cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
isopiptesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopipteses
head_nr: 1
form: isepiptesis
Etymology: Refashioning of the earlier spelling isepiptesis, from German Isepiptesen used by Alexander von Middendorff in his 1855 work Die Isepiptesen Russlands, from iso- + Ancient Greek ἐπίπτησις (epíptēsis, “flying down upon”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + πτῆσῐς (ptêsĭs, “flight”), from πέτομαι (pétomai, “fly”).
Senses: examples: text: The conclusion that the migration takes place at right angles to the isopipteses seemed justified; but, with regard to the direction of the bird's migration to be ascertained, could not possibly prove more exact than the premises themselves, the methods of inquiry, and the material.
ref: 1892, J. A. Palmén, “Report on the Migration of Birds”, in C. W. Shoemaker, transl., Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution:
head_nr: 1
glosses: An isoline that joins points on a map where the individuals of a particular migratory species arrive at the same time each year.
wikipedia: Alexander von Middendorff
isopipteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isopiptesis
chitobiases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitobiase
craniomapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craniomappers
Etymology: From cranio- + mapper.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A locational framework fitted to a patient's head during craniotomy
enterosorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterosorbents
Senses: glosses: An intestinal adsorbent
enterosorbents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterosorbent
grincamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grincamycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cytotoxic angucycline glycosides present in marine actinomycetes
immunophelometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: immunological and nephelometric
loricariine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to catfish of the subfamily Loricariinae
myrothenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrothenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of formamido cyclopentenones present in Myrothecium fungi
myrothenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrothenone
octanethiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octanethiols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any thiol derived from an octane, but especially 1-octanethiol
Honeywoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Honeywood
Ismays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ismay
Pekalskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pekalski
Penkalskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Penkalski
papingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papingos
form: papingoes
form: papingoe
form: popingo
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots papingo, ultimately from Old French papegai. Cognate to popinjay, German Papagei, Dutch papegaai.
Senses: glosses: parrot (bird)
glosses: popinjay (bird-shaped target in archery)
Laatsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laatsches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Laatsch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Klunder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Klunders
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Klunder or German Klünder.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Klunders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Klunder
Laatsches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laatsch
Bezdead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Bezdead.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Bezdead, Dâmbovița County, Romania.
Ciolănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciolănești.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Teleorman County, Romania.
Crasna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Crasna.
Senses: glosses: A village in Sita Buzăului, Covasna County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Crasna, Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Crasna, Sălaj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Albești, Vaslui County, Romania.
Cuzăplac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Cuzăplac.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Cuzăplac, Sălaj County, Romania.
Humbleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Humbles
Kulises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kulis
Hogenson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hogensons
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Norwegian and Danish Haagensen or its Swedish cognate Håkensson.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hermance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hermances
Etymology: Altered spelling of German Hermanns.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hermances
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hermance
Hogensons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hogenson
Hertenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hertensteins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hertenstein.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hertensteins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hertenstein
Gerhold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gerholds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gerhold.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gerholds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerhold
Gattens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gatten
Gombos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gomboses
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Gombos or Gömbös.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Cisler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cislers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cislers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cisler
Gomboses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gombos
McWhite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McWhites
Etymology: Partly translated Anglicized form of Irish Mac Faoitigh, a patronymic from a Gaelic form of English White.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Letizias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Letizia
McWhites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McWhite
long ciliary nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long ciliary nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: anterior ethmoidal nerve
infratrochlear nerve
posterior ethmoidal nerve
glosses: Any of two or three nerves that are given off by the nasociliary nerve as it crosses the optic nerve, pass through the posterior part of the sclera, and run forward between the sclera and the choroid to be distributed to the iris and cornea.
Related terms: short ciliary nerve
short ciliary nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short ciliary nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Any of 6 to 10 delicate nerve filaments of parasympathetic, sympathetic, and general sensory function that arise in the ciliary ganglion and innervate the smooth muscles and tunics of the eye.
Related terms: long ciliary nerve
Teigens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Teigen
Loaizas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Loaiza
McKernans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKernan
propanethial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From propane + thial.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The thial CH₃-CH₂-CH=S
Chungching
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 重慶／重庆 (chóngqìng) via Wade–Giles.
Senses: examples: text: The "grand grey city" of Chungching (to which Mr. Little succeeded in taking up a steamer) and many another in the Yangtsze Valley owe absolutely nothing to the foreigner or foreign influence, and "in no city in Europe," writes the distinguished correspondent of the Times, Dr. Morrison, " is security to life and property better guarded than in Chungking."
ref: 1900, J. W. Robertson-Scott, The People of China, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 147:
text: A Chinese Wei Chi Club was first set up by Chen Li-fu, advisor to the President, in Chungching, Szechwan Province, during the Second World War, and the club was reactivated in Taiwan in 1953.
ref: 1981 January 25, “Wei Chi-old Chinese game enjoys wide following”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 4, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Mr. Uno supported Japan during the war. His eldest son, Kazumaro, was an American citizen, but he worked for the Japanese military in Tokyo and had captured Mr. James Young, the International News Service correspondent in Chungching who had been sending reports attacking the Japanese military since before the war.
ref: 2008 [1948], Yasutaro (Keiho) Soga, translated by Kihei Hirai, Life behind Barbed Wire: the World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaiʻi Issei, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99:
glosses: Alternative form of Chongqing.
rogaratinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An amino acid amide that inhibits the fibroblast growth factor
histioneutrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: histiocytic and neutrophilic
male-fail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlˌfeɪl/
Forms: form: male-fails
form: male-failing
form: male-failed
form: male-failed
form: malefail
Senses: examples: text: I just male-failed with a customer and I'm so happy!
text: Was blonde until last year and since going red, things changed a lot. I male-fail so much more often and people talk to me more. It’s good but weird. 💁♀️
ref: 2018 August 8, @jhannapearce, Twitter:
text: So, I guess I male-failed at work today? Sweet old lady with her grandkids, didn't bother correcting herself when she got closer... Yay for me? 😁
ref: 2019 February 21, @Gravy_Bunny, Twitter:
glosses: Of a trans woman: to fail to pass as male; to make a successful male-to-female transition.
nososymbiocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: The collective pathogenic potential of a microbial community
Pen-y-Darren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Penydarren community, Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0507).
binge-plays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of binge-play
binge-played
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of binge-play
binge-playing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of binge-play
petromyscine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petromyscines
Senses: glosses: Any rodent of the genus Petromyscus
petromyscines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petromyscine
louse trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louse traps
Senses: glosses: A comb (toothed implement for grooming).
louse traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of louse trap
isogrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isogrids
Etymology: From iso- + grid.
Senses: glosses: A partially hollowed-out structure formed usually from a single metal plate (or face sheet) with triangular integral stiffening ribs, and used in aerospace applications.
Coordinate terms: orthogrid
isogrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isogrid
orthogrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogrids
Etymology: From ortho- + grid.
Senses: glosses: A structure similar to an isogrid but having rectangular rather than triangular openings.
orthogrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthogrid
barley sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley sandwiches
Senses: glosses: A drink of beer, typically taken as a liquid lunch.
barley sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barley sandwich
Penydarren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pen-y-Darren
Senses: glosses: A community and electoral ward in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales.
camese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cameses
Senses: examples: text: Oh! who is more brave than a dark Suliote, / With his snowy camese and his shaggy capote?
ref: c. 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:
glosses: Alternative form of camis (“a dress or robe”).
cameses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camese
cribbage-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cribbage-faced
form: most cribbage-faced
Etymology: Allusion to the holes in a cribbage board.
Senses: glosses: Of a person: having a pockmarked face.
GTD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: GT-D
Etymology: Initialism of Grand Touring/Tourer Daytona. From being a Grand Touring (“Gran Turismo”) (GT) racecar sportscar category developed for the Daytona Motor Speedway, and associated events/tracks.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
synonyms: GT Daytona
Grand Touring Daytona
hypernyms: GT
coordinate_terms: GTLM
DP
qualifier: Grand Touring Daytona
glosses: A class of closed-cockpit enclosed-wheeled 4-wheeled sports car racing.
GTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GTDs
form: GT-D
Etymology: Initialism of Grand Touring/Tourer Daytona. From being a Grand Touring (“Gran Turismo”) (GT) racecar sportscar category developed for the Daytona Motor Speedway, and associated events/tracks.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
synonyms: GT Daytona
Grand Touring Daytona
hypernyms: GT
sports car
race car
coordinate_terms: GTLM
DP
qualifier: Grand Touring Daytona
glosses: A racecar sports car that conforms to GT Daytona category specifications.
Derived terms: GTD1
GTD2
GTD3
Related terms: english: Daytona Prototype
translation: Daytona Prototype
word: DP
english: Grand Touring Le Mans
translation: Grand Touring Le Mans
word: GTLM
cut someone's comb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts someone's comb
form: cutting someone's comb
form: cut someone's comb
form: cut someone's comb
Etymology: From the practice of cutting the combs of capons.
Senses: examples: text: Ha! ha! I can't help thinking of his swaggering self-importance the first time he came here; and how I cut his comb.
ref: 1877, Timothy Shay Arthur, The Bar-rooms at Brantly; Or, The Great Hotel Speculation, page 423:
synonyms: cut down to size
take down a notch
glosses: To humiliate someone who is conceited.
praeponderance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeponderances
Senses: examples: text: [S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.
ref: 1857, R[obert] Harries Jones, “Part the Second”, in The Japhetic Races. A Historical and Ethnological Inquiry into the Consanguinity of Various European Races. […], Göttingen: Printed at the University Press by W. Fr. Kaestner, →OCLC, section II, page 36:
glosses: Obsolete and rare spelling of preponderance.
unaffectatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaffectatious
form: most unaffectatious
Etymology: From un- + affectatious.
Senses: glosses: Not affectatious.
rain napper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain nappers
Senses: examples: text: Within a few minutes, Mr. Fair, who was also the Sheriff, came into the building while closing his rain napper.
ref: 2010, Ann DeWitt, Kevin M. Weeks, Entangled in Freedom: A Civil War Story, page 17:
text: “Tonight I would trade every fancy racer for a hansom nag, or even for a rain napper.”
ref: 2015, Laurie R. King, In the Company of Sherlock Holmes:
text: “Glad to hear it,” he said. “Shoulda taken a rain napper, though. You're wet through.”
ref: 2016, Matthew J. Kirby, A Taste for Monsters:
glosses: An umbrella.
rain nappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain napper
umbershoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbershoot
umbrella fund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella funds
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A collective investment scheme that exists as a single legal entity but has several distinct subfunds traded like individual investment funds.
umbrella funds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbrella fund
semicircling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semicircle
wooden wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooden wedges
Senses: qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: Synonym of wedge: the person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
synonyms: word: wedge
extra: the person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos
wooden wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooden wedge
golgappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golgappas
form: gol gappa
form: golgappe
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गोलगप्पा (golgappā).
Senses: synonyms: gupchup
water ball
qualifier: particularly North India
glosses: panipuri (fried puff-pastry balls filled with seasonings etc.)
go a raker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes a raker
form: going a raker
form: went a raker
form: gone a raker
Senses: examples: text: 1891, 3 April, Lie. Vict. Gaz.
Then he went a raker on the favourite for the St. Leger, but the brute was not even shopped.
text: Finally, rendered desperate by failure after failure, I went a raker for a horse that I had heard on unquestionable authority was a real 'good thing' for the Cambridgeshire. He came in last but one in the race, […]
ref: 1902, Finch Mason, Annals of the Horse-Shoe Club, page 195:
glosses: To bet a large amount of money on a certain racehorse.
put the stunners on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the stunners on
form: putting the stunners on
form: put the stunners on
form: put the stunners on
Senses: examples: George MacDonald, If I Had A Father
JACK: Well, you do put the stunners on me!
glosses: To astonish greatly.
upon the square
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You must keep within the compass, and act upon the square with all mankind, for your masonry is but a dead letter if you do not habitually perform its reiterated injunctions.
ref: 1857, George Oliver, Signs & Symbols, illustrated & explained, page 190:
glosses: Synonym of on the square.
synonyms: word: on the square
ostentatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: ostentatious
ostentatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostentatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ostentātrīx. By surface analysis, ostentator + -trix.
Senses: glosses: An ostentatious woman
Related terms: ostentator
Symbian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A discontinued mobile operating system originally developed by the Symbian Ltd. consortium and later by Symbian Foundation, Nokia and Accenture.
osteocopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Designating pain that is felt in the bones, typically of syphilitic origin
Related terms: english: pain in a bone
translation: pain in a bone
word: osteocopus
osteofibrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteofibroses
Etymology: From osteo- + fibrosis.
Senses: glosses: fibrotic osteodystrophy
Derived terms: osteofibrotic
Related terms: osteofibroma
osteofibromatosis
osteofibrous
osteofibrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteofibrosis + -otic or osteo- + fibrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteofibrosis.
Related terms: osteofibroma
osteofibromatosis
osteofibrosis
osteofibrous
buckhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckhorses
Etymology: After a celebrated "bruiser" of the same name, said to have allowed anybody to strike him on the side of the face for a small sum of money.
Senses: examples: text: […] the hands of the same exalted young lady being also well calculated to give any man such a 'buckhorse' as would have sent him whirling round the presence-chamber […]
ref: 1870, George Musgrave Musgrave, A Ramble Into Brittany (volume 1, page 80)
glosses: A smart blow or box on the ear.
buckhorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckhorse
hempen cravat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hempen cravats
Senses: examples: text: I am no prophet, yet am not unwilling to say that if he has not yet graced a hempen cravat, he either will at some future time, or his deserts will not be meted out to him.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22:
synonyms: word: hempen collar
word: Bridport dagger
word: collar
word: halter
word: hangman's knot
word: hangman's noose
word: hempen collar
word: hempen cravat
glosses: The hangman's noose.
hempen cravats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hempen cravat
Po-ao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 博鰲／博鳌 (Bó'áo) Wade-Giles romanization: Po²-ao².
Senses: examples: text: Other harbours may be enumerated:[...]Po-ao (博鰲) on the east, has extensive sand banks.
ref: 1937, National Quarantine Service Reports, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of Bo'ao.
Keyonna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Sabelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Sabellians.
strike me up a gum tree
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Expressing astonishment.
serfism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From serf + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The system of serfs as workers attached to land.
Priti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Preeti
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रीति (prīti).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
tree cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Gossypium arboreum, a species of cotton native to India, Pakistan and other tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World.
lick of the tarbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licks of the tarbrush
Senses: glosses: Synonym of touch of the tar brush.
synonyms: word: touch of the tar brush
touches of the tar brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch of the tar brush
running powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: No wonder, then, that against a background of surging aggressive prosperity, South Wales built up during the last half of the nineteenth century a local railway system of great density and complexity, in which almost every company competed with every other in its area, and in which working agreements, running powers and strategic junctions ran riot across the railway map.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 158:
text: This was done, and in many cases still is done by the main-line railway groups, through the exercise of running powers, which on application to Parliament by the company using them have been granted for the express purpose of affording this access without the necessity for building independent tracks. In other cases, such running powers have been granted without recourse to Parliament, by voluntary agreement between the parties.
ref: 1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Running Powers”, in Railway Magazine, page 318:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Permission given in an agreement allowing one railway company to run trains over certain tracks belonging to another railway company.
Synonyms: word: trackage rights
running scripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running script
broad cooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad coopers
Senses: glosses: A person employed by brewers to negotiate with publicans.
broad coopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broad cooper
Zalău
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Zalău.
Senses: glosses: A city in Sălaj County, Romania.
laboring oar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laboring oars
form: labouring oar
Senses: glosses: An oar that is worked with great effort.
examples: text: And so too, when new issues demanding new policy calls come up within that scheme, Congress presumably wants the same agency, rather than any court, to take the laboring oar.
ref: 2019, Kisor v. Wilkie (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-15), Justice Kagan
glosses: The part of a task that requires the greatest effort to achieve.
Chieșd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Chieșd.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Sălaj County, Romania.
labouring oar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labouring oars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of laboring oar.
ran riot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run riot
unbleached American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbleached Americans
Senses: examples: text: For nearly three years Raleigh has been to the great mobs of unbleached Americans in the western and contiguous counties of this state what Mecca is to the followers of Mohamet […]
ref: quoted in 1994, Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays (page 211)
glosses: A black American.
unbleached Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unbleached American
EUCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of European Council.
Scarlattian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Scarlattian
form: most Scarlattian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), Italian composer.
Blaengarw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh blaen + River Garw.
Senses: glosses: A village in Garw Valley community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9092).
wikipedia: River Garw
flatty-ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatty-kens
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A public house whose landlord is ignorant of the practices of the thieves and tramps who frequent it.
flatty-kens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatty-ken
lays a glove on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay a glove on
laying a glove on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay a glove on
laid a glove on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay a glove on
skull-thatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skull-thatchers
Senses: examples: text: Having been sent to London on a medical trip by his uncle, Mr. Quince, he had become smitten with a fair milliner — a skull-thatcher, anglice, a maker of straw bonnets, but with no more money in her purse than would buy a dose of salts […]
ref: 1828, Cumberland's Minor Theatre, page 5:
text: 'Which accounts for your frequent attendance, loveliest of skull thatchers!' said Harry in a polite bantering tone, which did not make the intended sarcasm less apparent.
ref: 1859, J. W. Overton, Harry Hartley; or, Social science for the workers, volume 420, page 29:
glosses: A maker of straw bonnets.
skull-thatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skull-thatcher
high strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highstrikes.
hocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockers
Etymology: From hock + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hocks or pawns an item.
glosses: A wad of phlegm spat out by hocking.
hockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hocker
go the entire swine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the entire swine
form: going the entire swine
form: went the entire swine
form: gone the entire swine
Etymology: By circumlocution.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go the whole hog.
synonyms: word: go the whole hog
go the entire animal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the entire animal
form: going the entire animal
form: went the entire animal
form: gone the entire animal
Etymology: By circumlocution.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go the whole hog.
synonyms: word: go the whole hog
note of interrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notes of interrogation
Senses: coordinate_terms: note of admiration
glosses: A question mark.
notes of interrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of note of interrogation
shakester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shakesters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shiksa.
shickster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shicksters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shiksa.
Pont-y-rhyl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh. It was spelt Pontyrhyl on an OS map published in 1947.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Garw Valley community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9089).
shakesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shakester
shicksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shickster
box of ivories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxes of ivories
Senses: examples: text: The following day Simon sulks whenever he sees Sally, and Sally grins to the exposure of her box of ivories whenever she meets Simon.
ref: 1852, Howard Paul, Dashes of American Humour, page 81:
glosses: A set of teeth.
boxes of ivories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box of ivories
shot in the locker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shots in the locker
form: shot in one's locker
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Money or other resources available on hand.
shots in the locker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot in the locker
Haymarket Hector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haymarket Hectors
Senses: examples: text: You cannot have forgotten that when the late King took offence at an expression of Sir John Coventry's, he employed O'Brian, Sir Thomas Sands, and some other Haymarket Hectors, to cut off Sir John's nose as he returned home at night.
ref: 1899, Horace Smith, Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, page 121:
glosses: A thug, bully or pimp inhabiting the London neighbourhood of Leicester Square and the Haymarket.
Haymarket Hectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haymarket Hector
FPDL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FPDLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of flashlamp pulsed dye laser.
FPDLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FPDL
doff one's hat to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doffs one's hat to
form: doffing one's hat to
form: doffed one's hat to
form: doffed one's hat to
Senses: examples: text: I doffed my hat to the wondrous horse, the fast trotter, the best in mother England; and I too drew a deep ah! and repeated the words of the old fellows around. "Such a horse as this we shall never see again; a pity that he is so old."
ref: 1851, George Borrow, Lavengro; The Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest, volume I, page 209:
text: I doff my hat to Mr President of the Republic as he celebrates his eighth anniversary of accession to the pinnacle of political power.
ref: 2011, Godfrey B. Tangwa, No Trifling Matter: Contributions of an Uncompromising Critic to the Democratic Process in Cameroon, page 15:
text: Perhaps this is why she enjoys writing series (doffing her hat to all the series she read as a child).
ref: 2014, Barbara J. Lehman et al., Creating Books for the Young in the New South Africa, page 69:
glosses: To acknowledge praise towards (someone or something).
sherriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sherriffs
Senses: examples: text: One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.
ref: 1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions, page 8:
glosses: Obsolete form of sheriff.
sherriffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherriff
twice-laid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There should have been there a superb dish of twice-laid, only the rats had eaten up all the salt fish, and the Commodore and his friends had eaten up all the potatoes […]
ref: 1837, The Athenaeum, page 741:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A dish prepared from cold fish and potatoes.
star the glaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stars the glaze
form: starring the glaze
form: starred the glaze
form: starred the glaze
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To break a window in order to commit robbery.
gingambob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gingambobs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thingamabob.
synonyms: word: thingamabob
gingumbob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gingumbobs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thingamabob.
synonyms: word: thingamabob
gingambobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingambob
gingumbobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingumbob
gonnof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonnofs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ganef.
gonnofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonnof
glacier bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacier birds
Senses: glosses: white-winged diuca finch (Idiopsar speculifer).
citrusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These comprised azalees calceolarius, citrusses, ericas, and a hundred other rare varieties.
ref: 1854 May 26, “Royal Horticultural Society”, in The Freeman’s Journal, volume LXXXVII, Dublin, page 4, column 5:
text: Imagine, then, the tailspin done by our alleged brain when we read the doin’s of this here new-fangled farm board an’ found that the farmers was fruit men with the [f?]lies, a few natives of Florida which raises citrusses an’ rents an’ whatever else it is that Florida raises, an’ the cotton men.
ref: 1929 July 26, “It Doesn’t Matter Much, But - -”, in The Hamilton County Republican-Register, volume 1, number 18 […], Aurora, Neb., page 2, column 3:
text: Dr. Tanaka who has been making systematic studies of the citrusses of the world for the last 25 years is an authority on the subject.
ref: 1935 December, The Madras Agricultural Journal, volume XXIII, number 12, page 489:
text: Also, recycling containers, or bags, that had oranges, lemons, grapefruit, or other citrusses stored in them, that have the grid of about one-fourth inch square on them.
ref: 1980 November 6, “The Plant Groom; With Dale: Winter Storage”, in Tyler Morning Telegraph, volume 50, number 359, Tyler, Tex., page 8:
text: (At the beginning of the century, kumquats were classed in the genus Citrus, but it was then decided that they were not quite full-fledged citrusses, so they became fortunellas).
ref: 1981 August 27, Waverley Root, “Calamondin Gets Its Day in the Sun”, in Los Angeles Times, part VIII, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Entry to United States”, page 19, column 1:
text: Studies on cultivars of mango, guava and some citrusses; extension and training of farmers.
ref: 1993, “United Arab Emirates”, in Horticultural Research International: Directory of horticultural research institutes and their activities in 74 countries, 5th edition, Wageningen: International Society for Horticultural Science, →ISBN, page 715:
text: ‘European fruit, such as apples, pears [hazel?]-nuts, and the like one will indeed not find here in India ..... But on the other hand one has other delicious fruit, not seen in Europe either, like pineapples, banana, pumelo, mangos, oranges, Chinese apples [i.e. oranges], lemons, citrusses, water melons, cashews, coconuts and more of the like, all of which being excellently good of taste.’[…]‘rice, wheat, barley kayang, ginger, sugar, masquinades: multifarious trees [and fruits] (besides) lemons, [citrusses,] oranges, guayavas, pisang, (citrusses, pummel-os, water-)melons, (pumpkins,) pineapples, China root, katjang, aubergines, sweet potatoes, ubes, (warmoes?), cabbage, beet’—words in square brackets are only in the German version, those in parentheses only in the Dutch.
ref: 2007, Waruno Mahdi, Malay Words and Malay Things: Lexical Souvenirs from an Exotic Archipelago in German Publications before 1700 (Frankfurter Forschungen zu Südostasien; volume 3), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 136–137 and 287:
glosses: plural of citrus
yellowshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowshanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yellowshanks (“a bird”).
yajenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid of uncertain composition, reported from the genus Banisteriopsis.
Related terms: yajeine
Yakonan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yakonan
form: most Yakonan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Yakona people.
Yakonan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yakonans
Senses: glosses: A member of the Yakona people.
Yakonans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yakonan
faineantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faineant + -ism.
Senses: glosses: faineant attitudes or behaviour
fanglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanglets
Etymology: From fang + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little fang.
fanglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanglet
fantoddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fantoddish
form: most fantoddish
Etymology: From fantod + -ish.
Senses: glosses: irritable
farasula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farasulas
form: frasula
Senses: glosses: An African unit of weight, equivalent to about 17 kilograms.
Related terms: farasola
farmyardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farmyardy
form: most farmyardy
Etymology: farmyard + -y
Senses: examples: text: a farmyardy smell
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a farmyard.
glosses: Having an earthy flavor.
raw_tags: of food or drink
Synonyms: word: barnyard
barnyardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barnyardy
form: most barnyardy
Etymology: From barnyard + -y.
Senses: examples: a barnyardy smell
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a barnyard.
featherlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherlets
Etymology: From feather + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little feather.
featherlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of featherlet
feckfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feckfully
form: most feckfully
Etymology: From feckful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feckful manner.
fictility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fictile.
fictioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fictioners
Etymology: From fiction + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His vision is dystopian, like that of Huxley and Orwell and all modern fictioners of the future in the west.
ref: 1968, Keith Delroy Lowe, Evelyn Waugh: Man Against History, page 158:
glosses: A writer of fiction.
Related terms: science-fictioner
fictioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fictioner
figulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of figulate.
filletster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filletsters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fillister (“plane for making a rabbet”).
filletsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filletster
fisnoga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɪs.noʊ.ɡə/
Etymology: From Yiddish פֿיסנאָגע (fisnoge), from פֿוס (fus), from Old High German fuoȥ, + a Slavic reflex of Proto-Slavic *noga.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of p'tcha (“calves'-foot jelly”).
synonyms: word: p'tcha
extra: calves'-foot jelly
petchah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of p'tcha.
Litvish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish ליטוויש (litvish).
Senses: synonyms: Northeastern Yiddish
glosses: The dialect of Yiddish spoken in Lithuania, Belarus, southern Latvia, northern and eastern Ukraine, and western Russia.
batting pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batting pads
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of a pair of soft padded coverings that protect the legs of the person batting; a pad or bat-pad.
Hector protector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hector protectors
Senses: examples: text: Vaseline in the cricket shoes, chilli powder in his hector protector, that sort of thing is Australian cricket's natural method of correction.
ref: 2004 March 12, The Chaser, Sydney, page 20, column 3:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder; a box.
cricketly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cricketly
form: most cricketly
Etymology: From cricket + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Saturday, atmospherically and cricketly began badly and ended worse[.]
ref: 1876 November 23, The Launceston Examiner, Tasmania, page 3, column 5:
glosses: With regards to cricket.
run feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run feasts
Senses: examples: text: Well, he and Sid had a run feast, putting on more than 400 runs together.
ref: 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 146:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lengthy bout of scoring many runs.
outragious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outragious
form: most outragious
Senses: examples: text: A Mutilation, which, in the last Case, is doubly outragious to Nature by the Treatment of those who suffer it, and by the Service to which they are condemned.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 212:
glosses: Archaic spelling of outrageous.
vertebral canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertebral canals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of spinal canal.
synonyms: word: spinal canal
isocholesterine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: E[rnst]. Schulze (Berl. Ber., 12, 249) has determined the specific rotation of isocholesterine (found by the author, associated with cholesterine, in the fat from sheep’s wool). This substance is dextro-rotatory, whereas cholesterine is laevo-rotatory. An etherial solution of isocholesterine, containing 6.453 gms in 100 cc, showed in the 200 mm tube of a Soleil-Ventzke polariscope, a rotation of 22°; a solution of half the strength rotated 11.25°. A solution of another preparation, containing 7.344 gms in 100 cc, showed a rotation of 25.5°. From these data, the author deduces for isocholesterine the specific rotation [a]_b = + 60°.
ref: 1879, Gideon E[mmet] Moore, “Report on the Progress of Analytical Chemistry, April to June, 1879”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume I, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Lehmaier & Bro., […], section VII, “Miscellaneous Physical Methods, Apparatus and Reagents”, page 380:
text: Further analysis has shown that the soluble portion consists mainly of the alcoholic and fat-like body cholesterine, together with isocholesterine, each in the free state, and probably also of compounds of both these bodies with such organic acids as acetic acid. The insoluble portion consists essentially of compounds of cholesterine and isocholesterine with oleïc acid, and in lesser amount with solid fatty acids, e.g., stearic acid and hyæna acid.
ref: 1890, J[ohn] J[ames] Hummel, “Wool”, in [William Edward] Ayrton, R[ichard] Wormell, editors, The Dyeing of Textile Fabrics (Manuals of Technology), London; Paris; Melbourne, Vic.: Cassell & Company, Limited, part “Fibres”, section 35, “Wool-fat”, page 38:
text: Besides cholesterine crude lanolin contains isocholesterine combined with fatty acids, glycerides of the lower fatty acids, cerylcerotate and homologous compounds and the volatile capric and caproic acids.
ref: 1891, H[enry] M[artin] Dearborn, “Lanolin and Agnine—In Affections of the Skin”, in Transactions of the Fourth Quinquennial Session of the International Homœopathic Congress and of the Forty-Fourth Session (Forty-Eighth Anniversary), of the American Institute of Homœopathy, Philadelphia, Penn.: Sherman & Co., […], section “Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects, with Discussions”, page 894:
text: The soluble portion consists mainly of cholesterine and isocholesterine, together with compounds of these bodies with organic acids. The insoluble portion consists mainly of cholesterine and isocholesterine with oleic and fatty acids.
ref: 1896, Harry W. Clark, “Experiments upon the Purification of Sewage and Water at the Lawrence Experiment Station, During the Year 1895”, in Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, number 34, Boston, Mass.: Wright & Potter Printing Co., […], section “Filtration of Sewage”, subsection “The Disposal of Waste Liquors from Industrial Works”, subsubsection “Wool Scouring”, page 470:
glosses: Dated form of isocholesterol.
Cristolț
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cristolț.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
Halmășd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Halmășd.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
Hășmaș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Hășmaș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Arad County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Șimișna, Sălaj County, Romania.
Hector protectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hector protector
run feasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run feast
batting pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batting pad
Bălăbănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bălăbănești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Galați County, Romania.
Bărbătești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Bărbătești.
Senses: glosses: A village in Cocu, Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Bărbătești, Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Cucuteni, Iași County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Bărbătești, Vâlcea County, Romania.
Didești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Didești.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Teleorman County, Romania.