cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
meatrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatrocks
Etymology: From meat + rock; from the food's resemblance to a piece of rock in some forms.
Senses: examples: text: It was originally served in the form of handmade meatball-like chunks that resemble medium sized rocks (hence the prison name “meatrock”)
ref: 2018 November 29, Uhuru B. Rowe, Conscious Prisoner:
text: The meat is usually what we call “meatrock” – actually low-grade ground chicken that says “for institutional use only” on the side of the box.
ref: 2021 January 15, Daniel A. Rosen, ““Let Them Eat Dog Food”: Nutrition and Health Behind Bars”, in Three Hots One Cot:
text: Overall, all of them, if they can get out, they want to live a quiet, peaceful life, where they have a home and can be around people they love and who love them, and to be able to do simple things like go to the grocery store, or go to the park, go on a hike, and be able to eat a meal that is not meatrock or something that looks like dog food.
ref: 2022 December 28, Cindy, “Senator Boysko Visits Virginia Prisons: “They give them $2.20 per inmate per day. My cat food is $1.25 a can, and that’s for one meal.””, in Blue Virginia:
qualifier: prison
glosses: A piece of highly processed mechanically separated chicken that is used as an ingredient for meals served in the US prison system.
self-identical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a quality of being the same thing as itself.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a self-identity.
furnish out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: furnishes out
form: furnishing out
form: furnished out
form: furnished out
Senses: glosses: To provide or supply essential materials (e.g. food) for (someone).
flout at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flouts at
form: flouting at
form: flouted at
form: flouted at
Senses: glosses: To criticize harshly; to mock; to insult or jeer.
foster up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fosters up
form: fostering up
form: fostered up
form: fostered up
Senses: examples: text: He fostered up their anger at the king's actions.
glosses: To raise up (something); to foster, nurse, increase or strengthen (something).
shrike-babbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrike-babblers
Senses: glosses: A songbird of the genus Pteruthius, native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Nepal.
Goloka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈləʊ.kə/
ipa: /ɡəˈloʊ.kə/
rhymes: -əʊkə
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit गोलोक (goloka, literally “cow’s world”), from a compound of गो (go, “cow”) + लोक (loka, “world, realm”).
Senses: examples: text: Gokul (or Goloka)—the innermost realm of love, is, like, Krishna’s Form all-pervading. At Krishna’s will Goloka revolves through all the worlds. From this it follows that Goloka is the realm of his eternal love-games, which successively manifests itself throughout the worlds.
ref: 1927, Charuchandra Guha, Krishna of Vrindabana, Bengal Library Book Depot, →OCLC, page 490:
glosses: The celestial abode of the Hindu god Krishna and his chief consort goddess Radha.
soberversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsəʊ.bə(ɹ)ˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.bɚˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: soberversaries
Etymology: Blend of sober + anniversary
Senses: examples: text: And some of the golden ones even remember my soberversary and send me congratulations every year.
ref: 2017 December 28, Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, Octopus, →ISBN:
text: The second man I dated was Luca, who I also found on Tinder; we went our sometime around my one-year soberversary. Again, I didn't tell this man that I didn't drink before we went out; I just didn't drink on our first date, and that led to an easy and natural conversation about sobriety.
ref: 2019 December 31, Holly Whitaker, “What Do You Do for Fun If You Dont Drink?”, in Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 312:
text: She checked in to the sobriety group, remembering belatedly that his was her two-month soberversary. She posted: Yay! It's my two-month soberversary today. I celebrated by going for a lovely walk on the Malvern Hills, then doing some writing. I really think I can do this!
ref: 2020 October 1, Sue Woolley, One Foot in Front of the Other: The most heartwarming and life-affirming story you'll read all year . . ., Headline, →ISBN:
text: Your Soberversary A very little-known perk of sobriety is that you get to add a whole new celebration to the calendar – your sober anniversary!
ref: 2021 January 14, Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: An empowering guide to living hangover free, Random House, →ISBN:
text: The few who really got it, who remembered my soberversary, who […]
ref: 2021 February 4, Stylist Magazine, Life Lessons On Friendship: 13 Honest Tales of the Most Important Relationships of Our Lives, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: the month of my seventh soberversary. And guess how long credit history is stored for, in the UK? Seven years. It felt like fiscal serendipity at its finest.
ref: 2021 June 10, Catherine Gray, Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever, Octopus, →ISBN:
text: Soberversary: anniversary of a person's sobriety.
ref: 2022 January 4, Nicole Cox Murray, Tammie Cox, Don't Drink Like My Sister: The Sober Sisters Guide to Leveling up and Living Your Best Life--Alcohol-Free, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
text: I count 4 September as my ‘soberversary’ because I didn't drink from the 3 September. In this 24-hour period, I decided that was it. I was done with alcohol.
ref: 2022 December 8, Simon Chapple, edited by Lois Badey, Rock Bottom and Rising: 21 Inspiring Stories of Finding Freedom from Alcohol, John Murray Press, →ISBN:
text: My second soberversary falls at the end of our first week in Snoqualmie. I sit at the window that morning with my coffee and laptop open to an empty Facebook draft, wondering if I'm about to self-destruct.
ref: 2023 September 12, Kristi Coulter, Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: The anniversary of a person's sobriety.
soberversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soberversary
lurkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lurkish
form: most lurkish
Etymology: From lurk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: They love no idle bench-whistlers nor lurkish faitors; for yoong and old are wholly addicted to thrieing the men commonlie to traffike, the women to spinning and carding.
ref: 1894, Journal of the Waterford & South-East of Ireland, volume 1, page 31:
text: Would God (I say) that the holy house were not pestered at this day with such hypocrites and damnable sort of lurkish, loitering lubbers, who (notwithstanding their great blockishness their palpable ignorance and extreme want of learning) […]
ref: 1905, Report of the Commissioner of Education, volume 1, page 344:
text: Those who are lurkish, are open to the attacks of every ingenious scoundrel whose art will not alarm their indolence.
ref: 2017, J. G. Zimmerman, Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things:
glosses: Tending to lurk; somewhat lurky.
run before
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs before
form: running before
form: ran before
form: run before
Senses: examples: text: In such wise did Helgi
Deal fear around To all his foes
And all their friends
As when the goat runneth
Before the wolf's rage
Filled with mad fear
Down from the fell
ref: 1888, Ernest Rhys, editor, Songs from the Edda, page 166:
text: Thou runnest before me, shifting every place,
and darest not stand, nor look me in the face
ref: 1600, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, page 73:
glosses: To flee from (something); to run away from (something).
examples: text: Thy tongue runneth before thy wit.
ref: 1858, John Heywood, edited by John S. Farmer, The Proverbs of John Heywood, London, page 205:
text: although calumnie often starteth first and runneth before, yet veritie follow followeth her at the heels
ref: 1638, A. Jhonston, Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, page 34:
glosses: To precede (something); to anticipate (something).
examples: text: Thou runnest before rightly
ref: 1609, Boethius, Boethius: The Theological Tractates, page 309:
glosses: To excel or be better than someone.
tahrif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tahrifs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic تَحْرِيف (taḥrīf).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the belief that alterations were made to the previous revelations of God
set up to oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets up to oneself
form: setting up to oneself
form: set up to oneself
form: set up to oneself
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To set up (compose, typeset) one portion of text that precedes another portion set up by the same typesetter.
quad out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quads out
form: quadding out
form: quadded out
form: quadded out
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To space out a work using quads.
brush out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brushes out
form: brushing out
form: brushed out
form: brushed out
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To clean a form using lye or turpentine.
examples: text: The first step in brushing out a dog’s coat is…
glosses: To brush (someone's hair or an animal's fur) to remove tangles and give the hair a satisfactory texture.
examples: text: It’s important to brush out the north trails before the spring.
glosses: To remove brush (wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees) from a trail, campsite, etc.
corner up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corners up
form: cornering up
form: cornered up
form: cornered up
Senses: examples: text: Those two properties cornered up in the vicinity of Main Street.
text: The fenceposts will corner up the yard.
glosses: To form one or more corners.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To sell drugs on a street corner; to go to such a spot to sell drugs.
glosses: To be in a corner (of a room); to trap or be trapped by assailants in the corner of a room.
glosses: to corner or be cornered (To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment).
hang off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs off
form: hanging off
form: hung off
form: hung off
Senses: examples: I think we should 'hang off on that section until we have more data.
glosses: To hold back; to resist moving forward with something despite pressure or intention to do so; to delay, wait or stay behind.
glosses: To be avoidant or disinterested.
quoin up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quoins up
form: quoining up
form: quoined up
form: quoined up
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To set quoins in place prior to fastening them (locking up).
islandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: islandisms
Etymology: From island + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: West Indian nationalism was challenged by islandism not simply for the ownership of "loyalty" of the people of the federated islands, and for what Max Weber has called the "title to rule";
ref: 1981, Earl Gooding, The West Indies at the Crossroads, page 92:
text: Another ramification of islandism is the strong sense that people must look after people from their own community in government, business and social obligations.
ref: 2009, Miranda Forsyth, A Bird that Flies with Two Wings, page 3:
text: It also allowed competing islandisms in more “advanced” colonies to view their own advancement as being impeded by the other colonies, if not by the Federation itself.
ref: 2018, Eric D. Duke, Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora:
text: At the same time, however, tensions over the reopening of the mine are fracturing the space of islandism, just as they are the space of landownership.
ref: 2018, Matthew G. Allen, Resource Extraction and Contentious States, page 68:
glosses: A form of regionalism in which one's primary loyalty is to the island on which one lives and to its people.
examples: text: It is certainly a dialect word, possibly even that rare item, an Islandism.
ref: 1982, Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Meeting, Actes de la ... Réunion Annuelle de L'Association de Linguistique Des Provinces Atlantiques, page 77:
text: By now the reader will be forewarned that this is not a dictionary of 'Islandisms,' of words or meanings apparently unique to Prince Edward Island.
ref: 1996, Terry Kenneth Pratt, Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, page xiii:
text: There were "small island" jokes ("I hear the roads in antigua are so narrow, the dogs have to wag their tails up & down") and other islandisms.
ref: 2009, Althea Prince, Being Black, page 16:
glosses: A word, phrase, or custom that is local to one island.
examples: text: The story of Kent is an example of 'islandism' and its consequences. Looked at in practical terms , a re-connection of this part of England into the Continental economy promises all gain and no loss.
ref: 1994, Jane Alison, Brigitte Lardinois, Soundings:
text: Protection service lends itself particularly to a system's concept because one of the major problems in healthcare security is one referred to as "islandism.” Islandism simply means standing alone, attempting to protect oneself without the benefit of knowing what is happening in the other local or systems healthcare facilities.
ref: 2001, Tony W York, Russell Colling, Hospital and Healthcare Security, page 135:
text: The novel also reveals the terrible isolation of a mountain community as a clue to Andean reality, what essayist Fernando Chaves called "islandism".
ref: 2009, Jason Wilson, The Andes, page 108:
glosses: A state of social isolation and the concomitant self-sufficiency; a failure to be aware of or rely on others.
islandisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of islandism
Sandia Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sandia Mountains
form: Sandia Mountain
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sandía (“watermelon”), which is popularly believed to be a reference to the reddish color of the mountains at sunset.
Senses: glosses: A mountain range east of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States.
Derived terms: Sandia-Manzano Mountains
Sandias
Sandias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsænˈdiː.əz/
Senses: glosses: The Sandia Mountains, a mountain range in the southwestern United States.
Sandias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsænˈdiː.əz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Sandia
islandist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more islandist
form: most islandist
Etymology: From island + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Islandist assumptions remained dominant as late as 1911, when the third Home Rule Bill was drawn up.
ref: 1986, R. J. Vincent, Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Issues and Responses, page 121:
text: Plus, Johnson said, in a blatant appeal to islandist sympathies: “It's not like I'm a weekender.”
ref: 2013, Pam Belluck, Island Practice:
text: Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.
ref: 2018, Eric D. Duke, Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora:
text: These islandist narratives have found political expression in resistance movements such as Maasina Rule that emerged on Malaita in the aftermath of the Second World War and was violently repressed by colonial authorities (Akin 2013), and the Moro Movement on the Weather Coast, a "proto-nationalist, anti-colonial movement" with a back-to-kastom agenda, that continues to be influential in the southern and central regions of Guadalcanal (Kabutaulaka 2992b, p. 59).
ref: 2018, Matthew G. Allen, Resource Extraction and Contentious States, page 92:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of islandism.
islandist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: islandists
Etymology: From island + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: We find that the French islandists have in some instances grossly ill used Americans.
ref: 1795 April 16, Gazette of the U.S:
text: […] themselves islandists.
ref: 1981, Earl Gooding, The West Indies at the Crossroads, page 91:
text: His death hastened the division of a relatively homogenous department into its subsequent component bits—the Islandists, New Guineaists, and Southeast Asianists.
ref: 2014, Brij V. Lal, Allison Ley, The Coombs: A House of Memories, page 271:
glosses: An islander, especially one with islandist attitudes.
islandists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of islandist
fraudumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraudumentaries
Etymology: Blend of fraud + documentary
Senses: examples: text: […] fraudumentary producer, on the land of the free and the home of the brave in a recent interview with Japan's Shukan Post.
ref: 2003, America's 1st Freedom - Volume 4, page 15:
text: Instead, Wallace launced a sneak attack, falsely asserting the premise identical to the bullshit ABC fraudumentary on 9/11, alleging that Clinton had failed to "connect the dots" and put al Qaeda "out of business."
ref: 2006 September 22, Brian Zick, “Bill Clinton Squashes a Little Bug”, in In These Times:
text: The Hollywood elitists had nominated two fraudumentaries on fake hospitals, yearning to breathe free.
ref: 2020 February 22, Miri Wood, “Health Minister Discusses Status of Syria's Actual Hospitals”, in Syria News:
glosses: A documentary about a fraud.
fraudumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraudumentary
shut of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuts of
form: shutting of
form: shut of
form: shut of
Senses: glosses: To be rid of (something or someone).
harsh down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harshes down
form: harshing down
form: harshed down
form: harshed down
Senses: glosses: To harsh, especially viciously or repeatedly; to criticize or ruin the mood of someone or something.
Furzedown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time Furzedown, Tooting, had been a Quaker village, built in the shape of a kite, five or six miles from London.
ref: 2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), page 100:
glosses: A neighbourhood of Wandsworth, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ285707).
glosses: A hamlet in King's Somborne parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3629).
brush back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brushes back
form: brushing back
form: brushed back
form: brushed back
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw a brushback pitch at (a batter).
glosses: To respond to criticism or arguments; to defend oneself against criticism.
slug out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slugs out
form: slugging out
form: slugged out
form: slugged out
Senses: examples: text: They slugged out two wins last month.
glosses: To engage in a match, fight, battle, argument or competition.
examples: text: It was a victory slugged out by the French.
qualifier: fight; battle; fight; battle
glosses: To be fought or competed.
raw_tags: of a match
examples: text: He slugged out a homerun in the second inning.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit a ball.
glosses: To write down with a typewriter.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).
glosses: To add a slug (A block of text at the beginning of a scene), write a scene with a slug or write many slugs in a script.
glosses: To add directions (such as for sound effects) to an animation script.
researchship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃˌʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃˌʃɪp/
ipa: /ɹiˈsɜɹt͡ʃ-/
ipa: /ɹə-/
ipa: /ɹɪˌsɜːt͡ʃˈʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/
ipa: /ˌɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃˈʃɪp/
ipa: /ɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃ-/
rhymes: -ɪp
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃˌʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃˌʃɪp/
ipa: /ɹiˈsɜɹt͡ʃ-/
ipa: /ɹə-/
Forms: form: researchships
Etymology: See research ship.
Senses: examples: text: Eight stations were occupied by the researchship Ryofu-Maru along the 30° N-line which crossed the Japan Trench at the vicinity of Ramapo Deep, during the period from May 12 to June 20.
ref: 1958, Japanese Contribution to the International Geophysical Year 1957/8, Tokyo: National Committee of the International Geophysical Year, Science Council of Japan, →OCLC, page 148:
text: On the new scientific researchship everything is aimed at subjecting the sea to the will of man and making ships even more reliable and comfortable, and more inhabitable, as the specialists say.
ref: 1971, Soviet Union: Daily Report, volume 71, [Reston, Va.]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC:
text: This brings to my mind the important statement which Henry [Bryant] Bigelow made when he was asked by Rockefeller foundation authorities, "What would you like to have first, a building or a researchship", and his prompt answer was "a ship".
ref: 1990, Walter Lenz, Margaret Deacon, editors, Ocean Sciences: Their History and Relation to Man: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Hamburg, 23.–29. 9, 1987 (Deutsche hydrographische Zeitschrift [German Hydrographic Journal]; no. 22), Hamburg: Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie [Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency], →OCLC, page 545:
glosses: Alternative form of research ship.
researchships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of researchship
rifle is fine
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the phrase "the rifle is fine" with the definite article removed, imitative of the stereotypical mistakes in English speech that a native speaker of a Slavic language, many of which do not have or do not frequently use articles, may make.
Originally an internet meme, popularized in a series of copypastas, posted in 2010 on the 4chan board /k/ (Weapons) by a user under the name "Ivan Chesnokov," facetiously decrying other users for wishing to add aftermarket accessories to their Kalashnikov rifles. The original Ivan Chesnokov spawned a number of imitators and humorous derivatives that helped popularize the term on 4chan and on other firearm and military-focused communities on the internet.
Senses: examples: text: You don't want a new handguard for that? ― Of course not. Rifle is fine.
glosses: Expresses the belief that something, particularly a firearm, is sufficient for its given purpose, and that any suggested improvements would be unnecessary or a detriment.
glosses: Used to mock the belief that something, particularly a firearm, is sufficient, when it is perceived by the speaker to be obviously obsolete or ineffective in the face of better alternatives offered.
research ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˌsɜːt͡ʃ ˈʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/
ipa: /ˌɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃ ˈʃɪp/
ipa: /ɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃ-/
ipa: /ɹə-/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: research ships
form: researchship
Etymology: From research (noun) + ship (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Eight stations were occupied by the researchship Ryofu-Maru along the 30° N-line which crossed the Japan Trench at the vicinity of Ramapo Deep, during the period from May 12 to June 20.
ref: 1958, Japanese Contribution to the International Geophysical Year 1957/8, Tokyo: National Committee of the International Geophysical Year, Science Council of Japan, →OCLC, page 148:
text: Experience also shows that a research ship spends from one quarter to one half of her sea time on scientific station when the sustained speed seldom exceeds 3.5 knots.
ref: 1960, Lester Rosenblatt, “The Design of Modern Oceanographic Research Ships”, in The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers: Transactions, volume 68, New York, N.Y.: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, →OCLC, page 213, column 2:
text: On the new scientific researchship everything is aimed at subjecting the sea to the will of man and making ships even more reliable and comfortable, and more inhabitable, as the specialists say.
ref: 1971, Soviet Union: Daily Report, volume 71, [Reston, Va.]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC:
text: The US research ship Glomar Challenge has conducted successful drilling experiments at a depth of 5,000 metres.
ref: 1974, Brian Johnson, Third World and Environmental Interests in the Law of the Sea, London: International Institute for Environment and Development, →OCLC, page 12:
text: This brings to my mind the important statement which Henry [Bryant] Bigelow made when he was asked by Rockefeller foundation authorities, "What would you like to have first, a building or a researchship", and his prompt answer was "a ship".
ref: 1990, Walter Lenz, Margaret Deacon, editors, Ocean Sciences: Their History and Relation to Man: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Hamburg, 23.–29. 9, 1987 (Deutsche hydrographische Zeitschrift [German Hydrographic Journal]; no. 22), Hamburg: Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie [Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency], →OCLC, page 545:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: RS
R.S.
R. S.
R/S
glosses: A ship that is designed and used for research.
Derived terms: word: R/S
word: R. S.
word: R.S.
word: RS
research ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of research ship
charm up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: charms up
form: charming up
form: charmed up
form: charmed up
Senses: glosses: To charm (someone) (to seduce, persuade or fascinate).
glosses: To charm (someone, something) (to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on).
grain up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grains up
form: graining up
form: grained up
form: grained up
Senses: glosses: To grain (something) (To texture a surface).
glosses: To grain (leather) (To make softer).
drink under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks under
form: drinking under
form: drank under
form: drunk under
Etymology: Ellipsis of drink under the table
Senses: examples: text: I've drunk him under plenty of times.
glosses: To drink more alcohol than another person, possibly to the point of that person passing out.
Owston and Newbold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (without a council) in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England, that includes the named places.
mat daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mat daisies
Senses: glosses: Endemic vascular NZ plant of the daisy family that spreads as a thick mat across the ground in alpine areas. Scientific name Raoulia tenuicaulis.
LGU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LGUs
Senses: examples: text: A special challenge is posed by local government units (LGUs) and the country’s decentralized governance system. An estimated $85 billion is required to fund preliminary LGU adaptation requirements.
ref: 2021 October 21, Department of Finance Philippines, “Philippines Goes Green”, in CNN:
text: After the Commission approves a route and any appropriate design engineering is completed, the Applicants will work with LGUs to obtain any of the following approvals, if necessary.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 27:
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of local government unit.
spaghetti up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spaghettis up
form: spaghettiing up
form: spaghettied up
form: spaghettied up
Senses: examples: text: Lines are beginning to spaghetti up on the fire ground.
ref: 2020, Jack Olsen, The Secret of Fire Five, page 51:
text: It spaghettis up my brain.
ref: 2016, Basil Eliades, 50IV, page 99:
text: Even if we could get all our tin can telephones spaghettied up to the same switchboard...
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, page 84:
glosses: To spaghetti (make or become tangled).
barankas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baranka
brambled-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brambled-up
form: most brambled-up
Senses: glosses: Overgrown with brambles.
raw_tags: of a yard or other area
char up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chars up
form: charring up
form: charred up
form: charred up
Senses: glosses: To incinerate (something) by charring.
glosses: To char (slightly burn) (something).
proffer up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proffers up
form: proffering up
form: proffered up
form: proffered up
Senses: examples: text: He's proffering up excuses.
text: They're proffering up a new contract.
text: Even children have been proffering up their nickels for the charity drive.
glosses: To proffer (something); to offer or make available (something).
intelligent disobedience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The skill of a service animal to deliberately disobey a command when the animal perceives that obeying would put the human in danger.
steel up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steels up
form: steeling up
form: steeled up
form: steeled up
Senses: examples: He steeled up before leaving the house.
glosses: To steel oneself (to harden or strengthen).
examples: She steeled up her voice.
glosses: To make steely.
examples: text: He's steeling up his courage to call her.
glosses: To gather the mental composure for (something).
flex out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flexes out
form: flexing out
form: flexed out
form: flexed out
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To respond to greater space availability by growing larger kernels (as opposed to growing at a consistent size no matter what, i.e. fixed-ear hybrids).
raw_tags: of corn plants
flex up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flexes up
form: flexing up
form: flexed up
form: flexed up
Senses: glosses: To increase a worker's work hours during on-call availability periods, as opposed to scheduled shifts.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To look good; to be dressed up so as to express one's wealth; to be blinged out; to look hard.
contronymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contronymous
form: most contronymous
Etymology: From contronym + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, not all polysemous lexemes are contronymous, although their senses may be mutually incompatible.
ref: 2008 May 6, Burcu I[lkay] Karaman, “On Contronymy”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 21, number 2, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, published June 2008, →DOI, →ISSN, page 182:
text: While [Chris] Ellis proposes it as a general term, my sense of antagonym describes a subset of the larger class of contronymous or auto-antonymic words, however that might be defined.
ref: 2013 May, David-Antoine Williams, “Poetic Antagonyms”, in The Comparatist, volume 37, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 184:
text: ḤANNA et al. (1997: 7) [ḤANNA, S. – ḤUSĀM AD-DĪN, K. – GREIS, N. (1997): Dictionary of Modern Linguistics. Beirut: Librairie du Liban Publishers.] quote some examples of ʾaḍdād from the Qurʾān such as the ‘contronymous’ verb ištarā meaning ‘buy; sell’.
ref: 2017, Yousuf B[sby] AlBader, “Polysemy and Semantic Change in the Arabic Language and Dialects”, in Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, number 66, Wiesbaden, Hesse: Harrassowitz Verlag, →DOI, →ISSN, page 89:
text: Largely consigned to the hors champ, the skin flick that is being projected seems to function merely as a pretext for cruising. Such a configuration indeed recalls the writing of Guy Hocquenghem, who similarly conceives of the screen as a “protection-prétexte” that, to adapt a Cavellian pun, screens the secrets of the filmgoing public.⁴⁹ […] 49. […] I am also referring here to the contronymous “screen” as it is memorably evoked by Stanley Cavell in The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979), 24.
ref: 2020 fall, Jules O’Dwyer, “Coming and Going: Nolot, Barthes, and the Porn Theater”, in Discourse, volume 42, number 3, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 272 and 280:
glosses: Of or being a contronym.
apple up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apples up
form: appling up
form: appled up
form: appled up
Senses: glosses: To gain the qualities of an apple (as in size or color, usually cheeks blushing red).
act of sederunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acts of sederunt
form: Act of Sederunt
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A set of rules of court governing civil procedure made as secondary legislation by the Court of Session.
acts of sederunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Acts of Sederunt
Senses: glosses: plural of act of sederunt
Act of Sederunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Acts of Sederunt
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of act of sederunt.
Acts of Sederunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Act of Sederunt
have a short memory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a short memory
form: having a short memory
form: had a short memory
form: had a short memory
Senses: glosses: To forget things quickly, especially negative things that should have an impact on one's decision.
Related terms: mind like a sieve
freedom of choice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to freely choose between different options.
misease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈiːz/
ipa: /mɪsˈiz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Middle English myssease, from Old French mesaise, from mes- (“mis-”) + aise (“ease”). Equivalent to mis- + ease. Cognate with French mésaise.
Senses: examples: text: Downe fell he ſounding, and the king, thus plaide with his miſeaſe: […]
ref: 1598, Homer, translated by George Chapman, Seaven Bookes of the Iliades of Homere, Prince of Poets, Iohn Windet, page 124:
text: And moꝛeouer, the miſeaſe of hell ſhall bee in delaute of meat and dꝛinke.
ref: 1602, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parſons tale”, in The workes of Geffray Chaucer:
text: And Nory's heart was at the tale right sair,
But her misease came frae another care:
Her heart for LINDY now began to heal,
And she's in swidder great to think him leal: […]
ref: 1812, Alexander Ross, Helenore: Or the Fortunate Shepherdess, A. Smith, page 76:
text: And therefore saith Job to God, ' Suffer, Lord, that I may a while bewail and beweep, ere I go without returning to the dark land, covered with the darkness of death ; to the land of misease and of darkness, whereas is the shadow of death; whereas is no order nor ordinance, but grisly dread that ever shall last.'
ref: 1875, Charles Cowden Clarke, The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, with notes by T. Tyrwhitt., page 196:
glosses: Suffering, distress.
Heath End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A settlement in Great Missenden parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SU8898).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Tadley parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, on the border with Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5862).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Staunton Harold parish and Ashby-de-la-Zouch parish, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SK3621).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburban village in Farnham parish, Waverley borough, Surrey, near the border with Hampshire (OS grid ref SU8449).
Khatlon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tajik Хатлон (Xatlon).
Senses: glosses: A region of Tajikistan.
cichild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: THE REACTIONS OF THE CICHILD YOUNG TOWARDS EACH OTHER
ref: 1950, Baerends, Gerard P, An introduction to the study of the ethology of Cichlid fishes:
text: A brief account is given of our existing knowledge and some new observations on the mouth-breeding Cichild fish, Tilapia mossambica
ref: 1957, Indian Fisheries Bulletin Vol 4 No. 3 July:
text: The Trewavas Nyasa Cichild (Labeotropheus trewavasae)
ref: 1969, Axelrod, Herbert R, Tropical fish as a hobby; a guide to selection, care, and breeding:
text: […]the guppy is preyed upon by other animals including larger fishes such as the blue acara and the pike cichild.
ref: 1977, Simon, Seymour, What do you want to know about guppies?:
text: The stripes on the body of the convict cichild breaks up their outline, which helps to protect them from potential predators in the wild.
ref: 2006, Harper, Don, 1956-, Aquarium fish:
glosses: Misspelling of cichlid.
takes someone at their word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take someone at their word
taking someone at their word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take someone at their word
took someone at their word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take someone at their word
taken someone at their word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take someone at their word
takes someone's word for it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take someone's word for it
taking someone's word for it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take someone's word for it
took someone's word for it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take someone's word for it
taken someone's word for it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take someone's word for it
foxsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxsnakes
Etymology: For its orange head.
Senses: glosses: Common name of three North American rat snakes of genus Pantherophis.
Derived terms: eastern fox snake
Pantherophis gloydi
Pantherophis vulpinus
western fox snake
Pantherophis ramspotti
foxsnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxsnake
fox snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox snakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foxsnake.
fox snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox snake
early Helladic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From early + Helladic.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: related to or referring to the early Bronze Age period (3000–2000 BCE)
Smisby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England, on the border with North West Leicestershire (OS grid ref SK3419).
shelf stacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelf stackers
form: shelf-stacker
Senses: synonyms: shelf filler
glosses: A person employed to fill a shop's display units with goods.
shelf filler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelf fillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shelf stacker.
synonyms: word: shelf stacker
morosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of moron + sexual
Senses: examples: text: I'm proud to identify as morosexual. I'm attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight
ref: 2018 February 24, discoursethot, dumb bitch o'clock (blog), archived from the original on 24 Mar 2018:
glosses: Attracted to unintelligent people or unintelligence.
Winham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ride hard and put away wet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides hard and puts away wet
form: riding hard and putting away wet
form: rode hard and put away wet
form: ridden hard and put away wet
Etymology: The figurative senses are extensions from the literal sense.
Senses: examples: text: I pity that new labor crew. Management is really riding them hard and putting them away wet.
text: Last week we tested the new models, and you'll want to see the results (article starts on page 25). We definitely rode them all hard and put them away wet.
glosses: To mistreat (someone or something); to not properly care for.
qualifier: literal
glosses: To ride (or drive) (a horse or a team of horses) in an excessively demanding way and then rush them back into a stable still sweaty, without a proper cooldown walk.
raw_tags: of horses
glosses: To have vigorous sex with (someone).
b&w
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Initialism of black-and-white.
Related terms: b/w
agapanthi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agapanthus
taken off one's gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take off one's gloves
post-democratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more post-democratic
form: most post-democratic
form: postdemocratic
Etymology: From post- + democratic.
Senses: examples: text: Pervasive postdemocratic attitudes and political indifference have enabled Britta Söldner and her business partner Babak Hamwi to develop a new business model. Their company Brücke (Bridge), ostensibly a therapeutic practice for patients with suicidal thoughts, is in reality just a front for an employment agency for suicide bombers.
ref: 2019, Anne Fuchs, “Epilogue: Presentist Dystopias or the Case for Environmental Humanities”, in Precarious Times (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, →DOI, page 283:
text: Bong interrogates the superficiality of the parliamentary democracy and reveals how the preexisting system of social ills and corruption has been maintained and has even intensified in postdemocratic Korean society.
ref: 2020, Nam Lee, “Introduction”, in The Films of Bong Joon Ho (Global Film Directors), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, page 8:
text: Such expressions of depoliticising solidarity can be further explained by the critical analysis of contemporary (Western) democracy as postpolitical or postdemocratic. This is because, as it seems, these statements suspend a culture of political debate and conflict in favour of questions about individual lifestyles and consumerist choices.
ref: 2022, Sebastian Garbe, “A Critique of Whiteness and Maputhusiasm in Solidarity”, in Weaving Solidarity. Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche (Edition Politik; 123), Bielefeld: transcript, →DOI, page 220:
glosses: Pertaining to a society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
post-democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-democracies
form: postdemocracy
Etymology: From post- + democracy.
Senses: examples: text: It may be that we need to conceptualize democratic authorship in less unitary and more heterarchical terms and instead approach it through a diff erent model of sover-eignty and the public sphere. Maybe we should all embrace “postdemocracy”? Or should one insist that these normative criteria of legitimacy remain necessary even in view of new global arrangements, and that, in fact, they may be in a healthy tension with these arrangements?
ref: 2017, Seyla Benhabib, “Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Law”, in Penelope Deutscher, Cristina Lafont, editors, Critical Theory in Critical Times. Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order (New Directions in Critical Theory; 7), New York City: Columbia University Press, →DOI:
text: Britta is an entrepreneur with a cool and calculating head who skillfully exploits the business opportunities of postdemocracy—her heart only beats for her most private affairs.
ref: 2019, Anne Fuchs, “Epilogue: Presentist Dystopias or the Case for Environmental Humanities”, in Precarious Times (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, →DOI, page 283:
glosses: A society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
post-democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-democracy
postdemocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postdemocracies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of post-democracy.
postdemocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postdemocracy
postdemocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postdemocratic
form: most postdemocratic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of post-democratic.
heigh-day
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Chorus. (to Peisthetairus, in a sort of self-satisfied drawling tone). Heigh-day! Why, what's the matter with ye? Sure! / Ah! well now, I calculate, you're quite astonished; […]
ref: 1839, Aristophanes, “The Birds”, in J[ohn] Hookham Frere, transl., The Acharnians and Two Other Plays of Aristophanes, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., published 1909, page 190:
glosses: Alternative form of heyday.
exodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exodium
SEOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SEO
crosses molines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Blyton. Argent, on a bend Azure, three crosses molines Gules.
ref: 1818, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe: In the Counties of Lancaster and York, to which is Subjoined, an Account of the Parish of Cartmell, page 343:
text: And at their Feet, Escocheons, with the Arms of the Church; and also Escocheons with Crosses Molines. That these, or some of them, were the Statues of Bishop William Alnwyck, seems more than probable; for he built the three Gates, and the great Window at the West End of the Church;[…]
ref: 1907, Thomas Browne, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus (1658) Certain miscellany tracts (1684) A letter to a friend (1690) Posthumous works (1712) Christian morals (1716) […] , page 416:
glosses: plural of cross moline
moline cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moline crosses
Senses: examples: text: […] a moline cross upon a shield, over which shield the words "MOLINE CROSS BRAND" appear, […]
ref: 1906, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 2421:
text: […] it is a moline cross […]
ref: 2015 February 26, James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson, The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: A cross moline.
moline crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moline cross
neuroarchaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroarcheology
Etymology: From neuro- + archaeology.
Senses: holonyms: cognitive archaeology
glosses: The application of neurosciences to solve the evolution of the past, that is to perform neuroimaging in experiments on current human brains to infer neuroactivation in archaeological records.
Derived terms: neuroarchaeological
neuroarcheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neuroarchaeology.
neuroarcheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neuroarchaeological.
neuroarchaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neuroarcheological
Etymology: From neuro- + archaeological or neuroarchaeology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to matters of neuroarchaeology.
GTFIH
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Initialism of get the fuck in here.
Related terms: BTFO
GTFO
GTFOH
GTFOHWTBS
GTFOI
GTFOOH