cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4708).
Raewyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly a compound of the names Rae and Wynn.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
gravity gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity guns
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: physics gun
glosses: A device in video games, particularly first-person shooters, with which players can directly manipulate objects in the virtual world, often allowing them to be used as projectiles.
soft ordnance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some of the planes were loaded with "soft" ordnance—cluster bombs or napalm—others with "hard" ordnance such as high explosives. The planes were scrambled according to what the troops on the ground called for. If enemy soldiers were in the open, soft ordnance was on the menu; […]
ref: 2000 December 31, Dale Andradé, America's Last Vietnam Battle: Halting Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 364:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Napalm or cluster bombs (for use against soft targets), as opposed to high explosives (for hardened targets).
gravity guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravity gun
SOWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SOW
apron skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apron skirts
form: apronskirt
Senses: examples: text: He adjusted salads with his thumb and wiped away drips of gravy with his apronskirt.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 4, in Suttree, New York: Vintage, published 1992, page 70:
text: 2002, Ellen Bryant Voigt, “The Art of Distance” in Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976―2006, New York and London: Norton, 2007, p. 186,
When she said grace,
my grandmother said it standing,
bandaging her hand in her apron skirt
to lift the cast-iron skillet out of its round hole
glosses: The lower, skirt-like part of an apron of the type that covers the front of both the torso and the thighs.
glosses: A skirt with an apron-like panel incorporated into the front.
examples: 1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White, The University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, description of Plate 33, p. 178,
The woman, described […] as a chief’s wife or chief lady of Pomeiooc, wears an apron-skirt of fringed skin, edged at the top and bottom with a single row of white beads.
glosses: An item of clothing worn by women in some North American indigenous communities, consisting of an apron-like flap hanging over the front of the thighs, sometimes with an additional flap hanging in the back.
examples: text: The apron skirt is an extremely cold, comfortless garment for winter wear, because it is merely a left-side covering for the limbs, while the right side being entirely unclothed, the lines and rotundity of the figure are, when the wearer rises in trotting, displayed to the wondering gaze of those who ride behind her.
ref: 1903, Alice M. Hayes, Matthew Horace Hayes, The Horsewoman: A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding,, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 96:
glosses: A long skirt with a slit up the back as far as the buttocks, designed for women to wear over their breeches while riding a horse.
apron skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apron skirt
sack drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: sleep
songs and dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of song and dance
sandbaggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandbagging
sawdust joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawdust joints
Senses: coordinate_terms: carpet joint
rug joint
glosses: A plain casino without ostentatious decoration.
sawdust joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawdust joint
scatter site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatter sites
Senses: examples: text: It is designed for single-family use in subdivisions or scatter sites and available as a standardized product […]
ref: 1976, Cost effective housing systems for disaster relief, volume 4, page 131:
text: Living conditions in scatter sites depend largely on landlords' compliance and a little bit of luck.
ref: 2002, City Limits, volume 27, number 8, page 24:
text: Between 1998 and 2005, the number of homeless families sleeping in New York City shelters, purchased hotel rooms ("welfare hotels"), and scatter site housing increased by 95 percent, […]
ref: 2007, Jill Gerson, Hope Springs Maternal, page 10:
glosses: An area of state-sponsored housing used as a shelter for homeless people; such housing is scattered across different parts of a city rather than concentrated in one place.
scatter sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatter site
countercross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercrosses
Etymology: From counter- + cross.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: scissor cross
glosses: The crossing of the stage by two actors going in opposite directions.
countercross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countercrosses
form: countercrossing
form: countercrossed
form: countercrossed
Etymology: From counter- + cross.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To cross the stage in opposite directions.
countercrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercross
scissor cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissor crosses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Synonym of countercross.
synonyms: word: countercross
scissor crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scissor cross
screwdriver operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwdriver operations
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mechanical task requiring relatively little skill.
screwdriver operations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwdriver operation
googoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googoos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gugu (“a Filipino”).
gugus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gugu
googoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of googoo
second-order threat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-order threats
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A factor that may eventually lead to a direct military threat.
eubouliatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐβουλία (euboulía) + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: On the basis of the last square of opposition, Anderson [1968] suggests christening the topic (provided that it is worth pursuing) eubouliatic logic, the logic of prudence and related concepts, just as deontic logic is the logic of obligation and related concepts.
ref: 1987, Introduction to Deontic Logic and the Theory of Normative Systems:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the modality of safety or prudence.
self-liquidator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-liquidators
Etymology: From self- + liquidator.
Senses: examples: text: Self-liquidators were popular in the days of resale price maintenance, before the widespread development of retail discounting and mail order.
ref: 2008, Roddy Mullin, Julian Cummins, Sales Promotion, page 237:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A special offer that covers the promoter's costs despite being presented as a discount.
self-liquidators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-liquidator
sell against the box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells against the box
form: selling against the box
form: sold against the box
form: sold against the box
Senses: examples: text: Mr. ROCKEFELLER. The large holdings I think I sold back in 1925 or 1926.
Mr. Gray. Did you sell against the box then?
ref: 1932, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Stock Exchange Practices: Hearings Before the Committee, page 332:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To sell stock that one owns, but deliver stock acquired elsewhere, so that one is effectively selling short and protecting oneself from a fall in the stock.
sells out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sell out
782 gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called for the form for issue of individual equipment, NAVMC Form 782.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Military gear for use in the field, including a rifle, bedding, first aid kit, etc.
vertrep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertreps
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of vertical replenishment.
vertrep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vertreps
form: vertrepping
form: vertrepped
form: vertrepped
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To supply by vertical replenishment.
vertreps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertrep
vertreps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vertrep
vertical replenishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical replenishments
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: vertrep
glosses: The transfer of supplies to a seaborne vessel by helicopter.
vertical replenishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical replenishment
politico-military
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Both political and military.
earbanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earbangers
Etymology: From ear + banger.
Senses: examples: text: He also knows that he has a tendency towards being overweight and watches his diet carefully, and he can tell you everything there is to know about every man in his platoon. Yet, more than once, I've read him off for being partial to a couple of obvious earbangers, and the simplest problem can make him indecisive.
ref: 1981, The Marine Corps Gazette:
text: In fact, the platoon sergeant was very smart, but he was loath to show it off, especially in front of superiors, who were prone to label even junior staff noncoms who talked to them too much as “earbangers,” a blunt, unflattering nautical term for ass kisser.
ref: 2020, Eric Hammel, Til The Last Bugle Call, page 28:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: asskisser
bootlicker
glosses: An obsequious member of the military who attempts to curry favor with superiors.
earbangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earbanger
price pointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of price point
price pointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of price point
pox doctor's clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who is showily dressed.
prick farrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prick farriers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An army doctor.
prick farriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prick farrier
Korzen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Korzens
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Korzeń.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
purple airways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple airway
purple zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple zone
jūryō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jūryō
Senses: examples: text: After lunch, as we walked back, I asked Ōzora if he would make it to jūryō.
ref: 1992, Eye-Ai, Tokyo: Riverfield, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2:
text: Although the jūryō are basically entitled to the same privileges as other sekitori, the real glamour and fame tend to come in the top makuuchi division.
ref: 1999, Look Japan, volume 45, Tokyo: Look Japan, Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1:
text: I glanced through the rest of the table and found Aikio in jūryō, the second-highest division, and Givun in makushita, the third-highest division.
ref: 2023, Kawausoutan, translated by Adam, “Sumo at the Great Elven Forest”, in Grand Sumo Villainess Z, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of juryo.
pushbrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushbroom
diddikoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diddikois
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of didicoy.
diddikois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diddikoi
rhinoplastician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinoplasticians
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: One who carries out a rhinoplasty.
rhinoplasticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinoplastician
ECRWSS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: coordinate_terms: ECRLOT
ECRWSH
qualifier: postal
glosses: Abbreviation of Enhanced (Extended) Carrier Route Walking Sequence Saturation.
ECRLOT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: coordinate_terms: ECRWSS
ECRWSH
qualifier: postal
glosses: Abbreviation of Enhanced Carrier Route Line of Travel.
ECRWSH
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: coordinate_terms: ECRWSS
ECRLOT
qualifier: postal
glosses: Abbreviation of Enhanced Carrier Route Walk Sequence High-Density.
jumboization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumboisation
Etymology: From jumbo + -ization.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The shipbuilding technique of enlarging a ship by inserting middle sections to it, extending its length.
Related terms: jumboise
jumboize
jumboisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jumbo + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jumboization.
Related terms: jumboise
Jupiterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jupiterian
form: most Jupiterian
Etymology: From Jupiter + -ian.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Jovian
glosses: Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.
examples: text: He soon discovered that the role itself was anything but normal in a nation that wants presidents to be at once Jupiterian and close to the people.
ref: 2023 June 10, Roula Khalaf, “Lunch with the FT: François Holland”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Jovian; elevated, rarefied.
Jupiterian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jupiterians
Etymology: From Jupiter + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: Jovian
glosses: An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.
Kinfauns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and castle east of Perth, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO1422).
Cynwyl Elfed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN3727).
Sham Chun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 深圳 (sam1 zan3).
Senses: examples: text: It is part of Skinner’s argument that men with wider political and economic horizons will operate within areas defined in relation to higher-order market centres; and it may follow from this that the great lineage groupings maintained in the case of the few dominant ‘surnames’ in the southern part of Hsin-an county (such that local lineages very widely separated were grouped together) were dependent on the fact that the influential leaders of these local lineages had an active interest in the superior market town of Sham Chun, which now lies just to the north of the frontier between China and the Colony of Hong Kong.
ref: 1966, Maurice Freedman, Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung, London: Athlone Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25:
text: It is certain that trade and market relations between the New Territories' villages and Kowloon increased when the Kowloon-Canton Railroad was built through the New Territories. The railroad was started in 1906, and by 1915 it was completed as far as Sham Chun, a market town within China, across the Sham Chun River.
ref: 1968, Jack M. Potter, Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, page 35:
text: Nevertheless two independent reports from China stated that between ten and twenty thousand Japanese troops were expected to arrive at Sham Chun, five miles north of Fanling, on 4 December for an attack on the Colony. General Maltby did not believe these reports, preferring his own intelligence sources.
ref: 1980, Oliver Lindsay, The Lasting Honour: The Fall of Hong Kong, 1941, London: Sphere Books Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
text: The man was a tough character who had fled Mao's China by swimming across the Sham Chun river to Hong Kong. From there he had gone to the United States where he had set up a chain of restaurants and made his fortune, then returned home.
ref: 2006, Christina Lamb, House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-torn Zimbabwe, HarperPress, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Synonym of Shenzhen.
synonyms: word: Shenzhen
Cosmeston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1869).
Gallacher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gallachers
Etymology: Scottish variant of Gallagher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Gencarellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gencarelli
Gallachers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallacher
Hammoud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hammouds
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حمود. This surname is mostly found in Saudi Arabia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Hammouds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hammoud
Hanawalt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hanawalts
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Hanewald.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: hanawaltite
Hillesheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hillesheims
Etymology: Habitational surname borrowed from German Hillesheim.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hillesheims
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hillesheim
Hanawalts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanawalt
Camey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cameys
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Camey. This surname is mostly found in Guatemala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Caloca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calocas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Caloca.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Calocas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Caloca
Cameys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Camey
Cartner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cartners
form: Cortner
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dufort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duforts
form: Duford
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dufort. This surname is mostly found in Canada.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Duforts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dufort
Cartners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartner
Errickson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erricksons
form: Erekson
form: Ericson
form: Erickson
form: Ericsson
form: Erikson
Etymology: Variant of Erickson.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
asclepiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asclepiads
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Alternative form of Asclepiad.
Cwik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cwiks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ćwik.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Cwiks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cwik
Erricksons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Errickson
Drongowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Drongowski
Korzens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Korzen
McWaters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McWaterses
form: McWatters
Etymology: Anglicized form, with English genitive -s, of Scottish Gaelic Mac Bhàtair, a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the personal name Walter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Amblecote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village near Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8985).
Petrarcas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Petrarca
McWaterses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McWaters
cav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavs
Senses: related: word: cav.
glosses: Clipping of cavalry
Derived terms: air cav
McCaws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCaw
meet one's match
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meets one's match
form: meeting one's match
form: met one's match
form: met one's match
Senses: examples: text: After a long streak of victories, the tennis player may have met his match on Monday.
glosses: To be opposed by someone of comparable strength and ability to oneself; to be defeated by such an opponent.
Pachuca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Pachyohcan.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Mexico.
glosses: Clipping of Pachuca de Soto; A city in Hidalgo, Mexico.
case in chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cases in chief
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of case-in-chief.
Huejutla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and town in Hidalgo, Mexico.
take under advisement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes under advisement
form: taking under advisement
form: took under advisement
form: taken under advisement
Senses: glosses: To consider carefully.
superseding cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An unforeseeable event that occurs after a tortfeasor's initial act of negligence and causes injury to a victim, generally absolving the tortfeasor of liability for injury.
Related terms: supervening cause
intervening cause
intervening cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A foreseeable event that occurs after a tortfeasor's initial act of negligence and causes injury to a victim, generally not absolving the tortfeasor of liability for injury.
Related terms: superseding cause
supervening cause
supervening cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of superseding cause.
synonyms: word: superseding cause
Related terms: superseding cause
intervening cause
kms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 5 kms
translation: 5 kilometres
english: 5 kilometres
bold_translation_offsets: 2
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text: The new numbers, showing almost 10,000 sq kms were lost in the year to August, were released as emboldened farm owners scuffled with forest defenders in Altamira, the Amazonian city at the heart of the recent devastation.
ref: 2019 November 18, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Plural of km (“kilometre”)
kms
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of KMS (“[I want to / am going to] kill myself”).
kms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of KMS (“kill myself”).
hundis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundi
hundies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundi
glosses: plural of hundy
friendshiply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From friendship + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The friendshiply impulse sails all Seven Seas
 But must be truly equal between you and me
ref: 2012, The Adventures of Malcolmist the Alchemist:
glosses: Having the characteristics or qualities of friendship.
friendshiply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more friendshiply
form: most friendshiply
Etymology: From friendship + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1838: Supreme Court transcript
Q. How long have you known her
A. Fourteen years.
Q. Did you visit frequently?
A. Yes, through business, and after her brother died, friendshiply.
text: ... a design to promote the study, and to facilitate comprehension of the Organon, now fraternally and friendshiply offers this "helping hand."
ref: 1911, Medical Century:
glosses: In the manner of friendship or of having friendship.
J-schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J-school
pseudoclubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + clubbing.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition resembling clubbing of the nails that is not true clubbing.
Robinson arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First set out by R. M. Robinson in 1950.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
related: word: mul:Q
glosses: A finitely axiomatized fragment of first-order Peano arithmetic, lacking the axiom schema of mathematical induction.
pallisadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pallisado (“palisaded”)
pallisado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pallisados
form: pallisadoes
Senses: examples: text: In the left there was a ſort of Engine, from the Back of which were extended twenty long Poles, reſembling the Paliſado's before your Majeſty's Court; wherewith we conjecture the Man-Mountain combs his Head, for we did not always trouble him with Queſtions, becauſe we found it a great Difficulty to make him underſtand us.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Come to See the Author in His Confinement. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 39:
glosses: Obsolete form of palisade.
pallisado
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pallisados
form: pallisadoes
form: pallisadoing
form: pallisadoed
form: pallisadoed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of palisade.
pallisadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallisado
pallisados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallisado
aeromedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aeromedically
form: most aeromedically
Senses: examples: aeromedically evacuated (evacuated by medics or for medical reasons via aviation)
glosses: In an aeromedical way; in a way pertaining to aeromedicine.
undercautious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercautious
form: most undercautious
Etymology: From under- + cautious.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently cautious.
unflare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unflares
form: unflaring
form: unflared
form: unflared
Etymology: From un- + flare.
Senses: examples: text: It takes practice to flare and unflare the old nostrils without changing your expression. But when done correctly, this can be a great silent and secret message of affection between you and your kids when necessary.
ref: 2013, Lynn Brunelle, Mama's Little Book of Tricks, page 105:
glosses: To restore from a flared position.
unflaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unflare
unflaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not flaring.
speciegraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the scientific description of species.
teakettled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teakettle
teakettling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teakettle
stage flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage flats
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Broadway flat
stage flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage flat
offshoreable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offshoreable
form: most offshoreable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offshorable.
Pierre Marie-Bamberger syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
erotic bakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erotic bakeries
Senses: glosses: A bakery that sells cakes having sexually explicit shapes and designs.
erotic bakeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erotic bakery
stand-offishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stand-offish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of standoffishness.
Moism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Mohism.
Moism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mo + -ism, from Chinese 麼教 /么教 (Mójiào), from Zhuang [Term?].
Senses: synonyms: Mo
glosses: An ethnic religion of the Zhuang people in China.
Sawston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4849).
evens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of even up
evening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of even up
evened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of even up
even-bishops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of even-bishop
calyx eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calyx eyes
Senses: examples: text: I do not advise those with calyx eyes, but I select needles with good oval eyes. I should like to condemn those made with flat, expanded ends.
ref: 1911, Leonard Arthur Bidwell, A Handbook of Intestinal Surgery, page 8:
glosses: A kind of oval-shaped needle eye with a slot for inserting the thread.
calyx eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calyx eye
Byblians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Byblian
ethnoconfessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + confessional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnicity and confessionalism (system of government).
Related terms: ethnoconfessionalism
suicide gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide gowns
Senses: synonyms: turtle suit
glosses: A tear-resistant single-piece outer garment designed so that it cannot be used to form a noose to hang oneself.
suicide gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide gown
carisack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carisacks
form: carrisack
Etymology: Blend of carry + sack respelled.
Senses: examples: text: Pulling a little carrisack from his pack, he began to fill it with small but essential pieces of his Wyvern's survival kit.
ref: 2014, Scott Ashby, Assignment to Earth, page 82:
text: Beside her the men left a soft tube of nutrient gel and a carisack of water.
ref: 2016, Elizabeth Moon, Rules of Engagement:
text: She fished in her carisack for drops, then tilted her head back to administer them.
ref: 2017, Maggie Lynch, Eternity: Virus Wars:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A bag for carrying things.
Carn Brea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and hill (a neolithic site) west of Redruth, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6840).
glosses: A hill between Land's End and St Just, Cornwall, the westernmost hill in England (OS grid ref SW3828).
Derived terms: Carn Brea Village
dysencephalia splanchnocystica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Meckel-Gruber syndrome
Meckel-Gruber syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Johann Meckel and Georg Gruber.
Senses: synonyms: dysencephalia splanchnocystica
Meckel syndrome
glosses: A rare, lethal ciliopathic genetic disorder characterized by renal cystic dysplasia, central nervous system malformations (occipital encephalocele), polydactyly (postaxial), hepatic developmental defects, and pulmonary hypoplasia due to oligohydramnios.
osmostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmostat
hyperoxygenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperoxygenate
hyperoxygenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperoxygenate
dysreflexias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysreflexia
coscenarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coscenarist
pidginise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pidginises
form: pidginising
form: pidginised
form: pidginised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pidginize.
pidginised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pidginise
pidginises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pidginise
pidginising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pidginise
gol-mol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: noise; commotion
Seeley's pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the surname, Seeley, of a member of parliament who called attention in the House of Commons to the waste of pig iron in the dockyards.
Senses: glosses: Unused blocks of iron kept in government dockyards.
stick in one's gizzard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks in one's gizzard
form: sticking in one's gizzard
form: stuck in one's gizzard
form: stuck in one's gizzard
Senses: glosses: To rankle in one's heart.
dukey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːki
Forms: form: dukeys
form: dookie
form: dooky
Senses: examples: text: Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy.
ref: 1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50:
text: Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances. […] Simpson, also the proprietor of a Dukey in Queen Square, Westminster, was the aristocrat of the Penny Gaffs.
ref: 1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122:
glosses: A penny gaff.
foont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foonts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of funt (“old Russian unit of weight”).
foont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foonts
Etymology: Perhaps from French vingt (“twenty”), since a sovereign was worth 20 shillings.
Senses: glosses: A sovereign (the coin).
foonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foont
typeform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typeforms
Etymology: From type + form.
Senses: examples: text: Once these important ingredients were ready, ink was spread over the raised letters of the typeform. The flat surface, called a platen, was then slowly lowered, pressing well-moistened paper against the relief surface.
ref: 1987, Robert Woods, Printing and Production for Promotional Materials, page 36:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The part of a printing press which holds the type, and against which the platen is pressed.
typeforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typeform
French cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An allusion to the French custom of taking brandy in one's tea instead of cream.
Senses: glosses: Brandy.
French gout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: French pox
glosses: syphilis
ladies' fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: syphilis
tofficky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tofficky
form: most tofficky
Etymology: Compare toff.
Senses: examples: text: That's where he gets his tofficky language and manners from!
ref: 1904, Henry Arthur Jones, The Chevaleer: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 6:
text: 'Nice togs,' she said by way of greeting, […]
'Jo reckons they're a bit... tofficky,' I confessed.
ref: 2013, Anthony Quinn, The Streets, page 98:
glosses: dressy, showy
bookcased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bookcase + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Many a joke was cracked in Fritz's “study;” a tidy room, bookcased and furnished from the paternal pocket, somewhat beyond the regulation amount, always at a temperature of at least seventy degrees.
ref: 1864, Florence Williamson, William Kirkus, Frederick Rivers, Independent Parson, page 60:
glosses: Furnished with one or more bookcases.
Lord Mayor's fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lord Mayor's fools
Senses: examples: text: The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.
ref: 1845, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, page 213:
glosses: An imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.
aprioricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apriori + -icity.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, positive philosophy is empirical aprioricity, or it is the empiricism of the a priori, to the extent that it proves itself the prius per posterius as God.
ref: 2010 July 21, Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1-15, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 695:
text: He claims that Kant's transcendental proofs, at least of the necessity of the law of causality, are not directed towards establishing the truth or validity of causal law, but only its aprioricity.
ref: 2015 January 30, Dale Jacquette, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of apriority.
Zaha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zahas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
sportsmedicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sports medicine.
Norwicher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norwichers
Etymology: From Norwich + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A Norwicher would snap his fingers in scorn at the idea of any other county beating his own in these matters, or in the barley-brew for which Norfolk was also once famous.
ref: 1882, John Doran, Memories of our great towns, page 127:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Norwich, England.
examples: text: Home to hundreds of Dartmouth College employees, professors, and students, as well as a number of eighth-generation Norwichers, the town has a countrified, genteel air about it.
ref: 2000, Lisa Rogak, Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Vermont Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places, page 96:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Norwich, Vermont, United States.
Norwichers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norwicher
put in an oar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts in an oar
form: putting in an oar
form: put in an oar
form: put in an oar
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stick one's oar in (“to interfere”).
synonyms: word: stick one's oar in
extra: to interfere
put in one's oar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts in one's oar
form: putting in one's oar
form: put in one's oar
form: put in one's oar
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stick one's oar in (“to interfere”).
synonyms: word: stick one's oar in
extra: to interfere
put one's oar in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's oar in
form: putting one's oar in
form: put one's oar in
form: put one's oar in
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stick one's oar in (“to interfere”).
synonyms: word: stick one's oar in
extra: to interfere
shoful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shofuls
form: schofel
Etymology: From German Schofel (“worthless stuff, rubbish”), substantive use of schofel (“base, mean, worthless”), representing the German-Jewish pronunciation of Hebrew שפל (shāphēl, “low”).
Senses: glosses: A Hansom cab.
examples: text: To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
ref: 1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:
glosses: Counterfeit money.
shofuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoful
Huastec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huastecs
form: Huastec
Etymology: Via Spanish huasteco from the Nahuatl word cuextécatl, which has two possible origins, either the word cuachalolotl (Nahuatl for small snail) or huaxitl (Nahuatl for river tamarind, also known as guaje)
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people inhabiting the Mexican states of San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, and Tamaulipas.
glosses: Any person from the Mexican region known as La Huasteca, where the Huastecs have traditionally lived.
Huastec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Via Spanish huasteco from the Nahuatl word cuextécatl, which has two possible origins, either the word cuachalolotl (Nahuatl for small snail) or huaxitl (Nahuatl for river tamarind, also known as guaje)
Senses: glosses: A Mayan language spoken by the Huastec
Huastec
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Huastec
form: most Huastec
Etymology: Via Spanish huasteco from the Nahuatl word cuextécatl, which has two possible origins, either the word cuachalolotl (Nahuatl for small snail) or huaxitl (Nahuatl for river tamarind, also known as guaje)
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Huastec people.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of La Huasteca, Mexico.
upon my sivvy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Sivvy is a clipped corruption of asseveration.
Senses: glosses: Upon my soul or honour; used to underline the truth of what one is saying.
WFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of weight for age.
WFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The advertising trade group will shutter its Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), Business Insider reports, citing an email from WFA chief executive officer Stephan Loerke to members Thursday. Loerke told members that the WFA is confident the case’s outcome will “demonstrate our full adherence to competition rules in all our activities.”
ref: 2024 August 8, William Gavin, “GARM, the so-called 'advertising cartel' sued by Elon Musk's X and Rumble, is shutting down”, in Quartz:
glosses: Initialism of World Federation of Advertisers.
waterwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterwomen
Etymology: From water + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: Their Polynesian ancestors are believed to be the original watermen and waterwomen, the original surfers.
ref: 2009, Duke Boyd, Legends of Surfing, page 15:
glosses: A female waterman.
waterwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterwoman
dead amiss
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]
ref: 1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, page 286:
text: Sunshine ran gamely, but was clearly out of condition; and Gamos, who was dead amiss at Bath, having got round, beat her from the superiority of her training, […]
ref: 1870, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, page 320:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Of a horse: too ill to compete.
beetle-sticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetle-stickers
Senses: examples: text: Entomologists all over England are in despair at the total failure of the insect crop, and have taken to botanising, angling, and other bad habits, in default of means for pursuing their natural avocation as beetle-stickers.
ref: 1884, Grant Allen, The Evolutionist at Large, page 105:
glosses: An entomologist.
beetle-stickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetle-sticker
para para
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: para-para
form: parapara
Etymology: From Japanese パラパラ (parapara).
Senses: examples: text: dancing the para para, dancing all night long
ref: 1998, “D.I.S.C.O.”, performed by Go Go Girls:
glosses: A Japanese type of dance from the 1980s.
Related terms: english: para para dancer
translation: para para dancer
word: paralist
paralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese パラリスト (pararisuto), from Japanese パラパラ + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A para para dancer.
gay tyke boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay tyke boys
Senses: examples: text: The Sprig of Myrtle is matched with the pink of Bow—the gay tyke boys are all up in their stirrups at the news.
ref: 1850, William Thomas Moncrieff, An original collection of Songs, sung at the Theatres Royal, etc, page 107:
text: The Plate is a correct representation of the animation displayed upon this subject by the gay TYKE-BOYS; and most of their nobs for low cunning are able to get the “best of” the keenest barristers in the kingdom, […]
ref: 1870, Pierce Egan, Life in London, etc, page 260:
glosses: A dog-fancier.
gay tyke boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gay tyke boy
Seven Dials
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Holy Land
glosses: A junction of seven roads in the Covent Garden area of London, England.
glosses: A junction of seven roads in the Prestonville area of Brighton, England.
hobbadehoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobbadehoys
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hobbledehoy.
hobbadehoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobbadehoy
Corinthianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Corinthian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Licentious or sexually immoral behaviour.
glosses: The practice of sporting events (originally horse racing and yachting) being restricted to gentleman amateurs.
Related terms: Corinthianize
copus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copuses
Etymology: Perhaps from hippocras.
Senses: examples: text: PORSON, Whose very name conjures up the spirits of ten thousand wits, holding both sides, over a copus of Trinity ale and a classical pun, would not only frequently “steal a few hours from the night,” but see out both lights and liquids, and seem none the worse for the carouse.
ref: 1835, Richard Gooch, Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack, page 25:
glosses: A mug.
examples: text: We beg you would not stand fiddling about it, but be married forthwith, and then take chaise, and come […] all the way to Cambridge […] for our copuses and Welsh rabbits are impatient for you.
ref: 1855, Thomas Gray, William Mason, John Mitford, The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, page 352:
glosses: A drink of ale mixed with spices, and varied by spirits, wines, etc.