cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Atlantic bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The reported reaction of the Netherlands Government-in-exlle, in London, was that an Atlantic bloc to control Germany and offset Russia should be composed of America as the arsenal, Britain the base, western Europe the beachhead.
ref: 1949, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, North Atlantic Treaty:
text: The decline of the Atlantic bloc has been less theatrical, although clearly visible. In a sense, the Atlantic bloc has carried the seeds of its own dissolution from the beginning.
ref: 1970, David P. Calleo, The Atlantic fantasy: the U. S., NATO, and Europe, page 46:
text: In view of Turkey's intention of joining the Atlantic bloc, and the work carried through under the guidance and with the assistance of the United States Command and specialists for the construction of air and naval bases on Turkish territory, the Soviet Government declared to the Turkish Government on 3 November of the current year that the U.S.S.R., being a State neighbouring on Turkey, naturally cannot remain indifferent to such facts.
ref: 1974, Yaacov Ro'i, From Encroachment to Involvement:
glosses: The group of countries united after WWII in mutual protection from the U.S.S.R. (eventually resulting in NATO).
take the Chiltern Hundreds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the Chiltern Hundreds
form: taking the Chiltern Hundreds
form: took the Chiltern Hundreds
form: taken the Chiltern Hundreds
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in modern times a mere sinecure.
reists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reist
reists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reist
reistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reistic
form: most reistic
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to reism.
chuffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuffing
CILOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of conversion in lieu of procurement.
Cinderella liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cinderella liberties
Etymology: After the fairy-tale character Cinderella, who is instructed to leave the ball by midnight before the enchantments that allow her to be there come to an end.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A period of leave that ends at midnight.
Cinderella liberties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cinderella liberty
Cinderella sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cinderella sales
Etymology: First use appears c. 1909 in the publication Shoe Retailer and Boots and Shoes Weekly.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of advertising small widths and sizes in women's shoes, the event was called the Cinderella sale.
ref: 1915, Chilton Company (publisher), Boot and Shoe Recorder, Volume 67, page 47:
text: Why not try a Cinderella Sale? Offer a table of odds and ends, broken sizes, leftovers, etc. Make prices ridiculous.
ref: 1975, Farm Supplier, volume 49, page 399:
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: An occasional sale of miscellaneous or damaged items.
Cinderella sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cinderella sale
cinetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinetizations
form: cinetisation
Etymology: From French cinétisation.
Senses: examples: text: For example, cinetizations of the Pan Am Building or the George Washington Bridge show these structures in a state of collapse.
ref: 1978, Linda Konheim Kramer, Prints from the Guggenheim Museum Collection, page 12:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A distorted image created by removing portions of an original image and reassembling the remainder at disjointed angles.
cinetizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinetization
Norbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Norburys
Etymology: From Old English norþ (“north”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Northborough.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and former civil parish, now in Marbury and District parish, Cheshire East borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5647).
glosses: A small village in Norbury and Roston parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1242).
examples: text: They drove to Norbury, a strange little area that was nestled between Streatham and Croydon, not taking any trait from either surrounding area but not really having any defining traits of its own.
ref: 2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, page 12:
glosses: A suburb of London in the borough of Croydon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3069).
glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Myndtown, Norbury, Ratlinghope and Wentnor Combined Parish Council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3692).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7823).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Norbury and Roston
citronella circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coinage attributed to the actress Tallulah Bankhead. Citronella is an insect repellent that one might expect to use outdoors in summer.
Senses: examples: text: They either starve, take up smuggling or invade the citronella circuit in a beat-up revival.
ref: 1951, LIFE, volume 30, number 26, page 94:
text: We don't mean just the usual fare of summer stock offerings, although it is certainly pleasant to see a recent Broadway hit or view a tryout for the Big Time on the so-called citronella circuit.
ref: 1972, Travel, volumes 137-138, page 12:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The round of summer stock theater performances.
wikipedia: Tallulah Bankhead
citronellyl acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoterpene of plant origin, used in perfumery.
countercity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + city.
Senses: examples: text: A countercity strike would be a direct and intentional attack against noncombatants, representing a violation of noncombatant immunity on a mass scale—this besides the disproportionality of the destruction such a countercity strike would entail.
ref: 1982, Military Chaplains' Review, volumes 132-135:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Targeting a city.
Bicolanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bicolano
bicollaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bicollateral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bicollateral manner.
Bikolano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bicolano.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bicolano.
Bikolano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bikolano
form: most Bikolano
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bicolano.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bicolano.
aldermanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldermanates
Etymology: From alderman + -ate (forming nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: examples: text: As York was not divided into wards before the reign of Charles II, we must trace the existence of the aldermanate either to the ancient guild system, or to the combination of the merchant guild with the leet jury.
ref: 1880, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England:
text: The actually existing municipalities in each city, borough, parish, or community, under the titles of hotels-dc-villc, mayoralties, aldermanates, consulates, and generally under any title or qualification whatsoever, are suppressed and abolished;
ref: 1904, Frank Maloy Anderson, The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France, 1789-1907, page 24:
text: Other fees were taken from new members of common councils, those who were raised to the aldermanate, and sometimes from those who resigned as councillors.
ref: 1990, Stephen Porter, Exploring urban history: sources for local historians, page 99:
glosses: The office of an alderman; the municipal legislative body of a city or town.
examples: text: The Lord Mayor and the aldermanate, who knew nothing about Finbar, were delighted to accept his generous offer.
ref: 2006, Michael O'Donnell, Doctor Donovan's Bequest: Tales from the Slagthorpe Archive:
text: This gave the army ample justification for its occupation of London in early August, which, as in 1642, was followed by a purge of the aldermanate.
ref: 2015, Stephen Porter, London and the Civil War:
glosses: The members of the aldermanate, collectively.
aldermanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldermanate
sang de boeuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French sang-de-bœuf
Senses: glosses: A red glaze used in Chinese porcelain.
Fauci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfaʊt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: Faucis
form: la Fauci
form: La Fauci
form: la-Fauci
form: La-Fauci
form: Lafauci
form: LaFauci
form: laFauci
Etymology: From the Sicilian surname Fauci, a surname derived from fauci (“sickle”).
Senses: examples: text: Covid-19 is still spreading rampantly and must be tackled aggressively if we want life to get back to normal soon, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN on Sunday.
ref: 2021 March 14, Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, “The US is now in a vulnerable spot with Covid-19. Don’t make the same mistakes Europe did, Fauci says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2021:
text: Dr. Anthony Fauci, national infectious disease guru, is five months my senior, sharp as a tack even under withering political fire;
ref: 2021 May 17, Jane E. Brody, “A Birthday Milestone: Turning 80!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 May 2021:
glosses: A surname from Sicilian.
Derived terms: Faucian
Fauci ouchie
Faucism
Faucist
covid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkʌvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkəʊvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkəʊvəd/
ipa: /ˈkɐʉvəd/
rhymes: -əʊvɪd
Etymology: From COVID-19.
Senses: examples: text: Instead I invite you to use the disruption of covid as a chance to disrupt your busyness. That as you navigate your journey through this crisis, you also guide your life onto a path of more colour, more impact and more joy.
ref: 2020, Tony Crabbe, Busy@Home: How to thrive through the covid crisis, Piatkus, →ISBN:
text: We all have such grand plans, when covid is over. Some of us want to get back to packed concert halls, while others want to relax comfortably at our favorite restaurants. […] It can also bring to mind other painful waiting periods — so vividly, in fact, that in the past few days it’s become a meme to compare the phrase “once covid is over” to other events that might never arrive.
ref: 2021 January 26, Travis M. Andrews, “‘When covid is over’ sounds like ‘when I meet Harry Styles’: The new pandemic meme, explained”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021:
glosses: Ellipsis of COVID-19, the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2.
Derived terms: covid-19 party
covid-crazy
covid cut
covidiocy
covidiot
covid party
covid-safe
covid-wise
long covid
novid
covid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkʌvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkəʊvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkəʊvəd/
ipa: /ˈkɐʉvəd/
rhymes: -əʊvɪd
Forms: form: covids
Etymology: From Portuguese covado (“cubit”).
Senses: examples: text: In weights and measures one hundred catties were equivalent to one picul, or 133½ English pounds; in cloth or long measure ten “poontas” to one covid, and two covids to thirty-six inches English.
ref: 1908, William Babcock Weeden, Early Oriental Commerce in Providence:
text: But the usual dimensions of a piece of muslin were 40 x 2 covids, the lower and the upper bounds being 36 x 1 and 48 x 3 covids, respectively.
ref: 2014, Om Prakash, The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720:
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A cubit.
examples: text: A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid.
ref: 1815, A dictionary of the Chinese language, in three parts:
text: From east to west it was nine covids, and from south to north seven yen, (63 covids).
ref: 1852, Li Zhou, translated by William Raymond Gingell, The Ceremonial Usages of the Chinese, B. C. 1121, page 4:
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A chi.
Related terms: covado
holocausting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holocaustings
Etymology: From holocaust + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: They appeared when the President of Aztlan, Jorge the Horrible, granted the whole world Aztlanian citizenship and compelled everyone living on earth to pay taxes, under the threat of nuclear holocausting.
ref: 2015, Victor Pelevin, S.N.U.F.F., Gollancz, →ISBN:
glosses: gerund of holocaust
An act of destroying (something) completely, especially by fire.
examples: text: This led to the eventual holocausting of over ten million people from homes held as long as London was English. Largely women and children were pushed onto the open road with what they could carry on their backs.
ref: 2005, C. L. Corey, Our Own Felicity: We Make or Find, Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: gerund of holocaust
The subjection of a group of people to a holocaust (mass annihilation).
holocausting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From holocaust + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of holocaust
holocausted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holocaust + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The Holocausted Goat
Besides the condemning accuser, there is also the "holocausted goat," originally symbolizing libido sacrificed to the offended Yahweh.
ref: 1986, Sylvia Brinton Perera, The Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt:
text: The first was the holocausted goat, not worthy to live, who manifests in the modern complex as the helpless victim of pre-egoic consciousness. The second is the exiled wandering goat who carries all the denied instincts — sexuality, […]
ref: 1987, Quadrant:
glosses: That has been sacrificed by being completely burned.
holocausted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From holocaust + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of holocaust
resistance thermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resistance thermometers
Senses: glosses: A thermometer which uses the measurement of electrical resistance to determine temperature.
Synonyms: resistance temperature device
RTD
Hyponyms: platinum resistance thermometer
PRT
Holocausted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Holocaust
Holocausting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Holocaust
pogromize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pogromizes
form: pogromizing
form: pogromized
form: pogromized
Etymology: From pogrom + -ize.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pogromize.
glosses: Synonym of pogrom (“to persecute or massacre”).
synonyms: word: pogrom
extra: to persecute or massacre
pogromized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pogromize
pogromizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pogromize
pogromizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pogromize
bioprene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + neoprene.
Senses: glosses: Bodily fat, emphasizing its function of keeping warm and providing flotation, similar to a wetsuit made of neoprene.
gender-critical feminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: radical feminism
glosses: A branch of feminism that regards sex as a binary and unchangeable biological characteristic, rejects the concept of gender identity, and generally views transgender people as belonging to the sex they were assigned at birth.
Synonyms: word: GC
word: GCF
word: gender-critical feminism
word: TERFdom
word: TERFery
word: TERFism
Hypernyms: word: radical feminism
Related terms: word: gender-critical
word: TERF
word: transphobia
word: gender-critical feminist
Ledbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO7137).
fashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fashier
form: fashiest
Etymology: From fash (“fascist”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The space was filled with every variety of racist you can imagine, from the Nazi biker to the fashy computer programmer.
ref: 2017 August 17, Baynard Woods, “Are We Great Again Yet?”, in Salt Lake City Weekly, page 12:
text: One of its pages is set up to accept donations, in dollars or bitcoins; another is devoted to “fashy memes,” songs and images that extol fascism in an antic, joking-but-not-joking tone.
ref: 2017 October 16, Andrew Marantz, “Birth Of A Supremacist”, in The New Yorker, page 26:
text: In 2014, Drew Daniel, a Johns Hopkins professor and one half of the duo Matmos, put out "Why Do The Heathen Rage?" as the Soft Pink Truth, offering up queer avant-disco covers of black metal songs in order to celebrate and parody the music and in effect kill fashy black metal bullshit dead.
ref: 2017 November 29, Brandon Soderberg, “Hi H8erz”, in Baltimore Beat, pages 21 and 24:
glosses: Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to fascism.
fashy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fashies
form: fashying
form: fashied
form: fashied
Senses: examples: text: Some of the idioms cited are slang items that have stuck in popular usage. Examples are to chase, to hit, to shack oneself dry to wash, and to fashy.
ref: [2003, Efurosibina Adegbija, “Idiomatic Variation in Nigerian English”, in Peter Lucko, Peter Lothar, Hans-Georg Wolf, editors, Studies in African Varieties of English, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 49:
text: 'My sister, let's fashy that angle,' said Ugomma. 'When did you see Emeka last?' she enquired from Mfon.
ref: 2014, Emmanuel Kelechi Egbugara, The Brainless Beauty, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 73:
text: I tried to match her bonhomie, though something was definitely off. “Ah, of course now. You're pretty, and I have been trying to toast you, but you've fashied me.”
ref: 2014, Nnaziri Ihejirika, A Rainy Season, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 192:
text: Many NigE slang expressions have a short life, while others have more staying power, and some, like gist, described earlier, are perhaps colloquial rather than slang. Those which have been continuously in use since the 1970s (at least) and are mentioned in Asomugha (1981) or in Longe (1999) include: […] fashy, to (“ignore”); […].
ref: [2019, David Jowitt, “Lexis and discourse”, in Nigerian English, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: To ignore or forget (someone or something).
Meltham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛlθəm/
/ˈmɛltəm/
Etymology: From Middle English Meltham, perhaps from Old English *melt (“smelting”) or mealt (“malt”) + Old English hām (“-ham”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1010).
Dutch bulldogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch bulldog
Cartmel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Allithwaite and Cartmel parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD3878).
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cartmell
Boscombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bournemouth in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ1191).
glosses: A small village in Allington parish, near Amesbury and MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2038).
glosses: A locality in County of St. Paul No. 19, Alberta, Canada.
dunderfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunderfuck
duodecanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodecane
Duodecimbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Duodecimber
duoverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duoverse
dusky grouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dusky grouse
dussacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dussack
Dutch mastiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch mastiff
Dutertards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutertard
dweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dweet
dwarf emus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarf emu
Baslow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Baslow and Bubnell parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2572).
DWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DW
Streatham Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood and named road in Streatham, borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2970)
remedieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: remedy + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remedy
meditateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: meditate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meditate
obturacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obturacles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obturaculum.
obturacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obturacle
obturacule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obturacules
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obturaculum.
obturacules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obturacule
obturacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the obturaculum
octacosadienoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octacosadienoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of an octacosadienoic acid
octacosenoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octacosenoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of an octacosenoic acid
octacosenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octacosenoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic carboxylic acid that has twenty-eight carbon atoms and one double bond
Related terms: octacosenoate
Acocks Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acock's Green
Etymology: After the Acock family of the 14th century.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1283).
odontectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: odontectomies
Etymology: From odonto- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The extraction of a tooth that is partially enclosed by bone
oligocellodextrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligocellodextrins
Etymology: From oligo- + cellodextrin.
Senses: glosses: Any cellodextrin that contains several glucose units
oligocellodextrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligocellodextrin
oligoisoprenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoisoprenoids
Etymology: From oligo- + isoprenoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any isoprenoid that contains several isoprene units
oligoisoprenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoisoprenoid
oncolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncolipids
Etymology: From onco- + lipid.
Senses: glosses: Any lipid that is associated with a cancer
oncolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncolipid
dust holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dust hole
oogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oograms
Etymology: From oo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: An image, typically of parasite eggs, produced by oography
dwindlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwindler
oosporogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oo- + sporogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The sporogenesis of oospores
Acock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Acocks Green
dysadaptations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysadaptation
dyscolonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyscolonization
dysconnections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysconnection
dyscritellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyscritellid
dysjunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysjunction
dyskeratomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyskeratoma
dysphotopsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysphotopsia
dysprosodias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysprosodia
e-thumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-thumb
osteoconductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoconductors
Etymology: From osteo- + conductor.
Senses: glosses: An osteoconductive bone or scaffold
eaceworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eaceworm
ear toilets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear toilet
early marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of early mark
Earthans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Earthan
Rottingdean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3702).
Aylesford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪlz.fə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈeɪlz.fɚd/
rhymes: -eɪlzfə(ɹ)d
Etymology: The village in Nova Scotia is named after politician and painter Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford (1751 - 1812).
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7258).
glosses: A village in Nova Scotia, Canada.
dairyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dairy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Judge Kjome described the first place junior 3-year-old as having the advantage of "dairyness, straightness over the topline, and carrying a higher and wider rear udder" of the three animals in the class.
ref: 1992, Guernsey Breeders' Journal, volume 161, page 17:
glosses: Having angularity in the body, which promotes longevity in milk production.
raw_tags: of a cow
Mildenhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌldənhɔːl/
/ˈmaɪnəl/
Forms: form: Mildenhalls
Etymology: From either an Old English personal name *Milda or middel (“middle”) + healh (“nook, corner, angle”).
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish (Mildenhall High Town Council) in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL7175).
glosses: A small village and civil parish near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2169).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Hauxton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4352).
Histon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪs.tən/
rhymes: -ɪstən
Senses: glosses: A village in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4363).
Feast of the Circumcision of Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feasts of the Circumcision of Christ
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A celebration of the circumcision of Jesus in accordance with Jewish tradition.
Impington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Epintone.
Senses: glosses: A village in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4463).
die like flies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies like flies
form: dying like flies
form: died like flies
form: died like flies
Senses: examples: text: They must have been dying like flies here.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:
glosses: Synonym of drop like flies.
synonyms: word: drop like flies
Northstowe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A new town and civil parish with a town council in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, still under development in 2024 (OS grid ref TL4067).
Alconbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1875).
Related terms: Aconbury
Druzism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Druze + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: A study of Druzism is especially valuable and interesting not only because its adherents, unlike the adherents of the other sects, have shown remarkable vitality and thrust themselves repeatedly upon the attention of the world […]
ref: 1928, Philip Khuri Hitti, The Origins of the Druze People and Religion:
glosses: The Druze religion.
sunbleak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbleaks
Etymology: From sun + bleak.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of moderlieschen, Leucaspius delineatus.
synonyms: word: moderlieschen
word: Leucaspius delineatus
moderlieschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Moderlieschen, from or corresponding to Mutterlöschen, Mutterloseken, literally "motherless one(s)", because the eggs can withstand long exposure to air, stick to ducks and other birds, and be carried to ephemeral ponds, where they may hatch without adults present, leading to folk beliefs that the fish were motherless.
Senses: examples: text: Leucaspius delineatus (Heckel) The common moderlieschen is a small fish of no economic importance, living in the basins of many Ukrainian rivers. Body length: up to 7-8cm (usually less).
ref: 1963, Aleksandr Prokofʹevich Markevich, Parasitic Fauna of Freshwater Fish of the Ukrainian S.S.R.: (Parazitofauna Presnovodnykh Ryb USSR):
text: […] numbers of eggs in ribbons (perch) or strings (the moderlieschen Leucaspius delineatus) which are entwined amongst submerged vegetation.
ref: 1975, B. A. Whitton, River Ecology, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 226:
text: To avoid lipoid degeneration in the trout liver young fish which contain less fat should be used. Fresh-water trash fish (bleak, ruff, gudgeon, loach, verkhovka or moderlieschen, minnow, etc.) are considered a better natural food, […]
ref: 1983, F. Martyshev, Pond Fisheries, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 366:
text: The European moderlieschen, Leucaspius delineatus, which lays eggs in spirals or rings on plant stems, is aided by enlarged genital papillae.
ref: 2012, Ian J. Winfield, Joe S. Nelson, Cyprinid Fishes: Systematics, biology and exploitation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 144:
synonyms: sunbleak
glosses: Leucaspius delineatus, a species of freshwater fish found throughout temperate continental Europe.
sunbleaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunbleak
Rearsby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6514).
blab-off switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blab-off switches
Senses: glosses: A remote control device for muting a television.
blab-off switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blab-off switch
black advance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black advances
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An attempt to disrupt the advance operations of political opponents during an election campaign.
black advances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black advance
boltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bolter
boltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bolter
Black Act
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Black Act
Senses: glosses: An act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids by two groups of poachers, known as the Blacks. It greatly strengthened the criminal code and specified over 200 capital crimes.
glosses: Act XI., 1836, of the Indian Legislature, which placed European subjects on a level with natives as to their subjection in civil causes to the British East India Company's courts, including those under native judges.
black mist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black mists
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 黒い霧
Senses: examples: text: It does not mean the facts described in the book actually exist in Japan too. Yet there is no end to the black mists that becloud horse racing, fixers, illegal bookies, and public nuisances created by horse racing.
ref: 1976, Japan Quarterly, volume 23, page 225:
text: The “black mists” of Japan did not die with Yoshio Kodama. In the spirit of the late kuromaku, questionable payments and mob connections still stretch far and wide among Japan's elected officials […]
ref: 2012, David E. Kaplan, Alec Dubro, Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, page 97:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Political corruption.
black mists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black mist
Monk Bretton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brettone (Domesday Book, 1086) and Munkebretton (1225).
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3607).
bombaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bombaceous
form: most bombaceous
Etymology: From translingual Bombacoideae + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Where several cylinders have been joined together, and squeezed into a cake or ball, the mass is usually wrapped in large leaves, which appear to belong to a malvaceous or bombaceous plant.
ref: 1896, Sir William Jackson Hooker, Companion to the Botanical Magazine:
text: Among the remarkable trees present the best known is the bombaceous Chorisia crispiflora, which has a barrel-like swollen trunk whose loose soft wood acts as a gigantic water-reservoir.
ref: 1925, Eugenius Warming, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Martin Vahl, Oecology of plants, page 294:
text: Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) in 1805 had already differentiated growth forms such as palms, banana form, malvaceous form, bombaceous form, mimosa form, heather, cactus form, orchids, casuarinas, conifer, arum form, lianas, aloe form, grass form, ferns, lilies, willow form, myrtle form, Melastoma form, and laurel form (see Lomolino et al., 2004).
ref: 2011, Andrew Millington, Mark Blumler, Udo Schickhoff, The SAGE Handbook of Biogeography, page 78:
text: A bombaceous tree here and there adorned the forest with its numerous purple flowers.
ref: 2014, Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace, Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes, page 300:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the family Bombacoideae (a sub-family of Malvaceae)
Black Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The building is named for its dark granite cladding.
Senses: glosses: The CBS Building in New York City.
glosses: A coastal area of Brighton, city of Brighton and Hove district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3303).
Related terms: Black Rock Desert
blaggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blagging
hypocrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocrates
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypocrite.
hypocrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypocrate
good delivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The fine gold content of a good delivery bar is calculated to 0·001 of a troy ounce by multiplying the gross weight by the assay. The members of the London gold market reserve the right to vary this formula if they consider this necessary.
ref: 1974, International Currency Review, volume 6, page 15:
text: The metal must be in a form that the LPPM accepts as good delivery.
ref: 2000, William Black, The Platinum Group Metals Industry, page 25:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A set of rules describing the physical characteristics of gold and silver bars used in settlement in the wholesale London bullion market.
LPPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The metal must be in a form that the LPPM accepts as good delivery.
ref: 2000, William Black, The Platinum Group Metals Industry, page 25:
glosses: Initialism of London Platinum and Palladium Market.
LPPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: metal casting
glosses: Initialism of low-pressure permanent mold.
Burton Coggles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Burton-le-Coggles
Etymology: Coggles refers to cobbles; see coggle (etymology 3).
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9725).
deduper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dedupers
Etymology: From dedupe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These are different products, but use the same kind of logic as the companies' web2lead dedupers. Different deduping tools will import these leads in different ways, so it's not possible to describe a universal procedure here.
ref: 2009, David Taber, Salesforce.com Secrets of Success:
text: The deduper compares these hashed representations along with metadata to determine exact and near dupes.
ref: 2013, K. D. Ashley, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2013:
glosses: A deduplicator.
dedupers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deduper
bombase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombases
Etymology: From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European.
Senses: examples: text: Need you any inke and bombase?
ref: 1579, Hollyband, Italian schole-maister:
text: For all of them vſe but one and the ſame forme of habite, euen the ſlender doublet made cloſe to the body, without much quilting or bombaſe, and long hoſe plaine, without thoſe new fangled curioſities, and ridiculous ſuperfluities of panes, plaites, and other light toyes vſed with vs Engliſh men.
ref: 1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], →OCLC, page 260, lines 18–24:
text: There drops not, infamous Kenell, quote Don-Quixote, all inflamed with choler; there drops not, I say, from her that which thou sayest, but Amber and Civet, among bombase ; and she is not blinde of an eye, or crooke-backt, but is straighter then a spindle of Guadarama: but all of you together shall pay for the great blasphemy thou hast spoken against so immense a beautie, as is that of my Mistresse.
ref: 1896, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, page 49:
text: He also quotes from William Thomas (Principal Rules of Italian Grammar, 1548), “Bucherame, buckeramme; and some there is white, made of bombase, so thinne that a man mai see through it.”
ref: 1900, “Transactions”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 4, Ecclesiological Society, page 155:
text: Overwhelming pictorial evidence shows that the standard method of stopping at the time was wax with leather, parchment, cloth or bombase (crude cottonwool).
ref: 1902, “Papers of the British School at Rome”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 41, page 130:
text: Evidence that bombase (raw cotton or cotton wool) was formed into a stopper and the mouth of the bottle then covered with parchment or sized cloth appears in a mid- 16th-century recipe for water to heal all wounds.
ref: 1978, Helen McKearin, Kenneth M. Wilson, American bottles & flasks and their ancestry, page 251:
text: The countries of North Europe also imported special cloths and mixed cloths, bombases, sieves, leather goods, iron, copper, lead, tin, silver and ironware.
ref: 1998, Giuseppe Barbieri, Carmelo Alberti, Le Venezie e l'Europa: testimoni di una civiltà sociale, page 275:
glosses: Cotton wool made from raw cotton, typically used as padding in clothing or as a stopper.
bombase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bombases
form: bombasing
form: bombased
form: bombased
Etymology: From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European.
Senses: examples: text: and though the owle seeme to be greater then the pigion, by reason of the thicknesse of her feathers, yet wyll they creepe in at as little a place as the pigion wyll, so small and little is theyr bodyes, though they be bombased with feathers.
ref: 1577, Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. C. Heresbachius:
text: the doublettes were so hard quilted, stuffed, bombased, and sewed, as they could neither worke, nor yet well play in them.”
ref: 1595, Stubbs, Anatomie of Abuses:
glosses: To pad with, or as with, bombase.
examples: text: For Bacchus then seemed alive agen: glasse bottle emptied of wine clashing one against another, the roaring of 200 Mules and Asses, and continuall shooting and whooping of above two thousand Plebeians all the way, so amazed us; that wee thought, never any civill strangers were bombased with such a Triumph; the noyse that Vulcan and all his Cyclops make, were not comparable to these Mymallonians.
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, page 126:
text: Then oft, by night, bombase hare-hearted fools, By tumbling down their cupboards, chairs, and stools. Whate'er's in spells, or if there witches be, Such whimsies seem the most absurd to me.
ref: 1884, Allan Ramsay, Select Poetical Works, Including His Gentle Shepherd:
text: I wis clean bombased.
ref: 1886, Bon-accord: The Illustrated News of the North - Volume 2, page 16:
glosses: To astonish.
bombases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombase
bombases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bombase
bombasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bombase
bombased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bombase
bleed the monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bleeds the monkey
form: bleeding the monkey
form: bled the monkey
form: bled the monkey
Senses: examples: text: He invented the 'monkey fist' — a knot which gives weight to a heaving line; the union plate he called a 'monkey face' and, in times of merrymaking, he frequently 'bled the monkey' to get his grog.
ref: 1969, Lookout: Annual report issue, volumes 60-62:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of suck the monkey (“to surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube”).
synonyms: word: suck the monkey
extra: to surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube
vitamizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamizers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vitamiser.
vitamizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitamizer
blind envelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind envelopes
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A plain envelope with no window showing the contents, used to make junk mail resemble legitimate correspondence.
blind envelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind envelope
Blind Freddie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Blind Freddy.
unblindered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blindered.
Senses: examples: an unblindered horse
glosses: Not having been blindered.
QBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QBTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of qualified blind trust.
QBTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QBT
blind trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind trusts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A trust set up so that the beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust, and no right to intervene in their handling.
Derived terms: QBT
blind trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind trust
blind-flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind-fly
blindability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blind + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being blindable.
blip driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blip drivers
Senses: examples: text: A third PPI in an adjacent room serves the program controller who sits between two blip drivers.
ref: 1975, NASA SP-7500: Management, a continuing bibliography with indexes:
text: The training of blip drivers and providing assistance for blip drivers are items which come up frequently when discussing specifications.
ref: 1982, ICAO Bulletin, volume 37, page 21:
glosses: A radar operator.
blip drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blip driver
blobocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: blobocracies
Etymology: From blob + -o- + -cracy, coined by Albert Shapero in "The Blobocracy Blight", published in Innovation in May 1971.
Senses: glosses: A diffuse bureaucratic structure that prevents the organization from getting work done effectively.
blobocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blobocracy