cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
buckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbʌk.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌklɪŋ
ipa: /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: bucklings
Etymology: From buck + -ling.
Senses: examples: 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715,
If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.
1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 429,
The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.
1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 161,
I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.
glosses: A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
buckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbʌk.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌklɪŋ
Forms: form: bucklings
Etymology: From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok (“buck”), referencing the foul smell).
Senses: glosses: Smoked herring.
Coordinate terms: bloater
kipper
Related terms: stockfish
basso continuo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basso continuos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian basso continuo (literally “continuous bass”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: bc
continuo
glosses: The continuous realization of harmony throughout a musical piece, usually by a harpsichord and/or cello, typical of the Baroque period. Abbreviation: bc.
Derived terms: continuo
Related terms: figured bass
walking bass
doeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doelings
Etymology: From doe + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Before your kids are born, decide how many doelings you will keep and stick with it.
ref: 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living ninth edition, Sasquatch Books, Seattle Washington, page 715
glosses: A female domestic goat of less than one year of age.
caponize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caponizes
form: caponizing
form: caponized
form: caponized
Etymology: From capon + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]
ref: 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England: Shewing how Great Savings may be Made in Housekeeping: … With Variety of Curious Matters … The Whole Founded on Near Thirty Years Experience, London: Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, bookseller, at Salisbury, →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.
Derived terms: caponizer
inarticulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First attested in 1825: formed as in- + articulable; compare inarticulate and the slightly earlier (1824) French inarticulable.
Senses: examples: text: I add two letters to this class, under the title of anomalous, which are the Arabic qaf (incorrectly written g, in the Plate, instead of q,) and the Hebrew, or Arabic ain, which some suppose to be inarticulable by a European voice.
ref: 1825, James Silk Buckingham, editor, The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 6, page 103:
glosses: Not articulable; incapable of being articulated.
Derived terms: inarticulability
mumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈmʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mumpers
Etymology: From mump + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Here for a moment, running my eye along the Piazza, which had its usual fringe of flower girls and mumpers, swearing porters and hackney coaches, I thought my man with the white handkerchief had not come; but shifting my gaze to the Little Piazza, which was darker and less frequented, I presently espied him walking to and fro under cover, with a cane in his hand and the air of a gentleman who had supped and was looking out for a pretty girl.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XIV, in Shrewsbury:
glosses: A beggar.
point break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point breaks
Senses: examples: text: Latigo Beach. Nice point break. Long workable rides.
ref: 1991, W. Peter Iliff, Point Break:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The location where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline.
Related terms: beach break
reef break
mump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: mumps
form: mumping
form: mumped
form: mumped
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum.
While Kroonen claims Ancient Greek μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “I blame, accuse”) and the Germanic forms are reconcilable and related, Beekes rejects this, stating that Germanic -p- cannot here correspond to Greek -φ- and that this etymological connection is not widely considered reliable.
Senses: examples: text: Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling,
Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, Epilogue Spoklen by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss Catley [intended for She Stoops to Conquer]:
glosses: To mumble, speak unclearly.
examples: text: He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
ref: 1630, John Taylor, The Necessitie of Hanging:
glosses: To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
glosses: To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
glosses: To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
examples: text: Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to a revenue from the colonies.
ref: 1774, Edmund Burke, Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774:
glosses: To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
examples: text: The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: It remained necessary to make a shift at bearing yourself like a man; not mumping, not moping.
ref: 1948, James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor:
glosses: To be sullen or sulky.
glosses: To nibble.
Derived terms: mumper
mumpery
Mumping Day
mumpish
mump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: mumps
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum.
While Kroonen claims Ancient Greek μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “I blame, accuse”) and the Germanic forms are reconcilable and related, Beekes rejects this, stating that Germanic -p- cannot here correspond to Greek -φ- and that this etymological connection is not widely considered reliable.
Senses: glosses: A grimace.
Derived terms: mumps
mump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: mumps
Senses: qualifier: Somerset
glosses: A cube of peat; a spade's depth of digging turf.
reef break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reef breaks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A wave that breaks over a projection from the seabed formed from coral reef or rock shelf.
Related terms: beach break
point break
spurtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurtles
form: spirtle
form: spertle
Etymology: From Scots spurtle, spurtill (“potstick, spatula”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English spatyl, spatule, from Old French espatule (“spatula”). If so, then doublet of spattle and spatula.
Senses: examples: text: One day they built a fire in the yard and made a black kettle of apple butter so big that when they stood over it and stirred the apple mash with spurtles, the scene put Ada in mind of the witches in Macbeth working at their brew.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 311:
glosses: Either of two Scottish kitchen implements made of wood: a flat one for turning oatcakes, or a stick for stirring porridge.
spurtle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spurtles
form: spurtling
form: spurtled
form: spurtled
form: spirtle
form: spertle
Etymology: From spirt + -le.
According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by poet Michael Drayton in 1606.
Senses: examples: text: Upon the head hee lent so violent a stroke,
That the poore emptie skull, like some thin potsheard broke,
The braines and mingled blood, were spertled on the wall
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 29:
glosses: To spurt, spatter or sputter; to spurt in a scattering manner.
souterrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsuːtəɹeɪn/
Forms: form: souterrains
Etymology: From French souterrain, from sous (“under”) + terrain (“ground”).
Senses: examples: text: Now when my son saw that I separated them, he secretly built this souterrain and furnished it and transported to it victuals, even as thou seest; and, when I had gone out a-sporting, came here with his sister and hid from me.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 11:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An underground chamber or passage sometimes used as a store, especially one associated with Iron Age settlements.
cordon sanitaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔːdɒn sanɪˈtɛː/
Forms: form: cordons sanitaires
Etymology: Learned borrowing from French cordon sanitaire.
Senses: examples: text: In accordance with their recommendation, the French Ministry drew a cordon sanitaire round the Spanish frontier. The plague gradually died away with the colder weather of the winter; but the French Ministry did not withdraw the troops who composed the cordon sanitaire.
ref: 1879, Sir Spencer Walpole, A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, page 327:
text: Bubonic plague had been in relative abeyance since the 1660s, and its explosion into Marseille and Provence in 1720 confirmed the ability of government, through quarantines and cordons sanitaires, to hem the disease in and prevent its diffusion across the country.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 158:
qualifier: public health
glosses: A barrier (physical or administrative) to prevent the spread of disease.
examples: text: The alternative for such a policy was the isolation of Russia and the construction of a cordon sanitaire, in order to contain Bolshevism in the present area.
ref: 1992, Peter Van Ham, Western Doctrines on East-West Trade: Theory, History and Policy, Springer, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Any barrier to the spread of anything deemed undesirable.
runic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ro͞onʹik
ipa: /ˈɹuːnɪk/
Etymology: From rune + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or written using runes.
examples: text: Then flowered the mead, then leafed all
'Twas caused by the runic lay.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 164:
glosses: Of a song or verse, mystically or obscurely expressed.
pantoufle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantoufles
Senses: examples: text: But I would thou ſhouldſt know, that if he ſhould come in proper perſon to Rome, the Pope would not entertaine him, except he would ſubmit himſelfe and kiſſe his pantoufle.
ref: 1607, Henrie Stephen [i.e., Henri Estienne], translated by R[ichard] C[arew], A World of Wonders: or An Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders: or A Preparatiue Treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus. […], London: […] Iohn Norton, page 203:
text: And he ordered the Captain of the Swiſs guards to tell Stouppe, that he had heard of me, and would give me a private audience abed, to ſave me from the ceremony of the Pantoufle.
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book IV. Of the Reign of King James II.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 661:
text: In the Day I wait on my Lady when ſhe eats, / Carry her Pantoufles, bear up her Train; / Sing her aſleep at Night, and, when ſhe pleaſes, / I am her Bedfellow.
ref: 1779 [1624], Philip Massinger, “The Renegado”, in John Monck Mason, editor, The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger Complete, in Four Volumes. […], volume II, London: […] T. Davies, […]; T. Payne and Son, […]; L. Davis, […], act III, scene IV, page 50:
text: Lady, I have been too long the vassal of a pantoufle, and the slave of a silver whistle.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 124:
text: She had got out of bed and slipped on her pantoufles only, and the night was cold.
ref: 1893, Sarah Grand, chapter XIX, in The Heavenly Twins, New York, N.Y.: The Cassell Publishing Co. […], page 679:
glosses: Alternative form of pantofle.
patisserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patisseries
form: pâtisserie
Etymology: Borrowed from French pâtisserie.
Senses: glosses: a shop that sells pastries and cakes
examples: text: He had a little wife, he ſaid, whom he loved, who did the patiſſerie; and added, he felt no diſhonour in defending her and himſelf from want in this way—unleſs Providence had offer’d him a better.
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “Le Patisser. Versailles.”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume II, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, pages 51–52:
glosses: pastry
Synonyms: cake shop
cakery
pastry shop
Related terms: patissier
Keegan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiɡən/
rhymes: -iːɡən
Forms: form: Keegans
form: Keagan
form: Egan
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Mac Aodhagáin (“son of Aidan”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Keegan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiɡən/
rhymes: -iːɡən
Forms: form: Keegans
form: Kigan
form: Kegan
Etymology: Borrowed from Kalenjin Kigan.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Kalenjin.
glosses: A surname from Kalenjin or transferred from the given name.
Kendall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛndəl/
rhymes: -ɛndəl
Forms: form: Kendal
form: Kendell
form: Kindall
Etymology: From the placename Kendal in Cumbria, "valley of the river Kent", and Kendale in Humberside, from Old Norse kelda (“spring”) + dalr (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
glosses: A town on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia, named after poet Henry Kendall.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kendall County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and township in Hamilton County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kearny County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Orleans County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Whatcom County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Kendall County
Kendall notation
Kendall rank correlation coefficient
Kendall tau distance
eradiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From e- (without) + radiate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.
eradiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eradiates
form: eradiating
form: eradiated
form: eradiated
Etymology: From e- (outward) + radiate.
Senses: glosses: To spread out light rays in all directions.
glosses: To shoot out like a ray of light.
Landon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlændən/
Etymology: Place names in England, from Old English lang (“long”) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
resi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
law
property
real-estate
glosses: Clipping of residential.
resi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
law
property
real-estate
glosses: Clipping of residential real estate.
Leigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /liː/
note: some placenames
ipa: /laɪ/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: lea
homophone: Lee
homophone: leigh
homophone: li
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: lai
homophone: lie
homophone: lye
Forms: form: Lee
Etymology: From the nominative case of Old English lēah (“wood, meadow”), 'dweller by the wood or clearing'.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name, Female equivalent of Lee.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6500).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Dorset (OS grid ref ST6108).
glosses: A number of places in England:
The Leigh, a hamlet and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8626).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5446). Former spelling: Lyghe.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, which includes Church Leigh, Lower Leigh and Upper Leigh.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2246).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in north Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0692).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish (served by Leigh and Bransford Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7853).
Derived terms: Leigh Delamere
Leigh disease
Leigh-on-Sea
South Leigh
Related terms: Lea
Leah
Lee
Leh
Lei
Ley
Li
Ly
Lonnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A pet form of the male given name Alonzo.
examples: text: But the person I spied on the most was my father, Lon—or, as he was called in the Southern style, Lonnie—who'd commandeer the den into the wee hours.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, pages 15–16:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Lon.
Lachlan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒklən/
ipa: /ˈlæklən/
ipa: /ˈlɑklən/
ipa: /ˈlaxlən/
Forms: form: Lachlans
form: Lochlan
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Lachlann, Lochlann (“land of the lochs, loch or fjord land, i.e. Scandinavia”), said to refer to an immigrant from Norway, a Norseman.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic mainly used in Scotland, recently also popular in Australia.
glosses: A river in New South Wales, Australia, noted for having several significant wetlands along its length; named for Governor Lachlan Macquarie.
Derived terms: Upper Lachlan
Related terms: word: MacLachlan
word: McLachlan
arride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arrides
form: arriding
form: arrided
form: arrided
Etymology: From Latin arrīdēre, from ad + rīdēre (“to laugh”).
Senses: examples: text: A pretty air; in general, I like it well: but in particular, your long die-note did arride me most.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
text: Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of mouldering learning.
ref: 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia: Oxford In The Vacation:
glosses: To please; to gratify.
Mathew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, of occasional usage, variant of Matthew.
glosses: A surname.
yuppify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yuppifies
form: yuppifying
form: yuppified
form: yuppified
Etymology: From yuppie + -ify.
Senses: examples: This used to be an honest old-fashioned backstreet boozer but, like Fulham itself, the pub has had its soul ripped out since it has been yuppified
glosses: To redevelop (an urban area or commercial premises) so as to attract affluent young professionals as residents or clientele.
affordability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From afford + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: First-time home buyers are feeling the squeeze of higher interest rates with mortgage affordability at its worst level for 16 years.
text: Fares would have to increase significantly beyond affordability to cover the costs of lightly used services.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:
text: Trump has said that undocumented immigrants share the blame for America’s once-in-a-generation home affordability crisis, but the president-elect’s deportation plans may backfire, driving up the cost of homebuying even further.
ref: 2024 November 19, Samantha Delouya and Julia Vargas Jones, “Here’s how mass deportations could change the housing market”, in CNN:
glosses: The extent or degree to which something is affordable, as measured by its cost relative to the amount that the purchaser is able to pay.
glosses: A desirable degree of that characteristic: synonym of inexpensiveness.
Derived terms: unaffordability
Related terms: accessibility
attainability
cheapening
redevelop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redevelops
form: redeveloping
form: redeveloped
form: redeveloped
Etymology: From re- + develop.
Senses: examples: text: They dream of redeveloping the entire downtown.
text: In addition to employment in the area, once you factor in the patronage of people visiting the various sites, it's not difficult to see why it's being redeveloped. The current station building is tiny in comparison to other stations with a similar patronage.
ref: 2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54:
glosses: To develop again or differently.
To convert a neighbourhood by demolishing old buildings and building new ones, or by renovating existing ones.
examples: text: to redevelop an unsuccessful product for relaunch
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To develop again or differently.
To reprogram (an app).
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To develop again or differently.
To intensify by a second process.
Related terms: development
predevelop
predevelopment
redevelopment
alphameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.fəˈmɛ.ɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Etymology: Blend of alphabetic + numeric
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alphanumeric.
ammoniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aməˈnʌɪəkəl/
Etymology: From ammoniac + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A quick scent, sweet and ammoniacal, rose from her pubis.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 231:
text: Hawaijar is a naturally fermented soybean food of Meitei people in Manipur or elsewhere. It is alkaline, non salted, sticky and slightly ammoniacal making it slightly pungent.
ref: 2013 August, Thangjam Anand Singh et al., “Hawaijar – An ethnic vegan fermented soybean food of Manipur, India: A comprehensive review”, in Food Research International, volume 170:
glosses: Pertaining to or containing ammonia.
Related terms: ammoniac
smites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smite
smites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smite
annualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: annualises
form: annualising
form: annualised
form: annualised
form: annualize
Etymology: From annual + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: To annualise net profit, divide the year-to-date net profit by the number of completed months, and multiply by twelve.
glosses: To express (a quantity such as an interest rate, profit, expenditure etc.) as if it applied or were measured over one year.
annualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: annualizes
form: annualizing
form: annualized
form: annualized
Etymology: From annual + -ize.
Senses: glosses: American and Oxford British spelling of annualise.
fuet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuets
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan fuet, from French fouet.
Senses: glosses: A type of thin salami from Catalonia made from pork.
answerphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.sɜː(ɹ)ˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈæn.səˌfəʊn/
Forms: form: answerphones
form: ansaphone
form: ansafone
form: answer phone
Etymology: From answer + (tele)phone.
Senses: examples: text: I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.
glosses: A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval.
Synonyms: word: answering machine
young buck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young bucks
Senses: examples: text: Thus young Pen, the only son of an estated country gentleman, with a good allowance, and a gentlemanlike bearing and person, looked to be a lad of much more consequence than he was really; and was held by the Oxbridge authorities, tradesmen, and undergraduates, as quite a young buck and member of the aristocracy.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Devereux, indeed, being a fast man, with such acres as he inherited, which certainly did not reach a thousand, mortgaged pretty smartly, and with as much personal debt beside, of the fashionable and refined sort, as became a young buck of bright though doubtful expectations—and if the truth must be owned, sometimes pretty nearly pushed into a corner—was beholden, not only for his fun, but occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benovolent^([sic]) doles.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Captain Devereux’s Fiddle Plays a Prelude to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 307–308:
text: But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.
ref: 1963, Xavier Herbert, Distubing Element, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 178:
text: Face it, Bernie, you're seventy-four years old ... you can't expect to be able to build a cart train as long as the young bucks.
ref: 2005 June 17, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: An adventurous or high-spirited young man.
Related terms: bucksome
hearty as a buck
deskill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deskills
form: deskilling
form: deskilled
form: deskilled
form: de-skill
Etymology: From de- + skill.
Senses: examples: text: The impact on workers is fairly obvious but I believe that managerial jobs have also been deskilled by the adoption of controlling systems and procedures.
text: “Word processors are wonderful to make us more productive, but employers tend to take this to an extreme,” she said. “Some secretaries are very pleased with automation, but it's the larger number whose jobs are deskilled, made more redundant.”
ref: 1985 August 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, quoting Deborah Meyer, “Computers Ease the Load — At Times”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But the data she presents “suggest a more complicated reality.” Even where “control or deskilling has been the intent of managerial choices with respect to new information technology, managers themselves are also captive to a wide range of impulses and pressures.
ref: 1988 April 21, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “When Your Colleague Is a Machine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: [Henrik] Örnebring concluded that there had not been a de-skilling of journalism so much as a more complex process of re-skilling, and this is hard to dispute in relation to the use of technology to undertake a broader range of journalistic duties in the newsroom.
ref: 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, chapter 5, in After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
glosses: To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology.
examples: text: Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.
text: In this transition from an economy built on energy-guzzling heavy industry toward a 21st century society of energy-sipping high technology, millions of Americans and Europeans are being “deskilled.”
ref: 1983 June 12, Bruce Nussbaum, “‘Reskilling’ Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired.
Derived terms: deskiller
Related terms: reskill
upskill
summae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summa
summas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summa
Prince Charmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prince Charming.
nose poke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nose pokes
form: nose poking
form: nose poked
form: nose poked
form: nosepoke
form: nose-poke
Senses: glosses: To make a selection in a psychological experiment by poking the nose through one of several apertures in order to break a light beam
raw_tags: of a laboratory rodent
nose poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose pokes
form: nosepoke
form: nose-poke
Senses: glosses: An instance of this activity
Mbps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mbps
form: Mb/s
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate
examples: text: The main chromosome in E coli^([sic]) is 4.6 million base pairs (4.6 Mbps) in length, ...
ref: 2014, Alison Snape, Despo Papachristodoulou, William H. Elliott, Daphne C. Elliott, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 5th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 343:
text: Firstly, the set of mouse EST sequences having no homology to known mouse mRNAs was used (198323 sequences, 75.2 Million base pairs (Mbps)).
ref: 1999, Proceedings of the ... Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology: RECOMB:
text: The total size of the C. ellipsoidea chromosomes is supposed to be about 40 mega base pairs (Mbps) (7).
ref: 1993, Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: million base pairs
Coordinate terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: bps
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: kbps
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Gbps
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Tbps
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Pbps
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Ebps
Related terms: MBps
megabaud
shiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: shizz
Senses: glosses: shit; excrement
glosses: something cool, e.g. 'That's the shiz' meaning 'That's awesome' or 'That's really cool'.
Synonyms: shiznit
shizzle
pistols at dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A duel.
examples: text: By rights, the making of To Wong Foo should have been fun for Patrick, Wesley, and John, but from the first it was pistols at dawn.
ref: 2009, Wendy Leigh, Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance, page 149:
glosses: A disagreement strong enough to evoke a duel.
Related terms: handbags at dawn
newsflash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuzˌflæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: newsflashes
form: news flash
Etymology: From news + flash.
Senses: examples: text: Television programmes were interrupted by a newsflash announcing that the Prime Minister had resigned.
topics: broadcasting
media
synonyms: word: breaking news
word: bulletin
word: flash
word: snap#Noun
word: update#Noun
glosses: A brief media report of something that has recently taken place.
Derived terms: Muppet News Flash
newsflash
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuzˌflæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: news flash
Etymology: From news + flash.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1980s we thought that fat was the root of all evil, but now people are saying that insulin is what is making us fat or that we should eat paleo, like our prehistoric friends (um, newsflash: most people in the Paleolithic era died from starvation).
ref: 2019, Rob Lipsett, The Rob Lipsett Game Plan:
synonyms: bulletin#Interjection
hello#Interjection
glosses: Introduces an obvious fact of which the person addressed is ostensibly not aware.
news flash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news flashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of newsflash.
ratbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæt.bæɡ/
Forms: form: ratbags
Etymology: From rat + bag.
Senses: examples: text: Then he went and sneaked on me to my boss. What a ratbag!
glosses: A despicable person.
examples: text: He says he was a ratbag at school and the entire teaching staff hated him except the English and economics teachers.
ref: 1986, Ursula Woodhouse, A very rich ratbag:
glosses: A mischievous person, especially a child.
Derived terms: word: ratbaggery
word: ratbaggish
word: ratbags
word: ratbaggy
recentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recent + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: recency
glosses: The characteristic of being recent.
stuntman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌnt.mæn/
rhymes: -ʌntmæn
Forms: form: stuntmen
form: stunt man
Etymology: From stunt + -man.
Senses: examples: text: During filming a stuntman was injured as he jumped from a railway bridge onto the roof of a train passing below.
glosses: In films, someone who performs stunts that are deemed too dangerous or physically difficult for the main actors to attempt.
Synonyms: stunt performer
Hypernyms: sense: Hypernyms of stuntman
word: man
sense: Hypernyms of stuntman
word: stuntperson
Related terms: stunt double
stuntwoman
Yorkshires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yorkshire
Yorkshire puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yorkshire pudding
capital equipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any equipment used by an organization to produce other commodities.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Any single asset which has an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more and a useful life of more than one year, whether purchased outright, acquired through a capital lease or through donation. It also includes certain constructed or fabricated items and certain component parts (See UW Shared Financial System Accounts and Definitions.) It does not include real property (land), software or library holdings.
reunited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reunite
reunited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: united again after being separated
purveyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purveyances
form: pourveyance
Etymology: From Middle English purveiaunce et al., from Anglo-Norman purveaunce.
Senses: glosses: The act of purveying.
glosses: The prerogative of the Crown to static separation of duty with goods and services for royal use.
Derived terms: dispurveyance
purveyancing
tuppenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌpəni/
ipa: /ˈtʌpni/
ipa: /ˈtʌpəni/
Forms: form: twopenny
Senses: examples: text: Half a pound of tuppenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle.
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
ref: a. 1852, anonymous author, Pop Goes the Weasel:
text: Then they went off to prepare for the journey […], Peter filling his six-penny pipe with tuppenny tobacco.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 184:
text: The City & South London initially had a flat single fare of 2d., but it was the Central London Railway, opened ten years later, that would be nicknamed 'The Tuppenny Tube' for its flat fare of the same amount. The Central was so-called by the Daily Mail, [...]
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:
qualifier: becoming old-fashioned
glosses: Literally, worth tuppence (two pence); of little value or status.
tuppenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌpəni/
ipa: /ˈtʌpni/
ipa: /ˈtʌpəni/
Forms: form: tuppennies
form: twopenny
Senses: glosses: A coin or stamp worth two pence.
examples: text: A Lord High Chancellor is a personage of great dignity, who should never, under any circumstances, place himself in the position of being told to tuck in his tuppenny, except by noblemen of his own rank.
ref: 1889, W. S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers:
qualifier: juvenile
glosses: In the children's game of leapfrog, the head (perhaps named from a tuppenny loaf).
Derived terms: tuppenny-ha'penny
tuppenny upright
Sumerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sumerian
pollarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pollard
pollarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollarded
form: most pollarded
Senses: glosses: That has been cut back heavily in order to produce dense new growth
raw_tags: of a tree
Derived terms: unpollarded
pollard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒl.əd/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.lɚd/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: pollards
Etymology: From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse.
ref: 1857, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in What will He Do with It? (Collection of British Authors; CCCCVII), Tauchnitz edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, book II, page 140:
text: Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.
ref: 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Chapter 65”, in Lorna Doone:
text: Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:
text: And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.
ref: 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116
glosses: A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
glosses: A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
glosses: A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
glosses: A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
glosses: A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
coordinate_terms: crockard
rosary
mitre
leonine
scalding
steeping
eagle
glosses: A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
pollard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒl.əd/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.lɚd/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: pollards
form: pollarding
form: pollarded
form: pollarded
Etymology: From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.
ref: 1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End:
text: As well as coppicing, other trees were pollarded, or lopped about 6 ft up the trunk so that the resulting growth was beyond the reach of grazing animals. Pollarding lengthens the life of trees, and the frequently made estimate '1,000 years old' could well be true of some sturdy old trunks.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:
text: Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size.
ref: 2011, Edward F. Gilman, An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 411:
text: I walked up the path, passing under a heavily pollarded oak.
ref: 2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 287:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
papermaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papermakers
Etymology: From paper + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person or company that makes paper
glosses: A person who gathers rags to sell.
Derived terms: papermakering
Related terms: papermaking
papermaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papermakings
Etymology: From paper + making.
Senses: glosses: The craft of making paper.
Related terms: papermaker
paper-milling
inebriety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inebrieties
Etymology: From in- + ebriety.
Senses: examples: text: It is a just observation of a very celebrated author, that in proportion as every country is barbarous, it is addicted to inebriety. Were the people of England to be judged of by this standard, it is much to be feared, that our national character would be none of the most amiable.
ref: 1767, Hugh Kelly, The Babler, volume 2, number 67, page 7:
text: As she thought less of his inebriety, she thought more of his inconstancy and presumption […]
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 15, in Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: Our ship was now wholly given up to every species of riot and debauchery. The grossest licentiousness and the most shameful inebriety prevailed, with occasional and but short-lived interruptions, through the whole period of her stay.
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Typee:
text: Generally, as I have said, my inebrieties were nocturnal only, and the day paid the penalty of the night’s excess.
ref: 1885, Henry Taylor, chapter 3, in Autobiography, volume 1, London: Longmans, Green & Co, page 44:
glosses: The state of being inebriated; inebriation, drunkenness.
packhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packhorses
form: pack horse
form: pack-horse
Etymology: From pack + horse.
Senses: examples: text: Finally they put him on one of De Soto's packhorses, but even on a packhorse his feet hung down to within a few inches of the ground.
ref: 1997, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, page 232:
text: Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale.
ref: 2009, Victor Grant Smith, edited by Jeanette Prodgers, The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith, Revised edition, page 70:
text: While I was destroying my parka, the packhorse that Bob had been leading laid down. So now all our supplies were supine along with the napping packhorse. Looking upon a reclining packhorse while facing a wind-driven rain, wearing a tattered rain parka, with lightning flashing every fifteen seconds followed by thunder so loud my clothes shuddered was not how I had expected the afternoon to unfold. Each time we got the packhorse to his feet he would promptly lie down again.
ref: 2010, Bill G. Yung, The Half Fast Hunter, page 41:
glosses: A horse used as a pack animal.
Synonyms: sense: horse used to carry heavy items
word: rowney
sense: horse used to carry heavy items
word: sumpter
sense: horse used to carry heavy items
word: sumpter horse
Derived terms: packhorse bridge
Related terms: carthorse
packsaddle
purities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purity
sanctities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanctity
inebrieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inebriety
packhorse bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packhorse bridges
Senses: examples: text: An ancient packhorse bridge over the River Derwent leads to the greystone cottages and riverside parish church of Baslow.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 52:
glosses: A narrow bridge with low parapets so as not to interfere with the panniers of a packhorse
fraternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraternity
oculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒk.jʊ.lʌɪ/
ipa: /ˈɑk.jəˌlaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of oculus