cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Piekary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Piekary; derived from either pieczara (“grotto”) or piekarz (“baker”).
Senses: glosses: A district of Gniezno, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A district of Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Proszowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Łęczyca County, Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Pajęczno County, Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Piotrków County, Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A district of Legnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Oława County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Środa Śląska County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Trzebnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Sandomierz County, Holy Cross Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A former town now within Piekary Śląskie, a city and county of the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
Related terms: Piekary Rudne
Piekary Śląskie
Piekary Wielkie
lirulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of lirulae: plural of lirula.
VSLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VSL
Cavoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cavoodles
Etymology: Blend of cavalier + poodle
Senses: synonyms: Cavapoo
glosses: A crossbreed dog, the offspring of a poodle and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Cavoodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cavoodle
Cavapoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cavapoos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cavoodle (“type of dog”).
synonyms: word: Cavoodle
extra: type of dog
Cavapoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cavapoo
acholeplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acholeplasmas
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Acholeplasma
acholeplasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acholeplasma
actuopaleontological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From actuo- + paleontological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to actuopaleontology
actuopaleontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actuo- + paleontology.
Senses: glosses: actualistic paleontology
Related terms: actuopaleontological
adenogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adeno- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to adenogenesis
adipogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adipogenesis
adipomyokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adipomyokines
Etymology: From adipo- + myokine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein form of cytokine associated with adipose tissue
Bobcaygeon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Bobcaygeon, from Ojibwe [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A village in Verulam, Kawartha Lakes, Victoria, Ontario, Canada.
Kawartha Lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ojibwe Ka-wa-tha, from Ka-wa-tae-gum-maug (“Land of Reflections”).
Senses: glosses: A chain of lakes Ontario, Canada, that form the upper watershed of the Trent River.
glosses: A city in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: Kawartha Highlands
Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park
greater kudu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater kudus
Senses: glosses: A kudu of species Tragelaphus strepsiceros, of eastern and southern Africa.
Kawartha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ojibwe Ka-wa-tha, from Gaa-waategamaag (“Land of Reflections”).
Coined in 1895, by Martha Whetung, a member of the Curve Lake First Nations.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Kawartha Lakes: a city in Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Kawartha Lakes
Kawartha Highlands
MRSAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRSA
MRSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis.
Related terms: MRSA
MSSA
VRE
VRSA
ESBL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESBLs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase.
ESBLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ESBL
Meldon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and nearby quarry in Okehampton Hamlets parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5592).
glosses: A small village and civil parish west of Morpeth, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1183).
glosses: A surname.
leafy goosefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafy goosefoots
Senses: glosses: A species of flowering plant in the amaranth family formerly used as leaf vegetable, Blitum virgatum, formerly Chenopodium foliosum.
leafy goosefoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafy goosefoot
blackride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackrides
Etymology: From black + ride.
Senses: examples: text: The "blackride" was after this manner: four or five riders, half masked, with their faces blacked, and their bodies dressed in red flannel coats, with flaming torches of camphene in their hands, galloped furiously up and down the campus, waving their flambeaux; the students crowding out of their rooms, yelled at the top of their lungs, and assembled just outside the campus gateway, to give the riders concealment in the heart of the throng when they dismounted and turned the horses over to livery servants who took them back to the stables;
ref: 1910, The Sewanee Review - Volume 18, page 337:
text: Charles Woodward Hutson, of the class of 1860 at the University of South Carolina, would have nothing to do with attempts to shield students who had participated in a "blackride"; he was disgusted with the rowdyism […]
ref: 1944, Albea Godbold, The Church College of the Old South, page 175:
text: Friday night we had a beautiful sight— a blackride in the Campus.
ref: 1952, Edgar Wallace Knight, A Documentary History of Education in the South Before 1860:
text: To rile their professors, South Carolina students staged 'blackrides,' when they blackened their faces, stole the horses of faculty, and galloped about campus while holding flaming torches. After exhausting a horse and drawing a cheering crowd, a 'blackrider' dismounted and slipped into the midst of his fellows to hide from investigation."
ref: 2019, Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson's Education, page 97:
glosses: A student prank in the early 1800s that involved students wearing red coats, blackening their faces, and riding about campus with torches at night on horses stolen from the faculty.
Derived terms: blackrider
blackrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackride
Hatherleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish with a town council in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5404).
glosses: A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.
blackrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackriders
Etymology: From black + rider.
Senses: examples: text: All of these high mountain lakes are now inhabited by two morphs of Arctic charr: fish of small body size (so called: 'blackriders') are highly numerous in these lakes and large body size fish (so called: 'wildcaught charrs') which are significantly less numerous.
ref: 2007, D. Zick, H. Gassner, M. Rinnerthaler, P. Jäger, R.A. Patzner, “Application of population size structure indices to Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.) in Alpine lakes in Austria”, in Ecology of Freshwater Fish:
text: The lake is inhabited by two morphs of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus); small-bodied “blackriders” are very numerous, whereas larger “wild-caught charrs” are less frequent
ref: 2012, Liisa Nevalainen, Tomi P. Luoto, “Faunal (Chironomidae, Cladocera) responses to post-Little Ice Age climate warming in the high Austrian Alps”, in Journal of Paleolimnology, volume 48:
glosses: A small variety of the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
blackrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackriders
Etymology: From blackride + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To rile their professors, South Carolina students staged 'blackrides,' when they blackened their faces, stole the horses of faculty, and galloped about campus while holding flaming torches. After exhausting a horse and drawing a cheering crowd, a 'blackrider' dismounted and slipped into the midst of his fellows to hide from investigation."
ref: 2019, Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson's Education, page 97:
glosses: A student who rides in a blackride.
blackriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackrider
Lucasesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lucasesque
form: most Lucasesque
Etymology: From Lucas + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: 1999, May 18. "'Inside Story' takes scathing look at kiddie-pageant world', South Coast Today.
This parody features his patented use of human thumbs with special-effects faces as such Lucasesque characters as Loke Groundrunner, Princess Bunhead, Hand Duet, Churchaka and Gabba the Butt.
text: 2005, May 1. Henry Fountain, "Episode VII: Revenge of the Writers", The New York Times.
And a lot of that comes from the very simplistic, 2-D Lucasesque view of what science fiction has to offer.
text: Created by Glen A. Larson, the show initially drew strong ratings for its Lucas-esque space battles between the daredevil heroes of Galactica (including Han Solo clone Starbuck, played by Dirk Benedict) and the gleaming metallic Cylons that sought their destruction.
ref: 2012 May 1, Scott Von Doviak, If You Like the Terminator...: Here Are Over 200 Movies, TV Shows, and Other Oddities That You Will Love., Limelight Editions:
glosses: Reminiscent of the works of American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his space opera blockbusters.
60S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Referring to its sedimentation coefficient measured in svedbergs (S).
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: The large subunit of the eukaryotic 80S ribosomes.
Related terms: 40S
80S
40S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Referring to its sedimentation coefficient measured in svedbergs (S).
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: The small subunit of the eukaryotic 80S ribosomes.
Related terms: 60S
80S
Lifton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX3885).
glosses: A surname.
canteen cowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canteen cowboys
Senses: examples: text: On the basis that if you cannot beat them, join them, some, like Private 'Umbriago' Hillier, who was later to prove his guts and character, emulated all the traits of the seasoned veteran. He earned the reputation of being 'a canteen cowboy' and a 'tailboard Romeo', always chatting up the girls at the NAAFI canteen and ogling and whistling at girls from the back of the Company transport.
ref: 1979, Ron Kent, First In!: Parachute Pathfinder Company, page 79:
text: No stiff upper lips, no coal-scuttle jaws, in fact none of the cliches. What the Boultings earlier Desert Victory did for the front line here, this film does for the canteen cowboy and the Whitehall warrior.
ref: 1984, Geoff Hurd, National fictions: World War Two in British films and television, page 40:
text: For one thing, he wanted to see if anyone was following Ricketts. The Cockney had been thrown out of SAS because he was a loner and a canteen cowboy.
ref: 1985, J. C. Winters, Berlin Fugle, page 307:
text: To my shame, I've been as guilty of macho bollocks in this regard as the dustiest canteen cowboy.
ref: 1998, Robert Newman, Manners, page 71:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: An aviator who spends his time flirting with or picking up girls at the canteen.
canteen cowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canteen cowboy
Svedberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Svedbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Svedberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Svedberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Svedbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Svedberg.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of svedberg (“unit of sedimentation rate”).
Svedbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Svedberg
Svedbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Svedberg
Svedberg unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Svedberg units
Etymology: Named after the Swedish chemist Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of svedberg (“unit of measure for sedimentation”).
synonyms: word: svedberg
extra: unit of measure for sedimentation
wikipedia: Theodor Svedberg
Svedberg units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Svedberg unit
Rockfordesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rockfordesque
form: most Rockfordesque
Etymology: From Rockford + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Rockfordesque Nick Ryder (Joe Penny) insists that he would rather use hunches than statistics, that he cannot wear a coat and tie to work, and that if he saw the corporate atmosphere at TriCor, "Sam Spade would puke."
ref: 1990, Robert J. Thompson, Adventures on prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell., Greenwood Publishing Group:
text: 2001, February 16. Allan Johnson, "Tuning In, Tuning Out", The Chicago Tribune.
His latest is "The Tin Collectors" (St. Martin's Press, $24.95), about a Rockfordesque detective at the center of an Internal Affairs investigation that becomes much more.
text: 2009. Kelli Jae Baeli, Armchair Detective, Lesbian Literati Press.
I vaulted to the hood of the Olds' in true Rockfordesque style, and rolled over, falling off the other side, landing hard upon the pavement.
glosses: Reminiscent of the television series The Rockford Files or its main character, a laid-back blue-collar private investigator.
cawnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cawnies
form: cawney
form: cawny
Senses: examples: text: This fort of mud was formerly built by the Curumbas, covering forty cawnies of ground with two boundary walls, and was long ruled by them.
ref: 1838, William Taylor, Examination and Analysis of the Mackenzie Manuscripts, page 83:
text: If we take the best cotton land, paying a land tax of Rupees 3-5-5 per cawnie, the proportion would be upwards of 33 per cent.
ref: 1854, John Bruce Norton, A Letter to Robert Lowe, Esq., Joint Secretary of the Board of Controul, from John Bruce Norton, Esq. on the Condition and Requirements of the Presidency of Madras, page 82:
text: We shall now consider the cost of cultivating one cawnie of dry Poonjay land with Indigo by the native cultivator who does not irrigate.
ref: 1862, An Essay on the culture and manufacture of Indigo, page 17:
text: On the Nilgiris, the cawnie was initially utilised exclusively in measuring settler occupation.
ref: 2009, Deborah Sutton, Other Landscapes, page xii:
glosses: A measure of land equal to 57,600 square feet or 1.3225 acres, formerly used in India.
cawnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cawnie
glosses: plural of cawny
Brooksian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brooksian
form: most Brooksian
Etymology: From Brooks + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of a crazed Brooksian farce about life on the bottom rung, Life Stinks turns out to be a surprisingly low-key Chaplinesque fable.
ref: 1991 August 9, “Summer Comedies”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: 2000, May 28. Kevin Filipski, "Even more Mel Brooks Than Before", The New York Times.
Mr. Wilder's subtler comic instincts keep the humor reined in, and so when the broader, more vulgar Brooksian bits pop up, they're kept in check.
text: 2014, October 27. Shane Harris, "The Hottest Party You've Never Heard Of", Foreignpolicy.com.
The film portrays Wild Bill as a hotheaded womanizer who, in a scene that borders on Brooksian farce, stabs his secretary, an apparent Nazi sleeper agent wearing dominatrix garb and wielding a riding crop, and has her bloody corpse trundled out of his office rolled up in a carpet.
glosses: Of or relating to the American comedian Mel Brooks, known for his farcical cinematic parodies.
examples: text: 2005, March 18. Ann Hornaday, "Dumbness Is the Downside in 'The Upside of Anger', The Washington Post.
"The Upside of Anger", written and directed by Mike Binder, clearly aspires to be a Brooksian comedy of manners, but instead it feels like a retread of several better movies, with a nastier, more bitter edge.
text: That freedom allowed the show to marry the Brooksian heartfelt moments with the subversive influence of series creator Matt Groening, and the Harvard Lampoon-induced writing and irreverence of much of its early writing staff.
ref: 2014, Gina Masullo, “How 'Seinfeld' and 'The Simpsons' Changed TV Forever”, in The Wilson Quarterly:
glosses: Of or relating to the American film producer James L. Brooks, known for co-creating the television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Simpsons.
glosses: Of or relating to Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), American poet.
cult stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cult stocks
Senses: examples: text: With the demise of the dot-coms, you can make a strong case that a chain of doughnut shops has become America's favorite cult stock.
ref: 2002 July, David Landis, “Sometimes, You've Just Got To Let Go”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 42:
text: With a loyal core investor following, cult stocks inherently trade at a premium.
ref: 2008, Thomas J. Lauria, Investor Relations, page 52:
text: Cult stocks like Palm and Sun Microsystems can exist on air for years because they have cash and a history even if their market share shrinks and their prospects dim.
ref: 2009, Michael Shulman, Sell Short: A Simpler, Safer Way to Profit When Stocks Go Down:
glosses: A stock in a failing company whose price per share is inappropriately high because the company used to be a market leader or previously had a well-known popular product.
cult stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cult stock
Llandarcy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + D'Arcy; named after William Knox D'Arcy.
Senses: glosses: A village in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales, originally built for refinery workers (OS grid ref SS7195).
wikipedia: William Knox D'Arcy
E. R.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ER.
E.R.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E.R.'s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ER.
D'Arcy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in British Columbia, Canada, 150 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
glosses: An unincorporated community in western-central Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Darcy Lever
Llandarcy
Offord D'Arcy
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
E-R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-R's
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of ER; Initialism of entity-relationship.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of ER; Initialism of Einstein-Rosen bridge.
market leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market leaders
Senses: examples: text: The aim of the sophisticated type of own label is to present customers with a product which has at least as good a quality as the brand of the market leader.
ref: 1995, Klaus Günter Grunert, Hanne Hartvig Larsen, Tage Koed Madsen, Market Orientation in Food and Agriculture, page 235:
text: Another useful technique, known as a sequential monadic, is, at the next stage of development, to have target consumers use both the prototype formula and the market leader or competitive benchmark product.
ref: 1996, D. F. Williams, S.D. Williams, W.H. Schmitt, Chemistry and Technology of the Cosmetics and Toiletries Industry, page 114:
text: According to Roba's CEO, Roba's most important product groups are: children-beds, chests, shelves, highchairs (market leader), playthings of wood, Inletsets, children's seating groups, playpens, mattresses, sand-boxes (market leader), blackboards (market leader), safety gates and vending stalls.
ref: 2000, Roman Keilhacker, A comparison of the main Direct Marketing Media and their future prospects in the age of the new millennium:
glosses: A product that is chosen by more consumers than any of its competitors.
examples: text: The lesson is that when you are competing with a strong market leader you should not necessarily attack head on, but try to change the rules of the game: for example by approaching the customer from a new direction.
ref: 2003, Paul Sloane, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills:
text: A fragmented industry where no one firm has a significant market share tends to be more fiercely competitive than one which is a clear market leader who is in a dominant position. The lack of a clear market leader may be explained by the fact that the industry is emerging and is in a condition of considerable turbulence and uncertainty, or it may be seen in more mature industry where there are low entry barriers and few advantages to size.
ref: 2009, Per V. Jenster, Klaus Solberg Søilen, Market Intelligence: Building Strategic Insight, page 59:
text: Knorr, a Swiss company, is the dry soup market leader in Europe.
ref: 2011, Jagdish Sheth, Winning Back Your Market, page 95:
glosses: A company that manufactures or markets a market leader or that outsells all other similar businesses.
market leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market leader
chromoclasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Michel Pastoureau as Blend of chroma + iconoclasm
Senses: examples: text: The preference for sombre, dark clothing does not only reflect "bourgeois" values, but also what Pastoreau characterises as the "chromoclasm" or "war against colour" being an important dimension in the new Christian morals of Protestantism - in fact, Pastoureau actually links this "chromoclasm" explicitly to the distinct cultural opposition between black and white and colour in cinema.
ref: 2006, Eirik Frisfold Hanssen, Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema:
text: There is no clear evidence that the polychromy of altarpieces was at that stage wilfully removed or overpainted, which would suggest chromoclasm, a term coined by Michel Pastoureau.
ref: 2014, Hannelore Hägele, The Eye and the Beholder, page 75:
text: Protestant chromoclasm, whether Lutheran or Calvinist, involved the church and the worship service first of all. For the great reformers, the presence of color was excessive there; it had to be reduced or eliminated.
ref: 2019, Michel Pastoureau, tr. Jody Gladding, Yellow: The History of a Color, page 140:
glosses: The elimination or reduction of colorfulness for religious reasons.
wikipedia: Michel Pastoureau
stoop labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: labor regularly performed in a stooped or squatting position; usually referring to agricultural labor involving the planting, cultivation or harvesting of crops.
Synonyms: stoopwork
idiotorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪdiəˈtɔːɹɪəl/
ipa: /ˌɪdiəˈtɔɹiəl/
Forms: form: idiotorials
Etymology: Blend of idiot + editorial
Senses: examples: text: Doubtless you, gentle reader, are giving yourself over to the frivolity of glancing this way in the same spirit of novelty that impelled us to write an idiotorial that really said something.
ref: 1908, The Débris, page 344:
text: Echoes of Mallock's arguments are still in the air, and every time some "idiotor" of a great daily wants to write a rant against the “Reds” he grabs his well-worn copy of Mallock, breathes in some of its inspiration and then blows it out into a long-winded, big-worded “idiotorial” on Socialism.
ref: 1922, August Claessens, The Trinity of Plunder, page 20:
text: The head over the idiotorial was: "WINCHELL THE COCKROACH!"
ref: 1975, Walter Winchell, Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them:
text: Sukoff is already on his cell assigning the shocking story to one of his non-union stooges at the PlaGa meanwhile dictating an enraged idiotorial that's supposed to pass as the opinion of the whole soulless paper.
ref: 2013, Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata:
glosses: An editorial expressing an idiotic opinion.
idiotorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪdiəˈtɔːɹɪəl/
ipa: /ˌɪdiəˈtɔɹiəl/
Forms: form: more idiotorial
form: most idiotorial
Etymology: Blend of idiot + editorial
Senses: examples: text: In explanation of how we prepare these unoffending and peaceable dissertations that have met with such universal acknowledgement, we vouchsafe the following instruction to the young idiotorial space-filler.
ref: 1908, Purdue ... Debris, page 344:
text: On the theory that intelligent life exists north of the Border, we (the well-known idiotorial "we") welcome, this issue, two new Canadian artists, Claudia Dubie and Ralph Alfonso.
ref: 1971, Riverside Quarterly - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Volume 6, Issue 2, page 167:
text: Then we have the Idiotorial Necromancer and Presto High-Diver, who writes learnedly of that which he does not comprehend and which he is incompetent to analyze.
ref: 2018, Joesph Ovette, Advanced Magic, page 37:
glosses: Pertaining to the writing of idiotorials.
idiotorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiotorial
idiotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiotors
Etymology: Blend of idiot + editor
Senses: examples: text: Echoes of Mallock's arguments are still in the air, and every time some "idiotor" of a great daily wants to write a rant against the “Reds” he grabs his well-worn copy of Mallock, breathes in some of its inspiration and then blows it out into a long-winded, big-worded “idiotorial” on Socialism.
ref: 1922, August Claessens, The Trinity of Plunder, page 20:
text: As a rule the leader of the separate school drive is some ecclesiastical clown, some pusillanimous pedagogue, some piecounter politician (more spiritous than spiritual), some real estate dealer who has risen above “the mired mass” by robbing the “mired mass,” and shoving them farther in the mire, or some editor (idiotor), long on inspiration and short on information.
ref: 1925, The Messenger - Volume 7, page 197:
text: The world is full of second third and fourth rate idiotors, I mean editors/rejectors, who have forgotten how to read because of an excess of consummation.
ref: 1998, Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, Doug Rice, Federman A to X-X-X-X: a recyclopedic narrative, page 146:
glosses: An editor who makes idiotic decisions or writes idiotorials.
idiotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiotor
cautioneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: caution + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caution
accessorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accessorists
Etymology: From accessory + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The accountant, the secretary, two salesgirls, the cutter, the retoucher, the accessorist and the manager were all there.
ref: 2001, Dominique Manotti, Rough Trade:
text: After very rapidly earning the professional title of Paruière (Accessorist) to the Haute Couture, which meant that more than half of my annual trade was with the haute couture (a term designating the important Paris designers who sell original custom-made fashions in their own salons), I also became a designer for a small knitwear firm.
ref: 2004, Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, A Guide to Elegance: For Every Woman Who Wants to Be Well and Properly Dressed on All Occasions:
text: Once an accessorist for Oscar de la Renta, today he makes and sells his bold and bright objets from this showroom-atelier.
ref: 2011, Barrie Kerper, Paris: The Collected Traveler:
glosses: One who makes accessories.
examples: text: It is a message to be read by others in order to decode the identity of the accessorist.
ref: 2005, Edward P. Comentale, Stephen Watt, Skip Willman, Ian Fleming & James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007:
glosses: One who wears accessories.
accessorist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accessorist
form: most accessorist
Etymology: From accessory + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The girls should have looked very alluring, straddlin' the Gold Wings or draped over the handlebars - every accessorist dream.
ref: 2010, Rich Hall, Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society:
glosses: Of or relating to accessories.
accessorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accessorist
giving the axe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give the axe
gave the axe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give the axe
given the axe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give the axe
megalodontesid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalodontesids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the wood wasps in the family Megalodontesidae
Synonyms: english: technically invalid name in use before the family was renamed in 1996
translation: technically invalid name in use before the family was renamed in 1996
word: megalodontid
megalodontesids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalodontesid
pigeon tremex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeon tremexes
Senses: glosses: A type of horntail, Tremex columba
helicopter money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Milton Friedman in 1969 using the metaphor of money being dropped from the sky (out of nowhere).
Senses: examples: text: Money is endogenous and not exogenous money (represented by the usual textbook assumption of 'helicopter money').
ref: 2006, Philip Arestis, Malcolm C. Sawyer, A Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics, page ix:
text: A more fundamental defect in the argument that helicopter money will always resuscitate the economy is that it focuses exclusively on the logic of buyers while totally ignoring the logic of sellers.
ref: 2018, Richard C. Koo, The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization:
text: In contrast to the case of QE, people might expect the increase in the monetary base to be permanent with helicopter money.
ref: 2019, Jin Cao, Gerhard Illing, Money: Theory and Practice, page 273:
glosses: Money that is created and dispersed by the central bank.
wikipedia: Milton Friedman
ishkabibble
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪʃkəˌbɪbəl/
Etymology: From ish ka bibble.
Senses: examples: text: This paper was prepared for a large audience—if the audience is not here—“Ishkabibble”—their misfortune.
ref: 1924, Transactions of the Kansas Engineering Society:
text: “Oh, ishkabibble,” I replied gaily. As if I cared!
ref: 1940, Esquire - Volume 14, Issues 1-3, page 50:
text: Dave was the last one here, so he has to be It.” - “Ishkabibble,” David said.
ref: 1942, Martin Joseph Freeman, Bitter Honey, page 17:
text: The “good name” business had upset her so much, she appeared to be in such a state, that for once she might forget herself and tell him, but then he thought: Ishkabibble. Hell with her, and went downstairs.
ref: 2016, Evelyn Piper, The Lady and Her Doctor:
glosses: So what; whatever; oh well.
ish ka bibble
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Supposedly a borrowing from Yiddish, with disputed origins. One theory is that it is a corruption of the German nicht gefiedelt ("not flustered"). Another possibility is that it comes from German ich kaan bedibbert ("I am abashed"). Possibly a fake Yiddishism.
Senses: examples: text: Guess they thought we would crawfish, But there was never a word or a quibble ; When they offered us freights, among others, We said "Let 'em come, ish-ka-bibble."
ref: 1913, The Santa Fe Magazine - Volume 8, page 74:
text: Surveying your individual reasons, Nature remarks "Ish ka bibble" in a bored tone and goes on to run the square and the level over the job.
ref: 1914, Steam Machinery: A Magazine of Men, Machinery and Methods:
text: "Guess I'll do some diving from the raft today," I said, pointedly, to Sonny. "Ish ka bibble," Sonny said.
ref: 1989, Helen Harris Perlman, The Dancing Clock, and Other Childhood Memories, page 95:
glosses: Why should I worry?; I don't care.
Related terms: ishkabibble
Jiminy Crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Jiminy crickets, Bish!" exclaimed the Doctor, "what sort of hash are you and the Judge giving us? This isn't anybody's red-hot folk-lore society! Drop it all—can't you?
ref: 1912, Thomas A. Janvier, Beverly's Pneumatic Cat-Silencer:
text: Some day, I feel like the old timer who once said, "Jiminy Crickets, hain't life changed since I was a boy?"
ref: 1992, Reba Young, Truman's Birthplace: Lamar, Missouri, page 27:
text: "Jiminy Crickets, what's all the racket about," he hollered.
ref: 2004, Bonnie Bedi Siegrist, Little Farm Down the Lane:
text: Dave was telling Pierangelo something about the overall plot, and when the waitress accidentally spilled a drink on him, Dave abruptly shouted, “Jiminy Crickets!”
ref: 2011, John G. Stoffolano Jr., Tonino:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiminy Cricket.
jiminy crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Oh, jiminy crickets ! ! Oh, great summer coons up in the peach-orchard ! ! ! Yer ought ter see the feller what 's a-bringin' our bedstid.
ref: 1891, Effie Woodward Merriman, A Queer Family, page 77:
text: "By jiminy!" Wesley leaped high and clapped his heels together three times before he came to earth. He seized Mareea and spun her round, kissed her, tousled her hair. "By jiminy crickets! You an' me an' a boy!"
ref: 1929, Sophie Kerr, Mareea-Maria, page 166:
text: this week he had an awful attack, and, jiminy crickets, if he wasn't cross!
ref: 2008, Carolyn Wells, Patty in the City, page 129:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiminy Cricket.
ferret-badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferret-badgers
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: pahmi
glosses: Any of several small mustelid omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
early Showa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: early Shōwa
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:early Showa.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the history of the Empire of Japan, spanning from December 1926 to September 1945.
half-sibling-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-siblings-in-law
Etymology: From half-sibling + -in-law or half- + sibling-in-law.
Senses: glosses: The half sibling of one's spouse.
glosses: The spouse of one's half sibling.
glosses: The spouse of the half sibling of one's spouse.
half-siblings-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-sibling-in-law
alkalinizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalinizers
Senses: glosses: A substance that alkalinizes
alkalinizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkalinizer
alloallele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloalleles
Etymology: From allo- + allele.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An allogenetic allele
alloalleles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloallele
allopelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + pelagic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives at a variety of depths
raw_tags: of a marine organism
amensalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to amensalism
ampullarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampullarids
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Ampullariidae of apple snails.
angustiseptate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angusti- + septate.
Senses: glosses: Having a narrow septum
antiphage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + phage.
Senses: glosses: That counters a viral phage
aphoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of apheresis.
aplanochytrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplanochytrids
Senses: glosses: Any marine protist of the family Aplanochytriidae
khutora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khutor
aplanochytrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aplanochytrid
slobodas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloboda
slobody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloboda
autocleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autocleave
autocontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + controlled.
Senses: glosses: automatically controlled
azidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by the addition of an azide
Hugonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /hjuˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Hugonians
Etymology: From Hugo + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of one of several places in the United States called Hugo, of which the most populous is Hugo, Minnesota.
Hugonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /hjuˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Hugonian
form: most Hugonian
Etymology: From Hugo + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Native to, related to, or residing in a place called Hugo.
examples: text: Perhaps it is that, as Dr. Polliott remarked of Captain Fitzchrome, he was at a very strict college, where a quotation or any other act showing overt acquaintance with Hugonian literature would have been visited with a severe penalty.
ref: 1885, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 60, page 261:
text: The wonderful Hugonian catalogue of names -- so effective in poetry, so superfluous in prose -- are capitally treated.
ref: 1931, . George Saintsbury, chapter V, in A Consideration of Thackeray:
glosses: Related to, or reminiscent of the work of the French writer Victor Hugo.
Synonyms: Hugoesque
Hugolian
Hugonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hugonian
boreism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boreisms
Etymology: From bore + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: “An intolerable mixture of impertinence and boreism,—has not even the points of an effective character about him,—or I might make some use of him in a Farce.”
ref: 1840, Students of the East India College, The Haileybury Observer, volume 8:
text: Earnestness should not be allowed to lead to boreism—too much insistence is distasteful.
ref: 1902, anonymous author, The Advisor: A Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Advertisers, volume 7:
text: We all looked forward with pleasurable anticipation to the bunking-in with Co. G, but we wot not of the familiarity that never savored of boreism which was ours for the whole two weeks.
ref: 1920, anonymous author, The Seventh Regiment Gazette, volume 35:
glosses: The state of being boring.
boreisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boreism
balenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid (2S)-2-(3-aminopropanoylamino)-3-(1-methylimidazol-4-yl)propanoic acid
batefenterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + [Term?] + -terol (“phenethylamine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular muscarinic antagonist.
biocharacterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocharacterizations
Etymology: From bio- + characterization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: biological characterization
bioeffector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioeffectors
Etymology: From bio- + effector.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A biological effector
bioeffectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioeffector
borofloat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boro- + float.
Senses: glosses: A borosilicate float glass
bronchovideoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchovideoscopes
Etymology: From broncho- + videoscope.
Senses: glosses: A videoscope used in bronchovideoscopy
bronchovideoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchovideoscope
cardiomyoblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiomyoblastomas
form: cardiomyoblastomata
Etymology: From cardio- + myoblastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A myoblastoma of the heart
longævity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have not sifted out the question, but it is not the inclination of my belief, that, in the ages of great longævity, the father retained the burthen of his kingly and judicial functions, or that the heir was kept in expectation of a share in them, until his death.
ref: 1828, Algernon Herbert, chapter I, in Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable, volume I, London: Thomas Davison, page 27:
glosses: Archaic spelling of longevity.
caustobiolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caustobioliths
Etymology: From causto- + biolith.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: caustic (from the destruction of organic tissue) biolith
caustobioliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caustobiolith
cerebrobuccal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌkəl
Etymology: From cerebro- + buccal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the brain and the cheek
cervigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervigraphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cervicograph.
cervigraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervigraph
chaetocerotacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaetocerotaceans
Senses: glosses: Any diatom of the family Chaetocerotaceae
chaetocerotaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaetocerotacean
chemohyperthermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemohyperthermias
Etymology: From chemo- + hyperthermia.
Senses: glosses: hyperthermia as a result of chemotherapy
chemosymbiotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + symbiotrophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: chemotrophic and symbiotrophic
cholinotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: toxicity caused by a choline derivative
chrysopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysopsins
Etymology: From chryso- + opsin.
Senses: glosses: A yellow opsin
chrysopsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysopsin
circumpromontorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + promontorial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding a promontorium
cladothere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladotheres
Senses: glosses: Any mammal of the clade Cladotheria
Synonyms: cladotherian
cladotheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladothere
cladotherian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladotherians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cladothere.
synonyms: word: cladothere
cladotherians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladotherian
clasmatodendritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or formed by clasmatodendrosis
clofozamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of clofazimine.
codistillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codistillations
Etymology: From co- + distillation.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous distillation of two or more liquids
conspiricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conspiracism.
copromicroscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From copro- + microscopical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copromicroscopic.
coronuloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronuloids
Senses: glosses: Any whale barnacle of the superfamily Coronuloidea
whale barnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whale barnacles
Senses: glosses: Any barnacle, of the superfamily Coronuloidea, that attach themselves to whales
whale barnacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whale barnacle
corticostriatothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + striatothalamic.
Senses: glosses: cortical and striatothalamic
striatothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From striato- + thalamic.
Senses: glosses: striatal and thalamic
culturette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturettes
Senses: glosses: A swab used to collect bacterias cultures from the skin
culturettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturette
cytomodulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + modulatory.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That modulates the growth of cells, typically of cancers
NRTI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NRTIs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor; as opposed to NtRTIs.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
Synonyms: NARTI
Related terms: NNRTI
NtRTI
NtARTI
NtRTI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NtRTIs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
Synonyms: NtARTI
Related terms: NNRTI
NRTI
NARTI
NRTIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NRTI
NtRTIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NtRTI
NNRTI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NNRTIs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
Related terms: NRTI
NARTI
NtRTI
NtARTI
NNRTIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NNRTI
ZDV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of zidovudine.
repatriational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From repatriation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to repatriation.
ddI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dideoxyinosine; also DDI.
ETR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of etravirine.
glosses: Initialism of estimated time of restoration.
Coordinate terms: sense: estimated time of restoration
english: estimated time of arrival
translation: estimated time of arrival
word: ETA