cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
FRLG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.
HGSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
video-games
glosses: Initialism of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
ORAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
Bz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of benzoyl.
Bn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of benzyl.
DPPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DPP
BW2
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: B2W2
glosses: Initialism of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
DPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DP
Pokémans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pokéman
Pokéman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokéman
form: Pokémans
form: Pokeyman
form: pokeyman
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Pokémon.
mock meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɒk miːt/
Forms: form: mock meats
Senses: examples: text: Giving tofu taste and seitan sizzle is a daunting task, but this casual vegan cafe usually succeeds nicely with a flavorful series of mock meat dishes that have exotic inspirations and attractive presentations.
ref: 2000 September 24, Craig LaBan, “Flavourful Use of Mock Meat”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: I've nothing against tofu or falafel, however, since they don't exactly taste like meat, and were never intended to serve as mock meat.
ref: 2003 June 30, Tuomas, “Vegetarian/Vegan Mock Meat Soy ultimashowdown”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: She satisfies carnivorous cravings with guilt-free mock meat at the Still Thoughts Vegetarian Restaurant, located near the National Arts Museum..
ref: 2005, Ann Mah, “Insider’s Guide to Beijing 2005-2006”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 126:
text: I saw this brand of mock meat highlighted by another member in FairPrice.
ref: 2010 November 16, Liang Yi, “mock meat-any feedback?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: At FairPrice, demand for mock meats like mock duck and chicken has risen by 5 per cent in the past year.
ref: 2011, Jessica Lim, “Vegetarianism on the rise as people become aware of health and environmental rational for eating less meat”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Mock meats made from vegetable sources, purportedly first created by Buddhist vegetarians, are especially important to Chinese vegetarian cuisine, although they are now eaten worldwide.
ref: 2013 June 4, “Mock Meats”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: That feeling when you eat mock meat and for a moment aren’t sure it’s fake meat. #VeganProblems
ref: 2015 September 29, zombie queen, “Twitter”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A type of vegetarian processed food, often containing soy, gluten, and vegetables, shaped and coloured to resemble real meat.
wikipedia: Beyond Meat
Hyponyms: beanburger
facon
not dog
soymeat
unturkey
mujra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Princes of royal blood and English Governors of provinces were eager to be invited by him, for he served the best of food and wine and sometimes, as a bonus and with admirable discretion, arranged for the most cultured whores from the city's old quarter to perform mujra songs and dances for them.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 7:
text: Mujra is symbolic of total submission before a royal patron.
ref: 2006, Martha Feldman, Bonnie Gordon, editors, The Courtesan's Arts, Oxford, page 322:
glosses: A form of exotic dance in India, traditionally performed by courtesans under the Mughal Empire as well as in modern forms.
maulvi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maulvis
form: molvi
form: moulvi
form: mawlawi
Etymology: From Urdu مولوی (maulvi), and its source, Classical Persian مولوی (mawlawī), noun use of Arabic مَوْلَوِيّ (mawlawiyy, “of a lord or master”), ultimately from مَوْلًى (mawlan, “master”). Compare mullah, maulana.
Senses: glosses: An imam; a Muslim doctor of law.
examples: text: He had a maulvi and a pandit to teach him Urdu and Hindi.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 10:
glosses: Any man of learning; a scholar, a teacher of Classical languages.
gori mem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi गोरी मेम (gorī mem), from गोरी (gorī, “fair, white skinned”) + मेम (mem), from English ma'am.
Senses: examples: text: At forty he had finally realized a childhood fantasy—to fuck a white woman, a gori mem.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 12:
text: Dark skinned as he was, he was most likely to be slighted and thrown out by that gori mem.
ref: 2010, Govinda Miśra, translated by Masooma Ali, The House with Five Courtyards, Penguin, page 211:
text: In the past, parents were concerned about getting a gori mem as a daughter-in-law, but I am modern.
ref: 2013, Eric J Lott, Life in a Cubicle, page 189:
glosses: A white woman.
anamorphose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anamorphoses
form: anamorphosing
form: anamorphosed
form: anamorphosed
Senses: glosses: To distort (an image) by anamorphosis.
Derived terms: anamorphoser
shota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotas
Etymology: From Japanese ショタ (shota) or a clipping of shotacon.
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Hentai anime or manga, or other Japanese-inspired erotic art featuring young, usually prepubescent boys.
topics: anime
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A fictional young boy character, especially one featured in such material. Typically drawn with exaggerated or stylised cute features.
Coordinate terms: loli
duotheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duotheist
input methods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of input method
centuriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin centuriātiō.
Senses: examples: text: One particularly aggressive proponent of centuriation was Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 192 to 211 and whose 400,000-man army was spread across an empire of 70 million people, from the Atlantic to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and from northern England to southern Egypt.
ref: 2015 November 4, Beppe Severgnini, “Let Refugees Settle Italy’s Empty Spaces”, in New York Times:
glosses: A method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.
pidgin English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn ˌɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɪ.dʒən ˌɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/
Forms: form: pidgin Englishes
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: The Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the Chinese and Southeast Asian coastal region.
glosses: Any English-lexifier pidgin.
glosses: Any very basic English; broken English.
riometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riometers
Etymology: Short for relative ionospheric opacity meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to quantify the amount of electromagnetic wave ionospheric absorption in the atmosphere.
departeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of departed
riometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riometer
neuromarketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuromarketers
Etymology: From neuro- + marketer.
Senses: examples: text: The practice has come under attack, especially by academics who accuse neuromarketers of selling junk science.
ref: 2015 November 3, Kevin Randall, “Neuropolitics, Where Campaigns Try to Read Your Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who works in the field of neuromarketing.
English-lexifier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having a word-stock primarily supplied by the English language.
raw_tags: of a pidgin or creole
neuromarketers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuromarketer
neuropolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuropolitical
form: most neuropolitical
Etymology: From neuro- + political.
Senses: examples: text: A political strategist from Brazil, Paulo Moura, says he has recently applied neuropolitical techniques for senior government officials in Russia.
ref: 2015 November 3, Kevin Randall, “Neuropolitics, Where Campaigns Try to Read Your Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: Relating to neuropolitics.
suburblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suburblike
form: most suburblike
Etymology: From suburb + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The neighborhood, a blocky parcel formerly known as Trains Meadows and about 30 minutes by subway from Midtown Manhattan, was created in the early 20th century as a suburblike development.
ref: 2015 November 3, Manohla Dargis, “Review: ‘In Jackson Heights,’ an Ode to the Immigrant Experience”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a suburb.
ultrarun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraruns
Etymology: From ultra- + run.
Senses: examples: text: Although data on longer distances is lacking, Deaner acknowledges, “since males generally have trouble making conservative decisions, they might be less likely to perform well in an ultrarun or hike.”
ref: 2015 November 3, Jennifer Pharr Davis, “On the Longest Hiking Trails, a Woman Finds Equal Footing”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ultramarathon.
Related terms: ultrarunner
ultrarunning
ultraruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrarun
specterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more specterlike
form: most specterlike
Etymology: From specter + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The weird, in this case, is that this mother and daughter, in specterlike fashion, can’t be seen in photographs or mirrors.
ref: 2015 November 2, Dwight Garner, “Review: In John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries,’ a Blur of Aphorisms and Magical Events”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a specter; spectral; ghostly.
anatomiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anatomisers
Etymology: From anatomise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He adds, " It is well known that the anatomisers of plants and animals, in order to investigate their structure, and to obtain an insight into the grounds why and to what end such parts, why such a situation and connexion of the parts, and exactly such an internal form, come before them, assume, as indispensably necessary, this maxim, that in such a creature nothing is in vain, and proceed upon it in the same way in which in general natural philosophy we proceed upon the principle that nothing happens by chance..."
ref: 1845, William Whewell, Indications of the Creator:
text: That means celebrity in an evil sense, you anatomisers of words would, I suppose, tell us.
ref: 1854, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, Aubrey, page 48:
text: The Board of Health had ordered that cholera corpses were to be tarred and limed and buried quickly and deep, but even that didn't prevent some of them being carried off and sold to the anatomisers.
ref: 2013, Laurie Graham, The Liar's Daughter, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of anatomizer.
VTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VT
VTs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of VT
anticorporatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + corporatism.
Senses: glosses: opposition to corporatism or to corporations
anticorporatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticorporatists
Etymology: From anti- + corporate + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes corporatism or corporations.
anticorporatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticorporatist
neofeudalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neofeudalistic
form: most neofeudalistic
Etymology: From neo- + feudalistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neofeudalism.
pseudo-compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-compliments
form: pseudocompliment
Etymology: From pseudo- + compliment.
Senses: glosses: A statement that sounds like a compliment, but really is not.
Synonyms: backhanded compliment
left-handed compliment
Chinese pidgin English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chinese Pidgin English
form: CPE
Senses: examples: text: The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y, though perhaps owes something to the pre-existing British English diminutive of miss.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:
glosses: An English-lexifier pidgin used along the Chinese coast from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Synonyms: Canton Jargon
China Coast Pidgin
pidgin English
Pidgin English
oviscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oviscapes
Etymology: From Latin ovum (“egg”) plus scāpus (“stem or shaft”), from Ancient Greek (Doric) σκᾶπος (skâpos).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The basal part of the ovipositor of some species of insects, typically the non-retractile sheath that remains exposed when the ovipositor is withdrawn and not in action.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The oviscapte or ovipositor.
attentionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From attention + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without attention.
oviscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oviscape
subsacrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsacrist
ultraparanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraparanoid
form: most ultraparanoid
Etymology: From ultra- + paranoid.
Senses: glosses: Highly paranoid or suspicious.
pumapard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumapards
Etymology: Blend of puma + leopard
Senses: glosses: A hybrid of a puma and a leopard.
pumapards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumapard
bassarisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bassarisks
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the genus Bassariscus.
bassarisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bassarisk
oviscapte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oviscaptes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ovum (“egg”) + captare (“to conduct”)
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The oviscape or ovipositor.
oviscaptes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oviscapte
Issoire lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Issoire lynxes
Etymology: From French lynx d'Issoire, named after the town of Issoire.
Senses: glosses: Lynx issiodorensis, an extinct lynx that inhabited Europe during the Pleistocene epoch.
poor man's umbrella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poor man's umbrellas
Senses: glosses: Any of the large-leaved gunneras.
poor man's umbrellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poor man's umbrella
Canton Jargon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: It originated in Canton.
Senses: glosses: Chinese pidgin English.
bao toh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌp˭aʊ˨ ˈt˭o˦]
Forms: form: pao toh
Etymology: From Hokkien 包刀 (pau to, literally “wrapped knife”), referring to backstabbing.
Senses: examples: text: Eh butok lah! Which bastard paotoh to teacher that I carry handphone to school? Now kena confiscate!
ref: 2003 September 1, “pao toh”, in Talkingcock.com, retrieved 02 Nov 2015:
text: I saw Gary looking at his textbook during the test. Wanna bao toh him?
ref: 2011, Jonathan Heng, “Bao Toh, v.”, in Singslang.blogspot.sg, retrieved 02 Nov 2015:
text: Don't pao toh (snitch on) me hor!
ref: 2014 July 3, David Lee, “Beng in Brazil: Not the Only Singaporean to Leave a Mark at the World Cup”, in Tnp.sg, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2020:
text: Hey! Don’t bao toh me leh!
ref: 2015 September 27, PeaNutButter Studios, “Everyday Singlish”, in Youtube.com, retrieved 02 Nov 2015:
glosses: To inform on someone behind his or her back.
joss houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joss house
Gous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gouses
Senses: glosses: A surname from Afrikaans.
Floyd-Steinberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First published in 1976 by Robert W. Floyd and Louis Steinberg.
Senses: examples: Floyd-Steinberg dithering
Floyd-Steinberg diffusion
a Floyd-Steinberg algorithm
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An image dithering technique that uses error diffusion.
machiam
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Kiasi cannot die; machiam machiam words
ref: 2000, Liew Geok Leong, Women Without Men, page 130:
text: Chennai (Madras) Photo: machiam our local pasar malam…
ref: 2009, Angel_Ling, “Tripadvisor”, in Tripadvisor.com.sg, retrieved 01 Nov 2015:
text: Machiam rojak! Very messy but taste shiok right?
ref: 2014-07-30, Owl International, “Singapore, We Are Ok! (National Day Song 2014)”, in Youtube.com, retrieved 01 Nov 2015:
text: Wah machiam movie star leh. . So handsome!
ref: 2015-09-16, Irene Ang, “Twitter”, in Twitter.com, retrieved 01 Nov 2015:
text: Machiam hipster like that.
ref: 2015, Denise Tan, “Burpple”, in Burpple.com, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2015:
glosses: Alternative spelling of macam.
Prester John
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: mediaeval folklore
glosses: A legendary Christian king of a distant Eastern or African kingdom.
Bela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A short river in south Cumbria, England, which flows into the estuary of the River Kent; in full, the River Bela.
stereotype tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereotype taxes
Senses: examples: text: Such taxes may result from stereotyping, conditioning, or imposed social roles. Merchants' discrimination on the basis of skin colour is a stereotype tax on Black Nova Scotians.
ref: 2002, Elena Hannah, Swani Vethamany-Globus, Linda Paul, Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A disadvantage that affects a person due to a stereotype about them held and acted upon by others.
hairdoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairdoos
Senses: examples: text: This frontier city's school officials have ordered all boys with "beatle" hairdoos banned from classes.
ref: 1964, Amistad: Magazine of American Society of Mexico:
text: "You see, Sharpay had a big wooly hairdoo, kinda like a head of dreadlocks that had exploded."
ref: 2012, Greg Akers, A Boy Named Nod from the Land of Norman: Book One:The Fog at Shiloh Creek:
text: "Scrubbed and tidied, the boys had fewer preparations, but girls and ladies needed hairdoos and attention to fashion."
ref: 2014, Alastair Macleod, The Third Norn: at Bennibister:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hairdo.
hairdoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairdoo
Wilhelm scream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilhelm screams
Etymology: Named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River (1953), one of the earlier films to use the effect.
Senses: glosses: A stock sound effect of a man's scream, used in numerous films.
Related terms: Howie scream
Wilhelm screams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilhelm scream
heavy heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy hearts
Senses: examples: text: “We lost,” he said with a heavy heart.
text: “Now, to begin today I want to ask one particular father and son to join me at the altar to read their special Father’s Day poem to the rest of the congregation.” With heavy hearts, father and son went up to the altar, and turned round to face the sea of empty chairs.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A strong feeling of sadness or misery
Derived terms: heavy-hearted
three-fifths
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: three fifths
Senses: examples: text: three-fifths of the population
text: a three-fifths majority
glosses: Three of five equal parts (3/5, ⅗, 0.6).
Related terms: fraction
wide-spread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wide-spread
form: wider-spread
form: most wide-spread
form: widest-spread
Senses: examples: text: High brick walls stand where once stood that rosy and graceful tree; and if there be one object more dreary than another, it is a high, blank brick wall: as little vestige is there left of the wide-spread common.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 231:
text: "[…] a danger that the strongest and wisest of mankind, in striving to attain to a complete mastery over Nature, should destroy her simplest and widest-spread gifts […]"
ref: 1999, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, William Morris on Art and Socialism:
glosses: Alternative spelling of widespread.
wider-spread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wide-spread: more wide-spread
widest-spread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wide-spread: most wide-spread
widestspread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of widespread: most widespread
one-tenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one tenth
Senses: examples: text: As with most other railways, freight revenue is the mainstay of the balance sheet. In Canada, passenger revenue is only about one-tenth that of freight.
ref: 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:
glosses: One of ten equal parts (1/10, ⅒, 0.1).
one-ninth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one ninth
Senses: glosses: One of nine equal parts (1/9, ⅑, 0.111…).
one-seventh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one seventh
Senses: glosses: One of seven equal parts (1/7, ⅐).
promocode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promocodes
Senses: examples: text: "This doesn't have to be a hard sell or promocode or free set of steak knives, and it doesn't have to be complex."
ref: 2012, Valerie Khoo, Power Stories: The 8 Stories You Must Tell to Build an Epic Business:
glosses: Alternative spelling of promo code.
promocodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promocode
promo-code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promo-codes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of promo code.
promo-codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promo-code
FG%
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of field goal percentage.
FT%
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of free throw percentage.
free throw percentage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free throw percentages
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A statistic computed by dividing a player or team's made free throws by the total number of free throws he or it attempted.
field goal percentage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field goal percentages
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A statistic computed by dividing a player or team's made field goals by the total number of field goals he or it attempted.
apperture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appertures
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of aperture.
appertures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apperture
sic bo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 骰寶／骰宝 (sik1 bou2).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese game of chance involving betting on the outcome of rolling three dice.
deauthorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deauthorizations
Etymology: From de- + authorization.
Senses: examples: text: The continued use of the mAbs may also reflect conflicting state government guidance, or lack of hospital awareness about deauthorization, the researchers added.
ref: 2022 January 9, Alicia Lasek, “Use of deauthorized COVID antibody treatments widespread in early 2022: study”, in McKnight's Long-Term Care News:
glosses: The process of deauthorizing; removal of authorization.
deauthorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deauthorization
sidelamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidelamps
Etymology: From side + lamp.
Senses: glosses: A light mounted on the side of a motor vehicle.
sidelamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidelamp
chilli crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many Singaporeans have fond memories of eating chilli crabs and cockles at its Upper East Coast Road premises, not far from the old Bedok Road, as recently as the early ‘ 80s.
ref: 1996 June 23, Magdalene Lum, The Straits Times:
text: Chili Crabs or Lobster: This is a popular dish amongst Singaporeans. It is also a common feature in the menus of famous seafood restaurants (along East Coast and Punggol).
ref: 2009, Beatrice Donofrio, 1000+ Indigenous Tasty Cusine of 23 Asian Countries-Comes with Food for Thought, page 565:
text: Considered an unofficial national dish of Singapore, chilli crabs are far messier than the black pepper variation thanks to the thick sweet-and-savory, tomato-based sauce in which it’s slathered.
ref: 2013, unknown author, Expat Edna, [blog entry]
glosses: plural of chilli crab
built environments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of built environment
chili crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chili crabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chilli crab.
chili crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chili crab
Kallang wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kallang waves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kallang Wave.
Kallang waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kallang wave
kopi aunties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kopi auntie
kopi aunty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kopi aunties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kopi auntie.
ragged right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A typesetting format having text flush on the left and uneven on the right at the line endings.
ragged-right
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: flush on the left and uneven on the right at the line endings.
raw_tags: of printed text
financial statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of financial statement
income statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of income statement
cafe hop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌkæˈfeɪ ˈhɒp/
Forms: form: cafe hops
form: cafe hopping
form: cafe hopped
form: cafe hopped
form: cafe-hop
form: café hop
form: café-hop
Etymology: From cafe (“coffee house”) + hop (“move rapidly between locations”); modelled on barhop.
Senses: glosses: To patronize a number of different cafés on a single outing.
Typhonomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtaɪfəˈnɑməki/
ipa: /ˌtaɪfəˈnɒməki/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τῡφωνομᾰχία (Tūphōnomăkhía), from Τῡφῶν (Tūphôn) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle, fight”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The battle between Zeus and the fearsome monster Typhon
baraat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baraats
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani بَرات (barāt) / बरात (barāt), ultimately from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).
Senses: examples: text: ‘There must be no lavish display of wealth, no big baraats or bands, exploding of fireworks and that kind of vulgarity.’
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 64:
glosses: A wedding procession carried out by the bridegroom in North India, West India, and Pakistan.
baraats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baraat
angelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪnd͡ʒəlɪzəm/
Etymology: From angel + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It is too simplistic to say that Aristotle has set up two extremes (what are traditionally called 'vices') — that of angelism and beastliness — and that he is trying to articulate a mediating position, a humanizing portrait of the "political animal" in between them.
ref: 1996, Louis A. Ruprecht, Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence:
text: For McLuhan angelism is characteristic of the Euroamerican world, with its historic emphasis on Cartesianism, while robotism is characteristic of the Afroasian and aboriginal worlds where detachment and meditation are valued.
ref: 2001, Donald Theall, Virtual Marshall McLuhan, page 77:
glosses: A doctrine that regards humans as angelic.
Derived terms: angelist
Teslaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teslaphiles
Etymology: From Tesla + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Disclaimer: While I admire the man's accomplishments, I am not a Teslaphile. That said, I am interested in help analysing the capabilities of Tesla's turbine design.
ref: 1993 September 13, Kevin D Quitt, “Looking for analysis of Tesla Turbines”, in sci.physics (Usenet):
text: 1998, WA1TBY, TNX W8WFB, Dixie Amateur Rado Club May 1997 newsletter, 73 Amateur Radio Today
Attention, Teslaphiles! You may recall articles by John Wagner W8AHB urging more recognition of Nikola Tesla and his contributions to science
text: The story I've always heard, as a Teslaphile, says that the concept (I don't know about the actual device used) was invented by Thomas Edison to scare people away from alternating current.
ref: 1999 October 5, Jim Schafer, Jr., “(yet another) List of incredibles!”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
glosses: An aficionado or fan of the scientist Nikola Tesla.
examples: text: Teslaphiles are also eagerly awaiting the release of the Model X, which is currently teased on the manufacturer’s website.
ref: 2014 August 6, Ben Geier, “Tesla says it has resolved a Chinese trademark dispute”, in Fortune:
text: While we were topping off the Tesla at the Supercharger in Gilroy, California, the gathered Teslaphiles laughed at the i8’s minuscule trunk.
ref: 2014 August 11, “2014 Tesla Model S P85+ vs. 2014 BMW i8 Comparison”, in Motor Trend:
text: As Teslaphiles like to say: “Elon Musk didn’t set out to make the best luxury electric car, he set out to make the best car.”
ref: 2015 November 4, Henry Payne, “Payne: The Ludicrous Tesla Model S P90D”, in The Detroit News:
glosses: An aficionado or fan of Tesla, Inc. or its products, particularly the vehicles.
trisula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisulas
form: trishul
form: trisul
form: trishula
Etymology: From Sanskrit त्रिशूल (triśūla).
Senses: examples: text: It may be wondered, at first sight, that the innumerable texts left by Buddhism give us no positive information with regard to the meaning and origin of the trisula.
ref: 1894, Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, The Migration of Symbols:
text: The trisula placed upon a pillar surmounted by flames is the monogram of Buddha.
ref: 1945, William J. Fielding, Strange Superstitions and Magical Practices, page ii. 15:
text: She had a trishul in one hand. Her long raven-black hair was left loose.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, page 96:
text: The trishula is most commonly associated with the god Shiva, one of the most prominent Hindu deities and the primary god in the sect of Hinduism known as "Shaivism."
ref: 2014, Micah Issitt, Carlyn Main, Hidden Religion, page 168:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A trident, seen as a religious symbol of Hinduism and Buddhism.
trisulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trisula
paanwallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paanwallahs
form: paanwala
Etymology: From Hindi.
Senses: examples: text: Shuffling his feet in the sand, head bowed low, Joseph stopped at the paanwallah for tea.
ref: 1994, Nurjehan Aziz, Her Mother's Ashes:
text: She looked the exact image of Mother India on calendars Victor had seen in paanwala’s shops.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 97:
glosses: Someone who sells paan.
paanwallahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paanwallah
-worth
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From worth.
Senses: examples: text: Well! he's doing well, now, partaking of a little boiled chicken, and an egg or so, while the average Britisher has a hell of a job to get a shillingworth of meat a week and has to queue up for hours for eggs.
ref: 1941, Betty Swallow, private correspondance, quoted in 2009, Dear Helen: Wartime Letters from a Londoner to Her American Pen Pal, University of Missouri Press, page 177
text: [S]he alone, to the best of my knowledge, has ridden far and fast in all weathers in the passenger seat, which is not a seat at all but the aforesaid oil tank, all 3½-gallonsworth.
ref: 1951, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage, page 104:
text: I sway in my uncertainty; should I drain this and go? or seek another pintsworth of that impenetrable mystery?
ref: 2005, Peter Finch, Grahame Davies, The Big Book of Cardiff: New Writing from Europe's Youngest Capital, Poetry Wales Press:
glosses: Denotes a quantity corresponding to the time, value or dimension of the suffixed term.
Derived terms: bottlesworth
cupsworth
daysworth
hoursworth
minutesworth
yearsworth
bottlesworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bottle + -s- + -worth.
Senses: examples: text: The facts are that, say, one of these 'bottlesworth' of this element and two of these 'bottlesworth' of this other element react to give this one 'bottlesworth' of this compound.
ref: 1967, Chemistry: Handbook for teachers, Nuffield Foundation:
text: A hogshead will yield something like 240 or 250 bottlesworth: the quantity is not constant, depending possibly on the temperament of the EEC citizen who poured in the wine in the first place.
ref: 1973, The Spectator, volume 231, page 719:
glosses: The quantity contained in a bottle.
cupsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cup + -s- + -worth.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Campaign, expecting some 50,000 to march down Whitehall to Trafalagar Square Easter Monday, printed 25,000 copies of a pamphlet of advice to marchers and ordered for snacks a ton of cheese, 120,000 cupsworth of tea, three tons of chocolate, 4 tons of fruit, and 5000 hot cross buns, as well as pies, milk, eggs, rolls, liver sausage, coffee, and cake, all to be sold at cost on the March
ref: 1962, David V. Edwards, The Movement for Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament in Britain:
text: Coarse-to-fine grind selector, "Stay-Fresh" container that holds up to 9 oz. coffee beans, and measure for up to 12-cupsworth of coffee beans. Shown in "marigold, " comes also in "tangerine" and in white. $50.
ref: 1977, House & Garden:
text: When ready to serve, beat the eggs and combine (in a separate bowl) with soup gradually until you have about a cupsworth.
ref: 1983, Sanctuary:
glosses: The quantity contained in a cup.
daysworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From day + -s- + -worth.
Senses: examples: text: [...] they will have topped off their aging auto's fuel tank and laid in a few daysworth of standby provisions and spare cash. Just In Case.
ref: 2002, John Barth, Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 333:
text: Spiers gives us the whole daysworth of exercise in one whack, a solid hour, and by the end of it I'm ready for my solitary, where I'll have to lie down a bit, exhausted, and wonder at the perplexing frenetic nature of life out there [...]
ref: 2004, Harold Strachan, Make a Skyf, Man!, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Even among the skeptical and conservative, we're told, many withdrew a wad of extra cash and laid in some daysworth of nonperishable food and jugged water, as their government's Y2K advisors recommended.
ref: 2012, John Barth, Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995-, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one day.
minutesworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minutesworth
Etymology: From minute + -s- + -worth.
Senses: examples: text: YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL: You may be selling soap, socks or sausages. Yours is a short life but a merry one — full of testimonials testifying, jingles jingling and slogans slogging. You may be a minutesworth of whys and wherefores, or a bright and breezy 7 seconder.
ref: 1959, General Electric Company advert in New Scientist, page 509
text: With 30 minutesworth of labor, through trade, they get food that would take them 45 minutes of labor to produce at home.
ref: 1973, Edward Foster, Economics: an introductory program, McGraw-Hill Book Co., →ISBN, page 368:
text: When, as happened several times that season, I was asked to address some particular topic, I would explain that as I hadn't five minutesworth to say just then on anything except my novel in progress
ref: 1984, John Barth, The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction:
text: [F]ly wheels with storage times of a few minutes looked 'very promising' for small to medium-size systems and flywheels that could hold ten minutesworth or more were 'likely to be very helpful in multi-megawatt multi-diesel grids.
ref: 1988, Modern Power Systems, page 31:
glosses: The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one minute.
yearsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From year + -s- + -worth.
Senses: examples: text: We've given a million pounds to these waterworks and we shan't live to use more than (say) fifteen yearsworth of them.
ref: 1967, Water and Water Engineering:
text: So she writes ten yearsworth of practice-fiction without making noteworthy progress except in language-mechanics and the range of her vocabulary, meanwhile accumulating mileage on her experiential odometer
ref: 1994, Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions, Random House Inc, →ISBN:
text: He didn't look like my father or my brother, Kath; he was my clone, only older. He didn't look like what I look like now, seventeen yearsworth of stories later; he looked like what I'll look like another twenty-some yearsworth of stories from now
ref: 1997, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 313:
glosses: The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one year.
hoursworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hour + -s- + -worth.
Senses: examples: text: This opportunity I snatched at eagerly, there being nothing else on in Finland at the time apart from a hotel video of The Lavender Hill Mob apparently dubbed by tree frogs with no adenoids, and was thus Saabed across several hoursworth of englaciated ruts to a vast gelid tract, equidistant from Pokka and Lokka, on which grew a million-odd trees.
ref: 1984, Alan Coren, Bumf, Robson Books Limited:
text: Sir, Despite the increased cost, we do like to flesh out our feature film programmes to give our patrons a full two hoursworth.
ref: 1987, Film:
text: Weightless as angels, we float an aimless celestial hoursworth through spectacular submarinity
ref: 1994, Lee Montgomery, Mary Hussmann, David Hamilton, Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction, →ISBN:
glosses: The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one hour.
rockabillys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockabilly
crêpière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crêpières
Senses: examples: text: Find the largest, flattest frying pan you possess, or a crêpière.
ref: 2011, Kerstin Rodgers, “Crêpes”, in Supper Club: Recipes and Notes from The Underground Restaurant, London: Collins, →ISBN, part 2 (The Recipes), “Vegetarian Main Courses” section, page 185:
text: Coming from kitchen king Tefal, the party crêpière boasts six non-stick plates, innovative heating technology and a stainless-steel ladle for your next soirée.
ref: 2020 October 14, “Retail Therapy: Gadgets and Gizmos”, in France Today, France Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2020:
text: Visit a crêperie in France (they’re as common as burger joints are in the US), and you’ll find a piece of cooking equipment perfectly suited to crêpe making. It’s a crêpière, a perfectly round gas-heated griddle 15 to 20 inches (38 to 50 cm) across. You pour batter onto it, spreading it into a perfect circle with a tiny rake.
ref: 2025, Steven Raichlen, “Crêpes and Co.”, in Project Griddle: The Versatile Art of Grilling on a Flattop, New York, N.Y.: Workman, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of crepiere.
boofhead tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊf.hɛd ˈtɔ.təs/
Forms: form: boofhead tortoises
Etymology: From boofhead + tortoise, referring to the large head developed by the female in old age.
Senses: glosses: A small turtle, Emydura macquarii, of northern Australia.
Cavalier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Charles Cavileer, an early settler.
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
Cavalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cavaliers
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: topics: dogs
lifestyle
pets
glosses: A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
qualifier: automobiles
glosses: A Chevrolet Cavalier.
Related terms: Cavalier County
Selz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in North Dakota.
emperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of imperialism.
pok kai
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔk̚ kai/
Forms: form: pokai
form: pok-gai
form: pok-kai
Etymology: Cantonese 仆街 (puk1 gaai1, “fall onto street, drop dead, go to hell”), from 仆 (puk1, “fall”) + 街 (gaai1, “street”).
Senses: examples: text: Out shopping, child to parent. “Daddy I want this, daddy I want that.” Daddy, “Daddy pok kai awreddy^([sic]), ask your mummy.”
ref: 2003, Sylvia Toh Paik Choo, The complete Eh, Goondu!:
text: Today I went to Swensen's for dinner, even when I'm totally pok-gai.
ref: 2010 March 12, “No Words”, in Pearl, retrieved 05 Nov 2015:
text: After buying my girlfriend her branded bag, I’m officially pok kai, please don’t ask me to go shopping or clubbing with you.
ref: 2015, “Pok Gai”, in Singaporelang - What the Singlish?, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2019:
glosses: Having no money; broke; bankrupt.
boofhead tortoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boofhead tortoise
novennium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novennia
Etymology: From Late Latin novennium, from novennis (“9-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Senses: examples: text: What he says of the novennium is an attempt at duplicity; he would have escaped with that if he could; he did not love to lie: What he says is that Ernulfus was a bishop a little over nine years […]
ref: 1871, Henry Scale English, Crowland and Burgh, volume 3, page 148:
glosses: A nine-year period.
Hypernyms: ennead
Related terms: word: novennial
word: enneaeteric
word: enneatic
ERG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ERGs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of electron-releasing group.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of employee resource group.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of electroretinogram.
Synonyms: EDG
ERG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: John Major struggled endlessly with Eurosceptics he termed “bastards”, while May’s nemesis was the European Research Group, or ERG, the longstanding alliance of Brexit ultras.
ref: 2022 January 8, Peter Walker, “ERG out, CRG in: the Tory factions Boris Johnson is struggling to appease”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of European Research Group (“Eurosceptic/pro-Brexit publicly funded political activist group subdivision of the UK Conservatives”).
Brocket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and village in North Dakota.
Teslaphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teslaphile
Edmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and town in Michigan.
glosses: A city and town in North Dakota.
neuropolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + politics.
Senses: examples: text: Many political parties and campaigns are loath to talk about their forays into neuropolitics, with many disavowing them or saying they did not believe the research was widely used.
ref: 2015 November 3, Kevin Randall, “Neuropolitics, Where Campaigns Try to Read Your Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: An academic discipline regarding the intersection of neuroscience and politics.
neuroresearch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + research.
Senses: examples: text: Most neuroresearch vendors now take great pains to emphasize their adherence to scientific and industry standards, transparency and ethics.
ref: 2015 November 3, Kevin Randall, “Neuropolitics, Where Campaigns Try to Read Your Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: neurological research
antiaggregants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiaggregant
antiaggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + aggregation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Prevention of the aggregation of platelets.
Related terms: antiaggregant
bioequivalents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioequivalent
genopolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geno- + political.
Senses: glosses: Relating to genopolitics.
caimanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caimanines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the subfamily Caimaninae within the Alligatoridae.
caimanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caimanine
dermorphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermorphins
Etymology: See dermo- and -in.
Senses: examples: text: BSA showed a clear liver distribution, while dermorphin was mainly distributed in the duodenum, followed by the liver, 15 min after i.v. injection.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Quorum Sensing Peptides Selectively Penetrate the Blood-Brain Barrier”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heptapeptide first isolated from the skin of South American frogs, and sometimes used illicitly to enhance the performance of racehorses.