cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sticking out like a sore thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stick out like a sore thumb
stuck out like a sore thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stick out like a sore thumb
culturicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturcides
form: culturecides
Senses: glosses: plural of culturicide.
culturecides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturecide (alternative form of culturicides).
uninvert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uninverts
form: uninverting
form: uninverted
form: uninverted
Etymology: From un- + invert.
Senses: glosses: To restore from an inverted state; to turn the right way round again.
unreverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreverses
form: unreversing
form: unreversed
form: unreversed
Etymology: From un- + reverse.
Senses: examples: text: Unreversing the propeller is accomplished by moving the throttle forward from the reverse position.
ref: 1955, Northrop Institute of Technology, Charles Edward Chapel, Aircraft Power Plants, page 299:
text: To do so, you will need to use program logic (or perhaps an exit routine, if supported by the DBMS) to reverse the values before inserting them into the columns. Of course, you will need to programmatically unreverse the values […]
ref: 2012, Craig S. Mullins, Database Administration:
glosses: To restore from a reversed state; to reverse again, so as to turn the right way round.
uninverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uninvert
uninverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uninvert
unreversing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unreverse
unreverses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unreverse
unreversal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + reversal.
Senses: glosses: The process of unreversing something.
uninversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + inversion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A kind of error where an utterance has not undergone the proper inversion, as in "*What she is eating?" for "What is she eating?".
electride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An ionic compound in which an electron is the anion.
electrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electride
lithide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithides
Senses: examples: text: The measured stabilities of the group IVa-lithides are compared with values calculated according to Pauling's rule: D(A-B) - 1/2[D(A-A) + D(B-B)] + 23(x_A-x_B)² kcal/mol in Table III.
ref: 1981, Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, page 93:
text: Summarized in Figure 12 are the ground-state potential curves for these lithides.
ref: 1997, Daniel B. Lawson, The Quadrupole Moments of the First and Second Row Homonuclear Diatomics and the Spectroscopic Properties of Metal Lithides, page 252:
text: Lithides containing a lithium anion are unknown.
ref: 2012, Glen E. Rodgers, Descriptive Inorganic, Coordination, and Solid State Chemistry, Cengage Learning, page 346:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical alkalide with lithium as the anion.
lithides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithide
sodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodides
Etymology: From sodium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: natride
glosses: An alkalide with sodium as the anion.
natride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natrides
Etymology: From natr- + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: sodide
glosses: An alkalide with sodium as the anion.
sodides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sodide
natrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natride
kalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: potasside
glosses: An alkalide with potassium as the anion.
potasside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potassides
Etymology: From potassium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: kalide
glosses: An alkalide with potassium as the anion.
rubidide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubidides
Etymology: From rubidium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkalide with rubidium as the anion.
rubidides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubidide
kalides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalide
potassides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potasside
caeside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesides
Etymology: From caesium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkalide with caesium as the anion.
ceside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesides
Etymology: From cesium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkalide with cesium as the anion.
caesides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caeside
cesides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceside
don't tell me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see don't, tell, me.
examples: text: “Sorry. Excuse me. Am I very late?”
Henrietta shrugged. They had travelled the world together on commissions for the Morning Graphic. They had been in many scrapes but the irritation she felt with him never went away. She admonished him.
“Don't tell me. You've brought that damn Morgan Aero8 sports car with you, haven't you? You've been trying to park it, keeping me waiting.”
ref: 2009, Ron Morgans, The Emerald Killers:
glosses: Used to introduce a guess at a fact or situation, as if forestalling the other speaker's utterance.
unfreighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + freighted.
Senses: glosses: Not freighted.
unaffrighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaffrighted
form: most unaffrighted
Etymology: From un- + affrighted.
Senses: examples: text: While you faint-hearted baſe Egyptians, / Lie ſlumbering on the flowrie bankes of Nile, / As Crocodiles that vnaffrighted reſt, / While thundering Cannons rattle on their ſkins.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
text: Some fevv of the horſes kept their ſtanding ſtill unaffrighted, and even thoſe they had much ado to ſaddle, to bridle, and to mount upon; […]
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XXXVII]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 766:
glosses: Not afraid.
monoparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoparticles
Etymology: From mono- + particle.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: non-composite particle; fundamental particle
monoparticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoparticle
culturcides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturcide (alternative form of culturicides).
temporary gentlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporary gentleman
TGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TG
culturcidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more culturcidal
form: most culturcidal
Etymology: From culturcide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of culturicidal.
mnemonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mnemonizes
form: mnemonizing
form: mnemonized
form: mnemonized
Senses: examples: text: Mnemonize the event of Tea being first brought from China, in the year 1601. We turn to the number 1601, and find, among others, the word "tea-chest," which we use.
ref: 1850, Pliny Miles, Mnemotechny, or art of memory, theoretical and practical, page 5:
glosses: To develop a mnemonic for.
Derived terms: mnemonization
mnemonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mnemonize
mnemonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mnemonize
mnemonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mnemonize
mnemotechnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mnemotechny
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: Caesar's wife must be above reproach
form: Caesar's wife should be above suspicion
form: Caesar's wife should be above reproach
Etymology: In 62 BC Publius Clodius Pulcher sneaked into the festival of the Bona Dea, hosted by Julius Caesar’s wife, Pompeia, with the intention of seducing her, leading to Publius’s arrest and trial. After the trial, Caesar divorced Pompeia, and when questioned said “my wife ought not even to be under suspicion,” as Pompeia was under suspicion of illicit behavior.
Senses: glosses: Those in positions of authority should avoid even the implication of impropriety.
wikipedia: Bona Dea
Publius Clodius Pulcher
Related terms: Caesar's wife
judges, juries and executioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judge, jury and executioner
Caesar's wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caesar's wives
Etymology: From the proverb “Caesar's wife must be above suspicion”.
Senses: glosses: A public figure whose character should be free from even the suspicion of impropriety.
Caesar's wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caesar's wife
dassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dass
powder-bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder bed
Senses: glosses: A rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing (or "layered manufacturing") technology for making objects described by digital data. A liquid binding material is selectively deposited on a bed of powder.
neuroengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + engineering.
Senses: glosses: neural engineering
prematted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + matted.
Senses: glosses: Of a picture: supplied with a ready-made mat or border.
co-author
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-authors
Etymology: From co- + author.
Senses: examples: text: The report's co-authors Ian Wray, David Thrower, and Jim Steer point to the building of the motorways in the 1960s and 1970s, when new sections were added progressively and in "financially digestible chunks".
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “Immediate investment in High Speed North urged”, in Rail, page 18:
text: While Linder prefers his taters cut skinny, as they are in restaurant iterations of the dish, his co-author, the television chef Johanna Westman, says she prefers them thick, as in her Grandma Alva’s recipe.
ref: 2023 December 20, Eric Kim, “A Creamy, Melty Potato Casserole That’s Outrageously Easy to Make”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: “This suggests that most of the foraging that the bees do occurs very close to the hive,” study co-author Margarita López-Uribe, an associate professor of entomology at PSU, told CNN on Monday.
ref: 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of coauthor.
co-author
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-authors
form: co-authoring
form: co-authored
form: co-authored
Etymology: From co- + author.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coauthor.
co-authors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-author
co-authors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-author
co-authoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-author
co-authored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I co-authored a book with my father.
glosses: simple past and past participle of co-author
paperazzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps by confusion with newspaper.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paparazzi.
Romanophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophones
Etymology: From Romano- (“Rome, Romans”) + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A person who speaks a Romance language.
Romanophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophones
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romani”) + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A person who speaks the Romanian language.
Romanophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanophone
femibitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femibitches
Senses: glosses: Rare form of fembitch.
femicunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femicunts
Senses: glosses: Rare form of femcunt.
trigger-happiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trigger-happy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being trigger-happy.
Gauss-Seidel method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the German mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An iterative method used to solve a linear system of equations.
Synonyms: Liebmann method
method of successive displacement
wrenboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrenboys
Etymology: From wren + boy.
Senses: glosses: A male mummer or guiser who takes part in Wren Day.
wrenboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrenboy
whitenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whitenizes
form: whitenizing
form: whitenized
form: whitenized
Etymology: From whiten + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: And most of the major characters are made into puppets to prove the thesis that America "whitenizes" blacks and converts everyone else into "freaks."
ref: 1982, Best Sellers, volume 42, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, page 85:
text: […] the move to sanitize, whitenize, and normalize the public and visible representations of the LGBTTSQ community, as was evident in the response from national gay organizations to a right-wing ad campaign featuring "ex-gays."
ref: 2001, Kitty Krupat, Out at Work: Building a Gay-labor Alliance, page 52:
glosses: To adapt to the cultural norms of white people.
Synonyms: whitify
Related terms: whitenization
whitenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whitenize
whitenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whitenize
whitenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whitenize
monstrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monstrifications
Etymology: From monster + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: His origin amongst monsters and man-eaters signals the play's recurrent concerns with monstrification, with eating others or being eaten by them, and with issues of specularity […]
ref: 1995, Bradley William Johnson, Birthed Effects: Shakespeare's Generation of Monsters, page 67:
text: Although Ezekiel shares with other biblical authors (e.g., the writer of Isa 51:9–10) this view of Egypt as a monster, Ezekiel's monstrification of Egypt is unique.
ref: 2015, Safwat Marzouk, Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel, page 239:
glosses: The process of making something monstrous.
monstrifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monstrification
strong enough to trot a mouse on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Suggesting that the tea is dense enough for a mouse to walk across without sinking.
Senses: glosses: Of tea or coffee etc.: made very strong.
unpenalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + penalised.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of unpenalized.
failsafes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of failsafe
failsafes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of failsafe
fail-safing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fail-safe
fail-safed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fail-safe
failsafing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of failsafe
failsafed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of failsafe
draughthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughthouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of draught-house: an outhouse.
draughthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draughthouse
draught house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draught houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of draught-house: an outhouse.
draught houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draught house
Tealiban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Tea Party + Taliban
Senses: examples: ref: 2013 October 20, Abraham Todd, “Re: The same business interests who created the Tealiban to fight against Obama the Socialist are now lining up to destroy the Tealiban”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet):
ref: 2013 October 24, Kickin' Ass, Takin' Names, “No doubt about it -- the Tealiban and GOTP are a resurrected Confederacy, complete with return to slavery”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
ref: 2013 November 7, Claudette Latosha Duffy, “Re:Tealiban loser in Alabama shows how not to give a concession speech . . . at the same time, shows how and why the Tealiban loses”, in alt.politics.democrat (Usenet):
text: The American Tealiban will make sure that Sharia, erm, Biblical law governs us again, and we will keep our military as strong as possible so we can go on Crusades against the infidels in Muslim lands, and we will, naturally, liberate the Holy Land from the nasty Muslims (and maybe the dirty Jews, as long as we're there anyway).
ref: 2014 July 2, Tom McDonald, “Re: IRS caught LYING”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
glosses: The Tea Party party movement in twenty-first-century American politics, when considered to be a conservative religious movement similar to the Taliban.
Related terms: teahadist
klipdachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klipdachses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Klippdachs, from Dutch klipdas.
Senses: examples: text: But if he succeeds in seizing the klipdachs before it has time to leap away, he carries it to a rocky ledge, and slowly tears it to pieces.
ref: 1863, Georg Hartwig, The Tropical World: a Popular Scientific Account of the Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms in the Equatorial Regions, page 395:
text: He knew that in time the poor silly little klipdachs would grow careless, and, anxious for a game at play, would get too far from their homes to skip back before he could be down upon them.
ref: 1881, William Henry Giles Kingston, In the Wilds of Africa: A Tale for Boys, page 306:
text: The klipdachs (hierax) and the klipspringer (Oreotragus saltatrix) are the prevalent population, now however threatened with extinction.
ref: 1971, Karl Mauch, F. O. Bernhard, Karl Mauch: African Explorer, page 153:
glosses: Alternative form of klipdas.
Synonyms: rock rabbit
klipdachses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klipdachs
rock rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock rabbits
Senses: examples: text: Most people are surprised when they read that the rock rabbit's nearest relative (apart from the similar tree dassie) is the elephant.
ref: 1972, James Clarke, John Pitts, Focus on fauna, page 31:
text: The Natal red rock rabbit is the largest of the rock rabbits in southern Africa.
ref: 1997, M. G. L. Mills, The complete book of Southern African mammals, page 117:
text: It was designated the cave of the three-toed rock rabbit, and it was a favourite place for the little creatures to seek refuge.
ref: 2009, Stephan Taylor, Finkelstein's Folder: Echoes from Judea, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: Synonym of klipdachs.
synonyms: word: klipdachs
rock rabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock rabbit
rhythmlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhythmless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is often little consciousness of meter, as if the music had reached a state of divine rhythmlessness.
ref: 2000, Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts:
glosses: Absence of rhythm.
filmicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From filmic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The scene of writing is preceded, or perhaps replaced, by the effortless conjuring of a scene that is defined by its filmicity […]
ref: 2007, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams are Made of:
glosses: The state or condition of being fit for film.
Synonyms: cinematicity
cinematicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cinematic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: He explores the social and political dimensions of the spaghettis as well as their distinctive cinematicity.
ref: 2006, Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone:
glosses: The state or condition of being fit for the cinematographic process or film; filmicity.
deadass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deadass
form: most deadass
form: dead ass
form: dead-ass
Etymology: From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Apparently originating in New York and popularized around the late 1990s–2000s.
Senses: examples: text: I could tell what you two had right off the bat. It was the same with me and my Rosario. That's what keeps me goin in this deadass joint, because there's no way she don't show someday and when that day comes the round man hauls some vino outta one of them shrouds he uses as filin cabinets or you're gonna see him walkin around with a brand new face.
ref: 1981, Paul Sann, Trial in the Upper Room: A Heavenly Novel, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:
text: On my way back to town I get to thinking about what Sandee said about Kirby: 'Fix the bastard'. Hmm...maybe we should. After all, what else is there to do on a Friday night in our deadass town?
ref: 2000, Greg Benjamin, Landed, London: Quartet Books, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Yeah, beats this deadass place anyway. I'll go.
ref: 2015, Liston Pope, Christmas Year Zero: Epic of Wall Street and the Economic Life of Man, New York, N.Y.: Mantis Press, →ISBN, page 341:
glosses: Of a place: having very little activity; dead.
examples: text: He bellowed at us, yelling that he was fucked if he was going to let a group of dead-ass wankers spoil his time off.
ref: 1989, Christian Jennings, Mouthful of Rocks: Through Africa and Corsica in the French Foreign Legion, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 46:
text: "Mad Dog" Maurice Vachon, one of the awa's top stars for years, wasn't what you would call a great worker. He was as unorthodox as hell, but his interviews were such a deadass shoot about how mean he was, how ferocious he was and how he was going to tear you limb from limb that no one watching his promos doubted him.
ref: 2006, Bill Watts, The Cowboy and the Cross: The Bill Watts Story: Rebellion, Wrestling and Redemption, Toronto. O.N.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: Anybody'd come along an' spied you deadass drunk on the plain woulda took yer hair, yer ponies, an' yer stash.
ref: 2013, Bill Blinn, Sons of Slavery, Colorado Springs, C.O.: Grit West Publishing, →ISBN, page 513:
glosses: Genuine, real. (used as a negative intensifier)
examples: text: You need to quit talking about my mama. I'm deadass.
text: "Oh yeah, Dior. Tell ya' boss if he like his life then he better keep his distance from you. Deadass," He said from the bathroom and my eyes widened.
ref: 2017, Amber Shanel, He Was the Savage for Me, Columbus, G.A.: Talehia Presents, →ISBN, page 116:
text: Eilish talks like an Instagram caption come to life — everything is "fire" or "trash," bro, and she is always "deadass."
ref: 2019 March 28, Joe Coscarelli, “Billie Eilish Is Not Your Typical 17-Year-Old Pop Star. Get Used to Her.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2023:
text: this look is still her best outfit she's ever worn and i'm being deadass
ref: 2023 May 15, @ev3rhaze, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:
glosses: Dead serious.
deadass
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: dead ass
form: dead-ass
Etymology: From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Apparently originating in New York and popularized around the late 1990s–2000s.
Senses: examples: text: As he started inside, thinking only of fresh water and bed, Frenchy said, "Hurry back and I'll help you fix the baits." / "We're not through?" / "Oh, man, Joe keeps his pots at work, not deadass on deck."
ref: 1979, William McCloskey, Highliners, Guilford, C.T.: Lyons Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 257:
text: I slapped the Mexican on the helmet— that was the signal to fire—and whoosh! that 106 round hit dead ass on top of the gooks. Whooo, the first time! The other guys scrambled up out of that trench and jumped all over us.
ref: 1990, James R. Wilson, Landing Zones, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
text: "Sometimes," he observed seriously, "you can't tell truth when it's staring you deadass in the face. But if it's truth, that's it, that's a fact, you know it's truth, you can't hide from it, you pull that shit and it'll get you every time 'cause truth clicks with this way deep."
ref: 1991, Jacquelyn Holt Park, A Stone Gone Mad, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 140–141:
glosses: Directly, dead on.
examples: text: I was deadass starving.
text: "Im positively deadass tired,' she says, rushing over to us. "Babies, there just aint no one at the 1-2-3—someone's been spreading rumors that theres so much junk being sold there that the cops are gonna knock it over any day!"
ref: 1963, John Rechy, City of Night, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 142:
text: Given Embiid's history of trolling and quotable moments, the internet interpreted Embiid's comments as a joke. But the big man later reaffirmed his intentions on The Ringer NBA Show with Kevin O'Connor. "Yeah, deadass. I'm really serious," Embiid said. "I feel like I can do anything on a basketball court."
ref: 2018 January 11, Mike O'Connor, “Sixers Set of the Week: A brief history of Joel Embiid playing point guard”, in The Athletic, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2021:
text: i will deadass take my own soap to somebody house😂
ref: 2023 July 21, @fineassnayyyy, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:
glosses: Really, seriously, actually.
deadass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadasses
form: dead ass
form: dead-ass
Etymology: From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Apparently originating in New York and popularized around the late 1990s–2000s.
Senses: examples: text: […] us women know which man has got the spring and who and which is the unfortunate dead ass […]
ref: 1967, Norman Mailer, Why Are We in Vietnam?, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 18:
text: He comes onto the ward with his tight reddish-blond curls tumbling out from under his cap, cracking jokes and trying to get some action going among these deadasses in the loony bin.
ref: 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 50:
text: He's pretty smart in school, like Rodney Lippett, except Rodney's such a deadass.
ref: 1977, Don Bredes, Hard Feelings, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 341:
text: This angered him at first, and more than once he had uttered such things to himself as "sore loser," "just plain jealous," or "too bad you've got a deadass at home yourself."
ref: 1984, Dolores Hughes, Bitter Dreams, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: A lazy or unenergetic person.
Related terms: deadassed
wrecky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛki
Forms: form: more wrecky
form: most wrecky
Etymology: From wreck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He's way out of town in a real wrecky house with a sagging porch and a bunch of great steel-meshed pens out the back.
ref: 2014, Chris Czajkowski, Lonesome: Memoirs of a Wilderness Dog:
glosses: Damaged, run-down.
star vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star vehicles
form: star-vehicle
Senses: glosses: A movie, play, TV series, or other production that enhances an actor's career.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see star, vehicle.
star-vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-vehicles
Etymology: From star + vehicle.
Senses: examples: text: Dunne's account of the eight-year creation of a financially successful film, which was essentially a mindless star-vehicle, reveals a philistinism in Hollywood that almost defies satire.
ref: 2013, Kimball King, Hollywood on Stage: Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry:
glosses: Alternative form of star vehicle.
star vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star vehicle
premièring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of première
capacitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capacitous
form: most capacitous
Senses: examples: text: Advance directives require the person making them not only to be capacitous but also to have autonomy – that is, to be making their decision(s) freely and without coercion or undue influence from others.
ref: 2007, Jacqueline Atkinson, Advance Directives in Mental Health: Theory, Practice and Ethics:
glosses: Having the legal capacity to do something.
minipalette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minipalettes
Etymology: From mini- + palette.
Senses: examples: text: Although only six tools, six inks, and a minipalette are displayed at any one time in the toolbox, right clicking on any of these objects brings up an appropriate dialog box from which you can pick substitutes.
ref: 1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 20:
text: If you use AutoShapes a lot, you can keep a minipalette (bottom) of them open by choosing Insert → Picture → AutoShapes.
ref: 2001, Nan Barber, David Reynolds, Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, page 588:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small palette.
minipalettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minipalette
alphenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of allyl + phenyl
Senses: glosses: 5-allyl-5-phenylbarbituric acid, a barbiturate derivative formerly used to treat epilepsy and convulsions.
law-enforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of law enforcement.
long drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long drop
reexoticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reexoticizes
form: reexoticizing
form: reexoticized
form: reexoticized
Etymology: From re- + exoticize.
Senses: glosses: To make exotic again.
reexoticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexoticize
reexoticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexoticize
reexoticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexoticize
of course, my horse
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of of course my horse.
RWNJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RWNJs
form: RWNJ
Senses: topics: government
politics
antonyms: LWNJ
;
left-winger
leftist
leftie
lefty
hypernyms: right-winger
rightist
rightie
righty
;
nut job#Noun
nutjob#Noun
nut case#Noun
nutcase#Noun
nut#Noun
wingnut#Noun
extremist#Noun
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person#Noun
glosses: Initialism of right-wing nut job.
mirandous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin mirandus, suffixed with -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Trace the Stories of old Scripture-times, and the Defeats given in Battels by the heavenly Hosts for Israel; and see if our Defence be not both · mirandous and miraculous, tho Man gave not a Blow: […]
ref: 1683, For God's Worship and Worshippers, both in the purity of the one and liberty of the other, etc:
text: There is no cause, from an antecedent sanctity, to ascribe 'this mirandous production to miraculous causes.
ref: 1809, William Oldys, Thomas Park, The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Volume 4:
text: It suggests nobility—Miranda in Latin means “worthy of admiration” and is similar to mirandous, or miraculous; Priestly suggests the possession of consecrated knowledge.
ref: 2013, Jim Combs, Comic Grace: We Mortal Fools in Movie Comedy:
glosses: Amazing; miraculous.
RWNJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RWNJ
dasturis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dasturi
dustoory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustoories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dasturi.
dustoories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustoorie
glosses: plural of dustoory
assbutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assbutt
shelltoe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shell + toe.
Senses: examples: shelltoe sneakers
glosses: shelltoes
playgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playgame
Mealy machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mealy machines
Etymology: Named after George H. Mealy, who presented the concept in a 1955 paper.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A finite-state machine whose output values are determined by both its current state and its current inputs.
Related terms: Moore machine
Mealy machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mealy machine
Moore machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moore machines
Etymology: Named after Edward F. Moore, who presented the concept in a 1956 paper.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A finite-state machine whose output values are determined solely by its current state.
wikipedia: Edward F. Moore
Related terms: Mealy machine
Moore machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moore machine
thermochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermochromes
Etymology: From thermo- + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that changes colour as a result of a change in temperature.
thermochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermochrome
minodronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minodronates
Etymology: From minodronic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of minodronic acid.
minodronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minodronate
multirate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + rate.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper further improvements of the wavelet multirate circuit simulation technique are presented.
ref: 2016, Kai Bittner, Hans Georg Brachtendorf, “Latency Exploitation in Wavelet-based Multirate Circuit Simulation”, in arXiv:
glosses: Involving or occurring at more than one rate.
nanogrooves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanogroove
precomputational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + computational.
Senses: examples: text: Numerical results show that this approach is competitive with state-of-the-art techniques, requires no precomputational cost, can be implemented in a handful of lines of code, and is easily adapted to extended precision arithmetic.
ref: 2016, Akex Townsend, Marcus Webb, Sheehan Olver, “Fast polynomial transforms based on Toeplitz and Hankel matrices”, in arXiv:
glosses: Prior to computation.
subsums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsum
torqueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torque
like a rat up a drainpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very rapidly.
stovepipe trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of skinny jeans.
synonyms: word: skinny jeans
drainpipe trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some dolls made in Italy had eyes which could follow one about, others made of felt that had their hair dressed and dyed in grey, silver, or blonde, and wore velvet drainpipe trousers and lace brassières over their slightly busted fronts.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 211:
glosses: Synonym of skinny jeans.
synonyms: word: skinny jeans
sea elephants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea elephant
Golgothan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Golgothan
form: most Golgothan
Etymology: From Golgotha + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Golgotha.
knapbottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is accounted a kinde of Lychnis by most of the best Herbalists, and therefore Bauhinum nameth it Lychnis Sylvestrus que Ben Album vulgo: some with us call it Knapbottle, and others Spatting or Frothy Poppy.
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants:
glosses: Bladder campion.
khagina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khaginas
Senses: glosses: A seasoned omelette-like dish of India and Pakistan.
khaginas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khagina
dalcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Hyderabadi stew made from mutton, chana dal, and tamarind.
harees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harissa (spice mixture)
yotzei
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈjoʊ.tseɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish יוצא זײַן (yoytse zayn), from Hebrew יוֹצֵא (yotsé), active participle of יָצָא (yatsá, “to exit”).
Senses: examples: text: In order to be yotzei, you must hear every word of the bracha.
topics: law
glosses: having fulfilled the requirements of a mitzvah
bracha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌ.hə/
/ˈbɹʌ.xə/
Forms: form: brachot
form: brachos
form: brachas
form: beracha
form: berachah
form: beracha
form: berakha
form: berakhah
form: brachah
form: bracho
form: brakha
form: brocha
form: broche
form: brocho
form: brokhe
form: brucha
form: brukha
form: brukhas
form: brukhe
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish ברכה (brokhe), from Hebrew בְּרָכָה (b'rakhá).
Senses: examples: text: For a prayer or blessing to qualify as a bracha, it must follow a legal rabbinic formula that begins with the three words “Baruch Atah Adonai,” which is commonly translated as “Blessed (or Praised) are You, My Lord.”
ref: 2005, Sara E. Karesh, Mitchell M. Hurvitz, “bracha”, in Encyclopedia of Judaism, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Blessing.
baal korei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɑːl ˈkoʊ.ɹeɪ/
Forms: form: baalei korei
form: baal koreh
form: baal kore
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish בעל קורא (bal koyre), from Hebrew בַּעַל קוֹרֵא (bá'al koré), an alternative of בַּעַל קְרִיאָה (bá'al k'ri'á, literally “master of reading”).
Senses: glosses: The person who reads from the Torah scroll during religious services.
glosses: A person who has been trained to read from a Torah scroll.
unbinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbinders
Etymology: From unbind + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which unbinds.
unbinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unbinder
kokamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kokama
Kokamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kokama
Kocama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kokama
Cocamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cocama
Third Worlder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Third Worlders
form: third worlder
form: third-worlder
Etymology: From Third World + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If the top Democratic hopefuls are under the impression that the way to stop Third Worlders from hating America is to build schools in their countries, they need to think again.
ref: 2003 May 3, John H. McWhorter, “Hating Whitey Worldwide”, in Manhattan Institute:
glosses: Somebody from the Third World.
First Worlder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: First Worlders
form: first worlder
form: first-worlder
Etymology: From First World + -er.
Senses: glosses: Somebody from the First World.
fuckshits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckshit
desilted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desilt
desilts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desilt
desanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desander
live streamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live streamers
form: livestreamer
Etymology: From live stream + -er. Attested since the 21st century.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who operates a live stream.
desilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desilters
Etymology: From desilt + -er.
Senses: glosses: A piece of equipment used in the petroleum industry to remove silt from the drilling fluid.
desilters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desilter
mobilecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of mobile + broadcasting
Senses: glosses: The broadcast of live audio or video material from a mobile device such as a smartphone.
live streamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live streamer
Third Worlders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Third Worlder
First Worlders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of First Worlder
interroom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + room.
Senses: glosses: Between rooms.
vrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vrocks
Etymology: Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in the 1970s. Possibly related to Swedish vråk (“buzzard”).
Senses: examples: text: If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.
ref: 2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
text: The hag, after seeing her threats had no effect on Liann, left her alone, though usually watched over by the vrock.
ref: 2005, Trina L. Talma, River's End, page 28:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A humanoid demon with the head, claws, and wings of a giant vulture.
vrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vrock
nalfeshnee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nalfeshnees
Senses: examples: text: If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.
ref: 2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
text: Huge and incredibly powerful, nalfeshnees ranked high among the servitors of the demon lords, and of all the demons he had ever dealt with, this type was perhaps Gromph's least favorite.
ref: 2015, R. A. Salvatore, Archmage:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A powerful demon with the head of a boar.
nalfeshnees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nalfeshnee
hezrou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hezrous
Etymology: Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.
ref: 2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
text: A hezrou—a demon like a man-sized toad with spikes running down its back and arms and hands in place of forelegs—turned the handle and threw open the door.
ref: 2010, Richard Lee Byers, Unclean: The Haunted Lands:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A toad-like humanoid demon.
hezrous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hezrou
marilith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mariliths
Senses: examples: text: A marilith can also constrict with her deadly tail. If the tail hits in combat, it wraps around a victim, automatically inflicting 4- 24 points of crushing damage each round.
ref: 1993, Doug Stewart, Gary Gygax, Monstrous Manual, page 338:
text: If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.
ref: 2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
topics: fantasy
glosses: A powerful female demon with six arms and the lower body of a snake.
mariliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marilith
earthstorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthstorm
unrelaxingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrelaxingly
form: most unrelaxingly
Etymology: From unrelaxing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not relaxing.
choledocho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: choledoch-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin choledochus, from Ancient Greek χοληδόχος (kholēdókhos, “bile-containing”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the common bile duct.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Related terms: english: bile
translation: bile
word: chole-
english: gall bladder
translation: gall bladder
word: cholecysto-
common bile duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common bile ducts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: choledocho-
hypernyms: bile duct
cholangio-
glosses: The bile duct downstream of the confluence of the common hepatic duct and the cystic duct. It discharges bile into the duodenum.
Synonyms: alt: Terminologia Anatomica
word: ductus choledochus
Kasich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪsɪk/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
non-het
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-hets
Etymology: Clipping of non-heterosexual.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who is not heterosexual.