cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sparing no effort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spare no effort
spared no effort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of spare no effort
goes to the ends of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to the ends of the earth
going to the ends of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go to the ends of the earth
went to the ends of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go to the ends of the earth
gone to the ends of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go to the ends of the earth
moves heaven and earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move heaven and earth
moving heaven and earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move heaven and earth
moved heaven and earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of move heaven and earth
leaves no stone unturned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave no stone unturned
leaving no stone unturned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave no stone unturned
left no stone unturned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave no stone unturned
Bistra Mărului
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bistra Mărului.
Senses: glosses: A river in Caraș-Severin County, Romania.
national debts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national debt
redpill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redpills
Senses: examples: text: The redpill rose to popularity around the late 1990s, largely coinciding with the rise of the internet. During the time, men started to gather together […]
ref: 2019, Dr. Lukas Castle, The Blackpill Theory: why incels are right & you are wrong, Dr. Lukas Castle, page 84
text: • Lack of knowledge about the redpill philosophy and no arguments or vocal encouragements for others to follow this philosophy
ref: 2020, Brian Van Brunt, Chris Taylor, Understanding and Treating Incels: Case Studies, Guidance, and Treatment of Violence Risk in the Involuntary Celibate Community, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of red pill.
redpill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redpills
form: redpilling
form: redpilled
form: redpilled
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Clark, who helped organize the confab, offered her theory of the case for the many women flocking to her fold. “Based on MAHA, they’re getting redpilled and now they’re showing up at the largest conservative women’s event in the country,” Ms. Clark said. “I keep hearing them want to blame Joe Rogan and I just think that is so shortsighted. The problem was that they didn’t give MAHA the time of day.”
ref: 2025 June 23, Emma Goldberg, Jake Dockins, “‘Less Burnout, More Babies’: How Conservatives Are Winning Young Women”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2025:
glosses: Alternative spelling of red pill.
Pădina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Pădina.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Mehedinți County, Romania.
marriage-portion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriage-portions
Senses: examples: text: Minora gained by the visit—a marriage-portion, which made her lover's father as polite to the heiress as he had been cold to the beauty. He had negatived the features which his son had most eloquently pleaded; but he had nothing to say against the pistoles.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 291:
hypernyms: price#Noun
fee#Noun
gift#Noun
coordinate_terms: dower
glosses: A dowry, either paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family, or by the groom's family to the bride or her family, at the time of marriage.
marriage-portions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marriage-portion
biofilmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + filmed.
Senses: glosses: Having a biofilm
Creevys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Creevy
braciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a branched structure (somewhat resembling lungs)
Creeveys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Creevey
cageside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: At or near the side of a cage
dazatinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dasatinib.
dischloremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dyschloremia.
isoboldine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + boldine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alkaloid (6aS)-2,10-dimethoxy-6-methyl-5,6,6a,7-tetrahydro-4H-dibenzo[de,g]quinoline-1,9-diol.
Derived terms: norisoboldine
Ambs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ambses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ambs.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
isopiline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + French piline.
Senses: glosses: The alkaloid (6aR)-2,3-dimethoxy-5,6,6a,7-tetrahydro-4H-dibenzo[de,g]quinolin-1-ol
Youse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Youses
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Jauss.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Conchese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, Conca dei Marini
Conchese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Conchese
form: Concheses
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Conca dei Marini
Youses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Youse
Ambses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ambs
meltblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: hypernyms: nonwoven
coordinate_terms: spunbond
glosses: extruded, when molten, by high-velocity gas
raw_tags: of a polymer fibre
meltblown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meltblowns
Senses: examples: text: Beside many advantages they provide, meltblowns have limited strength characteristics and poor abrasion resistance.
ref: 2012, Adel El-Sonbati, Thermoplastic Elastomers, page 247:
text: SMS structure is a spunmelt structure where the middle layer is the meltblown, sandwiched between the two top and bottom spunbonded layers.
ref: 2019, Mukesh Kumar Singh, Engineered Fabrics, page 45:
text: These materials, which can be combined with membranes or meltblowns, prevent outside air and rain from penetrating into buildings while allowing humid air to escape from the inside to the outside [75].
ref: 2022, S. J. Russell, Handbook of Nonwovens, page 246:
glosses: A type of nonwoven fabric, made of meltblown polymer filaments bonded together. Meltblowns are similar to spunbond fabrics, but can be more porous.
Derived terms: spunmelt
normaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: normoaemic
Senses: glosses: Relating to normal blood
phloephagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That feeds on phloem
virginamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of virginiamycin.
Belliard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Belliards
Etymology: Borrowed from French Belliard. This surname is mostly found in France and in the Dominican Republic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Ansteys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Anstey
Belliards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Belliard
Bellevues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bellevue
Wery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Werys
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Wery.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Uncapher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Uncaphers
Etymology: Probably an Americanized spelling of German Unkefer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Uncaphers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Uncapher
Werys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wery
Varkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varkeys
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam വർക്കി (vaṟkki, “George”). This surname is mostly found in Kerala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Malayalam.
Verrette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Verrettes
Etymology: Variant of Verret.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Verrettes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Verrette
Varkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Varkey
polysumoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polySUMOylation.
Vesseys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vessey
Vannice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vannices
Etymology: Americanized form of Dutch van Ness.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Vanderhoef
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vanderhoefs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch van der Hoef.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Vanderhoefs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vanderhoef
Vannices
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vannice
Whetstine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whetstines
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Wettstein.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Yanko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yankos
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Janko.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yankos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yanko
Whetstines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Whetstine
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Senses: qualifier: holidays
glosses: September 30th; A statutory holiday in Canada, for the recognition of the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples in Canada enacted by the colonizers, especially that caused by the residential school system; declared as a law in 2020, and first observed in 2021.
wikipedia: en:Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Coordinate terms: english: a coincident observance in Canada that predates the national holiday, first observed in 2013, though the first observance was not on September 30
translation: a coincident observance in Canada that predates the national holiday, first observed in 2013, though the first observance was not on September 30
word: Orange Shirt Day
McStocker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McStockers
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac An Stocaire (“son of the trumpeter”), from stocaire (“trumpeter”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
people of ordinary skill in the art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of person of ordinary skill in the art
people having ordinary skill in the art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of person having ordinary skill in the art
persons having ordinary skill in the art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of person having ordinary skill in the art
Orange Shirt Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orange Shirt Days
Etymology: From orange + shirt + day. From the colour of the shirt worn by a survivor of the residential school system, which was forcibly removed by Christian missionaries, who desired to assimilate indigenous children forcibly enrolled at the schools.
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: memorials
glosses: September 30th; A national observance in remembrance of the time of year that Indigenous children were forcibly removed from Native homes to be forced into schools to assimilate into the colonizer's culture and lose their birth culture; and the cultural genocide and deaths of children at the schools, caused by the residential school system. Observers frequently wear orange shirts to stand in solidarity with survivors of the residential schools. First observed in 2013.
Coordinate terms: english: A coincident statutory holiday of Canada in remembrance of the cultural genocide suffered by the Indigenous peoples of Canada caused by Canadian government policies. First observed in 2021.
translation: A coincident statutory holiday of Canada in remembrance of the cultural genocide suffered by the Indigenous peoples of Canada caused by Canadian government policies. First observed in 2021.
word: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Balbirnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balbirnies
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dockrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dockrells
Etymology: Variant of Dockrey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dockrells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dockrell
McStockers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McStocker
Balbirnies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Balbirnie
Balfours
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Balfour
Rifkinds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rifkind
Crichtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crichton
Lusail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Losail
Etymology: From Arabic لُوسَيْل (lūsayl).
Senses: examples: text: And Warhol would love Lusail most of all, a plastic city built for a hypothetical populace, $45bn (£37bn) in the making, a kind of super-Croydon, as designed by the god of fire.
ref: 2022 November 27, Barney Ronay, “Welcome to Lusail: Lego-city of the gods and one of the strangest places on earth”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Lusail City
Losail City
Losail
glosses: A city in Al Daayen, Qatar.
Losail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lusail.
Cumbre Vieja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Cumbre Vieja (literally “old summit”).
Senses: glosses: A volcano in La Palma, Canary Islands in the Atlantic, part of Macaronesia, of the Africa, belonging to Spain.
wikipedia: Cumbre Vieja
wide-reaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wide-reaching
form: most wide-reaching
form: widereaching
Senses: examples: text: Trespass on the railway can result in tragic consequences that can have a life-changing and wide-reaching impact on individuals and their families and friends.
ref: 2021 September 22, Patrick Talbot, “Rail trespass: why you must secure your premises”, in RAIL, number 940, page 69:
glosses: Having significant and widely applicable effects.
Related terms: far-reaching
Couzens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Couzenses
form: Couzen
form: Cozen
form: Cozens
form: Cozin
form: Cozins
form: Cossin
form: Cossins
form: Cosin
form: Cosins
form: Cusin
form: Cusins
form: Cussin
form: Cussins
form: Cousin
form: Cousins
form: Cosyn
form: Cosyns
Etymology: A Middle English surname from Norman terminology. From Anglo-Norman, from Old French cusin, cosin, cousin (“cousin”) (French cousin, cousine). Literally, “familial relative”.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Couzens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Couzen + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Couzen
North Stoneham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4317).
hectocorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectocorns
Etymology: From hecto- (“hundred”) + -corn, by analogy with unicorn.
Senses: examples: text: If Ant Financial is able to raise it’s $9B funding round at an expected $150B valuation it will become the first Hectocorn (or venture backed private company valued at over $100B) – a massive business by any standards, public or private.
ref: 2018 May 8, David Kellenberger, “Entering the Age of the Hectocorn”, in LinkedIn:
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: unicorn
decacorn
glosses: A private startup with a valuation of US$100 billion or greater.
porn barons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porn baron
Addamo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Addamos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Addamo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
obtein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obteins
form: obteining
form: obteined
form: obteined
Senses: examples: text: […] the Welſhemen gat firſte the Weſt hill, hopyng to haue recouered the Eaſt hyl: whiche if thei had obteined, the victory had been theirs, as their vnwyſe Propheſiers promiſed thẽ before.
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “[The Prosperous Reigne of Kyng Edward the Fourth.] The .viii yere.”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
text: The ſtate of Peters firſt Sermon which he made vpon Whitſon Sunday, is a doctrine concerning the holy ghoſt, ⁊ of the maner how to obtein euerlaſting ſaluation.
ref: 1570, “Vppon Whitson Monday”, in Arthur Golding, transl., A Postil or orderly disposing of certeine Epistles vsually red in the Church of God, vppon the Sundayes and Holydayes throughout the whole yeere, London: […] Henrie Bynneman. for Lucas Harrison and George Bishop, translation of original by Dauid Chytræus, page 227:
text: […]With a great ſumme obteined I this freedome.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 22:28, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of obtain.
Baccari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baccaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Baccari.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Câlniștea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Câlniștea.
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania, right tributary to the Neajlov.
Frumușița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Frumușița.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Galați County, Romania.
Brunellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bɹuːˈnɛl.i.ən/
Forms: form: Brunelian
Etymology: From Brunel + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Paddington dates to 1838, although much of today's main line station is from 1854. And it is, of course, a Brunellian masterstroke.
ref: 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in Rail, number 940, page 74:
glosses: Relating to the works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer.
Related terms: Bruneliana
obteyn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obteyns
form: obteyning
form: obteyned
form: obteyned
Senses: examples: text: Then ſayde Peter vnto hym: Periſſh thou and thy money togedder. For thou weneſt that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts viij:[20], folio clxv, verso:
text: The duke of Somerſet ſet furth this matter the more vehemently, be cauſe he knew perfitely, that the duke of Yorke dayly ſtudyed, howe to get the crowne, and obteyn the goueraunce, and to depoſe and deſtroy bothe the kynge and hym.
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “[The Troubleous Season of Kyng Henry the Sixt.] The .xxx. yere.”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
text: The Saxons obteyning poſſeſsion of the lande, gouerned the ſame being deuided into ſundry kingdomes[…]
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Preface to the Reader”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of obtain.
Câlnău
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Buzău, Romania.
Drăgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Prahova County, Romania.
glosses: A river in Bacău County, Romania.
farobank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Synonym of faro.
synonyms: word: faro
unbatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + batted.
Senses: examples: text: You are not flashing leg oh so subtly, your tear-filled eyes remain unbatted.
ref: 2017, Isyana Artharini, I Am My Own Home, page 81:
glosses: Not batted.
zatar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Coat the wings with the zatar
Bake at 380 degrees
ref: 2011, Laila Dahabreh, Palestine Cuisine, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Zatar Herbed Rolls
Zatar, more or less unknown to Americans, is quite common in many parts of the Middle East' There are two types of zatar: one is an herb, ...
ref: 2013, George Greenstein, Secrets of a Jewish Baker: Recipes for 125 Breads from Around the World [A Baking Book], Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 211:
text: The trick is adding zatar, a Middle Eastern herb mixture, found at Middle-East grocery stores, that includes thyme, sesame seeds, sumac and salt.
ref: 2015, Chicago Tribune, Good Eating's Vegetarian Cooking, Agate Digital, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zaatar.
keep someone posted up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps someone posted up
form: keeping someone posted up
form: kept someone posted up
form: kept someone posted up
Senses: examples: text: Take stock of things, and keep me posted up as to how I stand.
ref: 1887, Francis Charles Philips, A Lucky Young Woman, page 337:
text: I don't know how the affair will end. Keep me posted up in the governor's symptoms, and write again soon.
ref: 1903, P. G. Wodehouse, Tales of St. Austin's, page 28:
glosses: Dated form of keep someone posted.
Bladon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪdən/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4515).
glosses: A hamlet in Kingsbury Episcopi parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4220).
Irish cockney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish cockneys
Senses: glosses: A person born of Irish parents in any part of the southern counties of England.
Irish cockneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish cockney
greenschistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greenschistic
form: most greenschistic
Etymology: From greenschist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or like greenschist.
greenschistose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greenschistose
form: most greenschistose
Etymology: From greenschist + -ose.
Senses: glosses: Of or like greenschist.
cawer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cawers
Etymology: From caw + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Keep within side … a Co(l)lony of Jackdaws have been there many years—I dare say I have seen many a descendant of some old cawer who peeped through the Bars at Charles the first, when he was there in Confinement.
ref: 1817 April 17, John Keats, letter to J. H. Reynolds, number 22, quoted in 2012, Hyder Edward Rollins, The Letters of John Keats: Volume 1, 1814-1818: 1814-1821, Cambridge University Press, page 131
text: […] melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as […]
ref: 1826, George Wood (Captain, 82nd Regiment), The Rambles of Redbury Rook, page 2
text: Chough, (Anglo-Sax. ceo, Fr. choucas and chouette;) from the root of Eng. to caw or to haw; as if the cawer or hawer.
ref: 1841, J. W. Gibbs, “Art. VI.—Origin of the Names of Beasts, Birds, and Insects”, in The American Journal of Science, page 32:
text: As we plunge through the last bushes which separate us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise flurriedly from the ground; […]
ref: 1853, "Falconry" [from the New Monthly Magazine], in The Living Age, page 275
text: A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep the guns hot in a place where crows ar abundant. This combination easily should win a Du Pont crow price. Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer.
ref: 1919 June, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, volume 15, number 3; page 84 of the compiled volumes 14-15
glosses: One who caws, such as or like a bird.
cawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cawer
takes office
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take office
taking office
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take office
took office
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take office
taken office
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take office
baydzharakhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baydzharakh
Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡuːnhoʊmˈdiːmə/
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: Gǃkunǁʼhomdima
form: G!kun||'homdima
form: G!kun
form: 'homdima
Etymology: From Juǀ'hoan Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà (“the aardvark girl”).
Senses: glosses: 229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà: a planetoid orbiting in the scattered disc. Its moon is Gǃòʼé ǃHú.
Riemann sum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Riemann sums
Etymology: Named after Bernhard Riemann, a German mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain kind of approximation of an integral by a finite sum that is calculated by dividing the interval of integration into smaller sub-intervals and summing sample values of the integrand inside those sub-intervals multiplied by their lengths.
Related terms: Riemann integral
Gǃòʼé ǃHú
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɡoʊ.eɪˈhuː/
Forms: form: Gǃòʼé ǃhú
form: Gǃòʼéǃhú
form: Gǃoʼe ǃHu
form: Gǃoʼeǃhu
form: G!o'e !Hu
form: G!o'e!hu
Etymology: From Juǀ'hoan Gǃòʼé ǃHú (“oryx horn”).
Senses: glosses: The moon of the trans-Neptunian object Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà
butter mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter mountain
fluviophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluviophiles
Etymology: From Latin fluvius + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Enough of this lecture on hydrography by a mere fluviophile. Is it because I was born on a river bank — the Potomac — of river valley ancestors — the Hudson — and grew up in Southern California in the halcyon years when the rivers ran wild in spring and spread over the plain; is it because of this conditioning, as well as by fondness for the rivers of Europe — the Seine, Rhone, Var, Arno, Tiber, Tagus, Tyne, and Thames, that I have come to love rivers more than any other form of water?
ref: 1976, Lawrence Clark Powell, “Desert, Mountains, and Rivers”, in From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond, Flagstaff: Northland Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:
text: Now I am a fluviophile, planning a book on Arizona in terms of its river systems.
ref: 1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, “The Phoenix Has Risen—Now What?”, in The Journal of Arizona History, Arizona Historical Society, page 244:
text: “I work for the state,” I said, thinking I’d tell him I write occasionally for Arizona Highways. He laughed. “The state cuts no ice up here. We’re the Salt River Project.” I tried again. “I’m a fluviophile,” I explained. “You’re a what?” “A fluviophile. A lover of rivers.” “I’ll be damned! That’s a new one.” I played my last card. “I know Rod McMullin,” I said, naming the manager of the Salt River Project.
ref: 1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, Automobile Club of Southern California, page 66, column 3:
text: An extreme example of the southern European rivers is Albania’s Semani River (a name perhaps recognized only by the most fervent fluviophile).
ref: 2011, John D. Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth, “Runoff, erosion, and delivery to the coastal ocean”, in River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean: A Global Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Sediment: erosion and discharge”, page 44:
text: This is a book for fluviophiles, which is to say that this is a book for me.
ref: 2020 May 1, David Aaronovitch, “Rivers of Power by Laurence C Smith review — how rivers made history”, in The Times:
text: A self-confessed ‘fluviophile’, David Aaronovich in the Times found the book ‘instructive and entertaining on the subject of riparian disasters, natural and man-made.’
ref: 2020 July, “Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations and Shapes Our World; Laurence C Smith; Allen Lane, 356pp, £20”, in The Oldie, number 389, section “Review of Books” (issue 52), page 7, column 2:
glosses: A lover of rivers.
Synonyms: potamophile
fluviophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluviophile
Couzenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Couzens
Bettenhausen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bettenhausens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bettenhausen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bensman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bensmans
Etymology: Variant of German Bensmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bensmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bensman
Bettenhausens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bettenhausen
Boleware
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bolewares
Etymology: Probably a variant of Bulwer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bonnys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bonny
Bolewares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boleware
Aranases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aranas
Botzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Botz
Amoako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Amoakos
Etymology: Borrowed from Akan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Akan.
Alikhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alikhans
Etymology: From Ali + Khan. This surname is mostly found in India.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Alikhans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alikhan
Amoakos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Amoako
Coșna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Coșna.
Senses: glosses: A river in Suceava, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Suceava County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Coșna, Suceava County, Romania.
Izvorul Dorului
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Prahova County, Romania.
Rolfs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rolfses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rolfs.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rolfses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rolfs
Scobeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Scobey
Scobeyville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scobey + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
wikipedia: +, New Jersey
Roadcap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roadcaps
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Rothgeb.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rusus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rusu
Roadcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roadcap
herpetophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herpetophiles
Etymology: From herpeto- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who has an interest in reptiles
Related terms: herpetophilic
herpetophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From herpeto- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to herpetophiles
glosses: Having an affinity with reptiles
McDougle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McDougles
Etymology: Variant of McDougall.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Fedeles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fedele
McDougles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McDougle
skirod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skirods
form: ski rod
Etymology: From ski + rod.
Senses: glosses: A fishing rod used with skis.
skirods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skirod
marine sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marine science
recavitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recavitate
recavitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recavitate
recavitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recavitate
charge like a wounded bull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: charges like a wounded bull
form: charging like a wounded bull
form: charged like a wounded bull
form: charged like a wounded bull
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To charge exorbitant prices.
road pricing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If it was a part of a much wider range of policies designed to reduce the impact of transport - ranging from road pricing to free bus travel, much higher fuel prices to widespread adoption of low traffic neighbourhoods, just to name a few - then it might be worthwhile.
ref: 2021 September 22, Christian Wolmar, “A minimal contribution to decarbonisation targets”, in RAIL, number 940, page 77:
topics: transport
coordinate_terms: toll#Noun
glosses: The practice of charging users or owners of motor vehicles for the use of the roads they travel on, whether it be on busier roads or at busier times, or as a method of discouraging road congestion.
Related terms: congestion pricing
congestion charge
workplace parking levy
haplophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haplophase
ground mist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground mists
Senses: examples: text: However, on the morning in question, there was a ground mist which might have played a role.
ref: 2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of groundmist.
ground mists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground mist
gravito-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to gravity
Butterses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Butters
eyeballs in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to acceleration or deceleration such that the eyeballs are pressed into the face.
Coordinate terms: eyeballs down
eyeballs up
eyeballs out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to acceleration or deceleration such that the eyeballs are disconcertingly pressed away from the face.
Coordinate terms: eyeballs down
eyeballs up
chancely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English chauncely, chaunselich, equivalent to chance + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But by the grace of Almighty Creator I found chancely such a wife in the wilderness, […]
ref: 1894, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 103, page 248:
glosses: By chance.
Wilmcote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1658).
wake loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The space behind a wind turbine where there the wind power decreases after passing through the turbine due to the wind energy conversion to move the turbine blades.
kill it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills it
form: killing it
form: killed it
form: killed it
Senses: examples: text: Amanda is killing it on the trombone!
synonyms: hit one out of the ballpark
hit the nail on the head
glosses: To perform or do something outstandingly, to be very impressive.
Related terms: kill it with fire
Cardews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cardew
Chaneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chaney
Dempseys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dempsey
byssogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From byssus + -o- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Secreting or producing byssus.
Gleasons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gleason
watch circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch circles
Senses: glosses: A controlled area where a floating wind turbine anchored with mooring lines drifts around.
Nightall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nightalls
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gimbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gimberts
Etymology: Borrowed from French Gimbert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
perpendicular axis theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theorem that states the moment of inertia of a planar lamina (i.e. 2-D body) about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the lamina is equal to the sum of the moments of inertia of the lamina about the two axes at right angles to each other, in its own plane intersecting each other at the point where the perpendicular axis passes through it.
Related terms: parallel axis theorem
television stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of television star
Hamble-le-Rice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Hamble
glosses: A village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4806).
Ramones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramone
post-vaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + vaccine.
Senses: examples: text: In what is described as a post-vaccine environment, commuters are expected to make only 2.6 journeys per week (compared with 4.5 pre-COVID), [...].
ref: 2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of postvaccine.
smoothrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smoothrunning
form: most smoothrunning
Etymology: From smooth + running.
Senses: examples: text: The placid, smoothrunning Zambesi abruptly comes to the knife cut gorge and plunges its excited waters over the cliff-wall to the foaming abyss below in great plumes of different colours, […]
ref: 1937 August, Le Grand P. Backman, “‘The Great North Road’”, in Cumorah’s Southern Messenger, volume 2, number 8, page 117:
text: None of the reorganizations achieves the objective of creating a smoothrunning efficient corporation.
ref: 1974, H. B. Wilson, Democracy and the Work Place, page 41:
text: For a smoothrunning household they need to spend more time developing a rewards system than a punishment system.
ref: 1995, Mary Ann Shaw, Your Anxious Child: Raising a Healthy Child in a Frightening World, page 109:
text: This system of governing was claimed to produce an engine that was smoothrunning under all load conditions.
ref: 1997, Patrick Knight, Stationary Engine Review, page 32:
glosses: That operates in a smooth, trouble-free manner.
none the worse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I rose from the ground, somewhat tottering, and miry, and crest-fallen, but otherwise none the worse (having fallen upon my head, which is of uncommon substance)
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
text: […] the lowest boiler pressure—220 lb. per sq. in.—goes with the largest cylinder volume, and the highest—280 lb. per sq. in.—with the smallest cylinder volume—which is, of course, obvious, but is none the worse for being repeated.
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 272:
qualifier: typically with for
glosses: Not damaged or affected negatively (by/due to).
of one's own making
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: of one's making
Senses: examples: text: It's a complete shambles - yet again - of the Government's own making.
ref: 2023 August 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: End damaging drift at Euston”, in RAIL, number 990, page 3:
glosses: As the direct effect of one's actions, rather than those of others or of external events.
Disprin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Disprins
Etymology: Trademark genericization, from the brand name Disprin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Aspirin tablet.
wikipedia: Disprin
self-victimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-victimizations
Etymology: From self- + victimization.
Senses: glosses: The act of pretending to be excluded, marginalized, or otherwise downtrodden in order to gain sympathy.
Related terms: self-victimize
bag of holding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of holding
Senses: examples: text: “You wanna get home fast, right? Only way to do that's through Grand Central. Couple of parallel Mortys tried to pull a keg outta their Bag of Holding, turned it inside out. Now it's kind of a... toll road.”
ref: 2025 July 13, Albro Lundy & James Siciliano, “Nomortland” (10:25 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 8, episode 8, spoken by Jerry Smith (Chris Parnell):
glosses: A magical bag that can hold an infinite amount of items.
Sitna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Sitna.
Senses: glosses: A river in Botoșani, Romania.
double count
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double counts
form: double counting
form: double counted
form: double counted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-count.
boutique hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boutique hotels
Senses: glosses: A small hotel in settings with upscale accommodations and individualized unique selling points.
mustardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mustardizes
form: mustardizing
form: mustardized
form: mustardized
form: mustardise
Etymology: From mustard + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: mustardized areas
glosses: To affect with mustard gas, (as in World War I). To gas.
mustardise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mustardises
form: mustardising
form: mustardised
form: mustardised
Etymology: From mustard + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mustardize.
afly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + fly.
Senses: examples: text: I tell you, Mister, such a family / With a sick husband, keep my hands afly;
ref: 1895, Josephine Tyler, Ben’s Isabella, Buffalo, NY: Charles Wells Moulton, Canto 12, p. 147:
text: Thus, the light switched on, there was Einhorn in his BVDs, wasted arms freckled, grizzled hair afly from his face that was inclined to flatness, the shrewd curved nose and clipped mustache.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, pages 64–65:
text: Trench coat afly, hair touseled, face pink, although from exertion rather than inebriation.
ref: 1983, Todd McEwen, chapter 12, in Fisher’s Hornpipe,, New York: Harper & Row, page 198:
text: The sagebrush fire sent orange sparks afly in the star-strewn sky and infused the still air with aromatic smoke.
ref: 2002, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music, New York: EOS, page 95:
glosses: Flying; moving freely through the air; blown by the wind.
Derived terms: my skull's afly
my skull's afly
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: I'm awake; I'm alert; I know what's happening.
New World sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New World sparrows
Senses: coordinate_terms: Old World sparrow
glosses: Any oscine passerine bird of the speciose American family Passerellidae.
New World sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New World sparrow
murdercide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murdercides
Etymology: Blend of murder + suicide
Senses: glosses: A murder-suicide.
glosses: A murder that has been disguised as a suicide.
murdercides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murdercide
error out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: errors out
form: erroring out
form: errored out
form: errored out
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fail with an error.
rapedoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapedolls
Etymology: From rape + doll.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rapetoy.
synonyms: word: rapetoy
fluffy bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌni
Forms: form: fluffy bunnies
form: fluff bunny
form: fluffbunny
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A casual, naive practitioner of Wicca or another neo-pagan religion, especially one deemed to have a superficial understanding.
examples: text: Fluffy Bunny, Mary, is a game where you stuff marshmallows into your mouth, and say 'Fluffy Bunny.' The person who can stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth and still say 'Fluffy Bunny' wins.
ref: 2021 September 1, Julia Lawrinson, Mel and Shell, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of chubby bunny (“competitive eating game”).
synonyms: word: chubby bunny
extra: competitive eating game
examples: text: The idea of fluffy-bunnies developed from theoretical work undertaken to study the interference fringes that are seen when two Bose-Einstein condensates spatially overlap (20).
ref: 2005, Jacob Dunningham, Alexander Rau, Keith Burnett, “From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies”, in Science, volume 307, number 5711, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, page 874:
text: Because of this a whole different class of states called the fluffy-bunnies arises which are robust entanglements due to the measurements and interactions between particles.
ref: 2019, KKY Vasura Jayaweera, KAIL Wijewardena Gamalath, “Particle localization via measurement induced entanglement”, in World Scientific News, volume 128, number 2, DARWIN, →ISSN, pages 234–254:
text: Note, however, a subtlety: in general, this inequality is strict (apart from when both sides are zero), due to a necessary reduction in entanglement after applying the dephasing operation Φ_A ⊗ Φ_B and removing the fluffy bunny entanglement.
ref: 2020, Benjamin Morris, Benjamin Yadin, Matteo Fadel, Tilman Zibold, Philipp Treutlein, Gerardo Adesso, “Entanglement between identical particles is a useful and consistent resource”, in Physical Review X, volume 10, number 4, APS, →DOI:
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Quantum entanglemant that occurs in theory but which seldom (or never) arises because of other physical restrictions.
examples: text: Whether it is a fluffy bunny, a silky guinea pig or a downy hamster, we just love to hold it and feel its softness.
ref: 2004 May 14, Anne Flood, “10. Cuddly Friends”, in Realistic Pet Portraits in Colored Pencil, Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fluffy, bunny.
puts about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put about
putting about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put about