cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌŋ.ki/
ipa: /ˈhɐŋ.ki/
ipa: /ˈhʊŋ.ki/
rhymes: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: hunkier
form: hunkiest
Etymology: From hunk + -y.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
glosses: Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
glosses: All right; in good condition.
examples: text: […] he dropped like a brick into the firing line and began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him.
ref: 1900, Stephen Crane, Wounds in the Rain:
glosses: even; square; on equal footing with.
Derived terms: hunkily
hunkiness
hunky-dory
hunky punk
Related terms: hunk
hunky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌŋ.ki/
ipa: /ˈhɐŋ.ki/
ipa: /ˈhʊŋ.ki/
rhymes: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: hunkies
form: hunkie
form: hunkey
Etymology: From the older *hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian + -ie/-y. Compare bohunk and honky / honkey.
Senses: examples: text: "All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."
ref: 1924, Jack Bethea, Bed Rock, page 175:
text: He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.
ref: 1940, Unemployment Compensation Interpretation Service: Benefit series, page 183:
text: The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]
ref: 1952, Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, page 66:
text: He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies."
ref: 1969, Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim), Trick Baby, page 149
text: On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]
ref: 1994, Josephine Wtulich, American Xenophobia and the Slav Immigrant: A Living Legacy of Mind and Spirit:
text: Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.
ref: 2009, Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography, page 20:
glosses: A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)
barry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: barries
Etymology: From French barré (“striped, barred”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A field divided transversely into several equal parts, and consisting of two different tinctures interchangeably disposed.
barry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: more barry
form: most barry
Etymology: From French barré (“striped, barred”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: barruly
glosses: Traversed (transversely) by bars.
examples: text: […] many examples of the degree of coverage of barry nylon with various ranges of dyes are listed […]
ref: 1970, The International Dyer, Textile Printer, Bleacher and Finisher, page 802:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Of a dyed material: having bars or bands of color.
Derived terms: barriness
barry-bendy
barry-nebuly
barry-pily
barry-wavy
cross-examine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-examines
form: cross-examining
form: cross-examined
form: cross-examined
form: cross examine
Etymology: From cross- + examine.
Senses: synonyms: word: cross-exam
word: cross-question
word: cross-interrogate
glosses: To question (someone) closely in order to verify facts, or information previously given.
glosses: To question a trial witness who has already been questioned by the other side.
Derived terms: crossexaminable
uncrossexaminable
Related terms: cross-examination
winding cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winding cloths
Senses: glosses: A burial shroud.
Synonyms: winding sheet
winding sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winding sheets
form: winding-sheet
Senses: glosses: A burial shroud.
examples: text: He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: A collection of tallow rising up against the wick of a candle, once regarded as an omen of death.
Synonyms: winding cloth
fancy man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancy men
form: fancy-man
form: fancyman
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ponce (“a pimp hired by a prostitute”).
synonyms: word: ponce
extra: a pimp hired by a prostitute
glosses: A man who is fancied: a sweetheart.
glosses: A man who fancies something: a fan.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fancy, man.
sulky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌlki/
Forms: form: sulkier
form: sulkiest
Etymology: See sulk.
The vehicle is so called as it obliges the rider to be alone, as though sulking.
Senses: examples: text: the sulky child
text: 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, “I’m older than you, and must know better.” And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.
synonyms: sullen
morose
glosses: silent and withdrawn after being upset
Derived terms: sulkiness
sulky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌlki/
Forms: form: sulkies
Etymology: See sulk.
The vehicle is so called as it obliges the rider to be alone, as though sulking.
Senses: glosses: A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in harness racing.
glosses: Any carriage seating only the driver.
monitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin monitorius.
Senses: examples: text: Some Lightnings are monitory, some are menacing
ref: c. 1700, Roger L'Estrange, Seneca's Morals:
glosses: Giving admonition and warning.
monitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monitories
Etymology: From Latin monitorius.
Senses: glosses: A written letter giving admonition.
Derived terms: premonitory
lemon balm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon balms
Senses: synonyms: balm
bee balm
sweet balm
glosses: A perennial herb, of species Melissa officinalis, of southern Europe; used as a flavouring in ice cream etc.
refusal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭfyo͞ozʹəl
ipa: /ɹɪˈfjuːzl̩/
rhymes: -uːzəl
Forms: form: refusals
Etymology: From Middle English refusell; equivalent to refuse + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Your refusal to carry out your duties resulted in your sacking.
glosses: The act of refusing.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.
Synonyms: sense: act of refusing
word: repudiation
sense: act of refusing
word: abnegation
sense: act of refusing
word: declination
Derived terms: pervasive refusal syndrome
right of first refusal
school refusal
Related terms: refuse
schnozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒzəl
Forms: form: schnozzles
Etymology: Probably from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts, “snout”), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout, muzzle”) and English snout. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the word may be pseudo-Yiddish coined in English. Attested since 1930.
Senses: examples: text: Buster Keaton is the plumber, passionate or otherwise, and he is more than ably assisted by the Schnozzle, Jimmy Durante.
ref: 1932, “The Passionate Plumber”, in Motion Picture, page 64:
text: I poked that bastard in the schnozzle, he told himself proudly, and everybody on the crew will thank me.
ref: 1947, Leslie Waller, Show Me the Way, page 31:
synonyms: word: beak
word: conk
alt: British
word: honker
alt: US
word: hooter
alt: British
word: schnoz, schnozz, shnoz, schnozzola
word: snoot
alt: US
word: nose
word: beak
word: beezer
word: boko
word: conk
word: honker
word: hooter
word: neb
word: pecker
word: proboscis
word: schnozz
word: schnozzle
word: schnozzola
word: schnoz
word: smeller
word: sneck
word: sniffer
word: snitch
word: snoot
word: snotbox
word: snout
word: trunk
raw_tags: of an elephant
glosses: The human nose, especially one that is large.
catharpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catharpins
form: cat-harping
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short rope, or iron cramp, used to stop the shrouds interfering with the yards.
door-to-door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: door to door
form: D2D
Senses: glosses: Going from house to house, when selling, delivering or asking for something.
examples: text: They must secure a higher share of the consumer goods which require transport not from siding-to-siding, but door-to-door.
ref: 1959 November, “The British Association looks at British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 545:
glosses: Sent or delivered from a store or factory directly to a house.
Wallyworld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wally World
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wally World.
news channel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news channels
Senses: glosses: A television channel dedicated to news, often operating continuously.
examples: text: The phrase [Web syndication] often refers to web news feeds (news channels) that provide an up-to-date summary of recently added contents and the latest changes of web sites.
ref: 2012, Leslie Sikos, Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML, page 307:
glosses: A newsfeed.
Related terms: newscast
XTC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ecstasy (“the drug”).
HSN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hereditary sensory neuropathy.
HSN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Home Shopping Network (“an American television channel”).
where's the beef
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a catchphrase in a 1980s television commercial for the fast food chain Wendy's.
Senses: glosses: Where is the content? So what?
Related terms: nothingburger
McDonald's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məkˈdɒnəldz/
ipa: /mɪkˈdɑnəldz/
Forms: form: McDonald's
form: McDonald'ses
Etymology: From McDonald (surname) + -'s, after the two brothers who founded the company, Richard and Maurice McDonald.
Senses: examples: text: This is evidence of the bank's confidence in a community organization for which it has now financed three ventures (CPI and two McDonald's).
ref: 1970, An Evaluation of Fiscal Year 1968 Special Impact Programs, Bladensburg, Md.: Westinghouse Learning Corporation, page 76:
text: Today, blue-movie palaces are as much a part of the suburbs as the wildly proliferating McDonald’ses.
ref: 1972, Time, volume 101, page 31, column 1:
text: The Chinese believe feng shui, pronounced fung shway, can help blunt the ill effects to health and wealth brought on, for example, by the inauspicious jut of an adjacent building or hill.
It’s why the doors on Jardine House, headquarters of the colony’s flagship commercial firm, are slightly askew. It’s why property prices in the Shouson Hill area are lower than the ritzy neighborhoods next door. It’s why one McDonald’s used to have a fish tank by the door. Aquariums and mirrors make good ghostbusters.
ref: 1997 January 31, Charles Hutzler, “Leader’s office hunt a lesson in arcana and parking problems”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023:
text: she walked into a job in McDonaldʼs, the first one she applied to
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 313:
glosses: A widespread chain of fast food restaurants.
Synonyms: word: Golden Arches
word: Maccas
word: Maccies
word: Maccy D's
word: McD
word: McDick's
word: McDo
word: McD's
word: McDungheap's
word: McFuck
word: McHell
word: McNiggers
word: McShit
word: McShithole
word: McShits
word: McShittles
word: Mickey D
word: Mickey D's
Hypernyms: word: restaurant
Derived terms: Mc-
McDonald
McDonaldization
McJob
McMansion
McWorld
meet me at McDonald's
meet me at McDonald's haircut
Related terms: word: :Category:English terms prefixed with Mc-
word: Tim Hortons
McDonald's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məkˈdɒnəldz/
ipa: /mɪkˈdɑnəldz/
Forms: form: McDonald's
Etymology: From McDonald (surname) + -'s, after the two brothers who founded the company, Richard and Maurice McDonald.
Senses: examples: text: I stopped to pick up some McDonald's and traveled up the road a little before pulling over.
ref: 1996, Joan M. Drury, Silent Words, Spinsters Ink, page 36:
text: “Darling,” Janelle is standing on the outskirts of the group, listening with amusement, “just because a man has filet mignon at home, doesn't mean he doesn't fancy a McDonald's every now and then.”
ref: 2006, Jane Green, Swapping Lives, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: He bought two McDonald's in a bag and took them to the Social Services place.
ref: 2011, Leslie Thomas, Dangerous Davies And The Lonely Heart, Random House, →ISBN:
text: 2014, May 22, Don Thompson, quoted in "McDonald's CEO insists fast-food giant pays 'fair wages' as protesters rally", The Guardian
My parents eat McDonald’s and they are here today – they are quite healthy.
glosses: Food from a McDonald's restaurant.
Related terms: Golden Arches
East Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Well, East Coast girls are hip / I really dig those styles they wear
ref: 1965, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, “California Girls”, performed by The Beach Boys:
glosses: Of or relating to the eastern seaboard of the United States.
glosses: Of or relating to Atlantic Canada.
East Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The eastern seaboard of the United States.
Related terms: West Coast
Fresh Coast
Third Coast
West Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the West Coast
Senses: glosses: A region along the Pacific Ocean in the contiguous United States.
glosses: A region along the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A region on the western side of the South Island of New Zealand.
glosses: A region and local government area (West Coast Council) in Tasmania, Australia.
Derived terms: West Coast offense
Related terms: East Coast
Fresh Coast
Third Coast
Westland
westside
retro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕt′rō
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /reʈˈroː/
rhymes: -ɛtɹəʊ
Forms: form: more retro
form: most retro
Etymology: Borrowed from French rétro, ultimately from Latin retro.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.
ref: 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
glosses: Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.
Derived terms: retro future
retro running
retro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕt′rō
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /reʈˈroː/
rhymes: -ɛtɹəʊ
Forms: form: retros
form: retroes
Etymology: Borrowed from French rétro, ultimately from Latin retro.
Senses: glosses: Past fashions or trends.
glosses: Abbreviation of retrorocket.
examples: text: Richard Leacock's 1981 film portrait, Louise Brooks, was shown during a retro of Ms. Brooks's films at the Walker Art Center.
ref: 1983, Sightlines, volumes 16-17, page 44:
glosses: Abbreviation of retrospective.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess puzzle of retrograde analysis, requiring the solver to work out the history of moves leading to the position presented.
Tony the Tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "That so, Tony the Tiger? Then how come you're here." "Your wife sent me to ask what you wanted for breakfast, […].
ref: 1994, Christopher Golden, Of Saints and Shadows, page 79:
text: "Very funny", said Don, "He's harmless, he's our - what, mascot." Like Tony the Tiger. Smoke rock—it's grrrreat!"
ref: 1997, Jonathan Lethem, “Light and the Sufferer”, in The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, page 143:
text: He hesitated inside the door, then answered Hunter's glance. "I'd kind of hoped so be met by Tony the Tiger or Captain Crunch. Don't the companies give you posters or free T-shirts or free samples or anything?"
ref: 2002, Will Shetterly, "Splatter", in Neil Gaiman, ed., Sandman, page 126
text: If they were good enough for Tony the Tiger, they were good enough for me.
ref: 2003, Janet Evanovich, One for the Money, page 752:
glosses: A tiger cartoon character used by Kellogg Company to promote its Frosted Flakes (Frosties) cereal.
Lucky Charms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trademark, launched in the 1960s, from lucky charm.
Senses: examples: text: He holds a bowl of Lucky Charms in his left hand and extends his right. "I don't usually eat these. Nita was having some." "I do," Louisa says.
ref: 2001, Paul Kafka-Gibbons, DuPont Circle: A Novel, page 12:
text: I'd eat two bowls of Lucky Charms and the next thing you know, I'd be sticking the spoon down my throat.
ref: 2002, Daisy Hernández, Bushra Rehman, Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, page 362:
text: I don't give a damn where yo' Lucky Charms-eating ass came from; just get yo' leprechaun ass up front to the visiting room now!
ref: 2005, Nedra M. Shivers, Redeeming Daddy, page 1:
text: One of the greatest joys of living alone is the complete freedom to eat Lucky Charms by the handfuls straight out of the box.
ref: 2007, Rhonda Pollero, Knock Off, page 28:
glosses: A breakfast cereal containing a combination of wheat-based pieces and marshmallows in various shapes.
Wheaties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive plural from wheat + -ie + -s; also evocative of wheaty, connoting little wheaty things.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes when I'm feeling my Wheaties, I want to be the one to go out and experiment, and I expect the drummer to help me by keeping it down.
ref: 1993, Marcus Miller, edited by Tom Mulhern, Bass Heroes, Backbeat Books, page 34:
text: Drugs were my Wheaties. My breakfast of champions. They made me feel fortified.
ref: 2005, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Symptoms of Withdrawal, William Morrow and Co., page 159:
text: For the first time in the history of the Cinematic Jesus, the traditional barriers that relegated Catholic sensibilities to European-produced films, for example, Il vangelo Matteo (1966), are removed, and Catholic piety becomes as mainstream as Wheaties.
ref: 2006, Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Cinematic Savior, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 79:
glosses: A manufactured breakfast cereal made of a wheat and bran mixture baked into flakes.
Derived terms: eat one's Wheaties
Related terms: wheaty
jeet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒit/
ipa: /d͡ʒiʔ/
rhymes: -iːt
rhymes: -iːʔ
Etymology: A compressed pronunciation of the words did you (d'ya) eat.
Senses: examples: text: "Jeet yet?" he asks. He asks it every time they're together, though usually not this early.
ref: 1976, Jack Ansell, Giants, Berkley Medallion, →OCLC, page 76:
text: So it will come as no surprise if a local inquires whether you've eaten yet — or, as Philadelphians say, "Jeet yet?"
ref: 2002, The Postal Record, volume 115, page 17:
glosses: Did you eat?
secret admirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret admirers
Senses: examples: text: I received a Valentine's card from my secret admirer.
glosses: One who admires another romantically but purposely remains anonymous to the extent that the subject of the admiration is unaware of the admirer's identity.
anticarcinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticarcinogenic
form: most anticarcinogenic
Etymology: From anti- + carcinogenic.
Senses: glosses: tending to inhibit or prevent the activity of a carcinogen or the development of carcinoma.
anticarcinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticarcinogenics
Etymology: From anti- + carcinogenic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anticarcinogen.
differential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪfəˈɹənʃəɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɪf(ə)ˈrɛnʃ(ɪ)jəl/
Forms: form: more differential
form: most differential
Etymology: Morphologically different + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: differential characteristics
text: [Caspar Schetz, Baron of Grobbendonck] was regularly in the pay of Sir Thomas Gresham, to whom he produced differential favours, and by whose government he was rewarded by gold chains and presents of hard cash, bestowed as secretly as the equivalent was conveyed adroitly.
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, volume 1:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a difference.
glosses: Dependent on, or making a difference; distinctive.
glosses: Having differences in speed or direction of motion.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to differentiation or the differential calculus.
Derived terms: bidifferential
codifferential
cytodifferential
differential grasshopper
differentialize
differentially
differential racialization
differintegral
multidifferential
nondifferential
paradifferential
pseudodifferential
subdifferential
subdifferentially
thermodifferential
time differential
transdifferential
ultradifferential
undifferential
scramjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scramjets
Etymology: Short for supersonic combustion ramjet.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A jet engine capable of propelling an aircraft at hypersonic speeds, in which combustion of the fuel/air mixture occurs at supersonic speeds.
glosses: An aircraft that uses such an engine.
Related terms: pulsejet
turbojet
ramjet
jet
hypersonic
plasmasonic
spaceplane
gnar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gnars
form: gnarring
form: gnarred
form: gnarred
form: gnarr
form: gnarl
form: knar
form: narr
Etymology: From Old English gnyrran.
Senses: glosses: To snarl or growl.
gnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: more gnar
form: most gnar
form: gnarr
form: gnarl
form: knar
form: narr
Etymology: Clipping of gnarly
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Gnarly.
gnar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gnars
form: gnarr
form: gnarl
form: knar
form: narr
Etymology: Clipping of gnarly
Senses: examples: text: You wanted to surf instead, to be like those locals who lived simply, had enough money for rent, food, and board wax; who waited tables at night and woke up to shred the gnar.
ref: 2020, Cinelle Barnes, “Carefree White Girls, Careful Brown Girls”, in Nicole Chung, Mensah Demary, editors, A Map Is Only One Story, Catapult, →ISBN:
qualifier: extreme sports
glosses: Snow or an ocean wave.
à la mode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a la mode.
to thine own self be true
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From a monologue delivered by the character Polonius in Act I Scene III of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Senses: examples: text: This aboue all, to thy owne ſelfe be true,
And it muſt follow as the night the day,
Thou canſt not then be falſe to any one, […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], signatures C2, recto – C2, verso:
text: "To thine own self be true," I saw, was what produced vitality, confidence, and genuine expression in one's interpersonal relations.
ref: 1977, Robert P Marinelli, Arthur E. Dell Orto, editors, The Psychological and Social Impact of Physical Disability, Springer Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 306:
text: Know thyself. To thine own self be true. For the man or woman who can confront the demon within, there is a hopeful prognosis.
ref: 1986 August, Gary Diedrichs, “Bewitched”, in Orange Coast:
text: Several of these women said simply, "to each her own," while others like Sue were only slighty more verbose: "Each of us has a right and a responsibility 'to thine own self be true.' Another person's sexual preference is not my business or concern."
ref: 1995, Paula C. Rust, Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution, New York University Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 51:
text: "To thine own self be true" whatever the consequences was taken as the principle of true freedom and humanity by the romantics.
ref: 2004, James M. Morris, Andrea L. Kross, Historical Dictionary of Utopianism, Scarecrow Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 262:
text: As Shakespeare wrote, "To thine own self be true," at least according to what kind of person you believe yourself to be.
ref: 2012, Mark D. White, “The Sound and the Fury Behind 'One More Day'”, in Jonathan J. Sanford, editor, Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 241:
glosses: Be yourself; be true to yourself; do not engage in self-deception.
funambulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjʊˈnæm.bjʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /fjuˈnæm.bjuˌleɪt/
ipa: /fjuˈnæm.bjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /fjəˈnæm.bjəˌleɪt/
rhymes: -æmbjʊleɪt
Forms: form: funambulates
form: funambulating
form: funambulated
form: funambulated
Etymology: From funambul(ist) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To walk on ropes; to tightrope-walk.
Derived terms: funambulation
funambulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funambulations
Senses: glosses: The act of walking on ropes; tightrope walking
Related terms: funambulate
funambulator
funambulatory
negotiatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negotiatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin negōtiātrīx. By surface analysis, negotiate + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female negotiator.
guerrilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈɹɪlə/
ipa: /ɡəˈɹɪlə/
ipa: /ɡəˈɹiə/
ipa: /ˌɡeɪˈɹiə/
homophone: gorilla
Forms: form: guerrillas
form: guerilla
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra (“war”), coined during the Peninsular War.
Senses: examples: text: The right-wing paramilitary's offensive against the Marxist guerrillas failed because they did not know the terrain well enough.
text: From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
ref: 2007 July 13, Kyle Whitmire, “Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
synonyms: guerrillero
glosses: A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.
glosses: A non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war.
glosses: A marketer who uses guerrilla marketing techniques.
glosses: A maker of guerrilla television.
Derived terms: antiguerrilla
counterguerrilla
guerrilla diplomacy
guerrilla diplomat
guerrilla gardening
guerrillaism
guerrilla knitting
guerrillalike
guerrilla television
guerrilla theater
guerrilla traveler
narcoguerrilla
nonguerrilla
guerrilla
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈɹɪlə/
ipa: /ɡəˈɹɪlə/
ipa: /ɡəˈɹiə/
ipa: /ˌɡeɪˈɹiə/
homophone: gorilla
Forms: form: more guerrilla
form: most guerrilla
form: guerilla
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra (“war”), coined during the Peninsular War.
Senses: examples: text: Wherever Nicholson was most wanted, there he was sure to be found. What his life was at this time may be seen from a letter he wrote to his mother: 'I am leading a very guerrilla sort of life with seven hundred horse and foot raised among the people of the country. The chieftain who is in rebellion has eight regular regiments and sixteen guns, so that I am unable to meet them openly in the field.'
ref: 1908, George Devereux Oswell, chapter VII, in Sketches of Rulers of India, volume I, page 127:
text: On the other hand, after the fall of Feng Ling Tu, the operations of Central Shansi, and Suiyuan, troops were more guerrilla than orthodox in nature.
ref: 1963, Samuel B. Griffith (translator), Mao Zedong, The Red Book of Guerrilla Warfare, edited by Shawn Conners, published 2010, page 14, original 1937
text: The Slovak uprising in the latter days was not guerrilla in character, which, incidentally, may have been one of the reasons for its failure.
ref: 1976, Walter Laqueur, Guerrilla Warfare, page 205:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla warfare, or its principles of small independent or non-official perpetrators.
examples: text: We took a very guerrilla approach to marketing Goin' Hollywood, in keeping with the irreverent tone of the game.
ref: 1989, Michael Wiese, Film & video marketing, page 445:
text: "Mozilla's marketing has been very guerrilla. You're not seeing it spend millions of dollars on TV. Instead, it's a powerful ground swell.
ref: 2005 February 28, “Firefox Continues To Chip Away At IE's Share”, in InformationWeek:
text: My style is more guerrilla. I grew up in a village, a very suppressed environment. I was like one of those young kids who hated the whole conventional way of doing things. So when I started to make films it was very hand-made, very fast.
ref: 2010 February 26, “A serious woman”, in The Times:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla marketing.
examples: text: guerrilla marketing
text: guerrilla tourism
text: guerrilla gardening
text: The Boston demonstration, which will feature singing and guerrilla theatre, will begin at 12 noon in front of the Park Street Subway station.
ref: 1976 April 3, “April 8 Set for 'Grand Jury Three' Protest March”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
text: Jackass’s guerrilla, nonnarrative format
ref: 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
glosses: Using unconventional, non-traditional, non-mainstream and often subversive practices to achieve something.
Derived terms: guerrilla warfare
Related terms: guerrillera
guerrillero
partisan
guerilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guerillas
Etymology: Compare French guérilla and German Guerilla.
Senses: examples: text: Not a cessation of poaching, but a succession of village guerillas;—an internecive war between the gamekeepers and marauders of game;—the whole country flung into brawls and convulsions, for the unjust and exorbitant pleasures of country gentlemen.
ref: 1819, Sydney Smith, “The Game Laws”, in Edinburgh Review:
ref: c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62
ref: 1873, M. A. Avery, “The Guerillas.—Death of Major Hunter.”, in The Rebel General’s Loyal Bride: A True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War, Springfield, Mass.: W. J. Holland and Company, →OCLC
text: 1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott
text: From mother and nurse it was a guerilla gunfire of commands, and blithe, quicksilver disobedience from the three blonde, never-still little girls.
ref: 1913–1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “England, My England”, in England My England and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published 24 October 1922, →OCLC, page 23:
text: At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, putting them to flight.
ref: 1938 August 24 [1938 August 21], “Japanese Round Up Guerillas”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CCVIII, number 3707, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 4:
text: He was telling Keng about the tactical agreement he had made with the guerillas in Muping and of his interviews with Shen Hung-lieh, chairman of the Shantung provincial government, when they suddenly heard a commotion outside.[…]
"Comrades," he said, "we are all guerilla soldiers who have joined hands to protect our own people, not to oppress them.
ref: 1947, Yang Shuo, “Purge by Fire”, in Chi-chen Wang, editor, Stories of China at War, London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 71:
ref: 1949, Tom Barry, Guerilla Days in Ireland
text: KYODO also states that, according to Indian intelligence sources, "the guerillas were sent from their training bases around Khasgar in Xingjiang^([sic – meaning Xinjiang]) Province [in China] to the sensitive areas bordering Afghanistan".
ref: 1980, Konrad Ege, “U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan”, in CounterSpy, volume 4, number 1, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of guerrilla, now a misspelling.
indefinitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪtli/
Etymology: From indefinite + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: an indefinitely determined fossil
glosses: In a manner that is not definite.
examples: text: It was a dark, horsehairy place with a sort of abandon-hope atmosphere that seemed suitable for people that had no money, and who were going indefinitely into pawn.
ref: 1905, Lloyd Osbourne, Baby Bullet: the motor of destiny, page 171:
text: One argument is that "the virus has changed everything" and that people will work from home and travel much less, easing capacity pressures.
But there is a counter argument whereby we may all discover that, longer-term, many jobs cannot after all be effectively carried out from home indefinitely.
ref: 2020 May 20, David Thrower, Ian Wray, “Revisiting the plan for developing the North's rail network”, in Rail, page 40:
glosses: For a long time, with no defined end.
glosses: Forever.
Related terms: endlessly
TANSTAAFL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: tanstaafl
form: TINSTAAFL
Etymology: Acronym, originating in the early 20th century, and popularized by Robert Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Senses: examples: text: "Gospodin," he said presently, "you used an odd word earlier--odd to me, I mean..."
"Oh, 'tanstaafl.' Means 'There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.' And isn't," I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, "or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless."
ref: 1966, Robert Heinlein, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress:
text: 'Tanstaafl. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. We both know that I was brought here for a reason. If we could get down to business.'
ref: 1985, Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, page 229:
text: The TANSTAAFL principle applies to all techniques of statecraft, not just the economic ones.
ref: 1985, David Allen Baldwin, “National Power and Economic Statecraft”, in Economic Statecraft, →ISBN, page 140:
text: The TANSTAAFL principle will come into play with each implementation of a calibration setting. There are no effects without side-effects. An improvement at one location will change others.
ref: 2015, Bob McCarthy, “Calibration”, in Sound System Design and Optimization, →ISBN, page 433:
glosses: Acronym of there ain't no such thing as a free lunch: something advertised as being "free" will invariably have hidden costs.
wikipedia: Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
CERN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the French acronym.
Senses: glosses: European Council for Nuclear Research
eloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌkwənt/
Forms: form: more eloquent
form: most eloquent
Etymology: From Old French eloquent, from Latin eloquens (“speaking, having the faculty of speech, eloquent”), present participle of eloquor (“to speak out”), from e (“out”) + loquor (“to speak”).
Senses: examples: text: an eloquent writer
synonyms: articulate
well-spoken
glosses: Fluently persuasive and articulate.
examples: text: an eloquent article
glosses: Effective in expressing meaning by speech.
examples: text: Lydiard was diagnosed shortly after new year following speech disturbance and subtle memory issues. He has a high-grade glioma, an aggressive malignant primary brain tumour in the left side. It is in the “eloquent brain”, very close to the part that controls speech, and would have been considered untreatable in the past.
ref: 2016 February 7, Caroline Davies, “Been anywhere nice this year? Brain surgery where patients are kept chatting”, in The Guardian:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to areas in the brain that serve an identifiable neurological function, in which injury leads to focal deficits or disability.
Derived terms: eloquate
eloquently
eloquentness
ineloquent
sialoquent
splendiloquent
supereloquent
uneloquent
Related terms: colloquial
colloquium
colloquy
elocution
eloquence
grandiloquent
illocution
interlocution
interlocutor
locution
loquacious
magniloquent
perlocution
kalua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian kālua.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Hawaiian cooking method, using an underground oven called an imu.
Derived terms: kaluaed
kalua
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hawaiian kālua.
Senses: examples: text: kalua pig; kalua turkey
glosses: Cooked using the kalua method.
allophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaləˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈæləˌfoʊn/
ipa: /ˈæləˌfəʉn/
Forms: form: allophones
Etymology: From allo- (“different”) + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: In some languages, [ʋ] is an allophone of /v/.
text: In the former the bilabial phone forms an allophone of the phoneme /v/ in word-final position after /a/ and an allophone of the phoneme /u/ when it is preceded by an obstruent and followed by /a/; […]
ref: 2003, Mikhail Sergeevich Andronov, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
glosses: A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
examples: text: However, “the languages used by STM staff during customer interactions are French and English,” the transit authority said. “Indeed, during phone calls or emails, STM employees speak English with anglophone or allophone customers who do not speak French.”
ref: 2025 April 24, Andy Riga, quoting Société de transport de Montréal, “No Habs No: Quebec orders STM to drop ‘Go’ from bus messages because it’s an English word”, in The Gazette, Montreal, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2025:
glosses: A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
A person whose mother tongue is neither English, French, nor (sometimes) an indigenous language.
Derived terms: allophonic
allophonics
allophony
complementary allophone
Related terms: allomorph
allophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaləˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈæləˌfoʊn/
ipa: /ˈæləˌfəʉn/
Forms: form: more allophone
form: most allophone
Etymology: From allo- (“different”) + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: In every case the allophone population is vastly larger than the proportion of francophones, which ranges from 4.2 percent […] from other parts of Canada more than international immigration from abroad: despite a growing allophone presence, […]
ref: 2010, Charles Boberg, The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
text: As immigration increases from different parts of the world, the linguistic makeup of Canada changes. In 2006, the allophone population—individuals whose mother tongue is neither English nor French—totalled 6.3 million, […]
ref: 2010, Statistics Canada, Canada Year, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to those whose mother tongue is neither English, French, nor (sometimes) an indigenous language of Canada.
glosses: That which is of a language other than that spoken by the majority.
Related terms: complementary distribution
imu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian imu. Doublet of umu.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.
Related terms: kalua
kalua pig
enthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈθɹəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: enthrones
form: enthroning
form: enthroned
form: enthroned
Etymology: From en- + throne; compare earlier enthronize, inthronize.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: coronate, crown
text: ceremonially enthrone
text: enthrone a monarch
text: The bishop came to enthrone the new archbishop.
antonyms: dethrone#Verb
glosses: To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture.
antonyms: dethrone#Verb
glosses: To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation.
Derived terms: disenthrone
enthronement
enthroner
reenthrone
unenthroned
Related terms: enskin
enstool
UC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S. Bellows, UC Riverside assistant entomologist. They include four acaricides (Morestan, Kelthane, Pictran, Vendex), four thripsicides (Cygon, Carzol, Orthene, Sabadilla), and four scalicides (Parathion, Supracide, Lorsban, Sevin).
ref: 1983 May 26, “Pesticide residue effects under study”, in The Californian, volume 25, number 16, Temecula, Calif., page A-11:
text: With the changes to federal and state public health guidance and the end of the federal Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023, UC is moving to a systemwide COVID-19 vaccination opt-out program for UC students and employees.
ref: 2023 May 25, “UC updating COVID-19 vaccination policy to systemwide opt-out program”, in UCNet:
coordinate_terms: CSU
Cal State
California State
;
USC
;
Caltech
glosses: Initialism of University of California A university system in California
glosses: Initialism of University of Cincinnati.
glosses: Initialism of University of the Cordilleras.
glosses: Initialism of University of Cebu.
glosses: Initialism of University of Canberra.
glosses: Initialism of Urban Council (a now abolished level of local government in Hong Kong)
glosses: Initialism of United Conservatives.
glosses: Initialism of Universal Credit
UC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UCs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ulcerative colitis.
glosses: Initialism of upper caste.
glosses: Initialism of United Conservative.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of ultra capacity.
fey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: fay
Forms: form: feyer
form: more fey
form: feyest
form: most fey
form: fay
form: fae
form: fay
form: fae
Etymology: From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.
Senses: glosses: Magical or fairylike.
fey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: fay
Forms: form: fey
form: feys
form: fay
form: fae
form: fay
form: fae
Etymology: From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.
Senses: topics: fiction
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: A fairy.
glosses: Fairy folk collectively.
raw_tags: construed as plural
Synonyms: fairy
fey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: fay
Forms: form: fay
form: fae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).
fey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: fay
Forms: form: feys
form: feying
form: feyed
form: feyed
form: fay
form: fae
form: fay
form: fae
Senses: examples: text: to fey a drain or ditch
glosses: To cleanse.
Related terms: fay
fae
retro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕt′rō-
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ-/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ-/
Etymology: See retro.
Senses: glosses: Back or backward.
glosses: Behind.
glosses: In the opposite direction.
examples: text: retroactive
glosses: Pertaining to an earlier time.
glosses: Old-fashioned or old school.
Synonyms: re-
Derived terms: retroactive
retroflex
retrograde
retrograde ejaculation
retrogress
retrogression
retrorse
retrospect
retrospective
retroussé
retroversion
retroverted
retro-Victorian
retrovisceral
retroactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛt.ɹəʊˈæk.tɪv/
ipa: /ˌɹɛ.tɹoʊˈæk.tɪv/
Etymology: First attested in 1610. From French rétroactif, equivalent to retro- + active.
Senses: examples: text: Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition.
ref: 2005, Jeff Hull, Pale Morning Done: A Novel, page 214:
text: Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?
ref: 2007 April 15, Liesl Schillinger, “The Night Train to Bucharest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:
text: Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]
ref: 2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 232:
glosses: Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions
Derived terms: retroactive rape
retroactively
Related terms: retroaction
ex post facto
retrospective
ex post facto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: expost facto
form: expostfacto
Etymology: From Latin ex (“from”) + post (“after”) + facto, ablative of factum (“deed”). In Latin, ex takes the ablative case, while post takes the accusative case. (See Wikipedia for a discussion of the grammatical form and usage of this phrase.)
Senses: examples: text: One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn’t any gentleman “such-like as yourself, squire,” to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; […] The opportunities of acquiring an abnormal thirst had been here limited; a noble use of them had, however, been made, and again I was compelled to deal with the result in an ex post facto manner.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
glosses: Retroactive.
examples: text: Coupled with the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws is a similar prohibition against bills of attainder.
ref: 1998, Daniel E. Troy, Retroactive Legislation, page 56:
text: That the tax would take effect after some of the payments were made also raises issues. Says former Attorney General Richard Thornburg, also in an e-mail: "Such legislation could well run afoul of constitutional restrictions on bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, laws impairing the obligations of contract, unauthorized takings of property and the like."
ref: 2009 March 21, Jim McTague, “Would a Tax on Bonuses Be Constitutional?”, in Barron's:
topics: law
glosses: Retroactive.
Formulated or enacted after some event, and then retroactively applied to it.
Related terms: ex post