cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
black ace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black aces
Senses: examples: text: At one time or another every Springfield player was designated a "black ace." According to Kilrea, that meant reporting to the rink at 8:30 in the morning and skating from 9 to 11. Another session followed in the afternoon, from 12 to 2, and Shore would keep his ace, or aces, out on the ice sometimes until 4 P.M. All in the name of discipline.
ref: 1985, The New York Times Biographical Service - Volume 16, page 210:
text: We'd have our morning skate and then I would have the black aces stay out, the guys that weren't gonna dress.
ref: 2011, Rob Simpson, Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs:
text: We spent a lot of time with the Habs as “black aces” —players who practised with the team as fifth-liners and wouldn't get into the lineup unless there was an injury to one of the veteran players.
ref: 2014, Terry Ryan, Tales of a First-Round Nothing: My Life as an NHL Footnote:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A player from a junior league who is called up by an NHL team after their original team's season has ended and kept as a reserve player.
examples: text: The big man in the Mafia said: 'Billy, me and the boys are praying for you. We know you're up against the big one this time, the big black ace'.
ref: 1968, Polly Rose Gottlieb, The Nine Lives of Billy Rose, page 92:
text: In Missouri Deathwatch, Newton brings forth another Black Ace, this time a shadowy man called, simply, Stone.
ref: 1996, William Henry Young, A Study of Action-Adventure Fiction, page 186:
text: He'd even played the role of a Mafia “black ace” for several months, back in his old life, and had sold it to the toughest critics in the world.
ref: 2011, Don Pendleton, Enemy Agents, page 16:
glosses: An elite mafia hitman.
examples: text: Blame her not poor Woman, she loves nothing so well as a black ace.
ref: 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode:
text: The poetess Afra next shew'd her sweet face, And swore by her poetry, and her black ace, The laurel by a double right was her own, For the plays she had writ, and the conquests she had won.
ref: 167?, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, A Trial of the Poets for the Bays:
text: Go, go, go to the dean's, and don't mind politicks, young women, they are not good after the waters; they are stark naught: they strike up into the head. Go, get two black aces, and fish for a manilio.
ref: 1766, Jonathan Swift, Jounal to Stella:
glosses: A woman's sexual favours, or a woman who gives them.
examples: text: The ace of spades is a black ace.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, ace.
black aces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black ace
light-heeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹhēld
Forms: form: lighter-heeled
form: more light-heeled
form: lightest-heeled
form: most light-heeled
Etymology: From light (“lacking weight”, adjective) + heeled (“having heels”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Nimble or lively in walking or running; swift of foot.
examples: text: a light-heeled wench
glosses: Of loose character; not chaste; immoral. Literally, as if by the flying up of the heels, one is apt to fall flat on their back.
Synonyms: sense: of loose character
word: incontinent
sense: of loose character
word: unchaste
sense: of loose character
word: wanton
compare notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compares notes
form: comparing notes
form: compared notes
form: compared notes
Senses: examples: text: Two minutes are allowed "Condor" at Carlisle, and those involved had no time to compare notes on the state of the nation, the management, the unions or the racing calendar.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 47:
text: Priscilla's only problem in the first trimester was fatigue. She said, "It helped to compare notes with women who had many more discomforts than I did."
ref: 2005, Judith Rogers, The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, page 194:
text: They cultivate rootlessness and cynicism, shout ironic encouragement from the sidelines of football fields, compare notes on the boring ineffectuality of adults, compare notes on ventures in piss-taking, indolently lay sardonic plans for the future.
ref: 2009, Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts, Conversations with Julian Barnes, page 3:
text: It follows, of course, that when people from different countries with different moneys compare notes they find that their ideas are in conflict.
ref: 2014, Irving Fisher, The Money Illusion:
glosses: To exchange information and ideas about related experiences.
Related terms: pick someone's brain
compares notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compare notes
comparing notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compare notes
compared notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compare notes
cultural practitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultural practitioners
Senses: examples: text: Only if the route is fast and unobstructed will the cultural practitioner be able to avoid time-wasting procedures and get on with the work of connecting with the audience.
ref: 2000, Simon Mundy, Cultural Policy: A Short Guide, page 32:
text: As a cultural practitioner he locates himself in the interstices of culture and politics,or in other words, art and activism.
ref: 2008, Parul Dave Mukherji, Eyes Re-cast: An Exhibition by Savi Savarkar, page 97:
text: Yale Richmond, another cultural practitioner, has written about his experience of cultural diplomacy in the USSR in Cultural Exchanges and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain (2003).
ref: 2011, Richard T. Arndt, The First Resort of Kings:
text: Authentic daily on-site activities, activities, including lei making and hula dancing, are lead by a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner.
ref: 2013, Fodor's Hawaii 2014:
glosses: One who demonstrates and interprets cultural practices to people from other cultures, often as a means of cultural preservation.
cultural practitioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cultural practitioner
Three Bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A built-up area within the town and borough of Crawley, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2837).
glosses: A hamlet in Saltfleetby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4388).
nazuki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ნაზუქი (nazuki), possibly related to Նազուկ (Nazuk).
Senses: glosses: A sweet cinnamon bread with raisins from the country of Georgia in the Caucasus region.
goobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goob
green privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: White privilege...manifested to divide society by engulfing us in a cloud of racism and hatred is now allowing the true members of green privilege to control and take us all hostage.
ref: 2010, Kommon Knowledge, Until Uhuru: For Us Colored Folks, page 4:
text: In response to criticisms that eco-districts are merely islands of green privilege, can these lessons learned be applied in lower income neighbourhoods?
ref: 2017, Jennifer Lenhart, Joan Fitzgerald, “Eco-Districts as a Transition Pathway to Low-Carbon Cities”, in Shobhakar Dhakal, Matthias Ruth, editors, Creating Low Carbon Cities, page 197:
text: It ain't white privilege, pal. It's all about green privilege. You got a lot of green, you got a lot of friends who are happy to do your biddin'.
ref: 2018, David Housewright, Like to Die: A McKenzie Novel:
glosses: The advantages that wealthy people have in society in addition to the buying power of their money.
Related terms: white privilege
hydroflask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroflasks
Etymology: From hydro- + flask.
Senses: examples: text: The denture is removed just as the material becomes rubbery, and further polymerization carried out in a hydroflask under pressure.
ref: 2002, Hugh Devlin, Complete Dentures:
text: Place the model in a hydroflask containing hot water (55°) and close with a pressure of 2–4 bar, leave for 15 minutes.
ref: 2013, Tony Johnson, David G. Patrick, Christopher W. Stokes, Basics of Dental Technology: A Step by Step Approach:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for carrying out polymerization under pressure.
examples: text: Canyon Cultivation director of operations Timothy McMurray sips the bold, rich brew—made with Guatemalan beans roasted by award-winning Coda Coffee in Denver—from a hydroflask throughout the day.
ref: 2016, Amanda Rae, "Eat Me!: The First Annual Edible Gift Guide (And Lessons Along The Way)", Aspen Times Weekly, 22 December - 28 December 2016, page 14
text: I heat up yesterday's leftover coffee and refill my hydroflask.
ref: 2018, Lindsey Stanberry, Money Diaries: Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Your Finances... And Everyone Else's, unnumbered page:
text: I have a Hydroflask because I like my water cold.
ref: 2019 November 7, Jess Ferguson, “VSCO girls: Why we need to stop belittling teenage girls' interests”, in The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College, page 5:
glosses: A thermos-like vacuum flask with a handle on its lid, used to contain water, coffee, or other beverages (from a genericized trademark).
hydroflasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroflask
rubrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rubrication
autoallergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoallergy
autoalgorithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoalgorithm
look-seeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look-see
look-saw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of look-see
look-seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of look-see
looksee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looksees
Senses: examples: text: When you say that you will give a looksee, another looksee as you did at Andrews Field this morning, I interpreted that to mean you would give a looksee over the whole area.
ref: 1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Military Construction Appropriations for 1960, page 909:
text: As Sir Roy Welensky said when introducing Mr. Macmillan to the crowds gathered in and around Salisbury's most modern cinema to hear him, Rhodesians were very glad that the British Prime Minister had come to have a “looksee" at the Federation.
ref: 1960, The Spectator - Volume 204, page 165:
text: Earlier, about the same time Rodney (who Ralph thought was upstairs in his room) last jaunted to the refreshment center, Ralph was outside getting a nosy looksee at the neighbors.
ref: 2007, Dick Baldwin, Rodney, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of look-see.
Brief inspection
examples: text: Since these activities are considered illegal in the United States, young men were often used as lookouts (a.k.a. "looksees"), guards and enforcers (a.k.a. "hatchetmen") of house rules to assure smooth operations.
ref: 1992, Justice quarterly - Volume 9, page 651:
glosses: Alternative form of look-see.
Lookout or scout
looksee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looksees
form: lookseeing
form: looksaw
form: lookseen
Senses: examples: text: He and his men can looksee over the Rivers' place.
ref: 2003, Carver Wendell Waters, Dust Be the Serpent's Meat, page 141:
text: “The office outside of here has all the databases connected to monitors. If I have access I can looksee,” Bill tells him.
ref: 2012, Dale Johnson, Outside Protocols, page 122:
text: He looksaw. Had Scooter enter and disassemble.
ref: 2013, Jack Womack, Ambient:
text: Jimmy put his arm up and pointed in the general direction he thought the bad guys had taken and said into his radio, “Air one go in this general direction, for about 15 kms to looksee and report. We will follow on foot..."
ref: 2019, Liam Adair, The Taking Down of a Criminal Empire:
glosses: Alternative form of look-see.
looksees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looksee
looksees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of looksee
lookseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of looksee
looksaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of looksee
lookseen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of looksee
Hawaiian steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its popularity in Hawaii, stemming from World War II.
Senses: glosses: Spam (a tinned meat product).
baffound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæˈfaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: baffounds
form: baffounding
form: baffounded
form: baffounded
Etymology: From blend of baffle + confound.
Senses: synonyms: word: addle
word: baffle
word: lose
word: stick
word: stump
word: baffound
word: bamboozle
word: bedevil
word: befuddle
word: throw
word: bemuse
word: bewilder
word: bumfuzzle
word: complicate
word: confound
word: confuddle
word: confuse
word: confuzzle
word: dazzle
word: discombobulate
word: disconcert
word: dumbfound
word: ferhoodle
word: flabagast
word: flabbergast
word: flabbergaster
word: flurry
word: fluster
word: flummox
word: fuddle
word: jumble
word: knot
word: mix up
word: perplex
word: puzzle
glosses: To perplex; to bewilder.
smothercate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmʌðɚ.keɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: smothercates
form: smothercating
form: smothercated
form: smothercated
Etymology: From blend of smother + suffocate.
Senses: glosses: To smother and suffocate.
compliance company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compliance companies
Senses: glosses: A company whose business is to assist other entities come into regulatory compliance.
glosses: A business that produces credits that other companies purchase to offset demerits/contraventions so that they can comply with regulations regarding those companies' products and effluents which cannot be achieved with those companies' current production output.
Coordinate terms: compliance car
compliance vehicle
Houp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Houps
Etymology: Borrowed from French Houp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
canned hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canned hunts
Senses: glosses: Hunting animals for sport or trophies in fenced-in areas.
Internet hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Internet hunts
Senses: examples: text: Mr Giles says he is honoured that Mr Lockwood, a friend and co-worker, chose him for the first internet hunt — even if Mr Lockwood had to grab his rifle and finish off that wild hog after Mr Giles's first shot didn't quite do the job.
ref: 2005 March 3, “Virtual adrenalin”, in The Economist:
text: The next internet hunt is scheduled for April 9. Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.
ref: 2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, in The Telegraph:
text: During an Internet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow.
ref: 2009 January 30, Carrie Haderlie, “Virtual hunting shot down”, in Laramie Boomerang:
text: The bill also bans hosting an Internet hunt, enabling someone else to hunt through the Internet, and importing, exporting or possessing wildlife that's been killed by an Internet hunt.
ref: 2011 February 4, “North Dakota bill aims to prohibit hunting via Internet”, in Park Rapids Enterprise, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2020:
glosses: The practice of hunting animals by controlling a firearm over the Internet.
glosses: An Internet-based scavenger hunt.
examples: text: One, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, called for an "Internet hunt for the immoral foreigner" and called repeatedly for the man to be "found and kicked out of China!!!"
ref: 2006 June 4, “From flash mob to lynch mob”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2020:
text: Naked shark straddler sparks internet hunt
ref: 2017 May 12, Daily Mercury, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2020:
glosses: A collective search for a person by Internet users; attempted doxxing.
singleplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of singleplex
skeletonweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeletonweeds
form: skeleton weed
Senses: glosses: Several plant species in family Asteraceae:
Rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea), native to parts of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but considered an invasive plant.
glosses: Several plant species in family Asteraceae:
Wheeler's skeletonweed (Chaetadelpha wheeleri), of the western US.
glosses: Several plant species in family Asteraceae:
Thorny skeletonweed (Pleiacanthus spinosus), of the western US.
glosses: Several plant species in family Asteraceae:
Beaked skeletonweed (Shinnersoseris rostrata) of the Great Plains of North American
glosses: Flatcrown buckwheat (Eriogonum deflexum), of the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), found in the western US and Mexico.
somatosound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatosounds
Etymology: From somato- + sound.
Senses: glosses: A sound (a form of tinnitus) that a person is aware of but does not exist externally
somatosounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somatosound
spindeloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the form of a spindle
raw_tags: of a cell
spintrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spintraps
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of spin trap.
Related terms: spintrapping
spin trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spin traps
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound used in spin trapping
spin trapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The detection of free radicals by means of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
Related terms: spin trap
spintrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spin trapping.
Related terms: spintrap
staphylophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylophages
Etymology: From staphylo- + -phage.
Senses: glosses: A phage associated with staphylococcus bacteria
staphylophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylophage
statokinesiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statokinesiograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of statokinesigram.
steripipette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steripipettes
Etymology: Blend of sterile + pipette
Senses: glosses: A sterile, disposable pipette
steripipettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steripipette
subclassifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subclassifiers
Etymology: From sub- + classifier.
Senses: glosses: A subsidiary classifier
subclassifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subclassifier
subdecadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + decadal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or lasting, less than a decade
subneocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + neocortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the neocortex
subocclusal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + occlusal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath an occlusion
subperoxisomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + peroxisomal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a peroxisome
subscleral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + scleral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath a sclera
subselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + selective.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a subselection
supercutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + cutaneous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supracutaneous.
supercutaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From super- + cutaneously.
Senses: glosses: In a supercutaneous manner
supranationals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supranational
supratemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + temperate.
Senses: glosses: Above a temperate region
halterbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: halterbreaks
form: halterbreaking
form: halterbroke
form: halterbroken
Etymology: From halter + break.
Senses: examples: text: At odd times we would halterbreak the entire bunch of colts, perhaps 75 or 100 of them. When I grew strong enough to handle them, I did practically nothing but halterbreak colts, breaking two a day, on the average.
ref: 1968, Harold James Cook, Tales of the 04 Ranch: Recollections of Harold J. Cook:
glosses: To get an animal used to wearing and being handled in a halter.
jerry-build
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jerry-builds
form: jerry-building
form: jerry-built
form: jerry-built
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jerrybuild.
jerry-builds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jerry-build
handstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handstyles
Etymology: From hand + style.
Senses: glosses: The distinctive handwriting of a graffiti artist, used in tags etc.
Related terms: wildstyle
handstyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handstyle
mean to say
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: means to say
form: meaning to say
form: meant to say
form: meant to say
Senses: examples: text: "[…] It is a match that must give universal satisfaction. In short, it is a kind of thing that" — lowering his voice to an important whisper — "will be exceedingly welcome to all parties." Recollecting himself, however, he added, "That is, I mean to say—your friends are all truly anxious to see you well settled; Fanny particularly […]"
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
text: "You wicked boy, do you mean to say you've left those poor children there alone in the pigstye?"
ref: 1919, H. H. Munro, “Hyacinth”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers:
glosses: To imply or intend to convey with one's words; used to correct or clarify one's previous utterance, or to seek such clarification.
Moll Kelly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moll Kelley
Senses: examples: text: Hubbuboo! by my soul, it is all true that I tell ye,
I stood it myself, till the heart in my belly
Flew up to my mouth, by the soul of Moll Kelly!
And the thing sav'd my life was the drop of a dram.
ref: 1795 "Planxty Ne-Boch-Lech" The New Lyric Repository (London: J. Osborne) pp.102–103
text: 'An Irish cat run away!' sneered Grammachree, 'no; never! by the powers of Moll Kelly! they eat one another up!'
ref: 1821 "A Real Paddy" [Pierce Egan] Real Life in Ireland p.41
text: Bravo! bravo! och! by the powers of Moll Kelly's great big kettle, but we must be after having a toast now, so be after giving us a dacent one, Mr. Taffy.
ref: 1826, “The Union Society”, in The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth, volume 3, London, page 237:
text: In fact, Paddy has oaths rising gradually from the lying ludicrous to the superstitious solemn, each of which finely illustrates the nature of the subject to which it is applied. When he swears "By the contints o' Moll Kelly's Primer," or "By the piper that played afore Moses," you are, perhaps, as strongly inclined to believe him as when he draws upon a more serious oath; that is, you almost regret the thing is not the gospel that Paddy asserts it to be.
ref: 1834 William Carleton "Irish Swearing" Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (Second series, vol.1 p.345)
text: Be the piper of Moll Kelly, you're a broth of a boy with the fair sex; go on and prosper; faith, I think you might turn Turk with advantage.
ref: 1861 F. C. Armstrong The Frigate and the Lugger vol.I p.122 (London: T. Cautley Newby)
text: Well, be the power of Moll Kelly, what do you think? I — I — I awoke! — for it was sleeping I was, all the time, and found myself partly covered by the coming-in tide!
ref: 1871, “Bartle O'Barry”, in Queer customers: what they did, and what they didn't, page 147:
text: 'By the hairs o' Moll Kelley's cat,' says he, 'there's the mikerobes of rheumatiz,' says he.
ref: 1899 December 15 "New Cure for 'Pindycutis. And Other Medical Lore Imparted by Mr. Rafferty to His Friend Mr. Madden." Monthly Retrospect of Medicine & Pharmacy (Philadeplphia) Vol.V No.8 p.875
text: "Be the powers av Moll Kelly!" ejaculated the saloonkeeper, "but that bates all, yet!["]
ref: 1902, John Thomas McIntyre, The Ragged Edge: A Tale of Ward Life & Politics, McClure, Phillips, page 180:
text: By the powers o' Moll Kelly, 'f I'd a ben there when ye turned Hepsy an her baby out doors I'd 'a made you carry home a hornet in yer hat, law or no law.
ref: 1909, Theron Brown, Under the Mulberry Trees: A Romance of the Old 'forties, Richard G. Badger, Gorham Press, page 125:
text: And be the powers of Moll Kelly, neighbour topsowyer, it will be a lozenge to me all my lauffe.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: A fictional person used in swearing oaths, especially "By the powers of Moll Kelly", often in caricatures of the speech of uneducated Irish people.
karsk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karsks
form: kask
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian karsk, from Old Norse karskr.
Senses: glosses: A Swedish and Norwegian cocktail (from the Trøndelag region) containing coffee together with moonshine.
ghost corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost corridors
Senses: glosses: A secondary means of egress connecting low-security laboratories through connecting doors, in addition to the main corridor.
ghost corridors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost corridor
Tisbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English personal name *Tyssi, genitive case *Tysses + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9429).
glosses: A suburb of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
glosses: A town on Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.
Huxtable
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌkstəbəl/
Forms: form: Huxtables
Etymology: Habitational surname typical of Devon, from Old English hoc (“hook or spur of land”) + stapol (“post”).
Senses: examples: text: Pearson: Fuckin' Huxtables an' shit, man.
ref: 2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:36:47
glosses: A surname from Old English, now most associated with the upper middle class black family on The Cosby Show.
Cranbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Many more people join at intermediate stations, such as the newish station at Cranbrook, which serves a huge new housing estate; […].
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: A place in England:
A new town and civil parish with a town council in East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY0095).
glosses: A place in England:
A small town in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst parish, Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7736).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Ilford, borough of Redbridge, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4387).
glosses: A place in Canada:
A city in the Regional District of East Kootenay, British Columbia, named after the town in Kent.
glosses: A place in Canada:
An unincorporated community in Huron County, Ontario.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A suburb of Townsville, Queensland.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A locality and rural community in eastern Tasmania.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A small town and local government area (Shire of Cranbrook) in southern Western Australia.
Tutuilan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tutuilan
form: most Tutuilan
Etymology: From Tutuila + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the island of Tutuila.
Tutuilan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tutuilans
Etymology: From Tutuila + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tutuila.
Tutuilans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tutuilan
USCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Corps of Cadets.
Network Rail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The government-owned company that owns and manages the infrastructure on the railway network in Britain used by TOCs (train operating companies).
Synonyms: word: NR
amnestics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amnestic
sgurr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʉr/
ipa: /skʊə/
Forms: form: sgurrs
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic sgùrr.
Senses: glosses: A rocky peak in Scotland.
sgurrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sgurr
Blackhall Colliery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and former colliery in Monk Hesleden parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4539).
Related terms: Blackhall Rocks
colt's-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colt's-foots
form: colt's-feet
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coltsfoot.
colt's-foots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colt's-foot
colt's-feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colt's-foot
colt's foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colt's foots
form: colt's feet
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coltsfoot.
colt's foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colt's feet
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The feet or standing extremities of a colt.
colt's foots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colt's foot
colt's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colt's foot
Carstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *cayr (“fort”) + Cumbric *Tarras, a river name.
Senses: glosses: A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9346).
glosses: A town in Mountain View County, central Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Carstairs Junction
hinnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hinnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hinny (“term of endearment”).
Carstairs Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village by Carstairs railway station and triangular junction in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9545).
MTM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MTMs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
qualifier: language planning
glosses: Acronym of mother tongue medium, a medium in which the native language of the population is used, such as in education or in writing.
coordinate_terms: LTM
STM
qualifier: cognitive science
glosses: Initialism of medium-term memory.
MTM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: HTM
glosses: Initialism of mark-to-market.
limited-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This would comprise stopping services running as far as Gorebridge (12 miles south of Edinburgh), and faster limited-stop services covering the whole line to Tweedbank.
ref: 2019 November 6, Robert Drysdale, “Wires offer boost to Borders revival”, in Rail, page 44:
glosses: Relating to a public transport service that serves a limited number of places or stations along its route.
Related terms: non-stop
Classical Tagalog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Generally they are no longer productive, and cannot be used for derivation either in Classical Tagalog or Classical Arabic.
ref: 2013, Jean-Paul G. Potet, Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, pages 82–83
glosses: The older form of Tagalog spoken and written in the Philippines from about 1565 CE to 1897 CE, before soon developing into Modern Tagalog (Filipino) by the time of the Philippine Revolution and subsequent American colonial period to present. It developed from Old Tagalog after Christianization in the Spanish colonial period, with influence from Spanish (Early Modern Spanish and Modern Spanish, including influence from Classical Nahuatl (Aztec) and Taíno), Hokkien Chinese (Early Manila Hokkien), and Japanese. This was also when it first started being written in the Latin script and later the Baybayin script becoming sparsely rarely written.
Synonyms: Middle Tagalog
Coordinate terms: word: Proto-Austronesian
word: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
word: Proto-Philippine
english: Ancient / Early Tagalog
translation: Ancient / Early Tagalog
word: Old Tagalog
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: Modern Tagalog
lick someone's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: licks someone's boots
form: licking someone's boots
form: licked someone's boots
form: licked someone's boots
Senses: examples: text: “Far-right politicians in primaries are licking the boots of gun lobbyists,” Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts told Rolling Stone in an email on Tuesday. They’ll certainly continue to do so once in office.
ref: 2022 April 13, Ryan Bort, “The Real Reason Republicans Are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads With Guns”, in Rolling Stone:
synonyms: word: lick someone's ass
word: lick someone's balls
word: suck up
glosses: To try hard to please someone.
Related terms: bootlicking
Old Tagalog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The ancient or older medieval form of Tagalog mostly spoken and sparsely written using the Baybayin script in the Philippines from around its split off from other Central Philippine languages to around 1565 CE, when it soon developed into Classical Tagalog after Christianization by the Spanish arrival. It developed from Central Philippine, under Greater Central Philippine, under Proto-Philippine, with influence from Old Malay, Classical Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, Middle Tamil, Classical Persian, Old Javanese, and either or both Medieval Southern Min Chinese and/or Late Middle Chinese.
Synonyms: Ancient Tagalog
Early Tagalog
Related terms: word: Proto-Austronesian
word: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
word: Proto-Philippine
english: Middle Tagalog
translation: Middle Tagalog
word: Classical Tagalog
english: Filipino
translation: Filipino
word: Modern Tagalog
mother-spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother-spots
Senses: glosses: A naevus.
mother-spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother-spot
naevous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naevous
form: most naevous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of naevose.
rukia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rukias
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the genus Rukia, native to Micronesia.
Ebbsfleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area next to Ebbsfleet International railway station, in Dartford borough, north-west Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6173).
glosses: A short river, the Ebbsfleet River in the same area of Kent, which flows into the Thames.
glosses: A hamlet in Minster parish, Thanet district, East Kent (OS grid ref TR3363).
Related terms: Northfleet
Southfleet
Kingskerswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8867).
nuevo sols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuevo sol
Deedra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
twelve-speed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having twelve gears.
raw_tags: of a bicycle
twelve-speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelve-speeds
Senses: examples: text: Many off-the-rack road bikes are now twelve-speeds.
ref: 1990, David Chauner, Michael Halstead, The Tour de France Complete Book of Cycling, page 52:
glosses: A bicycle having twelve gears.
twelve-speeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twelve-speed
RTUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RTU
RTUs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of RTU
dawn choir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dawn choirs
Senses: examples: text: At daybreak comes the drawling 'oo' of the Little Owl, and the shorter, more musical call of the Scops Owl. The spring dawn choir no longer fills the pause between darkness and light, and no song greets the sun's first rays.
ref: 1958, Ronald Mathias Lockley, The bird-lover's bedside book, page 150:
text: One must simply see that, Hear that noise, How on every side- or lower or higher- Like the country chattering of boys, Echoes and resounds the birds' dawn choir.
ref: 1987, Ivan Savel, Light of the hearth: poems:
text: DID you know that the dawn choir performs beautifully every day and that its exquisite notes fill the early morning air? But few of us catch this melodious performance. We are still in bed, nursing a hangover from the previous night's party.
ref: 2011, Joyce Ewing-Chow, Keeping Life Simple, page 19:
glosses: Synonym of dawn chorus.
synonyms: word: dawn chorus
examples: text: Groups of Israeli tourists often arrive to the sound of Hebrew songs, sung in the angelic voices of the church's Dawn Choir.
ref: 1997, Shifra Horn, Shalom, Japan, page 242:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dawn, choir.
dawn choirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dawn choir
Galgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ellel parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4855).
RWAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RWA
paranoidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paranoid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being paranoid.
alertable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alert + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Since your thread is in an alertable state, as soon as an APC entry appears, the system wakes your thread and empties the queue (by calling the callback routines).
ref: 2000, Jeffrey Richter, Jason D. Clark, Programming Server-side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000:
text: If you know the HANDLE of a thread you wish to signal, and that thread has performed an alertable wait, then queueing an APC is often significantly quicker than waking the target thread by using kernel objects (as we are about to review).
ref: 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows:
text: Every thread has a queue of APCs attached to it, and these are processed when the thread is in an alertable state, such as when they call functions like WaitForSingleObjectEx, WaitForMultipleObjectsEx, and Sleep.
ref: 2012, Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig, Practical Malware Analysis:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.
examples: text: Bids marked in red on the convention card must be alerted. Cue-bids of an opponent's suit, however, are not alertable.
ref: 1991, Albert Hodges Morehead, Edmond Hoyle, The New Complete Hoyle, page 165:
text: ln general, natural bids are not Alertable.
ref: 1994, Audrey Grant, The Spade Series: An Introduction to Duplicate Bridge, page 165:
text: To alert those calls you may use the alert card in the bidding box or simply say "alert" when partner makes an alertable call.
ref: 2009, Jean J. Reaves, Conventional Wisdom Plus: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Bridge Conventions:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: Requiring the partner of the person making a bid to alert the opponents that the bid's meaning involves a partnership understanding that is not readily understood.
examples: text: The whole party, with the concentration of legal ammunition, the relaxed but alertable force of the deputies, weighed heavily against the slight presence of Mr. Grimes sitting beyond the pale, on the silent side of the bar.
ref: 1952, Truman Nelson, The Sin of the Prophet, page 48:
text: Those members of our society who are alertable now know that there are serious global problems of environmental deterioration and resource depletion.
ref: 1973, Equilibrium - Volume 1, page 35:
text: To put it bluntly, many of those who are alertable to the nonsensical environmental assumptions of economic theory are alerted by now, and major efforts to inform the remaining economists about the facts of life (Daily et al. 1991; daly and Cobb 1989; Ehrlich 1989; Ehrlich et al. 1992; Klaassen and Opschoo 1991; Perrings 1987; Victor 1991) seem unlikely to be very cost-effective.
ref: 1994, AnnMari Jansson, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke, Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics, page 41:
glosses: Able to respond constructively to being alerted.
Derived terms: nonalertable
unalertable
limit bid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limit bids
Senses: examples: text: I am still inclined to think the London auctioneers can be trusted, but I have little faith in the Germans. If you put a $20 limit bid by accident on a $1 autograph at a German auction, you are pretty sure to get it at $20. Like some other auctioneers, if they know your limit they will supply any amount of competition, honest or otherwise.
ref: 1902, The Collector - Issues 160-171, page 29:
text: Consistent with this conjecture, Cornelli and Goldreich show that investors submitting price-limited bids receive larger allocations when the book contains fewer limit bids.
ref: 2007, B. Espen Eckbo, Handbook of Corporate Finance:
text: If a market again trades under the limit bid price or above the limit offered, go with the flow. These are trades that possess reasonable risk, because they indicate the previous support or resistance is now absent.
ref: 2013, George Kleinman, Trading Commodities and Financial Futures:
glosses: An offer to buy in an auction for any value up to a specified maximum.
examples: text: OK, you are the captain (partner opened with a limit bid).
ref: 2009, Eric v.d. Luft, How I Became a Life Master Playing the Weak No Trump, page 18:
text: When the responder made a limit bid, the opener may already be in a position to name the final contract.
ref: 2011, David Bird, Bridge Made Easy: Flash, page 5:
text: If you raise a partner's opening suit bid from one to two, it is also a limit bid, showing six to nine points.
ref: 2012, Harry Lampert, The Fun Way to Serious Bridge, page 62:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A bid that describes the bidders hand fairly precisely (indicating a small range of high card points and some indication of shape.)
light-headedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: ē
enpr: lītʹhĕd'(ĭ)d-l
Forms: form: more light-headedly
form: most light-headedly
form: lightheadedly
Etymology: From light-headed (adjective) (any sense) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Senses: glosses: In a light-headed manner; with a light head.
Related terms: word: lightheadedness
limit bids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limit bid
mystery shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystery shops
Senses: examples: text: Immediately following the mystery shop, the independent contracter will fill out a static questionnaire that records respective levels of disclosure, customer service and sales effectiveness.
ref: 1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging, Uninsured Bank Products: Risky Business for Seniors?:
text: Part of our work can be doing a mystery shop. This entails going along to shops, banks, or even the passport office, and pretending to be a customers or a potential customer.
ref: 2010, Shelley Dekker, I'm a Street Girl Now, page 140:
text: The best-scheduled day could start with a mystery shop at a local fast-food restaurant (breakfast paid for and one to go) followed by a service station shop ($5 in gas).
ref: 2011, Judith Adkins-Spears, Jump-Start Your Merchandising Career:
glosses: An instance of mystery shopping; a visit to a business as a mystery shopper.
mystery shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mystery shops
form: mystery shopping
form: mystery shopped
form: mystery shopped
Senses: examples: text: Don't assume that because you have been mystery shopping for a while, or because you have mystery shopped for the same company or client before, that you know what to do.
ref: 2004, Cathy Stucker, The Mystery Shopper's Manual:
text: However, if your budget is too tight to afford these services, then you might want to consider enlisting a friend or family member to mystery shop for you.
ref: 2007, James Stephenson, Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide:
text: Every imaginable type of business is mystery shopped.
ref: 2009, PamInCa, The Essential Guide to Mystery Shopping, page 10:
text: One of my favorite ways to improve a business is to mystery shop.
ref: 2017, Mike Agugliaro, The Secrets of Business Mastery:
glosses: To work as a mystery shopper; to pose as a customer or client in order to evaluate a business.
mystery shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystery shop
mystery shops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mystery shop
mystery shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystery shoppings
Senses: examples: text: Younkers, a midwestern department store chain, carries out 12,000 mystery shoppings a year in support of its Satisfaction Plus quality and productivity effort.
ref: 1990, James L. Heskett, Service Breakthroughs:
text: We were also keen to learn more about “mystery shopping" (something that was popular in the United States) and how it might help us to provide specific 'service' related information to individual managers.
ref: 1997, Peter Murley, Gower Handbook of Customer Service, page 151:
text: Mystery shopping is used by many companies to assess the performance of their staff.
ref: 2005, Alan Marvell, GCE AS Travel and Tourism Single Award for Edexcel:
text: Mystery shopping is, therefore, classified as an observational marketing research method even though communication is often involved.
ref: 2012, Charles W. Lamb, Joe F. Hair, Carl McDaniel, Marketing:
glosses: The practice of using mystery shoppers to evaluate a business.
mystery shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mystery shop
mystery shopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mystery shop
mystery shoppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystery shopping