cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shoot through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots through
form: shooting through
form: shot through
form: shot through
Senses: examples: A mostly novelized story shot through with some factual names and dates.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, through.
examples: text: He did not mind the new store, but when some stirrer said that there was a motel coming, he shot through to find a better hole further inland, muttering that 'the place is getting as big as one of them southern city places!’
ref: 1977, Valmai Phillips, Romance of Australian Lighthouses, unidentified page:
text: He shoots through to Australia, and I'm left with the kid.
ref: 1982, James K. Baxter, Howard McNaughton., Collected Plays, page 123:
text: But on learning it was twins he shot through to Queensland into – I later discovered – the waiting arms of his lover.
ref: 2008, Elizabeth Bruce, A Show Off, Just Like Your Father, page 68:
text: What Father Nelson must have made of our all-too-candid (and slightly embellished) responses is anybody's guess, but it wasn't long before he shot through to New Guinea to work as a missionary with the kind of tribesmen who wear penis gourds.
ref: 2010, Stephen Lacey, Henry Loves Jazz: The Diary of a Reluctant Father, unnumbered page:
glosses: To leave.
examples: text: Play your didgeridoo, Blue / Play your didgeridoo / Ah, like, keep playin' 'til I shoot through, Blue / Play your didgeridoo
ref: 1957, Rolf Harris, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport:
glosses: To die.
Derived terms: shoot through like a Bondi tram
to save one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I can't dance to save my life.
text: After she began to have a Governoress for Stuyvesant Jimpson and an Imported Nurse for the little Evelyn Jimpson her memory began to blur in spots and she couldn’t have done up the Dishes to save her life.
ref: 1902 September 7, George Ade, “Modern Fables By George Ade. The Modern Fable of the Troubles of the Unemployed and the Danger of Changing from Bill to Harold.”, in Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise, Ida., page 16, column 5:
synonyms: for the life of one
even if one's life depended on it
for toffee
glosses: At all. (Used with "can't", "couldn't" etc. to emphasize a lack of skill.)
examples: text: She wouldn't eat baked beans to save her life.
glosses: Under any circumstances; [I'd] rather die than ... (Used with "will not", "would not" etc. to emphasize refusal.)
Related terms: for dear life
tantilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tantilizing
form: most tantilizing
Senses: examples: text: ...in ardent pursuit of his shadow, which the tantilizing purchaser has let out for the occasion.
ref: 1893, Graham Everitt, English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century, page 175:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tantalizing.
baroque pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baroque pearls
Senses: glosses: A pearl that has an irregular shape
reaggravation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaggravations
Etymology: From re- + aggravation.
Senses: examples: text: She has a reaggravation of her brain injury because she fell down the stairs again.
glosses: The state or act of reaggravating.
examples: text: That looks like a reaggravation on his leg; he injured it two weeks ago as well.
glosses: A state resulting from a reaggravation.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The last monitory before excommunication.
reaggravations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reaggravation
reaggravated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reaggravate
reaggravates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaggravate
reaggravating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaggravate
re-aggravation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-aggravations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reaggravation.
re-aggravations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-aggravation
re-aggravates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-aggravate
re-aggravated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-aggravate
re-aggravating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-aggravate
dick milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It took me and Chauncey about a good five minutes after that to catch our breaths before straightened up and heading out, leaving the homeowner to whack himself off to a satisfying conclusion with the curded dick milk we left on his face and back.
ref: 2011, Marcus Anthony, The Sweeter the Juice, page 75:
text: As his orgasm subsided, Tim slipped the head of his cock back into my mouth and I whimpered like a puppy, sucking greedily, enjoying the taste of his sperm bursting on my tongue. I stroked my cock as I lapped at Tim's cockhead, savoring his dick milk. I let out a muffled cry and shot my own load. It spurt through the air, landing on my belly in thick drops.
ref: 2008, Johnny Miles, A Stroke at Midnight, page 117:
text: My hands ran across his stubby nipples, and that was what I hung on to as my throat gobbled down his erupting dick milk.
ref: 2003, Austin Foxxe, Manhandled: Gripping Tales of Gay Erotic Fiction:
glosses: Semen.
Synonyms: semen
man milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-milk
Etymology: From man + milk.
Senses: examples: text: But, my mind was taken off the pain by the sensation of the man's cock unloading into my fuck hole. He pushed into me, sending jet after jet of sticky white man milk into the deepest part of my bowels.
ref: 2010, Mickey Erlach, Boys Getting Ahead, page 25:
text: I sucked and sucked on his nuts, then he rammed his cock in my mouth again, and sure enough he was soon feeding me the sweetest, creamiest man-milk I'd ever tasted.
ref: 2008, Ted Gay, Uniforms & Cumsluts:
text: At the same time, Tonio pulled his cock out of my ass, shooting his own man-milk into the ground.
ref: 2008, John Patrick, Come Again: Volume 2, page 79:
glosses: semen
Synonyms: semen
boy pussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboɪˌpʊ.si/
Forms: form: boy pussies
form: boypussy
form: boipussy
form: boi pussy
Senses: examples: text: I carried the lube pump with me and set it on the floor next to the bench, so I raised my legs up high, took a few big dollops, and then worked them into my boy pussy, pressing into the well-fucked, well-rimmed passage, which was already sticky from the cum of my last few customers. Then I just lay on the bench, my greased fuck hole open and ready for more.
ref: 2010, Jackman Hill, Forty-Dollar Butt Boy:
text: "Put your legs up for me. That's it bitch, show me that boy pussy," Marco said. "You want this, whore?" he said, rubbing his wildly throbbing cock against the boy's tight hole.
ref: 2009, Mickey Erlach, Pretty Boys and Roughnecks, page 50:
text: "Yeah, I'll eat your little boy pussy. I need to make it nice and wet so I can fuck it long and hard."
ref: 2006, John Patrick, Boys of the Night, page 144:
topics: LGBT
synonyms: word: boy cunt
word: bussy
word: man cunt
word: man pussy
word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The vagina or vulva of a transgender man or other transmasculine person.
Derived terms: bussy
man pussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man pussies
form: man-pussy
Senses: examples: text: We're up for a little man-pussy, Albert. Me and Jake, we're gonna get our dicks into you, you cute little shit.
ref: 1995, Perry Brass, Albert, or, The Book of Man, page 93:
text: On a surprisingly large number of those occasions, gentle, submissive, effeminate Danny also received a lot of blow-jobs and fucked a lot of man-pussy himself.
ref: 2005, John Butler, The Gay Utopia, page 83:
text: As my lover continued to plow into my tender man-pussy, he pulled me closer to him, kissing me passionately with each violent fuck.
ref: 2006, John Patrick, Taboo!: The Lure of the Forbidden, page 90:
text: With the floor cleaned and swept with the use of his ass, the men were getting horny watching the talented hole at work. "How about a little man-pussy, Sarge?" someone asked.
ref: 2010, Michael Gleich, Sarge and the Sailor Boy:
topics: LGBT
synonyms: word: boy cunt
word: boy pussy
word: man cunt
word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus and rectum of a man, usually the receptive participant (the bottom) in gay sex.
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The vulva or vagina of a trans man.
boy cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy cunts
form: boycunt
form: boy-cunt
Senses: examples: text: Your butt plug is on the sink there clean it up too and put it back up your boy cunt and go upstairs and meet me in the office for your instructions.
ref: 2010, Bret Yerlac, Cub Boy Training, page 36:
text: While the other two fucked his throbbing boy-cunt, Dirk started jerking off.
ref: 2009, Christopher Pierce, Sex Time: Erotic Stories of Time Travel, page 120:
text: Rex slid in smoothly, relishing the enfolding heat of Corky's slick boy-cunt as he entered him for the first delicious time. He clasped Corky firmly, holding onto him as he powered deep into his ass.
ref: 2009, John Patrick, Juniors 2, page 15:
text: His tiny ass opened and I slid into the tightest boy cunt I've ever had. Javier's eyes grew wide, and I thought he must be in incredible pain, but he took only a moment to slide further down on my prick, then a wide grin spread across his face.
ref: 2007, John Patrick, Mad About the Boys, page 117:
topics: LGBT
synonyms: word: man cunt
word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
synonyms: man cunt
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The vagina and/or vulva of a trans man.
man cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man cunts
form: mancunt
Senses: examples: text: He spat onto his cock and watched the bubbles of his saliva disappear into Josh's man-cunt.
ref: 2010, R. Jackson, Bears in the Wild, page 115:
text: Ryan was moaning with pleasure, and these noises were egging him on to go deeper into the hole, to try and lick the inside of his beautiful man cunt.
ref: 2010, Eric Summers, Teammates, page 34:
text: The smell of sex, the heat of the sun and the warm dampness of Eddie's man-cunt had brought him to the point of no return.
ref: 2009, Mickey Erlach, Pretty Boys and Roughnecks, page 13:
text: Dale stepped over to Toby's beach towel and lay down. Simon joined him, squatting down on his erection, taking the whole length up his man cunt, and inviting Toby to squat down on his boyfriend's face.
ref: 2009, Mickey Erlach, Boys Caught in the Act, page 46:
topics: LGBT
synonyms: word: boy cunt
word: boy pussy
word: man pussy
word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus of a man, usually the receptive participant in gay sex.
synonyms: boy cunt
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The vulva or vagina of a trans man.
exteriourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exteriourly
form: most exteriourly
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exteriorly.
extrinsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrinsick
form: most extrinsick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of extrinsic.
fabrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fabric.
back kitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back kitchen
fanatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fanatick
form: most fanatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fanatic.
fanatick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanaticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fanatic.
fantastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fantastick
form: most fantastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fantastic.
fantastick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fantastic.
kiss off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses off
form: kissing off
form: kissed off
form: kissed off
Senses: examples: text: My girlfriend came to kiss me off at the airport.
glosses: to bid goodbye to (someone) with a kiss.
glosses: to dismiss casually; to sidetrack or shut down (someone); to reject or spurn.
examples: text: We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous, Get used to it. If you don't like it, kiss off.
ref: 1990 December 16, Laura Briggs, quoting anonymous poster, “Gay Students Fight 'Little War' At Mass. School”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 3:
glosses: to leave; get lost, beat it
forensick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of forensic.
terrifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terrifick
form: most terrifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of terrific.
anteriour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of anterior.
Derived terms: anteriourly
kitty bar the door
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They played kitty bar the door and won 1-0.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Very defensively; so as to prevent opponents from scoring.
Related terms: word: Katy bar the door
topics: soccer
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: park the bus
frantick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frantick
form: most frantick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of frantic.
Derived terms: frantickly
frantickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frantickly
form: most frantickly
Etymology: From frantick + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of franticly.
frenetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frenetick
form: most frenetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of frenetic.
frigorifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frigorifick
form: most frigorifick
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen vve have, as vve very frequently have, put mixtures of ſnovv and ſalt into vials, and left them in the open Air, vve generally obſerv'd, that the outſide of the Glaſs vvas cas'd vvith ice, or covered vvith hoar froſt, directly over againſt that part of the inſide of the Glaſs, vvherein the frigorifick mixture vvas.
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “Title V. Experiments Touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards or Downwards.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 69:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of frigorific.
keep on trucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps on trucking
form: keeping on trucking
form: kept on trucking
form: kept on trucking
Senses: examples: text: But, unlike those weapons, which could sustain high speeds in the 40s of knots in short bursts, the Type 93, whilst still being somewhat faster than them, could keep on trucking right out to 22,000 yards. At a more mundane 36 knots, it would run twice as far with its near-eleven-hundred-pound warhead. For the first time in the dreadnought era, a nation had a torpedo that could legitimately be fired, not only beyond the practical range of enemy guns, but also beyond the absolute range limits of practically any battleship gun then in service, at least in the slower speed setting, whilst also being near-invisible, due to the almost complete absence of exhaust gasses.
ref: 2021 January 20, Drachinifel, 8:15 from the start, in Type 93 Long Lance Torpedo - Long Range Hole Poking Device, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of keep on truckin'.
geocentrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of geocentric.
in writing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: THE emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River having communicated to me, in writing, through you, their desire to come to a favourable understanding with the British Government
ref: 1852, Accounts and papers of the House of Commons:
text: What a comfort and relief it is to the families of such people when they can make the change with an attitude like that of an elderly friend of ours, who expressed her feelings about it in writing. Here are some excerpts: […]
ref: 1990, Richard Stoll Armstrong, The Pastor-Evangelist in the Parish:
text: Following a statewide trend among cities, Mountain View has opted to simply record in writing the actions taken by the city council […]
ref: 2011, San Jose Mercury News, You won't read all about it in the minutes of Mountain View's public meetings:
glosses: By means of a written message, as opposed to orally or through other means.
georgick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of georgic.
georgick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: georgicks
Senses: examples: text: And ſurely if the purpoſe be in good earneſt not to vvrite at leaſure that vvhich mẽ [men] may read at leaſure, but really to inſtruct and ſuborne Action and actiue life, theſe Georgickes of the mind concerning the huſbãdry & tillage thereof, are no leſſe vvorthy thẽ the heroical deſcriptiõs of vertue, duty, & felicity vvherfore the maine & primitiue diuiſion of Morall knovvledge ſeemeth to be into the Exemplar or Platforme of Good, and the Regiment or Culture of the mind; […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folios 71, recto – 71, verso:
glosses: Obsolete form of georgic.
gigantick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gigantick
form: most gigantick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gigantic.
sickhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sickhouses
Etymology: From Middle English sykhous, sek hous (“hospital”, literally “a house for the sick”), equivalent to sick + house. Cognate with West Frisian sikehûs (“hospital”), Dutch ziekenhuis (“hospital”), German Low German Süükhuus, Sükenhuus (“hospital”), German Siechhaus, Siechenhaus (“infirmary”), Danish sygehus (“hospital”), Swedish sjukhus (“hospital”), Icelandic sjúkrahús (“hospital”). Compare also German Krankenhaus (“hospital”), Saterland Frisian Kroankenhuus (“hospital”), Old English lǣċehūs (“hospital”).
Senses: examples: text: The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used.
ref: 1830, Frederic William Naylor Bayley, Four years' residence in the West Indies:
text: What was still called the new sickhouse, where people were taken to be tended if their illness was contagious, […]
ref: 1993, Robert Jordan, The shadow rising:
text: Four months after giving birth to a daughter, Peggy returned to the sickhouse with a "rising breast," […]
ref: 2002, Sharla M. Fett, Working cures:
glosses: A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.
Synonyms: infirmary
in the wink of an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go."
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: instantaneously, extremely quickly
Synonyms: in the blink of an eye
in the twinkling of an eye
sickhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sickhouse
in the least
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: — Are you worried? — Not in the least!
text: Were you in the least upset yesterday?
glosses: At all, in the slightest, in any way.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: at the least
Gothick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gothick
form: most Gothick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gothic.
Gothick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gothic.
in plain view
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Easily seen, very visible.
Related terms: plain view doctrine
gymnastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gymnastick
form: most gymnastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gymnastic.
athletick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more athletick
form: most athletick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of athletic.
if memory serves
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if memory serves right
Senses: examples: text: But A. P. H. has told us how he has demonstrated, at least twice, that indeed a cheque need not be on paper. Once, if memory serves, he used a table napkin; on the other occasion it was the label of an almost empty wine bottle.
ref: 1954, The Accountant, volume 130, page xxxiii:
synonyms: as memory serves
glosses: If I have correctly remembered the details.
Related terms: if I'm not mistaken
how are you getting along
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A greeting roughly equivalent to how are you.
how's everything
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An informal greeting, asking how a person's life is going.
how goes it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The phrase is a regular Early Modern English equivalent of how's it going (when neither progressive tenses nor do-support were obligatory). As such it could have survived through regional dialects. Nevertheless modern usage is likely a calque of German wie geht es, perhaps additionally also Dutch hoe gaat het, Danish hvordan går det, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Here comes the Lady Paulina's Steward: hee can deliuer you more. How goes it now (Sir.)
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 300, column 2:
text: ‘Scotty, man, how goes it?’ Bennie said, patting me warmly on the back as we shook hands.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “X's and O's”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
glosses: An informal greeting roughly equivalent to how are you.
harmonick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harmonick
form: most harmonick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of harmonic.
harmonick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of harmonic.
hop up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops up
form: hopping up
form: hopped up
form: hopped up
Senses: glosses: To excite (people).
glosses: To get in a high vehicle.
glosses: To stand up quickly.
glosses: To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up.
examples: text: Don't let the cat hop up onto the kitchen counter!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, up.
Related terms: english: drugged, intoxicated; souped up
translation: drugged, intoxicated; souped up
word: hopped up
hectick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hectick
form: most hectick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hectic.
hectick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hecticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hectic.
cantalope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cantaloupe.
heliocentrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heliocentric.
hæretick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæreticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heretic.
heretick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heretick
form: most heretick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heretic.
heretick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hereticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heretic.
hermetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hermetick
form: most hermetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hermetic.
histrionick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more histrionick
form: most histrionick
Senses: examples: text: After three years of constant applause, Miss [Elizabeth] O'Neill directed her steps towards the summit of histrionick exertion, being engaged for the season of 1814 at Covent Garden, where she made her first entrée as Juliet, on the 6th of October, being at once recognised as the first Hibernian actress, who had joined transcendant beauty with rare histrionick talent, since the time of Mrs. [Peg] Woffington.
ref: 1816 July, “Miss O’Neill. [From an English magazine.]”, in The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, volume III, number VIII, Boston, Mass.: Wells and Lilly […], →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of histrionic.
historick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historick
form: most historick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of historic.
power bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power bottoms
form: powerbottom
Etymology: From power + bottom.
Senses: examples: text: In one phrase, power bottom means, "Shut up and lie down. I'll take care of the rest."
ref: 2003 April, Steven Gregory Underwood, Gay Men and Anal Eroticism: Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles, Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 27:
text: Dennis: I'm sure there's a great deal of switching back and forth, but I think more often than not, bears are tops. Unless they happen to be power bottoms.
ref: 2007 October 4, “The Gang Sells Out”, in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 3, episode 7, spoken by Dennis, Frank, and Mac (Glenn Howerton, Danny DeVito, and Rob McElhenney):
text: I know a power bottom when I fuck one.
ref: 2008, Sean Wolfe, Taboo, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 70:
text: "I love that you're a power bottom", Michael said between thrusts.
ref: 2010 October 6, John Simpson, Wolf's Head Inn, →ISBN, →OL:
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: An especially aggressive or energetic receiving partner during sex.
Coordinate terms: service top
Related terms: top from the bottom
power bottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power bottom
hydraulick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hydraulic.
hydraulick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hydraulicks
form: hydraulicking
form: hydraulicked
form: hydraulicked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hydraulic.
hydraulicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hydraulics.
hydrostatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrostatick
form: most hydrostatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hydrostatic.
hydrostaticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hydrostatics.
hypercritick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercriticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hypercritic.
hypochondriack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1753 December 17th, John Rutty, A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies (first edition, 1777) in The Life of Samuel Johnſon, LL.D. (first edition, 1791), aut. James Boswell, volume II, “1777. Ætat. 68.”, page 155
roman: An hypochondriack obnubilation from wind and indigeſtion.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hypochondriac.
hypochondriack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochondriacks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hypochondriac.
hysterick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hysterick
form: most hysterick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hysteric.
hysterick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hystericks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hysteric.
iambick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iambick
form: most iambick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of iambic.
iambick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iambicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of iambic.
identick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more identick
form: most identick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of identic.
Cleaveland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cleveland.
glosses: A surname.
return'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of return
impolitick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impolitick
form: most impolitick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impolitic.
Derived terms: impolitickly
explainin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of explaining.
associatin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of associating.
organizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of organizing.
apologizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of apologizing.
baptizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of baptizing.
realizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of realizing.
agonizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agonizin'
form: most agonizin'
Senses: glosses: Informal form of agonizing.
agonizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of agonizing.
recognizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of recognizing.
criticizin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of criticizing.
entitlin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of entitling.
enstall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enstalls
form: enstalling
form: enstalled
form: enstalled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of install.
authentick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more authentick
form: most authentick
Senses: examples: text: [T]here they find Ignatius, and then they beleeve him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſ vvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as authentick for Epiſcopacie, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is authentick in him, but by the judgement vvhich they brought vvith them, and not by any judgement vvhich they might ſafely learne from him.
ref: 1641 June or July, [John Milton], Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whither It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Vertue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises: […], London: […] R[ichard] O[ulton] & G[regory] D[exter] for Thomas Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of authentic.
Derived terms: authentickly
conjur'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conjure
discern'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discern
endeavour'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endeavour
endeavor'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endeavor
conceiv'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conceive
indeavour'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indeavour
indeavor'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indeavor
indeavor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indeavors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of endeavor.
indeavor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indeavors
form: indeavoring
form: indeavored
form: indeavored
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of endeavor.
inorthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inorthodox
form: most inorthodox
Etymology: From in- + orthodox.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unorthodox.
synonyms: word: unorthodox
chip-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chip-shots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chip shot.
chipshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipshots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chip shot.
fabricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabrick
indexterity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + dexterity.
Senses: glosses: Lack of dexterity, skill, or readiness in any respect; awkwardness; sluggishness; clumsiness.
indefensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indefensive
form: most indefensive
Etymology: From in- + defensive.
Senses: glosses: Not defensive; unprotected.
Derived terms: indefensively
intrinsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intrinsick
form: most intrinsick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intrinsic.
confessionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌfɛʃ(ə)nəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: confessionalizations
Etymology: From confessionalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Confessionalization represents the defeat of efforts to rebuild the unified Latin Church.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 639:
text: Regardless of belief, all secular and ecclesiastical authorities pursued similar policies of ‘confessionalization’ intended to impose the official faith of their territory through education, improved clerical supervision and more intensive ‘visitations’ to probe individual belief and monitor religious practices.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 121:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The fixing of religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.
Related terms: deconfessionalization
bade fair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bid fair
maieutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /meɪˈjuːtɪks/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαιευτικός (maieutikós, “obstetric”), from a passage in Plato's Theaetetus where Socrates compares his procedure to that of a midwife.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Socratic method.
synonyms: word: Socratic method
wikipedia: Theaetetus (dialogue)
Related terms: maieutic
maieutical
savagedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From savage + -dom.
Senses: glosses: A savage state or condition; savagery.
glosses: Savages.
saught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saucht
Etymology: From Middle English saughte, seihte, from Old English saht, seaht, seht (“settlement, arrangement, agreement, terms arranged between two parties by an umpire, a peace between two powers, friendship, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz (“reproach, agreement, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Old Norse sátt, sætt (“covenant, agreement, settlement, reconciliation”).
Senses: glosses: Reconciliation; peace; ease.
saught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saughts
form: saughting
form: saughted
form: saughted
form: saucht
Etymology: From Middle English saughte, seihte, from Old English saht, seaht, seht (“settlement, arrangement, agreement, terms arranged between two parties by an umpire, a peace between two powers, friendship, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz (“reproach, agreement, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Old Norse sátt, sætt (“covenant, agreement, settlement, reconciliation”).
Senses: glosses: To reconcile; become reconciled.
Related terms: settle
saught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saught
form: most saught
form: saucht
Etymology: From Middle English saughte, seihte, from Old English saht, seaht, seht (“settlement, arrangement, agreement, terms arranged between two parties by an umpire, a peace between two powers, friendship, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz (“reproach, agreement, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Old Norse sátt, sætt (“covenant, agreement, settlement, reconciliation”).
Senses: glosses: Reconciled; agreed; at one.
Phillis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A less common spelling of Phyllis.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Phillis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Philip + genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Phillipa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A less common spelling of Philippa.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, you know when a father's name is Paul and they name the baby girl, Paulette?" "Or Paula." "That's right. Or his name is Philip and they name her Phyllis?" "Or Phillipa. Don't forget Phillipa. I love the name Phillipa."
ref: 2002, Patricia McCune Irvine, A Tinkling Cymbal, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Phillida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: While he dressed he sang an ancient ballad, at the top of his voice, to an air he improvised.
Phillida was a fair maid / As fresh as any flower; / Whom Harpalus the herd-man praide / To be his paramoure. / Harpalus and eke Corin, / Were herd-men both ysere; / And Phillida would twist and spinne, / And thereto sing ful clere.
"Phyllis!" cried John. "Can you hear in the bedroom? I sing of thee!" "I thought her name was Phillida," said Phyllis, setting the bedroom door ajar. "Phillida is Old English for Phyllis," he explained.
ref: 1914 Munson Aldrich Havens, Old Valentines, Chapter X
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
become of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: becomes of
form: becoming of
form: became of
form: become of
Senses: examples: text: Then the Witch looked at the big, shaggy Lion and asked, "When Dorothy has returned to her own home, what will become of you?"
ref: 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
glosses: to happen to, to occur to.
Synonyms: come of
in the world
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: What in the world was that?
text: Who in the world would want to do that?
text: "My darling child!" she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. "Where in the world did you come from?"
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 24, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: An intensifier, often used after an interrogative word.
examples: text: the happiest girl in the world
text: Writing a “Treehouse Of Horror”segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It’s exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club:
synonyms: on the face of the earth
glosses: Used for emphasis after a qualified noun.
examples: text: In the world you will have trouble, but I leave you my peace that where I am there you may also be.
ref: 1998, Rich Mullins, “That Where I am There You...”:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: In this present age; here and now.
examples: text: With some effort and discipline anyone can learn to get up early and to stand through long church services, to make prostrations and to work, and work hard, at jobs that you don’t necessarily like. A lot of people in the world have a much more difficult life in that sense.
ref: 2023 July 7 (last accessed), “Monasticism in 21st Century”, in The Holy Monastery of St Paisius:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: In this present age; here and now.
Characteristic of wider society; worldly.
Synonyms: the dickens
Related terms: here below
OSI layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OSI layers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the seven layers of abstraction in the OSI model of communications systems: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, or physical.
to-ward
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Tom and Joe, who had come upon the group of other pupils after the impromptu snowball throwing contest had started, advanced further to-ward their school companions. Peaches and Teeter were still engaged in their friendly struggle, until Peaches tripped over a stone, concealed under a blanket of snow, and both went down in a struggling heap.
ref: 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
glosses: Archaic form of toward.
OSI model
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A description of the standard functions of a communications system in terms of seven layers of abstraction (the OSI layers).
shrink away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrinks away
form: shrinking away
form: shrank away
form: shrunk away
form: shrunk away
form: shrunken away
Etymology: shrink + away
Senses: examples: text: But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush. He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
ref: 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
text: Emily could be fearless enough on occasion; but in the presence of a nature which she instinctively felt to be hostile to hers she shrank away in something that was more repulsion than fear.
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
glosses: To draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy away.
in for it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Irrevocably committed to something.
examples: text: when her ears were bent towards him, and I felt her form beneath me gathering up like whalebone, and her hind-legs coming under her, and I knew that I was in for it.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
text: "You sure did [hit someone with the snowball]," added Teeter, stiffling a laugh. "And of all persons in the school but Professor Rodd. Oh my! Oh wow! You're in for it now! He won't do a thing to you fellows! Look at his hat! Here he comes!"
ref: 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
glosses: In trouble.
Related terms: for it
chose jugée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choses jugées
Etymology: Borrowed from French chose jugée, "judged thing".
Senses: examples: text: The Duchess objected to the Amen, which I thought gave an air of forgiveness and chose jugée to the whole thing […]
ref: 1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald:
text: ‘We will not, if you please, argue the matter, which for me is a chose jugée.’
ref: 1913, Mrs Humphry Ward, The Mating of Lydia:
glosses: A point, issue etc. which has already been decided (especially legally) and is therefore not worth discussing.
Related terms: foregone conclusion
choses jugées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chose jugée