cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
topsy-turviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topsyturviness
form: topsy-turvyness
Etymology: From topsy-turvy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Poor Margaret’s state of mind may have accounted for the tremendous topsy-turviness—to use a familiar expression—of her sentences.
ref: 1847, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, The Comic History of England, London: Punch, Volume I, Book 4, Chapter 4, page 278
text: The ward master comes to the door of each room that is to be thinned, reads off a list of names, bids their owners look sharp and be ready when called for; and, as he vanishes, the rooms fall into an indescribable state of topsy-turvyness, as the boys begin to black their boots, brighten spurs, if they have them, overhaul knapsacks, make presents; […]
ref: 1863 May 22 – 1863 June 26, L[ouisa] M[ay] Alcott, “A Postscript”, in Hospital Sketches, Boston, Mass.: James Redpath, […], published August 1863, →OCLC, page 95:
text: It is said, for example, that a vast amount of English grammar and literature is picked up in the course of learning Latin and Greek. This is perfectly true, but the topsy-turviness of the idea never seems to strike them. It is like saying that a baby picks up the art of walking in the course of learning to hop, or that a Frenchman may successfully be taught German by helping a Prussian to learn Ashanti.
ref: 1901, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “A Defence of Patriotism”, in The Defendant, London: R. Brimley Johnson, →OCLC, page 130:
text: This discovery gave the world a strange new topsy-turvyness, and set Millner's theories spinning about his brain like the cabin furniture of a tossing ship.
ref: 1910 October, Edith Wharton, “The Blond Beast”, in Tales of Men and Ghosts, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, section IV, page 312:
text: “It’s the curse,” he said, referencing Beria, for whose sins Dynamo, many say, has yet to atone. But the club’s predicament owes more to the topsy-turviness of Russian soccer than to some historic hoodoo.
ref: 2016 February 11, Sean Williams, “The downfall of a Russian soccer team”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: word: chaos
word: disorganization
word: muddle
word: bedlam
word: car crash
word: chaos
word: confusion
word: disarray
word: disorder
word: disorganization
word: dog's breakfast
word: dog's dinner
word: free-for-all
word: fuddle
word: hash
word: hot mess
word: imbroglio
word: mash
word: maze
word: mess
word: misorder
word: mommick
word: muddle
word: mullock
word: muss
word: shambles
word: shemozzle
word: snarl
word: tangle
word: topsy-turviness
word: upfuckery
glosses: The condition or state of being topsy-turvy; disorderly or muddled.
topsy-turvyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From topsy-turvy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of topsy-turviness.
topsy-turvily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more topsy-turvily
form: most topsy-turvily
Etymology: From topsy-turvy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You frighten me a little by the order that is all through you. Even your sins appear to have unity, whereas I keep house topsy-turvily in my innermost being.
ref: 1920, Mabel Wood Martin, chapter 7, in The Green God’s Pavilion, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 92:
text: While groping her way about, Eve barked her shins against pieces of furniture that seemed to be lying topsy-turvily about.
ref: 1940, Emma Orczy, chapter 14, in Mam’zelle Guillotine, London: Hodder & Stoughton:
glosses: In a topsy-turvy manner, chaotically.
morphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphine
South Staffordshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government district of Staffordshire, England, created in 1974.
power clean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power cleans
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A weight training exercise, a variant of the clean, in which the lifter does not catch the bar in a full squat position.
power cleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power clean
curtain array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtain arrays
Senses: glosses: A large multielement directional wire radio transmitting antenna, used in the shortwave radio bands.
curtain arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtain array
strongful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strongful
form: most strongful
Etymology: From Middle English strongful, strongeful, equivalent to strong + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of strength; powerful
Derived terms: strongfully
Emmet County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both counties are named after Robert Emmet.
Senses: glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Estherville.
glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Petoskey.
strongfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strongfully
form: most strongfully
Etymology: From Middle English strongfully, equivalent to strongful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a strongful manner; powerfully
falling blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falling block
bootsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutsi/
Senses: examples: text: "You hear his new one Tha Carter III? Sixteen cuts, they all good. Not one of 'em bootsy." Skinny Pimp said, “Fifty's the bigga nigga. Boy got some knock."
ref: 2009, Peter Leonard, Trust Me: A Novel, →ISBN, page 76:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Bad, not good; (by extension) ugly or crazy.
Estherville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Esther + -ville, named after Esther A. Ridley.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Emmet County, Iowa, United States.
recoater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoaters
Etymology: From recoat + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that restores the primary coating to stripped optical fiber sections after fusion splicing.
recoaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoater
Petoskey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ottawa biidaasige (“light that is coming”), from Chief Ignatius Petoskey.
Senses: glosses: A city and coastal resort, the county seat of Emmet County, Michigan, United States.
Derived terms: Petoskey stone
rematriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Based on repatriation.
Senses: glosses: A return to a spiritual way of life with respect for Mother Earth.
Related terms: rematriate
neon fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neon fish
Suffolk County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfək ˈkaʊnti/
ipa: [ˈsʌfək̚ ˈkʰaʊ̯ɾ̃i]
ipa: [ˈsʌ̈fək̚ ˈkʰa̟ʊ̯ɾ̃i]
ipa: /ˈsʌfək ˈkaʊnti/
ipa: [ˈsʌfək ˈkʰaʊ̯nti]
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: Both are named after the county of Suffolk in England.
Senses: glosses: One of 14 counties in Massachusetts, United States. County seat: Boston.
glosses: One of 62 counties in New York, United States. County seat: Riverhead. It is situated on Long Island.
Central Asians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Central Asian
rastella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rastellum
bean-to-bar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or involved in, the entire process of making chocolate, starting with the production and processing of cocoa beans, and ending with the manufacture of chocolate bars.
Related terms: farm-to-table
subtruncate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + truncate.
Senses: examples: text: Trulleum with large pentagonal proximal plate and a narrower, gradually widening distal portion with a relatively broad melanized tip with rugged texture; end subtruncate.
ref: 1989, ES Nielsen, Primitive Ghost Moths:
glosses: Nearly truncate.
canthellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The trulleum in many groups is closed along its inner (medial) border by a raised ridge of cuticle, the canthellus. The canthellus may extend to, and even fuse with, the base margin of the mandible (canthellus closed) or may fail to reach the basal margin (canthellus open).
ref: 2016, Brian L. Fisher, Barry Bolton, Ants of Africa and Madagascar: A Guide to the Genera:
glosses: A raised ridge of cuticle around the inner border of the trulleum in certain ants.
pseudoteguminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the pseudotegumen.
kanbanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kanbanizes
form: kanbanizing
form: kanbanized
form: kanbanized
Etymology: From kanban + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To adapt (a manufacturing system) to the kanban system.
kanbanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kanbanize
kanbanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kanbanize
kanbanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kanbanize
rose quartzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose quartz
leg day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg days
Senses: examples: text: Don't skip leg day.
text: 6 August 2015, "Leg Day", Teen Titans Go!
RAVEN: I worked on my upper body yesterday. Today is leg day.
text: 7 July 2017, Melanie Scrofano, "Let's Pretend We're Strangers", Wynonna Earp
I will shoot every beak-billed leg-day-loving last one of you.
holonyms: split
glosses: A day dedicated to leg exercises.
Coordinate terms: arm day
back day
brain day
cardio day
chest day
core day
full-body day
lower body day
neck day
rest day
total body day
upper body day
Related terms: chicken leg
stage magic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ædʒɪk
Senses: glosses: Magic tricks performed on stage to entertain an audience.
rightdoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From right + doing.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Doing what is right.
put hair on one's chest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts hair on one's chest
form: putting hair on one's chest
form: put hair on one's chest
form: put hair on one's chest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put hair on someone's chest (“to make one manly and vigorous”).
Ljudevit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages.
Trpimir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages.
a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a roo loose in the top paddock
form: a few roos loose in the top paddock
form: kangaroos in the top paddock
Senses: glosses: Things that are not quite right in one's head; a situation of mental confusion or insanity.
a roo loose in the top paddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a kangaroo loose in the top paddock.
a few roos loose in the top paddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a kangaroo loose in the top paddock.
wouldn't say no
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: - Fancy a cup of tea?
- I wouldn't say no.
text: She wasn't necessarily interested in looking for a pick-up, although she probably wouldn't say no to the right offer.
ref: 2003, William Kamm, All About Rosie, page 81:
glosses: Would be willing or glad (to have).
grocery shrink ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Suggesting a science fiction device to reduce the size of objects.
Senses: examples: text: They applied the good old grocery shrink ray and yet they also raised the price as well!
glosses: The practice, among manufacturers, of gradually reducing the physical size of grocery items so as to increase profits.
Related terms: shrinkflation
skimpflation
lethe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːθi/
Forms: form: lethes
Etymology: From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē, “forgetfulness”).
Senses: examples: text: So in the Lethe of thy angry ſoule,
 Thou drowne the ſad remembrance of thoſe wrongs,
 Which thou ſuppoſest I haue done to thee.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 197:
glosses: Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
examples: text: Till that the conquering Wine hath ſteep't our ſenſe,
 In ſoft and delicate Lethe.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], page 351:
text: What does it mean to say that the stream of silence originates in lethe? It means, above all, that the stream has its source (Quelle) in that which has not yet been said and which must remain unsaid: the "unsaid."
ref: 1980, Joseph J. Kockelmans, On Heidegger and Language, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 241:
glosses: Dissimulation.
Derived terms: lethean
Related terms: lethargy
lethargic
lethe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːθi/
Forms: form: lethes
Etymology: Possibly influenced by Latin lētum (“killing”).
Senses: examples: text: Pardon me Iulius, here was't thou bay'd braue Hart,
 Heere did'ſt thou fall, and heere thy Hunters ſtand
 Sign'd in thy Spoyle, and Crimſon'd in thy Lethee.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 120, line 219:
glosses: Death.
Riverhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪv.ɚ.hɛd/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)hɛd
Etymology: Compound of river + head.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish near Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5156).
glosses: A census-designated place and town, the county seat of Suffolk County, on Long Island, New York, United States.
glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A town at the head of Waitemata Harbour, north-west of Auckland, New Zealand.
lethean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /liːˈθi.ən/
/ˈliθi.ən/
Etymology: From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).
Senses: examples: text: Men said that the garden had been roofed over against the sun with great sheets of lead and copper, leaving no cranny through which the tiniest star could peer down. Some swore that the privacy of its masters during their visits was ensured by a lethean slumber which Dwerulas, through his magic art, was wont to lay at such times upon the whole vicinity.
ref: 1938 April, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Garden of Adompha”, in Weird Tales, volume 31:
glosses: Of or relating to death or forgetfulness.
Related terms: lethe
lethal
loose connection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose connections
Senses: glosses: a defective or imperfect connection in electric wiring, as in a headphone cable or plug
ferret about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ferrets about
form: ferreting about
form: ferreted about
form: ferreted about
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ferret around.
synonyms: word: ferret around
spinal canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinal canal
Angelina County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a Hasinai woman who was named Angelina by Spanish missionaries.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Lufkin.
wikipedia: Hasinai
hulkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hulking
stepwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From step + work.
Senses: examples: text: The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.
ref: 1953, The Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings (volume 2, part 2, page 513)
glosses: A construction in the form of steps.
decommit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: decommits
form: decommitting
form: decommitted
form: decommitted
Etymology: From de- + commit.
Senses: glosses: To withdraw from a commitment.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To deactivate or decommission.
Related terms: decommitment
decommits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decommit
decommitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decommit
decommitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decommit
Eau Claire County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Eau Claire River.
Senses: glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Eau Claire.
wikipedia: Eau Claire River (Chippewa River)
historic presents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historic present
empty sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty set
tabnabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tab nabbing
Etymology: From tab + nabbing, coined in 2010 by Aza Raskin.
Senses: glosses: A form of cyberattack that takes over inactive tabs in a user's browser, relying on their inattention.
wikipedia: Aza Raskin
leave it out
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Stop it; an admonition to a person who is misbehaving.
leave it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves it out
form: leaving it out
form: left it out
form: left it out
Senses: glosses: To cease doing something.
exessive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exessive case
fishen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: more fishen
form: most fishen
Etymology: From Middle English fisshen (“fishlike”), equivalent to fish + -en. Compare English piscine.
Senses: examples: text: From betwixt their shoulders grewe their winges like Ha[r]pies, stretching downe and extending to the foulding and turnings of theyr tayles, vpon their monstrous flankes grew out their fynnes to swimme withall, their beginning, their fishen and scalye substance, and from thence so continuing theyr nether parts downewarde.
ref: 1592, Francesco Colonna, Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia, the strife of love in a dreame, page 53:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of a fish; fishlike
Jacob's Pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The stone mentioned in the Book of Genesis as having been used as a pillow by the Israelite patriarch Jacob at the place later called Bet-El. Since Jacob had a vision in his sleep, he then consecrated the stone to God. More recently, the stone has been claimed by Scottish folklore and British Israelism.
Related terms: Jacob's ladder
Anglo-Israelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anglo- + Israel + -ism.
Senses: glosses: British Israelism.
British Israelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A movement that holds the view that the people of England (or, more broadly, Great Britain) are genetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.
Synonyms: Anglo-Israelism
Valenciennes laces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Valenciennes lace
scrunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Senses: examples: text: […] Sun to Sun sure gives the current crop of jingle-jangle scrunge bands the kick in the ass they deserve.
ref: 1996, SPIN, volume 11, number 11, page 24:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An inauthentic form of grunge music.
scrunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: scrunges
Senses: qualifier: tiddlywinks
glosses: A shot where the wink enters the pot but bounces out again.
scrunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: scrunges
form: scrunging
form: scrunged
form: scrunged
Etymology: Probably a corruption of scrounge.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, wait for me while I scrunge the breakroom.
text: For myself, I scrunged a lift in a handsome car to Swiss Cottage and proceeded to buy a camp bed, which, owing to strike demands, Selfridge's were unable to supply.
ref: 1926, The Bookman - Volume 64, page 43:
text: I was still at Kitt Peak at the time and I scrunged around to find one.
ref: 1984, Astronomical Microdensitometry Conference:
text: In the Fifties — in the far past, let us say — you had to scrunge for money for arts projects, unless you were exceptionally well connected: you courted individual patrons, if you had the knack; you married well, or well enough, as some poets still do; you "did without", you "saved" and then went broke.
ref: 1999, Frederick Eckman, Linda Wagner-Martin, David Adams, Over West: Selected Writings of Frederick Eckman, page 169:
glosses: To scour (search) desperately for resources such as food or equipment.
scrunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: scrunges
form: scrunging
form: scrunged
form: scrunged
Etymology: Possibly a corruption of scrunch.
Senses: examples: text: I feels th' coal scrunge as I come down an' the exhaust steam hisses as we strikes.
ref: 1906, Richard Hayes Barry, Sandy from the Sierras, page 172:
text: To bring his head somewhere down near hers, he slid down and scrunged his bony knees to one side and beneath the music rack on the pew ahead.
ref: 1949, Frederick Feikema Manfred, The primitive, page 221:
text: He goes to the back room and scrunges into the corner.
ref: 1984, New York Sportsman - Volumes 13-15, page 44:
text: The light pattern had been reversed as I was walking over from the hospital and now the vast ziggurat was bathed inbright light, while the bench where the idiot and I scrunged cheese through our teeth was in deep shadow.
ref: 2014, Will Self, Will Self's Collected Fiction - Volume 1:
text: I know there's something bothering you. Your face is all scrunged up and you're pale as a ghost.
ref: 2016, Al Miller, Who Is Barton T. Jones?: The Farmer in the Bush, page 118:
text: We were scrunged up at a small table, at least those of us not dropping folders.
ref: 2017, Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game:
glosses: To squeeze; to scrunch.
scrunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: scrunges
Etymology: Blend of scum + grunge.
Senses: examples: text: Taking the nineteen-pound white Persian into her lap, she kissed his nose, then wiped her lips free of any lingering kitty scrunge with the back of her hand.
ref: 1992, Echo Heron, Mercy, page 210:
text: That store, by the way, like most else in Mala Noche, is a scruffy den of half-glimpsed scrunge.
ref: 1994, Donald Lyons, Independent Visions, page 225:
text: In terms of laboratory research, however, a small error must have crept in, because the resulting pig, by its format and its tendency to mess and stench, surpassed even a scientist's gloomiest dreams of a dinosaur submerged in Jurassic scrunge.
ref: 1997, Miroslav Holub, Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions, page 58:
glosses: Scunge; muck; a disgusting and (usually) semiliquid substance.
examples: text: Other existing films, however, show how funny Mabel could be with Chaplin when she played a scrungy fishwife equal in size and scrunge to his drunken tramp.
ref: 1992, Betty Harper Fussell, Mabel, page 72:
text: Although she had spent a full decade and a half of her life doing exactly nothing but look for a man, she still had not found one, not one, in any case, that she ever spoke about with approval, having dated mainly parking attendants, bike messengers with rings in their ears, large-ball bowlers, tarot therapists, protohominids, moral bindlestiffs, sad scrunges, strangers on trains, and, the way he got it, more than a man or two in the shadowy doorways of Point Barrios or Tapachula, Guatemala.
ref: 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual, page 546:
glosses: A scruffy and impoverished individual.
scrunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: scrunges
form: scrunging
form: scrunged
form: scrunged
Etymology: Blend of scum + grunge.
Senses: examples: text: Can ' t get my million - dollar paws scrunged up .
ref: 1976, Mary Anderson, F*T*C Superstar, page 125:
text: Yu'know scrunge up like when rain wet them up.
ref: 2007, Charles Hyatt, When Me Was a Boy, page 100:
text: You were very fussy about books not getting 'scrunged'. If a book had an even slightly damaged or tatty cover, you wouldn't buy it.
ref: 2017, Cathy Penman, A Widow's Words, page 496:
glosses: To make or become scrungy.
meatball surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatball surgery
long blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long black
Zhangcha duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque from Chinese 樟茶鴨／樟茶鸭 (zhāngcháyā, “camphor-tea duck”).
Senses: glosses: A Sichuan dish of marinated duck, smoked over tea leaves and camphor twigs.
china clays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of china clay
shrink-swell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The capacity of certain clay minerals to expand when wet and retract when dry.
kinky hair disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Menkes disease
steely hair disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Menkes disease
birth weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birth weight
brickhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickheads
Etymology: From brick + head.
Senses: glosses: A stubbornly stupid person.
brickheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brickhead
blubberbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blubberbrains
Etymology: From blubber + brain.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person.
blubberbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blubberbrain
Chiangchew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiaŋˈt͡ʃuː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 漳州 (Chiang-chiu), specifically the Xiamen Hokkien and Zhangzhou Hokkien dialects.
Senses: examples: text: He then fled from Chiangchew, the city of his residence, and settled upon the isle of Amoy, where he resided, and defended it by his fleet.
ref: 1822 February, “A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East-India Companys Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East, and of the Causes by which Those Endeavours Have been Frustrated”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, volume XIII, number 74, Section III: Japan and China, page 117:
text: About twenty mills beyond Chiangchew, we get into a valley where the foreigner is seldom seen....The next day we are off for the headquarters of this region Chiangchew.
ref: 1888 December 7, John G. Fagg, “The Amoy Mission, China”, in The Mission Field, volume II, number 3, page 25:
glosses: Dated form of Zhangzhou.
white lobster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: jettisoned cocaine retrieved by fishermen
go-fast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-fasts
form: go fast
Senses: glosses: A speedboat.
glosses: Methamphetamine.
go-fasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-fast
cohyponymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cohyponym + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to cohyponyms (coordinate terms): sharing a hypernym with another word or phrase.
Synonyms: cohyponymic
coordinate
Coordinate terms: autohyponymic
autohyponymous
comeronymic
comeronymous
hyponymic
hyponymous
More: see Wiktionary:Semantic relations
Derived terms: cohyponymously
Related terms: cohyponymically
Carruthers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carrutherses
form: Carithers
form: Caruthers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
click farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: click farms
Senses: glosses: A form of click fraud, where a large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on paid advertising links for the click fraudster.
Hyponyms: like farm
Derived terms: click farmer
click farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of click farm
click farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: click farmers
Senses: glosses: An owner or operator of a click farm.
click farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of click farmer
Chippewa County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Sault Ste. Marie. It is situated on the Upper Peninsula, and it was named after the Chippewa people.
glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Montevideo. Named after the Chippewa River.
glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Chippewa Falls. Named after the Chippewa people.
mountain wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain wolves
Etymology: From mountain + wolf, From this canid living in mountainous terrain, and having an appearance like a wolf.
Possibly also Calque of translingual Cuon alpinus, but 'cuon' means 'dog' rather than 'wolf'.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dhole (Cuon alpinus)
synonyms: word: dhole
extra: Cuon alpinus
Sault Ste. Marie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsuː seɪnt məˈɹiː/
Forms: form: Sault Sainte Marie
form: Sault Saint Marie
form: Sault Sainte-Marie
form: Sault Saint-Marie
form: Sault-Sainte-Marie
form: Sault-Saint-Marie
form: Sault Ste Marie
form: Sault St Marie
form: Sault St. Marie
form: Sault Ste-Marie
form: Sault St-Marie
form: Sault Ste.-Marie
form: Sault St.-Marie
form: Sault-Ste-Marie
form: Sault-St-Marie
form: Sault-Ste.-Marie
form: Sault-St.-Marie
Etymology: From French Sault Ste. Marie (“rapids of the St. Mary (River)”), from Middle French. The two cities were originally one until the US-Canadian border was defined as the St. Marys River (“St. Marys River (Michigan-Ontario)”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the seat of the Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Chippewa County, Michigan, United States.
Synonyms: Soo
Derived terms: Soo
milk train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk trains
Etymology: Familiarised from the early morning goods trains used to transport milk on the British railway system.
Senses: examples: text: But I also felt again the remembered romantic warmth of nodding off on the milk-train home in the early hours, with Liz by my side.
ref: 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: A slow passenger train leaving in the early hours of the morning.
examples: text: On the Western Region, milk trains work up to London from Penzance, Wellington (Som.), Weymouth, Whitland, Carmarthen and Wootton Bassett, each train making several intermediate stops to attach further milk tanks, and in some cases to shed them.
ref: 1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 154:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.
milk trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk train
-witz
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from German -witz.
Senses: glosses: Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
Komarek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Komareks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Komárek and Polish Komarek.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
uttanasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uttanasan
Etymology: From Sanskrit उत्तानासन (uttānāsana); from उत्तान (uttāna) + आसन (āsana, “asana”).
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: A pose wherein the body of stretched forward.
uttanasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uttanasana.
shirshasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃəɹˈʃɑːsɑːnɑː/
Etymology: From Sanskrit शीर्षासन (śīrṣāsana), from शीर्ष (śīrṣa, “head, skull”) + आसन (āsana, “seat, chair; sitting, way of sitting”).
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: The pose wherein the body is completely inverted, and held upright supported by the forearms, while the crown of the head rests on the floor.
salabhasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shalabhasana
Etymology: From Sanskrit शलभ (śalabha, “grasshopper, locust”) + आसन (āsana, “seat, chair; sitting, way of sitting”).
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: The locust pose, a back-bending yoga asana.
Chippewa Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States, located on the Chippewa River.
credit whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit whores
Senses: examples: text: I didn't think I deserved credit, and I've been known to be a credit whore.
ref: 2013, Howie Weiner, Howie Weener Unclogged: A Colonic Noir Musical Memoir:
glosses: A person who feels entitled to receiving credit or recognition for even the most insignificant task.
credit whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit whore
heart balm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart balms
form: heart-balm
form: heartbalm
Etymology: From heart + balm.
Senses: examples: text: So many things, however, are a genuine heartbalm like the prickles of the Pleiades rising on the night.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 211:
glosses: Something that soothes a person's fears or emotions.
topics: law
glosses: A fine for a breach of promise (to marry).
SADs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SAD
LHF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LHFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lassa hemorrhagic fever.
examples: text: We call these easy ways in low-hanging fruit (LHF).
ref: 2020, Royce Davis, The Art of Network Penetration Testing: How to take over any company in the world, Manning Publications, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Initialism of low-hanging fruit.
go viral
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes viral
form: going viral
form: went viral
form: gone viral
Etymology: The sociologic phenomenon was named thus because it is analogous to the way in which viruses propagate, with exponential potential. This phrasal verb developed in the late 20th or early 21st century as a name for a phenomenon that has existed since humans became capable of exposing one another to ideas in highly contagious ways; thus, gossip and rumor in close-quartered populations, print circulation, and broadcasting were all enough to produce it, but the advent of the internet, and more specifically the web era and smartphone era, provided many new instances and the occasion to bestow a name on the theme. See also meme, a word coined in 1976 for a phenomenon as old as human interaction.
Senses: examples: text: Hundreds of long-forgotten texts that went viral in the 19th century are being discovered by a new collaboration of humanities scholars and computer scientists.
ref: 2013 November 4, Greg Miller, “Here's How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s ”, in Wired, retrieved 16 Feb 2022:
text: After watching hours of these videos, I realized there’s no use trying to make sense of any one of them, but taken as a body of work, they tell a story: the struggles of a person trying to go viral again.
ref: 2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine:
text: Li Lina, a resident in the Hanyang district, beat a gong and shrieked from her high-rise balcony this weekend to beg for help for herself and her stricken mother holed up at home. A neighbor filmed her cries and uploaded it to the Internet, where it went viral.
ref: 2020 February 9, Gerry Shih, “Coronavirus deaths climb as China corrals sick in quarantine facilities in outbreak epicenter”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2020, Asia & Pacific:
text: A group of girls from Norway asked me why their videos weren’t going viral like the ones from their American peers.
ref: 2020 May 8, Louise Matsakis, “The Year the Internet Thought I Was MacKenzie Bezos”, in Wired:
text: “Once you know how to make a video go viral, it’s just about how to get as many out as possible,” he told Bloomberg in December. “You can practically make unlimited money.”
ref: 2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, quoting Mr. Beast, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To be rapidly and frequently shared, especially through social media, but (with retroactive application to pre-internet occurrences) also via gossip or as a collective response to broadcasting or widespread print circulation.
wikipedia: print circulation
Related terms: break the Internet
glue ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glue ears
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Otitis media with effusion.
Ziobro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ziobros
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ziobro, ultimately Proto-Slavic *rebrò.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Macclenny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Baker County, Florida, United States.
weight gains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weight gain
Baker City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Edward Dickinson Baker.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States.
wikipedia: Edward Dickinson Baker
exotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exotropic
form: most exotropic
Senses: glosses: Suffering from or related to exotropia.
Ukrainian studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: An academic discipline that includes the study of Ukrainian linguistics, sociolinguistics, language and literature, along with Ukrainian history and culture.
policy mixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of policy mix
softgel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softgels
Etymology: From soft + gel.
Senses: glosses: A form of medicine to be taken orally, with a gelatin-based shell around a liquid filling.
softgels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softgel
Sokolik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sokoliks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Sokolik, Czech Sokolík, or Slovak Sokolík.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
misclicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misclick
misclicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misclick
tandem gaits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tandem gait
buffoonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffoonries
Etymology: From buffoon + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e ſet him [the Devil] up like a Scare-Crovv to fright Children and old VVomen, to fill up old Stories, make Songs and Ballads, and in a VVord, carry on the lovv priz'd Buffoonry of the common People; […]
ref: 1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of the Manner of Satan’s Acting and Carrying on His Affairs in This World, and Particularly of His Ordinary Workings in the Dark, by Possession and Agitation”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: […], London: […] T. Warner, […], →OCLC, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 222:
text: [We] have […] a strong inclination to make a farce of it, and mingle buffoonry with the most serious scenes.
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of buffoonery.
buffoonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffoonry
stationary bicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stationary bicycle
rithmomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle”).
Senses: glosses: The philosopher's game.
glue ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glue ear
Ladysmith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The South African town was named after Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith, as the wife of Sir Harry Smith she was known as Lady Smith.
Senses: glosses: A village near the city of Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, originally Oyster Harbor. Named to commemorate the lifting of the siege of Ladysmith, Natal, in 1902.
glosses: A city in Uthukela District, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia, United States. Named after Ladysmith, Natal.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the bride of Charles R. Smith.
Christopagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christopagans
Etymology: From Christo- + pagan.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Christopaganism.
Christopagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christopagan
Planet 9
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Planet Nine
form: Planet IX
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A theoretical ninth planet in the Solar system, the gravitational effects of which would explain the improbable orbital configuration of a group of trans-Neptunian objects that orbit mostly beyond the Kuiper belt.
Planet Nine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Planet 9.
Montcalm County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Stanton.
wikipedia: Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
emburden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emburdens
form: emburdening
form: emburdened
form: emburdened
form: emburthen
form: imburden
form: imburthen
Etymology: From em- + burden.
Senses: examples: text: The PCF policy is to make maximum use of direct taxes, and to apply the centime tax with a distinction between large and small property owners in order to emburden the "large capitalists" for the benefit of the workers.
ref: 1974, Ronald Tiersky, French Communism, 1920–1972 (page 359)
synonyms: enburden
glosses: To place a responsibility or hindrance upon; to burden.
Derived terms: disemburden
Related terms: disemburden
emburdens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emburden
emburdening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emburden
emburdened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emburden
eggshellful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggshellfuls
form: eggshellsful
Etymology: From Middle English egschelfull, egge schellefull, egge schelle ful, equivalent to eggshell + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Beat the white of one egg until stiff, add 1/2 of an eggshellful of cream and beat together well, add enough pulverized sugar to harden it so as to form in squares lay on pasteboard to harden.
ref: 1901, Queen of the Home: A Careful Compilation of Tried and Approved Recipes:
text: To make it, beat the whites of two eggs to a froth, add an equal quantity of cold water (measuring two half-eggshellsful), then gradually stir into this confectioners’ sugar until of a paste stiff enough to be molded with the fingers and retain its shape.
ref: 1909 November 26, “Candy Recipe”, in The Evening Star, number 17,959, Washington, D.C., page 5:
text: 4 well beaten egg yolks, 5 half eggshellsful of sugar, 6 or 7 eggshellsful of good white wine.
ref: 1927, The Swiss Monthly, page 299:
text: After a pause, one of them ventured to hint that the first allowance of liquor had been drank out, so that "there did not remain an eggshellful to drink the health of the Captain."
ref: 2014, R. Shelton Mackenzie, Bits of Blarney, page 117:
glosses: The amount contained in an eggshell
eggshellfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggshellful
pseudocryptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uː.dəʊˈkɹɪp.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌsu.doʊˈkɹɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Etymology: From pseudo- + cryptic.
Senses: examples: text: pseudocryptic species
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Morphologically recognisable as distinct only after other methods have unveiled their existence.
eggyolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggyolks
Etymology: From Middle English egyolk, equivalent to egg + yolk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of egg yolk.
North Haverhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place, the county seat of Grafton County, Haverhill, New Hampshire, United States.
damburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dambursts
Etymology: From dam + burst.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dam failure.
synonyms: word: dam failure
dambursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damburst
dambuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dambusters
Etymology: From dam + buster.
Senses: glosses: An aircraft used to destroy dams by dropping bombs on them.
glosses: The pilot of this kind of aircraft.
examples: text: dambuster bombs
glosses: The type of bomb dropped by this kind of aircraft.
glosses: An aircraft or pilot involved in Operation Chastise in 1943.
Related terms: blockbuster
bunker buster
dambusting
dambusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dambuster
hidalgoish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hidalgoish
form: most hidalgoish
Etymology: From hidalgo + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He was a man whose wrinkled visage strangely contrasted with his still gallant figure, scrupulously attired; a blue frock coat with a ribboned button-hole, a well-turned boot, hat a little too hidalgoish, but quite new.
ref: 1847, Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred: Or, The New Crusade:
glosses: Like or characteristic of a hidalgo.
forebirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebirths
Etymology: From Middle English forbirth, equivalent to fore- + birth.
Senses: examples: text: In its Sonship in the Father, and in its unity and Brotherhood in Man, like the Church which is the forebirth of the Kingdom of God, this divine Order was counted as eternal in God, […]
ref: 1898, Edward Augustus Warriner, The Gate Called Beautiful, page 92:
text: The silence between them was prickly and oppressive, like the humid forebirth of a thunderstorm.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), The Inn at Sharons Crossing, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 43:
glosses: That which precedes birth or is first-born
Related terms: afterbirth
damageful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more damageful
form: most damageful
Etymology: From Middle English damageful, equivalent to damage + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by or causing damage; harmful
interdate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interdates
form: interdating
form: interdated
form: interdated
Etymology: From inter- + date.
Senses: glosses: To take part in interdating.