cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
subtag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtags
Etymology: From sub- + tag.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tag that is secondary or subordinate to another tag.
subtag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subtags
form: subtagging
form: subtagged
form: subtagged
Etymology: From sub- + tag.
Senses: examples: text: Audio tracks were tagged by artist, and then subtagged by title and genre.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To apply a secondary or subordinate tag to.
subtags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtag
subtags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subtag
A-5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-5s
Senses: examples: text: ...plans and civil aviation divisions were established on the staff division level as A-5.
ref: 1948, Report of the Secretary of the Air Force to the Secretary of Defense for the fiscal year 1948:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The planning section of an Air Force staff.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Vigilante supersonic attack aircraft.
amphiscians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphiscian
amphiscii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: amphiscians
A-6
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-6s
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Intruder twin engine low-altitude attack aircraft.
examples: text: A-6 Communications.
ref: 2009, Michael Spirtas, What it Takes:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Communications section of an Air Force staff.
A-6s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-6
goggle-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goggle-eyes
Etymology: Named for its prominent eyes. From adj. google ('bulging').
Senses: glosses: One of two or more species of American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae.
The warmouth, Lepomis gulosus, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters.
glosses: One of two or more species of American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae.
Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley.
glosses: A fish, the goggler, Selar crumenophthalmus.
Synonyms: Chaenobryttus antistius
Chaenobryttus gulosus
goggle-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goggle-eye
A-7
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-7s
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Corsair single engine light attack bomber.
A-7s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-7
soboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɑbəˌliz/
/ˈsoʊ.boʊˌliz/
/ˈsoʊˌboʊlz/
/ˈsoʊˌbɑlz/
Etymology: From Latin sobolēs.
Senses: examples: text: A soboles is a [...] creeping under-ground stem, sending roots from one part and leaf-buds from another, as in Couch grass, […]
ref: 1851, John Hutton Balfour, A Manual of Botany, page 35:
text: Producing young plants from a soboles.
ref: 1860, Robert Fowler, The medical vocabulary, page 306:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A shoot that runs along underground and forms new plants at short distances.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sucker, as of a tree or shrub.
soboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɑbəˌliz/
/ˈsoʊ.boʊˌliz/
/ˈsoʊˌboʊlz/
/ˈsoʊˌbɑlz/
Etymology: From Latin sobolēs.
Senses: glosses: plural of sobole
cadie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadies
Senses: examples: text: But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!
ref: [1786, Robert Burns, “The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, to the Right Honorable and Honorable, the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I, Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] James M‘Kie, 1867, →OCLC, page 35:
text: A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 222:
text: There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake.
ref: 1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIV, in Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), editor, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume V, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 209:
glosses: Alternative spelling of caddie (“a gentleman who joined the military without a commission as a career; a young man; a person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish towns in the early 18th century”).
attentates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attentate
A-1s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-1
counterpropose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterproposes
form: counterproposing
form: counterproposed
form: counterproposed
Etymology: From counter- + propose.
Senses: glosses: To make a counterproposal.
counterproposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterpropose
counterproposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterpropose
counterproposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterpropose
A-32
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-32s
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Lansen single seat fighter craft, used from 1955-1997.
A-32s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-32
ISKCON
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
schönite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A double sulfate of potassium and magnesium K₂Mg(SO₄)₂.6H₂O
atomic wedgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic wedgie
vertical markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical market
horizontal markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horizontal market
A-60
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-60s
Senses: examples: text: […] and the Saab A-60, the strike version of the Saab 105.
ref: 1966, Military Review, volume 46:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The strike version of the Saab 105 twin-engine training aircraft.
smirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smirt
sobol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsoʊˌboʊl/
/ˈsoʊˌbɑl/
Forms: form: sobols
Senses: examples: text: Rhizomes are of two kinds, slender and fleshy. The slender rhizome, or sobol (Fig. 16), is popularly called the creeping stem of the plant.
ref: 1897, Lucius Elmer Sayre, A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, page 25:
text: Stems [...] erect or somewhat decumbent at base, rising from an elongate, rhizome-like, root-bearing organ, representing a sobol of the previous season.
ref: 1952, Henry Allan Gleason, The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada:
glosses: Alternative form of sobole.
kleptography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From klepto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The study of stealing information securely and subliminally.
Derived terms: kleptographic
Related terms: cryptovirology
kleptographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kleptography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to kleptography
Derived terms: kleptographically
kleptographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From kleptographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a kleptographic manner
glosses: With regard to kleptography
A-68
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If...the A-68 protein proves essential to the development of the disease and not merely another by-product.
ref: 2000, R.E. Markin, Coping with Alzheimer's:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A protein from patients with Alzheimer's
togeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of togey
root hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of root hair
A-106
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-106s
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The Agusta A.106 prototype helicopter, which never made it into pre-production.
A-106s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-106
parochial vicars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parochial vicar
zymins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zymin
jailhouse lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jailhouse lawyer
big ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of big old.
hyperpermeabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpermeability
hyperpermeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperpermeable
form: most hyperpermeable
Etymology: From hyper- + permeable.
Senses: glosses: Having higher than normal permeability.
pan-broils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pan-broil
pan-broiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pan-broil
pan-broiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pan-broil
sulphurises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sulphurise
sulphurising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sulphurise
sulphurised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sulphurise
Pictland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkt.land/
ipa: /ˈpɪkt.lənd/
ipa: /ˈpɪkt.lænd/
ipa: /ˈpɪkt.lənd/
rhymes: -ɪktlænd
rhymes: -ɪktlənd
Etymology: From Pict + -land.
Senses: examples: text: He, through the wealth wherein he did abound, / This daughter thought in wedlocke to have bound / Unto the Prince of Picteland […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Either the long-dead wheelwright didn't think of that – or else early Pictland had gravelled roads.
ref: 11 Oct 2013, Tom Shippey, The Guardian:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: The northeastern part of Scotland, formerly inhabited by the Picts.
Lombard house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lombard houses
Senses: glosses: A place providing loans, a bank or pawnshop.
Lombard houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lombard house
good ole boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good ole boy Alternative form of good old boys.
geniospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From genio- + spasm.
Senses: glosses: A movement disorder of the mentalis muscle.
good old boy networks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good old boy network
genio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “chin”).
Senses: glosses: chin
Broccoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Broccolis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Broccoli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
gon-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: gono-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γόνος (gónos, “genitals”).
Senses: glosses: sexual reproduction, especially male
gon-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: gono-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”).
Senses: glosses: knee
parting gift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parting gifts
Senses: glosses: A gift given to someone who is leaving; a leaving present.
examples: Like a game show contestant with a parting gift. I could not believe my eyes. - Blues Traveler, Runaround
glosses: An offering given, usually as a consolation prize, to a person who is not the ultimate winner of a contest. Often used in a game show for contestants who are not the grand prize winner.
examples: text: In the air, some aircraft are using their loads of small 100-pound bombs and their gun armament to try and disrupt or detonate torpedoes launched by Japanese destroyers and cruisers as parting gifts, with some degree of success.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 33:34 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: A final attack or insult by a departing enemy.
damaskeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of damascene.
damaskeen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: damaskeens
form: damaskeening
form: damaskeened
form: damaskeened
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of damascene.
damaskeened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of damaskeen
damaskeening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damaskeen
damaskeening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damaskeenings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damascening.
damaskeens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of damaskeen
damascenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of damascene
damascening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damascene
damascening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damascenings
Senses: glosses: damascene trimmings or ornamentation
damaskened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of damasken
damaskening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damasken
airprox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəpɹɒks/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹpɹɑks/
Forms: form: airproxes
Etymology: From air(craft) + prox(imity).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: airmiss
glosses: A near miss between aircraft.
airproxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airprox
linkspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkspans
Etymology: From link + span.
Senses: glosses: A kind of drawbridge used mainly to move vehicles on and off a ro-ro vessel or ferry.
linkspans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linkspan
semiwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + water.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a mixture of water gas and producer gas made by passing a mixture of air and steam through heated coke.
scuzzbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuzzbags
Senses: glosses: scumbag; scuzzball; scuzzbucket
scuzzbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuzzbag
shortarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortarses
Etymology: From short + arse.
Senses: glosses: A short person; someone of small stature.
shortarses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortarse
unhandselled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhandselled
form: most unhandselled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unhandseled.
burfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burfishes
form: burfish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burrfish
burfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burfish
calciums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcium
hanging offences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanging offence
hanging offenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanging offense
essoign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.
ref: 1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of essoin.
essoign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: essoigns
form: essoigning
form: essoigned
form: essoigned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of essoin.
essoigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of essoign
essoigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of essoign
essoigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of essoign
test patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test pattern
lion's shares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lion's share
presentees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presentee
unozonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ozonized.
Senses: glosses: Not ozonized.
bridge and tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "On the weekends, we get all the bridge and tunnel people who try to get in," he said.
Elizabeth Fondaras, a pillar of the city’s conservative social scene, who has just told Steve Rubell she had never tried to get into Studio 54 for fear of being rejected, asked who the bridge and tunnel people were.
"Those people from Queens and Staten Island and those places," he said.
ref: 1977 December 14, Enid Nemy, “To Be Thin, Beautiful and Cheek-to-Jowl”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: I had said to the team, "We can't go to New Jersey. What would they call us, the Bridge and Tunnels?"
ref: 1984, Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself: The Semi-Tougher Adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett and Them, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →OL, page 18:
text: “You’d get everyone from tourists to bridge and tunnel people in the club.”
ref: 2011 June 29, Alexis Swerdloff, “Fly by Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bridge-and-tunnel.
contemporizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contemporize
contemporized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contemporize
contemporizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contemporize
bridge-and-tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bridge and tunnel
Etymology: From the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the fact that road travel to Manhattan Island requires passage over a bridge or through a tunnel.
Senses: examples: text: "Tonight we get the Bridge-and-Tunnel People." He said this like, "Tonight the Nazis attack."
"The Bridge-and-Tunnel People?"
"They come from Jersey and Long Island to get drunk and have a good time."
ref: 1990 July, Joe Bob Briggs, “My Life as Joe Bob Briggs”, in Texas Monthly, →ISSN, page 132:
text: And much to the consternation of their city cousins, many of whom view them with the same disdain they reserve in the other three seasons for the bridge-and-tunnel people who dare to cross the Hudson and East Rivers for a bit of Manhattan glamour, they seem to be taking over.
ref: 1999 August 1, Bernard Stamler, “Whose Hamptons Are They Anyway?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The worst drug calamity, the worst-case scenario, was that you accidentally took too much ecstasy and were actually nice to a Bridge-and-Tunnel person.
ref: 2003, James St. James, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland, →ISBN, →OL, page 67:
text: Well, you're not bridge-and-tunnel. No trace of the boroughs when you talk. So that means Manhattan, that means money.
ref: 2009 March 9, Flowers for Your Grave (Castle), season 1, episode 1, spoken by Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion):
glosses: Of people who travel to Manhattan via bridge or tunnel from surrounding communities.
wikipedia: Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority
Synonyms: B&T
BNT
Derived terms: bridge-and-tunneler
Related terms: townie
deskspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desk + space.
Senses: examples: text: Yet no matter how many features you add, the LaserPrinter E's unique stackable design takes up practically no more deskspace.
ref: 1990 August 27, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 35:
text: Disorganised deskspace is a major cause of being ineffective.
ref: 2011, Sandy Clyne, Organise Your Home Office:
glosses: space on the surface of a desk
jump the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps the line
form: jumping the line
form: jumped the line
form: jumped the line
Senses: glosses: To skip to the head of a queue without waiting for one's turn.
Synonyms: jump the queue
Bergmann's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Carl Bergmann, 19th-century German biologist.
Senses: glosses: The ecogeographic principle that, within a broadly distributed taxonomic clade, populations and species of larger size are found in colder environments, and species of smaller size are found in warmer regions.
little old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: little ol'
form: little ole
form: li'l' old
form: li'l' ol'
form: li'l' ole
form: li'l old
form: li'l ol'
form: li'l ole
form: lil old
form: lil ol'
form: lil ole
Senses: examples: text: Well aren't you just a little old sweetheart?
text: A: I love your dress! B: What, this little old thing?
text: How about a little old game of pool?
text: You brought the best little old news you'll ever tote. Secretario, if you never promulgate worse news than that, you'll boost your circulation a thousand a day.
ref: 1909, Rowland Thomas, The Little Gods, page 280:
text: They found afterward to their regret that he was the finest little old poker player that ever struck the village and he carried away a suitcase of yellow-backed bills.
ref: 1915 August 14, Roy K. Moulton, “On the Spur of the Moment: Appearances”, in The Day (New London), page 9:
text: [Pogo:] I'm takin' care of this li'l' ol' backward child.
ref: 1949 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo (comic strip):
text: We Texans have always bragged about having the best little old this and the best little old that.
ref: 1976, Richard West, “The Best of Texas”, in Texas Monthly, volume 4, number 7, page 103:
text: Well, you nice people, I'm going to let you in on a secret and show you why this kitchen knife is the best little ole product you can get.
ref: 1992, Henry I. Christ, Building Power in Reading, page 131:
text: Christine Roberts Presley: Elvis was the best little ol' thing. He was so polite.
ref: 1995, Rose Clayton, editor, Elvis Up Close: In the Words of Those Who Knew Him Best, page 13:
text: While still marveling over the magnificent overtime victory his team had over St. John's Sunday, Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski turned immediately to worrying about what was ahead. […] Duke plays a little old game against North Carolina tonight.
ref: 1999, “College Basketball: Men's Roundup; Jarvis Keeps His Focus on Tough Road Ahead”, in New York Times:
text: Last time I seen you, you was a little old girl / I had a crush now we grown and we still so thorough
ref: 2010, J. Cole, Friday Night Lights (mixtape), "You Got It" lyrics
glosses: Emphatically, affectionately, or humorously little; ordinary or harmless (especially when trying to downplay the importance of something).
examples: text: This joke is getting a little old.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, old.
Derived terms: little old lady
little old me
little old moi
little ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Christine Roberts Presley: Elvis was the best little ol' thing. He was so polite.
ref: 1995, Rose Clayton, editor, Elvis Up Close: In the Words of Those Who Knew Him Best, page 13:
glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
little ole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Well, you nice people, I'm going to let you in on a secret and show you why this kitchen knife is the best little ole product you can get.
ref: 1992, Henry I. Christ, Building Power in Reading, page 131:
glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
li'l' old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
li'l' ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [Pogo:] I'm takin' care of this li'l' ol' backward child.
ref: 1949 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo (comic strip):
glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
li'l' ole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
li'l old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
li'l ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
li'l ole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
lil old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
lil ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
lil ole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of little old.
A-109
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-109s
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The Agusta A109 twin-engine utility helicopter.
A-109s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-109
overhydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhydrates
form: overhydrating
form: overhydrated
form: overhydrated
Etymology: From over- + hydrate.
Senses: glosses: To hydrate too much.
Related terms: overhydration
overhydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhydrate
overhydrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhydrate
overhydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhydrate
underhydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underhydrates
form: underhydrating
form: underhydrated
form: underhydrated
Etymology: From under- + hydrate.
Senses: glosses: To hydrate too little.
Related terms: underhydration
underhydrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underhydrate
underhydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underhydrate
a/a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AA
form: A.A.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of antiaircraft.
a/a
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: AA
form: A.A.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of antiaircraft.
a/A
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Arterial to alveolar oxygen ratio.
what do you mean
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A request for clarification of an anterior statement or question.
examples: text: What do you mean, it was all my fault?
text: What do you frigging mean by waking me up at this time of night?
glosses: An expression of surprise, annoyance, or disagreement to an anterior statement.
Broccolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Broccoli
A/A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of agnostics/atheists.
aa & a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AA&A
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of armor, armament, and ammunition.
AA&A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aa & a
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of armor, armament, and ammunition.
taking turns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take turns
Synonyms: sense: as noun
word: turn-taking
sense: as noun
word: taking of turns
turn-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-takings
Senses: glosses: Taking turns; alternating.
glosses: An instance of the one participant taking control of some interaction, usually two-party, such as a conversation, from another.
Synonyms: sense: alternating
word: switching off
turn-takings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn-taking
AAAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Academy of anti-aging medicine.
AAAANZ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of New Zealand.
AAAB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Architectural Bibliographers.
AAAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association for the Advancement of Criminology.
glosses: Initialism of Antiaircraft Australian Army Aviation Corps.
AAACE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
AAA-CPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants.
AAAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /eɪ eɪ eɪ ˈdiː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Athletic Association for the Deaf.
glosses: Initialism of Association of Automotive Aftermarket Distributors.
AAAE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Airport Executives.
glosses: Initialism of Australian Association of Adult Education.
AAAEE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /eɪ eɪ eɪ iː ˈiː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Afro-Asian Educational Exchange.
A.A. Ag.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Associate of Arts in Agriculture.
AAAH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities.
AAAI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Affiliated Advertising Agencies International.
glosses: Initialism of American Academy of Allergy and Immunology.
AAAID
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development.
AAAIMH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization.
AAAIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Advanced Army Aircraft Instrumentation Program.
AAAIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Antiaircraft Artillery Information Service.
glosses: Initialism of Antiaircraft Artillery Intelligence Service.
AAAIWA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, now part of the UAW.
AAALAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪlæk/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care.
bangstry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "How much money did you get back?"
"Not a centime, especially now that he's met with bangstry."
ref: 2013, CSI (TV show), season 13, episode 16
qualifier: generally Scotland
glosses: violence
triduans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triduan
Starfish site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Starfish sites
Etymology: Wartime code name derived from the initials SF for special fire.
Senses: qualifier: World War II
glosses: Any of the decoy cities built in the British countryside and set on fire during nearby bombing raids to divert German bombers away from their intended targets.
pad saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pad saws
form: padsaw
Etymology: From pad + saw.
Senses: glosses: A type of narrow-bladed saw used especially for cutting curves.
Synonyms: keyhole saw
alligator saw
drywall saw
jab saw
quyent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quaint.
cross-breedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-breeding
easy chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of easy chair
hot chisels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot chisel
some old
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: some ol'
form: some ole
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, old.
examples: text: Don't worry, I'll find some old way to do it.
text: But I don't want you to promise anything – you're a decent old sort, and you'd be sure to make it up to me some old way or other.
ref: 1921, Law Notes, volume 40, page 72:
text: I ain't got but one old rusty dime. / …
Oh, I'll have a new dollar some old day,
And I'll throw this old rusty dime away.
ref: 1930s, "Chilly Winds" (U.S. folk song), collected in John A. Lomax et al., Our Singing Country (1941), p. 294
text: I've been workin' out in the rain
Tied to the dirty old ball and chain
Oh dear mother I'll come home some old day
ref: 1936 (recorded 1957), Foggy Mountain Boys (Flatt and Scruggs, as "Certain and Stacey"), on Foggy Mountain Jamboree, "Some Old Day" lyrics
text: So why don't someone here just spike his drink
Why don't you do him in some old way
Supposed to be a funeral
ref: 1970, Gram Parsons in The Flying Burrito Brothers, "$1000 Wedding" lyrics
text: [The con man] will get good folks
 Because they will just try to help folks in some ole way!
ref: 2011, Wilbur Thornton, Intoxicating Winds, page 519:
glosses: Some, some unspecified or yet-undetermined one (especially for emphasis).
Related terms: any old
some ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of some old.
Related terms: any ol'
some ole
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of some old.
Related terms: any ole
any ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of any old.
Related terms: some ol'
any ole
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: I don't do the things that you do
I don't go the places that you go
I don't say the bad things that you say
But I love you any way, Dara
I love you any ole way, Dara
I love you any way, Dara
ref: 1966, Otis Redding (with Steve Cropper), The Soul Album, "Any Ole Way" lyrics
glosses: Alternative form of any old.
Related terms: some ole
camisadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camisado
camisade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camisades
Etymology: French camisade (“a night attack”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of camisado.
camisades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camisade
perclose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percloses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parclose (“partition, or enclosed place”).
glosses: Alternative form of parclose (“type of heraldic emblem”).
examples: text: it seemeth by the perclose of the same verse, that vagabond is therein understood
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: Conclusion; end.
percloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perclose
busky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌski/
rhymes: -ʌski
Forms: form: more busky
form: most busky
Senses: examples: text: Above yon busky hill.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Alternative form of bosky.
strong water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong waters
Etymology: Calque of Latin aqua fortis.
Senses: glosses: A strong solvent, (specifically) nitric acid.
examples: text: Strong-Waters are apt to give me the Head-ache—I hope, Madam, you will excuse me.
ref: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, III.8:
glosses: Alcoholic spirit; a strong alcoholic drink.
strong-waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong-water
wents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of went
decrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decrews
form: decrewing
form: decrewed
form: decrewed
Etymology: From Middle French decreu, past participle of decreistre (“to decrease”). Compare accrue.
Senses: examples: text: But toward th'end Sir Arthegall renewed / His strength still more, but she still more decrewed.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To decrease, wane.
decrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decrew
parcellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parcelling
Chinese wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pela
whitewax
glosses: A gelatinous crystalline substance obtained from the wax secreted by certain insects, used in the manufacture of candles, polishes, etc.
adviceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adviceful
form: most adviceful
form: avizefull
Etymology: From advice + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Britomart with sharpe avizefull eye / Beheld the lovely face of Artegall […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Attentive; watchful.
glosses: Providing advice; informative, insightful.
articulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articularies
form: articular
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The articular bone; a bone in the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
articulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: articular
Senses: glosses: articular; relating to the joints
Derived terms: intraarticulary
semeiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semiography.
hesperidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesperidium
semeiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semeiologically
form: most semeiologically
Etymology: From semeiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semiologically.
semiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of semiology.
tousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of touse
toused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of touse
untousled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untousled
form: most untousled
Etymology: From un- + tousled.
Senses: glosses: Not tousled.
honeyberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeyberries
Etymology: From honey + berry.
Senses: glosses: Edible fruit of the mamoncillo (Melicoccus bijugatus), a soapberry whose tastes resembles a mix of lychee and lime.
synonyms: haskap
glosses: Edible fruit of the blue-berried honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea).
glosses: Edible, sweet, dark purple fruit of the deciduous European nettle tree (Celtis australis).
honeyberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeyberry
tetrodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrodons
form: tetradont
Etymology: Variation of translingual Tetraodon.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetraodon and allied genera.
tetrodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrodon
leucocythaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucocythaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leucocythemia.
leucocythaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucocythaemia
cheap John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheap Johns
Senses: glosses: A cheapjack.
cheap Johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheap John
nonamnesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amnesic.
Senses: glosses: Not amnesic.
nonamnesic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonamnesics
Etymology: From non- + amnesic.
Senses: glosses: One who is not amnesic.
nonamnesics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonamnesic
husbandwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husbandwomen
Etymology: From husband + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: Along with her daily chores the husbandwoman salted, pickled, preserved, and manufactured enough beer and cider to see the family safely through the winter.
ref: 1999, Marilyn C. Wesley, Secret Journeys, page 8:
glosses: A female husbandman.
husbandwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of husbandwoman
purle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pearl.
glosses: Obsolete form of purl.
purles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purle
coco peat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocopeat.
merls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merl
undefused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + defused.
Senses: glosses: Not defused.
defusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From defuse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being defused.
passadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passado
folie de grandeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folies de grandeur
Etymology: Borrowed from French folie des grandeurs, with the construct re-analyzed as singular.
Senses: glosses: delusion of grandeur
little person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəlˌpɜːsən/
Forms: form: little people
form: little persons
Senses: examples: text: Here, the amount of personal space that is acknowledged for a little person is similar to that of a child.
ref: 2012, Vera Chouinard, Edward Hall, Robert Wilton, Towards Enabling Geographies, page 188:
glosses: A person with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.
examples: text: The little people then disappeared, and went each about their work or their pleasure.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 298:
text: His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats[…]
ref: 1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, page 285:
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: small person
glosses: A small magical humanoid creature, such as an elf, leprechaun, or fairy.
examples: text: I used to be a little person inside my Mommy's tummy. Now I'm all big!
ref: 1987 February 1, Barbara Siegel, quoting Grace the Pro-Life Doll, “Move Over Barbie”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 2:
text: Shepard: I don't have time for this, Conrad. I'm not here to be a role model. / Conrad Verner: Oh, I see how it is. Commander Shepard doesn't have time for the little people! / Conrad Verner: Far be it for me to get in your way! You go be a hero.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, person.
Related terms: little folk
smallfolk
little people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little person
little people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The Vietnamese, particularly in the Vietnam War.
rusty-spotted cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rusty-spotted cats
Etymology: From rusty + spotted + cat.
Senses: glosses: Prionailurus rubiginosus, one of the smallest members of the cat family, native to India and Sri Lanka.
rusty-spotted cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusty-spotted cat
spane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spān
ipa: /speɪn/
Forms: form: spanes
form: spaning
form: spaned
form: spaned
form: spean
form: spain
Etymology: From Middle English spanen, probably from Middle Dutch spanen, spenen or Middle Low German spānen, spēnen, spōnen (“to wean”), ultimately from the merger of Proto-West Germanic *spanōn and *spannjan, from Proto-Germanic *spanōną and *spanjaną (“to wean”), from Proto-Germanic *spanō, *spenô (“teat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast; teat”). Cognate with Dutch spenen (“to wean”), German spänen (“to wean”), Old French espanir (“to wean”) (from Germanic).
Senses: examples: text: to spane a child
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:spane.
glosses: To wean; to spean.
spaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spane
spanes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spane
spaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spane
speans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spean
speans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spean
speaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spean
speaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spean
diabetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diabetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: diabetically prone rats
diabetically blind people
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, diabetes.
jungle cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jungle cats
Etymology: From jungle + cat.
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized cat, of species Felis chaus, native to Asia.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jungle, cat.
Synonyms: swamp cat
reed cat
jungle cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jungle cat
mishigas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mishegoss.
out at the heels
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: out at heels
Senses: glosses: Wearing stockings that are worn out.
glosses: Shabby, or in a poor plight.
out at heels
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out at the heels.