cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
public pretender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public pretenders
Etymology: Blend of public defender + pretender, suggesting that the public defender is merely pretending to provide competent legal representation.
Senses: examples: text: They tell me I'm due a fair trial, but they give me a publie defender (or should I say public pretender?) that has four times his normal case load. So no matter how I feel or what I think, I'm forced to put all my faith in this public pretender and hope he hasn't sold me out too badly.
ref: 1991 February 8, William Raspberry, quoting Mansuel Lee Union [inmate], “In another war, a front line tale from a despairing drug abuser”, in Milton Hoffman, editor, The Standard-Star, page 16:
text: Felipe defiantly describes what he saw in jail: "There were young guys... with 700-1,000 pounds [of marijuana]. My case, by comparison, was peanuts. It is all about money in El Paso—if you have the money, you get off; if you have a good lawyer, you get off. It's all about your lawyer. The people without money have to get a 'public pretender.'"
ref: 2009, Howard Campbell, quoting Felipe [pseudonym], Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, pages 114–115:
text: Are you saying that you want a free lawyer? […] Without me, they're gonna lock you up and throw away the key. I'm sorry, did I say "five years"? You go ahead and play Russian roulette with a public pretender, you're gonna end up doing a decade in Los Lunas!
ref: 2020 March 9, Gordon Smith, “Namaste” (between 08:48 and 08:55 from the start), in Gordon Smith, director, Better Call Saul, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), via AMC:
glosses: A public defender, viewed as inadequate.
public pretenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public pretender
critical race theorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critical race theorists
Etymology: From critical race theory + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of critical race theory.
busted one's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bust one's neck
busting one's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bust one's neck
busts one's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bust one's neck
fingerfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerfins
Senses: glosses: A common name for Cheilodactylidae, a family of marine ray-finned fish.
jackassfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackassfish
Senses: glosses: A common name for Cheilodactylidae, a family of marine ray-finned fish.
Kaffaljidhma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæf.əlˈdʒɪd.mə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الكَفّ الجَذْمَاء (al-kaff al-jaḏmāʔ, literally “the cut-short hand”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Gamma Ceti, a triple star system in the equatorial constellation of Cetus.
critical race theorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critical race theorist
bozone layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bozo + ozone layer
Senses: examples: text: But attaining wisdom, despite our possible "bozone" layers, should still be a priority in our lives.
ref: 2005 March, Cook David C, David C Cook, chapter CCVIII, in Daily Grace, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 213:
text: “Is there a bozone layer over your school?”
ref: 2007 May 22, Butch Harmon, “Why Get Mad? You've Never Been Any Good”, in The Pro: Lessons About Golf and Life from My Father, Claude Harmon, Sr., Crown, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Elliot referred to the speed bump level of management as the bozone layer. If Elliot was the get 'em guy guru; George Devine was lord of the bozone layer.
ref: 2011 July 28, James Davidson II, “Chapter Nine”, in Some Like Them Dead, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 65:
text: I call it the bozone''' layer. It's a symptom of the immune system, a fog of inertia that infects people who are stuck in status quo thinking. It is designed to resist the process mind. Managers in the bozone layer find it difficult to accept new thinking, as discovered in Daniel Kahneman's (psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) research, especially if the thinking breaks though the bozone layer and sheds light on problems that have been there all along.
ref: 2014 October 24, Philip Kirby, “The No 1 Root Cause”, in The Process Mind: New Thoughtware - for Designing Your Business on Purpose, illustrated edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: They penetrated even the bozone layer of the Canadian Government, and the policy was temporarily withdrawn.
ref: 2015, Elaine Coburn, edited by Emma LaRocque, More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence, Fernwood Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The layer surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
bozone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈboʊzoʊn/
/ˈbəʊzəʊn/
Etymology: Blend of bozo + ozone
Senses: examples: text: The official report didn't mention it, but I suspect that there was an unusual odor in the air when this guy was caught. No, I'm not alking about the drugs—I think it was the distinctive smell of bozone.
ref: 2005 February 10, Jim Burnett, “Crime Still Doesnt Pay”, in Hey Ranger!: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks, illustrated edition, Taylor Trade Publications, →ISBN, page 180:
text: But attaining wisdom, despite our possible "bozone" layers, should still be a priority in our lives.
ref: 2005 March, Cook David C, David C Cook, chapter CCVIII, in Daily Grace, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 213:
text: “Is there a bozone layer over your school?”
ref: 2007 May 22, Butch Harmon, “Why Get Mad? You've Never Been Any Good”, in The Pro: Lessons About Golf and Life from My Father, Claude Harmon, Sr., Crown, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Elliot referred to the speed bump level of management as the bozone layer. If Elliot was the get 'em guy guru; George Devine was lord of the bozone layer.
ref: 2011 July 28, James Davidson II, “Chapter Nine”, in Some Like Them Dead, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 65:
text: I call it the bozone layer. It's a symptom of the immune system, a fog of inertia that infects people who are stuck in status quo thinking. It is designed to resist the process mind. Managers in the bozone layer find it difficult to accept new thinking, as discovered in Daniel Kahneman's (psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) research, especially if the thinking breaks though the bozone layer and sheds light on problems that have been there all along.
ref: 2014 October 24, Philip Kirby, “The No 1 Root Cause”, in The Process Mind: New Thoughtware - for Designing Your Business on Purpose, illustrated edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: (see title)
ref: 2014 October 31, J. R. Jordan, Trippin Through The Bozone: The Tales of Kidd Cassidy, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN:
text: We knew that the direct and indirect schemes of the DIA, its thick bozone, had created our intergenerational catastrophes.
ref: 2015, Elaine Coburn, edited by Emma LaRocque, More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence, Fernwood Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
Derived terms: bozone layer
churpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chhurpi.
sex pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex pillows
Senses: hypernyms: sex aid
sex toy
sex furniture
glosses: A pillow designed to facilitate or enhance sexual intercourse.
sex pillows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex pillow
the wheels fall off
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the wheels fell off.
Kitab al-Azif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kitab Al-Azif
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب العَزِيف (kitāb al-ʕazīf).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Necronomicon.
synonyms: word: Necronomicon
unsplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsplays
form: unsplaying
form: unsplayed
form: unsplayed
Etymology: From un- + splay.
Senses: examples: text: ... fingers themselves — not splayed and unsplayed them, but pulsed them, I guess I'd say; pulsed them leisurely — leisurelily? I give up. No I don't. Fred Mackall pulsed his spread-fingered, fingertip-touching hands leisurely[…]
ref: 2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 148:
text: ... fingers splaying and unsplaying over the brakes. “I can't.” I wouldn't. I'd never run against Jill again unless I actually wanted to win, and that included their idea of casually running with her. “I have to be somewhere.” Jill[…]
ref: 2018 July 11, Colleen L. Donnelly, Out of Splinters and Ashes, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: To bring together compactly.
raw_tags: of fingers
unsplays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsplay
unsplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsplay
double consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Double-consciousness is the African American’s awareness of possessing two souls: an outward self based largely on how whites perceive him and an inward self that he comes to realize as his truer self.
ref: 2008, Danny Sexton, “Lifting the Veil: Revision and Double-Consciousness in Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth”, in Callaloo, page 778:
text: Postcolonial theorists often describe the colonial subject as having a double consciousness or double vision, in other words, a consciousness or way of perceiving the world that is divided between two antagonistic worlds, a consciousness or way of perceiving the world that is divided between two antagonistic cultures: that of the colonizer and that of the indigenous community.
ref: 1999, Lois Tyson, chapter 11, in Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, page 368:
glosses: The awareness of an African American of having two selves, their inward self and the self, created by how white people see them.
double-consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-consciousnesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double consciousness.
Seastead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Danish Sehested.
Senses: glosses: An American surname of Danish origin.
Wigner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Attestation is claimed of the surname in 14th-century England (Yorkshire) (i.e., in the Middle English period); apparently from Anglo-Saxon (Old English). Compare Wagner, Wagoner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Saxon or other Germanic
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A surname from Anglo-Saxon or other Germanic
Hungarian-born American physicist Eugene Wigner.
qualifier: attributive usage
Derived terms: Wigner crystal
Wigner-Eckart theorem
Wigner effect
Wigner energy
Wigner rotation
Wigner-Seitz cell
Wigner's friend
Related terms: Wagner
Waggoner
Wagoner
Wiggoner
Wigoner
988
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Many still assume that “you call 988 and — much like 911 — that means someone is going to be dispatched to you,” said Hannah Wesolowski, NAMI’s chief advocacy officer. “For the vast majority — almost all callers — that’s not actually the case.”
ref: 2023 July 13, Christina Caron, “Is the New 988 Suicide Hotline Working?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2023:
text: The 988 network has been a rare instance of bipartisanship in federal health policy. President Donald J. Trump in 2020 signed the law establishing the new number, and the Biden administration has implemented the number and expanded a network of more than 200 call centers, which typically operate around the clock.
ref: 2024 July 16, Noah Weiland, “Crisis Hotline Has Answered 10 Million Calls, Texts and Chats”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2024:
text: Increasing access to mental health services in remote and rural areas, where suicide rates tend to be higher, is a priority, and the 988 hotline is a useful bridge to those communities, Dr. Crawford said.
ref: 2024 December 7, Vjosa Isai, “Canada’s 988 Crisis Hotline, a ‘Pathway to Survival,’ One Year Later”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024:
glosses: The telephone number for the suicide prevention lifeline in the United States and Canada.
Derived terms: 988blr
988twt
D1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of NCAA Division I, the highest level of intercollegiate athletics in the United States.
D1
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Outstanding or extreme.
Related terms: vitamin D1
fong kong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Low quality, cheap (or counterfeit) goods (especially Chinese-made goods)
vkei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese V系 (bui-kei).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of visual kei.
Loay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
Lydiate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3604).
Dimiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
Garcia Hernandez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
Bien Unido
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
trooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuː.nə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɹu.nəɹ/
rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trooners
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgender
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goon
blend
English troon
Latin -ariusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English trooner
From troon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But I do argue this point about trans women being male to the trooners.
ref: 2023 June 8, Suzanna (@AlastairSuzanna), Twitter:
text: Trooner propganda^([sic]) preys on outcasts who have a hard time identifying with society
ref: 2023 June 19, StraffadeJanne (@StraffadeJanne), Twitter:
text: Why do trooners need constant validation? It’s not an “expression of identity” it’s a mental illness
ref: 2024 June 22, The Sauce (@PotOfLean), Twitter:
glosses: A transgender person; a troon.
trooners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trooner
Great Altcar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Altcar is equivalent to Alt + carr, from the River Alt and Old Norse kjarr. Recorded as Altekar in 1251.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3206).
wikipedia: Altcar
Great Altcar
River Alt
Related terms: Little Altcar
certificate of conduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certificates of conduct
Senses: glosses: An official document issued by a police department or relevant government agency that certifies that an individual has no criminal record or gives details any criminal offenses that may exist.
Synonyms: word: certificate of clean criminal record
word: certificate of criminal record
word: certificate of good conduct
word: certificate of no criminal conviction
word: criminal record certificate
word: disclosure
word: enhanced check
word: enhanced criminal record certificate
word: excerpt from police record
word: extract from the criminal record
word: extract from the judicial record
word: police clearance certificate
Related terms: criminal record
TSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In a Monday filing, Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) disclosed that it was no longer holding a stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) as of the end of the first quarter.
ref: 2023 May 16, Michelle Toh, “Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sells entire stake in TSMC”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Initialism of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Woodvale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3011).
glosses: A western suburb and ward in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J3175).
glosses: A community in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A national historic district in Bedford County, Fulton County and Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Perth, in the Cities of Joondalup and Wanneroo, Western Australia.
quiet hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A treatment consisting of differential reinforcement of compliance and a quiet-hands procedure (repeatedly guiding her to place her hands in her lap for 30 s) contingent on SIB was shown to be effective in reducing Candy’s SIB to low levels during vocational training sessions.
ref: 1999, “DECREASING SIGNS OF NEGATIVE AFFECT AND CORRELATED SELF-INJURY IN AN INDIVIDUAL WITH MENTAL RETARDATION AND MOOD DISTURBANCES”, in Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis:
text: There’s a boy in the supermarket, rocking back on his heels and flapping excitedly at a display. His mom hisses “quiet hands!” and looks around, embarrassed.
I catch his eye, and I can’t do it for myself, but my hands flutter at my sides when he’s looking.
ref: 2011, Julia Bascom, “Quiet Hands”, in Just Stimming:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
qualifier: autism
glosses: In applied behavioral analysis, the enforced behavior of keeping one's hands still, suppressing stimming.
pre-nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of precum.
synonyms: word: precum
prenut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-nut.
Prasuni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wasi-wari.
synonyms: word: Wasi-wari
Vasi-vari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wasi-wari.
Vakhsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan; a tributary of the Amu Darya.
Surkhab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Vakhsh River.
oxback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ox + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: examples: text: 3. A bushman on oxback, and our guide on horseback. 4. My wagon and ten oxen. 5. Our flock of sheep and goats. 6. Our third wagon and ten oxen. 7. The chief and his son, on oxback. 8. Our spare oxen.
ref: 1841, Robert Philip, The life, times, and missionary enterprises, of the rev. John Campbell, page 441:
text: Grenfell had travelled 1,000 miles on oxback; a new experience to him, but a most con venient manner of getting over the country. [Photo of a man riding an ox.] GRENFELL ON OXBACK
ref: 1900, William Holman Bentley, Pioneering on the Congo, page 224:
glosses: The back of an ox (being ridden, or laden with luggage, as a means of transportation).
Tonkinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tigerback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tiger + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: examples: text: On tigerback, the Qin Emperor tours the land; / With radiance, his sword makes the sky bluer.
ref: 1982, Beijing Review, page 29:
text: The reward is a hug and kiss and a ride on tigerback for each kind creature.
ref: 1983, The Publishers Weekly, page 71:
text: In short, the man who is on the Chairmanship of the CMC is a man on tigerback. It is not easy getting on and off. He who is incapable will be precarious to be on, but he who is able will become the most powerful person in the PRC once he has been on.
ref: 1990 May 30, Hsiao-shih Cheng, Party-military Relations In The Prc And Taiwan: Paradoxes Of Control, Westview Press:
text: […] riding on tigerback. I might be the first one to see some of these vistas! For a so-called planet of death, Jasujeong was full of life, so much that the air seemed stuffed to bursting with it. Most plants had leaves of deep[…]
ref: 2023 October 17, Yoon Ha Lee, Fox Snare, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN:
glosses: The back of a tiger (being ridden, or laden with luggage, as a means of transportation).
lionback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lion + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: examples: text: […] lionback. Bronze statue of Wen-shu p'u-sa, bodhisattva Manjushri on lionback. This statue is a good example of the development of the autochthonous Chinese style during the Ming period.
ref: 1986, H. A. van Oort, The Iconography of Chinese Buddhism in Traditional China: Han to Liao, BRILL, →ISBN, page 20:
text: SUSAN: Have you ever had a gallop on lionback? LUCY: Well, imagine the padding of great paws. The soft roughness of golden fur, and the mane flying back in the wind. SUSAN: – And you're travelling faster than a train on a mount who never grows tired.
ref: 2012 May 28, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The back of a lion (being ridden, or laden with luggage, as a means of transportation).
eagleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eagle + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: examples: text: […] out of the stag's forehead; he gloats over a continent of cheese and a sea of wine; even on eagleback he finds bladders of gin and good roast-beef-fruit; bread-fruit, plum-pudding-fruit […]
ref: 1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 189:
text: [To fly] on eagleback, or in the form of an eagle, is a widespread religious fancy. Aristophanes caricatures it in Peace (1 ff.) by sending his hero up on the back of a dungbeetle.
ref: 2012 April 24, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: The back of an eagle (for riding upon).
torture-meister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torture-meisters
form: torturemeister
Etymology: From torture + -meister.
Senses: examples: text: The torture-meister relishing
Intimidating everything
ref: 1984, J. G. Thirlwell, “Sick Man”, in Hole, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel:
glosses: One who is skilled in the art of torture.
torture-meisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torture-meister
torturemeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torturemeisters
Etymology: From torture + -meister.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of torture-meister.
torturemeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torturemeister
catback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + back, sense 2 (the back of a cat, for riding upon) is modelled on horseback.
Senses: examples: text: Corsa Xtreme Catback Exhaust
ref: 2020 December 28, Donald F. Kuratko, Jeffrey S. Hornsby, New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur's Roadmap for Development, Management, and Growth, Routledge, →ISBN, page 340:
text: The downpipes bolt up to the APS off-road mid-pipes with copper RTV providing a seal on the flanges. Since there is no high-flow cat option, Howard says he plants to weld up a set of cats as he doesn't take kindly to the funky exhaust smell or lack of emissions compliance. Tanner also elected to stick with his B&B FUSION catback rather than the raunchier APS piece. The FUSION system retains the valving design used on the factory Z06 mufflers. This enables noise when you want and a civilized ride when you don't!
ref: 2011 July 5, Cam Benty, Chevy LS Engine Buildups: Covers LS1 through LS9 Models, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: The totality of components which exhaust gases flow through after exiting a vehicle's catalytic converter.
examples: text: Aun Yom's attack [on the lokopede] would require storming the carriage cars but only after sending in some leg breakers on catback. A well-aimed strike from their sweeper scythes should be able to take out a dozen legs at once.
ref: 2010 April 21, Cory Herndon, Guildpact: Ravnica Cycle, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
text: Paloma reckoned they'd at least hold their own against the cats themselves and the Badlanders on foot, especially if those Badlanders were used to fighting on catback. So, as nets flailed and spears jabbed, she set about dismounting the riders.
ref: 2018 September 11, Angus Watson, The Land You Never Leave, Orbit, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: The back of a cat (for riding upon).
Related terms: hogback
dogback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: glosses: The back of a dog (for riding upon).
edumyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edumyths
Etymology: Blend of education + myth.
Senses: examples: text: FOREWORD: EDUMYTHS AND THE SLEEP OF REASON
ref: 2019 September 7, Craig Barton, Tom Bennett, The researchED Guide to Education Myths: An evidence-informed guide for teachers, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 2003:
text: The authors discuss some of the edu-myths of the time and spend considerable effort debunking them. That the myths themselves sound so familiar in 34 The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools.
ref: 2020 April 7, Grant Frost, The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools: The Story Behind 25 Years of Tumultuous Change, Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Similarly discredited is the 'edumyth' that the brain's structure is defined by infancy or by adolescence.
ref: 2021 June 21, Lynne Hunt, Denise Chalmers, University Teaching in Focus: A Learning-centred Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Perhaps teachers have their own set of 'edumyths', beliefs which many (including neuroscientists) might hold but which are not true of education.
ref: 2022 November 15, Cathy Rogers, Michael S. C. Thomas, Educational Neuroscience: The Basics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
topics: education
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Pseudoscientific belief about education, pedagogy, or learning without an empirical basis.
Related terms: neuromyth
third-culture kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-culture kids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of third culture kid.
third-culture kids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third-culture kid
leopard moray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopard morays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laced moray.
synonyms: word: laced moray
leopard moray eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopard moray eels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laced moray.
synonyms: word: laced moray
tessellate moray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tessellate morays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laced moray.
synonyms: word: laced moray
honeycomb moray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeycomb morays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laced moray.
synonyms: word: laced moray
pigback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pig + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: glosses: The back of a pig (for riding upon).
honeycomb morays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeycomb moray
tessellate morays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tessellate moray
leopard moray eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopard moray eel
leopard morays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopard moray
automedicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of automedicate
automedicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of automedicate
automedicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of automedicate
boarback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boar + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: examples: text: [...] galloping over the [mountain] on boarback (p. 258), were survivals of the legend of the Maenads in their carnivorous ecstasies.
ref: 1968, Robert Hughes, Heaven and Hell in Western Art:
text: [...] rode on boarback. Cathubodua (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.2571) is matched by the ornithomorphous Irish Bodb (catha) '[Battle] Crow' and such other bird-shaped battle-goddesses as Morrigan 'Great Queen'.
ref: 1987, Jaan Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, →ISBN, page 174:
text: [...] for his proposal, on boarback, to the damsel in waiting; she wears an equally elaborate ensemble, delineated by the delicate dashes and strokes of the drypoint needle.
ref: 2004, Frank Boyden, The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky: A Suite of Twenty-one Prints by Frank Boyden:
text: First comes an old woman on boarback, wild haired an bent. Next, a man an woman in a mule cart. She fans flies away from the limp child in her lap. Bringin up the rear, a girl about my age pedals a three-tire trolley. I wait. They pass, too far away to see me[…]
ref: 2012 October 30, Moira Young, Rebel Heart, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: The back of a boar (for riding upon).
mouth-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Possessing maxillipeds.
bally about
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballies about
form: ballying about
form: ballied about
form: ballied about
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bandy about.
ballies about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bally about
ballying about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bally about
ballied about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bally about
Neighbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Ashwick parish, Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6448).
continuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Spanish continuismo, equivalent to continue + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: “The President can go to the elections alone because I'm not going to legalize a fraud of huge proportions in order to maintain continuism,” he added.
ref: 1974 May 14, “BOYCOTT IS HINTED IN DOMINICAN VOTE”, in The New York Times:
text: But being an insider does not necessarily mean “continuism.”
ref: 2018 May 15, Javier Corrales, “Venezuelans Have No Choice but to Vote”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The practice of serving in office indefinitely by bypassing or abolishing term limits.
eufunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + function.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: dysfunction
glosses: A function that is working or contributing.
Derived terms: eufunctional
eufunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eu- + functional or eufunction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a eufunction; serving a function well.
chopcherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When as the Rie reach to the chin, / And chopcherrie chopcherrie ripe within,
ref: 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives Tale, scene i:
glosses: A game involving cherries.
has a ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have a ball
having a ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have a ball
had a ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have a ball
RBAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: ABDB
glosses: Initialism of Royal Brunei Armed Forces.
RBN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
synonyms: TLDB
glosses: Initialism of Royal Brunei Navy.
postquels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postquel
white bloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white blood
JDF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Jamaica Defence Force.
County of Vermilion River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the County of Vermilion River
Senses: glosses: A municipal district in east-central Alberta, Canada.
air port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air ports
form: air-port
Etymology: Compound of air + port (“porthole”).
Senses: examples: text: About 12 feet from the stern, and 4 feet above the water line, one 5-inch or 6-inch projectile pierced the plating at an angle of about 45° from the stern. This projectile came out through an air port on the starboard side, as observed before the vessel sank.
ref: 1898, Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year, page 590:
text: As a result of experience in World War II, indicating that air ports and their covers are likely to be badly damaged by explosions of projectiles and bombs, many air ports have been removed from ships in commission and omitted from ships under construction.
ref: 1950, “Hull Fittings” (chapter 12), in Bureau of Ships Manual:
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: gun port
glosses: An opening in the side of a ship to let in air and light.
air-port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-ports
Senses: examples: text: An air-port, which is only 6 inches in diameter when closed, cannot be expected to afford sufficient light in an apartment even so small as those allowed to ward-room and steerage, whether for purposes of reading, writing, or the examination of patients and recruits. This fact and the forced resort to artificial light explain the cause of premature loss of vision which is so common among the officers in our service. The large rectangular air-ports seem to be the remedy indicated.
ref: 1881, Sanitary and Statistical Report of the Surgeon-General of the Navy, volume 5, page 257:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of air port.
rape alarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rape alarms
Etymology: From rape + alarm. First use appears c. 1977 in the Los Angeles Times.
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: A portable alarm which, when activated, emits a shrill sound, alerting others that the user is in danger of rape or assault.
wikipedia: Los Angeles Times
rape alarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rape alarm
air-ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air-port
air ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air port
parietal art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cave art.
synonyms: word: cave art
outtroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtrolls
form: outtrolling
form: outtrolled
form: outtrolled
Etymology: From out- + troll.
Senses: examples: text: Punk chant starts. It’s Seth’s show, but his city. Seth knows this is n away game, but if they’re done trying to outtroll each other. They should know they don’t get to make decisions about his title match when Punk is not even in it.
ref: 2024 March 25, Tony Acero, “Acero’s WWE Raw Review 3.25.24”, in 411MANIA:
glosses: To troll (prank, tease, trick, or mess with) more or better than someone else.
outtrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtroll
outtrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of outtroll
outtrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtroll
white-glove building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-glove buildings
Senses: glosses: A building or residence of the highest caliber or top of the line quality and service, where the doorman always wears a dignified uniform and white gloves.
top-of-the-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top of the line.
white-glove buildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-glove building
bottom-of-the-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bottom of the line.
kilogrammage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilogramage
Etymology: From kilogram + -age.
Senses: examples: text: I detect a significant increase in her kilogrammage — in other words, she's put on weight!
glosses: Mass (loosely weight) measured in kilograms.
slowfox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slowfoxes
Etymology: From slow + foxtrot.
Senses: examples: text: During the 1920s it developed into two distinct styles, a slow dance in the English style (later called simply the ‘foxtrot’ in English-speaking countries and France and the ‘slowfox’ in German-speaking countries) and the ‘quickstep’ (in German-speaking countries called the ‘foxtrott’).
ref: 1980, Grove, George, Sir, 1820-1900. Dictionary of music and musicians; Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians:
text: When the music changed to a slowfox, she threw me a strange glance, then went cheek to cheek, whispering into the guy’s ear.
ref: 1988, Viebahn, Fred, 1947-, The Stain:
text: Suddenly the tempo changes to that of a "Slowfox," as the score says — that is, the current dance rage, the fox-trot — and a light-textured central passage begins to swing more and more intensely, finally breaking out again in the fast opening material that brings the concerto to its invigorating close.
ref: 1995, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs, 1994-1995, Subscription, Volume 02, Season 114:
text: I asked him if he would teach me how to dance a slowfox.
ref: 2017, Grøndahl, Jens Christian, 1959- author, Often I am happy : a novel:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A slow foxtrot.
Vermilion River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Vermilion River
Senses: glosses: A river in Canada:
A river in east-central Alberta, the namesake of the County of Vermilion River.
glosses: A river in Canada:
A river in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia.
glosses: A river in Canada:
A river in Kenora District, Ontario.
glosses: A river in Canada:
A river in Sudbury District and Greater Sudbury, Ontario.
glosses: A river in the United States:
A tributary of the Wabash in Illinois and Indiana.
glosses: A river in the United States:
A tributary of the Illinois River in Illinois.
glosses: A river in the United States:
A river in southern Louisiana, which passes through Vermilion Parish.
glosses: A river in the United States:
A river in Saint Louis County, north-east Minnesota.
glosses: A river in the United States:
A tributary of Lake Erie, in northern Ohio.
Derived terms: County of Vermilion River
yuo
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: yuor
form: yuors
form: yuorself
form: yuorselves
Senses: examples: text: [R]ecite this angwish filled soliloquy: "Janet, yuo said yuo LOVED ME!!!!" "Yuo promnised me yuod chose love over money, but now look at yuo! Yuo shoud have been *my* bride, yuo cheep slut!"
ref: 1994 July 23, acs-info@chop.ucsd.edu [signed “vlad”], “WM seeks Asian Ladies”, in alt.personals (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Oct 2025:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of you.
Derived terms: now yuo see
ICVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICVPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis.
zebraback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zebra + back, modelled on horseback.
Senses: examples: text: [...] came barging out of the closet on zebraback. After I lifted her off she said she had herself a sore behind from riding all the way up from Boston and would I mind holding her for a while.
ref: 1968, Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 445:
text: [...] travelling on zebraback in a straight line is a lot quicker than making your way through tunnels that double back on themselves and are filled with hidden traps and blind alleys.
ref: 2010 December 28, DD Barant, Killing Rocks: The Bloodhound Files, St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: The back of a zebra (for riding upon).
Tyzack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jewmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jew + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Hungarian Student Riots - A Symptom of Jewmania.
ref: 1927 November 11, “The Week in Review”, in The American Hebrew, volume 121, number 27, page 949:
text: It is "Jewmania” instead of "witchmania" which rages in the twentieth century.
ref: 1945 March 28, The Lutheran - Volume 27, page 5:
text: "Jewmania” is for the primitive, paranoiac personality a nightmare besieging his would-be greatness.
ref: 1946, Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, Aftermath of Peace: Psychological Essays, page 54:
glosses: Rabid anti-Semitism.
examples: text: When Herman Melvilled visited , he was fascinated yet repulsed by the 'contagion' of American Christian millenarianism – 'this preposterous Jewmania', he called it, 'half-melancholy, half-farcical'.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 406:
glosses: An obsession with Jewish history and traditions.
Related terms: english: sense 2
translation: sense 2
word: Judeophilia
Rough Riders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rough Riders
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, military unit in the Spanish-American War.
wikipedia: Battle of San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt
candy flip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: candy flips
form: candy flipping
form: candy flipped
form: candy flipped
Senses: glosses: To consume the drugs LSD and MDMA together.
Related terms: candy flipping
Spanish-American War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Spanish-American War
Senses: glosses: A military conflict in the year 1898, fought between the United States of America and Spain
retributress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retributresses
Etymology: From retributer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female retributer.
vulgarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vulgarily
form: most vulgarily
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vulgarly.
shieldedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shieldedly
form: most shieldedly
Etymology: From shielded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Toka put Roya shieldedly ahead of him. The party started up.
ref: 1945 October, J. W. Pelkie, “King of the Dinosaurs”, in Leroy Yerxa, editor, Fantastic Adventures, volume 7, number 4, Chapter XXI, page 52:
text: As we drove down the ramp from the boat / The sun flashed once / Or through hand-shieldedly twice;
ref: 1958 August, James Dickey, “Dover: Believing in Kings”, in Poetry, volume 92, number 5, page 283:
text: Police condem opponents, readily confuse arbitrary, tentative political law with moral good, and `shieldedly' pursue to suffer others as if they are only loving others.
ref: 2000 July 25, Nomen Nescio, “Conservative or Liberal”, in alt.christnet.theology (Usenet):
text: He might have been struck down in public - at a theatre or dining out somewhere; instead of in his own place, quietly and shieldedly.
ref: 2007, Rudyard Kipling, “A Rottingdean Funeral: Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, June 1898”, in David Arscott, compiler, A Sussex Kipling: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, Pomegranate Press, page 18:
glosses: In a shielded manner; protectedly
Mexican-American War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mexican-American War
form: Mexican War
Senses: glosses: A military conflict in the years 1846 to 1848, fought between the United States of America and Mexico
Mexican War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mexican War
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mexican-American War.
I think therefore I am
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I think, therefore I am.
I think; therefore, I am
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: In De corpore, Hobbes brags that political science is no older than he. For him, science consists of definitions and the consequences of these definitions. As such, all the propositions of science are necessary and a priori. This is how Hobbes thinks that he avoids skepticism (not “I think; therefore, I am,” but “I define x as y; therefore, x is y”).
ref: 2012, A[loysius] P[atrick] Martinich, “Law and Self-Preservation in Leviathan: On Misunderstanding Hobbes’s Philosophy, 1650–1700”, in Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, editors, The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 46:
text: We love our minds so much in this culture. I think; therefore, I am! My opinions are super important and also witty and smart—I think I will broadcast them all over the Internet! Our minds are everything.
ref: 2015, Michelle Tea, “The Baddest Buddhist”, in How to Grow Up: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Surely atoms cannot be combined in such a way to create life, much less to think. Or can they? I think; therefore, I am, indeed.
ref: 2017, Don Carswell, “An Unexpected Trip”, in Look at the Sun: A Coming-of-Middle-Age Journey, [Pennsauken, N.J.]: [BookBaby], →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Alternative form of I think, therefore I am.
BBSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BBS
Buenavista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dagami, Leyte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Lopez, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of the province of Quezon, Philippines.
Related terms: San Jose de Buenavista
valetudinarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvæ.ləˌtuː.dɪˈnɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌvæ.ləˌtu.dəˈnɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more valetudinarious
form: most valetudinarious
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin valētūdinārius + -ous. Doublet of valetudinary.
Senses: glosses: Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.
opium pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opium pillows
Senses: glosses: A hard ceramic or wooden bed pillow, used in opium dens, into which the opium smoker would place their valuables as they sleep for safekeeping.
Tubigon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
opium pillows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opium pillow
neck pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neck pillows
Senses: topics: furniture
lifestyle
qualifier: sleep
glosses: Any pillow shaped to support the sleeper's neck, especially those used alone or outside of a bed.
maternity pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternity pillows
Senses: glosses: Any flexible body pillow shaped to comfort the sleeper during pregnancy, ranging in size from those supporting only the belly to those large enough to cover the entire bed.
maternity pillows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternity pillow
neck pillows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neck pillow