cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ethnophaulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnophaulisms
Etymology: Coined by Polish psychologist Abraham Aaron Roback in 1944 from ethno- + Ancient Greek φαύλισμα (phaúlisma, “disparagement, contempt”), which is from φαῦλος (phaûlos, “bad, unjust”).
Senses: examples: text: It is unlikely that over the course of history white trash has inflicted as much suffering and anguish as nigger—few ethnophaulisms in the American lexicon have. Yet the term white trash has performed much of the same symbolic violence.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 145:
glosses: An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided.
examples: text: [in title]
ref: 2004, Brian Mullen, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but ethnophaulisms can alter the portrayal of immigrants to children”, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, volume 30, number 2, pages 250-260:
glosses: The use of such slurs.
Related terms: ethnophaulic
heliothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helio- + thermic.
Senses: glosses: gaining heat from the sun
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to heliotherms
Related terms: heliothermy
speculative damages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Claims made by a plaintiff for losses that may occur in the future, but are highly improbable. They can not be used as a basis for recovery in tort or contract cases.
quinhydrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinhydrones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a molecular complex of a quinone and its corresponding hydroquinone
quinomethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinomethanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from a quinone by replacing either or both of the quinone oxygens with a methylidene group.
Synonyms: quinomethide
xylylene
methylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The CH₂= group in which the free valences are part of a double bond.
Derived terms: dantrolene
diaminomethylideneamino
fluprednidene
melengestrol
metacycline
methylidenyl
prednylidene
Related terms: methylene
cry baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cry babies
Senses: examples: text: Maybe if you weren’t such a Mommy’s boy she’d be here right now, instead of hooked up to every machine imaginable! That’s where Mommy is…fighting for her life in a hospital bed because you’re such a cry baby!
ref: 2008, Brenda Youngerman, chapter 1, in Hidden Truths, New York, N.Y.: Eloquent Books, →ISBN, part 1, pages 11–12:
glosses: Alternative spelling of crybaby.
soft-spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒftˌspəʊkən/
ipa: /ˈsɔftˌspoʊkən/
Forms: form: more soft-spoken
form: most soft-spoken
form: softspoken
Senses: examples: text: He was a soft-spoken fellow who loved children and dogs.
text: My uncle was a lovely man, and soft-spoken with his delightful Manx accent.
text: [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
ref: 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:
text: With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 12.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 301:
text: In fact, this educator, lawyer, editor, composer, author, poet, and diplomat [James Weldon Johnson] would become a sturdy fulcrum for black America's transition in 1916 from the softspoken conformity and accommodation of the Booker T. Washington era to a vigorous militant idealism that targeted no less than full equality.
ref: 1991, Gene M. Burnett, “Black Star out of Jacksonville: Native Son Achiever James Weldon Johnson was Lawyer, Educator, Composer, Author, Diplomat, and National Black Leader”, in Florida’s Past: People and Events that Shaped the State, volume 3, Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple Press, →OCLC, section I (Achievers and Pioneers), pages 62–63:
text: We were driving to the Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre, south of Bitung, to meet with Harry Hilser, program manager for the nonprofit Selamatkan Yaki—which works to save Sulawesi's crested black macaques—and the rescue center's manager, Simon Purser, a soft-spoken Brit who seems to carry the weight of the world on his slim frame.
ref: 2017 March, Jennifer S. Holland, “For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 03 May 2017:
glosses: Having a pleasant, gentle, mild manner of speech; speaking gently or quietly.
poodle-faker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːdəlˌfeɪkə/
Forms: form: poodle-fakers
Senses: glosses: A man who seeks out female society, especially for social or professional advancement.
glosses: A recently commissioned officer.
wopperjawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wopperjawed
form: most wopperjawed
Senses: glosses: askew
quinomethide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinomethides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: quinomethane
Synonyms: quinone methide
quinonimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinonimines
Etymology: Blend of quinone + imine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of imines formally derived from a quinone by replacing one or both oxygens with =NR.
Synonyms: quinone imine
quinone imine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinone imines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any quinonimine
quinonoxime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinonoximes
Etymology: Blend of quinone + oxime
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: either the mono- or di- oxime of a quinone; tautomeric with nitrosophenols
raffinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raffinates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solution from which some material has been removed by extraction with an immiscible liquid
Related terms: raffination
raffinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raffinates
form: raffinating
form: raffinated
form: raffinated
Senses: glosses: To separate by means of raffination
rotamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.tə.mə/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.tə.mɚ/
ipa: [ˈɹoʊ.ɾə.mɚ]
Forms: form: rotamers
Etymology: Blend of rotation + isomer
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a set of conformers that arise from restricted rotation around a single bond
Related terms: pseudorotamer
rotameric
rotamerization
rotamerize
rotaxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotaxanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex of two molecules, one ring-shaped and the other dumbbell-shaped, with the dumbbell threaded through the ring and having end groups too large to pass through the ring.
Derived terms: oligorotaxane
polyrotaxane
pseudorotaxane
selenenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenenic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula RSeOH, where R is not H
freecycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freecycles
form: freecycling
form: freecycled
form: freecycled
Etymology: Blend of free + recycle, popularized by The Freecycle Network and the general freecycling movement.
Senses: examples: text: I freecycled most of the junk cluttering my house.
text: Here in New York's Hudson Valley, we've freecycled swing sets, Little Tikes outdoor climbers, freezers, computer equipment, entertainment centers, baby furniture, and much, much more!
ref: 2004 April 15, Nancy Castleman, “Freecycle for the Earth! Earth Day's coming up!”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet), retrieved 08 Sep 2024:
glosses: To recycle by giving away an item for free.
freecycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freecycles
Etymology: Blend of free + recycle, popularized by The Freecycle Network and the general freecycling movement.
Senses: examples: text: What freecycle did you join?
glosses: A group (especially an online messaging group) that engages in freecycling.
go to work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to work
form: going to work
form: went to work
form: gone to work
Senses: examples: text: I used to go to school in Bristol in the morning, and then I'd go to work in my hometown in the afternoon.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to, work. (This sense is a translation hub.)
glosses: To begin performing some task or work.
glosses: To go to one's job, as by commuting.
examples: text: I saw Bruno go to work on Big Timmy; when he was through he didn't have much of a face left.
glosses: To beat up, to batter.
glosses: To go to town.
gringa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gringas
Senses: glosses: A female gringo.
ROT13
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rot13
form: rot-13
form: EBG13
Etymology: ROT is short for rotate.
Senses: glosses: A simple Caesar cipher where each letter is replaced by the letter 13 positions beyond it in the alphabet (wrapping at Z to A).
mandarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandarin
chalices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalice
pin-pen merger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before we get to those, however, let us consider how we might discover a vowel merger taking place (and most work in this area has been on vowel merger or on conditioned vowel mergers, such as the pin–pen merger in the US south or the pool–pull merger in Utah, discussed below).
ref: 2011, Scott F. Kiesling, Linguistic Variation and Change, page 141:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phonemic merger where the vowels in "pin" and "pen" are pronounced the same before /n/ and /m/, making "pin" and "pen" homophones.
tempura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmpʊɹə/
ipa: /tɛmˈpu.ɹə/
ipa: /tɛmˈpɚ.ə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: tempuras
form: tenpura
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura), from Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. Different dictionaries link two different original terms:
* Portuguese tempero (“seasoning”) or tempera (“he/she/it seasons; season!”), third-person present singular or imperative tense of temperar (“to season, to temper”), from Latin temperare (“to mix, to temper”).
* Portuguese têmpora (“Ember days”), from Latin tempora, plural of tempus (“time; period”). When Portuguese explorers (mostly Jesuit missionaries) arrived in Japan, they abstained from eating beef, pork, and poultry during the Ember days, a Catholic series of holidays. Instead, they ate fried vegetables and fish. This was the first contact of the Japanese with fried food, and since then they began associating the Portuguese word têmpora (which they pronounced tenpura) with such food.
Senses: examples: text: The Chicken Big Mac is similar to its beefy sibling; however, it replaces the two burgers with two tempura chicken patties.
ref: 2024 October 3, Jordan Valinsky, “McDonald’s is finally selling the Chicken Big Mac in the US”, in CNN:
hypernyms: fritter
glosses: A Japanese dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter.
wikipedia: Daijirin
Daijisen
Ember days
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
ja:松村明
deep-fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: other: /ˌdi:p ˈfraɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: deep-fries
form: deep-frying
form: deep-fried
form: deep-fried
form: deep fry
form: deepfry
Senses: glosses: To cook (food) by deep-frying.
examples: text: That meme is deep-fried, which is what makes it so funny.
glosses: To alter a photograph using filters and image compression to make it appear strangely colored for a humorous effect.
Synonyms: deep-fat-fry
Derived terms: deep-fried
deep fryer
Related terms: deep-frying
deep-fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˌdi:p ˈfraɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: deep-fries
form: deep fry
form: deepfry
Senses: glosses: A heated cooking pan or appliance used to deep-fry foods.
Synonyms: deep-fat fryer
deep fryer
garage door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garage doors
Senses: examples: text: garage door opener
text: From many years’ experience with automobiles, I have known the manner of signaling by horn to the garage keeper or elevator man the desire to enter the building. As many garages are located in residence districts, this is truly a very annoying custom and should be stopped. To overcome this nuisance a handy electric push button could be mounted on posts on either side of the runway, about five feet high, so that they could be easily reached as the car approaches the garage door. These posts could be placed near the curb, and two are recommended to serve cars with left or right side drive.
ref: 1915 December 7 [1915 December 4], F. H. W., “For the Auto Horn Nuisance.”, in The New York Times, volume LXV, number 21,136, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 6:
text: Door guards are a detail that can be added readily to almost any garage door for the purpose of protecting the door from being broken off the hinges or for the protection that is afforded the customers of the garage. The simplest form of these are inclined slides for warding off the front or rear wheels of the entering car.
ref: 1920 November 25, “Protected Garage Door and Car Fenders”, in Motor Age, volume XXXVIII, number 22, Chicago, page 48, column 1:
text: The "Overhead Door" is the garage door that can be opened or closed at a touch every day in the year—regardless of the weather. It is the garage door that opens UP Completely Out of the Way. In short, it is the modern door for the modern garage—in step with the times.
ref: 1930 May 31, “The "Overhead Door" for Garage-Factory-Warehouse”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 202, number 48, page 110:
glosses: The large door on a garage which a car can come in through.
qualifier: literal
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see garage, door (a door for people to enter or exit a garage)
Derived terms: garage door opener
garage doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garage door
pancake ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of ice that forms on water covered to some degree in slush.
Related terms: english: pancake ice in the process of developing
translation: pancake ice in the process of developing
word: frazil ice
pandybat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandybats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pandy bat.
party school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party schools
Senses: glosses: A college or university known for its vibrant social scene, characterized by frequent student gatherings and heavy alcohol consumption.
glosses: An educational institution for the training of cadres of a party, especially a communist party.
vizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vizard
pau hana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian Pidgin English pau hana, from Hawaiian pau hana.
Senses: examples: text: With the last passenger off the bus, the driver hoists the sign, "out of service" and it is pau hana.
ref: 2001, Kenneth Smith, chapter 3, in Parables from Paradise:
glosses: The time after work. It is considered a time for relaxation, informal socializing with friends and family, and enjoyment.
Bandarban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɑːbæn/
ipa: /ˈbændɑːɹbæn/
Etymology: From Bengali বান্দরবান (bandorban), from earlier বান্দরবাঁধ (bandorbãdh, “dam of monkeys”), a compound of বান্দর (bandor, “monkey”) + বাঁধ (bãdh, “dam”), such named due to a legend that monkeys were once seen walking in a row during a heavy rainfall and that this row was compared to a dam by the locals.
Senses: glosses: A hill district in Bangladesh.
glosses: The administrative headquarters of Bandarban Hill District.
peepee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peepees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pee-pee.
perfect gold standard test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect gold standard tests
Senses: glosses: A test that measures a binary value without error.
hereticaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hereticasters
Etymology: From heretic + -aster.
Senses: glosses: A petty or contemptible heretic.
tantalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæntl̩aɪt/
Forms: form: tantalites
Etymology: From tantalum + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark-brown mineral that is an ore of tantalum and niobium, of the chemical formula (Fe, Mn) Ta₂O₆.
Derived terms: coltan
columbite-tantalite
manganotantalite
mangantantalite
stibiotantalite
yttrotantalite
Related terms: tantalate
tantalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tantalum + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing pentavalent tantalum.
Derived terms: fluotantalic acid
tantalic acid
tantalic anhydride
tantalic chloride
tantalic fluoride
tantalic oxide
Related terms: tantalous
tantalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tantalum + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing tantalum in a higher proportion than tantalic compounds.
Derived terms: tantalous oxide
Related terms: tantalic
tungstous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tungsten + -ous.
Senses: glosses: containing tetravalent tungsten
Derived terms: tungstous chloride
tungstous oxide
Related terms: tungstic
tungsto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Relating to tungsten.
Derived terms: tungstoborate
tungstoboric acid
tungstosilicate
tungstosilicic acid
osmio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: osmium
Derived terms: osmiochloride
osmiocyanide
osmiophilic
chump chop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chump chops
Senses: glosses: A type of lamb chop equivalent to rump steak.
Monastir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish manastır (“monastery”), from Byzantine Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion). Doublet of monastery.
Senses: glosses: Bitola in North Macedonia.
Monastir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Sardinia, Italy.
glosses: A coastal city in Tunisia.
Bitola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Macedonian Битола (Bitola).
Senses: glosses: The second largest city in North Macedonia (after Skopje); formerly named Monastir.
speed run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed runs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of speedrun.
speed run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speed runs
form: speed running
form: speed ran
form: speed run
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of speedrun.
idles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of idle
raincoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnkoʊt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪnkəʊt/
Forms: form: raincoats
Etymology: From rain + coat.
Senses: examples: text: After standing around in talk for a while, during which time Doris arrived with my hat and raincoat (left with her at the site) we made our way some two hundred strong, up the gracious stone stairway to the Hall of Christ Church, loaned by that College for the celebrationary lunch.
ref: 1987, Sir Raymond Streat, Marguerite Dupree, Lancashire and Whitehall: The Diary of Sir Raymond Streat:
text: Speaking to a crowd of demonstrators, some of whom dressed in raincoats while others wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, one demonstrator said: “Any president that has come to power has also let workers down.”
ref: 2024 November 9, Maya Yang, “Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A waterproof coat to be worn in the rain.
examples: text: Moe said he'll go first, I said I'll take next / Here, take this raincoat and practice safe sex!
ref: 1993, “Tearz”, in Enter the Wu-Tang, performed by Wu-Tang Clan:
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
Derived terms: raincoat brigade
Related terms: mac
mackintosh
oilskins
rainjacket
waterproofs
hunting pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting pinks
Etymology: Theories that the phrase derived from a tailor called Pink appear to be folk etymology. For further discussion see here (archived from the original).
Senses: examples: text: Don't imagine elegant British foxhounds and mounted hunters dressed in their “hunting pink”. South Georgia foxhunts were just a bit different, Paul says.
ref: 2005, Paul B Dunn, A Stroll Through Fitzgerald, ThomasMax, published 2005, page 42:
glosses: Scarlet, as worn by fox-hunters.
examples: text: the open-fronted and unbuttonable surplices worn by Christ Church men in chapel were designed, tradition says, so that hunting pinks could not be concealed beneath them.
ref: 1965, Jan Morris, Oxford, OUP, published 2001, page 109:
glosses: The traditional scarlet jacket and related attire worn by fox-hunters.
pinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink
pinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: flowers in the family Caryophyllaceae, sometimes called carnations.
glosses: The traditional scarlet jacket(s) worn by fox-hunters in the United Kingdom.
shew bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shew breads
form: shewbread
form: shew-bread
form: showbread
Senses: examples: text: Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 2:4:
glosses: Obsolete form of showbread.
shewbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shewbreads
form: shew bread
form: shew-bread
form: showbread
Etymology: From shew + bread.
Senses: examples: text: "And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?"
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 2:25-26:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of showbread.
shew-bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shew-breads
form: shew bread
form: shewbread
form: showbread
Senses: examples: 1658: a long sided quadrate … was the figure of the Ark of the Covenant, the table of the Shew-bread, and the stone wherein the names of the twelve Tribes were engraved — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 177)
glosses: Obsolete form of showbread.
proclivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proclivity
wot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɔt/
enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɒt/
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: watt
homophone: what (UK, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wott
form: wotte
form: wote
Etymology: From wit, in return from Old English witan.
Senses: glosses: first-person singular present indicative of wit
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wit
wot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɔt/
enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɒt/
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: watt
homophone: what (UK, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wott
form: wotte
form: wote
Etymology: Representing pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: Wot, no bananas?
translation: (popular slogan during wartime rationing)
english: (popular slogan during wartime rationing)
text: Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of what.
wot
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɔt/
enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɒt/
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: watt
homophone: what (UK, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wott
form: wotte
form: wote
Etymology: Representing pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.
ref: 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:
text: Wot’s in! Great games! […] WHO DUZ WOT
ref: 1992 March, Phil King, editor, Zzap!64, Ludlow, Shropshire: Europress Impact Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 5–6:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of what.
Coordinate terms: woat
wut
wot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɔt/
enpr: wŏt
ipa: /wɒt/
enpr: wät
ipa: /wɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: watt
homophone: what (UK, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wott
form: wotte
form: wote
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what (used to contradict an assumption)
yerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yerds
Etymology: From Middle English yerd (“yard”).
Senses: examples: text: James Sympson, buryed in the yerd, xxvj may
ref: 1899, The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society:
text: "William Luff, fysherman, of the parishe of St Clementes in Hastyng . . . My body to be buryed in the church yerd of st Clementes” 17 Jun. 1545.
ref: 1902, Sussex Record Society - Volume 42, page 282:
text: Robert Shertecliff for cheife rent of his tane yerd which he bought of my Lord pro dimidio anno xiid .
ref: 1981, David Postles, Sheffield in 1581, page 20:
glosses: A yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.
examples: text: (15 aprill 1550 ) Such Napery as was in the church the same day one towell of holand of iij yerdes dimidium long & yerd brode one towell of calicow cloth / v yerdes a quarter long & dimidium yerd brode
ref: 1910, Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, page 174:
text: It 1 towell diaper olde 2 yerds di. yerd brede
ref: 1941, Louth (England). St. James's Church, Reginald Charles Dudding, The First Churchwardens' Book of Louth, 1500-1524, page 171:
text: Itm. the 12 day of June 1545 he sent me a reckenyng by my sarvant Henry Setterfford of 25 seme Wellsche bordes at 6d the seame & of a brode yerd 3 qrs. of muster clothe at 4s the yerd & of a yerd of white kersy at 20d & 2 yerdes ½ Bristowe frise at 12d the yerd & of a yerd & I qr. russett kersy at 14d the yerd & for 4 yerdes 3 qr. grey frize at 6d the yerd.
ref: 1974, John Smythe, Bristol Record Society, John Angus, The Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-1550, page 148:
glosses: A yard (unit of measurement); three feet.
yerd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yerds
form: yerding
form: yerded
form: yerded
Etymology: From Middle English yerd (“yard”).
Senses: examples: text: To owd Tim's grave this neet aw bin, An' yerd him in't mysel.
ref: 1854, Elijah Ridings, The Village Muse, Containing the Complete Poetical Works of E. Ridings, page 419:
text: and when she dies, I'm to pay for the yerding of her honestly, and a' the o'ercome is to be my ain; and by that time I'll be as rich es e'er my father was before me.
ref: 1877, John Cheap the Chapman's Library, page 7:
text: Forbes took him at the kirk of Forbes and struck off his head and caused yerd him behind the kirk, and sett his grave about with tippet stones, where it remains as yet ( 1580 ) to testifie the same.
ref: 1923, George Forrest Browne, Echt-Forbes Family Charters 1345-1727, page 50:
text: Spalding recounts the incident: Alexander Gordon of Dunkyntie and George Gordon his eldest son, with some servants,being at the hunts in Glenelg o at the head of Strathaven, were upon the 19th August cruelly murdered by certain highland limmars, likeas the laird and his son in their defence slew three of thir lowns, but craftily they presently yerded two of them in a hole, and the third they left lying above the ground,
ref: 1960, Victor Gaffney, The Lordship of Strathavon: Tomintoul Under the Gordons, page 63:
text: At Baguley that burn his biding-place he had; His ancestors of old time have yerded there long, Before William Conqueror this country inhabited.
ref: 1991, Emrys Jones, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, page 73:
glosses: To bury or be buried.
yerd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Pronunciation dialect
Senses: examples: text: But seein this postman made me think ov a tale ut aw yerd obeawt one e Howcom.
ref: 1857, Oud John, A Yewud Chap's Trip to Manchister to see Prince Halbert, page 12:
text: Missis, says one, dunnot be so cuttin - yoar as keen as yoar mestur. Un, to be comfortable neaw; han yoa yerd th' news?
ref: 1860, Bobby Shuttle, Bobby Shuttle un his Woife Sayroh's Visit to Manchester, page 34:
text: I're a little bit gloppent i' th' mornin when I wakkent; an' yerd what I took to be a whul hive o' hummabees buzzin i' th' window.
ref: 1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ben Brierley's Works: Ab-o'th', page 71:
text: Yo'n not' yerd no news, Ruth, I s'pose?
ref: 1900, M. E. Francis, A Daughter of the Soil, page 328:
glosses: Heard.
aga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agas
Senses: examples: text: They were headed by a Chiauſh or the Meſſinger of an Aga, who commanded in a ſmall village to the weſt of Pambouk.
ref: 1775, Richard Chandler, Travels in Asia Minor, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 229:
glosses: Alternative spelling of agha.
stridence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stridences
Senses: examples: text: Mr Urkullu’s ambiguity contrasts with Mr Mas’s growing stridence.
ref: 2012, The Economist, Regional elections in Spain: A Basque case:
glosses: the quality of being strident
Synonyms: stridency
sandwich compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which a metal atom is located between the faces of two planes of atoms, especially between two rings.
Related terms: metallocene
seleninic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seleninic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula RSe(=O)OH
selenocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenocyanates
Etymology: From seleno- + cyanate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The radical -SeCN or the anion formed from it
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of selenocyanic acid
Related terms: selenocyanide
selenocyanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seleno- + cyanic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: HSeCN, the selenium analog of cyanic acid.
Related terms: selenocyanate
selenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenols
Etymology: From selenium + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound, of general formula RSeH, the selenium analogues of alcohols
selenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula R₂Se(=O)₂
selenonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenonic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula RSe(=O)₂OH.
selenoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula R₂Se=O
diselenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diselenides
Etymology: From di- + selenide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any inorganic selenide containing two atoms of selenium per molecule
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic compound of general formula RSeSeR'
Derived terms: carbon diselenide
germanium diselenide
peroxyselenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula RSe-OOH
Green Goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Green Goddesses
Etymology: From their green color.
Senses: glosses: A fire engine used by the army, the Bedford RLHZ Self-Propelled Pump.
examples: text: For the shūsei process, however, it’s best to enlist a more rigorous J-E dictionary: It’s time to bow down to the “Green Goddess.” ¶ The Kenkyūsha Shin Wa-Ei Daijiten (研究社新和英大辞典, Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Dictionary) is a legendary tome that earned the adana (あだ名, nickname) of the “Green Goddess” because of the weighty dictionary’s beautiful hunter-green dust jacket.[…]¶ The fifth edition of the Green Goddess was released in 2003, which means that (as of the time of writing) used copies of the fourth edition can be had for as little as ¥263 (with an additional ¥257 for domestic shipping) on Amazon Japan!
ref: 2015 September 21, Daniel Morales, “When translation gets tough, bow to the 'Green Goddess'”, in The Japan Times, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2025:
glosses: The Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Dictionary.
selenoketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoketones
Etymology: From seleno- + ketone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: selone
selone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selones
Etymology: From selenium + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula R₂C=Se, the selenium analogs of ketones
selenoaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoaldehydes
Etymology: From seleno- + aldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula RCH=Se, the selenium analogs of aldehydes
on opposite sides of the barricades
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: The idiom has been in use for at least a century http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/jul/23.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20060618034021/http://www.fmep.org/reports/special_reports/no10-winter2000/01-clinton_administration.html. It probably derives from a literal observation of political protests, where government buildings were insulated with barricades, and the government was said to not represent the people because they and the people were on opposite sides of the barricades.
Senses: glosses: Holding starkly opposite views on an issue.
Synonyms: diametrically opposed
selenoamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoamides
Etymology: From seleno- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula RC(=Se)NR₂, the selenium analogues of amides.
bumhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmhəʊl/
Forms: form: bumholes
Etymology: From bum + hole.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Oh Henry, when I put my tongue into your bumhole it’s as if I plug myself into a sex-electric power point.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 84:
glosses: The anus.
glosses: A stupid or annoying person.
Downey Heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: British stamps with the image of King George V, based on a photograph by the court photographers W & D Downey.
selenyl halide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenyl halides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula SeOX₂ where X is a halide.
Related terms: selenyl fluoride
selenyl chloride
selenyl bromide
selenyl iodide
stridency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stridencies
Etymology: From strident + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency.
ref: 2024, Amy Coney Barrett, concurring in part and concurring in the judgement in Trump v. Anderson, March 2 2024
glosses: The quality of being strident.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being strident
word: stridence
selenoester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoesters
Etymology: From seleno- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: either of two classes of compounds, formally derived from an ester by replacing an oxygen atom with selenium; either R-C(=Se)-OR' or R-C(=O)-SeR'
semioxamazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semioxamazones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of the condensation products of an aldehyde or ketone with semioxamazide; they have general formula R₂C=NNHC(=O)C(=O)NH₂
semioxamazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semioxamazides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydrazide of oxamic acid, H₂NNHC(=O)C(=O)NH₂.
Related terms: semioxamazone
oxamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxamic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoamide of oxalic acid H₂NC(=O)C(=O)OH; any derivative of this compound
Derived terms: oxamate
silicon hydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon hydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydride of silicon; a silane.
silanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the silicon analogue of methanol SiH₃OH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any hydroxy derivative of a silane, especially hydrocarbyl derivatives R₃SiOH; an organosilanol
Derived terms: silanolate
silasesquiazane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silasesquiazanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of compounds in which every silicon atom is linked to three nitrogen atoms, and every nitrogen is linked to two silicons (RSi)₂ₙ(R'N)₃ₙ where R = H or hydrocarbyl
silasesquioxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silasesquioxanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compounds in which every silicon atom is linked to three oxygen atoms, and every oxygen is linked to two silicons (RSi)₂ₙO₃ₙ where R = H or hydrocarbyl.
silasesquithiane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silasesquithianes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compounds in which every silicon atom is linked to three sulfur atoms, and every sulfur is linked to two silicons (RSi)₂ₙS₃ₙ where R = H or hydrocarbyl.
AFAICT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: afaict
Senses: synonyms: word: AFAIAA
english: all either synonymous or nearly so
translation: all either synonymous or nearly so
word: AFAIAC
word: AFAIC
word: AFAICMO
word: AFAIK
word: AFAIR
word: SFAIAA
word: SFAICT
word: SFAIK
word: TMK
word: to my knowledge
word: to the best of my knowledge
word: TTBOMK
glosses: Initialism of as far as I can tell.
submergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒəns
Forms: form: submergences
Senses: examples: text: The covering up of a complex of apartments on the north-east, and the simultaneous submergence of many floor deposits, mean that Middle Minoan III., like the two preceding periods, was closed by a general catastrophe.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 84:
glosses: The act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion.
Derived terms: deep-submergence vehicle
in all
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: There were twenty-one in all.
glosses: With everything included, considered or counted.
Synonyms: altogether
all told
storefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storefronts
Etymology: From store + front.
Senses: synonyms: shopfront
glosses: The side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street and usually contains display windows.
examples: text: Brands are now able to set up storefronts to sell within Facebook and Instagram, where they were previously relegated to advertising for outside sales channels.
ref: 2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An e-commerce website offering goods or services to the public.
Derived terms: storefront church
shopfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopfronts
form: shop front
Etymology: From shop + front.
Senses: synonyms: storefront
glosses: The side of a shop that faces the street, usually having display windows.
scutwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scut work
Etymology: From scut + work; see scut (“contemptible person”).
Senses: examples: text: Everyone on a team must pull their fair share of scutwork if the team is to succeed.
ref: 2000, Harvey Robbins, Michael Finley, The New Why Teams Don't Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right:
text: Hard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork.
ref: 2003, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter:
glosses: Tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.
scut work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutwork
Senses: examples: text: This seems not to exhaust what is called dirty work, regardless of the synonym used (scut work, shit work) by workers themselves — either those actually engaged in the work or others who are lucky enough to escape it.
ref: 1997, Anselm L. Strauss, Social Organization of Medical Work, page 250:
text: Some residents, and even some nurses, expect medical students to do a substantial amount of scut work, much of it of the 3 am variety.
ref: 1998, Robert H. Coombs, Surviving Medical School, page 104:
glosses: Distasteful tasks.
scrumptiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrumptiously
form: most scrumptiously
Etymology: From scrumptious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a scrumptious manner
scrupulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹuːpjʊləsli/
Forms: form: more scrupulously
form: most scrupulously
Etymology: From scrupulous + -ly, from Middle French scrupuleux, from Latin scrūpulōsus (“careful, scrupulous”), from scrūpulus (“anxiety, uneasiness”), diminutive from scrūpus (“sharp stone; anxiety”) + -ulus.
Senses: examples: text: They were frightened when he threatened this, and promised to obey him scrupulously if he would but promise not to desert them.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 140:
text: Stock is generally well maintained, and the locomotives and railcars are kept scrupulously clean. The former are painted an unrelieved black, and the latter blue and cream, while the coaches are grey.
ref: 1955 May 24, H. P. White, “The Togoland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
text: Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously observed.
ref: 1958, Jacob Viner, The Long View and the Short, page 112:
text: The citizens of India and Japan have elected nationalist leaders who many say they believe champion a more closed form of identity than their predecessors. While these leaders have observed the principles of liberalism more scrupulously than the Orbáns or Erdogans of the world, their critics suspect that they are quietly fostering intolerance among their supporters.
ref: 2016 December 6, Francis Fukuyama, “The Dangers of Disruption”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a careful manner, with scruple; done with careful attention to detail.
Synonyms: sense: in a careful manner
word: carefully
sense: in a careful manner
word: conscientiously
sense: in a careful manner
word: meticulously
Related terms: scruple
scrupulous
scrupulousness
scrutinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrutinously
form: most scrutinously
Etymology: From scrutinous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a scrutinous manner
scrutinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrutinous
form: most scrutinous
Senses: examples: text: He and the others joined in, calling the boy outside the window a girl while observing with scrutinous gaze the effeminate features of the fellow.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 243:
glosses: thorough, careful, strict.
scrutinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrutinize
flexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛksɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flex
flexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛksɪŋ
Forms: form: flexings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb flex; a bending of something, a tightening of the muscles.
glosses: Synonym of flaunting.
synonyms: word: flaunting
Derived terms: price flexing
scrutinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrutinize
scrutinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrutinize
colleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colleens
form: coleen
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish cailín.
Senses: coordinate_terms: bouchaleen
glosses: A girl.
examples: text: So here was Timothy McShanus deserting the baked meats, to say nothing of his convenient corner in the buffet, to go out and stare at a red shepherdess with picture books and maizypop to sell. And what kind of a colleen was it that he saw? […] Young as she was—and I supposed her to be about eighteen—her figure would have given her five years more according to our northern ideas; […]
ref: 1906 June–November, Max Pemberton, “The Diamond Ship. […]”, in Cassell’s Magazine, Illustrated, London; Paris; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Cassell and Company, Limited, →OCLC, page 101, columns 1–2:
glosses: A young single woman.
scrutinizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrutinizers
Etymology: From scrutinize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The world's Alberto Grimaldis can fight scrutiny by burying truth in committees, dullness and misinformation, or by intimidating the scrutinizers.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: One who scrutinizes.