cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
keep to oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps to oneself
form: keeping to oneself
form: kept to oneself
form: kept to oneself
Senses: examples: text: She preferred to keep to herself after her husband died.
text: I've done no harm, I keep to myself / There's nothing wrong with my state of mental health
ref: 1981, Men at Work, “Who Can It Be Now?”, in Business as Usual:
synonyms: keep oneself to oneself
glosses: To purposely avoid interaction with others; to be introverted.
examples: text: keep oneself to oneself
text: Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable, and which the doctor admonished them to keep to themselves.
ref: 1900, Mark Twain, chapter IV, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg:
glosses: To refrain from telling or giving; to keep secret, or refuse to share.
Derived terms: to oneself
fagbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagbutts
Etymology: From fag + butt.
Senses: glosses: The butt of a cigarette.
might and main
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: A reduplication of two words meaning strength.
Senses: examples: text: […] I found myself hanging on the skysail-yard, holding on might and main to the mast; and curling my feet round the rigging, as if they were another pair of hands.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, “Chapter XVI”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: c.1890s, Giovanni Boccaccio, James McMullen Rigg (translator), The Decameron, Novel 1, 6,
[…] he strove might and main to pass himself off as a holy man […]
text: When the sunlight threads the pine-gloom he is fighting might and main / To clinch the rivets of an Empire down.
ref: 1907, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Younger Son”, in Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 61:
glosses: With all one's strength; as hard as one can.
might and main
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A reduplication of two words meaning strength.
Senses: examples: text: with might and main
text: Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: Thinking that we were about to be taken up under the act for the suppression of vagrancy, we flew out of the house, sprang into a canoe before the door, and paddled with might and main over to the opposite side of the lake.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “The Hegira, or Flight”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 246:
text: The good mothers, like Burns’s matron, are plying their needles, making "auld claes look amaist as weel’s the new;" while the domestics, or help (we prefer the national descriptive term), are wielding, with might and main, their brooms and mops, to make all tidy for the Sabbath.
ref: 1852, Catherine M. Sedgwick, “The Sabbath In New England”, in John Seely Hart, editor, The Female Prose Writers of America: With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of their Writings:
text: "I feel just like studying with might and main," she declared as she brought her books down from the attic.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXXI, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: Another horrific attack on tourists to Dublin in the city centre and in the height of summer. Gardaí are doing their job with might and main.
ref: 2023 August 15, Senan Molony, “Give McEntee an accountability holiday on street crime–for now”, in Irish Independent, page 8:
glosses: All one's strength.
Related terms: horse and foot
citybus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citybuses
Etymology: From city + bus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of city bus (“a bus for use in a city”).
low-cost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lower-cost
form: more low-cost
form: lowest-cost
form: most low-cost
form: lowcost
Senses: examples: text: For passengers, the decline in numbers using the short sea route (to 1.8 million in 2017) reflects the emergence of low-cost airlines and the expansion of flights serving Ireland from many regional airports in Britain.
ref: 2020 November 18, Industry Insider, “Improving rail connectivity”, in Rail, page 68:
text: Lower-cost B.B.L.s have created a market for similarly priced postoperative care. These are not the relaxing, spalike havens like the ones that serve wealthier clientele.
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:
antonyms: high-cost
glosses: Low in price; cheap, inexpensive.
Derived terms: low-cost carrier
low cost carrier
lowroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowroads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of low road.
on and on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The interview dragged on and on, long after I was sure I wouldn't get the job.
glosses: Continuously and tediously.
Related terms: carry on
go on
on about
less and less
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: Over the years, there has been less and less oil available.
glosses: increasingly less
get one's fill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's fill
form: getting one's fill
form: got one's fill
form: got one's fill
form: gotten one's fill
Senses: glosses: to be satisfied, to have enough of something.
stay in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays in
form: staying in
form: stayed in
form: stayed in
Senses: examples: text: I don't like to stay in motels.
text: I stayed in the house until it stopped raining.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, in.
examples: text: My friends invited me out on Saturday, but instead I stayed in and watched television.
antonyms: go out
glosses: To remain at home.
laugh out of court
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughs out of court
form: laughing out of court
form: laughed out of court
form: laughed out of court
Senses: examples: text: The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers.
glosses: To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously.
staying power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staying powers
Senses: examples: text: They have shown their staying power before and it would be daft to write them off but it must be disturbing, nonetheless, for Mourinho that his team are five points behind already and locked in a game of catch-up against the side that has just subjected them to a rare, old-fashioned beating.
ref: 2015 August 16, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours”, in The Guardian:
text: Unlike other young artists who have fallen victim to too much market attention, too soon, he believes that [Avery] Singer has staying power.
ref: 2020 February 7, Melanie Gerlis, “Avery Singer: the artist breathing fresh life into painting”, in Financial Times:
glosses: Endurance, the ability to continue at something for a long period of time.
stay on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays on
form: staying on
form: stayed on
form: stayed on
Senses: examples: text: How does your hat manage to stay on in such strong wind?
text: The light stays on even if there's a power outage.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, on.
examples: text: Some of her friends decided it was time to go home, but she wanted to stay on until sunrise.
text: After the trial period, she was asked to stay on and work full-time.
glosses: to continue in a place or situation, while others leave.
quickdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quickdraws
Etymology: From quick + draw.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
examples: text: The Western film had a quickdraw gun duel scene.
glosses: The ability to quickly pull a handgun from its holster and accurately fire it upon a target.
Related terms: dogbone
last gasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last gasps
Senses: glosses: The last gasp or breath a person takes before death.
glosses: The point of death, or the last period of one's life.
glosses: A last-gasp moment, attempt, etc.
Derived terms: last-gasp
discontinuor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discontinuors
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of discontinuer.
lowcost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of low-cost.
discontinuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪskənˈtɪnjuə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: discontinuers
Etymology: From discontinue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was no gadder abroad, or discontinuer from his convent, for a long time.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
make it up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes it up to
form: making it up to
form: made it up to
form: made it up to
Senses: examples: text: After John gave her a lovely wooly hat for her birthday, she wanted to make it up to him so she took him out for dinner.
text: You've been so kind to me, how can I make it up to you?
glosses: To pay back; to return someone a previous good deed.
glosses: to redeem oneself
one and only
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Please welcome the one and only Bruce Springsteen!
glosses: Unique, one of a kind.
Related terms: first and last
one and only
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one and onlies
Senses: examples: text: Will you be my one and only?
glosses: Only love, sole sweetheart.
examples: text: Chesney Hawkes entertained the punters at half-time, and it was Wales' One and Only who was withdrawn ahead of the second-half as Brennan Johnson replaced Gareth Bale who had made just one successful pass in the first-half.
ref: 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:
glosses: The most talented or famous person (within in a specific context)
one and onlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one and only
gaybar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaybars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gay bar.
one after another
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: one after the other
Etymology: Dates back at least to Old English ān æfter ōþrum, of the same meaning.
Senses: glosses: In single file.
glosses: Individually, in a particular sequence or chronology.
examples: text: Once discipline broke down, problems came one after another.
glosses: Unrelentingly.
Synonyms: sense: in single file
word: one by one
sense: individually, in sequence or chronology
word: one at a time
Related terms: one thing after another
if it's not one thing it's another
one another
one way or another
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: one way or other
form: one way or the other
Senses: examples: text: One way or another, I'm going to find ya / I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya
ref: 1978, Debbie Harry, Nigel Harrison, “One Way or Another”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
synonyms: by hook or by crook
glosses: By any means possible.
synonyms: somehow or other
glosses: In a way that is not stated or known; somehow.
what's doing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An informal greeting.
Synonyms: what's going on
what's happening
what's up
very good
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: - Find out if there's any claret in the cellar, Jeeves.
- Very good, sir.
text: B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
Jeeves: Very good, sir.
ref: 1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, season 3, episode 6:
glosses: A polite acknowledgement of orders or statements.
dispensatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dispēnsātrīx. By surface analysis, dispensator + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Rightly then is this divine mother called the treasure, the treasurer, and the dispensatrix of divine graces.
ref: 1852, The Glories of Mary, translation of original by Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, page 439:
glosses: A female dispensator.
life-or-death
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: life-and-death
form: life or death
Senses: examples: text: Good camoflouge is life or death for many animals in the wild.
glosses: Of critical importance to the survival of a living organism.
examples: text: Ascending Mount Everest can be life or death for an inexperienced climber.
glosses: Having death as a possible or even likely outcome; perilous.
examples: text: Obtaining financing was a life-or-death matter for the research.
glosses: Of critical importance to the success of a particular endeavor.
Related terms: matter of life and death
armed robbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armed robberies
Senses: topics: law
hyponyms: hold-up
stickup
glosses: A theft where the thieves are armed with weapons.
armed robberies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armed robbery
moment in the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moments in the sun
Senses: synonyms: 15 minutes of fame
hour of glory
moment of glory
glosses: A brief instance in which an otherwise obscure, unremarkable, or humble person draws attention.
Related terms: flavor of the week
place in the sun
intradirective verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intradirective verbs
Senses: examples: In "I walked to the store", the verb 'walk' is intradirective, as the person undergoing the action is myself; in "I walked the dog" I no longer undergo the action, and the verb is transitive.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An intransitive verb in which the subject both actively performs and undergoes the action, as in verbs of motion such as walk, go, fly.
Related terms: labile verb
dissilient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissilient
form: most dissilient
Etymology: From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”).
Senses: examples: text: a dissilient pericarp
text: We may, however, notice Impàtiens, merely for the purpose of alluding to the dissilient property of its capsules, which, when ripe, burst with such force as to scatter the seeds to a considerable distance around.
ref: 1835, James Main, Illustrations of Vegetable Physiology, […] , second edition, London: Orr and Smith, Paternoster-Row: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefrairs, pages 84–85:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Forcefully breaking apart or bursting open; primed to do so; dehiscing explosively.
Related terms: dissilition
make mincemeat out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes mincemeat out of
form: making mincemeat out of
form: made mincemeat out of
form: made mincemeat out of
form: make mincemeat of
Senses: examples: text: The invading army made mincemeat out of our troops.
text: He had the uncanny ability to demolish his opponents with ease and make mincemeat out of them.
ref: 2007, Harry Lawson, Varghese Kattooparambil, Tom of Twofold Bay, →ISBN, page 21:
text: But the five ships on the other side of the mined zone were making mincemeat out of them anyway.
ref: 2007, Karl Schroeder, Sun of Suns, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: To defeat one's opponent easily and completely during a fight, contest, or debate.
examples: text: He made mincemeat out of that Evelyn Walker book he took over.
ref: 2016, Cathy Kelly, Secrets of a Happy Marriage, →ISBN:
glosses: To utterly destroy.
labile verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labile verbs
Senses: examples: The verb 'break' is labile because it can be used both transitively: I broke the window, and intransitively: the window broke, and in either case the object undergoing the action of breakage is the window.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A transitive verb, such as break, burn, boil, open, start, change, or assimilate, which may be used intransitively with the object of the action as the subject.
Synonyms: ergative verb
Related terms: intradirective verb
causative
middle voice
make someone's jaw drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's jaw drop
form: making someone's jaw drop
form: made someone's jaw drop
form: made someone's jaw drop
Senses: examples: text: The news that I'm pregnant after so many tries made my husband's jaw drop.
glosses: To cause someone to be very surprised or alarmed.
Related terms: jaw-dropping
someone's jaw dropped
treat them mean, keep them keen
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen
form: treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen
Senses: glosses: A woman will be more interested in a man if he is not kind to her.
Related terms: be cruel to be kind
nice guys finish last
that time of the month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time of the month.
quick off the mark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quicker off the mark
form: quickest off the mark
Etymology: From sports races, where the mark in this case is the point from which the racers start.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: fast to act or react
make matters worse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes matters worse
form: making matters worse
form: made matters worse
form: made matters worse
Senses: examples: text: His resentful attitude only made matters worse during the custody proceedings.
text: The mistake came about when there seemed to be little danger as Dicko swung in an innocuous cross, but the keeper somehow spilled the ball for Henry to head into an empty net. To make matters worse his error came in front of Gordon Strachan, the Scotland manager.
ref: 2015 August 16, Press Association, “Wolves rescue point against Hull thanks to Allan McGregor howler”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To worsen an already difficult situation or unfavourable set of circumstances, typically by acting rashly, foolishly, or incompetently.
Synonyms: word: add fuel to the fire
word: add insult to injury
word: cap it all off
word: fan the flames
word: make matters worse
word: throw gasoline on the fire
word: With malice
word: hit someone when they are down
word: kick a dog when it's down
word: kick someone when they are down
word: punch down
word: put the boot in
word: rub it in
word: rub salt in the wound
word: strike someone when they are down
word: twist the knife
Hypernyms: word: aggravate
word: worsen
Scudamore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old French escut d'amor (“shield of love”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
Derived terms: Upton Scudamore
no good deed goes unpunished
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: no good deed ever goes unpunished
Etymology: According to the website Grammarist, there is no one origin for the phrase "let no good deed go unpunished." However, it also lists several written examples from the 20th century, starting with a 1942 phrase attributed to Walter Winchell, in which he wrote (in a column) "[It] reminds me of the line diplomats use: ‘No good deed goes unpunished in Washington.” On top of that, it lists one from Dante's "The Divine Comedy" ("love is the seed in you of every virtue/and of all acts deserving punishment."). This can be found at the website https://grammarist.com/proverb/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/.
Meanwhile, the website Quote Investigator gives several older examples of these phrases, including one from a 12th-century text that was translated into English in 1923, and which discussed a malevolent, though the website indicated that it wasn't written like it was a proverb. As well, two came from 1927 (one of which used the word "kindness" in place of "good deed") and another from 1938 ("Every good deed brings its own punishment"), which was the earliest match that website found which it considered to be strong. This can be found at the website https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/30/good-deed/.
Senses: glosses: Actions of generosity often go unappreciated or are met with outright hostility or demands for further work.
Related terms: eaten bread is soon forgotten
no good deed ever goes unpunished
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no good deed goes unpunished.
plumber's crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Very classy: visible thong and plumber's crack.
ref: 2008, Insults and Comebacks, Venice, California: Knock Knock, page 27:
text: Marty comes on for the next number, but he spazzes out and drops his violin. The barely interested crowd gets just interested enough to yell some insults when he crouches to replug it with his plumber's crack displaying.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
glosses: An intergluteal cleft visible due to low-riding pants, especially when one is bending over.
Hypernyms: word: gluteal cleft
triple threat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple threats
form: triple-threater
form: triple threater
Senses: glosses: A person who is talented in three areas.
An entertainer who can act, dance, and sing equally well (also known as "all rounder")
glosses: A person who is talented in three areas.
A musician who is equally talented as an instrumentalist, singer and songwriter.
glosses: A person who is talented in three areas.
A person in the film industry who can write, produce and direct.
incage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: incages
form: incaging
form: incaged
form: incaged
Etymology: From in- + cage.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of encage.
Derived terms: incagement
incages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incage
incaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incage
incaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incage
go gaga over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes gaga over
form: going gaga over
form: went gaga over
form: gone gaga over
Senses: examples: text: He always goes gaga over his favourite band's newest album.
glosses: To receive positively or react to with enthusiasm, especially to an excessive degree.
go bonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes bonkers
form: going bonkers
form: went bonkers
form: gone bonkers
Senses: examples: text: We all knew he'd gone bonkers after he started speaking only gibberish.
glosses: To lose one's sanity.
examples: text: Everyone should just go bonkers at my next birthday party.
glosses: To have a good time, free from restraint.
Synonyms: sense: go insane
word: go nuts
sense: go insane
word: lose one's marbles
sense: have fun
word: cut loose
sense: have fun
word: go bananas
sense: have fun
word: have a blast
sense: have fun
word: have fun
sense: have fun
word: let loose
defæcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defæcations
Senses: examples: text: In this first group of causes one of the most important is that of habit; carelessness in attending to the call to stool, with the result that the bowel becomes accustomed to the presence of fæcal accumulations, and one of the chief stimuli to regular defæcation is thus lost.
ref: 1899, Chalmers Watson, Encyclopædia Medica, volume II, Longmans, Green & Co, page 367:
glosses: Archaic spelling of defecation.
paydirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paydirts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pay dirt.
paydirt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pay dirt.
defæcate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defæcates
form: defæcating
form: defæcated
form: defæcated
Senses: examples: text: [I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.
ref: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: The peculiar form of constipation present, inability to defæcate, was one which was usually associated with loss of power in the legs, as in this case.
ref: 1897, Jonathan Hutchinson, J. T. Conner, “Cases Demonstrated at the Clinical Museum.”, in The Clinical Journal, volume IX, page 188:
glosses: Archaic spelling of defecate.
defæcates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The patient, perhaps, has a little sense of pain on defæcation, a slight sense of fulness at the margin of the anus when he defæcates, and a lack of relief after the act of defæcation.
ref: 1893, Frederick Treves, “A Clinical Lecture On Hæmorrhoids”, in The Clinical Journal, volume III, page 118:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of defecates; third-person singular simple present indicative of defæcate.
along with
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: She fired all the journalists in the company, along with some of the administration workers.
text: With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In addition to.
defæcating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A married woman, aged 51, was admitted into University College Hospital on July 4th, 1873, with a history of three weeks’ obstruction of the bowels, following upon difficulty in defæcating of some months’ duration.
ref: 1873, Christopher Heath, “Cases Of Colotomy”, in The British Medical Journal, volume II, page 568:
glosses: present participle and gerund of defæcate
defæcated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: It so happened that of six persons arrested on suspicion, four of them accused a particular one as the murderer, and volunteered the information that he had also defæcated in the victim’s bed.
ref: 1901, edited by Frank P. Foster, The New York Medical Journal, A. H. Elliott Publishing Co.; volume LXXIII, page 464
glosses: Obsolete spelling of defecated; simple past and past participle of defæcate.
put on the map
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on the map
form: putting on the map
form: put on the map
form: put on the map
Senses: examples: text: The actress's role in the acclaimed drama finally put her on the map.
glosses: To bring someone or something into a position of prominence.
untired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more untired
form: most untired
Etymology: From un- + tired.
Senses: examples: text: I have waded thorow many dangerous hazards, with a more untired pace, only in consideration of the secret knowledge I had of mine owne will, and innocence of me desseignes.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 5, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o'er
With untired gaze the immeasurable fount
Ebullient with creative Deity!
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings:
glosses: Not tired; unwearied.
examples: text: Do not allow untired wheels to remain on the floor of the smith-shop, unless there is a current of air passing under the floor of the shop.
ref: 1877, The Automotive Manufacturer, volume 18, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of untyred (“not fitted with tyres”).
untired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untire
distincture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: distinctness
undelayedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undelayedly
form: most undelayedly
Etymology: From undelayed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And therewith advancing himselfe to march before the people, all the assembly, and even his accuser himselfe did undelayedly follow him towards the Temple.
ref: , II.5
glosses: Without delay.
disturbant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disturbant
form: most disturbant
Senses: glosses: disturbing
disturbant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disturbants
Senses: glosses: Something that disturbs.
pænal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By hypercorrection of penal
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of penal.
dogmatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dogmatize
dogmatizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogmatizers
Etymology: From dogmatize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But in stead of any fuller view of these, I shall mention some few of those, which our closer, and later experience hath made most familiar to us, and given us reason to look on with a quickness of sense, and dread, but those such, as being not entred into the Confessions of any national Church, are not properly chargeable either on Papists, or Protestants, but on particular dogmatizers on both parties […]
ref: 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion referring to Practise:
text: If it was the case that native dogmatizers were prohibiting the use of Spanish before the huacas and the use of the name of Jesus, then the information implies a large degree of cultural and religious acculturation by 1617 in the Province of Lima.
ref: 2015, Andrew Redden, Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750:
synonyms: dogmatist
glosses: One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter.
doom-and-gloom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doom and gloom.
doom-and-gloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doom and gloom.
send back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends back
form: sending back
form: sent back
form: sent back
Senses: examples: text: I sent the video back to the store, as it was damaged.
text: The 20-year-old speaks only a little Korean and has no South Korean friends. She has yet to travel alone beyond Seoul and often spends time chatting online with her friends back in China.
Her mother fled their home in Dunhua city in northeastern China in early 2017 after seeing a fellow North Korean woman in their village being arrested and sent back to North Korea.
ref: 2019 December 3, HYUNG-JIN KIM, “Half-North Korean, half-Chinese kids struggle in South Korea”, in AP News, sourced from UIJEONGBU, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on 09 Oct 2023:
synonyms: return
glosses: To return (something) to its origin.
examples: text: That song sends me back to the 1970s.
glosses: To remind (someone) of a previous time in the past.
Charmaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th century variant of Charmian, or coinage from the noun charm with the -aine ending as in Elaine and Germaine.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder why you keep me waiting / Charmaine, my Charmaine / Rise in vain
ref: 1926, Ernö Rapée, Lew Pollack, “Charmaine”:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
elementar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elementar
form: most elementar
Senses: examples: text: What thynge occasionyd the showris of rayne,
Of fyre elementar in his supreme spere, […]
ref: 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 331, lines 693–694:
glosses: Obsolete form of elementary.
embolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emboloi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “bolt; portico”).
Senses: glosses: An arcade or porticoed street in Constantinople.
embole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emboles
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An operation for the reduction of a dislocation.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formation of the gastrula by invagination.
glosses: Enarthrosis.
Related terms: embolon
embolus
emendanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emendandum
emendandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emendanda
Senses: glosses: Something to be corrected.
Leire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5290).
unquæstionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquæstionable
form: most unquæstionable
Etymology: From un- + quæstion + -able.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unquestionable.
top-priority
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top-priority
form: most top-priority
Senses: glosses: Of the highest level of importance
glosses: To be done before doing anything else.
contragredient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Neologism based on Latin contra and gradi.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Generally, denoting an object inversed and transposed (to another).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a representation in linear algebra: being the transpose of the former representation of an inverse object.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a matrix: being a transpose of an inverse matrix.
Derived terms: contragrediently
stipas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stipa
put something behind one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts something behind one
form: putting something behind one
form: put something behind one
form: put something behind one
Senses: examples: text: The losing candidate was just glad to put it behind him after months on the campaign trail.
text: Owen Hargreaves put his injury problems behind him with a fabulous goal on his debut as Manchester City beat holders Birmingham City to reach the fourth round of the Carling Cup.
ref: 2011 September 21, Sam Lyon, “Man City 2 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To recover from an unpleasant or traumatic experience; to overcome a negative feeling, especially anger, resentment, or grief.
Synonyms: get over
move on
rearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearers
Etymology: From rear + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rears (nurtures children or animals).
glosses: A horse or other animal that rears up.
rearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rearer
multi-story
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multi-storey.
multi-story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-stories
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multi-storey.
early birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of early bird
attention-grabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attention-grabbing
form: most attention-grabbing
Senses: examples: text: The attention-grabbing headline sent the crowd into a frenzy.
glosses: Attracting notice and attention, or prone to doing so.
Related terms: attention-seeking
fire-crotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-crotches
form: fire crotch
Senses: examples: text: It's time to regain your manhood. Go out, get drunk, find a cute fire-crotch, then.... Fuck the snot out of her on your kitchen floor.
ref: 1993 December 20, Jason D. Kelleher, “Re: love”, in alt.drunken.bastards (Usenet):
text: His wife, Ash, was no great lay—not like that nurse at the hospital, fire crotch, a hot little minkie with flaming red pubic hair and a very uninhibited appetite.
ref: 2000, Chris Mooney, Deviant Ways, Pocket Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Still suffering from the fallout of his stomach-churning "Lindsay Lohan is a fire crotch" tirade that paparazzi caught on tape last month, Brandon Davis is now blaming it all on drugs and has checked himself into rehab.
ref: 2005 June 16, Scott Lamb, “The Fix”, in Salon.com:
glosses: A person who has red pubic hair.
Synonyms: word: ginger minger
fire crotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire crotches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fire-crotch.
put up a fight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts up a fight
form: putting up a fight
form: put up a fight
form: put up a fight
Senses: examples: text: She put up a fight when the mugger tried to steal her purse.
text: Most sharks will not put up a fight in the way that a sailfish or a tuna will when caught; sharks usually stay deep and pull hard on the line.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: To offer some form of resistance to an attack.
examples: text: Their youngest son always put up a fight when it was bedtime.
text: I'll put up a fight, taking out my earrings
Don't you know the vibe? Don't you know the feeling?
You should spend the night, catch me on your ceiling
That's your prize, that's your prize
Well
ref: 2024, Gracie Abrams, Audrey Hobert, “That's So True”, in The Secret of Us, performed by Gracie Abrams:
glosses: To protest or make a fuss, especially over a proposed course of action.
run counter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs counter
form: running counter
form: ran counter
form: run counter
Senses: info_templates: extra_data: words: to
expansion: [with to]
glosses: To defy or oppose something, especially an expectation, custom, or social standard.
Synonyms: go against the grain
un-Australian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-Australian
form: most un-Australian
Etymology: From un- + Australian.
Senses: glosses: Not Australian.
examples: text: Did it mean if they spoke plainly to him that they were Australian too? Or, were they really invisible in anyone’s language no matter what they said, and would remain un-Australian for loving ancient beliefs of their traditional lands too much.
ref: 2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 146:
glosses: Not conforming to characteristic Australian standards of behaviour and ethics.
suck a lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks a lemon
form: sucking a lemon
form: sucked a lemon
form: sucked a lemon
form: suck lemons
Etymology: From the grimace one sometimes gets from tasting the tartness of a lemon's citric acid.
Senses: examples: text: I knew he must've woke up sucking a lemon when he didn't even say hello.
glosses: To be in a sour or negative mood.
erodent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erodents
Senses: examples: text: Worlds granite-spined / To thine erodents yield
ref: 1912, Clark Ashton Smith, “Ode to the Abyss”, in The star-treader and other poems, A. M. Robertson, page 18:
glosses: Something that erodes.
erodents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erodent
push broom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push brooms
form: pushbroom
Senses: glosses: A T-shaped broom that can sweep or scrub large areas.
Related terms: scrubbing brush
push brooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push broom
swim upstream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swims upstream
form: swimming upstream
form: swam upstream
form: swum upstream
Senses: examples: text: I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had to swim upstream and do it herself. Now it's a mess.
glosses: To opt for a difficult course of action when a simpler or safer alternative is available; to make an unwise decision against sound advice.
Synonyms: do something the hard way
emicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪkənt/
Forms: form: more emicant
form: most emicant
Etymology: From Latin ēmicāns, present participle of ēmicō. See emication.
Senses: examples: text: [God][…]which emicant did this and that way dart
ref: 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem:
glosses: Beaming forth; flashing.
emplastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emplastron
Vancian magic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Vance + -ian, after fantasy writer Jack Vance.
Senses: glosses: A form of magic based on the existence of spells that must be prepared in advance, for specific purposes, and that can be used a finite number of times.
wikipedia: Jack Vance
enecate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛnɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: enecates
form: enecating
form: enecated
form: enecated
Etymology: From Latin ēnecātus, past participle of ēnecāre; ē- (“out, utterly”) + necāre (“to kill”).
Senses: examples: text: in the manner of a most presentaneous poyson, they enecate in two or three hours
ref: 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague:
glosses: To kill off; to destroy.
body parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body part
trisyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trisyllable
dation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin datiōnem.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dose.
Derived terms: dation in payment
Related terms: dative
dation in payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dations in payment
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The agreed discharge of a debt by giving something differing in character from that of the original debt
snow skink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow skinks
Senses: glosses: Any skink in the taxonomic genus Carinascincus, endemic to south-eastern Australia (Tasmania and Victoria).
Kazbek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dormant volcano in the Caucasus, on the border between North Ossetia, Russia and Georgia.
implantation bleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Light bleeding from the vagina caused when a fertilized ovum attaches to the wall of the uterus.
cœnæsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cœnæsthetic
form: most cœnæsthetic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to cœnæsthesia.
queenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: queenies
Etymology: From queen + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: He looks like Eddie Izzard gone too far and sounds a little like Rod Steiger's queenie turn in No Way to Treat a Lady.
ref: 2001 June 1, Rod Mackie, The Guardian:
glosses: An effeminate man; a male homosexual (especially as a term of address).
examples: text: There are no closed seasons for queenies or restrictions on fishing time or catches.
ref: 2015, Elizabeth Gosling, Marine Bivalve Molluscs, page 296:
glosses: The queen scallop.
queenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queenie
merese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mereses
Etymology: Perhaps via French [Term?] (compare French mérèse (growth by cell division), mérisme (merismus, merism)), ultimately from Ancient Greek μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros, “part”) + -ίζω (-ízō, “-ize”), from Proto-Hellenic *(h)méros. First English attestation in 1923 on page 44 of Glass-making in England by Harry J. Powell.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A flat, sharp-edged button, often a disc-shaped knob, separating the stem of a drinking-glass from the foot.
wikipedia: French
Yusuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yousef
form: Yousuf
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yoséf). Doublet of Joseph.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
en dashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of en dash
beat cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beat cops
Senses: examples: text: Others understand community policing as a style of community integration in which the beat cop specifically withholds enforcement as a way to build community contacts.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
synonyms: beatsman
glosses: A police officer who patrols the streets on foot (walks the beat).
NWO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: NWO Plans Exposed By Insider In 1969
glosses: Initialism of New World Order.
wet room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet rooms
Senses: glosses: A bathroom (or area within a bathroom) in which a shower is not surrounded by any barrier
Alice in Wonderland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alice in Wonderland
form: most Alice in Wonderland
form: Alice-in-Wonderland
Etymology: Derived from the children's fantasy story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Senses: examples: text: It is an Alice in Wonderland question. Let me answer it this way: To design a car, you must — emphasize must — have restrictions to guide you.
ref: 1978 Apr, Popular Mechanics, volume 149, number 4, page 204:
text: The law-making affair often has an Alice in Wonderland touch. Terms are defined by law, and if the law says black is white, then for the purpose of the law, black is white.
ref: 1987, Acres, U.S.A.: Volume 6:
text: IBM's current system and network management story has an Alice in Wonderland touch to it, with incongruity as the prevailing theme. Just as it is in Wonderland, most things in IBM's management story are not what they appear to be.
ref: 1992 September 7, Network World, volume 9, number 36, page 37:
text: What makes this debate an Alice in Wonderland debate is that the people who support this bill are the very people who will benefit from taking the American people out of the debate by limiting the ability of people to put up their time.
ref: 2001, Phil Gramm, Congressional Record-Senate, March 29, 2001, page 5053:
text: It became more Alice in Wonderland all the time: was I now to navigate as well?
ref: 2002, Alan Stripp, Codebreaker in the Far East, page 35:
text: This is all a little more Alice in Wonderland than I had expected.
ref: 2008, Lisa Margonelli, Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, page 68:
text: Herzog further noted that the United Nations developed an Alice in Wonderland perspective on Israel.
ref: 2012, Danny Danon, Israel: The Will to Prevail, page 69:
text: Tautology is not a problem in an Alice in Wonderland world in which a junior official can be said to coordinate the work of the Secretary of State.
ref: 2014, L. Pope, The Demilitarization of American Diplomacy:
glosses: As in a surreal fairy tale where things work at odds to the way they do in the real world.
Synonyms: Alice in Wonderlandish