cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
East Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eastbeach
Senses: glosses: A beach located in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
glosses: An area of St. Simons Island beach, in the state of Georgia, United States; the stretch of beach along its oceanside.
Eastbeach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of East Beach.
West Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Westbeach
Senses: glosses: An area in Santa Barbara, California.
glosses: A beach located in Beverly, Massachusetts.
glosses: A seaside suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
Westbeach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of West Beach.
hyperglycemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hyperglycemic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Impaired microcirculatory perfusion appears to be crucial to the pathogenesis of both neuropathy and retinopathy in diabetics. This in turn reflects a hyperglycemically mediated perturbation of vascular endothelial function that entails overactivation of protein kinase C, reduced availability of nitric oxide […]
ref: 1998 May, M. F. McCarty, “Nitric oxide deficiency, leukocyte activation, and resultant ischemia are crucial to the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy/ neuropathy — preventive potential of antioxidants, essential fatty acids, chromium, ginkgolides, and pentoxifylline”, in Medical Hypotheses, volume 50, number 5, →DOI, page 435:
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: hypoglycemically
glosses: By means of hyperglycemia.
caulking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caulk off
caulks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caulk off
caulked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of caulk off
shot back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot back
shoots back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot back
shooting back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoot back
titles paramount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of title paramount
three-thousandth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number three thousand.
Synonyms: 3000th
four-thousandth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number four thousand.
Synonyms: 4000th
Macuxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Macushi.
Macuxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Macushi.
Roman-candles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Roman-candle
Roman-candling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Roman-candle
Roman-candled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Roman-candle
Makusi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Macushi.
Makusi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Macushi.
Macussi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Macushi.
Macussi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Macushi.
Southern Denmark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Danish Region Syddanmark.
Senses: glosses: An administrative region in the south of Denmark.
Roman candling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Roman candle
Roman candled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Roman candle
hiawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyawa.
hayawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyawa.
Churches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of churches.
glosses: plural of Church
Gayrope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gayropa
Etymology: Blend of gay + Europe or a possible calque of Russian Гейропа (Gejropa).
Senses: examples: text: Some of the most common messages made reference to the term Gayrope (a play on the words “gay” and “Europe”), the preservation of the nuclear family, traditional values, gender ideology and the idea that LGBTQ+ people are a social disease.
ref: 2023 March 12, Javier Caballero, “‘Gayrope’: This is how Russia uses disinformation against the LGBTQ+ community to attack democracies”, in EL PAÍS:
glosses: Europe, regarded as excessively liberal or LGBTQ-friendly.
Derived terms: Gayropean
roman-candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roman-candles
form: roman-candling
form: roman-candled
form: roman-candled
Senses: examples: text: Their parachutes collapsed and together they roman-candled into the ground.
ref: 2007, Michael Abrams, Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers:
text: In 1943 when Dad was at school in Shropshire, he saw two US planes collide, one pilot managed to bail out but unfortunately he roman-candled with the school children watching it.
ref: 2011, Tim Ramsden, Backpacking Beyond Boundaries: A South African's Travels:
text: One of the paratrooper's 'chutes had roman-candled – failed to open – and he had plunged into the ground only fifty yards from where we were standing.
ref: 2017, John Goldsmith, Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance:
glosses: Alternative form of Roman-candle.
Sturry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1760).
roman-candles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roman-candle
roman-candling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roman-candle
roman-candled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roman-candle
roman candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roman candles
form: roman candling
form: roman candled
form: roman candled
Senses: examples: text: The parachute was on a slant in the air and threatened at any minute to roman candle.
ref: 2017, Wilhelm Johnen, Battling the Bombers:
text: On the second operation the 1,000 mortar bombs were parachuted into the LZ on 125 chutes; all were on target but two roman candled which sent everyone diving for cover and necessitated the change of some knickers.
ref: 2019, David Taylor, The First Helicopter Boys:
text: Several of these would be seen to 'roman candle' (parachute failing to open) as did happen all too often during the war, on both sides of the conflict.
ref: 2023, Dilip Sarkar, Robert J Rudhall, Battle of Britain The Movie, page 91:
glosses: Alternative form of Roman-candle.
roman candles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roman candle
roman candling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roman candle
roman candled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roman candle
Roman Candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Roman Candles
form: Roman Candling
form: Roman Candled
form: Roman Candled
Senses: examples: text: I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.
ref: 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:
text: Some hit the rocky outcrops
 Some fell into the sea
 Some even 'Roman Candled'
 (A parachutist I would never be)
ref: 2022, Chris Pratt, Four Brothers in the Pacific War:
glosses: Alternative form of Roman-candle.
Roman Candles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Roman Candle
Roman Candling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Roman Candle
Roman Candled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Roman Candle
Gayropean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gayropean
form: most Gayropean
Etymology: Blend of gay + European, equivalent to Gayrope + -an.
Senses: examples: text: You know, in Russia we have the idiom «Gayropa» [«Gay Europe»] and they say that our status as «foreign agent» is because of our «Gayropean» values.
ref: 2017 June 11, Atle Staalesen, “Barents Cooperation. The unofficial”, in The Barents Observer:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Europe, especially regarding the LGBTQ community.
Gayropean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gayropeans
Etymology: Blend of gay + European, equivalent to Gayrope + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Europe, regarded as either LGBTQ or supportive of the LGBTQ community.
Gayropeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gayropean
clattawas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clattawa
clattawa-ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clattawa
clattawa-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clattawa
Gayropa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: You know, in Russia we have the idiom «Gayropa» [«Gay Europe»] and they say that our status as «foreign agent» is because of our «Gayropean» values.
ref: 2017 June 11, Atle Staalesen, “Barents Cooperation. The unofficial”, in The Barents Observer:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Gayrope.
praeconise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: praeconises
form: praeconising
form: praeconised
form: praeconised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preconize.
praeconises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of praeconise
praeconising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of praeconise
praeconised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of praeconise
præcordia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præcordium
Fordwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In mediaeval times the river was much bigger, and the small village of Fordwich, beyond Sturry, (its church seen clearly from the train) was the port to which was shipped the Caen stone used in building Canterbury Cathedral.
ref: 1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 439:
glosses: A small market town and civil parish with a town council in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1859).
Taos Pueblo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Taos + pueblo.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.
Stinky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: stinky
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Стінки (Stinky). Related to Ukrainian сті́нка (stínka, “wall, side”)
Senses: glosses: A village in Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
St Nicholas at Wade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the 13th-century parish church of St Nicholas, a chapel of ease for St Mary's Church, Reculver. "Wade" is from Old English wæd (“ford, shallow water”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by St Nicholas at Wade and Sarre Parish Council) in Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2666).
wikipedia: St Mary's Church, Reculver
Jemez Pueblo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jemez + pueblo.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States.
boysober
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compound of boy + sober. Popularized by comedian Hope Woodard in 2024.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Woodard said that, growing up in the South, she was raised to please others. Now, she said, she sometimes struggles with knowing what she wants. At its core, her "boysober" year is about learning how to say no.
ref: 2024 February 3, Marisa Charpentier, “'Boysober' Is Celibacy With a Rebrand”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2024:
text: Founder and a relationship expert at The Matchmaker UK, Lara Besbrode believes women choosing the "boysober" lifestyle is a decision "rooted in a desire for self-sufficiency and personal empowerment."
ref: 2024 March 9, Sinead Butler, “Relationship experts weigh in on 'difficult' new 'Boysober' dating trend”, in Indy100, archived from the original on 17 May 2024:
text: There's definitely a lot I don't understand about the current zeitgeist, from the rise of the soul tie to the concept of being "boysober," but as I've crept further and further into my third decade of life, I've realized how ridiculous it was to think that all things fun and messy and risible would disappear from my life once I learned what an FSA account was, and paid off (some of) my credit card debt.
ref: 2024 June 13, Emma Specter, “Are You Ready for Saturn Return Girl Summer?”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024:
text: The boysober movement, for instance, is gaining traction among women who are done contorting themselves into palatable versions of femininity just to be tolerated by mediocre men.
ref: 2025 March 9, Daniel Dashawn, “Chaos Celibacy: The Great Romantic Boycott”, in Daniel Dashawn Couples Therapy, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2025:
glosses: Abstaining from dating and relationships with men.
Related terms: volcel
unrelationshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unrelationshiped
Etymology: From un- + relationship + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Can I ever identify here! I am newly unrelationshipped. It isn't pleasant, but I have a network of local and long distance friends to that I know that I am not alone.
ref: 2000 May 19, Lynn Dobbs, “numbers? (help)”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):
text: Dependants would be fine so long as they were well out of the way, and being cared for, but her very strong preference was for the unrelationshipped.
ref: 2010, Charlie Charters, Bolt Action, Leicester, Leicestershire: Charnwood, published 2012, →ISBN, page 62:
text: It feels like the romantic equivalent of a compulsive overachiever explaining a brief gap on their CV — "Oh, those six months? I wasn't unrelationshiped, I was boysober!"
ref: 2024 February 8, Holly Thomas, “Opinion: Why I'm so curious about being 'boysober'”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2024:
glosses: Not in a romantic relationship; single.
Related terms: maidenless
unrelationshiped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It feels like the romantic equivalent of a compulsive overachiever explaining a brief gap on their CV — "Oh, those six months? I wasn't unrelationshiped, I was boysober!"
ref: 2024 February 8, Holly Thomas, “Opinion: Why I'm so curious about being 'boysober'”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2024:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unrelationshipped.
crash outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crash out
crashout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crashouts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crash out.
crashouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crashout
kaskara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaskaras
Senses: glosses: A type of sword traditionally used in Sudan, Eritrea, and Chad.
kaskaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaskara
cheese toastie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese toasties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grilled cheese.
synonyms: word: grilled cheese
cheese toasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese toastie
toastmaster's glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toastmaster's glass
integratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From integrate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of integrable.
synonyms: word: integrable
geoconfirmation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːowkɒnfəˌmeːʃən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiowkɑnfɚˌmejʃən/
Forms: form: geo-confirmation
form: geoconfirming
Etymology: From geo- + confirmation.
Senses: examples: text: People keep asking us to Geoconfirm the launch site.
We have a possible launch location, but only from one direction.
The distance, timing and smoke trail matches the strike on #Kramatorsk.
We are looking for a second GeoConfirmation to triangulate the launch.
ref: 2022 August 4, GeoConfirmed, Twitter, also cited by T-INTELL:
text: Warspotting is just a .net and is best used to associate where the conflicts focus zones are shifting by providing geoconfirmation of losses.
ref: 2023 September 20, im-yeeting, “Zelensky: "Humanity Is Failing On Its Climate Policy Objectives"”, in r/Conservative:
text: You mean literally video footage and geoconfirmation that you could literally verify yourself isn’t a good source? You’re too emotional, you’re not thinking rationally. This is far more evidence than Hamas has provided to justify their claim.
ref: 2023 October 18, NKinCode, “If Israël had any kind of proof it would be all over the Western world rn.”, in r/Conspiracy:
text: Gorkovskiy was captured recently with geoconfirmation.
https://t.me/legionoffreedom/1161
The main city of Belgorod has been getting spammed by drones all day
ref: 2024 March 17, SVuXwc/Q, /pol/, No. 462041737:
text: geoconfirmation specialists have weighed in on the Mass Graves, and shown very conclusive evidence that it was in fact Palestinians who dug the mass graves
ref: 2024 April 29, Greyhulksays, “We're not going anywhere,' say pro-Palestinian protesters at McGill encampment”, in r/Canada:
synonyms: geoverification
geolocation
qualifier: military economy
glosses: The attempt to verify visual impressions of loss or acquisition of equipment and troop movements via topographic information.
Related terms: geoconfirmed
geoconfirm
geopositioning
geotracking
Ynys Mon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ynys Môn.
boatswen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatswens
Etymology: From boat + swen.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of boatswain.
ten-thousandaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-thousandaires
form: tenthousandaire
Etymology: From ten thousand + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: I have only one good quality—overwhelming belief in the brains and hearts of our nation, our state, our town. It’s so strong that sometimes I do have a tiny effect on the haughty ten-thousandaires. I shake ’em up and make ’em believe in ideals—yes, in themselves.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter V, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section V, pages 65–66:
text: The “swollen fortune” is a fact in our economic development. There may be but one billionaire but there are any number of millionares, thousands of hundred-thousandaires and hundreds of thousands ten-thousandaires. From the point of view of the man who has nothing, an American farmer with ten thousand has a “swollen fortune,” and it is swollen far beyond the farmer’s pro rata share of the country’s wealth. The “swollen fortune” is not a thing of absolute magnitude, but entirely a matter of comparative size.
ref: 1921 July, Arthur Jerome Eddy, “Introduction”, in Property, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, page 12:
text: Seriously speaking, it is a very real question whether social discontent can be allayed by heavy taxes on large fortunes and incomes. Millionaires are a fact, and far from a wholly pleasing one; but how about the hundred-thousandaires and the hundreds of thousands of ten-thousandaires? To the migratory laborer with fifty dollars, or the wobbly with no dollars, there is just as much injustice in a skilled workman having two thousand dollars invested in a house or a savings bank as there is in a manufacturer having one million.
ref: 1924 April 12, Albert W[illiam] Atwood, “What Is Taxation For?”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 196, number 41, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, section “Useful Rich Men”, page 170, column 3:
text: After this interjection, however, the stage is turned back over to the young woman, and she ends her story a few lines later on a utopian note: “We’ve been ten-thousandaires for three years running now, so going to Shenzhen is nothing; it wouldn’t even be a big deal for us to go to America . . . Passport or no passport, we’re poor and lower middle peasants; we’ve got thousands and thousands of dollars and we can go any old place we please” (89/137).
ref: 1993, Theodore Huters, “Lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature”, in Ellen Widmer, W:David Der-wei Wang, editors, From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China (Harvard Contemporary China Series; 9), Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, section III (Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision), pages 293–294:
glosses: A person whose net worth is at or greater than ten thousand units of the local currency.
Related terms: hundred-thousandaire
thousandaire
ten-thousandaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ten-thousandaire
tenthousandaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenthousandaire
Juneuary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Junuary.
hundred-thousandaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundred-thousandaire
hundred thousands
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: plural of hundred thousand
mad as cut snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mad as a cut snake.
ten-thousandfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: tenthousandfold
Etymology: From ten thousand + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: They found that the viscosity increases gradually from the melting point of sulfur, 115 to 119° C (933), up to about 159° C, at which point the viscosity sharply increases ten-thousandfold (55, 1098).
ref: 1962, William A[ustin] Pryor, “[Elemental Sulfur] Reactions of Sulfur in Liquid Sulfur”, in Mechanisms of Sulfur Reactions, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 7:
text: An electron, for instance, weighs 10⁻²⁷ grams. Even if its mass increases ten-thousandfold, it will still weigh only 10⁻²³ grams; […]
ref: 1987, J[ulius] T[homas] Fraser, “[Ask the stone to say: Time in the World of Matter] The Atemporal Kingdom of Light: Special Relativity Theory, the Physics of the Fastest Signals”, in Time, the Familiar Stranger, Amherst, Mass.: The University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 233:
text: Nova eruptions can see the star system’s overall light output multiply ten-thousandfold, and may be one-off events triggered during a very brief phase of the system’s evolution, or a longer-lived recurrent phenomenon, with eruptions every few decades or more.
ref: 2015, Giles Sparrow, “[Star death] Nova systems”, in Astronomy in Minutes: The Night Sky Explained in an Instant, New York, N.Y.: Quercus, →ISBN, page 336:
synonyms: myriadfold
glosses: By a factor of ten thousand.
tunacado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of tuna + avocado
Senses: examples: text: a tunacado sandwich
text: a tunacado salad
glosses: A mixture of tuna and avocado
ten thousands
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: plural of ten thousand
spammish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spammish
form: most spammish
Etymology: From spam + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: You can send your message in plain text or HTML, or you can send an SMS message to someone’s cell phone. (But don’t even think about sending abusive or spammish mail, or Sharpmail will pull your free account.)
ref: 2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, pages 76–77:
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling spam; spammy.
tied up in knots
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tied up in knots
form: most tied up in knots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tied in knots.
tied in knots
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tied in knots
form: most tied in knots
form: tied up in knots
Senses: examples: text: Are you tied up in knots trying to unravel dozens of mobile phone plans? WireFly […] can untangle the mess. Just type in your zip code to search by carrier, phone, or plan.
ref: 2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, page 79:
text: [Nikola] Jokić is his own story and because he is so big and so good and so versatile, the Heat are tied in knots trying to figure out how to slow him down.
ref: 2023 June 8, Joe Vardon, “NBA Finals Game 3: A coronation for Nikola Jokić and comeback for Jamal Murray”, in The Athletic:
synonyms: word: buggered
word: cactused
word: dicked
word: fucked
word: hooped
word: in a bind
word: in a fix
word: in a mess
word: in a pickle
word: in a pinch
word: in a world of pain
word: in a world of trouble
word: in deep shit
word: in Dickie's meadow
word: in for it
word: in the lurch
word: in the shit
word: in the soup
word: in trouble
word: knee-deep in the Big Muddy
word: rooted
word: screwed
word: shagged
word: souped
word: stuffed
word: tied in knots
word: up a gum tree
word: up a stump
word: up against it
word: up shit creek
word: up the creek
word: up the creek without a paddle
word: up the proverbial
word: up the stump
word: waist deep in the Big Muddy
glosses: In a state of confusion; in a difficult situation, in a bind.
examples: text: There is no misery like the misery of being trapped in your own brain. The more I think about my problems, the more tied up in knots I become. I do not want to be alone, or pretend that I am not lonely. I don't want to pretend at all.
ref: 2004 August 28, Hope Donahue, “Nip and tuck and nip again”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: angstful
word: apprehensive
word: anxious
word: careful
word: concerned
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: edgy
word: fraught
word: freaked out
word: hagridden
word: high-strung
word: jittery
word: jumpy
word: leery
word: nervous
word: nervy
word: on edge
word: perturbable
word: restless
word: skittish
word: spookish
word: squeamish
word: tied in knots
word: twitchy
word: uneasy
word: unquiet
word: verklempt
word: worried
word: worrisome
word: worryful
glosses: Worried, anxious, upset.
Related terms: tie in knots
tie oneself in knots
tied in knots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tied up in knots
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tie in knots
tie oneself up in knots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties oneself up in knots
form: tying oneself up in knots
form: tied oneself up in knots
form: tied oneself up in knots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tie oneself in knots.
tie in knots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties in knots
form: tying in knots
form: tied in knots
form: tied in knots
form: tie up in knots
Senses: examples: text: That is where [Andrew] Cuomo’s unravelling began, with the revelation – admitted in part by his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, to state lawmakers – that the administration suppressed the number of nursing home deaths by several thousand in order to avoid a federal inquiry. DeRosa claimed the move was made to avoid Donald Trump tying them up in knots, but it sounded suspiciously like a cover-up.
ref: 2021 March 14, Ed Pilkington, “A year of living dangerously: how Andrew Cuomo fell from grace”, in The Observer:
glosses: To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
glosses: To make (someone) upset or anxious.
Related terms: in knots
tied in knots
tie oneself in knots
in knots
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Compare knot (“difficult situation”).
Senses: examples: text: Centrists are in knots over whether to field one or several candidates to be the faces of their 2024 campaign.
ref: 2023 July 5, Eddy Wax, “Liberals divided over 2024 EU election campaign strategy”, in Politico:
text: The conservative stance made it difficult to advance the legislation, and the appropriations process ended up in knots despite a Republican pledge to consider and pass 12 individual spending bills.
ref: 2023 December 15, Carl Hulse, “A ‘Historical and Hysterical’ House Flees After a Tumultuous Year”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a state of disagreement or confusion; at a standstill; in a deadlock.
Related terms: tied in knots
tie in knots
tie oneself in knots
shelgeese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelgoose
Nastalique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nastaliq.
Nastaʿlīq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nastaliq.
Nasta'liq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nastaliq.
caesium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesium hydroxides
form: cesium hydroxide
Senses: glosses: A yellow, highly reactive base.
caesium hydroxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caesium hydroxide
cesium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesium hydroxides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caesium hydroxide.
cesium hydroxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cesium hydroxide
Kazakhizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Kazakhize
Kazakhizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Kazakhize
Kazakhized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Kazakhize
Kazakhifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Kazakhify
Kazakhifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Kazakhify
Kazakhified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Kazakhify
koshkar-muiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kazakh қошқар (qoşqar, “ram”) + мүйіз (müiız, “horn”).
Senses: glosses: A Kazakhstani national pattern featured on the flag of Kazakhstan.
big beast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big beasts
Senses: examples: text: But business has become less keen both on Europe and on him, while the erstwhile Tory big beasts, such as Ken Clarke, Michael Heseltine, Douglas Hurd and Chris Patten, have been strident critics of his Iraq policy.
ref: 2004, The Economist:
text: Despite the reluctance of New Labour big beasts such as Charles Clarke, Stephen Byers, or Alan Milburn, and the hesitations of David Miliband and Alan Johnson, Gordon Brown was elected unopposed.
ref: 2010 February 12, Florence Faucher-King, Patrick Le Galés, The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 153:
text: If his purpose was to re-ignite Tory passions, he was successful, ending up with the Tory 'big beasts' fighting among themselves.
ref: 2021 August 19, Christopher Booker, Richard North, The Great Deception: The True Story of Britain and the European Union, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 336:
text: Michael Portillo’s election defeat in 1997, unseated on a swing of 17.4 percentage points shortly after 3am on 2 May that year, has become synonymous with the shock moment that a major political big beast loses their seat.
ref: 2024 July 5, Alexandra Topping, “The 2024 election’s ‘Portillo moments’: which ‘Big Beasts’ have lost their seats?”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A prominent and influential politician, especially one seen as a leader or major player within a party or faction.
big beasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big beast
humjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humjobs
Senses: glosses: A style of fellatio in which the fellator hums, causing a vibrating sensation in the fellatee's penis.
humjob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: humjobs
form: humjobbing
form: humjobbed
form: humjobbed
Senses: examples: text: Can you take him home and enjoy an erotic evening without worry? The answers are more surprising than you would think: you could go home and "hum job" each other silly, slow dance till dawn or simply cuddle.
ref: 1986 December 14, E. G. Martin, “Hot & Healthy: A Second Coming Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 7:
glosses: To perform this act on (someone)
deal to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deals to
form: dealing to
form: dealt to
form: dealt to
Senses: glosses: To beat up (someone); to destroy, attack or defeat (someone).
deal it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deals it out
form: dealing it out
form: dealt it out
form: dealt it out
Senses: glosses: To attack (someone); to have it out.
whistle past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whistles past
form: whistling past
form: whistled past
form: whistled past
Etymology: From whistle past the graveyard.
Senses: examples: text: The party can't keep whistling past these bad polling numbers.
glosses: To ignore or deny obvious facts; to continue despite problems.
turdnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turdnut
clean off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cleans off
form: cleaning off
form: cleaned off
form: cleaned off
Senses: examples: text: Clean the stains off the bureau.
text: Clean the table off please.
glosses: To remove (something) by cleaning; to thoroughly clean (something) or make (something) bare.
naked man orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked man orchids
Senses: glosses: A purple-and-white-flowered orchid, Orchis italica, native to the Mediterranean.
caesium iodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesium iodide
Senses: glosses: A salt commonly used in fluoroscopy equipment.
cesium iodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caesium iodide.
domecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domecaps
Senses: glosses: Any of various mushrooms of the family Lyophyllaceae.
fried chicken mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fried chicken mushrooms
Senses: glosses: Lyophyllum decastes, a widespread edible mushroom.
sestercentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sestercentennials
Etymology: From Latin sēmis + tercentennial, literally “two hundred fiftieth anniversary”.
Senses: examples: text: The United States will mark the sestercentennial of its founding in 2026.
text: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor the sestercentennial celebration of the town of New Windsor, New York, which was established on April 5, 1763.
ref: 2013 April 12, Sean Patrick Maloney, “Honoring the Town of New Windsor, New York's Sestercentennial Celebration”, in Congressional Record:
text: This two-volume book set was produced to commemorate the Sestercentennial of Bedford County in 2021.
ref: 2020, Larry D. Smith, Bedford County, Pennsylvania: Two and One-half Centuries in the Making, Bedford County Historical Society, page 1089:
text: An Evening with Enter the Haggis will help kickoff Union's Sestercentennial celebration weekend on Friday, July 19, at 7 p.m. on Union's historic Common.
ref: 2024 July 2, “Enter the Haggis to Play Union's Sestercentennial”, in Bangor Daily News:
synonyms: semiquincentennial
glosses: A 250th anniversary.
Related terms: sestercentenary
sestercentennials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sestercentennial
mokorotlos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mokorotlo
anoxhaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anoxhaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anoxaemia.
anoxhaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anoxhaemia
anoxyhæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of anoxaemia.
anoxhemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anoxaemia.
pledge of allegiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledges of allegiance
Senses: topics: government
glosses: An oral affirmation of one's dedication to a ruler or country.
Pledge of Allegiance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pledge of Allegiance
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America.
pledges of allegiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledge of allegiance
asswhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asswholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of asshole.
brush over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brushes over
form: brushing over
form: brushed over
form: brushed over
Senses: glosses: To barely cover a topic; to skim through or lightly touch on (something).
asswholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asswhole
beefstew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beefstews
Senses: examples: text: As other cattlemen followed him and settled there, Mason Valley became the main source of supply for the beefsteaks and beefstews for the Virginia City miners.
ref: 1946, Nevada Highways and Parks, page 5:
text: Beefstews and lamb stews and more dried fruits were good too, they admitted, and they also agreed to admit a few new cells from time to time to each body group via the cabbage slaw and lettuce route.
ref: 1956, C. Wesley Kaufman, Solution to Juvenile Delinquency, page 106:
text: The main dishes, for example, always offer some beefstews and steak—poultry, fish, variety cuts , and then something different: rabbit, goose, or lamb.
ref: 1979, The Virginia Quarterly Review - Volume 55, page 192:
glosses: Alternative form of beef stew.
beefstews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beefstew
sestercentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sestercentenaries
Etymology: From Latin sēmis + tercentenary.
Senses: examples: text: The city of New York celebrated its sestercentenary in 1903.
text: It’s a splendid description of our Chapel building, which this year marked its sestercentenary.
ref: 2019, Rev'd Dr. Mark Smith, Chapel Report, Clare College, Cambridge:
glosses: A two hundred fiftieth anniversary.
sestercentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sēmis + tercentenary.
Senses: examples: text: 1982 saw the sestercentenary commemoration of George Washington's birth.
text: To Cook the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was markedly more recent than the arrival of the Endeavour is to us in this sestercentenary year.
ref: 2020, Angus Trumble, On Endeavour in Australian Waters, National Museum of Australia:
glosses: Of or relating to such an anniversary, or to a span of two hundred fifty years.
Related terms: sestercentennial
pace stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pace sticks
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A stick or implement used to measure paces.
pace sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pace stick
sestercentenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sestercentenary
center stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center sticks
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: An aircraft cockpit arrangement where the control column is located in the center of the cockpit either between the pilot's legs or between the pilots' positions.
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: The baton in a devil sticks set.
center sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of center stick
stick puller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick pullers
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: A device that applies aft pressure on the control column when the airplane is approaching the maximum operating speed.
stick nudger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick nudgers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stick puller.
synonyms: word: stick puller
stick deodorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick deodorants
Senses: topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
qualifier: hygiene
glosses: A type of deodorant that comes in the form of a solid stick.
stick deodorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick deodorant
clean down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cleans down
form: cleaning down
form: cleaned down
form: cleaned down
Senses: glosses: To clean (something) thoroughly.
examples: text: You should clean down at the end of each quarter.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To pay off revolving debt.
Bentworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6640).
stick pullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick puller
stick nudgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick nudger
speaker's staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speaker's staffs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of talking stick (“a ceremonial stick that grants the holder the right to speak”).
synonyms: word: talking stick
extra: a ceremonial stick that grants the holder the right to speak
stick letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick letters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of talking stick (“a piece of wood as part of or a form of communication”).
synonyms: word: talking stick
extra: a piece of wood as part of or a form of communication
speaker's staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speaker's staff
stick letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick letter
heathenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heathenous
form: most heathenous
Etymology: Alteration of earlier heathenish, analysable as heathen + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a heathen.
basshole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bassholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of asshole.
bassholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basshole
Conewago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lenape, meaning "at the rapids".
Senses: glosses: A creek in Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: Several townships in Pennsylvania
A township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: Several townships in Pennsylvania
A township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: Several townships in Pennsylvania
A township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
success is a great deodorant
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Frequently attributed to Elizabeth Taylor. First use appears c. 1977 in The Good Housekeeping Woman's Almanac.
Senses: synonyms: winning is a great deodorant
glosses: The attainment or achievement of success eliminates or overshadows one's past misdeeds or failures.
winning is a great deodorant
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of success is a great deodorant.
synonyms: word: success is a great deodorant
EMBL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Molecular Biology Laboratory (an international research institute).
hypoglycemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypoglycemic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The mechanism of hypoglycemia that predisposes to all-cause mortality/CVD incidence remains unclear. This mechanism may be explained by sympathetic-adrenal activations (15), prolonged cardiac repolarization and increased cardiac arrhythmia risk (15), hypoglycemically induced coagulation abnormalities (29), inflammatory reactions (30), and endothelial dysfunctions (29).
ref: 2016 September, Chin-Li Lu, Hsiu-Nien Shen, Susan C. Hu, Jung-Der Wang, Chung-Yi Li, “A Population-Based Study of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease in Association With Prior History of Hypoglycemia Among Patients With Type 1 Diabetes”, in Diabetes Care, volume 39, number 9, →DOI, page 1577:
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: hyperglycemically
glosses: By means of hypoglycemia.
antipledging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + pledging.
Senses: topics: business
law
glosses: The practice of prohibiting directors and executives from using company shares as collateral for personal loans.
Related terms: antipledge
heathener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heatheners
Etymology: From heathen + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lives in heathenry or heathendom; a heathen.
heathener
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heathen + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of heathen: more heathen
antipledge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipledge
form: most antipledge
Etymology: From anti- + pledge.
Senses: examples: text: It was an issue of great personal importance to young men who thought they might be drafted, and possibly killed, in a war they regarded as immoral. Janis and Rausch (1970) tested for selective exposure to propledge and antipledge communications among four different kinds of Yale students: those who immediately refused to sign the , those who refused after some deliberation, those who favored the pledge and said they might sign, and those who had already signed it.
ref: 1978, Jonathan L. Freedman, David O. Sears, J. Merrill Carlsmith, Social Psychology, page 363:
text: Supporters of the pledge took a two-to-one lead over their opponents, although the contest was closer in Flint and Detroit, where antipledge votes reached almost 45 percent of all those cast.
ref: 2003, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War At Home: The CIO In World War II, page 196:
text: In the antebellum years, both temperance opponents, in their antipledge writings, and reformers themselves, in their drunkard narratives , expressed deep concern about the nature of influence and worried that it could potentially interrupt its object's volition and become coercion.
ref: 2009, Elaine Frantz Parsons, Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States, page 57:
text: This bloc of "real brothers" engages in a struggle with antipledge movements for the hearts, minds, and bodies of entering members.
ref: 2015, Ricky L. Jones, Black Haze, page 103:
antonyms: propledge
glosses: Opposed to a particular pledge.
antipledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipledges
Etymology: From anti- + pledge.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1970s, white antibusing activists in Boston recited an antipledge: “We will not pledge allegiance to the order of the United States District Court, nor the dictatorship for which it stands; one order, under Garrity, with liberty and justice for none.”
ref: 2011, Jill Lepore, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History:
glosses: A pledge taken in explicit opposition to a more commonly taken pledge.
EMBO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Molecular Biology Organization.