cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
C-low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But tonight was another night, and after dropping a few bills shooting C-low in the gambling room, I headed to the VIP lounge with my ex-roomate^([sic]) Dave tagging along to chill with me.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: Alternative form of cee-lo.
Midsayap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maguindanao Midsayap.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Alamada
Aleosan
Antipas
Arakan
Banisilan
Carmen
Kabacan
Kadayangan
Kapalawan
Kidapawan
Libungan
Ligawasan
Magpet
Makilala
Malidegao
Matalam
Midsayap
M'lang
glosses: A municipality of Cotabato, Philippines.
Lake Villa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township and village therein, in Lake County, Illinois, United States.
surabundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surabundant
form: most surabundant
Etymology: From sur- (“variant of super-”) + abundant; compare French surabondant (“superabundant”).
Senses: examples: text: In the terminology of collegia, for which there is surabundant evidence, modifiers in titles are adjectives proper and usually in the -arius form — e.g. exoneratores calciarii, fabri soliarii baxiarii, mensores et mercatores frumentarii.
ref: 1976, Nicholas Horsfall, “The Collegium Poetarum”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, number 23, London: Institute of Classical Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:
text: The idea of the horrid incest he contemplated evidently added fuel to his excitement, and produced within him a surabundant [originally: "superabundant"] sensation of lustful impatience, which exhibited itself no less in his inflamed countenance than in the siffened and erected shaft which now menaced Bella's moistened parts.
ref: 1983 [1887], Anonymous [Stanislas de Rhodes], The Autobiography of a Flea, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 76:
text: Having to feed an increasing number of mouths from fragmenting holdings, they intensified their agricultural practices. The problem of surabundant population was transformed into the solution of demand for more labour.
ref: 1996, Ernest Benz, “Population Change and the Economy”, in Sheilagh Ogilvie, editor, Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Volume 2: 1630–1800, London […]: Arnold, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Overly abundant; superabundant.
Derived terms: surabundantly
Related terms: surabundance
aardwolfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the differences between hyenas and aardwolfs is that the hyena has four toes on its front feet, the aardwolf has five.
ref: 2004, Sean Nicholson, “Mammals”, in Namibian Wildlife – An Alternative Guide for the Traveller on Safari, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: plural of aardwolf
Marshall Plan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after George C. Marshall.
Senses: examples: text: All this has taken, and will take, time, but the Marshall Plan is resulting in speedier rehabilitation, especially of German railways.
ref: 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 338:
glosses: An American initiative to provide foreign aid to countries in Western Europe after World War II, in operation from 1948 to 1951.
wikipedia: George C. Marshall
DoT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DoTs
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Alternative spelling of DOT.
traffic officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic officers
Senses: glosses: An officer who oversees the flow of traffic on public roads
traffic cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic cops
Senses: glosses: A police officer who enforces traffic laws and manages the traffic.
black letter day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black letter days
form: black-letter day
Senses: examples: text: So pray consider the kill-joy proposition as entirely retracted, and give us something of yourselves, only on simple black-letter days when the Herald Angels have not been raising expectations early in the morning.
ref: 1877 December 3, George Eliot, “Letter to Mrs. Burne-Jones”, in J. W. Cross, editor, George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals, volume III, published 1885, page 233:
text: But the monsters who interrupt men in the middle of a sentence are to be found everywhere; and they are always practising. Red-letter days or black-letter days, festival or fast, makes no difference to them.
ref: 1893, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation and Coleridge”, in Alexander H. Japp, editor, The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, volume II, London: William Heinemann:
coordinate_terms: red letter day
glosses: A day marked in ancient calendars in black letter, as distinguished from the more import red letter days; an inauspicious day.
black-letter day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-letter days
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black letter day.
black-letter days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-letter day
black letter days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black letter day
tottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of totty.
Torremolinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A resort city and municipality on the Costa del Sol in Málaga Province, Andalusia, Spain.
toothless whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothless whales
Senses: glosses: A baleen whale.
storage battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storage batteries
Senses: examples: text: After experiments, the Great Southern Railways of Ireland decided in 1930-31 to replace steam suburban trains between Dublin and Bray by two-car articulated sets operated by storage batteries of the type invented by Dr. Drumm, and four were built: the first went into service in 1932.
ref: 1949 September and October, “Notes and News: Drumm Battery System Scrapped”, in Railway Magazine, page 339:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rechargeable battery.
storage batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage battery.
speech mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech marks
Senses: glosses: A quotation mark used to indicate speech.
speech marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speech mark
princelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From princely + -hood.
Senses: synonyms: princeliness
glosses: The state or condition of being princely.
drove a hard bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of drive a hard bargain.
royal borough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal boroughs
Senses: examples: text: Both the G.W.R. and the L.S.W.R. had to pay dearly for the privilege of entering the Royal Borough, for the Prince Consort drove a hard bargain with each.
ref: 1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Windsor Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
glosses: A borough, currently only in England, which has been granted a royal charter.
Related terms: word: royal burgh
Gantt bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gantt bars
Senses: glosses: A bar forming part of a Gantt chart.
Gantt bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gantt bar
royal boroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal borough.
dodgem car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodgem cars
Senses: examples: text: After the effectiveness of the trawl wire cutter was demonstrated, the second Cod War degenerated into dodgem cars on the high seas.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 165:
glosses: A bumper car
tumble together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tumbles together
form: tumbling together
form: tumbled together
form: tumbled together
Senses: examples: text: The producers [of Jackass] tumble together a volatile mixture of conventional comedic tropes, familiar categories of aesthetic experience, and "generation x" sensibility
ref: 2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19:
glosses: To mix or combine haphazardly.
ungridded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gridded.
Senses: examples: text: As the city has lost its gravitational pull, the suburb's once neat orbit is increasingly one that traverses cold, forbidding, ungridded deep-space.
ref: 2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19:
glosses: Not mapped to a grid.
earwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ear + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: "Fire! fire!" as the sound rolls earwards, the gambler starts up from the dicing table, the bibber leaves the wine-pots
ref: 1859, George Augustus Sala, Twice Round the Clock; or The Hours of the Day and Night in London. […], London: Houlston and Wright, […], →OCLC, page 346:
glosses: Towards the ear.
ETIAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of European Travel Information and Authorisation System.
smoke one's own dope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smokes one's own dope
form: smoking one's own dope
form: smoked one's own dope
form: smoked one's own dope
Senses: synonyms: drink one's own Kool-Aid
glosses: To believe one's own lies or posturings.
aeroplane modes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeroplane mode
T-Boy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cajun French petit (“little”) (dialectally pronounced /ti/) + English boy.
Senses: examples: text: “We're just waiting on T Boy,” Bill said. We all knew that T Boy had the furthest to come to go frogging. He and his parents lived way past where the road ended. We all considered him and his family pure swamp people.
ref: 2016 March 23, Donna Hankins, Louisiana Cajun Girl, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
text: Paul Berzas, alias T-Boy, has created quite a stir in boudin circles. This mild-mannered Cajun from Mamou, Louisiana, has consistently brought to market one of the most sought-after links in all of Louisiana.
ref: 2020 November 10, George Graham, Fresh from Louisiana: The Soul of Cajun and Creole Home Cooking, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 123:
text: MaMa: T-Boy, did you eat those beignets? T-Boy: Mais, no! Obviously, use of the word mais gives T'Boy's denial a lot more credibility.
ref: 2021 March 22, Sam Irwin, It Happens in Louisiana: Peculiar Tales, Traditions & Recipes from the Bayou, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A nickname for a boy.
Related terms: english: a trans man
translation: a trans man
word: t-boy
youngcel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youngcels
Etymology: From young + -cel.
Senses: examples: text: For any youngcels out there, find a girl who has NEVER had a boyfriend and be with her. The moment a woman loses her virginity and breaks up with her first boyfriend is the moment she becomes a whore.
ref: 2020, Ida Lewenhaupt, quoting an anonymous Incels.co poster, Passive radicalisation without mobilisation: A narrative analysis of collective identities and emotions as driving forces of online radicalisation (thesis), Stockholm: Swedish Defence University, page 33:
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: A young incel.
youngcels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youngcel
giusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giust
misshuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misshuffles
form: misshuffling
form: misshuffled
form: misshuffled
Etymology: From mis- + shuffle.
Senses: examples: text: Small wonder that, in her trembling confusion, she misshuffled notes and slid Helen's into Bender's envelope.
ref: 1906, Herman Whitaker, The Settler, page 208:
text: More than once a pit trader has turned on a pit clerk who misshuffled a stack of orders during a fast price swing.
ref: 1985, Bob Tamarkin, The New Gatsbys: Fortunes and Misfortunes of Commodity Traders, page 170:
text: The letter enclosed had been misshuffled, so that the last page came first, bearing only the PPS.
ref: 1996, David Sosnowski, Rapture, page 126:
text: When you use ordinary notes, you may lose or misshuffle your note cards during your presentation .
ref: 1999, Konrad King, Hands on PowerPoint 2000, pages 3–4:
text: Charlie picked up the red deck and promptly misshuffled, sending cards flying in all directions.
ref: 2011, Mark Joseph, The Wild Card:
text: More likely, however, is that a cheater can misshuffle and misdeal, taking cards from the bottom of the deck or middle of the deck in order to help or hurt a particular player.
ref: 2015, William N. Thompson, Gambling in America, page 52:
glosses: To shuffle incorrectly.
misshuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misshuffles
Etymology: From mis- + shuffle.
Senses: examples: text: Elder Peter groaned. "This was a sair misshuffle."
ref: 1906 June, Herman Whitaker, “A Misshuffle”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 113, number 673, page 141:
text: Right now I have the suspicion that the ace of diamonds is trapped forever, face down, beneath the king of diamonds, which is sneering at me like Juror Number Five, and my whole life feels like a similar misshuffle.
ref: 2012, Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight:
text: There are constant jams and misshuffles that cause the game to stop while someone attracts the attention of the pit boss so that the shuffling monster can be fixed.
ref: 2014, Victor H Royer, Powerful Profits From Blackjack:
glosses: An instance of misshuffling.
misshuffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misshuffle
misshuffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misshuffle
misshuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misshuffle
misshuffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misshuffle
greyfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greyfields
form: grayfield
Etymology: Compound of grey + field, referencing the colour of concrete.
Senses: examples: text: A new kind of urban regeneration is needed at the scale of precincts, rather than lot by lot, to transform the greyfields into more liveable and sustainable suburbs.
ref: 2022 July 28, Peter Newman, Giles Thomson, Peter Newton, Stephen Glackin, “Greening the greyfields: how to renew our suburbs for more liveable, net-zero cities”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2023:
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: An area of commercial or industrial development which has become underused or abandoned.
Related terms: brownfield
greenfield
grey belt
greyfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greyfield
ghostbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostboxes
Etymology: Compound of ghost + box.
Senses: examples: text: Someday in the not-too-distant future, it will become another of the country's numerous "ghostboxes" that are too expensive to tear down but not lucrative enough to actually use.
ref: 2014 December 22, Erin Meisenzahl-Peace, “Who Still Hangs Out at the Mall?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2023:
text: Oculus was Westfield's $1.4bn bet that New York, a city known for its love of the street, could also have a successful mall. And judging from the crowds, it counters the narrative that the mall is "dead", like those thousands of empty suburban malls dotting the American landscape, "ghostboxes" decaying on cracked asphalt parking lots.
ref: 2017 March 16, “All under one roof: how malls and cities are becoming indistinguishable”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2023:
glosses: An abandoned mall or big-box store.
ghostboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghostbox
Spanish Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Spanish Sign Language terms
phubbee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌbiː/
Forms: form: phubbees
Etymology: From phub + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Phubbing is the behavior of an individual's continuous or excessive use of smart phones, which can cause indifference to others, delay, loneliness, anxiety, and other mental disorders (Afdal et al., 2019; Tan et al., 2013). In this social interaction, there are two types of persons: phubbers and phubbees. The former are the originators of phubbing, and the later are the recipients of phubbing (Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas, 2018a). Phubbing not only causes psychological harms to phubbees, but also has a negative impact on the phubbers (Bulut and Nazir, 2019). Cognitive-behavioral theory also posits that individuals' cognition and emotions could affect their behaviors, in the same way, behaviors could also affect cognition and emotions (Chen et al., 2016). However, prior studies had focused more on the influence of phubbing on phubbees, such as the influence of phubbing on the partner's depression and the influence of parental phubbing on children's academic burnout and depression (Bai et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2020; Xie and Xie, 2020), few researchers have paid attention to the influence of phubbing on the phubbers themselves and its influencing mechanism.
ref: 2021, Jing Liu, Wei Wang, Qian Hu, Pengcheng Wang, Li Lei, Suo Jiang, “The relationship between phubbing and the depression of primary and secondary school teachers: A moderated mediation model of rumination and job burnout”, in Journal of Affective Disorders, volume 295, →DOI, pages 498–504:
text: Friendship satisfaction is necessary for maintaining relationships with friends. Does friend phubbing threaten friendship satisfaction? Sun and Samp’s (2021) study of United States university students revealed that friend phubbing significantly negatively predicted friendship satisfaction. But, this is the phubber’s view of friendship satisfaction, not the phubbee’s view. That is, individuals who regularly phubbed their friends did so because they were less satisfied with their friendship. It would have been better if phubbees were also asked about their satisfaction with the friend ship after their friends phubbed them. […] Hao et al.’s (2021) study of Chinese university students shed light on friend phubbing from a phubbee’s perspective.
ref: 2022, Yeslam Al-Saggaf, “5: Phubbing Family Members and Friends”, in The Psychology of Phubbing (SpringerBriefs in Psychology), Springer, →ISBN, page 46:
text: In a recent daily diary study, Thomas et al. (2022) found that on days when daily partner phubbing was high, phubbees reported higher anger/frustration. […] Based on the theoretical framework and existing evidence, partner phubbing may be perceived by the phubbee as an unwanted behavior and an act of being inconsiderate.
ref: 2023, Michal Frackowiak, Peter Hilpert, Pascale Sophie Russell, “Impact of partner phubbing on negative emotions: a daily diary study of mitigating factors”, in Current Psychology, →DOI:
antonyms: phubber
glosses: Someone who is or has been phubbed.
Creaser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Among the passengers was Mr. F. W. Creaser, now aged 90, who travelled with the first train on the day the branch was opened.
ref: 1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Meltham Branch, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:
glosses: A surname.
climigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of climate + migration
Senses: glosses: The movement of people away from increasingly harsh or unliveable climates resulting climate change.
climigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climigrants
Etymology: Blend of climate + migrant
Senses: glosses: A person who has migrated as a result of climate change.
climigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climigrant
nembutsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nenbutsu.
chacate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Krameria lanceolata, the trailing rhatany
chalk maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalk maples
Senses: glosses: Acer leucoderme, a tree of the US South.
duke cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duke cherries
form: May duke cherry
form: May-duke cherry
form: duke-cherry
Etymology: Invented in Médoc.
Senses: glosses: Prunus × gondouinii, a hybrid between sweet cherry and sour cherry, generally disadvantageous in durability, yield and marketability.
duke cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duke cherry
Exhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Bedworth, Nuneaton and Bedworth borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3585).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1055).
Spratton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7170).
Binton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1454).
Hurdlow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Hartington Middle Quarter parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1166).
Hartington Middle Quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England.
Related terms: Hartington Nether Quarter
Hartington Town Quarter
infocommunist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infocommunists
Etymology: From info + communist, possibly derived from infoanarchist.
Senses: examples: text: So far, I have made two arguments. One is that you can’t justify an opposition to proprietary information solely on an ethical imperative to share, unless you are willing to extend that ethical imperative to all resources and thus embrace true communism. Second, an appeal to the non–rival nature of digital information can’t get you off the slippery slope to info–communism if your case is built entirely around a deontological appeal to the value of sharing and cooperation.
ref: 2008, Milton Mueller, “Info-communism? Ownership and freedom in the digital economy”, in First Monday, volume 13, number 4, →DOI:
text: In contrast to the capitalist mode of production, in the info-communist mode of production both the relations of production and the productive forces are fully socialized—they are based on common ownership of the means of production and collaborative work.
ref: 2014, Sylvain Firer-Blaess, Christian Fuchs, “Wikipedia: An Info-Communist Manifesto”, in Television & New Media, volume 15, number 2, →DOI:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: A person who supports commons in information and communications.
Related terms: infocommunism
informational communism
Llanbedrog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + Saint Petroc.
Senses: glosses: A village and community on the Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH3231).
wikipedia: Saint Petroc
Amoore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
stakhanovite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stakhanovite
form: most stakhanovite
Senses: examples: text: The stakhanovite productivity of Robert Pollard shows few signs of letting up.
ref: 2023 July 27, Jon Buckland, “Guided by Voices”, in The Quietus:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Stakhanovite.
moment of clarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moments of clarity
Senses: glosses: A moment of great understanding; a great sudden realization, when everything about a situation comes into perspective.
sucks it and sees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suck it and see
sucking it and seeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suck it and see
sucked it and saw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of suck it and see
sucked it and seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of suck it and see
bloopery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blooperies
Etymology: From blooper + -y or bloop + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: For a while there, however, it appeared that C.E. Wilson's kennel dog remarks in pre-election 1954 had set an un-beatable high in executive bloopery.
ref: 1960, Solidarity, volumes 3-4, page 10:
text: A technique that resurfaces as late as Electric Cafe, where The Telephone Song is made up of 'phone bleeps and telecommunication bloopery.
ref: 2001, Andrew Darlington, I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child, page 129:
text: So he and the others hastily created a set out of props and pieces already around the studio - the "bloopery" from the Three Sisters laid flat, Patricia Hilliard's plaster cloak, a chaise longue, a stone Aztec head that was to make numerous appearances in photographs over the years and a birdcage.
ref: 2006, Adrian Woodhouse, Angus McBean: Face-maker, page 130:
glosses: The practice or habit of committing bloopers.
block the box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blocks the box
form: blocking the box
form: blocked the box
form: blocked the box
Senses: glosses: To stop too far forward while waiting for the traffic light at an intersection, thereby obstructing cross-traffic.
Related terms: box junction
yakk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yakks
form: yakking
form: yakked
form: yakked
Senses: examples: text: i would have liked the film a lot more if i hadn't had the compulsion to yakk all over the place. i found the "camera work" to be way too distracting.
ref: 1999 September 6, karen golightly, “-I- "Blair Witch" article”, in rec.music.tori-amos (Usenet):
text: I have a couple of mates who can yakk on the phone like women, it doesn't matter how many times you sigh and look for an out the bastards keep gabbing.
ref: 2004 July 31, cypher, “The twat list”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of yak (to talk, to vomit)
something dreadful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The old bastard was prevaricating something dreadful.
ref: 2004 July 31, cypher, “The twat list”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of something awful.
ramalamadingdong
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Originally a nonsense word in a song recorded in 1957 by The Edsels.
Senses: examples: text: Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
ref: 1961, “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)” (track 1), in Who Put the Bomp, performed by Barry Mann:
text: ‘Last week,’ continued the pastor, ‘I prayed for gifts from the Lord, I went to bed and later woke the whole house singing psalms in tongues! Someone told me I was saying “Oh Lord, when will our church revive?” in modern Greek. Now Lord, we ask for miracles! We ask to speak in tongues!’[…]
As the meeting ended, the hum of tongues from the congregation continued, and one coloured girl was jumping up and down. I thought of throwing in a ramalamadingdong, but decided it might lack sincerity. Someone shouted several phrases in what sounded like Russian. When the meeting ended, three young men stood hugging each other in the emptying hall and beseeching the Lord, with closed eyes, to give them tongues and larger congregations.
ref: 1985, Roy Kerridge, “Pentecostals, Chapel, and May Day Celebrations”, in Bizarre Britain: A Calendar of Eccentricity, Akadine Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 55–56:
text: "Bob, Washington has never seen a store like Neiman-Markup. We will take no prisoners. We will make the competition look as if they forgot to eat their Wheaties this morning. We will have customers lined up around the block, credit cards in hand, ready to rock and roll. When it comes to retailing, Bob, we will put the ram back in the ramalamadingdong. Neiman-Markup will be the D.C. store by which all others are measured." "You ever say anything that isn't a cliche?"
ref: 1989 February 3, Bob Levey, “THE RETAILING JEWEL NEIMAN-MARKUP”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023:
text: Do the gamma goochie, lots of sheep feel sorry. Phoneyboneyloney, ramalamadingdong.
ref: 1991 April 23, “The Gamma Goochie” (track 3), in Ordinary Average Guy, performed by Joe Walsh:
text: “Yes—Oh! So, as the danger passed, if you want to call it that, the glowing of my soul would have faded until you couldn’t see it any more. I really should be dead—for a second time,’ she laughed. ‘Only I’m not. I’m as right as rain! Well, maybe not rain. I’m as right as... Ramalamadingdong!’
ref: 2017, Ian Donaldson, chapter 17, in A Rainbow in the Basement (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 163:
text: King Kong sing song, ramalamadingdong. Sound like a factory I’m fucking with my bling on.
ref: 2019 September 27, “Overdose”performed by Phi11a:
glosses: A nonsense word used in songs, in later use evoking 1950s American popular music.
wikipedia: The Edsels
squamoadenocarcinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squamoadenocarcinoma
netherfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherfronts
Etymology: From nether- + front.
Senses: examples: text: The most noteworthy altar-cloths were a set given by Alice Chester, the overfront representing our Lord rising out of the Sepulchre, sometimes called our Lord's Pity, with a netherfront and two curtains all "of one work."
ref: 1904, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 258:
text: To the lowest linen cloth was attached, a band of rich material, that hung over the front of the altar and hid the attachment of the netherfront.
ref: 1904, Essays on Ceremonial, page 7:
text: It seems quite possible that the 'greater sorte' of silk pictures in particular were intended to adorn an altar, either as an overfront, a netherfront or even a reredos.
ref: 2016, Sarah Hamilton, Andrew Spicer, Defining the Holy:
glosses: A cloth hanging that veils the front of the altar.
netherfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netherfront
giant coot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant coots
Senses: glosses: A large species of coot, Fulica gigantea.
giant coots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant coot
giant canes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant cane
giant groundsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant groundsel
giant pacaranas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant pacarana
giant redwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant redwood
evaporative coolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evaporative cooler
jet cocoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet cocoon
soapdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soapdom
soaperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soapery
isoaporphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoaporphine
soap-operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soap-opera
soccer dads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soccer dad
social piranhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social piranha
snorkel parkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snorkel parka
social alienations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social alienation
social compacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social compact
social movements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social movement
movement control orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of movement control order
moving pavements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moving pavement
moving vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moving van
Mozambiquans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mozambiquan
Mozambiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mozambique
only moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of only move
onomasticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomasticide
squeeze machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squeeze machine
superior obliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superior oblique
superior mesenteric arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superior mesenteric artery
superior tarsal muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superior tarsal muscle
frequency distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frequency distribution
freebleeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freebleeder
Hawaiian monk seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hawaiian monk seal
hawsepipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawsepiper
inferior obliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inferior oblique
inferior mesenteric arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inferior mesenteric artery
inferior dental arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inferior dental artery
saddleback seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddleback seal
sackees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sackee
safety cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety card
safety spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety spot
in the green tree … in the dry
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Luke 23:31, Koine Greek ὅτι εἰ ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ ξύλῳ ταῦτα ποιοῦσιν, ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ τί γένηται (hóti ei en tōî hugrōî xúlōi taûta poioûsin, en tōî xērōî tí génētai), rendered “For if they do these things in a green tree [when the trees are green], what shall be done in the dry?” in the King James Version.
Senses: examples: text: If this is seen in the green tree, what will it be in the dry? If this is so apparent now when the earth is loaded with her spontaneous fruits; what will it be when winter shall find them unprovided with the necessaries of life?
ref: 1865 September 11, J. C. Randolph, “[Letter to Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner]”, in Ira Berlin et al., editors, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, volume 1/2, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South, published 1993, →ISBN, pages 713–4:
text: […] disfranchisement was imposed upon 10,000 legal voters by a tribunal which had no jurisdiction to exclude a vote; if these things can be done in the green tree, what may we not expect to see in the dry?
ref: 1877 February 13, Matthew H. Carpenter, Electoral Count of 1877. Proceedings of the Electoral Commission and of the Two Houses of Congress […], published 1877, pages 266–7:
text: If you do that sort of thing in the green tree, what will you do in the dry? When the honourable member does it to members who support the Prime Minister, what will he do to members of his own party?
ref: 1910 November 30, George Laurenson, “Mr. Hine’s Charges”, in New Zealand: Parliamentary Debates. Third Session, Seventeenth Parliament […], volume 153, published 1910, page 1236, column 1:
text: His case, though never called, was kept in suspense for more than a year, and the dozen Italian workmen, arrested with him, too poor and friendliess to raise the exorbitant bail, remained in prison all that time. These things, and worse, were done in the green tree. Mr. Wallas’ article gives altogether too mild an impression of what is being done in the dry.
ref: 1920, The New Statesman, volume 14, page 613:
text: They saw it as an ominous, a fatal precedent; for if these things were done in the green tree, what would be done in the dry, when the Whigs returned despite the king?
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 106:
synonyms: word: in the green tree
glosses: In a better situation as against a worse one; used chiefly in rhetorical questions to suggest that the current unfavorable situation will worsen in the future.
wikipedia: King James Version
Harrogatonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harrogatonian
OOTSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OOTS
deep freezers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep freezer
free categories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free category
oncodrivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncodriver
free electrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free electron
free modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free module
free weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free weight
overcategories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcategory
small categories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small category
small nightshades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small nightshade
smallbores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smallbore
decategorisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decategorisation
Negro-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Negro-driver
discrete categories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discrete category
discount cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discount card
freckled blennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freckled blenny
freak waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freak wave
irksom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irksom
form: most irksom
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of irksome.
market citizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːrkɪt ˈsɪtɪzn/
Forms: form: market citizens
Etymology: Calque of German Marktbürger.
Senses: glosses: The privileged status of anyone exploiting the specific individual rights of the European single market, having effectively a kind of depoliticized citizenship as a form of purely economic communitarization.
Related terms: market citizenship
market citizenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market citizenships
Etymology: Calque of German Marktbürgerschaft.
Senses: glosses: The state or status of being a market citizen.
thirdie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: thirty
Forms: form: thirdies
Etymology: From third (world) + -ie.
Senses: glosses: a Third Worlder; a person from the Third World
straight woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight women
Senses: examples: text: The program [Wildboyz] does occasionally feature locals and experts, but these figures serve either as straight men or women or, more often, join in on the madness—such as when a Kenyan park ranger accompanies the Boyz on a silly song about snakes.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 75:
glosses: A woman who plays the role of the straight man in comedy.
examples: text: While many gay men were reluctant to support the AIDS ward, straight women and lesbians didn’t hesitate one moment.
ref: 1999, John-Manuel Andriote, “Rallying the Troops”, in Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straight, woman.
KLF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Khalistan Liberation Force.
belt highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belt highways
Senses: glosses: beltway; a freeway that encircles a city
strong-armer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong-armers
Senses: glosses: A strong-arm
hand guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand guards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handguard.
bitter-ender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitter-enders
Senses: glosses: Someone who fights to the bitter end
hand guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand guard
bitter-enders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitter-ender
finger guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger guards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fingerguard.
take-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: take-overs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of takeover.
finger guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger guard
depictment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depictments
Senses: qualifier: probably
glosses: depiction
take-overs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of take-over
Bradworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3214).
slack up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slacks up
form: slacking up
form: slacked up
form: slacked up
Senses: glosses: To slack; to let one's standards slip
strong-armers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong-armer
depictments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depictment
tail wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail winds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailwind.
wrestling ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrestling rings
Senses: glosses: The stage on which a wrestling bout is competed.
wrestling rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrestling ring
tail winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail wind
slacks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slack up
slacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slack up
slacking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slack up
fog bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog bells
form: fogbell
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bell used in fog and poor visibility.
final words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of last words.
synonyms: word: last words
fog bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fog bell
fig out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: figs out
form: figging out
form: figged out
form: figged out
Senses: glosses: To dress up (put on elegant clothes)
sluice out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sluices out
form: sluicing out
form: sluiced out
form: sluiced out
Senses: glosses: To wash; to hose down
ravel out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ravels out
form: raveling out
form: ravelling out
form: raveled out
form: raveled out
form: ravelled out
form: ravelled out
Senses: glosses: To unravel
shin guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shin guards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shinguard.
shin guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shin guard
rip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rips out
form: ripping out
form: ripped out
form: ripped out
Senses: examples: text: Ah, no, no: it cannot be. I would rather rip out out my heart, then fuffer it any longer to retain so mean, and so unworthy an affection.
ref: 1652, Philoxypes, The History of Philoxypes and Polycrite, as it was Told by, page 36:
text: How many loyal men do I hear exclaim: "send the traitor to the gallows! rip out his bowels and throw them in his face! […]"
ref: 1814 October 8, “Summary of Politics”, in Cobbett's Political Register, volume 26, number 15, page 455:
synonyms: tear out
glosses: To remove by ripping
examples: text: Then take this, and first rip out a sleeve, and iron it out, and cut out a newspaper pattern of it.
ref: 1842, Catharine Esther Beecher, Letters to Persons who are Engaged in Domestic Service, page 174:
text: The common mode, is, to shake, and brush the articles, and rip out linings and pockets; then to wash them in strong suds, adding a teacupful of ley, using white soap for light cloth;
ref: 1846, Catharine Esther Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the use of young ladies, page 289:
text: To rip out serger stitches, you'll need to combine the techniques for ripping straight and zigzag stitches.
ref: 2002, Sew Basic: 34 Essential Skills for Sewing with Confidence, page 69:
glosses: To unstitch.
examples: text: Well, by and by we heerd the old sarpent rip out like a lion.
ref: 1849, Abraham Gesner, The Industrial Resources of Nova Scotia, page 7:
text: I suppose the clergy wouldn't give me a chance for heaven, because I rip out with an oath every now and then.
ref: 1856, Harriet Beacher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp:
glosses: To exclaim; to blurt out.
examples: text: “Now while you're grappling with Samantha, this pin will alert you when Samantha is going to rip out a big one. Observe.” Carmen pushed a button on the pin. A recording in her voice warned, “Alert! Alert! Fart is approaching! Alert!”
ref: 2009, Hikia, The Studio:
glosses: To fart
worm out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: worms out
form: worming out
form: wormed out
form: wormed out
Senses: glosses: To escape or free oneself from a duty.
physical love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sexual intercourse
knee guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee guards
Senses: glosses: knee pad
knee guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee guard
Fen Drayton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3368).
for the book
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: for the books
Etymology: Originally from turn up for the book.
Senses: glosses: Notable, remarkable or surprising.
Related terms: for the ages
for the books
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of for the book.