cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chinsha Chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 金沙江 (Jīnshā Jiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹ Chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: For the remainder of its mountainous course the Yangtze, as the Chinsha Chiang or River of Golden Sand, continues to step downward by furious rapids in a great half-circle of eight hundred miles before leaving the Tibetan Plateau to enter the heavily cultivated Chinese farms of the Red Basin.
ref: 1952, Marion H. Duncan, “Westward to the Yangtze”, in The Yangtze and the Yak: Adventurous Trails In and Out of Tibet, Alexandria, VA, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Going ahead on foot he finally came in the following year to Chinsha Chiang (River of the Golden Sand) where he made a very important geographical discovery, namely, that this Golden Sand River was actually the upper reaches of the great Yangtze.
ref: 1961, Shou-Yi Ch'ên, “Early Ch'ing Prose”, in Chinese Literature: A Historical Introduction, New York: The Ronald Press Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 559:
text: Adding to the singularity of this physical formation is the Chinsha Chiang, which furrows a zigzag course on the northern section of the province before it flows into Szechuan to be the main tributary of the Yangtse River.[…]
Gold production has not been abundant, though the Chinsha Chiang earns the name of a rich connotation.
ref: 1980, Ting Tsz Kao, “The Southern Border And The South Sea Archipelago”, in The Chinese Frontiers, China Scholarly Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 252–253:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
Chin Sha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 金沙 (Jīn Shā), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹ Sha¹.
Senses: examples: text: Starting from the Tangla mountains it runs as a razor backed ridge some 3 miles high between the Chin Sha and the Mekong of Lang Ts’iang river until northern Yunnan is reached.
ref: 1917 November, H. von Heidenstam, “Report on the Yangtze Estuary”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XIII, number 18, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 748, column 1:
text: Immediately following the deliberations General Chiang issued telegraphic instructions to seven divis- ions of Kweichow troops, commanded by Generals Liu Hsing, Liu Chien-chu and others, to match to the succor of Yunnanese fordes, the report said. Szechuan troops, commanded by Generals Liu Wen-hui, Yang Sen, Liu Hsiang and others, are already marching southward, along the Chin Sha River, but are not expected to reach the front for some time.
ref: 1936 May 2, “General Chiang Arrives in Hunan after Visiting Yunnan and Kweichow”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 76, number 9, →OCLC, page 297, column 2:
text: It confessed that with the support and coverage of the “gang of four,” factional heads and colleagues have put all parts of Szechuan in their grip, especially the cities of Chungking, Chengtu, Tzukung, Yiping, Kwangyuan and Hochuan, as well as the mining areas along the Chin Sha River.
ref: 1977 November 13, “Szechuan province in trouble”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVIII, number 45, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha (River in China)
Related terms: Chin Sha Chiang
Creede
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A statutory town, the county seat of Mineral County, Colorado, United States, named after Nicholas C. Creede.
Derived terms: creedite
Hudsonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hudsonian
paroemiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˌɹiːmiˈɒlədʒi/
Senses: examples: text: Paroemiology, or the study and collection of proverbs, is a morass into which one enters at one's peril.
ref: 1978, David Kunzle, “World Upside Down: The Iconography of a European Broadsheet Type”, in Barbara A. Babcock, editor, The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society, Cornell University Press, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of paremiology.
Miles City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Collier County, Florida, United States, named after Miles Collier, son of landowner Barron Collier.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Custer County, Montana, United States, named after Nelson A. Miles.
Ekalaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Carter County, Montana, United States.
Kin-sha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙 (jīnshā).
Senses: examples: text: It seems probable, from the work of Professor J. W. Gregory and others, that the Kin-sha — that portion of the upper Yangtze with which this book deals — formerly continued on its southward course and reached the Gulf of Tong-king.
ref: 1923, F. Kingdon-Ward, “Appendix”, in The Mystery Rivers of Tibet, London: Cadogan Books Ltd, published 1986, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 309:
text: (1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.
ref: 1949, Han-seng Chen, “The Kamba and their Relations with Central China”, in Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China, Institute of Pacific Relations, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73:
text: In the eighth century, a Chinese suspension span over the Kin-sha River hung from iron chains, and similar bridges were built in Yunnan and in the mountains of Tibet.
ref: 1963, Joseph Gies, “The Engineer Vanishes from Europe but Appears in Asia”, in Bridges and Men, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha (River in China)
wikipedia: Postal Romanization
Rexburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ricks + -burg, named after the Mormon pioneer Thomas Ricks, under influence from Rex.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Madison County, Idaho, United States.
wikipedia: Thomas E. Ricks (Mormon pioneer)
GeVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GeV
Kin Sha Kiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).
Senses: examples: text: From Tsaidam, apparently, the travellers cross the range to which Prejevalsky gave the name of Marco Polo so as to strike the upper sources of the Kin Sha Kiang, which river they hope to follow to Batang, the Chinese frontier post on the main road from Pekin to Lhassa.
ref: 1889 November 14, The Bombay Gazette, number 12771, Bombay, page 3, column 5; republished as The Leisure Hour, 1890, →OCLC, page 139, column 2:
text: This river flows direct to the S.-E.; not only do the waters of Shuh run into this river, but even those of the Kin Sha Kiang (金沙江) join it at Sui Fu (叙府).
ref: 1915, James Hutson, “Irrigation Records”, in Mythical and Practical in Szechwan, Shanghai: The National Review" Office, →OCLC, page 37:
text: The 5th “Red” army corps is also making for Wuting while the 9th “Red” army corps is preparing bamboo rafts for crossing the Kin Sha Kiang (River) northwards to invade south-western Szechuan.
ref: 1935 May 18, “Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Urges Full Development of Resources in Yunnan”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 72, number 12, →OCLC, page 385, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
wikipedia: Postal Romanization
Kin-sha Kiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).
Senses: examples: text: In these days the Mo-so of the south, i.e. those who reside about Li-Kiang on the borders of the Kin-sha Kiang, and about Wei-si and Aten-tze on the Lan-tsang Kiang, being Chinese subjects, use exclusively the Chinese characters.
ref: 1894, Albert Terrien de Lacouperie, “Mo-So Hieroglyphical Writing of Tibeo-China”, in Beginnings of Writing in Central and Eastern Asia, or, Notes on 450 Embryo-Writings and Scripts, London: D. Nutt, →OCLC, page 50:
text: On the following day the waters of the Kin-sha Kiang, the upper branch of the Yang-tse, were seen near their junction with the Li-tang Ho, 1,800 feet below the track cut in the mountain-side, and the explorers had the delight of thinking that, since the days of Marco Polo, no white men had looked upon this river at a point so far distant from the coast. On February 1st the Kin-sha Kiang was crossed by ferry, and the province of Se-Chuan was entered.
ref: 1904, Hugh Clifford, “The Shan States and Yun-nan”, in Further India: Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China, London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., →OCLC, page 246:
text: Such practices are ascribed to many nations. Martini quotes something similar from a Chinese author about tribes in Yunnan ; and Gamier says such loose practices are still ascribed to the Sifan near the southern elbow of Kin-sha Kiang.[…]Mr. Cooper's Journal, when on the banks of the Kin-sha Kiang, west of Bathang, affords a startling illustration of the persistence of manners in this region.
ref: 1904, T. R. Jernigan, “Family Law”, in China's Business Methods and Policy, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 150:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
wikipedia: Postal Romanization
Chin Sha Chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of 金沙江 (Jīn Shā Jiāng) Wade-Giles romanization: Chin¹ Sha¹ Chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: The Ta Tu river above Wa Ssu Kou¹ is the Chin Ch‘uan (“Gold Stream”), the Yangtse for hundreds of miles of its course is the Chin Sha Chiang [Kin Sha Kiang], or “River of Golden Sand,” and many streams of less importance bear similar names.
ref: 1908, R. F. Johnston, “Pa-U-Rong to Muli”, in From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from Noth China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 195:
text: At the Chin Sha Chiang (River), during the Long March, Ch'en Keng and his cadets held an important bridge for five days, until the main forces of the Red Army arrived and drove off attacking White troops.
ref: 1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, →OL, page 99:
text: The “Flowery Miao or A Hmao” from Ya-Yu and Ya Pao of Guizhou moved to eastern Yunnan and settled along the banks of the Chin Sha Chiang river, then some later moved to southeastern Yunnan and finally to northern Vietnam.
ref: 2013, Thomas S. Vang, A History of the Hmong: From Ancient Times to the Modern Diaspora, 3rd edition, Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 209:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
Kin Sha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙 (jīnshā).
Senses: examples: text: Suifu, as it is universally called, or Hsu Chow Fu, as it is officially designated, is most advantageously situated at the junction of the two great rivers, the Min and the Kin Sha ("Gold Sand"), which here unite and form the mighty Yangtze.
ref: 1901, Archibald John Little, “From Kiating Back to Chungking”, in Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 227:
text: From the Chien Chang valley through which flows the An Ning river on the east, to the Tibetan frontier on the west, and from Ta Chien Lu on the north to the Kin Sha river (or river of golden sand) on the south, there is a stretch of country having an area of 40,000 square miles that is without doubt richer in mineral wealth than any other part of China, and one of the most highly mineralized spots in the whole world.
ref: 1916 July, Herbert W. L. Way, “The Minerals of Sze-chuan, China”, in The Mining Magazine, volume XV, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Very little was known about the geography of the Southwest until the time of Hsu Hsia-keh, who visited that area towards the close of the Ming Dynasty. It was only then that people came to know that the Kin Sha River was in fact the upper course of the Yangtze River and that the Red River, the Mekong and the Salween flowed into the South China Sea separately.
ref: 1958 January, Chi-yun Chang, “The Historical Development of the Land of China”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review, volume I, number 3, Taipei: Chinese Culture University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha (River in China)
wikipedia: Postal Romanization
Related terms: Kin Sha Kiang
Kin-sha-kiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).
Senses: examples: text: He dwells by the Kin-sha-kiang, which is the river of the golden sand, and his wife has the feet of a mouse.
ref: 1879, Benjamin F. Taylor, chapter IX, in Between the Gates, 6th edition, S. C. Griggs and Company, →OCLC, pages 116–117:
text: At length he reached the banks of the Kin-sha-kiang, on the borders of what is now Yunnan. Here his advance was resisted by the troops of the kingdom of Nan-Chow, reinforced by various native tribes.
ref: 1940 [1938], Michael Prawdin, “A General Onslaught”, in Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, transl., Tschingis-Chan und sein Erbe [Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy], London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, published 1953, →OCLC, page 311:
english: Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy
translation: Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy
text: If you drive out from K’unming towards the west you skirt the edge of the poplar-fringed lake and its busy inland port. The mountain sea is drained by the Putu-ho, an affluent of the Kin-sha-kiang, or River of Golden Sand, as the Yang-tsé is called in its upper reaches.
ref: 1942, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Little China: The Annamese Lands, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 137:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
wikipedia: Postal Romanization
south-wester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south-westers
Senses: examples: text: We spring out of our berths, clap on a monkey-jacket and south-wester, and tumble up the ladder.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of cap to protect against the rain
Chin-sha-chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng) Wade-Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: It is much more likely that the Chin-sha-chiang (reserving this name for the southward-flowing upper portion of the Yangtze) did actually continue southwards past Likiang, being subsequently beheaded by the upper course of the eastward-flowing portion cutting back westwards; the southern portion of the Chin-sha-chiang, being thus isolated from its source, ultimately disappearing.
ref: 1916 May, F. Kingdon Ward, “Further Geological Notes on the Land of Deep Corrosions”, in The Geological Magazine, number 623, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 211:
text: In a coracle of this form, Kingdon Ward (1913, 129) travelled 15 miles downstream from Batang on the Chin-sha-chiang, a tributary of the Yangtze; its length was barely 6 feet, the breadth 3 feet and the depth 5 feet.
ref: 1946, James Hornell, “The Coracle in Asia”, in Water Transport: Origins & Early Evolution, David & Charles, published 1970, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 100:
text: The great Ña(g)-chu, or Ya-lung river, which with its tributaries issues from the southern slopes of the Bayankara range and ultimately joins the Hbri-chu, now Chin-sha-chiang, on its left bank, has perhaps a more precipitous upper course.
ref: 1948, F. W. Thomas, “Introduction”, in Nam: An Ancient Language of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, pages 3–4:
text: In this connection, Wu Chin-ting’s investigations during 1938-40 in Ta-li Hsien, in the Lake Erh and Tien-ts’ang Mountain area of western Yunnan a little way below the Chin-sha-chiang, are highly important.
ref: 1977, Kwang-chih Chang, “Early Civilizations in South China”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China, 3rd edition, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 454:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
reef-tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reef-tackles
Senses: examples: text: topsail yards down upon the caps, and sails flapping and beating against the masts; and starboard watch hauling out the reef-tackles of the main topsail.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The ropes that are tightened to reef a sail or loosened to fully extend it.
fill away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills away
form: filling away
form: filled away
form: filled away
Senses: examples: text: It was just dinner-time when we filled away; and the steward, taking a few bunches of onions for the cabin, gave the rest to us, with a bottle of vinegar.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
text: "It appears that you have used the boat without authority, and permitted her to be taken from you by a parcel of boys. I will see you at my house this evening. You may fill away, Ernest , if you are ready."
ref: 1868, Oliver Optic, Breaking Away: Or, The Fortunes of a Student, page 286:
text: Using this as a snubbing line allows your boat to drift clear of the others and fill away.
ref: 2020, Charles D. White, Handbook of Sailing, page 162:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Let the wind fill the sails of a sailing ship and start sailing.
Cape Horner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape Horners
Senses: examples: text: No merchant vessel looks better than an Indiaman, or a Cape Horn-er, after a long voyage; and many captains and mates will stake their reputation for seamanship upon the appearance of their ship when she hauls into the dock.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
text: Yet such fellows are by no means uncommon at sea, for one often happens upon a man in a Cape Horner's forecastle whom Nature did not intend should be there.
ref: 1899, Paul Eve Stevenson, By Way of Cape Horn: Four Months in a Yankee Clipper, page 291:
text: The Morning Light (I) was built as a Cape Horner, in which service she made five voyages and performed creditably considering her sailing chances.
ref: 1955, William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail - Volume 4, page 2377:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship that sails around Cape Horn
examples: text: I had gone and seen the Norwegian Consul, a man in his sixties, tall and square, who had been a Cape Horner in the days of the sailing ships.
ref: 2003, Bernard Moitessier, Cape Horn: The Logical Route, page 24:
text: I received a message from Sir Chay Blyth congratulating me on becoming a solo Cape Horner and reminding me how few people could claim such a feat in a westabout direction.
ref: 2009, Dee Caffari, Against the Flow, page 100:
text: I bought a gold earring for Barrabas, her badge as a Cape Horner, as a tribute and a thank you.
ref: 2017, Adrian Flanagan, The Cape Horners' Club:
glosses: A sailor who has sailed around Cape Horn.
examples: text: Hour after hour this went on, the gale sweeping through the masts of the ship with the ring and fury, and with something of the icy edge too, of what used to be called a "Cape Horner;" the steamer plunging and rolling furiously upon the boiling summits, and in the midnight hollows of a genuinely angry and conflicting Channel sea; the engines sometimes slowly moving, sometimes coming to a dead stand;
ref: 1888, William Clark Russell, A Voyage to the Cape, page 358:
text: It was for a north-west gale, veering to south-west (i.e. a normal Cape Horner, which was bound to last for at least three days).
ref: 2016, Edward Allcard, Solo around Cape Horn, page 95:
text: In the teeth of a full gale, a real Cape Horner, he struggled to lower all sail whilst facing the biggest seas he had ever experienced.
ref: 2018, Nicholas Gray, Astronauts of Cape Horn:
text: We reduced the sail to a close-reefed main-topsail, sent down top gallant yards, and prepared for a regular “Cape Horner.”
ref: 2022, John D. Jones, Life and Adventure in the South Pacific:
glosses: A gale with icy rain occurring south of Cape Horn.
chinny chin chin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinny chin chins
form: chiny chin chin
Etymology: Originally from a repeated line of dialogue in the British nursery rhyme "The Three Little Pigs", where the term was used for rhythmic effect: "No, no, by the hair of my chinny chin chin."
Senses: glosses: The chin (jawline below the mouth).
wikipedia: The Three Little Pigs
chinny chin chins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinny chin chin
chiny chin chin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiny chin chins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chinny chin chin.
chiny chin chins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiny chin chin
Jinshajiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There are numerous spectacular views of the Jinshajiang and the 6,000-meter peaks beyond its east bank in Sichuan Province.
ref: 1988, K. Mark Stevens, George E. Wehrfritz, “Sichuan”, in Paddy Booz, editor, Southwest China: Off the Beaten Track, Passport Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 169:
text: Baoshan is an ancient village built on the rocks above the banks of the Jinshajiang River, 115 kilometers northeast of Lijiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province.[…]
The half-square-kilometer village is surrounded by cliffs and steep slopes. The Jinshajiang River borders the village to the east, and the high Maonui (Yak) mountain ridge rises to the west.
ref: 2007, Shunxun Nan, Beverly Foit-Albert, China's Sacred Sites, Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 196:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
semi-pro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semipro.
semi-pro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-pros
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semipro.
Chinshachiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng) Wade-Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: In bringing the above to the notice of the Throne, the Governor-General of Yünnan and Kueichow states that the bridge thus erected on the upper waters of the Tsuli or Chinshachiang is constructed of iron chains slung across the river and planked over, provided with a parapet and roofed in overhead.
ref: 1890 October 10, “Suspension Bridge in Yunnan”, in North-China Herald, volume XLV, number 1210, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 434, column 3:
text: Three weeks later Farrer was climbing up past the small cascades which led to the River of the Golden Sands, the Chinshachiang, as the Long River or Yangtze was known locally.[…]
Far below them all the thread of the Chinshachiang was woven like a single strand of gold into the gray- green of the twilight valley floor.
ref: 1958 December, Cordwainer Smith, “Western Science is so Wonderful”, in If, volume 9, number 1, →OCLC, page 82, columns 1, 2:
text: In this connection, Wu Chin-ting’s investigations during 1938-40 in Ta-li Hsien, in the Lake Erh and Tients’ang Mountain area of western Yunnan a little way below the Chinshachiang, are highly important.
ref: 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 426:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
semi-pros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-pro
Kinshakiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).
Senses: examples: text: The Yangtsekiang is much more calm and useful than its rival, and is formed by the union of two rivers named respectively and unpronounceably, the Kinshakiang or Gold-sand River, and Yalongkiang or White River.
ref: 1872 June, “Chinese Scenes”, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume XXXV, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 513, column 2:
text: With the exception of native troops who are employed in maintaining order in their districts, no Tibetan force shall be quartered to the east of the Kinshakiang River.
ref: 1920, Chinese Foreign Office, “The Tibetan Question”, in Asian Review, volume 1, →OCLC, page 167, column 2:
text: Government troops of Yunnan, Kweichow and the Central Government have been instructed by General Chiang Kai-shek to cross the Kinshakiang immediately to pursue the Reds.[…]
The main part of the Communists under Chu Teh and Mao Tse-tung is in the districts of Yuanmo and Wuting while part of them are attempting to invade the southern part of Szechuan in the vicinity of the Kinshakiang river, according to the Shanghai Mainici, on May 10.
ref: 1935 May 18, “Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Urges Full Development of Resources in Yunnan”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 72, number 12, →OCLC, page 385, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
wikipedia: Postal Romanization
Brexitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brexitish
form: most Brexitish
Etymology: From Brexit + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Brexitish notion that nation states can just withdraw from the rest of the world and wall in their own production is a cultural fantasy as delusional as any who punch “Australia first!”, “America first!”, “Britain first!” statements into the keypad of a Chinese-assembled mobile phone.
ref: 2017 May 1, Van Badham, “Worker exploitation: without an international minimum wage, we're all worth 10 bucks”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Brexity
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Brexit, or the attitudes thought to underlie it.
unpronounceably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpronounceably
form: most unpronounceably
Etymology: From unpronounceable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Yangtsekiang is much more calm and useful than its rival, and is formed by the union of two rivers named respectively and unpronounceably, the Kinshakiang or Gold-sand River, and Yalongkiang or White River.
ref: 1872 June, “Chinese Scenes”, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume XXXV, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 513, column 2:
glosses: In an unpronounceable manner.
theoryhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theoryheads
Etymology: From theory + -head.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is very invested in the theory (underlying principles or methods) of a given topic.
theoryheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theoryhead
IYKYK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: iykyk
form: ifykyk
Senses: examples: text: These, supposedly, are clothes for people without anything to prove. IYKYK.
ref: 2023 May 15, Amanda Mull, “There’s No Secret to How Wealthy People Dress”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Initialism of if you know, you know.
North Hero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the shire town of Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States, named after war hero Ethan Allen.
glosses: A township in Redwood County, Minnesota, United States, named after the town in Vermont.
Thampy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
that's Greek to me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's all Greek to me.
Casolaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
Jingsha Jiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The main stem of the river, the Jingsha Jiang^([sic – meaning Jinsha Jiang]), rises in the dry eastern plateau of Tibet and has the lowest mean runoff per unit area of all the upper tributaries of 0.009 15 m³ km⁻² s⁻¹, compared to a mean flow of 0.021 m³ km⁻² s⁻¹ in the Mian Jiang in western Sichuan.
ref: 1994, Ian Douglas, Gu Hengyue, He Min, “Water resources and environmental problems of China's great rivers”, in Denis Dwyer, editor, China: The Next Decades, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 192–193:
text: The first part of this section outlines the major mountain ranges and massifs in the eastern Hengduan Mountains between Jingsha Jiang^([sic – meaning Jinsha Jiang]) (River of Golden Sand) and Min Jiang of the Upper Yangtze River.
ref: 2003, “West Sichuan Highland-Yangtze River Basin”, in The American Alpine Journal, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:
text: The warm semi-humid agroforestry zone is where major rivers such as Jingsha Jiang^([sic – meaning Jinsha Jiang]), Lancangjiang and Nujiang flow south out of Tibet.
ref: 2003, Tashi Nyima, “China Case Study 3: Pastoral Systems, Change and the Future of the Grazing Lands in Tibet”, in Transhumant Grazing Systems in Temperate Asia, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159, column 2:
glosses: Misspelling of Jinsha Jiang.
starting fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starting fluids
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A volatile, flammable liquid which is used to aid the starting of internal combustion engines, especially during cold weather.
starting fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starting fluid
Blewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Bluish
Etymology: Blend of black + Jewish.
Senses: glosses: Of black and Jewish descent.
Bluish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Blewish.
ICYW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of in case you're wondering.
Related terms: ICYWW
automoderate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: automoderates
form: automoderating
form: automoderated
form: automoderated
Etymology: From auto- + moderate.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically moderate (a discussion forum, etc.).
Related terms: automoderation
automoderates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of automoderate
automoderating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of automoderate
automoderated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of automoderate
automoderation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + moderation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Automatic moderation of a discussion forum, etc.
dragboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragboats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drag boat.
drag-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag-boats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drag boat.
drag racing boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag racing boats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of drag boat.
synonyms: word: drag boat
drag-racing boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag-racing boats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of drag boat.
synonyms: word: drag boat
dragboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragboat
drag-boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag-boat
drag racing boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag racing boat
drag-racing boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag-racing boat
bubble gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble guts
Etymology: See bubble guts.
Senses: examples: text: “I admit some of the cafeteria food gives me bubble gut, but I can't connect anything in particularto the onset of a migraine.” “Bubble gut?” He waved a hand to forestall an explanation. “I got it. It's as self-explanatory as wonky.
ref: 2014, R E Mullins, Vampire in the Scrying Glass:
glosses: Synonym of bubble guts.
synonyms: word: bubble guts
glosses: Synonym of Palumboism.
synonyms: word: Palumboism
drag-racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drag racing.
Jin Sha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Jin Sha River, a tributary of the upper Yangtze River, has water with a pH of 8.0 to 8.5 maintained by a bicarbonate buffer system. The distribution and characteristics of metal particulates, and the adsorption of copper, zinc, cadmium, cobalt, and nickel on the particulates in the Jin Sha River were studied carefully [18].
ref: 1985, Ching-I Liu, Tang Hongxiao, “Chemical Studies of Aquatic Pollution by Heavy Metals in China”, in Environmental Inorganic Chemistry, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:
text: Leave 7am for De Qin. Enjoy scenery of the Red Blood Valley of Jin Sha River along the way. Have dinner in Ben Zi Lan.
ref: 2002 April 26, Li Dan, “Yunnan Offers Beauty, Mystery”, in Beijing Today, number 50, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3:
text: About six that evening, they motored beneath the Jiang’an Changliang Bridge and into the city of Yibin, known from ancient times as the source of the Yangtze. And so said Yong just as the Great River split into the Jin Sha River to the right and Min River to the left.
ref: 2007, Dan Armstrong, chapter 12, in Taming the Dragon (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha (River in China)
Related terms: Jin Sha Jiang
drag boat racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of drag racing which takes place on water rather than land.
in mass
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of en masse.
cockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: cock + -able
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
rail-transport
railways
tools
transport
war
weaponry
antonyms: uncockable
glosses: Able to be cocked.
northernisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of northernization.
Chinhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 金湖 (Jīnhú), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-hu².
Senses: examples: text: a) Strengthening the organization of fishermen by reorganizing the Kinmen county fishermen's association and establishing five new township FA's at Chinhu, Chinsha,[…]
Children of the Chincheng, Chinhu and Joint primary schools have also been supplied with milk.
ref: 1963, The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, pages 23, 37:
text: Soldiers Spark a Shopping Strip: Chinhu Village, located in the southeast of the island, out of the range of the Communists' artillery shells and protected by Mt. Taiwu, was just a place of windblown rock and sand without any road to the outside, before 1958. Later, people from Chinsha and Chinning to the north started moving in, and thanks to the purchasing power of the troops stationed at Mt. Taiwu, Chungcheng Rd. and Fuhsing Rd.now bristle with two or three hundred stores--the local people call the shopping strip "Shanwai" or "over the mountain"--and Chinhu has become the latest area of prosperity on the island.
ref: 1991 September, Chin-ju Chang, 光華 [Sinorama], volume 16, numbers 7-12, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15; republished as “Kinmen Changes into its Civvies”, in Peter Eberly, transl., 台灣光華雜誌 [Taiwan Panorama], 1991, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022, 島嶼行旅:
english: Taiwan Panorama
translation: Taiwan Panorama
text: […]the prevention and control of diabetes, Chinhu Township is chosen to be the pilot community. Together with the Diabetic Education Center of Kinmen County Hospital which is financially supported by the Department,[…]
ref: 1994, Public Health in Republic of China, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:
text: Six towns and townships make up Kinmen County namely, Chincheng Town, Chinhu Town, Chinsha Town, Chining Township, Lieyu Township, and Wuchio Township. The total land area is 150 square kilometers with a population of about 80,000.
ref: 2016 April 15, “Areas of Jurisdiction”, in 福建金門地方檢察署 [Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office], archived from the original on 19 May 2022:
english: Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office
translation: Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office
text: People holding miniature public telephone booths embossed with the Chinese characters for Kinmen attend a celebration in the Father Bernard M. Druetto Memorial Park in Kinmen’s Chinhu Township yesterday to mark Druetto’s 112th birth anniversary.
ref: 2021 January 30, “Love beyond time”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2021, Taiwan News:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinhu (Taiwan)
Jinhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪnˈhuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Kinhu
form: Chinhu
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金湖 (Jīnhú).
Senses: examples: text: The government of Jinhu County in Jiangsu Province said on Friday that 145 children had received oral polio vaccines after their December expiration date.
ref: 2019 January 14, Sui-Lee Wee, Elsie Chen, “China Investigates Latest Vaccine Scandal After Violent Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025, Business:
glosses: A county of Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
examples: text: Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song^([sic – meaning Liang-gong]) (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of Kinmen.
ref: 2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 201–202:
text: Kinmen’s second-largest settlement, SHANWAI (often referred to as Jinhu township), is mostly populated with young soldiers.
ref: 2015 August, Simon Foster, Stephen Keeling, “The Taiwan Strait Islands”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), 3rd edition (Travel), Penguin Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 364:
text: At a press conference Wednesday, the center announced that a pig carcass was found to have drifted ashore in Kinmen's Jinhu Township on Sunday (April 7).
ref: 2019 April 11, Keoni Everington, “3rd dead pig found on Kinmen shore tests positive for ASF”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2019, Food Safety & Health:
text: Chiseled into rock in Kinmen County’s Jinhu Township (金湖) are the Chinese characters for one of Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) favorite memes. Translated they read: “Remember our days at Ju” (毋忘在莒), referencing the Warring States period when the armies of the state of Qi were forced to retreat to the city of Ju. Once there, they regrouped and returned to regain their lost territory.
ref: 2021 May 26, Jerome Keating, “The Kinmen and Matsu challenge”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2021, Editorials:
glosses: An urban township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
memetic warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I believe memetic warfare could be effective in countering Daesh’s recruiting and propaganda efforts and in modern conflict in general, including operations other than war. Trolling, it might be said, is the social media equivalent of guerrilla warfare, and memes are its currency of propaganda.
ref: 2016 January 10, Jeff Giesea, “It’s Time To Embrace Memetic Warfare”, in Defence Strategic Communications, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, pages 68–76:
text: The concept of 'memetic warfare' emerged out of military debates as an extension of informational war and psyops.
ref: 2018, Catherine Happer, Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin, editors, Trump’s Media War, Springer, →ISBN, page 219:
text: Gamergate, "the Fappening" (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.
ref: 2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: That army was ready to engage in memetic warfare at any given moment, and it did. Throughout the campaign, Trump’s meme army monitored then candidate Hillary Clinton’s every move, sharing fabricated allegations of health problems with the hashtag #HillaryHealth.
ref: 2025 October 29, Alyssa Mercante, “Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The usage of Internet memes in an effort to achieve geopolitical goals or to enact social change.
Ghassan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to be named after a nearby lake of the same name.
Senses: examples: text: The Arabs or Saracens, who inhabited the district between Kirkesium and Idumæa, were divided into two kingdoms,—that of Ghassan, towards Syria, maintained an alliance with the Romans; […]
ref: 1744, George Finlay, Greece Under the Romans, William Blackwood and Sons, page 322:
glosses: A former Arab kingdom in the Levant which functioned as a client state to the Byzantine Empire.
Derived terms: Ghassanian
vitriolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vitriol (“sulfuric acid”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Even Mr. Adams restrained largely his irritability of temper and vitriolism of pen; but this patient submission was manifestly nearing an end.
ref: 1888, The Magazine of American History, volume 19, A.S. Barnes & Company, page 296:
text: He was certainly moved by the vitriolism of independence movements in the Indian sub-continent as he often talked passionately about Nehru.
ref: 2002, Anthony S. K. Shome, Malay Political Leadership, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: The quality of being vitriolic; a tendency to be bitter and ill-natured.
glosses: Synonym of vitriolage (“The act of vitriolizing someone; the act of committing an acid attack”).
synonyms: word: vitriolage
extra: The act of vitriolizing someone; the act of committing an acid attack
Olathe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /oʊˈleɪθə/
Etymology: Said to be from a Shawnee word meaning “beautiful”.
Senses: glosses: A statutory town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States, named after Olathe, Kansas.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A township in Johnson County, Kansas, in which the city is located.
macronational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + national.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a macronation.
Derived terms: macronationally
Hollywoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Hollywood + woke
Senses: examples: text: Hollywoke is hurting my country, my culture, and the movies I hold so dear. The industry that gave me so much joy for so very long has lost its mojo, if not its fractured soul. Let's hope it's not too late to save it.
ref: 2022, Christian Toto, Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul:
glosses: The Hollywood film industry, perceived as enforcing social justice ideology on its audience.
Related terms: english: Marvel films being perceived by fans as overtly left-wing
translation: Marvel films being perceived by fans as overtly left-wing
word: M-She-U
silly bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silly beans
Senses: examples: text: You are a silly bean, because I know it is you.
ref: 2011, Joe Janes, 50 Plays, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 277:
text: She didn't offer to drive him to the station. If he thought she was such a helpless creature then let him get a taxi. She wasn't a silly bean any more.
ref: 2020, Michele Gorman, The Staycation, Orion, →ISBN:
text: Cody, you are such a silly bean I missed you like crazy! How is Bells? Is Mom feeding them all?
ref: 2021, Gabby Seiler, Witch~Vamp, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Someone acting in a silly or foolish manner.
silly beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silly bean
areki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arekis
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink made from mixed grains and seeds, originating in East Africa
arekis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of areki
USCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of United States Capitol Police: a federal law enforcement agency in the United States with nationwide jurisdiction charged with protecting the United States Congress.
Swifty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swifties
Etymology: From Swift + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Credit where credit is due, it seems Rep. Ilhan Omar may be the one true Swifty amongst the bunch. Her Midnights cover art edit was posted on Sept. 2, more than a month before the release.
ref: 2022 October 21, Nikki McCann Ramirez, “Democrats Dial Up the Cringe With ‘Midnights’ Memes”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: Alternative form of Swiftie.
Related terms: Tom Swifty
hypermanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermanly
form: most hypermanly
Etymology: From hyper- + manly.
Senses: examples: text: Many lesbian and gay people define themselves in terms of sexual orientation, not gender. There are gay men, for example, who grew up desperately needing reassurance that they were just as much a boy as any hypermanly heterosexual.
ref: 2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Extremely manly; hypermasculine.
L.G.B.T.Q.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Though nonmonogamy seems to be on the rise — or at least society is more open about it than ever before — families consisting of three or more parents can face challenges that are in some ways different from, and similar to, those faced by divorced parents, single parents and L.G.B.T.Q. parents.
ref: 2020 August 4, Cynthia McKelvey, “The Challenges of Polyamorous Parenting”, in The New York Times:
text: The word “gay” is increasingly being substituted by “queer” or, more broadly, “L.G.B.T.Q.,” which are about gender as much as — and perhaps more so than — sexual orientation. […] “It is quite often a generational issue, […]” Jason DeRose, who oversees L.G.B.T.Q. reporting at NPR, said of the news organization’s move toward queer.
ref: 2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of LGBTQ.
L.G.B.T.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Another part is generational: Gen Zers — 21 percent of whom identify as “L.G.B.T.,” according to Gallup, a percentage that has nearly doubled in just four years — often use social media to frame the conversation.
ref: 2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of LGBT.
gather steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gathers steam
form: gathering steam
form: gathered steam
form: gathered steam
Senses: examples: text: He went on, “Like the term ‘Latinx,’ ‘queer’ was started by some humanities professor and slowly gathered steam. Then well-meaning radio producers and magazine editors thought, ‘Well, I guess that’s what they want to be called now!’ But I don’t remember any vote being taken.”
ref: 2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: gain steam
pick up steam
glosses: To increase in strength, popularity, or energy.
Related terms: gather speed
pick up speed
NEMCSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency.
shld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of should.
cld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of could.
wld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of would.