cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oversymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversymmetrical
form: most oversymmetrical
Etymology: From over- + symmetrical.
Senses: glosses: Excessively symmetrical.
whore mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whore mouths
Senses: examples: text: You shut your whore mouth!
glosses: Mouth.
whore mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whore mouth.
beetle leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetle leaves
Senses: examples: text: Scatter black sand, and offer camphor, sandal, flowers, beetle-leaves, and all sorts of fragrance.
ref: 1816, John Callaway, Yakkun Nattannawa: A Cingalese Poem, Descriptive of the Ceylon System of Demonology, page 10:
text: Beetle-leaf is absolutely a primary necessary article of life; every person consumes it daily, especially when travelling; the hindoo of caste has great difficulties in the way of cooking food, which are augmented whenever from home, and the beetle alleviates his hunger.
ref: 1835, Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine: 1835,1/6, page 547:
text: "It consists of the beetle leaf, in which the piece of an areca-nut is mixed with some lime out of the oyster and muscle shells, and so put into the mouth and chewed. Out of the beetle leaves, during the preparation, the fibres that are hard and rough are first drawn to the leaf; the form of a little horn is then given, open at the bottom, and pointed at the top, which when the areca-nut is inserted is closed, and so chewed."
ref: 1835, The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 157, E. Cave, pages 614–615:
glosses: Archaic spelling of betel leaf.
piddlepants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From piddle + pants.
Senses: examples: text: MOre snipadoodle form the eggheaded bed wetting little splurgy. Emnjoy sleelping in wet sheets, piddlepants? Heheh.
ref: 2000 January 11, GROG, “At the risk of being labelled a TROLL [Who? Me?] Jackson's lost the plot.”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet):
text: One day, she told Elizabeth about a boy who'd teased her best friend. The girls rallied, reminding him of an earlier incident in which he had not made it to the bathroom in time and had to be sent to the nurse's office for a change of clothes. Peter Piddlepants, they'd chanted over and over.
ref: 2011, Averil Dean, Wet Sand, Noble Romance Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: Synonym of pissy-pants (“one who wets their pants”).
synonyms: word: pissy-pants
extra: one who wets their pants
examples: text: It's those goddamn senior citizens that are stealing the future of America.
If only you could be empress, piddlepants, I'm sure you'd fix EVERYTHING.
ref: 1996 January 20, Jim Martin, “The Waltons”, in alt.bitterness (Usenet):
text: Lissen, Piddlepants. I'm saying you are ungracious and arrogant. You think you understand what people intend to do ("crassly misrepresent" and "pettifog" and "cheap lawyer tricks" and "score debating points") and you miss out on the fact that people may just well be reading the words you wrote and coming to an honest interpretation of them and responding to that.
ref: 2003 December 14, gekko, “Good Old Hillary Clinton”, in misc.writing (Usenet):
text: "Rest assured, the President is all over this," said Biden's National Security Advisor Peter Piddlepants. "He is very in charge and competent and presidential, as evidenced by this photo of all of us seated at a very official-looking conference table. See? look at that!" he said showing a picture on his phone.
ref: 2021 August 18, “Giant Hurricane Forms Over Washington From White House Spinning Afghanistan Story”, in The Babylon Bee (Satirical publication):
text: Poor old PiddlePants you need your blinky?
ref: 2025 June 19, @rjc3650, Twitter:
glosses: Term of abuse; a contemptible person.
examples: text: Badge commission from darkpawcamui
(Who is a pretty lil princess piddlepants, but you knew that.)
ref: 2010 May 25, @muira_wolf_pup, “Leather Rebel by Darkpaw Camui”, in Fur Affinity:
text: Dismay pulls back Draven's diaper and checks her "hmm been hearing a lotta rumours your^([sic]) a piddlepants Drav"
ref: 2023 December 23, @Flare629, “Surprise diaper check”, in Fur Affinity:
text: HDJDHJDHD THOSE PAMPS ARE SO FULL PUPPY!!!! Good little piddlepants~
ref: 2024 May 14, @CoffeeAndGoon, Twitter:
text: Im sure they can sense what a little piddlepants you actually are :3
ref: 2025 April 26, @Hornperion, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
qualifier: ABDL slang
glosses: Term of endearment for one who wets their diaper.
Lafufu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lafufus
Etymology: Alteration of the brand name Labubu.
Senses: glosses: A fake Labubu plush toy.
wikipedia: Labubu
Lafufus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lafufu
pain in the dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains in the dick
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pain in the ass.
synonyms: word: pain in the ass
pains in the backside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pain in the backside.
pains in the dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pain in the dick.
pains in the keister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pain in the keister.
beetle leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetle leaf
lion's-dens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lion's-den.
positron-emission tomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He points to a new scanner, called the positron-emission tomography (PET), which by detecting biochemical changes in the brain could aid in diagnosis.
ref: 1980 November 5, Donna Halvorsen, “Hospital planners get tough questions”, in Evening Express, volume 99, number 21, Portland, Me., →OCLC, page 23, column 2:
text: New imaging advances have greatly improved the ability of doctors to visualize what is happening inside the body. These include the CAT and PET (positron-emission tomography) scanners, soundwaves to study the heart (echocardiography) and improved radioisotopes and radiation-sensitive cameras to spot tumors, watch the blood flow or the heart beating.
ref: 1981 May 31, Joan Whitlow, “A rundown of significant medical advances: Genetics, CAT scans head experts’ lists”, in Sunday Star-Ledger, volume 68, number 92, Newark, N.J., →OCLC, section 8, page 9, column 4:
text: The brain is only part of the PET story. Positron-emission tomography—PET’s formal name—can be used to study the workings of cells throughout the body.
ref: 1981 July 8, Patrick Young, “Doctors have a new favorite PET”, in Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wis., →OCLC, page 4, column 4:
text: MRI tests and positron-emission tomography didn’t exist in William James’s day, but today, it’s quite possible to see which parts of the brain we use for what functions.
ref: 2012 December 4, Ken Jennings, “‘We only use 10 percent of our brains, you know!’”, in Because I Said So! The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 209:
text: [Bennet] Omalu’s experimental breakthrough – along with UCLA researchers – uses positron-emission tomography (PET scan) and a radioactive “tracer” called FDDNP to bind to tau proteins in the brain.
ref: 2017 November 22, “Courier editorial: CTE research has ramifications”, in Nancy Newhoff, editor, The Courier, volume 159, number 272, Waterloo, Ia.: Lee Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A5, columns 2–3:
text: Positron-emission tomography is a nuclear medicine imaging technique used to observe metabolic processes — of tissue or organisms — in the body to help diagnose disease.
ref: 2018 May 31, Craig Pearson, “Windsor-area patients forced to hit the highway for PET scans”, in Windsor Star, Windsor, Ont.: Postmedia, published 1 June 2018, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2018, page A2, column 5:
text: He [Rob Beanlands] is a founding director of the National Cardiac PET Centre, the first facility in Canada dedicated to the use of PET (positron-emission tomography) as a non-invasive cardiac diagnostic tool.
ref: 2024 January 19, Elizabeth Payne, “Heart Institute a second family to new CEO […]”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.: Postmedia, published 20 January 2024, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2024, page A4, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of positron emission tomography.
duo euthanasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The assisted dying of two life partners together.
Água Grande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative district of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Caué
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative district of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Lembá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative district of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Mé-Zóchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of São Tomé and Príncipe.
bineage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbajnɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: bine + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Who's that cycling? Jump out bine him
Perfect timing, Snap said "Five mins" then he held bineage
They want me to rap, I want to close eyelids
Juggling both, pretty exciting
ref: 2020 November 19, (67) PR SAD, “One Wish” (1:47 from the start):
text: Ammunition of death, fill 'em up with bineage
I'm violent, I do this shit for my friends, not ends
Pull up and fire pon dem, decamp out the dinger go there
ref: 2024 April 5, V9, “6AM IN BCN” (2:23 from the start):
glosses: Discharge of ammunition.
chingings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinging
laurencia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laurencias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Laurencia, from French LaLaurencie (surname, after one M. de LaLaurencie, former naval officer) + translingual -ia.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any red algae of the genus Laurencia.
Related terms: Laurencia
Mangaroa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maori.
Senses: glosses: A rural settlement in the City of Upper Hutt, Wellington region, New Zealand.
telekinesist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛləkɪˈniːsɪst/
Forms: form: telekinesists
Etymology: From telekinesis + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This subtext of the Force, as a type of energy that can be tapped into, has attracted many enthusiastic consumers of the Star Wars mythos. By obeying it, one is able to predict events, control gravity, be a telekinesist, influence peoples minds…
ref: 2005, Adam Possamai, Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-real Testament, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, page 86:
text: Yet nobody tries to move their arm, or wills it to move in the way in which the would-be telekinesist wills that the matchbox moves.
ref: 2015 February 17, Constantine Sandis, Jonathan Dancy, editors, Philosophy of Action: An Anthology, Wiley, page 66:
text: He’s a Telekinesist from Tellus, called Aaron.
ref: 2024 July 11, Ray McCarthy, The Mission's Talent, Corvids Press, page 86:
glosses: A person who purportedly moves or manipulates objects using telekinesis—i.e., by mental power without physical contact.
Related terms: psychokinesis — often used interchangeably with telekinesis
telekinetic
psychic
telepathy
telekinesists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telekinesist
Clam Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place or lake in the United States:
A township in Wexford County, Michigan.
glosses: A place or lake in the United States:
Former name of Cadillac, Wexford County, Michigan.
glosses: A place or lake in the United States:
A census-designated place in the town of Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place or lake in the United States:
Some lakes in Michigan and Minnesota.
St. John's bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The bean of the carob tree.
henpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henpens
Etymology: hen + pen
Senses: examples: text: A fox terrier was introduced into the henpens […]
ref: 1915, Missouri. State Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (volumes 13-14, page 54)
glosses: A hencoop.
Supermac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Nickname for Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Carnian pluvial episode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CPE
Senses: glosses: A period of increased rainfall and hotter temperatures during the Triassic period.
unthrall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unthralls
form: unthralling
form: unthralled
form: unthralled
Etymology: From un- + thrall.
Senses: glosses: To free from slavery.
unthralls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unthrall
unthralling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unthrall
unthralled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unthrall
unthralled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not enslaved.
dysphania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈfæ.ni.ə/
ipa: /dɪsˈfeɪ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -æniə
rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: dysphanias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Dysphania. Further from Ancient Greek δῠσφᾰνής (dŭsphănḗs, “difficult to see”) + translingual -ia.
Senses: coordinate_terms: suckleya
teleoxys / teleoxy
glosses: Any amaranthaceous plant of the genus Dysphania.
Related terms: english: Amaranthaceae
translation: Amaranthaceae
word: Dysphania
double A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double As
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AA.
double As
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double A
crude carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crude carriers
Senses: glosses: A tanker ship designed to carry crude oil.
crude carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crude carrier
untire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untires
form: untiring
form: untired
form: untired
Etymology: From un- + tire.
Senses: examples: text: […] a shed, with ranges of jars, glasses, oranges, lemons, &c., and a bench or two, for the drinkers to descansarse un ratito, to untire themselves.
ref: 1845, Richard Ford, A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, page 72:
glosses: To free from tiredness.
untires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untire
Seedley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8099).
heavy tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy tanks
Senses: glosses: A large tank with heavy armor and firepower, but typically with relatively low speed and maneuverability.
heavy tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy tank
untall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untall
form: most untall
Etymology: un- + tall
Senses: examples: text: Some mystics would say / that I myself selected this body, / a fitting vehicle in which to deal / with karma from lives gone by / when I no doubt poked fun / at the untall, the unwillowy.
ref: 2013, Veda Smith, Windfall, page 55:
text: Untall, unfattish, with the balding coming flaw and the ordinary brownness of the man promising an unusual sandiness in a few years.
ref: 2015, Bill Reed, Stigmata:
glosses: Not tall.
unsuccessively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: […] and thus the inductive process advances but slowly and unsuccessively: observers may toil, and the result of their labours will be but a series of disconnected facts.
ref: 1849, Bartholomew Price, Ashmolean Society, An Essay on the Relation of the Several Parts of a Mathematical Science to the Fundamental Idea Therein Contained (page 10)
glosses: Not successively.
untouchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untouchingly
form: most untouchingly
Senses: glosses: In an untouching manner.
untrance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untrances
form: untrancing
form: untranced
form: untranced
Etymology: un- + trance
Senses: examples: text: Surrealism, especially, could awaken people to a world outside social constraint. It could untrance the spellbound masses.
ref: 2016, Steven Frye, The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West, page 93:
glosses: To free from a state of trance.
untrances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untrance
untrancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untrance
untranced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untrance
unsolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsolar
form: most unsolar
Etymology: un- + solar
Senses: examples: text: But since the dynamical conditions of our system are absolutely fixed in the quantity of matter each planet contains, a life like this, unchecked by death, would be perfectly unsolar; would constantly jostle the great statical balance of the world, and is contradicated in its very constitution.
ref: 1845, John Berry Gorman, Philosophy of Animated Existence, page 243:
text: Troppmann hopes to imitate and share in Dirty's headlessness, as opposed to the unsolar, cerebral rationality of Lazare.
ref: 2002, Alexander Irwin, Saints of the Impossible, page 98:
glosses: Not solar.
unsepulchre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsepulchres
form: unsepulchring
form: unsepulchred
form: unsepulchred
form: unsepulcher
Etymology: un- + sepulchre
Senses: glosses: To remove from a sepulchre.
unsepulcher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsepulchers
form: unsepulchering
form: unsepulchered
form: unsepulchered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unsepulchre.
unsepulchers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsepulcher
unsepulchering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsepulcher
unsepulchring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsepulchre
unsepulchres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsepulchre
Sindo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪndəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪndəʊ
Forms: form: the Sindo
Senses: glosses: The Sunday Independent, an Irish newspaper.
Related terms: Sindy
unshort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshorts
form: unshorting
form: unshorted
form: unshorted
Etymology: un- + short
Senses: examples: text: Unshort the wires, and give the whole circuit a final test.
ref: 1954, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Gunner's Mate 1 & C, page 460:
text: Unshort the firing wires and connect them to the firing wire terminals of the timer.
ref: 1962, Demolition Materials, United States: Bureau of Naval Weapons, pages 5-28:
glosses: To remove a short circuit from.
unshorts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshort
unshorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshort
unpertinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpertinent
form: most unpertinent
Etymology: un- + pertinent
Senses: examples: text: […] and so to me it is unpertinent to the purpose, and not concludent.
ref: 1658, Samuel Rutherford, A Survey of the Survey of that Summe of Church Discipline, ..., page 3:
glosses: Irrelevant.
fringiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fringy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being fringy.
ungentile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungentile
form: most ungentile
Etymology: From un- + gentile.
Senses: glosses: Not gentile.
unfirmly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfirmly
form: most unfirmly
Etymology: From unfirm + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfirm manner.
Buster Brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buster Browns
Senses: examples: text: I want those little paint-happy bastards caught and hung up by their Buster Browns!
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton):
glosses: Ellipsis of Buster Brown suit
Buster Browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buster Brown
PSLV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSLVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
PSLVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSLV
propitiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propitiary
form: most propitiary
Etymology: From Latin propitiāre (“to appease”) + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Over this Propitiary Sacrifice, we call upon God for the general peace of all Churches, for the tranquility of the World, for Emperors, their Armies, and all that fight for them.
ref: 1659, Hamon L'Estrange, The Alliance of Divine Offices, London: Henry Broom, page 191:
text: It is probable that sacrificial foundations had their origin in the idea of a propitiary offering to the Goddess Earth.
ref: 1899, William Andrews, Ecclesiastical Curiosities, London: William Andrews and Co., page 44:
text: And so the Tamil Nadu Government thought of another, even more extravagant, propitiary ritual.
ref: 1983 May 9, The Canberra Times, page 4, column 4:
glosses: Synonym of propitiatory.
synonyms: word: propitiatory
laght
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laghts
Etymology: From Irish leacht (“grave, gravemound”).
Senses: glosses: A pile of stones, similar to a cairn, marking a grave.
citizenliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From citizenly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being citizenly.
rememberize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rememberizes
form: rememberizing
form: rememberized
form: rememberized
Etymology: Blend of remember + memorize.
Senses: examples: text: I need to rememberize when to pay my bills.
text: “Wow. Those things he smelled are all the things I rememberize doing last on the Dog Planet,” stated Max. He became oblivious to his surroundings as his recollections engulfed his attention. “First I rolled in rottened peaches…yeah, that’s what I did…and then I went to Summerland and rolled in the seaslime grass.[…]”
ref: 2006, Mignon C. Reynolds, “To Believe and to See”, in Life as Bonkers: A Canine Adventure of Discovery, Friendship, Interplanetary Metaphysics, and Very Bad Odors, 2nd edition, Portland, Ore.: Max Limited, →ISBN, pages 39–40:
text: You teach me to write what the books say . . . you say you write what you read, you rememberize it. […] You and me, we talk about what you read, what we write, what we rememberize while we sit at our fire . . . a fire like this one.
ref: 2014, Nelson Martin, “March 26, 1882: Coot’s 23ʳᵈ Birthday”, in Time Never Runs Back: A Novel, Santa Fe, N.M.: Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 224:
text: But whatever cumbles—you lessening?—don’t let me hear that you hopped a wabash or slitched your licklechick in a flammery, all for your blooey grubstake! Right? And rememberize, always rememberize: Fuck ’em, babe. Fuck ’em.
ref: 2005, J.R. Moehringer [pseudonym; John Joseph Moehringer], “Smelly”, in The Tender Bar: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, part II, page 346:
glosses: To memorize and remember.
being out for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of be out for
freeuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freeuse
form: most freeuse
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of free use.
somehow or another
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of somehow or other.
somehow or the other
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of somehow or other.
relocant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relocants
Etymology: Compare Russian релока́нт (relokánt).
Senses: examples: text: But Indrapramit was a relocant: all his family was in a village somewhere up near Mumbai. He had no people here, and so Ferron felt it was her responsibility as his partner to look out for him. At least, that was what she told herself.
ref: 2013 October 23, Elizabeth Bear, “In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns”, in The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3, AudioText:
text: […] while other blogs and media are created by the so-called "relocants" (those who left Russia where they were not able to work as journalists any more due to their precarious status). These communication channels are especially popular in the diaspora where it is easier to access them[…]
ref: 2023 December 22, Olga Solovova, Sabina Vakser, Russian as a Transnational Language: Resonance, Remembrance, Renewal, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 155:
text: […] and some 'relocants' have already moved back or to another country while others also frequently relocate back and forth between their country of origin, Georgia / Turkey, and perhaps even other countries (Kostenko et al., 2023).
ref: 2025 January 9, Shahamak Rezaei, International Talent Management in Times of Crisis: China and International Comparisons, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:
text: A minority of Russian relocants were former citizens of Kazakhstan or had some ties to Kazakhstan , such as extended family or parents who used to live in Kazakhstan before 1991 or 1995 when mass out-migration of Kazakhstani Russians took place[…]
ref: 2025 March 31, Diana T. Kudaibergen, What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building, Hurst Publishers, →ISBN:
qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: A person who has relocated; an emigre.
relocants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relocant
tempo rubato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rubato.
synonyms: word: rubato
touristier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of touristy: more touristy
touristiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of touristy: most touristy
MUCD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MUCDs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of military unit cover designator, a 5-digit code used by People's Liberation Army units to cover their true identities..
wikipedia: MUCD
M.V.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MV.
touristicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From touristic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The analysis assigned quantitative weightings of relative importance to touristicness to each of the seventeen factors. […] The final product of their findings is concerned with the identification of the elements of culture, the manner in which culture is visibly manifested and the relationships of these elements and manifestation with the overall touristicness of the destination area.
ref: 1994, Shalini Singh, “Awadh: Recreation Resource Analysis”, in Cultural Tourism and Heritage Management, Jaipur; New Delhi: Rawat Publications, →ISBN, pages 36–37:
text: I would suggest that to be dubbed a "world city" would be based on size, commercial importance, regional and global economic impact (so Atlanta would definitely count), touristicness (which isn't a word), international transport links (effect rather than cause, admittedly, Atlanta again).
ref: 2001 October 11, Chris Harrison, “OT: World Athletics”, in uk.media.radio.archers (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025:
text: We collected Istat data on arrivals and presences of Italians and foreigners from 1990 to 2008, in order to obtain the touristic density index (= arrivals of tourists / area of the considered territory) and the touristic specialization index (= touristic presences / number of residents) for the new touristic development index by Forte and Mantovani, which is conceived to measure the «touristicness» degree of given territories in comparison with others as benchmark.
ref: 2012 January 6, Cosimo Magazzino, Michela Mantovani, “The Impact of Film Productions on Tourism. The case of ‘Il Commissario Montalbano’ for the Province of Ragusa”, in Rivista di scienze del turismo, volume III, number 1 (overall work in Italian), Milan: LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere, published 24 October 2013, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 29:
synonyms: touristicity
touristiness
glosses: The quality of being touristic.
rottened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rottened
form: most rottened
Etymology: From rotten + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: First I rolled in rottened peaches…yeah, that’s what I did…and then I went to Summerland and rolled in the seaslime grass.
ref: 2006, Mignon C. Reynolds, “To Believe and to See”, in Life as Bonkers: A Canine Adventure of Discovery, Friendship, Interplanetary Metaphysics, and Very Bad Odors, 2nd edition, Portland, Ore.: Max Limited, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Specimen tied with waterproof label should be kept in fresh water until it gets rottened (1-5 days). Clean the rottened specimen with a strong jet of freshwater.
ref: 2012 May, K. Venkataraman, Ch. Satyanarayana, “Difficulties in Coral Identification”, in Coral Identification Manual, Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, →ISBN, page 32:
text: And even if reality is wed with plans inside my neighbor’s head, the ruins will, by then, be rottened.
ref: 2012 November 11, Gordon Emmerson, “A Thousand Years”, in Healthy Parts, Happy Self: 3 Steps to Like Yourself, →ISBN, unit 1 (How things are), chapter 2 (Becoming Free), page 14:
text: Instead, I buried them to make maggots. I’d read about this in one of the angling books, from the main library. When I dug up the rottened and softened flesh, some weeks later, it had worked. The skulls and teeth and shrunken eyes were recognisable.
ref: 2014, Ian Stephen, “Pike”, in A Book of Death and Fish, Glasgow: Saraband, →ISBN, book 1 (Migrations), page 49:
text: She had pressed a finger against his wrist and observed, “You are the color of rottened, Frank. Like under my poppa’s nails has.”
ref: 2017, Stephen King, Owen King, chapter 3, in Sleeping Beauties: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, section 6, page 73:
glosses: Rotten.
praefrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prefrontal.
PBY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PBYs
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up.
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Quint (Robert Shaw):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of patrol bomber Y, a flying boat and amphibious aircraft.
PBYs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PBY
patrol bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrol bombers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: PB
glosses: A maritime patrol aircraft.
patrol bombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrol bomber
locust stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locust sticks
Senses: examples: text: People avoided places where at any moment the festivities might be marred by an inrush of large men in blue uniforms armed with locust-sticks.
ref: 1909 October – 1910 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Highfield”, in Psmith Journalist, London: A[dam] & C[harles] Black, […], published October 1923, →OCLC, page 95:
synonyms: locust club
glosses: A type of truncheon formerly used by the New York City police force.
Eastern Catholicism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: No clergy in the world were more tolerant than those of Russia, but this was naturally more than they could support when added to the wavering faith of the Empress-mother, whose family were Romanists; and they appealed to the Emperor, as the head and sworn protector of orthodoxy, to check the mischievous intrigues which had taken advantage of his absence to undermine the foundations of Eastern Catholicism.
ref: 1875, C. Joyneville [pseudonym; Catherine Laura Johnstone], “1815–1818. Russia at Peace. Ætat. 37–40.”, in Life and Times of Alexander I., Emperor of All the Russias. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 222:
text: He [Czesław Miłosz] lovingly recalls what Polish culture owes to Latin and the cultural unity with the West inspired by the Catholic Church; Russia would have escaped its cultural isolation if it had drawn its faith from Byzantium's Eastern Catholicism.
ref: 1983 May 1, Alfred Kazin, “Writing out of the Polish Agony”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: EASTERN CATHOLICISM: The East San Fernando District of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its final meeting of the year, featuring the Rev. John Azar, who will discuss the background and architecture of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
ref: 1997 May 10, Susan Abram, “Eastern Catholicism”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025:
glosses: The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
heelprick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelpricks
Etymology: From heel + prick.
Senses: coordinate_terms: fingerprick
glosses: The act of pricking the heel for the purpose of drawing a tiny amount of blood.
heelpricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelprick
Gasoline Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: gasoline + alley. From being a region aligned with a roadway (alley) featuring automotive gasoline (petrol) products. The racing track common noun is derived from the use at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Senses: glosses: A placename
A region of Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada.
Ellipsis of Gasoline Alley West: a hamlet in the County of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A region of Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada.
A neighbourhood of the City of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A zone of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indianapolis, Township of Wayne, County of Marion, Indiana, United States.
Derived terms: gasoline alley
Gasoline Alley East
Gasoline Alley North
Gasoline Alley South
Gasoline Alley West
Gasoline Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gasoline Alleys
Etymology: gasoline + alley. From being a region aligned with a roadway (alley) featuring automotive gasoline (petrol) products. The racing track common noun is derived from the use at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
related: word: gasoline alley
glosses: A region of a motor racing track campus where the back area garages are located, not used for pit stops.
Related terms: gasoline alley
Arroz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arrozs
form: Arrozes
Etymology: Portuguese Arroz
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese
isophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek, from iso- + -phyllous.
Senses: examples: text: Species included in this section are isophyllous but the sporophylls are arranged in 4 vertical rows and give the strobilus a four-angled appearance e.g., S. pygmaea, S. uliginosa, S. rupestris, S. oregana, etc.
ref: 2004, Pooja, Pteridophyta, Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Limited, page 87:
text: This section includes about fifty species all of which have uniform or isophyllous leaves that are spirally arranged. They are all monostelic. This section is further divided into two sub-sections:
ref: 2006, Anil Kumar, Botany for Degree Students: Pteridophyta (Vascular Cryptogams) (Multi-Colour Edition), S. Chand Limited, page 184:
text: The genus Selaginella is also of interest because species that grow in drier habitats have shoots that are orthotropic and isophyllous (Figure 11.65A).
ref: 2022, Donald Kaplan, Chelsea D. Specht, “Shoot Lateral Symmetry”, in Kaplan's Principles of Plant Morphology, CRC Press, unnumbered page:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having leaves of equal size and shape throughout.
son of the desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons of the desert
Senses: examples: text: It was market day at Sidi Aissa, and the numberless caravans of camels coming in from the desert, and the crowds of bickering Arabs in the market place, filled Tarzan with a consuming desire to remain for a day that he might see more of these sons of the desert.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 90:
coordinate_terms: daughter of the desert
glosses: A man who traditionally inhabits a desert region, as an Arab.
sons of the desert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of the desert
on-pressing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At the threshold he paused for an instant, and, lifting the struggling Arab above his head, hurled him, as though from a catapult, full in the faces of his on-pressing fellows.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 62:
glosses: Of a group, crowd, army, etc., pressing forwards.
vanishingly rare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain entered the collective consciousness in a way that is vanishingly rare for a film with queer subject matter.
ref: 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:
glosses: Extremely uncommon.
take home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes home
form: taking home
form: took home
form: taken home
Senses: examples: text: Brokeback Mountain did take home three Oscars, including a prestigious best director prize for Ang Lee, and remains a beloved gay touchstone.
ref: 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:
glosses: To obtain; to win.
examples: text: I took home my science project after I won the science fair.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, home.
Ouled Naïls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ouled Naïl
thinly-veiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thinly-veiled
form: most thinly-veiled
Senses: examples: text: Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.
ref: 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:
glosses: Attempting to be concealed, but still noticeable; poorly disguised.
SLF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of spotted lanternfly
bimboification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɪm.bəʊ.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌbɪm.boʊ.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From bimbo + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bimbofication.
computer-programmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computer-programmers
Senses: examples: text: IBM 650, 704 or 705, computer-programmer . . . . . . . . . $500-$700
ref: 1958 July 13, Austin-Reed, “General Employment”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 78th year, number 163, Fort Worth, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 3, page 6, column 2:
text: Computer-Programmer, IBM 650-704 or 705 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500
ref: 1958 July 20, Austin-Reed, “General Employment”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 78th year, number 170, Fort Worth, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 4, page 4, column 5:
text: What this country needs is no longer a good five-cent cigar. Current needs call for 708,000 computer-programmers for the nation’s elementary schools, according to author-lecturer-teacher Lyle S. Hance.
ref: 1960 January 12, “‘Computers’ Urged as School Subject”, in The Reporter Dispatch, 42nd year, number 267, White Plains, N.Y., →OCLC, page 9, column 5:
text: COMPUTER-PROGRAMMERS, challenging opportunity in air traffic control systems.
ref: 1960 January 22, John Raney, Associates Inc., “Help Wanted—Male”, in Buffalo Courier-Express, volume CXXV, number 186, Buffalo, N.Y., →OCLC, page 20, column 6:
text: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS DALLAS HEADQUARTERS OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPUTER-PROGRAMMERS
ref: 1960 February 28, Texas Instruments Incorporated, “Be among first to work with new solid state IBM 7070 computer”, in The Huntsville Times, volume 49, number 293, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D-3, column 7:
text: Miriam Sanderson, Miss New York State in 1958, and George Tolis, a computer-programmer for an insurance company, were married today.
ref: 1960 August 29, AP [Associated Press], “’58 State Beauty Weds Computer”, in Democrat and Chronicle, metropolitan edition, volume 128, number 242, Rochester, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 2:
text: Her husband a graduate of Central High School, Paterson, is a computer-programmer with Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City.
ref: 1960 September 15, “Miss Bakker Is September Bride”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 226, Paterson, N.J., →OCLC, page 15, column 4:
text: Mr. Tinnion, who is a computer-programmer, is a science graduate of Bristol University.
ref: 1971 March 8, “Walden man questions editor”, in Cambridge Evening News, number 25,335, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 6:
text: A refugee from a rural background may have a harder time becoming a homeowner than a computer-programmer who immigrates after obtaining a work visa.
ref: 2024 January 28, Peter Gill, “‘Looking for a place to call home’: Immigrant homeownership is growing in Ohio”, in The Advocate, volume 204, number 31, Newark, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6A, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of computer programmer.
computer-programmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer-programmer
TASM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of The Amazing Spider-Man.
DDBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Daredevil: Born Again.
street-smarter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of street-smart: more street-smart
street-smartest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of street-smart: most street-smart
book-smarter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of book-smart: more book-smart
book-smartest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of book-smart: most book-smart
AAOU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
takes home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take home
taking home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of take home
took home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take home
taken home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take home
plays by the rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play by the rules
playing by the rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play by the rules
played by the rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play by the rules
simming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sim
simmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sim
street theatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street theatres
form: street theater
Senses: glosses: A type of theatrical performance performed on the street or other public areas.
street theatres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street theatre
EHRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Holocaust Research Infrastructure.
tropical fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical fruits
Senses: glosses: Any fruit that grows in tropical climates (between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn), including bananas, coconuts, tamarind, and mangoes.
tropical fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropical fruit
dickmatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dickmatize
Northern Tropic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Northern Tropic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tropic of Cancer
synonyms: word: Tropic of Cancer
Southern Tropic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Southern Tropic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tropic of Capricorn
synonyms: word: Tropic of Capricorn
dickmatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dickmatizing
form: most dickmatizing
Senses: glosses: Having the power to dickmatize.
dickmatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dickmatize
take a beat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a beat
form: taking a beat
form: took a beat
form: taken a beat
Senses: examples: text: “Breathe a minute. Relax. Say the magic words: you need to take a beat, and then you'll circle back.”
ref: 2020, Samantha Jayne, “Surviving the Office” (1:20 from the start), in Quarter Life Poetry, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Samantha Jayne (Samantha Jayne):
text: “You're suspended.” “With pay?” “Technically, yeah. Yes.” “Thanks. This is a win.” “Wait. What.. what just happened?” “What just happened?” “We just got a paid day off to plan a revenge prank. Shred... what's your size in a bomb vest?” “Probably a medium.” “You know what, guys? I think... I think we just need to take a beat.” “And allow this to de-escalate?” “Yeah.” “Why don't you save that crap for your hippie sound bath? This is war. Shred... to battle.”
ref: 2025 February 13, Emily Towers, “Buffalo and Beavers” (6:25 from the start), in Animal Control, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Amit Patel (Ravi V. Patel):
text: “Mom? Oh, Mom, you're standing!” “Frannie! I feel terrific. Let's go dancing.” [Laughs] “Mom, what?” “Come on, I still got it. Should we go climb that tree? You used to love climbing trees.” “Okay, Mom. Let's take a beat. Maybe we should just... I mean, we've both been through kind of a lot.”
ref: 2025 March 2, Jon Foor, “In the System” (9:11 from the start), in Common Side Effects, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Frances Applewhite (Emily Pendergast):
glosses: To pause and take a moment to collect your thoughts, calm down, or regain composure before reacting.
Hemish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Jemez hį́·mį́š (“people”)
Senses: examples: text: Hemish origin traditions describe their emergence into the present world through an opening within a small body of water.
ref: 2024, Barry Price Steinbrecher, Maren P. Hopkins, and T. J. Ferguson, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument: A Living Landscape:
glosses: Alternative form of Jemez.
Hemish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Jemez hį́·mį́š (“people”)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jemez.
compound fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound fruits
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fruit composed of at least two similar parts, but not distinctly an aggregate fruit, a multiple fruit, nor something else.
compound fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound fruit
takes a beat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a beat