cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gentilhomme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentilshommes
form: gentilhommes
Etymology: From French gentilhomme.
Senses: examples: text: Then M. de Montrond rose covered with glory and with honor, for in such adventures lay the fame of the gentilhommes of that time.
ref: 1876 January, G. Colmache, “Gentilhomme and Gentleman”, in Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume XVII, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott and Co., pages 82–83:
text: What they are doing is taking a view of life just a bit wider than that of the average London Regent’s Park smarty or the bourgeois gentilshommes.
ref: 1967 April 15, Stanley Reynolds, “Television”, in The Guardian, number 37,561, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
text: Outside in a spacious, leafy courtyard complete with table service, Double Bay matrons rub shoulders with trendies and gentilshommes of every description.
ref: 1985 January 15, Geoffrey Stackhouse, “Fast Licks”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 45,880, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Good Living” section, page 1, column 7:
text: And in spite of several omissions (Mrs. Clemens, their daughters, Susy and Clara, a companion for Mrs. Clemens and two servants were actually along), there is an implicit, underlying contract with the reader, providing the assurance that this journey was not invented out of whole cloth in Samuel Clemens's study back in Hartford, but that it actually took place, that it went approximately as described and that this fraternal pair of bourgeois gentilshommes is real.
ref: 1995 June 18, Russell Banks, “How a Clergyman From Hartford Freed Huckleberry Finn”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:
text: The salons became schools for assimilation into aristocratic manners. From women, bourgeois gentilhommes learned how to comport themselves.
ref: 1997, Grace Anne Morsberger, The Russian Woman Writer in the Salon: Issues of Gender and Literary Space, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Berkeley, page 35:
text: […] Maud would introduce her to society and help her find a husband from the gentilhommes of the local château aristocracy.
ref: 2020, Judithe Little, “New Silhouettes”, in The Chanel Sisters, Toronto, Ont.: Graydon House, Harlequin Books S.A., →ISBN, chapter 23:
glosses: A French gentleman.
little boy's room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little boy's rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of little boys' room: a men's room, a public lavatory intended for men.
glosses: A little boy's bedroom.
Coordinate terms: little girl's room
Related terms: man's room
little girl's room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little girl's rooms
form: little girls' rooms
Senses: glosses: A little girl's room, particularly her bedroom.
examples: text: "I'm okay. I think I'm going to break for lunch soon, too. Have to use the little girl's room."
"There's a John on the second floor. Just get the key from Lorna. Tell her I said it was okay."
ref: 1994, Janet Evanovich, One for the Money, page 225:
text: He says she went to the little girl's room during the show and never came back.
ref: 2006, Ted Bell, Spy: A Thriller, page 42:
text: But before we get back to business, I've got to go to the little girl's room. Nothing like sweet tea to go right through you.
ref: 2007, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of little girls' room: a ladies' room, a public lavatory intended for women.
Coordinate terms: little boy's room
Related terms: woman's room
intervising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Internet + televising
Senses: glosses: The act of broadcasting something on the Internet.
snow cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow cones
Senses: glosses: A confection of crushed ice covered with flavored syrup or fruit juice, usually served in a paper cone or a plastic glass.
Synonyms: english: Trinidad & Tobago
translation: Trinidad & Tobago
word: snowball
Related terms: shaved ice
water ice
Italian ice
slush
slushie
crop circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crop circle
El Alamein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛl ˈæləmeɪn/
Forms: form: Al Alamayn
Senses: glosses: A Mediterranean port town in northern Egypt. During World War II, two major battles were fought around El Alamein.
Derived terms: Enham Alamein
strictly better
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That leads to a better outcome no matter what the other player does.
raw_tags: of a strategy
forepeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forepeaks
Etymology: From fore- + peak.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The part of the hold of a ship within the angle of the bow.
Derived terms: forepeak bulkhead
gouache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwɑːʃ/
ipa: /ɡuˈɑːʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːʃ
Forms: form: gouaches
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French gouache, from Italian guazzo. Doublet of guazzo.
Senses: hypernyms: watercolour
coordinate_terms: tempera
oil paint
India ink
qualifier: painting
glosses: A thick, opaque watercolour paint made with gum containing an inert white pigment to make it opaque.
qualifier: painting
glosses: A painting made with this paint.
gouache
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwɑːʃ/
ipa: /ɡuˈɑːʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːʃ
Forms: form: gouaches
form: gouaching
form: gouached
form: gouached
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French gouache, from Italian guazzo. Doublet of guazzo.
Senses: glosses: To produce work in the gouache medium.
krait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: kraits
form: karait
form: korait
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi करैत (karait), possibly from Kurukh.
Senses: examples: text: On visiting the General Hospital, on the morning of the 22nd of August, I was informed that one of the punkah coolies had been bitten about 8.30 p.m., the night before, by a krait, whose venom is virulently poisonous.
ref: 1871 December, Dr. J. Ewart, “How the bite of snakes―supposed to be poisonous―may be cured”, in The Australian Medical Gazette:
text: Now, if you run into one of these kraits, you better NOT run away else you're a goner. It'll catch you for sure and you will die in your tracks.
ref: 2007, A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free, page 190:
text: Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait, a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.
ref: 2009, Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo, page 295:
text: India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.
ref: 2011, Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions, page 71:
glosses: Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Bungarus andamanensis
word: Andaman krait
taxonomic: Bungarus fasciatus
word: banded krait
taxonomic: Bungarus candidus
word: blue krait
taxonomic: Bungarus magnimaculatus
word: Burmese krait
taxonomic: Bungarus caeruleus
word: common krait
taxonomic: Bungarus niger
word: greater black krait
taxonomic: Bungarus caeruleus
word: Indian krait
taxonomic: Bungarus lividus
word: lesser black krait
taxonomic: Bungarus multicinctus
word: many-banded krait
taxonomic: Bungarus bungaroides
word: northeastern hill krait
taxonomic: Bungarus flaviceps
word: red-headed krait
taxonomic: Bungarus slowinskii
word: Red River krait
taxonomic: Laticauda spp.
word: sea krait
taxonomic: Bungarus sindanus
word: Sind krait
taxonomic: Bungarus ceylonicus
word: Sri Lankan krait
taxonomic: Bungarus suzhenae
word: Suzhen's krait
forepart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreparts
Etymology: From Middle English foreparte, forparte, forpart, equivalent to fore- + part. Compare foreparty.
Senses: examples: text: The wing being suppos'd placed in the upmost limit, seems to be put so that the plain of it lies almost horizontal, but onely the forepart does dip a little, or is somewhat more deprest […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII:
text: I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.
ref: 1902, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC, part II, page 100:
glosses: The front or anterior part of something.
Related terms: foreside
forebody
foreship
forecastle
land mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlænd.maɪn/
Forms: form: land mines
form: landmine
Senses: examples: text: With the cessation of hostilities, the military traffic declined considerably, although at least two years will be required to remove the many thousands of tons of explosives still stored at the depot. The supplies of mustard gas have already been despatched to Stranraer to be dumped in the sea, and the disposal of ¾-million land mines has called for the provision of 17 special trains.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: land torpedo
glosses: A mine that is placed on land and designed to explode when stepped upon or touched.
examples: text: Johnson is expected to make a decision within weeks on the future of the 250mph Y-shaped rail network, which would link Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds but has grown into a vexed political issue since it was floated in 2009. He postponed a decision in November, a move widely viewed as a means of avoiding a political landmine in the run-up to the election.
ref: 2020 January 24, Rajeev Syal, Gwyn Topham, “HS2 late and billions over budget due to Tory failures, report finds”, in The Guardian:
text: He said conversations are dressed up in language about the educational value or inherent beauty of the remains — what he called a clear ploy to divert attention from the ethical land mine that is owning a piece of a deceased person.
ref: 2021 October 10, Caroline Anders, “A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines reignites ethical debate over selling human remains”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A critical subject or situation with concealed or unpredictable implications.
qualifier: always written together
glosses: A piece of exercise device consisting of a pivoting tube attached to the ground to which a barbell can be fitted to lift it off the ground.
raw_tags: from a Landmine™ developed in 1999 by a US company called Sorinex
landmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landmines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of land mine.
landmine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: landmines
form: landmining
form: landmined
form: landmined
Senses: glosses: To sow (an area) with land mines.
landmines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landmine
Alcoholics Anonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A global, peer-led fellowship dedicated to an abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism.
Synonyms: AA
A.A.
friends of Bill W.
nightclubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightclub
nightclubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nightclub
sorting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sort out
sorted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sort out
biretta'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: birettaed
Senses: examples: text: Facing the ladies a biretta'd priest appeared to be perusing a little, fat, black, greasy book of prayers which he held aslant so as to catch the light.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, pages 3-4
glosses: Wearing a biretta.
checkstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkstrings
Etymology: From check + string.
Senses: examples: text: 1864,, William Stephens Hayward, Revelations of a Lady Detective, short story "Incognito", George Vickers, Strand
I pulled the check-string, and gave him [the coachdriver] his instructions.
text: Mrs Hurstpierpoint - the dowager of the gleaming brows - leaned forward all at once in the carriage and pulled the checkstring attached to her footman's arm.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 4
glosses: A cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go faster.
sarcopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcopenias
Etymology: From sarco- + -penia; widely agreed to have been coined circa 1989 by Irwin H. Rosenberg.
Senses: examples: text: Now, let me stop here to make a sort of plea. No decline with age is more dramatic or potentially more functionally significant than the decline in lean body mass. […] Think of the implication of this decrease in lean body mass in respect to the physical behavior of elderly subjects. There may be no single feature of age-related decline that could more dramatically affect ambulation, mobility, calorie intake, and overall nutrient intake and status, independence, breathing, etc. Why have we not given it more attention? Perhaps it needs a name derived from the Greek. I'll suggest a couple: sarcomalacia or sarcopenia. We might study more about the relationship between this decline and exercise; such studies are being done in some of the laboratories at our center. We know that elders can build and rebuild muscle mass. Even the frail elderly can recover function remarkably. I think this is am opportunity for some new attention that would pay off handsomely in maintaining the health and vigor that we described as a goal of our work.
ref: 1989, Irwin H. Rosenberg, “Summary comments”, in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 50, number 5, →DOI, pages 1231-1233:
text: Factors contributing to frailty include sarcopenia and decline in executive function.
ref: 2008, Wilbert S. Aronow, Jerome L. Fleg, Michael W. Rich, Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly, 4th edition, Taylor & Francis, page 814:
text: 2021, Beatrice Gasperini, Stefano Volpato, Antonio Cherubini, Chapter 9: Acute Sarcopenia, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, John E. Morley (editors), Sarcopenia, John Wiley & Sons (Wiley Blackwell), 2nd Edition, page 96,
The incidence of sarcopenia was investigated in the GLISTEN study. Sarcopenia at hospital admission was diagnosed in 227 (34.7%) patients.
text: When no evident cause of gradual-onset chronic sarcopenia is present in an older person, age-associated (primary) sarcopenia is diagnosed, and further examination of long-term habits that may have led to sarcopenia is appropriate.
ref: 2022, Jeffrey B. Halter, Joseph G. Ouslander, Stephanie Studenski, et al., Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 8th edition, McGraw Hill, page 736:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: wasting#Noun
coordinate_terms: cachexia
glosses: Gradual loss of skeletal muscle due to aging, immobility, illness, or combinations thereof.
Derived terms: sarcopenic
osteosarcopenia
market-garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market-gardens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of market garden.
Mangarevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mangareva + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Polynesian language of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia.
Synonyms: Mangareva
Mangarevan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mangarevan
form: most Mangarevan
Etymology: From Mangareva + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mangareva.
Mangarevan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mangarevans
Etymology: From Mangareva + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mangareva.
passementerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæsˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
note: non-anglicized
ipa: /pɑsˈmɒ̃nt(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: passementeries
Etymology: From French passement (“decorative lace”).
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Hurstpierpoint bent thoughtfully her eyes to the somewhat "phallic" passementerie upon her shawl.
ref: 1919. Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5
glosses: A decorative piece of lace or other cloth on clothes.
glosses: Trimmings consisting of braids, cords, beads, tinsel, etc.
ipseity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪpsˈiːɪti/
Forms: form: ipseities
Etymology: From Latin ipse + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: selfhood; individual identity
Derived terms: ipseity disturbance
turns against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn against
turning against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn against
turned against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn against
glebe-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glebe-houses
Senses: examples: text: After mature consideration he made up his mind that the parson should be his ambassador. . . . [H]e mounted his nag, and rode off to Ballindine glebe. The glebe-house was about a couple of miles from Kelly's Court, and it was about half-past four when Lord Ballindine got there.
ref: 1848, Anthony Trollope, chapter 26, in The Kellys and the O'Kellys:
glosses: A rectory, built for the parish priest, vicar, pastor, or rector, usually at church expense.
Related terms: glebe
glebe farm
glebe-farm
glebe-land
glebeland
benefice
flower girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower girl
glebe-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glebe-lands
form: glebeland
form: glebe land
Senses: examples: text: In good truth, I hardly know—a Miss Arundel—a wood-nymph, the daughter of either a country squire or a clergyman—equipped, I suppose, by a mortgage on either the squire's corn-fields, or the parson's glebe land—[..]
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: Prior to the Reformation the farm buildings (since rebuilt and considerably dwindled) had appertained, like much of the glebe-land around Valmouth, to the Abbots of St. Veronica, when at the confiscation of the monasteries by the Crown one Thierry Monfaulcon Tooke, tennis-master to the Court of King Henry VIII, feinting to injure himself one day while playing with the royal princesses, had been offered by Henry, through their touching entreaties "in consideration of his mishap", the Abbey Farm of St. Veronica's, then recently vacated by the monks ….
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 8
glosses: Area of land belonging to a parish in medieval times.
Synonyms: glebe
touzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touzles
form: touzling
form: touzled
form: touzled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tousle.
touzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touzles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tousle.
erotetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erotetic
form: most erotetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐρωτητικός (erōtētikós).
Senses: examples: text: How does erotetic logic help us see what is happening in teaching? […] We shall use a version of the Hintikka/Åqvist theory of erotetic logic throughout this chapter […] Hintikkian erotetic logic is thoroughly intentional and hence adapts well to the intentional contexts of teaching.
ref: 1988, Charles J. B. Macmillan, James W. Garrison, A Logical Theory of Teaching: Erotetics and Intentionality, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 80:
glosses: Of or pertaining to questioning.
Synonyms: interrogatory
Derived terms: erotetically
grand piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹændˈpjænəʊ/
Forms: form: grand pianos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large piano in which the strings are strung horizontally in a heavy frame shaped like a harp
Related terms: concert grand
parlor grand
boudoir grand
baby grand
upright piano
muesli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzli/
ipa: /ˈmjuːsli/
rhymes: -uːzli
rhymes: -uːsli
Forms: form: mueslis
form: müesli
form: müsli
Etymology: From Alemannic German Müesli, diminutive of Mues (“mashed dish”); compare Dutch moes.
Senses: glosses: A breakfast dish based on uncooked rolled oats and fruit.
Derived terms: Bircher muesli
muesli belt malnutrition
muesli muncher
imbreathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbreathes
form: imbreathing
form: imbreathed
form: imbreathed
Etymology: From im- + breathe.
Senses: examples: text: Alighting some graceful exotic bird from the captivity of a dingy cage, Lady Parvula de Panzoust hovered a moment before the portal as much to manipulate her draperies, it seemed, as to imbreathe the soft sweet air.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22
glosses: To inbreathe; to breathe in.
inbreathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inbreathes
form: inbreathing
form: inbreathed
form: inbreathed
Etymology: From Middle English inbrethen, equivalent to in- + breathe.
Senses: examples: text: She inbreathed sharply, then her eyes narrowed a trifle.
ref: 1921, Octavus Roy Cohen, Midnight:
glosses: To breathe (something) in; imbreathe.
examples: text: And always remember that every mental power is a gift from Him; that actual power in life must be through Him only; and that mental gifts are not serviceable save as they are ever inbreathed by His own Spirit.
ref: 1906, S. D. Gordon, Quiet Talks on Service:
text: Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed.
ref: 1894, A. J. Gordon, The Ministry of the Spirit:
glosses: To inspire (a person); communicate by inspiration; infuse by breathing.
examples: text: I had inbreathed their mystery and outbreathed it again as my own.
ref: 1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches:
glosses: To draw in as breath; inhale; inspire.
Synonyms: sense: to breathe
word: breathe
slipper-orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room - a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls - the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22
glosses: Alternative form of slipper orchid.
unbefuckinlievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unbefuckinglievable.
sloppy joe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloppy joes
Senses: glosses: A hot sandwich, typically composed of ground beef cooked in a skillet with highly seasoned tomato sauce or tomato paste and spread between two sides of a bun.
glosses: A cold delicatessen three-decker rye bread sandwich made with sliced meat, Swiss cheese, coleslaw, and Russian dressing.
glosses: A very loose-fitting light-weight jumper or jacket.
typifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of typify
bhang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋ/
ipa: /baŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
homophone: bang
Forms: form: bang
form: bangue
form: benj
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindustani بھانگ / भाँग (bhāṅg).
Senses: glosses: A preparation made from the leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, traditionally consumed in food or drink, especially during Hindu festivals such as Holi.
examples: text: Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36
text: Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity. The effects, the write asserts, are similar to those produced by bhang.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:
text: He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, page 101:
text: Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13:
qualifier: elsewhere slang
glosses: A general term for cannabis or its preparations.
Derived terms: bhang lassi
bhangmeter
collyrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɪɹɪəm/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Forms: form: collyria
form: collyriums
Etymology: From Latin collȳrium, from Ancient Greek κολλύριον (kollúrion, “poultice”). Doublet of koulouri.
Senses: examples: text: Democritus' collyrium is not so sovereign to the eyes as this is to the heart […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:
glosses: A lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve.
examples: text: […] there were rings of collyrium about her eyes.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
glosses: Loosely, any product applied to or around the eyes; kohl.
typified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of typify
typifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of typify
curricle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curricles
Etymology: From Latin curriculum (“racing chariot”). Doublet of curriculum.
Senses: examples: text: Not since the year 17--, when milord Castlebrilliant's curricle was whirled to sea with her ladyship within, had there been such vehement weather.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 49
glosses: A light two-wheeled carriage large enough for the driver and a passenger and drawn by a carefully-matched pair.
curricle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curricles
Senses: examples: text: So the Curricles in Wales: sc. the old British boates made of Osiers, like a basket, and covered wʰ leather.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 85:
glosses: Obsolete form of coracle.
milord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈlɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: milords
form: milor
Etymology: From French milord, from English my Lord. Compare milady.
Senses: examples: text: Not since the year 17—, when milord Castlebrilliant's curricle was whirled to sea with her ladyship within, had there been such vehement weather.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, section 49:
glosses: An English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style; a wealthy British gentleman.
milord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈlɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: milords
Etymology: A variant spelling of m'lord, elided from my + lord.
Senses: examples: 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, 3: "Potato"
Aah-ahhh! You have a woman’s hand, milord! I’ll wager these dainty pinkies never weighed anchor in a storm.
glosses: Alternative form of m'lord.
milord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈlɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: milords
form: milording
form: milorded
form: milorded
Senses: examples: text: A few pauls a-piece, however, did the business, and after a few more tunes, and some more milordi and capitani, the musicians, finding no more prospect of pauls, departed, leaving the landlord to do the rest of the milording and captaining to the honored Americani.
ref: 1834 May 1, “The Reefer’s First Cruise”, in H[enry] W[illiam] Herbert, editor, The American Monthly Magazine, volume III, number III, New York, N.Y.: […] Monson Bancroft, […] G. & C. & H. Carvill, […] and Peter Hill, […], page 189:
text: Poor, humble, unaspiring Mr. Dobbs was “Milorded,” to his great annoyance, by everybody, at the Parisian hotel; and monsieur the landlord thought it but right that the rich English “Milord” should pay for the superior accommodation himself and family received at “Le Grand Hôtel.”
ref: 1854, Crotchet Crayon [pseudonym], “How Mrs. Dobbs arrived in Paris, and made a new acquaintance. […]”, in The Rival Houses of the Hobbs and Dobbs: or, Dress-Makers & Dress-Wearers, London: G. Routledge & Co., […], page 50:
text: To the ignorant Italians who milorded or miladied them, they were always anxious to explain that they “had no titles, and would be sorry to have any,”—that the members of the House of Lords were for the most part mere upstarts, and that the true nobility of England were the old land-owners,—the county families,—before whose names men only placed the plain Mr. and Mrs. by which they themselves, the Crawleys, preferred to be designated.
ref: 1885, Antonio [Carlo Napoleone] Gallenga, “First Repentance. […]”, in Episodes of My Second Life. (American and English Experiences.), Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 275:
text: “[…]I must fetch the doctor for her, milord.” Quill’s eyebrows rose. “You’re hiding her? And no ‘milording’ me. I’m the same old Quill.”
ref: 1998, Laurel Schunk, Death in Exile, Wichita, Kan.: St Kitts Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 11–12:
glosses: To address as “milord”.
belvedere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛl.vɪ.dɪə/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.vəˌdɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: belvederes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian belvedere (literally “fair view”).
Senses: examples: text: “One evening,” she went on, “while Madame Orio was fast asleep in her little belvedere (it being the good old lady's habit to repair there to rest after a bottle or two of red Padua wine), Manette and Marton left the widow's house noiselessly in the Campo San Zobenigo, and made their way running towards the Piazza of St. Mark's.”
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 57:
text: The most important thing, she reflected, as she stood on the balcony of the Mairie which formed a most useful belvedere over the town, was to make her appearance as commonplace and down at heel as possible […].
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 761:
text: Three castellated (with battlements) towers stand sentry here, with one being particularly large. This is said to have been used by Rhodes as a belvedere, and (according to some sources) by railway staff for some time after opening.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:
topics: architecture
glosses: A turret or other raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area.
glosses: Summer cypress (Bassia scoparia)
Neanthe bella palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neanthe bella palms
Senses: glosses: A parlour palm (Chamaedorea elegans), a rare small seed-producing palm tree, used in gardens and as a houseplant.
Iberian lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iberian lynxes
Senses: examples: text: The Iberian lynx is the largest carnivore unique to Europe.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 285:
glosses: An endangered species of lynx, Lynx pardinus, native to the Iberian peninsula.
agnoiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “unknown”) + -λογία (-logía, “knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: The study of things of which cannot be known.
Related terms: agnotology
areflexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + reflex + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Lack of neuromuscular reflexes. A symptom associated with many neurological disorders.
Derived terms: areflexic
Related terms: hyporeflexia
occulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occulters
Etymology: From occult + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The moon is the occulter of the sun during a solar eclipse.
glosses: Any object, natural or man-made, that blocks the light of an object from an observer, typically used in reference to astronomical events.
redub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈdʌb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: redubs
form: redubbing
form: redubbed
form: redubbed
Etymology: From re- + dub.
Senses: glosses: To give another name or title to; to dub again.
glosses: To dub (video material) again; to provide with a new soundtrack.
redub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈdʌb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: redubs
Etymology: From re- + dub.
Senses: glosses: A video re-edited in any way an editor wants.
redub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈdʌb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: redubs
form: redubbing
form: redubbed
form: redubbed
Etymology: See radoub.
Senses: examples: text: God shall giue power to redub it with some like requitall to the Frenc
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: To repair or correct something.
redub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈdʌb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: redubs
Etymology: See radoub.
Senses: glosses: A remedy or improvement
seans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sean
emotional blackmail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The psychological abuse of a person's emotions or insecurities in order to influence their behavior.
Schlamperei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃlɑːmpəɹaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlamperei.
Senses: examples: text: Even allowing for Austrian Schlamperei, soldiers and persons in attendance on royalty do not make such mistakes.
ref: 1941, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 349:
glosses: Laziness, inefficiency, muddleheadedness, especially as a supposed Southern German or Austrian characteristic.
superposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From superpose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be superposed in such a way as to coincide exactly
raw_tags: of two objects
Related terms: superimposable
superimposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From superimpose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be superimposed.
Related terms: superposable
hard disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard disks
form: HD
form: hard disc
form: harddisk
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The unit itself, and all the disks within it.
Synonyms: fixed disk
hard drive
hard disk drive
hard disc drive
Winchester disk
Related terms: DASD
floppy disk
floppy disk drive
optical disc drive
optical drive
optical disc
SSD
fixed disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed disks
form: fixed disc
Etymology: So called because it is usually a fixed component of the computer, and not removable like a floppy disk.
Senses: glosses: A hard disk.
flaccidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaccidities
Etymology: From flaccid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being flaccid.
flagrancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagrancies
Senses: glosses: The condition of being flagrant.
flamboyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəns
Forms: form: flamboyances
Etymology: From flamboyant + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being flamboyant.
glosses: A group of flamingos; the collective noun for flamingos.
Synonyms: flamboyancy
flamboyantness
Related terms: unflamboyance
flamboyancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamboyancies
Etymology: From flamboyant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being flamboyant.
Synonyms: flamboyance
flamboyantness
flammability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flammabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being flammable.
glosses: A measure of the extent to which something is flammable.
Derived terms: nonflammability
fraudulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.l(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.ləns/
Forms: form: fraudulences
Etymology: From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“abounding in, full of”).
Senses: examples: text: I ſuppoſe ſome of my friends, to whom I read the firſt part, gave notice of my deſign, and, perhaps, ſold the treacherous intelligence at a higher price than the fraudulence of trade will now allow me for my book.
ref: 1759 May 5, Samuel Johnson, “[The Idler]”, in The Universal Chronicle, or, Weekly Gazette, number 55, [London]: [J. Payne], →OCLC; republished in The Works of Samuel Johnson, new edition, volume VII, London: Printed for T[homas] Longman et al., 1796, page 223:
text: We should therefore not make too much of the fraudulence of all that on-screen wailing. Just because North Korean TV never films anything before rehearsing all spontaneity out of it does not mean the average citizen was unmoved.
ref: 2012 January 7, B. R. Myers, “Dynasty, North Korean-style”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012:
text: Among other fraudulences, Enron perfected the art of “mark to market” accounting, tagging mere estimates of future profits as actual on-the-books assets.
ref: 2015, Elizabeth Hass, Terry Christensen, Peter J. Haas, Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.
Synonyms: fraudulency
Related terms: word: defraud
word: defrauder
word: defrauding
word: fraud
word: fraudster
word: fraudulent
word: fraudulently
flagman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagmen
Etymology: From flag + -man.
Senses: examples: text: At the approach to Southampton Terminus, double track branches off to the left, runs alongside the platforms and then cuts across Canute Road on an open crossing under the protection of a flagman.
ref: 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 88:
glosses: A man who carries a flag, especially one used for signalling.
flareup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flareups
Senses: examples: text: All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: Alternative spelling of flare-up.
flare-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flare-ups
form: flareup
Etymology: Deverbal from flare up.
Senses: examples: text: But what I do think is that there's likely to be a regular flare-up soon. And how can one tell where that may end? If only I could get Ambrose to take me away somewhere! But he won't budge.
ref: 1933, Richard Curle, Corruption, page 75:
text: The disadvantage of the underfired grill is the potential for flareups, which can cause a burned spot or carbonization. Not only do these taste bad, but they are also carcinogenic.
ref: 2009, Peter Osbaldeston, The Palm Springs Diner's Bible: A Restaurant Guide for Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, la Quinta, Bermuda Dunes, Indio, and Desert Hot Springs, Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 250:
antonyms: burnout
flameout
glosses: A sudden outbreak, outburst or eruption (originally of flame, but now used more generally of any violent activity or emotion).
antonyms: burnout
flameout
glosses: A sudden intensification in activity.
examples: text: Although Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic, they are characterized by periods of remission that last for varying amounts of time, interrupted by flare-ups, when symptoms of the disease become more evident.
ref: 2000, Jon Zonderman, Ronald Vender, Understanding Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis:
synonyms: flare
hypernyms: exacerbation
glosses: An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
flashbulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæʃbʌlb/
Forms: form: flashbulbs
form: flash bulb
Etymology: From flash + bulb.
Senses: examples: text: When Christine Jorgensen's plane touched down carrying her home from Denmark […] 300 reporters surged forwards, shouting questions as flash bulbs popped.
ref: 2005 March 2, Leslie Feinberg, “Even McCarthy was gay baited”, in Workers World:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph.
Derived terms: flashbulb memory
flashbulb moment
Related terms: flashgun
flashgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashguns
form: flash gun
Etymology: From flash + gun.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Any similar unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography.
Synonyms: flashlight
flatfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatfoots
form: flatfeet
Etymology: From flat + foot. Piecewise doublet of platypus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground.
glosses: A person having the above condition.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: (plural typically flatfoots) A policeman.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sailor.
Synonyms: sense: police officer
word: police officer
Derived terms: flatfooted
flatfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flatfoots
form: flatfooting
form: flatfooted
form: flatfooted
Etymology: From flat + foot. Piecewise doublet of platypus.
Senses: examples: text: And even if they didn't know about her they might know this was his old neighborhood and go flatfooting around asking.
ref: 1936, John Thomas McIntyre, Steps going down, page 19:
text: Meanwhile, a bobby placidly flatfooting his beat a few feet away recognized Marlene under the street lamp and naturally assumed the girls had too, and were merely trying to get her autograph.
ref: 1956, Lee Mortimer, Around the World Confidential, page 38:
text: I'd spent a very long day flatfooting it round housing estates near Old Street, looking for a twelve-year-old boy who I'd never managed to find though the police eventually had, two weeks later.
ref: 2017 -, Adam Baron, SuperJack: A totally gripping thriller with a twist you won’t see coming, →ISBN:
glosses: To walk around in the course of work, especially when investigating.
examples: text: Casewell, George, and Steve had the crowd flatfooting across the floor in no time.
ref: 2014, Sarah Loudin Thomas, Appalachian Serenade (Appalachian Blessings): A Novella, →ISBN:
glosses: To dance in the style of Appalachian clogging.
examples: text: “Thanks, Kate,” Bill Bingley said, laying down a screw gun and flatfooting the Coke she handed him.
ref: 2012, Dana Stabenow -, A Grave Denied, →ISBN:
glosses: To gulp an entire drink (bottle, glass, can, etc.) without pausing between swallows.
glosses: To perform an action inefficiently or awkwardly.
examples: text: In the event they lacked a proper midfield bolt, with Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira huffing around in pursuit of the whizzing green machine. The centre-backs looked flustered, left to deal with three on two as Mexico broke. Löw’s 4-2-3-1 seemed antiquated and creaky, with the old World Cup shark Thomas Müller flat-footed in a wide position.
ref: 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
glosses: To wrong-foot.
flatfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatfoot
flatfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From flatfoot + -ed (suffix forming past tense forms of regular verbs).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flatfoot (Alternative form of flat-footed).
take a bath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a bath
form: taking a bath
form: took a bath
form: taken a bath
Senses: examples: text: She told the children to take a bath and wash off the mud and grime.
text: Take a bath with fragrant herbs.
ref: 2009, Peter Sander, Jennifer Sander, 573 Ways to Save Money: Save the Cost of This Book Many Times Over in Less than a Day!, page 211:
glosses: To bathe.
examples: text: Shareholders took a bath when the company went bankrupt.
text: 1983 December, ‘Look before you leap into a commodity pool’, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, page 74,
In the high-risk world of futures contracts, pooling the risks could be just another way to take a bath.
text: The lenders took a bath because they had to honor fixed rate loans of 5 to 10% while borrowing money at 15 to 20% to fund them.
ref: 2009, John Burley, Money Secrets of the Rich: Learn the 7 Secrets to Financial Freedom, page 163:
text: The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.
ref: 2009, William J. O'Neil, How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, page 235:
glosses: To lose a large amount of money in an investment.
Synonyms: have a bath
go bankrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes bankrupt
form: going bankrupt
form: went bankrupt
form: gone bankrupt
Senses: examples: text: Several thousand companies go bankrupt in the UK each year.
text: "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
"Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
ref: 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, page 141:
glosses: To become bankrupt; to go into liquidation.
Synonyms: go bust
go under
go belly-up
swings and roundabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If, in order to save money, you never buy a parking ticket, you are more likely to get fined, so it's all swings and roundabouts really.
text: Whether we pick up Mary first and then John or John first and then Mary is a matter of swings and roundabouts.
glosses: Gains and losses that offset each other.
Related terms: what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts
what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
snakes and ladders
twists and turns
customership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From customer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a customer.