cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Gibraltar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɔːltə(ɹ)/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɒltə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Gibraltars
form: gibraltar
Etymology: "Gibraltar" is the name of a line of tumblers made by glassware company Libbey. The drink was named in 2005, by Steve Ford at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco, after the glass in which its version was served.
Senses: examples: text: Two Gibraltars (decaf) at Kafka
ref: 2013 October 30, "The Mighty Vancouver Cafe Crawl" Little Ninja Chef [photo caption]
text: At a recent meeting at Mint Plaza’s Blue Bottle Coffee, Maggiotto ordered a Gibraltar, a small, milky espresso drink.
ref: 2015 February 26, Greta Kaul, “Startup that lets chefs review restaurants lands $4 million”, in SFGate:
text: I paid for my beans and sipped my perfectly-made Gibraltar as I walked down the street thinking about how I would now always order from his pizza company.
ref: 2016 June 29, Gretchen Fox, “How To Create A Loyal Customer In Under Five Minutes”, in Forbes:
glosses: ; (originally) A cortado served in a small glass; (by extension) any cortado
Iberia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈbɪə̯.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /aɪˈbɪə̯ɹ.i.ə/
ipa: /aɪˈbɪɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
rhymes: -ɪɹiə
Etymology: From Latin Iberia, from Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría), after Ἴβηρος (Íbēros, “the river Ebro”). See Iberia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: A peninsula and region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
glosses: A city and town in Missouri.
glosses: A census-designated place in Ohio.
Derived terms: Christian Iberia
Iberia Parish
New Iberia
Related terms: Iberian
Iberian Peninsula
iberis
Iberia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈbɪə̯.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /aɪˈbɪə̯ɹ.i.ə/
ipa: /aɪˈbɪɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
rhymes: -ɪɹiə
Forms: form: Iveria
Etymology: [Alt: Iberia]
From Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría). Possibly from the same source as Old Armenian Վիրք (Virkʻ).
Senses: glosses: An antique and Byzantine name for the geographic region and ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli in Eastern Europe, located east of Colchis, corresponding roughly to the eastern parts of present-day Georgia.
Synonyms: Caucasian Iberia
Derived terms: Principality of Iberia
Upper Iberia
Related terms: Colchis
Albania
Caucasian Albania
Pyrenees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹəˈniːz/
ipa: /ˈpɪɹəˌniz/
Forms: form: the Pyrenees
form: Pyrénées
Etymology: From Middle English Pireneies, partly from Middle French Pyrénées and partly from Latin Pȳrēnaeī (montēs), from Ancient Greek Πῡρήνη (Pūrḗnē, “Pyrene”, literally “fruit-stone”), daughter of Bebryx and beloved of Herakles, and who, legend has it, is buried in the range.
Senses: glosses: The mountain range separating Spain from France, inhabited by Basques in the west, Occitans in the centre-north, Aragonese in the centre-south, and Catalans in the east.
glosses: A wine-producing region and local government area (Shire of Pyrenees) in Victoria, Australia.
Related terms: Pyrenean
Lesbonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A native of Lesbos.
Lesbonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lesbonian
form: most Lesbonian
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Lesbos
Lesvonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛsˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /lɛsˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Lesvonians
Senses: glosses: a native of Lesbos
Lesvonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛsˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /lɛsˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Lesvonian
form: most Lesvonian
Senses: glosses: pertaining to Lesbos
Engrish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the mispronunciation of the word English common to Japanese speakers, who have difficulty distinguishing "L" and "R" sounds. The Japanese transliteration of the word "English", イングリッシュ (Ingurisshu) is often used for teaching purposes. In that word, /ɾ/ (romanised as "r") is pronounced instead of the English /l/.
Senses: examples: text: 'Why you not teach Engrish more? I must aspeak^([sic]) Engrish.' The Chelsea's resident mad painter was angry at the way Jeremy had been ignoring him.
ref: 2003, Bruce L. Russell, Channelling Henry, page 129:
glosses: Ungrammatical, unorthographical or nonsensical English of the kind found in East Asia, notably in Japan.
Synonyms: Japanese English
Japlish
Janglish
Nihonglish
Related terms: word: Chinglish
word: English language
dildo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪldəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɪldoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪldəʊ
Forms: form: dildoes
form: dildoing
form: dildoed
form: dildoed
Etymology: Unclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle. Compare the use as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs and the spelling dil doul, found in e.g. The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul, a song in the library of Samuel Pepys. Unlikely to be related to Italian diletto (“delight”) or Latin dīlātō (“I open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.
Senses: examples: text: And Venus (one that so much known is)
 Is Dildo’d by Cauda Draconis.
ref: 1681, Homer Alamode, the Second Part in English Burlesque, or, Mock Poem upon the Ninth Book of the Iliads, page 48:
text: A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.
ref: 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40:
glosses: To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.
dildo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪldəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɪldoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪldəʊ
Forms: form: dildoides
form: dildidoes
Etymology: Related to other nonsense syllables like dido and diddle(-diddle), which similarly developed sexual senses. Found since at least the 1500s, often in contexts where allusion is being made to the sexual sense (above). Possibly influenced by Middle English dildoun (“darling, pet”), early modern English dildin (“sweetheart”); compare Old Norse dilla (“to lull”), dillindo (“lullaby”).
Senses: examples: text: He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes;[…] with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings,
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: Will you buy a fine dog, with a hole in his head?
With a dildo, dildo, dildo; […]
ref: c. 1600, Thomas Morley, Will You Buy a Fine Dog?:
text: oh Vrsula, Vrsula pity me with a dildo, dildo, dillory?
ref: c. 1600-1636, William Sampson, The Vow Breaker:
glosses: A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.
anhypostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˌhaɪ.pəˈsteɪ.sɪs/
Senses: examples: text: The doctrine of the person of Christ is argued with greatest fullness, and he [John of Damascus] evinces no little ingenuity and dialectic skill in treating of the personal unity in Christ's twofold nature (which he conceived as enhypostasis, not anhypostasis, of the human nature in the Logos), […]
ref: 1872, John M'Clintock [i.e., John McClintock]; James Strong, “John of Damascus”, in Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volume IV (H, I, J), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, pages 964–965:
text: [I]t was in view of a weakening emphasis on Jesus' individuality, on his particular humanity, in part stimulated by the fights against Arianism and Adoptionism, that the notion of Christ's impersonal humanity took hold. Two theological words were used to try to overcome the problem: anhypostasis, which refers to the divinity of Jesus' person, and enhypostasis, which insists that, nevertheless, Jesus was truly a human being. The anhypostasis was meant to protect the view that if the Word had not become flesh, Jesus would not have existed. The person of Jesus, in other words, lay in the Logos.
ref: 2015, Andrew Purves, “Christology: The Mystery of Christ—the Homoousion and the Hypostatic Union”, in Exploring Christology & Atonement: Conversations with John McLeod Campbell, H. R. Mackintosh and T. F. Torrance, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of anhypostasia.
anthropomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪzəm/
Forms: form: anthropomorphisms
Etymology: Coined in the mid-1700s. From Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”) and μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). By surface analysis, anthropo- + -morphism.
Senses: examples: text: Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down.
ref: 2016 January 14, Stephen Ross, “What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The attribution of human characteristics and behavior to something not human.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The attribution of human characteristics to divine entities.
Coordinate terms: humanization
personification
prosopopoeia
Derived terms: anthropomorphist
antianthropomorphism
Related terms: anthropomorphic
anthropomorphically
zoomorphism
kemonomimi
nahualism
dateline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datelines
Etymology: From date + line.
Senses: examples: text: Other bits of furniture include the dateline, which says where a journalist is reporting from – historically with the date of dispatch, eg “Buenos Aires, 1 March.”
ref: 2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
Related terms: word: byline
word: headline
sense: Glossary of journalism
word: Article components
dateline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: datelines
form: datelining
form: datelined
form: datelined
Etymology: From date + line.
Senses: examples: text: He datelined the entry: "Oxford Mississippi, 27 January, 1926."
ref: 1993, Joel Williamson, William Faulkner and Southern History, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: To attach a dateline to a particular document.
Derived terms: dateliner
dateline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of deadline.
gallant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ælənt
Forms: form: more gallant
form: most gallant
form: gallaunt
Etymology: From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (“courteous; dashing; brave”), present participle of galer (“to rejoice; make merry”), from gale (“pomp; show; festivity; mirth”); either from Frankish *wala (“good, well”), a variant form of *wela, from Proto-Germanic *wela (whence well), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (“merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry; excited; luxurious”), related to Dutch geil (“horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous”), German geil (“randy; horny; lecherous; wicked”), Old English gāl (“wanton; wicked; bad”).
Senses: examples: text: That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: It is plain that the great majority of school children must be regarded, from the physical standpoint, as decidedly gallant little persons, who have wrestled through their infancy and have managed to come out of tribulations that have killed a large proportion of all the children of their birth-years.
ref: 1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 7:
glosses: Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
examples: text: Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Honorable.
glosses: Grand, noble.
examples: text: This town is built in a very gallant place.
ref: 1644 March 28 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 18 March 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
text: our royal, good and gallant ship
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Derived terms: gallanthood
gallantize
gallantly
gallantness
gallantry
gallant soldier
supergallant
ultragallant
ungallant
gallant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ælənt
ipa: /ɡəˈlænt/
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
ipa: /ɡəˈlɑnt/
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ænt
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ælənt
Forms: form: more gallant
form: most gallant
form: gallaunt
Etymology: 17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
Senses: examples: text: I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me. But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner. Oh! I assure you I began to think my caro sposo would be absolutely jealous.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 17:
glosses: Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
gallant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ælənt
ipa: /ɡəˈlænt/
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
ipa: /ɡəˈlɑnt/
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ænt
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ælənt
Forms: form: gallants
form: gallaunt
Etymology: 17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
Senses: examples: text: PROSPERO: […] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd / with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
synonyms: word: blade
word: blood
word: masher
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
examples: text: […] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: The ignominy of that whisper'd tale / About a midnight gallant, seen to climb / A window to her chamber neighbour'd near, / I will from her turn off, and put the load / On the right shoulders; on that wretch's head, […]
ref: a. 1822 (date written), John Keats, “[Tragedies.] Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts.”, in [Horace Elisha Scudder], editor, The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published 1899, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 176, column 2, lines 140–144:
synonyms: word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
glosses: One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A topgallant.
gallant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ælənt
ipa: /ɡəˈlænt/
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
ipa: /ɡəˈlɑnt/
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ænt
ipa: /ˈɡælənt/
rhymes: -ælənt
Forms: form: gallants
form: gallanting
form: gallanted
form: gallanted
form: gallaunt
Etymology: 17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
Senses: examples: text: to gallant ladies to the play
text: During this period, we were the lions of the neighbourhood; and, no doubt, strangers from the distant villages were taken to see the "Karhowrees" (white men), in the same way that countrymen, in a city, are gallanted to the Zoological Gardens.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To attend or wait on (a lady).
examples: text: to gallant a fan
glosses: To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
examples: text: ... and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To conduct, escort, convey.
examples: text: How different is the young, fun-loving, comical, quizzing, gallanting Captain Arthur Wellesley, when residing in his shooting lodge between Summerhill and Dangan, from the stern, cautious, careworn Fabius of the Peninsular war[.]
ref: 1840 February 7, The Sydney Herald, page 2, column 5:
glosses: To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.
fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɔːd/
enpr: frôd
ipa: /fɹɔd/
enpr: frŏd
ipa: /fɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: frauds
Etymology: From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: swindle
scam
deceit
grift
glosses: The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
examples: text: When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II:
text: But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
glosses: The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
synonyms: word: faker
word: fraudster
word: imposter
word: trickster
word: bamboozler
word: bouncer
word: bullshitter
word: cheat
word: cheater
word: cogger
word: cony-catcher
word: crammer
word: deceiver
word: deceptor
word: fabricator
word: fabulist
word: falser
word: gabber
word: grifter
word: guiler
word: liar
word: losenger
word: mocker
word: pseudologist
word: rook
word: Scandaroon
word: shammer
word: Spanish athlete
word: swindler
word: swike
word: treacher
word: trickster
word: trucker
word: wernard
glosses: A person who performs any such trick.
examples: text: to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: A trap or snare.
Derived terms: 419 fraud
advance fee fraud
affinity fraud
antifraud
befraud
biofraud
carousel fraud
category fraud
click fraud
constructive fraud
copyfraud
counterfraud
cyberfraud
defraud
e-fraud
electoral fraud
familiar fraud
food fraud
fraudful
fraudience
frauditor
fraudless
fraudmeister
fraudonomics
fraudproof
fraudsman
fraud squad
fraudulence
fraudulent
fraudulently
fraudulentness
friendly fraud
insurance fraud
mail fraud
mandate fraud
megafraud
missing trader fraud
nonfraud
odometer fraud
pious fraud
prefraud
return fraud
romance fraud
tax fraud
telefraud
vomit fraud
wire fraud
fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɔːd/
enpr: frôd
ipa: /fɹɔd/
enpr: frŏd
ipa: /fɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: frauds
form: frauding
form: frauded
form: frauded
Etymology: From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
Senses: glosses: To defraud.
Related terms: embezzlement
false billing
false advertising
forgery
identity theft
predatory lending
quackery
usury
white-collar crime
gink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: ginks
Etymology: Unknown but possibly from similar senses of kink or geck. Cf. geek.
Senses: examples: text: You know, I've always thought that the best man in the world is hardly good enough for any woman. But when it comes to the best girl in all the universe caring for an ordinary gink like me, well, you'll have to let me get used to it.
ref: 1913 November 4, Harry Truman, “Letter from Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, November 4, 1913”, in Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2020, page 1:
text: […]so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted[…]
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
text: Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything.
ref: 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf, page 189:
text: [Asian sage:] You have a great, great fear of Officer Pupp. Ain't you, mouse? / [Ignatz:] Yes. / [Asian sage:] I can tell you how to overcome it. / [Ignatz:] Tell me. / [Asian sage:] Gimme dime, I tell. / [Ignatz:] Here it is. / [Asian sage, walking away from an aghast Ignatz:] Don't be afraid of the big gink. / [Officer Pupp, incoming:] Gink? What gink?
ref: 1934 May 2, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Wednesday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 125:
text: No wonder the country's on its bloody knees! You ginks are a bloody disgrace to the human race!
ref: 1973, Richard Cowper, Clone, Doubleday, page 33:
text: This stuff ain't going to help me in August. The summer ginks come down here in June.
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws:
text: Adrian felt that it was he who had brought Tom into notice and popularity, that Tom was his own special creation. The silent spotty gink of the first year had been transformed into someone admired and imitated and Adrian wasn't sure how much he liked it.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16:
glosses: A guy, a fellow, especially (derogatory) a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man; a goof.
Synonyms: person
man
friend
dork
fool
ABTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Brain Tumor Association.
glosses: Initialism of Association of British Travel Agents.
GNVQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GNVQs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of General National Vocational Qualification.
JANET
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Joint Academic Network.
MGM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a US movie studio.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code for the Metheringham railway station in England.
MGM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MGMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of maternal grandmother.
examples: text: They brandished statistics of deaths from adult circumcision each year. They called it MGM, an acronym quickly acquiring the notoriety of FGM.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Love Made in Manchester”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 286:
coordinate_terms: FGM
glosses: Initialism of male genital mutilation.
NEC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not elsewhere classified, used in classification codes such as Standard Industrial Classification, International Standard Classification of Occupations, DSM-IV-TR, DSM-5, ICD-9, and ICD-10.
NEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Exhibition Centre, the largest exhibition space in the United Kingdom.
examples: text: the NEC of the UK Labour Party
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of National Executive Committee, a leadership body of a political party.
glosses: Initialism of Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. (renamed to NEC in 1983.)
glosses: Initialism of National Electrical Code.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of Northeast Corridor.
NEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NECs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of near-Earth comet.
synonyms: NEQ
qualifier: explosives industry
glosses: Initialism of net explosive content.
Hypernyms: sense: near-Earth comet
english: near-Earth object
translation: near-Earth object
word: NEO
Hyponyms: sense: near-Earth comet
english: potentially hazardous comet
translation: potentially hazardous comet
word: PHC
Coordinate terms: sense: near-Earth comet
english: potentially hazardous object
translation: potentially hazardous object
word: PHO
Related terms: sense: near-Earth comet
english: near-Earth asteroid
translation: near-Earth asteroid
word: NEA
sense: near-Earth comet
english: near-Earth object
translation: near-Earth object
word: NEO
OHMS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of On Her Majesty's/His Majesty's Service.
RSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Initialism of Royal Society of Arts.
glosses: Initialism of Republic of South Africa.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (“an encryption algorithm”).
RSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSAs
Senses: examples: text: The Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) is more than just a training course. It is a complete system which includes training, testing, reporting and operational policy and procedures support.
ref: 1999, Linda A. Jerris, Human Resources Management for Hospitality, page 516:
text: 2007, Transitions Abroad, Volume 30, Issues 4-6, page 65,
Note that it may be necessary to acquire a certificate, for example the RSA (Responsible Service of Alcohol) and/ or RCG (Responsible Conduct of Gambling) before being eligible for employment on licensed premises.
text: Add in tighter RSA (responsible service of alcohol) and the need to control crowd behaviour, and you can see it′s a fine line we have to tread.
ref: 2007, Peter Rix, Marketing: A Practical Approach, page 3:
text: In Australia, for example, many employers require you to complete a Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) course, a six-hour course about when to stop serving customers who have had a little too much.
ref: 2008, George Dunford, Matthew D. Firestone, Anthony Ham, The Big Trip: Your Ultimate Guide to Gap Years and Overseas Adventures, Lonely Planet, page 127:
qualifier: hospitality
glosses: Initialism of Responsible Service of Alcohol (a qualification and permit for bar staff).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of runway safety area.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of recreational sea angler.
topics: transport
glosses: Initialism of road safety authority.
RSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSIs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of repetitive strain injury.
examples: text: The heavy selling of ABCB shares appears to be in the process of exhausting itself, as indicated by its RSI reading of 25.66.
ref: 2025 January 2, “Ameris Bancorp (ABCB) Loses -9.76% in 4 Weeks, Here's Why a Trend Reversal May be Around the Corner”, in Yahoo! Finance, United States, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: Initialism of relative strength index.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: RSII
glosses: Initialism of rapid sequence induction.
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of recursive self-improvement.
at the end of the day
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Christ’s flock is but a little flock, comparatively conſidered, Luke xii. 32. &c. They are but little in reſpect of their numbers. Indeed abſtractly conſidered, at the end of the day, they will make an “innumerable company, which no man can number;” but, viewed in compariſon of the wicked, they are but few:[…]
ref: c. 1737–1754, Ebenezer Erskine, “The Sovereignty of Zion’s King. Being the Substance of Several Sermons, on Psal. ii. 6. The First Preached at Perth Before the Associate Presbytery, Thursday, Oct. 13. 1737, and Afterwards Enlarged upon at Stirling, for Some Sabbaths Thereafter.”, in The Whole Works of the Late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling; Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on the Most Important and Interesting Subjects, volume II, Edinburgh: […] D. Schaw and Co., […] for Alex. M‘Leran, […], published 1798, section “The Second Sermon on This Text”, page 530:
text: Arms control was always something between a sham and a sideshow. . . . [A]t the end of the day, a democratic Russia integrated into the West becomes no more a nuclear threat to us than Britain or France.
ref: 1991 August 5, Charles Krauthammer, “Why Arms Control Is Obsolete”, in Time:
text: At the end of the day, it is commodities that will have the biggest impact on the Canadian dollar over the next year.
ref: 2009 February 24, Levi Folk, “'Goldilocks' dollar is happy here”, in Financial Post, Canada, retrieved 25 Feb 2009:
glosses: In summary; ultimately.
Synonyms: sense: in summary; ultimately
word: ATEOTD
word: basically
word: essentially
word: in summary
word: in the end
word: to recap
word: to summarize
word: to sum up
word: when all is said and done
Related terms: in the cold light of day
RSPB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The RSPB says this could leave other areas such as wildlife conservation, air quality and water pollution forced to manage cuts of up to 80% over the two parliaments.
ref: 2015 November 11, Emma Howard, “Defra hit by largest budget cuts of any UK government department, analysis shows”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
RSPCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Related terms: SSPCA
USPCA
instinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: instincts
Etymology: From Latin īnstīnctus, past participle of īnstinguō (“to incite, to instigate”), from in (“in, on”) + stinguō (“to prick”).
Senses: examples: text: Many animals fear fire by instinct.
text: By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.
ref: 1921, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind:
glosses: A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.
examples: text: an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct
text: Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.
glosses: An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.
Derived terms: death instinct
herding instinct
herd instinct
instinctive
instinctively
instinct shooting
instinctual
killer instinct
survival instinct
instinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: more instinct
form: most instinct
Etymology: From Latin īnstīnctus, past participle of īnstinguō (“to incite, to instigate”), from in (“in, on”) + stinguō (“to prick”).
Senses: examples: text: The chariot of paternal deity […] / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: a noble performance, instinct with sound principle
ref: 1838, Henry Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III:
text: Her eyes, whose colour I had not at first known, so dim were they with repressed tears, so shadowed with ceaseless dejection, now, lit by a ray of the sunshine that cheered her heart, revealed irids of bright hazel – irids large and full, screened with long lashes; and pupils instinct with fire.
ref: 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor:
text: It was a most Bedlamite catalogue of horrors, which, if true, made the wholesome moors a place instinct with tragedy.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
text: This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
glosses: Imbued, charged (with something).
cognisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognisances
Senses: examples: text: She has no real cognisance, dear lambkin, of anything at all.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 28
glosses: Alternative spelling of cognizance.
wang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wăng
ipa: /wæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: wangs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whang.
wang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wăng
ipa: /wæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: wangs
form: wanging
form: wanged
form: wanged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To batter; to clobber; to conk.
examples: text: Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.
ref: 1993, Tom McNally, “Panfish on Flies and Bugs”, in The Complete Book of Fly Fishing, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283:
text: He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying.
ref: 1998, Barry Hines, “The Football Match”, in James Riordan, editor, Football Stories, Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 36:
text: After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.
ref: 2009, Mark Millhone, “Saltville”, in The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances: A Memoir, Rodale, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: To throw hard.
wang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wăng
ipa: /wæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: wangs
form: whang
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (“gadget, doodad”), or from whang, a dialectal form of thong (“strip of leather”). Compare wong.
Senses: examples: text: Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, pages 168–169:
glosses: Penis.
Synonyms: penis
Related terms: wanger
wangtooth
welly wanging
flatmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætmeɪt/
Forms: form: flatmates
Etymology: From flat + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: Yet when both Regine and her flatmate are at home they tend to spend their time in their rooms, although Regine (and probably the flatmate too) tends to spend more time in the communal areas of the flat when the other is not at home.
ref: 2002, Elaine Lally, At Home with Computers, page 149:
text: “So, it would probably [be] best if we could find another flatmate and go for a flat of five, and if old Chip does pull out, at least we can then drop down to a flat of four. What do you reckon?”
ref: 2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics, page 121:
text: Kamal moved Fathi′s things into his own room, and the two became flatmates.
The apartment in which Kamal lived was spacious, with several large rooms and various flatmates.
ref: 2011, Ghada Osman, A Journey in Islamic Thought: The Life of Fathi Osman, page 63:
glosses: A person with whom one shares a flat.
examples: text: It had been weeks since all the flatmates had sat down together for a meal. Communication was breaking down. Written notes had begun to appear all over the house; please don′t touch this food, I bought it especially for Hermione[…].
ref: 1993, Beryl Fletcher, The Iron Mouth, page 190:
text: One night, one of the flatmates (the one who owned the house) was ranting and raving all night about her girlfriend.
ref: 2003, Jen Birch, Congratulations! It′s Asperger Syndrome, page 51:
text: The position may have been different when your client was living in the house with the flatmates.
ref: 2007, CCH New Zealand, Top 100 Questions and Answers on Taxing Land Transactions, page 97:
glosses: A person with whom one shares any rental dwelling, not necessarily a flat.
Related terms: housemate
roommate
enthuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈθjuːz/
ipa: /ɪnˈθjuːz/
ipa: /ɛnˈθuz/
ipa: /ɪnˈθuz/
ipa: /ɛnˈθɪu̯z/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: enthuses
form: enthusing
form: enthused
form: enthused
Etymology: First attested from 1827. Back-formation from enthusiasm, from Ancient Greek ἔνθεος (éntheos, “possessed by a god”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”)
Senses: examples: text: a splendid performance, and I was enthusing over it
ref: 1970, Julian Huxley, Memories:
glosses: To show enthusiasm.
examples: text: The novelty of the film enthused the audience.
text: One of the museum's greatest strengths is its focus on educating and enthusing children from an early age, and it's something that Mullins is especially proud of.
ref: 2020 June 3, Sam Mullins OBE discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: To cause (someone) to feel enthusiasm or to be enthusiastic.
Synonyms: warm
Derived terms: enthuser
Related terms: enthusiasm
enthusiast
enthusiastic
deshopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deshoppers
Etymology: From de- + shopper.
Senses: examples: text: The deshopper is “stealing beauty” and robbing the product of some of its undetectable essence, without losing the quality of newness which is required for the product to remain returnable.
ref: 1999, Ruth A. Schmidt et al., “Deshopping – the art of illicit consumption”, in International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, →DOI:
text: They are the deshoppers - a scam that has cost stores £63million this year.
ref: 2004 December 8, “Deshoppers Make Returns”, in Metro:
text: […] there is almost no actual control over the behaviour as none of the deshoppers interviewed had ever been caught.
ref: 2006, Tamira King, Charles Dennis, “Unethical consumers: Deshopping behaviour using the qualitative analysis of theory of planned behaviour and accompanied (de)shopping”, in Qualitative Market Research, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A person who practises deshopping.
Related terms: deshopping
deshopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + shopping.
Senses: glosses: The practice of buying an item, using it once and then returning it to the place it was bought for a refund, having had the intention of doing so when buying the item.
Related terms: deshopper
adolescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd'əlĕsʹənt
ipa: /ˌædəˈlɛsənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈɖoləsəɳʈ/
Forms: form: more adolescent
form: most adolescent
Etymology: First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alēscere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.
Senses: examples: text: Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, Tirocinium:
text: Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
ref: 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:
glosses: Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
Derived terms: adolescently
adultescent
mid-adolescent
middlescent
nonadolescent
periadolescent
postadolescent
preadolescent
subadolescent
Related terms: adolescence
adult
adolescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd'əlĕsʹənt
ipa: /ˌædəˈlɛsənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈɖoləsəɳʈ/
Forms: form: adolescents
Etymology: First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alēscere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20:
text: ‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66:
glosses: A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
autofellatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auto-fellatio
Etymology: From auto- + fellatio.
Senses: examples: text: I am informed by a gentleman who is a recognized authority on goats, that they sometimes take the penis into the mouth and produce actual orgasm, thus practicing auto-fellatio.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 1:
glosses: Oral masturbation of one's own penis.
Synonyms: self-sucking
Related terms: autofellate
fellatio
ASEAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.zi.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈɑ.zi.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈæ.si.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈɑ.si.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈæ.si.æn/
ipa: /ˈæ.zi.æn/
ipa: /-an/
ipa: /ˈæ.si-/
ipa: /ˈæɪ-/
ipa: /ʔɐˈsi.ɐn/
ipa: /ʔɐˈsi.ən/
ipa: /ʔɐˈseɪ.ɐn/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Derived terms: ASEAN Common Time
Zigeuner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zigeuners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zigeuner.
Derived terms: Zigeuner sauce
gypsy moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsy moths
Senses: synonyms: spongy moth
glosses: A moth of species Lymantria dispar, destructive of many plants, of worldwide distribution.
Derived terms: english: now Asian spongy moth
translation: now Asian spongy moth
taxonomic: Lymantria dispar asiatica
word: Asian gypsy moth
english: now European spongy moth
translation: now European spongy moth
taxonomic: Lymantria dispar dispar
word: European gypsy moth
taxonomic: Lymantria dispar japonica
word: Japanese gypsy moth
bestest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: best + -est
Senses: examples: text: It was the bestest teddy I ever had.
text: You're my bestest friend in the whole world!
text: "Know that there have elapsed of this our day, which be Friday, and this Friday be the tenth of the month Safar in the six hundred and fifty-third year since the Hegira or Flight of the Apostle (on whom be the bestest of blessings and peace!)[.]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIX, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 304:
text: Crickey, I'm about sprung. Tarnally dog gone my shins if this beent the bestest puttiest longbreak yet.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 405:
text: I'm a Flavor Unit MC / And that means I'm one of the roughest, def-est, toughest, best-est
ref: 1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
text: I'm in his favorite sundress, watching me get undressed / Take that body downtown / I say, "You da bestest," lean in for a big kiss
ref: 2011, Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker, “Video Games”:
text: It had been the very bestest of bigly weekends. Two rounds of golf at his very own course in Turnberry.
ref: 2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: best; the best of the best
Derived terms: bestestest
bestest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: best + -est
Senses: examples: text: It's my first time behind the wheel, but I'll do the bestest I can do!
glosses: best; the best of the best
bestest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: best + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of best
Related terms: bester
goodest
bestestest