cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mecklenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mecklenburgs
Etymology: From German Mecklenburg.
Senses: examples: text: Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
ref: 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:
text: Men like Fritz Reuter (employing the Mecklenburg dialect) and Klaus Groth (employing the Holstein dialect) have tried to raise it [= New-Low-German, or Plattdeutsch] to a written language.
ref: 1886, H. A. Strong, Kuno Meyer, Outlines of a history of the German language, p. 67f. (https://books.google.com/books?id=OhJKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA68)
glosses: A historical region in Baltic northern Germany; part of the modern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Bay of Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg Bay
Mecklenburg County
Mecklenburgian
Mecklenburgish
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Kattegat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cattegat
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Kattegat (literally “cat's gate”), suggesting a narrow passage only a cat could squeeze through.
Senses: glosses: A body of water between Jutland and the Swedish mainland.
Robeson Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for George Robeson.
Senses: glosses: A strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, connecting the Arctic Ocean and Hall Basin, part of the Nares Strait.
wikipedia: George Robeson
kho kho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kho-kho
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi खो-खो (kho-kho).
Senses: glosses: An amateur sport played by teams of twelve players.
Hans Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Hans Hendrik.
Senses: glosses: A small island in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada, split between Canada and Denmark.
wikipedia: Hans Hendrik
Zuckerberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzʌkəbɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈzʌkɚˌbɝɡ/
ipa: /ˈzɐkəbɜːɡ/
Forms: form: Zuckerbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zuckerberg. From German Zucker (“sugar”) + Berg (“mountain”).
Senses: examples: text: With TikTok's future now increasingly unclear, and Facebook reporting a stronger than expected performance in Q2, Zuckerberg is now a centibillionaire, joining Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in the $100 billion club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
ref: 2020 August 7, Jason Murdock, “Zuckerberg Becomes Centibillionaire after Trump Threatens TikTok Ban, Instagram Reels Launches”, in Newsweek:
glosses: An Ashkenazic Jewish surname from German.
Derived terms: Faceberg
Suckerberg
Zucc
Zuck
Zuckerbergian
Related terms: Cukier
Cukierman
Cukiermann
Zucker
Zuckerman
Zuckermann
Zuker
Zukerberg
Zukerman
Zukermann
Zuckerberg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzʌkəbɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈzʌkɚˌbɝɡ/
ipa: /ˈzɐkəbɜːɡ/
Forms: form: Zuckerbergs
form: Zuckerberging
form: Zuckerberged
form: Zuckerberged
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zuckerberg. From German Zucker (“sugar”) + Berg (“mountain”).
Senses: examples: text: If there hadn't been 2,000 witnesses, I would have Zuckerberged the idea for myself.
ref: 2012 March 20, Bill Simmons, “NBA Trade Value, Part 1”, in Grantland:
text: Robin's claim that she created Marshall's Minnesota Tidal Wave cocktail, which leads to Marshall accusing her of “Zuckerberging” him (“The Time Travelers”).
ref: 2014, Jesse McLean, Wait For It: The Legendary Story of How I Met Your Mother:
text: We are Zuckerberging it! All those investors who turned us down just don't get it.
ref: 2016, Tomer Sharon, Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research, page 105:
text: We see as much in the finale: Summer helps the Devil build up the n33dful.com digital empire, and he kicks her out just after he’s bought by Google. “You’re Zuckerberging me!?” Summer cries as she’s carried away by security.
ref: 2018 August 3, Corey Plante, “'Rick and Morty' Failed to Make Us Hate Capitalism With Pluto and the Devil”, in Inverse:
glosses: To behave like Mark Zuckerberg, especially to eject a co-investor by diluting their stock, similar to the alleged treatment of Eduardo Saverin.
Durga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʊə.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdʊɹ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈdʊəɹ.ɡə/
Etymology: From Sanskrit दुर्गा (durgā).
Senses: examples: text: ‘He was running riot in the heavens, none of the male gods could kill him; so they joined forces and created Durga, bestowed all their powers on her. That’s why she has ten arms, a weapon in each gifted by a different god.’
ref: 2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 21:
glosses: A powerful Indian female deity.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit, common in India. Another name of Parvati.
Derived terms: Durga Puja
sculptile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sculptilis.
Senses: examples: text: sculptile images
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Formed by carving; graven.
rigsdalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigsdaler
riksdalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riksdaler
ASBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASBMs
form: AShBM
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of anti-ship ballistic missile.
Coordinate terms: ICBM
LRBM
IRBM
MRBM
SRBM
SLBM
ABM
AShM
LRAShM
IRAShM
MRAShM
SRAShM
SLAShM
rictuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rictus
AShBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AShBMs
form: ASBM
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of anti-ship ballistic missile.
Related terms: BM
ABM
SLBM
SRBM
MRBM
IRBM
LRBM
ICBM
AShM
SRAShM
MRAShM
IRAShM
LRAShM
teenagerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teenagerhoods
Etymology: From teenager + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a teenager.
Synonyms: teenhood
teendom
biofilaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofilament
biofilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofilaments
Etymology: From bio- + filament.
Senses: glosses: A biological filament
doum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /duːm/
Forms: form: doums
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic دوم (dūm), via French.
Senses: glosses: The doum palm.
Derived terms: doum fruit
biophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biophilic
form: most biophilic
Etymology: From bio- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: And even if we accept the possible explanation that, at the time life appeared, there were in existence biophilic elements now defunct, or vitalising rays no longer radiant, even then, we are met by the facts (i) that even in the lowest organisms there is extraordinary […]
ref: 1932, Ronald Campbell Macfie, The faiths and heresies of a poet and scientist, Williams & Norgate, page 37:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to biophilia.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Whose values are critical to the evolution of life in the universe.
raw_tags: of universal physical constants
Derived terms: nonbiophilic
circularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circularity
doums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doum
gravimagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gravi- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: gravitomagnetic
magnetoelectronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + electronic.
Senses: glosses: spintronic
Related terms: magnetoelectronics
peritrichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peritrichous
form: most peritrichous
Etymology: From peri- + tricho- + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having flagella around the body or around the mouth
Derived terms: peritrichously
voxelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of voxelize
voxelized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Represented using voxels
fowl-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fowl-houses
form: fowlhouse
form: fowl house
Senses: examples: text: And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Also I got some timber, and he built me a fowl-house far better than I could have done it myself.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 247:
glosses: A building where fowl are kept.
gourbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gourbis
Etymology: From French gourbi, from Arabic.
Senses: glosses: A tent, hut or simple dwelling-place in North Africa, especially Algeria.
Rabbitland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From rabbit + -land.
Senses: examples: text: "I’ve brought you a new playfellow," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: There was once a windmill and a baker's shop in the middle of Rabbitland. Three rabbits, Rodney, Rudolph and Rosie lived in the windmill.
ref: 1984, Hayden McAllister, Funny-bunny bedtime stories:
glosses: In fiction, a place inhabited by rabbits.
concessio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛsi.əʊ/
ipa: /kənˈsɛsi.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛsiəʊ
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin concessiō. Doublet of concession.
Senses: examples: text: This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
synonyms: concession
glosses: The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
dry-hump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry-humps
form: dry-humping
form: dry-humped
form: dry-humped
Senses: examples: text: Okay… Okay, I-I-I’m still a little confused here. Did you actually climb Mount Everest? Or did you just dry-hump the side of it and then go home? “It was great! Now smell my finger! There’s still some mountain air on it!” What is wrong with you⁉
ref: 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
text: I found when it happened that I really like dry humping more.
ref: 2017, Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird, spoken by Christine ‘Lady Bird’ McPherson:
glosses: To simulate sexual intercourse without the genitalia directly touching, i.e. while wearing clothes, or by rubbing the genitals against something else.
Synonyms: dry-fuck
antiflea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + flea.
Senses: glosses: Countering fleas.
antiparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + parasite.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering parasites.
Nueir
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As Nuer, after the German Nuēr.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nuer.
Nueir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nueir
form: Nueirs
Etymology: As Nuer, after the German Nuēr.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nuer.
Nueir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: As Nuer, after the German Nuēr.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nuer.
commandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commandable
form: most commandable
Etymology: From Middle English comaundable; equivalent to command + -able.
Senses: examples: text: According to this argument, love is an emotion and emotions are not commandable.
ref: 2009, Martha Fineman, Karen Worthington, What is right for children?:
glosses: Capable of being commanded.
Derived terms: commandability
uncommandable
Related terms: commendable
commoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of common
commoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of common
morate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of moric acid.
orbate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin orbatus, past participle of orbare (“to bereave”), from orbus (“bereaved of parents or children”). See orphan.
Senses: glosses: bereaved; fatherless or childless
Derived terms: orbity
offscum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offscums
Etymology: From off- + scum.
Senses: glosses: Refuse; scum.
offscum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offscum
form: most offscum
Etymology: From off- + scum.
Senses: examples: the offscum rascals of men
glosses: Vile; outcast.
comes along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come along
coming along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come along
came along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come along
offskip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offskips
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of offscape.
offsmite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offsmites
form: offsmiting
form: offsmote
form: offsmitten
form: off-smite
Etymology: From Middle English ofsmiten, equivalent to off- + smite.
Senses: glosses: To strike off; cut off.
offskips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offskip
offspinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offspinner
rappas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rappa: pronunciation spelling of rappers.
Vättern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Sweden's second largest lake, located in south central Sweden
Glan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Carinthia, Austria, a tributary of the River Gurk.
Derived terms: Sankt Veit an der Glan
Hornavan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Sweden, the deepest lake in the country.
Viken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Viken.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Gävle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden.
Borås
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊˈɹɔːs/
ipa: /buːˈɹɔːs/
ipa: /buːˈɹoʊs/
Etymology: From Swedish Borås.
Senses: glosses: A city in Västergötland, western Sweden.
glosses: A village in the municipality of Arendal, Agder, Norway.
Södertälje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌsɜːrdərˈtɛljə/
/ˌsʌdərˈtɛljə/
Etymology: From Swedish Södertälje.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Stockholm county, Sweden.
Eskilstuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in central Sweden, west of Stockholm.
Halmstad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Halland, in southwestern Sweden.
Växjö
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Kronoberg County, Småland, Sweden.
Trollhättan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Västergötland, western Sweden.
Borlänge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large town and municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden.
Falun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Dalarna County, Sweden.
glosses: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Saline County, Kansas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Daniels, Burnett County, Wisconsin.
Orsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden.
Skövde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Västra Götaland county, Västergötland, Sweden.
Falköping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Västergötland, Västra Götaland county, Sweden.
Motala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Östergötland County, Östergötland, Sweden.
glosses: A city in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India.
Mjölby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Östergötland county, southern Sweden.
Hallsberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Örebro County, Sweden.
Karlskrona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Karlskrona, after King Charles XI of Sweden and krona (“crown”).
Senses: glosses: A city in eastern Blekinge, Sweden.
Skellefteå
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Västerbotten county, northern Sweden.
Uddevalla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in western Sweden.
Lidingö
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island and municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden.
Trelleborg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, municipality, and ferry port in Skåne County, Sweden; the southernmost municipality in Sweden.
Katrineholm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Södermanland County, Sweden.
Flen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Södermanland County, Sweden.
Piteå
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden.
Sandviken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Gävleborg, Sweden.
Falkenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Halland, Sweden.
débridements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of débridement
Academy Award
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæd.ə.mi əˈwɔːd/
ipa: /əˈkæd.ə.mi əˈwɔɹd/
Forms: form: Academy Awards
Etymology: Official name, named after its awarding organization, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Senses: examples: text: Lola's performance was academy award standard.
ref: 1959, Marc Brody, Low Dive for Lola, page xv. 70:
text: They still make each other smile and they each brag about how smart and talented and wise and tender the other one is and how lucky each is to have met the other and they actually look happy and if it's a front then I say both of them deserve Academy Awards for their splendid performances.
ref: 1997, Terry McMillan, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, page 225:
text: "Our drawing-room furniture and the corner cupboard will be lovely in this room," Tess had purred. "And we could have the Turner over the mantelpiece; over the Adam fireplace. It would look lovely."
The agent got hopeful. He particularly liked people who talked about drawing rooms.
"You ought to get an Academy Award," Ronnie told her later. "Bloody Academy Award you should have. Effing marvelous."
ref: 2000, John Gardner, Day of Absolution, Scribner, →ISBN, page 340:
text: Mrs. Malloy's innocent expression merited an Academy Award.
ref: 2002, Dorothy Cannell, The Importance of Being Ernestine, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: 'You were a geisha?' she breathed. If her interest was feigned, she deserved an Academy Award.
ref: 2007, Emma Holly, In the Flesh, Black Lace, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Although Emily had the figure and the bearing to pull off an Academy Award–red carpet–worthy dress, she'd selected something a little more sedate[.]
ref: 2009, Laura Hayden, Red, White, and Blue, Tyndale House, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Going limp and lying still works well for many animals, but a few species deserve Academy Awards for their death-feigning skills.
ref: 2009, Christina Wilsdon, Animal Defenses, page 35:
text: Finally Ms. Dorchester announced that she was calling the defendant, Preston Oliver, to the stand. You'd have thought she was going to give him an Academy Award the way she escorted him to the box. he certainly deserved one. He'd sat at the defense table all day smirking or looking bored out of his mind, but the minute he hit the witness stand, he was the portrait of a concerned citizen, just there to do the right thing. You'd never have known he was on trial for a felony.
ref: 2010, Nancy Rue, Boyfriends, Burritos & an Ocean of Trouble, Zondervan, →ISBN:
glosses: An award in any of various fields related to moviemaking, most prominently acting, generally awarded at a televised gala to winners who then speak; commonly used to indicate a person has been lying with great skill.
wikipedia: American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
froglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogling
counterexploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + exploitation.
Senses: glosses: Exploitation in response by a party being exploited.
peg back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pegs back
form: pegging back
form: pegged back
form: pegged back
Senses: examples: text: […] pegging back Head Play in the last few strides to win by a nose.
ref: 1933, The New Yorker (volume 9, part 1, page 31)
text: After the hosts had been pegged back to 1-1 and seen Victor Obinna sent off for a crazy kick out at Sebastian Larsson, Cole bagged the winner with only 10 minutes left
ref: 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To equalize against; to prevent (the opposition) from winning.
preemptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From preempt + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being preempted.
royalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From royal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of royalizing; making royal.
fly out of the traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies out of the traps
form: flying out of the traps
form: flew out of the traps
form: flown out of the traps
Etymology: In reference to the start of a greyhound race.
Senses: examples: text: The hosts flew out of the traps and with Scott Parker and Mark Noble working beautifully together in tandem in the centre of their midfield they began to exert serious pressure on Foster's goal.
ref: 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
glosses: to start quickly.
in the game
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Foster had been left unsighted by Scott Dann's positioning at his post, but the goalkeeper was about to prove his worth to Birmingham by keeping them in the game with a series of stunning saves as West Ham produced waves after wave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal.
ref: 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: in the running
in the hunt
glosses: Competing in a game, with a chance of winning.
examples: text: He's seriously doing badly in school right now. He needs to get back in the game, or he's gonna drop out.
text: This wouldn't wipe the slate, but would show he was still in the game.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 246:
glosses: Focused; engaged; serious.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: in the game.
Bartholin's gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bartholin's glands
Etymology: First described by the Danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of two small glands located on either side of the vaginal orifice that secrete a lubricating mucus.
Synonyms: Bartholin gland
greater vestibular gland
Coordinate terms: lesser vestibular gland
Skene's gland
tympano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympani
form: timpano
Etymology: From Italian timpano. See tympanum.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kettledrum.
tympanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tympani
anyone's guess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was a disappointing way for the game to finish, with Sagna guilty of leaning his head in towards Zabaleta's after a challenge by the touchline, though what the Argentine did to warrant a dismissal is anyone's guess.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
glosses: A mystery; something unknown or unpredictable.
Related terms: your guess is as good as mine
storm out of the blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: storms out of the blocks
form: storming out of the blocks
form: stormed out of the blocks
form: stormed out of the blocks
Senses: examples: text: A goalless draw seemed an unlikely outcome when the game started at a stunning pace as Arsenal, keen to establish themselves as United's principal challengers this season, stormed out of the blocks in thrilling fashion.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
glosses: To begin rapidly.
Synonyms: fly out of the traps
race out of the traps
Related terms: hit the ground running
tear into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛə(ɹ)ˈɪntu/
Forms: form: tears into
form: tearing into
form: tore into
form: torn into
Senses: examples: text: They tore into a stunned City and there was only a minute on the clock when Samir Nasri slipped Jack Wilshere into the area, the 19-year-old's left-foot pass to the far post agonisingly evading a lunging Van Persie.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
glosses: To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative.
Synonyms: lace into
lay into
light into
rip into
lightning-quick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: City responded immediately with a lightning-quick counter-attack as the template for the game was set...
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
synonyms: fulgurant
fast as lightning
lightning fast
quick as a flash
in a flash
glosses: Incredibly fast.
like one's life depended on it
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Desperately.
Related terms: for the life of one
to save one's life
as if there were no tomorrow
out ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out balls
form: out-ball
Senses: examples: text: With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A chance to clear the ball to an attacking teammate, or such an attacker; a target man.
one step ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Chalaza: Okay, Thursday night, it's mailroom Monday, we just got our new shipment.
Xavier (Vernon Chatman): What do you do if the cops come knocking?
Chalaza: We toilet-flush the drugs.
Xavier: Let's stay one step ahead of the cops, flush them now.
Chalaza: I like, one step ahead of the policia.
ref: 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 2:
text: Wilshere had another shot saved low down by Hart as City struggled to keep up with Arsenal's flowing forward play, the home team always appeared to be one step ahead as City boss Roberto Mancini showed his annoyance by remonstrating with his players on the touchline.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
synonyms: one jump ahead
glosses: maintaining a slight advantage; continuing to lead
Related terms: initiative
on the attack
on the defensive
tempo
spred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spreds
form: spredding
form: spred
form: spred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spread.
spred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spread.
overhead kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhead kicks
Senses: examples: text: United's initial response was bright, with Young's corner drifting untouched across the six-yard area and Van Persie just unable to keep an overhead kick down.
ref: 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A kick where the ball travels over the player's head.
Synonyms: bicycle kick
scissor kick
seal dribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seal dribbles
Etymology: Seals (the animals, not the stamp) can be trained to balance a ball on their nose.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: In soccer, a move where the player bounces the ball on their head while running at the opponent.
gusht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray: But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made my heart as dry as dust.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
text: XV So downe he fell before the cruell beast, Who on his neck his bloody clawes did seize, That life nigh crusht out of his panting brest: No powre he had to stirre, nor will to rize. 130 That when the carefull knight gan well avise, He lightly left the foe, with whom he fought, And to the beast gan turne his enterprise; For wondrous anguish in his hart it wrought, To see his loved Squire into such thraldome brought. 135 XVI And high advauncing his blood-thirstie blade, Stroke one of those deformed heads so sore, That of his puissance proud ensample made; His monstrous scalpe downe to his teeth it tore, And that misformed shape mis-shaped more: 140 A sea of blood gusht from the gaping wound, That her gay garments staynd with filthy gore, And overflowed all the field around; That over shoes in bloud he waded on the ground.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: Among all those flagitious Acts committed by this Governour while he rul'd this Kindom, or by his Consent and Permission this must by no means be omitted: A certain Casic, bestowing on him a Gift, voluntarily, or (which is more probably) induced thereunto by Fear, about the weight of Nine Thousand Crowns, but the Spaniards not satisfied with so fast a Sum of Money, sieze him, fix him to a Pole; extended his Feet, which being mov'd near the Fire, they demanded a larger Sum; the Casic overcome with Torments, sending home, procur'd Three Thousand more to be brought and presented to them: But the Spaniards, adding new Torments to new Rage and Fury, when they found he would confer no more upon them, which was because he could not, or otherwize because he would not, they expos'd him for so long to that Torture, till by degrees of heat the Marrow gusht out of the Soles of his Feet, and so he dyed; Thus they often murder'd the Lords and Nobles which such Torments to Extort the Gold from them.
ref: 1689, Bartolome de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies:
text: The very peasants laught at this; for they fancied they saw the jest: Conrad, however, though he perceived it, misunderstood it so far that he did not answer a single word, but drunk with beer and rage only lifted up his fist, and thrust it so violently into the storyteller's face, that he instantly tumbled from his stool to the ground, and a stream of blood gusht out from his mouth and nostrils.
ref: 1831, Ludwig Tieck, The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of gushed.
folding chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folding chair
pincht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: With deadly force so in their cruell race They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast, That at the last, and in short time, I spide, Under a rocke, where she, alas! opprest, Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: A companie of coystrell clarkes (who were in band with sathan, and not of anie souldiers collar nor his hatband) pincht a number of good mindes to Godward of theyr prouant.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:
text: Or if one stray to feede far from the rest, He shall be pincht by his swift pye-bald curre; If any by his fellowes be opprest, The wronger, (for he doth all wrong abhorre), Shall be well bangd so long as he can sturre, Because he did anoy his harmeles brother, That meant not harme to him nor any other.
ref: 1594, Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepherd:
text: When the Spaniards left this Kingdom, one of them invited the Son of some Indian Governour of a City or Province, to go along with him, who told him he would not leave or desert his Native Countrey, whereupon he threatned to cut off his ears, if he refus'd to follow him: But the Youth persisting resolutely, that he would continue in the place of his Nativity, he drawing his Sword cut off each Ear, notwithstanding which he persever'd in his first opinion, and then as if he had only pincht him, smilingly cut off his Nose and Lips.
ref: 1689, Bartolome de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pinched; simple past and past participle of pinch.
redpolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redpoll
ultraminimalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + minimalist.
Senses: examples: text: To speed computation while cutting power consumption, IBM plans to come up with an "ultraminimalist approach" for both hardware and software, which will reduce the complexity of the processors but increase their ability to communicate and work in tandem.
ref: 1999 December 17, Robert F. Service, “COMPUTER SCIENCE:Big Blue Aims to Crack Protein Riddle”, in Science, volume 286, number 5448, →DOI:
glosses: Very minimalist
ultraminimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + minimal.
Senses: examples: text: The action of each force is considered under several headings; light, for example, being considered as to its chemical action, its effect on the general functions of the organism and its action in controlling the locomotion (phototaxis); and the text is illustrated by numerous well-chosen figures as well as by several tables of which there may be especially mentioned No. XVIII., which gives the nature of the response to light of the various forms which have been experimented upon in this connection; No. XIX., which gives the ultramaximum temperature for numerous organisms; No. XX., which similarly gives the ultraminimal temperatures, and No. XXI., which is a list of species found in Hot Springs with the conditions under which they occur.
ref: 1897, J. P. McMurrich, Science, C. Templeman, page 924:
text: In particular, the transition from the dominant protective association to the ultraminimal state, which involves prohibiting some private exercises of the right to enforce one’s rights, is justified by an argument concerning the legitimacy of prohibiting certain kinds of risky activities.
ref: 1982, Social and Political Philosophy, University of Minnesota Press, pages 121-122:
text: John Farrell’s ultraminimal sets left practically everything to the imagination.
ref: 2009 September 12, Steve Smith, “Mid-19th-Century Tale With Oedipal Plot Twist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very minimal.
antag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antags
Senses: topics: communications
fiction
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
antonyms: word: protag
english: protagonist
translation: protagonist
glosses: Clipping of antagonist.
wandle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwændəl/
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: more wandle
form: most wandle
Senses: glosses: supple; pliant; nimble
sagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagans
Senses: examples: text: Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar "S" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.
ref: 1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics (Usenet):
text: "There must be a sagan of them up there."
ref: 1989, Edward S. Hudson, Alien Death Fleet, Pageant Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 5:
text: There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.
ref: 1998 January, Jon Luini, Allen Whitman, “Finding Your Geek”, in EQ, page 132:
text: The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!
ref: 2001 October 24, Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sagan.
commissive moods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commissive mood
conditional moods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conditional mood
conjunctive moods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjunctive mood
cohortatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohortative
imperative moods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperative mood
indicative moods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indicative mood
adessive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adessive case
Final Fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Final Four
caritive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caritive case
comitative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comitative case
delative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delative case
elative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elative case
dative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dative case
ergative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergative case
essive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essive case
illative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illative case
instructive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instructive case
inessive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inessive case
instrumental cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instrumental case
locative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locative case
modal cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modal case
nominative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominative case
objective cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objective case
partitive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partitive case
possessive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possessive case
predicative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predicative case
prepositional cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepositional case
prolative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolative case
prosecutive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosecutive case
comparative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comparative case
substantive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantive case
superessive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superessive case
temporal cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporal case
terminative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminative case
translative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translative case
seldomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "He looks as if he had been so much oftener vexed, and so much seldomer pleased than you do," continued I, mentally comparing the smooth though weather-beaten benignity of the straight-cut features beside me, with the austere and frown-puckered gravity of my father's.
ref: 1874, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy:
text: One seldomer sees in southern France a sight frequent in Italy and many other parts of Europe,--that of a woman toilsomely dragging a hand-cart or shouldering a burden while her spouse walks idly by and smokes a thankful pipe.
ref: 1890, Edwin Asa Dix, A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees:
text: He is like our painting gentlewomen, seldom in his own face, seldomer in his clothes; and he pleases, the better he counterfeits, except only when he is disguised with straw for gold lace.
ref: 1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century:
glosses: comparative form of seldom: more seldom
seldomest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They who most passionately pursue Pleasure, seldomest arrive at it.
ref: 1891, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
text: For the finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe, that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
ref: 1908, John Ruskin, Selections From the Works of John Ruskin:
text: I find it is the one I most value here in the household and seldomest get.
ref: 1835, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete:
glosses: superlative form of seldom: most seldom
cunninger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Man is made in the image and likeness of God, therefore he is a sacred creature; a creature, not merely an animal, and the highest of all animals, only cunninger than all animals, more highly organised, more delicately formed than all animals; but something beyond an animal.
ref: 1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints' Day and Other Sermons:
text: Call ye that a Society, [...] Where each, isolated, regardless of his neighbour, turned against his neighbour, clutches what he can get, and cries "Mine!" and calls it Peace, because, in the cut-purse and cut-throat Scramble, no steel knives, but only a far cunninger sort, can be employed?
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Phœnix”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 160:
text: He had always trusted Lucian for the cunninger insight and did it now though Lucian lay in the bishop's arms limp and senseless.
ref: 1914, George W. Cable, Gideon's Band:
glosses: comparative form of cunning: more cunning
wombgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːmɡeɪt/
Forms: form: wombgates
form: womb-gate
form: wombȝate
Etymology: From womb + gate. In later use sometimes translating Mandarin e.g. 胞門 /胞门 (bāomén).
Senses: examples: text: Tentigo ys ycalled paries vulue, Anglice the Wombeȝates wall, Or elles lingula vulue, Anglice the Wombeȝates tunge.
ref: 1379, Henry Daniel, Liber Uricrisiarum:
text: He banged her womb-gate until their last mutual orgasm.
ref: 1979, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me, Holloway House, published 2004, page 103:
text: The locus classicus for discussions of the womb-gate was Zhang Ji (fl. 196-219), whose writings on “cold damage disorders” and pharmacology had become a pillar of learned medicine during the Northern Song (960-127).
ref: 2010, Yu-Li Wu, Reproducing Women, page 109:
glosses: The vulva.
kurrajong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurrajongs
form: currajong
form: currijong
form: curryjong
form: koorajong
Etymology: From Dharug garrajung (“fishing line”), from the use made of the bark.
Senses: examples: text: My young friend, Master Keith McKeown, now finds this beetle under the stones about the roots of the kurrajong at Wagga, and also sheltering during the winter in the seed-pods on the trees.
ref: 1906, Henry Charles Lennox Anderson, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 16:
text: From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187:
text: The black kurrajong has a fibrous bark that Aboriginal artefact-makers used as a raw material to make string for their lines and carry-bags.
ref: 2008, Philip A. Clarke, Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century, page 50:
text: The groves of Kurrajongs along the saddle of Mount Majura were founded last century.
ref: 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 90:
glosses: Any of a number of species of tree or shrub in the genus Brachychiton.
glosses: A peanut tree, Sterculia quadrifida, native to eastern coastal Australia; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.
Derived terms: desert kurrajong
green kurrajong
kurrajong leaf roller
lace kurrajong
northern kurrajong
pink kurrajong
red-flowered kurrajong
red-fruited kurrajong
white kurrajong
technacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛknəsi/
Etymology: Compare literacy and numeracy.
Senses: glosses: The holistic understanding of technology in relation to the creation, design and implementation of projects.
glosses: Competency in scientific and technological problem-solving, experimentation and communication.
Related terms: technate
living conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The conditions in which someone lives, seen in terms of their sanitary value, social, status etc.
Related terms: working conditions
fecaloma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fecalomas
form: fecalomata
Etymology: From fecal + -oma.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: coprolith, fecolith
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: coproma
scatoma
stercoroma
coordinate_terms: bezoar
enterolith
glosses: A hard accretion of feces in the rectum.
Related terms: food baby
kig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kigs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of kigurumi.
phosphogypsum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phospho- + gypsum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of gypsum (calcium sulfate) formed as a by-product in the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers
gypstack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypstacks
Senses: glosses: A mound of phosphogypsum
bicoherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicoherences
Etymology: From bi- + coherence.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A squared normalised form of a bispectrum.