cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ploughed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plough up
pteroenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A B - hydroxy ketone ("pteroenone") with the formula CH40, has been reported to be the chemical defense compound (McClintock and Baker, 1998). Pteroenone causes a significant feeding deterrence in the Antarctic fishes[…]
ref: 2001, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology: Biochemistry & molecular biology:
text: Employing flash and high-pressure liquid chromatographic (HPLC) techniques, pteroenone (Figure 5.2), a linear β-hydroxyketone and the first example of a defensive secondary metabolite from a pelagic gastropod, was isolated from tissues[…]
ref: 2001 June 13, James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, Marine Chemical Ecology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 207:
text: In a bioassay-guided structure elucidation, pteroenone could be isolated and characterized as the main defensive principle of C. antarctica [82,83]. If embedded in alginate, this compound is a feeding-deterrent[…]
ref: 2004 October 22, Tetsu Ando, The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals I, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 195:
text: ... provided a polypropionate-derived natural product, pteroenone (Figure 3.7), with strong feeding deterrence against fish predators […] Structure of pteroenone from the pteropod Clione limacina. (Yoshida et al.
ref: 2018 August 30, Melany P. Puglisi, Mikel A. Becerro, Chemical Ecology: The Ecological Impacts of Marine Natural Products, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 105:
topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxyketone synthesized by Clione species as a defense against being eaten.
trailerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailerizations
form: trailerisation
Etymology: From trailer + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Composers are increasingly in demand for trailerization — reworking existing tracks by artists including Kate Bush, Nirvana and Kendrick Lamar to maximize their impact in film and TV previews. […] Many high profile trailerizations are applied to songs that are decades old: Remixes and overlays allow the trailers to tap into the nostalgia evoked by the original.
ref: 2023 January 6, Eric Ducker, “Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2023:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The act of trailerizing (adapting a piece of music for use in the trailer of a film or television show).
trailerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trailerize
trailerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trailerize
trailerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trailerize
trailercore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trailer + -core.
Senses: examples: text: The “slowed-down cover” is a contagion that has spread through music to the point where it is acknowledged as its own self-contained genre: “trailercore”. / The first confirmed example of trailercore was in 2001, when Gary Jules’s tilt at Tears For Fears’s Mad World soundtracked an ad for the video game Gears of War.
ref: 2021 November 5, Ed Power, “Trailercore: how anodyne, slowed-down covers ruined pop music”, in The Telegraph:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A trend and genre in popular music, emerged in the 2010s, characterized by trailers of films, television shows, or video games being accompanied by cover versions of well-known songs performed in a somber and slowed-down style.
Related terms: trailerize
trailerization
trailerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trailerization
Pascall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pulls up one's socks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull up one's socks
pulling up one's socks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull up one's socks
pulled up one's socks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull up one's socks
vixenry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vixen + -ry, since 1830s.
Senses: examples: text: "Whom you frightened away with a peal of vixenry!" interrupted Michael.
ref: 1831, The World of Fashion, page 269:
text: "There," she said, waving her hand abroad with something of her old mocking vixenry, “go—search the castle. It is yours—by marriage. You will not even find my husband here. He is doing your errands at Douglas Castle."
ref: 1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Maid Margaret of Galloway, page 187:
text: The other girls were frumpier, more sturdy and heavily made up. These boys must have thought this little darlingo on my lap a perfect vixen, but I knew firsthand the master of vixenry, and was only lightly impressed by the affections of one of her fairy minions.
ref: 2013, The Albino Album: A Novel, page 419:
glosses: The state of being a vixen (salacious woman).
Ash Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ash parish, Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9049).
glosses: A suburban village in Nuneaton and Bedworth borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3385).
chatak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chittak
Senses: glosses: an Indian form of measurement, equal to 45 feet
Secession Winter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The winter of 1860-61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency but preceding his inauguration, during which South Carolina and other states of the Southern United States seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.
Loughtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Loughton
Loughton and Great Holm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Milton Keynes district, Buckinghamshire, England, which includes these two villages.
Related terms: Great Holm
Loughton
Harbottles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harbottle
Vercoes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vercoe
Cocking
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cockings
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Cocca + -ing (“(settlement) belonging to”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8717).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Coye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coyes
Etymology: Variant spelling of Coy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Coyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coye
Cockings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cocking
Castronova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Castronovas
Etymology: Variant of Castronovo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Carlston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carlstons
Etymology: Altered form of Swedish Carlsson, or Danish and Norwegian Carlsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Condrys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Condry
Castronovas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Castronova
Carlstons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carlston
Shelagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncommon spelling variant of Sheila, anglicization of Irish Síle.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
banger races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banger race
Tongham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, near Aldershot in Hampshire (OS grid ref SU8849).
Falangas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Falanga
Gajjar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gajjars
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati ગજ્જર (gajjar).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Gujarati.
Gottman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gottmans
Etymology: Variant of German Gottmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gesners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gesner
Gajjars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gajjar
Gottmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gottman
Iturbide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iturbides
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Iturbide, a surname of Basque origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
Groms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grom
Iturbides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Iturbide
cat's breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat's breakfasts
Senses: examples: text: Unless you make a cat's breakfast of the interview, you're about to sign a new recruit. The person could also be thinking, Why did I get myself into this? or What excuse can I give? Give the prospect time to relax,[…]
ref: 2008 May 15, Mary Christensen, Be a Recruiting Superstar: The Fast Track to Network Marketing Millions, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 175:
text: "He makes a cat's breakfast of it, I'm afraid.” She flourished an arm at the litter of papers on the table, the ancient typewriter, the file box sprouting a flurry of blue and pink slips of paper. Fans of file cards lay on the floor.
ref: 2012 March 6, Jane Langton, Dead as a Dodo, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: But I am sure I'm doing something I shouldn't, and if I'm caught at it, or if I make a cat's breakfast of explaining why, there may be trouble.” “You won't make a cat's breakfast.” Gawaine smiled. “Your faith in me, my dear David,[…]"
ref: 2018 August 13, Claire Baldry, Simply Modern Life, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Synonym of dog's breakfast (“a mess”).
synonyms: word: dog's breakfast
extra: a mess
Grulke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grulkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Grulke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Henkelman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Henkelmans
Etymology: Variant of German Henkelmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Henkelmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Henkelman
Grulkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grulke
McIntee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McIntees
Etymology: Variant of McAtee.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
eigenelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenelements
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A nonzero element m of a semimodule M, such that there exists an endomorphism A on M and a real number r (a corresponding eigenvalue) for which the image of m under A is equal to the product of r times m; i.e. mA=rm.
Purshouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Purshouses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Purshouses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Purshouse
McIntees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McIntee
Falkingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Falkinghams
Etymology: Habitational surname from the village of Folkingham, in Lincolnshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Blaydons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blaydon
Falkinghams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Falkingham
formamidopyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formamidopyrimidine
eigenexcitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenexcitations
Senses: glosses: Any of the resultant eigenvectors produced by a principal component analysis of excitation energies in an absorption or emission spectrum.
Folkingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Folca + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0733).
Related terms: Falkingham
PARD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This article describes a power supply conditioning circuit that can reduce Periodic And Random Deviations (PARD) on the output voltages of DC power supplies...
ref: 1987, “Power supply conditioning circuit”, in JPL DSN Progress Report 42-90, page 1:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Acronym of periodic and random deviations, a form of electrical noise.
Related terms: noise
formamidopyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formamidopyrimidines
Etymology: From formamido + pyrimidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound composed of formamide combined with pyrimidine, found in oxygen damaged DNA.
eigenket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenkets
Etymology: From eigen- + ket.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A ket |K⟩ such that α|K⟩ = a|K⟩ for some linear operator α and number a.
Greater Geelong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in Victoria, Australia, which includes Geelong itself; in full, the City of Greater Geelong.
eigensection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigensections
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A homogenous section whose associated Eulerian family diagonalizes a given element of a Lie algebra.
deputisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deputisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deputization.
uncrammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncrammable
form: most uncrammable
Etymology: From un- + crammable.
Senses: examples: text: We have already more than once warned our readers against cramming, and, if we may coin a word, the subject of which we are about to treat appears of all the most uncrammable.
ref: 1858, What to Read, and How to Read It; or Hints to Candidates for the Government Civil Service., Stanfords, page 41:
text: The SATs were, I believe, designed to measure aptitude. Today they measure a student's ability to cram for what was once billed as an uncrammable test.
ref: 2002, Karin Kasdin, Watsamatta U, Chandler House Press, →ISBN, page 46:
text: But the ponies are uncrammable. They're three-dimensional and bubblegum-scented and impossible to hide, even from myself.
ref: 2008, Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Penguin Group, →ISBN:
glosses: Not crammable; unable to be crammed (in various senses).
Temiskaming Shores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Timiskaming district, north-east Ontario, Canada, created in 2004.
grimthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grimthorpes
form: grimthorping
form: grimthorped
form: grimthorped
form: Grimthorpe
Etymology: In reference to the renovation of the St Albans Cathedral in the 19th century by Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, which was fiercely criticized at the time.
Senses: examples: text: "Look, just because this junky train has been grimthorped doesn't mean that I have to sit and listen to you two psychopaths read through the encyclopedia of death," Natalia scolded.
ref: 2010, Derek Benz, Jon Samuel Lewis, Grey Griffins: The Brimstone Key (Grey Griffins; 4), Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: To renovate an old building or structure in a lavish and expensive, yet tasteless fashion which spoils its original beauty.
wikipedia: Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
St Albans Cathedral
Thealby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Burton upon Stather parish, North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8918).
Beauchene skull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beauchene skulls
Etymology: The method was developed by Edmé François Chauvot de Beauchêne (1780–1830), French surgeon and anatomist.
Senses: examples: text: Identify the structures of the nasal septum on an articulated skull (and a Beauchene skull, if available) or use the search text box to locate these structures in Real Anatomy (Skeletal).
ref: 2017, Connie Allen, Valerie Harper, “Exercise 9: Axial Skeleton”, in Laboratory Manual for Anatomy and Physiology, 6th edition, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: exploded skull
glosses: A specimen of a human skull, used for medical teaching, whose bones are disarticulated along the sutures and mounted at a distance on brass supports.
wikipedia: Edmé François Chauvot de Beauchêne
Beauchene skulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beauchene skull
electromagnetic energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electromagnetic energy
Winteringham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE9322).
daycare centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daycare centres
form: daycare center
form: day care center
Senses: glosses: A building where children are supervised during the day so that their parents can work.
daycare center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daycare centers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of daycare centre.
daycare centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daycare centre
daycare centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daycare center
financial independences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of financial independence
claimstaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkleɪmˌsteɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: claimstakers
Etymology: From claim + staker.
Senses: glosses: One who stakes a claim.
claimstakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claimstaker
nasal breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪzəl ˌbɹiːðɪŋ/
Forms: form: nasal breathings
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Long-term breathing through the nose, as opposed to breathing through the mouth.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: breathing through the nose.
mouth breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊθ ˌbɹiːðɪŋ/
Forms: form: mouth breathings
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Long-term breathing through the mouth, often caused by an obstruction to breathing through the nose.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: breathing through the mouth.
mouth breathings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouth breathing
nasal breathings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasal breathing
phone jail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone jails
Senses: glosses: A small cage in which a mobile phone may be locked away for short periods of time.
phone jails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phone jail
false arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false arrests
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of holding someone in custody without reasonable grounds.
false arrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false arrest
deslagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deslag
play it pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays it pear-shaped
form: playing it pear-shaped
form: played it pear-shaped
form: played it pear-shaped
Etymology: Compare go pear-shaped (“to go awry; to go wrong”), attested somewhat later.
Senses: examples: text: I thought I'd play it pear-shaped with the Borough Engineer and asked him whose property it was anyway when it was in my garden — if the Council put it there enough times, it meant they were trying to get rid of it even though they didn't own it.
ref: 1964, Densil Barr, “I Hate You Lamp-Post, You Know I Love You”, in Joseph F. McCrindle, editor, The Transatlantic Review, number 17, page 112:
text: "Playing it pear-shaped" was a favourite expression of Jock's; it seemed to mean deftly turning a situation to one's own advantage; seizing a favorable opportunity: Boxing Clever.
ref: [1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Mortdecai's Endgame (Mortdecai; 1), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 180:
text: When their plans were going awry, Wattis soothed them by saying they were going to "play it pear-shaped" (ie it would all go smoothly).
ref: 1999 December 11, “The town formerly known as Upton-cum-Chalvey”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2022:
qualifier: RAF slang
glosses: To avoid committing oneself to a single course of action; to go with the flow, take it easy.
plays it pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play it pear-shaped
playing it pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play it pear-shaped
played it pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play it pear-shaped
deslag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deslags
form: deslagging
form: deslagged
form: deslagged
Senses: glosses: to remove slag.
desiliconisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desiliconisations
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of desiliconization.
W-2 employee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: W-2 employees
Etymology: From W-2 + employee. W-2 is the tax form given to employees.
Senses: examples: text: 1099 contract workers and W-2 employees are classified per the IRS based on how you work with and compensate them.
ref: 2022 August 8, “1099 Vs. W-2: What’s The Difference?”, in Forbes Advisor:
glosses: An individual who is formally employed by an organization (in contrast to an independent contractor who receives tax form 1099)
turn pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns pear-shaped
form: turning pear-shaped
form: turned pear-shaped
form: turned pear-shaped
Senses: examples: text: With the heater going full blast, Sophie and I drive to the all-night garage, and for the price of a coffee I get her life story. Happy as a child, things turned pear-shaped as she entered her teens.
ref: 2006 January 25, Bernard Hare, “A life in brown and white”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2014:
text: Unfortunately, a lot of the work we do is around trying to encourage leaders and staff in larger organisations to move away from a fear-based culture and one that is driven by 'I don't want to speak up in case I say the wrong thing' or 'what if I experiment with a new offering and it turns pear-shaped and I don't make my numbers?
ref: 2016 May 28, Andrea Beattie, quoting Stuart Taylor, “What Small Business Can Teach The Big End Of Town About Disruption”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2023:
text: He took a five-minute penalty for drafting on the bike and, while attempting to run his way back into the lead group, his stomach rebelled and he lost minutes and energy vomiting at the side of the road. "Things turned pear-shaped real quick there," the 37-year-old recalled.
ref: 2017 October 12, Donna Spencer, quoting Brent McMahon, “Canadian triathletes tackle world Ironman championship”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2018:
glosses: Synonym of go pear-shaped (“to go awry; to go wrong”).
synonyms: word: go pear-shaped
extra: to go awry; to go wrong
turns pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn pear-shaped
turning pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn pear-shaped
turned pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn pear-shaped
pastosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pastose.
grovelsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grovelsome
form: most grovelsome
Etymology: From grovel + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by grovelling.
Norwegianess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Norwegianness.
Moldovaness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Moldovanness.
gringolée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gringolé
form: gringoly
form: gringolly
Etymology: From French gringolé (attested since 1644), related to the verb gringoler (and apparently dégringoler, attested in the form desgringueler from 1595), apparently from Middle Dutch crinkelen, from kring (“circle”), from Old Dutch *kring, from Proto-Germanic *kringaz; the semantics are obscure.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of e.g. the ends of a cross: terminating in snakes' heads.
Related terms: anserated
barberly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barberly
form: most barberly
Etymology: From barber + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Beneath her sweater one might have caught glimpses of a black-and- white dress, in alternate, barberly stripes which commanded the eye.
ref: 1916, George Weston, “The Girl Who Didn't Care”, in Ladies' Home Journal, volume 33, page 89:
text: As he tended the 19 knights who lay about him, not only did Gorley have sympathy for their burns and blisters, but his barberly feelings were wounded by their appearance. Gorley could scarcely bear to look: Half a beard was singed away here... a third of a moustache, there... and, in a few cases, whole heads of hair had been singed to ugly stubble.
ref: 1969, Bernard Wiseman, “Sir Nervous Norman's Cold Feat”, in Boys' Life, volume 59, number 12, page 56:
text: He continued his barberly ministrations. "Those of us who are scheduled to compete in the various competitive classes, you see, can officially get into the convention center and begin assembling our displays at eight tomorrow morning—earlier, if you know what you're doing."
ref: 2007, James Dodson, Beautiful Madness, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 24:
text: "I'll take a look at your haircut. Give you a little free barberly advice." Rhodes wasn't sure he wanted any barberly advice, free or not, but since Garrett had helped him out a little, he walked over to where the retired barber stood.
ref: 2016, Bill Crider, Survivors Will Be Shot Again, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 146:
text: WARDEN: Paddington Brown. Ten years for Grand Theft...
 PADDINGTON: Oh, but I never...
 WARDEN: And Grievous Barberly Harm.
ref: 2017 November 5, Paul King, Simon Farnaby, directed by Paul King, Paddington 2, spoken by Warden Walker (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith):
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a barber.
barberly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barberly
form: most barberly
Etymology: From barber + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If sheepe or thy lamb, fall a wrigling with taile, / go by & by searche it, whiles help may preuaile. / That barberlye handled, I dare thee assure: / cast dust in his arse, thou hast finisht thy cure.
ref: 1573, Thomas Tusser, Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry, Richard Tottel, page 62:
text: He was weighted with full cartridge-belt and pistol, and had the appearance of having been out of the saddle but a little while, although he was freshly shaved and barberly perfumed.
ref: 1937, George Washington Ogden, Stockyards Cowboy, Dodd, Mead & Co., page 106:
glosses: In the manner of a barber.
Justinflation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Justin + inflation.
Senses: examples: text: “JustinFlation is coming to a grocery store near you,” Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Finance, said in a statement.
ref: 2021 December 9, Gabrielle Piché, “We’ll pay more to eat less”, in Winnipeg Free Press:
text: Instead, the Poilievre who is available to us is the one who snarls ceaselessly about Justinflation, lobs bombs just to bask in the glow of the blast and throws in his lot with protesters terrorizing ordinary citizens because—well, frankly, it’s hard to fathom why.
ref: 2022 March 10, Shannon Proudfoot, “Why is Pierre Poilievre so angry?”, in Maclean's:
text: Barrett and Gourde said: "While people in this country are struggling to afford to live and provide for their family because of the crushing costs of Justinflation and higher taxes, the Liberals are helping their friends get rich on the backs of hardworking Canadians."
ref: 2022 December 17, Mary Ng, “Another Liberal minister found guilty of breaking ethics laws must resign: Conservatives”, in Indo-Canadian Voice, page 18:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Inflation attributed to the economic policies or spending of the government of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Middle Low Franconian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Given the presence in Old and Middle Low Franconian of forms such as OLF vuss 'fox,', MLF zo 'so' or MLF vor 'for,' Benett finds it possible that …
ref: Anna Hebda, in: 2012, Juan M. Hernández-Campoy, J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, p. 242
text: F. Heidermanns reconstructs two adjectives, both based on the substantive ⁺aþal-: ⁺aþala- which in Old East Norse and Middle Low Franconian means 'rechtmäßig, ehelich' ('lawful, legitimate, born in wedlock') and in Middle Low Franconian and Old High German 'adlig' ('noble'); and a West Germanic -j- derivate ⁺aþalja- 'von edler Herkunft, vornehm, herrlich' ('of noble descent, of distinction, magnificent').
ref: 2012, Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld, Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna (ed.), Germania Semitica (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 259), p. 78
text: This nominalizer -end is a typical feature of Low Saxon, but it already existed in Middle Low Franconian, cf. the text of Van den levende ons Heeren 'Of the life of our Lord' (AD 1300).
ref: 2019, Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 248), p. 142
glosses: A language, successor to Old Low Franconian and ancestor to the modern Dutch language, spoken from about 1150 to about 1500.
saltorel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltorels
Senses: examples: text: […] saltorels ar. […]
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
text: John Edward Devlin. Armorial. Victorian. "College of Arms" shield. Arms : Azure, a saltorel, or, between three stars, argent. Crest : A griffin passant [gules], charged on the shoulder with the saltorel as in arms. Motto : Crux mea stella.
ref: 1905, Joseph Winfred Spenceley, A Descriptive Checklist of the Etched & Engraved Book-plates, page 9:
text: But it is striking that this armorial resembles that of the city of Amsterdam which has three saltorels per pale, without the flowering stems. The manors of Zundert and Breda in western North Brabant also have saltorels in their arms[…]
ref: 2007, Jochem Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market: Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, W Books:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A diminutive saltire.
saltorels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltorel
nalbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Only towards the end of the first millennium AD are there again nalbound textile finds from Europe.
ref: 2015 April 24, Ulrike Claßen-Büttner, Nalbinding - What in the World Is That?: History and Technique of an Almost Forgotten Handicraft, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 42:
text: She is currently working on reproducing a medieval nalbound mitten from Ribe, Denmark. She holds a degree in architecture.
ref: 2015, Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Monica L. Wright, Medieval Clothing and Textiles, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: Produced by nalbinding.
embordured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: embordered
form: emborder'd
Senses: examples: text: Azur, a chief gules embordured or.
ref: 1680, Sir George Mackenzie, The Science of Herauldry, Treated as a Part of the Civil Law, and Law of Nations: Wherein Reasons are Given for Its Principles, and Etymologies for Its Harder Terms, page 28:
text: Armorial bearings - He bears for Arms : Quarterly, 1. ermine, three bars gules (for Fothringham); 2. gules, embordured a lion rampant or, with a scymitar in his dexter paw proper (for Scrymscoure); 3. argent, a lion passant[…]
ref: 1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 781:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Furnished with a bordure (now especially if of the same tincture as the field).
basilosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basilosaur
pitangueira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitangueiras
Etymology: From Portuguese pitangueira.
Senses: examples: text: The pitangueira, or pitangua tree, is very abundant; peaches are not met with.
ref: 1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 141:
text: In the distance, above the crotons, the branches of the mango, ficus, guava, and pitangueira trees in the garden, the sun was turning the sea as blinding white as a sheet of steel.
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 421:
text: Due to the easy adaptation of pitangueira trees (Eugenia uniflora Linneus), this species is widely distributed in South American countries, and in several states in Brazil.
ref: 2021, Maria Margarida Cortez Vieira, Lorenzo Pastrana, José Aguilera, Sustainable Innovation in Food Product Design, page 6:
glosses: A Suriname cherry tree, Eugenia uniflora, native to the east coast of South America.
basilosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basilosaurs
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the †Basilosaurus genus of extinct whales.
buy some time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys some time
form: buying some time
form: bought some time
form: bought some time
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buy time.
break reality
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks reality
form: breaking reality
form: broke reality
form: broken reality
Senses: examples: text: I broke reality for 12 hours yesterday.
text: If you break reality too often you'll get bored of the effects.
glosses: To reach or experience a nonordinary state of consciousness, especially when using psychedelics.
Beamishes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beamish
snoutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snoutanes
Etymology: From snout + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heptacyclic hydrocarbon with molecules shaped like a snout with IUPAC name Octahydro-1,2-ethanodicyclopropa[cd,gh]pentalene.
Chinese crocodile lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese crocodile lizards
Senses: examples: text: From left: Chinese crocodile lizard Shinisaurus crocodilurus (L. W. Porras); flathead knob-scaled lizard Xenosaurus platyceps, Xenosauridae (L. J. Vitt).
ref: 2009, Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, Herpetology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Academic Press, page 544:
text: The Anniellidae (North American Legless Lizards), Helodermatidae (Gila Monster), Lanthanotidae (Earless Monitor), and Shinisauridae (Chinese Crocodile Lizard) have only one or two species; Xenosauridae (Knob-scaled Lizards) has six species in Mexico and northern Central America.
ref: 2013, George R. Zug, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands, University of California Press, page 203:
text: McDowell and Bogert (1954) argued that the present-day Xenosaurus (knob-scaled lizards) and Shinisaurus (Chinese crocodile lizard) are closely related to each other even though they differ considerably in overall appearance (Fig. 7.40A).
ref: 2019, Hans-Dieter Sues, The Rise of Reptiles, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 136:
text: I saw a Japanese skink, a Chinese crocodile lizard, and a leopard gecko... They were all pretty docile.
ref: 2020, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 21, unnumbered page:
glosses: A semiaquatic anguimorph lizard, of species Shinisaurus crocodilurus, found only in cool forests in southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam.
Chinese crocodile lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese crocodile lizard
basketyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic radical derived from basketane.
financial law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: financial laws
Senses: glosses: The law and regulation of the commercial banking, capital markets, insurance, derivatives and investment management sectors.
principle of legality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The principle that the courts should not interpret any statute as curtailing or abrogating a common law right, freedom, or principle, unless the legislative body that made that statute clearly communicated the intention to impose such a restriction.
commercial law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mercantile law
trade law
glosses: The body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and business engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales.
Derived terms: commercial lawyer
Related terms: business law
company law
chicken and egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken-and-egg
form: chicken or egg
Etymology: From the proverbial question of whether the chicken or the egg came first, attested as early as Aristotle (4th century BCE).
Senses: examples: text: From present observation, A and B are needed to make C, and C is needed to make A and B. This chemical cycle has, again, a “chicken and egg” character.
ref: 2012, Charles H. Langmuir, Wally Broecker, How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 419:
text: Every other show on TV has a guest panel of comics, so why can’t a drag queen tell the latest Apprentice contestant: “You’re fired”? Or a mime taste the cakes on the Bake Off’s An Extra Slice? The answer is usually that we aren’t in the same network because of cabaret’s lack of presence outside of the live space – the classic chicken-and-egg of TV success.
ref: 2014 October 27, Michael Twaits, “How can we make cabaret a sustainable career in the performing arts?”, in The Guardian:
text: When it comes to fighting for democracy and climate change – two of Jamie Raskin’s top priorities – the whole thing feels a bit like a game of chicken and egg to the Democratic congressman.
ref: 2022 April 18, Ankita Rao, “Jamie Raskin on the climate crisis: ‘We’ve got to save democracy in order to save our species’”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: hen and egg
glosses: A situation or case in which it is difficult to distinguish cause and effect, having a circular character.
wikipedia: Aristotle
Derived terms: chicken-and-eggish
Westcliff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Westcliff-on-Sea: a suburb of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8685).
glosses: A western suburb of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8709).
glosses: A housing estate and named street near Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3775).
glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Shaviliuk Gambit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Shaviliuk Gambit
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: An uncommon chess opening gambit arising from the Queen's Pawn Opening: Chigorin Variation characterized by the moves 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 e5.
Damiano Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damiano Defences
Senses: glosses: A chess defense arising from the King's Knight opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6.
Gowdall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the far west of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6222).
Jolson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
stoplog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoplogs
form: stop log
Etymology: From stop + log. Derives from logs originally being dropped into place to stop waterflow.
Senses: glosses: A multi-piece barrier used to close an opening, such as across a gate or channel, that is dropped into groves on the two sides of the opening.
stop log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop logs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stoplog.
beartrap gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beartrap gates
form: bear trap gate
form: beartrapgate
form: beartrap-gate
form: bear-trap-gate
form: bear-trap gate
Etymology: From beartrap + gate. From being a gate reminiscent of the operation of a beartrap.
Senses: glosses: A waterflow/impoundment hydraulically-operated rising double-leaf floodgate used for weirs and dam spillways, and canals, to control waterflow across the top of the gate in the channel.
Coordinate terms: crest gate
radial gate
stoplog
Tainter gate
Tainter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tainters
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Tainter gate
siege-engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siege-engines
Senses: examples: text: Opposite this hill Bohemund's men now began to dig in a definite direction. For the besiegers had devised this new mischief against the city and invented a new knavish siege-engine to apply to the town. For as they dug, they went along under the ground like moles boring holes in the soil and in places protecting themselves by sheds with high roofs against the stones and arrows which were thrown from above, and in others propping up the earth above them with poles, and thus they went on in a straight line.
ref: 1928, Anna Comnena [i.e., Anna Komnene], “Book XIII”, in Elizabeth A[nna] S[ophia] Dawes, transl., The Alexiad (Byzantine Series), Cambridge, Ont.: In Parentheses Publications, published 2000, page 233:
text: The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.
ref: 1934, Robert Graves, chapter XXXII, in I, Claudius: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, →OCLC, page 401:
glosses: Alternative form of siege engine.
siege-engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siege-engine (alternative form of siege engines)
Machrihanish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic.
Senses: glosses: A village on the west coast of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NR6320).
fucktillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucktillions
Etymology: From fuckton + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: So much fun! The whole summer I'm scraping to find games to play and suddenly fifteen-fucktillion things NOW NOW NOW!!!
ref: 2013 September 4, @markiplier, Twitter (tweet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of); a zillion.
estadals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estadal
bomber's moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomber's moons
Etymology: In reference to light from the moon creating favourable conditions for bombing runs during World War II.
Senses: glosses: A bright full moon on a cloudless night.
bomber's moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bomber's moon
penker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penkers
form: penka
form: panker
Senses: examples: text: Wor Geordie's lost his penker
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “(Geordie folk song)”:
text: The 'panker' or 'panker' is a large marble, made of stone or iron. Each boy puts four marbles in a ring, and proceeds to knock them out of the ring with a panker.
ref: 1896, Frank M. T. Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Every-day Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, English Dialect Society, page 34:
text: Here he [Sid Chaplin] learnt to swim and how to jarp Easter eggs; he played with penkers, and shutty ring with glass alleys, and sometimes the men joined in games of tipcat.
ref: 1987, Sid Chaplin, “The Night of the News”, in Michael Chaplin, Rene Chaplin, editors, In Blackberry Time, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 72:
text: "the first boy threw a penker - much larger than the other marbles (boodies) - the next boy tried to hit it"
ref: 2004, Bill Griffiths, A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN, page 326:
glosses: A large marble, usually made of stone or metal, used in the game of marbles.
penkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penker
penka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penker.
panker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pankers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penker.
penkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penka
pankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panker
Parliamentary heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parliamentary heels
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
related: word: parliamentary heel
glosses: A maintenance manoeuvre for sailing vessels during the Age of Sail — similar to careening — during which weight (such as ballast, guns or crew) is shifted to one side of the vessel to make it heel; thereby providing relatively quick access to the underside of the vessel for cleaning or repair at low expense.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see parliamentary, heel.
Parliamentary heels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parliamentary heel
parliamentary heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parliamentary heels
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Parliamentary heel.
parliamentary heels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parliamentary heel
sialogog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialogogs
Etymology: From sialo- + -agog.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sialogogue.
sialogogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sialogog
chatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chattels (“cattle”), apparently because lice is a beggar’s livestock.
Senses: glosses: lice.
Rippin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cordels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordel