cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
magic square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic squares
Etymology: As magical square by 1670 and magic square by 1701 (see Citations). Calque of French quarré magique or Latin quadratum magicum. Magic refers to its original function as a talisman.
Senses: examples: text: Probably the best-known magic square is the 5×5 square consisting of the words ROTAS OPERA TENET AREPO SATOR.
topics: games
glosses: A palindromic square word arrangement, usually in the form of a magic amulet.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: An n-by-n arrangement of n² numbers such that the numbers in each row, in each column and along both diagonals all have the same sum.
Derived terms: alphamagic square
antimagic square
bimagic square
geomagic square
most-perfect magic square
multimagic square
pandiagonal magic square
prime reciprocal magic square
trimagic square
Related terms: word: magic constant
sense: other terms of interest
word: bimagic cube
sense: other terms of interest
word: diabolic square
sense: other terms of interest
word: heterosquare
sense: other terms of interest
word: Lo Shu square
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic circle
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic constant
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic cube
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic cylinder
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic hexagon
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic hypercube
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic series
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic sphere
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic star
sense: other terms of interest
word: magic tesseract
sense: other terms of interest
word: multimagic cube
sense: other terms of interest
word: pantriagonal magic cube
sense: other terms of interest
word: perfect magic cube
sense: other terms of interest
word: satanic square
sense: other terms of interest
word: semiperfect magic cube
sense: other terms of interest
word: simple magic cube
sense: other terms of interest
word: sudoku
sense: other terms of interest
word: trimagic cube
coercible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coercible
form: most coercible
Etymology: From coerce + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Susceptible to coercion.
Derived terms: coercibility
coercibleness
coercibly
incoercible
Related terms: coerce
coercer
coercion
pernicious anaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pernicious anaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pernicious anemia.
pernicious anemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pernicious anemias
form: pernicious anaemia
form: pernicious anæmia
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: Addison's anemia
Biermer's anemia
glosses: A severe form of anemia caused by vitamin B₁₂ insufficiency.
anaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaemias
Senses: examples: text: But two of the drugs conventionally administered caused anaemia, which needed to be countered by blood transfusion.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 120:
glosses: Alternative spelling of anemia.
Derived terms: Addison's anaemia
anaemial
antianaemia
chloroanaemia
episiotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌpiːziːˈɒtəmiː/
ipa: /ˌɛpəsaɪˈɒtəmiː/
Forms: form: episiotomies
Etymology: From episio- + -tomy (“surgical incision”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσιον (epísion, “pubic region”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”)).
Senses: examples: text: The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy.
ref: 2011, Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical incision through the perineum made to enlarge the vagina and assist childbirth.
coercion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈɜːʃən/
ipa: /koʊˈɝʒən/
ipa: /koʊˈɝʃən/
Forms: form: coercions
form: coersion
form: coërcion
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cohercioun, from Old French cohercion, from Latin coërcitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from past participle coercitus of coërceō (“to restrain, coerce”), from co- (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.
Senses: examples: text: One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion.
ref: 1947 March 12, Harry S. Truman, 5:24 from the start, in MP72-14 Excerpt - Truman Doctrine Speech, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
glosses: Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
topics: law
glosses: Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
glosses: A specific instance of coercing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
examples: text: But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion
ref: 2008, Oliver Bott, “Doing It Again and Again May Be Difficult, But It Depends on What You Are Doing”, in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, page 63:
text: ...a conversion of mass nouns into count readings according to sorter and portion coercion is only possible if the denotation of a mass noun already comprises minimal parts into which the noun can be subdivided.
ref: 2016, Susanne Mohr, “From Accra to Nairobi – the use of pluralized mass nouns in East and West African postcolonial Englishes”, in Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Marina Wienberg, editors, Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics, Berlin: DeGruyter, →OCLC, page 161:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
glosses: The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
Hyponyms: type coercion
Derived terms: coercionary
coercionist
Related terms: coerce
coercer
coercible
coercitive
coercive
foxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑksi/
ipa: /ˈfɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Etymology: From fox + -y.
Senses: glosses: The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).
foxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑksi/
ipa: /ˈfɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: foxier
form: foxiest
Etymology: From fox + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having the qualities of a fox.
glosses: Cunning, sly.
glosses: Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
qualifier: especially a woman
glosses: Having reddish-brown hair.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: His eye for colour was so exquisite that I do not think there is a single instance in all his works of a heated tint which is called foxy. This cannot be said of Rubens or Rembrandt […]
ref: 1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:
text: Although the skies of Brydael's pictures are often broken with rather heavy masses of orange and yellow clouds, yet, taking him altogether, he was not a 'foxy' painter; on the contrary, there is a silvery coolness about some of his pictures which pleases us.
ref: 1870, Frederick Peter Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
glosses: Having an animal-like odor.
raw_tags: of wine
examples: text: For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."
ref: 2000, Charles H. Kramer, Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers, →ISBN, page 76:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: hedgehoggy
glosses: With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.
Derived terms: foxily
foxiness
foxy bolete
foxy boxing
unfoxy
Related terms: silver-foxy
Latin square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latin squares
form: latin square
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An n-by-n arrangement of n different integers such that each row, each column and each of the two diagonals contains each of the integers once and once only.
Related terms: sudoku
supersquare
Greco-Latin square
Mary Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Mary Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Spanish María Juana.
Senses: examples: text: Rolling up cannabis sativa, hitting the Mary Jane
ref: 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
text: Mary Jane, you're always in my brain, and you help me ease the pain.
ref: 1995, “Mary Jane”, in Headsex, performed by Technohead, Mokum Records:
text: When the stress burns my brain just like acid raindrops / Mary Jane is the only thing that makes the pain stop
ref: 2002, “Acid Raindrops”, in O.S.T., performed by People Under the Stairs ft. Camel MC:
text: In love with Mary Jane, she's my main thing
ref: 2004, MF DOOM, “Kon Queso”, in MM..FOOD:
text: Mary Jane, since I have met you, girl, you've ruined my brain.
ref: 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
related: word: maryjane
word: mary jane
glosses: Marijuana.
Mary Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mary Janes
Etymology: Genericized trademark, named after a character in the Buster Brown comic strip with this name, licensed by the shoe manufacturer.
Senses: examples: text: [Tony] Zanetta continued: “They found a common ground in David’s [Bowie] shoes. David was wearing yellow Mary Janes and Andy [Warhol] had been a shoe illustrator, which David knew so they began talking about shoes. Otherwise, it was not the greatest meeting [laughs]^([sic]).”
ref: 2021 May 19, Joe Taysom, “Why Andy Warhol hated the David Bowie song about him”, in Far Out Magazine:
glosses: A type of shoe, usually for a girl, having a rounded toe and a strap with a buckle.
bromo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromos
Etymology: From bromine.
Senses: glosses: A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer).
Derived terms: bromoacyl
dibromo
dibromobenzene
dibromodifluoromethane
hexabromo
octabromo
perbromo
tetrabromo
tetrabromofluorescein
tribromo
Related terms: bromine
indio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indios
form: Indio
form: índio
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish indio, Portuguese índio.
Senses: examples: text: On the sugar estates the índios were then annihilated by the infections the Portuguese had brought from Europe.
ref: 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 108:
glosses: A member of one of various indigenous peoples in the Americas, Pacific, and East Asia formerly subject to Spain or Portugal, specifically a Native American in Mexico or Brazil, or an indigenous inhabitant of the Philippines.
arctophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + φιλία (philía, “affection”).
Senses: glosses: love of bears
glosses: zoophilia with bears
glosses: collecting teddy bears (arctophily)
Related terms: Antarctic
Antarctica
Arctic
arctophobia
Arcturus
arktos
Arthur
Artur
paraphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌparəˈfɪlɪ.ə/
enpr: păr'ə-fĭl'ē-ə
Forms: form: paraphilias
form: paraphiliae
Etymology: From para- (“abnormal”) + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the serial aspect of these killings, lust murder still remains a distinct subcategory of both sexual and serial murder. It is also referred to as erotophonophilia, one of the most extreme forms of paraphilia.
ref: 2003, Eric Hickey, Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime, SAGE, →ISBN, page 281:
text: Formal study will be necessary to clarify the nature, prevalence, and interrelations of plushophilia, fursuitism, and autoplushophilia among furverts and to document the nature and extent of any co-occurring paraphilias.
ref: 2009 April 24, Anne A. Lawrence, “Erotic Target Location Errors: An Underappreciated Paraphilic Dimension”, in Journal of Sex Research, volume 46, numbers 2–3, Routledge; Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, →DOI:
text: Yes, really. Blanchard has expanded the DSM's "paraphilia" section (where crimes such as paedophilia and exhibitionism go) to include transvestic disorder.
ref: 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian:
text: As Stoller says, "perversion is a sturdy word, throbbing with assumptions, while paraphilia is a wet noodle."
ref: 2013, B. Protter, S. Travin, Sexual Perversion: Integrative Treatment Approaches for the Clinician, →ISBN:
text: Other paraphilias are more blatantly transgressive and usually illegal: amokoscisia (desire to slash or mutilate females); anthropophagy (cannibalism); anthropophagolagnia (rape accompanied by cannibalism); […]
ref: 2013, RJ Parker, Peter Vronsky, Michael Newton, Serial Killers True Crime Anthology 2014, volume I, page 29:
topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
antonyms: normophilia
glosses: An abnormal sexual arousal or attraction, especially to objects or situations that are not of a sexual nature; typically of extreme or pathological nature.
topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: Sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations which may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity or lead to clinically significant distress or impairment (e.g. are obligatory, require participation of unconsenting individuals, lead to legal issues).
Derived terms: nonparaphilia
paraphilic
Related terms: paraphiliac
fetish
pyrolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹɒlɪsɪs/
ipa: /pɪˈɹɒlɪsɪs/
ipa: /paɪˈɹɑləsɪs/
ipa: /pɑɪˈɹɔlɪsɪs/
rhymes: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: pyrolyses
Etymology: From pyro- + -lysis.
Senses: examples: text: Techniques that have successfully identified ionic intermediates in solution have been applied to gas-phase pyrolyses.
ref: 1972, A. C. Knipe, “Chapter 4: Elimination Reactions”, in B. Capon, C. W. Rees, editors, Organic Reaction Mechanisms 1971, page 143:
text: Twenty years ago our real understanding of the mechanism of alkane pyrolyses was little better than rudimentary.
ref: 1980, J. H. Purnell, “Homogeneous Alkane Cracking”, in William Pryor, editor, Frontiers of Free Radical Chemistry: The route to quantitative description to very high conversion, page 94:
text: Pyrolysis involves the thermal degradation of the rubber of the tyre to give an oil and gas leaving a residual solid carbon and the steel casing of the tyre.
ref: 2001, P. T. Williams, R. P. Bottrill, A. J. Brindle, A. M. Cunliffe, “The potential of pyrolysis for recycling used tyres”, in Ravindra K. Dhir, Mukesh C. Limbachiya, Kevin A. Paine, editors, Recycling and Reuse of Used Tyres: Proceedings of the International Symposium, page 187:
text: Traditional pyrolysis of wood relies on low temperatures and long processing time to increase the charcoal yield. In contrast, modern or fast pyrolysis uses moderate temperatures (400-500°C) and very short residence times (typically only a few seconds) to maximize the production of liquids (Diebold and Bridgewater, 1997).
ref: 2006, John C. F. Walker, Primary Wood Processing: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition, Springer, page 541:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The decomposition of a material or compound due to heat, in the absence of oxygen or other reagents.
Derived terms: hydrous pyrolysis
Related terms: word: pyrolyse
word: pyrolyze
word: pyrolytic
word: pyrolytically
word: pyrometallurgy
word: autolysis
word: carbonization
word: carburization
word: charcoalization
word: electrolysis
word: hydrolysis
word: photolysis
carcajou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːkəˌʒu/
Forms: form: carcajous
Etymology: Borrowed from French carcajou, probably from the same Algonquian source as (certainly related to) kinkajou.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wolverine (a solitary, fierce member of the weasel family)
synonyms: word: wolverine
extra: a solitary, fierce member of the weasel family
all the tea in China
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Because of the large amount of tea in China, and its value.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't trade you away for all the tea in China.
text: KIRK: Ha, ha, ha. Okay, the truth. I am from what, on your calendar, would be the late twenty-third century. I've come back in time to bring two humpback whales with me in an attempt to repopulate the species.
GILLIAN: Well, why didn't you just say so? I mean, why all the coy disguises?
KIRK: You want the details?
GILLIAN: Oh! I wouldn't miss this for all the tea in China.
ref: 1986, William Shatner, Catherine Hicks, 1:07:18 from the start, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Paramount Pictures, →OCLC:
glosses: Something very valuable or priceless.
Synonyms: all the gold in Fort Knox
all the money in the world
Related terms: price of tea in China
all that jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From jazz (“stuff”).
Senses: examples: text: He went to school to study math and science and all that jazz.
text: My kind of town, Chicago is / My kind of razzmatazz / And it has all that jazz
ref: 1964, “My Kind of Town”, Sammy Cahn (lyrics), Jimmy Van Heusen (music), performed by Frank Sinatra:
glosses: Synonym of all that.
synonyms: word: all that
sodomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sodomizes
form: sodomizing
form: sodomized
form: sodomized
Etymology: From Sodom + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Antonio thus "actively" sodomized the presumably adolescent Lorenzo by fellating him
ref: 1996, Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence, page 92:
glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of sodomise.
anglaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anglaises
Senses: glosses: A kind of English country dance.
man alive
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “She pretty!” “Is she not?” “No.” “Why, man alive, she was the admiration of the whole Court!”
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 59:
text: We couldn't hold our own for five minutes. Man alive, they'd overwhelm us like an avalanche. Why don't they make a rush for it? I say——
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3:
glosses: An expression of marvelment or awe
man alive
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: topics: bingo
games
glosses: five
one fat lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the number eight's similar appearance to that of an overweight woman.
Senses: topics: bingo
games
glosses: eight
doctor's orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A laxative pill, "number 9", once issued in the British army
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see doctor, -'s, orders.
topics: bingo
games
glosses: The number nine.
top of the shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Presumably chosen for the rhyme, and because 90 is the highest number in bingo.
Senses: topics: bingo
games
glosses: ninety
sodomiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒdəmaɪzə/
ipa: /ˈsɑdəmaɪzəɹ/
Forms: form: sodomisers
form: sodomizer
Etymology: From sodomise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Gómara's account of the Amerindian population is harsh to say the least: of the inhabitants of the Caribbean he charged that their god is the devil (XXVII, 45), the women are lascivious and the men are sodomisers, lazy, deceitful, ungrateful, […]
ref: 2007, Stephen M. Hart, A Companion to Latin American Literature, page 17:
glosses: Someone who sodomises.
fuck off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks off
form: fucking off
form: fucked off
form: fucked off
Senses: examples: text: I wish you'd just fuck off.
text: If you've come to fight, get outta here
 You ain't no better than the bouncers
 We ain't trying to be police
 When you ape the cops it ain't anarchy
 Nazi punks
 Nazi punks
 Nazi punks, fuck off!
ref: 1981, Dead Kennedys, “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”:
text: And to tear apart the ties that bind
Perhaps fuck off might be too kind
Perhaps fuck off might be too kind
ref: 2007, Alex Turner, “Do Me A Favour”, in Favourite Worst Nightmare, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
text: Fuck you
 And your friends
 That I'll never see again
 Everybody but your dog
 You can all fuck off
ref: 2021 August 13, Gayle, Sara Davis, David Pittenger, “abcdefu”, in A Study of the Human Experience Volume One, performed by Gayle:
glosses: To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
examples: text: Haven't seen John for years. Someone said he had fucked off to Australia.
glosses: To leave unexpectedly.
glosses: To fritter; to fuck around.
examples: text: It really fucks me off when you do that.
glosses: To annoy, irritate.
examples: text: I'm bored. Shall we just fuck this off and go home?
text: […] we force ourselves to have jobs and maintain apartments and push ourselves into positions of high adulthood, when really we could all just fuck it off and live in a camper van and play beach volleyball all day, but we don't, because we're pussies.
ref: 2016 August 11, Joel Golby, “A Definitive Ranking of Every Olympic Sport and Whether It Is Cool or Not”, in Vice:
glosses: To abandon.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.
fuck off
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Alex Forrest: Please don't justify yourself, it's pathetic. If you'd tell me to fuck off, I'd have more respect for you.
Dan Gallagher: All right, then. Fuck off.
ref: 1987, James Dearden, Fatal Attraction:
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Go away! Get lost!
examples: text: Fuck off! You're joking, aren't you?
glosses: An expression of disagreement or disbelief.
atheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atheistic
form: most atheistic
Etymology: From atheist + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: atheistical
atheous
nontheistic
antonyms: nonatheistic
theistic
unatheistic
coordinate_terms: dystheistic
antitheistic
glosses: Of or relating to atheists or atheism.
Derived terms: antiatheistic
atheistically
atheisticness
atheize
nonatheistic
unatheistic
so long
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare to Swedish hej så länge and Russian пока (poka). See Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “so long”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Senses: glosses: Goodbye; a valediction used when leaving or departing from a person or place.
Related terms: so long as
yup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌp/
ipa: [jʌp̚]
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: yups
Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.
Senses: examples: text: One was either a Yup or a Nope, depending upon his answer to that age-old question, "Gotcher deer yet?" I, of course, was still a Nope. Although Yups and Nopes looked pretty much alike they were as different as mallards from mongooses.
ref: 1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196:
text: But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...
ref: 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147:
text: She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.
ref: 1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:
text: It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.
ref: 2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:
text: Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.
ref: 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278:
text: His hands moved, gesturing towards the two bidders, enticing them to raise their stakes against each other, as he chanted a litany of numbers followed by “going once, going twice” only to be followed by a resounding “yup” as he turned, alternately, towards each of the two men.
ref: 2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, →ISBN:
text: A rotating cast of auctioneers unleashed a torrent of increasingly high bids, speaking at a machine gun's pace while a chorus of increasingly aggressive "yups" emerged from the audience.
ref: 2017 August 17, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, in Missoula Independent:
glosses: A yes; an affirmative answer.
Synonyms: yep
yup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌp/
ipa: [jʌp̚]
rhymes: -ʌp
Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.
Senses: glosses: Yes.
yup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌp/
ipa: [jʌp̚]
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: yups
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: What we have these days is a diverse spectrum of yuppiness: guppies, buppies, indie yups, paleo-yups, luxe yups, schlub yups, dharma yups, tyro yups, crypto-yups.
ref: 2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World, →ISBN:
text: He idled at a red light, saw two yups in matching cranberry crewnecks and khaki cargo shorts sitting on the pavement outside what used to be Primo's Pizza.
ref: 2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN:
text: Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:
glosses: Clipping of yuppie.
plage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: plages
Etymology: From French plage, from Late Latin plagia, from Latin plaga (“region”) (cognate with English flake). Doublet of playa.
Senses: examples: text: King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage.
ref: a. 1547, Edward Hall, Hall's chronicle, J. Johnson, published 1809, page 252:
text: Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe,
You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain,
As far as from the frozen place ^([sic – meaning plage]) of heauen,
Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower ^([sic – meaning bower]).
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene iv:
text: In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats.
ref: 1626, [Samuel] Purchas, “Of the New World”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 5th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 8th book, page 792:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.
Related terms: plague
slaughterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slaughter + -ous.
Senses: glosses: prone to slaughtering
glosses: having characteristics of a slaughter
raw_tags: of an event
Related terms: slaughter
slaughterhouse
slaughterer
slaughterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaughterers
Etymology: From slaughter + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of slaughter; one who slaughters.
glosses: A butcher (as a profession or job).
glosses: A ritual slaughterer, kosher slaughterer, kosher butcher, shochet / shokhet.
Related terms: carnage
massacre
slaughter
slaughterhouse
slaughterman
slaughterous
slaughterwoman
slaughterhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsloː.tə(ɹ).haʊs/
Forms: form: slaughterhouses
Etymology: From slaughter + house.
Senses: synonyms: abattoir
glosses: A place where animals are slaughtered.
examples: text: The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 20:09 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: The scene of a massacre.
Synonyms: sense: place where animals are slaughtered
word: abattoir
sense: place where animals are slaughtered
word: shambles
Hyponyms: packinghouse
Related terms: slaughter
slaughterer
slaughterous
killing floor
knacker's yard
identikit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɛntɪkɪt/
note: US, weak vowel merger
ipa: /aɪˈdɛntəkɪt/
Forms: form: identikits
Etymology: Blend of identification + kit, originally a trademark.
Senses: synonyms: police sketch
composite sketch
facial composite
photofit
glosses: A picture of a person, reconstructed from strips showing facial features selected to match witnesses' descriptions; used by the police to build a likeness of a person sought for a crime.
identikit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɛntɪkɪt/
note: US, weak vowel merger
ipa: /aɪˈdɛntəkɪt/
Etymology: Blend of identification + kit, originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: These identikit destinations have been developed through the activities of multinational tourism organizations.
ref: 2006, J. Christopher Holloway, Neil Taylor, The business of tourism, page 211:
text: These identikit productions do not require specific performers to bring a new interpretation but require the repetition of the successful event for the paying audience.
ref: 2010, Christine White, Directors and Designers, page 172:
text: She guesses it is only a few years old; one of seven identikit mock-Tudor mansions built on a recent cul-de-sac development just outside Chichester.
ref: 2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 363:
text: Bellingham is the identikit modern midfield player and the manner in which he combined with Foden for England's second goal, completed by a rousing finish from Kane, was a glimpse into a golden future.
ref: 2022 December 4, Phil McNulty, “England 3-0 Senegal”, in BBC Sport:
text: The Rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux […] mixes international brands, uniquely French names and small independents in a soft-stone 18th-century backdrop that draws both local residents and visiting tourists—no one wants an identikit high street you can find back home.
ref: 2025 August 2, Cathy Hawker, “How bougie is your high street?”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
synonyms: cookie-cutter
glosses: Indistinguishable from each other; mass-produced or mass marketed.
unremorseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unremorseful
form: most unremorseful
Etymology: From un- + remorseful.
Senses: glosses: not remorseful
Synonyms: unrepentant
unapologetic
emergency services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency service
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the police, fire department and EMS services. May also include other response agencies.
Related terms: fire department
police
EMS
ambulance
coast guard
mountain rescue
on the rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the allusion of a ship running aground against rocks and breaking apart. The poured over ice sense is due to ice's resemblance to rocks.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have a whisky on the rocks.
coordinate_terms: neat
straight up
glosses: Poured over ice, usually in reference to alcoholic drinks.
examples: text: I knew my business was on the rocks, so I started considering going into voluntary bankruptcy.
text: Joe and Tammy's relationship is on the rocks again.
text: Everything of interest happens in the first ten minutes. A male model called Carl (Harris Dickinson) senses after a calamitous audition that his career is already on the rocks, all washed up.
ref: 2022 May 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Triangle of Sadness review – heavy-handed satire on the super-rich loses its shape”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a bad state; experiencing difficulties or at risk of failing.
Derived terms: on-the-rocks glass
rocks glass
Related terms: schooner on the rocks
EMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Training to be a paramedic.”
“EMS? For real? You want to scrape drunks off the sidewalk for a living?”
“I want to do something that matters, if that’s what you mean.”
ref: 2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 10:
text: But EMS workers present a unique problem over other health care workers who are based in hospitals and clinics, they often are coming into people’s homes, Barzilay said, adding that they often respond to calls from the elderly or immunocompromised.
ref: 2020 March 21, Sonia Moghe, “EMS workers expected to keep working after coronavirus exposure”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of emergency medical service or emergency medical services, an organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is to provide emergency prehospital care to the public; the care that it provides.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of express mail service, a type of international express mail services.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of electronics manufacturing service, a type of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) service.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Expanded Memory Specification.
glosses: Initialism of environmental management system.
glosses: Initialism of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.
Related terms: sense: paramedical or medical
word: EMT
sense: paramedical or medical
word: emergency medical technician
sense: paramedical or medical
english: emergency medical responder
translation: emergency medical responder
word: EMR
sense: paramedical or medical
word: EM
sense: paramedical or medical
word: emergency medicine
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: XMS
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: EMM
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: XMM
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: UMA
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: UMB
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: HMA
provincial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
Forms: form: more provincial
form: most provincial
Etymology: From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: a provincial government
text: a provincial dialect
text: More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.
ref: 2016 May 4, Nicky Woolf, “Fort McMurray: Canada wildfires force evacuation of oil sands city”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a province.
glosses: Constituting a province.
examples: text: […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
ref: 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
examples: text: That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
ref: 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody:
glosses: Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
glosses: Narrow; illiberal.
examples: text: a provincial synod
glosses: Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
glosses: Limited in outlook; narrow.
Synonyms: rural
Derived terms: comprovincial
ecoprovincial
extraprovincial
interprovincial
intraprovincial
multiprovincial
nonprovincial
provincialate
provincial capital
provincialist
provinciality
provincialization
provincialize
provincially
provincial park
subprovincial
transprovincial
unprovincial
provincial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
Forms: form: provincials
Etymology: From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
examples: text: The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
examples: text: Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:
glosses: A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
glosses: A country bumpkin.
bourré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Joann Guidos, the proprietor at Kajun's, called out for a game of bourré and they all dumped their money on a table and sat down and let the cards and liquor flow.
ref: 2005, Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, page 14:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game traditionally played in Louisiana, US.
pastis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæsˈtiːs/
ipa: /pæsˈtɪs/
rhymes: -iːs
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: pastises
Etymology: Borrowed from French pastis.
Senses: glosses: A liqueur containing aniseed.
remorseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)sfʊl/
Forms: form: more remorseful
form: most remorseful
Etymology: From remorse + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.
glosses: Feeling or filled with remorse.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: There was a remorseful look on her face.
text: Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
ref: 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:
glosses: Expressing or caused by remorse.
Synonyms: word: penitent
word: apologetic
word: regretful
word: remorseful
word: repentant
word: contrite
word: guilt-ridden
Hypernyms: word: regretful
Related terms: remorse
remorsefully
remorsefulness
polis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏʹlĭs
ipa: /ˈpɒ.lɪs/
enpr: pōʹlĭs
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.lɪs/
rhymes: -ɒlɪs
Forms: form: poleis
form: polises
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tpelH-
Proto-Hellenic *ptólis
Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis)lbor.
English polis
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “fortified town; city state”).
Senses: examples: text: By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance.
ref: 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books 2007, page 161:
glosses: A Greek city-state.
Related terms: -polis
polis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏʹlĭs
ipa: /ˈpɒ.lɪs/
enpr: pōʹlĭs
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.lɪs/
rhymes: -ɒlɪs
Forms: form: polises
form: pollis
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots polis. Doublet of police.
Senses: examples: text: Even in his Ma's womb, you would have had to define Spud less as a foetus, more as a set of dormant drug and personality problems. He'd probably draw the polis onto them through knocking a saltcellar out of the Little Chef.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 328:
glosses: The police.
glosses: A police officer.
Metonic cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mĕtŏnĭk sīkl/
Forms: form: Metonic cycles
Senses: examples: text: According to the Metonic cycle, a lunar calendar begins on the same solar date every 19 years.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: calendar studies
glosses: A particular approximate common multiple of the tropical year and the synodic month; in other words, the 19-year period over which the lunar phases occur on the same dates.
Synonyms: enneadecaeteris
Related terms: sense: less exact 8-year cycle
word: octaeteris
ordo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordines
form: ordos
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōrdō. Doublet of order.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below classis and above familia.
synonyms: order
glosses: an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy
Hyponyms: subordo
Derived terms: infraordo
Related terms: ordo salutis
pontifical
nauseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːziːəs/
ipa: /ˈnɔːsiːəs/
ipa: /ˈnɔʃəs/
ipa: /ˈnɔʒəs/
ipa: /ˈnɑʃəs/
ipa: /ˈnɑʒəs/
Forms: form: more nauseous
form: most nauseous
Etymology: From Latin nauseōsus (“causing nausea”), corresponding synchronically to nausea + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: […] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer,
And guilty shame, and servile fear,
Envy, and cruelty, and pride,
Will in your tainted heart preside.
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, visiting me in my sickness:
text: [T]he Italians grossness of Conversation is still very offensive & nauseous, tho' long accustomed to it.
ref: 1786 June 27, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: And then what proper person can be partial / To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
glosses: Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
glosses: Inclined to nausea; sickly, squeamish.
examples: text: After he had scarcely eaten enough, he felt nauseous; but nausea ceased as soon as he stopped eating entirely, …
ref: 1848, Samuel Hahnemann, The Chronic Diseases, Their Specific Nature and Their Homeopathic Treatment: Antipsoric Remedies, Volume 2:
text: […] during stretching the patient felt nauseous …
ref: 1878, The North American Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 27:
text: Is it a myth that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics? I often do and haven't felt remotely nauseous.
ref: 2010 September 4, Tom Smith, The Guardian:
glosses: Afflicted with nausea; sick.
Synonyms: english: causing disgust rather than nausea
translation: causing disgust rather than nausea
word: nauseating
Derived terms: nauseously
nauseousness
Related terms: english: afflicted with nausea
translation: afflicted with nausea
word: nauseated
word: queasy
beatnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtnɪk/
Forms: form: beatniks
form: beatniki
Etymology: Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + -nik (“person who exemplifies or endorses something”). Compare jazznik.
The suffix, a cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -ник (-nik), experienced a surge of use in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.
Senses: examples: text: The drive against the stilyagi has hampered but not destroyed the development of (Soviet-style) “beatniki” among the younger artistic and literary intelligentsia. […] The tendency of Soviet “beatniki” is to emulate what they consider the Left-Bank bohemianism of Paris. It is a faint whisper of a similar movement among young East European intellectuals, particularly in Poland, to make ultrasophistication their mark of separateness from “proletarian” society.
ref: 1963, George Sherman, “Soviet Youth: Myth and Reality”, in Erik H[omburger] Erikson, editor, The Challenge of Youth (Doubleday Anchor Books; A438), Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, published 1965, →ISBN, page 318:
glosses: A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
examples: text: The Beatles first surfaced in the USSR in 1964, when the style of dress of the ‘Beatniki’ was enthusiastically copied.
ref: 2003 May 25, Nick Paton Walsh, “Macca’s back in the USSR – a few years late”, in The Observer, number 11,041, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2013, page 21, column 5:
text: Worrying news from the west upset Soviet authorities even further. Punk rock was already causing trouble in Poland and other east-European countries. Did someone in the administration fear a repetition of Beatlemania, with decent, twist-dancing beatniki being replaced by pogo-dancing, sneering and gobbing impersonators of Johnny Rotten?
ref: 2004, Yngvar Bordewich Steinholt, “The twists and turns of popular music policies”, in Rock in the Reservation: Songs from the Leningrad Rock Club 1981-86, New York, N.Y.: Mass Media Music Scholars’ Press, published 2005, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Before the Rock Club: A historical survey), section 4 (The 1970s), page 31:
text: In tight black jeans and black polo-neck sweater he reminded her of an old-fashioned beatnik.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 185:
synonyms: beat
glosses: A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
Derived terms: beatnikery
beatnikish
beatnikism
Bootnik
jazznik
peacenik
wordnik
Related terms: english: also coined by Herb Caen
translation: also coined by Herb Caen
word: Baghdad by the Bay
word: fringie
word: hepcat
word: hippie
word: hippy
intrathecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + theca + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Delivered into the spinal canal (intrathecal space surrounding the spinal cord), e.g. a spinal anesthesia.
Derived terms: word: intrathecally
word: intrathecally
Related terms: extrathecal
thecal
intrathecal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrathecals
Etymology: From intra- + theca + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An intrathecal injection.
à la
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Borrowed from French à la.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a la.