cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rousie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rousies
Etymology: From rous(eabout) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of the rouser is eventually to become a shearer via the medium of the learner’s pen, and in fact the rousie is really an apprentice shearer; but there is certainly a great gulf between the accomplished prince of the board and the miserable rouseabout in the strange new world of his first shed.
ref: 1967, Graham Jenkin, Two Years on Bardunyah Station: Being an Account of the Experiences of a Jackaroo, Together with Some Poems, etc., Seacombe Heights, South Australia: Pitjantjara Publishers, page 66:
text: “[Y]ou ever try shearing sheep? Unwilling sheep?” “I’ve worked as rousie, never shearer, but I’ve seen them carry on.”
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Baton Rouge, La.; London: Louisiana State University Press, published 1985, →ISBN:
text: Kate, their young rousie, threw the fleece up and over the table.
ref: 2011, Fiona Palmer, Heart of Gold, Michael Joseph, →ISBN:
glosses: A rouseabout.
rousies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rousie
Lawley Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Lawley and Overdale parish, Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6808).
per bend sinister
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: per bend sinister argent and azure; tierced per bend sinister
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the sinister chief (viewer's top right) towards the dexter base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend sinister).
Lawley and Overdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England.
ouid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly influenced by French oui.
Senses: glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of weed (“marijuana”).
Overdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A suburban area in Lawley and Overdale parish, Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6809).
set in train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets in train
form: setting in train
form: set in train
form: set in train
Senses: examples: text: Elaborate preparations for the war of October, 1973, were then set in train, with full Soviet participation, behind a brilliantly executed program of deception and surprise.
ref: 1978, Clark M. Clifford, Eugene Victor Rostow, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, The Palestine Question in American History, page 97:
text: He set in train some changes to prepare the villa for the arrival of the two women, and left with Emrys for Paris to hunt down master chef, René, who had once worked for his father.
ref: 2016, Mary S. Lovell, The Riviera Set:
text: Another social dynamic set in train by the exercise of private property rights is the commercialisation of the press.
ref: 2018, James Furner, Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis, page 279:
synonyms: put in train
glosses: To start a process.
Related terms: set in motion
fund-raiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fund-raisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fundraiser.
Aabenraa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːbənˌɹɔː/
ipa: /ˈɔbənˌɹɔ/
ipa: /ˈɑbənˌɹɑ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Aabenraa, Åbenrå, from Old Danish Obenroe.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Denmark; the capital of the former county of South Jutland.
hesed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chesed.
misscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misscreens
form: misscreening
form: misscreened
form: misscreened
Etymology: From mis- + screen.
Senses: examples: text: In judging the evidence on these and subsequent questions, the 5 per cent level of statistical significance is used. χ² and p values are always given for the combination of over-and underscreening into per cent misscreened and for the combination of over- and underrating into per cent misrated.
ref: 1956, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, page 25:
text: Let me say this: In going from about 3,000 girls to 9,500 girls in a very short period of time, in April, May, and June, we got some youngsters who were misscreened, were poorly screened, and didn't belong in the Job Corps.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, Examination of the War on Poverty, page 3136:
text: a very limited number of plants (about 0.5%), classified as susceptible to scab in greenhouse, showed no scab lesions after two years in nursery and, because they had all the Vf-linked markers, were probably misscreened in greenhouse;
ref: 2000, Proceedings of the Eucarpia Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, 6-10 September, 1999, page 550:
glosses: To screen (examine in order to assess the status of) improperly.
misscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misscreen
misscreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misscreen
misscreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misscreen
fruital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fruit + -al.
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, yayin and shekar being associated with the tithe of corn and fruital produce, would lead every unsophisticated mind to the supposition that they were some very simple preparations of fruit or juice, readily procurable in their natural form.
ref: 1887, F[rederic] R[ichard] Lees, Defences of True Temperance against Divines, Doctors, Editors, and Brewers, volume eighth, London: […] [F]or the Author at the National Temperance Publication Depôt, […], page 203:
text: One of the most interesting areas of flavor formulation is the imitation of fruital aromas.
ref: 1975, Thomas E. Furia, Nicolo Bellanca, editors, Fenaroli’s Handbook of Flavor Ingredients: Adapted from the Italian Language Works of Giovanni Fenaroli, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 578:
text: A fruital [translating frutal] symphony whose scales erupt furiously in the smell of your body. Here is the custard apple in its green dress, with its delicate soft muslin pants. Here is the star-apple with its childish milk; here is the pineapple, with its soprano crown…All these fruits, oh mulata, you offer me, in the clear bay of your body browned by the tropical sun.
ref: 1987, Ann Venture Young, editor, The Image of Black Women in Twentieth-Century South American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, Three Continents Press, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Tagetes has a characteristic herbaceous, somewhat rancid odor with fruital, bitter undertones.
ref: 1997, George A. Burdock, Encyclopedia of Food and Color Additives, volumes III (P–Z, Indexes), CRC Press, →ISBN, page 2716:
text: Colourless to light yellow liquid with a fruital pineapple-like odour
ref: 2002, FAO Food and Nutrition Paper, number 52, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, →ISBN, page 202:
synonyms: word: fructal
glosses: Of or relating to fruit.
misscrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misscrews
form: misscrewing
form: misscrewed
form: misscrewed
Etymology: From mis- + screw.
Senses: examples: text: For minutes he stood staring down at the engine, fixing in his mind every misscrewed nut and hammered bolt end, every sloppy connection and speck of rust.
ref: 1916, Clinton Holland Stagg, High Speed, page 80:
text: Robert Greenfield per Countess Harcourt, 2 Sept. 1829, 'wilfully impeding the work of one of the mills by misscrewing part of the machinery — 25 lashes' ;
ref: 1997, Ian Duffield, James Bradley, Representing Convicts, page 159:
glosses: To screw in incorrectly.
melachah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melakhah.
D'var Torah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Divrei Torah
form: dvar Torah
form: d'var Torah
form: devar Torah
Senses: examples: text: The title word of parashas Beha'alosekha (when you raise) is problematic. I'm sure Moshe has also heard a number of divrei Torah about it.
ref: 2004 October 13, Micha Berger, “Simple questions (yah, right)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A sermon upon the weekly parashah.
m'zuzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: m'zuzot
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mezuzah.
roustabouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roustabout
misseal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misseals
form: missealing
form: missealed
form: missealed
Etymology: From mis- + seal.
Senses: examples: text: A deed of the premises to plaintiff was in every respect regular and sufficient to convey the legal title except that it was missealed and therefore conveyed only an equitable title.
ref: 1907, Current Law - Volume 8, page 1574:
text: In blind applications, these old approaches took much longer and risked missealing some of the intended locations.
ref: 2004, Jeffrey J. Fox, Richard C. Gregory, The Dollarization Discipline, page 190:
text: Due to different causes, as well as manpower limitations, limited amount of primals, or simply missealing, meat cuts could undergo subsequent vacuum packaging.
ref: 2018, Charis M. Galanakis, Sustainable Meat Production and Processing, page 162:
glosses: To seal improperly.
misseals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misseal
missealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misseal
missealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misseal
congraduations
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: We’re passing for the last time through these old halls, sometimes hated but really loved, and it is an outrageous fortune that we must part. […] You see, I wonder what you are going to do without me. But I also wonder how I am going to get along without you. Congraduations.
ref: 1949, Maxwell Arnold, “The Cannibal Pot”, in J[ohn] E. Palmer, editor, The Sewanee Review, volume LVII, New York, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint Corporation, published 1967, section III, pages 679–680:
text: Congraduations, Seniors […] For Commencement to be an event favorably remembered by all your interest and attention are essential.
ref: 1977 February 3, The Bates Student, volume 104, number 4, Lewiston, Me.: Bates College, page 6:
text: “Congraduations” and all our best wishes. It’s hard to believe that you’ve already graduated from college.
ref: 1988, Eric Kraft, “In Which Herb ’n’ Lorna’s Secret Is Revealed and They Are Enshrined”, in Herb ’n’ Lorna: A Love Story, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 290:
glosses: Alternative form of congradulations (a congratulation on the occasion of graduation).
Rascol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rascols
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rascol or Romanian Răscol.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
medvedevite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A red monoclinic mineral with the chemical formula KMn2+2V2O6Cl·2H2O
chenxianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black rhombohedral mineral with the chemical formula AlMn11O16(OH)9.
Notre-Dame
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Notre-Dame.
Senses: examples: text: But Notre-Dame also occupies a space beyond architecture or faith, a space in which buildings seem to represent the human capacity for endurance.
ref: 2019 April 16, Sophie Gilbert, “Notre-Dame Isn’t Lost”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2019:
text: “I’m so happy,” said 50-year-old architect Sebastien Truchot, who lives nearby. “Whether you believe in God or not, Notre-Dame is a universal symbol, and it’s amazing to have it back and to rediscover it.”
ref: 2024 November 30, Tara Cobham, “Inside rebuilt Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris as Macron praises ‘project of the century’”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2024:
text: The authorities have planned extremely tight security for the area around Notre-Dame over the weekend, similar to the arrangements for the Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
ref: 2024 December 6, Aurelien Breeden, “Notre-Dame Reopens: Here’s What to Know”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of Notre Dame (“Notre-Dame de Paris”).
lepkhenelmite-Zn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare brown prismatic mineral found in Russia.
nevjanskite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of nevyanskite.
dzhezkazganite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare rhenium-dominant mineral found in Kazakhstan.
UNMOVIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission.
Guansi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 關西 (Guānxī) Tongyong Pinyin: Guansi.
Senses: examples: text: At Guansi Township in the northern county of Hsinchu, for example, six agrotourism groups now stand among 27 agricultural management groups that the Guansi Farmers' Association helped restructure last year.
ref: 2004, Taiwan Review, volume 54, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:
text: The specimen of A. sinensis was collected from Guansi Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan in May, 2007.
ref: 2013 March, Ching-Tong Chen, Yu-Ting Yeh, David Chao, Chung-Yi Chen, “Chemical Constituents from the Wood of Aquilaria sinensis”, in Chemistry of Natural Compounds, volume 49, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 113:
text: 2. Chupei Summary Court：
Xianzheng 2nd Rd., Zhubei City, Hsinchu County 302, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Located at 202, Chungcheng Road Chutong Township, its jurisdiction covers the five Townships of Chupei, Hukou, Sinfong, Sinpu and Guansi
ref: 2021 April 29, “Introduction & Jurisdiction”, in Taiwan Hsinchu District Court, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2021:
text: The second case is Guansi Shihdianzih Old Street, located in Jhongjheng Road, Guansi Township, Hsinchu County, which was formerly known as Shihdianzih. In 1989, in response to the One Town One Product (OTOP) programme of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Guansi Town set out to develop the Mesona procumbens Hemsl industry.
ref: 2022, Shih-Ling Kuo, Chun-Liang Chen, “Operation Analysis of Cultural Heritage Service Ecosystems: Empirical Study Based on Dihua Street and Guansi Shihdianzih Old Street in Taiwan”, in Applied System Innovation, volume 5, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: A man makes coffee during a news conference yesterday to promote the Guansi Coffee Festival in Hsinchu County’s Guansi Township. The festival is to start tomorrow.
ref: 2023 March 18, “Something brewing”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023, Business, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of Guanxi.
reznitskyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare vanadate mineral with the chemical formula CaMg(VO4)F.
fupingqiuite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of varulite.
synonyms: word: varulite
manaqeesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manakish.
Partizansk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: c. 1973, from Russian Партизанск (Partizansk).
Senses: examples: text: The town "Suchan" has been renamed "Partizansk" (meaning town of guerrillas) and the "North Suchan" workers' settlement renamed the "Uglekamensk" (meaning coal) workers' settlement. This place (namely Suchan) was referred to in a record in 1811 (the 16th year of the rule of Chiaching) in volume 8 of Sayinge's work 'Kirin Waichi" published in the early days of the rule of Taokuang in the Ching Dynasty and it was then called "Sucheng". V.K. Arsenyev pointed out too in his book "The Chinese in the Ussuri Territory" that "Suchan" is "Sucheng" in the Han dialect.
ref: 1973 March 7 [1973 March 7], “NCNA Condemns New Soviet Place Names in Far East”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 45, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 1:
text: China complained that the town and district of Iman, which had been administered by China in the Ming Dynasty, had been renamed Dalnerechensk.
Suchan had been renamed Partizansk and north Suchan as Uglekamensk. Lifudzin, a Manchu name, is now known as Rudny and Khungari had been renamed Gurskoe.
ref: 1973 March 8, “China Raps Soviet's Change in City Names”, in The Japan Times, volume 77, number 26,653, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 8:
glosses: A town in Primorsky Krai, Russia.
Synonyms: word: Suchan
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Sucheng
WBG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of World Bank Group.
UNWTO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of UN World Tourism Organization.
UNIDO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
igdloite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of lueshite.
synonyms: word: lueshite
tangiwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of bowenite.
synonyms: word: bowenite
MLOps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ML Ops
Etymology: Blend of ML (“machine learning”) + DevOps.
Senses: examples: text: The goal of MLOps is to minimize the technical friction to get the model from an idea to production in the shortest possible time with high-quality predictive power and with as little risk as possible.
ref: 2021, Hien Luu, Beginning Apache Spark 3, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A paradigm that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably and efficiently.
bannerstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bannerstones
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial artifact with centered holes in symmetrical stone.
blue helmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue helmets
form: Blue Helmet
form: blue-helmet
Senses: examples: text: Blue helmets are supposed to come fully armed and prepared, but often poor soldiers don't even bring boots when they show up for UN duty.
ref: 2004 February 17, Linda Polman, “Blue helmets as cannon fodder”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: UN
glosses: Synonym of blue beret.
synonyms: word: blue beret
blue helmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue helmet
sunshininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sunshiny + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Having great confidence in your valuable opinion on practical scientific subjects, I would very greatly appreciate your volunteer opinon as to the value of a machine I have thought of ... to wit: The recording of the revolutions of a Crooke's Radiometer by an electrical recorder, the selective motion, or number of revolutions to indicate the comparative sunshininess or cloudiness of the days.
ref: 1888, August 2. Piromis Hulsey Bell. "Letter from Piromis H Bell to Thomas Alva Edison", Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
text: Accordingly, the director, Jenny Koons, has encouraged a tinny sunshininess from the actors, though there are moments, particularly if Frazier and Tyo let their smiles droop, when we sense the play’s taproots reaching down for anger.
ref: 2023, April 13. Helen Shaw. "Soap Operas as Guiding Light: Experimental theatre and soap tropes commune in Julia Izumi’s 'Regretfully, So the Birds Are' and Michael R. Jackson’s 'White Girl in Danger'", The New Yorker magazine
glosses: The state, quality, or characteristic of being sunshiny.
Namatjira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /namacɪra/
Senses: glosses: An Indigenous Australian surname
glosses: An Indigenous Australian surname
Albert Namatjira
Voice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Voice
Etymology: Clipping of Voice to Parliament.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal
Blue Helmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blue Helmets
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of blue helmet.
Blue Helmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blue Helmet
Blue Beret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blue Berets
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of blue beret.
Blue Berets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blue Beret
berserking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of berserk
berserked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of berserk
chromoplexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoplexy
chromoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoscope
tjiki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tjiki
form: most tjiki
Senses: qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: Alternative spelling of cheeky.
Tuen Ng Festival
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Cantonese 端午節 /端午节 (dyun¹ ng⁵ zit³), from Chinese 端午 (Duānwǔ, “Opening of the Seventh”), one name for the day of the festival in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. Doublet of Duanwu Festival.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dragon Boat Festival.
synonyms: word: Dragon Boat Festival
wikipedia: Chinese lunisolar calendar
CoHorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CoHort
gammonatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gammonati
cuffing seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuffing season
Mister Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mister Charlies
Senses: qualifier: among African-Americans
glosses: An arrogant and condescending man, especially of European ancestry.
Related terms: Miss Ann
Mister Charlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mister Charlie
Bronski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔn.ski/
ipa: /ˈbɹɒn.ski/
Forms: form: Bronskis
Senses: glosses: A surname
astrotechs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrotech
laldy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots laldy, laldie.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A beating; a thrashing; a drubbing.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Welly (force or effort).
gcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gc
Whome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on Flotta, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND352938).
adboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adboards
Senses: glosses: a screen on which to present ads
adboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adboard
deepwater big-eyed worm eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepwater big-eyed worm eel
deepthroatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepthroating
defuzzifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defuzzifier
deer scarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deer scarer
dentatectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentatectomy
dental surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental surgery
dipcoaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipcoater
defence lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defence lawyer
dinnerladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinnerlady
defense lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defense lawyer
snake eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake eels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snake-eel.
snake eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake eel
defns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defn
Goss Moor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A moor and national nature reserve in mid Cornwall, England, with parts in Roche parish, St Columb Major parish, St Dennis parish and St Enoder parish (OS grid ref SW9560).
kohein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kohanim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cohen.
ex-worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-workers
form: exworker
Senses: glosses: A former worker.
exworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exworkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ex-worker.
ex-coworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-coworkers
form: excoworker
form: ex coworker
form: ex co-worker
Senses: glosses: A former coworker.
excoworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excoworkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ex-coworker.
cribwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cribwalls
Senses: glosses: A log cabin structure filled with rock and soil, used for stabilizing streambanks.
Churston Ferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Manorial affix from possession by Hugh de Fereris.
Senses: glosses: A village in Torbay borough, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9056).
Churston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Churston Ferrers: a village in Torbay borough, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9056).
Ferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mainly historical surname.
Derived terms: Bere Ferrers
Churston Ferrers
Ferrers diagram
Higham Ferrers
South Woodham Ferrers
Woodham Ferrers
first-world problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first-world problem
first-world problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-world problems
Senses: examples: text: There are a few common categories of first-world problems: I lost/broke/dislike something about my remote/iPod/GPS system. “Ugh, my last Apple went bad and now I want one.” Or social network X/the Internet/cable is down.
ref: 2011 July 27, Cat Rocketship, “How a hashtag changed my philosophy on life”, in Juice (The Des Moines Register), volume 7, number 30, page 6:
text: It’s easy to put everybody else’s pain into perspective. Broken heart? At least it’s not a broken leg. […] As my assistant Krissy says, “Who wants to hear, ‘Sure but –’ when you’re feeling bad?” That’s why I break out in hives when I hear, “Oh, it’s only first-world problems.” (And don’t tell me that my allergic reaction is a first-world problem, either. Irritation is global, intergenerational and probably intergalactic.)
ref: 2016 April 15, Gina Barreca, “Don’t Dismiss It As A ‘First-World Problem’”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXX, number 106, page A11:
text: A shortage of first-class seats is the definition of a first-world problem.
ref: 2023 May 15, Chris Bryant, “Good luck finding first-class plane tickets”, in Sun Journal, page A5, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of first world problem.
collar stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑ.lɚ stʌd/
Forms: form: collar studs
form: collarstud
Etymology: From collar + stud.
Senses: glosses: A small fastener used to secure the collar of a shirt to the neckband.
Derived terms: collar stud abscess
that's all Greek to me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's all Greek to me.
wellscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellscreens
Etymology: Compound of well + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Brown and Glynn (2003) suspended sacks with calcite and dolomite in wellscreens in acid groundwater and noted dissolution rates that were 1000 times smaller than theoretically expected, which may be related to the high concentrations of heavy metals in the acid mine drainage that was the source of the groundwater.
ref: 2005, C. A. J. Appelo, D[ieke] Postma, Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution, 2nd edition, Leiden; London […]: A.A. Balkema Publishers, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: A screen used to filter a fluid in a well.
wellscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellscreen
waterbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbuckets
Etymology: Compound of water + bucket.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly every day, Mamo made treats for them. Tea cakes, gingerbread, muffins, and the like, and on hot summer days, a big waterbucket full of lemonade.
ref: 2015, Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher, The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, a Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: A bucket used to hold water.
waterbuckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterbucket
breaking the mould
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break the mould
screenshort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screenshorts
Etymology: Blend of screen(shot) + short.
Senses: examples: text: Kind of counterintuitively, Screenshorts demonstrate why the 140 character limit is vital. If people began posting massive chunks of text to Twitter, it would no longer be easy to scan. But the Screenshort, working side-by-side with in-line image previews, works perfectly. Click to enlarge and all that.
ref: 2014 December 19, Mat Honan, “The Rise Of The Screenshort™”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 30 May 2023:
text: We've heard such rumors before, but this one just got a lot more plausible thanks to a cryptic screenshort from Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.
ref: 2016 January 5, Klint Finley, “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Hints Its 140 Character Limit Could End”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
text: No more screenshorts
ref: 2016 April 12, Casey Newton, “You can now share quoted text directly to Facebook”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2023:
qualifier: social media
glosses: A screenshot of text posted to social media.
screenshorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screenshort
mothereffing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There's just something about big data and sailor-cursing that complement each other—like peanut butter and mothereffing jelly.
ref: 2013 December 3, Megan Garber, “Congratulations, Ohio! You Are the Sweariest State in the Union”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2014:
synonyms: mollyfogging
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Motherfucking.
Related terms: mothereffer
mothereffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mothereffers
Senses: examples: text: Now, take that piece of paper and destroy it. Crumple it up, light it on fire, or tear that mothereffer to shreds! Scream out to the world and promise yourself, "Never again!"
ref: 2016, Holly Porter Johnson, Greg Johnson, Zero Down Your Debt: Reclaim Your Income and Build a Life You'll Love, Coral Gables, F.L.: Mango Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 35:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Motherfucker.
Related terms: mothereffing
mothereffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mothereffer
Stockholm syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndroming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Stockholm syndrome
saturation diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saturation divers
Senses: examples: text: Edinburgh-born Chris, who lives near Mallaig in the Highlands, is a saturation diver. This is a specialised type of diving which reduces the risk of decompression sickness due to use of a mixture of oxygen and helium.
ref: 2019 April 5, Debbie Jackson, “Diver cheated death in North Sea miracle”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2022:
glosses: Someone who engages in saturation diving.
saturation divers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saturation diver
homohysteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- (“pertaining to homosexuality”) + hysteria.
Senses: examples: text: Men have been taught to avoid behaviors that get them labeled as "gay," a phenomenon called homohysteria. To make friends, however, men must transcend homohysteria. For example, Billy reached out to a friend he hadn't spoken to in a while, Rory, only to realize Rory moved to Vienna while enduring a breakup. In a radical gesture typically confined to couples in romantic comedies, Billy flew to Vienna to rekindle the friendship and support Rory.
ref: 2021 April 30, Marisa G. Franco, “How Men Can Make Friends”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: A cultural aversion to being perceived as homosexual (thus causing men to avoid stereotypically gay behaviours).
Related terms: homohysteric
homohysteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homohysteric
form: most homohysteric
Etymology: From homo- (“pertaining to homosexuality”) + hysteric.
Senses: examples: text: It seems that whereas men's publicly perceived sexual identities were once easily jeopardized in a homohysteric culture, today men maintain more freedom to explore certain forms of same-sex sexual behaviors without threat to their publicly perceived heterosexual identities.
ref: 2009, Eric Anderson, Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Pertaining to or involving homohysteria ("A cultural aversion to being perceived as homosexual").
boatmast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatmasts
Senses: glosses: The mast of a boat
semi-spherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On the dock was a cylindrical white pod about the size of a moving van, a five-person submersible whose protruding, semi-spherical window inspired its name [Cyclops], after the monocular monster of myth.
ref: 2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of semispherical.
sinistroverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: dextroverse
glosses: Written from right to left.
dextroverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: sinistroverse
glosses: Written from left to right.
Cammorata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cammoratas
Etymology: Probably a corruption of Italian Cammarata.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
milk can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk cans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of milk churn.
synonyms: word: milk churn
milk cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk churns
Senses: glosses: plural of milk can
improvisationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improvisationalists
Etymology: From improvisational + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The movements of a boxer, or a jazz improvisationalist, are based on the same understanding.
ref: 2016, Camaren Peter, Lazarus in the Multiple: Awakening to the Era of Complexity, page 32:
glosses: One who uses improvisational methods.
improvisationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of improvisationalist
semi-sub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-subs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semisub.
Huvadhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dhivehi ހުވަދު (huvadu).
Senses: glosses: An atoll in the Maldives.
pharyngeal arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharyngeal arches
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
embryology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
synonyms: visceral arch
glosses: Any of a series of structures seen in the embryo of vertebrates that are precursors for many structures, notably the jaws and (in fish) the branchial arches.
pharyngeal arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngeal arch
Ngaree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ŋaːrɪː/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Indigenous Australian languages.
Kurrupuwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡurubuwu/
Senses: glosses: An Indigenous Australian surname
Maralampuwi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /maralambuwi/
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Tiwi.
Warlimpirrnga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /waɭɪmb̥ɪrŋa/
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Pintupi.
Tjapaltjarri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Pintupi
ipa: /ɟab̥əɭɟari/
Senses: glosses: A Pintupi surname
Yingiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jiŋija/
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Yolŋu.
Guyula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡʊjula/
Senses: glosses: A Yolŋu surname
Djon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Indigenous Australian languages, equivalent to English John.
Bennelong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dharug surname
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Dharug surname
Woollarawaree Bennelong
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Baneelon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bennelong.
Truganini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, d. 1876, known for being the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian.
SADM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Special Atomic Demolition Munition.
suitcase nuke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitcase nukes
Senses: examples: text: Tactical nuclear weapons, known as “suitcase nukes”, are smaller than strategic ones and can be deployed at short range for battlefield use, though Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus's strongman leader, said this week that the warheads were three times more powerful than the bombs the US dropped on Japan during the second world war.
ref: [2023 June 17, Max Seddon, “Nuclear arms sent to Belarus, says Putin”, in FT Weekend, page 2:
synonyms: backpack nuke
snuke
mini-nuke
pocket nuke
glosses: A portable tactical nuclear weapon.
suitcase nukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitcase nuke
Yunupingu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Yolŋu surname
samphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samphors
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer សំភោរ (sɑmphoo).
Senses: glosses: A type of double-headed barrel drum used in Cambodia.
backpack nuke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpack nukes
Senses: examples: text: The Pentagon may have the solution—the Backpack Nuke. Yes, campers, the largest hiking club in the western world—the U.S. Army—is now equipped with small, portable, lightweight nuclear devices that are guaranteed to clear any campground in microseconds.
ref: 1985 May, Eric Pearlman, “Things to Come”, in Backpacker, volume 13, number 68, →ISSN, page 104:
glosses: Synonym of suitcase nuke.
synonyms: word: suitcase nuke
backpack nukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backpack nuke
tambori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamboris
Senses: glosses: A type of percussion instrument used in sardana music of Catalonia.
'tism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the 'tism
form: tism
Etymology: Aphetic form of autism.
Senses: examples: text: Greta Thunberg […] has been declared Time Magazines Person of the Year. That's right, the winner of 2019's illustrious POTY award goes to the temperamental teenager with a touch of the 'tism'.
ref: 2021, Chad Prather, Am I Crazy?:
glosses: Clipping of autism.
Derived terms: touch of the 'tism
FCCLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America: a student organization in the United States focusing on FCS education.
FACS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of family and consumer sciences.
examples: text: In FACS, every one of the forty-three distinctive muscle movements in the face is assigned a number, called an "action unit."
ref: 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 147:
glosses: Initialism of facial action coding system.
LqP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lac qui Parle (County).
LQP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lac qui Parle (County).
Kuanhsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 關西 (Guānxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuan¹-hsi¹.
Senses: examples: text: The accompanying map shows the passenger flow by bus. Note that the bus traffic flow is greater between Hsinchu and Chutung and Kuanhsi, than for any other places, except Chupei, 4 miles away. Nearly nine times as many people go from Hsinchu to Chutung by bus as by train; there are 62 bus round trips per day.
ref: 1954, Arthur F. Raper, Han-sheng Chuan, Shao-hsing Chen, “Traffic Flow by Types of Transportation in Hsinchu”, in Urban and Industrial Taiwan―Crowded and Resourceful, Taipei: Good Earth Press, →OCLC, page 194:
text: Three of the zones will be in Kuanhsi, Chunlin village, and Hsinpu, covering 105 hectares.[…]
The 11 other projected industrial zones are located in Hsinchu city, Chutung, Hsinpu, Kuanhsi, Hukou, Chupei, Hsiangshan, Chunlin, Hengshan, Paoshan, and Chituan.
ref: 1979 August 19, “16 industrial zones planned”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XX, number 32, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: 6.4 Y; bear left toward Kuanhsi on NR3.[…]
16.4 Enter Kuanhsi. The road bypasses downtown. Continue straight toward Lungtan.
ref: 1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 83:
text: Because the new language school of Fu Jen University in the nearby city of Hsinchu was not yet completed, we were bused with other aspiring students of Chinese language to a farming village called Kuanhsi (Guanxi: West Pass), nestled against the tea growing hills of Hsinchu county.
ref: 1999, Michael Saso, Velvet Bonds: The Chinese Family, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page ix:
text: It is located within the territory of Hsinchu, and connects Kuanhsi town in the east, and facing to the Taiwan Straits in the west. It is limited from the north of Chupei to Fengshan stream, and from the south to Hsiangshan Yenshui harbor to the north, including Hsinchu city and Chupei city, Hsinpu, Kuanshi, Chutung town, Chiunglin and Hengshan Hsiang of Hsinchu county.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Hsinchu Irrigation Association”, in Irrigation Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of Guanxi.
PETG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: PET
polyethylene terephthalate
glycol
PE
polyethylene
terephthalate
glosses: Acronym of polyethylene terephthalate glycol.
Xinpu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shĭnʹpo͞oʹ
Forms: form: Hsinpu
form: Sinpu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新埔 (Xīnpǔ).
Senses: examples: text: The center of shibing production is the township of Hsinpu (新埔) in Hsinchu County (新竹), where the dry climate and northeasterly autumn wind (九降風) provides an optimal environment for gradually drying the fruit through the effects of wind and sun.
ref: [2015 February 14, Ian Bartholomew, “Candy from heaven”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2015, Features, page 12:
text: A notch or two below those in the popularity stakes, but if anything even more interesting, is the town of Sinpu Township (新埔).
Despite its name (which means “new village”), Sinpu has a relatively long history, and was already a commercial center during the early nineteenth century.
ref: [2018 February 9, Richard Saunders, “Off the Beaten Track: Historic Sinpu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2018, Features, page 13:
text: Notable attractions along the route include Yimin Temple in Hsinchu County’s Xinpu Township. While all Hakka places of worship in the nation bear the name Yimin, the temple in Xinpu is considered the Hakka people’s foremost religious center. Built in 1788, it is Taiwan’s oldest Yimin temple.
ref: 2018 September 16, “New travel route aims to spotlight vitality of Taiwan's Hakka culture”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2018, Culture:
glosses: An urban township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
ultramicrosize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Smaller than microsize.
ultramicroanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramicroanalyses
form: ultramicro analysis
form: ultramicro-analysis
Senses: glosses: An analysis on a smaller scale than microanalysis.
ultramicrodetermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramicrodeterminations
Senses: glosses: microdetermination performed on a small scale.
unbe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbeing
form: unbeen
Etymology: From un- + be.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot bear my fate as writ, / I'd have my life unbe; Would turn my memory to a blot, / Make every relic of me rot, / My doings be as they were not, / And what they've brought to me!
ref: 1901, Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present, Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., page 234:
text: There is a saying that unseen is as good as unbeen; but in this case it was otherwise—unseen, Master Malrubius was more palpably present than ever before.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: To lack being; to be nonexistent.
glosses: To deprive of being; to make nonexistent.
production order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production orders
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: manufacturing order
glosses: Order issued within a company to produce a specific quantity of material within a certain timeframe.
Brazzavillean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brazzavillean
form: most Brazzavillean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brazzavillian.
Brazzavillean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brazzavilleans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brazzavillian.
Derived terms: Congo-Brazzavillean
Brazzavilleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brazzavillean
darnit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn it.
correpetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: accompaniment