cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Memory Lane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This is Memory Lane—lonely and drear to some, pleasant and gay to others. ... It was New Year's day in the old town, the most hallowed of holidays on Memory Lane; the day when the wharf was deserted, for everyone, great and small, walked over the Lane, many even to the very end.
ref: 1894 December, B[urton] M. Balch, “Memory Lane. A New Year’s Study.”, in Burton M. Balch, editor, Hamilton Literary Monthly, volume 29, number 3, Clinton, N.Y.: Published by the students, Hamilton College, →OCLC, page 101,102:
text: “How about a stroll down Memory Lane. Remember this?” He thrust a picture at me.
ref: 1954 May, Peter De Vries, chapter 3, in The Tunnel of Love, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published July 1954, →OCLC, page 25:
text: He [James Mollison] protects his person ferociously and about the wickedest question one could ask him, worse even than his opinion on ‘Blue Poles’, is where he went to school. Why? He won’t explain that either, offering only a general observation about the length of Memory Lane (“if I went down I’d never emerge”) and an oblique reference to the tall-poppy syndrome afflicting the Australian media.
ref: 1980 July 19, Jennifer Byrne, “Master of his art”, in The Age, 126th year, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of memory lane.
iacinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iacincts
Senses: examples: text: The fift Sardonix, the sixt Sardius, the seuenth Chrysolite, the eight Beryl, the ninth a Topas, the tenth a Chrysoprasus, the eleuenth a Iacinct, the twelfth an Amethyst.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:20:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of jacinth
bites in the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bite in the arse
biting in the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bite in the arse
bit in the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bite in the arse
bitten in the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bite in the arse
Ijen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Local workers hike up the side of the mountain and down into the crater at the top to harvest its sulfur—a byproduct of the gas that escapes from the volcano’s vents and collects near the shores of an acidic lake at the crater’s center. The chemical is used in industry worldwide, from making matchsticks to vulcanizing rubber, but Ijen’s sulfur goes mostly to local factories, which use it to bleach sugar.
ref: 2015 February 25, Kevin McElvaney, “Inside Indonesia's Ijen Volcano”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A volcano in East Java, Indonesia.
overbrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbrained
form: most overbrained
Etymology: over- + brained
Senses: glosses: Excessively brainy.
overconsciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overconsciously
form: most overconsciously
Senses: glosses: In an overconscious manner.
overcommon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcommon
form: most overcommon
Etymology: over- + common
Senses: examples: text: […] shall it be decried in a world where beauty is not overcommon […]
ref: 1897, George Meredith, The egoist, a comedy in narrative, page 275:
glosses: Excessively common; very frequently encountered.
old man yells at clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: old men yell at clouds
Senses: examples: ref: 2023 January 2, Robert Goulder, “Old Man Yells at Clouds and Other Responses to the UTPR”, in Tax Notes Today International, Tax Analysts, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2023
text: Yes, I’m veering closely into “old man yells at clouds” territory, though that’s the point. The joy of that old-school unlock process isn’t some relic amplified by the allure of nostalgia.
ref: 2023 April 12, Matthew Byrd, “Resident Evil 4’s Microtransactions Ruin One of the Remake’s Best Features”, in Den of Geek, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2023:
text: Somewhere in all the discourse about how the candidates looked and sounded—“old men yell at clouds” comes to mind—we forgot to examine the substance of their words.
ref: 2024 July 2, Adriana E. Ramírez, “The search for substance in this year’s election”, in John Robinson Block, editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 97, number 336, Pittsburgh, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-14, column 3:
text: You want an Old Man Yells at Clouds Hot Take? That’s it. There are going to be millions of young men driving off the financial cliff because of sports betting.
ref: 2024 November 17, Mike McFeely, “Sports gambling at our fingertips? Bet it goes bad”, in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Fargo, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A5, column 2:
text: Despite the old-man-yells-at-clouds aspect to this piece so far, its eventual intent is actually to offer a little bit of hope.
ref: 2025 April 23, Patrick Higgins, “The Replacements”, in Anthony Mariani, editor, Fort Worth Weekly, volume 20, number 52, Fort Worth, Tex., →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2025, page 21, column 3:
text: Author and music YouTuber Rick Beato occasionally rants against the low quality of modern popular music and these are entertaining in an old man yells at clouds kind of way.
ref: 2025 May 21, Scott Barlow, “Market Factors: Dividend increases and mediocre profit growth ahead as bank earnings reporting begins”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of old man yells at cloud.
overexplanation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overexplanations
Etymology: over- + explanation
Senses: glosses: The act of overexplaining; excessive explanation.
overexplanations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overexplanation
overfreeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfreezes
form: overfreezing
form: overfroze
form: overfrozen
Etymology: over- + freeze
Senses: examples: text: Letting the temperature […] go too low […] may overfreeze the fish and make them impossible to get out, besides hindering the brine circulation.
ref: 2023, Michael K. Orbach, Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs, page 64:
glosses: To freeze excessively.
overfroze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overfreeze
overfrozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overfreeze
overfreezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfreeze
overfreezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfreeze
as the next person
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as the next guy
form: as the next girl
Senses: examples: text: I like reading as much as the next person.
text: I'm as friendly as the next person.
glosses: To a reasonable degree; as much as a typical person.
overgovernment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of overgoverning; excessive government.
overhatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overhatted
form: most overhatted
Etymology: over- + hatted
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Carrying too much sail.
examples: text: […] overhatted woman with a fistful of rings on her pudgy fingers […]
ref: 2011, Monica Dickens, No More Meadows:
glosses: Wearing too large a hat.
overjudgemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjudgemental
form: most overjudgemental
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overjudgmental
overjudgmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjudgmental
form: most overjudgmental
form: overjudgemental
Etymology: over- + judgmental
Senses: glosses: Excessively judgmental.
overheadman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overheadmen
Etymology: over- + headman
Senses: glosses: A high-ranking headman; a chief over other headmen.
overheadmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overheadman
overinsist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinsists
form: overinsisting
form: overinsisted
form: overinsisted
Etymology: over- + insist
Senses: examples: text: It would be impossible to overinsist on the importance of this talent for social life.
ref: 2010, Ernest Becker, Birth and Death of Meaning:
text: So powerful is our fear of uncertainty and chaos that we sometimes overinsist upon order, to the point of ennui in sensibility, and of fallacy in thought and perception.
ref: 2012, Robert Beum, Karl Shapiro, The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form (page 75)
glosses: To insist too strongly.
overinsists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overinsist
overinsisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overinsist
overinsisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overinsist
overprone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overprone
form: most overprone
Etymology: over- + prone
Senses: glosses: Excessively prone (predisposed, inclined).
overregularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Excessive regularity.
oversalivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: over- + salivation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: ptyalism
sialorrhea
glosses: Excessive salivation.
chaise and four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaise and fours
form: chaises and four
form: chaises and fours
Senses: examples: text: “Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says, that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; […]”.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: A chaise (carriage) pulled by four horses.
copinglink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copinglinks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of otherlink
synonyms: word: otherlink
otherlink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otherlinks
Senses: examples: text: There’s no way to objectively know if a particular alterhuman individual is actually an otherkin, otherkith, or otherlink. As with matters of gender identity, they have to be taken at their word—sometimes quite literally: it might be a word you've never heard before.
ref: 2023, Phil Illy, “Autosexuality Beyond Gender”, in Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex, Houndstooth Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 447:
synonyms: copinglink
glosses: An otherkin identity adopted as a coping mechanism.
copinglinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copinglink
otherlinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otherlink
chaises and fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaise and four
chaise and fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaise and four
chaises and four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaise and four
overrepresentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrepresentative
form: most overrepresentative
Etymology: over- + representative
Senses: examples: text: The survey respondents were overrepresentative of the middle and upper classes.
glosses: Excessively representative.
overquietly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overquietly
form: most overquietly
Senses: glosses: Excessively quietly.
overstowage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of overstowing.
oversot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, no, science tells us that the world is round and turns round every day!" replied the examiner. "Well, if it's round, and turns round every day, why hasn't Deacon Smith's mill-pond got oversot and all the water spilled out long ago?" was the triumphant response of Master Ignoramus.
ref: 1894, State University of New York at Albany, An Historical Sketch of the State Normal College at Albany (page 40)
glosses: Alternative form of overset (“overturned”)
undercause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercauses
Etymology: under- + cause
Senses: glosses: The underlying cause; root cause.
undercauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercause
underballast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underballasts
form: underballasting
form: underballasted
form: underballasted
Etymology: From under- + ballast.
Senses: glosses: To load with insufficient ballast.
underballasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underballast
underballasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underballast
underballasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underballast
overworry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: over- + worry
Senses: glosses: Synonym of overanxiety
synonyms: word: overanxiety
underedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underedges
Etymology: under- + edge
Senses: glosses: A lower edge, or underside of an edge.
underedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underedge
undergarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + garb.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of underclothing
synonyms: word: underclothing
pantilettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pantalettes.
underfreight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.dɚˌfɹeɪt/
Forms: form: underfreights
form: underfreighting
form: underfreighted
form: underfreighted
Etymology: From under- + freight.
Senses: glosses: To load with too little freight.
underfreights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfreight
underfreighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfreight
underfreighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfreight
undergarnish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undergarnishes
Etymology: under- + garnish
Senses: glosses: The leaves etc. forming the base of a salad, on which other ingredients can be layered.
undergarnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergarnish
underhum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underhums
Etymology: under- + hum
Senses: examples: text: the underhum of traffic
glosses: A background hum.
underhums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underhum
undershunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undershunters
Etymology: under- + shunter
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An assistant shunter.
undershunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undershunter
underspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underspecies
Etymology: under- + species
Senses: glosses: Synonym of subspecies
synonyms: word: subspecies
thigh-shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thigh-showers
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek φαινομηρίδες (phainomērídes).
Senses: examples: text: In ancient Sparta girls wore a tunic ending above the knees and slit high at the side, for this reason these girls were known as thigh-showers.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 65:
glosses: In ancient Greece, a woman wearing a peplos with a split up the side, thus revealing the upper leg.
thigh-showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thigh-shower
snake whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake whips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snakewhip
snake whips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake whip
overconsideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: over- + consideration
Senses: glosses: Excessive consideration.
Related terms: overconsiderate
overband
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbands
form: overbanding
form: overbanded
form: overbanded
Etymology: over- + band
Senses: glosses: To repair (a tarmac surface) by filling with pitch or applying thermoplastic tape, etc.
overbands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overband
overbanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overband
overbanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overband
overcanny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcanny
form: most overcanny
Etymology: over- + canny
Senses: glosses: Excessively canny.
overclasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overclasps
form: overclasping
form: overclasped
form: overclasped
Etymology: over- + clasp
Senses: glosses: To clasp from above.
overclasps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overclasp
overclasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overclasp
overclasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overclasp
unworshipfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unworshipfully
form: most unworshipfully
Etymology: unworshipful + -ly
Senses: glosses: In an unworshipful manner.
overgratify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgratifies
form: overgratifying
form: overgratified
form: overgratified
Etymology: over- + gratify
Senses: glosses: To gratify excessively.
overgratified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgratify
overgratifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgratify
overgratifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgratify
overgratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: over- + gratification
Senses: glosses: Excessive gratification.
overvaliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overvaliant
form: most overvaliant
Etymology: over- + valiant
Senses: glosses: Excessively valiant.
Lancashire hotpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lancashire hotpots
Senses: examples: text: The famous "Lancashire hotpot" is made thus, though with slight variations. The cutlets are trimmed, seasoned, and laid in first into the lightly buttered "pot," then a good layer of seasoned sliced kidneys, very thinly sliced onion, bearded oysters, and sliced, parboiled potatoes, sprinkling this layer with a small teaspoonful of curry powder (this is a matter of taste), and repeat these layers, finishing with potato, which, however for this should be only halved, then add the oyster liquor, and a little good gravy, and bake it all in not too fierce an oven, till the top layer of potatoes is cooked and nicely browned.
ref: 1902, S. Beaty-Pownall, editor, The "Queen" Cookery Books: Volume 5, Meats and Game, page 85:
text: A bredie is to South Africa what Irish stew is to Ireland, goulash is to the Hungarians and Lancashire hotpot is to the English.
ref: 1974, Jane Grigson, editor, The World Atlas of Food, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: A stew of lamb or mutton and onions topped with sliced potatoes.
overdash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdashes
Etymology: over- + dash
Senses: glosses: A dash (symbol) placed above something.
overdash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdashes
form: overdashing
form: overdashed
form: overdashed
Etymology: over- + dash
Senses: glosses: To place a dash (symbol) above.
examples: text: The boat was overdashed with sea spray.
glosses: To sprinkle or splatter from above.
overdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdash
overdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdash
overdashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdash
overdashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdash
overguilty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overguilty
form: most overguilty
Etymology: over- + guilty
Senses: glosses: Excessively guilty.
intraatrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intra-atrial.
FVU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FVUs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Abbreviation of fraction of variance unexplained
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: flux valve unit
flux valve
glosses: Abbreviation of flux valve unit
synonyms: filter ventilation unit
filtered ventilation unit
filtration ventilation unit
filtration and ventilation unit
glosses: Abbreviation of filtration/filter(ed) ventilation unit
voyder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voyders
Senses: examples: text: Two silver monteths, two large fflaggons, two large tankards, two silver salvers, a voyder and a knyfe, two silver salts, two guilt bolls of the like size, one other boll, three silver bolls, in all 24 pieces guilt and unguilt.
ref: 1696, The Connoisseur, volume 5, published 1903, page 204:
glosses: Obsolete form of voider
voyders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voyder
rerecognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/
ipa: /ɹiˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: re-recognition
Etymology: From re- + recognition.
Senses: examples: text: The osteopaths have helped many of these patients, since the nature of the malady has been forgotten by most doctors of the scientific era. Valleix and his contemporaries described the headaches many years ago. Their modern rerecognition has come chiefly through the Swedish sources.
ref: 1913, Lewellyn F. Barker, Smith Ely Jelliffe, “XVIII: Neuroses”, in Frank Billings, editor, Forchheimer's Therapeusis of Internal Diseases, volume IV, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 605:
text: The struggle continues to establish a land base and acquire recognition (or rerecognition) for some bands. Pinoleville must deal with environmentally hazardous industries established within its borders.
ref: 1998 October 24, Barry M. Pritzker, “Pomo”, in Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples, volume 2, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 190:
text: The rerecognition of black phosphorus (BP) and the research brought about by the revolution in the field of materials are called the renaissance of BP.
ref: 2020 November 29, Hongyan Yang, Yunzhen Wang, Z. C. Tiu, Libo Yuan, Han Zhang, “Black phosphorus: device and application”, in Ju Han Lee, Young Min Jhon, editors, 2D Materials for Nanophotonics, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: A resumed or additional recognition, especially after a lapse or pause.
ungridlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gridlocked.
Senses: glosses: Not gridlocked.
re-recognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rerecognition.
pre-distortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-distortions
Senses: examples: text: Smale [14] following the work of Akagi [3] and others has investigated reversing the order of the shunt and series elements so that the series element compensates for any pre-distortions in the network voltage and the shunt element is used to compensate for any nonactive current drawn by the load.
ref: 1999, N. Jenkins, “Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR)”, in Yong Hua Song, Allan T Johns, editors, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) (IEE Power and Energy Series; 30), London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, →ISBN, chapter 14 (Application of power electronics to the distribution system), section 2 (Improvement of customer power quality), page 561:
text: Holzbach (1986) adapted similar principles to perspective computer-generated imagery produced with a standard camera model, and then post-processed to produce the pre-distortions necessary to create an undistorted holographic image.
ref: 2008, Michael Klug, Mark Holzbach, “One-Step Approaches”, in Stephen A[nthony] Benton; V. Michael Bove, Jr., Holographic Imaging, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, →ISBN, chapter 20 (Holographic Stereograms and Printing), page 236:
text: Dynamic image pre-distortions and display adaptations—with help from an eye tracker—could provide for proper perspective and focus.
ref: 2011, Rolf R. Hainich, Oliver Bimber, “Additional Requirements”, in Displays: Fundamentals & Applications, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, chapter 10 (Near-Eye Displays), section 6 (Optical Design), page 454:
glosses: Alternative form of predistortion.
pre-distortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-distortion
digital pre-distortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital pre-distortions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of digital predistortion.
digital predistortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital predistortion
boomcars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomcar.
boom car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boom cars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boomcar.
boom cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boom car.
overdoubtful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdoubtful
form: most overdoubtful
Etymology: From over- + doubtful.
Senses: glosses: Excessively doubtful.
overdoubting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdoubting
form: most overdoubting
Etymology: From over- + doubting.
Senses: glosses: Excessively doubting.
overflog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overflogs
form: overflogging
form: overflogged
form: overflogged
Etymology: over- + flog
Senses: glosses: To belabour (a point or issue) excessively.
Related terms: flog a dead horse
overflogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overflog
overflogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overflog
overflogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overflog
overlaxative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlaxative
form: most overlaxative
Etymology: From over- + laxative.
Senses: examples: text: The medication had an overlaxative effect in some patients.
glosses: Excessively laxative.
overglut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgluts
form: overglutting
form: overglutted
form: overglutted
Etymology: over- + glut
Senses: examples: text: to overglut the market
glosses: To glut excessively.
overglutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overglut
overgluts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overglut
overglutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overglut
Byglandsfjord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Bygland municipality, Agder county, Norway, at the south end of (the) Byglandsfjorden.
overpublic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpublic
form: most overpublic
Etymology: From over- + public.
Senses: glosses: Excessively public.
overprosperity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + prosperity.
Senses: glosses: Excessive prosperity.
overwealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + wealth.
Senses: glosses: Excessive wealth.
overtrouble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtroubles
form: overtroubling
form: overtroubled
form: overtroubled
Etymology: From over- + trouble.
Senses: examples: text: Don't overtrouble yourself with the details.
glosses: To trouble excessively.
overtroubles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtrouble
overtroubling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtrouble
underchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underchins
Etymology: under- + chin
Senses: examples: text: The others, however, were not much improvement as respects looks: one had a projecting underchin, the other a very broad face, and the three were anything but pleasing in appearance.
ref: 1885, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Ned in the block-house, page 163:
glosses: The underpart of the chin.
underchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underchin
undercrypt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercrypts
Etymology: under- + crypt
Senses: glosses: A lower crypt or vault.
undercrypts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercrypt
hypertarget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypertargets
form: hypertargeting
form: hypertargetting
form: hypertargeted
form: hypertargeted
form: hypertargetted
form: hypertargetted
Etymology: From hyper- + target.
Senses: examples: text: a marketing campaign that hypertargets children
glosses: To target specifically, above others.
hypertargets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypertarget
hypertargeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypertarget
hypertargetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypertarget
hypertargetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypertarget
understress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: understresses
form: understressing
form: understressed
form: understressed
Etymology: From under- + stress.
Senses: synonyms: underemphasize
antonyms: overemphasize
overstress
glosses: To place insufficient emphasis on.
understresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of understress
understressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of understress
understressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understress
undertakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: undertaker + -ery
Senses: examples: text: Upon the whole, the absence of mere "undertakery" from the procession was a great gain.
ref: 1851, The Ecclesiologist, Ecclesiological Society, page 414:
text: […] we feel how immeasurably superior they were to the meretricious undertakery of the present day. We are led to contrast the quiet graves of the ancient "brethren" with the suburban cemetery of our own times […]
ref: 1867, The Argosy, volumes 3-4, page 60:
glosses: The work of an undertaker.
Kussmaul respiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kussmaul breathing
synonyms: word: Kussmaul breathing
underplotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underplot
underplotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underplotters
Senses: glosses: One who underplots; a schemer.
underplotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underplotter
underroast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underroasts
form: underroasting
form: underroasted
form: underroasted
Etymology: From under- + roast.
Senses: antonyms: overroast
glosses: To roast insufficiently.
underroasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underroast
underroasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underroast
underroasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underroast
overmean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overmean
form: most overmean
Etymology: From over- + mean.
Senses: examples: text: But the way she said it was as if I'd taken a dump on the floor and ruined the whole poetry class. Which I thought was a bit overmean on her part.
ref: 2018, Nico Walker, Cherry:
glosses: Excessively mean.
Treungen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Nissedal municipality, Telemark county, Norway.
karma farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karma farmers
Senses: glosses: A person who posts on a forum or social media designed to amass karma (online popularity points).
Related terms: drama farmer
drama farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drama farmers
Senses: glosses: A person who encourages and publicizes melodramatic behavior on the Internet.
Related terms: karma farmer
cat wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat wheel
overgifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overgifted
form: most overgifted
Etymology: From over- + gifted.
Senses: examples: text: […] that heir being a youth only in his twenty-third year, ignorant of business, not overgifted with experience, […]
ref: 1876, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, page 46:
glosses: Excessively gifted.
overeasily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overeasily
form: most overeasily
Senses: glosses: In an overeasy manner; too easily.
nonvaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonvaluations
Etymology: From non- + valuation.
Senses: examples: text: Significant, too, is the manuscript's introduction of the concept of place value (1s, 10s, 100s, etc.) and the use of zero as a stand-in, or placeholder, in the event of a nonvaluation.
ref: 2021, Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Information: A Historical Companion (page 302)
glosses: Failure to assign a value to something.
preoccupational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + occupational.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of preemployment
synonyms: word: preemployment
Nelaug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Åmli municipality, Agder county, Norway.
streetwisdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From street + wisdom.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of streetwiseness
synonyms: word: streetwiseness
overcriminalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overcriminalization
the cobbler's children go barefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of the shoemaker's children go barefoot
synonyms: word: the shoemaker's children go barefoot
Mvskokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mvskoke
road horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road horses
form: road-horse
Etymology: From Middle English rode hors, rodehors, from Old English rādhors (“saddle-horse”), equivalent to road + horse.
Senses: glosses: A horse suitable for use on roadways; roadster.
glosses: A horse for riding; saddle-horse.
road horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road horse
Grovane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Vennesla municipality, Agder county, Norway.
transitivizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transitivizers
Etymology: From transitivize + -er.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or construct that makes something transitive.
intransitivizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intransitivizers
Etymology: From intransitivize + -er.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or construct that makes something intransitive.
transitivizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transitivizer
intransitivizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intransitivizer
transitivizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transitivize + -able.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Able to be transitivized.
nonreparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + reparation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonrepair
synonyms: word: nonrepair
drama farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drama farmer
karma farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karma farmer
Snartemo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Hægebostad municipality, Agder county, Norway.
blood boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood boys
Senses: glosses: A young man who sells some of his blood for transfusion to a wealthy older buyer who believes youthful blood might slow the process of aging.
blood boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood boy
mass gainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass gainers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of weight gainer
synonyms: word: weight gainer
mass gainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass gainer
kalampokiphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by the 2020s. From Greek καλαμπόκι (kalampóki, “corn, maize”) and the modern English suffix -phobia, itself from the Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía, “fear”).
Senses: glosses: The fear of corn; maize; Zea mays.
ReTruth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ReTruths
Etymology: From re- + Truth, based on retweet.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, I still wasn’t adequately prepared for the immersive experience of scrolling through hundreds of his Truths and ReTruths. Even for Trump, this feed manages to shock.
ref: 2024 September 24, Charlie Warzel, “The Trump Posts You Probably Aren’t Seeing”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2024:
qualifier: social media
glosses: A reposted message on the Truth Social platform.
ReTruths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ReTruth
supervoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supervote
drama mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drama masks
Etymology: Named from an ancient dual symbol of the performing arts. Since ancient Greek theatre, two masks bearing a smiling face and frowning or crying grimace have represented comedy and tragedy.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: sock and buskin
glosses: A mask associated with drama and acting; either a comedy mask or a tragedy mask.
comedy mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedy masks
Etymology: One of two ancient symbols of the performing arts. In ancient Greek theatre, actors in comedic roles often wore a mask of a smiling and/or laughing face.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: sock
Thalia
glosses: A mask representing comedy.
tragedy mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragedy masks
Etymology: One of two ancient symbols of the performing arts. In ancient Greek theatre, actors in tragic roles often wore a mask of a frowning and/or crying face.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: buskin
Melpomene
glosses: A mask representing tragedy.
comedy and tragedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedy and tragedies
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: Thalia and Melpomene
glosses: The genres of comedy and tragedy.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The comedy mask and tragedy mask.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The sock and buskin.
Thalia and Melpomene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named from Thalia and Melpomene, the Muses of comedy and tragedy respectively.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The genres of comedy and tragedy.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Symbolism of the comedy mask and tragedy mask.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Symbolism of the sock and buskin.
forg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgs
Etymology: Most likely from a photo of a poorly drawn frog, captioned "forg".
The word "forg" also appears earlier in The Muppet Show episode 314, in which Kermit the Frog reads a script, written by Fozzie Bear, which mistakenly refers to him as "Kermit the Forg"
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of frog.
Related terms: phrog
forgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forg
critical commentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critical commentary
stair-steps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stair-step
stair-stepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stair-step
stair-stepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stair-step
outstrength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊ̯tˈstɹɛŋ(k)θ/
Forms: form: outstrengths
form: outstrengthing
form: outstrengthed
form: outstrengthed
Etymology: From out- + strength.
Senses: examples: text: For the future the lessons are: we should make our plans independent of aid-at-pleasure; and we should plan, even at some expense of economic progress, for military development sufficient to outstrength neighbouring countries.
ref: 1962, Economic Affairs, volume 7, page 286:
text: […] and then the panic and fear as her murderer grabs her around the throat and the struggles begin and then the moment when she first sees that her killer has her outstrengthed, out-maneuvered, and the futile grappling, the desperate, horrible panicked exertion and gasping for air, […]
ref: 2008, Steven Womack, Dirty Money:
text: Ten thousand people was a lot of people, and that was how many cops it had taken to outstrength Sean Mckeithen.
ref: 2014, Sean McKeithen, REDUX, page 168:
text: 'Never try to outstrength a man's arm with your own,' Edith said knowingly. 'Rarely will you find a man weaker than yourself. However, no arm muscle in the world has the strength of these.'
ref: 2020, Iszi Lawrence, The Unstoppable Letty Pegg, page 92:
text: As the child ages, what will happen when he is no longer able to outstrength other kids and, for the first time, must rely on mental toughness and his resiliency and ability to overcome adversity?
ref: 2024, Ryan Smith, Building a War Chest: Tools for Effective Leadership:
glosses: To defeat in terms of strength.
outstrengthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From outstrength + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The idea that Kruger was reluctant to fight the British army, or that he had any idea that his burghers would be outstrengthed, may be dismissed.
ref: 1914, A. Wyatt Tilby, The English People Overseas:
text: Crenshaw was outweighed and outstrengthed; and Harleston quickly bore him to the floor, where a sharp blow on the fingers sent the automatic flying.
ref: 1916, John Reed Scott, The Cab of the Sleeping Horse, page 54:
text: […] and then the panic and fear as her murderer grabs her around the throat and the struggles begin and then the moment when she first sees that her killer has her outstrengthed, out-maneuvered, and the futile grappling, the desperate, horrible panicked exertion and gasping for air, […]
ref: 2008, Steven Womack, Dirty Money:
glosses: Outmatched or defeated in terms of strength.
outstrengthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From outstrength + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstrength
outstrengths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstrength
outstrengthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of outstrength
EBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: An administrator for the zone, Dagmawi Ayele, told the EBC that five people stuck in the mud were rescued and are being treated at a medical facility, adding that the local community was searching for more survivors.
ref: 2024 July 23, Nimi Princewill, Mek Tekeste and Louis Mian, “More than 200 dead in southern Ethiopia landslides”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation.
Indian nard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian nards
Senses: examples: text: Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 70:
glosses: spikenard
Indian nards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian nard
love draught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love draughts
Senses: examples: text: Democritus: An ancient Greek philosopher who was credited with mixing love draughts.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 75:
glosses: love potion
love draughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love draught
diasatyrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dia- (“with”) + satyrion.
Senses: examples: text: According to Venette, diasatyrion root taken morning and night with a little wine or cow's milk, for an entire week, will rejuvenate even old men.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 75:
glosses: An aphrodisiac preparation of the ancients made with satyrion.
meme speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The @BidenHQ account itself seems geared for online conflict: Its biography reads, “Just the facts, Jack”; its banner image says, “Malarkey Ends Here”; and its profile photo features Biden’s “Dark Brandon” persona—complete with laser eyes and a mischievous grin. (The moniker is a reference to “Let’s go, Brandon,” a right-wing chant that translates, in meme speak, to “Fuck Joe Biden.”
ref: 2023 October 17, Caleb Ecarma, “Biden, Now on Truth Social, Decides It’s Time to Troll Trump”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2023:
text: In contrast, the likes of VanEck (HODL, or “hold on for dear life”) and Valkyrie (BRRR, meme speak for the sound of the Federal Reserve’s hyperactive money printer) coined tickers that are “much more likely to resonate with retail investors”, Geraci said.
ref: 2024 March 8, Steve Johnson, “HODL, DUDE! Quest for catchy ETF tickers becomes holy grail”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2024:
text: That post was followed by more cryptic social media messages and the leak on Reddit of a screenshot showing that Mr. Gill held more than $100 million of stock and options betting on GameStop. Its shares immediately soared — “to the moon,” in meme speak.
ref: 2024 June 7, Rob Copeland, “Roaring Kitty Talked GameStop and Chugged Beer. Shares Plunged.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of meme-speak.