cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
I can't swim
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates the speaker does not know how to swim.
do you think you can walk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Asked to find out whether an ill or wounded person is able to walk or needs to sit down or lie down.
TL;DW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: TL
form: DW
form: tl;dw
Senses: topics: communication
communications
glosses: Initialism of too long; didn’t watch, signaling that a video message lacked communicative efficacy because of its length.
Related terms: sense: audio counterpart
word: TL
sense: audio counterpart
word: DL
sense: audio counterpart
word: tl
sense: audio counterpart
word: dl
sense: audio counterpart
word: TLDL
sense: textual counterpart
word: TL
sense: textual counterpart
word: DR
sense: textual counterpart
word: tl
sense: textual counterpart
word: dr
sense: textual counterpart
word: TLDR
moscovium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŏskō'vēəm
ipa: /mɒˈskəʊ.vi.əm/
Etymology: From Moscow + -ium, named after Moscow Oblast. Promulgated as the proposed name for ununpentium in June 2016 by the IUPAC based on recommendations of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to honor the region where the element was discovered.
Senses: examples: text: In January 2016 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced the discovery of four new elements, so completing the seventh row of the periodic table. They have since been named as nihonium, Nh, muscovium^([sic]), Mc, tennessine, Ts, and organesson^([sic]), Og. The procedures for naming new elements are clearly laid out by IUPAC.
ref: 2018, Mark Weller, Tina Overton, Fraser Armstrong, Jonathan Rourke, chapter 1, in Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Researchers carefully choose the makeup of the beam and the target in hopes of producing a designer atom of the element desired. That’s how the four newest elements were created: nihonium (element 113), moscovium (115), tennessine (117) and oganesson (118) (SN Online: 11/30/16).
ref: 2019 February 27, Emily Conover, “Extreme elements push the boundaries of the periodic table”, in Science News:
glosses: The chemical element with atomic number 115.
wikipedia: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Moscow Oblast
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Vanderbilt University
Synonyms: word: Mc
word: ununpentium
word: eka-bismuth
chairdrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairdrobes
Etymology: Blend of chair + wardrobe.
Senses: examples: text: And to the left of it, and near the foot of a bed, is the chairdrobe (the old and elegant chair too fragile for anyone to contemplate sitting on) and to his left; a small bedside chest of drawers.
ref: 2013, Basil John, Sharing: An Imperfect Recollection, →ISBN:
text: This didn’t make it to the scholar’s mistress but I did find it on the chairdrobe, which gives you a little peek, if you ever wanted one, into the state of my bedroom.
ref: 2013 September 5, Nicholas Lezard, “The shame of waking up in bed with the succubus Mistress Motivator”, in New Statesman:
text: I noted the chairdrobe in almost every bedroom I entered thoughout university.
ref: 2014, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes: Why We Wear What We Wear, →ISBN:
glosses: A chair on which someone stores clothing that has been worn but which is not yet too dirty to wear again.
chairdrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chairdrobe
dogpaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogpaddles
Senses: examples: text: But Leighton, like most Westerners, knew little about swimming, except for perhaps a dogpaddle, and Jane was most certainly not a swimmer.
ref: 2013, Erskine Clarke, By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey:
glosses: Alternative form of dog paddle.
dogpaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dogpaddles
form: dogpaddling
form: dogpaddled
form: dogpaddled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog paddle.
dogpaddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dogpaddle
dogpaddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dogpaddle
dogpaddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dogpaddle
natural join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A join between two tables on a field which has the same name.
Hypernyms: join
Related terms: equijoin
inner join
overlady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overladies
Etymology: From over- + lady. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A female overlord.
manlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manlets
Etymology: From man + -let.
Senses: examples: text: After one year she bore a beautiful Knabe; thereon the little manlet came to the bed and demanded him.
ref: 2015, Oliver Loo, The 1810 Grimm Manuscripts, page 423:
synonyms: manling
glosses: A little man.
examples: text: But, let’s not limit our options here: there are some taller manlets on this list, because their manlet energy is just unbeaten, regardless of their height.
ref: 2022 May 2, Various Authors, “What’s a ‘Manlet’? Recounting some of Fandom’s Finest Weird Guys”, in QSO Media, archived from the original on 22 May 2025:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: A short man, especially a muscular one.
maddog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maddogs
Senses: examples: text: These mad-stones are in our days principally used as a supposed infallible remedy for the bite of maddogs, and naturally every application of such a stone to a dog-bite, even if the latter would have been of itself harmless, is scored as an additional victory for the stone.
ref: 1880, The Louisville Medical News: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery:
text: Sam Bluegum was bitten by a maddog some days ago.
ref: 1914, Charles Roy Vance, A Book of Letters: Being a Few Sparks Thrown Off in Idle Moments:
text: I told Roy Dale and John Wesley the story of the day when I was five years old and a warning about a maddog went out through the neighborhoods.
ref: 1992, Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of mad dog.
A rabid dog
examples: text: For Unionism is Americanism ; it is the voice of America's millions of workers who showed the maddogs of the axis that the freedom of man is strong, powerful, and will never perish from the earth.
ref: 1949, American Flint - Volume 38, page 5:
text: As a German, you must remember how the Jewish maddogs took over Berlin.
ref: 1967, Jerome Charyn, Going to Jerusalem: a novel, page 149:
text: Hijackers and other maddogs often claim higher motives; they did it for the good of the world, they did it for their children.
ref: 1978, Sasha Newborn, First-person intense anthology, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Either armed black men were coming to kill you, or white maddogs were tearing black children to ragged bits.
ref: 1999, Reynolds Price, Roxanna Slade: A Novel, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of mad dog.
A ferocious fanatic
maddogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maddog
mad-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mad-dogs
Senses: examples: text: These are mad-dog times, man!
ref: 1970, J. Spencer Grendahl, The mad dog press archives: a novel, page 105:
text: Then she calls the cops, reports your standard mad-dog black burglar.
ref: 2014, Collin Wilcox, Night Games, →ISBN:
text: All we have to do is kill the mad-dog Nicaraguan who oppresses our people, calling himself a soldier.
ref: 2014, William W. Johnstone, Tyranny in the Ashes, →ISBN:
text: And, now, these same cynical cops were being asked to shoot that dude on sight, to treat him like a mad-dog psychopath—the sanest guy in town.
ref: 2014, Don Pendleton, Detroit Deathwatch, →ISBN:
glosses: Attributive form of mad dog
examples: text: Against the bite of a mad-dog : take two onions or three, boil them, spread them in ashes, mix them with fat and honey, lay it on.
ref: 1839, Thomas Wright, An Essay on the State of Literature and Learning Under the Anglo-Saxons, page 99:
text: To detect the microbes, he had to collect the saliva of a mad-dog.
ref: 2012, Dr. B. R. Suhas, Prof. L. S. Seshagiri Rao, Louis Pasteur, →ISBN:
text: Like mad-dog in the hottest day Byron runs snapping strait away, And those unlucky fellows judge ill Who go without a whip or cudgel.
ref: 2013, J. B. Sidgwick, The Shorter Poems of Walter Savage Landor, →ISBN, page 89:
text: It's also a proof that the newly appointed mad-dogs may be the same bad-eggs of the system that squandered the defense budget, sided with the insurgents and fought the country.
ref: 2015 November 23, James Butty, “Nigeria's Military Vows to Destroy Boko Haram as Attacks Continue”, in Voice of America:
glosses: Alternative form of mad dog.
mad-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mad-dog
form: most mad-dog
Senses: examples: text: It takes a professor to arrive at so mad-dog a state of mind.
ref: 1908, The Spectator - Volume 100, page 748:
text: In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing, and there is usually a grown-up with them to prevent them going on the damp grass, and to make them stand disgraced at the corner of a seat if they have been mad-dog or Mary-Annish.
ref: 1975, J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, →ISBN:
text: You probably never heard of Mr. Dobbins, since it looks like you live in some other dimension, but Dobbins happens to be the most mad-dog, publicity-hungry attorney to walk the planet.
ref: 2011, Les Standiford, Havana Run: A John Deal Mystery, →ISBN:
glosses: Fanatically or irrationally ferocious.
mad-dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mad-dog
snub dodecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snub dodecahedra
form: snub dodecahedrons
Etymology: From dodecahedron simum, Kepler's name for this solid in is 1619 work Harmonices Mundi.
Senses: examples: text: This gives two points, A’, A₁’, which are projections of vertices of the two enantiomorphous snub dodecahedra that can be inscribed in the regular dodecahedron.
ref: 1935, L. Lines, Solid Geometry, page 182:
text: The form can be derived by triangulating the pentagonal faces of the snub dodecahedron (Fig. 19).
ref: 1992, Gábor Gévay, “Icosahedral Morphology”, in István Hargittai, editor, Fivefold Symmetry, page 198:
text: In the case of the latter, two chiral members, the snub cube and the snub dodecahedron, are realized.
ref: 2001, Ehud Keinan, Israel Schechter, Chemistry for the 21st Century, page 138:
text: The snub dodecahedron has 60 vertices, 150 edges and 92 faces of which 12 are pentagonal and 80 triangular. This polyhedron has I symmetry and can therefore be constructed in left- and right-handed forms.
ref: 2006, P. W. Fowler, D. E. Manolopoulos, An Atlas of Fullerenes, page 50:
text: The result is a structure of two nested snub cubes rotated by an angle of 45° against each other (n = 24) and two nested snub dodecahedra, where the rotation angle amounts to 36° (n = 60).
ref: 2010, Klaus D. Sattler, editor, Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters and Fullerenes, pages 51–8:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron that has 12 pentagonal and 80 triangular faces and is an Archimedean solid.
Synonyms: sense: polyhedron with 12 pentagonal and 80 triangular faces
word: snub icosidodecahedron
Derived terms: dextro snub dodecahedron
laevo snub dodecahedron
snub dodecahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snub dodecahedron
Gowkthrapple
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7953).
Saxon genitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saxon genitives
Etymology: So named because the possessive was one of the only productive relics of the Anglo-Saxon declensional system.
Senses: examples: text: It is against euphony to make two genitives of the same form follow each other, particularly when they are Saxon genitives.
ref: 1871, A. J. Mertens, A Complete English Grammar, page 71:
text: First, not all Saxon genitives can be paraphrased with have: many subjective and objective nominalizations (the boy's escape, the boy's release), genitives of origin (the boy's letter), genitives of measure (ten days' absence), and many genitives with non-human reference points (today's paper, next year's profits, duty's call, the poll's results) do not have analogous uses with have (*The boy has an escape, *The boy has a release...).
ref: 1997, Ewa Dąbrowska, Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative, page 149:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A genitive construction in English formed with the possessive clitic -'s.
Saxon genitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saxon genitive
horizontal tango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒ.ɹɪˈzɒn.təl ˈtæŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ˈtæŋ.ɡoʊ/
Forms: form: horizontal tangos
Senses: examples: text: Researchers spoke to 312 men between the ages of 20 and 40 at a San Diego urology clinic and found that 3.4 percent of men preferred flying solo with co-pilot porn to a horizontal tango with a partner.
ref: 2017 May 30, Kimberly M. Aquilina, “Can porn mess with your sexual mojo? Survey says...”, in Metro US, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2017:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: copulation
Related terms: horizontal dancing
horizontal jogging
horizontal mambo
horizontal refreshments
megaverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaverses
Etymology: From mega- + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: Several of the more interesting variants of string theory propose that our entire universe is one simple three-dimensional membrane existing within a higher-order bulk universe, or megaverse.
ref: 2010, James F. Molben, Atheism: Trendy, Chic and Scientifically Misguided, →ISBN, page 28:
text: An important part of Susskind's picture is that each of the pocket universes is expanding like a bubble, so you can't get out of one, but the whole megaverse also expands, so the bubbles don't collide.
ref: 2010, Nick Huggett, Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy, →ISBN:
text: As there is no evidence of an unconditional singularity anywhere it is highly likely that there are other universes and even “mother” megaverses of infinite proportions.
ref: 2013, Patrick Cusick, Universis: Big Bangs and Universal Beings, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theoretical higher-order universe that contains multiple (possibly an infinite number of) pocket universes within it.
megaverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaverse
metal neutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: metal-neutral
Senses: examples: text: The antitrust application will link Air Tahiti Nui to the existing antitrust immunised alliance between Air France, KLM, Delta and Alitalia to form the centrepiece of the proposed metal neutral alliance and revenue sharing on the Los Angeles-Paris route and for codesharing beyond Paris CDG.
ref: 2013 May 31, “Air Tahiti Nui plans metal neutral alliance with Air France and partners as losses continue to mount”, in Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA):
text: The Commission's investigation confirmed that on all other transatlantic routes affected by the merger the combined entity will continue to face competition from other strong competitors, notably from other metal neutral joint ventures such as the North Atlantic Joint Venture, a partnership including Delta, Air France/KLM, and Alitalia, and the A++ JV, a transatlantic partnership including Lufthansa, Air Canada and United Airlines.
ref: 2013 August 6, “Mergers: Commission approves proposed merger between US .Airways and American Airlines' holding company AMR Corporation, subject to conditions”, in EU News:
text: This is somewhat ironic, given that the DOT now prefers metal neutral joint ventures as a mechanism to lower fares.
ref: 2014, Brian F. Havel, Gabriel S. Sanchez, The Principles and Practice of International Aviation Law, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Pertaining to a cooperative arrangement between airlines in which partners jointly plan and manage capacity, pricing, and inter-airline financial settlement, so that all participating airlines share equally in the profits.
metal-neutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: JVs allow airline partners to operate metal-neutral flights on trunk routes between their home nations, building synergies, pooling revenues and capturing the largest market share possible.
ref: 2015 June 12, Martin Rivers, “Saudia eyes Asian ventures, low-cost unit under 2020 plan”, in Al-Arabiya:
text: The application seeks to replace the existing joint business agreement (JBA) with a new alliance that incorporates a revenue sharing agreement and a “fully metal-neutral alliance structure”, given American is launching a daily Sydney-Los Angeles service with Boeing 777-300ERs starting in December.
ref: 2015 June 16, Jordan Chong, “Qantas, American say they need deeper alliance to compete with Virgin-Delta and United-Air NZ”, in Australian Aviation:
glosses: Alternative form of metal neutral.
hemicyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicyanines
Etymology: From hemi- + cyanine.
Senses: examples: text: This study uses di-4-ANE(F)PPTEA, a hemicyanine class dye, that embeds itself in the cellular membranes of hiPS-CM and exhibits a proportional increase in fluorescence intensity as the voltage across the membrane increases.
ref: 2015 December 23, “Supervised Machine Learning for Classification of the Electrophysiological Effects of Chronotropic Drugs on Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of dyes having two aromatic groups linked by an ethylene group
mephitic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The fact is, that fixed air is so rare a vapour and the Mephitic Acid, as I shall already venture to call it, is so greatly diluted in water, which is even saturated with it, that many of the blue juices relist its action upon them; while others, more sensible tests of acidity (such as infusions of Litmus, Cyanus, or Corn-flower, and a few others) readily announce its acid quality.
ref: 1776, Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, volume 2:
text: During the inspiration, while the mephitic acid is in a state of chemical union with phlogiston, it pastes through the lime-water without affecting its transparency; but no sooner is the air decompounded ia the lungs, and the phlogiston absorbed, than the fixed air is set at liberty, and manifests itself by the turbid precipitation of lime.
ref: 1790, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, page 1017:
text: The carbonic acid has been called the mephitic acid; nitrogen has been called the mephitic air; but the true derivation of this term, from which it ought never to have been diverted, is mephuhith.
ref: 1830, The manual for invalids, page 88:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of carbonic acid.
synonyms: word: carbonic acid
hemiprotonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + protonated.
Senses: examples: text: The so-called i-motif structure is formed from C-rich oligonucleotides at mild acidic conditions, which enables the formation of hemiprotonated cytosine-cytosine + base pairs (Fig 4A ) [64 ].
ref: 2015 December 23, “Investigation of a Quadruplex-Forming Repeat Sequence Highly Enriched in Xanthomonas and Nostoc sp.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: protonated at only half of the possible sites (typically, 1 of 2)
immunopotentiating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunopotentiating
form: most immunopotentiating
Etymology: From immuno- + potentiating.
Senses: examples: text: Matrix-M has pronounced immunopotentiating properties and has been evaluated in combination with a pandemic virosomal influenza vaccine in mice [42 ,43 ] and humans [44 ,45 ].
ref: 2015 December 23, “Protection against H5N1 Influenza Virus Induced by Matrix-M Adjuvanted Seasonal Virosomal Vaccine in Mice Requires Both Antibodies and T Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That promotes immunopotentiation
micronutritional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + nutritional.
Senses: examples: text: Forty-eight percent had at least one micronutritional deficiency, vitamin D being the most common (35%).
ref: 2015 December 23, “Who is the Treatment-Seeking Young Adult with Severe Obesity: A Comprehensive Characterization with Emphasis on Mental Health”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a micronutrient
Stopfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stopfordians
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Stockport.
glosses: A student or alumnus of Stockport Grammar School.
Stopfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stopfordian
form: most Stopfordian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Stockport.
papiliochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papiliochromes
Etymology: From papilionid + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the pigment-based coloration in invertebrates results from products of the melanin, ommochrome, pteridine, papiliochrome and heme synthesis pathways.
ref: 2015 December 23, “Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Characterized by Shell Colors: Identification of Genetic Bases Potentially Involved in Pigmentation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of yellow pigments found in the wings of papilionid butterflies
ring of the fisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rings of the fisherman
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piscatory ring.
synonyms: word: piscatory ring
protosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosites
Etymology: From proto- + site.
Senses: examples: text: To expand the distribution of plant resources containing RAs and explore the functional role of N-methylated amino acids in natural RAs in the maintenance of the conformation and bioactivity, we structurally and pharmacologically investigated interesting RAs using the TLC cyclopeptide protosite detection method with ninhydrin [23 ] from R.
ref: 2015 December 23, “Rubipodanin A, the First Natural N -Desmonomethyl Rubiaceae-Type Cyclopeptide from Rubia podantha, Indicating an Important Role of the N 9 -Methyl Group in the Conformation and Bioactivity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any part of a biomolecule that has the potential to be a site for the attachment of another one
rubipodanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Rubia podantha + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, a new cyclic hexapeptide, rubipodanin A ( 1 ), which is the first identified natural N-desmonomethyl RA, together with six known RAs ( 2–7 ) were obtained.
ref: 2015 December 23, “Rubipodanin A, the First Natural N -Desmonomethyl Rubiaceae-Type Cyclopeptide from Rubia podantha, Indicating an Important Role of the N 9 -Methyl Group in the Conformation and Bioactivity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of cyclic peptides found in the madder Rubia podantha
sansalvamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sansalvamides
Senses: examples: text: Sansalvamide A, isolated from a marine fungus of the genus Fusarium, is a cyclic tetrapeptide, and the N-methyl derivatives of sansalvamide A exhibit better antitumor activity [34 ].
ref: 2015 December 23, “Rubipodanin A, the First Natural N -Desmonomethyl Rubiaceae-Type Cyclopeptide from Rubia podantha, Indicating an Important Role of the N 9 -Methyl Group in the Conformation and Bioactivity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a family of cytotoxic cyclic peptides isolated from Fusarium fungi
caro sposo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian caro (“dear”) sposo (“husband”).
Senses: examples: text: Yes, he's the last person breathing I should elect for my caro sposo ; the man's well enough as an acquaintance […]
ref: 1786, Frederic Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, I.3:
text: A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her cara^([sic]) sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and under-bred finery.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 274:
text: Indeed, when Katie flashes her upper thighs at her caro sposo, he regards them as one would a mystery piece of meat on a carvery buffet.
ref: 2010 May 6, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:
glosses: A dear husband.
brown woolly monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown woolly monkeys
Senses: synonyms: common woolly monkey
Humboldt's woolly monkey
glosses: A woolly monkey found in South America, taxonomic name Lagothrix lagotricha.
leaves someone hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave someone hanging
leaving someone hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave someone hanging
left someone hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave someone hanging
leave someone hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves someone hanging
form: leaving someone hanging
form: left someone hanging
form: left someone hanging
Senses: glosses: To leave someone waiting in anticipation of one's response.
Related terms: keep someone hanging
hang out to dry
leave someone high and dry
faites vos jeux
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfeɪt vəʊ ˈʒɜː/
ipa: /ˌfɛt vəʊ ˈʒɜː/
ipa: /ˌfɛt voʊ ˈʒɜ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French faites vos jeux (literally “make your bets”).
Senses: topics: gambling
games
synonyms: place your bets
glosses: In roulette, the call made by the croupier when gamblers can place their bets.
Related terms: les jeux sont faits
happy place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy places
Senses: glosses: A mental visualization of a pleasant location, performed in order to avoid thinking or dealing with something unpleasant or painful.
glosses: Any place (normally, one's home or some part thereof) regarded (by its owner or tenant) as a place of peace, love, fun, and enjoyment.
happy places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy place
chunderhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chunderheads
Etymology: From chunder + head.
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse.
infectress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infectresses
Etymology: From infector + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The girls of Siam were the great infectresses, but the Malays came a close second. The Japanese, who had regular medical inspections and lived in brothels cleaner than hotels, were down with the Eurasians to 0.4% in 1931.
ref: 1986, Anthony Burgess, Homage to Qwert Yuiop (published as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?, USA:
glosses: A female infector.
perpetratress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpetratresses
Etymology: From perpetrator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: He changed colour, and looked at Mr. Ashburnham and the Duke of Richmond, whilst a titter of gratified malignity at being successful in wounding a nobler soul than their own, discovered to their astonished monarch the perpetratresses of a graceless, heartless disloyalty whose existence he never could have believed.
ref: 1844, Hampton Court, or, The prophecy fulfilled, page 291:
glosses: A female perpetrator.
Synonyms: perpetratrix
projectress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: projectresses
Etymology: From projector + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female projector.
Negress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈniːɡɹɪs/
Forms: form: Negresses
Etymology: From French négresse, feminine of nègre, equivalent to Negro + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of negress.
Sai Gon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saigon.
Saigonese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Saigon + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Saigon
Saigonese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saigonese
Etymology: From Saigon + -ese.
Senses: synonyms: Saigoneer
glosses: A person from Saigon
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dialect of Vietnamese spoken in and around Saigon.
Related terms: Hanoian
quaints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaint
great rhombicuboctahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great rhombicuboctahedra
form: great rhombicuboctahedrons
Etymology: From great + rhombicuboctahedron, referring to the fact that, similarly to the rhombicuboctahedron, the 12 square faces lie in the same planes as the 12 faces of the rhombic dodecahedron, the dual of the cuboctahedron.
Senses: examples: text: Figure 244 — the structure for this complicated design is the great rhombicuboctahedron, which consists of octagonal, hexagonal, and square faces.
ref: 1977, Wucius Wong, Principles of Three Dimensional Design, page 70:
text: Zeolite A consists of truncated octahedra flanking the edges of a larger cube; they are connected along the edges by smaller cubes, and the truncated octahedra and cubes flank a great rhombicuboctahedron at the center (28).
ref: 2005, M. Cahay, Nanoscale Devices, Materials, and Biological Systems: Fundamentals and Applications : Proceedings of the International Symposium, page 513:
text: The great rhombicuboctahedron can be made by truncating the cuboctahedron's vertices.
ref: 2012, Edward S. Popko, Divided Spheres: Geodesics and the Orderly Subdivision of the Sphere, page 169:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Archimedean solid that is isogonal and has twenty-six regular faces (twelve square, eight hexagonal and six octagonal).
Synonyms: sense: polyhedron with 12 square, 8 hexagonal and 6 octagonal faces
word: truncated cuboctahedron
Derived terms: pseudo-great rhombicuboctahedron
great rhombicuboctahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great rhombicuboctahedron
truncated cuboctahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncated cuboctahedra
form: truncated cuboctahedrons
Etymology: From truncated + cuboctahedron, referring to a partial construction (the resultant figure needs further distortion to make the faces regular).
Senses: examples: text: The H'(S-S) type of linked truncated octahedra and truncated cuboctahedra is analogous to the fluorite structure with the truncated octahedra in the positions of the fluorine atoms and the truncated cuboctahedra in the positions of the calcium atoms.
ref: 1962, The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, volume 33, page 1013:
text: A three-dimensional network of linked cavities, each with a truncated cuboctahedron shape (Figure 6.5) through the structure, is thus formed; the truncated cuboctahedra are also space-filling (each shares its octagonal face with six others), forming channels that run parallel to the three axial cubic directions through these large cavities.
ref: 2012, Lesley E. Smart, Elaine A. Moore, Solid State Chemistry: An Introduction, 4th edition, page 274:
text: Its pore structure consists of truncated octahedra linked to other cavities through 6-membered rings and of truncated cuboctahedra linked together through 8-membered rings.
ref: 2013, István Palinkó, Zoltán Kónya, Ákos Kukovecz, Imre Kiricsi, “22: Zeolites”, in Robert Vajtai, editor, Springer Handbook of Nanomaterials, page 822:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Archimedean solid that is isogonal and has twenty-six regular faces (twelve square, eight hexagonal and six octagonal); a great rhombicuboctahedron.
Synonyms: sense: polyhedron with 12 square, 8 hexagonal and 6 octagonal faces
word: great rhombicuboctahedron
truncated cuboctahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truncated cuboctahedron
overburthen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overburthens
Senses: examples: text: The over burthen of these expenses falls upon the sale of the commodity, and lessens the consumption.
ref: 1774, Isaac de Pinto, translated by S. Baggs, An Essay on Circulation and Credit, London: J. Ridley, page 122:
text: 1832, John W. Colenso, "A Description of Happy-Union Tin Stream-work at Pentuan" in Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, T. Vigurs, Vol. 4, p. 38 https://books.google.ca/books?id=TjK_HG0RIdoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The overburthen contains no sea-sand, but is composed of silt and river gravel […] .
glosses: Archaic form of overburden.
overburthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overburthens
form: overburthening
form: overburthened
form: overburthened
Senses: examples: text: In short the last man in the world, one would think, to be overburthened with thoughts, especially those perilous thoughts that must needs belong to a conspirator in any serious project, or even to the underling of such a conspirator.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Archaic form of overburden.
truley
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of truly.
New Deal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Deal refers to the distribution of cards in a card game. A new deal results in a new deck, thus a new (supposedly) fair distribution of chances, i.e. figuratively (in the original use) new opportunities in life for everyone.
Senses: examples: text: The right rallying call is for a “Green New Deal.” The New Deal was not built on a magic bullet, but on a broad range of programs and industrial projects to revitalize America. Ditto for an energy New Deal.
ref: 2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2019:
glosses: A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.
Derived terms: Green New Deal
New Dealer
New Dealism
Related terms: square deal
dashlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dashlike
form: most dashlike
Etymology: From dash + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a typographical dash.
wedge tornado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge tornadoes
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tornado that is at least as wide as it is tall, on the ground level as well as on the cloud base, looking very massive, often opposed to a rope tornado.
Related terms: rope tornado
Cape sundew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape sundews
Senses: glosses: Drosera capensis, a carnivorous plant, native to southern Africa.
tholance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθəʊləns/
Etymology: From thole + -ance, More at thole and thild.
Senses: examples: text: Through the permission and tholance of God.
glosses: Sufferance, toleration; permission; forbearance.
aflight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈflaɪt/
Etymology: From a- + flight.
Senses: examples: text: 1874, Ambrose Bierce (as Dod Grile), “The Legend of Immortal Truth” in Cobwebs, London: “Fun” Office, ca. 1884, p. 114,
Then, like a rocket set aflight, / She sprang, and streaked it for the light!
text: The elderly Pollyana of the infant aviation had photographs of their glider of 1902 aflight at Kitty Hawk.
ref: 1930, John R. McMahon, chapter 8, in The Wright Brothers, Boston: Little, Brown, page 150:
text: […] the Vestibule was full of birds and the birds were all aflight.
ref: 2020, Susanna Clarke, Piranesi, New York: Bloomsbury, Part 2, p. 39:
synonyms: in flight
glosses: Flying.
examples: text: curved attics aflight with / angels
ref: 1965, A. R. Ammons, “Gain”, in Collected Poems, 1951-1971, New York: Norton, page 199:
text: In the distance the billabong was white with egrets and aflight with ducks;
ref: 1967, Elspeth Huxley, chapter 15, in Their Shining Eldorado: A Journey through Australia,, New York: William Morrow, page 311:
text: [I] saw a stream of animals, hooved, padded, clawed and dashing, splashing through the ponds for Various Aquatic Birds, setting the night aflight—
ref: 1968, John Irving, Setting Free the Bears, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1970, Part 3, p. 362:
glosses: Covered or filled (with something flying).
examples: text: 1915, Marvin M. Taylor, “The Roll of the War Drums” in Donald Tulloch (ed.), Songs and Poems of the Great World War, Worcester, MA: Davis Press, p. 17,
Like shepherdless sheep from wolves aflight
text: The five now aflight from Massacre Canyon would have posses beating the bush for them.
ref: 1964, Allan Vaughan Elston, chapter 12, in The Landseekers,, Philadelphia: Lippincott, page 121:
glosses: Fleeing.
examples: text: 1547, uncredited translator, A Simple, and Religious Consultation by Hermann of Wied, London: John Day, “Of the crosse, and aflictions,”
[…] when the crosse, and afliction cometh vpon them, their mynde is aflight, it considereth not that the thynges, whiche it suffereth, be the scourges of Goddes wrath,
text: 1817, anonymous (attributed to James Athearn Jones), Hardenbrass and Haverill, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Volume 2, Chapter 1, p. 7,
“ […] I dare not leave her without locking the door; for the poor thing is quite aflight, and talks about nothing but guns and swords, and bloody knives, and rapes, and other weapons.”
text: I made this in the night, / When my mind was aflight,
ref: 1837, Robert McCracken, “The Indian Excitement”, in Original Miscellaneous Poems, 2nd edition, Pontiac, Michigan, page 47:
synonyms: anxious
distressed
moved
troubled
unsettled
glosses: Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
pour dogs and cats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours dogs and cats
form: pouring dogs and cats
form: poured dogs and cats
form: poured dogs and cats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rain dogs and cats.
synonyms: word: rain dogs and cats
pour cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours cats and dogs
form: pouring cats and dogs
form: poured cats and dogs
form: poured cats and dogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rain cats and dogs.
synonyms: word: rain cats and dogs
selfsucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfsuckers
Etymology: From self- + sucker.
Senses: examples: text: Does any selfsucker know any exercises that would help!?
ref: 1999 September 8, JLF, “Selfsucker”, in alt.fan.cock-sucking (Usenet):
text: london selfsucker seeking women to perform for. Hi I am a 29 year old London male who can suck his own cock.
ref: 2000 January 5, Joe, “london selfsucker seeking women to perform for”, in uk.adverts.personals (Usenet):
text: When I wend ^([sic]) and stuck my penis in my mouth, I know that I am a selfsucker
ref: 2009 August 4, truthseeker, “Bill Clinton a genious ^([sic])”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):
glosses: A man who performs oral sex on himself.
scariole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarioles
Etymology: From Italian scariola. Doublet of escarole.
Senses: examples: text: […] but remember still that if there be an ague, you ioyne with them the aforesayd great cooling seeds, or the lesse cooling seeds, of lettise, endive, scariole […]
ref: 1601, Simon Harward, Phlebotomy: Or, A Treatise of Letting of Bloud, page 121:
text: To have Syrup of Succory compounded with Rhubarb; Take ſome whole Barley-Corns, the Roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagraſs, with some white crude Tartar, of each two Ounces; two Leaves of Succory, Dandelion, Endive or Scariole, ſmooth Sow-Thiſtle, common Lettice, and Sage […]
ref: 1725, [Noël] Chomel, “SYRUP”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. […], volume II (I–Z), London: […] D[aniel] Midwinter, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: The varieties most commonly cultivated are the Broad-leaved Batavian, and Small Batavian ; the Green Curled-leaved, and the White Curled-leaved. By the French the former are called Scarioles; the latter, Cichorées.
ref: 1854, Patrick Neill, The Fruit, Flower and Kitchen Garden, page 253:
glosses: Synonym of endive.
synonyms: word: endive
scarioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scariole
apocalyptica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Either from Latin, or apocalyptic + -ica.
Senses: examples: text: It is devoted to the publication of critical text-editions, with German translations, of the Christian authors of the first three centuries who wrote in Greek, including the apocalyptica, Gospels and the late Jewish writings […]
ref: 1989, Paul Carus, The Monist, volume 9, page 451:
glosses: Writings which are apocalyptic or which are about an apocalypse.
Chachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chachis
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group who live in the rainforest area of northwestern Esmeraldas on the northern coast of Ecuador.
Chachi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
bullpoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bull + poop.
Senses: synonyms: word: bullcrap
english: less euphemistic
translation: less euphemistic
glosses: Bullshit; nonsense.
Grand Marnier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grand Marniers
Etymology: French, from grand (“great”) and the surname of Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle, who created it in 1880.
Senses: glosses: An orange-flavoured cognac liqueur from France or a serving of this drink.
Grand Marniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grand Marnier
margatini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margatinis
Etymology: Blend of margarita + martini
Senses: glosses: A martini cocktail made and served like a margarita, with tequila as an ingredient.
margatinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margatini
multifont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + font.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Involving multiple fonts or typefaces.
Irv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɝv/
ipa: /ɜːv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: Irvs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Clipping of Irvin.
glosses: A male given name.
Clipping of Irvine.
glosses: A male given name.
Clipping of Irving.
Related terms: Irve
LGBTIQ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning.
Lugol's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Lugol's iodine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lugol's iodine.
synonyms: word: Lugol's iodine
Lugol's iodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786-1851), French doctor.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solution of elemental iodine and potassium iodide in water, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant, and as a reagent for starch detection.
Synonyms: Lugol's solution
windshear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windshears
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wind shear.
umbrella policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella policies
Senses: glosses: An insurance policy offering umbrella insurance.
umbrella policies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbrella policy
umbrella insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of liability insurance that is in excess of specified other policies and also potentially primary insurance for losses not covered by the other policies. When an insured is liable, the insured's primary insurance policies first pay up to their limits, and then any additional amount is paid by the umbrella policy up to its limit.
Gibbs sampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, in reference to an analogy between the sampling algorithm and statistical physics.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for obtaining a sequence of observations which are approximated from a specified multivariate probability distribution, when direct sampling is difficult.
Related terms: Gibbs sampler
counterfactuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfactualities
Etymology: From counterfactual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise.
ref: 2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2021:
glosses: The quality of being counterfactual.
robopsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From robo- + psychological.
Senses: examples: text: This robopsychological approach raises some fundamental theoretical questions of machine learning.
ref: 2016, Norbert Bátfai, “Theoretical Robopsychology: Samu Has Learned Turing Machines”, in arXiv:
glosses: Relating to robopsychology.
robopsychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robo- + psychology. Coined by Isaac Asimov.
Senses: glosses: The study of the personalities of intelligent machines.
Coordinate terms: sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: First Law of Robotics
sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: robopsychologist
sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: robotic
sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: roboticist
sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: robotics
sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: Second Law of Robotics
sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: Third Law of Robotics
sense: Coined by Isaac Asimov
word: Three Laws of Robotics
Derived terms: robopsychological
Related terms: psych-
psychiatry
psycho-
psychologist
psychology
robo
robo-
robopsychologist
robot
robotic
roboticist
robotics
robopsychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robopsychologists
Etymology: From robo- + psychologist.
Coined by Isaac Asimov
Senses: glosses: One who studies robopsychology.
Related terms: psych-
psychiatrist
psycho-
psychologist
robo-
robo
robopsychological
robopsychology
robot
robotic
roboticist
robotics
robopsychologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robopsychologist
subjectification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjectifications
Etymology: From subject + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Words shift in meaning for many reasons, including cultural factors like new technologies and regular linguistic processes like subjectification.
ref: 2016, William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky, “Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computational Measures of Semantic Change”, in arXiv:
glosses: The process of subjectifying.
unitarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unitarization