cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skinfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skin + folk, modelled on kinfolk.
Senses: examples: text: It was, in part, this designation that Zora Neale Hurston sought to clarify with the distinction between "kinfolk" and "skinfolk" where one could imagine that all of one's skinfolk were not one's kinfolk (or lacked a good brain) and gave the skinfolk a bad name (Hurston, 1942).
ref: 1996, Diane L. Wolf, Feminist dilemmas in fieldwork:
text: “As the saying goes, not everyone who's our skinfolk is our kinfolk,” James would quip, and “it's more important to have a brother or sister in Christ than a brother or sister in skin.
ref: 2011, Keli Goff, The GQ Candidate: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Feminist analyses, critical in thinking through these myths of identity, have emphasized the methodological complications in being “skinfolk” but not necessarily “kinfolk,” to use Brackette Williams's trenchant distinction (1996), while reminding us also of the value of researchers who may be kinfolk in their depth of connection and commitment even if they are not skinfolk (Narayan 1993).
ref: 2015, Srimati Basu, The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India, →ISBN, page 64:
text: The burned scent of the police car. Flashing blue light. Strong hands grabbed his wrists, hauled him up. “The hell are you doing out here this time of night, man, with all this stuff going on up the way?” This voice was different. It rolled in a way that Jackie's ears found acceptable. He turned, eyes meeting a pair similar to his own atop a black mustache. The black cop turned his mouth into a sneer. “Leavin' work,” Jackie replied, apprehensive. Skinfolk wasn't kinfolk, especially when [they're cops.]
ref: 2015, Laureen Cantwell, Leonard Gill, Memphis Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 278:
text: 2022, Willie Jones (quoted in The Atlantic
But as Jones’s career launched, he was disappointed not to find artists who looked like him. “I didn’t have too many other skinfolk to relate to, honestly, in the mainstream country realm,” he told me, “until I started really digging.”
glosses: People who share the same skin color (race) with one another, especially when they are not otherwise closely associated or similar.
decentralizationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more decentralizationist
form: most decentralizationist
form: decentralisationist
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to decentralization.
decentralizationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decentralizationists
form: decentralisationist
Senses: glosses: An advocate for decentralization.
folde-rols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folde-rol
folde-rol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folde-rols
Senses: examples: text: A quizzical Jenkins lately described the dress of a New York belle, by stating that “she wore an exquisite hyphaluten on her head, while her train was composed of transparent folde-rol, and her petticoat of crambambuli flounced with Brussels three-ply of A No. 1.”
ref: 1870, Josh Billings, Josh Billings, His Book of Sayings, page 29:
text: You know about as well's I do, Ellen, whether we've got ground to plant up with folde-rols.
ref: 1902, Josephine Spenser, A Corner in Chrysanthemums:
text: Mr. Collins, I think we need teachers worse than a lot of this other folde-rol in the city.
ref: 1939, United States Congres. Hous. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations, District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1940:
glosses: Alternative form of fol-de-rol.
grandcestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandcestors
Etymology: Blend of grand- + ancestor, with the first element evoking grandparent.
Senses: examples: text: I thought 'twould give it a kind of flavor, if I polished up your grandcestor's old cover with the family cress, to put over it.
ref: 1906, Mrs. Burton Harrison, The Carlyles: A Story of the Fall of the Confederacy, page 4:
text: “Guardian dogs for some monastery in the Himalayas. Someone snatched them and came here. A couple of monks hired me to get them back.” “What, they don't have dog pounds in Tibet?” I shrugged. “The monks think their great-grandcestor was a divine spirit-animal ...”
ref: 2004, Jim Butcher, Blood Rites, Penguin, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Fancy knew that nose and those cheekbones. The woman looked the way Madda had when she was younger and less factory worn. The woman held out her arms. “It's been long since one of my own has seen me.” “Miz Cherry?” Fancy had to fight an insane urge to curtsy. Cherry shocked Fancy by taking her by the shoulders and kissing her cheek. Her touch was inhuman, cold and glassy like a porcelain doll, but after her initial flinch Fancy relaxed into her grandcestor's embrace.
ref: 2011, Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 128:
text: A serious charge back then when bigotry was as natural to Southern Democrats as breathing. As a matter of fact, in political attack ads (Yes, they existed back then), Southern Democrats made cartoon drawings depicting Lincoln as a Negro, nicknaming him, “Abraham Africanus the First”. This may seem trivial to us today, but in the 1850s, if your greatgreat-great-great-great-great-grandcestor had one teeny weenie drop of African blood, you were considered a black person!
ref: 2014, Kristina Townsend, FOX NEWS NUTS? (Unfair & Unbalanced for over 200 years), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 12:
synonyms: grandancestor
glosses: A distant ancestor.
grandcestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandcestor
situationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪt͡ʃuˈeɪʃənʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌsɪtʃuˈeɪʃənʃɪp/
Forms: form: situationships
Etymology: From situation + -ship or a blend of situational + relationship.
Senses: examples: text: The thing about being in a situationship – and this is a big thing – is that because you exist in that no-man's-land, the rules of engagement are not spelt out.
ref: 2016, Lerato Tshabalala, The Way I See It: The Musings of a Black Woman in the Rainbow Nation, page 110:
text: “Might you be pregnant?” I scoffed. “Listen Miss James, I know that you know that my personal life is a mess. There's no way I could be pregnant.” “Mark?” “What about Mark?” “Look, I know you're in a situationship with him...” I sighed, “Listen, Mark and I are friends. And anything that happens between us is very well secured against this.” Dawn shrugged, “Accidents happen.” “Not to me they don't,” I retorted.
ref: 2017, Jamila Jasper, The Situationship: BWWM Romance Novel, Publisher s23991
text: “I needed a ‘situationship,’” said Ms. Stevenson, a 31-year-old comedian and writer in Los Angeles. “A person I can rely on and trust to hang out with once a week.”
ref: 2021 January 10, Valeriya Safronova, “True Stories of Hooking Up During Covid-19”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021:
text: Seek so much as a kernel of advice on the internet in 2024 about conflicts in a relationship, a situationship or even an affair, and you may find yourself inundated with recommendations to "stand on business." A Hinge match asks to reschedule your first date with 30 minutes' notice? Stand on business. Your ex continues to hit you up months after the breakup? Stand on business.
ref: 2024 January 18, Gina Cherelus, “TikTok Is 'Standing on Business.' What Does That Mean?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Feb 2024:
text: According to a 2024 YouGov poll, for instance, around half of Americans aged 18-34 reported having been, like Holly, in a situationship (a term it defines as “a romantic connection that exists in a gray area, neither strictly platonic nor officially a committed relationship”).
ref: 2025 October 12, Alexandra Jones, “‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A romantic or sexual relationship in which the parties do not consider or are not clear that they are in such relationship; such that is informal, without the responsibilities of a formal relationship; a companionship.
Related terms: friend with benefits
situationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of situationship
Barbian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barbians
Etymology: Borrowed from German Barbian.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wengen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain village in Bern canton, Switzerland.
transnormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transnormativities
Etymology: From transnormative + -ity or trans- + normativity.
Senses: examples: ref: 2006, Myfanwy McDonald, “An other space: between and beyond lesbian normativity and transnormativity”, in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 10 (1-2): 201-214:
text: The online discourse engaged in and created by transmen at the same time constitutes, reflects, and responds to cultural representations of female-to-male transgenderedness. The transmen blogs reviewed here seem to reflect an emerging transnormativity – a desire to bring to light and integrate, into collective consciousness, the mundane aspects of transmen's lives – a discursive strategy that is reflected in expressions such as […]
ref: 2013, Karen Ross, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 335:
text: Viewers should be offered a range of gender possibilities and not be reliant on subversive reads, gay “vague” qualities (see Hilton Morrow and Battles 2015), and connotative interpretations, or a select few TV series that feature inclusion and transnormativity.
ref: 2017, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: Normalization of the existence of diverse transgender people and experiences.
examples: text: 2015, Evan Vipond, Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies (Transformative Studies Institute)
text: Transnormativity is a much clearer concept than homonormativity and approaches class in ways that are solidly materialist. Transnormativity is pressure to look identical to a cis person. This involves body-shaming people who do not want to or are unable to rid their bodies of secondary sex characteristics that socially identify them as the sex they were assigned at birth.
ref: 2016, Holly Lewis, The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN:
text: For Jenner and many other transpeople, transnormativity is away to escape the societal shame directed toward trans people—a way, at last, to fit in. The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address [transphobia].
ref: 2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: The assumption that transgender people should, and the pressure on them to, fit a cissexist idea of what is "normal". (Compare pass.)
Related terms: word: transnormative
word: cisnormativity
english: see there for more
translation: see there for more
word: homonormativity
transnormativities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transnormativity
Toblach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in the autonomous province of South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Italian form: Dobbiaco.
Rạch Giá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Rạch Giá.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Kiên Giang Province, Vietnam.
transnormalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans- + normalization.
Senses: examples: text: This procedure is termed transnormalization. Using variables that are transnormalized is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the joint distribution to be multi-normal. However, tests to date have shown that joint normality is a good assumption whenever the variables have been selected by nature, as opposed to having been selected artificially by man. Predictors selected by man, such as time of day, are included in the TRP equation as "marginal" variables.
ref: 1977, Proceedings of the 7th Technical Exchange Conference, El Paso, Texas, 30 November-3 December 1976:
text: ... such transnormalization.
ref: 1977, Raymond L. Joiner, Separation of Mixed Data Sets Into Homogeneous Sets:
text: The three main procedures that comprise this multivariate transnormalized method are transnormalization, correlation, and regression conditional probability. The transnormalization process (a nonlinear process) transforms the observed or raw data into the standard normal variable with the same cumulative climatological probability as the raw predictor. Transnormalization ensures normal distribution of the predictor.
ref: 1978, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The transformation of raw data such that the resulting cumulative distribution is normal.
incorporalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incorporality
lindy-hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lindy Hopping
form: lindy hopping
form: lindyhopping
Senses: glosses: The dance, or dancing, of the Lindy Hop. (Also used attributively.)
Lindy Hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lindy-hopping.
lindy hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lindy-hopping.
lindyhopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lindy-hopping.
Lindy hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lindy hops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lindy Hop.
lindyhop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lindyhops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lindy Hop.
lindy hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lindy hops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lindy Hop.
lindy-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lindy-hops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lindy Hop.
handlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more handlesome
form: most handlesome
Etymology: From handle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: River navigation is a different thing to steering a motor-car on solid dry land. But a thirty horse-power launch, doing thirteen miles an hour, is a handlesome craft, and we soon left behind us.
ref: 1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, volume 68, pages 106–107:
text: "[…] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack,
Dog hounds is none so handlesome […]
ref: 1937, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The horn: a lay of the Grassington fox-hounds, page 50:
text: She said: "So I sure got my hands full." Handful. To mean: handlesome. Fit to be handed from hand to hand. Hand me down my walkincane.
ref: 1948, Robert Faucett Gibbons, The Patchwork Time, page 20:
glosses: Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage
sprinkler strategies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprinkler strategy
femsplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: femsplains
form: femsplaining
form: femsplained
form: femsplained
Etymology: From feminist + -splain. Compare mansplain, womansplaining.
Senses: examples: text: Don't try to reinvent what the Internet has already done. Did I femsplain it sufficiently?
ref: 2015 January 12, “Is it 'lady lecturing' or 'femsplaining'?”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: When you femsplain feminism to your friends, make sure you don't femsplain what's wrong with other women; rather, femsplain what's right about you.
ref: 2016, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo, How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some!, →ISBN:
text: After about an hour and a half of frustratedly rubbing his temples, struggling to exist in a world he doesn't understand, Glen sits on a couch alongside his daughter's friend Zasha, who femsplains to him that "we're all perverts." Girls are just attracted to older guys, she says as his mouth goes limp.
ref: 2017 November 9, Georgia S. Kaufman, “I Hate You, I Love You, Daddy: Thoughts on the Louis CK Movie You May Never Get to See”, in The Stranger:
glosses: To explain feminist concepts or a feminine perspective, especially when done in a condescending manner or to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that he has an inferior understanding of it merely because he is male.
examples: text: I'm sure I, and the 99.999999% of men in this country who have never, would never, will never rape or harm a woman, need it. You've heard of mansplaining, right? When a man tries to explain rape/sexual assault/etc. to a female rape survivor? Okay, well you're femsplaining rape to a male rape survivor.
ref: 2014 June 6, Robin Wilson, “Why Colleges Are on the Hook for Sexual Assault”, in Chronicle of Higher Education:
text: Yet, it wasn't until Tuesday night's The Daily Show that we learned of a biological struggle that men have when they become parents: dad bods. Women's issues correspondent Kristen Schaal femsplained the fad.
ref: 2015 May 13, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, “'The Daily Show' Skewers the Dad Bod as a Lazy Double Standard”, in Take Part:
glosses: To explain (as a woman) the experience of a man.
Synonyms: womansplain
Coordinate terms: mansplain
Derived terms: femsplainer
Related terms: mansplaining
womansplaining
femsplains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of femsplain
femsplained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of femsplain
femsplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Patterned after mansplaining.
Senses: examples: text: I do want to experience Feminist Boredom—when femsplaining and fem… doing (?) become periodically recursive and repetitive, but in a nice vacationy way that is very much a part of working toward something—and Feminist Arrogance, which is fun and about just deciding that everyone who doesn’t know already is pretty stupid.
ref: 2013 March 4, Kate Carraway, “Feminist Fatigue”, in Vice:
text: The femsplaining continues throughout the movie, as the girls point out how offensive and problematic sexist frat humor can be.
ref: 2016 May 18, “More Comedies Should Be As Progressive About Feminism and Gay Relationships as 'Neighbors 2'”, in Screen Crush:
text: Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui comes out as bisexual in SCATHING rant against Donald Trump voters. The singer insulted million of US voters who hold a different political view, but was unapologetic about her femsplaining.
ref: 2016 November 19, James Draper, “Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui comes out as bisexual in SCATHING rant against Donald Trump voters”, in The Mirror:
glosses: The explanation of feminist concepts, often to a man in a condescending and rude manner.
examples: text: Mansplaining is a bit of this year’s wombspeak, a coinage of great self-satisfaction and smugness which attempts to put down reconciling reality to facts, naming fables when they are fables, and contesting any of the dogmas of the enlightened sisterhood, as mere condescension from the other gender. It should be paired with “femsplaining” which is of course pure unshampooed truth — as determined, of course, by when and if it works for the cause.
ref: 2014 December 27, Rex Murphy, “The year in activist feminism”, in National Post:
text: The fact of the matter is that women are given so little leverage to be as boring and patronising as men in the office, home or parliament, we don't really have as much evidence of femsplaining as we do mansplaining. Thus, femsplaining remains a myth, much like the gender pay gap and female orgasm.
ref: 2015 February 4, Amy Gray, The Guardian:
text: No man can freely express themselves if they speak in fear of being accused of mansplaining which is, I would suggest, as prevalent as femsplaining.
ref: 2016 May 12, “No, there is no such thing as 'mansplaining'”, in Daily Telegraph:
synonyms: womansplaining
glosses: An explanation by a woman to a man about topics that the woman assumes the man doesn't know. Often condescending in nature.
femsplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Patterned after mansplaining.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of femsplain
jumbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒʌmbi/
Forms: form: jumbies
form: jumbee
form: jumby
form: jumbi
form: zumbi
Etymology: Borrowed from Kongo zumbi (“fetish”). Doublet of zombie.
Senses: examples: text: If one wants to see “jumbies” “duppies” ghosts, all that is necessary is to put in your eye the tears from the eyes of a pie-bald horse. It is no use explaining to a negro that what he has taken to be a “jumbie” or apparition, is a tree or rock or other natural object.
ref: 1882, G.H. Hawtayne, “Occasional notes: West Indian Folk-lore”, in Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume 1, page 145:
text: Jethro stomped away up the hill, though the trail was supposed to be haunted by spirits of the dead called jumbies. He didn't care. He didn't believe in jumbies.
ref: 1979, Susan Cooper, Jethro and the Jumbie, page 5:
coordinate_terms: duppy
glosses: A ghost or evil spirit.
wikipedia: jumbie
Derived terms: jumbie bead
moko jumbie
PMOYS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of put me on your story or your Snapchat.
jumbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jumbie.
jumby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jumbie.
jumbee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jumbie.
makoronyera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Shona makoronyera, plural of goronyera (“unscrupulous person”).
Senses: glosses: middlemen who buy produce from farmers and mark up the price, generally drastically, for resale
somatomammotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatomammotrophs
Etymology: From somato- + mammo- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of cell in the anterior pituitary gland that produces both somatotropin and prolactin.
jungalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jungalists
Senses: examples: text: More recently this has been superseded by what Cynthia Rose has called 'bhangle' (World Wide Web Bhangra page): 'Asian music has a whole new focus: marrying the jungalist theme (cutting percussive beats and break-beats so fast they trip each other) to Hindi, Punjabi and ragga rhythms' (McRobbie 1994: 183).
ref: 1996, Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk, Ashwani Sharma, Dis-orienting rhythms: the politics of the new Asian dance music, →ISBN:
text: Leading jungalist DJs like Grooverider, LTJ Bukem and Jumping Jack Frost can fill huge venuees with thousands of danccing fans.
ref: 1999, Alon Shulman, The style bible: an A-Z of global youth culture:
text: The upcoming year promises to reveal several tracks of grimey jungalist haze and aggressively smelt percussion.
ref: 2007, Urb - Volume 17, Issues 143-147, page 52:
text: Doug E. Fresh, may be wack but he's not a jungalist, i think he can have a little bit more than drum and bass
ref: 1995 October 31, Jon Rosenberg, “Doug E Fresh”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: Went to a party on Saturday night, and I had a great time early in the night just bouncing around, only doing a little dancing because the DJ's were real house boys and I'm a (developing) jungalist.
ref: 1999 June 16, David Mackenzie, “via request: you know you're a candy raver when..”, in alt.rave (Usenet):
text: fuckin hell! a jungalist, you must be the first one i have found on all these bloody news groups!
ref: 1999 June 17, TeeJay, “Music to listen to while high”, in rec.drugs.cannabis (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of junglist (“fan of jungle music”).
examples: text: Young said, “What's a jungalist? Pandora said Eula was a jungalist.” “Yes, I wasn't too happy about that.” “Why?” “It's a local word. It basically means 'slut.'
ref: 2007, J.D. Carpenter, 74 Miles Away: A Campbell Young Mystery, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Pastors closed their eyes to the wutless no good husbands with economic power sweetheartin den lil girls and all jungalists and going home and wanting the wife to agree to sex.
ref: 2017 January 16, Ava Turnquest, “Bethel Slams Comments By Archdeacon Palacious”, in Bahamas Tribune:
glosses: A loud, abrasive, slutty woman.
pituicytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to pituicytes.
malevolency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malevolencies
Senses: examples: text: Although Margaret Murray's definition is neutral in tone, the others possess, to varying degrees, an air of malevolency.
ref: 2015, Judika Illes, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World:
glosses: Malevolence, malice.
jumbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbie
glosses: plural of jumby
malevolencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malevolency
skidoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skidoos
form: skidooing
form: skidooed
form: skidooed
form: skiddoo
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps related to skedaddle. Attested since the early twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: There goes the supper gong! Annie, you and Mary had better skidoo out of this room or you'll get so many demerits you won't be out of bounds to go home in June.
ref: 1917, Nell Speed, Back at School with the Tucker Twins:
glosses: to depart, especially to depart quickly
examples: text: Then skidoo, little girl, skidoo. / 23 is the number for you.
ref: 1906, Norman McLoud, Maximilian Foster, The Hermits in Spain:
text: “Twenty-three skidoo!” was an all-embracing, meaningless, smart-alecky comment of the day, something in essence like one of its grandchildren, “So's your old man!”
ref: 1951, Tim Cohane, The Yale Football Story, page 161:
glosses: a nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect
skidoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiddoo
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps related to skedaddle. Attested since the early twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: More than 1,000 winking or "skidoo" lamps will be hung in the vines and shrubbery on cither side of the Flirtation Path and they will wink and blink from 7 o'clock in the evening until midnight.
ref: 1906, Electrical World - Volume 48, page 835:
text: Important among the devices which utilize these differences in expansion are the automatic fire alarm, the thermostat and the mechanism for operating the "skidoo" lamp used in signs.
ref: 1925, William Ballantyne Anderson, Physics for Technical Students, page 236:
glosses: A light that flashes on and off to make it more eye-catching.
Related terms: 23 skidoo
skidoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skidoos
Etymology: See Skidoo.
Senses: examples: text: From the manufacture of snowgoing equipment such as snow cats, it diversified first into that of snowmobiles (and later skidoos, or water scooters), then into railcar and locomotive manufacture, and finally into the manufacture of small (less than 100-seat) commercial aircraft.
ref: 2001, Charles W. L. Hill, Gareth R. Jones, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach, page 312:
text: He couldn't have seen Peter's skidoo, but he must have seen Peter climbing up the ridgeline. He must have heard Peter's approach on the skidoo.
ref: 2016, Robert W. Barker, Nuclear Rogue, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Skidoo (“snowmobile”).
Derived terms: skidooing
skidoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skidoos
form: skidooing
form: skidooed
form: skidooed
Etymology: See Skidoo.
Senses: examples: text: On several evenings, after Glen had finished his work and returned to Resolute, we skidooed out to the Parcol and sat in wait for ‘Sea Biscuit’.
ref: 1985, Hugh Miles, Mike Salisbury, Kingdom of the Ice Bear, page 79:
text: Even skidooing on the farm in my younger years was not that much fun though I recall one time after a storm, I had gone skidooing and I hit some unexpected snow drifts that sent that skidoo flying into the air one minute and plummeting back down the next.
ref: 2014, Cassie Merko, Small Beginnings:
glosses: To drive or ride on a snowmobile
Jingle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɪŋˈlʌ/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɪŋˈlɛ/
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: Ching-le
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靜樂／静乐.
Senses: examples: text: Kao Wen-huan, a member of the Chinglo county CCP core group and commanding general of the Chinglo county revolutionary rebellion general command (former magistrate of Chinglo country), also highly praised representatives of mass organizations he had worked with in the revolutionary "three-way alliance" provisional organ of power for their class awareness and their indomitable revolutionary spirit.
ref: [1967 April 14 [1967 April 7], “SHANSI CADRES RELATE EXPERIENCES TO NCNA”, in Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 73, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page DDD 8:
text: According to a survey of 19 villages in Jingle County, Shanxi Province, 880 of the 5,758 peasant households sold land, as a result of which 167 old middle-peasant households declined in status to poor peasants, similar to the way the status of 471 new middle-peasant households which had just acquired land declined during the land reform.
ref: 1985, Wang Huimin, transl., edited by Luo Hanxian (罗涵先), 中国农村的经济变革 [Economic Changes in Rural China] (China Studies Series), Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 52:
english: Economic Changes in Rural China
translation: Economic Changes in Rural China
glosses: A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
enneadecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.niː.əˈdɛ.kə.ɡɑn/
Forms: form: enneadecagons
Etymology: From enneadeca- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with nineteen sides and nineteen angles.
Synonyms: 19-gon
nonadecagon
hexadecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecagons
Etymology: From hexadeca- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with sixteen sides and sixteen angles.
Synonyms: 16-gon
hexakaidecagon
Related terms: hexadecagonal
topscore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topscores
form: topscoring
form: topscored
form: topscored
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: uncommon except in the present participle
glosses: To score more than anyone else in a particular match or competition.
Derived terms: topscorer
athyridacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athyridaceans
Senses: glosses: Any brachiopod of the superfamily Athyridacea
athyridid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athyridids
Senses: glosses: Any brachiopod of the order Athyridida
atrypacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atrypaceans
Senses: examples: text: This size difference applies to many of the Silurian-Devonian families including the spiriferids, chonetids, atrypoids, atrypaceans, and some pentameroids (mostly among the gyidulids) (Boucot et al. 2012).
ref: 2013, Rituparna Bose, Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods: A Case Study:
glosses: Any brachiopod of the superfamily Atrypacea.
show someone one's etchings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows someone one's etchings
form: showing someone one's etchings
form: showed someone one's etchings
form: shown someone one's etchings
Senses: examples: text: Let me show you my etchings.
text: “Never wanted to show off my etchings before. I only show my etchings to redheads,” he said with a grin. ”Now that you've come, I can't wait to show them to you.[…]”
ref: 1988, Ruth Seamands, Pearls in the Rain, Bristol Books, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to)
Synonyms: discuss Uganda
graft the forked tree
someone's etchings
copulate
see someone's etchings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees someone's etchings
form: seeing someone's etchings
form: saw someone's etchings
form: seen someone's etchings
Senses: examples: text: Would you like to see my etchings?
synonyms: view someone's etchings
qualifier: innuendo
glosses: To have sex with (someone).
Synonyms: discuss Uganda
graft the forked tree
show someone one's etchings
copulate
Naharvali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nahanarvali (“Germanic tribe”).
synoeketes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synoekete
symphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphile
atrypide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atrypides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atrypid.
Barataria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Trinidad and Tobago.
Related terms: Barataria Bay
ovococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovococci
Etymology: From ovo- + -coccus; cf. ovoid (“oval; egg-shaped”).
Senses: examples: text: The architecture in Gram-positive cocci and ovococci is largely uncharacterised, In this study, atomic force microscopy (AFM) of purified sacculi of three species of ovococcus was combined with biochemical analysis and super resolution fluorescence microscopy.
ref: 2012, Richard Wheeler, Peptidoglycan architecture and dynamics in Gram-positive bacteria (thesis, University of Sheffield):
text: According to the authors of recent research from Bloomington, Indiana, “The connection between peptidoglycan remodeling and cell division is poorly understood in ellipsoid-shaped ovococcus bacteria, such as the human respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.
ref: 2012, Streptococcal Infections—Advances in Research and Treatment, →ISBN:
text: This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the mechanisms and regulation of peptidoglycan (PG) biosynthesis that result in ellipsoid-shaped, ovococcus Streptococcus cells.
ref: 2013, Mucoproteins—Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ellipsoid-shaped bacterium
Related terms: ovococcal
ovococcoid
running script
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running scripts
Senses: glosses: A form of Chinese calligraphy in which round brush-strokes predominate and there are no sharp strokes or ticks
atrypoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: relating to, or characteristic of brachiopods of the genus Atrypa.
centronellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centronellids
Senses: glosses: Any of the extinct brachiopods in the family Centronellidae.
centronelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the centronellids.
federational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From federation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Federative; pertaining to, characteristic of, or constituting a federation.
Derived terms: federationalism
federationalist
Related terms: list at federation
federationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federationalists
Etymology: From federational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: One who supports federationalism.
federationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From federational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Supporting federationalism.
federationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of federationalist
federationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From federational + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The years following 1819 thus witnessed a resurgence of continental federationalism ...
ref: 1961, James Alexander Robertson, The Hispanic American Historical Review:
text: In fact, she regarded this slogan, which was popular at the time, as little else than a reactionary escape. Her political views–her insistence on federationalism as opposed to a national state, on “civic friendship” as the new basis of politics instead of talk of tolerance and granting of special rights to minorities, on the need for a positive concept of politics, emphasis on the political.
ref: 2015, Liisi Keedus, The Crisis of German Historicism: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Tendency or preference towards having a federational structure, a federation, in which distinct bodies are united.
Related terms: federationism
the list at federation
get ink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets ink
form: getting ink
form: got ink
form: got ink
form: gotten ink
Senses: examples: text: Soon everybody, not just the Lefraks, was sneering. Donald Trump was getting more ink than Harry Helmsley, and there were no buildings to show for it, just bizarre stories with acronyms like CPC, UDC, MTA in them.
ref: 1980 November 17, Marie Brenner, “Trumping the Town”, in New York Magazine, page 27:
text: [The amendment wi]ll get overturned. Big fuss for nothing. — It might get overturned, but it gets ink along the way.
ref: 2014 February, John Mankiewicz, House of Cards, season 2, episode 6:
glosses: To receive publicity.
job jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɒb dʒɑɹ/
Forms: form: job jars
Etymology: From job + jar.
Senses: glosses: A container for holding papers, each bearing the name of a task to be completed, serving a similar purpose to a to-do list.
avimorph
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From avi- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: birdlike
glosses: Characteristic of the taxonomic class Aves
asteroceratid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asteroceratids
Senses: glosses: Any ammonid of the genus Asturoceras
amphiporid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphiporids
Senses: glosses: Any ribbon worm of the genus Amphiporus
aphidoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphidoids
Etymology: From aphid + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any aphid of the superfamily Aphidoidea.
arcellacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcellaceans
Senses: glosses: Any protist of the order Arcellinida
eolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eolids
Senses: glosses: Any nudibranch of the former genus Eolidia
mop up the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mops up the ice
form: mopping up the ice
form: mopped up the ice
form: mopped up the ice
Etymology: From the image of cleaning the ice with one's body.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, you may see a skater hit all his triples in practice, then he mops up the ice during the competition.
ref: 1997, Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating, →ISBN, page 90:
text: At last year's Canadian championships, she KO'd her long-held Olympic dream when she mopped up the ice in her short program.
ref: 2007 January 19, Randy Starkman, “Hawker's a scrapper dressed up in sequins”, in Toronto Star:
text: There are LaBrecque and Bussey mopping up the ice in the usual pratfalls and assorted other spills.
ref: 2014 May 9, Lewis Funke, “25th Ice Capades: A Captivating Affair”, in The New York Times:
qualifier: figure skating
glosses: To fall many times during a performance.
mops up the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mop up the ice
avigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avigators
Senses: glosses: An aerial navigator.
Related terms: avigate
avigation
mopping up the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mop up the ice
mopped up the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mop up the ice
sonsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sonsy: more sonsy
photoreduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoreduces
form: photoreducing
form: photoreduced
form: photoreduced
Etymology: From photo- + reduce.
Senses: glosses: To cause or undergo photoreduction.
nittiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nitty: most nitty.
glosses: superlative form of nittie: most nittie.
gingelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gingilli.
be ages with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is ages with
form: being ages with
form: was ages with
form: been ages with
Senses: examples: text: Kenny is ages with me and already a fast powerful winger with a really hard shot—a mini Peter Lorimer and he even looked a bit like him.
ref: 2008, James Meikle, Fitba Daft: A Story of Total Soccer Addiction in Scotland and America, →ISBN:
text: Gary's son is ages with my youngest and they both play mini-rugby.
ref: 2011, Jeff Connor, Giants Of Scottish Rugby, →ISBN:
text: Mrs Griggs is ages with Marjory.
ref: 2013, Michael Cannon, Four New Words for Love, →ISBN:
glosses: To be approximately the same age as.
ghost from one's past
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghosts from one's past
Senses: glosses: Something unpleasant from one's past that "haunts" them (makes them feel uneasy) to the present day.
family groupings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family grouping
steady hand on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steady hands on the tiller
form: steady hands on the tillers
Senses: examples: text: The new president of the Varityper division of the financially troubled AM International, Joseph A. Verderber, knows that he has his work cut out for him. . . . "My challenge in a ship that big is to make certain that it has a good steady hand on the tiller."
ref: 1982 January 25, Leonard Sloane, “Business People: Challenge at Varityper”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Feb 2018:
text: "My hero," McCain declared, is Theodore Roosevelt, who said, "Walk softly, and carry a big stick." . . . McCain was left with this: "When times are tough, we need a steady hand on the tiller."
ref: 2008 October 8, David Von Drehle, “Obama Plays Ball Control in Second Debate”, in Time, retrieved 06 Feb 2018:
text: Analyst Mark Brumby at Astaire said: ". . . The share register remains skewed but the current shareholders are likely to have learned from the mistakes of the past and, it is to be hoped, will provide a steady hand on the tiller."
ref: 2009 July 16, Julia Kollewe, “Currency trader Joe Lewis takes seat on board of Mitchells & Butlers”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 06 Feb 2018:
glosses: Reliable, composed control (of an organization or situation).
examples: text: [T]heir expressions of confidence in the new Bush administration were likely heartfelt — officials around the world reminisced enthusiastically about the scion of a president best remembered as a sober and steady hand on the tiller of foreign policy.
ref: 2000 December 14, Tony Karon, “How the World Sees President Bush”, in Time, retrieved 06 Feb 2018:
text: In his time, the veteran director Mike Newell has tackled a remarkably wide range of film genres. . . .[H]e was the steady hand on the tiller of the phenomenal Four Weddings and a Funeral, a deceptively effortless-looking romantic comedy which, lest we forget, did not direct itself.
ref: 2005 October 28, David Gritten, “I was so fearful of breaking the spell”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 06 Feb 2018:
text: For six years Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promoted himself as a “steady hand on the tiller” to steer the nation through turbulent economic waters.
ref: 2014 August 5, Carol Goar, “How to survive a slow-growth recovery”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 06 Feb 2018:
glosses: A person exhibiting such control.
Synonyms: even hand at the tiller
even hand on the tiller
firm hand at the tiller
firm hand on the tiller
steady hand at the tiller
strong hand at the tiller
strong hand on the tiller
sure hand at the tiller
sure hand on the tiller
Related terms: even keel
steady hand at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steady hands at the tiller
form: steady hands at the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
firm hand at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firm hands at the tiller
form: firm hands at the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
strong hand at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong hands at the tiller
form: strong hands at the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
sure hand at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sure hands at the tiller
form: sure hands at the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
firm hand on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firm hands on the tiller
form: firm hands on the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
strong hand on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong hands on the tiller
form: strong hands on the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
sure hand on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sure hands on the tiller
form: sure hands on the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
even hand on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: even hands on the tiller
form: even hands on the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
even hand at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: even hands at the tiller
form: even hands at the tillers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of steady hand on the tiller.
synonyms: word: steady hand on the tiller
re-hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-hairs
form: re-hairing
form: re-haired
form: re-haired
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rehair.
re-hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-hairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rehair.
MURP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Master's of Urban and Regional Planning.
ATS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Association of Theological Schools.
ATS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of applicant tracking system
unwishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wishable.
Senses: examples: text: 1653, John Goodwin, An Exposition of The Ninth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, [1652, A Paraphrase], 1835, Baynes and Son, page 69,
This interpretation, though it doth not suppose an eternal separation from Christ to be the matter of the Apostle's actual wish, at one time or other, or upon one consideration or other, wherein it differs from the former; yet it rendereth it as a thing wishable, or which the Apostle could and would wish, in case the two impediments specified, which render it de facto unwishable, were or could be removed out of the way.
text: Since it is his mother, the wish is unwishable, insupportable. How will he treat other women in the face of this unwishable wish?
ref: 1988, Esquire: The Magazine for Men, volume 109, page 432:
text: Instead it begins in mid-wishing with a negative fulfilment, and it tails off without an end into an indefinite future of wishing for what the unwished-for knowledge has rendered unobtainable, unwishable.
ref: 2007, Rachel Bowlby, Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities, Oxford University Press, page 148:
glosses: That cannot or must not be wished.