep 2017:
text: Belfort, who made millions on Wall Street before the FBI indicted him and he served nearly two years in federal prison, told the audience he could have made a lot more money if he had played it straight.
ref: 2013 October 7, Jim Harger, “'The Wolf of Wall Street' lectures Economic Club of Grand Rapids on ethics”, in MLive Media Group, retrieved 02 Sep 2017:
text: "They could have made a fortune just playing it straight, but that wasn't enough for them," said Gill. . . . The brothers ultimately pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and bank fraud.
ref: 2017 July 19, Matt Lakin, “Jake Butcher, disgraced East Tennessee banking kingpin, dies”, in Knoxville News Sentinel, retrieved 02 Sep 2017:
synonyms: go straight
glosses: To avoid criminal behavior.
Related terms: play fair
play by the rules
play the game
straight play
straight shooter
proposeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: propose + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of propose
eggtimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggtimers
Etymology: From egg + timer.
Senses: examples: text: Lena saw Mavis open a drawer and take out an eggtimer.
ref: 2005, Josephine Wilson, Cusp:
glosses: Alternative spelling of egg timer.
eggtimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggtimer
passion flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passion flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of passionflower.
Passionflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Passionflowers
Etymology: From Passion + flower.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of passionflower.
Roman collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman collars
Senses: examples: text: 'The Rev. Sebastian Diggles!' said the servant at that instant, throwing open the library-door, and ushering in a tall, heavy-looking personage, somewhat quaintly attired in the clerical costume of the last century, relieved by a few additional peculiarities—to wit, a Roman collar, &c.
ref: 1844, Difficulties of a Young Clergyman in Times of Division:
text: The clerical Collar, generally styled the Roman Collar, and in French Rabat, was unknown as an article of ecclesiastical attire, at least in its present form, prior to the sixteenth century.
ref: 1881, John O'Brien, A History of the Mass and Its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Church:
text: In some places priests who appear always in Roman collar are suspected of aspiring to higher offices. It is taken so because usually the bishops appear in this official dress. The wearing of Roman collar can potentially depersonalize someone.
ref: 2011, Jordan Nyenyembe, African Catholic Priests: Confronting an Identity Problem, page 74:
glosses: A clerical collar.
Roman collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman collar
GPT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒiːpiːˈtiː/
Forms: form: GPTs
Senses: examples: text: GPT is part of Intel's EFI specification, but GPT can be used on computers that don't use EFI, and GPT is the preferred partitioning system for disks bigger than 2TiB.
ref: 2015, Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum, LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 135:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: APM
MBR
glosses: Initialism of GUID partition table.
examples: text: GPT-3 belongs to a category of deep learning known as a large language model, a complex neural net that has been trained on a titanic data set of text: in GPT-3’s case, roughly 700 gigabytes of data drawn from across the web, including Wikipedia, supplemented with a large collection of text from digitized books. GPT-3 is the most celebrated of the large language models, and the most publicly available, but Google, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) and DeepMind have all developed their own L.L.M.s in recent years.
ref: 2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of generative pretrained transformer.
examples: text: In today's session I'll be showing you how you can create GPTs that are tailored to your own work.
text: We will use a 345M parameter GPT-2 transformer in TensorFlow from OpenAI's repository. We must get our hands dirty to understand GPT models.
ref: 2022, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 168:
coordinate_terms: agent#Noun
bot
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A saved chat, project, or (especially) agentic persona within a gen AI workspace, functioning as a reusable and sharable tool.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of generalized probabilistic theory.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of general-purpose technology.
Derived terms: ChatGPT
GPT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒiːpiːˈtiː/
Senses: glosses: Clipping of ChatGPT.
plantar wart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantar warts
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: verruca plantaris
glosses: A wart occurring on the sole of the foot or the toes.
prognathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Prognathism.
GLTC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Greater Lynchburg Transit Company.
yttrofluorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yttrofluorites
Etymology: From yttro- + fluorite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of fluorite that is rich in yttrium
neckdeep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neck deep
form: neck-deep
Etymology: From neck + deep; for more, see up to here.
Senses: glosses: Reaching up to the neck.
examples: text: This gave me a hint, and I went knee-deep, and sometimes neck-deep, in the Red Weed. The density of the weed gave me a reassuring sense of hiding.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 241:
coordinate_terms: elbow-deep
knee-deep
waist-deep
glosses: Submerged up to the neck.
examples: text: By the start of the 19th century, Europe was neckdeep in the Napoleonic Wars, which, at various times, amounted to the British Empire against Europe, and, at others, involved Britain subsidising various nations, such as Austria and Prussia, against Napoleon.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 1:18 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: Very deeply involved (in something) or preoccupied (with something).
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: up to one's neck
myopiagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myopia + -genic.
Senses: glosses: That causes myopia.
herpes angina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Herpangina.
vesiculoulcerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterised by vesicles and ulcerations.
janeu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: janeus
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyaȷ́nás
Sanskrit यज्ञ (yajña)
Sanskrit उपव्ये (upavye)
Sanskrit -इत (-ita)
Sanskrit उपवीत (upavīta)
Sanskrit यज्ञोपवीत (yajñopavīta)
Prakrit 𑀚𑀡𑁆𑀡𑁄𑀯𑀯𑀻𑀅 (jaṇṇovavīa)
Hindi जनेऊ (janeū)bor.
English janeu
Transliteration of Hindi जनेऊ (janeū), from Sanskrit यज्ञोपवीत (yajñopavīta).
Senses: examples: text: The words bring back the memory of Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh guru, who gave up his life to the Mughal authorities for the upkeep of Hindu religious symbols: the janeu and the tilak.
ref: 2003, Bhawan Singh Rana, Indian Critiques of Gandhi, page 181:
text: The origin of the janëu has not been explained as yet; many believe it to be the remnant of a garment.
ref: 2007, Klaus K. Klostermaier, A Survey of Hinduism, 3rd edition, page 150:
text: He had tied a diamond ring to his janeu thread and hidden it in the folds of his dhoti.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 132
glosses: A sacred thread or cord received as a rite of passage by someone studying under a guru.
reticulocytopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reticulocytopenic
form: most reticulocytopenic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having or relating to reticulocytopenia.
hemoglobinopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haemoglobinopathic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or affected by hemoglobinopathy.