cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forever and a day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Possibly a folk-etymological alteration of forever and ay.
Senses: examples: text: I'll love you forever and a day.
text: If this be not that you looke for, I haue no more to ſay, / But bid Bianca farewell for euer and a day.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 225, column 2:
text: What you gonna do when you just found forever? / Where you gonna get to when you can't get it together? / Forever and a day
ref: 2001, Ian Brown, Francis Dunnery, “Forever and a Day”, in Music of the Spheres, performed by Ian Brown:
text: I went to the front yard, talked for maybe two more hours with Colombina and Rosita, his caretaker, and then we had to leave, but Nicanor still had enough material for forever and a day.
ref: 2018 February 2, Alejandro Zambra, “Remembering Nicanor Parra, the Almost Immortal Chilean Poet”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023:
text: Honestly, I had acne forever and a day and just struggled to find a routine that addressed my sensitive skin and so I made it!
ref: 2023 November 17, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, episode 1878, spoken by Scarlett Johansson:
synonyms: for ever and ever
forever and forever
forever and ay
a year and a day
glosses: For a very long or seemingly endless time.
Uyghurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Uyghur
preves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preve
previse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: previses
form: prevising
form: prevised
form: prevised
Etymology: From Latin praevisus, the past participle of praevideō.
Senses: examples: text: try to divine the inevitable fortunes of your friends, and of the leaders and rulers of nations; endeavour to previse and forewarn; and study proleptics.
ref: 1873, Joseph Simms, An Original and Illustrated Physiological and Physiognomical Chart:
glosses: To foresee.
glosses: To forewarn.
previses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of previse
frontiersmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frontiersman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The craft or skill of being a frontiersman, of succeeding in settling a frontier.
summonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From summon + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be summoned.
summonable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summonables
Etymology: From summon + -able.
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: A creature that may be summoned into existence.
pulseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pulse + -less.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having no pulse.
Derived terms: pulselessness
pulseless disease
pulseless electrical activity
àpropos
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more àpropos
form: most àpropos
Senses: examples: text: Here was a chance of complimenting her daughter; but I was too stupid to find anything àpropos to say, and only knew how to insist upon my cousin’s merits and charms.
ref: 1871, Maurice Sand [pseudonym; Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant], translated by S[ophia] A. Da Ponte, “Mark’s Journal”, in Callirhoé. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, →OCLC, part I, page 49:
glosses: Alternative form of apropos.
textboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textbox
sniggery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sniggery
form: most sniggery
Etymology: From snigger + -y.
Senses: glosses: Prone to sniggering.
barky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹki/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: barkier
form: barkiest
Etymology: From bark + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This drink has a barky taste.
text: It was a very barky tree.
glosses: Having bark.
raw_tags: of a tree
examples: a barky dog
glosses: Prone to bark, to make the sound of a dog.
examples: text: She has a barky cough.
glosses: Sounding like the bark of a dog.
beclothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beclothes
form: beclothing
form: beclothed
form: beclothed
Etymology: From be- + clothe, perhaps continuing Middle English *beclothen, *beclathen, *beclethen (suggested by Middle English bycladde (“dressed, clad”)), from Old English *beclǣþan, *beclāþian (“to put on clothing, clothe about”), from Proto-West Germanic *biklaiþijan, *biklaiþōn (“to clothe about”). Compare Saterland Frisian bekloodje (“to beclothe”), West Frisian beklaaie (“to beclothe”), Dutch bekleden (“to beclothe”), German Low German bekleden (“to beclothe”), German bekleiden (“to beclothe”), Danish beklæde (“to beclothe”), Swedish bekläda (“to beclothe”).
Senses: glosses: To clothe about; put clothes on someone or something; wrap or cover in clothing.
Synonyms: dight
don
dress
clothe
beigy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beigier
form: beigiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beigey.
bilgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪld͡ʒi/
Forms: form: bilgier
form: bilgiest
form: bilgey
Etymology: From bilge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Containing, or resembling, bilge.
brothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: brothier
form: brothiest
Etymology: From broth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The brothy taste of tea brew originates in the amino acids fraction […]
ref: 2012, K. C. Willson, M. N. Clifford, Tea: Cultivation to Consumption, page 42:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of broth.
Derived terms: brothiness
buckeroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckeroos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buckaroo.
braless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bra + -less.
Senses: examples: text: To be more comfortable, her sister suggested to going to the store braless under her sweatshirt.
text: I find bras totally uncomfortable, hot and itchy, for both work and leisure. But looking around, I seem to be in the minority. What are the rules for going braless? Is it OK to show my nips, or is it rude?
ref: 2023 August 28, Vanessa Friedman, quoting Eddye, Madison, Wis., “Are There Any Rules About Going Braless?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Not wearing a bra.
Derived terms: bralessness
Related terms: freeboob
go commando
topless
bralessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From braless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She soon discovered that bralessness was not practical when running.
glosses: The state of being braless, or not wearing a bra.
toplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From topless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She soon discovered that the customers preferred toplessness to cheaper drinks.
text: The ruling rejected the city's concern that striking down the ordinance would lead to women "parading in front of elementary schools or swimming topless in the public pool." The nearby communities of Boulder and Denver allow female toplessness, but there was no evidence of "any harmful fallout" in those cities, the court said.
ref: 2019 September 19, Pete Williams, “Topless women win big as Colorado city drops ban”, in NBC News:
glosses: The state of being topless (not covering one's torso with garments).
Related terms: topfreedom
buffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: buffier
form: buffiest
Etymology: From buff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A small sandpiper with rather buffy upper parts[…]
ref: 1966, Bulletin, number 203, page 154:
glosses: Of a buff color.
Derived terms: buffiness
buffy coat
buffy fish owl
erme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ermes
form: erming
form: ermed
form: ermed
Etymology: From Middle English, from ermen, from Old English yrman. See yearn.
Senses: synonyms: word: lament
word: mourn
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
glosses: To grieve; to feel sad.
damascene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Inlaid with silver or gold.
glosses: Of or from Damascus.
damascene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: damascenes
form: damascening
form: damascened
form: damascened
Senses: glosses: To decorate (metalwork) with a peculiar marking or water produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or encrusting with another metal, such as silver or gold, or by etching, etc.; to damask.
Synonyms: damaskeen
damasken
Derived terms: damascener
damascene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damascenes
Senses: examples: text: As Emily was carrying one of the jars, she perceived that it was tied down so loosely that she could put in her finger and get at the fruit. Accordingly she took out one of the damascenes, and ate it[…]
ref: 1818, Mary Martha Sherwood, The History of the Fairchild Family:
glosses: Archaic form of damson.
glosses: A pigeon of a certain breed.
ensemblist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensemblists
Etymology: From ensemble + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who performs in an ensemble.
glosses: A musician specializing in ensemble performances.
gunpowderish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gunpowderish
form: most gunpowderish
Etymology: From gunpowder + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of gunpowder.
consumptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consumptively
form: most consumptively
Etymology: From consumptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a consumptive manner.
undiscoverably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From un- + discover + -able + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undiscoverable manner.
misconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪs.kɒn.dʒəɡ.ɪt/
ipa: /mɪs.kɒn.dʒəɡ.eɪt/
Forms: form: misconjugates
form: misconjugating
form: misconjugated
form: misconjugated
Etymology: From mis- + conjugate.
Senses: examples: text: The schoolboy was scolded for misconjugating a Latin verb.
hypernyms: misinflect
coordinate_terms: misdecline
glosses: To conjugate (a verb) incorrectly.
configurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of configurate
exhaustingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exhaustingly
form: most exhaustingly
Etymology: From exhausting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exhausting manner.
galactic year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactic years
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The time taken for the Solar System to orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, estimated to be from 225 to 250 million years.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The time taken for a celestial body to complete a quasi-orbit in a galaxy.
Synonyms: cosmic year
miscorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscorrects
form: miscorrecting
form: miscorrected
form: miscorrected
Etymology: From mis- + correct.
Senses: examples: text: A proofreader that does not know foreign languages is likely to miscorrect Latin words.
glosses: To correct erroneously; to make a mistake in attempting to correct another mistake.
commensurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commensurabilities
Etymology: From French commensurabilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being commensurable or commensurate
poiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poieses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”). Doublet of poesy.
Senses: examples: text: Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis.
ref: 2017, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: An act or process of creation.
Derived terms: -poiesis
Related terms: poietic
esthesis
transformability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transform + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being transformable.
Megaera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μέγαιρα (Mégaira, “the jealous one”), from μεγαίρω (megaírō, “to grudge, envy”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Alecto
Tisiphone
glosses: One of the Furies, Erinyes in Greek mythology, the cause of jealousy and envy, who punishes people who commit crimes, especially marital infidelity.
business administration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
education
glosses: A course of study in higher education intended to prepare the students for a career in business.
sensel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensels
Etymology: Blend of sensor + cell or sensor and element, by analogy to pixel
Senses: glosses: A single sensor element of an array of sensors, such as in a charge-coupled device.
anovulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + ovulatory.
Senses: glosses: Not ovulatory; characterized by anovulation (a lack of ovulation).
viator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/
ipa: /vaɪˈeɪ.tɔɹ/
ipa: /vʌɪˈeɪtə/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: viators
form: viatores
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”).
Senses: examples: text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
text: [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress.
ref: , University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press, page 25
text: ... theological virtues and of the whole supernatural life in God on account of sanctifying grace. Aquinas understands the viator in the state of grace in […]
ref: 2019, Reinhard Hütter, Bound for Beatitude A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: A wayfarer, traveler.
examples: text: The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.
ref: 1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198:
glosses: An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.
examples: text: […] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]
ref: 2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN:
text: Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]
ref: 2020, Deborah Bouchoux, Christine Sgarlata Chung, Business Organizations Law in Focus, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 711:
glosses: A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.
viators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viator
coheirship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coheir + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a coheir
off one's game
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: One fellow I knew once was off his game the whole first half because some idiot was flying a kite over the field advertising some one's pills.
ref: c. 1910, Ralph Henry Barbour, “The Dub”, in The New Boy at Hilltop and Other Stories:
text: Then the latter, as every golfer does at times, suddenly went right off his game.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, “A Woman is only a Woman”, in The Clicking of Cuthbert:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Playing or competing below one's usual level of performance.
raw_tags: of a competitor
examples: text: Big Bertha, the crowd-pleasing sand tiger shark who survived an astonishing four decades at the New York Aquarium, has died. "She was off her game. She slowed down. She wasn't quite right," said Hans Walters, the animal department supervisor.
ref: 2008 April 2, Tracy Connor, "'Mellow' shark dies," Daily News (New York) (retrieved 9 Sep. 2008)
text: Adam found himself answering the viewer's questions while also trying to cook—which threw him off his game.
ref: 2008 July 28, Christopher Rocchio, “Aaron McCargo Jr. wins The Next Food Network Star's fourth season”, in Reality TV World, retrieved 09 Sep 2008:
antonyms: on one's game
glosses: Performing in any activity below one's usual level; behaving in an irregular, inept, or awkward manner; feeling unwell.
pentice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentices
Etymology: From Middle English pentis, pendize, and other spellings; from Anglo-Norman pentiz, aphetic of Old French apentis (“appendage, attached building”), from Medieval Latin appendicium, from Latin appendo (“to hang”). Doublet of appentice and penthouse.
Senses: synonyms: appentice
pent#Noun
glosses: An extension of a building's roof and the protected area beneath.
glosses: A covered walkway.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An unexcavated portion of a shaftway, intended to afford protection from falling debris to workers at the bottom of the shaft during certain stages of mining.
Derived terms: penticed
Related terms: penthouse
uncate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncate
form: most uncate
Senses: glosses: uncinate
love-bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love-bites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of love bite.
underachieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underachieve
underachieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underachieve
underachieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underachieve
ecologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecology
elaborations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaboration
egg-white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egg-white
form: most egg-white
Senses: glosses: Having the color of egg whites.
glosses: Made of egg whites.
eggwhites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggwhite
eggwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggwhites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of egg white.
egg whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg white
egosurfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of egosurf
egosurfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of egosurf
empresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empress
glosses: plural of empresse
empresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empress
triungulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triungula
form: triungulins
Etymology: From tri- + Latin ungula (“claw”) + -in.
Senses: glosses: The first-instar planidial larva of certain species of parasitoidal beetle; so named because the triungulin has three claws on each foot.
glosses: Loosely speaking, the first-instar of any of various other insect parasites or parasitoids with a similar life cycle. The strictly correct general term is planidium
Synonyms: planidium
exculpates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exculpate
exculpating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exculpate
exculpated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exculpate
emendations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emendation
entrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of entrench
erects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of erect
forget-me-nots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forget-me-not
nonconsolidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + consolidated.
Senses: topics: business
finance
financial
glosses: Including the financial data of only the parent company.
Israelitess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Israelitesses
Etymology: From Israelite + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female Israelite.
red ring of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red rings of death
Etymology: Derived from blue screen of death, a type of failure on a personal computer running Microsoft Windows.
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: RRoD
RROD
glosses: A fatal hardware exception in the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console characterised by three or four red indicator LEDs around the power button.
wikipedia: Microsoft Windows
Xbox 360
Derived terms: word: red ring
Related terms: yellow light of death
pseudoscalar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoscalars
Etymology: From pseudo- + scalar.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantity that behaves like a scalar, but changes sign under a parity inversion
vector boson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vector bosons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a family of gauge bosons having a spin quantum number of one.
Coordinate terms: scalar boson
Derived terms: intermediate vector boson
midget tossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dwarf tossing.
synonyms: word: dwarf tossing
selectron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selectrons
Etymology: From s- + electron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A slepton which is the hypothetical supersymmetric partner of an electron.
slepton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleptons
Etymology: From s- + lepton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical boson superpartner of a lepton whose existence is implied by supersymmetry.
Derived terms: antislepton
sleptonic
sleptons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slepton
sneutrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneutrinos
Etymology: From s- + neutrino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical boson superpartner of a neutrino whose existence is implied by supersymmetry
smuon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smuons
Etymology: From s- + muon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical boson superpartner of a muon whose existence is implied by supersymmetry
smuons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smuon
sneutrinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneutrino
carnaval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑɹnəˈvɑl/
Forms: form: carnavals
Etymology: From Spanish carnaval, Portuguese carnaval. Doublet of carnival.
Senses: glosses: One of various large carnivals held before the beginning of Lent, especially in Latin America.
carnaval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑɹnəˈvɑl/
Forms: form: carnavals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of carnival.
mussites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mussite
nater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naters
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nature.
insidiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insidiates
form: insidiating
form: insidiated
form: insidiated
Etymology: From Latin insidiatus, past participle of insidiare (“to lie in ambush”), from insidiae. See insidious.
Senses: examples: text: he afterwards long sought all advantages how to insidiate his life
ref: 1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin […] :
glosses: To lie in ambush for.
osteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + -al.
Senses: glosses: bony
Derived terms: otosteal
periosteal
have-a-go hero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: have-a-go heroes
Senses: examples: text: Jack Straw today admitted that he was "always uneasy" about the government's refusal to offer greater protection for have-a-go-heroes as he explained plans to review the laws on self-defence.
ref: 2007 September 27, Deborah Summers, “Straw reveals past as have-a-go hero”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An ordinary member of the public who intervenes, often at personal risk, to stop a troublemaker, hooligan or ne'er-do-well in the act of committing a crime.
bumkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumkins
form: boomkin
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short outrigger projecting from the side of the aft part of a square-rigged sailing ship, used as an attachment point for a rope (brace) used to set a yard-arm at different angles to a mast so to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind.
clayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clayish
form: most clayish
Etymology: From clay + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling clay.
glosses: Containing clay.
Synonyms: clayey
Derived terms: clayishness
DRCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Dynamic Rapid Configuration Protocol, and extension of DHCP.
glosses: Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions
pathologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pathologizes
form: pathologizing
form: pathologized
form: pathologized
form: pathologise
Etymology: From pathology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: medicalize
text: Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder.
text: Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.
ref: 2001 December 16, Melanie Thernstrom, “Pain, the Disease”, in The New York Times, retrieved 12 Jul 2011:
text: To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.
ref: 2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, “Inbox”, in Time:
text: My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.
ref: 2009, Joseph G. Ponterotto et al., Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.
ref: 2014, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A. […]: SAGE, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
Derived terms: depathologize
overpathologize
pathologisation
pathologization
repathologize
unpathologized
crit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: crits
Etymology: From criticism, critique, critical, criterium, and critical hit, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: Criticism.
glosses: Critique.
glosses: A proponent of critical legal studies.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A criterium race.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A critical hit.
Derived terms: lit crit
Related terms: crit care
crit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: crits
form: critting
form: crit
form: crit
form: critted
form: critted
Etymology: From criticism, critique, critical, criterium, and critical hit, by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: 2010 Christopher Wragg, replying to Timothy Ryan's MMO Balancing Techniques Gamasutra
Now when talking randomness, players don't mind as long as it's not a negative random chance, for instance, missing causes more annoyance than an opponent dodging, we don't mind an opponent critting against us, but we hate it if something we do affects how much damage we take (aka rolling a 1).
text: January 2013 Elliot Metson, Team Fortress 2 guide - conquering Mann vs Machine's expert mode PC Gamer
Finally, the Axtinguisher just about edges the Neon Annihilator as the best melee weapon because you're in control of whether your target's on fire or not, whereas the Neon Annihilator's critting of wet targets is down to your team.
text: August 2013 Nic rowen, Rogue Legacy: Family survival guide Destructoid
It's easy to look past his low health when he's critting for triple damage on more than half his hits.
text: Chiefly, I suspect, it's because we want to try out the Soldier's new parachute. Although, I'm just as interested in the Scout's new back-critting shotgun.
ref: 2014, Phil Savage, Team Fortress 2's 'Love and War' update out now, PC Gamer:
text: 2016 Dota 2 7.00 patch adds Monkey King, talents, new HUD, more PC Invasion
Boundless Strike looks like Fissure only without the giant wall of earth, instead critting and stunning enemies in a line.
text: Fixed a bug where, when Statikk Shiv’s chain lighting was proc’d by Pulsefire Ezreal’s Q - Mystic Shot, it wasn’t properly critting at 100% crit chance
ref: 2017, League of Legends Patch 7.11 change list, The Rift Herald:
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To attack with a critical hit.
Derived terms: crit out
crit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: Short for haematocrit.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Haematocrit.
commensalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɛnsəˌlɪzm̩/
Forms: form: commensalisms
Etymology: From commensal + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sharing of the same environment by two organisms where one species benefits and the other is unaffected. An example is barnacles on whales.
glosses: The act of eating together; table fellowship.
Derived terms: commensalistic
ectocommensalism
endocommensalism
ghostwrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ghostwrite
ghostwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ghostwrite
ghostwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Writing for pay without the expectation of receiving credit by name.
ghosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ghost
ghosted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: written under the name of another person; ghostwritten
raw_tags: of an article or published opinion
gismos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gismo
gustier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gusty: more gusty
gustiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gusty: most gusty
gallbladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallbladder
endogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endogenies
Etymology: From endo- + -geny.
Senses: synonyms: endogenesis
glosses: Growth from within.
Related terms: endogeneity
endogenous
gall bladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gall bladder
gaskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasket
generalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of generalise
generalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of generalise
gulches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌlt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gulch
gulches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌlt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gulch
ghostlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ghostly: more ghostly
ghostliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ghostly: most ghostly
lace monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lace monitors
Senses: glosses: A monitor lizard of species Varanus varius, native to Australia.
Pickett's charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pickett's charges
form: Pickett's Charge
Etymology: A reference to an event during the American Civil War, wherein 16,000 Confederate infantrymen attacked Union positions; the attack failed, with several thousand Confederate casualties.
Senses: glosses: A valiant but futile frontal assault.
glosses: A major battle.
glosses: A bad decision.
Synonyms: sense: valiant, futile frontal assault
word: Charge of the Light Brigade
Related terms: cold steel
prime factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prime factor
prime factors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prime factor
pech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
ipa: /pɛx/
rhymes: -ɛx
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: pechs
form: peching
form: peched
form: peched
form: paich
form: pegh
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots pech, apparently of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: An' as they breisted the lang lang hill / The puir horse graned and peched.
ref: 1913, John Buchan, Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall, page 136:
text: Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.
ref: 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 321:
text: She peched and had to rest often.
ref: 1954, Robin Jenkins, The Thistle and the Grail, published 1994, page 225:
text: When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 207:
text: If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.
ref: 1994, James Kelman, How Late it Was, How Late:
glosses: To pant, to struggle for breath.
topocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From topo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Relative to an observer; that is, relative to a point on the surface of the Earth; said of a frame of reference, of a coordinate system, or the like, or of motion or position within such.
content keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of content key
cut scenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cut scene
deathmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathmatch
electronic games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronic game
first-person shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first-person shooter
level caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of level cap
launch games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of launch game
joint accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint account
killer games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killer game
griefers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of griefer
games consoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of games console
game consoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game console
massively multiplayer online games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online role-playing games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massively multiplayer online role-playing game
minibosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniboss
overworld maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overworld map
platform games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platform game
platformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platformer
save points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of save point
skill trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skill tree
technology trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technology tree
video games consoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video games console
video game consoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video game console
sidequest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌkwɛst/
Forms: form: sidequests
form: side quest
Etymology: From side + quest.
Senses: examples: text: Completion of a sidequest often results in the acquisition of money or items that are otherwise unavailable, or unlocks another sidequest.
text: The following items are either the objects of a quest or vital components of an optional sidequest.
ref: 2003, Bryan Stratton, Stephen Stratton, The Legend of Zelda®: The Wind Waker, Prima Games, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Two tasks I want to discuss are mentioned several times within this chapter: sidequests and adventure paths. These tasks are unique because they offer students a challenge beyond the required work within Michael's classroom. Sidequests are projects that students complete to deepen their understanding of the content.
ref: 2022, Adam Moreno, Purpose-Driven Learning: Unlocking and Empowering Our Students’ Innate Passion for Learning, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
text: “Ooh, this is gonna be awesome. As soon as we clean up those nanites I'm gonna...” “Sorry, Mr. Boimler, but you and I have a little side quest we need to take care of.” “Ew. don't wink. Winking's gross.” “Not when I pair it with my signature smirk.” “Worse.”
ref: 2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (1:29 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell):
topics: video-games
synonyms: side mission
glosses: A quest given to the player that has no direct bearing on the main story or campaign of the game.
examples: text: He keeps completing random sidequests like hosting award shows.
text: ATEEZ had a whole sidequest phase during lockdown, as each of them dedicated their time and did videos on some specific thing that they felt like doing
ref: 2024 June 11, @Fille_de_Lune, “What are some of your favourite examples of idols doing side quests?”, in Reddit:
glosses: A real-world task or action that a person, often a celebrity, completes optionally or unexpectedly.
sidequests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidequest
pauce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːs/
ipa: /pɔs/
ipa: /pɑs/
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: more pauce
form: most pauce
Etymology: From Latin paucus.
Senses: examples: text: […] although the foraminiferal content is pauce.
ref: 1966, Tōhoku Daigaku. Science Reports, v.37-38 1965-1967, Tōhoku University: 1966, page 208
text: Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible.
ref: 1983, Academy of Political Science (U.S.) Political Science Quarterly; New York, v.98 (1983-84), page 521
text: So, although it is often asserted that monocultures lead to increased risks of disease and pest attack, the evidence is pauce.
ref: 1996, Tony Whitten, Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Suraya A. Afiff, The Ecology of Java and Bali, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1997, page 600:
glosses: Subject to or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.
stoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stoke
stoking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stokings
Senses: examples: text: To prevent sudden changes in temperature from cracking the pots, the wood fire is built up slowly for several hours and then increased for four to five hours with intermittent stokings of scrap pine slabs.
ref: 1987, Jan Arnow, By Southern hands: a celebration of craft traditions in the South:
glosses: The act by which something is stoked.
distensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distensible
form: most distensible
Senses: glosses: Capable of swelling or stretching.
Derived terms: distensibility
indistensible
Related terms: distend
passive-aggressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more passive-aggressive
form: most passive-aggressive
Etymology: From 1940s, after passive aggression.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Showing passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations.
examples: text: “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Curt texts, unanswered emails, Facebook statuses declaring “someone” to be an idiot, the notorious subtweet; if you can communicate with it, people can be passive aggressive with it. No doubt there were frosty telegrams in centuries gone by.
ref: 2015 February 19, Dean Burnett, “OK, don't read this article about passive-aggressive behaviour. Honestly, it's fine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Showing covert hostility, intending to cause annoyance or to humiliate, while maintaining a transparent (to the recipient) veneer of politeness.
Coordinate terms: passive-dependent
Derived terms: word: paggro
word: pass-agg
word: passive-aggression
word: passive-aggressively
word: passive-aggressiveness
word: passive-aggressive personality disorder
word: passive-aggressivist
word: aggressor
Related terms: word: resistance
distensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distensibilities
Senses: examples: text: The major issue here is simply one of comparative size of the penetrating object (hand, wrist, forearm) to the size and distensibility of that which is being penetrated.
ref: 1976 April 17, Dr. Reder, “To Your Health”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Capability of swelling or stretching
Derived terms: hyperdistensibility
continental divide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continental divides
Senses: glosses: A line of elevated terrain that divides a watershed or a continent, so that water flowing on either side eventually travels to separate bodies of water.
Derived terms: Continental Divide
Related terms: Continental Divide
Great Divide
Laurentian Divide
eustress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈstɹɛs/
Forms: form: eustresses
Etymology: From eu- + stress.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.
Derived terms: eustressful
eustress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /juːˈstɹɛs/
Forms: form: eustresses
form: eustressing
form: eustressed
form: eustressed
Etymology: From eu- + stress.
Senses: glosses: To cause eustress for someone.
skull fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2010, Jackman Hill, Forty Dollar Butt Boy, preview
Clayton's skull fucking was giving me a head rush.
glosses: Aggressive deepthroat fellatio.
Related terms: irrumation
face fucking
throat fucking
irrumatio
applicatorful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applicatorfuls
Etymology: From applicator + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: "When using with a condom, put an applicatorful of spermicide inside the vagina before sexual intercourse"
ref: 1992, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women, Boston Women's Health Book Collective:
text: "Another phone call informed her that there was indeed a dance collection of such files, too; an hour later (pausing only long enough to use an applicatorful of the newly delivered Monistat), and the hell with whether you were supposed to star horizontal."
ref: 2002, Ellen Pall, Corpse de Ballet: A Nine Muses Mystery: Terpsichore:
text: "For candidal vaginitis, various regimens of topical antifungal agents are the mainstay of treatment (clotrimazole 1% cream, one applicatorful inserted high into the vaginal vault for 7 nights, clotrimazole, two 100-mg vaginal tablets for 3 nights or one 500-mg vaginal tablet for single-dose treatment)."
ref: 2002, Kevin J. Knoop, Atlas of Emergency Medicine:
text: "If coitus does not take place within 60 minutes of insertion of the spermicidal preparation, insert another applicatorful before sexual intercourse if contraception is desired."
ref: 2003, Helen Varney, Varney's midwifery:
glosses: The amount that will fill an applicator
face fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face fuckings
Senses: examples: text: Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
ref: 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41:
synonyms: facefuck
throat fucking
skull fucking
;
irrumation
irrumatio
glosses: The act or an instance of thrusting the penis into someone's mouth or throat.
Related terms: face fuck
throat fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Maria says that she enjoys throat fucking but her boyfriend believes she just does it to please him due to self-esteem.
glosses: Aggressive deep-throat fellatio.
Related terms: irrumation
skull fucking
face fucking
irrumatio
Google bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Google bombs
Senses: glosses: An attempt to influence the ranking of a web page within the Google search engine by linking to it from many other pages.
bizygomatic breadth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizygomatic breadths
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The width or breadth of the face from the widest part of one zygomatic arch to the widest part of the other
kermes oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kermes oaks
Senses: glosses: An oak, Quercus coccifera, native to the western Mediterranean region and growing 1-6 meters tall.
Synonyms: prickly oak
all but dissertation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: ABD
coordinate_terms: all but thesis
qualifier: academics
glosses: A status of a doctoral student who has completed all PhD degree requirements except the doctoral dissertation.