cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
decloakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decloaker
decollagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decollagist
decollectivisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decollectivisation
decollectivizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decollectivization
decombinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decombination
decompression chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decompression chamber
decomplementations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decomplementation
decotoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decotora
deenergizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deenergization
de-energizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of de-energization
deepithelializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepithelialization
deglucuronidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deglucuronidation
Windeatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Windeatts
Etymology: Much altered variant of Wingate.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pack-shepherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack-shepherds
Senses: examples: He's a pack-shepherd – you know what that means – and they say he has a pack of ten-score ewes. ("The Free Fishers", John Buchan, Polygon 2009 p. 117)
glosses: A shepherd who owns his or her own flock or pack of sheep.
higher criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German höhere Kritik. Originally in contrast to lower criticism (now dated), i.e. textual criticism, the reconstruction of the text itself.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of historical criticism (“study of received texts, especially the Bible, as historical sources”).
synonyms: word: historical criticism
extra: study of received texts, especially the Bible, as historical sources
jalsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌlsə/
ipa: /d͡ʒəlsɑ/
Forms: form: jalsas
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu جَلْسَہ (jalsa, “gathering”).
Senses: qualifier: Pakistani politics
glosses: a rally.
Jalsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌlsə/
ipa: /d͡ʒəlsɑ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu جَلْسَہ (jalsa, “gathering”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Jalsa Salana.
Jalsa Salana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu جَلْسَہ سَالَانَہ (jalsah sālānah, “annual convention”).
Senses: examples: text: More than 40,000 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community descended on East Worldham yesterday (Friday) for the start of Jalsa Salana UK.
ref: 2023 July 29, Paul Coates, “Jalsa Salana UK sets a new record attendance at East Worldham”, in Farnham Herald, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2023:
text: The three-day Jalsa Salana usually attracts 35,000 people from around the world but this year it has been scaled back to 4,000 invited guests each day.
ref: 2021 August 7, “Jalsa Salana: Thousands head to Alton farm religious gathering”, in BBC News:
text: With their Khalifa taking up permanent residence in the United Kingdom in 1984, the Ahmadi have held their Jalsa Salana [International Assembly], usually in the last week of July, each year, at this location.
ref: 2008, Simon Ross Valentine, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama'at : history, belief, practice, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: the Jalsa Salana – an annual convention of the community.
decarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decarch
dekarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dekarch
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, from Villeneuve (literally “new town”) + saint Georges (“Saint George”).
Senses: glosses: A commune in Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France, France, south-east of Paris.
mancock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancocks
Senses: glosses: A man's penis, especially that of a particularly virile man.
sacredise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sacredises
form: sacredising
form: sacredised
form: sacredised
Etymology: From sacred + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sacredize.
Roanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Loire department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
lower criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German niedere Kritik. In contrast to higher criticism, i.e. historical criticism, the broader interpretation of texts as historical sources, understood as building on the results of “lower criticism”.
Senses: examples: text: Nor should it be forgotten in this connection that the conclusions of the Lower Criticism respecting the text were at first as vehemently assailed as are those of the Higher Criticism respecting the contents of Scripture, and from similar premises.
ref: 1891 August, Llewelyn J. Evans, “The Inerrancy of Scripture”, in The Homiletic Review, volume 22, number 2, page 106:
glosses: Synonym of textual criticism (“scientific reconstruction of original historical texts”).
synonyms: word: textual criticism
extra: scientific reconstruction of original historical texts
geo-eschatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + eschatology.
Senses: glosses: The investigation-from the geologic perspective of present processes—of the events described in prophetic writings of what will happen to the earth geologically at the time of the end in the literal, physical world.
Derived terms: geo-eschatologist
Crowlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Pyrenees Shire, Northern Grampians Shire and Rural City of Ararat, Victoria, Australia.
examples: text: The original scheme provided for a station at Crowlands (between Chadwell Heath and Romford), but it has been decided not to undertake its construction, as the surrounding area now forms part of the Green Belt.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Opening of the Liverpool Street-Shenfield Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 403:
glosses: A small area of Romford, borough of Havering, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4988).
Related terms: Crowland
Milicz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Milicz.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
wonderwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonderwalls
Etymology: From the 1995 song Wonderwall, by Oasis.
Senses: examples: text: Because maybe/You're gonna be the one that saves me/And after all/You're my wonderwall
ref: 1995, Noel Gallagher, “Wonderwall”, in (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, performed by Oasis:
text: I am eternally indebted to Barbara Sawrey, who made me laugh the most along this journey. Everyone needs a wonderwall, and she's mine.
ref: 2009, Sherry Seethaler, Lies, Damned Lies, and Science:
text: Daphne Zablonski had become his wonderwall, the person he was drawn to when they were out with their friends and thought about in the hundreds of hours in between.
ref: 2020, Melissa Foster, Tempted by Love:
glosses: A very dependable person
wikipedia: Oasis (band)
Wonderwall (song)
wonderwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonderwall
the closet is made of glass
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: An extension of the metaphor in the closet, compare glass closet.
Senses: examples: text: I spent my high school years in the closet. I remember a friend messaged me saying, “Just come out already, it’s fine, just be who you are.” He didn’t know I was queer, but I guess the closet was made of glass. In his mind, he was being supportive; in mine, he was increasing the turbulence I already felt about my sexuality and identity as a teen.
ref: 2022 November 1, K-Ci Williams, “Kit Connor, Star of “Heartstopper,” Came Out as Bi. He Shouldn’t Have Had To”, in Teen Vogue:
text: “Little boy—you are gay.” / “No, I'm not,” I say. / “Oh, you really are,” she says. She's insistent, but not mean. My closet is made of glass and she can see right through it.
ref: 2023, William Lee Adams, Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision, New York, NY: Astra House, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Used in reference to someone whose sexual orientation or gender identity is widely known despite not being acknowledged.
Northern Grampians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in western Victoria, Australia; in full, the Shire of Northern Grampians.
Related terms: Southern Grampians
convertible pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: zip-off pants
shants
glosses: Pants that can be zipped off at the thigh to become shorts.
zip-off pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of convertible pants.
synonyms: word: convertible pants
Burren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Burren
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish boireann (“rock, karst”).
Senses: glosses: A large area of northern County Clare in western Ireland.
Teversal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ashfield district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4861).
NICRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.
ice creamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice creamers
Etymology: From ice cream + -er.
Senses: synonyms: ice cream maker
glosses: A machine that makes ice cream.
glosses: An Italian.
have a bird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a bird
form: having a bird
form: had a bird
form: had a bird
Senses: examples: 1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Didn't do anything great except saw "The Beatles" on The Ed Sullivan Show and Kathy practically had a bird.
glosses: To freak out; to be shocked or upset.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, a, bird.
dramastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈmæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more dramastic
form: most dramastic
Etymology: Blend of dramatic + drastic
Senses: examples: text: The latest European and English and Irish plays, not forgetting American, are played, both in English and in Japanese versions in which their fathers would hardly recognise their dramastic children.
ref: 1920, Asian Review: The Only English Monthly in Japan on Politics, Economy, Arts, Etc. of Asia, Managed and Edited by Japanese, volume 1, Kokuryukai., page 494:
text: A DRAMASTIC THING HAPPENED! Let me answer your first question right away. No the title is not a mistake, well... yes it was a mistake, but it's not anymore.
ref: 2008 February 1, Russ Lawson, Stories to Touch the Heart, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 87:
text: Kenneth Burke: ‘the dramastic pentad’ An example of such a technique is ‘the dramastic pentad’, another aspect of Kenneth Burke's theory.
ref: 2009, Market Research Society, International Journal of Market Research: The Journal of the Market Research Society, volume 51, numbers 4-6, NTC Publications Limited, page 442:
text: “Las Vegas?” said Gert, shaking her tiny head. “This is all very dramastic.” “Dramastic?” said Bert. “That's not a word, Gert.” “Are you making up words again?” Bert asked. Gert smiled. “It should be. Dramatic plus drastic. Dramastic!”
ref: 2014 April 8, Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise, The Show Must Go On!, illustrated edition, volume 1, Algonquin Books, →ISBN, page 24:
text: It was an intense few minutes of basketball in a meaningful game, and Pippen said so after this game. Or at least I think he did. What he said was that the last five minutes of the game were “dramastic.” That's right. It's a combo word, putting together the word “dramatic” with the word “drastic.” Had it been intentional, it would have been genius. I don't think it was intentional. But “dramastic” should be a word.
ref: 2014 October 1, Kent McDill, Bill Cartwright, chapter 56, in If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Bulls: Stories from the Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box of the Chicago Bulls Dynasty, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 167:
text: In a large collection of more than 1,018 formations, Reischer (2008) finds that nouns are the most frequent output category of blends in English (almost 80 per cent, e.g. brunch, buffeteria, diagnonsense), followed by adjectives (11 per cent, e.g. bleen ◇ blue + green, dramastic ◇ dramatic + drastic, and verbs (4 per cent, guesstimate).
ref: 2015, Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag, chapter IV, in The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, illustrated, reprint edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 459:
text: It's a bright and sunny Saturday just waiting for you to enjoy,” he said. “Everyone up; rise and shine. Breakfast is awaiting you in our beautiful and dramastically renovated dining hall. Is dramastic a word? Or did I just make that up?”
ref: 2016 July 29, Christian Drennen, Through Fire and Flame, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:
glosses: Drastically dramatic.
tantoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantoos
Etymology: Blend of tan + tattoo
Senses: examples: text: Using Sun for Profit Recommended as a natural for beaches and carnivals are "sun tantoo" designs offered by Great-Circle Products,. Inc., New York. The tantoo designs are simply placed on the body and the sun does the rest.
ref: 1944 July 15, The Billboard, volume 56, number 29, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 50:
text: A TANTOO Fanbo REPELLENT CREAM SUMMER COMFORT REPELS INSECTS PREVENTS SUNBURN AIDS NATURAL TAN In large handy tube
ref: 1947, Canadian Forestry Association, Forest and Outdoors, Canadian Forestry Association, page 194:
text: “Let's get a tantoo,” says Jil when we finally calm down. “I don't want a tattoo.” “Not a tattoo. A tantoo. You go to a tanning salon, to get a suntan, but you pick out a sticker that will cover part of your skin so you're left with a white patch that's shaped like a skull or a butterfly or something.”
ref: 2015 April 14, Betty Hicks, Get Real, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A tan line planned in the style of a tattoo.
tantoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tantoo
tantoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tantoo
skinema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪn.ə.mə/
ipa: /ˈskɪn.ɪ.mə/
ipa: /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mɑː/
Forms: form: skinemas
Etymology: Blend of skin + cinema
Senses: examples: text: On the whole, it's really a very exciting picture, but it's not art — as, indeed, what is in this world of the skinema!
ref: 1939, Lowell Thomas, Francis Rufus Bellamy, editors, The Commentator, Volume 4, volume 4, Payson Publishing, page 123:
text: Therese and Isabelle is appearing in the same kind of neighborhood art house that in better days showed films by Antonioni and Godard. In short, the old skinema is putting on airs and is making a bid for the middle-class matron in the afternoon and the middle-class couple at night. Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman [FF '66], a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house […]
ref: 1968, Filmfacts, Volume 11, volume 11, page 181:
text: In an esoteric new epic called Roseland, director Fredric Hobbs supersedes every skinema film ever made, not only by stuffing the screen to the edges with exposed epidermis, but by unveiling his masterstroke, the largest simulated dong in the civilized world today.
ref: 1971, Penthouse, Volume 6, Issues 1-6, volume 6, numbers 1–6, Penthouse International:
text: It was filled with hard-core details on stuff from skinema to incest and orgies, and a lot of ministers were appalled by the handbook's contents. It may be banned as pornography.
ref: 1975, New Times, Volume 4, volume 4, New Times Communications Corporation, page 8:
text: To overlook such a well-known and celebrated skin-chievement would render any guide to definitive skinema sexiness incomplete.
ref: 2005, Mr. Skin, Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked, illustrated edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 8:
text: (see title)
ref: 2007, Chris Nieratko, Skinema, illustrated edition, powerHouse Books, →ISBN:
text: We're talking about one of the greatest pornographic works in the history of skinema.
ref: 2017 October 20, Jess Dweck, Victor Quinaz, “Sleepover: A Harrowing Ordeal of Emotional Brutality” (10:53 from the start), in Big Mouth, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Val Bilzerian (Mark Duplass):
text: It was oval, and shockingly red with ruby colored carpeting meeting walls of glistening claret. She expected an assortment of Skinema posters or photos of topless screen sirens, but the walls were bare. At the top of the oval, sat Dagwood behind an oddly shaped desk. Realization struck. That's why all the red. What a douche! He's seated at what's meant to be a clitoris. And I'm standing inside a mock vulva!
ref: 2020 May 19, Thomas O'Callaghan, No One Will Hear Your Screams: A Novel, WildBlue Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Pornographic cinema.
skinemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skinema
shamboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shăm-bo͞oʹ
ipa: /ʃæmˈbu/
Forms: form: shamboos
Etymology: Blend of sham + bamboo
Senses: examples: text: Locklear was glad of her absence; it gave him time to finish a laminated shamboo handle for his blade, bound with thread, and to collect the thickest poles of shamboo he could find. The blade was sharp enough to trim the poles quickly, and tough enough to hold an edge.
ref: 1990 April 1, Dean Ing, chapter 3, in Cathouse, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 60:
text: The cargo bay contained a number of large crates, woven shamboo strips on a framework of larger stems. He emptied four and began methodically packing.
ref: 2010 April 27, S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, volume 1, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 154:
text: Higher skids off the ground, so he could work beneath the raft; a better method for winding that weight up and down; and a sturdy shamboo mast for his single sail—better still, a two-piece mast bound in a narrow Aframe to those […]
ref: 2013 June 15, Larry Niven, Stephen Hickman, Poul Anderson, Dean Ing, The Man-Kzin Wars: 25th Anniversary Edition, 25th edition, volume 1, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:
text: The giant cage with shamboo bars surrounded an artificial pond, and there in that place, Aaron and his acolytes were doing something that no one believed could be done: they were taming grendels.
ref: 2020 April 7, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Starborn and Godsons, Baen Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Artificial bamboo.
shamboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamboo
historic criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By such means Thucydides was the inventor of an art, which before him had been almost unknown, the art of historic criticism, without being conscious of the infinite value of his invention.
ref: 1850, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Edward Pococke, “The Greek Historians”, in History of Greek Literature, 2nd edition, page 293:
text: […] while M. Renan will claim to approach the Scriptures as critic, it will chiefly be for the purpose of discharging the functions of historic criticism by explaining and illustrating an ancient document.
ref: 1870, Bickerstaffe, “Renan’s St. Paul”, in The Christian Ambassador, volume 8, page 135:
glosses: Archaic form of historical criticism.
frosting on the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of icing on the cake.
synonyms: word: icing on the cake
Elling Woman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After 1978 (see note below).
Senses: examples: text: The Elling woman from the same large bog as Tollund man, and similarly hanged, had long plaited hair which had presented problems to the executioner, who had wound it up and round itself to remove its contact with the rope.
ref: 1996, D. Brothwell, “European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation”, in Konrad Spindler, Harald Wilfing, Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Dieter ZurNedden, Hans Nothdurfter, editors, Human Mummies, Springer, page 169:
text: Sleeping near the Tollund Man for centuries is the Elling Woman, whose body was discovered in 1938 about 60m (200 ft.) from where the Tollund Man was later discovered.
ref: 2009, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Denmark, Wiley, page 356:
text: Elling Woman from Denmark was also hanged with a leather belt that left a deep scar around her throat.
ref: 2016, Dennis William Harding, Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain, Oxford University Press, page 216:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bog body found preserved in peat on the Jutland peninsula, Denmark, in 1938; the naturally mummified body of a woman believed to have died approximately 280 BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the pre-Roman Iron Age.
Related terms: Tollund Man
deglutarylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deglutarylase
deglycases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deglycase
dehackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehacker
dehybridisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehybridisation
dehydrolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydrolase
delamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delaming
dekotoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dekotora
deinsertions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deinsertion
alkabir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: yellow indirect dye for silks, containing datiscin and extracted from bastard hemp, Datisca cannabina
bastard hemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: False hemp (Datisca cannabina).
tappy-lappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tappy-lappy
form: most tappy-lappy
form: tappy lappy
Etymology: A reduplicated rhyming compound.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pell-mell (“hasty, out of control”).
synonyms: word: pell-mell
extra: hasty, out of control
tappy-lappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tappy-lappy
form: most tappy-lappy
form: tappy lappy
Etymology: A reduplicated rhyming compound.
Senses: glosses: In a tappy-lappy manner.
gall-nut ink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gall-nut inks
Senses: glosses: acid blue-to-black ink, blue or purple when fresh, but turning intense black from iron oxidation, containing iron ions and tannic acids obtained from crushed gall-nuts and a solution of gum, or glue, and copperas, slowly replaced carbon ink and used from late antiquity to 20th century
Synonyms: gall nut ink
gallnut ink
iron-gall ink
iron gall ink
oak-gall ink
oak gall ink
standard ink
common ink
dulcorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dulcorate
alkaline glaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkaline glazes
Senses: glosses: glossy transparant silicate glaze for ceramic coating, containing alkaline flux to give the silica a lower melting point
iron-gall ink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron-gall inks
Senses: glosses: gall-nut ink
Canandaiguan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Canandaiguan
form: most Canandaiguan
Etymology: From Canandaigua + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Canandaigua, New York, United States.
Canandaiguan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canandaiguans
Etymology: From Canandaigua + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Life was always getting better. But there were some things that Canandaiguans did not want changed. One of these—a source of pride among Canandaiguans—was the physical beauty of the village.
ref: 1990, William H. Siles, “Wilderness Investment: The New York Frontier During the Federal Period”, in Stephen L. Schechter, Wendell Tripp, editors, World of the Founders: New York Communities in the Federal Period, Albany, NY: New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Canandaigua, New York, United States.
tuffie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuffies
Senses: examples: 1967-1968, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
One big tuffie stood there actin like Joe Coolie 'r sumthin.
glosses: Alternative spelling of toughie (a tough person)
Porth-y-waen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Porthywaen
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanyblodwel parish, north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2623).
delivery van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delivery vans
Senses: examples: text: As the train approached Welshpool on the return journey, an unexpected incident was provided by a baker's delivery van, which had been drawn up across the track. Some skilful manoeuvring of the vehicle was necessary before the train could pass.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Note and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 410:
glosses: An enclosed commercial vehicle used for deliveries to businesses and homes.
delivery vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delivery van.
Sankey Bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb partly in Great Sankey parish, and in Great Sankey South ward, Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5887).
crypto-satanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + satanism.
Senses: glosses: Hidden satanism; satanic views not expressed publicly.
Ayot St Peter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Welwyn Hatfield borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2115).
Related terms: Ayot Green
Ayot St Lawrence
Mestiz@
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mestiz@s
Etymology: The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mestiz@.
mestiz@s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mestiz@
Woodhursts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Woodhurst
Windeatts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Windeatt
Wingates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wingate
Caillier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cailliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French Caillier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Budney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Budneys
Etymology: Americanized form of Budny.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Budneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Budney
Cailliers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Caillier
Brookshier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brookshiers
Etymology: Variant of Brookshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
straight dope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The true information; the whole story.
Edenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0621).
Bromwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bromwells
Etymology: Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Herefordshire, from Old English brōm (“broom”) + wella (“spring, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Bromwells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bromwell
Brookshiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brookshier
Clemen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clemens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Clemen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Cohran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cohrans
Etymology: Variant of Cochrane.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Cohrans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cohran
Charbonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Charbonnets
Etymology: Borrowed from French Charbonnet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Eisemann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eisemanns
form: Eiseman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eisemann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Eisemanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eisemann
Charbonnets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Charbonnet
Easom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Easoms
Etymology: Variant of Easton or Eastham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
delexicalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delexicalisation
delftibactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delftibactin
demagocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demagocracy
Demerarans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Demeraran
demalonylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demalonylase
Dura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duras
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Castle Bytham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9818).
Related terms: Little Bytham
demerit goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demerit good
Easoms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Easom
demethylenations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demethylenation
Droll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Drolls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Droll.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Dematos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dematoses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dredges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dredge
Drolls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Droll
Dematoses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dematos
Ironmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ironmongers
Etymology: Occupational surname for an ironmonger.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Bantick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Banticks
Etymology: Variant of Bantock.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Banticks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bantick
Ironmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ironmonger
Rattlesden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first element is still obscure, while the second one certainly derives from Old English dene (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9759).
decorporatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decorporatizes
form: decorporatizing
form: decorporatized
form: decorporatized
Etymology: From de- + corporatize.
Senses: glosses: To make no longer corporate; to undo the corporatization of.
Related terms: decorporatization
decorporatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of decorporatizing.
decorporatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decorporatize
decorporatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decorporatize
decorporatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decorporatize
screwballery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From screwball + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of screwballism.
synonyms: word: screwballism
screwballism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From screwball + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The nature or behavior of a screwball, being wacky or crazy.
screwballish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more screwballish
form: most screwballish
Etymology: From screwball + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a screwball, being wacky or crazy.
regrader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regraders
Etymology: From regrade + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who regrades.
regraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrader
regranulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regranulates
form: regranulating
form: regranulated
form: regranulated
Etymology: From re- + granulate.
Senses: glosses: To granulate again.
regranulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regranulate
regranulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regranulate
regranulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regranulate
Mattel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməˈtɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Portmanteau word, blend of the names of founders Harold Matson and Elliot Handler.
Senses: glosses: An American toy and entertainment company founded in 1945.
spozed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
How am I spozed to communicate with someone when I don't even know where he's at?
glosses: Alternative spelling of supposed.
microanimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microanimal
morpholomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of the morphology of differentiated cell types.
flap-eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flap-eared
form: most flap-eared
Etymology: From flap + eared.
Senses: glosses: Having ears that appear as though they could flap,
Having large ears clearly distinct from the head.
raw_tags: of people
glosses: Having ears that appear as though they could flap,
Synonym of flop-eared, having large pendant ears.
synonyms: word: flop-eared
word: having large pendant ears
raw_tags: of animals
Lurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lur
Olsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Olsonian
form: most Olsonian
Etymology: From Olson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. (1932–1998), American economist and political scientist.
Olsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Olsonians
Etymology: From Olson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Olson's ideas.
Oppenheimerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oppenheimerian
form: most Oppenheimerian
Etymology: From Oppenheimer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German Jewish sociologist and political economist.
Olsonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Olsonian
Christian Identity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Identity Christianity
glosses: An interpretation of Christianity according to which only Celtic and Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic nations, or Aryan people and people of kindred blood, are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and are therefore the descendants of the ancient Israelites.
Identity Christianity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Christian Identity.
synonyms: word: Christian Identity
Buckley rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Buckley rule
form: Buckley's rule
Etymology: After William F. Buckley Jr., who stated the rule in connection with National Review magazine.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The rule of supporting the most right-wing viable candidate for a given office.
wikipedia: National Review
William F. Buckley Jr.
Buckley's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Buckley rule.
stretch-attend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretch-attends
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of stretch-attend posture.
stretch-attends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stretch-attend
stretchableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stretchable + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stretchability.
synonyms: word: stretchability
stretch-attend posture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretch-attend postures
Senses: synonyms: stretch-attend
glosses: A posture in which a rodent elongates the head and shoulders forward before retracting them, taken as a sign of anxiety in open-field tests.
stretch-attend postures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stretch-attend posture
bristlefronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bristlefront
Paulohi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nearly extinct Austronesian language spoken on Seram Island in eastern Indonesia.
self-incriminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-incriminate
self-incriminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-incriminate
self-incriminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-incriminate
knewst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knewest
form: knew'st
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of know
cross-buy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-buys
Etymology: From cross- + buy.
Senses: glosses: A feature of some digital distribution systems, especially video games, allowing a person who buys the product for one platform or device to use the versions for other platforms or devices at no additional cost.
glosses: A product purchased according to this scheme.
cross-buy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-buys
form: cross-buying
form: cross-bought
form: cross-bought
Etymology: From cross- + buy.
Senses: glosses: To purchase (a product) according to this scheme.
cross-bought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross-buy
cross-buys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-buy
cross-buys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-buy
cross-buying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-buy
tot lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tot lot
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
dalbergiquinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalbergiquinols
Senses: examples: text: The known naturally occurring dalbergiquinols are listed in Table 15.8.
ref: 1975, Jeffrey B. Harborne, Helga Mabry, Tom J. Mabry, The Flavonoids, volume 2, page 849:
text: It would appear that the dalbergiquinol (IV) would be the common intermediate in the plant and it gets stabilized either by methylation to dalbergiphenol or by oxidation to dalbergiquinone (dalbergenone).
ref: 1974, Indian Journal of Chemistry (volume 12, part 1, page 11)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various quinols that naturally occur in trees of the genus Dalbergia.
Related terms: dalbergenone
dalbergin
dalbergione
dalbergiquinone
dalbergiquinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalbergiquinol
lotilaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A veterinary medication used to control fleas and ticks in dogs and cats.
archiepiscopal cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archiepiscopal crosses
Senses: synonyms: archbishop's cross
glosses: A two-barred cross associated with archbishops.
archiepiscopal crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archiepiscopal cross
archbishop's cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of archiepiscopal cross.
synonyms: word: archiepiscopal cross
archivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more archivistic
form: most archivistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to archivism.
archt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arch
archt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of architect.
archts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archt.
self-compatible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autocompatible.
synonyms: word: autocompatible
selfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfers
Etymology: From self + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any autocompatible plant.
selfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selfer
amphimict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphimicts
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: apomict
glosses: Any amphimictic plant or organism.
amphimicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphimict
anamorphoser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anamorphosers
Etymology: From anamorphose + -er.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for anamorphosing an image.
anamorphosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anamorphoser
and everything
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of and all.
synonyms: word: and all
carlacue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carlacues
Senses: glosses: A trick or caper.
carlacues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carlacue
Caroli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carolus
carry everything before one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries everything before one
form: carrying everything before one
form: carried everything before one
form: carried everything before one
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carry all before one.
synonyms: word: carry all before one
cat-a-mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-a-mountains
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of catamountain.
cat-a-mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat-a-mountain
caulken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caulkens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of calkin.
caulkens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caulken
forecaddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecaddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forecaddie.
forecaddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forecaddies
form: forecaddying
form: forecaddied
form: forecaddied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forecaddie.
Nagkaisang Nayon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
honey tangerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey tangerines
Senses: examples: text: The name Honey tangerine is also common for Murcott tangerines, mainly in the United States; the designation Smith tangerine is also encountered.
ref: 2003 May/June, Wolfgang Feger, Herbert Brandauer, Herta Ziegler, “Analytical investigation of Murcott (honey) tangerine peel oil”, in Journal of Essential Oil Research, volume 15, number 3, page 143:
glosses: A murcott; a hybrid tangerine (tangor) of unknown parentage, first grown in Florida.
examples: text: It has seeds, and it can't be easily peeled like early tangerines. So why bother with this lumpy thing when you can buy other tangerines that are less trouble? Because the honey tangerine is known as the tangerine to wait for. It's the sweetest of the season.
ref: 2001 March 1, Cynthia Hizer, “Winter choices still the best bet”, in The Atlanta Journal Constitution, page H.4:
glosses: A honey mandarin; a hybrid tangerine (tangor) bred in California from the "willowleaf" variety mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata) and "king" tangor.
murcott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murcotts
form: Murcott
Etymology: Named for Charles Murcott Smith, a fruit grower in Florida during the early 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Murcott is an old tangor variety, most probably a hybrid created by W.T. Smith in Florida. Murcott tangerine is mainly produced in Brazil, with an annual production of ca. 180,000 tons.
ref: 2003 May/June, Wolfgang Feger, Herbert Brandauer, Herta Ziegler, “Analytical investigation of Murcott (honey) tangerine peel oil”, in Journal of Essential Oil Research, volume 15, number 3, page 143:
text: ‘Murcott’ tangerines stored 0°C maintain acceptable visual quality during 76 days, showing only slight dryness at the stem-end after 50 days of storage (Figure 1.17).
ref: 2008, Maria Cecilia do Nascimento Nunes, Color Atlas of Postharvest Quality of Fruits and Vegetables, John Wiley & Sons, page 34:
text: The main purpose of this study was to establish the volatile profile of the juice and peels of setubalense tangerines grown on Madeira Island, assess their authenticity by comparison with the closely related murcott variety cultivated in the mainland, Portugal, and explore its potential as a very rich natural source of several important bioactive compounds with differentiated health properties, namely, thymol, in the variety cultivated in Madeira Island.
ref: 2020, José Figueira, Priscilla Porto-Figueira, Jorge Pereira, José Câmara, “Tangerines Cultivated on Madeira Island—A High Throughput Natural Source of Bioactive Compounds”, in Foods, volume 9, number 10, →DOI, page 1470:
synonyms: honey tangerine
Smith tangerine
glosses: A variety of hybrid citrus tree (tangor), or the tangerine-type fruit of the tree.
chachamim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chacham
chachomim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chacham
Isabang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Lucena, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Majayjay, Laguna, Philippines.
Majayjay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Laguna, Philippines.
Liliw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Laguna, Philippines.
Nagcarlan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Laguna, Philippines.
Paltok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Angat, Bulacan, Philippines.
Murcott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Murcotts
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of murcott (“a variety of tangerine”).
Libtong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Bacarra, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
General Mamerto Natividad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
registration wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registration walls
Etymology: By analogy with paywall.
Senses: examples: text: This can be a good way to generate leads, but keep in mind that putting up a registration wall will likely reduce the amount of SEO traffic you can drive to that guide.
ref: Dr. Rakesh D, Dr. Manoj Kumara N V, Dr. Darshan S, Marketing Management (page 164)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions to users who have registered by creating an account.