cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Gavenny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A short minor river in Monmouthshire, Wales, which joins the River Usk at Abergavenny.
Wormbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and former civil parish, since 1 April 2019 in Kilpeck parish, south-west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4230).
public information officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public information officers
form: PIO
Etymology: From public + information + officer.
Senses: glosses: A government official who coordinates an agency's public communications; a spokesperson.
Related terms: press secretary
press officer
Clea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cleas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
ENM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As with any good relationship, readers who have experience with ENM say self-awareness and communication are key to keeping things harmonious.
ref: 2024 January 27, Doosie Morris, “‘Humans are messy’: readers share their experiences with ethical non-monogamy”, in The Guardian:
text: He said different things about us, first he said we were in an open relationship, and I said yeah okay, then he said we were in an ethical non-monogamy, ENM, and I said yeah okay.
ref: 2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 89:
glosses: Initialism of ethical nonmonogamy.
ENM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENMs
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: ENF
EUF
CMNF
CFNF
CFNM
hypernyms: humiliationplay
glosses: Initialism of embarrassed, naked (or sometimes nude) male: A form of sexual roleplay in which a man acts out situations in which he is accidentally, unintentionally, unwillingly, or reluctantly naked and consequently embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated.
Pornography depicting such a situation.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: ENF
EUF
CMNF
CFNF
CFNM
hypernyms: humiliationplay
glosses: Initialism of embarrassed, naked (or sometimes nude) male: A form of sexual roleplay in which a man acts out situations in which he is accidentally, unintentionally, unwillingly, or reluctantly naked and consequently embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated.
The man in such a situation.
polyquaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing quaternary ammonium functional groups.
clocks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clock up
clocking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clock up
back-taxi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-taxis
form: back-taxies
form: back-taxiing
form: back-taxying
form: back-taxied
form: back-taxied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backtaxi.
FLI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FLIs
Senses: examples: text: Food loss index (FLI) and food waste index (FWI) are the two clearly defined indices given by FAO, to measure the progress in attaining the sustainable methods of food waste management.
ref: 2022, Sanju Bala Dhull et al., editors, Food Processing Waste and Utilization: Tackling Pollution and Enhancing Product Recovery, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of food loss index.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of first limit indicator.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of fraction of lunar illumination.
FLI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Future of Life Institute.
FWI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Food loss index (FLI) and food waste index (FWI) are the two clearly defined indices given by FAO, to measure the progress in attaining the sustainable methods of food waste management.
ref: 2022, Sanju Bala Dhull et al., editors, Food Processing Waste and Utilization: Tackling Pollution and Enhancing Product Recovery, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of food waste index.
broccolinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broccolini
superdry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdry
form: most superdry
form: super-dry
Etymology: From super- + dry.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the game can still find enough old grass to subsist. But the superdry food and the lack of vitamins cause constipation, and the affected animals are soon so weakened that, after a last visit to a water hole, they will remain there, to wait in the insignificant shade of a gray tamarisk bush for the night, the hyenas, and the inevitable.
ref: 1960 March, Henno Martin, “A Year of the Namib”, in Natural History, volume LXIX, page 61:
text: She tried to find her voice, which was hiding somewhere inside her superdry throat.
ref: 2000, Francine Pascal, On My Own (Sweet Valley High Senior Year), Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Once the broccolini are cool, you have to get them very dry, so let them drain in a colander, spin them in a salad spinner, dab them with paper towels, or even drive around the block a few times holding them out the window…just get them superdry.
ref: 2013, Brian L. Patton, The Sexy Vegan’s Happy Hour at Home: Small Plates, Big Flavors, and Potent Cocktails, New World Library, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Extremely dry.
Llanwenarth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Llanfoist Fawr community, west of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO2714).
Herculesses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hercules
U. States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the U. States
Senses: examples: text: On the evening of the first day we rested at Lancaster, sixty miles from Philadelphia. It is one of the largest inland towns in the U. States, and has a hotel above all praise.
ref: 1823 May 16, “Tour to the Western States”, in New-England Galaxy, volume VI, number 292, front page, column 2:
text: The name Jolly champagne, under which, at present, a large quantity of the best champagne is sold in the U. States, does not originate from a place in Champagne, but from an owner of extensive vineyards in that province, who exports much champagne to the U. States.
ref: 1830, “Champagne”, in Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, editors, Encyclopædia Americana. […], volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Edward Lawrence] Carey & [Abraham] Lea[...], →OCLC, page 58, column 1:
text: The longest single railroad in the U. States is the New York and Erie, from New York city to lake Erie, 467 miles. Questions.—1. How many miles of railroads in the U. States?
ref: 1862, Sidney E[dwards] Morse, A System of Geography, for the Use of Schools. […], New York, N.Y.: […] Harper & Brothers, […], page 72, column 3:
glosses: Abbreviation of United States.
trashification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trashifications
Etymology: From trash + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: […] with the growing complication of technique and the exclusiveness it created and finally with the grand consolidation and trashification whose finest flower was block booking […]
ref: c. 1940, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Selected Fitzgerald Working Notes”, in The Love of the Last Tycoon, New York, N.Y. […]: Scribner, →ISBN, page 150:
text: The Doles, Bennetts, and Borks condemn the trashification of popular culture, but vulgarity is the consequence of ignorance, never mind Hollywood.
ref: 1996 November 4, David Gelernter, “Less Surfing, More Learning”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 2, number 8, New York, N.Y.: News America Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
text: While many political trashifiers begin to believe their own trashifications, bloatators rarely do. Bloatating a position paper involves puffery similar to trashifications but it is oriented toward stroking the prejudices […]
ref: 1999, James H[arlan] Boren, How to be a Sincere Phoney: A Handbook for Politicians and Bureaucrats, Tahlequah, OK; Delaplane, VA: Birdcage Publications; EPM Custom Books, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Springer didn't invent the trashification of TV and pop culture. His show was modeled on earlier talk shows that dipped the occasional toe in the mud, like Phil Donahue's, and its ascent came alongside the likes of Howard Stern.
ref: 2023 April 27, James Poniewozik, “Jerry Springer Was TV's Biggest Populist (Give or Take a President)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2023:
glosses: The act of trashifying; the act of turning something into trash.
Related terms: trashify
hootin', tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was the best, hootin’, tootin’ son-of-a-seacook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness.
ref: 1902, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders: His Adventures West and East, page 58:
text: He's a ridin', shootin', hootin', tootin' fool from way out west where men are men and they still have telephone booths in the backyard (don't run!).
ref: 1929, The Leatherneck - Volume 12, page 11:
text: We’d knowed her since she was a yearlin’ as a swell spot for a nervous wreck to rest up in, but now she’s turned into a hootin’, tootin’ seaport, all disguised in wavin’ flags an’ banners.
ref: 1936, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, page 59:
text: IF YOU NOTICED that tall, rip-roarin', hootin', tootin', eagle-eyed basketball shootin' cowboy out thar on that thar slippery range, that we call basketball court, he probably turned out to be my pal, your pal and everybody's pal
ref: 1938, Northland, page 31:
text: Think everyone would like to see what a hootin’, tootin’, fightin’ gang like yours looks like.
ref: 1938, Telegraph Workers Journal, page 47:
text: [P]aper on which someday I would write the story of how to make paper from wood, the romance of the forest camps, the river drive in spring, the roarin', hootin’, tootin’ life of the old-time lumberjack, the story of his favorite hobby, birling logs in competition in the booms, the prize usually a keg of whisky in those days.
ref: 1943, “The Author and Journalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 14:
text: The other school holds that Service has done Dawson irreparable harm , that thanks to him it is known less as a gold-producing centre and a hub for the exploration of the surrounding wilderness than for the hootin', tootin' days of the Rush; that the hardship and horror were grossly exaggerated, and not only by Service.
ref: 1955, Frank Illingworth, Highway to the North, page 277:
text: Again, it is a lurid sex crime. Again, the crime revolves around a gang of small town hootin’, tootin’, harebrained hoodlums.
ref: 1969, The Journal of the Producers Guild of America, page 37:
text: He showed that you could be a rah-rah, hootin’, tootin’ flag-waver without crossing the line into boorish behaviour.
ref: 2000, Mark James, Into the Bear Pit, page 211:
text: For one week over Easter the quiet streets of Oudtshoorn are transformed by 100,000 hootin’, tootin’ revellers unashamedly celebrating Afrikaans culture.
ref: 2001, Pat Hopkins, Eccentric South Africa, page 19:
text: Purty nigh all my life I been a hootin’, tootin’ disturber o’ the peace, committin’ depperdations as makes me blush to think of; but right here is where I do somethin’ fer civilization and progress, which’ll go a good ways to’rds makin’ up fer the past.
ref: 2020, Stanley R. Matthews, Motor Matt’s ‘Century’ Run, or, The Governor’s Courier:
glosses: Alternative form of hootin' tootin'.
rootin', tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rootinest, tootinest
Senses: examples: text: I am happy to second the nomination of that rootin’, tootin’, son-of-a-gun from Pennsylvania, Jimmy Van Zandt.
ref: 1933 August 31, George K. Brobeck, “Fifth Business Session, August 31, 1933”, in Proceedings of the 34th National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 27 – September 1, 1933 […] (73d Congress, 2d Session, House Document; no. 152), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1934, →OCLC, page 110:
text: The theme song “Up and Down the Monon,” written by John A. McGee, follows: […] UP and down the Monon / Everything is fine, / ’cause that rootin’, tootin’ Monon / She’s a Hoosier line!
ref: 1947 March 8, John A. McGee, quotee, “Indiana Society Celebrates Monon Centennial”, in Samuel O. Dunn, editor, Railway Age, volume 122, number 10, Philadelphia, Pa.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 509:
text: Hewson maintains its high standards with this rootin’, tootin’, killin’, maimin’, shoot ’em up. Not to be missed by arcadey types.
ref: 1989 May, Sean Kelly, “Eliminator [video game review]”, in Teresa Maughan, editor, Your Sinclair, number 41, London: Dennis Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74:
text: "Howdy, pardners! I'm Chip! The rootinest, tootinest root vegetable this side of the Boise River," he said in a fake Western drawl. The pre-recorded words came from speakers mounted on the walls. Chip clutched a basket brimming with real potatoes against his red flannel shirt.
ref: 2020, Allison Marks, Wayne Marks, chapter 6, in Benny Feldman’s All-star Klezmer Band, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Green Bean Books, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of rootin' tootin'.
in the name of the law
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The following passage from his autobiography is interesting, as showing the impression which the "barbarous deeds done in the name of the law" made upon his mind, even in boyhood: […]
ref: 1850, George Searle Phillips, The Life, Character and Genius of Ebenezer Elliot the Corn Law Rhymer, page 78:
text: Shouting "stop in the name of the law" is wasteful when a suspect obviously is fleeing the law.
ref: 1991 July, Francis A. Gilligan, Stephen D. Smith, “Criminal Law Division Notes”, in The Army Lawyer, page 52:
text: At the same time, once things are done in the name of the law, it no longer matters what they are, for they are legal, and any further scrutiny of their nature is unnecessary—indeed, may be construed as subversive.
ref: 1996, Omer Bartov, Murder in Our Midst, page 69:
text: Those soliciting, expediting, or executing arbitrary orders ought to be punished; but every citizen called or seized in the name of the law ought to obey instantly: one becomes guilty by resisting.
ref: 2021, Micah Alpaugh, The French Revolution: A History in Documents:
glosses: By the demand of a legal authority.
house of prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of prayer
Senses: glosses: Synonym of house of worship.
synonyms: word: house of worship
fish-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-eyes
Senses: examples: text: The girl gives him the fish-eye.
ref: 1941, W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield), “The Great Man”, in W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1973, page 391:
text: And the driver, some kind of cop, had given him the fish-eye as he passed.
ref: 2000, George P. Pelecanos, Shame the Devil, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 10:
text: O’Leary was giving me the fish-eye again.
ref: 2008, Ben F. Small, The Olive Horseshoe, Night Shadows Press, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of fisheye.
fish-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fish-eyes
form: fish-eyeing
form: fish-eying
form: fish-eyed
form: fish-eyed
Senses: examples: text: The two broads were fish-eyein’ me.
ref: 1979, Edwin Torres, “After Hours”, in Carlito’s Way, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1993, page 194:
text: She fish-eyed me a good ten seconds before she told somebody to hand me my stuff.
ref: 1989, Glen Cook, “Shadow Games”, in The Black Company Goes South (The Black Company), SFBC Fantasy, published 2002, page 196:
text: “You just fish-eyed me, boy. Don’t tell me it’s nothing. Hey! I’m talking to you.”
ref: 2014, Kieran Shea, Koko Takes a Holiday, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Alternative form of fisheye.
fish-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fisheyed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fish-eye
fisheyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In Madura the fisheyed goddess Minakshi is annually so married with great pomp and éclat, but in the villages the goddess is still the real deity and protectress of the people rather than the recognised Hindu gods.
ref: 1933, Census of India, 1931, Delhi: Manager of Publications, page 457:
text: His latest report finds that in many schools students are bored to a fisheyed coma by the sonorous turgidity of the tommy[-]rot taught backwards which, is used to prevent students from learning the truth.
ref: 1932 March 1, “Prof. I. Will Flunkum Spills the Latest”, in The Crescent, volume XLIII, number 9, Newberg, Ore., page three:
text: He’s the dour, despicable, fisheyed creature whose fearless glance is feared by innocent and guilty alike, and who, to coin a bromide, is prepared to shake the community to its very foundations by giving the word.
ref: 1943 April 24, “Picture of a Movie City Editor By a Real One”, in Editor & Publisher, volume 76, number 17, page 110:
text: Two circular windows, each six feet across, provide appropriately fisheyed views of the entire tank.
ref: 1984 October 29, Michael Rogers, “A Marine Treasure Chest”, in Newsweek, page 131:
text: He ceased his banging, and in the spy hole she saw him, fisheyed, standing rigid, hands behind his back.
ref: 2014, Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 341:
text: I picked up the pill jar and put it right against my eye. The plastic showed me a fisheyed, amber world.
ref: 2014, Tom Harper [pseudonym; Edwin Thomas], Zodiac Station, Hodder & Stoughton, published 2015, →ISBN, page 273:
text: She looked at me, fisheyed, and shook.
ref: 2015, Geoff Herbach, “After the Party”, in Nick Healy, Kristen Mohn, Nate LeBoutillier, Lindsy O’Brien, editors, Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life, Switch Press, Capstone, →ISBN, part three (Love & Madness), page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of fish-eyed.
fisheyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fisheye
AYFKM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Also I can't cut out lunch, my "leave" time is pretty much fixed. Besides, cut out LUNCH?! AYFKM?!! I want to stay (relatively) SANE!!! ;)
ref: 2002 May 30, Knight37, “Re: How do I find more game time.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet):
text: I'm going to be everywhere, I'd thought. And being in the public eye? That's no joke. / But the question remains . . . am I ready for Pop Stardom? / AYFKM? I've been ready since the day I was born.
ref: 2014, The Creator of Rich Kids of Instagram with Maya Sloan, Rich Kids of Instagram: A Novel, New York, NY: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: Initialism of are you fucking kidding me?.
Related terms: AYKM
YGTBKM
stump cams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stump cam
stump cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stump cams
form: stump-cam
form: stumpcam
Senses: examples: text: (Because the stump cam had yet to be invented, viewers were spared the sight of a super-slo replay of his gymnastic display from an overly explicit angle).
ref: 2004, Nigel Henderson, The Worst of Cricket: Run Outs to Riots: Malice and Misfortune in the World’s Cruellest Game, Pitch Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Things are different today because you get to see so much of what goes on, from the players arriving at airports with intrepid journalists like Tim Abraham thrusting a microphone in Ricky Ponting’s face to the latest technology, such as a stump cam that pretty much gives you the batsman’s view of the bowler running in.
ref: 2010, Ian Botham, Botham’s Book of the Ashes: A Lifetime Love Affair with Cricket’s Greatest Rivalry, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
text: Within a blink of Beer’s stumps being rattled, four of them were souvenired, the two containing stump cams being left behind – even in their ecstasy, the players never forget their debt to television.
ref: 2011, Gideon Haigh, Ashes 2011: England’s Record-Breaking Series Victory, Aurum, published 2016, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: Synonym of stump camera.
synonyms: word: stump camera
stump-cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stump-cams
Senses: examples: text: Allwork was an innovative cameraman, credited with the invention of the stump-cam.
ref: 2006, Gideon Haigh, editor, Peter the Lord’s Cat: And Other Unexpected Obituaries from Wisden, Aurum, published 2010, →ISBN, page 6:
text: People have been asking if it was a set up. Obviously not. Channel Nine would have had a stump-cam in.
ref: 2006, Trevor Marmalade, Trevor Marmalade’s Footy Show Joke Book 2, Hardie Grant Books, →ISBN, page 189:
text: I did suggest, for example, that the only way Heather could have got the public on her side was to produce video evidence that Paul had treated her badly: She needed one of those things they use on the cricket coverage: the stump-cam.
ref: 2008, Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner on the Road, Century, →ISBN, page 317:
glosses: Alternative form of stump cam.
stump-cams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stump-cam
stumpcam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stumpcams
Senses: examples: text: Coloured clothes, doctored rules, third umpires, stumpcams and various other applications of technology, are neither here nor there; some are good, some not so good.
ref: 1999, Brian Matthews, “Flags and Banners”, in Rob Steen, editor, The New Ball: The Best New Cricket Writing, volume three (Unlimited Overs), Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The high-camera view was excellent, giving the impression you’re watching from the stands, but the stumpcam produced a very fish-eyed picture.
ref: 2001 April, Alex Kidman, “The revolution will not be televised”, in Australian Personal Computer, page 34:
text: The 1989–90 series between Pakistan and India was the first time: a white ball had been used; neutral umpires stood; a stumpcam was used; a wicketkeeper took 12 catches?
ref: 2007, Clive Gifford, So You Think You Know Test Cricket?, Hodder, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Alternative form of stump cam.
stumpcams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stumpcam
AYKM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘AYKM! None of us are safe from Maria-watch!’ Molly joked, rolling her eyes. / ‘Not even I know what that means,’ Maria said, rolling her eyes back. / ‘Anyone?’ Molly asked, looking at her friends. ‘AYKM – are you kidding me!’
ref: 2014, Holly Willoughby, Kelly Willoughby, School for Stars (Summer Holiday Mystery; 4), London: Hodder & Stoughton, published 2016, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Initialism of are you kidding me?.
Related terms: AYFKM
YGTBKM
GTFOOH
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “What kind of system is that where grown women kick each other like f—king mules? Was this a new type of morse code or something? GTFOOH!” Garcelle stated.
ref: 2022 May 6, Josh Ramsey, “RHOBH’s Garcelle Beauvais Slams Whoopi Goldberg as “Cringeworthy” and “Testy” During The View Audition, Where They Stand Today”, in Page Six:
glosses: Initialism of get the fuck out of here.
Related terms: BTFO
GTFIH
GTFO
GTFOH
GTFOHWTBS
GTFOI
GMAFB
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Who made Tupac public enemy #1? The White Media? GMAFB! Didn't he relish the role as bad boy *and* gansta? WTF...are you trying to rewrite history now?
ref: 1996 September 18, Roxanne, “Re: the death of tupac”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of give me a fucking break: used to express frustration or annoyance.
common practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common practices
Senses: examples: text: to be common practice
synonyms: common currency
glosses: A usual and commonly accepted way of doing things.
Related terms: commonplace
common practice period
common sense
bauers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bauer
popsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popsies
Senses: examples: text: Alvin darling, it won’t be hard, I tell you, after the first ice is broken. It’ll be pretty stiff at first, I admit. But it’s always been a joke with everybody the way I can wrap my popsie around my little finger. He’s up in a temper and then over it in a second.
ref: 1916, Cosmopolitan, page 40:
text: AFTER a long silence my popsie said “Why don’t you talk to me? You’re not doing anything.”
ref: 1953, Punch, page 126:
text: And so when Ginika came to school one morning, her eyes red and shadowed, and told Ifemelu, “My popsie said we are going to America next month,” Ifemelu felt almost relieved.
ref: 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 5, in Americanah, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of popsy.
trashifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trashification
Divonne-les-Bains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A spa town and commune of Ain department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
time tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time tapes
Senses: examples: text: For easy monitoring, use a time tape, which marks the prescribed solution level at hourly intervals.
ref: 2002, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, I.V. Therapy Made Incredibly Easy!, page 28:
text: When hanging a new bag, apply a time tape to the IV solution container next to the volume markings.
ref: 2013, Leslie S Treas, Judith M Wilkinson, Basic Nursing: Concepts, Skills, & Reasoning, page 1425:
text: Write the start time at the top of the time tape after the infusion has started.
ref: 2023, Tracy Horntvedt, Dimensional Analysis: Calculating Dosages Safely, page 65:
qualifier: nursing
glosses: A tape placed on an IV bag, on which the nurse periodically marks the level and time, used to track the speed at which the solution is infusing.
time tape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time tapes
form: time taping
form: time taped
form: time taped
Senses: examples: text: IV is time taped and within 15 cc of on time (except with titrated drips) .
ref: 1980, Amy Morrison Karch, Concurrent Nursing Audit, page 124:
text: Even when a pump is used, it is recommended that the volume control set be time taped to double check correctness of pump function.
ref: 1991, Donna Phillips Smith, Comprehensive Child and Family Nursing Skills, page 625:
text: Time taping IV bag gives nurse visual cue as to whether fluids are being administered over correct period of time.
ref: 2011, Geraldine Rebeiro, Damian Wilson, Leanne Jack, Fundamentals of Nursing: Clinical Skills Workbook, page 165:
glosses: Alternative form of time-tape.
common practice period
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An era of European music, lasting from the mid-Baroque period though the Classical and Romantic periods (around 1650–1900).
Related terms: common practice
Divonne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Divonne-les-Bains: a spa town and commune of Ain department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Wackson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wacksons
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Maona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maonas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Baldonnel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Dublin, Ireland
ref: 2023 January 23, Jonathan Carroll, Matthew G. O'Neill, Mark Williams, The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security, Springer Nature, →ISBN:
glosses: An industrial and agricultural suburb in Dublin, Ireland.
examples: text: [...] Baldonnel, B.C. near the original site, at Progress, B.C. and at Goodfare and Wapiti in Alberta.
ref: 1925, Canada. Experimental Station, Beaverlodge, Alta, Report of the Superintendent, page 85:
text: Upper Triassic strata in northeasterm British Columbia comprise an overall deepening-upward succession of […] rocks […] subdivided into four formations (Charlie Lake, Baldonnel, Pardonet, and Bocock; Fig. 1) […]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research (Online) no. 2002-A8, Natural Resources Canada, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: A town in British Columbia, or the geological formation named after it.
common place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common places
Senses: examples: text: Which miſerable and deceiued ſort (but yet truly moſt wilfull & froward people) that I might by the mercye of God in ſome meaſure perſwade, if not wholy conuert to the truth, I haue the rather employed my diligence in collecting theſe common places (ſincerely expoũded by the authors themſelues) that in the reading and earneſt ſtudy therof, there may ſome ſparke of Gods true knowledge, kindle aright vnderſtanding in them, which the Lord graunt, that his onely praiſe & glory may therein be ſhewed.
ref: 1581, Iohn Marbeck, “To the Right Honorable, and His Especiall good Lord, the Earle of Huntington, […]”, in A Booke of Notes and Common Places, with Their Expositions, Collected and Gathered out of the Workes of Diuers Singular Writers, and Brought Alphabetically into Order. […], London: […] Thomas East:
text: But as every man is moſt concerned for himſelf, I, who am of a Saturnine and melancholy complexion, cannot but murmur, that there is not an equal invitation to write Tragedies; having by me, in my book of common places, enough to enable me to finiſh a very ſad one by the fifth of the next month.
ref: 1709, “Will’s Coffee-house, May 30.”, in The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, volume the first, number 22, London: […] C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, […], published 1774, pages 132–133:
text: The only common places of his memory are his meals; and if you aſk him at what time an event happened, he conſiders whether he heard it after a dinner of turbot, or of veniſon.
ref: 1752 March 7, The Rambler, volume VIII, number 206, Edinburgh: […] Sands, Murray, and Cochran. Sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J. Yair, […], page 161:
glosses: Obsolete form of commonplace.
common places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common place
Crassier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Nyon district, Vaud canton, Switzerland.
La Rippe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Nyon district, Vaud canton, Switzerland.
Shakespearemania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Shakespeare + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: His veneration and imitation of the English playwright, part of a German tradition of “Shakespearemania” initiated by Herder’s “Shakespeare” essay, has been well documented.
ref: 1979, William C. Reeve, Georg Büchner, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Michael Bristol’s Shakespeare’s America explores the philosophical and cultural background that gave rise to Shakespearemania in the nineteenth century and that has supported its various manifestations down to the present day.
ref: 1990, College & Research Libraries, page 570:
text: Shakespearemania may have waned slightly since then, but as the 1996 autumn festival in Madrid showed, it is always capable of returning.
ref: 1998, Shakespeare Quarterly, page 421:
text: Shakespearemania prevailed in 1828. Only one year later, another English troupe arrived in Paris featuring William Macready in Macbeth, and some months later, still another exciting visitor, the renowned Edmund Kean, performed in Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, and King Lear.
ref: 2007, Bettina Knapp, Marie Dorval: France’s Theatrical Wonder: A Book for Actors, Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 75–76:
glosses: Enthusiasm for the works of English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
whacky baccy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wacky baccy.
house-wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-wife
spratting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The spratting season usually lasts from November to March, and, before the outbreak of the recent war, large consignments of sprats were despatched to the Continent, via Parkeston Quay and the train ferry.
ref: 1947 November and December, C. Langley Aldrich, “The Brightlingsea Branch, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 383:
glosses: Fishing for sprats.
spratting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprat
dronescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dronescape
re-consider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-considers
form: re-considering
form: re-considered
form: re-considered
Senses: examples: text: After wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every variety of thought; re-considering events, determining probabilities, and reconciling herself as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so important, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at length return home; […]
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 168–169:
text: September 30, 1864, rule to show cause why sentence in this case should not be re-considered. October 6, 1864, the court re-considered the sentence in the case of William Mulligan and Edward Russell, and reduce the imprisonment to six months, from date of former sentence.
ref: 1868, Miscellaneous Documents, Read in the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, During the Session Which Commenced at Harrisburg the 7th day of January, 1868, Harrisburg, Pa.: Singerly & Myers, […], page 1124:
text: Following on, our collection re-considers the politics of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’, unearthing the remarkably complex deliberative mechanisms and elective practices at work within the various Islamic empires, as well as in medieval Iceland and Venice.
ref: 2011, Benjamin Isakhan, Stephen Stockwell, “Introduction: Democracy and History”, in The Secret History of Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of reconsider.
re-considers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-consider
re-considering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-consider
re-considered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-consider
common-placing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of common-place
common-placed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of common-place
ice-cream headaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-cream headache
St Osyth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An alternative spelling of Osgyth, a 7th century female saint.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1215).
wikipedia: Osgyth
ice-cream maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-cream makers
Senses: examples: text: What about homemade ice cream? Hard to beat occasionally. But don’t use an electric motor to churn it. Buy an ice-cream maker you crank yourself.
ref: 1989, Paul Brynteson, In Search of Total Health, Eddie Bowers Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 133:
text: But if the mailings are too infrequent you will lose potential orders – you need to keep your name in front of your customers and remind them that next time they want to buy an ice-cream maker or a bedspread it’s worth taking your catalogue off the shelf (where they stored it because it looked too good to throw away).
ref: 1998, Ros Jay, Profitable Direct Marketing, International Thomson Business Press, →ISBN, page 114:
text: The making of ice cream bonded us as a group, and soon everyone who came that night, even the bachelors, bought ice-cream makers.
ref: 1999, Reader’s Digest, page 60:
text: By the 1950s, large ice-cream makers were underselling small producers, and supermarkets switched to national brands.
ref: 2015, Andrew F. Smith, Sugar: A Global History, Reaktion Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream maker.
ice-cream makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-cream maker
icecream maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream makers
Senses: examples: text: There are so many icecream makers on the market these days that it’s not impossible that you know someone who has one.
ref: 1985, John Eley, The Complete Cooking Canon, British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Tip the mixture into an icecream maker and follow the manufacturer’s instructions to freeze the mixture.
ref: 2008, Antony Worrall Thompson, The Sweet Life: 101 Indulgent Recipes Made with Splenda® Sweetener, Fall River Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Probably the first Settimo had come over from Italy with the icecream makers and organ grinders of the fin de siècle.
ref: 2013, Jane Gardam, “Telegony I: Going into a Dark House”, in Victoria Hislop, editor, The Story, Head of Zeus, published 2014, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream maker.
icecream makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream maker
icecream parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream parlors
Senses: examples: text: Mickey Cohen, who had a penchant for icecream, was the owner of a number of icecream parlors in the Los Angeles area.
ref: 1988, Leon W Thompson, Helen P Thompson, Last Train to Alcatraz, Winter Book Publisher, published 1989, page 301:
text: Some products are differentiated by where they are sold. Some examples are gas stations, music stores, grocery stores, movie theatres, and icecream parlors. In each case, firms sell the same product at different locations.
ref: 2001, Arthur O'Sullivan, Steven M. Sheffrin, Rob Moir, Microeconomics: Principles and Tools, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Inc., →ISBN, page 255:
text: But it was easy to overlook her little fib on a sunny afternoon as we strolled to an icecream parlor together.
ref: 2005, Rupert Holmes, The Musician’s Daughter, Leicester: Charnwood, published 2009, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream parlor.
icecream parlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream parlor
icecream parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream parlours
Senses: examples: text: We eventually retire to an icecream parlour on the corner of the plaza.
ref: 1993, Richard Gott, Land Without Evil: Utopian Journeys Across the South American Watershed, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 265:
text: One contract specified that the teacher not get married, not ride in a carriage with any man not her relative, not leave town without permission, not smoke or drink, not dye her hair, not dress in bright colours, never wear fewer than two petticoats, not wear make up, wear her dresses no more than two inches above the ankle and not loiter downtown in icecream parlours.
ref: 1993, Julie White, Sisters and Solidarity: Women and Unions in Canada, Toronto, Ont.: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
text: Most of this icecream was sold in the fancy icecream parlours which arrived on the streets of Tōkyō and Ōsaka in the early 80s at the beginning of the ‘icecream boom’ caused by the sudden increase in adult consumers: […]
ref: 1995, Sharon Kinsella, “Cuties in Japan”, in Lise Skov, Brian Moeran, editors, Women, Media, and Consumption in Japan, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream parlor.
icecream parlours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream parlour
icecream shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream shops
Senses: examples: text: “Let’s see if we can find an icecream shop open,” Jasmine suggested, preparing to sweep Samantha away.
ref: 1975, Doris E[dna] Smith, Cotswold Honey, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Despite the tourists and the icecream shops, the town is an interesting one with plenty of fine old half-timbered houses, delightful gardens and, of course, the River Avon.
ref: 1986, John Whatmore, The CTC Book of Cycle-Touring, Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Many icecream shops now sell soft-serve yoghurts, icecreams and ice-desserts that are high in carbos and low in fat.
ref: 1995, Louise Burke, The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance: A Guide to Peak Nutrition for Your Sport, 2nd edition, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Similarly Andy went everyplace, or everyplace that was anyplace – or not even. He goes to the opening of an escalator at Bergdorf Goodman, to Regine’s for Julio Iglesias’s birthday, to an icecream-shop unveiling in Palm Beach, to Tavern on the Green for a ‘thing’ (this is a word that Andy has a lot of time for) to announce that Don King is taking over the management of the Jacksons, to the Waldorf-Astoria for the Barbie Doll bash, someplace else to judge a Madonna-lookalike playoff and someplace else to judge a naked-breast contest.
ref: 2001, Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000, New York, N.Y.: Talk Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 41:
text: The best I could do was force myself to place a slice of bread in the toaster and then reluctantly nibble on the crust. Except sometimes when it burnt I would burst into tears and fall to the ground in hysterics, much the same as a two-year-old does in an icecream shop if the rainbow-coloured bubblegum-flavoured double cone they had their heart set on is forbidden.
ref: 2007, Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker, editors, Journeys with the Black Dog: Inspirational Stories of Bringing Depression to Heel, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream shop.
icecream shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream shop
magnetocalorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnetocaloric + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of magnetocaloric effects.
elastocalorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elastocaloric + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of elastocaloric effects.
barocalorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barocaloric + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of barocaloric effects.
nonymity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from anonymity
Senses: glosses: The use of a (real) name as opposed to anonymity.
Related terms: nonymous
electrocalorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electrocaloric + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of electrocaloric effects.
Coordinate terms: thermoelectrics
nonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Back-formation from anonymous
Senses: glosses: Using or characterized by the use of real names.
Related terms: nonymity
calorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calorie + -ics. From Latin calor (“heat”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of heat flow and heat transfer.
Coordinate terms: endothermic
exothermic
thermodynamics
Related terms: barocalorics
caloric
calorie
calorific
elastocalorics
electrocalorics
ionocalorics
magnetocalorics
schizz out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schizzes out
form: schizzing out
form: schizzed out
form: schizzed out
form: schiz out
form: schitz out
Etymology: From a clipping of schizophrenia. Compare schizo, schizzed, schizzy.
Senses: examples: text: It sent Kate really into the pits when she learned from her “friend” Martha, who seemed to get off on laying bad trips on people, that Harvey was now getting it on with Carol. Her first impulse was to call him and let him know that she thought he'd schizzed out completely.
ref: 1977, Cyra McFadden, The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, New York, NY: New American Library, published 1978, page 75:
glosses: To go mad; to behave irrationally.
Oppenesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oppenesque
form: most Oppenesque
Etymology: From Oppen + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of American poet George Oppen (1908–1984).
Oppen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Oppenesque
used-book store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: used-book stores
Senses: examples: text: In the way of patronage at the local used-book stores it is about a stand-off between women and men. Many Civil War veterans haunt these still airs of literary sanctuaries. They lean principally to the “Bloody Shirt” stuff. Soldiers of the Spanish-American imbroglio usually thumb over works bearing on the Philippines. Elderly women, in nine cases out of ten, pore over religious books.
ref: 1925 April 12, Ed O’Malley, “Old Literary Masters Not Favored by Modern Book-Store Browsers”, in The Los Angeles Times, part II-a, section “Various Preferences”, page 1, column 3:
text: A used-book store has been opened on the first floor at Central High School, with members of the Friendship Club, a high school social organization, acting as book “brokers.” Students desiring to sell used books turn them in at the store, with a specified price, the store functioning as a clearing house.
ref: 1929 September 11, The Muncie Morning Star, volume 53, number 136, Muncie, Ind., page 5:
text: Duplicate books at used-book stores are not expensive and may save a lot of uneven shoulders later.
ref: 1931 May 23, Olive Roberts Barton, “Your Children”, in The Bristol News Bulletin, volume 5, number 2101, Bristol, Va.–Tenn., section “No Cars Then”, page six, column 2:
text: I have assembled an extensive collection of issues and copies of issues from the 1930s by visiting used-book stores and several private and public collections in New York, Boston, and Bloomington, Indiana.
ref: 1994, George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940, BasicBooks, →ISBN, page 449:
text: This issue, I urge you to visit a used-book store. It can refer you to a bookfinder, who can scrounge up old issues of The Forbes Four Hundred.
ref: 1996 October 14, Kenneth L[awrence] Fisher, “Why the rich get (relatively) poorer”, in Forbes, page 359:
text: Thrift stores, used-book stores, and yard sales are treasure troves for book lovers.
ref: 2018, Kathy Harrison, Prepping 101: 40 Steps You Can Take to Be Prepared, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Alternative spelling of used bookstore.