cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pathfind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pathfinds
form: pathfinding
form: pathfound
form: pathfound
Etymology: Back-formation from pathfinding, equivalent to path + find.
Senses: examples: text: If the warden has a targetable entity, is not investigating any disturbances, and is otherwise idle, it pathfinds toward the closest entity, prioritizing players over mobs.
ref: 2023 October 20 (last accessed), “Warden”, in Minecraft Wiki:
text: Has a sense of smell. It can detect and pathfind toward the general location of a player or mob through a "smelling" action.
ref: 2024 December 11 (last accessed), “Java Edition Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1”, in Minecraft Wiki:
text: If a villager cannot pathfind to its claimed site, both the site block and villager emit anger particles.
ref: 2024 December 11 (last accessed), “Villager”, in Minecraft Wiki:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To find the best route between two points.
pathfinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pathfind
pathfound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pathfind
millipawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millipawn
dihectagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihectagon
coalition builders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalition builder
unchildly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchildly
form: most unchildly
Etymology: From un- + childly.
Senses: examples: text: For the rest recourse must be had to what does not belong to human childhood: his brow must be made the seat of unchildly power and wisdom; he must wear the glance of prescience and the gesture of authority, even if he has not to sit on his mother’s knee as on a throne, and hold out his fingers in the solemnity of benediction.
ref: 1871, Sidney Colvin, “Children in Italian and English Design”, in Philip Gilbert Hamerton, editor, The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical, London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, […], page 123:
text: Denis, the narrator in Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba), Mongo Beti’s second novel and the first to appear under his now renowned pen-name, would certainly be considered to be a child even though the novelist indicates that he is already almost fifteen by the time the story begins (Poor Christ, p. 9), and attributes to him the rather unchildly achievement of leaving ‘a big gray stain’ (p. 106) of semen on a bedsheet when he is inveigled into performing the sexual act with a young woman named Catherine.
ref: 1998, E. P. Abanime, “Childhood à la Camara Laye & Childhood à la Mongo Beti”, in Childhood in African Literature, Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 82:
text: If it is unwomanly in this situation for Antigone to assert her rights, it is even more unchildly. A child can less easily make a claim upon the laws of society without that society also being willing to hear it.
ref: 2010, John Wall, Ethics in Light of Childhood, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Not childly.
actinium K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of actinium-K (“francium”).
unbig
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbig
form: most unbig
Etymology: From un- + big.
Senses: examples: text: precisely as unbig a why as i’m (almost too small for death’s because to find) may,given perfect mercy,live a dream larger than alive any star goes round
ref: 1958, E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings, 95 Poems, 11th printing, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →ISBN, poem 63:
text: Unless I had constant surveillance, with a changing of the guard, I could never succeed in barring our children from the Living Room. I sometimes think it would be nice, but we all live in the Living Room,—an unbig, scrappy family.
ref: 1969 spring, Tabb Thornton Farinholt, “Golden Mean Mammas”, in Alumnae Magazine, volume 39, number 3, Sweet Briar College, page 13, column 1:
text: The pluscold time is gone / The around the clock is at the ante meridian; / Cockcrow’s at ten minus three; / The nacreous hills have stagnant water converged on them / The thrush on the pennon; / An unbig crustacean insect on a sharp site of a tree; / Big Brother is watching you from above, amen / Everything’s correct in OCEANIA!
ref: 1991, Christopher Mann, “A Jingle from Ficdep”, in Fourth Dimension: The Literary Journal of Selwyn House School, volume XVIII, page 74:
glosses: Not big; small.
Related terms: unsmall
crept out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The whole thing crept her out too much to stay in the house so she rented out an apartment in the centre of the city.
ref: 2001, Steve Savile, editor, Similar Monsters, Cosmos Books, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 104:
text: I always wondered what they were until I saw a bug one day / Hatching from one little shell and knew I had a tale to tell. It was magnificent a sight, although it crept me out a little. I saw God’s creature born that day, and soon enough, he flew away.
ref: 2003, Karen A. Davies, “Cicada Song”, in Moon Dreams, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 154:
text: “Another guy in town has a ’78 Z, and I had seen him driving around — a really nice, silver car,” said Jacklin. “I followed him once, kinda crept him out — but he said it happens all the time. I talked to him about his car, and at the time I needed someone to do mine. So he mentioned Brian out in Fillmore.”
ref: 2012 February 10, Julie Folk, “Father-son duo share love for cars: Family works on projects together”, in Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., page AA1, column 5:
synonyms: creeped out
glosses: simple past and past participle of creep out
Thurlaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5099).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4671).
Nampa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæmpə/
rhymes: -æmpə
Etymology: From Shoshone nampai (“foot”).
Senses: glosses: The largest city in Canyon County, Idaho.
drags out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drag out
dragging out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drag out
dragged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drag out
quail-plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quail-plovers
Senses: synonyms: lark buttonquail
lark-plover
glosses: Any of species Ortyxelos meiffrenii of small ground-dwelling birds of the buttonquail family, found in parts of Africa.
lark-plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lark-plovers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quail-plover.
synonyms: word: quail-plover
lark buttonquail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quail-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii)
synonyms: word: quail-plover
extra: Ortyxelos meiffrenii
bridegroomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bridegroomy
form: most bridegroomy
Etymology: From bridegroom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She could smile now at the epithet of “play-acting,” for it might be attributed to his clean shaved cheeks, and the goodness of his clothes, which, without bearing upon them the offensive brand of bridegroomy newness, were yet fashionable and unworn-looking, as must be the case when a man has only returned from India a few weeks ago, after an absence of many years.
ref: 1875, Margaret C[ecilia] Helmore, “Somewhat Puzzled”, in Cap and Bells, volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], pages 231–232:
text: “If Sergius will look just a shade less bridegroomy he may also make one of the party.”
ref: 1893, Mrs. George Corbett [i.e., Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett], The Adventures of an Ugly Girl, Peter Fenelon Collier, page 252:
text: “The white tie has too bridegroomy a look to it,” he explained.
ref: 1899, Charles Bloomingdale, Mr., Miss, & Mrs, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 144:
text: And you looked suitably bridegroomy in your best man outfit.
ref: 1997, Miranda Lee, Two-Week Wife, Harlequin, →ISBN:
synonyms: bridegroomlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bridegroom.
Last Gospel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Last Gospel
Senses: glosses: The prologue of the Gospel of John (John 1:1–14) when read as part of the concluding rites in the Ordinariate and the Extraordinary forms of the Mass in the Catholic Church.
groomier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of groomy: more groomy
groomiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of groomy: most groomy
Latis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Either of two Celtic deities (a god and goddess) worshipped in Roman Britain.
launch into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: launches into
form: launching into
form: launched into
form: launched into
Senses: examples: text: I asked where he had been all day, and he launched into a detailed explanation about running into an old friend and being invited to a wedding.
glosses: To begin (something involved or time-consuming).
lava cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lava cones
Senses: glosses: A type of volcano composed primarily of viscous lava flows.
lava cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lava cone
Dikshit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːk.ʃɪt/
Forms: form: Dixit
Etymology: From Hindi दीक्षित (dīkṣit), from Sanskrit दीक्षित (dīkṣita, “consecrated”).
Senses: glosses: A surname, of Indian origin
lay a hand on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays a hand on
form: laying a hand on
form: laid a hand on
form: laid a hand on
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lay hands on.
synonyms: word: lay hands on
leaded light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaded lights
Senses: glosses: Synonym of leadlight.
synonyms: word: leadlight
leaded lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaded light
merry chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merry chases
Senses: glosses: Synonym of merry dance.
synonyms: word: merry dance
merry chases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merry chase
large leaf-eating ladybird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large leaf-eating ladybirds
Senses: glosses: The Australasian ladybird Papuaepilachna guttatopustulata.
Rosy Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rosy Cross
form: Rose Cross
Etymology: Calque of the German components of Rosenkreuz or the Latin in Rosicrucian, or
metonymy from the rose cross symbol.
Senses: examples: text: “The Rosy Cross! Do you speak of that order so often spoken of in history, but never described—the Rosicrucians?” ¶ “Even so,” whispered Paul.
ref: 1848, George Lippard, Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon, page 355:
text: General Hitchcock and Paschal Beverly Randolph were close friends and fellowworkers in the Rosy Cross.
ref: 1996, “Introduction”, in Paschal Beverly Randolph, Ravalette: The Rosicrucian’s Story:
glosses: Rosicrucianism
leafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafers
Etymology: From leaf + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] hurried leafers through bright picture books, not readers at all.
ref: 1979, Martin Tucker, The Critical Temper: Supplement, page 448:
glosses: One who leafs.
examples: text: It is these images and imaginings of Appalachia that bring the leafers in autumn and the vacation home buyers year-round.
ref: 2023, Laura Wright, Jessica Cory, Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place, page 1:
glosses: One who visits a place to see the falling leaves in autumn.
leafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafer
leafit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafits
Senses: examples: text: The leafits are four or five pairs, with a trifid terminal leafit.
ref: 1850, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany, page 1058:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A leaflet.
leafits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafit
DFTI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DFTIs
Senses: examples: text: Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.
ref: 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973, page 203:
qualifier: radar
glosses: Initialism of distance from threshold/touchdown indicator.
DFTIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DFTI
least bittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: least bitterns
Senses: glosses: Ixobrychus exilis, a small heron found in the Americas.
least bitterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of least bittern
least sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: least sandpipers
Senses: glosses: Calidris minutilla, a small shorebird.
least sandpipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of least sandpiper
least tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: least terns
Senses: glosses: Sternula antillarum, a small tern that breeds in North America and locally in northern South America.
least terns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of least tern
leave little to the imagination
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves little to the imagination
form: leaving little to the imagination
form: left little to the imagination
form: left little to the imagination
Senses: examples: text: Baartman’s seminaked display left little to the imagination and reinforced England’s obsession with bottoms, both literally and figuratively.
ref: 2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A Life Exposed”, in New York Times:
text: The emerald-green bathing suit pulled taut across boyish hips and decidedly unboyish breasts, the wet material leaving little to the imagination […]
ref: 2009, Day Leclaire, The Billionaire's Baby Negotiation:
glosses: To reveal the greater part of a person's body, or parts usually kept hidden out of modesty.
raw_tags: of clothing
leathery turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leathery turtles
Senses: glosses: The leatherback turtle.
leathery turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leathery turtle
goofings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goofing
legionary ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legionary ants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of army ant.
synonyms: word: army ant
legionary ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legionary ant
leisure class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leisure classes
Senses: glosses: A social class of people who are wealthy enough not to have to work.
leisure classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leisure class
Hafner ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hafner wares
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A kind of glazed German earthenware.
Hafner wares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hafner ware
Hall coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hall coefficients
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: With regard to the Hall effect: the ratio of the induced electric field to the product of the current density and the applied magnetic field.
Hall coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hall coefficient
mertilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mertilizes
form: mertilizing
form: mertilized
form: mertilized
Senses: examples: text: (to Ray) I could mertilize you.
ref: 1984, Mark O'Donnell, Fables for Friends, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of murdelize.
multiversion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + version.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one version.
multiversioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having or involving more than one version.
multiversioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The presence of, or support for, more than one version.
Haratine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haratine
form: Haratines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haratin.
Harratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harratin
form: Harratins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haratin.
Harratins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harratin
Haratines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haratine
agathistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to agathism.
distressless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From distress + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without distress.
Hereford disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Synonym of grass tetany.
synonyms: word: grass tetany
grass tetany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of grass + tetany.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: Hereford disease
grass staggers
glosses: A metabolic disease of ruminants, involving magnesium deficiency, and usually occurring after grazing on pastures of rapidly growing grass.
HHG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high harmonic generation.
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: Initialism of household goods.
AJR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of abdominojugular reflux.
HJR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HJRs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of house joint resolution.
glosses: Initialism of hepatojugular reflux.
HJRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HJR
IJBOL
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈid͡ʒ.boʊl/
Etymology: According to Know Your Meme, the earliest use of the term was in a conversation between Twitter users @RockStarHustle and @CUNTRY
posted July 23, 2009. The term was added to Urban Dictionary later that year. The term was popularized in 2021 in the K-pop community, and in 2023 it was reported that it was replacing LOL and LMAO among young people on social media. However, the term is not derived from Korean.
Senses: examples: text: not he can't go to any award shows or industry parties ijbol😭
ref: 2021 August 23, @i30clip, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: DOES THOR HAVE A CRUSH ON PETER QUILL IJBOL #ThorLoveAndThunder
ref: 2022 April 18, @civiIswar, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2022:
text: They using Nicki lyrics to shade us you can't make this up LMAOO IJBOL
ref: 2022 July 11, @NATEMARAJJ, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: The bunnies that jisoo gifted to her bodyguards ijbol jfkdkdkd
ref: 2022 December 22, @jjalt5, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
qualifier: Stan Twitter slang
glosses: Acronym of I just burst out laughing.
wikipedia: Know Your Meme
Mashable
The New York Times
The New York Times Company
Urban Dictionary
religious rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of religious right
Xiaomis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Xiaomi
Choa Chu Kang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈt͡ʃʰu̯a˧ ˈt͡ʃʰu˧ ˈkaŋ˦]
note: at the end of a sentence
ipa: [-aŋ˦˧]
Etymology: Named after a riverside village that once stood in the area, from Hokkien 蔡厝港 (Chhòa-chhù-káng). Following the naming conventions of early Chinese settlers, the village was named after a family or clan leader bearing the surname Chua (蔡).
Senses: examples: text: The village atmosphere is markedly showcased in Sekisui House’s Hillsta development in Choa Chu Kang.
ref: 2017 August 9, “Sekisui House develops spaces that harmonise people, lifestyles and nature”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2017, Business:
glosses: A planning area and new town in the north-west of Singapore.
put someone on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone on to
form: putting someone on to
form: put someone on to
form: put someone on to
form: put someone onto
Senses: examples: text: O.D.'d, the coroner said. But Meg thought there was more to it. And there was. Much more. Thinking this might be a lead, Meg's friend Joanna, a lesbian and a prostitute, put her on to a bar called Kinky's. Kinky's is where pre-pubescent girls got recruited for kiddy porn films and working the streets.
ref: 1989 May 6, Liz Galst, “Meet Meg Lacey, Private Heat”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
text: College put him on to jazz, and he worshipped at the altar of Coltrane and Davis.
ref: 2020 January 8, Jenny Stevens, “Doors drummer John Densmore: 'It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison'”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
text: My colleague John Eligon put me on to this excellent video explanation of and recipe for doubles, one of Trinidad and Tobago's greatest foods. That's on the weekend docket as well!
ref: 2020 December 11, Sam Sifton, “What to Cook This Weekend”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2022:
text: It's time to name Questor's tip of the year and as usual we have sought the views of the fund manager who put us on to the best performer of last year under our "Follow the Money" banner.
ref: 2023 January 11, Richard Evans, “Our tip of the year is ’very cheap, very unloved and highly profitable’”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2023:
antonyms: put off
glosses: To show; to draw someone's attention to something useful or interesting.
Related terms: english: put me on
translation: put me on
word: pmo
puts someone on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put someone on to
putting someone on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put someone on to
emptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emptor
emulgels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emulgel
encapsosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encapsosome
encatchments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encatchment
enclosed orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enclosed order
end consumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end consumer
end-consumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end-consumer
endentures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endenture
endentures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endenture
endiolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endiolate
pmo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ock just pmo to the greatest chopped cheese i've ever had in my life
ref: 2022 November 7, @medicboogie, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: i miss u so much , i play the music u pmo to just to feel like u here 🕊
ref: 2022 November 15, @FanumTV, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: My nigga pmo to a song I got the lyrics memorized by the next day
ref: 2023 June 17, @aviahimdrunk, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: shout out missy for pmo to this beautiful song 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
ref: 2023 August 18, @keluziis, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
related: word: PMO
glosses: Initialism of put me on (to), putting me on (to), or putting me on (to) (“to show; to draw someone's attention to something useful or interesting”).
examples: text: icl ts pmo sm 🥀
text: This app sending you two notifications of the same thing is pmo 😒😒😒
ref: 2024 October 8, @zacxfatima24, Twitter, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2024:
related: word: PMO
glosses: Initialism of piss me off, pisses me off, pissed me off, or pissing me off (“to annoy, anger”)
Related terms: sense: piss off
word: PO'd
endoarterectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoarterectomy
endocavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocavity
endocleavages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocleavage
endocrinotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocrinotherapy
endogalacturonases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endogalacturonase
endoglycosylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoglycosylase
endoincisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoincision
endokarsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endokarst
endomigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endomigration
endolevanases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endolevanase
endonucleotidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endonucleotidase
endopathways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endopathway
ENFJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ENFJ
ENFPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ENFP
Engel curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Engel curve
Madrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madras
true as I'm standing here
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of true as I stand here.
amoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amoulders
form: amouldering
form: amouldered
form: amouldered
form: amolder
Etymology: From a- + moulder.
Senses: examples: text: I can imagine thousands of the blue and the grey who long ago have amouldered in the grave, rising up to call the name of this man "blessed".
ref: 1937, The Journal of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas, page 88:
text: What his men most often sang, while they actually were marching through Georgia, was another, and of its kind a great song:
—“John Brown's body lies amouldering in the grave,
But his soul goes marching on. […]
ref: 2018, Lord Charnwood, Abraham Lincoln, page 295:
glosses: To moulder; to decay.
over/under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over/unders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of over-under.
amolder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amolders
form: amoldering
form: amoldered
form: amoldered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amoulder.
amouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amoulder
amoldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amolder
amolders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amolder
amoldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amolder
amoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amoulder
amouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amoulder
carkeyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carkeys
bank craps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The game of craps when played against the casino rather than one player against another.
beraka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berakas
form: berakoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of berakhah.
berakhahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berakhah
berakahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beraka
glosses: plural of berakah
berakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beraka
bare-eyed cockatoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bare-eyed cockatoos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of little corella.
synonyms: word: little corella
blood-stained cockatoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood-stained cockatoos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of little corella.
synonyms: word: little corella
blood-stained cockatoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood-stained cockatoo
barn raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barn raisings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barnraising.
barn raisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barn raising
competish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: competishes
Senses: examples: text: For the women, it's like the early days of the feminist movement all over again: Four of them are still hanging on; this is the first time that so many women have made it this far in the competish.
ref: 2008 May 8, Vanessa Juarez, “Top Chef recap: Love and War”, in Entertainment Weekly, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022:
text: Most poetry competitions don't attract the attention of HBO. But then most poetry competishes don't attract 600 teenagers from across the country and Russell Simmons as exec producer of a 90-minute special on the finals.
ref: 2010 July 16, Rachel Abrams, “HBO finds 'New Voices' with poetry slam”, in Variety, Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023:
text: Net confirmed today that Lovato will return to judge season three of the singing competish, which launches this fall. The pop chantoosie joined the show during its second season, helping to draw younger auds to the program.
ref: 2013 March 28, AJ Marechal, “Demi Lovato Set to Return to 'X Factor'”, in Variety, Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2021:
text: Checking out the competish, but would never in a million years want anyone to know he set foot in there.
ref: 2015 April 1, Alexis Rhiannon, “9 People You'll See In Drake's Pop-Up Shop”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: Colman takes out the competish.
ref: 2019 February 24, @edgarwright, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: Strap up and sit down because Grid is back baby. Let us walk you through everything you need to know so that you'll be ahead of the "competish". We talk PVP, game modes, and the new GRID World Series career path, the Fernando Alonso Challenge.
ref: 2019 October 9, “GRID: Everything You Need To Know”, in IGN, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2023:
glosses: Clipping of competition.
barren strawberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barren strawberries
Senses: glosses: The European plant Potentilla sterilis, or others of the genus.
glosses: The North American plant Waldsteinia fragarioides.
barren strawberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barren strawberry
competishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of competish
barring-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrings-out
Etymology: From bar out.
Senses: glosses: The shutting of a teacher out of the classroom as a prank.
barrings-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barring-out
psychoendocrinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychoendocrinologist
Bashful Billy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The slow loris.
chantoozie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chantoozies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chantoosie.
chantoozies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chantoozie
drainback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drainbacks
Etymology: From drain + back.
Senses: glosses: Draining backward, or into an earlier stage of a system.
drainbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainback
basket fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket ferns
Senses: glosses: Any fern of the genus Aglaomorpha.
basket ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basket fern
basketballdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From basketball + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: […] as frenzied youths raced up and down a hardwood floor, contesting furiously against one another for the greatest honor in basketballdom.
ref: 1927, Boys' Life, page 31:
glosses: The world of basketball.
basket-of-gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Aurinia saxatilis.
Epics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Epic
battenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From batten + -less.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Without a batten.
roachless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roach + -less.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Without a roach (part of a sail).
examples: text: There is no end of the headings you can devise using “roach” in each, thus: The roach dies. Doom of roaches. Roaches no more. No roaches left. The end of roaches. Who has roaches. Roachless houses. Not one roach. Roaches will go. No roach escapes.
ref: 1900 September 10, “Tell It in the Headline”, in American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, volume XXXVII, number 5 (whole 457), New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill., page 143, column 1:
text: Since introducing HARRIS ROACH TABLETS many testimonials have been received by boosters who have tried the successful method of ridding your home of roaches. For a ROACHLESS HOUSE try “HARRIS ROACH TABLETS.”
ref: 1942 August 7, “Harris Roach Tablets Sure Death to Roaches”, in Tampa Morning Tribune, 49th year, number 219, Tampa, Fla., page nine:
text: Hence most of us, learning for the first time of DDT as a new miracle insect killer, think rather of summer days free of flies and summer evenings without mosquitoes, roachless houses and flealess dogs, than of a world without malaria or typhus.
ref: 1946, James Cornelius Leary, William I. Fishbein, Lawrence Cecil Salter, DDT and the Insect Problem, New York, N.Y.; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 70:
text: For me, in the roachless home of those Nashville suburbs, it was irrelevant that in the past twenty years cockroaches have been identified as a leading cause of asthma, but for a boy growing up in a housing project, they may be why he has the disease, and they are almost certainly a contributing factor to the onset of his attacks.
ref: 1999, Richard Schweid, The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore, New York, N.Y.; London: Four Walls Eight Windows, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Without cockroaches.
bat ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat rays
Senses: glosses: Myliobatis californica, a kind of eagle ray.
bat rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bat ray
clean one's plate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cleans one's plate
form: cleaning one's plate
form: cleaned one's plate
form: cleaned one's plate
Senses: glosses: To finish all of the food served to one, without leaving leftovers.
clear-cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clear-cuttings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clearcutting.
copweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copwebs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cobweb.
copwebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copweb
Rose Mary Stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rose Mary Stretch
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: In the context of the Watergate scandal: the implausible physical position that Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods would have had to adopt in order to bring about the ostensibly accidental erasure of various portions of recorded tape.
clepht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clephts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of klepht.
clephts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clepht
clerk of the course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clerks of the course
form: clerks of courses
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: An official responsible for track management and raceday preparation at a racecourse.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: An official responsible for various aspects of circuit operation, such as overseeing track conditions, communicating with course marshals, and dispatching safety and rescue teams.
clerks of the course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerk of the course
clerks of courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerk of the course
cliff rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliff roses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cliffrose.
cliff roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cliff rose
climate-controlled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a climate control system.
climbing fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbing figs
Senses: glosses: The Australian vine Ficus pantoniana.
glosses: The East Asian vine Ficus pumila.
climbing figs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climbing fig
clitoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clitorias
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Clitoria.
clitorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clitoria
clitoral prepuces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clitoral prepuce
cloak-and-sworder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloak-and-sworders
Etymology: From cloak + and + sword + -er.
Senses: glosses: A kind of historical drama in which the characters wore cloaks and carried swords.
Related terms: cloak-and-dagger
cloak-and-sworders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloak-and-sworder
cloak fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloak ferns
Senses: glosses: Any of the ferns of the genus Notholaena.
cloak ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloak fern
cloppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloppy
form: most cloppy
Etymology: From clop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They wore strange sandals too, with one strap across the top and a cloppy wooden sole.
ref: 2014, Beth Kaplan, All My Loving: Coming of Age with Paul McCartney in Paris:
glosses: Making or resembling a clopping sound.
clouding of consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudings of consciousness
Senses: glosses: brain fog
cloudings of consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clouding of consciousness
cloven foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloven feet
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cloven hoof.
synonyms: word: cloven hoof
cloven feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloven foot
putters-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putter-on
pyraustas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrausta
self-questionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-questioning
qualifying rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualifying round
creampuff piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creampuff pieces
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who hasn't been hypnotized long ago by the torrent of union propaganda knows that enough evidence of union corruption and crime was exposed by the McClellan committee to prove the case for taking away once and for all union labor's above-the law status. Instead of that the senate votes a creampuff piece of "corrective" legislation by heavy majority. Union leaders, encouraged by such jellyfish resistance, are lobbying to get the senate bill diluted down to pattycake dimensions through conference committee compromise.
ref: 1959 May 15, “Abuse of equal justice”, in Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, page 28:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cream puff piece.
reopen old wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reopens old wounds
form: reopening old wounds
form: reopened old wounds
form: reopened old wounds
Senses: examples: text: When I had completed The Difficult Flowering of Surinam in 1976, Fred Ormskirk, the late NPS historian and radio commentator, suggested I delete a number of the more unpleasant stories in the book, claiming that it was better to let go of the past and not reopen old wounds.
ref: 1994, Edward M. Dew, The trouble in Suriname, 1975-1993, page 202:
text: Please, believe me—the last thing I want to do is reopen old wounds needlessly, but . . . but if it would finally bring a resolution to the whole mystery—"
ref: 2007, Vicki Lane, Old Wounds, page 93:
text: We return to the countries that had once hurt and destroyed us in many irreparable ways and from which we once ran for dear life, in order to get hurt again and have our old wounds reopened.
ref: 2015, Domnica Radulescu, Theater of War and Exile, page 68:
text: Sometimes the treatments involved in healing the nation (such as appointing commissions of inquiry) reopen old wounds, therefore measures should be in place to cleanse those sores or stop them from festering.
ref: 2023, Muxe Nkondo, Social Memory as a Force for Social and Economic Transformation:
glosses: To cause the memory of past trauma to be recalled, resulting in renewed suffering.
examples: text: Old wounds and ulcers reopen and ulcerate.
ref: 1998, Samuel Lilienthal, Homoeopathic Therapeutics, page 941:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reopen, old, wound.
oranta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orans.
gotten onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get onto
sublunarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sublunarean
Senses: coordinate_terms: subterranean
glosses: Below the surface of the Moon.
sublunarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sublunarian.
Abelardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
Senses: glosses: of or relating to Peter Abelard, or his philosophy.
luluais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luluai
kukurais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kukurai
lumbrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lumbrous
form: most lumbrous
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lumbering.
synonyms: word: lumbering
Lufbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He took eight ships and on the deck to do the dirty work, and the other of us got into a Lufbery over the field to draw the flak away from the Colonel's flight.
ref: 2014, Ted Fahrenwald, Wot a Way to Run a War!:
glosses: Ellipsis of Lufbery circle.
luggage vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luggage van
luggage car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luggage cars
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of baggage car.
synonyms: word: baggage car
baggage van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggage vans
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of baggage car.
synonyms: word: baggage car
baggage vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baggage van
luggage cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luggage car
corodiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corodiaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corrodiary.
corodiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corodiary
corrodiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrodiaries
form: corodiary
Senses: glosses: One who receives a corrody.
corrodiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrodiary
Douglas Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales, Australia, named after Henry Douglass.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Del Norte County, California, United States.
cosmic radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Cosmic rays collectively.
cosmic year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmic years
Senses: glosses: Synonym of galactic year.
synonyms: word: galactic year
cosmic years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmic year
Coulombian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Coulombian
form: most Coulombian
Etymology: From Coulomb + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb or his work.
sarvodaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati સર્વોદય (sarvodya, “progress of all”), from Sanskrit सर्व (sarva) + उदय (udaya). Coined by Mahatma Gandhi in his Gujarati translation of John Ruskin's Unto This Last.
Senses: glosses: A philosophy that emphasises socioeconomic equality, non-violence and community development.
count calories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counts calories
form: counting calories
form: counted calories
form: counted calories
Senses: glosses: To keep track of one's food consumption in calories, as part of following a diet.
citril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citrils
Senses: glosses: Any of various yellow or green finches of the genera Carduelis or Crithagra; especially Carduelis citrinella (Alpine citril).
glosses: Any of various damselflies of the genus Ceriagrion.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Crithagra citrinelloides
word: African citril
taxonomic: Carduelis citrinella
word: citril finch
taxonomic: Ceriagrion glabrum
word: common citril
taxonomic: Crithagra hyposticta
word: southern citril
taxonomic: Crithagra frontalis
word: western citril
count the hours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counts the hours
form: counting the hours
form: counted the hours
form: counted the hours
Senses: examples: text: She pushed open the door. "Come in. Cooper's driving me crazy. He's been counting the hours."
ref: 2011, Gail Gaymer Martin, A Dad of His Own, page 24:
glosses: To await or look forward to something with great eagerness.
Wollondilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; in full, Wollondilly Shire.
glosses: A river in New South Wales, which gave its name to the shire, and flows into Lake Burragorang; in full, the Wollondilly River.
covered dish supper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covered dish suppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of potluck (“shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought”).
synonyms: word: potluck
extra: shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought
covered dish suppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covered dish supper
acorn disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A viral disease of citrus, resulting in acorn-shaped fruits.