cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autocategorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autocategorize
autocategorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autocategorize
autocategorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocategorization
Etymology: From auto- + categorisation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Automatic categorisation.
Synonyms: autoclassification
Related terms: autocategorize
autoclassify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoclassifies
form: autoclassifying
form: autoclassified
form: autoclassified
Etymology: From auto- + classify.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically classify.
Synonyms: word: autocategorize
Related terms: autoclassification
autoclassifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoclassify
autoclassifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoclassify
autoclassified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoclassify
drug trafficking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of smuggling, distributing and selling illegal drugs.
Synonyms: narcotraffic
Related terms: drug trafficker
autoclassifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoclassifiers
form: auto-classifier
Etymology: From auto- + classifier.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something that autoclassifies.
autoclassifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoclassifier
SCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCIs
Senses: examples: text: Although government regulations require that hearings be held before security clearances can be revoked, military officials appear to consider revocation of SCI clearances, which are higher than top secret, an exception.
ref: 1980 April 19, David Morris, “Gay Man Files Suit Over Lost Clearance”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
coordinate_terms: SCIF
TSSCI
glosses: Initialism of secured compartmentalized information/secured compartmented information.
glosses: Science Citation Index
glosses: Abbreviation of spinal cord injury.
Coordinate terms: sense: secured compartmentalized information
word: classified
sense: secured compartmentalized information
word: secret
sense: secured compartmentalized information
word: top secret
rain barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain barrels
form: rainbarrel
form: rain-barrel
Senses: glosses: A barrel used to collect and store rainwater runoff, typically from rooftops via gutters.
Synonyms: word: water butt
rainbarrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbarrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rain barrel.
rain-barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain-barrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rain barrel.
rain barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain barrel
rainbarrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbarrel
rain-barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain-barrel
water butts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water butt
tunnel-visioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tunnel-visioned
form: most tunnel-visioned
Etymology: tunnel-vision + -ed
Senses: glosses: Having or characterised by tunnel-vision.
jamjams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pajamas
unweather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈwɛðə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: unwether
Etymology: Likely a calque of Middle English unweder, Old English unweder (“bad weather; storm”) or Germanic cognates such as Saterland Frisian Uunweeder, Dutch onweer, German Low German Unweer, German Unwetter, and Danish uvejr, Swedish oväder, Icelandic óveður.
In any case, equivalent to un- (negative) + weather.
Senses: examples: text: The composition of the following note did not occupy him half an hour: — Major von Wismar lets himself a thousand times be greased, and fears him the unweather shall defend for to day the premeditated walk on horseback, which Madame ― graciously vowed him for half three of the hour.
ref: 1837, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 16:
text: The strangers would then have been only too gladly drenched to the skin that they might have hugged their wagered souls in the belief that this unweather was of Nature, and not of the Evil One. But the Heavens shed no tear.
ref: 1894, James Platt, Tales of the Supernatural: Six Romantic Stories:
text: Waiting for the weather, or the unweather. Well, we got here: gotta climb something now.
ref: 2003, Alpinist - Issues 5-8
glosses: Bad weather; storm.
unweather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈwɛðə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: unweathers
form: unweathering
form: unweathered
form: unweathered
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from unweathered, equivalent to un- (reversive prefix) + weather.
Senses: examples: text: I sprayed the underbody with Floquil's Grimy black and also gave the sides, ends and roof a light coat of this color. This was followed by Floquil's Zinc Chromate primer mixed with about 20 percent glaze to “unweather” the car and provide a base color suitable for decal application.
ref: 1986, Railroad Model Craftsman - Volume 55
text: An unbendable form dries worthless, brittle, only fire unweathers cochineal mud.
ref: 1994, World Order - Volumes 26-28
text: Occupy Sandy and other grassroots organizations work to “unweather” Sandy, to move it away from a weather-based event and toward an incident that exacerbated and made preexisting crises more apparent.
ref: 2015, Julia Leyda, Diane Negra, Extreme Weather and Global Media:
glosses: To undo or reverse the effects of weathering
unweatherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweatherly
form: most unweatherly
Etymology: From un- + weatherly.
Senses: topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: Not weatherly.
rubashka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubashkas
form: rubashki
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian руба́шка (rubáška).
Senses: examples: text: A soldier once came to me in Little Russia in a clean rubashka (shirt, belted and worn as a coat), and boasted that soldiers change their rubashki once a week.
ref: 1921, Francis McCullagh, “The Burial of the Tsar”, in A Prisoner of the Reds: The Story of a British Officer Captured in Siberia, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 183, column 4:
text: Like Berl [Katznelson], he [Eliyahu Golomb] wore a sort of uniform—a rubashka that buttoned down the side and a pair of creased khaki trousers. I don’t remember ever having seen him in a suit.
ref: 1975 September 7, Golda Meir, “My Life: Part 1: Battle with the British”, in Sunday Telegraph, number 758, London, →OCLC, page 6, column 6:
text: ‘Ivan the Whisker’ slapped his thigh and then reached down into the deep pocket of his rubashka and drew out a bottle.
ref: 1992, Leon Berk, “With the partisans — free at last!”, in Destined to Live: Memoirs of a Doctor with the Russian Partisans, Melbourne, Vic.: Paragon Press, →ISBN, part 2, page 132:
glosses: Synonym of kosovorotka.
synonyms: word: kosovorotka
tolstovka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolstovkas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian толсто́вка (tolstóvka).
Senses: glosses: kosovorotka (type of shirt)
Synonyms: kosovorotka
rubashka
forepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forepieces
form: fore-piece
form: fore piece
Etymology: From fore- + piece.
Senses: glosses: The front or forward-facing piece of an object, especially of a cap
examples: text: Such forepieces included comedies and tragedies and were often intended to provide an element of 'moral improvement' for the often rowdy and ill-educated audiences the pantomime attracted in the late 18th century.
ref: 1993, David Pickering, John Morley, Encyclopedia of pantomime:
glosses: Any introductory or beginning segment of an event or work, such as a play
Related terms: forepart
forepieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forepiece
skull base disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skull base diseases
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a wide variety of craniofacial and skull base disorders affecting the area of the head and/or neck, from the clavicle to the top of the skull.
quailish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quailish
form: most quailish
Etymology: From quail + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Similar to a quail
glue guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glue gun
foreglory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreglories
form: fore-glory
Etymology: From fore- + glory.
Senses: examples: text: It is the Phœnix of fore-glories Embers: Patience her wing, Heaven is her amount, [...]
ref: 1883, Anthony Copley, A fig for fortune:
text: And be it mine at close of life; / This rapture giv'n, / whate'er befell, / Of yesterdays unfilled with strife, — / This gleam of the Unlived to lend / Foreglory.
ref: 1893, Charles Wells Moulton, The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review - Volume 5:
text: Flooding with fore-glory the pages of the Book they all point forward to one focal spot of splendor upon God's horizon of the end-time upon which all eyes are centered.
ref: 1918, James Henry McConkey, The End of the Age:
glosses: Glory in advance or occurring ahead of time
hot glue gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot glue guns
Senses: glosses: A gun-shaped tool with a heating element, used to apply hot melt adhesives.
Synonyms: sense: tool
word: glue gun
hot glue guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot glue gun
fore-glory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore-glories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foreglory.
forechase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forechases
Etymology: From fore- + chase.
Senses: examples: text: After this, he was in a great hurry to get his spritsail-yard fore and aft, threatening very hard, and plying them with his forechase; but they were soon out of his reach; this ship was called the Peregrine, of fifty-six guns, with upward of 450 men.
ref: 1848, John Galt, All the Voyages Round the World:
glosses: The front of a hunt; a first assault
rubashkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubashka
kosovorotkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kosovorotka
tolstovkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolstovka
go back in time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes back in time
form: going back in time
form: went back in time
form: gone back in time
Senses: examples: text: Let's go back in time and see what caused World War I.
text: A trip down the Borderlands line is like going back in time. At many stations, passengers still cross between platforms at track-level.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:
glosses: To talk about history or the past.
Related terms: memory lane
turn back the clock
boyfriendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boyfriendy
form: most boyfriendy
Etymology: From boyfriend + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of or resembling a boyfriend.
girlfriendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girlfriendy
form: most girlfriendy
Etymology: From girlfriend + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is kind of a girlfriendy present, but it could just be friendy. Either way, Jeremy seems pleased.
ref: 2010, Kathleen Rooney, Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object, page 65:
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling a girlfriend.
forestatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestatements
Etymology: From fore- + statement.
Senses: examples: text: The alchemical theory of universal development includes a philosophical forestatement of the modern evolutionary hypothesis which, considering the scientific ignorance and darkness of the Middle Ages, is simply bewildering, and justifies the indignant demand of one theosophical writer for the restitution of its rightful property to " a spoliated past."
ref: 1888, Thomas Vaughan, Arthur Edward Waite, The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan:
text: Ignoring the progressive method of God's dealings with mankind, it treats the Jewish practices and beliefs of old time as having always been mere errors, and thus makes the Old Testament no more than a fantastic forestatement of the New Testament.
ref: 2005, F. J. Foakes-Jackson, A History of the Christian Church:
glosses: A statement made beforehand or in advance
Related terms: forestate
forestatements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestatement
forestated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forestated
form: most forestated
Senses: examples: text: Based on our experience with 0.5 pm MESFETs technology, it was apperceived that the 300 pm MODFET would be an excellent choice for the forestated requirements.
ref: 1989, Microwave Journal - Volume 32, Issues 7-12
glosses: Stated beforehand
forestated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forestate
forestating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When the forecasts or indications thus published are examined in reference to accuracy of preannouueement of the state of the weather only (not the forestating, as is the custom, the changes of the barometer, thermometer, and average wind-direction to happen), the average percentage of accuracy is found to be 90.7 per cent, verified.
ref: 1878, Annual Report of the Secretary of War - Volume 1
text: In the next sentence we have an acknowledged parenthesis, a forestating of a logical objection or question: 'There was a succession of days, at all events, when contact with him—and in its immediate effect, as if it could produce no other— […]
ref: 2013, Roger Gard, Henry James:
glosses: A stating in advance
forestating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forestate
sideromelanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideromelane
snap caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snap cap
afterbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterbrains
form: after-brain
Etymology: From after- + brain, a calque of German Nachhirn.
Senses: examples: text: Below the hindbrain, in the vicinity of the afterbrain, the spinal furrow does not close, and there remains here an open passage-way to the contiguous lower portion.
ref: 1904, Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker, Text-book of Human Physiology:
text: From the evolutionary standpoint, the afterbrain will never develop if the forebrain makes all of the decisions.
ref: 1961, Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction - Volume 68
text: [...] Ehrlingarns call the “afterbrain”. It is where telepathy and telekinesis are controlled. Telepaths have that organ greafly enlarged. In fact, some of them have trouble with it pinching off nerve impulses between the body and the cerebrum.
ref: 2001, Dennis Smith, Crystals:
text: The division in the fore-, middle- and afterbrain is based on the development of the human brain during the embryogenesis.
ref: 2012, Victoria Wells, G. R. Foxall, Handbook of Developments in Consumer Behaviour:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: hindbrain
glosses: A posterior subdivision of the hindbrain; the myelencephalon.
Related terms: midbrain
middlebrain
Atong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Atong (India) atong ([atɔŋ]).
Senses: examples: text: In fact, other Garo groups hardly understand the Atong language.
ref: 1981, Milton S. Sangma, History and Culture of the Garos, page 136:
ref: 2014, Seino van Breugel, A Grammar of Atong, →ISBN:
glosses: A Sino-Tibetan language, related to Garo, spoken in northeastern India and adjacent areas of Bangladesh.
Atong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Atong (Cameroon) Atong (Atoŋ).
Senses: glosses: A Grassfields-Bantu language of Cameroon.
subimagines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subimago
gruitbeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gruit + beer.
Senses: examples: text: It had been a more common drink during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when beer (gruitbeer) was of low quality and wine was still produced on a relatively large scale in Brabant itself, in the region of Louvain, Aarschot, and Diest.
ref: 1988, The Journal of European Economic History, page 141:
text: During the Middle Ages the popular beer was called gruitbeer. At that time hops were not used. Instead a mixture of herbs called gruit was used to give aroma and taste to what was basically a sweet product.
ref: 2002, Pierre Rajotte, Belgian Ale:
text: They include rosemary, bog myrtle (sweet gale), coriander, caraway, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, juniper, milfoil, mugwort and yarrow. The beers made using these components and which are now very rare are referred to as gruitbeer.
ref: 2013, Encyclopaedia of Brewing:
glosses: In medieval Europe, a beer which was flavoured with gruit, a mixture of herbs.
correct me if I'm wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: CMIIW
Senses: examples: text: Correct me if I'm wrong but picking the school your children will attend is a relatively important decision for parents.
ref: 2016 July 28, Stephanie Arthur-Worsop, “Opinion: Zoning hard issue to tackle”, in New Zealand Herald:
glosses: Used before stating something the speaker believes is true, especially while correcting what another person has said.
Related terms: is it just me
there's no such thing as a stupid question
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: there are no stupid questions
Senses: examples: a 1992, Nancy Purtil, letter quoted in When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?, David Feldman
The general feeling is that, while there is no such thing as a stupid question, this one comes very close. Poodles never did live in the wild […] .
glosses: Used to encourage people to seek knowledge by asking questions, no matter how silly the questions may appear to be.
Derived terms: Ask a Stupid Question Day
Related terms: ask a silly question, get a silly answer
where are we going
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: where are we going?
Related terms: where are we?
where are you?
where does this bus go?
where does this train go?
where have you been?
I have a headache
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker's head hurts.
Related terms: I have a temperature
I have a toothache
I have a temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of I have a fever.
synonyms: word: I have a fever
dickache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickaches
form: dick-ache
form: dick ache
Etymology: From dick + ache.
Senses: examples: text: He couldn’t remember a time when he’d been so tired, worn out, wrung out, from an endless night of sex. Everyone was familiar with a headache, but a dickache?
ref: 2915 June 24, Lutishia Lovely, chapter 10, in The Perfect Revenge, Kensington Publishing Corp., page 67:
text: Add reluctant lust to the list of his current emotions, and he was in danger of getting a headache.
And, much to his shame, a dickache. Because Nina had smiled like that on the day he’d gotten between her thighs, lips curving in pleasure before his tongue slipped inside her and that mouth of hers parted on a filthy moan…
ref: 2020, Talia Hibbert, chapter 5, in Guarding Temptation, Nixon House, →ISBN:
text: Ryan doesn't like it, although he's trying to keep his possessiveness in check. He's staying with me a lot in my bed, always leaving before I'm up. He says seeing me dance night after night gives him dickache, like a headache but with his dick, so it's my own fault really. Cheeky bugger!
ref: 2021, Rosa Lee, chapter 10, in Hunted: A Highgate Preparatory Academy Prequel, Independently published, →ISBN:
synonyms: phallodynia
phallalgia
glosses: A pain or ache in the penis, particularly due to sexual arousal.
Related terms: pussyache
that's a relief
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said upon hearing good news that makes someone cease to be worried about something
tailache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailaches
Etymology: From tail + ache.
Senses: glosses: A pain or ache in the tail.
Axis power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Axis powers
Senses: examples: text: The target was from a country that, in World War II, was an Axis power.
ref: 2015 January 22, Adam Reed, 0:02:50 from the start, in Archer, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin):
glosses: A country in the alliance (in effect before and during World War II) of Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan, and a few other countries, which opposed the Allies.
manbitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manbitches
Etymology: From man + bitch.
Senses: glosses: A weak or submissive man.
chess engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chess engines
Senses: glosses: Software that plays chess autonomously, i.e. without human guidance.
Related terms: computer chess
robot chess
chess engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chess engine
far-left
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more far-left
form: most far-left
Etymology: Adjectival form of far left.
Senses: examples: text: In another worrying development for Germany’s mainstream, the fledgling Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) – a far-left party that has questioned the country’s support for Ukraine and shares some of the AfD’s anti-immigration streak – came third in both states, despite only being founded earlier this year.
ref: 2024 September 2, Christian Edwards, Claudio Otto, Matties Otto and Nadine Schmidt, “AfD becomes first far-right party to win German state election since 1945”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: hard-left
ultraleft
antonyms: far-right
glosses: Of or pertaining to the far left.
flow charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flow chart
hired guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hired gun
swack-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swack-ups
Etymology: UK c. 1860s. Used at Christ's Hospital School, Sussex.
Senses: qualifier: school slang
glosses: A lie; a falsehood.
wikipedia: Christ's Hospital
swack up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swacks up
form: swacking up
form: swacked up
form: swacked up
Etymology: UK c. 1860s. Used at Christ's Hospital School, Sussex.
Senses: qualifier: school slang
glosses: To lie; to deceive; to take in.
wikipedia: Christ's Hospital
swacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swack
swacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swack
swacker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of swack: more swack
swackest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of swack: most swack
swacks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swack up
swacking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swack up
swacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swack up
swack-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swack-up
bisibelebath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪs.iˌbɛl.əˌbæθ/
/ˌbɪs.i.bəˈlɑˌbæθ/
/-bæt/
Forms: form: bisi bele bath
Senses: glosses: A hot dish of lentils and rice from Karnataka state, India.
ernai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ernai
Senses: examples: text: She was adamant that I never visit her apartment because she was surrounded by other ernai.
ref: 2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:
text: An ernai agency operates in Shanghai, providing a menu of potential college students for men willing to pay.
ref: 2015, Jemimah Steinfeld, Little Emperors and Material Girls, page 91:
glosses: A mistress or concubine in China.
compassion fatigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compassion fatigue
Hunzib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gunzib
Senses: glosses: A Northeast Caucasian language, spoken in southern Dagestan
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Hunzib terms
Gunzib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hunzib.
blue-bearded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1875, Charles Dickens, "In the French-Flemish Country" in The Uncommercial Traveller, The Works of Charles Dickens, National Edition, Volume XXX, London: Chapman & Hall, 1907, p. 354, https://archive.org/details/uncommercialtrav0030dick
Blue-bearded though they were, and bereft of the youthful smoothness of cheek which is imparted by what is termed in Albion a ‘Whitechapel shave’ (and which is, in fact, whitening, judiciously applied to the jaws with the palm of the hand), I recognised them.
text: Grouped in the center of the hall were about two hundred men, all armed with sabers, — men of every age, and height and swarthiness, from stout, blue-bearded veterans to youths yet in their teens […]
ref: 1921, Talbot Mundy, chapter 16, in Guns of the Gods:
text: Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed it as " the biggest thing since wired brassieres. " A stubble-bearded conservative quipped: " You don't look like you need a shave. You just look embalmed. " But Founder Daniels figured his foxhole gag might be a good idea. Among his first users was blue-bearded he-man Clark Gable. And in its first week the company sold about 57,000 jars of its camouflage at $1 apiece.
ref: 1947 March 10, “Shady Business”, in Time:
glosses: Having thick, dark facial hair.
qualifier: As part of the names of plants and animals
glosses: Characterized by a tuft or other part of a bluish colour, resembling a beard.
Derived terms: blue-bearded bee-eater
blue-bearded iris
blue-bearded spelt
kiwanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiwano
perforation gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perforation gauge
good old days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of good old + old days.
Senses: examples: text: In the good old days we could go to the gasworks and buy coke.
text: Well, the good old days may not return / And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn
ref: 1991, “Learning to Fly”, in Into the Great Wide Open, performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:
text: "He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
ref: 2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
glosses: A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.
Synonyms: golden age
heyday
Related terms: back in the day
ONC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ONCs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Ordinary National Certificate.
ONCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ONC
hyperdontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperodontia
Etymology: From hyper- + -odontia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of having teeth that appear in addition to the regular number of teeth.
Related terms: hypodontia
pudendal cleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudendal clefts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cleft of Venus
glosses: The cleft between the labia majora.
farmish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farmish
form: most farmish
Etymology: From farm + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Then a tall dark man got up and came to the podium. He looked pretty normal to me, except that his clothes looked new and like they'd never seen hours of weeding between the rows. But even our own farmish collective would manage decent clothes for someone we sent out to speak. We work hard and we're poor, but we're not that poor.
ref: 1997, Warren Lapine, Stephen Pagel, Absolute Magnitude:
text: "Yep. I didn't know he'd only been here for four years. Does he ever talk about where he was before that?" "Not really, but some of his expressions are kind of...farmish."
ref: 2014, Elaine Orr, Ground to a Halt:
glosses: Indicative or suggestive of a farm; characteristically farmlike
pudendal clefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudendal cleft
5FDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Five Finger Death Punch.
God hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, no one (including Price) would dream of reading a paper to a scientific society arguing that the God hypothesis is superior to the Molecular theory of gases.
ref: 1977, Frank Jackson, Perception: A Representative Theory, CUP Archive, →ISBN, page 144:
text: When the God hypothesis is evaluated with a more plausible conception of conservatism, it seems to conflict with, among other things, scientific data suggesting that the universe is uncaused.
ref: 2003, Lewis Vaughn, Austin Dacey, The Case for Humanism: An Introduction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: The hypothesis that God exists, seen as something able to be analyzed by a scientific approach rather than accepted by faith.
ex juris
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
topics: law
glosses: Outside of the jurisdiction of the court.
Berserkeley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berzerkeley
Etymology: Blend of berserk + Berkeley.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Berkeley: a city in Alameda County, California, United States; or the University of California campus located there, both having a reputation for progressive or radical politics.
Rossettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rossettian
form: most Rossettian
Etymology: From Rossetti + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poet.
telephobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telephobic
form: most telephobic
Etymology: From tele- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Why didn't he give me a contact number when I asked? Scientists can't be telephobic.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a fear or dislike of speaking on the telephone.
examples: text: It was surprising that all the important players in the megacity campaign were so telephobic – except Vera Danyluk, who was confident and warm with a low voice that drew the viewer in.
ref: 2012, Peter F. Trent, Merger Delusion:
glosses: Having a fear or dislike of television.
whassat
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wassat.
wassis
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Wassis? Alligator skin?”' Nussbaum does a Richard Pryor accent. “'No fuckin' class, Whitey!”
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what's this.
Related terms: woss
beetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beetly
form: most beetly
Etymology: From beetle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It felt like after sex, when the person you had been during sex had slinked away, leaving a beetly shell behind.
ref: 2009, Dwight Allen, The Typewriter Satyr, page 48:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).
examples: text: Looked around the lounge for tipped-off creditors – one beetly glare and I would have bolted.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: beetle-browed
furnishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From furnish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being supplied or provided.
glosses: Capable of being fitted with furniture.
newspaperperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newspaperpersons
form: newspaperpeople
Etymology: From newspaper + person.
Senses: glosses: A newspaperman or newspaperwoman.
newspaperpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newspaperperson
newspaperpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newspaperperson
garbageperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbagepersons
form: garbagepeople
Etymology: From garbage + person.
Senses: glosses: A garbage collector of any gender; a garbageman or garbagewoman.
garbagepersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbageperson
garbagepeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbageperson
garbagewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbagewomen
Etymology: From garbage + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman employed to collect garbage.
garbagewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbagewoman
hurricaneproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hurricaneproof
form: most hurricaneproof
Etymology: From hurricane + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Capable of resisting a hurricane.
tornadoproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tornadoproof
form: most tornadoproof
Etymology: From tornado + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Capable of resisting a tornado.
typhoonproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more typhoonproof
form: most typhoonproof
Etymology: From typhoon + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Capable of resisting a typhoon.
smart set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare jet set.
Senses: glosses: The ultrafashionable part of society; the beau monde.
unnicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nicked.
Senses: glosses: Not nicked.
qasbah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qasbahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of casbah.
qasbahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qasbah
luwombo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Ugandan stew of meat or mushrooms steamed in banana leaves.
Brandy Alexander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brandy Alexanders
form: brandy alexander
form: brandy Alexander
Etymology: From brandy + alexander (an earlier cocktail made with gin). There are various theories involving people named Alexander, but no widely accepted individual.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with brandy, cream and crème de cacao.
White Lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: White Ladies
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of white lady (“cocktail”).
luxed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luxed up
form: most luxed up
Senses: glosses: Made luxurious.
freeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeters
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese フリーター (furītā), possibly from English free and German Arbeiter (“labourer”).
Senses: examples: text: The average freeter lives at home, earns about $1,000 a month, and stays in a job about nine months, according to surveys conducted by the Recruit Corporation, Japan's largest job placement company. Recruit estimates that 3.4 million Japanese, aged 19 to 30, are freeters, working part time or at temporary jobs.
ref: 2001 October 16, James Brooke, “Young Japanese Breaking Old Salaryman's Bonds”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In Japan, a young person (typically between the ages of 15-34) who lacks full-time employment (excluding housewives and students), especially through lack of interest in a career.
freeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeter
unrefillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + refillable.
Senses: glosses: Not refillable.
unrefilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + refilled.
Senses: glosses: Not refilled.
sargeant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sergeant.
irrepugnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrepugnable
form: most irrepugnable
Etymology: From ir- + repugn + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He conceived by that which he found in himself, the irrepugnable voice of Cupid, and considered (by that he knew too well) the unbridled fury of cruel...
ref: 1598, Jorge de Montemayor, Gaspar Gil Polo, Alonso Pérez de Montalbán, Diana of George of Montemayor, page 285
text: […] his Answers are so far off from being demonstrative, that is to say, evident, certain an irrepugnable, as that they are not so much as logical […]
ref: 1609, Robert Parsons, A Quiet and Sober Reckoning, page 550
text: […] it being an irrepugnable tower against all evil and violence. Living well is the best […]
ref: 1683, Thomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, Or: A Discourse of Temperance, page 1683
text: […] the latter forthright betook himself to the four brothers and plying them with store of such words as behoved unto the matter, in fine, with irrepugnable arguments […]
ref: 2013, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, page circa 140 (unpaginated)
glosses: That cannot be repugned; not repudiable; irresistible; irrefutable; unobjectionable.
couths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couth
good night, sweet prince
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Shakespeare's Hamlet (act V scene ii), in which Horatio utters the line to his dying friend Hamlet.
Senses: glosses: Implies that somebody died.
quatridual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Those who are easily brought to spit, are to be anointed only for two days successively, and after the quatridual interval, to have the same repeated, for the reasons aforesaid.
ref: 1737, Jean Astruc, translated by William Barrowby, A Treatise of the Venereal Disease, translation of original in New Latin:
glosses: Lasting four days
pukewads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pukewad
brehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breh
bretheren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brother; obsolete form of brethren.
algogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more algogenous
form: most algogenous
Etymology: From algo- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Producing pain.
glosses: Caused by pain.
birds'-nesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bird-nesting.
bird-nesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds'-nesting
form: bird nesting
Senses: examples: text: Let's go bird-nesting.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 189:
text: They [the boys] all had catapults […]. In summer they used to go fishing and bird-nesting.
ref: 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz, page 56 (Penguin 1962 edition):
glosses: The, formerly common, hobby of looking for birds' nests, often with the intention of collecting the eggs.
examples: text: An unusual, but not unheard of, setup called bird nesting is when children stay in the house and the parents take turns moving in and out.
ref: 2007, Gayle Rosenwald Smith, What Every Woman Should Know about Divorce and Custody:
text: He should feel lucky I agreed to test out this bird-nesting custody arrangement this month. It was a huge inconvenience for me to have the kids staying full time in the house while Mark and I traded time living there.
ref: 2017, Etta Faire, Feliz Navi-Dead: A Sketchy Matchmaker Mystery:
glosses: A custody arrangement in which the child of divorced parents remains in one home while the parents take turns to move in and out.
Megam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Kalmakanda subdistrict, Netrokona district, Dhaka division, Bangladesh.
FLT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FLTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of forklift truck.
FLTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FLT
grand prix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grands prix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Grand Prix.
grands prix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand prix Alternative form of Grands Prix.
malambos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malambo
hoaxings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoaxing
maknoon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maknoon
form: most maknoon
Etymology: From Arabic مَكْنُون (maknūn).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: mad; crazy
supracephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + cephalic.
Senses: examples: text: There is a typical complement of 9 large supracephalic head scales that includes 2 internasals, 2 prefrontals, 2 supraoculars, 1 frontal, and 2 parietals.
ref: 1989, Jonathan A. Campbell, William W. Lamar, The venomous reptiles of Latin America, page 90:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: overhead; above the head.
Grosjean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grosjeans
Etymology: Borrowed from French Grosjean.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
nigger knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger knockers
form: nigger-knocker
Senses: examples: text: She knew “who was going with who and when they were doing it and what night of the week they were doing it.” And when the detectives were using the “burrhead sticks” or “nigger knockers” on some poor blacks, she would have to leave […]
ref: 1996, Jack Nelson, Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 129:
text: So Harry runs to open up the deadlock. Now Joey got the nigger knocker wrapped around his hand real tight, dig. I know he about to correct me on some honky rules.
ref: 2005 July 2, Miguel Piñero, Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Piñero, Arte Publico Press, →ISBN, page 226:
text: The nigger knocker: The nigger knocker was a cut-down-to-size nightstick that measured about ten inches in length. It had been sanded down to create a fine natural wood appearance. The beauty of choosing the nigger knocker was that the victim didn't know when he was going to be hit. Normally impact did not come on the same day as the choice;[…]
ref: 2014 January 20, Noah Jacobson, The Pop up Kid: Secret Memoirs of the Intentionally Abused, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: A nightstick or a similar weapon.
glosses: A wooden baton used by truckers to check the tire pressure.
glosses: One who participates in the act of nigger knocking.
Related terms: nigger knocking
nigger knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger knocker
ureteropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ureteropathies
Etymology: From uretero- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Perfusion pressure/flow studies will resolve any doubt regarding obstruction, and fluoroscopic evaluation of the dynamic status of the draining ureter will be valuable in such conditions as primary megaureter, and ureteropathies associated with bilharziasis and tuberculosis.
ref: 1984, Tropical Urology And Renal Disease, page 40:
glosses: A disease of the ureter.
ureteropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ureteropathy
Jennerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Jenner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Edward Jenner (1749–1823), English physician who developed the science of immunology.
metallings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalling
rustings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusting
sleighings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleighing
Magnussen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Magnussens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Magnussen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
quinary sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinary sectors
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The branch of a country's economy where high-level decisions are made by top-level executives in government, industry, education, etc.
jyutping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jyutping.
boteh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botehs
form: buta
Etymology: From Iranian Persian بته (botte) (giving the spelling boteh), from Classical Persian بته (butta) (giving the spelling buta), a shortening of بته جقه (butta jiqqa), which has the same meaning.
Senses: glosses: The droplet-shaped motif on which paisley patterns are based.
botehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boteh
dudgeoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dudgeon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: In a state of dudgeon, or angry resentment.
Sovietesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sovietesque
form: most Sovietesque
Etymology: From Soviet + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: However, I couldn't continue by land to Georgia, as I would have liked: Russia still maintains its crazy, Sovietesque visa regulations, which makes getting a transit visa extremely difficult and extremely expensive.
ref: 2016, James S. Kessler, Echoes of Empire:
glosses: Reminiscent of the Soviet Union.
procursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Running forward, as the patient does in certain forms of epilepsy.
long-footed potoroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-footed potoroos
Senses: glosses: Potorous longipes, a large potoroo of southeastern Australia.
long-footed potoroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-footed potoroo
varsity jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varsity jackets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of letter jacket.
synonyms: word: jacket
varsity jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varsity jacket
letter jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter jackets
Senses: synonyms: letterman jacket
varsity jacket
glosses: A jacket traditionally worn by high-school and college students to represent school and team pride or to display their athletic or academic awards.
wikipedia: Richard Nixon
Whittier High School
Related terms: letterman
varsity letter
letter jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter jacket