cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
catastrophe bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catastrophe bonds
Senses: topics: business
insurance
synonyms: word: cat bond
glosses: A risk-linked security that transfers risk related to disasters from the issuer, typically an insurance company, to investors.
catastrophe bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catastrophe bond
holy hand grenade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holy hand grenades
Etymology: A reference to the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, a fictional weapon featured in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The popularity of holy hand grenades as video game items is largely attributed to the Worms series.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A fictional weapon, usually gilded with gold and adorned with Christian symbolism such as crosses, which is a much more powerful version of a standard hand grenade or explosive.
Hypernyms: hand grenade
Angala Devi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil அங்காளதேவி (aṅkāḷatēvi).
Senses: synonyms: Angalamman
Angala Paramesvari
glosses: a village goddess, manifestation of Parvati.
psychodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + diversity.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, at the sociological level, a renewed appreciation that mutation load and recent selection are important in explaining human psychodiversity might lead researchers to reconsider a range of issues in moral philosophy, socio-political ideology, and bioethics.
ref: 2011, Geoffrey F. Miller, “Are Pleiotropic Mutations and Holocene Selective Sweeps the Only Evolutionary-genetic Processes Left for Explaining Heritable Variation in Human Psychological Traits?” (chapter 13), in David M. Buss, Patricia H. Hawley, editors, The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 391:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The variety of psychological attributes among individuals.
gender nonconformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: gender variance
glosses: Gender expression, identity or behavior that is not in accordance with traditional masculine or feminine gender norms.
Related terms: gender-nonconforming
gender nonconformist
gender nonconforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gender nonconforming
form: most gender nonconforming
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gender-nonconforming.
catcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catcentric
form: most catcentric
Etymology: From cat + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The Italian physicist Toraldo di Francia observed: "We might as well recognize the fact that it is biological—and therefore natural—law that mice are mousecentric, cats are catcentric, and men are antrhropocentric.
ref: 2003, Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini, Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, page 21:
text: Catcentric websites and local newspapers are a good place to starting looking for pet-friendly events in your area.
ref: 2014, Sandy Robins, The Original Cat Bible: The Definitive Source for All Things Cat:
text: The Catcentric Adventure Continues in the All-Ages Follow-up to Best-Selling Novelist Margaret Atwood's Debut Graphic Novel.
ref: 2017, Margaret Atwood, Angel Catbird Volume 2: To Castle Catula (Graphic Novel), page 106:
glosses: Focused on or from the point of view of cats.
learnt Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of learn Chinese
cursetor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cursetors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cursitor.
cursetors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cursetor
vpright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vpright
form: most vpright
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of upright.
spinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spink
spinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spink
cool, calm and collected
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Not upset or not very bothered at all by things.
Related terms: calm and collected
cool as a cucumber
garbage-collected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of garbage collected.
Iravan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aravan
form: Iravat
form: Iravant
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit इरावान् (irāvān).
Senses: glosses: a village deity, character in Mahabharata; son of Arjuna and Ulupi.
this is war
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: This is what we've waited for.
This is it boys, this is war!
The president is on the line
as ninety-nine red balloons go by.
ref: 2000 March 28, Goldfinger, “99 Red Balloons”, in Stomping Ground:
glosses: Alternative form of this means war.
sports-bets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sports-bet
sports-betting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of sports-bet
sports-betted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sports-bet
WAGMIB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: wagmib
Senses: antonyms: NGMI
WNGMI
coordinate_terms: GMI
WAGMI
WGMI
YGMI
glosses: Abbreviation of we're all gonna make it, bros.
wagmib
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of WAGMIB.
wagmi
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of WAGMI.
ygmi
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of YGMI.
starwatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starwatchers
Etymology: From star + watcher.
Senses: examples: text: When the starwatcher finally awoke, they gave him breakfast and chav, and Sand hovered nearby as he ate.
ref: 1991, Susan Lynn Reynolds, Strandia, page 174:
text: Being a starwatcher myself, and coming from a long line of Indian soldiers, I should have known our friendship was destined.
ref: 2005, Hollis Dorion Stabler, Victoria Smith, No One Ever Asked Me, page x:
text: It was not an extremely bright star, perhaps only of the fourth or fifth magnitude, but it was very noticeable to a starwatcher like Nathan. To see the birth of a new star, Nathan surely knew, was a rare privilege.
ref: 2020, Gene Brown, Seven Candlesticks to Kingdom Come:
text: Ember wasn't naturally much of a starwatcher.
ref: 2021, Aria Noble, Lady of Dawn:
glosses: One who watches stars; stargazer.
starwatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starwatcher
churchmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchmasters
Etymology: From Middle English chirche maister, equivalent to church + master. Piecewise doublet of kyrkmaster.
Senses: glosses: A churchwarden.
churchmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchmaster
Englog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of English + Tagalog.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Taglish.
synonyms: word: Taglish
Swardspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From sward + -speak.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Bekinese
glosses: A form of Taglish gayspeak slang in Tagalog used by homosexual people in the Philippines, with elements from English, Spanish, Japanese, Hokkien, and other popular languages and pop culture icons.
Related terms: swardspeak
NLEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʔenleks/
[ˈʔɛːn.lɛks]
Senses: glosses: Acronym of North Luzon Expressway.
unculted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Provided nevertheless, where heretofore such a custom hath been in many parts of Wales, that of such chattel and other goods as hath been given with the marriage of any person, their tithes have been exacted and levied by the Parsons and Curates in those parts: which custom being dissonant from any part of this realm, as it seemed when the said country of Wales was through civil dissension unculted, for want of other sufficient profits that might otherwise grow to the Curates and Ministers there, to have been for that time tolerable;
ref: 1828, Charles Willats Ellis, The clergyman's assistant, page 342:
text: For yet [still] Christ, we actually being strengthless, yet, according to season [occasion = ' season-ably '], over unculted [rude, mere 'naturals' ] ones died away.
ref: 1871, Grove Berry, A Sequel to "Ritualism"., page 40:
text: […] and since my property as it is called and distinguisht by an English scale, while but a wild and unculted one, and never to be otherwise but at my cost, which is 99 parts in 100, besides the fall 'twill give to our present settlements ( that rise fifty p. cent on my last arrivall there) and an abundance of seen and unforeseen prejudices […]
ref: 1913, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, page 509:
glosses: In a wild, natural state.
gives neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give neck
giving neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give neck
gave neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give neck
SLEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛslɛks/
/ɛsˈlɛks/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of South Luzon Expressway.
given neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give neck
SCTEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈesiteks/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.
TPLEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t ˈpleks/
ipa: [t ˈplɛks]
ipa: /tiˈpileks/
ipa: [tɪˈpiː.lɛks]
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway.
CLLEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Central Luzon Link Expressway.
housing commission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Public housing.
bedspacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed spacing
Senses: glosses: lodgment (the act of using a bed in a private home, often rented out by the month.)
Related terms: bedspace
bedspacer
integrated school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integrated schools
Senses: topics: education
glosses: school with both elementary school and high school students
Indigenous Australians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indigenous Australian
commandary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commandaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commandery.
commandaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commandary
Indigenous Australian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indigenous Australians
Senses: glosses: A person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent.
Indigenous Australian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Indigenous Australian
form: most Indigenous Australian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.
alloformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloformations
Senses: examples: text: This area is not part of a steep range front with deeply incised stream valleys, so the disconformity between the alloformations does not have the great (tens to more than 100 m) relief that is found elsewhere along the Wasatch front.
ref: 1988, Michael N. Machette, In the Footsteps of G.K. Gilbert, page 86:
text: An alloformation may be completely or only partly divided into allomembers, if some useful purpose is served, or it many have no allomembers.
ref: 1990, Roy R. Lemon, Principles of Stratigraphy, page 520:
text: The concept of alloformations has added useful rigor to the conventional geomorphic tool of mapping and correlating fluvial geomorphic events by the landforms they leave behind.
ref: 2005, G. Mathias Kondolf, Hervé Piégay, Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology, page 37:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fundamental allostratigraphic unit, which may be considered part of an allogroup and may be made up of smaller allomembers; A mappable stratiform body of sedimentary rock that is bounded by discontinuities.
alloformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloformation
LTTE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
wikipedia: LTTE
allomember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allomembers
Senses: examples: text: An alloformation may be completely or only partly divided into allomembers, if some useful purpose is served, or it many have no allomembers.
ref: 1990, Roy R. Lemon, Principles of Stratigraphy, page 520:
text: Within these allomembers Porebski ( 1995 ) recognized a total of eight transgressive-regressive ( T-R ) cycles.
ref: 2006, Jane E. Francis, Duncan Pirrie, J. Alistair Crame, Cretaceous-Tertiary High-latitude Palaeoenvironments, page 129:
text: Lateral shifts in the location of flexural depocenters also take place on the scale of allomembers.
ref: 2011, Cathy Busby, Antonio Azor Pérez, Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A subdivision of an alloformation that is distinguishable by characteristics such as lithology or fossil content.
allomembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allomember
moley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moley
form: most moley
Etymology: From mole + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Although the snouts of moles twitch less than those of shrews, particularly elephant shrews, Dobson was enamoured of what he considered the more “moley” twitching of the snouts of moles.
ref: 2008, Frank Key, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, page 215:
text: Happily for him, Fallowlees is a moley paradise. Moles have long been a fascination of Bill's, and he can often be found staring longingly at a molehill.
ref: 2012, Emma Gray, One Girl And Her Dogs:
text: 'Oh, yes,' said the mole. 'We're definitely moles. We're very moley indeed. Isn't that right, Rolf the Mole?'
ref: 2015, John Dougherty, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Evilness of Pizza, page 86:
text: The first and most effective way was using the Professional Mole Man, who would walk your fields and drop strychnine-laced worms into the subterranean mole runs that connect each of their hills together (this method is now banned in the EU). It was pretty much instantaneous, and by the end of the day you would be rid of your moley problem.
ref: 2019, Philip Dixon, French Cows and Four Kisses:
glosses: Pertaining to, full of, or characteristic of moles (burrowing insectivores).
examples: text: Scalp naevi in children may be an early sign of being 'moley'. Patients with many moles tend to have a 'signature naevus'—i.e^([sic]) all their moles follow a pattern that is characteristic for that patient.
ref: 2010, Susan Burge, Dinny Wallis, Oxford Handbook of Medical Dermatology, page 322:
text: Furthermore, not only are melanoma-prone family members unusually moley; in addition , the moles themselves comprise a unique clinicopathologic entity, a class of melanocytic lesions which are unusually susceptible to malignant transformation.
ref: 2012, Richard P. Gallagher, Epidemiology of Malignant Melanoma, page 151:
text: You are a little moley on your stomach.
ref: 2022, Darren V. Michael, Brief Encounters: Short Plays for Beginning Theatre Artists, page 128:
glosses: Having numerous moles (naevi)
Devi Kanya Kumari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit देवी कन्या कुमारि (devī kanyā kumāri).
Senses: glosses: an avatar of Mahadevi
Mangasaryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mangasaryans
form: Mangasarian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մանգասարյան (Mangasaryan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Mangasarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mangasarians
Etymology: Variant of Mangasaryan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Mangasaryans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mangasaryan
Mangasarians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mangasarian
Humenyuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Humenyuks
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Гуменюк (Humenjuk).
Senses: examples: Vasyl Humenyuk, b. 1946
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Гуменюк (Humenjuk).
glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Related terms: Gumenyuk
Humeniuk
Humeniuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Humeniuks
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Гуменюк (Humenjuk).
Senses: examples: Scott Humeniuk, b. 1969
glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Related terms: Gumenyuk
Humenyuk
miniaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miniaceous
form: most miniaceous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minaceous.
luminious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luminious
form: most luminious
Senses: examples: text: Much as I enjoyed this winter, greatly as it instructed me, I cannot now recover from its luminious dark more than here and there an incident, a poem, a song.
ref: 1929, Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan Co., originally published by Collier, 1914), page 202:
text: On the table next to the cot, Ka-Zar found the solution to the mystery—a large can of luminious paint!
ref: 1941 April 24, “Young Ka-Zar”, in Marvel Mystery Comics, number 18:
glosses: Uncommon form of luminous.
actionables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actionable
karsevak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karsevaks
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi कारसेवक (kārsevak), in turn from Sanskrit कार (kāra, “work”) + सेवा (sevā, “service done with devotion”).
Senses: examples: text: The karsevaks built a new shelter to protect homeless people.
text: Huge number of karsevaks had gathered in Ayodhya in support for Ram temple campaign.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who freely offers their service to a religious cause; particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.
Coordinate terms: volunteer
Related terms: english: the work done by a karsevak
translation: the work done by a karsevak
word: kar seva
judgement of Solomon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judgements of Solomon
Senses: examples: text: All of these are of vital importance to the effective functioning of GBR. They all require the judgement of Solomon to handle the myriad and complex trade-offs between running trains and maintaining the railway, and deciding how capacity on any particular route can be optimised with all the competing demands from varying operators to run on it.
ref: 2024 June 12, Sir Michael Holden, “A manifesto for our railway to thrive”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of judgment of Solomon.
judgements of Solomon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judgement of Solomon
Acacia Avenue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: acacia (“A flowering shrub often grown ornamentally”) + avenue (“a broad tree-lined street”). Streets named after trees are common on planned housing estates.
Senses: examples: text: To Paul Hubbard of 11 Acacia Avenue, Anytown, Anyshire I give the residue of my estate.
ref: 2011 February 14, Julian Knight, Wills, Probate, and Inheritance Tax For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: A placeholder name for a residential street.
examples: text: In company lines intricate fences have sprung up around fantastic gardens. The officers' lines have begun to acquire an “Acacia Avenue” aspect.
ref: 1948, Alon Kadish, quoting Lt. Whidborne, The British Army in Palestine and the 1948 War: Containment, Withdrawal and Evacuation, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Nor, however, is the 'bourgeois' the Acacia Avenue accountant with two children in boarding-school education.
ref: 2004 January 1, David A. Reisman, Schumpeter's Market: Enterprise and Evolution, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 107:
text: A woman worked a garden behind a neat whitewashed fence, a real Acacia Avenue kind of scene.
ref: 2013 June 20, Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, The Long War: (Long Earth 2), Random House, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: An archetypal middle-class suburban residential street; many streets with this name actually exist in various towns and cities.
yelpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yelpish
form: most yelpish
Etymology: From yelp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a yelp; yelplike.
yelplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yelplike
form: most yelplike
Etymology: From yelp + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a yelp.
nondimmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nondimmable
form: most nondimmable
Etymology: From non- + dimmable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of undimmable.
synonyms: word: undimmable
caudoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A naturally occurring compound, C₃₀H₄₄O₉, found in Cauda equina (A South African succulant) and other plants, known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties
Derived terms: pseudocaudoside
Judenhetzen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judenhetze
hell from above
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hell + from + above. Possibly first inspired from a bombardment of arrows, similar archery or artillery.
Senses: glosses: A powerful bombardment of projectiles from above, especially in the context of war.
Related terms: english: give 'em hell; as in
translation: give 'em hell; as in
word: give hell
Atchisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atchison
piss shy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piss shy
form: most piss shy
Etymology: From piss + shy.
Senses: glosses: Pee shy, paruretic.
cavital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An annular ring of deliquescent material circumscribing the cavital area between a firing pin and an initiator, said ring adapted for use in the deposition of a stone-like mass in said cavital area as a result of having dispersed therein an oxide or hydroxide of either magnesium or calcium.
ref: 1970, Robert W. Heinemann, “3,513,778: Self-Sterilizing Fuze”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1101:
text: He mentions this and that, then says that its 'cavital suspension appears to be cantileveric,' and the beast keeps coming closer and closer .
ref: 2008, Mike Hankin, Ray Harryhausen - Master of the Majicks Vol. 2:, page 8:
text: In this chapter we dwell in greater detail on such problems as the interrelationship of membrane digestion with cavital digestion and absorption, on the possible role of the motor function of the small intestine in the realization of enzymatic hydrolysis on the membrance surface, and others.
ref: 2013, A.M. Ugolev, Physiology and Pathology of Membrane Digestion, page 75:
glosses: Pertaining to a pit or cavity.
Derived terms: intracavital
overamperage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + amperage.
Senses: coordinate_terms: overvoltage
glosses: Synonym of overcurrent.
synonyms: word: overcurrent
rigaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigarees
Etymology: From Italian rigare, from riga (“line”) + -are, inherited from Old Italian riga, from Lombardic rīga (“line, row”), from Proto-Germanic *rīgǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyk- (-kh-) (“to scratch, cut”).
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Parallel scores on a raised band, tear, or collar produced using ridges on the edge of a metal wheel.
Stuttgardt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Stuttgart.
beakment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beakments
Etymology: Corruption of beatment.
Senses: examples: text: 9. iij pecks and a beakment† of salt, iijˢ.
ref: 1878, “The Household Books of the Lord William Howard, Of Naworth Castle”, in The Publications of the Surtees Society, volume 68, Surtees Society, page 26:
text: Ann, wife of Richard Forster of Stocksfeild, did swing upon the rope, and, upon the first swing, she gott a cheese, and upon the second she gott a beakment of wheat flower, and upon the third swing she gott about halfe a quarter of butter to knead the said flower withall, they haveing noe power to gett water.
ref: 1889, A. Johnson, “Bywell”, in Archaeologia Aeliana, volume XIII, page 116:
text: One witch obtained a capon, the plum-broth it was boiled in, and a bottle of wine; another a chease, a “beakment” of wheat flour, and ‘‘half-a-quarter of butter to knead the said flower withall, they haveing noe power to gett water”; […]
ref: 1891 June 24, William Weaver Tomlinson, “Bywell-on-Tyne”, in The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, volume V, number 52, pages 273-274:
glosses: A measure of a quarter of a peck.
beakments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beakment
chorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chort
let this cup pass from me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the Bible, Matthew 26:39 King James Version.
Senses: glosses: An appeal to God or another authority to take away one's present or future suffering.
cacher box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacher boxes
form: casher box
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A triangular iron trough lined with wood and used for holding worked glass pieces while they await the lehr.
cacher boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacher box
campdrafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campdrafters
Senses: glosses: A person who participates in campdrafting.
glosses: A horse used in campdrafting
casher box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cacher box.
casher boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casher box
Ciissinraq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Given the location of the river, it is likely borrowed from Yup'ik [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A river in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States.
Barwon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A river in New South Wales, Australia.
Sendenhorst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sendenhorst.
Senses: glosses: A town in Warendorf district, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
linnet hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linnet holes
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A small flue connecting a furnace and a caulker, of about the diameter to admit a linnet.
linnet holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linnet hole
Żmigród
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-west Poland.
moyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moyl
skatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skatists
Senses: examples: text: One of our townsmen, who was just flattering himself with the idea of having acquired some proficiency as a skatist while making a round on the rollers, at the Pavilion got himself into an ungainly 'posish,' when the skate he was for the instant turning upon in a twinkling left him in the lurch.
ref: 1871, Weekly Intelligencer, November 20, 1871, quoted in "Roller skating in Seattle first occurs on October 21, 1871", historylink.org https://web.archive.org/web/20240619190127/https://dev.historylink.org/File/1613
glosses: A skater (person who skates), especially a skateboarder or rollerskater.
five-a-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Five portions of fruit or vegetable to be eaten each day as part of a healthy diet, as promoted by various national campaigns.
namakier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namakiers
Etymology: Blend of Persian نمک (namak, “salt”) + glacier. First use appears c. 1970. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Namakiers represent large, recumbent sheath folds underlain and flanked by rigid bedrock and overlain by air.
ref: 1970, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology (contributor), Report of Investigations - Issues 142-146, page 18:
text: Hence the namakier consists of a stack of overlapping tongues.
ref: 1987, Munn & Company (contributor), Scientific American - Volume 257, page 79:
text: Most salt extrusions rising on high ground are asymmetric and feed only one namakier.
ref: 1998, Andrew C. Scott, Derek John Blundell (editors), Lyell - The Past is the Key to the Present, page 320:
text: Small ephemeral features, including shallow caves, are typical of the salt glacier surface, but in an active namakier the salt is flowing too fast to preserve them.
ref: 2006, John K. Warren, Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons, page 471:
text: From Farsi for "mountain of salt," a namakier is perhaps more accurately described as a glacier of salt that can flow over the land surface as fast as inches per year, rivaling its icy counterparts for speed.
ref: 2022, Marcia Bjornerud, Geopedia - A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities, page 95:
glosses: Synonym of salt glacier.
synonyms: word: salt glacier
day of doom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of doomsday.
synonyms: word: doomsday
subsidized housing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of public housing.
synonyms: word: public housing
housing project
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housing projects
Senses: glosses: Synonym of public housing.
synonyms: word: public housing
housing projects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housing project
Eye Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Eye parish, City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF2203).
hoop la
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hoopla.
indicator lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicator lamps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indicator light.
synonyms: word: indicator light
indicator light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicator lights
Senses: synonyms: indicator lamp
glosses: An illuminated device that visually communicates a single piece of information.
Related terms: annunciator
butter keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter keepers
Senses: glosses: A type of butter dish consisting of a two-piece container in which butter is stored in the top portion, while the bottom portion is filled with an inch of water in order to keep the butter fresh.
linen cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linen cupboards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of linen closet.
synonyms: word: linen closet
Related terms: airing cupboard
linen cupboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linen cupboard
butter keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter keeper
dry ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry gingers
Senses: glosses: A form of ginger used commercially, obtained by drying its fresh rhizome.
glosses: Ginger ale.
dry gingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry ginger
weightfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From weightful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a weightful way or manner.
Isakki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil இசக்கி (icakki).
Senses: glosses: a folk Hindu goddess primarily worshipped in South India.
Jakkamma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil ஜக்கம்மா (jakkammā).
Senses: glosses: a folk deity worshipped in Tamil Nadu.
Turbo Diesel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cocktail consisting of snakebite and black and vodka.
Zelly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Zelenskyy + -y. Compare with Зе́ля (Zélja).
Senses: synonyms: Ze
Zee
glosses: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
up someone's strasse
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Substitution of strasse, the German word for street, perhaps originally in a Germany-related context, then gaining wider currency through euphony.
Senses: glosses: Up someone's street.
like a wolf on the fold
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: In a sudden or aggressive manner.
your barn door is open
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A discreet warning that one’s trouser fly is undone.
Related terms: fly low
Afro-Latino
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afro-Latino
form: most Afro-Latino
form: Afrolatino
form: afrolatino
Etymology: From Afro- + Latino.
Senses: examples: text: There are millions of Afro-Latino people around the world, from Honduras to Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic, who have hundreds of combinations of skin colors and hair textures.
ref: 2018 April 10, Natasha S. Alford, “More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina”, in Oprah Daily:
coordinate_terms: Afro-Latina
Afro-Latinx
glosses: A Latino of African descent.
Afro-Latino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Latinos
form: Afrolatino
form: afrolatino
Etymology: From Afro- + Latino.
Senses: glosses: A man of mixed African and Latino descent.
preserved in amber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of preserved in aspic.
synonyms: word: preserved in aspic
Kannagi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil கண்ணகி (kaṇṇaki).
Senses: glosses: a character in Cilappatikaram, sometimes worshipped as a goddess of chastity.
pet-shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pet-shops
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Wilham's fashionable West End pet-shop, where dogs lived in excelsior-floored cubicles, appealing to the passers-by.
ref: 1932, Rudyard Kipling, “The Woman in His Life”, in Limits and Renewals, Dominions edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of pet shop.
pet-shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pet-shop (alternative form of pet shops)
Meenakshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil மீனாக்ஷி (mīṉākṣi).
Senses: glosses: a Hindu goddess, the tutelary deity of Madurai.
comtech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] dragging through the courts now for the past decade enjoining the networks to get out of production — that a more widespread and radical divorcement throughout the communications industries — the entire comtech system — would increase competition and enable diversity to replace the "blandiose" programming that dominates broadcasting and other media as well.
ref: 1980, John M. Phelan, Disenchantment: Meaning and Morality in the Media, Hastings House, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: communications technology
glosses: computer technology
falls out of the ugly tree and hits every branch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
falling out of the ugly tree and hitting every branch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
falls off the ugly tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall off the ugly tree
falling off the ugly tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall off the ugly tree
fell off the ugly tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall off the ugly tree
fallen off the ugly tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall off the ugly tree
Afrolatinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afrolatino
Afro-Latinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afro-Latino
St Briavels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO5604).
Derived terms: St Briavels Common
luftgeschaefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luftgeschaeft
TMU
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of to my understanding.
trash-bin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trash-bins
form: trash-binning
form: trash-binned
form: trash-binned
Senses: examples: text: Your request to know explicit details about my sex life is noted, ridiculed, and trashbinned.
ref: 2002 May 8, Clay Colwell, “Yardhelp:”, in austin.general (Usenet):
text: I can think of a few colleagues who flagellate themselves into trash-binning fully adequate text. If these folk had the same neurosis in their cooking, they would starve to death!
ref: 2005, Mario Rinvolucri, “Unleashing Writing Creativity in Students”, in English Teaching Forum, volume 43, number 3, page 42:
glosses: To trash, throw out, discard; (computing) to delete (a file, etc).
Niladevi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit नीलदेवी (nīladevī).
Senses: synonyms: Nappinnai
glosses: a Hindu goddess, primarily worshipped in South India.
Nappinnai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil நப்பின்னை (nappiṉṉai).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Niladevi.
synonyms: word: Niladevi
hold one's nose up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds one's nose up
form: holding one's nose up
form: held one's nose up
form: held one's nose up
Senses: examples: text: The era of the "church-basement liberal" is over. Those who sit around meeting in the church basements of Cambridge, holding their noses up at the prospect of supporting candidates who don't agree with every last one of their issues, had exactly zero influence in this year's critical elections.
ref: 1990 December 9, Richard Braun, “A Whole New Day For The Party: Giving Us A Voice”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 5:
synonyms: turn one's nose up
glosses: To be disdainful or dismissive towards something.
cedarstrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cedarstrips
Senses: glosses: A type of canoe.
sporozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporozoa
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sporozoan.
Pavadairayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil பாவாடைராயன் (pāvāṭairāyaṉ).
Senses: glosses: a folk and Hindu deity worshipped in Tamil Nadu.
Perumal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil பெருமாள் (perumāḷ).
Senses: glosses: a Hindu deity, considered to be a form of Vishnu.
Pidari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil பிடாரி (piṭāri).
Senses: glosses: a Hindu deity, consort of Shiva.
Sudalai Madan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil சுடலைமாடன் (cuṭalaimāṭaṉ).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: a Dravidian folk religion deity, considered to be a son of Shiva and Parvati.
puts all one's eggs in one basket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put all one's eggs in one basket
putting all one's eggs in one basket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put all one's eggs in one basket
Madurai Veeran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil மதுரைவீரன் (maturaivīraṉ).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: a Tamil folk deity
omnicause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the omnicause
Etymology: From omni- + cause. Coined in 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war protests. Compare omnishambles.
Senses: examples: text: Palestinians have attained this status: as a group, they tick a great many intersectional victim boxes, while Omnicause adherents have long viewed Israel’s behaviour as a metonym for American oppression, both internally (racism, slavery) and externally (global imperial hegemony).
ref: 2023 November 20, Mary Harrington, UnHerd, archived from the original on 28 May 2024:
text: But it was ever thus. Radical activism has always been a multipack deal. Our omnicause encompassed apartheid, Nicaragua, nuclear disarmament, the miners’ strike and that Thatcher-era hardy perennial, The Cuts.
ref: 2024 May 17, Janice Turner, “Don’t scorn students for believing in a cause”, in The Times, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024:
text: The impact the critical race theory discipline has had on how the omnicause is articulated cannot be overstressed.
ref: 2024 May 20, Mike Gonzalez, “Who Benefits From the Destabilization of the U.S.?”, in The Heritage Foundation:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The intersectional relatedness of major political causes and issues, especially in the context of such relatedness being false or exaggerated.
Related terms: bleeding-heart
cause célèbre
woke
emergency parking bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency parking bays
Senses: glosses: A paved area at the side of a highway designated for drivers to stop in, for emergency parking, or where vehicles can wait, with larger lay-bys possibly having facilities like food vendors or public telephones.
swears to God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swear to God
swore to God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of swear to God
sworn to God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of swear to God
Annamar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil அண்ணமார் (aṇṇamār).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: a Tamil village deity of the Nalavar and Pallar castes
PHLPost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Philippine Postal Corporation.
POGO hub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POGO hubs
form: Pogo hub
Senses: glosses: An establishment run by POGOs.
hotdog pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotdog pillows
Etymology: From the pillow's resemblance to a hot dog (type of sausage).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bolster pillow.
synonyms: word: bolster pillow
MCX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌʔemsi ˈʔeks/
[ˌʔɛːm.sɪ ˈʔɛks]
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Muntinlupa-Cavite Expressway.
Skyway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Skyway
Senses: examples: text: Approximately 240,000 vehicles per day use the existing six-lane South Superhighway, of which 30 percent are projected to switch to the Skyway.
ref: 1999 May 24, Chiaki Kuranami, Bruce P. Winston, Jeffrey J. Sriver, Masayoshi Iwasaki, Shigeru Iwama, “Asian Toll Road Development Program: Review of Recent Toll Road Experience in Selected Countries and Preliminary Tool Kit for Toll Road Development”, in The World Bank, retrieved 20 Jun 2024, page 114:
text: On January 10, 2002, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) filed, in behalf of public respondent TRB, Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and Judge Ranada, a "Consolidated Comment"[15] contending that: (1) the TRB has the exclusive jurisdiction over all matters relating to toll rates; (2) Resolution No. 2001-89 covers both the Skyway and the at-grade level of the South Luzon Expressway as provided under the STOA; (3) that while Resolution No. 2001-89 does not mention any factual basis to justify its issuance, however, it does not mean that TRB's finding of facts is not supported by evidence; and (4) petitioner Padua cannot assail the validity of the STOA because he is not a party thereto.
ref: 2002 October 14, Supreme Court, “G.R. No. 141949 & 151108”, in LawPhil, retrieved 20 Jun 2024:
text: One person was killed while two others were hurt after an armored van fell from the Skyway in Makati City during rush hour yesterday.
ref: 2007 January 25, Rhodina Villanueva, “Armored van falls from Skyway”, in Philstar, retrieved 20 Jun 2024:
glosses: Ellipsis of Metro Manila Skyway.
third lieutenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third lieutenants
form: 3rd lieutenant
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The lowest commissioned officer grade of the American colonial gendarmerie, an organization which existed from 1901 through 1942.
traffic lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: unarmed traffic police
synonyms: traffic leash
glosses: A short dog lead (leash) designed for use in crowded environments.
statutory board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statutory boards
Etymology: From statutory + board.
Senses: examples: text: Every person who immediately before 1 July 1997 enjoyed a right of audience before any court, magistrate, statutory tribunal or statutory board shall on and after that date continue to enjoy such right before the corresponding court, magistrate, tribunal or board of the HKSAR.
ref: 1997, Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Hong Kong Reunification Ordinance”, in Hong Kong Government Gazetteᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page A23:
topics: government
glosses: A quasi-government body corporate constituted under legislation and tasked to perform some functions.
statutory boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statutory board
cenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cene + -osis.
Senses: glosses: The relationships between cenomes in a cenology.
Derived terms: biocenosis
pathocenosis
technocenosis
Related terms: cenome
cenomics