cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hoplophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɒpˈlɒfɪliə/
Etymology: From hoplo- (“weapon, arms”) + -philia (“love”).
Senses: examples: text: People with hoplophilia, known as hoplophiliacs or hoplophiles, may seek sexual gratification in a number of ways. Many may feel aroused by viewing images of firearms or being in close contact with guns. Some may enjoy having their own guns or seek or sexual relationships with gun owners, especially those who use guns professionally like police officers and security guards.
ref: 2019 October 28, Kinkly.com, “Hoplophilia”, in Kinkly:
glosses: The love of or (sexual) attraction to firearms or other weapons.
Related terms: hoplophile
hoplophilic
hoplophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoplophiles
Etymology: From hoplo- (“weapon, arms”) + -phile (“love”).
Senses: examples: text: These hoplophile members of the Pro-Firearms with No More Regulations Movement may actually believe this strategy holds promise in silencing us, and help them to counter the psychological discourse connected to their obsessive attachments to firearms, but it will fail.
ref: 2016 June 19, Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld, “Remember: Freud said men who obsess over guns have small genitals”, in LGBTQ Nation:
text: People with hoplophilia, known as hoplophiliacs or hoplophiles, may seek sexual gratification in a number of ways. Many may feel aroused by viewing images of firearms or being in close contact with guns. Some may enjoy having their own guns or seek or sexual relationships with gun owners, especially those who use guns professionally like police officers and security guards.
ref: 2019 October 28, Kinkly.com, “Hoplophilia”, in Kinkly:
glosses: One who loves or is attracted to firearms or other weapons.
Synonyms: ammosexual
gunfucker
gunloon
guntard
hoplophiliac
Related terms: hoplophilia
hoplophilic
hoplophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoplophilic
form: most hoplophilic
Etymology: From hoplo- (“weapon, arms”) + -philic (“love”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hoplophilia, the love of or attraction to firearms or other weapons.
Related terms: hoplophilia
hoplophile
hoplophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoplophile
total conversion mod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: total conversion mods
Senses: examples: text: This is a total conversion mod for Medieval: Total War that uses Napoleonic era troops rather than swords and knights.
ref: 2006, William Abner, The 2006 Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom: An Almanac of Pimps, Orcs, and Lightsabers, page 157:
text: The best-known total conversion mod of Half-Life is Counter Strike, which uses the Half Life engine but is a multiplayer-only game.
ref: 2010, Satish Nambisan, Mohanbir Sawhney, The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World, page 159:
text: In the end, the two created in less than a month a total conversion mod of Unreal Tournament 2004 in which players wander around an authentic Dutch landscape (without any guns of course).
ref: 2012, Casper Harteveld, Making Sense of Virtual Risks: A Quasi-Experimental Investigation Into Game-Based Training, page 11:
topics: video-games
synonyms: TC
total conversion
glosses: A mod that uses the game engine of an existing video game but significantly alters gameplay, assets, setting, etc. to the extent it is considered an entirely different game (and may be commercially marketed as a standalone title).
wikipedia: Europa Barbarorum
CBCEW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
paperperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperpersons
form: paperpeople
Senses: glosses: A person who delivers newspapers.
paperpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperperson
paperpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperperson
total conversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: total conversions
Senses: examples: text: A fantasy-themed RTS, Kingdoms (TA meets Warcraft II) is a total conversion with four unique races — each based on the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water.
ref: 1998 November, “Total Annihilation: Kingdoms”, in PC Accelerator, page 23:
text: Gunman is a total conversion (TC) of HaIf-Life, Valve's astonishingly popular firstperson shooter.
ref: 2001 February, John Dewhurst, “Gunman Chronicles”, in PC Powerplay, page 68:
text: Green Berets is a total conversion of Bungie’s classic Myth II: Soulblighter.
ref: 2002 January, Andrew S. Bub, “Green Berets: mything in action”, in Computer Games, page 84:
topics: video-games
synonyms: word: TC
word: total conversion mod
glosses: Synonym of total conversion mod.
nongumming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gumming.
Senses: examples: a nongumming oil
glosses: That does not produce gum.
hybrid saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid saws
Senses: glosses: A saw that combines the lighter-weight mechanism of a contractor's saw with the enclosed base stand of a cabinet saw.
hybrid saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybrid saw
contractor's saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A table saw set on steel legs.
total conversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of total conversion
total conversion mods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of total conversion mod
yepperoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: yes
picturehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturehouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picture house.
picturehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picturehouse
picture house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture houses
Senses: hyponyms: picture palace
glosses: A movie theater.
picture houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picture house
picture white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture whites
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The brightest white that can be produced in a television image.
picture whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picture white
jobsite saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobsite saws
Senses: glosses: A table saw having a direct-drive blade small enough to set on a workbench.
jobsite saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jobsite saw
acid number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acid numbers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of acid value.
synonyms: word: acid value
acid numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acid number
acid value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acid values
Senses: synonyms: acid number
neutralization number
glosses: A number used to quantify the acidity of a given substance, equal to the quantity of base (usually potassium hydroxide) in milligrams required to neutralize the acidic constituents in one gram of a sample.
acid values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acid value
Southover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Frampton parish, Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref SY6294).
glosses: A suburb of Lewes, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4109).
adobe lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adobe lilies
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Fritillaria pluriflora.
adobe lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adobe lily
ad vitam aut culpam
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: law
glosses: For life or fault: a kind of appointment or tenure in Scotland.
ageworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ageworthy
form: most ageworthy
Etymology: From age + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Worth being aged.
raw_tags: of wine
age class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: age classes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of age grade.
synonyms: word: age grade
age classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of age class
ahuula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahuulas
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻahu ʻula.
Senses: glosses: A feathered cloak traditionally worn by the native Hawaiian elite.
ahuulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahuula
ROBLOX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: As you can see, a lot of game functionality relies on Teams. This is partially due to the fact that they have been around since early in ROBLOX history.
ref: 2013, Brandon LaRouche, Intermediate ROBLOX Lua Programming, Double Trouble Studio, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Roblox
roidhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roidheads
Etymology: From roid + -head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roid-head.
roidheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roidhead
employerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more employerly
form: most employerly
Etymology: From employer + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1876, J. Brunton Stephens, A Hundred Pounds, Melbourne: Samuel Mullen, Chapter 7, pp. 87-88,
Sandie Scott has just brought into the ferry-house a large folding-screen pasted over with a motley collection of pictures from illustrated papers. ¶ Mary Drysdale is sitting at the open window, sewing some article […] . Mary in her innocence thinks that the screen is only one of the many kind employerly attentions to which she has now grown so accustomed […]
text: He was exceedingly courteous to me in the office—quite in the employerly way.
ref: 1915, Virginia Brooks, chapter 20, in My Battles with Vice, New York: Macaulay, page 189:
text: The reaction of the Faculty Salary Committee to any such argument can be imagined. For that matter, any “normal, healthy” person’s reaction can be imagined, to that employerly solicitude for “freedom” that keeps wages conveniently low.
ref: 1982, Lisa Newton, “Inducement, Due and Otherwise”, in Thomas A. Mappes, Jane S. Zembaty, editors, Biomedical Ethics, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, published 1986, page 235:
text: “Okay, you can draw monsters. What about cars? Buildings?” he asked, faking an employerly monotone, trying to conceal his excitement.
ref: 2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, Part 2, p. 70:
glosses: Characteristic of an employer.
time in time again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of time and time again.
unaerified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + aerified.
Senses: glosses: Not aerified.
Minecraftians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minecraftian
pasticcerias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasticceria
Oinam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯣꯏꯅꯥꯝ (ʼoʼinām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
glosses: A town in Manipur
glosses: A political assembly constituency in Manipur
Related terms: Oina
Oinamcha
Oina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oinam.
Synonyms: Oinamcha
Oinamcha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oinam.
Synonyms: Oina
Mangang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯃꯉꯥꯡ (mangāng).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meiteis.
glosses: A Meitei male given name.
Related terms: Mangangcha
Ningthouja
Ningthoucha
Mangangcha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mangang.
Synonyms: Ningthouja
Ningthoucha
Ningthouja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mangang.
glosses: Alternative form of Ningthoujam.
Synonyms: Ningthoucha
Mangangcha
Ningthoucha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mangang.
Synonyms: Ningthouja
Mangangcha
Luwang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯂꯨꯋꯥꯡ (luwāng).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Luwangcha
Luwangcha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Luwang.
Synonyms: Luang
Luang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Luwang.
Synonyms: Luwangcha
Khuman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯨꯃꯟ (khuman).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Khumancha
Khuman Pokpa
Khumancha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khuman.
glosses: Alternative form of Khumanthem.
glosses: Alternative form of Khumallambam.
Synonyms: Khumal
Khumal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khuman.
Synonyms: Khumancha
Angom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯉꯣꯝ (ʼangom).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Angomcha
Angomcha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Angom.
glosses: Alternative form of Angomjambam.
Chenglei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯦꯡꯂꯩ (cenglei).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Sarang-Leishangthem
Sarang-Leishangthem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯁꯔꯥꯡ-ꯂꯩꯁꯥꯡꯊꯦꯝ (sarāng-leisāngthem).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Salai-Leishangthem
Chenglei
Salai-Leishangthem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯁꯂꯥꯏ-ꯂꯩꯁꯥꯡꯊꯦꯝ (salāʼi-leisāngthem).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Sarang-Leishangthem
Chenglei
quecca-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Original proposed prefix for 10³⁰, but replaced with quetta- in the final plan due to a high resemblance to the Portuguese obscenity queca.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quetta-.
Moirang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯃꯣꯏꯔꯥꯡ (moʼirāng).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
glosses: A town in Manipur
glosses: One of the four types of Lai Haraoba ceremony
Related terms: Moirangcha
Moilang
Moirangcha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moirang.
glosses: Alternative form of Moirangmayum.
glosses: Alternative form of Moirangthem.
Synonyms: Moilang
Moilang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moirang.
Synonyms: Moirangcha
Khaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯥꯕ (khāba).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Khaba-Nganba
Kha-Nganba
Kha-Nganpa
Khaba-Nganba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯥꯕ (khāba) & Manipuri ꯉꯥꯟꯕ (ngānba).
Senses: glosses: One of the seven clans of the Meitei people
glosses: A Meitei male given name
Related terms: Khaba
Kha-Nganba
Kha-Nganpa
Bulverhythe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western coastal suburb in Hastings borough, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7708).
Kha-Nganba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khaba-Nganba.
Synonyms: Kha-Nganpa
Khaba
Kha-Nganpa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khaba-Nganba.
Synonyms: Kha-Nganba
Khaba
Godlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Godlees
Etymology: Variant of Godley; see there for more.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
empoodled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From em- + poodle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: by a stroke of fortune that stuns me to this day I found myself rooms in that very house (which was kept by a retired brigadier of lascivious tendencies, and his empoodled wife).
ref: 1974, Jan Morris, chapter 7, in Conundrum, Penguin, published 1987, pages 59-60:
text: 2003, Todd McEwen, Who Sleeps with Katz? London: Granta, p. 134,
most girls’ hairstyles of the late 1940s were hideous, the way the top looked like a volcanic plug, the rest of the hair empoodled around it
glosses: Made to resemble a groomed poodle as a result of a tightly curled hairstyle.
SWER
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of single-wire earth-return.
SWER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SWERs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: single-wire earth-return electrical system
Abujam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯕꯨꯖꯝ (ʼabujam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Abuja
Ahanthem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯍꯟꯊꯦꯝ (ʼahanthem).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Ahanthemcha
Aheibam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯍꯩꯕꯝ (ʼaheibam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Aheiba
Akham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯈꯥꯝ (ʼakhām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Akhamcha
Akoijam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯀꯣꯏꯖꯝ (ʼakoʼijam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Akoija
Amakcham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯃꯥꯛꯆꯝ (ʼamākcam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Amakcha
Angomjambam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯉꯣꯝꯖꯥꯝꯕꯝ (ʼangomjāmbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Angomjamba
Arambam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯔꯥꯝꯕꯝ (ʼarāmbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Aramba
I don't even
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what is this I don't even.
Asem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯁꯦꯝ (ʼasem).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Asemcha
Athokpam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯊꯣꯛꯄꯝ (ʼathokpam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Athokpa
Athokpamcha
Amom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯃꯣꯝ (ʼamom).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Amomcha
Ayekpam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯌꯦꯛꯄꯝ (ʼayekpam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Ayekpa
Ayekpamcha
Chabungbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯕꯨꯡꯕꯝ (cabungbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chabungba
Chabungbamcha
Chakpram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯛꯄ꯭ꯔꯝ (cakp͟ram).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chakpra
Chakpramcha
Chanambam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯅꯝꯕꯝ (canambam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chanamba
Chanambamcha
Chanam
Chandam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯥꯟꯗꯝ (cāndam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chandamcha
Chingakham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯤꯉꯥꯈꯝ (cingākham).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chingakha
Chingakhamcha
Chingangbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯤꯉꯥꯡꯕꯝ (cingāngbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chingangba
Chingangbamcha
Chingshubam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯤꯡꯁꯨꯕꯝ (cingsubam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chingshuba
Chingshubamcha
Chingtham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯤꯡꯊꯥꯝ (cingthām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chingthamcha
Chirom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯤꯔꯣꯝ (cirom).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chiromcha
Chongtham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯣꯡꯊꯥꯝ (congthām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chongthamcha
Chungkham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯆꯨꯡꯈꯥꯝ (cungkhām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Chungkhamcha
Elangbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯦꯂꯥꯡꯕꯝ (ʼelāngbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Elangba
Elangbamcha
Hanglem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯪꯂꯦꯝ (haṃlem).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Hanglemcha
Hanjabam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯟꯖꯕꯝ (hanjabam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Hanjaba
Hanjabamcha
Haobam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯥꯎꯕꯝ (hāʼubam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Haoba
Haobamcha
Haubam
Hauba
Haubamcha
Haobijam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯥꯎꯕꯤꯖꯝ (hāʼubijam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Haobija
Haobijamcha
Haubijam
Haubija
Haubijamcha
Hawaibam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯋꯥꯏꯕꯝ (hawāʼibam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Hawaiba
Hawaibamcha
Heigrujam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯩꯒ꯭ꯔꯨꯖꯝ (heig͟rujam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Heigruja
Heigrujamcha
Heikrujam
Heikruja
Heikrujamcha
Heikrujam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯩꯀ꯭ꯔꯨꯖꯝ (heik͟rujam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Heikruja
Heikrujamcha
Heisnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯩꯁ꯭ꯅꯥꯝ (heis͟nām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Heisnamba
Heisnamcha
Hemmam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯦꯝꯃꯥꯝ (hemmām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Hemmamcha
Hemam
Hidam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯤꯗꯝ (hidam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Hidamcha
Hidamba
Huidrom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯨꯏꯗ꯭ꯔꯣꯝ (huʼid͟rom).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Huidromcha
Huidromba
Huiningshumbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯨꯏꯅꯤꯡꯁꯨꯝꯕꯝ (huʼiningsumbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Huiningshumba
Huiningshumbamcha
Huirem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯨꯏꯔꯦꯝ (huʼirem).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Huiremcha
Huiremba
Hijam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯤꯖꯝ (hijam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Hija
Hijamcha
Huirongbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯨꯏꯔꯣꯡꯕꯝ (huʼirongbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Huirongba
Huirongbamcha
Ingudam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯏꯉꯨꯗꯝ (ʼingudam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Inguda
Ingudamcha
Irengbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯏꯔꯦꯡꯕꯝ (ʼirengbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Irengba
Irengbamcha
Irom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯏꯔꯣꯝ (ʼirom).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Iromcha
Irungbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯏꯔꯨꯡꯕꯝ (ʼirungbam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Irungba
Irungbamcha
Kakyenlakpam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯛꯌꯦꯟꯂꯥꯛꯄꯝ (kakyenlākpam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Kakyenlakpa
Kakyenlakpamcha
Kangabam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯥꯉꯕꯝ (kāngabam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Kangaba
Kangabamcha
Hamsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and small village in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4112).
Kangjam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯥꯡꯖꯝ (kāngjam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Kangja
Kangjamcha
Kangujam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯥꯉꯨꯖꯝ (kāngujam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Kanguja
Kangujamcha
Kayenpaibam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯌꯦꯟꯄꯥꯏꯕꯝ (kayenpāʼibam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Kayenpaiba
Kayenpaibamcha
misidentity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misidentities
Etymology: From mis- + identity.
Senses: glosses: Wrong or false identity.
glosses: Misidentification.
Keisham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯩꯁꯥꯝ (keisām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Keisha
Keishamcha
misidentities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misidentity
Keithellakpam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯩꯊꯦꯜꯂꯥꯛꯄꯝ (keithellākpam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Keithellakpa
Keithellakpamcha
Khaidem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯥꯏꯗꯦꯝ (khāʼidem).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khaidemcha
Khaidemba
Khangembam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯥꯉꯦꯝꯕꯝ (khāngembam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khangemba
Khangembamcha
Khangjarakpam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯪꯖꯔꯥꯛꯄꯝ (khaṃjarākpam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khangjarakpa
Khangjarakpamcha
Kharibam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯥꯔꯤꯕꯝ (khāribam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khariba
Kharibamcha
Khoinaijam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯣꯏꯅꯥꯏꯖꯝ (khoʼināʼijam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khoinaija
Khoinaijamcha
Khoinam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯣꯏꯅꯥꯝ (khoʼinām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khoina
Khoinamcha
Khoinamba
Khoirom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯣꯏꯔꯣꯝ (khoʼirom).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khoiromcha
Khoiromba
Khoisnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯣꯏꯁ꯭ꯅꯥꯝ (khoʼis͟nām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khoisna
Khoisnamcha
Khoisnamba
Khomdram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯈꯣꯝꯗ꯭ꯔꯥꯝ (khomd͟rām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Khomdra
Khomdramcha
Khomdramba
desethylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desethylation
desilicifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desilicification
desmatosuchines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmatosuchine
desolvators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desolvator
desorbates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desorbate
despotesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despotess
detonation cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detonation cord
detritiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detritiation
Zhuozhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jôʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涿州 (Zhuōzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: On June 4 the Boxers set fire to the Huangts’un station of the Peking-Tientsin Railway. General Nieh Shih-ch’êng’s troops promptly arrived, and a pitched battle was fought in which several hundred Boxers were killed.³⁵ On the 6th it was reported that railway communication between Peking and Tientsin was interrupted.³⁶ The day before the Boxers at Chochou had attacked the Kaopeitien station and destroyed the Peiho Bridge of the Paotingfu Railway,³⁷ setting fire to more than ten villages south of Paoting.³⁸
ref: [1967, Chester C. Tan, “The Manchu Court and the Boxers”, in The Boxer Catastrophe (History), New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65:
text: “To protect Beijing, no one cares if we in Hebei are being flooded,” a resident of a village on Zhuozhou’s outskirts complained on Friday morning, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal for criticizing the government.
Another Zhuozhou resident stood at the edge of a field next to his partly submerged village on the city’s outskirts on Friday, waiting for lingering, thigh-deep water to subside.
ref: 2023 August 4, Keith Bradsher, Li You, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, “Anger Builds in Towns Deliberately Flooded, in Part, to Save Beijing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2023, Asia Pacific:
text: So far, at least 22 people have died in Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province this week amid the heavy rains. State media reported Saturday that waters have started to recede in the hard-hit Hebei city of Zhuozhou.
ref: 2023 August 5, “China hit by more floods after Typhoon Doksuri”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Baoding, Hebei, China.
Nightcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coal-mining settlement in western Southland, New Zealand.
Qingchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chǐngʹchwänʹ
Forms: form: Chingchuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青川 (Qīngchuān).
Senses: examples: text: It was not clear whether other cities in the quake zone, including Qingchuan, would make similar announcements. A woman answering phones at the Sichuan provincial family planning office said officials were studying the issue.
ref: 2008 May 26, “Some areas in China to relax one-child policy for quake victims”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2020, Asia Pacific:
text: Since a magnitude eight earthquake struck Qingchuan county, Sichuan, five years ago, killing more than 80,000, a Hong Kong education expert has been working on a reconstruction of a different kind.
ref: 2013 May 27, Cynthia Chan, “Giving teachers in disaster zones spiritual training”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2013, Family & Relationships:
text: Qingchuan is one of Sichuan’s poorest counties. In 2010 the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council published a report on Qingchuan’s pre- and post-earthquake economic situation. “Qingchuan County is located in a remote mountain area, with inconvenient transportation, and is economically impoverished and backward. Before the earthquake, poverty was already substantially worse [in Qingchuan] than in other national poverty alleviation project areas.”
ref: 2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Ideological Pursuit of Ecology”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:
text: The Sichuan government said several rail services had been suspended for safety checks, but that it had not received any reports of power being cut off in any parts of the province.
It also showed pictures from Qingchuan county, the quake’s epicentre, with everything looking as normal and with no damage.
ref: 2017 September 30, Ben Blanchard, “Quake rattles southwestern China causing minor damage”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, Richard Pullin, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2023, World News:
glosses: A county of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China.
Qingchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chǐngʹchwänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清川江 (Qīngchuānjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: That year when he came to Korea, he was already thirty-one years old. Once while carrying out an emergency repair of a bridge, he volunteered to climb barehanded up a seventeen meter high isolated steel beam. He did so and brought down some materials. In addition, he paid no heed to danger during the flooding and set up floating bridges three times, victoriously completing his mission. To everyone's sorrow, on May 15th, 1952, our hero, while repairing the Qingchuan River Bridge, was gloriously martyred. His company was named the "Yang Liandi Company".
ref: 1989 April 4 [1987 August], Dezhi Yang, “Regulations”, in Leo Kanner Associates, transl., For Peace [Weile Heping], Foreign Technology Division, →OCLC, page 113:
english: Weile Heping
translation: Weile Heping
text: Goguryeo's General Euljimundeok allowed the Sui army to approach Pyeong'yang, but launched a protracted war of defending the castle. The Sui army, suffering from exhaustion and shortage of supplies, finally retreated. The retreating Sui army suffered a crushing defeat at Sashui (薩水, old name of Qingchuan River, 淸川江), where it was surrounded and attached; only 2,700 Sui soldiers escaped.
ref: 2006 [2003], Jae-eun Kang, “Confucianism in the Three Kingdoms Period”, in Suzanne Lee, transl., The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:
text: The Great Wall of North Zhao started in the west from the western frontier of Shanggu County, i.e., the area from the north of Huailai County of today’s Hebei Province, to Dushikou and Luanheyuan. It ended in the east in the eastern frontier of Liaodong Town, i.e., the Qingchuan River drainage area of today’s DPRK.
ref: 2008 September, Yaohui [董耀会] Dong, “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城], 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48:
english: Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House
translation: Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House
text: Since then, Korea started to build castles and moats in the Jurchen community, pushing the frontiers to the upper and middle stretches of the Qingchuan River (Ch'ongch'ongang) and the lower stretches of the Yalu River.
ref: 2017, Hongzhou Zhang, Mingjiang Li, China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=8QVDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT125:
glosses: Synonym of Chongchon: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Chongchon
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
sharena sol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian шарена сол (šarena sol).
Senses: examples: text: Romans used savory as a salt substitute. Today in Bulgaria it is mixed with salt and paprika and sometimes thyme and fenugreek to make a cherished spice called sharena sol, or colorful salt.
ref: 2022, The New York Botanical Garden, Herbal Handbook: 50 Profiles in Words and Art from the Rare Book Collections of The New York Botanical Garden, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Traditional Bulgarian spice mix used for seasoning food. Basic ingredients include table salt, sweet paprika, summer savory, fenugreek, wild thyme and roasted pumpkin seeds.
misslanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misslanted
form: most misslanted
Etymology: From mis- + slanted.
Senses: examples: text: Its wavering lines and misslanted letters, its blots and omissions, no less than its successes, were there to warn and guide your future efforts.
ref: 1902 November, “With The Editor”, in Youth: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 2, number 1, page 40:
text: […] amateurishly acted, and ideologically misslanted.
ref: 1965, Lewis Herman, Educational Films: Writing, Directing, and Producing for Classroom, Television, and Industry, page 290:
text: He can't have read the plays. So many quotes misslanted and out of context and character.
ref: 2019, Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Saskia Hamilton, The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979:
glosses: Improperly slanted (any sense).
GFD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gluten-free diet.
bkg.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of banking.
misslaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misslaughters
form: misslaughtering
form: misslaughtered
form: misslaughtered
Etymology: From mis- + slaughter.
Senses: examples: text: When the battle progresses well, Saul misspeaks, misclaims the battle as his, misvows, his son miseats and the hungry men misslaughter.
ref: 2003, Barbara Green, How Are the Mighty Fallen?, page 460:
text: There are also allegations of ill-treatment of animals (a video ofa shackled animal being badly misslaughtered by Rubashkin's was circulated a couple of years ago by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and even— rumor has it, I didn't even read the articles—a methamphetamine lab in the slaughterhouse.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Boyarin, Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul, page 168:
text: To put that into context, while there is no nice way for an animal to die, sadly there are many instances in which animals are mis-stunned and mis-slaughtered.
ref: 2014, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons, page 5:
text: However birds can be mis-slaughtered (other parts of the body are cut instead) or missed (not slaughtered) by the machine.
ref: 2014 November, M.M. Farouk, H.M. Al-Mazeedi, A.B. Sabow, A.E.D. Bekhit, K.D. Adeyemi, A.Q. Sazili, A. Ghani, “Halal and kosher slaughter methods and meat quality: A review”, in Meat Science, volume 98, number 3:
glosses: To slaughter improperly.
misslaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misslaughters
Etymology: From mis- + slaughter.
Senses: examples: text: His subsequent misslaughter of an animal in the following legend reveals a high degree of incompetence in the economic arena.
ref: 2015, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore), page 262:
text: Each of these methods carries risks of mis-stun or mis-slaughter which cause distress and suffering to the animal.
ref: 2018, College of St. George, On-Farm and Local Slaughter Consultation:
text: This study was aimed to determine the misslaughter of the broiler chicken slaughtering process sold at traditional market of Jombang, East Java.
ref: 2019, Indana Resti, Overview of Broiler Chicken Slaughtering Result Sold at Tradisional Markets in Jombang. (Undergraduate Thesis, IPB University):
glosses: An instance of misslaughtering.
misslaughters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misslaughter
misslaughters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misslaughter
misslaughtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misslaughter
misslaughtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misslaughter
fanzones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanzone
flatcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatcakes
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing like the delicious aroma of a freshly baked Uzbek flatcake just out of the tandyr ( a round clay oven ) .
ref: 1987, Vladimir Sokolov, “The Baker's House”, in Soviet Life, page 45:
text: Reluctantly she took the rolled flatcake, but waited until he had begun eating his before taking her first tentative bite.
ref: 2012, Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt, The Garlic Ballads:
text: Women are paid 4 francs and given a flatcake as well.
ref: 2013, Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer:
text: The meat and flatcake tasted only like delicious meat and flatcake, and I felt a bit guilty as I finished it.
ref: 2014, C. J. Brightley, Honor's Heir:
text: [I] snatch a flatcake out of the hands of a peasant woman's little boy.
ref: 2017, Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly:
glosses: An Eastern European round unleavened bread.
flatcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatcake
ronnameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ronnameters
Etymology: From ronna- + meter.
Senses: examples: text: The observable universe is about one ronnameter in diameter.
text: An electron’s mass is about one rontogram, Jupiter weighs two quettagrams and the diameter of the observable universe is one ronnameter.
ref: 2022 November 23, Katrina Krämer, “SI units get new prefixes for huge and tiny numbers”, in Chemistry World:
glosses: US spelling of ronnametre.
ronnametres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ronnametre
ronnameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ronnameter
queensides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queenside
pleads the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plead the fifth
pleading the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plead the fifth
pled the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plead the fifth
pleaded the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of plead the fifth
pleads the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plead the Fifth
pleading the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plead the Fifth
pled the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plead the Fifth
pleaded the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of plead the Fifth
takes the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the Fifth
taking the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the Fifth
took the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the Fifth
taken the Fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the Fifth
takes the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the fifth
taking the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the fifth
took the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the fifth
taken the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the fifth
Diazgranados
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Diazgranadoses
Etymology: Transliteration of Spanish Díazgranados.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Spanish surname Díazgranados.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Aleksandrów Łódzki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Aleksandrów Łódzki.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
Aleksandrów Kujawski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Aleksandrów Kujawski.
Senses: glosses: A town in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Avitable
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Avitables
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Aleksandrów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Aleksandrów.
Senses: glosses: Various villages in Poland.
offcumden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offcumdens
form: offcomeden
form: offcomedun
form: offcumdun
Senses: examples: text: As an offcumden I have much to learn of Dales gardening.
ref: 1988, The Dalesman, vol. 50, p. 46
text: Thine empire is under threat from offcumdens and men that want to pull you under.
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101:
glosses: Someone not from the area; an incomer, an outsider.
offcumdens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offcumden
out-of-office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-of-offices
Etymology: From out of office.
Senses: examples: text: There are poetic out-of-offices and humorous (or supposedly humorous) out-of-offices. There are out-of-offices that boast or complain about the person’s likely whereabouts (Bali! Jury duty.).
ref: 2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times:
text: That doesn’t happen in even the most enlightened workplaces, but nothing makes me feel more patriotic than emailing a French company in summer, getting an out-of-office that sends me to someone else, that person also being en vacances and suggesting a third, whose out-of-office directs me back to the first person.
ref: 2023 August 7, Emma Beddington, “Email makes my fingers tingle and my stomach drop with dread. Can’t we go back to pigeons?”, in The Guardian:
text: For many of us, turning on an out-of-office is one of the last things to do before going on holiday. It is typically a concise message outlining that you’re on annual leave and who to contact in your absence. But for some gen Z workers, an OOO is becoming another way to add a bit of pizzazz to work culture; a way to showcase their personality, as well as their approach to the office.
ref: 2024 July 25, Chloe Mac Donnell, “‘Slay, serve, survive’: How gen Z is rewriting the rules of work”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An email auto-reply informing people that the person they are trying to contact is not working and unavailable for an extended period of time.
out-of-offices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of out-of-office
mini-essay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-essays
Senses: examples: text: There are autobiographical mini-essays. And increasingly, there are frank admissions that the person on the other end of the email is actually available in some way, just less likely than usual to respond to you.
ref: 2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of miniessay.
hand-sell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hand-sells
form: hand-selling
form: hand-sold
form: hand-sold
Senses: examples: text: Luckily I happened to be in Tamworth for Country Music Week, hand-selling books on the street[.]
ref: 2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 14:
glosses: The sell an item by making personal contact with the customer to showcase the item and build rapport.
Luton peak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Luton peaks
Senses: glosses: A part of the body of a commercial or recreational vehicle that extends over the cab.
Luton peaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Luton peak
roadside assist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A service provided to drivers in cases of unexpected vehicle breakdown that leave the vehicle immobilized on the side of the road.