cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dogless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dog + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] and further that a similar young local but dogless man should be sought out, against the day when the first local man should die, to take over and exploit, in the same way and on the same terms, the two surviving famished dogs thus left without a master, and without a home; […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: To make sure that all such effort remains fun and rewarding, the dogless hunter should set a pace that's both relaxed and ready for action.
ref: 2003, Dennis Walrod, Grouse Hunter's Guide:
glosses: Without a dog.
Derived terms: doglessly
doglessness
paint out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paints out
form: painting out
form: painted out
form: painted out
Senses: examples: text: Joseph's face was painted out. In place of Joseph's monarchic face the word Constitution was painted in. But the reign of Joseph was not over.
ref: 1938, Charles Poore, Goya:
text: The Clone Brush can be used to paint out the imperfection or the obstructing object.
ref: 2003, Lori J Davis, Paint Shop Pro 8 Power!:
glosses: To obliterate by painting over.
examples: text: The smattering of experience gained during Braddock's expedition, painted him out to the leading men of Frederick, as qualified to command the first company...
ref: 1827, Henry Lee, Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States:
text: If the congregation will attend to-morrow, I will give them a description of anti-Christ, and paint him out in his proper colors.
ref: 1847, Charles Sparry, The Illustrated Christian Martyrology:
text: Didn't want the media getting a hold of it and painting me out as a street thug.
ref: 2005, Phillip Thomas Duck, Playing with Destiny:
glosses: To describe, possibly so as to misrepresent.
paint out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paint outs
Senses: glosses: An event where artists congregate in an outdoor scenic area for the purpose of completing realistic paintings from life.
paints out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paint out
painting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paint out
painted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paint out
Miggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miggies
Etymology: Diminutive form of Amiga + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fantastic, superb, brilliant, bloody marvellous — I could go on and on calling out superlatives about Xenon 2. It's had enough pre-release hype to rival Batman and it's blown away all other Miggy shoot-'em-ups to date and I can safely say, for quite a while to come as well.
ref: 1989, Xenon II Megablast (video game review in Zzap! issue 54, October 1989)
text: Then do like I do and keep the Miggy for all e-mail and news. No dodgy headers to give you away then :-)
ref: 1997, Chris Hewitt, “Where Is everybody?”, in demon.ip.support.amiga (Usenet):
text: I had no problems with using WD hard drives on my Miggies.
ref: 1998, Zorko Antonic, “Western Digital HD”, in comp.sys.amiga.applications (Usenet):
glosses: A Commodore Amiga computer.
Miggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miggy
aldebaranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aldebaran + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A rejected name for ytterbium.
erythronium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name, from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”): in the case of the chemical, since most of the salts turned red when heated.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Erythronium; a dogtooth violet.
glosses: An early proposed name for vanadium.
durra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: durras
form: dhoora
form: dhoorra
form: dhourra
form: dhurran
form: doura
form: dura
Etymology: From Arabic ذُرَة (ḏura).
Senses: examples: text: The moonlight boy told me that it was soon time to gather the durra harvest.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 24:
glosses: A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
paleoclimatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoclimatologists
Etymology: From paleo- + climatologist or paleoclimatology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere in there Dennis Quaid, as an implausibly hunky paleoclimatologist, has to rescue Gyllenhaal, his academic decathlete son, from certain death.
ref: 2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2011:
glosses: A climatologist who specializes in paleoclimatology.
diaphaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphaneities
Etymology: From Latin diaphaneitas.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: transparency
Derived terms: semidiaphaneity
diaphaneities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaphaneity
cadwaladerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader (1885-1959), president of the Academy of Natural Sciences, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow mineral with the chemical formula Al(OH)C₂|4H₂O.
nabks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nabk
spinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spin + -less.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Without spin.
suovitaurilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suovitaurilias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of suovetaurilia.
suovitaurilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suovitaurilia
suovetaurilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suovetaurilias
form: suovitaurilia
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin suovetaurīlia.
Senses: glosses: A religious rite of Ancient Rome, the triple sacrifice of a pig, a ram, and a bull to the deity Mars in order to bless and purify land.
suovetaurilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suovetaurilia
calypsoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calypso
busbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busby
chromoxylograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromoxylographs
Etymology: From chromo- + xylograph.
Senses: glosses: A woodcut produced in colour.
chromoxylographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoxylograph
churchperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchpersons
form: churchpeople
Etymology: From church + person.
Senses: examples: text: Even though the ordination of Ellen Barrett was allowed to stand because she admitted publically^([sic]) only her orientation, and refused to discuss the particulars of her relationships, her presence forces churchpeople to consider on what grounds gay relationships can be sanctioned within the community.
ref: 1979 April 28, John Graczak, “The Sacred and the Profane”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
text: He has been portrayed as both a narrow dogmatist and an ecumenical churchperson; a ruthless inquisitor and a sensitive, caring pastor...
ref: 1996, Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations:
text: The level of diction of the person in the street is usually different from that of a high churchperson. The latter might speak in an "elevated style"...
ref: 1999, Lewis Turco, The Book of Literary Terms:
glosses: A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
churchpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchperson
churchpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchperson
awdl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awdls
form: awdlau
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh awdl.
Senses: glosses: A long poem written in Welsh using cynghanedd and one of twenty-four strict meters.
wikipedia: awdl
awdls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awdl
crabwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crab + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a crab; sideways.
examples: text: Quite apart from their crabwise and often reluctant embrace of religious toleration for a wide variety of religious dissidence, both countries achieved a wider distribution of prosperity than any other part of seventeenth-century Europe.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 788:
glosses: Incidental.
crabwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From crab + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a crab; sideways.
coccyxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccyx
tules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːliz/
rhymes: -uːliz
Senses: glosses: plural of tule
dweeby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dweebier
form: dweebiest
Etymology: From dweeb + -y.
Senses: examples: text: THEY have no shame. That's my first reaction upon hearing that Candlestick Park has been violated by some dweeby Silicon Valley techno-name.
ref: 1995 September 17, George Vecsey, “Sports of The Times; Candlestick Park Deserves Better Than a Nerdy Name”, in The New York Times:
text: "Mother," Dominica whined, "Oggie Cooder is the dweebiest dweeb to ever walk the earth. I'll die of embarrassment if he comes to my birthday party."
ref: 2016 January 5, Sarah Weeks, Cheese:
text: In the public imagination, vaping — with its oversize, multipart manipulatable products — has become associated with a techier, dweebier slice of the population.
ref: 2018 July 4, Amos Barshad, “The Juul Is Too Cool”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Like, or characteristic of, a dweeb; nerdy, uncool.
Derived terms: dweebily
dweebiness
dweebier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dweeby: more dweeby
dweebiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dweeby: most dweeby
truisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truism
chewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chewing
yeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yea
downhills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downhill
empaneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empanel
toeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toe
toeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toeings
Senses: examples: text: With your guitar under the windows, of moonlight nights! your Spanish fopperies and trickeries! your French phrases and toeings!
ref: 1871, George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond:
glosses: light footwork
Derived terms: in-toeing
out-toeing
empanels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empanel
empaneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empanel
plaudite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaudites
Senses: examples: text: […] so that she would so shamefully fail in the last Act, in this contrivance of the nature of Man, that in stead of a Plaudite she would deserve to be hissed off the Stage.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84
text: "John Donne and the theology of language": John Donne, P. G. Stanwood, Heather Anne Ross Asals, https://books.google.com/books?id=sItaAAAAMAAJ&q=plaudites&dq=plaudites&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DZeZVbGdOoLi-QHonp3gCA&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg
S. Hierom charges Vigilantius, that howsoever he differed from him in opinion after, yet when he had heard him preach of the Resurrection before, he had received that Doctrine with Acclamation and Plaudites.
glosses: Obsolete form of plaudit.
unfuckable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfuckable
form: most unfuckable
Etymology: From un- + fuckable.
Senses: examples: text: But note that the 'unfuckable' is only ideologically so; physically mother or sister can be copulated with satisfactorily […]
ref: 1973, Raymond Firth, Symbols: Public and Private:
text: Fuckable women can give a man an erection, unfuckable nags don't. Which are you?
ref: 1991, Mary Melfi, Infertility Rites:
text: When you are a male entering the 10th grade, there are only four kinds of people on the planet: girls you want to fuck, girls who are unfuckable, guys you want to kill, and guys who generally seem okay.
ref: 2005, Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live:
glosses: Unavailable or unacceptable as a sex partner.
Derived terms: unfuckability
unfuckableness
Related terms: unfucked
undatable
unfuckable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfuckables
Etymology: From un- + fuckable.
Senses: glosses: A sexually unattractive person.
impanelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impanel
impanelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impanel
empanelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empanel
mipmap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mipmaps
Etymology: Initialism of Latin multum in parvo (much in a small space), and map, modelled on bitmap.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.
mipmap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mipmaps
form: mipmapping
form: mipmapped
form: mipmapped
Etymology: Initialism of Latin multum in parvo (much in a small space), and map, modelled on bitmap.
Senses: examples: text: The ability to mipmap floating-point textures would help with the computation of the maximum energy to find the next shooter.
ref: 2004, Wolfgang Heidrich, Ravin Balakrishnan, Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, Graphics Interface 2004: proceedings, page 167:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To precalculate images for a texture in this manner.
mipmaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mipmap
mipmapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mipmap + -ing.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The creation or use of mipmaps.
Derived terms: clipmapping
mipmapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mipmap + -ed.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Represented by a mipmap.
spritzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spritz
ecopsychiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + psychiatric.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ecopsychiatry.
unquenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quenched.
Senses: examples: text: Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 20:
text: Oklahoma City's 1.2 million people had no professional sports team and the unquenched willingness to support one.
ref: 2009 January 6, Jonathan Abrams, “For Oklahoma City Thunder, Wins Don't Come, but Fans Do”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not quenched.
Synonyms: unabated
Related terms: unsated
ultracompetitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracompetitive
form: most ultracompetitive
Etymology: From ultra- + competitive.
Senses: examples: text: Burrell, known for his knack for tormenting the Mets, is expected to inflict similar damage in the ultracompetitive American League East.
ref: 2009 January 6, Ben Shpigel, “Pat Burrell Signs With Rays; Milton Bradley Expected to Join Cubs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely competitive
yandere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːndɛɹeɪ/
Forms: form: yanderes
form: yandere
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ヤンデレ (yandere), a portmanteau of 病んでる (yanderu), contraction of 病んでいる (yande iru), progressive tense of 病む (yamu, “to be sick”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).
Developed on the model of tsundere (“being cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time”).
Senses: examples: text: And it finally answered the question as to whether Senjougahara is tsundere or yandere.
ref: 2009 October 4, sanjian [username], “Re: Bakemonogatari - comments on the end of the TV broadcast”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: Looking at anime charts, there's always the harem series with the dense hero and a bunch of girls whose personalities are pulled out of a set cast of tropes (the Childhood Friend, Tsundere, Yandere, and Lolita, for instance).
ref: 2012, Jazmine Brusola, Rabble Rousers: A Fate/Zero Anime Review, Flyleaf (Ateneo Literary Association), archived from the original on 05 Mar 2023, page 14:
text: “Believe it, man. In fact, she's seriously creepy. Like creepier than that pink-haired girl from Future Diary.”
 “Wait, what?” Sam got that reference quickly, but was not happy with the comparison. She wasn't a psychopathic, murderous Yandere stalker, from what he could see.
ref: 2014, Olivia D. Knight, Please, Let Me Be a Seiyuu!, BookRix, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means to maintain an exclusive bond.
Related terms: dandere
kuudere
tsundere
metalloplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metallo- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Comprising both metal and plastic
metalloplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloplastics
Etymology: From metallo- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: A material comprising both metal and plastic.
clam shacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clam shack
fulling mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulling mill
pandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandies
Etymology: From Welsh pandy (“fulling house”).
Senses: glosses: A fulling mill.
glosses: mashed potatoes
pandy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pandies
form: pandying
form: pandied
form: pandied
Etymology: From Latin pande (“hold out”), in schoolmaster commands pande manum "hold out [your] hand" or pande palmum "hold out [your] palm".
Senses: examples: text: Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
ref: 1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
text: "Pandies," he said. "I bet you...How many boys here...How many of ye - would sooner be pandied rather than endure dentention.?"
ref: 2007, Sydney Bernard Smith, Alexander the Careerist, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.
pandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandies
Etymology: From Latin pande (“hold out”), in schoolmaster commands pande manum "hold out [your] hand" or pande palmum "hold out [your] palm".
Senses: examples: text: They maun be kindly, coothy, an'commanding -- also severe. Carry sweeties i' their pouches as weel as taws, an' gie them fairings as weel as pandies. In short, they maun be able to endure privations of every sort.
ref: 1833, John Kennedy, Geordie Chalmers; or, the Law in Glenbuckie., page 197:
text: During all the years he had lived among them in Clongowes and in Belvedere he had received only two pandies and, though these had been dealt him in the wrong, he knew that he had often escaped punishment.
ref: 1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
text: Rafferty said it was good practice & it would toughen you up so you didn't feel pandies.
ref: 2007, Sydney Bernard Smith, Alexander the Careerist, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: A slap on the palm of the hand with a strap.
examples: text: OK? so I'll slap my pandies and you can all cower down into your anoraks and we'll leave on non-speaking terms!
ref: 1998 July 30, Ron O'Brien, “Beta 4.0 v8 soon expires, then what?”, in demon.ip.support.turnpike (Usenet):
text: Spurs in the navy shirts with yellow shorts (as QPR played in white shorts), many of the players wearing red mittens to keep their pandies warm!
ref: 2005 June 29, DannyT, “Daft New Shirts Q”, in alt.sports.spurs (Usenet):
text: thanx...bit by bit mine knowledge of the universe expands. that sounds like heavy labour...and my pandies will get dirty
ref: 2017 August 24, abelard, “anybody can tell me why unturned red soil goes light yellow(sand coloured)?”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Hand.
Derived terms: pandy bat
pandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandies
form: Pandy
Etymology: After a corruption of Mangal Pandey, who started the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Senses: examples: text: As long as I feel the entire confidence I do, that we shall triumph over this iniquitous combination, I cannot feel gloom. I leave this feeling to the Pandies, who have sacrificed honour and existence to the ghost of a delusion.
ref: 1857, H. Greathed, Letters during the Siege of Delhi, page 99:
text: We had not long to wait before the line of guns, howitzers, and mortar carts, chiefly drawn by elephants, soon hove in sight... Poor Pandy, what a pounding was in store for you!
ref: 1858, George Bourchier, Eight Months' Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy Army, page 47:
text: But, as my friend Dennis Dolbear has pointed out, if Flashy were truly the Utter Bastard he wants to paint himself/see himself as, after they got him down off the muzzle of that gun, he'd have gone "Right -- where's the Surgeon for my broken arm and the Officer's Mess for a quick gin or two? Oh, and carry on the good work, Lieutenant." and walked away not paying a bit of attention as the other pandies were blown from the guns.
ref: 1998 July 13, mike weber, “What Story Would You Like To See The Most????????”, in alt.books.george-fraser (Usenet):
text: The manu guy in one of his reply to madurai veeran said that all pandies would have been "iruddu" pandies if not for the Namboodries, his obvious reference to the Brahmin blood lightning the dark colour of the original Dark Dravidian Tamils.
ref: 1999 December 19, MR LINGA, “Brahmin reporters fret over Tamil prowess”, in soc.culture.tamil (Usenet):
text: He blew forty prisoners from the mouths of his cannon to make the damn pandies understand the fate that awaits them.
ref: 2015, Paul Fraser Collard, The Lone Warrior, →ISBN:
glosses: A mutineer.
pandy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pandies
form: pandying
form: pandied
form: pandied
Etymology: Blend of pander + bandy, by confusion.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sure MS would have been ecstatic if the Win3.1 crowd had adopted NT, and I'll agree that they never did anything to quash the notion pandied about by a variety of magazines that NT was going to inherit the Windows desktop, but I don't recall seeing *any* MS claims of that nature, including the ads they were running that mentioned NT before NT was released.
ref: 1994 June 13, R S Rodgers, “What OS/2 needs to win”, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Usenet):
text: Just because your ilk control the Americal school system and is pandied to by the press for the sake of having conflict to write about, don't ever assume that you are even close to a majority on the planet.
ref: 1997 July 30, Allen, “newbie question”, in alt.psychology.personality (Usenet):
text: Instead he pandied to the press, the support and thought it would make him look tough. It achieved nothing and he should have played Beckham.
ref: 2007 May 28, Moog, “Beckham”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet):
glosses: To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.
pandies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandy
pandies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pandy
pandying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pandy
pandied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pandy
unenterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enterable.
Senses: examples: text: There is no aesthetic distance here separating actors from audience and placing the depicted events in an unenterable world of illusion...
ref: 1973, Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures:
glosses: That cannot be entered.
irrevokably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrevokably
form: most irrevokably
Etymology: From irrevokable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of irrevocably.
ecopsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + psychological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ecopsychology.
Derived terms: ecopsychologically
lucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucines
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Lucinoma genus of clams.
lovely jubbly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʌvli ˈdʒʌbli/
ipa: /-ˌli/
ipa: /ˌlʌvli ˈdʒʌb(ə)li/
Etymology: Based on the 1950s slogan “lubbly Jubbly” advertising Jubbly, an orange-flavoured soft drink. The modified version was coined by the English television scriptwriter John Sullivan (1946–2011) as an expression generally used by the character Derek “Del Boy” Trotter, a market trader from London, in the BBC television comedy Only Fools and Horses (first broadcast 1981–1991, with Christmas specials in 1996 and 2001–2003).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Yeah?’ says Adam, who doubtless expected me to put up a fight. ‘Lovely jubbly! It's a date!’ / ‘No, it isn’t,’ I say.
ref: 2000, Anna Maxted, chapter 35, in Getting Over It, London: Arrow Books, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:
text: Press gently all the way around to seal the edges and keep the chocolate in. Bake for 10 minutes and eat hot or cold. Easy peasy, lovely jubbly!
ref: 2004, Beatrice Hollyer, Let’s Eat: What Children Eat around the World, New York, N.Y.: Holt, →ISBN:
glosses: Often used as a response to some (anticipated) success: lovely; fantastic, great.
lovely jubbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʌvli ˈdʒʌbli/
ipa: /-ˌli/
ipa: /ˌlʌvli ˈdʒʌb(ə)li/
Forms: form: more lovely jubbly
form: most lovely jubbly
Etymology: Based on the 1950s slogan “lubbly Jubbly” advertising Jubbly, an orange-flavoured soft drink. The modified version was coined by the English television scriptwriter John Sullivan (1946–2011) as an expression generally used by the character Derek “Del Boy” Trotter, a market trader from London, in the BBC television comedy Only Fools and Horses (first broadcast 1981–1991, with Christmas specials in 1996 and 2001–2003).
Senses: examples: text: Duane bumped his elbow. They were on the Christmas pudding. 'Fucking lovely jubbly this, innit?' Duane said.
ref: 1999, Roger Granelli, Status Zero, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan: Seren, →ISBN, page 169:
synonyms: word: awesome
word: based
word: beat
word: bewildering
word: enchanting
word: extraordinary
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantabulous
word: fascinating
word: finger-lickin' good
word: frabjous
word: grandeur
word: grandiose
word: grand
word: great
word: impressive
word: inspiring
word: lovely jubbly
word: magnificent
word: majestic
word: major
word: mirandous
word: mystifying
word: phenomenal
word: selly
word: splendid
word: stupefying
word: stupendous
word: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
word: unbelievable
word: wild
word: luxurious
glosses: Lovely; fantastic, great.
lovely jubbly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʌvli ˈdʒʌbli/
ipa: /-ˌli/
ipa: /ˌlʌvli ˈdʒʌb(ə)li/
Etymology: Based on the 1950s slogan “lubbly Jubbly” advertising Jubbly, an orange-flavoured soft drink. The modified version was coined by the English television scriptwriter John Sullivan (1946–2011) as an expression generally used by the character Derek “Del Boy” Trotter, a market trader from London, in the BBC television comedy Only Fools and Horses (first broadcast 1981–1991, with Christmas specials in 1996 and 2001–2003).
Senses: synonyms: word: ackers
word: bees and honey
word: blunt
word: bones
word: brass
word: bread
word: bread and honey
word: Bugs Bunny
word: cake
word: cheddar
word: cheese
word: ching
word: clams
word: coin
word: cream
word: currency
word: dinero
word: dosh
word: dough
word: feds
word: fedi
word: finances
word: flizz
word: flow
word: funding
word: funds
word: gravy
word: gwop
word: gwolla
word: jack
word: legal tender
word: lolly
word: lovely jubbly
word: mazuma
word: means
word: money
word: moola
word: mozzarella
word: muck
word: oof
word: ooftish
word: paper
word: rhino
word: scratch
word: scrilla
word: shrapnel
word: simoleons
word: smackers
word: smackeroos
word: smackeroonies
word: spend
word: spondulicks
word: swag
word: wampum
word: wonga
word: yenom
glosses: Money.
chestier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chesty: more chesty
chestiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chesty: most chesty
cumuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumuliform
form: most cumuliform
Etymology: Latin cumulus (“heap”) + -iform
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a cumulus cloud.
Derived terms: stratocumuliform
smuggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smuggeries
Etymology: From smug + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Smugness; smug behaviour or attitude.
smuggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smuggery
biopunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopunks
Etymology: From bio- + -punk, apparently on the model of cyberpunk. Compare biotech.
Senses: examples: text: Using equipment ordered from online biopunk shops, he is trying to manipulate the genome of a common (but not necessarily harmless) bacterium, Serratia marcescens.
ref: 2014 January 10, Jim Holt, “The Music Gene”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A hobbyist who experiments with DNA and other aspects of genetics.
examples: text: [I]t's the biopunk revolution. Biopunks are the visionaries and biotech wizards whose imaginations were set on fire by the knowledge that scientists had finally sequenced the human genome last year. Biopunks get off on creative genetic engineering, RNA research, cloning, and protein synthesis. Biopunks hack genomic data, lining up human genomes next to mouse genomes to find out what the two species have in common and what they don't (surprise: they have way more in common than you could possibly ever imagine).
ref: 2001 August 8, Annalee Newitz, “Biopunk”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2002:
text: In addition to scientists, a number of artists and cultural critics – some of whom are now proudly branding themselves as "biopunks" – are also sounding warnings about the importance of giving the public a voice in how their bodies' genomic information gets used. […] Not every bioinformatics researcher necessarily considers herself to be pursuing the same cause as self-described biopunks, but together, they may represent a movement in the making, one dedicated to the proposition that the information that defines humanity is too precious to be private.
ref: 2002 February 27, Annalee Newitz, “Genome liberation: The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned”, in Salon, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2015:
qualifier: social
glosses: A technoprogressive movement advocating open access to genetic information.
examples: text: In the early nineties there grew up biopunk, a derivative sub-genre building not on IT but on biology, the other dominating scientific field of the end of the twentieth century. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic manipulation of their very chromosomes.
ref: 1997 September 13, Michael Quinion, “Biopunk”, in World Wide Words, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2015:
text: At its heart, The Wind Up Girl is a biopunk thriller following a^([sic]) undercover corporate agent and a genetically modified woman – but its detailed, bleak depiction of the effects of climate change sets it apart.
ref: 2017 January 19, “Five of the best climate-change novels”, in The Guardian:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A science fiction genre that focuses on biotechnology and subversives.
whizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: whizzier
form: whizziest
Etymology: From whizz + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Many workers in research and in design start their efforts by falling in love with a whizzy strategy — or worse yet a mere tactic...
ref: 2003, Brenda Laurel, Design Research: Methods and Perspectives:
text: Remember that the ultimate judge of any commercial offering, from a corner shop to the whizziest internet application, is the marketplace...
ref: 2005, Mike Southon, Christopher West, The Beermat Entrepreneur:
text: ...creating a sort of African Saudi Arabia where the world's poorest and most dispossessed are catapulted into a whizzy tomorrowland...
ref: 2007, John Hossein Ghazvinian, Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil:
glosses: Nifty; impressive, often in a superficial or showy way.
whizzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of whizzy: more whizzy
whizziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of whizzy: most whizzy
damnfool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: damfool
form: damphool
form: darnfool
form: durnfool
Etymology: From damn + fool.
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] Whole page seems to be given up to some damn-fool cycling championship at Cricklewood Stadium.’
ref: 1938, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, book I, ch. 2.1, p. 21:
text: People bored Manchek; the mechanics of manipulation and the vagaries of subordinate personality held no fascination for him. He often wished he were back at the wind tunnels of Wright Patterson. Particularly on nights when he was called out of bed by some damnfool problem.
ref: 1969, Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain:
text: […] those damnfool detective stories you read […]
ref: 1973, Edith Taylor, The Serpent Under It:
text: Damnfool thing to be asking. Might as well inquire, what possessed you to rush in here?
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses:
text: And celebrating damnfool so-called holidays like Space Colony Day and Reagan's Birthday? 'Course, they do Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas and such...
ref: 2000, Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan Merrill Squier, Julie Vedder, Native Tongue:
glosses: Contemptibly foolish.
damnfool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damnfools
Etymology: From damn + fool.
Senses: glosses: A contemptibly foolish person.
distractingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distractingly
form: most distractingly
Etymology: From distracting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distracting manner.
goth up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goths up
form: gothing up
form: gothed up
form: gothed up
form: Goth up
Senses: examples: text: Toward the evening, we return to our bed and breakfast in order to get 'gothed up', which entails making our appearance as impressive as possible...
ref: 2002, Paul Hodkinson, Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture:
text: The goth gardeners have suggestions for gothing up a garden, whether it's in a yard, in a container, in window boxes, on a rooftop...
ref: 2004, Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined:
glosses: To dress or decorate in the style of goth subculture.
goths up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of goth up
gothing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goth up
gothed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goth up
Grypsera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish grypsera.
Senses: glosses: A non-standard dialect of Polish with elements of other languages, used traditionally by recidivist prison inmates, that evolved in the 19th century in the areas of the Russian partition.
Lunfardo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish lunfardo, probably from an alteration of lombardo.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish argot that developed at the end of the nineteenth century among the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
rivethead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rivetheads
Etymology: From rivet + -head, from the use of rivets in industrial manufacture.
Senses: examples: text: […] self-described rivethead Ebony Joseph […]
ref: 2004, Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible:
text: Much to the shock of my rivethead friends, I plan to make the first stop on my pilgrimage in Athens, Georgia, of all places. Athens, home of REM, Pylon, and enough paisley shirts and pegged pants to fill every overpriced thrift store in Georgia […]
ref: 2005, Anne Thomas Soffee, Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City:
text: The "rivet" in the rivethead title comes from the metal bolts of the same name, which are used in the industrial construction of architecture.
ref: 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture:
glosses: An aficionado of industrial music.
glosses: An automotive assembly line worker.
rivetheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rivethead
antiqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + queer.
Senses: examples: text: On the connection between antiqueer and anticommunist hysteria...
ref: 2005, Thomas Vernon Reed, The Art of Protest:
text: The antiqueer brigade of the Muslim Students Association fell apart before my eyes.
ref: 2005, Irshad Manji, The Trouble with Islam Today:
text: While arguments that claim to identify the singular cause of antiqueer oppression can be exhilarating and compelling, they are also dangerous...
ref: 2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights:
glosses: Opposed to queer (non-heterosexual) people.
Synonyms: word: antigay
word: antifag
thalience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθeɪlˌɪiɛns/
Etymology: The concept was invented by Karl Schroeder in his novel Ventus (2000) and has been adopted by some members of the artificial intelligence community to describe the self-organizing properties of fine-grained distributed networks. The novel states that the word was deliberately chosen as an allusion to "silent Thalia", the muse of Nature. Entities are considered to exhibit thalience if they succeed in developing their own categories for understanding the world.
Senses: glosses: The property, of an object, of knowing what and where it is, and being able to report that to every nearby object.
gitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of git
skyfarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyfarms
Etymology: From sky + farm.
Senses: glosses: A skyscraper used for skyfarming.
capital punishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capital punishment
en mass
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of en masse.
muzzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muzzy
Ynys Môn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnɪs ˈmɒn/
ipa: /ˌɪnɪs ˈmɔːn/
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: Ynys Mon
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Welsh Ynys Môn.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Anglesey; especially as a parliamentary constituency.
synonyms: word: Anglesey
extra: especially as a parliamentary constituency
muzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: muzzier
form: muzziest
Senses: examples: text: The Handel excerpts are afflicted with a combination of high surface noise from the source material as well as variably muzzy sound.
ref: 1979, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections:
glosses: Blurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.
glosses: Bewildered; dazed.
examples: text: Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.
ref: 1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12:
text: To the muzzy drumming of beer in his veins he gazed long and owlishly at the sombre cottage[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 112:
text: The front bar was plying trade too, by customers that kept oozing in through the back door. The fat publican served whoever came, muzzy with the succession of pots that stodged away his day.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 159:
glosses: Tipsy; drunk; involving drunkenness.
Synonyms: sense: hazy
word: indistinct
word: nebulous
sense: bewildered
word: confused
word: puzzled
word: perplexed
word: confused
sense: tipsy
word: buzzed
word: merry
word: drunk
Derived terms: muzzily
muzziness
muzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzzies
form: Muzzie
form: muzzie
form: Muzzy
Senses: examples: text: "Ethiopia is a fortress of Christianity surrounded by Muzzies," said Tesfaye. His description paraphrased the words of Emperor Menelik II
ref: 1999, Julia Stewart, Eccentric Graces: Eritrea & Ethiopia Through the Eyes of a Traveler, page 138:
glosses: A Muslim.
muzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzzies
Etymology: Clipping of moustache + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: qualifier: Liverpool; Manchester; Liverpool; Manchester
glosses: moustache
busy-ness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of busyness.
Related terms: make-work
activity trap
busy work
anorgasmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, a woman with a major or recurrent problem (VD, unplanned pregnancies, recurrent vaginal infection, anorgasmia, etc.) needs guidance to find the root of her problem: Has she “mismotivated” herself”? Has she lost her “healthy image” of herself?
ref: 2012, Allen Lawrence, Laura Edwards, “Self-Help in Gynecological Practice”, in Martha Kirkpatrick, editor, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space, page 273:
text: I've since discovered this side-effect isn't uncommon and has a name: PSSD (post-SSRI sexual dysfunction). I know men who also suffer with PSSD and struggle with the same genital numbness and anorgasmia, coupled with erectile dysfunction.
ref: 2018 June 8, anonymous author, “My life in sex: ‘After taking antidepressants, my genitals felt numb’”, in The Guardian:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Failure to achieve orgasm.
Hypernyms: anaphrodisia
illuminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈluːmɪnɪst/
Forms: form: illuminists
form: illuminatist
form: Illuminist
Etymology: From illuminism.
Senses: examples: text: For some years, the Swedenborgians had been corresponding with fellow Illuminists in Poland, Germany, Sweden and France, and they were eager to learn more about the mystical and millenarian prophecies emanating form their lodges.
ref: 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 218:
glosses: Someone who subscribes to the doctrine of illuminism, or who claims to have achieved spiritual illumination; one of the Illuminati.
Sabbatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbeɪʃən/
Forms: form: more Sabbatian
form: most Sabbatian
form: Sabbatean
Etymology: From Sabbatius, modern Latin form of Sabbatai Zevi.
Senses: examples: text: Like the late Dr Falk (d. 1782), Grabianka was a native of Podolia, where Sabbatian influences were strong among local Jews, and he imbibed many of their notions.
ref: 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 219:
glosses: Pertaining to the mystical ideas of Sabbatai Zevi and his followers.
Sabbatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbeɪʃən/
Forms: form: Sabbatians
form: Sabbatean
Etymology: From Sabbatius, modern Latin form of Sabbatai Zevi.
Senses: glosses: A follower of this movement.
bushlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bush + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a bush; bushly.
downhiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downhillers
Etymology: From downhill + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is traveling downhill.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A skier who participates in the downhill.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cyclist who takes part in downhill races.
Related terms: downhill skier
downhillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downhiller
refries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refry
refrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refry
refried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refry
refried
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Forms: form: refrieds
Senses: examples: text: My grief I cannot hide, there's no tortillas for my refrieds.
ref: Lalo: My Life and Music →ISBN, page 164
glosses: Ellipsis of refried bean.
Related terms: refried beans
fairyfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairyflies
Etymology: From fairy + fly.
Senses: glosses: A tiny wasp of the family Mymaridae.
Derived terms: tinkerbell fairyfly
erythrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrisms
Etymology: From erythr- + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abnormal red colouration.
Derived terms: erythrismal
erythristic
electric chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric chair
companion ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companion ladder
Achæans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Achæan
adenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: aden- + -oses
Senses: glosses: plural of adenosis
fluidodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fluid dynamics.
Derived terms: magnetofluidodynamics
aidmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aidman
anhingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhinga
baggagemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baggageman
berzerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berzerk
chainmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chainman
displaced persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displaced person
glazen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glazen
form: most glazen
Etymology: From Middle English glasen, glesen, from Old English glæsen (“made of glass; glassy”), from Proto-West Germanic *glasīn. Equivalent to glass + -en. Doublet of glassen.
Senses: glosses: Made or consisting of glass.
glosses: Resembling glass; glassy.
Synonyms: glassen
glasslike