cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Transformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈfɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɔːmə/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/
Forms: form: Transformers
form: TFormer
form: Tformer
form: T-former
form: T-Former
form: tformer
form: t-former
Etymology: From transformer (something that transforms).
Senses: qualifier: toys
glosses: A toy in the Transformers toyline which has mechanical parts that allow it to be altered in appearance from its original form as a humanoid robot action figure to another form, usually a vehicle, depending on the toy.
examples: text: “It's like a Transformer today,” Stamm said. “It appears as one thing, then becomes another.”
ref: 2015, Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat: A Novel, page 304:
text: A Transformer may be both a robot and a plane, or a robot and a car, but not both simultaneously.
ref: 2014, Barbara Brownie, Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography, page 95:
text: Halloween? I dressed up as a Transformer. I dressed up as a Power Ranger. I was one of the Chipmunks for God's sake.
ref: 2012, Patricia Wettig, F2M, page 46:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically alter their appearance, or "transform", into a vehicle, creature, or (rarely) a tool.
Transformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Transformer
Bendgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛndˌɡeɪt/
Etymology: From bend + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A 2014 controversy over problems with the Apple iPhone 6 chassis bending under pressure.
Related terms: Antennagate
transformerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transformerlike
form: most transformerlike
Etymology: From transformer + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an electric transformer.
Nowhereville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nowherevilles
Etymology: From nowhere + -ville.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nowheresville.
Nowherevilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nowhereville
tformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tformers
Senses: glosses: Clipping of transformer.
glosses: Clipping of Transformer.
tformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tformer
t-former
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t-formers
Senses: glosses: Clipping of transformer.
glosses: Clipping of Transformer.
t-formers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of t-former
sticky-outy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sticky-outy
form: most sticky-outy
Etymology: From stick out + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In Karl Shapiro's autobiography there's a picture of Shapiro sitting at a round table with some of his students, and one of his students is Ted Kooser. Ted Kooser is an agreeable-looking young man with sticky-outy ears […]
ref: 2009, Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist, page 133:
glosses: Sticking out; protruding.
field rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field rats
Senses: hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Rattus sordidus (syn. Rattus conatus), a burrowing species that forms underground colonies, found in Australia.
hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Rattus tunneyi, found in a variety of habitats, found in north and eastern Australia.
hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Rattus nitidus: Himalayan field rat.
hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Ratus exulans, found in the Pacific islands.
hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Rattus rattus argentiventer, found in the tropics.
hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Maxomys surifer (syn. Rattus surifer solaris).
hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Rattus tiomanicus: Malayan field rat.
hypernyms: rat
coordinate_terms: wharf rat
glosses: A rat of any of several species:
Ricefield rat.
Related terms: field mouse
termiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of termite
termited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of termite
messing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mess up
messes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mess up
Tattoogate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From tattoo + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A 2011 controversy when Jim Tressel, the head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, resigned amid allegations that he lied in order to cover up activities, including tattoos, undertaken in violation of NCAA rules by players he was coaching.
Richland County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Richland in most cases appears to be a combination of rich + land.
Senses: glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Olney.
glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Sidney.
glosses: One of 53 counties in North Dakota, United States. County seat: Wahpeton. Named after Morgan T. Rich.
glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Mansfield.
glosses: One of 46 counties in South Carolina, United States. County seat: Columbia.
glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Richland Center.
Related terms: Richland Parish
councells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of councell
uwabaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 上履き.
Senses: glosses: Japanese indoor slippers
Maximato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maximato.
Senses: glosses: The period in Mexican history during which President Plutarco Elías Calles's puppet presidents were in office.
bob-job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bob-jobs
Senses: glosses: A bobber (type of motorcycle).
Related terms: bob-a-job
bob-jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bob-job
philosemitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of philo-Semitism.
philo-Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philo-Semitic
form: most philo-Semitic
form: philosemitic
Senses: antonyms: anti-Semitic
glosses: Of or pertaining to philo-Semitism; interested or fond of Jewish people or culture.
Jedediah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jedediahs
Etymology: Variant of Jedidiah.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Richland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Richlands
Etymology: From rich + land and Rich + -land.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Stewart County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rush County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Keokuk County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Rankin County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Camden County, Laclede County and Pulaski County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Colfax County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Oswego County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Baker County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small unincorporated community in Union County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grainger County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Navarro County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Benton County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Richland Township.
Derived terms: County of Richland
District of Richland
East Richland
North Richland
North Richland Hills
Parish of Richland
Richland Center
Richland County
Richland District
Richland Grove
Richland Hills
Richland Parish
Richland South
Richland Springs
South Richland
West Richland
Related terms: Richlands
upride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uprides
form: upriding
form: uprode
form: upridden
Etymology: From Middle English upriden, equivalent to up- + ride.
Senses: examples: text: But the storm abates — uprides the moon
Like a ship upon the sea: Now on, my steeds! […]
ref: 1852, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Postboy's Song:
text: Through her sky-field insensibly she glides
Among her star-flowers blooming in the night,
Of all their crowd unconscious, till the hour
When, as young Morn uprides […]
ref: 1886, Henry Septimus Sutton, Poems:
text: Then gently uprode Gawain,
And he spurred not his steed to gallop, nor conflict nor strife he sought […]
ref: 1891, Wolfram (von Eschenbach.), Parzifal; A Knightly Epic - Volumes 1:
text: […] so shaping or tonguing the back and front lower borders of the bandage over the pelvic crest and sacral regions that the napkin can be easily pinned upon it and by its downward draw tend to prevent the inclination of the binder to upride.
ref: 1905, The Dietetic & Hygienic Gazette - Volume 21:
text: As it is forced down, the arms, normally crossed over the chest, are caught on the pelvis and made to upride alongside the head.
ref: 1910, Henry Enos Tuley, Obstetrical nursing, for nurses and students:
text: Whilst we were thus talking, there came up another youth of tenderer age, but of no less gracious mien, who bore news of the arrival of his father who had returned from overlooking his estate. And with that uprode the father himself followed by a groom and another servitor, also on horseback; and he dismounted and straightway came up the stair.
ref: 1968, William Boulting, Tasso and His Times:
text: If the tip of the trochanter is upridden, then the lines will converge on that side.
ref: 2003, Sureshwar Pandey, Anil Kumar Pandey, Clinical Orthopaedic Diagnosis:
glosses: to ride up (all senses)
welldigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welldiggers
Etymology: From well + digger.
Senses: examples: text: Some of them are indispensable such as blacksmith, carpenter, barber, shoemaker, potter, washerman, village messenger, etc. while others assist him indirectly, like bricklayers, welldiggers, masons, teachers, weavers, traders, oilmen, agricultural labourers and scavengers.
ref: 1990, G. R. Madan, India's Developing Villages, page 16:
text: For centuries, welldiggers had looked for groundwater and divined where to dig guided by instinct alone.
ref: 2017, Orhan Pamuk, The Red-Haired Woman: A novel:
glosses: A person who digs a well.
welldiggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welldigger
phone surveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phone survey
begware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beg + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Big-name system vendors typically install software on their consumer PCs at the factory. These "extras" go by many names: bundleware, begware, bloatware, and my favorite, crapware.
ref: 2009, PC Mag, volume 28, number 1, page 68:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: nagware
Synonyms: nagware
screw pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw pumps
form: screwpump
Senses: glosses: A pump based on the Archimedean screw mechanism
screw pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screw pump
screwpump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwpumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screw pump.
screwpumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwpump
jukebox musical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jukebox musicals
Senses: examples: text: 7. The jukebox musical ‘We Will Rock You’ was written by which comedian and author?
ref: 2014, Collins Quiz Master, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 68:
text: The book writer for “Once Upon a One More Time,” the Britney Spears jukebox musical opening on Broadway Thursday night, often returns to a memory from five years ago, when Spears sat in a Manhattan theater a few rows in front of him and watched an early reading of the show.
ref: 2023 June 21, Julia Jacobs, “A Britney Spears Jukebox Musical Hopes for #SeeBritney Energy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A musical consisting predominantly of songs that had been previously released and are well-known to the public, usually with a plot specifically written to accommodate them in the story.
jukebox musicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jukebox musical
miniramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniramps
Etymology: From mini- + ramp.
Senses: glosses: A relatively small skateboard ramp.
miniramps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniramp
midplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midplaces
form: mid-place
Etymology: From Middle English mid-place, equivalent to mid- + place.
Senses: examples: text: A “midplace,” or general stage, is also mentioned, with a little oratory furnished with stools and cushions.
ref: 1906, Modern Language Notes - Volume 21:
text: By placing the evacuated irradiation tubes so that the rolled up films are located near the source center line and symmetrically about its midplace reproducible dose rates with a variation of less than 1% over the films are easily attained […]
ref: 1959, William Walter Graessley, A Study of the Irradiation Method in the Measurement of Molecular Weight:
text: James Grotstein writes: In approaching a psychoanalytic conception of the borderline I should like to offer the following understanding: What seems to give the borderline personality (and borderline state) its uniqueness in differentiating itself from psychoses on one hand and neuroses on the other is not so much its midplace on the spectrum but is instead a qualitative difference.
ref: 1989, Andrew Samuels, Psychopathology:
text: If all the senses are milieux, or midplaces where inside and outside meet and meld, then the skin is the global integral of these local area networks, the milieu of these milieux: […]
ref: 2009, Steven Connor, The Book of Skin:
text: Firms were searching for a midplace to park production.
ref: 2012, Amy K. Glasmeier, The High-Tech Potential:
text: By the third night, when Scott finally managed to locate him and send in retrieval forces, Jared's spirit had set to wandering the mid-places, that spiritual line between life and death; he was certain of it.
ref: 2013, Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction:
text: That's where the king and queen, the court and ceremony would have been happening at mid-court, mid-place of the grandstand.
ref: 2016, Arthur I. Miltz, Art of Advocacy Series:
glosses: the centre of a location or the midpoint between two locations
midplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midplace
TFormer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TFormers
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformer.
Tformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tformers
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformer.
T-former
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-formers
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformer.
T-Former
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-Formers
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformer.
Tformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tformer
Tformers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformers (the franchise).
TFormers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TFormer
TFormers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformers (the franchise).
T-formers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-former
T-formers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformers (the franchise).
T-Formers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-Former
T-Formers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Transformers (the franchise).
apple mango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple mangos
form: apple mangoes
Etymology: Named after the color of its skin. apple + mango
Senses: glosses: A mango cultivar bearing large fruits with reddish skin.
Ladon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λάδων (Ládōn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A serpent-like dragon that twined around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples.
glosses: A river in Greece
Neda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Mississippi County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both are named after the Mississippi River.
Senses: glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seats: Blytheville and Osceola.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Charleston.
back-butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-butts
form: back butt
form: backbutt
Etymology: From back + butt. A retronym-like formation made as a counterpart to the euphemism front butt (“vagina”).
Senses: examples: text: The amended criminal complaint specifically alleged that Hirsch touched A.L.H.'s "front butt" or vaginal area (Count I), then her "back butt" or anal area (Count II), and then her "front butt" a second time (Count III).
ref: 1987, North western reporter. Second series:
text: Well I was leaning over to get something, I think it was a blanket and then I felt his hand like on my back butt.
ref: 1988, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Montana, Volume 232:
text: K.R. further testified that E.H. also made her suck her “back butt.” When asked to show the court where her “back butt” was, K.R. stood up and pointed to her tailbone.
ref: 2011, Illinois Appellate Reports:
text: But this time Mr Butt turned his gruesome, bared back-butt to me and let fly with a hideous windripper that must have broken records.
ref: 2016, Steve Cole, Invisible Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Buttocks.
front butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front butts
form: frontbutt
form: front-butt
Senses: glosses: A rounded and loose-hanging mass of fat located around the lower abdomen.
synonyms: front bottom
glosses: The female genitalia; the vagina and vulva.
Henderson County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Oquawka. Named after the county in Kentucky.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Henderson. Named after Richard Henderson.
glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Hendersonville. Named after Leonard Henderson.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Lexington. Named after James Henderson.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Athens. Named after James Pinckney Henderson.
Cleveland County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Rison. Named after Grover Cleveland.
glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Shelby. Named after Benjamin Cleveland.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Norman. Named after Grover Cleveland.
McMinn County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Joseph McMinn.
Senses: glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Athens.
wikipedia: Joseph McMinn
McMinn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McMinns
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Méinn.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: McMinn County
McMinnville
Kanawha County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Kanawha River.
Senses: glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Charleston.
wikipedia: Kanawha River
Kanawha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small city in Hancock County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A river in West Virginia, United States, which flows into the Ohio River.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
glosses: an originally proposed (and rejected) name for the state of West Virginia.
Derived terms: Kanawha County
negarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more negarchic
form: most negarchic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to negarchy.
trainspottery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trainspottery
form: most trainspottery
Etymology: From trainspotter + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trainspotterish.
synonyms: word: trainspotterish
middlestream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From middle + stream.
Senses: glosses: Neither upstream nor downstream, but between them; in midstream.
Betamaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Betamax
Betamaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Betamax
Betamaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Betamax
Taylor County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 67 counties in Florida, United States. County seat: Perry. Named after Zachary Taylor.
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Butler. Named after Zachary Taylor.
glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Bedford. Named after Zachary Taylor.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Campbellsville. Named after Zachary Taylor.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Abilene. Named after three brothers who died in the Battle of the Alamo.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Grafton. Named after John Taylor of Caroline.
glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Medford. Possibly named after William Robert Taylor.
Stewart County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Lumpkin. Named after Daniel Stewart.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Dover. Named after Duncan Stewart.
nitracaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stimulant with local anesthetic properties, closely related to dimethocaine, that has been sold as a designer drug.
dimethocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A local anesthetic with stimulant properties.
risocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -caine (“local anesthetic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The local anesthetic propyl 4-aminobenzoate.
metabutoxycaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A local anesthetic used in dentistry.
blogographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blogography
Rush County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Rushville. Named after Benjamin Rush.
glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: La Crosse. Named after Alexander Rush.
hyperphosphaturias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperphosphaturia
rostro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: rostrum
Keokuk County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Chief Keokuk.
Senses: glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Sigourney.
wikipedia: Keokuk (Sauk leader)
Ignorantines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ignorantine
Keokuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Chief Keokuk.
Senses: glosses: A city in Iowa, United States and one of the two county seats of Lee County.
Derived terms: Keokuk County
Bohemistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, Bohem(ia) + -ist + -ics
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: Czech studies
Bulgaristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bulgar(ian) + -ist + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: The brisk activities in the sphere of Bulgarian studies resulted in a considerable expansion of the interest of specialists and scholars abroad in the various aspects of Bulgaristics.
ref: 1992, Donka Alexandrova, India and Bulgaria: cultural relationship, page 98:
qualifier: humanities
glosses: Bulgarian studies.
Macedonistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Macedonian studies
Serbistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Serbian studies
Slovakistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Slovakian studies
Slovenistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Slovenian studies
Polonistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed with -istics.
Senses: examples: text: Our Polonistics department was located on the corner of Świętokrzyska Street and Jasna, on the third floor; we sat on school benches; it was referred to as Tynelski's school of commercial studies.
ref: 2015, Miron Bialoszewski, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising:
qualifier: humanities
glosses: Polish studies.
Ukrainistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The cultural needs of the Ukrainian community in the domain of academic instruction are primarily met by a number of chairs of Ukrainistics at the State universities in Warsaw, Cracow and Lwow.
ref: 1935, Stanislaw J. Paprocki, Minority Affairs and Poland: An Informatory Outline, page 75:
glosses: Ukrainian studies
Essy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -y.
Senses: glosses: A female given name, short for Esther or Estelle.
Balkanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Balkan + -ology.
Senses: glosses: Balkan studies.
multistart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multi-start.
headache vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headache vines
Etymology: From its use to treat headaches in traditional folk medicine.
Senses: glosses: Clematis glycinoides, a climbing shrub of the family Ranunculaceae, found in eastern Australia and in New Caledonia.
headache vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headache vine
paraelectrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paraelectric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, paraelectricity.
search leakage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The transmission of a user's search terms from a search engine to the site in the search results that the user chooses to visit; regarded as a privacy risk.
Gorgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gorgian
form: most Gorgian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek philosopher Gorgias.
fatality rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatality rate
First Peoples
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of First People
lybards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lybard
Maglemosians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maglemosian
nano-device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-devices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nanodevice.
nasological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nasologic.
nastriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: ribbon-shaped
Nava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Navas
form: Naba
Etymology: From Spanish, Catalan and Asturian-Leonese surname, from several placenames derived from nava (“plain, treeless plateau”), from Paleo-Hispanic, probably Basque naba (“plain, valley”). See Navarra.
Senses: glosses: A town in central Asturias, in northern Spain.
glosses: A surname.
newsreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From news + reading.
Senses: glosses: The reading of the news on the radio or television.
Related terms: newsreader
non-alchoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonalcoholic.
non-compulsory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noncompulsory.
non-fulfilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-fulfilments
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonfulfilment.
non-playing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonplaying.
non-polar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonpolar.
non-poisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonpoisonous.
non-prescription
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonprescription.
non-printing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonprinting.
non-public
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Note: All non-public area photos taken following formal training and processes, accompanied by TfL staff and from positions of safety.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 51:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nonpublic.
nude beach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nude beaches
Senses: glosses: nudist beach
nuclear meltdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear meltdowns
Senses: glosses: A severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating
northsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northsiders
Senses: glosses: Someone living in the north side of a town, area etc.
odd-toed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having an odd number of toes.
Derived terms: odd-toed ungulate
older than dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: old as dirt
Senses: synonyms: word: old as the hills
word: ancient
word: aged
word: age-old
word: antediluvian
word: auld
word: cobwebbed
word: cobwebby
word: decrepit
word: eld
word: eldern
word: gray
word: hoary
word: moss-grown
word: old
word: old as the hills
word: old as the Pyramids
word: olden
word: older than dirt
word: older than the hills
word: older than the Pyramids
word: venerable
word: wintry
qualifier: simile
glosses: very old
Olympic torch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Olympic torches
Senses: glosses: The Olympic flame.
Derived terms: Olympic torchbearer
opening night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opening nights
Senses: examples: text: I’m writing in pure hyperbole. I know this. I just don’t know another way to talk about this movie. Watching Fury Road in the theater on opening night, I worried that I was being obnoxious, gleefully cackling with glee and, more than once, literally throwing my hands up in disbelief.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: With their lead cut to 14-7, England could have got twitchy, but any opening-night'Bold text' nerves were eased as United States centre Alev Kelter, who plays her club rugby with Loughborough Lightning, was shown yellow a minute after Jarrell-Searcy's score.
ref: 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The first night, evening, or day of a spectacle or show.
glosses: The first event in a new venue.
Related terms: opening ceremony
first night
première
open-armed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having one's arms open and apart
examples: text: We were welcomed in to their home open-armed.
text: Step up, step up, step up; the sky is open-armed. When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull.
ref: 1985 June 10, R.E.M., “Feeling Gravitys Pull”, in Fables of the Reconstruction:
glosses: cordial; friendly; welcoming
Related terms: with open arms
out-patient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-patients
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of outpatient.
over-excitement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overexcitement.
overbrake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbrakes
form: overbraking
form: overbraked
form: overbraked
Etymology: From over- + brake.
Senses: glosses: To brake (a vehicle) excessively; to apply the brake too much.
overfermented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + fermented.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overferment
overfermented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + fermented.
Senses: glosses: excessively fermented
overbraked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbrake
overbrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbrake
overbraking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbrake
oxdriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxdrivers
Senses: glosses: A person who drives or guides an ox or a yoke of oxen
DWRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DWR
out-patients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of out-patient
packed like sardines
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pækt laɪk sɑːˈdiːnz/
ipa: /pækt laɪk sɑɹˈdinz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Etymology: Referring to sardines packed closely together in a tin (or can).
Senses: examples: text: I'm pretty claustrophobic, so I didn't wanna hop in the elevator with them all packed like sardines in there.
text: Passengers are no longer "willing to be packed into trains like sardines", says London TravelWatch.
ref: 2022 March 23, “Network News: Passengers Unwilling to be ‘Packed Like Sardines’”, in Rail, number 953, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Densely packed; tightly squeezed together; crammed.
Related terms: packed to the gills
sardinewise
not enough room to swing a cat
paddle boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddle boats
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most interesting of all the recent additions to the Clyde fleet is Talisman, built in 1935 for the London & North Eastern Railway, for in her are incorporated entirely new features in that she is a paddle boat driven by diesel-electric engines.
ref: 1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 397:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paddleboat.
paid off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay off
pays off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay off
paying off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay off
painfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pain-free
Etymology: From pain + -free.
Senses: glosses: painless
palmberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmberries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palm berry.
pan pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan pipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panpipe.
park-keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: park-keepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parkkeeper.
parking attendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking attendants
Senses: synonyms: parking lot attendant
valet
glosses: A person employed (as by a parking facility, hotel, or restaurant) to park cars.
synonyms: word: traffic warden
word: meter maid
word: parking enforcement officer
alt: PEO
word: parking inspector
word: parking officer
word: civil enforcement office
glosses: A person who issues tickets for parking violations.
Related terms: car park
parking fine
parking garage
parking lot
parking meter
parlimentaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlimentaires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parlementaire.
parlor trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlor tricks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parlour trick.
parlour car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlour cars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parlor car.
parlor car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlor cars
Senses: glosses: A superior type of train carriage
part time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "I finished full-time work in 2005 and then switched to part time, because I liked working and it seemed a shame to leave something I enjoyed.
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Stephen, “I'd like to do it all over again”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 46:
glosses: Alternative spelling of part-time.
partner dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partner dances
Senses: glosses: A dance involving coordinated dancing between two partners.
party-animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party-animals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of party animal.
pastry cook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastry cooks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pastry chef.
synonyms: word: pastry chef
pastry chef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastry chefs
Senses: glosses: A baker who makes pastry products.
glosses: A chef who makes desserts of all kinds, whether or not these actually incorporate pastry.
Synonyms: patissier
pastry cook
pastry maker
pastrymaker
name droppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of name dropper
passing grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passing grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The grade required to pass an exam or other assessment
patrol ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrol ships
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of patrol boat.
palatoalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːələ(ɹ)
Forms: form: palato-alveolar
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the palate and alveolus
clinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before proceeding to do so, however, it is advisable for me to make a few prefatory remarks on the clinology of biliary concretions.
ref: 1889, “On Sounding for Gall-Stones”, in Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs, page 854:
text: And yet, slowly but surely, the physical energies do seem to be taking their place in the clinology of an increasing number of disorders.
ref: 1933, Charles Raymond Wiley, American Journal of Physical Therapy, volume 10, number 6:
text: In former days, when the stomach held a place of great prominence in our system of clinology, it was almost a clinical axiom that any disturbance in the epigastrium or abdomen was attributable to the stomach.
ref: 1927, Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine and Surgery, volume 55:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the deterioration or retrogression of an organism after maturity, especially, the correspondance of the form or function of one organism that has deteriorated due to age with the undeteriorated mature stages of degraded organisms from the same group.
penalty shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty shots
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A penalty awarded when a team loses a clear scoring opportunity on a breakaway because of a foul committed by an opposing player. A player from the non-offending team is given an attempt to score a goal without opposition from any defending players except the goaltender.
pencil mustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil mustaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pencil moustache.
zoogeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + geology.
Senses: examples: text: Today new fields are opening up; in the realms of geophysics, geochemistry and zoogeology great modern advances are being made.
ref: 1969, Peter John Cattermole, The world of geology, page 6:
glosses: The study of fossil animal remains.
vermeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: Everybody was deep in arboriculture and vermeology; and what we did not know about mulberry trees for feeding silk worms was not worth knowing; and what we did not know about worms, and 'the diet of worms,' and cocoons, and reeling of fibre, and weaving of silk and satin could not be learned.
ref: 1883, Richard Smith Elliott, Notes Taken in Sixty Years, page 145:
glosses: The study of worms.
tsiganology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare tzigane
Senses: examples: text: As I have not to make here a study of Tsiganology, I shall confine myself to distinguishing precisely between the Boémiems of Belgium and the Nutons or prehistoric dwarfs.
ref: 1892, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, volume 3, page 134:
text: These "last words" in conclusion to this volume, should be understood as a personal reflection on what has transpired since the first conference in 2003, after my having participated in these four major events in Istanbul, Edirne and Ereğli, and as something of an overview of the current state of tsiganology (Romani Studies), in Turkey at present.
ref: 2016, Adrian Marsh, Elin Strand, Gypsies and the Problem of Identities: Contextual, Constructed and Contested:
glosses: The study of gypsies.
timbrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: philately (the study or collection of stamps)
spongology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Spongology, the study of all aspects of the sponge biology, ecology, taxonomy, and chemistry of sponges, has full fledged into a discipline attracting a progressively increasing population of hundreds of scientists worldwide, numerous of whom devote a lifetime career to the study of this group.
ref: 2016, Ramjee Pallela, Marine Sponges: Chemicobiological and Biomedical Applications:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The study of sponges.
plaguish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪɡɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪɡɪʃ
Forms: form: more plaguish
form: most plaguish
Etymology: From plague + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plaguey.
synonyms: word: plaguey
satanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Satan + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: This new, magnified role of Satan heralded and paved the way for momentous transmutations in Jewish satanology — while in Job and Zechariah, Satan sought to incite Yahweh against man, in the First Book of Chronicles he had already moved man against Yahweh.
ref: 2000, Yuri Stoyanov, The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy:
glosses: The study of the devil.
people-carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people-carriers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of people carrier.
perfectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perfectable
form: most perfectable
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of perfectible.
pyrgology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: They are replete with Medieval statistics, copious in architectural nomenclature, and above all they throw great light on the science of Pyrgology, developing the nature of military tenures and military defences, at a period when the barons of England were living in continual rebellion against the Crown, and when the nation at large had its thoughts and energies entirely turned to resistance and war.
ref: 1852, Robert John Charleton, Newcastle town, an account of its rise and progress, page 40:
glosses: The study of towers.
period drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒmə
Forms: form: period dramas
Senses: glosses: A work of the screen that evokes a particular historical period.
performance artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performance artists
Senses: glosses: A person who creates and performs in performance art.
Related terms: performance art
clown
mime
pterylology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pteryla + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: He gives some minute and valuable descriptions of the species, particularly as regards its pterylology and structure in comparison with other birds, as well as a detailed account of its habits, so as almost to justify the use of poisoned grain, which he seems to have tried in order to obtain specimens.
ref: 1864, The Ibis, volume 6, page 198:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The study of distribution of feathers on birds.
Petie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Peties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Petey.
pleasure trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasure trips
Senses: examples: text: A well set-up, bourgeois Victorian railway then ... except that right from the start the District was broke, and the reaching out to west London and commuters, and the chasing after exhibitions and pleasure trips, were a desperate attempt to pull in revenue in support of its main task: the building of the base of the cursed Inner Circle.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 61:
synonyms: junket
glosses: A trip taken for personal, non-work reasons.
Related terms: pleasure cruise
pleasure-seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasure-seekers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pleasure seeker.
pisteology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πίστις (pístis, “faith”) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The assertion of a receptivity in man, the Catholic-type conception of the gratia preveniens which runs alongside this receptivity, the mystical culmination of this pisteology, are all elements of a speculative basic approach which can even be seen here, in Dorner.
ref: 2002, Karl Barth, Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century, page 568:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The science or study of faith.
pleasurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pleasurizes
form: pleasurizing
form: pleasurized
form: pleasurized
Etymology: From pleasure + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Very nice for him, perhaps, but bloody unpleasant for me to think about, and a nasty intrusion to our island with the goats and coconuts, and the grass skirt, and nothing to do but find new ways to pleasurize each other.
ref: 2007, Anthony McGowan, Henry Tumour, page 177:
glosses: To pleasure; to give pleasure to.
plot line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plot lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plotline.
policy holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policy holders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of policyholder.