cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fuckableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuckable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is revenge enough for me to see them bring home a Bonnat of their wife, and never know that Bonnat or one of the later forms of Bonnat, has only given them a whore, has been stone blind to any attribute except fuckableness!
ref: 1982, Ross Anderson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Everson Museum, page 22:
text: And, cock ring, you can't deny the male fuckableness your bro is.
ref: 2013, Lila Rose, Holding Out, Lila Rose, page 177:
text: The universe might have made Shaw oblivious to his own fuckableness, but the universe had done no such thing to Matty Fennmore.
ref: 2019, Gregory Ashe, Orientation, Hodgkin and Blount:
synonyms: fuckability
fuckworthiness
glosses: The quality of being fuckable; sexiness.
te-he
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tee hee.
teefs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teef
teefed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teef
teefing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teef
te-heed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of te-hee
te-heeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of te-hee
tenpence to the shilling
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The British shilling was worth twelve pence, so tenpence would be a deficient exchange.
Senses: examples: text: I knew that chap; but he never was more nor tenpence to the shilling. He was one of the men, we say, who fell out of his cradle and knocked his head.
ref: 1909, Edward R. Hartley, Train Talks, page 4:
text: He felt no curiosity about news or daily events, and was getting to be looked on as 'tenpence to the shilling' in the head.
ref: 1951, Crichton Porteous, Wild Acres, page 203:
text: Whenever he did manage to engineer a meeting she always treated him as if he was only tenpence to the shilling, a few bricks short of a load, as if he needed another brain cell to qualify as a plant.
ref: 2011, Ruth Hamilton, A Whisper To The Living:
glosses: Mentally deficient.
Tavern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tavern
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: New Inn Hall, Oxford, one of the earliest medieval halls of the University of Oxford.
number closed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of number close
Fisher-Yates shuffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fisher-Yates shuffle
agitated the communicator
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agitate the communicator
agitates the communicator
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agitate the communicator
agitating the communicator
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agitate the communicator
Highlands East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township municipality in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
near as a toucher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very close indeed; as near as possible without actually touching.
have an accident
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has an accident
form: having an accident
form: had an accident
form: had an accident
Senses: examples: text: Michael had an accident at the playground. I had to take him home and change his clothes.
glosses: To urinate or defecate somewhere other than a toilet.
examples: text: Michael had an accident on the highway. His car was destroyed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, accident.
up a close
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From close (“dead-end street”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of up a tree (“in a difficult situation”).
synonyms: word: up a tree
extra: in a difficult situation
in prime twig
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In good order and high spirits.
left-handed monkey wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left-handed monkey wrenches
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: skyhook, left-handed smoke shifter, key to the midway, blinker fluid, muffler bearing, relative bearing grease, pigeon's milk
glosses: A fictional item, the subject of a fool's errand.
Related terms: snark
left-handed monkey wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left-handed monkey wrench
Grabham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grabhams
Etymology: Habitational surname from a lost settlement in Somerset, perhaps from Middle English grubbe (“grub, insect, larva”) + Old English hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
two-handed game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-handed games
Senses: examples: text: "Mr. Pillow, Sir, none of your impertinence, or I will chastise you as well as this fellow." "That's a two handed game, by thunder," said Long Tom, "[…] I dare you to deadly combat. […]"
ref: 1849, Masonic Signet and Literary Mirror, volume 1, page 379:
glosses: A game or proposal in which the chances are fairly even; a situation where one will get as good as one gives.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two-handed, game. (a game for two players)
two-handed games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-handed game
twopenny-ha'penny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twopenny-halfpenny.
slave auction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave auctions
Senses: examples: text: She wants to know if Mr. Howard will approve one of the student council's fund-raising activities: a slave auction. She didn't think there would be any problem with it, but the student council advisor thought it would be best if she and Chad, the activities chair, cleared everything with the principal "just in case."
ref: 1999, Arthur Wright Combs, Ann B. Miser, Kathryn S. Whitaker, On Becoming a School Leader: A Person-centered Challenge, page 156:
text: 'I've got a super idea,' queried ^([sic]) a ninth-grade girl. 'Why don't we have a slave auction like the high school does? We could auction off people to do a certain thing and then give the money for some cause or something.'
ref: 2022, Robert B. Everhart, Reading, Writing and Resistance:
glosses: A lighthearted fundraising event where people volunteer to be bid upon in an auction, and act as servants to the winning bidders for a short period afterwards.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slave, auction. (an auction where slaves are sold)
slave auctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave auction
go whacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes whacks
form: going whacks
form: went whacks
form: gone whacks
Senses: examples: text: You may go whacks with me in that, if you like, and then we will go whacks in the profits – when they come
ref: 27 July 1909, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Louie Burrows:
glosses: To divide the profits from an enterprise equally; to enter into partnership.
wet the other eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wets the other eye
form: wetting the other eye
form: wetted the other eye
form: wetted the other eye
form: wet the other eye
form: wet the other eye
Senses: glosses: To have another alcoholic drink.
torpedo-ram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedo-rams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of torpedo ram.
torpedo-rams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torpedo-ram
very like a whale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an exchange between Hamlet and Polonius (discussing the shape of a cloud) in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Senses: examples: text: 'On your way to dine with Sir William Ayr, indeed! Very like a whale that, captain, but not quite so large, you understand!' the sergeant said jeeringly.
ref: 1859, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, page 541:
glosses: Highly improbable; not to be believed.
financial accounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: management accounting
glosses: The field of accounting concerned with the summary, analysis and reporting of financial transactions related to a business.
Whitechapel brougham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whitechapel broughams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Whitechapel cart.
synonyms: word: Whitechapel cart
Whitechapel broughams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitechapel brougham
toss the pieman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses the pieman
form: tossing the pieman
form: tossed the pieman
form: tossed the pieman
Senses: glosses: To gamble with a pieman by means of a coin toss, either winning a free pie or forfeiting the coin.
wild Irishman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Isopogon ceratophyllus.
glosses: The plant Centaurea melitensis.
glosses: Synonym of matagouri (Discaria toumatou)
synonyms: word: matagouri
extra: Discaria toumatou
zero-edge pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-edge pools
Senses: glosses: Synonym of infinity-edge pool.
synonyms: word: infinity-edge pool
zero-edge pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero-edge pool
Wild Irishman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Wild Irishman
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: The train between Euston and Holyhead, in connection with the Kingstown mailboats.
painsong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painsongs
Etymology: From pain + song.
Senses: examples: text: Love's true willsong / Love's low plainsong / Too sweet painsong
ref: 1993, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, These are My Rivers, New Directions, →ISBN, page 100:
text: I tried to keep my hand high to stop my strong heart from pumping me dry, while I worked on the second stanza of my painsong. Nature had been kind enough to pop the finger like a ripe grape to take the pressure off.
ref: 2011, Dennis Kolb, Never Take Advice from an Unscarred Man, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
text: The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.
ref: 2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:
text: I'm undersized and quiet, mousy you think / and it irritates you to see me puffing my mouse cheeks / while I read at my desk. You don't know it's my teeth / my teeth a painsong accompanying what I do
ref: 2022, Linda LeGarde Grover, The Sky Watched, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A cry or feeling of pain and distress.
painsongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of painsong
effective altruist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effective altruists
Senses: examples: text: At the very least, effective altruists believe that our existing animal charity is misplaced: The vast majority of it goes to shelters, yet according to the EA organization Animal Charity Evaluators, in 2019, for every one animal euthanized in a shelter in the United States, approximately 6,428 farmed land animals were slaughtered for meat.
ref: 2020 September 23, Zachary Pincus-Roth, “The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders”, in The Washington Post:
text: It has also become an influential subculture in the Bay Area, where devotees commonly refer to themselves as effective altruists in the same way they might describe themselves as leftists or psychonauts.
ref: 2022 November 17, Annie Lowrey, “Effective Altruism Committed the Sin It Was Supposed to Correct”, in The Atlantic:
text: Effective altruists talk about both “neartermism” and “longtermism.” […] The movement itself is still a big tent; there are effective altruists who remain dedicated to targeted interventions with proven results, including vaccination campaigns (and, of course, antimalarial bed nets).
ref: 2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times:
text: Mr. Altman believes that effective altruists have played an important role in the rise of artificial intelligence, alerting the industry to the dangers. He also believes they exaggerate these dangers.
ref: 2023 March 31, Cade Metz, “The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proponent of effective altruism ("a philosophy and social movement that advocates the use of evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others").
effective altruists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effective altruist
plug into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plugs into
form: plugging into
form: plugged into
form: plugged into
Senses: examples: text: I spent ages trying to fix my computer, before realizing that it wasn't plugged into the wall.
glosses: To connect an electric device into something using a plug.
examples: text: Those data points, and others, plug into an artificial intelligence model they’ve made. It spits out recommendations to each store leader, such as how many pies need to be on-hand in their shops by the hour. Last year, Sam’s Club sold enough pumpkin pies to fill up 450 football fields, officials said. (They declined to give an exact figure.)
ref: 2022 November 24, Pranshu Verma, “Sam's Club's AI knows how much pumpkin pie you'll eat this holiday”, in Washington Post:
glosses: To join something in the manner of a plug.
examples: text: Environmental education is just now grappling with this: how to enable a populace that will change jobs and locations frequently to plug into what is ecologically important in preserving whatever landscape it finds itself in?
ref: 1997 October 24, Tom Horton, “Michener's 'Chesapeake' revisited Novel: While not a masterpiece, the book enables readers to plug into what is ecologically important.”, in The Baltimore Sun:
glosses: To become aware of or knowledgeable about.
examples: text: If you know two sides of a right triangle, you can find the third by plugging them into the Pythagorean Theorem.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To replace a variable with a number in order to solve an equation.
Related terms: plug in
plugs into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plug into
plugging into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plug into
plugged into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plug into
plate out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plates out
form: plating out
form: plated out
form: plated out
Senses: examples: text: In this galvanic cell, Ag⁺ ions are reduced into metallic silver and plate out onto an electrode.
text: You will observe copper metal plating out on the surface of the steel wool within minutes of its introduction into the solution.
ref: 2007, Cathy Cobb, Monty L. Fetterolf, Jack G. Goldsmith, Crime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 212:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To be neutralized and deposited onto a solid surface.
raw_tags: of an aqueous ion
examples: text: Electrolysis or electrochemical deposition may be used either to plate out the active material of interest or to plate out other substances leaving the active material in solution.
ref: 2009, Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry - Volume I, Eolss Publishers, →ISBN, page 203:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause to plate out.
Related terms: word: plate-out
plates out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plate out
plating out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plate out
plated out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plate out
witchhunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchhunters
Senses: examples: text: The witchhunters were howled out of town by crowds of demonstrators, protestors. The witchhunters circled around and landed safe in their offices.
ref: 1994 January 1, Roberta Fernàndez, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Arte Publico Press, →ISBN, page 168:
text: A witchhunter had one job, after all. Even if Mivoli was legal and licensed and paid his dues to House D'Laakar strictly on time, I was still dressed up as something that nightmares were made from. I watched a determined look come over[…]
ref: 2019 February 5, Jenn Lyons, The Ruin of Kings, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 440:
text: he was following her father the witchhunter to work. “I liked any chance to be with him. He was fun.” […] He was the mighty Commander Brum, unyielding, the ruthless witchhunter, Fjerda's scythe.
ref: 2021 March 30, Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves, Imprint, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of witch hunter.
witchhunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchhunter
witch hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch hunters
form: witch-hunter
form: witchhunter
Senses: glosses: A person employed to find witches as part of a witch-hunt; a witchfinder.
examples: text: Now, however, Ford wrote, “Those days are over; there are no more witch-hunters” because Trump has gotten rid of them all.
ref: 2025 July 22, Jennifer Bowers Bahney, “'Struggling' Trump spirals as 'usual playbook' fails to get him out of jam: report”, in Raw Story:
glosses: One who undertakes a witch-hunt (a public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group).
Related terms: witchfinder
witch hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch hunter
plate-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If the plate-out problem is related to stabilizer composition, great help can be obtained from the stabilizer manufacturers, which for the most part can adjust the composition of their highly proprietary products to minimize these problems.
ref: 2017, Engineering with Rigid PVC, CRC Press, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That which has plated out; dissolved metal deposited onto a solid surface.
concentration cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concentration cells
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A galvanic cell in which both half cells are of the same composition, differing only by concentration.
concentration cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concentration cell
galvanic cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galvanic cells
Etymology: Named after Italian physicist Luigi Galvani, who made early experiments in electricity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: voltaic cell
glosses: A device that produces an electric current through simultaneous oxidation and reduction reactions occurring at two connected half cells.
wikipedia: Luigi Galvani
galvanic cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galvanic cell
figura etymologica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figurae etymologicae
Senses: glosses: A multiword figure of speech in which two or more different words are etymologically related.
Related terms: cognate accusative
polyptoton
figurae etymologicae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figura etymologica
zaftige
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zaftige
form: most zaftige
Senses: examples: text: By his description the same broad. A zaftige piece too, in a mink stole.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XXII, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 460:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zaftig.
Axis progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the name of a musical comedy group, The Axis of Awesome, whose 2009 song Four Chords comments on the ubiquity of this progression.
Senses: examples: text: The Axis progression in the key of C:
{1}
ref: 2017, Mark Richards, “Tonal Ambiguity in Popular Music's Axis Progressions”, in Music Theory Online:
glosses: A chord progression, I–V–vi–IV, used in Western popular music, common since the 1970s.
wikipedia: The Axis of Awesome
turn in succession
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns in succession
form: turning in succession
form: turned in succession
form: turned in succession
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: To change course one at a time in sequence, with all ships following the track of the leading ship as if on rails and turning at the same location, so as to preserve the layout of the battleline throughout the turn.
raw_tags: of ships in a line of battle
Coordinate terms: turn together
turned in succession
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn in succession
turns in succession
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn in succession
turning in succession
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn in succession
JWROS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The vast majority of banks set up all of their joint accounts as "Joint with Rights of Survivorship" (JWROS).
ref: 2018 December 5, The Trouble with Joint Bank Accounts 'Just in Case', kiplinger.com (retrieved 24 Nov 2022)
text: You can own assets jointly with rights of survivorship (JWROS). At the death of one joint owner, the assets go to the survivor.
ref: 2019 February 7, What is Probate and Should You Avoid It? Part I, Downs Law Firm (retrieved 24 Nov 2022)
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Joint with Rights of Survivorship Indicating that a property is owned by two or more individuals, usually in equal portions, and that, on the death of one individual, the property will continue to be owned by the surviving individual(s).
Synonyms: ROS
WROS
JTWROS
WROS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of with rights of survivorship Synonym of JWROS.
JTWROS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Joint Tenancy with Rights of Survivorship Synonym of JWROS.
kill filed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kill file
kill filing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kill file
turn together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns together
form: turning together
form: turned together
form: turned together
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: To change course simultaneously, without waiting to reach the turning point of the leading ship.
raw_tags: of ships in a line of battle
Coordinate terms: turn in succession
turned together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn together
turns together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn together
turning together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn together
cycle off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cycles off
form: cycling off
form: cycled off
form: cycled off
Senses: glosses: To leave by means of bicycle.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To discontinue the intake of for the time being.
do the dash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the dash
form: doing the dash
form: did the dash
form: done the dash
Senses: glosses: To hurriedly part with one’s current location, to escape, to flee the scene.
cycled off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cycle off
dabloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːn
Forms: form: dabloons
form: doubloon
Etymology: From English doubloon, a former Spanish gold coin.
Senses: examples: text: Alexis Bishop, an actor who lives in Orlando, Fla., keeps track of her 174 dabloons on a whiteboard in her office.
ref: 2022 November 24, Anna Grace Lee, Callie Holtermann, “What Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 25 Nov 2022:
text: This is likely unintentional, stemming from financially literate users building on posts that give away unreasonable quantities of dabloons, but it’s amusingly managed to simulate a real financial disaster without any of its discourse.
ref: 2022 November 24, Jess Weatherbed, “Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?”, in The Verge, retrieved 25 Nov 2022:
glosses: A fictional currency among certain TikTok users, earned and lost by random encounters while scrolling, and associated with pictures of cats.
Derived terms: Dabloonian
waterfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterfast
form: most waterfast
Etymology: From water + fast. Cognate with Scots wattirfast (“watertight”), West Frisian wetterfêst (“waterproof”), Dutch watervast (“waterproof”), German wasserfest (“waterproof”), Danish vandfast (“waterproof”), Swedish vattenfast (“waterproof”).
Senses: glosses: watertight
examples: text: If you spot paste, and your paper is waterfast, wipe at once with a damp cloth or sponge. If the paper is not waterfast, wipe with a dry cloth.
ref: 1953, August G. Lockwood, Norman E. Stanton, How to Finish Your Attic and Basement Yourself, page 166:
text: A waterfast sunscreen, in other words, a product that stays on well despite swimming or heavy perspiration, is also advisable.
ref: 2000, Nelson Novick M.D, Baby Skin:
glosses: waterproof
`lt`/s`gt`
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Forms: form: 

Senses: glosses: Alternative form of /s.
roider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roiders
Etymology: From roid (“anabolic steroids”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My then teenage son would come home from gyms around Newport with tales of 'roiders – both rugby players and boys "getting ripped" to look good.
ref: 2015 November 26, Steve Howell, “How many rugby players use steroids? It’s more like how many don’t”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Someone who uses steroids for muscle growth.
Related terms: roid rage
roider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roiders
Etymology: From roid (“asteroid”) + -er.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person who mines asteroids for a living.
roiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roider
board-shorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From board shorts + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: By the time the men’s final was under way an estimated 25,000 bikini-clad and board-shorted surf lovers were there to watch.
ref: 1985 November 25, Michael Cockerill, “The day Steel City ruled the waves”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 46,149, page 48:
text: She greeted the bikini-clad and board-shorted onlookers politely between poses for photographs that apparently were destined for a weekly magazine.
ref: 1988 January 6, Wendy Tuohy, “Still a place to be seen and overheard”, in The Age, number 41,374, page 8:
text: Hippies and surfers have been heading to this unremarkable looking village since the 1970s, creating a unique micro-community where men in djellabas share a table with boardshorted surfers.
ref: 2004, Chris Nelson, Demi Taylor, Surfing Europe, Footprint, →ISBN, page 366:
text: Shirtless, board-shorted and weary behind their aviator sunglasses, they’d made it through the first night of the Electric Daisy Carnival, the dance-music bacchanal that has become America’s largest multiday music festival.
ref: 2014 June 23, August Brown, “Gathering of the EDM tribes in Vegas”, in Los Angeles Times, page D3:
glosses: Wearing board shorts.
ram bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ram bows
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A bow that projects forwards below the waterline into a reinforced blade or point, used to sink other ships by ramming.
wikipedia: HMS Polyphemus (1881)
ram bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ram bow
boardshort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Kapaa (cousin to the famous Miura Store boardshort makers of Haleiwa), […]
ref: 2000, Leonard Lueras, Lorca Lueras, Surfing Hawaii: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Challenging Waves, Periplus Editions, →ISBN:
text: […] however, the company does recommend, ‘If you doubt yourself, wear something else’, which is reinforced by the boardshort collections currently outperforming briefs in terms of sales (personal correspondence 2010). […] Boardshort design evolved in response to the surfer’s need for a functional and durable garment that did not restrict movement while surfing; […]
ref: 2012, Christine Schmidt, The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk, Berg, →ISBN, pages 120 and 132–133:
text: (Wetsuit and boardshort makers similarly experimented with limestone-based “geoprene” instead of petroleum-based neoprene for wetsuits, and recycled plastic or organic cotton instead of synthetic nylon or polyester boardshorts.)
ref: 2013, Peter Westwick, Peter Neushul, The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 306:
text: Kyle slipped his hands into his pastel pink boardshort pockets.
ref: 2017, Dani Pettrey, Still Life (Chesapeake Valor; book 2), Bethany House, →ISBN:
text: Now he was shoving them back into his boardshort pockets, she could feel the spring chill creeping back into her.
ref: 2022, Anita Faulkner, A Colourful Country Escape, Sphere, →ISBN:
glosses: Attributive form of boardshorts.
examples: text: Being a surfer of a few years, I take care to find a boardshort that is both durable and good looking.
ref: 1982, Surfing, volume 18, number 10, page 8:
text: Roxy lays claim to a surf-fashion coup—the boardshort, a fashion-forward design that combined fit and flexibility with a more feminine styling. The boardshort, so the Roxy version goes, was developed in a brainstorming session with Roxy’s fashion designers and Lisa Andersen, by then a sponsored member of the Roxy team.
ref: 2008, Linda Chase, Surfing: Women of the Waves, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 70:
text: You can’t beat a board short for slimming muscular thighs.
ref: 2008 May, Women’s Health, page 137:
text: The style of the boardshort was not immune to fashion trends of color, motif, and cut.
ref: 2014, Malie Moran, Attila Pohlmann, Andrew Reilly, Honolulu Street Style, Intellect, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Boardshorts.
boardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boardier
form: boardiest
Etymology: From board + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Produces a full, firm, and harsh feel often described as a boardy feel, in cloth filled with it.
ref: 1934, Report of the Millowners’ Association, page 275:
text: Gone, too, are the days of boardy, heavy clothes for hot-weather wear.
ref: 1939 June 5, “America Gets Rid of Deadweight”, in Life, page 12:
text: Rice starch, on the other hand, penetrates better and gives a harder finish, with a fullness and firmness which is apt to be regarded as “boardy”; […]
ref: 1944, Dyestuffs, page 187:
text: Rice starch gives clothes a boardy effect. It makes the fabric firm because it has good penetration into the cellulosic fibre.
ref: 1998, Noemia D’Souza, Fabric Care, New Age International Publishers, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Having the texture of a hard board; inflexible and stiff.
raw_tags: of a fabric
lai see
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lai sees
Etymology: From Cantonese 利市 (lai6 si6).
Senses: glosses: Lucky money.
restirrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restirring
passport prison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A country where one is residing for the purpose of obtaining the passport or permanent residency of the country.
Related terms: astronaut
marmalader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marmaladers
Etymology: From marmalade + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But is it really necessary for rivalrous marmaladers to circumnavigate the planet, flying all the way from Australia to Lake Windermere to show off their marmalade at a marmalade festival?
ref: 2021, Lucy Ellmann, Things Are Against Us:
glosses: A maker of marmalade.
environeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of environ
environest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: thou environest all the world, thou givest light to the Sunne
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of environ
fiercelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fiercely: more fiercely
fierceliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fiercely: most fiercely
mental model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mental models
Etymology: Introduced by Scottish philosopher Kenneth Craik in The Nature of Explanation (1943).
Senses: examples: text: My mental model, however, extends over multiple time periods. In time period one, you import a large number of guest workers who impose adjustment costs on their neighbors, including other immigrants with whom they compete for resources.
ref: 2007 December 31, Megan McArdle, “Mental models of immigration”, in The Atlantic:
text: […] who argue that we still have biologically fixed Stone Age minds constituted by mental models evolved to solve problems of Pleistocene environments, principally those of the African savanna of three million years ago.
ref: 2008 January 24, Steven Mithen, “When We Were Nicer”, in London Review of Books, volume 30, number 02, →ISSN:
text: We are the aggregation of how all our thoughts, feelings and experiences connect. This gestalt forms a perspective of the world as we see it. It's kind of like a miniature version of the world in our heads—a “mental model” if you will.
ref: 2011 March 18, James Fallows, “Digital Introspection and the Importance of Self-Knowledge”, in The Atlantic:
text: Prior to the use of an automated system, a driver's initial mental model is constructed based on a variety of information sources, which may include a vehicle owner's manual, perceptions of other related technologies, word-of-mouth, marketing information, etc.
ref: 2020, Donald L. Fisher, William J. Horrey, John D. Lee, Michael A. Regan, editors, Handbook of Human Factors for Automated, Connected, and Intelligent Vehicles, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone's understanding of how a system works.
wikipedia: Kenneth Craik
mental models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mental model
deep time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American writer John McPhee in 1981.
Senses: examples: text: Numbers do not seem to work well with regard to deep time. Any number above a couple of thousand years—fifty thousand, fifty million—will with nearly equal effect awe the imagination to the point of paralysis.
ref: 1981, John McPhee, Basin and Range, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Yet deep time seemed impervious to the methods of conventional history writing, a state of affairs captured in the word coined to describe this newly remote past: prehistory.
ref: 2011, Andrew Shryock, Daniel Lord Smail, Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present, University of California Press, →ISBN, page x:
text: The organization of deep time was the special mission of geology, and it set about chronicling rocks into a temporal stratigraphy.
ref: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, “Eiszeit and Zeitgeist”, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: But Hutton’s insights really came into their own in the Romantic era of the 19th century. The affective register of deep time was one of terror and wonder, fashioned to fit a vision of the sublime that transcended and yet somehow affirmed humanity.
ref: 2016 October 31, David Farrier, “How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing”, in The Atlantic:
text: The events of 1859 brought humans and geology together. The idea of deep time was not new. It had been conclusively demonstrated by the international efforts of many geologists culminating, for the British, in Charles Lyell's (1797–1875) Principles of Geology published in three volumes between 1830 and 1833—a book which accompanied Darwin on The Beagle.
ref: 2021, Clive Gamble, Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: Sellafield compels this kind of gaze into the abyss of deep time because it is a place where multiple time spans – some fleeting, some cosmic – drift in and out of view.
ref: 2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of geologic time.
synonyms: word: geologic time
Related terms: deep history
big history
geologic time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geological time
Senses: examples: text: Geologic time is simply time used in the context of earth history, determined by geologic methods. Our only record of the passage of geologic time lies in the Earth's rock strata. This record is imperfect, but it is our only one.
ref: 1978, George Vincent Cohee, Martin Fritz Glaessner, Hollis Dow Hedberg, editors, Contributions to the Geologic Time Scale […] , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Time in relation to specific geologic features or events recorded in the Earth's rock strata.
Related terms: deep time
geologic time scale
slab-track
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slab-tracks
form: slab-tracking
form: slab-tracked
form: slab-tracked
Senses: examples: text: "Going to W12 gauge requires some significant work in those tunnels. The current scheme is showing that we're going to slab-track both of those tunnels.
ref: 2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 40:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To lay slab track on a section of railway line.
enlightened despotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of enlightened absolutism.
synonyms: word: enlightened absolutism
benevolent absolutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of enlightened absolutism.
synonyms: word: enlightened absolutism
teal-seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teal-seeds
Senses: examples: text: He also exhibited these in the Melbourne Exhibition, and carried off the second prize for teal-seed oil, which he manufactured himself from the plants growing in the gardens.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 243:
glosses: Alternative spelling of teelseed.
teal-seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teal-seed
nacodah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nacodahs
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay nakhoda, from Persian ناخدا (nâxodâ).
Senses: examples: text: The proas are owned by Malays, each one commanded by a head man or nacodah.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 244:
glosses: The captain of a boat or other vessel.
nacodahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nacodah
lai sees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lai see
Great Acceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Acceleration
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Great Acceleration.
glosses: The continuous and roughly simultaneous surge in growth rate across a large range of measures of human activity, first recorded in the mid-20th century.
grass-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of cattle or other livestock, fed on pasture.
examples: text: The quality of the beef usually met with in the Straits Settlements is so bad and so destitute of flavour, that possibly the buyers had forgotten what an honest sirloin of beef looked like, and the rich edging of fat from grass-fed beef may have struck them as something extraordinary.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 265:
glosses: Of meat, milk, or other livestock products, derived from livestock fed on pasture.
Ukrainophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ukrainophilic
form: most Ukrainophilic
Etymology: From Ukraino- + -philic.
Senses: antonyms: Ukrainophobic
glosses: Fond of or favouring Ukraine, or Ukrainian people; exhibiting or relating to Ukrainophilia.
Related terms: Ukrainophile
Ukrainophilia
bürgermeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bürgermeisters
form: burgermeister
Etymology: From German Bürgermeister.
Senses: examples: text: In that part of Hannover, for example, which is denominated the old town, which contains about 12,000 inhabitants, there are two bürgermeisters, one syndicus, four secretaries, five senators, and one auditor, making in all thirteen persons, with a competent number of clerks and messengers.
ref: 1820, Thomas Hodgskin, Travels in the North of Germany: Describing the Present State of the Social and Political Institutions, Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co., page 393:
text: There was, it is true, a public reconciliation between the bürgermeisters and the president of the Sixty-four; […]
ref: 1847, Leopold Ranke, translated by Sarah Austin, History of the Reformation in Germany, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], page 430:
text: The efficient chief administrators of Prussian cities, the bürgermeisters, are selected and retained in office in the same way.
ref: 1914 January 13, C[larence] G[ilbert] Hoag, Effective Voting: An Article on Preferential Voting and Proportional Representation, Washington, D.C., page 31:
glosses: Synonym of burgomaster.
synonyms: word: burgomaster
bürgermeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bürgermeister
burgermeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgermeisters
Senses: examples: text: Germany’s ablest burgermeisters are among the lecturers.
ref: 1914, The National Association of Corporation Schools Bulletin, page 30:
text: He had told his burgermeisters, “We have to help these people.” They did. They poured out money for people from east Germany—jobs, money, homes and all the rest.
ref: 1996, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 963:
text: With regard to labor, after our units entered Germany, they had called on the burgermeisters for workers, and, if there were insufficient workers, then they were augmented by German prisoners of war, primarily from the German Wehrmacht units.
ref: 2005, Thomas A. Glass, The Trials & Triumphs of a Regimental Commander During World War II, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bürgermeister.
burgermeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burgermeister
microlife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlives
Etymology: From micro- + life.
Senses: glosses: Microorganisms collectively.
examples: text: If you have unhealthy habits, it costs you microlives. If you smoke, each cigarette reduces your life expectancy on average by around 15 minutes, so two cigarettes loses you a microlife. […] And for every extra 5kg you are overweight, it will cost you around one microlife a day. […] If you survive your trip on the motorbike, then your micromort gets forgotten and you start the next day with a clean slate. But if you smoke and drink all day, and live on a fast-food diet, then your microlives will accumulate from day to day.
ref: 2012 February 16, David Spiegelhalter, “Microlives: A lesson in risk taking”, in BBC Future:
coordinate_terms: micromort
glosses: A unit of risk representing half an hour change of life expectancy.
Samurai Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Japan national football team
outchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ouchie.
owchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ouchie.
owtchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owtchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ouchie.
owchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owchie
outchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outchie
owtchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owtchie
Aeacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aeacids
form: Aeacidae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Αἰακίδης (Aiakídēs).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A descendant of King Aeacus.
Aeacid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Αἰακίδης (Aiakídēs).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the descendants of Aeacus.
Victoria Parks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Victoria Park
gets it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get it up
getting it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get it up
got it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get it up
glosses: past participle of get it up
gotten it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get it up
Stacpoole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stacpooles
Etymology: Variant of Stackpole.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Crailsheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Schwäbisch Hall district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Schwäbisch Hall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the administrative seat of Schwäbisch Hall district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
glosses: A rural district in north-east Baden-Württemberg.
Seckach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
play a role
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays a role
form: playing a role
form: played a role
form: played a role
form: play a rôle
Senses: examples: text: .
text: She played a role in organizing the protest.
synonyms: play a part
glosses: To have an effect or influence on a situation or outcome; to contribute to something.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: To portray a character in a performance.
Tauberbischofsheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the administrative seat of Main-Tauber-Kreis district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Horb am Neckar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Freudenstadt district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
out-shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-shoots
form: out-shooting
form: out-shot
form: out-shot
Senses: examples: text: Led by Tyler Adams and Hershey’s Christian Pulisic, the Americans out-shot England by a 10-8 margin.
ref: 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer:
glosses: Alternative form of outshoot.
USMNT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of United States men's national team.