cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tank
tanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tanked
form: most tanked
Senses: examples: text: And at a bar in Dolores I met a lady, a very tanked lady, who introduced herself as Miss E. X. Love. How delicious the lies we told!
ref: 1996, Mark Irwin, Quick, Now, Always: Poems, BOA Editions, Ltd., →ISBN, page 56:
text: […] and mingled some and then he started buying shots. We did a lot or at least I did. We got into a serious conversation about my troubles. I told him the whole story. After getting very tanked I realized the place had become empty.
ref: 2018, Phillip Anthony Sainz-Hall, From The Bullet To The Bible: A Gangsters Tale, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Drunk.
Synonyms: tanked up
Related terms: think-tanked
taillight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taillights
form: tail-light
form: tail light
Etymology: From tail + light.
Senses: examples: text: All moved to the front street, where Grierson snibbed on his tail-light and turned to ask the trooper, "They've got the main road ploughed up farther on, haven't they?"
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 162:
synonyms: rear light
taillamp
glosses: One of a pair of red lights mounted on the rear of a vehicle, so it can be seen from the rear at night.
thematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thematically
form: most thematically
Etymology: From thematic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a thematic manner
therein lies the rub
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: there lies the rub
form: there is the rub
Etymology: A misquotation or paraphrasing from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "ay, there's the rub".
Senses: examples: text: I tried to back up my database to a USB flash drive, but it isn't big enough. Therein lies the rub.
glosses: That is where the problem is found or located.
Related terms: thereby hangs a tale
where the shoe pinches
thorny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɔːni/
ipa: /ˈθɔɹni/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: thornier
form: thorniest
Etymology: From Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. By surface analysis, thorn + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
ref: 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN:
synonyms: prickly
spiny
glosses: Having thorns or spines.
examples: text: thorny issues
text: the steep and thorny way to heaven
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Westcott doesn’t even consider the thornier question of fan fiction based on real and often living people, for instance, the “bandslash” or “bandfic” phenomenon built around rock-star characters and often homoerotic subplots.
ref: 2008 July 15, Keith Goetzman, “Is Fan Fiction Flouting the Law?”, in Utne Reader:
text: Six weeks into the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the thorniest issues surrounding the pact remain unresolved.
ref: 2017 September 28, Ana Swanson, “How the Trump Administration Is Doing Renegotiating Nafta”, in The New York Times:
text: Museums have recently begun to confront the same thorny question, with several issuing public apologies for collecting the remains of people believed or known to have been enslaved.
ref: 2021 October 10, Caroline Anders, “A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines reignites ethical debate over selling human remains”, in The Washington Post:
text: Station capacity in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam remains a thorny issue, as does obtaining suitable Channel Tunnel-compliant trains.
ref: 2025 April 16, Ben Jones, “An opening for international high-speed competition”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 13:
text: Mr. [Jake] Sullivan noted that turning away from thorny global issues like climate change would not stop them from posing a threat to the United States, and the world.
ref: 2025 September 26, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, “Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Troublesome or vexatious.
examples: text: Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives:
glosses: Aloof and irritable.
Derived terms: giant thorny-headed worm of swine
thornily
thorniness
thorny broom
thorny devil
thorny lacewing
thorny oyster
thorny restharrow
thorny trefoil
thorny worm
threadlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more threadlike
form: most threadlike
form: thread-like
Etymology: From thread + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a thread.
glosses: Resembling a thread in length or thinness.
spatchcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæt͡ʃkɒk/
ipa: /ˈspæt͡ʃˌkɑk/
Forms: form: spatchcocks
Etymology: The noun is probably derived from one of the following:
* A variant of spitchcock (“eel split lengthwise and broiled”). from Middle English spiche-coke, The further etymology is uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:
** From Middle English *speche, *spiche (“to split”) + cock, coken (“to allow (something) to cook; to cook”).
** From spik (“animal fat, especially lard”), spik, spike (“large nail; pointed stud”), or spit, spite (“rod for cooking meat, spit; pointed object”); + cok (“male of the common domestic fowl, cock, rooster”).
* From Irish spot (“spot”) or spochta (the past participle of spoch (“to cut, clip”)) + coc (“male of the common domestic fowl, cock, rooster”).
A derivation from (di)spatch (“to dispose of speedily; to make a speedy end of”) + cock is now thought to be unlikely.
In a few texts from the 14–1700s the form smatchcock is found, possibly an error or an alteration under the influence of smatch (“taste, flavour”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Spatch cock, abbreviation of a diſpatch cock, an Iriſh diſh upon any ſudden occaſion. It is a hen juſt killed from the rooſt, or yard, and immediately ſkinned, ſplit, and broiled.
ref: [1785, [Francis Grose], “Spatch cock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S[amuel] Hooper, […], →OCLC:
text: He then slew it [a chicken], dipped the corpse in boiling water to loosen the feathers, which he stripped off in masses, cut through its breast longitudinally, and with the aid of an iron plate, placed over a charcoal fire, proceeded to make a spatchcock, or as it is more popularly termed, a "sudden death."
ref: 1851, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Voyage”, in Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, Six Months of Sick Leave, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 9:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.
timeframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timeframes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time frame.
time-frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-frames
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time frame.
time frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmˌfɹeɪm/
ipa: /ˈtɑemˌfɹeɪm/
ipa: /ˈtɜːmˌfɹeɪm/
Forms: form: time frames
form: timeframe
form: time-frame
Etymology: From time + frame.
Senses: glosses: The period of time during which something is expected to occur, or does occur.
tinder-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinder-boxes
Senses: examples: text: The rain had washed away all possibility of distinguishing foot-marks, but a close investigation of the spot had disclosed, in the direction opposite to the village, a tinder-box, with a flint and steel, half sunk in the mud.
ref: 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 118:
glosses: Alternative form of tinderbox.
tinderbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinderboxes
form: tinder-box
form: tinder box
Etymology: From tinder + box, first use appears c. 1530, in the writings of John Palsgrave.
Senses: examples: text: Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], pages 19–20:
text: Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there.
ref: 2007, Stephen Mitchell, The Tinderbox, page 5:
glosses: A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
examples: text: And then came the night that made America famous / Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke? / In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in, someone struck a spark
ref: 1974, Harry Chapin, “What Made America Famous”, in Verities & Balderdash:
text: Think of your blank journal as a tinderbox, a box for holding combustible materials, ready to catch fire when you sit down to work.
ref: 2010, L. K. Ludwig, Creative Wildfire: An Introduction to Art Journaling, page 30:
glosses: A place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
examples: text: This act was the "match that ignited the great tinderbox of fuel" that had been building for years between many of the countries in Europe.
ref: 2010, H. S. Haskell, Sagebrush Or Gold Dust, page 291:
glosses: A potentially dangerous situation.
Synonyms: sense: potentially dangerous situation
word: powder keg
sense: potentially dangerous situation
word: powderkeg
sense: potentially dangerous situation
word: powder magazine
Hypernyms: box
titch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: titches
Etymology: From the stage name Little Tich; see tich. Attested since the 1880s.
Senses: examples: text: I ain't afraid of a titch like you.
text: We called him Titch because he was a tiny little man, and he had a mop of black hair.
ref: 1995, Philip Mitchell, One Moonlit Night, translation of Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard, page 106:
glosses: A very small person; a small child.
examples: text: Is there any milk left? Just a titch.
glosses: A small amount.
Derived terms: titchy
Related terms: tich
titch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: titches
Etymology: From Middle English techen, tüchen, variant or dialectal forms of Middle English touchen (“to touch”).
Senses: examples: text: I'll have just a titch more cake.
text: “...and just a titch of my special pepper sauce over these turnip greens, everybody loves turnip greens.”
ref: 1988, Howard Lewis Russell, Rush to Nowhere, page 148:
glosses: A small amount of something.
titch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: titches
form: titching
form: titched
form: titched
Etymology: From Middle English techen, tüchen, variant or dialectal forms of Middle English touchen (“to touch”).
Senses: examples: text: Vur Bob eszul wis awful titch'd
 An went jist like a hoss a witch'd.
ref: 1865, Nathan Hogg, Poetical Letters, page 63:
text: There was some sort of affray between you and Flood. The constables separated you. What led to this?
 […] I titched Noah and Noah titched me and my hat falled off.
ref: 1894, Sabine Baring-Gould, Kitty Alone, page 120:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of touch.
titch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: titches
form: titching
form: titched
form: titched
Etymology: Variant or colloquial pronunciation of teach.
Senses: examples: text: “yass, dass all right: but how we know you titch English? Nobody can’t tell you titchin’ him right or no.”
ref: 1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, page 114:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of teach.
toilsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔɪlsəm/
Forms: form: more toilsome
form: most toilsome
form: toylesome
Etymology: From toil + -some.
Senses: examples: text: ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The whole of the interior of South Africa is, of course, one vast plateau at a considerable elevation, and all the main lines coming up from the coast have some toilsome climbing.
ref: 1940 July, “Notes and News: Timetables in South Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:
glosses: Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
Derived terms: toilsomely
toilsomeness
untoilsome
toneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊniːm/
Forms: form: tonemes
Etymology: From tone + -eme.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings.
shedload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛd.ləʊd/
ipa: /ˈʃɛd.loʊd/
Forms: form: shedloads
form: shed load
Etymology: From shed + load; possibly a minced form of shitload, given the sound similarity (front vowel, consonance, metre).
Senses: examples: text: Shedloads of flights from Amsterdam in the air at this time of day, ditto Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, Berlin, Gdansk, Tenerife, Sofia.
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 124:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A shitload; a large amount.
tonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊˈnɛmɪk/
rhymes: -ɛmɪk
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From toneme + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: of, or relating to tonemes or a language that uses tonemes
top-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from a single, large basic unit to multiple, smaller subunits
examples: text: Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as the default language.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 6:
glosses: produced, controlled, or directed by those at the top of the hierarchy (the upper echelons)
examples: a top-down shooter
topics: video-games
glosses: presenting the player with an aerial view
examples: text: a top-down ride
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: with the convertible top down
raw_tags: of a drop top
Related terms: word: top brass
word: top dogs
sense: convertible
word: open-top
sense: convertible
word: open-topped
word: bird's-eye view
bottom-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The software is checked very carefully in a bottom-up fashion. First, each new line of code is checked, then sections of code or modules with special functions are verified.
ref: 1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:
glosses: Of or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from multiple small subunits to a single, large basic unit.
examples: text: bottom-up management
text: The papacy has for centuries brought with it a place on the world stage. Francis, who from the off gave the impression of being a man in a hurry, was determined to use that platform to push a bottom-up agenda for the world.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or relating to a hierarchical system in which lower levels influence higher levels.
Related terms: bottoms up
trousseau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɹuˌsoʊ/
rhymes: -uːsəʊ
Forms: form: trousseaus
form: trousseaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”).
Senses: examples: text: Trousseaus of German Heiresses.—Despatches from Berlin told recently of the visit to that city of a wealthy German mother and her two daughters. for the purpose of buying trousseaus for the girls who are said to be perhaps the richest heiresses of the world. […] Frau Krupp, widow of the great gunmaker of Essen [Friedrich Alfred Krupp], and her daughters, Bertha and Barbara, have just been here, the object of their visit being to buy the wedding-trousseaus for her daughters.
ref: 1906 September 29, The Literary Digest, volume XXXIII, number 13 (whole no., 858), New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, publishers, 44 to 60 East 23d Steet, New York, →OCLC, page 439:
text: Consequently, having decided to divide her daughter's trousseau into two parts, a lesser and a larger, the Princess eventually consented to have the wedding before Advent.
ref: 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude, transl., Anna Karenina, a Novel (World's Classics; 211), [Cambridge?]: Oxford University Press, OCLC 6561729; republished Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-158623-1, page 435
text: In a study of the trousseau in France, Agnès Fine observes that, regardless of its contents and its value, the trousseau represented an essential in women's lives; through the first half of the twentieth century, at least, it seemed altogether inconceivable to be married without the provision of a trousseau. But while in the sixteenth century it involved the furniture of a bride's bedroom, bit by bit the trousseau was reduced to linen, especially to sheets.
ref: 2006, Denyse Baillargeon, translated by Yvonne Klein, Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression (Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada), Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 60:
text: There is further significance in the transmission of cash and trousseaux. To begin with, they appear in inverse proportion to each other across time, for example trousseaux appear more important in the eighteenth century, whereas by the 1830s they had declined in favour of cash endowments.
ref: 2006, Paul Sant Cassia, Constantina Bada, The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: The clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these.
glosses: A bundle.
Related terms: bottom drawer
dowry
glory box
glory-box
hope chest
topicalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topicalises
form: topicalising
form: topicalised
form: topicalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of topicalize.
Related terms: topicalised
topicalisation
topicalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of topicalized.
Related terms: topicalise
topicalisation
topicalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From topical + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of topicalization.
Related terms: topicalise
topicalised
quantum chromodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A quantum field theory in particle physics which describes the strong interaction of quarks and gluons employing the concept of color charge.
QCD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: Initialism of Quasi Circular Depression.
QCD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: lean manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of Quality, Cost, Delivery.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of quantum chromodynamics.
Related terms: topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: QED
topicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topicalizes
form: topicalizing
form: topicalized
form: topicalized
form: topicalise
Etymology: From topical + -ize.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To place the topic of a sentence at the beginning.
examples: text: […] during the whole media debate the alternative point of view and the perspective and rights of the minority groups themselves were hardly, if at all, topicalized.
ref: 2013, Teun A. van Dijk, News Analysis, page 203:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To treat (a subject) as a topic.
Derived terms: topicalizer
topicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topicalised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of topicalize
topicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more topicalized
form: most topicalized
form: topicalised
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having the topic at the beginning.
raw_tags: of a sentence
topicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topicalizations
form: topicalisation
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The placing of the topic of a sentence at the beginning.
isonomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰσονομία (isonomía).
Senses: glosses: Equality before the law; possession of equal rights; equal distribution of rights and privileges.
Synonyms: isonomy
Related terms: isonomic
assignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪnmənt/
rhymes: -aɪnmənt
Forms: form: assignments
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
head_nr: 2
glosses: The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
examples: text: We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
head_nr: 2
glosses: The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
head_nr: 2
glosses: The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
examples: text: The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
head_nr: 2
glosses: An assigned task.
examples: text: Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A position to which someone is assigned.
examples: text: Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
topics: education
head_nr: 2
glosses: A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
examples: text: The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
topics: law
head_nr: 2
glosses: A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
examples: text: Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
topics: law
head_nr: 2
glosses: A document that effects this transfer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
Hyponyms: topics: programming
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: augmented assignment
Derived terms: antiassignment
assignment operator
frequency assignment
misassignment
nonassignment
Procrustean assignment
reassignment
time-assignment speech interpolation
unassignment
understand the assignment
running joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running jokes
Senses: examples: text: “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in The A.V. Club:
text: These deadpan repeated phrases that cannot quite decide whether they are part of a running joke or a half-abandoned philosophical dictum produce, as Michael Wood has argued, a comedy of the intellect that becomes a comedy of ignorance: […]
ref: 2012, Laura Salisbury, Samuel Beckett, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Her obvious favoritism has become a running joke among the staff. A joke that I'm the butt of. She's at least twenty years older than me, not to mention married.
ref: 2013, Colleen Hoover, This Girl, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: An ongoing joke, one that is regularly repeated or continued.
Synonyms: running gag
nyem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nyems
form: name
Senses: glosses: name
bearded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪədɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɪədəd/
ipa: /ˈbɪɹdəd/
ipa: /ˈbiɚdəd/
Etymology: From beard + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beard
bearded
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪədɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɪədəd/
ipa: /ˈbɪɹdəd/
ipa: /ˈbiɚdəd/
Forms: form: beardeds
Etymology: From beard + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer.
ref: 2017, Barbara W. Ellis, “Iris: Irises”, in Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants: Proven Perennials, Annuals, Flowering Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Every Garden, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 181:
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
horticulture
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A bearded iris.
Dionysius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈnɪzɪəs/
ipa: /daɪəˈnɪsɪəs/
Etymology: From Latin Dionysius, from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).
Senses: examples: text: Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:34:
glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).
Dionysos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dionysoi
Senses: examples: text: The rival festivals of Dionysos were in mid-winter.
ref: 1908, Jane Ellis Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion:
text: In an ancient scholarly compendium of writings on Dionysos, Diodorus Siculus wrote: “He seems to be dual in form because there are two Dionysoi: the bearded Dionysos of the old times, since the ancients wore beards, and the younger, beautiful and exuberant Dionysos, a youth.”
ref: 1976, Carl Kerényi, translated by Ralph Manheim, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Bollingen Series; LXV), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 383:
text: As for the two Dionysoi under the handles, the conceit of putting figures, sometimes on a smaller scale, under the handles, is not unique: […]
ref: 1985, Dietrich von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens, Malibu, Calif.: The J. Paul Getty Museum; New York, N.Y.; London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., →ISBN, page 132, column 1:
text: Before him Dionysos (with kantharos) and a woman seated facing r.; a seated Athena and a second Dionysos with kantharos, looking round at them. Cf. Athens, NM 9687 (ABV 491, 58) with a seated H., two Dionysoi and a satyr.
ref: 1990, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, volume V, 1 (Herakles–Kenchrias), Zürich; München [Munich]: Artemis Verlag, →ISBN, page 155, column 1:
text: The Athenians, for their part, decided to adopt this god as a κηδεστής, “a relative/son in law.” Comparably, one of the two Dionysoi in the city of Heraea in Arcadia was called polites. Gods as honorary citizens and owners of land and house, that is the ultimate expression of local inclusion in the world of ‘ours’—a “naturalization” in the words of Detienne.
ref: 2011, H[enk] S. Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 173), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of Dionysus.
feel the heat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels the heat
form: feeling the heat
form: felt the heat
form: felt the heat
Senses: glosses: To encounter an uncomfortable situation.
home slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home slices
form: homeslice
Etymology: Variant of homeboy or homie + slice.
Senses: examples: text: Corey F: Chill, Steve-o. I’m just lookin’ after my home slice here.
ref: 2000, Tommy Housworth, Smirking into the Abyss:
text: Rod was my home slice. He and I rolled up scumbags together for two years in SWAT. I loved that guy.
ref: 2002, Stephen J Cannell, The Viking Funeral:
text: He was practically a home slice and knew all the ancient haunts.
ref: 2003, Frank Owen, Clubland:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: A fellow, particularly a male acquaintance, from one's home town.
unf
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: Inarticulate grunt of desire issued upon sighting someone sexually attractive, or made in response to a spasm of pleasure during sexual intercourse.
gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɡʊəd/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡʊɚd/
ipa: /ɡɔɹd/
rhymes: -ʊəd
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ʊɹd
homophone: gored
Forms: form: gourds
Etymology: From Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman gurde, gourde, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of cucurbit.
Senses: glosses: Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
glosses: A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
glosses: The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
glosses: Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.
glosses: Loaded dice.
examples: text: I got so stoned last night. I was out of my gourd.
glosses: A person's head.
Derived terms: ash gourd
bitter gourd
bottle gourd
Chinese snake gourd
coyote gourd
dishcloth gourd
fig-leaf gourd
gooseberry gourd
gourder
gourdful
gourdification
gourdlike
gourd rattle
gourdworm
ivy gourd
like a martin to his gourd
like a martin to its gourd
Malabar gourd
Missouri gourd
out of one's gourd
saw gourds
serpent gourd
slipper gourd
snake gourd
soap gourd
sour gourd
sponge gourd
squash and gourd bee
succade gourd
tallow gourd
towel gourd
wax gourd
West Indian gourd
white gourd
winter gourd
Related terms: basket
bucket
calabash
calabaza
cucurbitaceous
dissatisfaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/
ipa: /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/
ipa: [dɪsˌsæɾɪsˈfækʃən]
ipa: /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/
Forms: form: dissatisfactions
Etymology: From dis- + satisfaction.
Senses: examples: text: The hypothesis that the strength of the relationship between ED pathology and body image dissatisfaction would be weaker in the autistic group was not supported.
ref: 2025 February 14, Heather Westwood, Will Mandy, Rebecca Brewer, “The Relationship Between Interoception, Alexithymia, Autistic Traits and Eating Pathology in Autistic Adults”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
glosses: Unhappiness or discontent.
glosses: The cause of such feelings.
Derived terms: self-dissatisfaction
Related terms: unsatisfactoriness
quantified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We live in a quantified world and in many ways our lives are better as a result, whether the metrics have been used to create more effective medicines or more efficient delivery vans.
ref: 2025 September 13, Tim Harford, “The remorseless rule of my fitness tracker”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: Measured.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Used as a quantifier.
quantified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quantify
soon-to-weds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soon-to-wed
sangria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæŋˈɡɹiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: sangrias
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sangría, from sangre (“blood”) + -ía.
Senses: examples: text: Just a perfect day / Drink sangria in the park
ref: 1972, Lou Reed, “Perfect Day”, in Transformer:
text: Sipping a sangria with a girl named Julia / Hot Jamaican sand beneath our feet
ref: 1978, “Last Summer”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:
glosses: A cold drink, originating in Spain, consisting of red or white wine, brandy or sherry, fruit juice, sugar and soda water and garnished with orange and other fruit.
examples: sangria:
glosses: A deep red color.
quadrilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From quadri- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: Part of the rationale for this quadrilingual language policy is the desire to preserve ‘Asian values’, viewed as inherent in Asian languages, in the face of ‘Western values’ associated with globalisation and the use of English.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:
glosses: Involving four languages.
glosses: Of a text, written in four languages.
glosses: Of a person, able to speak four languages.
Synonyms: tetralingual
quadrilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Forms: form: quadrilinguals
Etymology: From quadri- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: A person who understands four languages.
Related terms: monolingual
bilingual
trilingual
quinquelingual
multilingual
lecturn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecturns
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lectern.
fake the funk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fakes the funk
form: faking the funk
form: faked the funk
form: faked the funk
Senses: glosses: To perform below one's capacities.
glosses: To promise more than one can deliver.
photoshop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/
Forms: form: photoshops
form: photoshopping
form: photoshopped
form: photoshopped
form: Photoshop
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.
Senses: examples: text: She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.
text: Photographs can be manipulated, too; while a "Photoshopped" image may look beautiful, it might not give a correct impression of a place (this is a whole other column).
ref: 1995 September 24, “Some surf the Net, others quiver on the shore”, in The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, page 167:
text: Ned Shaw, a former illustrator for PC Magazine, has gathered a huge collection of classic examples from such artists and illustrators as Maxfield Parish and Edmund Dulac. He then Photoshopped it (a new verb; you heard it first here) and produced two volumes of fantastic art. The cool part is that the product comes in two resolutions.
ref: 1997 May 6, PC Magazine, New York: Ziff Davis, page 89:
text: The feisty brunette star of The Mummy [sc. Rachel Weisz] boasts: "I really did hold that snake. People thought it was Photoshopped in, but it was the real thing. I had to stay relaxed." What about the snake?
ref: 2004 May 20, “PS...”, in The Times (People section), number 68080, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: trademark
glosses: To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).
Derived terms: photochop
photoshopped
Photoshopped
photoshopper
shop
shoop
Related terms: composite
collage
montage
muscle morph
photoshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/
Forms: form: photoshops
form: Photoshop
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.
Senses: examples: text: I reckon the image is a photoshop.
glosses: A digitally altered image.
fallibilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfælɪbɪlɪzəm/
enpr: făʹlĭ.bĭ.lĭ.zəm
Forms: form: fallibilisms
Etymology: From fallible + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrine that knowledge is never certain, but always hypothetical and susceptible to correction.
fallibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæləˈbɪləti/
Forms: form: fallibilities
Etymology: From fallible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: ...they had a damnably suggestive power which was intensified by the fact of their being genuine photographs—actual optical links with what they portrayed, and the product of an impersonal transmitting process without prejudice, fallibility, or mendacity.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: The state of being prone to error.
examples: text: Dr. Anne Armstrong-Coben has provided a spot-on description of the fallibilities of the electronic medical record from the standpoint of the doctor-patient encounter.
ref: 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:
glosses: An error-generating characteristic.
fallibilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallibilists
Etymology: From fallible + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate or supporter of fallibilism
side-effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-effects
Senses: examples: text: Gynecomastia is estimated to affect anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of males at some stage of their lives. And "gyne" or "gyno", as it's commonly known, is not only an unwelcome (and ironic) side-effect of anabolic-androgenic - that is, muscle-building and masculinising - steroids: it can also be caused by other hormonal disruptors such as alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, obesity, puberty (usually temporarily) and old age. But [Tom] Powell says his gyno was "99 percent" likely due to steroids. […] The new generation of lifters are disparaged as “SARM goblins” for their embrace of the new generation of IPEDs called Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators, which supposedly provide most of the benefits of steroids and fewer of the side-effects, and can be bought online on sites like eBay and Depop.
ref: 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
text: A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: Alternative spelling of side effect.
side-effect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: side-effects
form: side-effecting
form: side-effected
form: side-effected
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions.
ref: 1980, W. de Moor, H. R. Wijngaarden, Psychotherapy, research and training, page 147:
text: Local objects can further be distinguished by whether or not they are escaping from the execution of m, and non-local objects can be further distinguished by whether or not they are side-effected by a visible side-effect during the execution of m:
ref: 2002, Asian Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation:
text: Hence, side-effecting the environment is equivalent to collaborating with an autonomous co-robot.
ref: 2012, Robert L. Constable, Alexandra Silva, Logic and Program Semantics:
glosses: To alter as a side effect.
wants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑnts/
ipa: /wɔnts/
ipa: /wʌnts/
ipa: /wɒnts/
rhymes: -ɑnts
rhymes: -ɔnts
rhymes: -ʌnts
rhymes: -ɒnts
Senses: glosses: plural of want
wants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑnts/
ipa: /wɔnts/
ipa: /wʌnts/
ipa: /wɒnts/
rhymes: -ɑnts
rhymes: -ɔnts
rhymes: -ʌnts
rhymes: -ɒnts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of want
side effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side effects
form: side-effect
Senses: examples: text: The processing of certain raw materials - pulp and paper, oil, and alumina, for example - can have substantial environmental side effects.
ref: 1987, Brundtland Report:
text: A side effect of this architecture (which was designed only for efficient fabrication) is that it also performs automated repair.
ref: 1980, Advanced Automation for Space Missions:
text: So you go along for a long time / And nothing seems to worry your mind / But what it adds up to / It's the side effect / That finally gets to you / It's the side effect / That finally gets to you
ref: 1983, Ashford & Simpson, “Side Effect”, in High-Rise (album):
text: Useful for mild depression but may trigger coronary problems. A positive side effect is that it may actually help with degenerative joint disease symptoms.
ref: 2007, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Nutrition and Diagnosis-Related Care:
glosses: An unintended consequence, or secondary result, of any action, in addition to the main or intended consequence of that action.
examples: text: “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”
ref: 2018 May 30, Christine Hauser, quoting Sanofi, “Roseanne Barr’s Ambien Defense Is Disputed: ‘Racism Is Not a Known Side Effect’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An unintended consequence, or secondary result, of any action, in addition to the main or intended consequence of that action.
An unintended consequence of a drug or therapy; usually an adverse effect, not a beneficial effect.
examples: text: The Eiffel programming language is somewhat purist in insisting that functions have no side effects.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An unintended consequence, or secondary result, of any action, in addition to the main or intended consequence of that action.
A change in state outside of the local environment of the function being called.
Synonyms: by-product
Coordinate terms: aftereffect
aftermath
Derived terms: side-effecting
empiricist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empiricists
Etymology: From empiric + -ist.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:empiricist.
glosses: an advocate or supporter of empiricism
Derived terms: antiempiricist
neoempiricist
postempiricist
radical empiricist
Related terms: empirical
empiricism
empiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈpɪɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: empirick
Etymology: From Old French empirique, from Latin empiricus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπειρικός (empeirikós, “experienced”), from ἐμπειρία (empeiría, “experience, mere experience or practice without knowledge, especially in medicine, empiricism”), from ἔμπειρος (émpeiros, “experienced or practised in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + πεῖρα (peîra, “a trial, experiment, attempt”). Not related to empire.
Senses: glosses: Empirical.
empiric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈpɪɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: empirics
form: empirick
Etymology: From Old French empirique, from Latin empiricus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπειρικός (empeirikós, “experienced”), from ἐμπειρία (empeiría, “experience, mere experience or practice without knowledge, especially in medicine, empiricism”), from ἔμπειρος (émpeiros, “experienced or practised in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + πεῖρα (peîra, “a trial, experiment, attempt”). Not related to empire.
Senses: glosses: A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
glosses: Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
examples: text: An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.
ref: , New York Review, Books, 2001, p.257
text: […] Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks, rather then (as they are fain to call themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke of their own Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand […]
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 24:
text: […] and must therefore swallow down Opinions, as silly People do Empiricks['] Pills, without knowing what they are made of[…]
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “XIX. Of Wrong Assent, or Error”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book IV, § 4, page 354:
text: The fact is, that since a good, sound, honest, efficient, automatic, nonmetallic currency and standard was tampered with in 1893, India has been a happy hunting-ground for any empiric who conjured with a new scheme of currency, no matter how fantastic.
ref: 1913 January, Moreton Frewen, “The Great Drain of Gold to India”, in The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review Founded by James Knowles, volume LXXIII, number CCCCXXXI, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., printers, →OCLC, page 59:
text: To the disgust of doctors, the royal family at Versailles allowed one Brun, a wandering empiric […], to administer a proprietary ‘sovereign remedy’ to the ailing monarch.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 33:
glosses: Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
pinpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: pinpoints
form: pin-point
Etymology: From pin + point.
Senses: glosses: The point of a pin.
examples: text: What was once an astonishing, one-off discovery in 2005 may prove to be just a pinpoint in a global distribution of animals of which we previously knew nothing.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 364:
glosses: Something infinitesimal; a tiny point.