cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Furby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Furbies
form: Furbys
Etymology: Marketing coinage, from fur.
Senses: glosses: A talking electronic toy in the form of a fluffy animal.
girl power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The period of these blockbuster franchises has also seen such popular pseudofeminisms as 'girl power' that claim empowerment while buying in to materialisms that are patriarchal.
ref: 2007, John Lennard, Octavia E Butler: Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood, page 14:
glosses: A phrase suggesting female exuberance and independence, used to market several female musical groups, especially the Spice Girls.
Related terms: you go, girl
rock band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock bands
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of musicians who play rock music.
Synonyms: rock group
rock music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening of rock and roll music, in use since circa 1966 to refer to genres of popular music which had grown sufficiently distinct from 1950s rock and roll.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A broad genre of popular music, including especially those styles ultimately derived from rock and roll, employing electrical amplification, heavy use of guitars, 4/4 time with strong percussive rhythm on beats two and four (backbeat), and usually themes of bold wildness, rebellion, and sexuality.
Synonyms: rock
rock and roll
global distillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The concentration of volatile pollutants, generated in the temperate zones, in the polar regions
temperate zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temperate zones
Senses: glosses: Either of the parts of the Earth's surface between the tropics and the polar regions: one such zone in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.
Derived terms: north temperate zone
south temperate zone
north temperate zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: south temperate zone
hypernyms: temperate zone
qualifier: often upstyle
glosses: The temperate zone between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer.
south temperate zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: north temperate zone
hypernyms: temperate zone
qualifier: often upstyle
glosses: The temperate zone between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn.
googlewhacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From googlewhack + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of searching for googlewhacks.
googlewhacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From googlewhack + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of googlewhack
gorge-walking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorge walking
Senses: glosses: An outdoor activity in which one follows the course of a stream (on foot, in the water), negotiating rapids and jumping or climbing waterfalls
gorge walking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gorge-walking.
grey market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey markets
form: gray market
Etymology: By analogy with black market.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The buying and selling of goods through distribution channels other than those authorized or intended by the manufacturer or producer.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The trading of shares before they are listed on the stock exchange.
Derived terms: grey marketeer
Related terms: grey literature
Naved
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naveed
form: Navid
Etymology: From Classical Persian نوید (nuwēd, literally “good news”) via Urdu نوید (naved, literally “good news”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Classical Persian male given name نوید (Nuwēd).
glosses: A transliteration of the Urdu male given name نوید (navīd, naved).
sticks and stones
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 1957, Brendan Gill, The Day the Money Stopped
‘You cheap dead-beat son of a bitch.’ / ‘Sticks and stones.’
text: 1993, The Independent, 15 May
He has come through the worst and now presents a stoical ‘sticks and stones’ front to his detractors.
text: Elizabeth Swann: You're despicable!
Jack Sparrow: Sticks and stones, love.
ref: 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (film)
text: (Kate): That's gross! You're a pervert.
(Trekkie):Oh, sticks and stones, Kate Monster.
ref: 2003, “The Internet Is For Porn”, in Avenue Q soundtrack:
glosses: Ellipsis of sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
sticks and stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
ref: 20th century, (famous quote):
glosses: any obsolete technology (usually of military and law enforcement purposes) when used in comparison to state of the art technology used by the antagonists or competitors.
raw_tags: used in the plural
Related terms: sticks and stones may break my bones
nationalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nationalises
form: nationalising
form: nationalised
form: nationalised
Etymology: From French nationaliser, equivalent to national + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: It was done in order to nationalise — or rather to Babylonise — all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.
ref: 1870, The Broadway, page 33:
text: Although the B.L.S. group of railways remains under private ownership, the question of nationalising more Swiss lines has recently been considered by a Government Commission.
ref: 1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 513:
text: The US joins the first world war and supplies allied forces with oil. President Woodrow Wilson appoints multiple oil executives to war-effort committees and nationalises the railways.
ref: 2017 November 12, Jie Jenny Zou, “How big oil is tightening its grip on Donald Trump's White House”, in The Guardian:
text: It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
ref: 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nationalize.
Derived terms: denationalise
nationalisation
renationalise
letter to the editor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters to the editor
form: letters to editors
Senses: examples: text: The man wanted to show support for his choice for mayor by writing a letter to the editor.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A letter written to a newspaper, magazine or other periodical, usually intended for publication, about issues of concern to readers.
Related terms: letter column
due process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English dewe processe, from Anglo-Norman due procés.
Senses: examples: text: The Trump administration’s disregard for due process has been a pattern in the legal disputes over his immigration policies.
ref: 2025 April 8, John Fritze, “Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants”, in CNN:
topics: law
glosses: A legal concept where a person is ensured all legal rights when deprived of their liberty for a given reason.
topics: law
glosses: The limits of laws and legal proceedings, so as to ensure a person fairness, justice and liberty.
Synonyms: due process of law
Coordinate terms: 14th Amendment
Miranda rights
Derived terms: procedural due process
substantive due process
drop the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops the ball
form: dropping the ball
form: dropped the ball
form: dropped the ball
Etymology: An allusion to the rules of such games as baseball, American football or cricket wherein literally dropping the ball would be a mistake.
Senses: examples: text: The movie ought to sputter out here, but Crowe and Cruise don't drop the ball.
ref: 1996 Dec. 13, Peter Stack, "Tom and ‘Jerry’ Make a Great Team" (film review of Jerry Maguire), San Francisco Chronicle (retrieved 21 Sept 2013)
glosses: To fail in one's responsibilities or duties, or to make a mistake, especially at a critical point or when the result is very negative.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, ball.
Synonyms: word: fall on one's face
word: fuck up
word: screw the pooch
Related terms: fumble
take one's eye off the ball
rain delay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain delays
Senses: examples: text: The baseball game went into a rain delay for about an hour before the skies cleared and play resumed.
glosses: The interruption of an outdoor event because of rain, with the expectation that it would continue later.
nocturnal emission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nocturnal emissions
Senses: examples: text: In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:
glosses: An ejaculation or orgasm while asleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream.
Synonyms: word: night emission
word: nocturnal pollution
word: wet dream
Hagueite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hagueites
Etymology: From Hague + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of William Hague, or his economic or political policies.
Hagueite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hague + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the policies of William Hague.
Related terms: Blairite
Brownite
Majorite
Thatcherite
Hansonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hanson + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political policies of Pauline Hanson, leader of the Australian One Nation Party.
Montpellier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɒnˈpɛlieɪ/
/mɒnˌpɛliˈeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Montpellier.
Senses: glosses: A large city, the prefecture of Hérault department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A town and municipality of Papineau Regional County Municipality, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Acer monspessulanum
word: Montpellier maple
Erfurt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Thuringia, Germany.
Mayflower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From mayflower.
Senses: synonyms: the boat
glosses: A historical ship that transported the Pilgrims to America in the year 1620.
Hungerford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hungerfords
Etymology: From Old English hungor (“hunger, famine”) + ford (“ford”), a name which probably denoted an unproductive or barren land.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A town and civil parish with a town council in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3368).
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A hamlet in Waltham St Lawrence parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU8274).
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A hamlet in Hyde parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1612).
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A hamlet in Munslow parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO5389).
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A hamlet in Old Cleeve parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST0440).
glosses: A placename:
A settlement in Tweed municipality, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A township in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Wharton County, Texas, United States, named after Daniel E. Hungerford.
glosses: A placename:
A small town on the NSW border in the Shire of Bulloo, south-west Queensland, Australia, named after Thomas Hungerford.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
trahison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French trahison.
Senses: examples: text: That this trahison would take a partly “multicultural” form was also something that was slowly ceasing to surprise me.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2010, page 270:
glosses: Treason.
Related terms: trahison des clercs
prononcé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prononcé
form: most prononcé
Etymology: From French prononcé.
Senses: glosses: Strongly marked; decided, or distinguished, in manners, attire, or appearance.
Synonyms: word: prononcée
grease pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grease pits
Senses: synonyms: inspection pit
glosses: A narrow pit or trench over which a vehicle can be driven and conveniently worked on from beneath.
inspection pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspection pits
Senses: examples: text: All tracks in both the running shed and repair shop are provided with full-length inspection pits.
ref: 1957 December 24, “Diesel Depot at Darlington”, in Railway Magazine, page 876:
text: The shed encloses three inspection pit roads, each able to hold a six-car set, and has been designed to permit future extension for the servicing of nine-car trains if this is required.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
synonyms: grease pit
glosses: A narrow pit or trench over which a vehicle can be parked and conveniently worked on from beneath.
Achaius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A Latinized form of Eochaid.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage only.
Adair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of Scottish usage, equivalent to English Edgar.
glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: Adair County
Adelbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Doublet of Albert and Ethelbert.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Adolfo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Adolfo.
Senses: examples: text: Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames last month was found guilty of a hate crime – a class "D" felony – third-degree harassment and reckless use of fire.
ref: 2019 December 19, Andrea May Sahouri, Gage Miskimen, Danielle Gehr, “Iowa man sentenced to 16 years for setting LGBTQ flag on fire”, in USA Today:
glosses: A male given name from Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, equivalent to English Adolph.
Adamnan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Irish Adomnán (“little Adam”).
Senses: glosses: An Irish saint (c. 624–704), patron saint of the Diocese of Raphoe, the biographer of St. Columba and an acquaintance of the Venerable Bede.
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
bibliotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɪbli.əˈθiːkə/
Forms: form: bibliothecas
form: bibliothecae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin bibliothēca, borrowed from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”). Equivalent to biblio- + -theca. Doublet of bibliotheque.
Senses: glosses: A library.
Achill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈækəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Acaill.
Senses: examples: text: He admits that, as a project, “it's a bit niche, but I think anybody who's been here develops a massive grá for Achill. […]”
ref: 2023 August 5, Lauren Murphy, quoting Graham Sweeney, “Sounds of Achill”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 11:
glosses: An island in County Mayo, the largest of the Irish isles.
holograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hologram
holographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, holo- + -graph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Abba meanwhile, all of whom are still alive, will outsource their touring to holographic versions of themselves in 2019. “It’s perfect. We can be on stage while I’m home walking the dogs,” the band’s Benny Andersson said.
ref: 2017 October 20, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “In dreams: Roy Orbison hologram to embark on UK tour in 2018”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: hologrammatic
hologrammic
glosses: In the form of a hologram or holograph.
examples: text: a holographic will or testament
text: […] although the will is holographic, and a holographic instrument cannot be admitted to probate where testator told the subscribing witnesses that it was not his will, […]
ref: 1906, The New York Supplement, page 729:
text: Upon the face of the will, which is holographic, and of considerable length, there is not the slightest evidence of derangement […]
ref: 1908, The American and English Annotated Cases: Containing the Important Cases Selected from the Current American, Canadian, and English Reports ... Thoroughly Annotated, page 799:
topics: law
glosses: Handwritten by a single writer.
Derived terms: holographically
holographic principle
holographic will
nonholographic
Related terms: hologrammatically
holography
dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: Dicks
Senses: glosses: plural of dick
dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: Dicks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dick
Ahab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪˌhæb/
Forms: form: Achab
Etymology: From Middle English Achab, from Latin Achab, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαάβ (Akhaáb), from Hebrew אַחְאָב (ʼAḥʼāḇ, “uncle”); from אַח (ʼaḥ, “brother”) + אָב (ʼāḇ, “father”). Attested in Akkadian as 𒀀𒄩𒀊𒁍 (Aḫabbu).
Senses: glosses: A king of Israel, mentioned in the Bible.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, very rarely used.
Derived terms: Ahabian
Abi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.
Aegidius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Late Latin Aegīdius, from Ancient Greek Αἰγιδιός (Aigidiós, “kid skin”) (sometimes interpreted as “the protecting”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
Related terms: sense: modern given name
word: Giles
Ahaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אָחָז (acház, “owns”), a contraction of יְהוֹאָחָז (yeho'acház, “Jah has held”). Attested to in Akkadian as 𒁹𒅀𒌑𒄩𒍣 (Yauḫazi).
Senses: examples: text: Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of LORD his God, like David his father.
ref: , 2 Kings 16:2
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A king of Judah mentioned in the book of Kings.
Related terms: Achaz
Achatius
Abie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪbi/
rhymes: -eɪbi
Etymology: From Abe + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.
purveyors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purveyor
m.o.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: related: word: MO
word: M.O.
glosses: Initialism of modus operandi.
third finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third fingers
Senses: qualifier: bowed string instruments
glosses: ring finger
qualifier: keyboard instruments
glosses: middle finger
fanatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnætɪkəl/
Forms: form: more fanatical
form: most fanatical
Senses: examples: text: fanatical devotion
text: fanatical belief
text: fanatical follower
text: The group was known for its fanatical devotion to its leader.
text: He’s a fanatical supporter of the local football team.
glosses: Having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause.
Derived terms: antifanatical
fanatically
fanaticalness
nonfanatical
ultrafanatical
unfanatical
Related terms: fanatic
feller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellers
Etymology: From Middle English feller; equivalent to fell + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
glosses: A machine for felling trees.
glosses: A person who fells a seam.
glosses: An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
Derived terms: feller-buncher
feller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellers
Etymology: Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar.
Senses: examples: text: There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […]”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
text: Old Lady: 'HOLLER AT THAT FELLER IN THE CHEST DOWNSTAIRS. IF Y'NEED CARDS, HE'S YER MAIN MAN, HEH HEH!'
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: House of Joustus:
glosses: Nonstandard form of fellow.
Derived terms: blackfeller
fellermelad
whitefeller
Related terms: fellow
fellar
fella
fellah
feller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fell + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fell: more fell
licenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of license
licenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of license
lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of length
lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of length
evidences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: plural of evidence
evidences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evidence
constriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: constrictions
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.
Senses: glosses: The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
examples: text: […] greatest breadth at a point about half way between the constriction and the ends […]
ref: 1861, Robert Kaye Greville, Description of New and Rare Diatoms: Serie I-XX, page 78:
glosses: A narrow part of something; a stricture.
glosses: A compression.
Derived terms: arterioconstriction
bronchoconstriction
constriction ring syndrome
hyperconstriction
nanoconstriction
preconstriction
pupilloconstriction
reconstriction
vasoconstriction
Related terms: constrict
constraint
constrain
restriction
giddiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giddinesses
Etymology: From giddy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Lorry, you cannot control the mincing vanities and giddinesses of empty-headed girls; you must not expect to do it, or you will always be disappointed.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: The state of being giddy.
Synonyms: sense: for what is described in senses 1 and 2 of giddy
word: dizziness
word: vertigo
flood plain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flood plains
Senses: examples: text: It must have been the magnetism of the viaduct that towers over the village of Harringworth, and which crosses the flood plain of the River Welland on the border of Rutland and Northamptonshire, which drew my family to living close by when we moved to Britain's smallest county in the early 1990s.
ref: 2021 October 6, John Hillier, “Harringworth's magical viaduct”, in RAIL, number 941, pages 36–37:
glosses: Alternative form of floodplain.
floodplain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌdˌpleɪn/
Forms: form: floodplains
form: flood plain
Etymology: From flood + plain.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.
Derived terms: flood plain toadlet
Related terms: alluvial plain
alluvial plain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alluvial plains
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A plain formed by the deposition of sediment from the periodic flooding of a river.
Synonyms: floodplain
liquid bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid bombs
Senses: glosses: Any bomb disguised as a harmless bottle of soft drink, milk, medicine etc.
glosses: Any bomb constructed by mixing liquid ingredients so disguised.
friend with benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friends with benefits
Etymology: Possibly first used by Alanis Morissette for her 1995 song “Head over Feet”, although in the original context it seems to refer to a committed rather than a casual relationship.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m just saying that usually when you have a friend who’s a girl, it’s not just that she’s your friend. Either you’ve known her a long time, or she’s a friend with benefits.”
ref: 2003, Alexander Hart, Time in Question:
text: Gender norms influence how young men orient themselves to sexual partners and girlfriends, and men’s procreative consciousness is sometimes affected by how they define a potential or actual sex partner (e.g., casual or serious girlfriend, “friend with benefits”, hookup).
ref: 2003, William Marsiglio, “Making Males Mindful of Their Sexual and Procreative Identities: Using Self-Narratives in Field Settings”, in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, volume 35, number 5:
text: “Can I be so bold as to ask if I can be a friend with benefits?”
ref: 2004, Cynthia Henry, Discovering Normal:
text: The College Relationship is the hook up that turns into a “a person to hang out with,” more or less, a friend with benefits. This is a person whose company you sincerely enjoy, and you choose to spend extra time both hanging out and hooking up with, but there is no spoken commitment involved.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Klein, University of Pennsylvania:
synonyms: fuck buddy
glosses: A friend with whom one has a casual sexual relationship.
wikipedia: Alanis Morissette
Head over Feet
Related terms: friendship with benefits
romantic friendship
temptress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmp.tɹɛs/
Forms: form: temptresses
Etymology: From tempter + -ess.
Senses: glosses: An alluring woman who seduces or exploits men.
examples: Marilyn Monroe, the iconic temptress of the 20th century.
glosses: A woman considered sexually attractive by men.
Synonyms: sense: alluring woman who seduces or exploits men
word: vamp
having said that
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: 1826 A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes
If I am right in that, the necessary consequence must be that this prisoner must be found guilty; but having said that, let me again request you only to attend to the statement of the law […]
glosses: however; despite what one has just stated
Synonyms: that being said
that said
nevertheless
that said
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: According to Garner's fourth edition, an elliptical nominative absolute standing for that having been said.
Senses: examples: text: Christmas is exploited by capitalism. That said, it is still a religious festival.
synonyms: having said that
that being said
be that as it may
all that said
nevertheless
glosses: Even so; nonetheless.
horse-whispering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various gentle techniques of training or breaking horses.
examples: text: A little known magic gift among the Irish and Scottish peoples was that of "horse-whispering" or charming, although this art is also known to the gipsies of Europe and in South America.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 215:
glosses: A purported magical ability enabling one to speak to horses or to have control over horses through whispering.
Iraqnophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Iraq + arachnophobia.
Senses: examples: text: […] but they may be making a mistake by not taking a flier on Atlantic Coast and some of the other successful smaller airlines, the stocks of which have been grounded by Wall Street's Iraqnophobia.
ref: 2003 February 10, Jerry Knight, “Small Airline Has a Chance To Soar Again”, in The Washington Post:
text: An arrogant dictatorial super-villain possesses a weapon of mass destruction while the morally righteous Federation makes a successful preemptive strike — Nemesis almost seemed designed to encourage the nation's Iraqnophobia and justify its war.
ref: 2005, Daniel Dinello, Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 217:
text: (Former American President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair now suffer from Iraqnophobia for which there is no cure.)
ref: 2009, Gary Cox, How to Be an Existentialist: Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: An irrational fear of Iraq's ability to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, or, more broadly, of military conflict with Iraq.
laser pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laser pens
Senses: glosses: a laser pointer
let's roll
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Let's go; used to suggest that a plan should be put into action.
hattrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hattricks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hat trick; three goals in one game.
marriage lite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cohabitation, civil union
glosses: gay marriage
the finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: bird
word: Trudeau salute
coordinate_terms: word: the fingers
glosses: An obscene gesture, typically consisting of extending the middle finger at somebody.
Related terms: flip the bird
give the finger
blighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪtɪd/
rhymes: -aɪtɪd
Forms: form: more blighted
form: most blighted
Etymology: From blight + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having caused to suffer a blight.
examples: text: The Glenbrook Community Center is in disrepair and has been closed for a number of years, which means it is the exact kind of dilapidated and blighted building CAVE People will do everything to protect.
ref: 2022 October 7, Arthur Augustyn, “Opinion: Stamford is a cultural hellhole. What do the people want?”, in Stamford Advocate, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2024:
antonyms: unblighted
glosses: Having suffered a blight.
examples: text: Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears / The scathing thought of execrated years!
ref: 1814, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 13, lines 246–247:
antonyms: unblighted
glosses: Ruined, spoiled.
Derived terms: blightedly
blighted ovum
unblighted
blighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪtɪd/
rhymes: -aɪtɪd
Etymology: From blight + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blight
uwa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uwaa.
Privy Purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Privy Purses
Senses: glosses: The amount of money the monarch may use for private or personal expenses
glosses: A member of the office which deals with the monarch's finances.
Related terms: Keeper of the Privy Purse
polyviscose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + viscose.
Senses: glosses: A polymer manufactured from plant cellulose.
glosses: A fabric made from this material.
material breach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: material breaches
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A breach of contract sufficiently serious to destroy the contract.
glosses: A breach of a treaty which releases other parties from any obligation under it.
mealtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealtimes
Etymology: From Middle English meeltime, from Old English mǣltīma (“mealtime”), equivalent to meal + time. Compare mealtide, Old English mǣltīd (“mealtime”), Dutch maaltijd (“meal”), German Mahlzeit (“meal, mealtime”), Danish måltid (“meal, mealtime”), Icelandic máltíð (“meal”), Icelandic matmálstími (“mealtime”).
Senses: examples: text: My youngest son has a special cry for mealtimes.
text: Since mealtime has been the traditional setting for family interaction, Tending the Family Tree is structured to simulate that setting. We suggest that the sessions be scheduled during mealtime when the group can eat, discuss, and worship together.
ref: 1982, Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen, “[Introduction] Brief Description of the Course”, in Tending the Family Tree: A Family-centered, Bible-based Experience for Church Groups, Minneapolis, Minn.: Winston Press, →ISBN, page 2, columns 1–2:
text: As the 3DS gets closer to launch, and in spite of my assertions that I’ll be turning the 3D off for my youngest, I still find myself inundated with questions about the new console most mealtimes.
ref: 2011 February 4, Andy Robertson, “Playground Report on Pilotwings Resort 3DS”, in Wired, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2025:
synonyms: mealtide
glosses: The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten.
Hyponyms: breakfast-time
lunchtime
teatime
dinnertime
suppertime
mezzobrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian mezzo (“middle”) + brow.
Senses: glosses: middlebrow
mezzobrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezzobrows
Etymology: From Italian mezzo (“middle”) + brow.
Senses: glosses: middlebrow
middlebrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: middle-brow
form: middle brow
Etymology: From middle + brow, by analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and was later used by Virginia Woolf (1930s) in an unsent letter to the New Statesman, published as a chapter in the book The Death of a Moth and Other Essays (1942).
Senses: examples: text: What does a Princeton graduate whose old dream it was to write for the New Yorker do when that dream comes true, only to discover that his cherished magazine is no longer the middlebrow arbiter of high culture of his imagining, but just another media outlet frantic for its market share of mass culture?
ref: 2000 September 21, Hal Foster, “Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 18, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025:
text: As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived. However dark the plot becomes, the sun keeps shining brightly through the trees.
ref: 2017 September 29, “Winnie-the-Pooh brought joy to readers, but misery to the Milnes”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
text: In the late ’60s and early ’70s, as independent films were diversifying their outlook and shaking off the formulas of Hollywood storytelling, Broadway boulevard comedies like “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” and “California Suite” — tales of the befuddled nouveau riche in a new world — began to look mass-produced and middlebrow.
ref: 2018 August 26, Jesse Green, “Neil Simon Drew Big Laughs, Then Came a Cultural Shift”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
text: It's for this reason some regard Hanks with a sniffy attitude, seeing his middlebrow Hollywood fare as unfashionable (yes) and reactionary (no).
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2021:
glosses: Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
Derived terms: middlebrowism
middlebrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middlebrows
form: middle-brow
form: middle brow
Etymology: From middle + brow, by analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and was later used by Virginia Woolf (1930s) in an unsent letter to the New Statesman, published as a chapter in the book The Death of a Moth and Other Essays (1942).
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
Related terms: midcult
midwit
no-brow
middle youth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A period in life where one can no longer be described as young, but does not (wish to) consider oneself middle-aged.
pleasantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛzəntɹi/
Forms: form: pleasantries
Etymology: From pleasant + -ry, probably modelled on Middle French plaisanterie.
Senses: glosses: A casual, courteous remark.
examples: text: Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.
ref: 2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: A playful remark; a jest.
examples: text: C.O.O: "The office was quite close to the home of our youth—"
CHRM: "Thomas, your trip to Suitopia was not meant to be for pleasantries."
C.O.O: "No… I know… But I was close by, so I went to visit them…"
CHRM: "You should not have. You and I both know the way they are."
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Toontown: Corporate Clash Development Team, Transcription Excerpt:
glosses: Anything that promotes pleasure or merriment.
Derived terms: unpleasantry
Related terms: small talk
Millennium Dome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Millennium Dome
Senses: examples: text: And while the Jubilee Line Extension was not built to serve the Millennium Dome, it was finished quickly in 1999 in order to take people to the Millennial Party that was held here; [...]
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 60–61:
glosses: A large building at Greenwich in London, the largest single roofed structure in the world; now renamed "O2".
Related terms: white elephant
milker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkers
Etymology: From Middle English milkere, equivalent to milk + -er.
Senses: glosses: An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.
examples: text: The milker woke up at dawn each day to tend to the cows.
text: The snake milker massages the glands to extract the full measure of venom during each milking.
glosses: A person who milks.
examples: text: Many of those running small farms said the choice of a computerized milker came down to a bigger question: whether to upgrade or just give up. […] “It’s tough to find people to do it well and show up on time,” said Tim Kurtz, who installed four robotic milkers last year at his farm in Berks County, Pa. “And you don’t have to worry about that with a robot.”
ref: 2014 April 22, Jesse McKinley, “With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2014:
glosses: A milking machine.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand.
examples: text: In the San Diego Convention Center, hanging high above the makeshift alleyways of merchandise vendors, more than 40 pairs of anime-style breasts looked down upon me. I felt like a beetle at a cartoon Renaissance fair, staring at rows of mommy milkers peeking through manga bodices.
ref: 2022 November 2, Steffi Cao, “Big Mommy Milkers Are A Shield Against Online Harassment, Vtubers Say”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023:
glosses: A woman’s breast.
Derived terms: milkeress
mommy milker
sharemilker
Monicagate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Monica + -gate.
Senses: glosses: The Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Synonyms: Fornigate
Zippergate
must-see
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Univerbation of must (auxiliary) + see (verb).
Senses: glosses: Unmissably good.
must-see
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: must-sees
Etymology: Univerbation of must (auxiliary) + see (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Yoel Kahn's article about incorporating lesbian/gay Jewish existence into the liturgy is a must-see for anyone involved with planning worship services.
ref: 1989 December 17, Maida Tilchen, “The Triangle Within The Star Of David”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 8:
text: The restored cottage, which has been open to tourists since 1891 (Woodrow Wilson came here on a cycling tour in 1899), is the Kaabah of a Lake District haj, a must-see for all pilgrims.
ref: 2000 June, Jamie James, “Wordsworth Slept Here”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2015:
synonyms: must watch
glosses: Anything unmissably good, such as a film or television programme or a tourist attraction.
muti murder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muti murders
Etymology: From muti (“traditional African medicine”) + murder.
Senses: glosses: A murder in which organs or other body parts are harvested for the production of traditional medicine
neuticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of neuter + testicles
Senses: examples: text: If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).
ref: 2007, Susan M. Ewing, Poodles for Dummies, Wiley publishing, Inc., page 206:
text: So plastic neuticles were invented to take their place. The vet is supposed to install them — they come in pairs, you understand — when the originals are removed.
ref: 2007, Sam Venable, Some Day I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, The University of Texas Press, page 194:
text: Her husband refused to have the dog neutered unless neuticles were implanted, and the wife complied.
ref: 2008, Bonnie Berry, The Power of Looks: Social Stratification of Physical Appearance, Ashgate Publishing, page 104:
text: If you feel bad for neutering your pet, you can purchase neuticles--fake implants to restore what was lost.
ref: 2009 October 15, Jenna Goudreau, “The Pet Culture”, in Forbes, Forbes.com LLC:
text: Because there's a whole lot more on the table when it comes to building better pets via the business end of a scalpel. Consider the neuticles (testicular implants) some owners clamor for.
ref: 2010 July 29, Patty Khuly, “Vet's view: I'll nip/tuck your pet, but only for the right reasons”, in USA Today, Gannett Co. Inc.:
text: Owners invest in pet face lifts, tummy tucks, nose jobs, breast reductions, and the newest craze, “neuticles”—testicular implants designed to give neutered dogs a more “masculine” look.
ref: 2012, Karen A. Cerulo, Janet M. Ruane, Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom, Sage Publications, Inc., page 88:
glosses: prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs.
on-message
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more on-message
form: most on-message
form: on message
Senses: examples: text: [Tracey Emin] sounds like an on-message Labour MP when she talks like this.
ref: 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: As with much of Carsley's reign, England entered this Athens hothouse with sub-plots in the background, this time the nine withdrawals from the squad which was met with a critical public response from the normally strictly-on-message captain Harry Kane.
ref: 2024 November 14, Phil McNulty, “'A night of redemption for Carsley offers real hope for Tuchel'”, in BBC Sport:
topics: government
politics
glosses: on message
off-message
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-message
form: most off-message
form: off message
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: off message
palm print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm prints
Senses: glosses: An extension of the fingerprint system which records and matches images of the entire palm.
inimicitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnɪmɪˈsɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more inimicitious
form: most inimicitious
Etymology: From Latin inimicitia (“enmity”), from inimicus (“enemy”).
Senses: examples: text: to drive the gall and other bitter juices from the gall bladder, liver and sweet-bread of his majesty's subjects, with all the inimicitious passions which belong to them, down into their duodenums.
ref: 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 4, Penguin, published 2003, page 271:
glosses: Inimical; unfriendly, hostile.
Derived terms: inimicitiously
parries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parry
parries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parry
holmberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holmberries
Etymology: Could be a derivative of holm tree, an evergreen oak of Southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly.
Senses: glosses: A holly bush.
succussation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sʌkəˈseɪʃən/
Forms: form: succussations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin succussatio, from the past participle stem of Latin succussare, frequentative of succutere, from sub- + quatere (“shake”).
Senses: examples: text: in order, by a more frequent and a more convulsive elevation and depression of the diaphragm, and the succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter, to drive the gall and other bitter juices from the gall bladder
ref: 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 4, Penguin, published 2003, page 270:
glosses: Violent shaking or jolting.
examples: text: They rode, but authors having not / Determin'd whether pace or trot, / That is to say, whether tollutation, / As they do term't, or succussation […]
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:
text: lifting one foot before, and the cross foot behind, which is succussation or trotting
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A trot or trotting.
Related terms: succussion
pharming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: from pharmaceutical + farming
Senses: glosses: The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product
Synonyms: biofarming
biopharming
pharming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From farming, by analogy with earlier phishing.
Senses: examples: text: Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.
ref: 2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.
ploughboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughboys
Etymology: From plough + boy.
Senses: related: word: plowboy
coordinate_terms: ploughman
ploughgirl
ploughwoman
glosses: A boy who directed the draught animals that pulled a plough; a boy who served as a ploughman's helper.
portal site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portal sites
Senses: glosses: A website with various features and content of its own, but also with many links to other sites, its aim being that users would make it their home page.
flesh and blood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
glosses: Real; substantial.
glosses: Consisting of flesh, blood, and other substances associated with animals or humans.
Synonyms: flesh and bone