cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
attractiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attractivenesses
Etymology: From attractive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...
ref: 1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:
text: The plants are equally attractive when different-colored zebrinas are trained on a fan-shaped or rectangular trellis. The rose-colored flowers, of which new ones blossom each morning, add to the attractiveness of this viny, succulent herb.
ref: 2012, A. J. Oakes, Ornamental Grasses and Grasslike Plants, page 462:
glosses: The state of being attractive or engaging.
glosses: The result of being attractive.
Synonyms: attraction
attractivity
Derived terms: market attractiveness
physical attractiveness
blow the whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows the whistle
form: blowing the whistle
form: blew the whistle
form: blown the whistle
Etymology: When used idiomatically, probably an allusion to a police officer blowing his or her whistle on observing a violation of the law.
Senses: examples: text: In some jurisdictions, it is illegal to fire a person for blowing the whistle on an employer.
text: In recent months, tech journalists at The New York Times have received quite a few such messages, sent by people who claim to have unlocked hidden knowledge with the help of ChatGPT, which then instructed them to blow the whistle on what they had uncovered.
ref: 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To disclose information to the public or to appropriate authorities concerning the illegal or socially harmful actions of a person or group, especially a corporation or government agency.
raw_tags: with "on"
qualifier: team sports
glosses: To make a piercing sound which signals a referee's action or the end of a game.
Synonyms: sense: disclose information
word: tattle
word: tell on
Related terms: whistle-blower
speak truth to power
whistle-blower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle-blowers
form: whistleblower
form: whistle blower
Etymology: From whistle + blower, referring to a police officer blowing their whistle on observing a violation of the law.
Senses: examples: text: We owe it to a small group of brave whistle-blowers that we know about the infractions at all.
text: As my study proceeded, I began to see that an investigation of organizational morality should also explore managerial dissenters, so-called whistleblowers, many of whom take stands against their organizations on grounds that they define as moral.
ref: 1988, Robert Jackall, “Author's Note”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 242:
text: Usually the whistleblower is not fired outright. The organization's goal is to disconnect the act of whistleblowing from the act of retaliation, which is why so much legislation to protect whistleblowers is practically irrelevant. The usual practice is to demoralize and humiliate the whistleblower, putting him or her under so much psychological stress that it becomes difficult to do a good job.
ref: 2012, Frederick D. Lipman, Whistleblowers, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 60:
text: The huge breach of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program in June 2013 was one of the proudest moments in modern journalism, and one of the purest: A brave and disgusted whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, revealed the government’s extensive surveillance of American and foreign citizens.
ref: 2020 September 14, Ben Smith, “The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: abaddon
word: accuser
word: beefer
word: bewrayer
word: bigmouth
word: blabber
word: blabtale
word: blabtongue
word: canary
word: CI
word: finger
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: gossip
word: grass
word: informant
word: informer
word: jurat
word: leak
word: mole
word: narc
word: nark
word: nonce
word: outer
word: peacher
word: quisling
word: rat
word: ratfink
word: rooster
word: sneak
word: snitch
word: snout
word: squealer
word: state's evidence
word: stooge
word: stool pigeon
word: stoolie
word: supergrass
word: sycophant
word: tattler
word: tattletale
word: telltale tit
word: telltale
word: tout
word: whistleblower
glosses: One who reports a problem or violation to the authorities; especially, an employee or former employee who reports a violation by an employer.
Related terms: whistleblowing
blow the whistle
tattletale
violations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
Senses: glosses: plural of violation
airman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.mən/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.mən/
Forms: form: airmen
Etymology: From air + -man.
Senses: glosses: A pilot of an aircraft.
glosses: A person employed in one of several aviation-adjacent professions other than flight crew, such as a mechanic or air traffic controller.
glosses: A member of an air force.
glosses: A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above airman basic and below airman first class.
glosses: A naval seaman, especially one in the U.S. Navy, who works on and/or handles aircraft.
Derived terms: airman first class
airmanship
Tuskegee airman
Related terms: airwoman
airlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airlocks
form: air lock
form: air-lock
Etymology: From air + lock.
Senses: examples: text: At the head of the machine, we are shown the airlock through which people have to pass to work on the cutting head, as it operates under pressure to prevent leakages into the tunnel.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 42:
glosses: A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
topics: architecture
coordinate_terms: mudroom
boot room
glosses: A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
glosses: Alternative form of air lock.
whistle blower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle blowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whistle-blower.
whistleblower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistleblowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whistle-blower.
airwaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Radio-frequency electromagnetic waves, usually used in the context of wireless communication; radio waves.
examples: text: Our goal has always been to work as allies with women who do not have access to the mainstream airwaves. We have tried to provide a forum where women could speak for themselves about the issues that concern them.
ref: 1989 December 10, Melanie Berzon et al., “Boston Women's Community Radio To Break For 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 4:
text: ‘Ham’ amateur radio operators in Tiantongyuan, a community in northern Beijing, are using the airwaves to search for an elderly mum who has been missing for over a week.
ref: 2006 August 25, Xubo Jiang, “Amateur radio enthusiasts search for missing mum”, in Beijing Review, number 273, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
text: On Tuesday, Nigel took to the airwaves to say that if the eventual choice was between May’s deal or remain, he wouldn’t campaign or vote – a threat arguably without bite for at least 48% of the country.
ref: 2019, Marina Hyde, “Chris Grayling is the Berk du Soleil as Farage maps out a road to nowhere”, in Guardian:
glosses: Radio or television broadcasts.
Related terms: aired
airtime
reair
Taoist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊɪst/
/ˈtaʊɪst/
Forms: form: more Taoist
form: most Taoist
form: Daoist
form: Tauist
form: Taouist
Etymology: From Tao + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Taoist medicine follows the maxim of "first do no harm".
glosses: Relating to Taoism.
Derived terms: anti-Taoist
Taoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊɪst/
/ˈtaʊɪst/
Forms: form: Taoists
form: Daoist
form: Tauist
form: Taouist
Etymology: From Tao + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Taoism.
shepherd moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd moons
Senses: glosses: A small moon that orbits near the outer edges of a planetary ring or within gaps in the ring. The edge of the ring remains sharply defined owing to the gravity of shepherd moons.
Synonyms: shepherd satellite
incriminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ĭn-krĭm'ə-nāt'ĭng
Forms: form: more incriminating
form: most incriminating
Etymology: From incriminate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Causing, showing, or proving that one is guilty of wrongdoing.
Derived terms: nonincriminating
unincriminating
incriminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ĭn-krĭm'ə-nāt'ĭng
Etymology: From incriminate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incriminate
Related terms: incriminate
incrimination
incriminatory
planetary ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetary rings
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a ring of dust, moonlets and other matter that orbits a planet (such as Saturn) as a flat disc; gaps in the ring are due to the presence of shepherd moons
shepherd satellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd satellites
Senses: glosses: A shepherd moon.
middle-earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Middle Earth: (archaic) the Earth; (Norse mythology) Midgard.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings mythos.
pederastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pederastic
form: most pederastic
form: paederastic
form: pæderastic
Etymology: From pederast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys.
glosses: In a manner which suggests pederasty.
Derived terms: pederastically
cottaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most homosexuals have at some periods in their lives been out 'trolling' and many of them admitted to 'cottaging' in their earlier days, especially those who lived outside London where this practice seems to be much more widely established.
ref: 1960, Gordon Westwood, A Minority: A Report on the Life of the Male Homosexual in Great Britain, London: Longmans, →OCLC, page 76:
text: "MSM," a term that is reportedly English social-work jargon for "men seeking sex with men," explores the reasons why men, including heterosexuals, cruise in English lavatories, which are, believe it or not, called "cottages." The text is made up of actual interviews with those who go "cottaging."
ref: 1993 October 6, Anna Kisselgoff, “Upstart and Formal Styles in Montreal”, in The New York Times, page C14:
glosses: Sexual activity in a public lavatory, especially homosexual activity between men.
examples: text: This comparison between the commercial cottager and the private cottager begins to give us an insight into differences between the private cottager and the commercial cottager, a difference that has implications for the relation of cottaging to city life.
ref: 2004, C. Michael Hall, Dieter K. Muller, Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes, page 69:
glosses: A seasonal activity involving a prolonged stay at one or more cottages; similar to visiting, but typically for a longer duration and at a seasonal home that one owns or rents.
Related terms: cottage
cottager
fluoresce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈɹɛs/
ipa: /flʊəˈɹɛs/
ipa: /flɔˈɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
homophone: floresce
Forms: form: fluoresces
form: fluorescing
form: fluoresced
form: fluoresced
Etymology: Back-formation from fluorescence.
Senses: examples: text: The blinding light did not hurt, it filled him, he glowed, all his veins fluoresced, each one alive with new growth.
ref: 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 98:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength.
examples: text: During right robotic thymectomy, fluorescence imaging facilitates identification of the contralateral phrenic nerve by fluorescing the pericardiophrenic vessels.
ref: 2012, Oliver J. Wagner, Brian E. Louie, Eric Vallières, Ralph W. Aye, Alexander S. Farivar, “Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Can Help Identify the Contralateral Phrenic Nerve During Robotic Thymectomy”, in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, volume 94, →DOI, page 622:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent.
glosses: Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.
Derived terms: autofluoresce
autofluorescing
biofluoresce
fluorescamine
fluorescein
fluorescin
Related terms: fluorescence
fluorescent
fluorescer
fluorescently
calesce
recalesce
taligrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtælɪɡɹeɪd/
Etymology: From Latin talus (“ankle, heel”) + -grade.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Walking on the edge of its feet.
Related terms: tiptoe
Emily
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, emulator”).
Senses: examples: text: 1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale
I am thy mortal foe, and it am I
That so hot loveth Emily the bright,
That I would die here present in her sight.
text: People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily, in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming Emilys
ref: 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::
text: This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights, so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
ref: 1980, Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours — whilst hers was that muted, dusky pink, like bubblegum, like roses —
ref: 2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Emily Sisson set a new record for an American woman when she finished second at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon Sunday.
ref: 2022 October 10, Nouran Salahieh, “Emily Sisson set a record for US women at the Chicago Marathon”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: emulate
emulous
Emil
Emile
Em
Emme
Emmie
Emmy
Millie
Milly
Amelia
Emma
terminal velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminal velocities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The speed at which an object in free-fall and not in a vacuum ceases to accelerate downwards because the force of gravity is equal and opposite to the drag force acting against it.
Kambuj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kamboj.
riffraff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪfɹæf/
Forms: form: riffraffs
form: riff-raff
Etymology: From Old French rif et raf (“one and all”), of Germanic origin. The first word is from rifler (“to scrape off”) and the last is from raffler, related to rafler (“to plunder”).
Senses: examples: text: They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out.
text: Mom: [Walks away with King Pridemoor.] / King Knight: 'MOM, WAIT! ..... MOM!! *SIGH* WELL, FINALLY, THE RIFF-RAFF... AND MY MOM, ARE GONE.'
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Nintendo 3DS, scene: ending:
synonyms: word: canaille
word: commonality
word: commonalty
word: crowd
word: demos
word: everyone
word: general public
word: great unhosed
word: great unwashed
word: herd
word: hoi polloi
word: lower class
word: many
word: masses
word: mob
word: multitude
word: odds and sods
word: peasantry
word: plebs
word: populace
word: proletariat
word: rabble
word: rank and file
word: riffraff
word: third estate
word: trash
word: unwashed
word: unwashed masses
word: working class
glosses: The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.
glosses: Sweepings; refuse.
Derived terms: riffraffish
riff-raffy
Related terms: raffish
off the deep end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I told him that I'd broken the vase, and he went off the deep end.
qualifier: usually in the phrase 'go off the deep end'
glosses: Extremely angry.
examples: text: It used to be a funny comic, but lately it has gone off the deep end.
synonyms: word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
glosses: Crazy, erratic, or irrational.
Related terms: off the wall
canner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænəɹ/
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: canners
Etymology: From Middle English canner (“maker of cans”), originally from the noun canne and equivalent to can + -er (occupational suffix). The modern senses reflect other meanings of the suffix -er.
Senses: examples: text: One machine in which Mr. Taylor takes special pride is a salmon canner, which engulfs a whole salmon, decapitates and decaudates it, skins it, blows out its viscera, cuts it into pieces, deposits them in the can, sterilizes them […]
ref: 1937, Technology Review, volume 40, page 100:
glosses: Someone or something which cans.
glosses: A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
examples: text: Yet many canners told me that they can easily earn a daily wage of 20 or 30 dollars; each then recycles upward of 600 containers every day.
ref: 2007 May 27, Jon Mooallem, “The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration”, in New York Times, page 7:
text: Among the crowds are ordinary working people shopping at the Pathmark, as well as down-and-out "canners" bringing their cans and bottles to the recycling station on East 124th Street.
ref: 2009, Camilo Jose Vergara, 125th and Lex: The most complicated, disturbing, and lively intersection in New York City. A photo essay., Slate.com, December 3, 2009
glosses: Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
examples: text: Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]
ref: 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89:
coordinate_terms: cutter
glosses: An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
Derived terms: pressure canner
major diameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major diameters
Senses: glosses: The outermost or largest diameter of something that has multiple circular, cylindrical, or helical features (e.g. a screw or gear)
Related terms: minor diameter
outermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtɚmoʊst/
Forms: form: outmost
Etymology: From Middle English uttermost, uttirmest, uttermast, outemast, alteration (due to Middle English outre (“outer”)) of Old English ūtemest, ȳtemest (“outermost”), equivalent to outer + -most. Doublet of uttermost.
Senses: examples: text: He lived on the outermost edge of the city.
synonyms: word: extimate
word: uttermost
antonyms: innermost
glosses: superlative form of outer: most outer; farthest outside; as far from the center or inside as possible.
Related terms: outermore
outermost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtɚmoʊst/
Forms: form: outermosts
form: outmost
Etymology: From Middle English uttermost, uttirmest, uttermast, outemast, alteration (due to Middle English outre (“outer”)) of Old English ūtemest, ȳtemest (“outermost”), equivalent to outer + -most. Doublet of uttermost.
Senses: examples: text: Observe, the Analytical course is from outermosts to innermosts, from effects to causes […]
ref: 1845, C. P. Bronson, Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy:
glosses: That which is outermost.
California stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California stops
form: Californian stop
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rolling stop.
synonyms: word: rolling stop
smoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: smo͞ot
ipa: /smuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: smoots
Etymology: Derives from the height of Oliver R. Smoot, who had lain on the Harvard Bridge to measure it as a fraternity prank at MIT.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Greater Boston
glosses: A unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches (approximately 1.70 meters).
smoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: smo͞ot
ipa: /smuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: smoots
form: smoat
form: smout
form: smeut
form: smot
form: smut
form: smute
form: smeyut
Etymology: From Middle English *smote, *smotte, from Old Norse smátta (“narrow passageway, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *smēhtǭ (“narrow path”), from Proto-Germanic *smēhaz (“small, narrow”).
Senses: glosses: A small opening built into a dry-stone wall, fence, or hedge to allow sheep (and hares) to pass through; a thirl.
pentasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpen.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Etymology: Late Latin pentasyllabos + English -ic
Senses: examples: text: ‘Pentasyllabic’ is a pentasyllabic word.
glosses: Having five syllables.
Synonyms: quinquesyllabic
Related terms: polysyllabic
pentasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpen.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Forms: form: pentasyllabics
Etymology: Late Latin pentasyllabos + English -ic
Senses: glosses: A word of five syllables; a pentasyllable.
oh oh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uh-oh.
oh-oh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒ.əʊ/
ipa: [ˈɒʔ˦əʊ˨]
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uh-oh.
minor diameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor diameters
Senses: glosses: The innermost diameter of a cylindrical, circular, or helical feature, such as a screw thread, gear teeth, etc.
Related terms: major diameter
innermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnɚmoʊst/
Forms: form: inmost
Etymology: From Middle English innermost, innermest, in-nermast, alteration (due to Middle English inner, innere (“inner”)) of Old English innemest (“innermost”), equivalent to inner + -most.
Senses: examples: text: She poured her innermost feelings into her journal.
text: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: superlative form of inner: most inner; the very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part.
Derived terms: innermostly
innermostness
innermost stable circular orbit
innermost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnɚmoʊst/
Forms: form: innermosts
form: inmost
Etymology: From Middle English innermost, innermest, in-nermast, alteration (due to Middle English inner, innere (“inner”)) of Old English innemest (“innermost”), equivalent to inner + -most.
Senses: examples: text: […] he had decided to not seek outside of himself where companionship and friendliness might be a soothing submergence. It seemed he had instead chosen to turn deeply inwards, towards the measures and pains of his wracked innermosts.
ref: 1977, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Spirit of Michael Webfoot, page 10:
glosses: That which is innermost; the core.
shish kebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɪʃkəˈbæb/
ipa: /ˈʃɪʃkəbɑb/
Forms: form: shish kebabs
form: shishkebab
form: shish kabob
form: shish kebob
form: shishkabob
form: shish kabab
form: shishkebob
Etymology: From Turkish şiş kebap, from şiş (“skewer”) + kebap (“kebab”).
Senses: examples: text: “That’s terrible,” Mel said. “That’s a terrible thing, Nicky. I guess they’d just lay there and wait until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.”
ref: 1981, Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire.
examples: text: The fibrillar crystals, which are known as shish-kebabs, develop when a 0.5% solution of polyethylene in xylene is cooled off at the rate of 1°C per hour with stirring…
ref: 1968, A. J. Pennings, Liquid-Crystal Phase Separation in Polymer Solutions, from Characterization of Macromolecular Structure, proceedings of a conference April 5–7, 1967, Warrenton, Virginia, page 219
text: A shish-kebab polymer crystal usually consists of a central fibril (shish) and disk-shaped folded-chain lamellae (kebab) oriented perpendicularly to the shish as shown in Fig. 18.3a.
ref: 2007, Lingyu Li, Bing Li, Steve L. Kodjie, and Christopher Y. Li, Polyolefin Composites, ed. Domasius Nwabunma and Thein Kyu, chapter 18 Crystallization Behavior of Polyethylene/Carbon Nanotube Composites, section 18.3.1 PE/CNT Nanohybrid Shish-Kebabs Via Solution Crystallization, page 528
text: Such a shish-kebab-like crystal morphology is often called shish-kebab crystals.
ref: 2013, Wenbing Hu, Polymer Physics: A Molecular Approach, section 10.3 Crystalline Structures of Polymers, page 207
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystal structure consisting of a central spine (the shish) and disks or lumps growing out from it (the kebab).
Related terms: kafta kebab
seekh kebab
souvlaki
arteriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arterioles
Etymology: From French artériole, from Latin arteriola, from Latin artēria.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the small branches of an artery, especially one that connects with capillaries.
Synonyms: arteriola
capillary artery
Derived terms: arteriolar
arteriolopathy
efferent arteriole
metarteriole
microarteriole
postarteriole
infectious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɛk.ʃəs/
Forms: form: more infectious
form: most infectious
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin īnfectiōsus. By surface analysis, infect + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: Cancer is usually not infectious.
text: More infectious diseases like the flu are usually less potent.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
raw_tags: of an illness
examples: text: Despite feeling better, the patient is still infectious.
text: I doubt that [saliva] is very infectious ... I don't think this is a normal route of transmission.
ref: 1981 December 1, Sue Hyde, quoting Paul Black, “AIDS Update: Little To Cheer About”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 3:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
qualifier: typically of a person
glosses: Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
examples: text: Her enthusiasm for work can be really infectious.
text: When Maisie first met Danny, she remembers that he had an infectious laugh and a love for music.
ref: 2024 November 20, Fortesa Latifi, “How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never”, in Teen Vogue:
glosses: Spreading quickly from one person to another.
raw_tags: of feelings and behaviour
examples: text: Pop music is more infectious than elevator music.
glosses: Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
Derived terms: agroinfectious
antiinfectious
bovine infectious petechial fever
feline infectious peritonitis
hyperinfectious
infection
infectious abortion
infectious agent
infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
infectious disease
infectious disease specialist
infectiously
infectious mononucleosis
infectiousness
neuroinfectious
parainfectious
postinfectious
preinfectious
pseudoinfectious
reinfectious
subinfectious
superinfectious
toxicoinfectious
uninfectious
arterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From artery + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an artery.
qualifier: road or street
glosses: Major, important.
raw_tags: of a route
Derived terms: alloarterial
alveoloarterial
arterial blood gas
arterial bulb
arterial gland
arterialise
arterialization
arterialize
arterial line
arterially
arterial road
arterial street
bronchoarterial
cardioarterial
cerebroarterial
endarterial
endoarterial
eparterial
hyparterial
interarterial
intraarterial
microarterial
musculoarterial
neuromyoarterial
nonarterial
paraarterial
periarterial
subarterial
transarterial
valvuloarterial
venoarterial
ventriculoarterial
vertebrarterial
vertebroarterial
arterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arterials
Etymology: From artery + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Arterial ends here.
glosses: A high-capacity urban road.
dermatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɜː(ɹ)m.əˈtaɪ.tɪs/
Forms: form: dermatitises
form: dermatitides
form: dermatites
form: dermitis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δερματῖτις (dermatîtis), from δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”), from δέρω (dérō, “to skin, flay”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the skin.
Hypernyms: dermatosis
Hyponyms: english: usually hyponymous, sometimes synonymous; see explanation
translation: usually hyponymous, sometimes synonymous; see explanation
word: eczema
Derived terms: acarodermatitis
acroangiodermatitis
acrodermatitis
actinodermatitis
angiodermatitis
antidermatitis
atopic dermatitis
berlock dermatitis
berloque dermatitis
chemical dermatitis
chondrodermatitis
Club Med dermatitis
dermatitic
dermatitis artefacta
dermatitis bullosa striata pratensis
dermatitis herpetiformis
erythrodermatitis
hypodermatitis
meadow dermatitis
meadow grass dermatitis
neurodermatitis
photodermatitis
phytophotodermatitis
pododermatitis
radiodermatitis
sabra dermatitis
seaweed dermatitis
Related terms: rash
muscovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscovites
Etymology: In 1850 from Muscovy glass + -ite, from the province Muscovy in Russia. Named by James Dwight Dana.
Senses: examples: text: Do you enjoy the amber glow seen through the isinglass window of a wood stove? […] Muscovite (colorless, white, or pale red or green) mica is also common[…]; it was named for Moskva (Moscow), where much of Europe's mica was mined. Isinglass, mentioned above, consists of thin, transparent sheets of muscovite.
ref: 2009, James S. Monroe, Reed Wicander, The Changing Earth: Exploring Geology and Evolution, 5th edition, Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, →ISBN, page 76:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pale brown mineral of the mica group, being a basic potassium aluminosilicate with the chemical formula KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH,F)₂; used as an electrical insulator etc.
Derived terms: boromuscovite
hydromuscovite
muscovitic
mormon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mormons
Senses: glosses: Any of various dark-coloured Asian species of papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.
eczema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɪm.ə/
ipa: /ˈɛks.mə/
ipa: /ˈɛɡ.zɪm.ə/
ipa: /ˈɛɡz.mə/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzi.mə/
ipa: /ˈɛɡ.zəm.ə/
ipa: /ˈɛk.səm.ə/
rhymes: -ɛksɪmə
rhymes: -ɛɡzɪmə
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: eczemata
form: eczemas
form: eczma
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzemă, “cutaneous eruption”), from ἐκζέω (ekzéō, “to boil out, break out”) + -μᾰ (-mă, nominal suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.
Synonym of atopic dermatitis.
hypernyms: dermatitis
synonyms: word: atopic dermatitis
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.
Synonym of dermatitis.
hypernyms: dermatosis
synonyms: word: dermatitis
Derived terms: antieczema
atopic eczema
eczemalike
eczema madidans
eczema rubrum
eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome
eczematic
eczematization
eczematoid
eczematous
eczemic
housewife's eczema
rectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛktəm/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkˌtʌm/
rhymes: -ɛktəm
Forms: form: recta
form: rectums
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin rectum, clipping of Latin rectum intestinum (literally “the straight intestine”), rectum, neuter of rectus (“straight”). See right.
Senses: examples: text: Using an alcohol enema involves placing a small tube into someone’s rectum and pouring alcohol into the colon. Because the alcohol is absorbed directly into the bloodstream, the recipient gets drunk faster.
ref: 2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.
Derived terms: per rectum
vas rectum
rectal
Related terms: word: latus rectum
english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: nomen rectum
latus rectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latera recta
form: latus rectums
Etymology: Latin latus (“side”) + rectum (“right”)
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis.
Ltd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ltd..
Ltd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ltd..
all-rounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-rounders
form: all-arounder
form: all rounder
Etymology: From earlier all-round (“versatile”) + -er, sense “versatile person” from 1875.
Senses: glosses: A versatile person, able to do many things well; used especially in reference to being good at various sports.
examples: text: An all-rounder is a player who can bat and bowl. A genuine all-rounder should be able to make the team on either skill alone. A genuine one is as rare as a punctual Sri Lankan.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 26:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who is skilled in both batting and bowling.
glosses: A shirt collar going all round the neck and meeting in front.
Related terms: all-round
boffin
dab hand
standee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stanˈdiː/
ipa: /stænˈdi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: standees
Etymology: From stand + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Recently I received a letter from Mr. A. H. Maclean, who travelled north by the 11-coach "Flying Scotsman", and remarked that the train "was filled to capacity and we were forced to stand in the corridor"—for nearly 270 miles— [...] Obviously the diesel was working well below her load capacity on this schedule and some addition to the formation ought to have been made to accommodate the standees.
ref: 1959 September, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 430–431:
glosses: Somebody who is forced to stand up, for example, on a crowded bus.
examples: text: He took a picture of me with a standee of Darth Vader at the premiere of Star Wars: Episode III.
synonyms: cut-out
glosses: A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), for instance of a celebrity, often displayed for advertising and promotional purposes.
examples: text: I've always found the best thing to do with standees is to stick a small strip of clear tape to the edge of the cardboard that will be inserted into the stand. This prevents the shredding/tearing problem.
ref: 2009 March 4, Martin Manning, BoardGameGeek:
glosses: A board game piece made of cardboard inserted into a plastic base.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of stackable bunk for sleeping.
tiptoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪpˌtəʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɪpˌtʰəʊ̯]
ipa: /ˈtɪpˌtoʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɪpˌtʰoʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪptəʊ
Forms: form: tiptoes
form: tip-toe
form: tippytoe
form: tippy-toe
Etymology: From Middle English tipto, typto; equivalent to tip + toe. Compare fingertip.
Senses: glosses: The tip of the toe.
Derived terms: atiptoe
on tiptoe
tiptoe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪpˌtəʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɪpˌtʰəʊ̯]
ipa: /ˈtɪpˌtoʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɪpˌtʰoʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪptəʊ
Forms: form: tip-toe
form: tippytoe
form: tippy-toe
Etymology: From Middle English tipto, typto; equivalent to tip + toe. Compare fingertip.
Senses: examples: text: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
text: And ever as they talked Beregond was more amazed, and looked with greater wonder at the hobbit, swinging his short legs as he sat on the seat, or standing tiptoe upon it to peer over the sill at the lands below.
ref: 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 39:
glosses: Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
examples: text: with tiptoe step
ref: 1782, William Cowper, Expostulation:
text: And stole along on tiptoe tread
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, The Prophecy of Dante:
glosses: Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
Derived terms: atiptoe
tiptoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪpˌtəʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɪpˌtʰəʊ̯]
ipa: /ˈtɪpˌtoʊ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɪpˌtʰoʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪptəʊ
Forms: form: tiptoes
form: tiptoeing
form: tiptoed
form: tiptoed
form: tip-toe
form: tippytoe
form: tippy-toe
Etymology: From Middle English tipto, typto; equivalent to tip + toe. Compare fingertip.
Senses: examples: text: We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Tiptoe through the window
By the window, that is where I'll be
Come tiptoe through the tulips with me
Tiptoe from your pillow
To the shadow of the willow tree
And tiptoe through the tulips with me.
ref: 1929, “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”, Al Dubin (lyrics), Joe Burke (music), performed by Nick Lucas:
text: Who can it be knocking at my door?
Make no sound, tiptoe across the floor
If he hears, he'll knock all day
I'll be trapped and here I'll have to stay
ref: 1981, Men at Work, “Who Can It Be Now?”, in Business as Usual:
glosses: To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
Derived terms: tiptoe around
tiptoeingly
tiptoer
tiptoe through a minefield
tiptoe around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tiptoes around
form: tiptoeing around
form: tiptoed around
form: tiptoed around
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tiptoe, around.
glosses: To act very cautiously about something; to avoid speaking about a painful or controversial issue.
life-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lifesize
form: life-sized
Etymology: From life + size.
Senses: examples: text: Many consider the life-size painting of King Peter to be one of the artist's best works.
coordinate_terms: larger than life
qualifier: especially pictures; statues; especially pictures; statues
glosses: The same size as the real thing.
raw_tags: of any representation
UNO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: U.N.O.
form: U. N. O.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United Nations Organization.
UNO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: To be able to profit from the moment of playfulness we combined the card-game UNO with some additional question cards following the standard rules of the game. We chose this well-known card game as basis, because it is easy to play for children, but also addresses adults.
ref: 2007 Regina Bernhaupt, Astrid Weiss, Marianna Obrist and Manfred Tscheligi, “Playful Probing: Making Probing More Fun”, Human-computer interaction—INTERACT 2007, volume 1, page 610
text: Everybody knows how to play UNO but this time there’s a twist, every time you get a ‘Skip’ or ‘Draw’ card you have to take a shot of this …
ref: 2010, Marlon McCaulsky, “Real Love”, in Marlon McCaulsky, Jarold Imes, Love & Life, Winston-Salem, N.C.: Abednego’s Free, LLC, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Drinking UNO- November 10ᵗʰ 1994), page 27:
text: You will get a reverse card in UNO (YESN’T) and then you will eat chicken legs.
ref: 2020 winter, Tito S., Vicente M., “Horoscopes”, in The Good Times, volume XI, number III, Los Angeles, Calif.: 826LA, Journalism Workshop:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Uno (“card game”).
tantalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantalates
Etymology: From tantalic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of tantalic acid.
Derived terms: fluorotantalate
fluotantalate
lithium tantalate
metatantalate
uranotantalite
Related terms: tantalite
DAB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of digital audio broadcasting.
DAB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (a pro-Beijing political party in the HKSAR).
diss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: disses
form: dissing
form: dissed
form: dissed
form: dis
Etymology: Originated in Jamaican English or African American Vernacular English, probably originally a clipping of disrespect or disparage, both from the prefix dis-, ultimately from Latin dis-.
Senses: examples: text: When a journalistic rival tries to "dis" you
And to prejudice you in the public's eyes.
Don't stigmatise his charges as a "tissue
Of palpable, unmitigated lies."
ref: 1905, 10 December, The Sunday Times (Perth), "A New Word", page 4
glosses: To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.
diss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: disses
form: dis
Etymology: Originated in Jamaican English or African American Vernacular English, probably originally a clipping of disrespect or disparage, both from the prefix dis-, ultimately from Latin dis-.
Senses: glosses: An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect.
Synonyms: word: send
Related terms: diss song
diss track
diss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: disses
form: dis
Etymology: Clipping of dissertation
Senses: examples: text: I've been wondering what happens if I fail my diss. I know i'm allowed to fail 60 credits but I don't think that includes the diss.
ref: 2012 April 5, shkbop9190, “Failing a Dissertation”, in The Student Room Forums, retrieved 01 Dec 2016:
glosses: Dissertation.
diss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: dis
Etymology: From Arabic دِيس (dīs).
Senses: glosses: Ampelodesmos mauritanicus syn. Ampelodesmos tenax, a reedy grass used for cordage.
Related terms: nem diss
vicereine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vʌɪsɹeɪn/
ipa: /ˈvʌɪsɹɛn/
Forms: form: vicereines
form: vice-reine
Etymology: From French vice-reine, from vice- + reine (“queen”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘I can't imagine anything I'd like better than to be Vicereine of India,’ said the Princess.
ref: 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 19:
glosses: The wife of a viceroy.
glosses: A woman who is a viceroy.
Coordinate terms: viceroy
Related terms: Regina
viceregal
viceregally
viceroyal
viceroyalty
viceroyship
double whammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌbl̩ ˈ(h)wæmi/
ipa: /ˌdʌb(ə)l ˈ(h)wæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: double whammies
form: double-whammy
Etymology: From double + whammy (“evil spell; curse or hex”), popularized by the American cartoonist Al Capp (1909–1979), in his classic comic strip Li’l Abner (1934–1977).
Senses: examples: text: Australia had looked the brighter side initially, probing for gaps in England’s defensive spacing and taking an early lead via Christian Lealiifano's first successful penalty. Their opponents took a while to make any kind of consistent front-foot impression before [Jonny] May's double whammy inside four minutes banished their jangling nerves.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2022:
glosses: A series of two events that causes adverse effects; a twofold blow or setback.
glosses: A series of two events that causes positive effects; a twofold boon.
Related terms: triple whammy
double-trouble