cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trans the gay away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transes the gay away
form: transing the gay away
form: transed the gay away
form: transed the gay away
Etymology: Modelled on earlier pray the gay away.
Senses: examples: text: We're seeing this new 'trans-the-gay-away' movement happening, and people think that it's progressive, when in reality this is happening in some of the most conservative areas across the globe.
ref: 2020 February 13, Mary Farrow, quoting Mary Kate Fain, “On transgenderism: Common ground, and real differences, between Catholics and radical feminists”, in Catholic News Agency:
text: One plausible line of inquiry by those questioning transitioning is whether it involves homophobia, as in the phrase "trans the gay away".
ref: 2020 May 4, Monica Rose, “10 painful things I learned when my daughter transitioned”, in MercatorNet:
text: A gay clinician there resigned due to concerns that some parents appeared overly happy to "trans the gay away".
ref: 2021 August 12, Petra Kindler, “Conversion Therapies Bill”, in Irish Times:
text: LGB Alliance believes that treatment at the NHS’s Tavistock Clinic is "transing the gay away". It argues that puberty blockers and experimental drugs are the "greatest threat" to young people it represents.
ref: 2022 September 12, Hayley Dixon, “Tavistock clinic 'putting young gay people at risk by treating them as trans'”, in The Telegraph:
qualifier: gender-critical slang
glosses: To induce a gay person to undergo gender transition so that they become heterosexual.
transes the gay away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trans the gay away
transing the gay away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trans the gay away
transed the gay away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trans the gay away
sunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunners
Etymology: From sun + -er; compare sun oneself.
Senses: examples: text: Maximum bronzing for serious sunners.
ref: 1973, The New York Times Magazine (part 2, page 74)
glosses: One who sunbathes.
Giuoco Piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Giuoco Pianos
Etymology: From Italian Giuoco Piano, from giuoco+piano.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess opening
Synonyms: Italian game
Italian Game
Italian opening
Italian Opening
Coordinate terms: Sicilian Defense
Spanish Opening
Related terms: Giuoco Pianissimo
no-look
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Strikers like to give goalkeepers when they are through on goal, looking in the direction of one corner and then stroking the ball into the opposite side – Stewart Downing’s goal against Hull City last month is a good example – and the same principle can be applied to the no-look pass.
ref: 2015 March 6, Jacob Steinberg, “The Joy of Six: no-look football passes”, in The Guardian:
text: Terry brings the detectives into the briefing room to instruct them on how to act at "adult parties." Jake jokes that those are usually referred to as orgies. He then states, "No-look five," and he and Charles share a high five without eye contact.
ref: 2015, Janieretlaw, “No-Look Five”, in Brooklyn Nine-Nine Wiki:
text: LeBron’s shot called to mind Stephen Curry, who does the no-look celebration all the time.
ref: 2021 January 13, Dan Gartland, “LeBron James Buries Audacious No-Look Three to Win Bet With Dennis Schröder”, in Sports Illustrated:
text: I sense a portent inflating / an unlikely fellowship forming / and yet as swiftly as communion effloresced, / they leave, / pedalling into the distance / on their restored velocipede, / a no-look wave flicked my funereal way.
ref: 2022, Dave Clarke, “Velocipede”, in Northern Territory Literary Awards, pages 26-27:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Done without looking [at the target], typically for misdirection or as showboating.
bush medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush medicines
Senses: glosses: The traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians.
examples: text: I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.
ref: 2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:
glosses: A plant, preparation, etc., used in bush medicine.
bush medicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bush medicine
women's business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We've been doing women's business all day. This too was women's business. If I couldn't trust an Elder, a healer, with my secrets, who could I?
ref: 2022, Annalise Ingham, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 53:
glosses: In Australian Indigenous culture: cultural practies which are the exclusive preserve of women, especially ceremonies which are only open to women.
glosses: Subjects which women generally prefer to discuss amongst themselves rather than with men.
Silver Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Silver Crosses
Etymology: From silver + cross from the shape of the medal, being cross-shaped, and the colouration of the medal, being silvery.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A high-level military service award.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A high-level military service award.
A Canadian award for those who died in active service, such as in combat
coordinate_terms: word: Gold Star
alt: U.S.
Coordinate terms: service cross
service medal
service ribbon
service star
Derived terms: Silver Cross Family
Silver Cross Father
Silver Cross Mother
Related terms: Bronze Star
Gold Star
Silver Star
burr knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burr knots
Senses: glosses: A knot on a tree caused by root tissue growing in the trunk or a limb; a burl.
burr knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burr knot
spotted whistling ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted whistling duck
rufous owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rufous owls
Senses: glosses: A species of strigid owl, Ninox rufa, of New Guinea and north Australia.
rufous owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rufous owl
hooded parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooded parrots
Senses: glosses: A species of Australian parrot, Psephotus dissimilis, endemic to the northern parts of the Northern Territory, males of which have a black cap.
hooded parrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooded parrot
Pontoriero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pontorieros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Palestro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and comune in Pavia province, Lombardy, Italy.
glosses: Former name of Lakhdaria, Algeria.
Lakhdaria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Bouïra province, Algeria. Former name: Palestro.
Bouïra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Bouïra province, Algeria.
glosses: A province of Algeria; in full, Bouïra Province.
Merkwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Merkwans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Béni Mansour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in Boudjellil municipality, Tazmalt district, Algeria.
Boudjellil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Tazmalt district, Béjaïa province, Algeria.
Tazmalt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Tazmalt district, Béjaïa province, Algeria.
glosses: A district of Béjaïa province, Algeria; in full, Tazmalt District.
Mansourah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Mesra district, Mostaganem province, Algeria. See Mansourah, Mostaganem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
glosses: A district of Bordj Bou Arréridj province, Algeria; in full, Mansourah District. A municipality in this district is named Mansoura, but may have been spelt Mansourah previously.
glosses: A district of Ghardaïa province, Algeria; in full, Mansourah District.
glosses: A district of Tlemcen province, Algeria; in full, Mansourah District.
Pizzagater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pizzagaters
Etymology: From Pizzagate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.
ref: 2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022:
glosses: A person who believes in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Pizzagaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pizzagater
Bordj Bou Arréridj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Bordj Bou Arréridj province, Algeria.
glosses: A province of Algeria; in full, Bordj Bou Arréridj Province.
Great Bavington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Bavington parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9880).
Related terms: Little Bavington
be part of life's rich tapestry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is part of life's rich tapestry
form: being part of life's rich tapestry
form: was part of life's rich tapestry
form: been part of life's rich tapestry
form: be part of life's rich pageant
form: be part of life's rich pattern
form: be part of life
Senses: examples: text: Human interest is not only confined to people who were outstanding in English history and literature; it extends to half-forgotten people who made little or no impact on the course of history and yet whose lives and work were part of life's rich tapestry and may still be so, if only their 'simple annals' can be recovered.
ref: 1997, Arthur R. Ankers, Sussex Cavalcade, page 1:
text: “It's part of life's rich tapestry,” he murmured, and then looked at her and sighed.
ref: 2012, Sandra Heath, Shades of the Past:
text: This isn't faint of heart and shouldn't be a trick you practise regularly, but a little bit of exhilaration and the occasional late night are fine; I'd argue that they're part of life's rich tapestry of experiences and are to be celebrated.
ref: 2015, Graham Allcott, How to be a Knowledge Ninja:
text: For her, difficulties were part of life's rich tapestry and there to be surmounted or walked around; difficulties which included raising four children whilst being afflicted by paralysing bouts of multiple sclerosis.
ref: 2017, Nancy Charley, The Sea Changes, page 179:
text: Disparity is part of life's rich tapestry.
ref: 2021, David Reisman, Ideology: Conservatives, Liberals and Socialists, page 68:
glosses: To be one of the many experiences, both good and bad, that make up a full and complete life.
amphibrachically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From amphibrachic + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an amphibrachic manner.
in someone's blood
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Music is in my blood.
text: to run in someone's blood
glosses: As an inborn trait, especially one that one shares with other members of their family.
Related terms: run in the family
co-production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-productions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coproduction.
co-pro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-pros
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copro.
co-pros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-pro
Oued Zenati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Oued Zenati district, Guelma province, Algeria.
glosses: A district of Guelma province, Algeria; in full, Oued Zenati District.
parcs fermes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parc ferme; Alternative form of parcs fermés.
father of the nation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fathers of the nation
form: Father of the Nation
Senses: coordinate_terms: mother of the nation
glosses: A man considered the driving force behind the establishment of a country, state, or nation.
Related terms: founding father
free silverite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free silverites
form: free-silverite
Etymology: From free silver + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: They may be as little appreciated on monetary as on political subjects, but an outsider may be permitted to note the significant fact that Mr. Bryan's personal platform seems to go far beyond the party platform on which he stands. Officially he is a free Silverite; actually he is a free Silverite and something more.
ref: 1896 November, W. R. Lawson, “American Currency Cranks”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 64, number 5, New York: E. R. Pelton, page 590:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An advocate of the free silver movement.
free silverites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free silverite
Tébessa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Tébessa province, north-east Algeria.
glosses: A province of Algeria; in full, Tébessa Province.
messes with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mess with
messing with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mess with
messed with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mess with
Oued Keberit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Souk Ahras province, Algeria.
Jarosch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech, Hungarian, Polish, or Slovak.
Souk El Arba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Jendouba, Tunisia.
Jendouba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Jendouba governorate, north-west Tunisia. Former name: Souk El Arba.
glosses: A governorate of Tunisia; in full, Jendouba Governorate.
Zinnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Zinn + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Particularly benecial directions for the epistemological transformation within the social sciences, closely resembling Zinnian epistemology, can be found in Boavantura de Sousa Santos's theory of “the sociology of absences.”
ref: 2013, Žiga Vodovnik, A Living Spirit of Revolt: The Infrapolitics of Anarchism, Oakland, CA: PM Press, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Howard Zinn (1922–2010), American historian, playwright, philosopher and socialist thinker.
Medjez el Bab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Majaz al Bab, Tunisia.
Majaz al Bab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Medjez el Bab
Senses: glosses: A town in Béja governorate, northern Tunisia.
nom d'artiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noms d'artiste
Etymology: From French nom d'artiste (literally “artist's name”).
Senses: examples: text: On March 11, 2021, all of one year ago, Mike Winkelmann, whose nom d’artiste is Beeple, sold a collage of computer illustrations for $69 million simply because that collage came attached to a digital certificate called an NFT.
ref: 2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A pseudonym used by an artist.
Béja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beja
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Béja governorate, northern Tunisia.
glosses: A governorate of Tunisia; in full, Béja Governorate.
Claritin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈkleɹ.ə.tɪn/
Etymology: From Latin clāritās + -in (“a pharmaceutical product”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A brand of loratadine.
Flavie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flavies
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
flying car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying cars
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
transport
vehicles
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: A vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft.
doniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more doniferous
form: most doniferous
Etymology: See Latin donum (“gift”) + -fer (“bearing”).
Senses: glosses: Bearing or yielding gifts.
fluctiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluctiferous
form: most fluctiferous
Senses: glosses: Tending to produce waves.
fetiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more fetiferous
form: most fetiferous
Etymology: From Latin fētifer (“causing fruitfulness”) + -ous, from fētus (“pregnant, fruitful”) + -fer (“bearing, carrying, bringing”).
Senses: examples: text: […]all the treasury of those ideal signatures, which […] became existent in the matrix or womb of that generative and faetiferous word, from whence sprung up the wonderful, numerous and various seminal natures[…]
ref: 1654, John Webster, Academiarum examen, London, page 27:
text: Fruit somewhat globose, usually fetiferous, with a sweet pulp.
ref: 1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, London, page 593:
text: Fetiferous of gems which sparkle more / Than fairy lights in eye of queen […]
ref: 1922, Clifford Bax, (poem title not given), a. 1922, quoted in Arthur Melville Clark, The Realistic Revolt of Modern Poetry, London, page 66:
text: The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta.
ref: 1930, J. Fullerton Gressitt, transl., Love—The Law Of Life, translation of 愛の科学 by Toyohiko Kagawa, page 31:
text: Nepantla is indeed gestational and fetiferous, but not of some postliminal existence, for there is no postliminal existence available.
ref: 2014, James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy: Understanding A World In Motion, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 452:
glosses: Producing young; fruitful, productive.
calamiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more calamiferous
form: most calamiferous
Etymology: From Latin calamus (“reed”) + -iferous. Compare New Latin calamifer, used in Botanical Latin and taxonomic names.
Senses: examples: text: In the next Section our Author Discourses concerning Culmiferous or Calamiferous Plants[…]
ref: 1700, The History of the Works of the Learned, volume 2, number 8, page 509:
text: The thrifty farmer now puts on his rubber boots, and mows over his calamiferous grounds.
ref: 1879 August 14, Litchfield Enquirer, Litchfield, Connecticut, page 3:
text: It began to rain; we had lost our trail, but we plunged forward through the calamiferous swamps and dense bush, seeking a place to camp.
ref: 1899, George Clarke Musgrave, Under Three Flags in Cuba, Boston, page 202:
text: The watercourse in the Tarim basin is described in the following terms: "The river (Khotan-daria ?) runs northwards till it joins a confluent from the Tsung-ling (Onion range, in Sarikol), and then flows eastwards into the Pú-cháng-hai [蒲昌海] (lit. Calamiferous Lake), which is also called the Salt Marsh. This is over 300 li from the Yu gate and the Yang barrier, and is 300 li in length and breadth.
ref: 1903, Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet: Towards the Holy City of Lassa, volume 2, page 146:
text: Scape 200–300 mm high, 1.0–1.5 mm in diameter at the base, cylindrical, calamiferous, walls about 0.2 mm thick, densely thickened internally and externally with fibrous tissue, glabrous at the base but becoming increasingly pilose in the upper half with stalked, multicellular hairs with globular terminal glands dark red, exuding a sticky mucilage.
ref: 2001, W. D. Jackson, R. J. E. Wiltshire, “Historical taxonomy and a resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania”, in Australian Systematic Botany, volume 14, number 6, →DOI, page 954:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or producing reeds.
hederiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more hederiferous
form: most hederiferous
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin hederifer.
Senses: glosses: Producing or bearing ivy.
Related terms: hederaceous
infrugiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infrugiferous
form: most infrugiferous
Etymology: From in- + frugiferous.
Senses: examples: text: There are two ſorts of Pomegranate-Trees, the one wild, which is florigerous, but withall infrugiferous, the other domeſticall, whereof there are three differences, one beares acid Pomegranates, another ſweet ones; and the third dulco-acid ones, […]
ref: 1657, “Three Books of Medicinal Materials […]”, in Joannes Renodæus [Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing The vvhole Body of Physick: Discovering The Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals […], London: Printed by Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel; and are to be sold by Henry Fletcher […], Book I. Of Plants. Sect VI. Of Fruits. Chap. V. Of Pomegranates, page 373:
text: We are consequently desirous of administering—in no ratiocinative spirit—a jobation to those psittaceous individuals whose ebullient verbosity manifests itself in an infrugiferous efflorescen[c]e of language, and a polysyllabilification^([sic]) of monosyllables.
ref: 1901 September 5, “Exchanges”, in Leader-Independent, volume 8, number 2, Greeley, Neb., page 1:
text: Jove has placed into the hand of Judgment the Sword and the Crown; with the latter she rewards those who do good works and abstain from evil; with the former she punishes those who are inclined toward crimes, and are useless and infrugiferous plants.
ref: c. 1964, Giordano Bruno, translated by Arthur D. Imerti, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, translation of Lo spaccio de la bestia trionfante, published 1992, →ISBN, Second Dialogue: First Part, page 146:
synonyms: fruitless
infructiferous
antonyms: fructiferous
frugiferous
fruitful
glosses: Not bearing fruit; fruitless.
corniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈnɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more corniferous
form: most corniferous
Senses: glosses: Horned.
tridentiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more tridentiferous
form: most tridentiferous
Senses: examples: text: […]where the tridented Rhadamanthus—(Yama with Brahams, also tridentiferous?) with his three-headed dog Cerberus […] receives them into those unsunned dominions.
ref: 1834, Edward Moor, “Fragments—Fourth. Descriptive Account of the Plates in This Volume.”, in Oriental Fragments, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 462:
text: Somebody calls Senator [Benjamin] Tillman a “tridentiferous statesman.” This is a reminder of the story that when some person described a crab to Cuvier as a red fish that walks backward, he answered, “a crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backward. With these three exceptions, your definition is perfect.” A pitchfork is not tridentiferous and Mr. Tillman is not a statesman. With these exceptions, the description fits him exactly.
[Tillman was known as “Pitchfork Ben”.]
ref: The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 136, number 168, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Inquirer Company, 17 June 1897, →OCLC, page 6, column 4:
text: And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.
ref: 1912, Prospero [pseudonym; Frederick Rolfe], Caliban [pseudonym; Harry Pirie-Gordon], “The Thirteenth Papyrus”, in The Weird of the Wanderer: Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe, London: William Rider & Son, Limited, […], →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Bearing a trident.
Synonyms: tridented
ostriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more ostriferous
form: most ostriferous
Senses: glosses: Containing or producing oysters.
Sheindlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
North Island eyebrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of North Island eyebright
Mosaddegh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from dialectal Iranian Persian مصدق (mosaddeğ), from Classical Persian مصدق (musaddiq).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian surname مصدق.
muscleboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscleboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muscle boy.
muscleboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscleboy
hederic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only used in hederic acid
Esses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ess
Esses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of esses.
boo how doy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Taishanese 斧頭仔 /斧头仔 (bu² heu³ doi², literally “hatchet boy”).
Senses: glosses: A hatchet man, in Chinese contexts.
rosacic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rosacic
form: most rosacic
Senses: glosses: Uric, as in uric acid.
Derived terms: rosaic acid
flop-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flop-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flophouse.
flop-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flop-house
Evanses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Evans
New Englishwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Englishwoman
New Englishmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Englishman
tale of woe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tales of woe
Senses: examples: text: Ivy sat there for a moment, gathering herself. "Decent and indecent," she said. "I guess it makes life easier when you can put kids in two camps and write off half of them." She reached into her big canvas bag. "Almost forgot. Mr Quirk wanted refreshments." We passed the Mint Milanos around the conference table and told our tales of woe.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.35
glosses: A narrative or description of one's problems or misfortunes.
Related terms: sob story
alpha strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha strikes
Senses: examples: text: But you did specify naval gunfire, and so at that point... yeah, I think Invincible is pretty much the one that takes the cake for "most devastating alpha strike". Everything else either took a lot longer to die, or had to be hit by a lot more shells before it went boom.
ref: 2021 March 28, Drachinifel, 2:27:18 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 139, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sudden, massive, devastating concentration of fire upon a single opponent in order to immediately neutralize the opponent with overwhelming force.
alpha strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha strike
stovepipe tornado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stovepipe tornados
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of tornado with a nearly cylindrical profile and relatively low height.
stovepipe tornados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stovepipe tornado
Old Cumnock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cumnock, East Ayrshire, which might be derived from the parish. A railway station there was also named Old Cumnock at one time, later renamed Cumnock before closure.
synonyms: word: Cumnock
extra: A railway station there was also named Old Cumnock at one time, later renamed Cumnock before closure
word: East Ayrshire
extra: A railway station there was also named Old Cumnock at one time, later renamed Cumnock before closure
word: which might be derived from the parish
extra: A railway station there was also named Old Cumnock at one time, later renamed Cumnock before closure
Related terms: New Cumnock
KMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test.
give someone ass cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone ass cancer
form: giving someone ass cancer
form: gave someone ass cancer
form: given someone ass cancer
Senses: examples: text: I think you just gave me ass-cancer, ye bastard.
ref: 2006 April 15, HellPope Huey, “what's so funny about a goat?”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
text: No good lugging a lot of hate around. It will give you ass cancer.
ref: 2012 March 25, “Chapter 19”, in David Gordon Green, director, Eastbound & Down, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Kenny Powers (Danny McBride):
text: Oh, right. I hate that guy. I always forget that he exists, because being reminded of him gives me ass cancer.
ref: 2018 April 18, Sean Garrison, “A Q&A with Rob Pennington about the new By the Grace of God record”, in LEO Weekly:
text: For instance, consider this excerpt, quoted verbatim, that I received from such a 'troll', replete with slurs of various kinds and send ^([sic]) anonymously of course: 'You are ... retarded, and...your "research" literally gave me ass cancer. […]
ref: 2020, The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:
synonyms: give someone butt cancer
glosses: To intensely annoy or frustrate someone.
give someone butt cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone butt cancer
form: giving someone butt cancer
form: gave someone butt cancer
form: given someone butt cancer
Senses: examples: text: Having to recurse into subdirs on every one of those occasions would give me butt cancer.
ref: 2003 May 24, Jøhnny Fävòrítê, “virtualize”, in alt.internet.talk.haven (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of give someone ass cancer.
synonyms: word: give someone ass cancer
gives someone butt cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone butt cancer
giving someone butt cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone butt cancer
gave someone butt cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give someone butt cancer
given someone butt cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give someone butt cancer
gives someone ass cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone ass cancer
giving someone ass cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone ass cancer
gave someone ass cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give someone ass cancer
given someone ass cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give someone ass cancer
Roche lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roche lobes
Etymology: Named after Édouard Roche.
Senses: examples: text: A further interesting situation (although not one of much relevance for this book) comes about if both stars for some reason fill their Roche lobes simultaneously.
ref: 2002, Juhan Frank, Andrew King, Derek Raine, Accretion Power in Astrophysics, page 54:
text: Generally, mass transfer by Roche lobe overflow is required to power LMXRB's, since low mass stars never exhibit strong stellar winds.
ref: 2012, C. de Loore, C. Doom, Structure and Evolution of Single and Binary Stars, page 386:
text: If only one component accurately fills its Roche lobe the system is semi-detached. If neither fills its Roche lobe, it is detached.
ref: 2013, Josef Kallrath, Eugene F. Milone, Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis, page 85:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The teardrop-shaped region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star.
wikipedia: Édouard Roche
Related terms: Roche limit
Roche sphere
Roche lobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roche lobe
Bradford Hill criteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bradford Hill criterion
Etymology: Established by Austin Bradford Hill (1897–1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, in 1965.
Senses: topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Hill criteria
glosses: A group of nine principles, widely used in public health research, that can be useful in establishing epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect.
wikipedia: Austin Bradford Hill
Shilford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shillford, East Renfrewshire.
upsurp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of usurp.
trust the process
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: One should have faith or be confident that everything will work out as planned.
Dyck language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: formal languages
glosses: The set of Dyck words; a balanced string of square brackets.
Pengelley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
explanated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more explanated
form: most explanated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of explanate.
tubuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more tubuliferous
form: most tubuliferous
Senses: glosses: Bearing tubules.
anti-vaxxery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antivaxxery
Etymology: From anti-vax + -ery or anti-vaxxer + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Chadwick cites this as an example of how credulous and ignorant rustic communities were in those days. If one judges by today’s anti-vaxxery, such credulity and ignorance are alive and well, and flourishing on social media.
ref: 2021 January 5, Charles Moore, “Heartening news from the NHS front line finally gives us something to clap about”, in The Telegraph:
text: He posted a video supposedly showing Biden deepfakery. It has been viewed 1.4 million times. Other posts on his feed promote antivaxxery and Herschel Walker, who is running for a Senate seat in Georgia and who has claimed he was an FBI agent and came close to murdering someone until voices in his head told him not to do it.
ref: 2022 August 2, Tim Rogers, “No, There Are Not 10 Joe Bidens”, in D Magazine:
synonyms: anti-vaxxerism
anti-vaxxing
glosses: Opposition to vaccines and vaccination; reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated.
deepfakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deepfake + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Bad cops are using deepfakery in order to help convict bad guys, just as bad guys are using deepfakery to help convict good guys, leaving us to ponder more angles than you might expect going into the show. “The Capture” is frightening, a little brainy, and damning of those who refuse to recognize deepfakery for the crisis it has become.
ref: 2020 August 14, Matthew Gilbert, “Watch ‘The Capture,’ but don’t believe your eyes”, in The Boston Globe:
text: Skistimas has also performed as Five Times August, whose Twitter account he used last week to get the goofiness started. I am not going to link to it. He posted a video supposedly showing Biden deepfakery. It has been viewed 1.4 million times.
ref: 2022 August 2, Tim Rogers, “No, There Are Not 10 Joe Bidens”, in D Magazine:
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: The creation and use of deepfakes, often with malicious intent.
naivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naivistic
form: most naivistic
Etymology: From naivist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to naivism
gamery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gamery
form: most gamery
Etymology: From gamer + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This phone feels like a bargain, but it doesn’t feel like a bargain: the build quality is rock solid, combining plastic and metal to surprisingly cool effect. Yes, it is definitely gamery, but I don’t find it to be ostentatiously so, and honestly I dig the black and green color scheme — particularly the shiny green chamfers.
ref: 2018 November 16, Sam Byford, “Xiaomi’s Black Shark gaming phone might be better for non-gamers”, in The Verge:
glosses: Characteristic of or appropriate for a gamer.
pro-masker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-maskers
form: promasker
Etymology: From pro- + mask + -er. Likely influenced by pro-vaxxer.
Senses: examples: text: Beightol, who is the administrator for several Facebook pages where public schools teachers can vent, said educators fall into three categories: vocal pro-maskers, vocal anti-maskers and pro-maskers who stay out of the line of fire.
ref: 2021 August 8, Francisco Alvarado, “‘I don’t see how it can be safe’: Florida schools on frontlines of state’s mask war”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
healthcare
politics
antonyms: antimasker
glosses: A person who supports the practice or mandate of wearing masks.
strippases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strippase
foam hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foam hand
foam fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foam finger
GD&T
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
related: word: GDT
glosses: Initialism of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
/uj
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: From / + abbreviation of unjerk, using the tone indicator format of slash-prefixing set by the earlier /s (“sarcasm”).
Senses: antonyms: /rj
glosses: Indicates seriousness or a pause to a circlejerk.
/rj
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: From / + abbreviation of rejerk, using the tone indicator format of slash-prefixing set by the earlier /s (“sarcasm”).
Senses: antonyms: /uj
glosses: Indicates a lack of seriousness or a resumption to a circlejerk.
unjerk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unjerks
form: unjerking
form: unjerked
form: unjerked
Etymology: Shortened form of un- + circlejerk.
Senses: antonyms: rejerk
glosses: To cease participating in a circle jerk.
Derived terms: word: /uj
unjerks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unjerk
unjerking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unjerk
unjerked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unjerk
rejerk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rejerks
form: rejerking
form: rejerked
form: rejerked
Etymology: From re- + jerk.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the same individual who had jerked Mr. Adolphus Cassy into the dock, rejerked him into the middle of the court.
ref: 1841, Punch, Or, The London Charivari, volume 1, page 148:
text: […] to rejerk the life into your dehydrated soul.
ref: 2001, Chantal Thomson, Different Horizons: An Anthology of African Verse, page 135:
glosses: To jerk or haul again.
examples: text: That's a straight-shooting comment you got there, no need to rejerk for that one.
ref: 2019 April 9, u/onedayoneroom, “gaming is like fucking hellworld at this point”, in Reddit, r/Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
text: Lol did you just needlessly unjerk to be sarcastic and rejerk to continue being sarcastic
ref: 2019 May 30, u/thatonedude123, “"new world order SJW policies"”, in Reddit, r/Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
text: /uj One dude over there even compared holding on to the release deadline of the game with nazis trying to excuse themselves in Nuremberg with "I was following orders". I can't even rejerk that shit.
ref: 2022 January 7, u/Bruno_Fisto, “Battlefield subreddit being shut down because the devs are whiney brats who hate the player base and definitely not because said player base is harassing the devs for spending time with their families over Christmas instead of working on the game”, in Reddit, r/Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
text: Unjerk for a moment ¶ This right here is legit one of my worst fears ¶ Rejerk ¶ Saul
ref: 2022 March 16, u/thefunnyIrishguy, “sual”, in Reddit, r/okbuddychicanery, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
text: Lol nothing, it was rejerked so I was just trying to say some dumb immature shit. I'm pretty gay honestly.
ref: 2022 March 20, “Every guitar-YouTuber's thumbnail this weekend”, in Reddit, r/guitarcirclejerk, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
text: ...or they're playing along? You know, rejerking?
ref: 2022 September 30, u/coladict, “Time to stop supporting Blizzard, I guess”, in Reddit, r/Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
text: No reason to rejerk. When you see this many pedos coming out of the woods to support each other under the guise of censorship and hijacking issues that affect other communities, and see them all banding together, it's hard not to feel ill will.
ref: 2023 January 22, u/ComfySingularity, “Censorship is when you can't romance the child”, in Reddit, r/Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
antonyms: unjerk
qualifier: Reddit slang
glosses: To begin participating in a circlejerk again after having unjerked.
Derived terms: word: /rj
rejerks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rejerk
rejerking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejerk
rejerked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejerk
gutterbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A state of mind which finds sexual innuendo in innocent things.
Lesvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lesvos + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Since Lesvos is mainly a mountainous area and sometimes lacks sufficient water, the Lesvian agriculture is characterised by terrace-cultivation.
ref: 2012, Multicriteria Analysis for Land-Use Management, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 67:
text: For example, in a discussion of the Lesvian dialect of Greek which is otherwise devoted to documenting Paradigm Uniformity effects, Gafos and Ralli mention that the usual rule of unstressed high vowel deletion fails to apply when the deletion would result in a loss of morphological information.
ref: 2014, Sharon Inkelas, The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 356:
text: The connection between the Lesvian capital of Mytilene and Aivali was especially strong, as the latter was founded by Lesvian migrants in the sixteenth century and the two communities were bound by both business and blood.
ref: 2021, Panayotis League, Echoes of the Great Catastrophe, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: There home in the Hyde Park neighborhood was the site or weekly rehearsals and dinners that were a perfect encapsulation of this meeting of Mediterranean socialities, Ottoman-era modal dance music preceded by home-cooked Italian and Greek delicacies and accompanied by Lesvian ouzo.
ref: 2022, Redirecting Ethnic Singularity, Fordham University Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: Lesbian
word: Lesviot
word: Lesbosian
glosses: Relating to the island of Lesvos (Lesbos) in Greece.
Lesvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lesvians
Etymology: From Lesvos + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Mytilini, or Lesvos, as it is often called, is a large Greek lisland in a gulf formed by the Turkish coast in the northern corner of the Aegean Sea. Local residents refer to themselves as "Lesvians".
ref: 1999, Ann Blackman, Seasons of Her Life, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 185–186:
text: Among the Lesvians, Hjalmar Dahm and Georgios Sitaras offered invaluable logistical assistance and field help.
ref: 2013, Jason A. Tipton, Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page vii:
text: The move won us the sympathy and devotion of the Lesvians, especially the Mytilinians.
ref: 2015, George A. Rados, Makedonia, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: Dean, whose maternal grandparents migrated in the early twentieth century from the island of Lesvos to Lynn, Massachusetts, an industrial city north of Boston with a large population of Anatolian Greeks, plays the santouri, the trapezoidal hammered dulcimer that Lesvians consider the instrument most emblematic of their island's traditional music.
ref: 2021, Panayotis League, Echoes of the Great Catastrophe, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Hospitable Lesvians and refugees with smiling eyes, with longing, with hope, optimism, and desire to show us a piece of home.
ref: 2022, Sophie Streeting, Melting Pot, novum premium Verlag, →ISBN, page 12:
synonyms: word: Lesbian
word: Lesviot
glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Lesvos (Lesbos).
westaboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of westaboo
Westaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Westaboos
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of westaboo.
EES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EESs
form: EESes
form: EES
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of epidural electrical stimulation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of epidural electrical stimulator.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of ethinylestradiol sulfonate.
friends in low places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Friends who have underworld connections or are involved in shady underdealings.
glosses: Friends who lack culture or sophistication.
dandelion yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandelion yellows
Senses: glosses: A particular shade of yellow found on this type of plant.
dandelion yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandelion yellow
Yumurtalık
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Yumurtalık and Ottoman Turkish یمورطالق (Yumurtalık).
Senses: glosses: A port and resort town in Adana Province, in southeastern Turkey.
glosses: A district and municipality of Adana Province, Turkey, around the town.
Synonyms: sense: town
word: Aegeae
sense: town
word: Ayas
sense: town
word: Lyeys
sense: town
word: Ajazzo
sense: town
word: Lajazzo
sense: town
word: Laiazzo
dandelion salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandelion salads
Senses: glosses: A salad prepared from dandelion greens.
dandelion salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandelion salad
network provider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network providers
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A broadcaster of Internet television using digital distribution.
glosses: Synonym of internet service provider.
synonyms: word: internet service provider
network providers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of network provider
Irve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Irves
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: Irv
Irvin
Irvine
Irving
Marsack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marsacks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dicerbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dicerbos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Di Cerbo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dimauro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dimauros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Di Mauro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
DiMauro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dimauro.
DiCerbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dicerbo.
Hunsacker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hunsackers
Senses: glosses: A surname.