cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kill screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kill screens
form: killscreen
Senses: examples: text: The most famous kill screen from classic gaming is the 256th level of Pac-Man. At this point, due to a bug half the screen becomes garbled data, which keeps the player from collecting all of the dots and clearing the board to move on.
ref: 2010, Scott Rogers, Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design, page 48:
text: As a type of bug, the death loop is not the only deadly, and deathly, reference to game-halting system failure. There is also the kill screen.
ref: 2015, Emily Flynn-Jones, “Don't Forget to Die”, in Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jonas Linderoth, Ashley ML Brown, editors, The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Kill screens—a problem largely limited to arcade games—occur when an unexpectedly far progress of a player causes an error in the game program.
ref: 2020, Michelle Herte, Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Willis got to Level 157, reaching Tetris’s “kill screen,” the point where a video game becomes unplayable because of limitations in its coding. (In the video, when the game freezes, the screen reads that Willis had made it to Level 18. That’s because the code wasn’t designed to advance so high.)
ref: 2024 January 3, Sopan Deb, “Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: video-games
glosses: A level in a computer game that is impossible to win, usually due to programming errors.
disapparating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disapparate
lipslides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipslide
menacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menacer
groucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grouchers
Etymology: From grouch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A grouchy person.
grouchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groucher
hailest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hail + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of hail
Spanish omelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish omelet
base-on-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bases-on-balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of base on balls.
five tool player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five tool players
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of five-tool player.
put-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more put-out
form: most put-out
Etymology: Deverbal from put out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of put out.
put-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: put-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from put out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of putout.
Palestinian Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Arabic dialect continuum spoken throughout the Palestinian territories.
Synonyms: Eastern Arabic
Derived terms: Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Rocketshipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rocketshippers
Etymology: From rocket + shipper (after the characters' team, Team Rocket, and punningly on rocketship).
Senses: examples: text: Those of you who have read my fanfics will know that I am a Rocketshipper.
ref: 2000 January 13, Blue-Jackal and her box-o-Skywarp [username], “Jessie and James, an item?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet):
text: All the Rocketshippers love to talk about evidence in favor of Jessie/James being in love and such.
ref: 2000 February 7, BBD127 [username], “Rocketshipping... negative evidence?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet):
text: You realize, of course, that this thread would probably get us lynched by the large Rocketshipper population on the net.
ref: 2001 January 15, Bodger [username], “Re: Gay couple in Godzilla vs. Megalon”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A shipper of Jessie and James, characters in the animated version of Pokémon.
Rocketshippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rocketshipper
economic rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic rents
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: the amount of recompense paid to a factor of production on top of its transfer earnings; this does not encompass costs incurred during the process of production or service
Related terms: transfer earnings
besee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: besees
form: beseeing
form: besaw
form: beseen
Etymology: From Middle English beseen, from Old English besēon (“to see, look, look around, behold, observe, look after, go to see, visit, provide for”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisehwan, from Proto-Germanic *bisehwaną (“to look, besee”), equivalent to be- + see. Cognate with Dutch bezien (“to look at, review”), German besehen (“to have a look at, inspect”), Danish bese (“to inspect”).
Senses: glosses: To look at; see; mind; regard; favour.
glosses: To look to; see to; attend to; care for; take care of; provide for; treat; arrange.
glosses: To look about oneself; look to oneself.
Derived terms: beseen
gaybeseen
well-beseen
Melitene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Melitene, from Ancient Greek Μελιτηνή (Melitēnḗ). Doublet of Malatya.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Malatya: a city in Turkey.
toothed whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothed whales
Etymology: Calque of translingual Odontoceti. By surface analysis, toothed + whale.
Senses: glosses: A whale of the Odontoceti parvorder of the cetaceans, including sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and others.
Synonyms: odontocete
Coordinate terms: baleen whale
discurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discurrent
form: most discurrent
Etymology: From dis- + current.
Senses: examples: text: Which made me entertein this suspicious conjecture, that it might be their care that no part of the Protestant positions and allegations should be knowne they were so exact, as to make discurrent in some sort even those very books which were constreined to recite them, that they might refute them, in such wise as not to suffer them to be commonly salable, but only to such or in such places as the superiours should thinke meet.
ref: 1605, Sir Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum [A Relation of the State of Religion in Europe], in Mary Ellen Henley, Sir Edwin Sandy's Europae Speculum: a Critical Edition (2001)
glosses: Not current or free to circulate; not in use.
workerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workerisms
Etymology: From worker + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But the differences between these two works matter because they anticipated a fight that has arguably defined American politics since at least 2016, between a technocratic managerialism that champions college education and a nostalgic workerism that aims to defend and restore stable blue-collar employment and tends to resent members of the highly educated class.
ref: 2025 June 26, Tyler Austin Harper, “The Blockbuster That Captured a Growing American Rift”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Various trends in left-wing political discourse, especially anarchism and Marxism, that emphasize the political importance and centrality of the working class.
banquine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banquines
Senses: glosses: An acrobatic act with a group of at least three people, with two or more bases and at least one flyer. The bases, or spotters, form a platform with their arms and hands interlocked which the flyer uses as a takeoff position for somersaults and other aerial tricks.
Synonyms: platform pitching
fank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanks
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic fang, from Scots fank, perhaps ultimately related to archaic fang (“to seize, catch”).
Senses: glosses: A pen for enclosing sheep, mainly in the Scottish Highlands.
assumpsit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assumpsits
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin assūmpsit (“he undertook”), preterite of assūmere. Doublet of assume.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A promise or undertaking, either express or implied, founded on a consideration.
topics: law
glosses: An action to recover damages for breach or nonperformance of such a promise.
Derived terms: non assumpsit
exfiltrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exfiltrate
exfiltrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exfiltrate
exfiltrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exfiltrate
exfiltrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exfiltrate
Caesarea Mazaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Caesarea Māzaca, distinguishing the intended Caesarea.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mazaca (a city in modern Turkey).
Hellenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Hellenise
Bengal fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengal foxes
Senses: glosses: Vulpes bengalensis, a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent.
Synonyms: Indian fox
Hellenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Hellenise
Bengal foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bengal fox
Bengal tigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bengal tiger
corsac fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corsac foxes
Etymology: From Russian корса́к (korsák), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *karsak.
Senses: glosses: a medium-sized Asiatic fox, of species Vulpes corsac.
Synonyms: steppe fox
Tartar fox
Bengalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bengali
corsac foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corsac fox
Tibetan fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tibetan foxes
Senses: glosses: Vulpes ferrilata, a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau in Nepal, China, and India
Synonyms: Tibetan sand fox
ground-ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-ivies
form: ground ivy
Senses: glosses: Glechoma hederacea, an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae
Synonyms: sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: alehoof
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: gill-over-the-ground
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: creeping Charlie
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: tunhoof
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: catsfoot
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: field balm
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: run-away-robin
arefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arefy
Tibetan foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tibetan fox
brush-tailed penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brush-tailed penguins
Senses: glosses: a penguin of the Pygoscelis genus.
brush-tailed penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brush-tailed penguin
Magellanic penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magellanic penguin
Ridgen's penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ridgen's penguin
chinstrap penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinstrap penguin
benefite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefites
Senses: examples: text: ...to the good seruice of the Quenes Maiestie and your contrey to all our benefites...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of benefit.
banded penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banded penguins
Senses: glosses: a penguin of the Spheniscus genus.
banded penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banded penguin
Waitaha penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Waitaha penguins
Senses: glosses: Megadyptes waitaha, an extinct species of New Zealand penguin.
Waitaha penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Waitaha penguin
apodictical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apodictical
form: most apodictical
Etymology: From apodictic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: For holding an Apodictical knowledge, and assured science of its verity, to perswade their apprehensions unto a plurality of gods in the world, were to make Euclide believe there were more than one Center in a Circle [...].
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:
glosses: Apodictic; being clearly demonstrable; certain.
Derived terms: apodictically
apodictically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apodictically
form: most apodictically
Etymology: From apodictical + -ly.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In an apodictical manner.
Tupamaros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: after the Inca revolutionary Túpac Amaru II
Senses: glosses: An urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s.
Synonyms: alt: Movimiento de Liberación Nacional
word: MLN
word: National Liberation Movement
Derived terms: word: Tupamaros West-Berlin
Tupamaros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: after the Inca revolutionary Túpac Amaru II
Senses: glosses: plural of Tupamaro
Yoda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: yō'də
ipa: /ˈjəʊdə/
rhymes: -əʊdə
Etymology: The character was introduced in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Perhaps from Sanskrit योद्धा (yoddhā, “warrior”).
Senses: glosses: A wise old Jedi Master in the Star Wars films.
examples: text: You translated the words correctly, but the sentences are very Yoda-like. Perhaps you should review your grammar.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used to describe odd or eccentric word order, as typified by Yoda in lines such as, "Into exile I must go. Failed I have."
Derived terms: Yoda condition
Yodaesque
Yodalike
Yodaspeak
Antifa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ænˈtiːfə/
/ˈæntifɑː/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Antifa, originally an abbreviation for Antifaschistische Aktion, a wing of the Communist Party of Germany founded in 1932. Also a clipping of antifascism and antifascist.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, Antifa organized local defense units that fought off Nazi assaults and factory and land-estate committees that blocked further wage cuts and other infringements.
ref: 1985, Andreas Dorpalen, German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach, Wayne State University Press, page 385:
text: The active Communist participation in the leadership of the Antifa committees made them vulnerable to "red scare" propaganda, especially from the much more conservative city government.
ref: 1996, Rebecca L. Boehling, A Question of Priorities: Democratic Reforms and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany : Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart Under U.S. Occupation, 1945-1949, Berghahn Books, page 102:
text: After an anti-fascist punched a right-wing journalist in Portland, militant anti-fascists and Antifa have been branded as 'violent gangs,' even 'terrorists.' Those definitions are completely wrong.
ref: 2019 July 3, Stanislav Vysotsky, “Antifa in America: Militant Anti-fascism Isn't Terrorism, It's Self-defense”, in Haaretz:
text: And the FBI is not the only federal law enforcement agency that tracks groups associated with the larger Antifa movement.
ref: 2025 September 23, Patrick G. Eddington, “On Trump’s Anti-Antifa Executive Order”, in Cato Institute:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A decentralized, radical political movement that opposes fascism.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Black bloc groups that fight fascist or far-right groups in public, usually anarchist, socialist, or communist groups.
Derived terms: anti-Antifa
Antifa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænˈtiːfə/
/ˈæntifɑː/
Forms: form: Antifas
Etymology: Borrowed from German Antifa, originally an abbreviation for Antifaschistische Aktion, a wing of the Communist Party of Germany founded in 1932. Also a clipping of antifascism and antifascist.
Senses: examples: text: The stakes were high and the issues far-reaching; it is hardly astonishing that in cities like Bremen and Leipzig Antifas jumped the gun, exercised administrative powers without waiting for military government and continued them.
ref: 1949, Political Science Quarterly, volume 64, Academy of Political Science:
text: Both the pattern and participation and the internal structure of the Antifas recalled the French underground.
ref: 1981, James D. Wilkinson, The Intellectual Resistance in Europe, Harvard University Press, page 136:
text: After the war, Antifas varied in size and composition across the former Reich, now divided into four zones of occupation, and developed in interaction with the local occupying power. […] Although surviving records indicate that many Antifas were dominated by the KPD, the political mood in the early months was far from the “Third Period” adventurism of the late Weimar period.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A local instance of this movement.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of an anti-fascist group.
Related terms: anti-Nazi
Jedi Knight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jedi Knights
Senses: glosses: A powerful rank of Jedi below that of Jedi Master.
clay pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clay pigeon
Swiss showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swiss shower
common carps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common carp
common differences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common difference
common quails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common quail
hwamei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hwameis
Etymology: From Mandarin 畫眉／画眉 (huàméi, “painted eyebrow”).
Senses: glosses: Either of two passerine birds of the genus Garrulax, family Leiothrichidae, of mainland China and Taiwan.
composite functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of composite function
beazle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbiːzəɫ]
Forms: form: beazles
Etymology: See bezel.
Senses: examples: text: The beazle or collet of a ring, that which contains the apple of the eye, a kind of ornament of women.
ref: 1810, The Primitives of the Greek Tongue, a translation of a French work by T. Nugent; a gloss of a Greek word on page 187
text: The figures upon seals were as various as among us, except that the ancients used figures of their ancestors, friends, or even themselves. In Stosch is a symbolical ring, supported by two cornucopias. Upon the beazle is a mask in relief, and in the circle of the ring a crescent and star.
ref: 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopaedia of Antiquities: and elements of Archaeology, volume 1, page 212:
text: Now let us suppose that the placenta is inserted on one of these muscles, which is not at all uncommon, and that the circular fibres, the most remote from the orifice of the tube, should contract spasmodically, the after-birth will be enclosed in this species of cavity, as a stone in the beazle of a ring (dans le chaton d'une bague).
ref: 1847, G. S. Bedford, translator of A Practical Treatise on Midwifery, by Nicolas Charles Chailly-Honoré, page 470
text: ONCE on a time there were three whales of the sea of fraud and deceit — three dragons of the nature of thunder and the quickness of lightning — three defamers of honor and reputation — in other words, three men-deceiving, lascivious women …. One of them was sitting in the court of justice of the Kází's embraces; the second was the precious gem of the bazár-master's diadem of compliance; and the third was the beazle and ornament of the signet-ring of the life and soul of the superintendent of police. They were constantly entrapping the fawns of the prairie of deceit, …
ref: 1889, A group of Eastern Romances and Stories, from the Persian, Tamil, and Urdu, translated by W. A. Clouston; The Three Deceitful Women, page 355
glosses: A bezel (collet of a ring, the rim which encloses the jewel and into which the jewel is set).
Wookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wookies
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Wookiee.
teets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teet
miscellanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From miscellany + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Punjab Notes and Queries […] was ethnographic and miscellanist in nature, but its organization was confused.
ref: 2002, Sadhana Naithani, “To Tell a Tale Untold: Two Folklorists in Colonial India”, in Journal of Folklore Research, vol. 39, no. 2/3, p. 205:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a miscellany.
miscellanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscellanists
Etymology: From miscellany + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Leigh Hunt tried almost every conceivable kind of literature, including a historical novel. […] All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist.
ref: 1889, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, 5th series, vol. 66, p. 492
text: Professor Sadler relied heavily on a voluminous work (still unfinished, although some 60 volumes have already been published) by Tokutomi Iichiro, History of the Japanese People in Modern Times. Unfortunately, this Japanese journalist, a prolific writer and a miscellanist, is not accepted as a historian among scholars.
ref: 1942, Yamato Ichihashi, "The Maker of Modern Japan by A. L. Sadler" (book review), Pacific Historical Review, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 89
text: In Miscellaneous Reflections, however, Shaftesbury's approach underwent a significant change. Although the miscellanist persona's presence there is felt in a relatively small part of the work, his ironic celebration of the modern art of patchwork wit and his other manufactured ironies recall Swift's satiric ploys in A Tale of a Tub.
ref: 1993, Richard B. Wolf, “Shaftesbury's Just Measure of Irony”, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, volume 33, number 2, page 582:
glosses: An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.
Synonyms: miscellanarian
Related terms: anthologist
dilettante
jack of all trades
tongue-in-chic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːk
Forms: form: more tongue-in-chic
form: most tongue-in-chic
form: tongue in chic
Etymology: Blend of tongue-in-cheek + chic.
Senses: examples: text: The men's styles – arguably more tongue-in-chic than the women's – include glow-in-the-dark denim and a new selvedge herringbone in addition to linen and cashmere blends; prices ring in at about $200.
ref: 2011 September 24, Amy Verner, “Best-kept denim secret? The hottest brands are Canadian”, in Globe and Mail:
text: It soon gave birth to a whole host of self-referential, tongue-in-chic logo t-shirts and jumpers.
ref: 2013 October 23, Alison Lynch, “How the designer logo grew up”, in Metro:
text: Whether tongue-in-chic or seriously eccentric, fall's most unforgettable heels, flats and sneakers have major flourish with allover fur or delicate tufts of the stuff.
ref: 2015 March 25, Mosha Lundstrom Halbert, “Women's Footwear Trend: Fur for Fall”, in Footwear News:
text: If you want to dress in Aussie-style (“Aussies? Style?” I hear you scoff) it has to be tongue-in-chic because we are world-class masters at self deprecation.
ref: 2015 May 22, Kathy Lette, “Why Australia will make Eurovision even more fun”, in Radio Times:
text: Even at more seemingly conventional Hot 50 establishments, tongue-in-chic ingredients are becoming de rigueur.
ref: 2015 August 21, Necia Wilden, “Hot 50 list of Australia's best restaurants revealed”, in The Australian:
glosses: Using humor as a deliberate element of style.
examples: ref: 2012, Paris Hilton, Merle Ginsberg, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, →ISBN:
text: On a radically different tip, if you're after something raucously tongue-in-chic to round off your weekend, then Larry Tee's Fashion Disaster Party at XOYO on Sunday will definitely fit the bill.
ref: 2013 February 13, Sharon O'Connell, “LuckyMe to rock Plastic People and Fashion Disaster land in XOYO”, in Metro:
text: She's one of the most influential fashion bloggers in the world, whose site is read by more than 1.5 million women around the world every month, who has worked with everyone from NARS to J Crew and Superga, and is the brains behind such tongue-in-chic terms like ‘arm party’ and ‘birth control glasses’.
ref: 2014 October 27, Hannah-Rose Yee, “Fast Five With Leandra Medine”, in Marie Claire Australia:
glosses: Characterized by humor about style or fashion.
glosses: Misspelling of tongue-in-cheek.
tongue-in-chic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːk
Forms: form: tongue in chic
Etymology: Blend of tongue-in-cheek + chic.
Senses: examples: text: It was big hats, prints galore, tight outfits and plenty of bling under the impressive Shanghai skyline – just the tongue-in-chic Moschino is famous for.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jing Zhang, “Moschino lights up Shanghai in first China show”, in South China Morning Post:
text: That said, you have to admire the whole tongue-in-chic of it all, and the soul/hard rock wheel doesn't actually need reinventing.
ref: 2014 October 16, Graham Reid, “Album review: Lenny Kravitz, Strut”, in New Zealand Herald:
glosses: The use of humor as an element of style.
white-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-out
miscellanarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscellanarians
Senses: glosses: A miscellanist.
minister without portfolio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministers without portfolio
form: ministers without portfolios
Senses: topics: government
hypernyms: word: person
glosses: A member of a government having the rank of cabinet minister, but not assigned to oversee a particular government department or other permanent area of responsibility.
Related terms: ambassador-at-large
Monday morning quarterback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monday morning quarterbacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Monday-morning quarterback.
x-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-rays
Senses: examples: text: … analogous to x-ray image formation …
ref: ante 2002, J. S. Sandhu and H. Wang, Recent Advances in Acoustography-Based NDE, published in Recent Advances in Experimental Mechanics (Emmanuel E. Gdoutos, editor; →ISBN, page 381
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of X-ray.
x-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: x-rays
form: x-raying
form: x-rayed
form: x-rayed
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of X-ray.
kalmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalmias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Kalmia, from Swedish Kalm + translingual -ia, equivalent to Kalm + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Far in the dark old forest glades, / Where kalmias bloom around, / They had their place of youthful sport, / Their childhood's hunting-ground,— ...
ref: 1849, James Thomas Fields, “Children in Exile”, in Poems:
text: Bryanthus, a beautiful flowering heathwort, flourishes a few hundred feet above the timberline, accompanied with kalmia and spiraea.
ref: 1918, John Muir, Steep Trails:
glosses: Any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia.
-a-thon
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: The only discernable connection was the Block, each one of them feeding off the trough for his own peculiar need, strange bedfellows bouncing on the same sheets in a cosmic fuck-a-thon that, if televised, would raise [...] money [...]
ref: 2005, Frank A. DeFilippo, Hooked, page 72:
text: I need him here to have our back to school love-a-thon.
ref: 2010, Bernice Bright Dickey, My #1 Is Still My #1!, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of -athon.
miles gloriosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milites gloriosi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mīles (“soldier”) + glōriōsus (“glorious”).
Senses: examples: text: [I]t of course ought not to be said that the General who assumes the responsibility behaved "generously" on one occasion and "magnanimously" upon another. About such expressions there is a reminiscence of the classical "Miles gloriosus" of the British Nelson, or of the American Winfield Scott.
ref: 1898 September 8, “The Army against the War Department”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Dec 2010:
text: He placed Falstaff in the tradition of the miles gloriosus, the type of rascally braggart soldier borrowed from Roman comedy.
ref: 1932, John W. Draper, “Sir John Falstaff”, in The Review of English Studies, volume 8, number 32, page 414:
text: It is possible, then, to read the text of 1 Henry IV as exploiting Hotspur's contradictions for maximum effect, producing a figure who is neither tragic hero, comic miles gloriosus, nor historical reenactment but exuberantly all three at once.
ref: 2003, Roberta Barker, “Tragical-Comical-Historical Hotspur”, in Shakespeare Quarterly, volume 54, number 3, page 303:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A standard character in ancient comedy and in modern comedy depicting ancient military figures: the bravado-filled, self-important, swaggering soldier.
Miles Gloriosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Milites Gloriosi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miles gloriosus.
swith
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: swither
form: swithest
Etymology: From Middle English swith, from Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *swinþ, from Proto-Germanic *swinþaz (“strong”).
Cognate with Old Saxon swīth, Middle High German swind (Modern German geschwind (“fast, quick, swift”)), Middle Low German swîde (Modern Low German swied (“very, quite”)), Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick, swift”), West Frisian swiid (“impressive, special”), Old Norse svinnr, sviðr (“quick, clever, understanding, wise”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (swinþs, “strong”). Possibly related to sound.
Senses: glosses: Strong; vehement.
Derived terms: swithly
swith
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: swither
form: swithest
form: swithe
Etymology: From Middle English swith, swithe, from Old English swīþe (“very much, exceedingly, severely, violently, fiercely”), from Proto-West Germanic *swinþā, from Proto-Germanic *swinþê (“strongly”), from Proto-Indo-European *swento- (“active, healthy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian swied (“very”), West Frisian swiid (“very”), Dutch zwijd (“very, extremely”), Low German swied (“quite, very”), Dutch gezwind (“quick, swift”). Not related to superficially similar English swift.
Senses: examples: text: As ye disown yon paughty dog, / That bears the keys of Peter, / Then swith! an' get a wife to hug,
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, A Dream:
text: “Body of us, man!” said the king, “it is the speech of a true man and a loving subject, and we will grace him accordingly—what though he be but a carle—a twopenny cat may look at a king. Swith, man! have him—pundite fores.
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter XXXVII, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Quickly, speedily, promptly.
glosses: Strongly; vehemently; very.
cathedras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cathedra
cessavit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cessavits
Etymology: Latin [Term?], meaning "he has ceased".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Related terms: cesser
Kalm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tarasco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tarascos
Etymology: Spanish tarasco, from a Purepecha word meaning indistinctly "father-in-law" or "son-in-law".
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tarascan.
Tarasco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spanish tarasco, from a Purepecha word meaning indistinctly "father-in-law" or "son-in-law".
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tarascan.
cluse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kluz/
Forms: form: cluses
Etymology: In many cases, italicized as a borrowing of French cluse. In Early Modern texts, possibly a continuation of Middle English cluse, Old English clūse (“narrow pass”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] others are bounded by the steep walls of the cluses, these being the most picturesque; others, again, occupy the combes referred to above.
ref: 1876, Elisée Reclus, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: France and Switzerland, page 150:
text: Penck states that many a cluse in the Jura may have been formed by subterranean streams widening their channels until the covering broke down and their subterranean valleys became exposed[…]
ref: 1892, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, page 402:
text: […] narrow cluses still exist. The distinctive nature of the geomorphic forms of the Jura is indicated by the fact that each such item is identified locally by a particular term.
ref: 1953, O. D. von Engeln, Geomorphology: Systematic and Regional, page 324:
text: […] cut by the wadis of the Atlas which gave birth to very steep cluses (Lechhab 1991).
ref: 2024, Kholoud Kahime, Mohamed El Yamani, Stéphane Pouffary, Climate Change Effects and Sustainability Needs, page 83
glosses: A defile or narrow gorge, especially one that cuts transversely through the rock of an otherwise continuous ridge.
drunk tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drunk tank
Nubian lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nubian lion
Barbary lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barbary lion
king cobras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king cobra
coral snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coral snake
patchnose snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patchnose snake
large-headed water snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large-headed water snakes
Senses: glosses: Natrix megalocephala, a species of snake in the Colubridae family.
large-headed water snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large-headed water snake
dice snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dice snakes
Etymology: The black spots on its belly may resemble those on dice.
Senses: glosses: Natrix tessellata, a European non-venomous snake belonging to the family of Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae.
dice snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dice snake
kingsnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingsnake
ladder snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladder snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of the species Rhinechis scalaris of European snakes in the Colubridae family
ladder snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladder snake
corn snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn snake
smooth snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth snake
vertically-challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vertically-challenged
form: most vertically-challenged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vertically challenged.
cotter pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotter pin
dealbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dealbates
form: dealbating
form: dealbated
form: dealbated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēalbātus, perfect passive participle of dēalbō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Likely doublet of daub.
Senses: examples: text: Medicks prescribe Dentifricies to exterge and dealbate the teeth
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:
glosses: To whiten.
dealbate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dealbate
form: most dealbate
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēalbātus, perfect passive participle of dēalbō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Likely doublet of daub.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Whitened; covered with an opaque white powder.
BL Lac object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BL Lac objects
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a type of active galaxy with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), named after its prototype, BL Lacertae
Synonyms: BL Lac
BL Lacertae object
BL Lac objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BL Lac object
Grévy's zebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grévy's zebras
Etymology: Grévy (surname of Jules Grévy) + zebra
Senses: glosses: Equus grevyi, the largest species of zebra
wikipedia: Jules Grévy
Grévy's zebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grévy's zebra
savannah monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savannah monitors
Etymology: From savannah + monitor.
Senses: glosses: Varanus exanthematicus, a species of monitor lizard.
Synonyms: savanna monitor
savannah monitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savannah monitor
yoriki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoriki
form: yorikis
Etymology: From Japanese 与力.
Senses: glosses: A member of various government branch offices during the Edo period in Japan.
epicorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicoria
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From Latin cŏrĭum ("skin") with the Ancient Greek prefix ἐπί- ("on top of").
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: The pattern of cell wall thickening which forms the ornamentation on spores of certain types of mushroom (especially of family Entolomataceae).
d'y'all
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: D'y'all wanna go out for lunch?
glosses: Shortened form of do you all; do y'all.
glosses: Shortened form of did you all; did y'all.
Related terms: d'you
IDR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I don't remember or I don't recall.
glosses: Initialism of I don't really (know, find, etc.).
Related terms: IDK
IDC
IDR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of income-driven repayment.
glosses: Acronym of income-driven repayment plan.
inversion pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inversion pair
downest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of down: most down
Eurus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʊɹəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὖρος (Eûros).
Senses: examples: text: For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing.
ref: 1714 June 10, [Alexander Pope], The Guardian, volume I, number 78, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, page 332:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of the East Wind, autumn, protection, comfort, balance, preservation, change, adulthood and maturity.
glosses: The east wind personified.
Hypernyms: Anemoi
Aquilon
Coordinate terms: english: north
translation: north
word: Boreas
english: north
translation: north
word: Septentrio
english: south
translation: south
word: Notos
english: south
translation: south
word: Auster
english: east
translation: east
word: Eurus
english: east
translation: east
word: Subsolanus
word: Zephyr
word: Zephyrus
word: Favonius
boreas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boreases
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Senses: examples: text: Whether it is most prudent to expose / Our lovely forms to keenest blasts of boreas
ref: 1806 April 12, The Companion and Weekly Miscellany 1806-04-12: Vol 2 Iss 24:
glosses: The north wind.
Synonyms: northerly
Related terms: aurora borealis
eurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euruses
Etymology: From Middle English Eurus, ewrus, from Latin eurus, from Ancient Greek εὖρος (eûros).
Senses: glosses: The east wind.
Synonyms: easterly
actinobacillosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actino- + bacillosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A zoonotic disease, most commonly associated with animals, caused by the Actinobacillus bacteria, and which forms radiating structures in the tissues
Related terms: actinobacillotic
adelomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adelomorphous
form: most adelomorphous
Etymology: From a- + delomorphous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a form that is not clearly defined, especially as applied to the principal cells in the pepsin glands of the stomach.
pipe-openers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipe-opener
semilunate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semilunate
form: most semilunate
Etymology: From semi- + lunate.
Senses: glosses: shaped like a crescent; lunate, semilunar, crescent-shaped
unsmirched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsmirched
form: most unsmirched
Etymology: From un- + smirched.
Senses: examples: text: You are English boys, you will remain English boys, and you will keep that name unsmirched.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:
text: Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions.
ref: 1899 December, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. Chapter I.”, in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1900, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Gossip and rumor left no frailty undiscovered, no reputation unsmirched.
ref: 1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore:
text: Dick is a good fellow and very fond of me, but, although you might not think it, he is almost absurdly proud of the family name and its unsmirched record.
ref: 1918, William Magnay, The Hunt Ball Mystery:
glosses: Not having been smirched; unbesmirched.
ant-bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ant-bears
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ant bear.
colthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/
Etymology: From colt + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood.
ref: 1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science:
text: She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was.
ref: 1917, B. M. Bower, The Lookout Man:
text: In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back.
ref: 1922, Max Brand, Alcatraz:
glosses: The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
Mas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masses
form: Mass
form: Mas'
form: Mars
form: Mess
Etymology: Shortened from master.
Senses: examples: text: Is Mass’ Stone dead?
ref: 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:
text: Why, Mars Tom, I doan' want no rats.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: ‘Thank ee, Mas’ Norman,’ replied Jim, touching his cap.
ref: 1921, Henry Williamson, The Beautiful Years:
glosses: Master, used as a title of respect.
raw_tags: in representations of US and Caribbean dialect
glosses: The title of someone holding a Master of Arts, especially a Presbyterian minister.
Derived terms: Mas John
Related terms: Mas-in
Iranis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irani
De'ang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dəˈɑŋ/
/-æŋ/
Forms: form: Deang
Etymology: From Mandarin 德昂 (Dé'áng).
Senses: glosses: An ethnic minority group found in Southern China and Burma. Languages spoken in regions populated by this group include Palé, Riang, Rumai, and Shwe, all of which belong to the Palaungic sub-group of the Khasi-Khmuic family of languages.
Deang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of De'ang.
as in
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "bow" as in the weapon, not the front of a ship
text: Getting to the bottom of Selmes' thinking is not the easiest of tasks but what in essence he is doing is trading a mummy (as in King Tut) for a big daddy (as in Tennessee Williams).
ref: 1972, Investors Chronicle and Stock Exchange Gazette, volume 22:
text: 'You won't even have to touch me if you don't want to,' he said witheringly. 'But we are going to sleep together. As in spend the nights side by side.'
ref: 2010, Daphne Clair, The Marriage Debt:
synonyms: namely
i.e.
glosses: In the sense of.
examples: text: That's B as in boy.
synonyms: namely
i.e.
glosses: In the sense of.
As pronounced in.
examples: text: The TV is completely broken, as in I can't get any picture at all.
text: I've been getting acupuncture mostly, which is really good. It doesn't make things not happen, as in, I still got bronchitis, but it relieves a lot of the symptoms and helps me get through the day more and more.
ref: 1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: By which I mean; that is to say.
examples: text: In Sweden, as in most countries, ...
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, in.
tenant-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenants-in-chief
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A tenant holding title to their land directly from a lord paramount beholden to no-one; particularly, a lord holding title directly from the king, owing additional responsibilities such as personal military service.
Synonyms: vassal-in-chief
Hyponyms: grand serjeanty
Coordinate terms: tenant paravail
mesne lord
lord paramount