cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Opelika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I was accustomed to hot, muggy summers, but the heat in Opelika was more comprehensive.
ref: 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 134:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lee County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas, United States, named after the Alabama city.
Guntersville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gunter + -s- + -ville, originally Gunter's Ferry and Gunter's Landing and founded by John Gunter.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
Mount Ida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The highest mountain on the island of Crete.
glosses: A mountain in northwestern Turkey.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood in a historic district in Davenport, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A town and unincorporated community therein, in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: An abandoned town in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
Related terms: Idaic
clock move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A variant rule in chess in which a move is not considered final until the player touches the clock, as opposed to the standard touch move rule.
Related terms: touch move
self-names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-name
stickjaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickjaws
Etymology: From stick + jaw.
Senses: glosses: Food that is difficult to chew or swallow, such as toffee or pudding.
Wedowee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Creek language, meaning "old water".
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Randolph County, Alabama, United States.
Phenix City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Russell County, also partly in Lee County, Alabama, United States.
unsore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsore
form: most unsore
Etymology: From Middle English *unsor, *unsar, from Old English unsār (“not sore”), equivalent to un- + sore.
Senses: examples: text: After last night, after Logan had lifted her from the couch and carried her to his bed, after they'd made a mess of grilled cheese sandwiches and hot fudge sundaes, not a muscle on her skeleton was unused, untested, or unsore.
ref: 2016, Alison Kent, Three Times Love:
glosses: Not sore; without soreness or pain.
Titanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Titanlike
form: most Titanlike
Senses: examples: text: The countrymen and contemporaries of Fichte were all distinguished for the boldness of their philosophical inquiries; but he carried away the palm by a Titanlike audacity of speculation, which seemed to aim at scaling the heavens and prescribing limits to Omnipotence.
ref: 1841 May, “Transcendental Theology”, in The Christian Examiner and General Review, number 104, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company; New York, N.Y.: C. S. Francis; London: John Green, page 216:
text: Joe Christmas (Light in August), Nancy Mannigoe (Requiem for a Nun), and the Corporal (A Fable) endure Titanlike agonies with Christlike meekness and fortitude.
ref: 1959 spring, C. N. Stavrou, “Ambiguity in Faulkner’s Affirmation”, in The Personalist: An International Review of Philosophy, Religion, and Literature, volume XL, number 2, page 171:
text: They wanted the main participant to be possessed by four Titanlike forces, including Tiamat.
ref: 2009, Andrieh Vitimus, Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation Through the Ovayki Current, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: rare spelling of Titan-like
Rochegude
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rochegude.
Senses: glosses: A village in Drôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
HDFS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Hadoop Distributed File System.
Decaturville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Decatur + -ville, after Stephen Decatur.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Camden County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Decatur County, Tennessee, United States.
pro-Muslim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: promuslim
Senses: glosses: Supporting or favoring Muslims.
blue swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue swallows
Etymology: From blue + swallow.
Senses: glosses: Hirundo atrocaerulea, a species of swallow.
Pribilof Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Russian navigator Gavriil Pribylov.
Senses: synonyms: Northern Fur Seal Islands
glosses: An archipelago of the Bering Sea, now part of the state of Alaska.
Meronyms: Saint Paul Island
Saint George Island
Otter Island
Walrus Island
Elizabethton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Elizabeth + -ton, after the wives of two pioneers.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States.
O-chem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈoʊ.kɛm/
Forms: form: o-chem
form: O-Chem
form: ochem
form: OChem
form: O Chem
form: O chem
Etymology: Abbreviated form of organic chemistry.
Senses: examples: text: I have come to love O-chem after taking his course because not only did we learn essential problem-solving skills from all of the reactions, but we were also given the chance to understand the bigger picture of how these problem-solving skills are used by chemists to synthesize drugs and make cutting-edge discoveries that can create a difference in the world.
ref: 2012 June 13, Stuart Wolpert, “Chemistry you can dance to”, in UCLA Newsroom:
text: Prior to his firing, Jones Jr. - and others in the department - noted that students were unable to focus and did not seem up to the task of studying O-chem.
ref: 2022 October 6, Sophie Mann, “Parents FUME and say 'not all students are equipped to become doctors' after NYU fired organic chemistry professor because his classes were 'too hard' and had to 'lower standards' to keep kids from failing”, in Daily Mail:
text: It shouldn't be hard. Look, o-chem isn’t that deep, and it doesn’t require complex skills coming in the door. In 35 years, I have never once said to a student "If you had learned more in X class, o-chem would be going better for you."
ref: 2022 October 7, John Warner, “A Course in Organic Chemistry Doesn't Need to Be a Living Hell”, in Slate:
synonyms: Orgo
glosses: Organic chemistry.
o-chem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of O-chem.
O-Chem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of O-chem.
OChem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of O-chem.
O Chem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of O-chem.
O chem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of O-chem.
Crossville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From either cross (“crossroads”) or the surname Cross + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States; after many crossroads.
glosses: A village in White County, Illinois, United States; named after Thomas Cross.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States; after a crossroads,
karma whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karma whores
form: karma-whore
form: karmawhore
Etymology: First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.
Senses: examples: text: But the site's system is volatile, and not all original content is well-received. Karma whores know this in their core. Karma whores learn to be clinical and bot-like. Karma whores make nothing themselves and often pull their content from users on other sites without crediting.
ref: 2019 May 31, Brian Burlage, “Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore'”, in Vice:
text: People who aim to accrue karma on reddit are referred to as, even by themselves, as karma-whores.
ref: 2020, John R Gallagher, Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing, page 54:
glosses: Someone excessively dedicated to gaining karma (“a score assigned to a user or post on a discussion forum, indicating popularity or perceived value”), often by disagreeable methods such as reposting content or creating fake stories.
karma whore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: karma whores
form: karma whoring
form: karma whored
form: karma whored
form: karma-whore
form: karmawhore
Etymology: First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.
Senses: examples: text: Though this might seem to be a performance-contigent reward, there are well-known tricks for posting comments that wil be well-received, even though they contribute little to the conversation, such as resposting popular comments from previous conversations or reciting inside jokes. Such activities earned their own colloquial name "karma whoring."
ref: 2012, Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, Building Successful Online Communities, page 57:
text: But claims of photoshopping and "karma whoring" didn't unmask a troll — instead, it spurred "pussyrammer" to post photographic proof that she was who she claimed to be.
ref: 2012 December 27, Neetzan Zimmerman, “Sister of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim Has Hard Time Convincing Reddit of Identity Because Her Username is 'Pussyrammer'”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022:
text: A rather simple case of Karmawhoring is embodied in posts providing narrative teasers of possible stories. The respective users assure they would be willing to tell more, if only other users would upvote the post in advance.
ref: 2014, Annika Richterich, “Karma, precious Karma: 'Karmawhoring' on Reddit and the Front Page's Econometrisation”, in Journal of Peer Production:
text: Here's the whole story, which scores a one on the Reddit karma-whoring scale. That means I totally believe it because I have also accidentally almost burned down everything in my immediate vicinity while being distracted by the TV or the telphone.
ref: 2015 January 6, Mark Shrayber, “Man Sets House on Fire While Trying to Boil His Dildos Clean”, in Jezebel:
glosses: To act as a karma whore.
karma whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karma whore
karma whores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of karma whore
karma whoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of karma whore
karma whored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of karma whore
amphibiankind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphibian-kind
Etymology: From amphibian + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: Some indexes to the journal literature cover some of the. "That's one small step for an amphibian, one giant leap for amphibiankind!".
ref: 1976, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Sep 1976, page 46:
text: Sods. They outsmarted me again, outwitting my attempts to film their sex. Foiled by bad batteries, and ill-adapted mammalian technology. A rare win for amphibian-kind.
ref: 2014, Jules Howard, Sex on Earth: A Journey Through Nature's Most Intimate Moments:
glosses: Amphibians collectively.
karmawhore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karmawhores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karma whore.
karmawhore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: karmawhores
form: karmawhoring
form: karmawhored
form: karmawhored
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karma whore.
karma-whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karma-whores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karma whore.
karma-whore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: karma-whores
form: karma-whoring
form: karma-whored
form: karma-whored
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karma whore.
karma-whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karma-whore
karma-whores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of karma-whore
karmawhores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karmawhore
karmawhores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of karmawhore
karma-whoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of karma-whore
karmawhoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of karmawhore
karma-whored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of karma-whore
karmawhored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of karmawhore
Cwmbwrla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Cwmbwrla
Senses: glosses: A suburb and community in the city and county of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6595).
Katzenjammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Katzenjammer
guttlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guttlesome
form: most guttlesome
Etymology: From guttle (“to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble; to guzzle; to eat voraciously; to gorge”) + -some (“characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree”).
Senses: examples: text: 'What one of those guttlesome parsons who came every year to our dinners?' A momentary sadness passed over the company; on my mind the impression lingered; the talking, eating, evangelical parson, always going out to dinners, was dead.
ref: 1861 February 2, “The Sinfulness of Balls”, in Saturday Review, volume 11, number 275, page 115:
text: Since when I've cleared the table to feed these guttlesome swans—on the best cake, too, which is simply immoral.
ref: 1919, Lucas Malet, The Tall Villa, George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: Greedily eating and gorging oneself; gluttonous.
art of the possible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the art of the possible
Etymology: Calque of German Kunst des Möglichen, coined by Otto von Bismarck. The possible is here a singular nominalised adjective, meaning “that which is possible”.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: pragmatism, realism
wikipedia: Otto von Bismarck
counter revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter revolutions
Senses: examples: text: US shoppers join counter revolution [title]
ref: 2003 November 29, Duncan Campbell, “US shoppers join counter revolution”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of counterrevolution.
counter revolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter revolution
Smithville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Smith + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada, also spelt Smithsville.
glosses: A community in West Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Lawrence County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Loomis, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Lee County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Logan Township, Peoria County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Owen County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bullitt County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Duluth, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Monroe County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Clay County and Platte County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Galloway Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Eastampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Chenango County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Southport, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Wayne County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of DeKalb County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Bastrop County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Gandy, Utah.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Surry, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
natureculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturecultures
Etymology: Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway in 2003, from nature + culture.
Senses: examples: text: This manifesto explores two questions flowing from this aberration and legacy: 1) how might an ethics and politics committed to the tlourishing of significant otherness he learned from taking dog–human relationships seriously; and 2) how might stories about dog–human worlds finally convince brain-damaged US Americans, and maybe other less historically challenged people, that history matters in naturecultures?
ref: 2003, Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press, page 31:
text: Natureculture’s visibility in the primatological literature parallels the emergence and proliferation of studies referred to asethnoprimatology.
ref: 2017, Nicholas Malone, Kathryn Ovenden, “Natureculture”, in Agustín Fuentes, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, John Wiley & Sons, →DOI, page 1:
text: Through choosing the scope, process, and framework of this examination of natureculture by explicating narratives of silviculture, then, I recognize that to do so under the umbrella of "Anthropocene thinking" is to invoke throughout the "explosion" of the nature/culture bifurcation happening in both humanist and scientific fields.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Planting the Anthropocene: Rhetorics of Natureculture, Utah State University Press, pages 10–11:
glosses: Nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.
naturecultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natureculture
Eastampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States,
Related terms: Westampton, New Jersey
double fugue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double fugues
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fugue with two melodic subjects which are developed simultaneously.
Related terms: fugue
subject
countersubject
counterpoint
double fugues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double fugue
Kursk Oblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian Курская область (Kurskaja oblastʹ).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
Greeneville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greene + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Norwich, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Greene County, Tennessee, United States.
dope sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dope sicknesses
form: dopesickness
Etymology: From dope sick + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Illness due to withdrawal from opiates.
Sneedville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sneed + -ville, named after William Henry Sneed.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Hancock County, Tennessee, United States.
wikipedia: William Henry Sneed
dope sicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dope sickness
dopesick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dopesick
form: most dopesick
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dope sick.
flummoxable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flummoxable
form: most flummoxable
Etymology: From flummox + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable or able to be flummoxed.
Chayka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chaika
form: Czajka
form: Cajka
Etymology: From Ukrainian ча́йка (čájka), Polish czajka, or Slovene čajka. Ultimately, from Proto-Slavic *čajьka.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Comarna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Comarna.
Senses: glosses: A river, commune, and village in Iași County, Romania.
lunachick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunachicks
Etymology: Blend of lunatic + chick (“woman”).
Senses: examples: text: A lunachick.” “Lunachick?” Lux thought of the little girl with uncombable hair. A girl like that is always stigmatized and misunderstood. Of course she'd be called crazy because of her syndrome; her hair spiraling in a hive of curls[…]
ref: 2007 July 31, Maria Flook, Lux: A Novel, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
text: When your woman becomes a self-destructive “lunachick” and drives you up the wall, she's not trying to break off the relationship. She's trying to transform herself, yourself, and the relationship to next level.
ref: 2003, Thomas David Kehoe, Hearts and Minds: How Our Brains Are Hardwired for Relationships, Casa Futura Technologies, →ISBN, page 217:
text: Freaking lunachick. I can imagine her looking at herself in her mirror and going, “Mirror God, Mirror God on the wall—am I, like, the hottest, most radical Christian Crusader of them all? Amazing! I will spread your word, Mirror God,[…]
ref: 2020 August 11, Lori Lansens, This Little Light: A Novel, Abrams, →ISBN:
glosses: A lunatic girl or woman.
lunachicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunachick
secondary diagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary diagonals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antidiagonal.
synonyms: word: antidiagonal
minor diagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor diagonals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antidiagonal.
synonyms: word: antidiagonal
antidiagonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In an antidiagonal manner.
secondary diagonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary diagonal
minor diagonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor diagonal
St. David's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈdeɪv.ɪdz/
rhymes: -eɪvɪdz
homophone: St David's
Forms: form: Saint David's
Etymology: Named after Saint David (c. 500 - c. 589). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
wikipedia: Saint David
redump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redumps
form: redumping
form: redumped
form: redumped
Etymology: From re- + dump.
Senses: examples: text: From then on, therefore, the operations team made sure never to attempt to redump lost data.
ref: 2020, Peter Bond, Rosetta: The Remarkable Story of Europe's Comet Explorer, page 192:
glosses: To dump again.
redumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redump
redumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redump
redumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redump
tavern-style
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tavern-cut (“style of pizza”).
synonyms: word: tavern-cut
extra: style of pizza
Mountain City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rabun County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Elko County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Johnson County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Hays County, Texas.
St. Patrick's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈpæt.ɹɪks/
rhymes: -ætɹɪks
Forms: form: Saint Patrick's
Etymology: Named after Saint Patrick (around 385 - around 461). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish of Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
wikipedia: Saint Patrick
Comicsgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From comics + -gate.
Senses: examples: text: Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.
ref: 2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: Celebgate
Gamergate
glosses: A right-wing campaign in opposition to diversity and progressivism in the North American superhero comic book industry.
St. Andrew's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈæn.dɹuːz/
rhymes: -ændɹuːz
homophone: Saint Andrews
homophone: St Andrews
homophone: St. Andrews
Etymology: Named after Saint Andrew (around 5 - 60/70). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish of Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
wikipedia: Saint Andrew
Tiptonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tipton + -ville, named after early settler William Tipton.
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Lake County, Tennessee, United States.
shave foam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shave foams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shaving cream.
synonyms: word: shaving cream
shave foams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shave foam
shaving soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaving soap
bex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bex
form: most bex
Etymology: From vex.
Senses: examples: text: Benquenos are bex about an oil spill caused by Westline bus.
ref: 2021 October 12, “Benquenos Bex About Oil Spill”, in 7 News Belize:
glosses: Angry.
shaving oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaving oils
Senses: glosses: A type of oil applied to the skin for the purpose of shaving, adding a slip and a layer of protection between the blade and skin in order to shave without much friction.
shaving oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaving oil
shave soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shave soaps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shaving soap.
synonyms: word: shaving soap
shave soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shave soap
Wartburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Wartburg is a castle in Eisenach, Germany, where Martin Luther worked on his translation of the Bible.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A minor city, the county seat of Morgan County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A community in Perth East, Perth County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A small town north-east of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
Wartburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wartburgs
Etymology: Wartburg is a castle in Eisenach, Germany, where Martin Luther worked on his translation of the Bible.
Senses: glosses: A make of East German car.
Perth East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Perth County, Ontario, Canada.
rest easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rests easy
form: resting easy
form: rested easy
form: rested easy
Senses: synonyms: sleep easy
glosses: To cease worrying about something; to not be concerned or troubled by worries.
rests easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rest easy
resting easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rest easy
rested easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rest easy
ganderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganderers
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of gander.
ganderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganderer
non-voice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonvoice.
frontierist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontierists
Etymology: From frontier + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of frontierism.
frontierists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontierist
frontierism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frontier + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Support for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier.
Related terms: frontierist
-trophism
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From tropho- + -ism.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: nutrition
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: development
Derived terms: trophism
Related terms: word: trophic
word: -trophic
word: tropho-
english: not to be confused with
translation: not to be confused with
word: -tropism
word: -trophy
technology stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technology stack
tech stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tech stacks
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of technology stack.
tech stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tech stack
retard strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "The kid bumped me on the lunch line," Havoc responded when I asked what the fight was over. "You know he was like a Special Ed kid in a basement class. But he was big and had that ultra… special… uh… strength… you know what you I mean? I don't want to use that term but…"
 "So you're saying he had retard strength," I filled in the blank.
ref: 2017 June 22, Jeff Weiss, “Mobb Deep's 'The Infamous' Gave New York a New Sense of Menace”, in VICE:
text: He also talked about having 'retard strength' and likened sex with a 'fat chick' to 'p**sing on a toilet seat'.
ref: 2018 July 29, Nic White, “Nationals star Trea Turner apologizes for racist and homophobic tweets calling gay people 'f**s' and joking women sleeping with black men would end up in a wheelchair”, in Daily Mail:
text: One time, Faizi allegedly told Peralta as she was leaving work that Mark might use his "retard strength" to "try something" with Peralta, the court papers say.
ref: 2020 April 6, Priscilla DeGregory, “NJ car dealership discriminated against the disabled, women, Muslims: suit”, in New York Post:
glosses: The extreme physical power often displayed by those with cognitive disabilities as a result of decreased inhibition against using their full strength.
mommy juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mommy juices
Senses: glosses: Liquor, mainly wine, consumed by tired and stressed moms.
chubbing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chub up
chubbed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chub up
who put a quarter in you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Suggesting the insertion of a coin into a machine such as a jukebox.
Senses: glosses: Who upset you, or caused you to behave in a certain way? criticizing somebody perceived as making an unreasonable or negative remark
Related terms: piss in someone's cornflakes
feirie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪəri/
Forms: form: more feirie
form: most feirie
Etymology: From Late Middle English fery, equivalent to Old English fer, meaning "fit, able-bodied."
Senses: examples: text: Doubt ye nocht, Sir, bot wee will get hir; Wee sall be feirie for till [fet] hir;
ref: 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Satyre Of The Thrie Estaitis, Canongate Books, lines 397-398
glosses: healthy; strong
Chorleywood process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chorleywood process
Etymology: It was developed by Bill Collins, George Elton and Norman Chamberlain of the British Baking Industries Research Association at Chorleywood in 1961.
Senses: examples: text: The Chorleywood process is chosen by bakeries that decide to make the cheapest possible bread. This sort of product has not enhanced the reputation of the product.
ref: 2015, William P. Edwards, editor, The Science of Bakery Products, Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 174:
synonyms: CBP
Chorleywood method
glosses: A method of efficient dough production to make bread quickly, producing a soft, fluffy loaf.
wikipedia: Bill Collins (baker)
misrecount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrecounts
form: misrecounting
form: misrecounted
form: misrecounted
Etymology: From mis- + recount.
Senses: examples: text: I write, without a particle of feeling against Mr. Lillie, for I know him to be altogether friendly to my late colleague and myself, and even while inadvertently misrecounting her history, he writes of her in a most reverential tone.
ref: 1895, Edward Maitland, “An Explanation By Mr. E. Maitland”, in William Thomas Stead, editor, Borderland: A Quarterly Review and Index, volume 2, page 178:
text: So far from the Queen having ordered him back, he would not have written but that his coming back would be misrecounted to her if he did not.
ref: 1902, Sir William Monson, Michael Oppenheim, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, page 341:
text: Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain the incriminating testimony presented at her trial.
ref: 1998, ESQ. - Volume 44, page 139:
glosses: To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.
misrecounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrecount
misrecounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrecount
misrecounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrecount
put in the work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts in the work
form: putting in the work
form: put in the work
form: put in the work
form: put in that work
Senses: glosses: To apply the necessary amount of effort and labor to accomplish something.
glosses: To perform oral sex on, especially a male on a female.
misrecover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrecovers
form: misrecovering
form: misrecovered
form: misrecovered
Etymology: From mis- + recover.
Senses: examples: text: The third situation in which Massaro et al. (2001) found BMS misrecovered the correct model a high percentage of the time was when Newton’s law (NMP) was compared with a weighted additive version of Newton’s law (WNAV).
ref: 2003 March, Mark A. Pitt, Woojae Kim, In Jae Myung, “Flexibility versus generalizability in model selection”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, volume 10:
text: In practice, this constraint is a significant limitation because if the key recovery process does not work for only one key byte (because not enough encrypted packets were captured by the attacker from the concerning weak IV class or because a byte of the plaintext is unknown), all the following key bytes will be probably misrecovered.
ref: 2007, Carlisle Adams, Ali Miri, Michael Wiener, Selected Areas in Cryptography, page 346:
text: Especially as the model with the highest number of parameters (the conjunction strategy) is misrecovered most frequently.
ref: 2018 June, Charlotte E. R. Edmunds, Fraser Milton, Andy J. Wills, “Due process in dual process: Model‐recovery simulations of decision‐bound strategy analysis in category learning”, in Cognitive Science, volume 42, number 53:
glosses: To recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.
misrecovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrecover
misrecovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrecover
misrecovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrecover
Quinigua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: [kwih NEE gwuh]
Senses: examples: text: As the Quinigua language appears to have been spoken in the Monterrey-Cadereyta-Cerralvo area of Nuevo León, Quedejeños could be a Quinigua name applied to a more easterly Indian group that did not speak Quinigua.
ref: 1990, the University of California, Indians of the Rio Grande delta, the University of California, page 77
glosses: Extinct language formerly spoken in northeastern Mexico.
misrecovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrecoveries
Etymology: From mis- + recover + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In the bottom graph, the percentage of misrecoveries by RMSD, BMS, and those common to both are plotted for each of the six bins of parameter sets.
ref: 2003 March, Mark A. Pitt, Woojae Kim, In Jae Myung, “Flexibility versus generalizability in model selection”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, volume 10:
text: My first point is that perceptual misrecovery is not necessary there.
ref: 2010, Cécile Fougeron, Barbara Kuehnert, Mariapaola Imperio, Laboratory Phonology 10, page 762:
text: To take just the most salient instance, the letters or other elements of such systems owe their shapes to a number of quite distinct factors: to physical factors (whether they're set down with a brush or a pen, for instance); to cognitive factors (how they have been affected by human misrecollection and misrecovery); to perceptual factors (how they have been kept distinguishable); and even to esthetic factors (how they fit, when they assumed their final shapes, the cultural values of the time).
ref: 2013, William C. Watt, Writing Systems and Cognition, page xi:
glosses: The act or process of misrecovering.
misrecoveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrecovery
misrecruit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrecruits
form: misrecruiting
form: misrecruited
form: misrecruited
Etymology: From mis- + recruit.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the introduction of the elective principle, the councils failed partly because they continued to misrecruit big men and chiefs, but also because local council activities were being progressively eclipsed by the emergence of a national arena of politics.
ref: 1984, Ralph R. Premdas, Jeff S. Steeves, Decentralisation and Political Change in Melanesia, page 11:
text: Explain to the remaining respondents that the person belonged in a different group, was misrecruited, or was clearly unhappy with the research.
ref: 2001, Judith Langer, The Mirrored Window: Focus Groups from a Moderator's Point of View, page 127:
text: Perhaps people have been misrecruited.
ref: 2012, BPP Learning Media, CIM Post-grad Diploma: 3 Marketing leadership and planning, page 18:
glosses: To recruit someone who is inappropriate.
misrecruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrecruits
Etymology: From mis- + recruit.
Senses: examples: text: This pattern may be appropriate […] If the participant is a misrecruit and there is no way to adjust the session to get feedback from her.
ref: 2013, Donna Tedesco, Fiona Tranquada, The Moderator's Survival Guide, page 54:
glosses: Someone who has been misrecruited.
misrecruits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrecruit
misrecruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrecruit
misrecruiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrecruit
misrecruited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrecruit
balls-to-the-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of balls to the wall.
balls to the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of balls to the wall.
balls-to-the-walls
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of balls to the wall.
misrectify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrectifies
form: misrectifying
form: misrectified
form: misrectified
Etymology: From mis- + rectify.
Senses: examples: text: At the task level itself, there may be errors of misassessing, mismonitoring, and misrectifying the safety requirements set up to achieve an errorless task accomplishment.
ref: 1987, Shizuko Y. Fagerhaugh, Hazards in Hospital Care: Ensuring Patient Safety, page 127:
text: Perhaps the aerial photographs had been misrectified or the position of the ditches incorrectly surveyed.
ref: 2006, Christopher Evans, Ian Hodder, A Woodland Archaeology: Neolithic Sites at Haddenham, page 244:
text: Misassessing a danger or a risk can result in a staff member's mismonitoring, mispreventing, and misrectifying.
ref: 2017, Seymour Lipset, Social Organization of Medical Work:
glosses: To err when attempting to rectify (a problem or mistake).
misrectifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrectify
misrectifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrectify
misrectified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrectify
misredeem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misredeems
form: misredeeming
form: misredeemed
form: misredeemed
Etymology: From mis- + redeem.
Senses: examples: text: With today's sophisticated copying machines, one of the easiest ways to misredeem coupons is simply through duplication and gang cutting.
ref: 1982, Don E. Schultz, William A. Robinson, Sales Promotion Management, page 32:
text: Trying to stimulate the sales of a less popular size or variety of a brand, for example, by issuing a coupon redeemable 'only' against that size or variety, will very often fail simply because too many consumers will misredeem the coupon against the most popular size/variety.
ref: 1994, Christian Petersen, Alan Toop, Sales Promotion in Postmodern Marketing, page 60:
text: Ecover reserves the right to refuse payment against misredeemed vouchers.
ref: 2009, Waitrose Food Illustrated, page 7:
text: The difficulty is that retailers can misredeem the discount delivery vehicle (e.g., coupon) without a redemption, that is submit coupons for redemption that were not submitted by consumers with purchases.
ref: 2012, Özalp Özer, Robert Phillips, The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management, page 591:
glosses: To redeem inappropriately; to convert to cash under invalid circumstances.
misredeems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misredeem
misredeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misredeem
misredeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misredeem
Sorabe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malagasy sorabe.
Senses: glosses: An Arabic-based writing system for the Malagasy language.
huxen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌksən/
Forms: form: huxens
form: huckson
form: huxon
form: huckshin
form: hucksheen
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *hoxene, *huxene (only attested as hokschyne, with alteration after schyne), from Old English hōhsinu, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu, from Proto-Germanic *hanhasinwō, from *hanhaz (“heel”) + *senawō (“sinew”). Compare hough, hox, and sinew.
Senses: examples: text: Or ſvveet Lady reach to me / The Abdomen of a Bee; / Or commend a Crickets-hip, / Or his Huckson, to my Scrip.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Beggar to Mab, the Fairie Queen”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 262:
text: Thy hozen muxy up zo vurs thy gammerels to tha very huckſheens o' tha, thy gore coat oll a girred, thy head clathing oll a fouſt[…]
ref: 1746 July 24, “An Exmoor Scolding”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XVI, number 9, page 354, column 1:
text: "Ers stratted‡ ter th' huxens§! Eh! come an' lack vor yersel," she screamed in a voice made inarticulate by her shrill and immodest laughter, as the unfortunate man waded at last out of the black water, and stood gazing dolefully at his dirty stockings and shoes.
ref: 1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, “The Dwale Bluth”, in William Rosetti, F. Hueffer, editors, The Dwale Bluth, Hebditch's Legacy, and Other Literary Remains, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 68:
glosses: The hough; the back of the hip.
huxens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huxen
huckson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of huxen.
huxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of huxen.
huckshin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of huxen.
hucksheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of huxen.
Nazi Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Nazi Party
Senses: glosses: the National Socialist German Workers' Party
Social Democratic Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of various social democratic parties, including U.K.'s one.
Bas-Saint-Laurent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: An administrative region on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada.
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
Senses: glosses: A region of Quebec, Canada.
Capitale-Nationale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Capitale-Nationale.
Senses: glosses: A region of Quebec, Canada.
Inverleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inver- + Leigh, named by John Helder Wedge in 1835, it refers to the town’s position near the river Leigh.
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia, situated off the Leigh river.
Cookeville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cooke + -ville, named after pioneer Richard F. Cooke.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Putnam County, Tennessee, United States.
Sarcen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæɹˌsən/
Forms: form: Sarcens
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Saracen.
Sevierville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sevier + -ville, named after John Sevier.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Sevier County, Tennessee, United States.
wikipedia: John Sevier
out-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-Christians
form: out-Christianing
form: out-Christianed
form: out-Christianed
Etymology: From out- + Christian.
Senses: examples: text: I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
ref: 1981, Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles, London: Head of Zeus, published 2014, →ISBN:
glosses: To behave more Christianly than.