cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭp
ipa: /zɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: zips
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
glosses: Energy; vigor; vim.
glosses: A zip fastener.
examples: text: I know zip about economics.
glosses: Zero; nothing.
glosses: A trip on a zipline.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A zip file.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”).
synonyms: word: convolution
extra: type of mapping function
glosses: An ounce of marijuana.
Synonyms: sense: sound
word: whizz
sense: sound
word: zing
sense: fastener
word: slide fastener
sense: fastener
word: zip fastener
sense: fastener
word: zipper
Derived terms: english: zero
translation: zero
word: zippo
zip
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭp
ipa: /zɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: `Zip!' Just like that, an exquisitely shaped fragment of a flashing rainbow in flight flits across in front of us[.]
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 35:
glosses: Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Synonyms: whee
whizz
zing
zip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭp
ipa: /zɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: zips
form: zipping
form: zipped
form: zipped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To close with a zip fastener.
examples: text: Zip your lip!
glosses: To close as if with a zip fastener.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To subject to the convolution mapping function.
examples: text: The bullet zipped through the air.
glosses: To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
raw_tags: followed by a preposition
examples: text: Zip down to the shops for some milk.
text: Despite writing that can be confusing — we are not told, for example, how Oishi’s group of 56 ronin ended up just 47, or maybe a supertitle zipped by too quickly — the story moves at a steady clip. And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective.
ref: 2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
raw_tags: followed by a preposition
examples: text: Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart zipping passes around to little effect.
ref: 2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To make (something) move quickly
glosses: To travel on a zipline.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To offer a list of alternately male and female candidates in an attempt to address the shortage of women.
Synonyms: sense: close with a zip fastener
word: zip up
Derived terms: full-zip
half-zip
quarter-zip
unzip
zip-a-dee-doo-dah
zip bomb
zip cuffs
zip down
Zip drive
zip file
zip-front
zip gun
zip it
zip-line
zip line
zip liner
zip-liner
zip of death
zip-off pants
zip one's lip
zip the lip
zip tie
zip-tie
zip up
zip-up
zip up one's lip
zip wire
zip-wire
zip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭp
ipa: /zɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: zips
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of zip code.
Related terms: zip coon
pompous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒmpəs/
ipa: /ˈpɑmpəs/
Forms: form: more pompous
form: most pompous
Etymology: From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, pompos, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “I send”), equivalent to pomp + -ous. Doublet of pomposo.
Senses: examples: text: But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial:
text: Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief.
glosses: Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
Synonyms: conceited
smug
highfalutin
Derived terms: overpompous
unpompous
Related terms: pomp
pomposity
pompously
pompousness
toyboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔɪˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: toyboys
form: toy-boy
form: toy boy
Etymology: From toy + boy.
Senses: examples: text: I'm out with my toy boy, toy boy / And when I get to take him home / I know he's gonna love me right
ref: 1987, Stock Aitken Waterman, “Toy Boy”, performed by Sinitta:
text: But Ahlamalik Williams, 25, is just the latest in a long line of toyboys 61-year-old Queen of Pop Madonna has been linked to since her spilt from long-term partner Guy Ritchie, after which she decided she 'wanted to have fun'.
ref: 2019 December 18, Sophie Jane Evans, “How Madonna is falling for increasingly younger toyboys”, in The Sun, retrieved 15 Mar 2021:
synonyms: boy toy
glosses: A young male partner for a woman or man.
bombastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒmˈbæs.tɪk/
ipa: /bɑmˈbæs.tɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more bombastic
form: most bombastic
form: bombastical
form: bombastick
form: bumbastic
form: bumbastical
Etymology: From bombast (“padding, stuffing”) + -ic, 18th century. Sense evolution possibly influenced by unrelated bomb and bombard; see also bombard phrase.
Senses: examples: text: Dorsett came up the stairs, buggy whip in hand. He bustled into the office in his usual self-important way. Frank noticed that the old clerk sat down on him promptly. He was not one bit impressed with the bombastic visitor from Greenville.
ref: 1907, Allen Chapman, Bound to Succeed:
synonyms: word: circumlocutory
word: diffuse
word: periphrastic
word: palaverous
word: pleonastic
word: prolix
word: rigmarole
word: sesquipedalian
word: verbose
word: wordy
word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
antonyms: word: verbose
qualifier: their language or writing
glosses: showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: High-sounding but with little meaning.
synonyms: inflated
turgid
glosses: Inflated, overfilled.
Synonyms: fustian
Derived terms: nonbombastic
unbombastic
Related terms: bombast
bombaster
bombastically
bogus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ɡəs/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ɡəs/
rhymes: -əʊɡəs
Etymology: First attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, then the coins themselves. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The newest use to mean useless is probably from the slang of computer hackers.
The origin is unknown, but there are at least two theories that try to trace its origin:
* From Hausa boko (“to fake”). Since bogus first appeared in the United States, it may be possible that its ancestor was brought there on a slave ship.
* From criminal slang as a short form of tantrabogus, a 19th-century slang term for a menacing object, making some believe that bogus might be linked to bogy or bogey (see bogeyman). In this sense, Bogus might be related to Bogle – a traditional trickster from the Scottish Borders, noted for achieving acts of household trickery; confusing, but not usually damaging.
Senses: examples: text: BOGUS. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
ref: 1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms: A glossary of words and phrases, usually regarded as peculiar to the United States:
text: "Calibogus," or "bogus" was cold rum and beer unsweetened.
ref: 1919, Harvey Washington Wiley, Beverages and Their Adulteration: Origin, Composition, Manufacture, Natural, Artificial, Fermented, Distilled, Alkaloidal and Fruit Juices:
text: The American colonists drank rum straight, spiced, or mixed. They combined it with a list of ingredients: rum mixed with hard cider was called stonewall; rum and beer made bogus; rum and molasses made blackstrap.
ref: 2014, J. Anne Funderburg, Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era, page 311:
glosses: A liquor made of rum and molasses.
examples: text: “Ahem—it is the opinion of the court that the prisoner has been making bogus; so we must put him in the jug until Superior Court.[…]”
ref: 1841 December 8, “Western Court Eloquence”, in Carlisle Weekly Herald, page 2:
text: There is not a merchant in this city but knows this fact, and also that there has been a large quantity of bogus in circulation.
ref: 1846, Joseph H. Jackson, The Adventures and Experience of Joseph H. Jackson: Disclosing the Depths of Mormon Villainy Practiced in Nauvoo, page 15:
text: This being agreed to, they hand the soldier the same number of dollars they received from him—but all counterfeit. This new way of passing bogus they have practised to a considerable extent […]
ref: 1848 January 26, C. C., “[Letter]”, in The Washington Union, published 28 February 1848, page 3:
text: Edward Bonney, a bounty hunter who passed bogus on occasion, claimed to have been working to break up yet another gang operating on the Mississippi with a base at Nauvoo.
ref: 1994, John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, →ISBN, pages 269–70:
glosses: Counterfeit money.
Derived terms: bogus-maker
Related terms: calibogus
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: donks
form: donking
form: donked
form: donked
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: He donked me on the head!
text: He rested my shoulder on the lid of the toilet seat and tried pushing me out feet first, but I sagged in the middle and jack-knifed onto the floor, donking my head on the porcelain.
ref: 2007, Mardi McConnochie, Dangerous Games, page 121:
text: Little Red Riding Hood donked the Big Bad Wolf on the head with the basket and the audience laughed.
ref: 2011, Susan Brocker, The Wolf in the Wardrobe, unnumbered page:
glosses: To hit
examples: text: We can donk all day, boys!
glosses: To mess around, to play
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: donks
Etymology: A shortening of donkey.
Senses: glosses: A car's engine.
glosses: A fool.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A poor player who makes mistakes.
glosses: A donkey (the animal).
Derived terms: donkament
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: donks
form: donking
form: donked
form: donked
Etymology: A shortening of donkey.
Senses: examples: text: It was the scene where Steve, Blue, Charl and Pricie-ole-man all mount Seldomfed in the dark and rain on their way to rob a neighbour′s orchard. It would very likely raise a reminiscent smile or grin from one who doubled or trebled or quadrupled-donked it to school.
ref: 1947, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney, volumes 8-10, page 87:
glosses: To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make a donk bet.
Synonyms: sense: provide lift on a bicycle
word: dink
sense: provide lift on a bicycle
word: donkey
sense: provide lift on a bicycle
word: double-bank
sense: provide lift on a bicycle
word: double-dink
sense: provide lift on a bicycle
word: double-donk
sense: provide lift on a bicycle
word: double-donkey
Derived terms: donk bet
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: more donk
form: most donk
form: dunk
Etymology: From Middle English daunke, danke. More at dank.
Senses: glosses: damp; moist; wet
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: dunk
Etymology: From Middle English daunke, danke. More at dank.
Senses: glosses: dampness; moistness
glosses: A dense mist or drizzle
glosses: A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
Derived terms: donkish
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: donks
form: donking
form: donked
form: donked
form: dunk
Etymology: From Middle English daunke, danke. More at dank.
Senses: glosses: To moisten; dampen
glosses: To drizzle
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: donks
Etymology: Originally from Miami, Florida.
Senses: glosses: A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.
donk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: donks
Senses: examples: 2012, Jemele Hill, Wozniacki's impersonation of Serena wasn't racist https://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentary/story/_/id/8739851/caroline-wozniacki-impersonation-serena-williams-racist
Serena Williams has a donk.
glosses: buttocks
nutraceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /njuːtɹəˈsuːtɪkəl/
Forms: form: nutraceuticals
form: neutraceutical
form: neutriceutical
Etymology: Blend of nutrient + pharmaceutical, a marketing term coined by Stephen DeFelice in 1989.
Senses: examples: text: The latest nutraceutical nostrum could come from the blueberry.
ref: 2004 August 25, “Find your thrill on blueberry hill”, in The Guardian:
text: Japan, where the probiotic drink Yakult was invented in 1935, is regarded as the homeland of nutraceuticals. Thanks to a lighter legislative touch than in Europe it’s also relatively easy for food manufacturers to claim special powers for their products.
ref: 2015 August 31, Trevor Baker, “Why you should forget ‘nutraceuticals’ and focus on a healthy diet”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: bioceutical
coordinate_terms: functional food
glosses: A nutrient or food believed to have curative properties; a food used as a drug.
Derived terms: metallonutraceutical
outsource
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌsoɹs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: outsources
form: outsourcing
form: outsourced
form: outsourced
Etymology: From out- + source.
Senses: examples: text: They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.
text: Read said maintenance would be outsourced, with "positive discussions" held with two companies.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: Varamis plans electric freight to carry light goods”, in Rail, page 17:
topics: business
management
glosses: To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
Synonyms: farm out
subcontract
Derived terms: outsourceable
outsourcee
outsourcer
outsourcery
outsourcing
break down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of breakdown.
Related terms: melt down
SLR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLRs
form: SLR's
Senses: examples: text: But to be clear, that’s not to say I’m not a photo-taker. I’m no expert, but I dabble. I got my first manual SLR at sixteen, and learned print-making as an unofficial apprentice to the editor of the high-school paper.
ref: 2009, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
text: And images of other cameras came tot him: old-style TV cameras, motion-picture cameras on cranes, tiny digital cameras, Polaroid cameras, SLR cameras, all of them superimposed.
ref: 2012, Robert J. Sawyer, Triggers, Toronto: Viking, →ISBN:
text: The imaging unit is not without flaws, and it’s not as powerful as a professional hand-held S.L.R. camera. For example, there’s a noticeable fish-eye distortion in the image that comes from the unit’s really wide vision angle, and you can’t zoom the field of view.
ref: 2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Initialism of single-lens reflex, or clipping of SLR camera.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of self-loading rifle.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of supplementary leverage ratio.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of statutory liquidity ratio.
SLR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sorry, late reply.
Coordinate terms: RF
DSLR
ZLR
PS
P&S
Derived terms: DSLR
ZLR
giro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒaɪɹəʊ/
homophone: gyro
rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ
Forms: form: giros
Etymology: Via German, from Italian giro (“circulation”), from Latin gyrus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to curve, to bend”).
Senses: glosses: A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.
raw_tags: in Europe
examples: text: His Sheperd's Bush giro was in doubt now, because he had declined the exciting career opportunity to work in the Burger King in Notting Hill Gate.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: An unemployment benefit cheque.
Derived terms: girocheque
giro
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒaɪɹəʊ/
homophone: gyro
rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ
Forms: form: giros
form: giroing
form: giroed
form: giroed
Etymology: Via German, from Italian giro (“circulation”), from Latin gyrus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to curve, to bend”).
Senses: glosses: To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.
zip fastener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip fasteners
Senses: glosses: A fastener used in clothing, bags, etc, comprised of two rows of teeth that are made to fit into each other by moving a slider along their length and opened again by moving the slider in the other direction.
glosses: A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.
Synonyms: word: clasp locker
word: slide fastener
word: zip
word: zipper
slide fastener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide fasteners
Senses: glosses: A zip fastener.
Synonyms: zip fastener
Zip drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zip drives
form: zip drive
Etymology: A trademark of the Iomega Corporation. See zip (“move quickly”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).
Related terms: zip
gal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæl/
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: gal
form: gals
Etymology: From gallon.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of gallon.
gal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæl/
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: gals
Etymology: From a dialectal non-rhotic pronunciation of girl attested since 1795; compare gell, g'hal.
Senses: synonyms: word: babe
word: bint
word: bird
word: cake
word: chick
word: colleen
word: cutty
word: damoiselle
word: damsel
word: elrig
word: frail
word: gal
word: gel
word: girl
word: girlie
word: girly
word: grill
word: hottie
word: lass
word: lassie
word: little girl
word: maggie
word: maid
word: maid child
word: maiden
word: minoress
word: miss
word: missy
word: moggy
word: poppet
word: pucelle
word: puss
word: quean
word: tart
word: wan
word: wench
word: woman child
word: babe
word: baggage
word: bim
word: bint
word: bird
word: bitch
word: blone
word: broad
word: chick
word: covess
word: dame
word: donna
word: feme
word: femme
word: femoid
word: frau
word: frow
word: gal
word: gentlelady
word: ginch
word: hen
word: ho
word: huwoman
word: lady
word: maness
word: mort
word: mulier
word: placket
word: pussy
word: queen
word: she
word: sheila
word: skirt
word: squaw
word: thot
word: tía
word: twist
word: vaginoid
word: wan
word: wife
word: woman
word: wommon
word: womon
word: womxn
word: womyn
word: wimmin
coordinate_terms: guy
glosses: A young woman.
Derived terms: attagal
best gal
cowgal
fangal
Galentine's Day
galfriend
gally
galpal
gal pal
transgal
wastegal
wise gal
Related terms: galge
kogal
gal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæl/
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: gals
form: Gal
Etymology: Shortened from galileo.
Senses: glosses: A galileo (unit of acceleration).
Derived terms: milligal
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "gal"
word: gal-iron
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "gal"
word: X-gal
genuphallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genuphallations
Etymology: Macaronic from Late Latin genu (“knee”) + phallus (“penis”) + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The placement of someone's penis between another person's knees.
irresolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈrɛz.əˌl(j)uːt/
Forms: form: more irresolute
form: most irresolute
Etymology: First attested in 1580. Borrowed from French irrésolu or composed from ir- + resolute.
Senses: examples: text: As the seeress stood irresolute the tall young secretary half rose and whispered something in her ear.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Undecided or unsure how to act.
glosses: Indecisive or lacking in resolution.
Derived terms: irresolutely
irresoluteness
gens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛnz/
ipa: /ɡɛns/
rhymes: -ɛnz
Etymology: Clipping of generations.
Senses: examples: text: For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.
ref: 2004, Sally Bishai, “Courtship, Marriage and the Ubiquitous ‘Dating Thing’”, in Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 57:
text: […] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.
ref: 2016, Dwight Lang, “Witnessing Social Class in the Academy”, in Allison L. Hurst, Sandi Kawecka Nenga, editors, Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, part 2 (Teaching), page 102:
text: The Family Values and Framing Strategy steps address soft issues as what is the purpose of the new investment strategy, is there a desire to engage and train the next generation (Next Gens), and is there building buy-in and engagement across the family members important to strengthen family unity.
ref: 2017, Temple Fennell, “SCIE: Sustainable Cycle of Investing Engagement”, in Kirby Rosplock, The Complete Direct Investing Handbook: A Guide for Family Offices, Qualified Purchasers, and Accredited Investors (Bloomberg Financial Series), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: plural of gen (clipping of generation).
eat crow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌit ˈkɹoʊ/
Forms: form: eats crow
form: eating crow
form: ate crow
form: eaten crow
Etymology: First appeared in the US in the 1870s under the form eat boiled crow. Further origin unknown. Crow meat is considered unfit for consumption, but this is true of very many animals. Compare perhaps the association of black birds with misfortune.
Senses: examples: text: He must apologise, he saw that clearly enough, must eat crow, as he told himself.
ref: 1901, Frank Norris, chapter 2, in The Octopus:
text: The Nationals started with Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, who reveled in striking out Lou Gehrig in the first inning. Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run.
ref: 1937 July 19, “Baseball Races”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2008:
text: In political libel, furthermore, a public recanting by the vilifier is more likely to be believed by the public, for it is well known that no politician likes to "eat crow" unless he has to.
ref: 1950, J.C.N.P., “Libel Actions by Political Organizations”, in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, volume 98, number 6, page 883:
text: [Alison] Roman, now typical for such cases, ate crow with an apologetic statement about how she had reflected and realized her error.
ref: 2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 1, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN:
text: Today’s change means we only have one Senate race, Ohio, rated as a Toss-up. Democrats surely hope we’ll have to eat crow on today’s update and pull Montana back into the Toss-up category later in the cycle.
ref: 2024 September 6, Kyle Klondik, University of Virginia Center for Politics:
glosses: To recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a humiliating error.
Related terms: croweater
eat humble pie
hard pill to swallow
psephology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈfɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /sɪˈfɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Etymology: From psepho- (“pebble”) + -ology (“study of”), drawing on the various definitions of Ancient Greek ψῆφος (psêphos, “pebble used for reckoning; pebble used for casting a vote”). The sense relating to elections was coined in 1948 by Frank Hardie.
Senses: examples: text: It therefore seems appropriate to preface this book with a discussion of why elections merit study and an examination of how much has been or can be learnt from psephology.
ref: 1952, D. E. Butler, The British general election of 1951:
glosses: The predictive or statistical study of elections.
examples: text: Let us first see how the matter of this letter-numbering or psephology stands generally. The authors think that both the Greek and Hebrew method derive from a common source. But there is no proof of this; indeed the weak point in the whole of this exposition is that they entirely neglect the historical side of the matter and give no references.
ref: 1917, The Quest – Volume 8, Part 2, page 698:
text: The numbers 99, 88, and 22 seem to belong to some system of mystic psephology, Or gematria as the Kabbalists afterwards called it.
ref: 1924, George Robert Stow Mead, Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandæan John-Book, Together with Studies on John and Christian Origins, the Slavonic Josephus' Account of John and Jesus and the Fourth Gospel Proem, →ISBN:
text: What I want to point out here is that there is a considerable breadth of numerological practices, ranging from psephology/gematria through to practices close to mathematical physics which are deemed to be too much driven by mathematical or aesthetic considerations.
ref: 2013, Andrew Gregory, The Presocratics and the Supernatural, →ISBN:
glosses: An ancient Greek method of numerology, similar to gematria.
Derived terms: psephological
psephologist
Related terms: psephocracy
oxyacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æsɪd
Forms: form: oxyacids
Etymology: From oxy- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: oxoacid#Noun
hypernyms: acid#Noun
<
substance#Noun
coordinate_terms: hydracid
glosses: An acid containing oxygen.
hydracid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈdɹæsɪd/
rhymes: -æsɪd
Forms: form: hydracids
Etymology: From hydro- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: acid#Noun
<
substance#Noun
coordinate_terms: oxyacid
oxoacid
glosses: An acid that does not contain any oxygen; they are all binary compounds of hydrogen plus either a halogen (for example, hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, hydroiodic acid, hydrobromic acid) or a pseudohalogen.
Related terms: halide
pseudohalide
pseudohalogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohalogens
Etymology: From pseudo- + halogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary inorganic compound with a structure similar to that of the interhalogens but containing at least one non-halogen radical such as cyanide
Related terms: pseudohalide
cyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪənaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: cyanides
Etymology: From cyan- + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.
examples: text: The birdies all try an' hide / But they still go for peanuts / When coated with cyanide
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”:
text: Two doctors and a metallurgist from Scotland patented a process for dissolving gold with cyanide in 1887 and patented the recovery of gold from solution using finely divided zinc (zinc precipitation) the following year. […]
The first commercial processing plant to use cyanide in the milling circuit was constructed at the Crown mine at Karangahake, New Zealand in 1889.
ref: 1988 July, Michael A. Silva, “Cyanide Heap Leaching in California”, in California Geology, volume 41, number 7, page 147:
text: The vast majority of the victims, on Jones’s orders, had drunk a fruit punch mixture laced with cyanide, a deadly poison. Adults had fed the poisoned liquid to the children, including infants.
ref: 2000, Sean Dolan, Everything You Need to Know About Cults, New York: The Rosen Publishing Groups, Inc., →ISBN, page 15:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Sodium or potassium cyanide, used in the extraction of gold and silver or as a poison.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas, a poisonous gas.
Derived terms: aurocyanide
benzyl cyanide
bicyanide
bromobenzyl cyanide
carbonyl cyanide
cyanidation
cyanide fishing
cyanide process
cyanidol
dicyanide
ferricyanide
ferrocyanide
hydrocyanide
isocyanide
leucocyanide
methyl cyanide
platinocyanide
potassium silver cyanide
protocyanide
selenocyanide
silver cyanide
thiocyanide
tricyanide
vinyl cyanide
cyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪənaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: cyanides
form: cyaniding
form: cyanided
form: cyanided
Etymology: From cyan- + -ide.
Senses: glosses: To treat or poison with cyanide.
Related terms: word: hydrocyanic acid
word: Zyklon B
word: Nevada gas
oxyanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyanions
Etymology: From oxy- + anion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion derived from an oxyacid
Derived terms: oxyanionic
oxyarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyarcs
form: oxy-arc
Etymology: From oxy- + arc.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An arc produced in an atmosphere of oxygen, used for welding.
oxygenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒksɪd͡ʒəneɪz/
Forms: form: oxygenases
Etymology: From German Oxygenase, corresponding to oxygen + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme which catalyses biochemical reactions with oxygen.
Derived terms: cyclo-oxygenase
deoxygenase
lipoxygenase
monooxygenase
premnaspirodiene oxygenase
oxyhaemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbɪn
Forms: form: oxyhaemoglobins
form: oxyhæmoglobin
form: oxyhemoglobin
Etymology: From oxy- + haemoglobin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The form of haemoglobin, loosely combined with oxygen, present in arterial and capillary blood.
lunchbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌntʃˌbɒks/
Forms: form: lunchboxes
form: lunch box
form: lunch-box
Etymology: From lunch + box.
Senses: hyponyms: bento box
lunch bucket
lunch pail
glosses: A container for transporting meals, especially lunch.
examples: text: The campaign tagline, 'I've got a tiny packet', is written across [Linford] Christie's trademark impressively muscled upper body. 'Tiny packet' makes us remember that Linford is known for his 'lunchbox' from his heyday as a sprinter because of the bulge apparent in his lycra shorts. His lunchbox and now his tiny packet allude to the diminishing of black men to just their genitals[…]
ref: 2015, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Shirley Anne Tate, Creolizing Europe: Legacies and Transformations, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109:
synonyms: word: basket
word: packet
word: package
glosses: The penis when enclosed in clothing.
examples: text: Jack was carrying his lunchbox with him.
synonyms: box lunch
qualifier: especially Asia
glosses: A lunch packaged in a disposable box to be taken away to eat.
examples: text: You'll find a mix among clamshell laptops for strong laps, lunchboxes, and sewing-machine configurations; the latter two designs typically have detachable keyboards.
ref: 1988 October 11, PC Mag, volume 7, number 17, page 93:
text: The performance difference between desktops and lunchboxes was practically nil.
ref: 2004, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, page 20:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A luggable; an early laptop computer, usually a unit with a handle and a fold-out keyboard.
glosses: A simple portable transmitter sometimes used in phreaking.
glosses: A cocktail made with beer, orange juice, and almond liqueur.
glosses: A person seen as weak and disposable who could easily be sacrificed without much guilt or afterthought.
Derived terms: lunchbox Democrat
oxytocic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒksɪˈtɒsɪk/
ipa: /ˌɒksɪˈtəʊsɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑksiˈtɑsɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑksiˈtoʊsɪk/
Forms: form: more oxytocic
form: most oxytocic
Etymology: Corruption of Ancient Greek ὠκυτόκος (ōkutókos), based on ὀξύς (oxús, “pointed”) instead of ὠκύς (ōkús, “swift”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to promote uterine contractions, thus accelerating childbirth.
Derived terms: antioxytocic
oxytocin
oxytocic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒksɪˈtɒsɪk/
ipa: /ˌɒksɪˈtəʊsɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑksiˈtɑsɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑksiˈtoʊsɪk/
Forms: form: oxytocics
Etymology: Corruption of Ancient Greek ὠκυτόκος (ōkutókos), based on ὀξύς (oxús, “pointed”) instead of ὠκύς (ōkús, “swift”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”).
Senses: glosses: An oxytocic drug.
oxytocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑksiˈtoʊsɪn/
ipa: /ˈɑksiˌtoʊsɪn/
Forms: form: oxytocins
Etymology: From oxytocic, from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “swift”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”, from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”)).
Senses: examples: text: Some women describe episodes of intense pleasure akin to orgasm during nursing. It would be interesting to know whether the release of oxytocin during suckling plays a role in this subjective feeling, as it may do in actual orgasm.
ref: 1994, Simon LeVay, The Sexual Brain, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy, greatly increases feelings of empathy (and perhaps the actual capacity to perceive the emotions of others); one of the mechanisms (oxytocin release) is now becoming understood, […]
ref: 2011, Mark A.R. Kleiman et al., Drugs and Drug Policy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: When human beings bond—by hugging, kissing, touching, having sex, eating together, giving massages, or even when singing together or speaking reassuring words—oxytocin brings us “in from the cold,” warming us—quite literally—as it redirects blood flow into hands, feet, chests and cheeks.
ref: 2012, Giles Slade, “World without oxytocin”, in Big Disconnect, Prometheus Books, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hormone that stimulates contractions during labor, and then the production of milk; also plays a role in social bonding.
Coordinate terms: isotocin
mesotocin
nematocin
oxytocic
Derived terms: annetocin
antioxytocin
oxytocinergic
syntocinon
sesquicentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquicentenaries
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + centenary (“100 year anniversary”).
Senses: glosses: A 150-year anniversary.
Related terms: sesquicentenarian
sesquicentennial
sesquicentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛskwɪsɛnˈtɛni.əl/
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one-and-a-half”) + centennial (“of 100 years”). By surface analysis, sesqui- + cent- + -ennial.
Senses: glosses: Occurring every 150 years.
glosses: Of, or relating to a sesquicentenary.
sesquicentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛskwɪsɛnˈtɛni.əl/
Forms: form: sesquicentennials
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one-and-a-half”) + centennial (“of 100 years”). By surface analysis, sesqui- + cent- + -ennial.
Senses: examples: text: The city celebrated its sesquicentennial last year.
glosses: A 150th anniversary.
Related terms: sesquicentenarian
sesquicentenary
demisesquicentennial
sesquioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquioxides
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one and a half, a ratio of three to two”) + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide containing three oxygen atoms for every two atoms of another element.
Derived terms: antimony sesquioxide
arsenic sesquioxide
chromium sesquioxide
holmium sesquioxide
sesquiplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquiplanes
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + plane, referring to long and short wings as “one and a half” wings.
Senses: glosses: A biplane having one long wing and one short one above or below it.
herald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹəld/
rhymes: -ɛɹəld
homophone: Harold (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Forms: form: heralds
Etymology: From Latin heraldus, from Middle English herald, herauld, heraud, from Anglo-Norman heraud, from Old French heraut, hiraut (modern French héraut), from Frankish *heriwald, from Proto-Germanic *harjawaldaz, a compound consisting of Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”) + *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”). Doublet of Harold and Harald; compare Walter, which has these elements reversed.
Senses: examples: text: The herald blew his trumpet and shouted that the King was dead.
synonyms: bode
glosses: A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
examples: text: Daffodils are heralds of Spring.
glosses: A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
examples: text: Rouge Dragon is a herald at the College of Arms.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: pursuivant
glosses: An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
examples: text: New this season will be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal calls for use of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used.
Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.
ref: 1951 February 24, Billboard, page 52:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A handbill consisting of an advertisement.
Derived terms: coherald
heraldess
heraldist
herald moth
herald patch
heraldship
heraldy
Related terms: heraldic
heraldry
herald
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹəld/
rhymes: -ɛɹəld
homophone: Harold (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Forms: form: heralds
form: heralding
form: heralded
form: heralded
Etymology: From Latin heraldus, from Middle English herald, herauld, heraud, from Anglo-Norman heraud, from Old French heraut, hiraut (modern French héraut), from Frankish *heriwald, from Proto-Germanic *harjawaldaz, a compound consisting of Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”) + *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”). Doublet of Harold and Harald; compare Walter, which has these elements reversed.
Senses: examples: text: Daffodils herald the Spring.
text: Then, some five miles north of Bolna, the entry into the Arctic is heralded by a long blast on the whistle of the engine. The Arctic Circle is marked by a sign on the east side of the line.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
text: Our arrival at Worcester is heralded by the appearance of the city's cathedral tower, a solid square structure that's dominated the skyline since the 12th century.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
synonyms: word: disclose
word: make known
word: announce
word: forerun
word: declare
word: disclose
word: herald
word: impart
word: make known
word: publish
word: proclaim
word: promulgate
word: promulge
glosses: To proclaim or announce an event.
examples: text: The film was heralded by critics.
glosses: To greet something with excitement; to hail.
Derived terms: heralder
unheralded
herald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹəld/
rhymes: -ɛɹəld
homophone: Harold (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Forms: form: heralds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hareld (“long-tailed duck”).
God-fearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more God-fearing
form: most God-fearing
form: godfearing
form: god-fearing
Etymology: From God + fearing, likely a continuation (in altered form) of earlier Middle English goddfrihti, gode-frigti (“god-fearing”), variants of Middle English godfriht, gode-friht, godfruht, god-furht, from Old English godfyrht, godefriht (“god-fearing”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 (gudafaurhts, “god-fearing, devout”).
Senses: examples: text: Margie married Bill, a good, God-fearing Christian.
text: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Following the precepts of a religious practice; respecting and revering God and his authority.
Related terms: god
God
Goddess
goddess
gods-fearing
subterfuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbtəɹˌfjuːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: subterfuges
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French subterfuge m, from Medieval Latin subterfugium n, from Latin subterfugiō (“I flee secretly”), from subter (“under”) and fugiō (“I flee”).
Senses: examples: text: Overt subterfuge in a region nearly caused a minor accident.
text: How’s the spy hunt going? Uncovered any subterfuge?
ref: 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter with Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2012, page 87:
glosses: An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and diplomatics.
examples: text: But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.
ref: 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 57–58:
text: I have been critical of the RDG in the past for merely being a cypher for government announcements, but the failure of its members to make a stand on this issue and not be complicit in the Government's subterfuge is a shocking indictment of their failure to protect the industry.
ref: 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:
glosses: Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
asphyxiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əsˈfɪksieɪt/
Forms: form: asphyxiates
form: asphyxiating
form: asphyxiated
form: asphyxiated
Etymology: From asphyxia + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said.
ref: 2024 October 14, Issy Ronald, “Woman killed by malfunctioning ottoman bed”, in CNN:
glosses: To smother or suffocate someone.
glosses: To be smothered or suffocated.
Derived terms: asphyxiator
autoasphyxiate
Related terms: asphyxia
asphyxiation
Roman alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman alphabets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Latin alphabet.
synonyms: word: Latin alphabet
lunch box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunch boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lunchbox.
lunch pail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunch pails
form: lunchpail
Etymology: From lunch + pail.
Senses: synonyms: lunch bucket
glosses: A lunchbox (food container) shaped more or less like a bucket with a handle.
examples: text: The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail fucking job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues till they get a positive result.
ref: 2024 February 12, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show:
glosses: Someone doing work that needs to be done in an unpretentious, down-to-earth manner; (originally) a blue-collar worker.