cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
begincement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of beginning + commencement
Senses: examples: text: "Begin at th' begincement an' tell me all about it."
"Well, 'twas on Saturday mornin' after th' grand timperance blow-out," began Mr. Casey.
ref: 1902, The Wolverine, volume 2, number 6, page 10:
glosses: The beginning.
beginks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begink
beginked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begink
balloonacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of balloon + lunacy.
Senses: examples: text: We live in an age of balloonacy. Only a few weeks ago I sent you the account of M. Nadar and his 'Géant,” “the greatest balloon in the world;” now M. Eugène Godard has built an 'Aigle,' by the side of which the 'Giant' is a mere dwarf.
ref: 1864 February 20, The Daily Telegraph:
text: Horace Walpole was severe on this new whimsy of balloonacy, which was only chilled, not extinguished, by De Rosière's catastrophe.
ref: 1865, Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, page 479:
text: In the milder case of "balloonacy" the enthusiast proposes essentially a modernized Hindenburg (8 million cu ft). In the most virulent form of the disease, however, the victim calls for fleets of 100 million cu ft helium whales.
ref: 1975, Machine Design, volume 47, numbers 24-29, page 20:
glosses: An excessive mania for hot-air balloons.
bladderdash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of balderdash.
Braford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brafords
Etymology: Blend of Brahman + Hereford
Senses: glosses: A cross between a Hereford bull and a Brahman cow, or a Hereford cow and a Brahman bull.
Brafords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Braford
Ancobar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ancobars
Etymology: Blend of Ancona + bar
Senses: glosses: Any of a breed of poultry developed by crossing an Ancona and a barred Plymouth Rock.
Ancobars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ancobar
Anconan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anconan
form: most Anconan
Etymology: From Ancona + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Ancona and associated province, Marche region, Italy.
Anconan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anconans
Etymology: From Ancona + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Ancona and associated province, Marche region, Italy.
Anconans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anconan
ancoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancom
milksopism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From milksop + -ism.
Senses: glosses: weak, timid, ineffectual behaviour
milksopish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more milksopish
form: most milksopish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milksoppish.
Euroafrican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjʊəɹəʊˈæfɹɪk(ə)n/
ipa: /ˌjɔː-/
ipa: /jəɹoʊˈæfɹək(ə)n/
ipa: /jʊ-/
Etymology: From Euro- (prefix meaning ‘pertaining to Europe’) + African (adjective, noun). Compare Eurafrican, which is attested later.
Senses: examples: text: In this election the Swazi indigenous people were not included in the same voter's roll as their European and Euroafrican counterparts. About eight parliamentary seats were specially reserved for Europeans and Euroafricans.
ref: 1997, Chuks Okpaluba, Nkonzo Hlatshwayo, Bekithemba Khumalo, Human Rights in Swaziland: The Legal Response, page 172:
glosses: Synonym of Eurafrican (“of or relating to the continents of, or countries in, both Europe and Africa; having both European and African characteristics; of a person: of mixed European and African descent; (specifically, South Africa) synonym of colored (“belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa”)”).
synonyms: word: Eurafrican
extra: (“of or relating to the continents of, or countries in, both Europe and Africa; having both European and African characteristics; of a person: of mixed European and African descent; (specifically, South Africa) synonym of colored (“belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa”)”)
Euroafrican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjʊəɹəʊˈæfɹɪk(ə)n/
ipa: /ˌjɔː-/
ipa: /jəɹoʊˈæfɹək(ə)n/
ipa: /jʊ-/
Forms: form: Euroafricans
Etymology: From Euro- (prefix meaning ‘pertaining to Europe’) + African (adjective, noun). Compare Eurafrican, which is attested later.
Senses: examples: text: In this election the Swazi indigenous people were not included in the same voter's roll as their European and Euroafrican counterparts. About eight parliamentary seats were specially reserved for Europeans and Euroafricans.
ref: 1997, Chuks Okpaluba, Nkonzo Hlatshwayo, Bekithemba Khumalo, Human Rights in Swaziland: The Legal Response, page 172:
glosses: Synonym of Eurafrican (“a person of mixed European and African descent”).
synonyms: word: Eurafrican
extra: a person of mixed European and African descent
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person with physical characteristics typical of both Europe and Africa.
Euroafricans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroafrican
Euroasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Euroasian
form: most Euroasian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eurasian.
Euroasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euroasians
Senses: examples: text: There had been some Euroasians listening to the Eastern radio as well.
ref: 2002, Rudolf Mrázek, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony, page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of Eurasian.
Euroasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroasian
Asiadollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asiadollars
Etymology: From Asia + dollar.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: Eurodollar
reserve currency
glosses: A deposit, in US dollars, held in a bank in Asia.
Coordinate terms: Eurodollar
Asiadollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asiadollar
solemncholy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solemncholy
form: most solemncholy
Etymology: Blend of solemn + melancholy.
Senses: examples: text: On the night of the 4th of February , Ailie wrote to her cousin elect—
“This is the maddest, merriest Sunday which any one of these, your five solemncholy English friends have ever spent. […]
ref: 1879, Kate Ross, A Sicilian Legacy, volume 2, page 230:
text: I wouldna deny it in front of such a number of sharp-eyed solemncholy gentlemen. I flung the stone that dropped Mr Crawford.
ref: 1999, Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate:
synonyms: word: grave
word: staid
word: austere
word: frightful
word: demure
word: serious
word: grave
word: earnest
word: grievous
word: lack-laughter
word: thoughtful
word: sad
word: sage
word: saturnine
word: sedate
word: solemn
word: solemncholy
word: sober
word: somber
word: sombre
word: staid
word: stern
word: sweer
word: weightsome
word: weighty
glosses: solemn; serious
Maharam's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The theorem is due to Dorothy Maharam.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A result about the decomposability of measure spaces, playing an important role in the theory of Banach spaces. In brief, it states that every complete measure space is decomposable into "non-atomic parts" (copies of products of the unit interval [0,1] on the reals), and "purely atomic parts", using the counting measure on some discrete space.
wikipedia: Dorothy Maharam
Maharam algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maharam algebras
Etymology: After Dorothy Maharam.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A complete Boolean algebra having a continuous submeasure (also known as a Maharam submeasure).
wikipedia: Dorothy Maharam
Maharam algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maharam algebra
callset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callsets
Etymology: From call + set.
Senses: glosses: A collection of variant calls, typically for one sample.
callsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callset
rolleo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolleos
form: roleo
Etymology: Blend of roll + rodeo
Senses: glosses: A logrolling tournament.
rolleos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolleo
squoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squoggy
form: most squoggy
Senses: examples: text: All was gas and gaiters, in spite of rain-soaked garments, slackened belts, and squoggy pulpy boots on the hard iron stones.
ref: 1897, The United Service Magazine, volume 15, page 392:
text: The streaky things behind the Elephant's Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa. The Elephant's Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the mud that he found there.
ref: 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:
text: Well, I felt squoggy as a sponge when I left her, and I crept down the back stairs and out into the yard.
ref: 1987, John D. Seelye, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, page 292:
glosses: swampy; marshy; muddy
Spock-marked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spock-marked
form: most Spock-marked
Etymology: Blend of Spock + pockmarked, in reference to the influential approach of Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician.
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Raymond Apthorpe, University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies, People Planning and Development Studies: Some Reflections on Social Planning
Governments might, like those of America and Canada, produce cheap brochures explaining to parents how to bring up honest, unanxious, kindly, non-bed-wetting, co-operative children. And that in rich countries with high literacy levels such advice has its effect can hardly be doubted by anyone who has had recent contact in universities with the first Spock-marked generation of middle-class children trained in habits of autonomy from an early age. ('No, darling, it's up to you. At two and a half you are old enough to choose yourself whether to wear trousers or a skirt.')
text: Yet the fact remains that half-baked and half-digested ideas about the absolute necessity of leaving a child 'free' and 'happy' have produced what has come to be known as the 'Spock-marked child', […]
ref: 1971, Elizabeth Manners, The Vulnerable Generation, page 58:
text: […] flood of child-rearing guides that had by now inundated Spock-marked middle-class parents […]
ref: 2003, Ann Hulbert, Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children:
glosses: Spoiled by an overly permissive upbringing.
wikipedia: Benjamin Spock
Spockism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spock + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Spockery
glosses: The permissive parenting style popularized by American pediatrician Benjamin Spock.
Related terms: Spockish
Spock-marked
Spockery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spock + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: A good deal of the practical advice is medical—how to detect the symptoms of tuberculosis, how to diagnose a pregnancy, foods to avoid during pregnancy (crabs, or the child will come out sideways etc.), lucky directions in which a pregnant woman should contrive to face on various days of the zodiac, charms to secure an easy delivery, herbs to improve the flow of milk, hints on the care of infants, remedies for warts and bed-wetting and other kinds of Spockery.
ref: 1965, Ronald F. Dore, Education in Tokugawa Japan, page 289:
text: 1966, Insight and Outlook
The causes of student unrest, both here and in Europe, have been probed by many; critics bewail, and rightly so, the effects of a generation of permissiveness and Spockery.
glosses: Synonym of Spockism.
synonyms: word: Spockism
mudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mudge
mudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mudge
mudges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mudge
Apache fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apache fiddles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bowed string instrument of the indigenous Apache people of the southwestern United States, made from a plant stalk with one or two strings, often of horse hair.
Apache fiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apache fiddle
non-breeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Occurring outside of the breeding season; relating to any time of the year in which breeding does not take place.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of an animal, not breeding.
Brocher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brochers
Senses: glosses: A person from Fraserburgh.
Brochers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brocher
Cleckhuddersfax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Cleckheaton + Huddersfield + Halifax.
Senses: examples: text: Picture the scene, if you can, at Josiah Arkwright's Shoddy Manufactury in Cleckhuddersfax. Josiah's only involvement with Brussels is to eat the green things on his plate at Christmas.
ref: 1998, The Solicitors' Journal, volume 142:
glosses: An urban area of West Yorkshire that encompasses Cleckheaton, Huddersfield, and Halifax.
colonial blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonial blues
Senses: examples: text: Today, they are restored homes, handsome buildings painted in crisp whites or colonial blues or reds with neatly trimmed yards.
ref: 2005, Craig Thompson Friend, Along the Maysville Road, page 1:
glosses: A grayish medium blue color.
colonial blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonial blue
false move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false moves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of false step.
synonyms: word: false step
false moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false move
hellsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellsite
alaplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alaplasties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alarplasty.
alarplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarplasties
Etymology: From alar + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery to modify the shape of the nostrils.
alarplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alarplasty
cardiomyonucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiomyonuclei
Senses: glosses: The nucleus of a cardiomyocyte
cardiomyonuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiomyonucleus
hemiarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + arctic.
Senses: glosses: Partially arctic (partially within the arctic circle)
Lutwidge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
load modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of load module
inappropro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪ.nəˈpɹoʊ.pɹoʊ/
Forms: form: more inappropro
form: most inappropro
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inappropo.
paginatim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the pagination preserved identically.
paginatim
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The two editions of 1576 resemble each other paginatim but not always lineatim […]
ref: 1965, Colin Clair, A History of Printing in Britain, page 97:
glosses: Having the pagination preserved identically.
Related terms: lineatim
literatim
punctuatim
verbatim
hypoarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + arctic.
Senses: glosses: That lives just south of the arctic regions
nonamputated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amputated.
Senses: glosses: Not (yet) amputated
oedometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “swell”) + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to oedometry
glosses: By means of an oedometer
Old Stone Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Old Stone Age
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Stone Age < prehistory
related: word: New Stone Age
word: Neolithic#Proper noun
glosses: The Paleolithic.
silvergrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silvergrasses
form: silver grass
Senses: glosses: A grass, Miscanthus sinensis, that has silvery plumes
examples: text: At the back, under a squeaky wind-pump, there was a dead Chevrolet with silver-grass growing up through it.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 79:
glosses: Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides.
staphylectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: staphylectomies
Etymology: From staphylo- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The resection of the soft palate and uvula.
Related terms: staphyloplasty
reduced isolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: In Connecticut, the status of a school meeting certain racial diversity quotas.
umifenovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + pheno- + -vir (“antiviral”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiviral agent that inhibits the fusion of a virus with the host cell.
smoke like a furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smokes like a furnace
form: smoking like a furnace
form: smoked like a furnace
form: smoked like a furnace
Senses: glosses: Synonym of smoke like a chimney (“smoke tobacco frequently”).
synonyms: word: smoke like a chimney
extra: smoke tobacco frequently
tablestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablestones
Etymology: From table + stone.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A large flat horizontal stone.
tablestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablestone
Tedder certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tedder certificates
Etymology: The certificates were issued in the name of Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder.
Senses: glosses: An award given to foreign citizens who assisted British service personnel to escape from German captivity in Western Europe during World War II.
wikipedia: Arthur Tedder
Tedder certificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tedder certificate
this is why we can't have nice things
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Said to have been popularized by American stand-up comedian Paula Poundstone.
Senses: examples: text: "This is why we can't have nice things," said Dorrie's father, breaking into her thoughts. "Like appliances."
Dorrie glanced over at the corner of the ballroom-declared-kitchen to see him lifting several tacks out of a pot of clam chowder with a slotted spoon.
ref: 2016, Jen Swann Downey, The Ninja Librarians: Sword in the Stacks:
text: This is why we can't have nice things, darling / Because you break them, I had to take them away / This is why we can't have nice things, honey, oh / Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me? / This is why we can't have nice things
ref: 2017, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, “This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things”, in Reputation, performed by Taylor Swift:
text: "This is why we can't have nice things," said a Mountain to a man, "You don't yet respect the impermanence of living ...and the permanence of life."
ref: 2020, Alex Almeida, Wandering Tales volumes 1 & 2:
glosses: Expressing reproach when somebody harms or damages something.
wikipedia: Paula Poundstone
thrinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrinters
Etymology: Blend of three + winter
Senses: glosses: An animal three winters old.
Related terms: twinter
thrinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrinter
vinylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪnɪlɒn/
Forms: form: vinalon
Etymology: Probably a blending of (poly)vinyl and nylon. Otherwise, from (poly)vinyl + -on (by analogy with cotton) .
Senses: glosses: A synthetic fiber produced from polyvinyl alcohol, using anthracite and limestone as raw materials.
scraze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrazes
form: scrazing
form: scrazed
form: scrazed
Senses: glosses: To graze (a body part).
scrazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scraze
scrazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scraze
scrazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scraze
Naked Neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Naked Necks
Senses: synonyms: churkey
turken
glosses: A chicken of a particular breed that is naturally devoid of feathers on its neck and vent.
Naked Necks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Naked Neck
churkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: churkeys
Etymology: Blend of chicken + turkey
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Naked Neck (“chicken of a breed without feathers on its neck”).
synonyms: word: Naked Neck
extra: chicken of a breed without feathers on its neck
churkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churkey
bow'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of bow
Ballindine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbælɪndaɪn/
Forms: form: Ballindines
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in County Mayo, Ireland.
Crawshay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɔːʃeɪ/
Forms: form: Crawshays
Senses: examples: text: One portion of the public had flown to arms because Mr. Crawshay had jocularly talked of sending a sweep and a sootbag in the third-class train to keep respectable people out.
ref: 1851, A History of the English Railway, John Francis, page 103:
glosses: A surname.
Winwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnwʊd/
Forms: form: Winwoods
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Aynesworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aynesworths
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Ainsworth
twirligig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twirligigs
Senses: glosses: A device that spins around; a whirligig.
twirligigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twirligig
Rowcliffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊklɪf/
Forms: form: Rowcliffes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Barrows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barrow
Clemenceau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clemenceaus
Etymology: From French Clemenceau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: French premier Georges Clemenceau.
Boleyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊlɪn/
ipa: /ˈbʊlɪn/
ipa: /bəˈlɪn/
rhymes: -ʊlɪn
Forms: form: Boleyns
Etymology: A habitational surname, inherited from Middle English Boleyne, Boloyne (“Boulogne-sur-Mer”), from Old French Boloigne, from Late Latin Bolōnia, from classical Bonōnia. Doublet of Bologna and Boulogne.
Senses: examples: text: Anne Boleyn
glosses: A surname.
Lamarck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ləˈmɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: Lamarcks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Grendall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɛndəl/
rhymes: -ɛndəl
Forms: form: Grendalls
Etymology: Variant of Grindall.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
target for tonight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: targets for tonight
Senses: examples: text: Having conducted a skirt patrol a young officer, if he is lucky, will have fixed up his target for tonight.
ref: 1989, Fiona Glass, Philip Marsden, Articles of War: The Spectator Book of World War II, page 364:
text: Lewis would look in and select his 'target for tonight', echoing the wartime RAF propaganda film. He might have his eye on a particular girl.
ref: 2017, Nick Triplow, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir:
text: We'll put it all right when he is done converting his 'target for tonight' into the 'trouble and strife.'
ref: 2018, Mark Cote, That Lucky Old Son, page 22:
qualifier: RAF
glosses: A girlfriend or lover.
targets for tonight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of target for tonight
woof one's cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: woofs one's cookies
form: woofing one's cookies
form: woofed one's cookies
form: woofed one's cookies
Senses: glosses: To vomit.
Killigrew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Killigrews
form: Killebrew
Etymology: Habitational surname from Cornish kelli (“grove”) + kryw (“stepping stone”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
bottle drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle drives
Senses: glosses: A fundraiser in which money is collected by returning donated bottles for recycling.
bottle drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle drive
MacNair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məkˈnɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: MacNairs
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Mac Iain-uidhir (literally “son of John the dun”), or perhaps mac an oighre (“son of the heir”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ranulph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹænəlf/
Forms: form: Ranulphs
Etymology: Variant of Randolph.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Poitou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpwɑːtuː/
ipa: /ˈpwʌtuː/
enpr: pwäʹto͞o
enpr: pwŭtʹo͞o
ipa: /pwɑˈtu/
enpr: pwä-to͞oʹ
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Poitou, ultimately from Latin Pictāvus, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region.
Senses: glosses: A geographic region and former province of France, whose capital was Poitiers; now split between the administrative regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire.
Related terms: Poitevin
poitevinite
Poitiers
Cobbett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒbɪt/
Forms: form: Cobbetts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Cobbettian
Geraint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛɹaɪnt/
Forms: form: Geraints
Etymology: From Welsh Geraint, from Latin Gerontius, Latinized Greek for "old man," from Ancient Greek γέρων (gérōn, “old man”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
glosses: A character in Arthurian legend.
Ravenslee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪvənzli/
Forms: form: Ravenslees
Senses: glosses: A surname.
MacDowell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məkˈdaʊəl/
Forms: form: MacDowells
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill (literally “son of Dougal”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rodolph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊdɒlf/
Forms: form: Rodolphs
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwulfaz.
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Rudolph
Marise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈɹiːz/
Forms: form: Marises
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Manilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Manila.
glosses: A census-designated place in Rush County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A minor city in Crawford County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A village in the former Mariposa Township, now Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada; named after Manilla, Indiana.
glosses: A small town north-west of Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia; the name is from the Gamilaraay language.
glosses: A river in the same area of New South Wales, which joins the Namoi River.
Manilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manillas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manilla (“African armlet formerly used as currency”).
let blood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets blood
form: letting blood
form: let blood
form: let blood
Senses: examples: text: Is the foole sicke […] Alacke, let it blood.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The Swiss […] let him blood immediately, without hesitation, being always provided with a case of lancets, against all accidents on the road.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 84, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To extract blood from (a person, part of the body etc.).
glosses: To bleed someone; to extract blood from a person, part of the body etc. for supposed therapeutic purposes, especially by phlebotomy.
glosses: To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill.
Related terms: bloodlet
bloodletting
E O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiː ˈəʊ/
Forms: form: E.O.
Senses: examples: text: “Witness your pitiful behaviour at the E. O. table, when that officer bullied you out of twenty guineas, which you wan't obliged to pay.”
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He likes the lady's EO table better than the lady.
ref: 1801, Maria Edgeworth, Belinda:
glosses: A game of chance, in which a ball falls into one of several ditches marked "E" or "O".
apple rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple roses
form: apple-rose
Senses: glosses: Rosa villosa
glosses: A kind of tart for which apple ribbons are shaped into a rose
Welwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlwʊd/
Forms: form: Welwoods
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Whitechurch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʍaɪt.t͡ʃɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/
/ˈwaɪt.t͡ʃɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/
Forms: form: Whitechurches
Etymology: From white + church.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village, townland and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland.
lymphadenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphadenoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the lymph glands
lymphomonocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lympho- + monocytosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of monocytosis that affects the lymph glands
lipoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoplasts
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A small structure in seeds in which fat is stored
Synonyms: lipidoplast
lipochondrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipochondria
Senses: glosses: A vacuole, in the Golgi apparatus, in which lipids are stored
alkyllithium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkyllithiums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkyl organometallic compound of lithium
Related terms: Grignard compound
Grignard reagent
lumbosciatalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbosciatalgias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain in the lumbar and sciatic regions
anugamana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anumarana.
scrumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrumble
scrumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrumble
gropple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gropples
form: groppling
form: groppled
form: groppled
Senses: examples: text: Above the junction the little weedy, bright, creeping brooks, afforded good sport for small truants groppling about with their hands, or bobbing with lobworms under the hollow banks, but were not available for the scientific angler.
ref: 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford: A Sequel to School Days at Rugby, page 760:
glosses: To grope about.
groppled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gropple
gropples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gropple
groppling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gropple
photronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Originally a brand name.
Senses: examples: text: The photoelectric cell and the Weston photronic cells are the ones in most common use. The photronic cell is an oxide cell and produces a small electromotive force which is proportional to the light intensity.
ref: 1937, Rolla Roy Ramsey, Experimental Radio, page 169:
text: A photronic light meter consists of a photronic cell connected to an electrical meter graduated directly in foot-candles.
ref: 1946, United States. Navy Department. Office of Industrial Relations, U.S. Navy Manual of Safety Equipment, page 93:
glosses: Pertaining to photoelectric cells that generate electromotive force by utilizing the action of light on the contact between two dissimilar metals.
vestock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestocks
Etymology: Blend of vest + stock
Senses: examples: text: Dean wore his crushed silk vestock and starched linen collar, somewhat presumptuously with a large pectoral cross, made of nails.
ref: 2017, George Pitcher, A Dark Nativity:
glosses: A long clerical stock (piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar) that reaches the waist.
vestocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestock
smeuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smeuses
Senses: examples: text: There is usually a comfortable hole in one corner, which the old hands know as readily as a hare does a smeuse.
ref: 1878, Edward Pennell-Elmhirst, The hunting countries of England, a guide, by Brooksby, page 57:
text: A few spots of Renardine dropped in a smeuse or gateway will prevent hares passing through. Gate netting and snaring are impossible where this is done.
ref: 1927, Nicholas Everitt, Ernest Ivens Watson, Shots from a lawyer's gun, page 311:
glosses: A hole made in a hedge by the passing of a hare or other animal.
smeuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smeuse
prinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪŋkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: prinkles
form: prinkling
form: prinkled
form: prinkled
Senses: examples: text: He was stiff from head to foot, his bones ached, and his skin prinkled, this being the ordinary way that frost affects one in the tropics.
ref: 1912, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, The Marriage of Captain Kettle, page 287:
glosses: Alternative form of pringle (“to prickle or tingle”).
prinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prinkle
prinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prinkle
prinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prinkle
squidgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squidgy
squdgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwʌd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈskwʊd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ʌdʒi
rhymes: -ʊdʒi
Forms: form: more squdgy
form: most squdgy
form: squudgy
Senses: examples: text: Elephints a-pilin' teak / In the sludgy, squdgy creek, / Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
ref: c. 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads:
text: Well, I was sorry because you were cross. But being in the pond was much too good to be sorry about by itself. You've no idea how squdgy the mud is at the bottom.
ref: 1964, Pamela Frankau, Sing for your supper, page 68:
glosses: moist and pliant; squishy
portentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more portentious
form: most portentious
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of portentous.
Estcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
glosses: A village in Pohénégamook, Quebec, Canada, on the border with Maine, USA.
absolete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more absolete
form: most absolete
Senses: examples: text: [T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures,[…].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Education, custome, continuance of time, condition, mixt with other diseases, by fits, inclination, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 4, page 172:
text: They say that the doctrine is absolete, and that to charge them with holding it is a vile and odious imputation. The fact is, that the church possesses no power to enforce it, and therefore it is absolete.
ref: 1839, Brakenbury Dickson Bogie, The Crisis; Or, the Great Religious Revolution and the Fall of the National Churches, Etc. Etc. According to the Revelation of St. John, page 298:
text: How low it is to give New Jersey as an instance, that the Patent to the Duke of York is absolete?
ref: 1856, John Romeyn Brodhead, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, volume 7, page 616:
glosses: Obsolete form of obsolete.
archaick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more archaick
form: most archaick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of archaic.
counterfactualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterfactualize
counterfactualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterfactualize
counterfactualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfactuality
cactusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cactuſſes, or rather Cacti—for all the grand people called them ſo—he muſt have plenty of them.
ref: 1861, Thornley Grant, The Moated Farm, London: James Blackwood, page 16:
text: Thence we go West, the road lying between two rows of cactusses, leave a path on the left and then we cross a little ravine, the left shore of which we follow (1), turning South West.
ref: 1875, Lievin de Hamme, Guide to the Holy Places and Historical Sites in the Holy Land, Ghent: C. Poelman, page 531:
text: Even after careful searching the Spanish did not find anything of value on Aruba. All there was were bare rocks, cactusses and divi-divi trees.
ref: 2012, Arie Wilschut, Images of Time: The Role of a Historical Consciousness of Time in Learning History, Information Age Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:
synonyms: cacti
cactuses
glosses: plural of cactus
Neen Sollars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Milson and Neen Sollars Parish Council) in southern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6672).
Milson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Milson and Neen Sollars Parish Council) in southern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6373).
glosses: A suburb of Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
Bodiam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7825).
glosses: A town in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
campusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We are only eighteen miles above the State Capitol, on the banks of the beautiful Kennebeck. One of the finest campusses owned by any college stretches out in front of the college, shaded by noble trees, and back of the buildings its terraced slope meets the river’s waters.
ref: 1885, Delta Upsilon, The Delta Upsilon Quarterly, page 250:
text: We have two objects in view. One is to acquaint the members of our faculty on our campusses with the new films as they come out.
ref: 1941, Proceedings of the National University Extension Association, page 129:
text: There has always been a growing discontent among South West African students, caused by the frustrations of having to be in a state of disorganization due to the absence of a cohesive, representative student body. This discontent has manifested itself in our students seeking membership in other African student Unions operating on the campusses where they are enrolled.
ref: 1963, Solidarity, page 9, column 1:
text: Due to capacity, reliability and other technological considerations, we want the new links that need to be added to form a connected network of their own; most backbone networks in university campusses or companies are of this type.
ref: 1991, Hanspeter Bieri, Hartmut Noltemeier, editors, Computational Geometry—Methods, Algorithms and Applications, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: plural of campus
campusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of campus
Thurnby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Thurnby and Bushby parish, Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6404).
Bushby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bushbys
Etymology: From either an Old Norse personal name Butr or Old Norse buskr (“bush, shrub”) + býr (“settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Thurnby and Bushby parish, Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6504).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Thurnby and Bushby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England.
Savill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Saville
swinehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinehounds
form: swine-hound
Etymology: From swine + hound, a direct calque of German Schweinehund.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pig dog (“dog bred to hunt wild or feral pigs”).
synonyms: word: pig dog
extra: dog bred to hunt wild or feral pigs
swine-hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swine-hounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swinehound.
Hensonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hensonesque
form: most Hensonesque
Etymology: From Henson + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Jim Henson (1936-1990), American puppeteer and creator of the Muppets.
nanny nanny boo boo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of na-na na-na boo-boo.
know whether one is Arthur or Martha
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows whether one is Arthur or Martha
form: knowing whether one is Arthur or Martha
form: knew whether one was Arthur or Martha
form: known whether one was Arthur or Martha
Senses: examples: text: His impression was that practically everyone at the party had been drinking on the night in question, and 'wouldn't have known whether they were Arthur or Martha.
ref: 2007, Helen Garner, The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition, Picador Australia, →ISBN:
text: 'For an hour or two after he's had that, he doesn't know whether he's Arthur or Martha.'
ref: 2012, Dawn Eagle, Eliza and the Blue Rose, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 266:
text: The poor little darling had so many mothers; she didn't know whether she was Arthur or Martha!
ref: 2012, Marie-Therese Gould (Stein), Dirt to Scratch and Eggs to Lay: A Journey From Mitchell to Ma’s, Xlibris Corporation, page 241
glosses: To be in a clear state of mind.
know if one is Arthur or Martha
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows if one is Arthur or Martha
form: knowing if one is Arthur or Martha
form: knew if one was Arthur or Martha
form: known if one was Arthur or Martha
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of know whether one is Arthur or Martha.
neobank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neobanks
Etymology: From neo- + bank.
Senses: examples: text: Digital-only neobanks, offering no-fee accounts, high-speed sign-ups and intuitive user interfaces, are hoping to disrupt the way Australians save and spend their money – by making products people actually like.
ref: 2019 September 21, Alyx Gorman, “A bank you might like: apps' unlikely pitch out to disrupt Australian habits”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: It comes only 18 months after Schroders ploughed £9.9m into the firm as part of a big funding round for Revolut, which the asset manager lauded as an “ambitious neobank”, in the summer of 2021.
ref: 2023 April 24, Kalyeena Makortoff, “Revolut’s place as UK’s top fintech firm at risk after Schroders writedown”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: banking
business
coordinate_terms: challenger bank
glosses: A modern type of direct bank that operates exclusively online without a traditional physical branch network, often mobile-first and even without banking licence.
Related terms: neobanking
fintech
ewallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ewallets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of e-wallet.
macrosporocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrosporocytes
Etymology: From macro- + sporocyte.
Senses: glosses: A cell that produces macrospores during meiosis
nautical chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nautical charts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A map of a maritime area showing characteristics which are relevant for navigation.
Synonyms: navigational chart
sea chart
nautical charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nautical chart
sea chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea charts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of nautical chart.
synonyms: word: nautical chart
sea charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea chart
magneto-aerodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + aerodynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: aerodynamics in the presence of a strong magnetic field
Woodling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woodlings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
campussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of campus
campussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of campus
woodlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodlets
Etymology: From wood + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the patio lay a deep backyard. Privacy walls separated the flanking properties, but no fence defined the end of the lawn, where a woodlet rose at the brink of a shallow ravine.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner: A Novel of Suspense, New York, NY: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 193:
synonyms: bosk
copse
grove
thicket
glosses: A small wood; a thicket.
woodlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodlet
Takri
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʈɑːkəɾiː/
Etymology: First, “it may be connected with the word ṭankā, which suggests its origins as a commercial alphabet.” Second, it may be connected with ṭhakur, “in which case it may originally have been the script used by Rajput landlords.” George A. Grierson writes that the name means “the alphabet of the ṭakkas”, who “ruled the greater part of the northern Panjāb.
Senses: glosses: Of the Takri script or of a Takri alphabet.
Derived terms: Takri numeral