cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fiercity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fierce + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: For, though the winds had sunk to rest, / There still did lurk within the breast / Of ocean’s vast profundity / The dying spark, that still might be / With all its former fiercity / Relit, like the dying ashes / Of the fire that once did burn, / Still now sends forth some dying flash / Whose former strength might soon return, / If winds upon its embers blew / The latent sparks to life anew:[…]
ref: 1844, John James Margesson, Early Poems, page 17:
text: The strokes of steel rang out between the crashing thunderbolts, and the blade-struck sparks rivalled in fiercity the lightning’s livid glare.
ref: 1902, Carolyn Wells, “The Pot of Painted Butter”, in Abeniki Caldwell: A Burlesque Historical Novel, New York, N.Y.: Robert Howard Russell, page 77:
text: The fiercity of the fighting may be judged from the fact that the railroad station changed hands twice in the twenty minutes preceding the filing of this dispatch.
ref: 1921 March 25, Salina Evening Journal, volume 36, number 72, Salina, Kan., page one:
text: At Christmas-time old grudges seem to have a tendency to lessen in fiercity—drab, everyday responsibilities suddenly have a gayer glow—you begin to look forward to each new day, for each day closer to the 25th seems to bring each man closer to his neighbor, as warmth and affection run rampant.
ref: 1968 December 21, Janice MacWhirter, “Christmas season filled halls of MHS”, in Daily News-Post, volume 60, number 88, Monrovia, Calif., page 12:
text: It is servicemen like Henry Clay of Clovis who can attest to the fiercity of the fighting that went into the Meade River Operation.
ref: 1968 December 29, Ernie Mills, “Vietnam Visit …: ‘… Those Who Serve’”, in New Mexican, 120th year, number 29, Santa Fe, N.M., page A5:
text: When she went to the big room with her father, she was frightened by the fiercity of the storm and the way the driving snow blotted out everything.
ref: 1975 April 17, Mr. Ed, “From The Horse’s Mouth”, in The Edgar Sun, volume 70, number 16, Edgar, Neb., page 2:
text: They lost many a fight to the often mysterious fiercity of consumption, typhoid fever, pneumonia, dropsy and other sicknesses.
ref: 1976 July 4, “First doctors often last hope of the sick”, in Denton Record-Chronicle, 73rd year, number 289, Denton, Tex., page 18I:
text: I believed Mother Earth. Loved her stronger than myself. Relied on her fiercity.
ref: 2011, Vladimir Sorokin, “23,000”, in Jamey Gambrell, transl., Ice Trilogy, New York, N.Y.: New York Review Books, →ISBN, page 635:
text: Suddenly she’d turned into a fragile thing in their bed, a bone-china cup of a woman, a woman who wouldn’t mend. Not properly. He would never crush her against him again. The fiercity would go out of his love.
ref: 2013, Alison MacLeod, Unexploded, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: The quality of being fierce.
Synonyms: fierceness
Babworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6880).
all-dressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all dressed
Etymology: Calque of French toute garnie. From tout (“all”) + garnir (“garnished”), literally “all the garnishings”
Senses: examples: text: all-dressed chips
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Having all the standard or expected toppings, dressings, condiments, seasonings, etc.
Rideau Lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
fool for Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fools for Christ
Etymology: Derived from the writings of Saint Paul.
Senses: glosses: A Christian who flouts social conventions, for example by giving away all worldly goods, in order to serve the religion.
taotao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taotaos
Senses: glosses: A carved humanoid figure that represents a spirit in anitism.
anitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: anito
Bathalism
dayawism
Tagalism
glosses: Indigenous Philippine folk religion.
dayawism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anitism.
synonyms: word: anitism
O'Shea's vent barnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O'Shea's vent barnacles
Etymology: Named after Dr. Steve O'Shea.
Senses: glosses: Vulcanolepas osheai, a species of barnacle found around hydrothermal vents and active underwater volcanoes.
Hypernyms: barnacle
denial of service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denials of service
Senses: glosses: A denial-of-service attack.
examples: text: Black people have led protests against immigration restrictions, denial of service in restaurants, and employment discrimination right up to the present time (Walker 1980), in particular when even the authorities of the state could not be counted upon to help.
ref: 1996, Akwatu Khenti, “A Historical Perspective on Racism”, in Carl E. James, editor, Perspectives on Racism and the Human Services Sector, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see denial, of, service.
denial of services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denials of services
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see denial, of, service.
glosses: Alternative form of denial of service.
crossed someone's palm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross someone's palm
crosses someone's palm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross someone's palm
crossing someone's palm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross someone's palm
cross someone's T
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses someone's T
form: crossing someone's T
form: crossed someone's T
form: crossed someone's T
Etymology: From the shape formed by the opposing battle lines, which resembles a capital letter T.
Senses: examples: text: No sooner has the fleet settled onto this course than a small group of Japanese cruisers and actual, real, live, all-singing, all-dancing, all-features-included, protected-by-the-Emperor torpedo boats begin to move to cross the T of the Russian fleet. Worried about a torpedo attack on his lead battleships and determined to sweep this small formation aside, Rozhestvensky orders his main ships into a line abreast, a far-more-potent display of force that allows every forward-pointing gun on his capital ships to bear at the same time.
ref: 2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 12:24 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: To sail one's battle line across the front of the enemy battle line, allowing one to bring one's full firepower to bear on the enemy battle line while limiting the firepower that the enemy can use in return.
Related terms: dot the i's and cross the t's
crosses someone's T
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross someone's T
crossed someone's T
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross someone's T
crossing someone's T
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross someone's T
gravel-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By analogy with sand-blind ("partly blind") and stone-blind ("entirely blind"), with the latter also formed by analogy.
Senses: examples: text: O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 167, column 1:
text: A deaf man may be anything from hard of hearing to as deaf as a post; a blind man may be as blind as a bat or an owl; he may be gravel-blind or stone-blind; a bald man as bald as a coot or as a billiard ball.
ref: 1942 October 3, John Ware, “Nomenclature of Night Blindness”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 4265, →PMID, page 409:
glosses: More than partially blind, but not completely blind.
Related terms: sand-blind
stone-blind
toppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From topper + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: RAY HAS REASON FOR BACHELORHOOD / Toppered Comedian Likes Them All and Can’t Decide /[…][Raymond] Griffith may be a high hat comedian on the screen but he has never worn a high hat in real life. Despite the screen makeup of frock coat and silk-topper in pictures he’s the most unassuming actor in Hollywood.
ref: 1927 May 8, Orlando Morning Sentinel, volume XV, number 84, Orlando, Fla., section three, page eight:
text: New York has her silk toppered gentlemen, who ride the Macom and other official vessels about the harbor to welcome the city distinguished visitors, and California has pretty “flappers” who wander through train sheds presenting beautiful bouquets of native flowers to her visiting celebrities, but Kansas City has a hostess whose duty is not only to welcome the city’s guests but also to see that hospitality is provided and that every detail providing their comfort is properly attended.
ref: 1928 January 23, “Kansas City Hostess to Assist Committee on G. O. P. Convention”, in The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page ten:
text: Twenty magnificent top hats have long adorned the trusty heads of certain important stationmasters on formal occasions; but it has been decreed that, as one by one these toppered heads retire from the service, their successors are to wear a bowler hat.
ref: 1952 October 25, “Twenty toppers”, in Children’s Newspaper, number 1753, page 6:
glosses: Wearing a topper.
Synonyms: betoppered
top-hatted
estradiol valerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EV
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The estradiol ester of valeric acid that is an estradiol medication - C₂₃H₃₂O₃.
be-toppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: betoppered
Etymology: From be- + topper + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A small crowd gathers to gaze at the spick-and-span coach, the four stylish bay-browns, the coachman handsomely be-frocked, be-toppered and be-gloved.
ref: 1926, James Agate, The Common Touch, Chapman and Hall, page 83:
text: Be-toppered men and fashionably dressed women in boxes were focusing binoculars.
ref: 1931, Harry Carlisle, Darkness at Noon, New York, N.Y.: Horace Liveright, page 172:
text: Next the first all-metal fuselage Westland Wessex (or “West End Wessex” as it was described in a local paper, conjuring up the picture of a be-toppered pilot in white spats) appeared with a complement of eight passengers on a cruise from Portsmouth, and flew low past the enclosures several times showing the Public one of the machines which is destined to operate the Portsmouth—Ryde Air Ferry as soon as the aerodrome is ready at the latter place.
ref: 1932, The Aeroplane, page 952:
text: Of course, the little be-toppered man who hadn’t washed for months was a bigger man than I shall ever be.
ref: 1939, A. G. Macdonell, “Letter XII”, in Flight from a Lady, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, page 200:
text: ONLY two M.P.s among the early arrivals sported the traditional silk topper when the Commons resumed yesterday after the Easter recess to hear Mr. R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, open his second Budget. The “be-toppered” members were Sir William Darling (C., South Edinburgh) and Mr. Gerald Nabarro (C., Kidderminster).
ref: 1953 April 15, “Sir Will wears the traditional topper”, in Daily Record, number 17,948, page 3:
text: And proud, not only of her be-toppered husband and kilted son, but of this whole mad, delightful family into which she had married.
ref: 1965, Eric Malpass, Morning’s at Seven, page 129:
text: Also be-toppered was Rahsaan Rolkand Kirk, whose eccentricity in instrument choice and performing style spread over into how he dressed. Then there was Acker Bilk’s bowler, in which, uniquely, he always looked absolutely right.
ref: 2008, Jazz Journal International, page 2:
glosses: Wearing a topper.
Synonyms: top-hatted
toppered
Arabics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arabic
nonreflexively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonreflexive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an nonreflexive manner.
HODLed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of HODL
HODLing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of HODL
HODLs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of HODL
HODLer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HODLers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hodler.
HODLers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HODLer
buy the dips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys the dips
form: buying the dips
form: bought the dips
form: bought the dips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buy the dip.
miniprions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniprion
miniextruders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniextruder
miniexons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniexon
minibioreactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibioreactor
miniarrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniarray
milliberals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliberal
milktaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milktache
miniblotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniblotter
milkcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkcap
Migs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mig
midtibias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midtibia
midshanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midshank
mid-lifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mid-lifer
Mideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Midean
midcells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midcell
microvisualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvisualization
microvesiculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvesiculation
microthromboembolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microthromboembolism
microthermocouples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microthermocouple
microtests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtest
microsyenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsyenite
microsupports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsupport
microsprayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsprayer
microsprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microspray
microspotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microspotter
microsparites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsparite
microspars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microspar
microsonicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsonicator
microrganelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microrganelle
microporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microporation
microplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microplication
microphonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microphonist
microperthites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microperthite
microperoxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microperoxidase
micropartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropartition
micro-optimizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-optimization
micromonzonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromonzonite
micromilliliters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromilliliter
micromicelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromicelle
micromembranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromembrane
micromechanosensors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromechanosensor
microlipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlipid
microlances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlance
microKelvins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microKelvin
microglycoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microglycoprotein
microglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microglobin
microgenomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgenome
microgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microg
microfixatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfixative
microfilterfuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfilterfuge
microexaminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microexamination
microelectrosprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microelectrospray
microdispensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdispenser
microdifferentiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdifferentiation
microdialyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdialyzer
microscope slides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microscope slide
middle colleges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle college
milk moustaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk moustache
milking parlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milking parlor
mini mastiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini mastiff
mining engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mining engineer
Mexican lasagnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican lasagna
bespurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be-spurred
Etymology: From be- + spur + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Esperonné: m. ée: f. Spurred; alſo, beſpurred, hauing ſpurres on his heeles.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Iſlip:
text: Well, the procession moved on, and, as I got under the canopy, berobed, bemitred, besceptered, and bespurred, I caught a glimpse of Miss Fellows, the herb-woman, who, with six devilish handsome girls, were strewing rosemary and tansy on the blue broadcloth from Manchester;
ref: 1821 July 19, George, Vermont Republican and American Yeoman, volume XIII, number 43, Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, published 8 October 1821:
text: We found a couple of companion spirits already there, bebooted and bespurred and bebreeched.
ref: 1935 December 15, Gordon Gaskill, “Boot and Spur”, in The Knoxville Sunday Journal, volume XI, number 51, Knoxville, Tenn., pages 4—C:
text: Europe went wild about the cowboy, and all Americans were thought of as striding about bespurred, booted, and hipped with .45’s and lariats, riding a bronco furiously through the main street of every city from New York to Laramie.
ref: 1998 October, James Bussacco, “Bring Back the Cowboys Of Long Past Years”, in Prime Time, Sunday Dispatch, page 7:
glosses: Wearing or having spurs.
Synonyms: spurred
be-spurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The grand parades have passed away with all their unsightly accompaniments of be-whiskered, be-spurred, and be-plumed officers, and of scare-crow, be-baggonnetted, be-broomsticked and undisciplined soldiers.
ref: 1837 March 1, The Blackburn Standard, volume 3, number 113, Blackburn, Lancashire:
text: What made this youth remarkable was that he was clad in all the pomp and glory of war, he was be-spurred, be-campaigned hatted, be-leggined, and be-sabred, and be-trussed like any old swashbuckler out of Old Whitechapel.
ref: 1903 May 30, “The National Guard”, in The Chattanooga News, volume XXIII, number 130, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 7, column 2:
text: She struggled to finish this fine work, which shows a be-spurred cowboy boot treading on The Constitution, and Molly herself wisely subtitled the work “The Executive Branch’s Assault on America’s Fundamental Rights.”
ref: 2010 February 17, Liz Smith, “Molly Ivins returning via Kathleen Turner”, in Indian River Press Jounal, page A2:
glosses: Alternative form of bespurred.
farmlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From landless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being landless.
microconductances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microconductance
microcompressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcompressor
microcompartmentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcompartmentation
microcolons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcolon
microclumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microclump
microcators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcator
Magdalenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magdalenian
Micians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mician
microaerosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microaerosol
microatomizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microatomizer
microbiocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbiocide
microbottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbottle
microcapnographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcapnograph
microcathodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcathode
mercuryless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mercury + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking mercury.
serial kill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serial kills
form: serial killing
form: serial killed
form: serial killed
Etymology: Back-formation from serial killer.
Senses: examples: text: When the idea that Samantha had been kidnapped by a serial killer first came up in last night's "paper hearts", my sis and I droned out the ensuing commercials by babbling at each other:
"Oh no! She was serial killed! It all makes sense! Poor Mulder!"
ref: 1996 December 16, Claire Kerr, “Moose's Mum Confessed So Whut Wuz He Thinkin'?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: Wayne Williams(black) was responsible for the serial killings of several black childern^([sic]) in Atlanta. He committed serial murder in proportion to his race that comprises nearly 13% of the total U.S. population . Charles Eng(Asian) killed serveral people of various races in the northern California area. He serial killed in proportion to his race that comprises less than 3% of the total U.S. population
ref: 1999 September 2, Jim, “Why do negros kill people?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: Sure, there are non-whites who murder whites. I can't think of a single case in the U.S., however, where a non-white has serial killed as many victims as Franklin on the basis of racist ideology.
ref: 2000 July 31, birk...@my-deja.com, “We need more like Benjamin Smith.”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: > I think MB would make a good serial killer; better than dumb, old Henry Lucas or those lame Hillside Stranglers.
A person would be proud to be serial killed by MB.
ref: 2003 June 19, righter, “I almost had to shoot somebody tonight”, in alt.tv.sopranos (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: Again, quality over quantity. Avoid the elderly and sick, as they tend to be ignored also. Children are OK, but only if they have parents who can cry for the cameras. You almost never hear of orphans being serial killed, and not because they aren't.
ref: 2005 March 13, Offshore Eddie, “Re: Serial Killer DOs and DON'Ts”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
glosses: To kill as part of a series of murders.
serial kills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serial kill
Manasyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manasyans
form: Manasian
form: Manassian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մանասյան (Manasyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
serial killed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serial kill
serial killing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serial kill
Manasian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manasians
Etymology: Variant of Manasyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Manasians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manasian
Manasyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manasyan
Yverdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Yverdon-les-Bains: a town and municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
rhymelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rhymeless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rhymeless manner.
great replacement theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the great replacement theory
Senses: examples: text: Musk on Wednesday agreed with a post on X that falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user, who referenced the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, was speaking “the actual truth”.
ref: 2023 November 18, Harry Taylor, “Elon Musk to file ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers desert X”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Lee was deeply convinced by the Great Replacement Theory commonly referenced by far-right extremists, and believed that violent action had to be taken to prevent the Chinese majority in Singapore from being supplanted by what he perceived to be a rapidly growing Malay population.
ref: 2025 February 10, “Issuance of Orders under Internal Security Act (ISA) to Two Singaporeans & Arrest of a Foreigner under ISA”, in Internal Security Department (Singapore)^(https://www.mha.gov.sg/isd/stay-in-the-know/media-detail/issuance-of-orders-under-internal-security-act-(isa)-to-two-singaporeans-and-arrest-of-a-foreigner-under-isatext):
glosses: Synonym of white replacement theory.
synonyms: word: white replacement theory
Synonyms: word: Great Replacement
word: GRT
replacement theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At the extremes of American life, replacement theory—the notion that Western elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” and disempower white Americans—has become an engine of racist terror, helping inspire a wave of mass shootings in recent years and fueling the 2017 right-wing rally in Charlottesville, Va., that erupted in violence.
ref: 2022 May 16, Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, “A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
ref: 2023 November 28, Jill Filipovic, “Opinion: Elon Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and insulting”, in CNN:
glosses: Synonym of white replacement theory.
synonyms: word: white replacement theory
meiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meio- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Causation of meiosis.
stephanoceratoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stephanoceratoids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of the Stephanoceratoidea superfamily of cephalopods
draws lots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draw lots
drawing lots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draw lots
drew lots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of draw lots
drawn lots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of draw lots
velvet glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet gloves
Senses: examples: text: If you will stab your opponent in the back, it must be with a velvet glove on your hand and the sweetest smile on your face.
glosses: Superficial gentleness and courtesy masking a strong and unyielding will or determination.
fearmong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fearmongs
form: fearmonging
form: fearmonged
form: fearmonged
Etymology: Back-formation from fearmonger.
Senses: examples: text: Has anyone ever noticed how Celeste and Co. (Pierce, Style and the other fearmongers hiding behind her) spew out crap about others not arguing intelligently about adoption issues as they frantically sidestep those issues, throw out red herrings, divert, distract, fearmong and muddy the waters in any way possible that lets them avoid honest discussion and debate? Including quoting people paid to lie about adoption.
ref: 1996 May 2, Laura J. Lewis, “There's Heat in the Kitchen”, in alt.adoption (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: Politicians who want to pander for votes do very well by engaging in fearmonging and appealing to the lowest common denominator.
ref: 2004 January 5, nrf, “OT- What's wrong with Outsourcing”, in alt.certification.cisco (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
glosses: Misconstruction of fearmonger.
fearmongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fearmong
fearmonging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fearmong + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: why all this fearmonging???? what good comes out of trying to scare people into thinking all these LIES????? do you have ANY PROOF of the things you come up with?????
ref: 2002 July 16, Nicolas Garcia, “The Open-Borders Conspiracy”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: I doult Tommy the feminist will grasp anything Tyler, you know the type of propaganda and fearmonging Tommy promotes for it's cult like god...
ref: 2005 January 23, De-fly-ie and his band@satanicgoats.cult.bazaar.ss David De-fly-ie, “Question for Political Right Wing”, in can.politics (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: Secondly, such fearmonging is specifically to falsely proclaim that people have lost any liberties, when in fact they have not lost any liberties. It does not refer to all forms of dissent.
ref: 2005 May 7, nitin_pa...@hotmail.com, “Pat Robertson”, in soc.politics (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: The era of necocon greed, fearmonging and warmongering is over.
ref: 2006 November 11, Adam Albright, “Real Conservatives”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
glosses: Misconstruction of fearmongering.
fearmonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fearmong + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fearmong
fearmonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fearmong
xenodochion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenodochions
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξενοδοχεῖον (xenodokheîon, “place for strangers, inn”) from ξένος (xénos, “guest, stranger, foreigner”) + δέχομαι (dékhomai, “receive, accept”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xenodochium.
fluorinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorinator
Clendenning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clendennings
Etymology: Variant of Glendenning.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
fluorinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorinators
Senses: glosses: Something that causes fluorine to be added
Portgordon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Port Gordon
Etymology: From port + Gordon, after Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Moray council area, Scotland, historically in Banffshire (OS grid ref NJ3964).
wikipedia: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
Codispotis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Codispoti
Clendennings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clendenning
Conkel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Conkels
Etymology: Respelling of Dutch and German Konkel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Coonradt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coonradts
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Dutch Koenraadt or German Kühnrat.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Coonradts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coonradt
Conkels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Conkel
pin deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin decks
Senses: topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The section of the lane on which the pins are set.
pin decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin deck
Califf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Califfs
Etymology: Probably a variant of Calfe.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ethylthioxanthate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethyl + thio- + xanthate.
Senses: glosses: A salt or the ion C₂H₅SCS₂⁻
Gilboy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gilboys
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Giolla Bhuidhe (“descendant of the blond lad”), from giolla (“lad”) and buidhe (“yellow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Gilboys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gilboy
Califfs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Califf
forbesione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentacyclic oxygen heterocyclic compound with IUPAC name (2R,13R,15S)-6,8-dihydroxy-17,17-dimethyl-5,15-bis(3-methylbut-2-enyl)-3,16-dioxapentacyclo[11.4.1.0^(2,11).0^(2,15).0^(4,9)]octadeca-4,6,8,11-tetraene-10,14-dione
Gamet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gamets
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from French Gamet, a pet form of the personal name Gamo, which is probably based on the Proto-Germanic lemmas *gamaną (“pleasure, joy”) or *gamalaz (“old, weak”).
* Borrowed from Tagalog Gamet.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
shummaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌməkə/
Forms: form: shummakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoemaker.
Gamets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gamet
shummakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shummaker
Manuelitos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manuelito
Mazanec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mazanecs
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Mazanec.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Lechman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lechmans
Etymology: Variant of German Lechmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lechmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lechman
Mazanecs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazanec
Lavell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lavells
Etymology: Variant of Lavelle.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Komareks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Komarek
Lavells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lavell
f'r
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The minute we’d tetch off a blast ’n’ the fuse’d begin to sizzle, he’d give a look as much as to say: ‘Well, I’ll have to git you to excuse me,’ an’ it was surpris’n’ the way he’d shin out of that hole ’n’ go f’r a tree.
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 442:
text: If ye bring ye’er wife f’r to see th’ game, an’ she has her name in th’ paper, that counts ye wan.
ref: 1898, F[inley] P[eter] D[unne], “On Golf”, in Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, section “Mr. Dooley in Peace”, page 251:
text: I was up to th’ hospital f’r weeks an’ weeks an’ weeks, an’ I was there on a bed, an’ by me on ’nother bed was a big man who had been blew up by a ’splosion somewhere.
ref: 1905 September, “The Crutch”, in Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, Baltimore, Md., page 24, column 2:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for.
Related terms: f'rever
f'rexample
f'rinstance
McClaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McClarans
Etymology: Variant of McLaren.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Althaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Althauses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Althaus, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: althausite
Althauses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Althaus
McClarans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McClaran
merluces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merluce
Tippetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tippettses
Etymology: Variant of Tibbetts.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tippettses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tippetts
DAUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DAU
Cosima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Punta Chueca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Punta Chueca.
Senses: glosses: A town in Sonora, Mexico.
momelotinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Momelotinib is a JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor as well as an activin receptor–like kinase (ALK1) inhibitor. Because ALK1 is a receptor for bone morphogenic proteins, momelotinib is undergoing testing for the treatment of myelofibrosis (78).
ref: 2021 December, Christine Liu, Jacqueline Kieltyka, Roy Fleischmann, Massimo Gadina, John J. O’Shea, “A Decade of JAK Inhibitors: What Have We Learned and What May Be the Future?”, in Arthritis & Rheumatology, volume 73, number 12, →DOI, page 2173:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, being developed as a drug to treat myelofibrosis.
prefatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + fatigue.
Senses: glosses: Before the onset of fatigue.
postfatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + fatigue.
Senses: glosses: After a period of fatigue.
Sea of Cortez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sea of Cortés
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gulf of California.
synonyms: word: Gulf of California
sagebrush sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagebrush sparrows
Etymology: From sagebrush + sparrow.
Senses: glosses: Artemisiospiza nevadensis, a species of New World sparrow.
Coordinate terms: Bell's sparrow
Thucydides trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz tɹæp/
Forms: form: Thucydides traps
form: Thucydides' trap
Etymology: An allusion to the ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, who posited that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian power. Coined by American political scientist Graham T. Allison.
Senses: examples: text: Even if a rising superpower (China) and a relatively declining superpower (the US) are not fated to fall into the “Thucydides trap” and go to war, periods of great power shifts almost invariably bring increased international tensions.
ref: 2025 May 10, Timothy Garton Ash, “Brace for disorder as the great global power shifts again”, in FT Weekend, page 9:
glosses: An apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon.
wikipedia: Peloponnesian War
Thucydides traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thucydides trap
thicketbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thicketbirds
Etymology: From thicket + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of warbler in the genus Cincloramphus.
Derived terms: Bougainville thicketbird
buff-banded thicketbird
Guadalcanal thicketbird
long-legged thicketbird
New Britain thicketbird
New Caledonian thicketbird
rusty thicketbird
Santo thicketbird
subportfolio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subportfolios
Etymology: From sub- + portfolio.
Senses: glosses: A portfolio forming part of a larger portfolio.
subportfolios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subportfolio
thicketbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thicketbird
hair match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair matches
Senses: glosses: A wrestling match in which the loser undergoes the forfeit of having the head shaved bald.
hair matches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair match
banana shallot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana shallots
Etymology: From its long shape.
Senses: synonyms: echalion
glosses: A cross between an onion and a shallot.
echalion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echalions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of banana shallot.
synonyms: word: banana shallot
echalions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echalion
banana shallots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana shallot
drongo cuckoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drongo cuckoos
Senses: glosses: Any of the cuckoos of the genus Surniculus, found in tropical Asia and the Philippines.
drongo cuckoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drongo cuckoo
glue-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glue-ons
Senses: glosses: A protest in which activists glue themselves to a building or structure.
glue-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glue-on
antilipoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilipoids
Etymology: From anti- + lipoid.
Senses: examples: text: […] its peculiar behavior toward the lipoids suggests strongly that it is a product of the toxic action of the causal parasite upon the lipoids of the body-cells and is in the nature of an antilipoid.
ref: 1915, John Albert Kolmer, A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy, page 247:
text: Lipoids, which are autogenous in the circulation, when injected with hog serum, produce formation of antilipoids in the rabbit.
ref: 1928, U.S. Public Health Service, Venereal Disease Information, page 49:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance that destroys or degrades lipoids.
antilipoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antilipoid
be-sceptered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Laughlin recited the first rise of J. Pierpont Morgan as the be-crowned and be-sceptered king of finance at the time of the organization of the great steel trust, and the resolve of the Rockefeller crowd to dethrone him and fleece him of many of his millions.
ref: 1907 November 18, “High Finance Is the Cause: Julian Laughlin, Author of “The Origin of Civilization,” Advances an Unique Explanation of the Present Financial Difficulties”, in The Arkansas Democrat, volume 37, number 63, Little Rock, Ark., page 2:
text: I have told you these things that you may know that no be-sceptered and be-crowned king ever reigned in a more God-blessed land than ours.
ref: 1923, Report of the Fortieth Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association, page 151:
text: Thus the book’s witty dust-jacket pictures him, bloated, be-sceptered Florizel,[…]
ref: 1953, The New York Times Book Review, page 20:
text: >Most people here will know my views on Sodomy - / Fraid not. You assume a level of interest in perversion far above that which actually exists west of your anally be-sceptered island.
ref: 2000 October 1, Bill McCarty, “Buggering The Furure King?........”, in alt.journalism.gay-press (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of besceptered.
be-sceptred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A few such things be-crowned, and be-throned, and be-sceptred, would do the world an infinity of good, and oblige people to turn their attention to improving the breed of Kings.
ref: 1823 May 14, The Morning Chronicle, number 16,869, London:
text: To such the following rapid survey of the life of a real king, and no be-sceptred nonentity, will perchance have a deeper lesson than its surface shows:—[…]
ref: 1849 October, “The Great King of Sweden”, in Eliza Cook’s Journal, volume I, London: John Owen Clarke, page 215:
text: Then the little boys came, then the singing men, then the officiating clergy, then another “virger” rather more lame, more bent, more be-sceptred than the one who had led off; and immediately behind him the dean.
ref: 1870 August 27, “A Visit to St. Paul’s”, in The Musical Standard, volume XIII, number 317, London, page 88:
text: […]some be-sceptred[…]in the Canadian Methodist Church[…]
ref: 1899 April, The Daily Intelligencer:
text: The trumpets called again, and in strode his majesty, in regal purple, be-crowned and be-sceptred, and sat himself upon the throne.
ref: 1925 February 24, “Opening Night of Gyro Mardi Gras Success: Prizes Awarded for Fancy Costumes — Mrs. F. Thomas is Queen”, in Free Press Evening Bulletin, volume 28, number 121, Winnipeg, Man., page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of besceptered.