cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pagati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagatis
Etymology: From Xhosa -phakathi (“council”) or iliphakathi (“chief's councilor”). Compare amapakati. Attested in English from the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: An adviser to a tribal chief and/or a member of a tribal council in a traditional Nguni society.
Related terms: amapakati
reoffender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːəˈfɛndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reoffenders
Etymology: From reoffend + -er.
Senses: synonyms: recidivist
glosses: A repeat offender; someone who reoffends, who commits a crime on more than one occasion.
parishioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɪʃənə(ɹ)/
ipa: /pəˈɹɪʃnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: parishioners
Etymology: From Late Middle English parisshoner, from earlier parisshen (c. 1200), from Old French paroissien, parochien, from paroisse (English parish). Equivalent to parish + -ian + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Reverend Judith!” he announced cheerfully. “What a lovely surprise. How super to see you! What are you standing at the door for? Come in! Come in!”
“Thank you, thank you. I do like to pop around and see as many of my parishioners as possible,” said Reverend Judith as she followed the pair into the kitchen.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A member of a parish.
Derived terms: nonparishioner
parishionership
faille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪl
Forms: form: failles
Etymology: From Old French.
Senses: glosses: A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.
house-warming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-warmings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of housewarming.
competency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.pə.tən.si/
ipa: /ˈkɑm.pə.tən.si/
Forms: form: competencies
Etymology: From Late Latin competentia. Doublet of competence.
Senses: examples: text: the next day they returned unsuspected, leaving their confederates to follow, and in the interim, to convay them a competencie of all things they could […]
ref: 1612, John Smith, Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 178:
text: […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold […]
ref: 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - A Holy Terror:
glosses: A sufficient supply (of).
examples: text: Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]
ref: 1604 (first performance), George Chapman, Al Fooles: A Comedy, […], London: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, Act I:
text: He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. He knew that the lack made a man petty, mean, grasping; it distorted his character and caused him to view the world from a vulgar angle; when you had to consider every penny, money became of grotesque importance: you needed a competency to rate it at its proper value.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A sustainable income.
examples: text: The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.
ref: 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
text: What professional competencies do science teachers need?
ref: 1961, National Council for Elementary Science (U.S.), Science Education:
text: By the year 2000, American students will leave grades four, eight, and twelve having demonstrated competency in challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, history, and geography....
ref: 2004, Bill Clinton, My Life:
text: The decision was then made to return '91s' and Mk 4s. These are being retained on the Yorkshire routes to keep driver competency in one area, to help with operations.
ref: 2021 May 19, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: LNER to return Class 91s/Mk 4s to East Coast duties”, in Rail, number 931, page 26:
glosses: The ability to perform some task; competence.
topics: law
glosses: Meeting specified qualifications to perform.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.
Derived terms: core competency
Gillick competency
immunocompetency
multicompetency
noncompetency
dysmenorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.mɛ.nəˈɹi.ə/
Forms: form: dysmenorrheas
form: dysmenorrhoea
form: dysmenorrhœa
Etymology: From dys- + meno- + -rrhea = dys- + menorrhœa.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a symptom in any of various disorders.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a disorder in its own right (and thus a diagnosis).
Synonyms: menorrhalgia
period pain
Coordinate terms: amenorrhea
Derived terms: dysmenorrheal
dysmenorrheic
dysmenorrhic
Related terms: english: in which menstrual pain is often a component
translation: in which menstrual pain is often a component
word: premenstrual syndrome
english: in which menstrual pain is often a component
translation: in which menstrual pain is often a component
word: polycystic ovary syndrome
abigeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abigei
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin abigeus.
Senses: examples: text: In the Civil Law, he was accounted an Abigeus who carried off one Horse or one Ox, or four Swine or ten Sheep; if he took a smaller Number of Swine or Sheep, he was reckoned a Fur rather than an Abigeus.
ref: 1730, Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland, page 127:
text: The stealing of a single horse or ox might make a man an abigeus, but it seems that the crime could not be committed on less than four pigs or ten sheep.
ref: 1883, A history of the criminal law of England - Volume 1, page 27:
text: It is obvious why the thief of only one domestic animal was not treated so severely as an abigeus. The reason for the severe punishment of rustlers, abigei, was the need of a stronger protection for agricultural interest, particularly in countries where these offenses were more frequent.
ref: 1943, Seminar: Annual Extraordinary Number of The Jurist:
topics: law
glosses: A thief who steals livestock in large quantities.
Related terms: cowstealer
network topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network topologies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The physical arrangement of a network; the way in which cables are arranged in order to connect computers in a network.
amenorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˌmɛnəˈɹiə/
Forms: form: amenorrheae
form: amenorrheas
Etymology: From a- + meno- + -rrhea.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of amenorrhoea.
pillage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɪl.əd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪdʒ
Forms: form: pillages
form: pillaging
form: pillaged
form: pillaged
Etymology: From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
Senses: examples: 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
glosses: To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
Synonyms: harry
Derived terms: pillageable
pillager
unpillaged
pillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɪl.əd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪdʒ
Forms: form: pillages
Etymology: From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
Senses: examples: text: Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: The spoils of war.
examples: text: An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
ref: 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo:
glosses: The act of pillaging.
Synonyms: sense: spoils of war
word: booty
swim the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swims the Thames
form: swimming the Thames
form: swam the Thames
form: swum the Thames
form: cross the Thames
Etymology: Variant of swim the Tiber, by substitution of London’s river Thames for Rome’s river Tiber.
Senses: examples: text: […] Philip Jenkins, himself an ex-Catholic who swam the Thames, speculates that the rates of decline in his adopted Church are so steep that the last American Episcopalian may have been born.
ref: 2019 March 11, Filip Mazurczak, “A Unique Credo and Affirmation of Faith by a Distinctive Mind”, in The Catholic World Report, Ignatius Press, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:
glosses: To convert to Anglicanism.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swim, the, Thames.
Related terms: english: convert to Roman Catholicism
translation: convert to Roman Catholicism
word: swim the Tiber
electric dipole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric dipoles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: two electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign separated by a short distance
Related terms: dipole moment
molecular dipole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular dipoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a polar molecule; either permanent (in the absence of an applied field) or induced (produced by an applied field)
Related terms: dipole moment
rock lobster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock lobsters
Senses: examples: text: It wasn’t a rock, it was a rock lobster
ref: 1978, Rock Lobster, B52s:
synonyms: spiny lobster
glosses: A crustacean of the family Palinuridae.
Related terms: rock crab
rock shrimp
doll up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dolls up
form: dolling up
form: dolled up
form: dolled up
Etymology: From doll (noun).
Senses: examples: text: She's all dolled up with nowhere to go.
text: Jem looked at her clothes. "You wouldn’t get far dolled up like that."
ref: 1970, Noel Streatfeild, Thursday’s Child:
glosses: To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display)
recrimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˌkɹɪməˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: recriminations
Etymology: From French récrimination.
Senses: glosses: The act of recriminating.
examples: text: Will's figures, if correct, serve to underscore the extent of apolitical and anti-political sentiment in our community. Rather than indulge in recriminations over who "lost" the gay vote, it might be better to ask how we can redouble our efforts or re-direct our efforts to get gays and lesbians not only registered but voting as well.
ref: 1983 December 31, Robert P. Wasson Jr., “"Whither BL/GPA?"—A Response”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 5:
glosses: A counter or mutual accusation.
Derived terms: self-recrimination
inarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.ɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/
ipa: /ɪn.ɑːˈtɪk.jʊ.lət/
Forms: form: more inarticulate
form: most inarticulate
Etymology: From Latin inarticulatus and from in- + articulate. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Major Johnstone strove to speak, but the words died in an inarticulate gurgle low in his throat; and Evelyn had only time to start from his knee, and save the dying man from falling to the earth.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 274:
text: Pensak made an inarticulate shout of surprise, and O stepped away from the sudden precipice so hard that she collided with the back of the elevator, and yelped.
ref: 2024 September 8, HarryBlank, “Next to Nothing”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
glosses: Not articulated in normal words.
raw_tags: of speech
glosses: Speechless.
glosses: Unable to speak with any clarity.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not having joints or other articulations.
Derived terms: inarticulately
inarticulateness
inarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.ɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/
ipa: /ɪn.ɑːˈtɪk.jʊ.lət/
Forms: form: inarticulates
Etymology: From the substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Inarticulata). Used by contrast with Articulata.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal belonging to the subphylum Inarticulata.
Russies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Wilde Irish are as ciul [civil] as the Russies in theyr kinde,
Hard choice which is the best of both, ech bloudy, rude and blinde.
ref: 1568, George Turberville, Poems describing the Places and Manners of the Country and People of Russia:
glosses: Russians
sniveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snivel
sniveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snivelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snivelling.
talisman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/
ipa: /ˈtæl.ɪz.mən/
Forms: form: talismans
form: talismen
Etymology: From French talisman, partly from Arabic طِلَّسْم (ṭillasm, “payment”), from Ancient Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “payment”); and partly directly from Byzantine Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “talisman, religious rite, completion”), from τελέω (teléō, “to perform religious rites, to complete”), from τέλος (télos, “end, fulfillment, accomplishment, consummation, completion”). Doublet of telesm.
Senses: examples: text: That woman’s love is a talisman by which he holds and hopes to get his safety.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: I have in my possession three Magic Talismans, which I have ever guarded with utmost care, keeping the knowledge of their existence from anyone else.
ref: 1916, Frank Baum, chapter 1, in Rinkitink in Oz:
text: Dagobert gave him back his passport. He re-pocketed it indifferently; a talisman which had lost its potency.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 17, in Crime out of Mind:
text: She kept low, clutching the rifle she'd taken as though it were a magic talisman, as if it would somehow protect her even though she didn't fire it.
ref: 1997, John Peel, chapter 10, in War of the Daleks, page 233:
text: Mata would soon whip in the cross that allowed Drogba to equalise – and Chelsea went on to win the Champions League, beating the German club on penalties, with their talisman from the Ivory Coast making history with the final spot-kick.
ref: 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A magical object providing protection against ill will, or the supernatural, or conferring the wearer with a boon such as good luck, good health, or power(s).
Related terms: amulet
apotropaic
medallion
rosary
talisman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/
ipa: /ˈtæl.ɪz.mən/
Forms: form: talismans
form: talismaning
form: talismanning
form: talismaned
form: talismaned
form: talismanned
form: talismanned
Etymology: From French talisman, partly from Arabic طِلَّسْم (ṭillasm, “payment”), from Ancient Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “payment”); and partly directly from Byzantine Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “talisman, religious rite, completion”), from τελέω (teléō, “to perform religious rites, to complete”), from τέλος (télos, “end, fulfillment, accomplishment, consummation, completion”). Doublet of telesm.
Senses: examples: text: The second in his saddle reeled, / Down thundered man and horse;— / Oft I essayed with blow and thrust, / As oft a foeman rolled in dust; / But, ah, what could a single arm, / Though talismaned by beauty’s charm, / Against a host?—for love—for life— / I waged awhile the desperate strife; / ’T was vain—I fell—was left for dead— / And rescued was th’ unwilling maid!
ref: 1832, D. M. Ferguson, “Legend”, in Evan Bane; A Highland Legend: and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, section “Spirit of the Cloud”, page 54:
text: Lo, under their coats, amulets of idols! Possibly such charms talismaned every breast in his army.
ref: 1886 January, A. G. Laurie, “The Jew—From the Maccabees to Christ. Part IV.”, in Richard Eddy, editor, The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, new series, volume XXIII, Boston, Mass.: Universalist Publishing House, page 34:
text: They had a pitched battle in the spirit; the girl at length said, “You have something strong which I cannot endure,” and Madame Guyon confesses that she was talismaned by a piece of the true cross around her neck.
ref: 1899, The London Quarterly Review, page 328:
text: After some opening sentences, affirming that Joy, Grace and Love are the marks of the elect of God, we are informed that a letter was mysteriously sent down from heaven to earth, as if it had been shot from a bow. People rushed to read it; but it was talismaned by a seal, which none dared to break.
ref: 1911, J[ames] Rendel Harris, “Introduction”, in The Odes and Psalms of Solomon: Published from the Syriac Version, 2nd edition, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 64:
text: Fond youth, vain were thy sulphurous bolts against / This subtle necromancer, armed and talismaned / By the Grail’s prophylactic power.
ref: 1939, R[obert] C[alverley] Trevelyan, The Collected Works of R. C. Trevelyan, volume II (Plays), London: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., page 143:
text: It is yours still, and I go talismanned / By you to find you, though I’m lost & late.
ref: 1981, Marie Ponsot, “Late”, in Woman Poet, volume two (The East), Women-in-Literature, Incorporated, →ISBN, stanza II, page 43:
text: And for that moment I believe her, am transformed, / Talismanned by carved jade beads, / For that moment I know she has / The word from God direct.
ref: 1992, Equinox, page 74:
glosses: To adorn with a talisman.
talisman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/
ipa: /ˈtæl.ɪz.mən/
Forms: form: talismans
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of some Arabic word.
Senses: glosses: A mullah (Islamic religious scholar).
babysit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/
Forms: form: babysits
form: babysitting
form: babysat
form: babysat
form: babysitted
form: babysitted
form: baby-sit
Etymology: Back-formation from babysitter.
Senses: examples: text: My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.
text: We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
text: Bart eventually gets Laura to babysit while Homer and Marge eat at the Sea Captain’s all-you-can-eat seafood joint, The Frying Dutchman.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: childsit
glosses: To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
examples: text: The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it.
glosses: To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen.
examples: text: He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.
text: It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]
ref: 2016, Christopher Vasey, Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories, page 175:
synonyms: word: coddle
english: partial
translation: partial
glosses: To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much.
Derived terms: birdysit
Related terms: babysitter
catsit
dogsit
housesit
EIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Electronic Industries Alliance.
glosses: Initialism of Energy Information Administration, a division of the Department of Energy.
EIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of enzymoimmunoassay.
glosses: Initialism of Environmental Impact Assessment.
baby-sit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baby-sits
form: baby-sitting
form: baby-sat
form: baby-sat
form: baby-sitted
form: baby-sitted
form: babysit
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of babysit.
Related terms: baby-sitter
infernal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)nəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɝnəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: more infernal
form: most infernal
form: infernall
Etymology: From Middle French infernal, from Medieval Latin infernalis, from Latin īnfernus, from īnferum (“netherworld, underworld, hell”), equivalent to inferno + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
glosses: Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
glosses: Stygian, gloomy.
examples: text: Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind
ref: 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 34–36:
text: the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings
ref: 1711 December 19 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 8, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 244; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Diabolical or fiendish.
examples: text: As I had to put up with the patronage and the lecturings, and the eyeglass of that infernal old woman, […]
ref: 1905, Bram Stoker, The Man:
text: When are you ever going to learn to mind your own infernal business?
ref: 1982, Sharon Green, The Warrior Within, page 10:
glosses: Very annoying; damned.
raw_tags: as an expletive
Derived terms: infernal device
infernalism
infernalist
infernality
infernally
infernal machine
infernal stone
Related terms: inferno
infernal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)nəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɝnəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: infernals
form: infernall
Etymology: From Middle French infernal, from Medieval Latin infernalis, from Latin īnfernus, from īnferum (“netherworld, underworld, hell”), equivalent to inferno + -al.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the infernal regions, a demon.
mhm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /m̩ˈhm̩/
ipa: [m̩ˈm̥m̩˥]
Forms: form: mm-hm
form: mm-hmm
form: mm hmm
form: mmhm
form: mmhmm
form: mhmm
form: um-hum
form: imphm
Etymology: Nasalized form of uh-huh, a form imitative of non-verbal sounds.
Senses: glosses: Expressing agreement or affirmation.
Synonyms: uh-huh
pardon my French
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑːdn̩ maɪ ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹd(ə)n maɪ ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: pardons my French
form: pardoning my French
form: pardoned my French
form: pardoned my French
Etymology: From the use of French to mean “vulgar language”, ostensibly because the words used are not in English.
Senses: examples: text: That computer is a worthless piece of shit, if you’ll pardon my French.
text: 'Have you been in England long?' / 'A damned sight too long—if you'll pardon my French,' she answered.
ref: 1960, Diana Holman-Hunt, chapter 6, in My Grandmothers and I, London: Hamish Hamilton, published 1988, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.
ref: 1986 June 11, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, spoken by Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick):
text: Look, now it's the dolly, not Parton / But pardon my French / Give no fucks about no nigga / Give no fucks about no bitch
ref: 2018 July 16, “Check”, in The Vault, performed by Kash Doll [pseudonym; Arkeisha Antoinette Knight]:
synonyms: excuse my français
excuse my French
forgive my French
pardon mon français
pardon my français
pardonnez mon français
pardonnez my French
glosses: To excuse the speaker's frankness of expression or profanity.
Related terms: not to put too fine a point on it
swear
lows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of low
lows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of low
seethe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːð/
ipa: /sið/
rhymes: -iːð
Forms: form: seethes
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English sethen, seeth (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”) [and other forms], from Old English sēoþan (“to boil, seethe; to cook; etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuþan, from Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to boil, seethe”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sewt-, *h₂sew-, *h₂sut- (“to move about, roil, seethe”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Albanian zjej (“to boil, seethe”)
* Danish syde (“to seethe, boil”)
* Dutch zieden (“to boil, seethe”)
* German sieden (“to boil, seethe”)
* Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (sauþs, “burnt offering, sacrifice”)
* Icelandic sjóða (“to boil, seethe”)
* Low German seden (“to seethe”)
* Norwegian Bokmål syde (“to boil, seethe”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk sjoda, syda (“to boil, seethe”)
* Scots seth, seith (“to seethe”)
* Swedish sjuda (“to boil, seethe”)
* West Frisian siede (“to boil”)
Senses: glosses: A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.
Derived terms: aseethe
analogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analogue
forensical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forensical
form: most forensical
Etymology: From Latin forēnsis + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: THe Art of Navigation (by which Iſlands eſpecially are enriched, and preſerved in ſafety from Forenſical Invaſions, and the wonderful works of God in the great Deep, and Foreign Nations are moſt delightfully and fully beheld, &c.) is an Art of exquiſite excellency, ingenuity, rarity, and mirability: […]
ref: 1677, T. M., “To every Sea-man sailing Heavenward”, in John Flavel, Navigation Spiritualized: or, A New Compass for Sea-men, […], London: […] J. C. for Thomas Fabian, […], →OCLC, signature [A8], recto:
glosses: forensic
3GPP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Third Generation Partnership Project.
Related terms: urls: http://www.3gpp.org
word: www.3gpp.org
ARF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: AKI
acute kidney injury
AKF
acute kidney failure
hypernyms: KD
kidney disease
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disease#Noun
disorder#Noun
malady#Noun
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condition#Noun
coordinate_terms: CKD
chronic kidney disease
glosses: Initialism of acute renal failure.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of analog radio frequency.
ARF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
ARF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: "Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Related terms: alt: Abort, Retry Ignore?
word: ARI
alt: Abort, Retry Ignore, Fail?
word: ARIF
word: Abort
word: Retry
AAL2
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer Type 2, ATM Adaption Layer Type 2.
Related terms: ATM
AAL
AAL5
AAL5
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer Type 5, ATM Adaption Layer Type 5.
Related terms: ATM
AAL
AAL2
LO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of local oscillator.
antonyms: HI[high]]>
;
OD
O/D
O.D.[overdrive]]>
qualifier: on some gear levers
glosses: Abbreviation of low (“low gear or low range”).
examples: text: Looking for health insurance for my LO. Too young for Medicare, not Medicaid qualified. With a pre-existing condition of dementia I've only been able to find one policy (Blue Cross) at about $1000/month (their one high-risk policy).
ref: 1999 August 12, thor...@my-deja.com, “Health insurance options?”, in alt.support.alzheimers (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 Jun 2025:
text: When an elderly LO has deteriorated in his health to the point that he must move in with one of his adult children, many lives are changed forever.
ref: 2008, Starr Calo-oy with Bob Calo-oy, “Introduction: ‘The Unsung Hero’”, in Caregiving Tips A-Z: Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias, San Antonio, Tex.: Orchard Publications, →ISBN, pages 1–2:
text: Try suggesting yoga to your LO and wait to see if they would be up for the idea.
ref: 2022, Torri L. Fisher, “Physical Activities”, in Forget Me Not: A Caregiver’s Guide to Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, iTreatMyself, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Creating Experiences), page 137:
glosses: Initialism of loved one.
glosses: Initialism of little one (“one's child”).
LO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of London Overground.
DLL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DLLs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Data Link Layer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of doubly-linked list.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of dynamic-link library.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of delay-locked loop.
Related terms: DPLL
PLL
PFD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PFDs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of phase-frequency detector.
examples: text: Return your PFD to a hanger on the PFD storage rack.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “RS Quest Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 3:
glosses: Initialism of personal flotation device.
glosses: Initialism of primary flight display.
glosses: Initialism of process flow diagram.
glosses: Initialism of photon flux density.
PFD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of prepared for dyeing.
Related terms: PD
PLL
white clover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white clovers
Senses: glosses: A species of clover, Trifolium repens, native to much of Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia and introduced elsewhere as a pasture crop.
Synonyms: Dutch clover
ladino
CMFB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of common mode feedback.
CMFB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics.
exogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/
ipa: /ɛkˈsɑ.d͡ʒə.nəs/
ipa: /ekˈsɔd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/
rhymes: -ɒd͡ʒɪnəs
Etymology: From exo- + -genous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an external cause.
Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
synonyms: xenobiotic
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an external cause.
Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having an external cause.
Having a cause external to the infected organism.
raw_tags: of a disease
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Having an external cause.
Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
raw_tags: of a model
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having an external cause.
Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
raw_tags: of a key
topics: biology
dermatology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Related to the exogen growth phase.
Synonyms: exogenetic
Derived terms: exogenically
Related terms: exogeny
exogeneity
exogenousity
exocentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exocentric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being exocentric.
exocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Focused or centered on something outside of itself.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words.
raw_tags: of a phrase or compound
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: Not having the same semantic referent as the semantic referent of any of its constituent parts.
raw_tags: of or relating to a compound term
Coordinate terms: sense: all senses
word: endocentric
Derived terms: exocentrically
exocentricity
Related terms: bahuvrihi
exocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocentrics
Etymology: From exo- + -centric.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An exocentric compound.
exo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksoʊ-/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer; external”).
Senses: glosses: outside; external
examples: text: exo- + planet → exoplanet
text: exo- + biology → exobiology
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: outside; external
extrasolar; beyond the Solar System (our solar system)
Synonyms: sense: outside
word: out-
sense: outside
word: ex-
sense: outside
word: ecto-
Derived terms: exosemantic
Related terms: ecto-
end-
endo-
ex-
extra-
but hey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Streaming a movie prevents any but the most dedicated and well-equipped hacker from making a digital copy (pointing a camera at the screen still works, but hey).
ref: 2003, S. Gulie, Quicktime for the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, page 136:
text: I am pretty sure it's another computer glitch, but hey, it's not my fault and it's perfectly legal.
ref: 2004, R. Broadhead, Dear Valued Customer, You Are A Loser, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 89:
text: By that time they had navigated about 120 miles of the Green River, almost twice their planned run for the day—but hey, time flies when you're having fun.
ref: 2007, Jim Burnett, Hey Ranger 2: More True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from the Great Outdoors, page 101:
glosses: Used to show that the thing just referred to is not ideal or does not support the argument, but that the situation cannot be improved upon, or the speaker is unwilling to try.
blent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnt
Senses: examples: text: Even contrary, he standithe evar in disseasse / That in his hert with covetyce is blent.
ref: c. 1500, John Lydgate, Isopes Fabules (Aesop's Fables):
text: She would return home comforted, carrying in her mind a clearer vision of his aspect, a distincter recollection of his voice, his smile, his bearing; and, blent with these impressions, was often a sweet persuasion that, if she could get near him, his heart might welcome her presence yet: that at this moment he might be willing to extend his hand and draw her to him, and shelter her at his side as he used to do.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Fieldhead”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 275–276:
text: The good and evil with man's nature blent, / The weal and woe that heaven's decrees have sent— / Impute them not to motions of the skies— / Skies than thyself ten times more impotent.
ref: 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 96, page 66:
text: His merit as a stylist was this—that he blent the antique and the romantic, pure outline with sensual fulness.
ref: 1873 August 1, J.A. Symonds "Poliziano's Italian Poetry" Fortnightly Review Vol.20 No.80 p.167
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:
text: Ranchland rolled beneath him. Here around Gray, the mainly Ythrian settlements northward merged with the mainly human south; both ecologies blent with Avalon’s own, and the country became a checkerboard.
ref: 1973, Poul Anderson, The People of the Wind:
glosses: simple past and past participle of blend
Derived terms: unblent
yblent
discursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more discursive
form: most discursive
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French discursif, formed from the stem of Latin discursus and the suffix -if, and in part borrowed from Medieval Latin discursivus. By surface analysis, discourse + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: This period had long since passed; the discursive reading, the enlightened discourse of her grandfather, had cast her mind in a different mould to the usual superstition of her country; but faith and love were only more pure and perfect in a soul too innocent not to be religious.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 185:
text: This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: Of or concerning discourse.
Tending to digress from the main point.
synonyms: digressive
rambling
;
discoursive
raw_tags: of speech or writing
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or concerning discourse.
Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
synonyms: discoursive
Derived terms: antidiscursive
counterdiscursive
cyberdiscursive
discursively
discursiveness
discursivity
interdiscursive
macrodiscursive
metadiscursive
microdiscursive
nondiscursive
transdiscursive
undiscursive
Related terms: discourse
disenfranchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈfɹæn.t͡ʃaɪz/
Forms: form: disenfranchises
form: disenfranchising
form: disenfranchised
form: disenfranchised
Etymology: From dis- + enfranchise.
Senses: examples: text: Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton
ref: 2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post:
glosses: To deprive someone of a franchise, generally of the right to vote.
Synonyms: disfranchise
Derived terms: disenfranchisement
disenfranchiser
disequilibria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disequilibrium
disequilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disequilibria
form: disequilibriums
form: dysequilibrium
Etymology: From dis- + equilibrium.
Senses: examples: text: The world of the angelic hierarchy was an evolutionary stream of light in a steady-state, but the creation of Adam from matter disturbs that primordial steady-state; it generates the creative disequilibrium necessary for change, transformation, and evolution.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 15:
glosses: The loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces.
Derived terms: linkage disequilibrium
pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram
working knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Candidates must have a working knowledge of standard Windows applications.
text: He has an excellent knowledge of Community law and a sound working knowledge of financial law and practice.
glosses: A knowledge of how to make something work without deeper theoretical understanding of why it works.
weft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛft/
rhymes: -ɛft
Forms: form: wefts
Etymology: From Middle English wefte, from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną. Equivalent to weave + -t (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: It is all the more remarkable therefore that in one respect — weft colours — some of the pirnless looms are more versatile than conventional machines. Figure 6 shows the colour mechanism of a conventional loom designed to weave six colours of weft (there is never any problem about colour patterning in the warp).
ref: 1964 February 6, Kurt Greenwood, “New looms that streamline weaving”, in New Scientist, page 356:
text: Other techniques for shaping included angling one or both loom bars, adding extra wefts, or adjusting warp tension.
ref: 1979, Eric Broudy, The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present, page 81:
text: 1993, Anni Albers, On Weaving, note on Plate 17, page 48,
To give greater firmness to the basket-weave plain weave, thin weft threads can be introduced that will be covered by the heavier pattern wefts of the basket weave.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
examples: text: Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts, rectangles, and profiles.
ref: 2009, Cosmetologists: 150 Great Tech Prep Careers, 2nd edition, page 135:
text: Then, she held up the hair as it would look on my head. She positioned it like a pro, holding wefts of human hair so that it looked like it grew from my scalp.
ref: 2011, Ryan Rayston, The Quiet Sound of Disappearing, AuthorHouse, page 289:
text: In the bonding method of attaching hair extensions, hair wefts or single strands are attached with an adhesive or bonding agent. The adhesive is applied to the weft with an applicator gun.
ref: 2012, Cengage Learning, Milady Standard Cosmetology, page 556:
topics: arts
crafts
hairdressing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
Synonyms: sense: threads interlaced through the warp
word: woof
sense: yarn used for the threads interlaced through the warp
word: fill
sense: extension glued onto hair
word: weave
Derived terms: warp and weft
weftwise
weft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛft/
rhymes: -ɛft
Forms: form: wefts
Etymology: Compare waif.
Senses: examples: text: The gentle Lady, loose at randon left, / The greene-wood long did walke, and wander wide / At wilde aduenture, like a forlorne weft,
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:
text: [Y]ou are Lord o'the ſoyle Sir, Lilly is a Weft, a Stray, ſhee's yours, to uſe Sir, […]
ref: 1625 (date written), Iohn Fletcher, [Philip Massinger], The Elder Brother. A Comedie. […], London: […] F[elix] K[ingston] for J[ohn] W[aterson] and J[ohn] B[enson], published 1637, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, signature H3, recto:
glosses: Alternative spelling of waif.
whish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭsh
ipa: /wɪʃ/
enpr: hwĭsh
ipa: /ʍɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
homophone: wish (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whisht.
whish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭsh
ipa: /wɪʃ/
enpr: hwĭsh
ipa: /ʍɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
homophone: wish (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whishes
Senses: glosses: A sibilant sound, especially that of rapid movement through the air.
whish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭsh
ipa: /wɪʃ/
enpr: hwĭsh
ipa: /ʍɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
homophone: wish (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whishes
form: whishing
form: whished
form: whished
Senses: glosses: To make such a sound.
whish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭsh
ipa: /wɪʃ/
enpr: hwĭsh
ipa: /ʍɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
homophone: wish (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: Silent.
whammo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæməʊ/
ipa: /ˈwæmoʊ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwæmoʊ/
rhymes: -æməʊ
Etymology: From wham + -o.
Senses: examples: text: So, I'm driving along when, whammo, a tree falls in front of the car.
text: "Sure, the boys say, 'What's the use? I'd just get started and whammo, I'm gone.'"
ref: 1951 November 5, “The Younger Generation”, in Time Magazine:
text: Every year I try to catch the first buds as they break out of their winter closets, and every year I miss. One day you hit the street on your way to your day's routine and there it is, whammo, LIFE, popping up and out all over the place.
ref: 1983 April 16, Nancy Walker, “Spring Surprises”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: He lifted one foot and set it down again, whammo, but Ed was so engrossed in Pynchon's novel that all he recalls is tromping the scorpion to death with his stung foot, then quickly fetching a bucket of ice water, jamming the foot into it, and continuing to read.
ref: 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:
glosses: Used to emphasize the suddenness of an event.
Synonyms: blammo
whammo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæməʊ/
ipa: /ˈwæmoʊ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwæmoʊ/
rhymes: -æməʊ
Forms: form: whammos
Etymology: From wham + -o.
Senses: examples: text: […] dawdles for 15 minutes before presenting a mild whammo. The whammos start at about 33 minutes and then pile up at 36 minutes, 40 minutes, 50 minutes, 59 minutes, and 64 minutes.
ref: 2006, David Bordwell, The Way Hollywood Tells it: Story and Style in Modern Movies, page 113:
glosses: An action-packed scene in a film, etc.