cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
self-deportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-deportations
Etymology: From self- + deportation.
Senses: examples: text: Doak encouraged local immigration officers, law enforcement agencies, and repatriation-sympathetic newspapers to join forces to publicize deportation raids, frightening many Mexicans into self-deportation.
ref: 2007, Dan Kanstroom, Deportation Nation, →ISBN, page 218:
text: But in a show of one of the lucid flashes common to dementia, Fabian executed a document in which he stated he was not requesting a ticket for self-deportation, but only for a visit to Nigeria.
ref: 2011, John M. O. Igbokwe, A Broken Mission, →ISBN, page 8:
text: As mentioned earlier, Romney said that he would address the issue of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States through a policy of “self-deportation.”
ref: 2014, Matt Barreto, Gary Segura, Latino America, →ISBN:
text: Even noted opponents of convict colonialism such as Alexander Merensky noted that the utility of transportation was already well understood by those amongst the urban poor who had, he argued, resorted to 'self-deportation' through mass emigration to better their lives.
ref: 2015, Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany, 1871-1914, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is launching the CBP Home app with a self-deportation reporting feature for aliens illegally in the country.
ref: 2025 March 10, “DHS Launches CBP Home App with Self-Deport Reporting Feature”, in Department of Homeland Security:
text: The renamed app, announced Monday and now called CBP Home, is part of the administration’s campaign to encourage “self-deportations, ” touted as an easy and cost-effective way to nudge along President Donald Trump’s push to deport millions of immigrants without legal status.
ref: 2025 March 10, Associated Press, “Homeland Security overhauls its asylum phone app. Now it’s for ‘self-deportation’”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: Voluntary emigration by members of an unwanted or illegal population, often as a result of policies that make staying in their country of residence difficult.
Related terms: self-deport
self-deportations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: self + deportations
Senses: glosses: plural of self-deportation
stygiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin stygius, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), and -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of Hell.
self-deport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-deports
form: self-deporting
form: self-deported
form: self-deported
Etymology: From self- + deport.
Senses: examples: text: In total, at least 620,000 “Ukrainians” self-deported or were deported from Poland and at least 13,000 self-deported from Czechoslovakia to Ukraine.
ref: 2020, Alan E. Sparks, Into the Carpathians:
text: “The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” Noem said.
ref: 2025 March 10, “Trump administration relaunches CBP One asylum app for ‘self-deportation’”, in Al Jazeera:
text: In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that by self-deporting through the app, migrants "may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream".
ref: 2025 March 10, Bernd Debusmann Jr, “US unveils new app for 'self-deportations'”, in BBC:
text: This was a voluntary charter flight, not an ICE enforcement operation. All participants were offered the same benefits as any illegal alien who self-deports using the CBP Home App. They received travel assistance, a $1,000 stipend, and preserved the possibility they could one day return to the United States legally.
ref: 2025 May 19, “Project Homecoming Charter Flight Brings Self-Deporters to Honduras, Colombia”, in Department of Homeland Security:
text: On Monday, Park, a green-card holder, self-deported to South Korea.
ref: 2025 June 24, Juliana Kim, “Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.”, in NPR:
text: For Arturo, the decision to self-deport to Mexico came crashing one morning.
ref: 2025 August 7, Gabriel San Román, “After 28 years, O.C. man self-deports to Tijuana in search of a better life”, in Daily Pilot, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2025:
text: She applied in February and requested that deportation proceedings be delayed, but that request was denied. Worried about being separated from her children — 10-year-old twin girls — she felt she had no choice but to self-deport.
ref: 2025 October 16, Jazmine Ulloa, “She Self-Deported. Now She and Other Crime Survivors Are Suing ICE.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2025:
glosses: To evict oneself, especially from a country.
Related terms: self-deportation
pat-on-the-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pats-on-the-back
form: pat on the back
Senses: examples: "A self-congratulatory apparatus having a simulated human hand carried on a pivoting arm suspended form shoulder supported member. The hand is manually swingable into and out of contact with the user's back to give an amusing or an important pat-on-the-back." (Abstract of U.S. patent 4,608,967 issued on September 2, 1986 http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=D&CC=US&NR=4608967A)
glosses: Alternative form of pat on the back.
Agdistis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡ.dɪs.tɪs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἄγδιστις (Ágdistis).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A hermaphroditic being, associated with the worship of Cybele or Rhea
biclonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biclonal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being biclonal
biclonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + clonal.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having cell markers from two different cell lines
Derived terms: biclonality
biclonal leukaemia
bitstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitstates
Etymology: From bit + state.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state (0 or 1) of a particular bit (binary digit).
bryostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bryostatins
Senses: examples: text: […] to study and investigate, along with Paul Wender, Ph.D., certain analogs of bryosatin, referred to as "bryologs", as potential clinical candidates […]
ref: 2014, “Neurotrope, Stanford Collaborate to Investigate Neurological Disorders”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, 34(12): 12:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of biologically active macrolide lactones derived from the bryozoan Bugula neritina.
chemoluminiscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chemiluminescent.
coinhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + inhibitory.
Senses: glosses: That inhibits along with another inhibitor
Related terms: coinhibitor
counterreceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterreceptor
counterreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterreceptors
form: counter-receptor
Etymology: From counter- + receptor.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A material that binds with, and tethers a receptor on the surface of a cell
histologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histology
hyperimmune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + immune.
Senses: glosses: That causes, or is associated with, an extreme immune response
hyperrecombination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + recombination.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An extreme level of recombination
immunoinhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunoinhibitory
form: most immunoinhibitory
Etymology: From immuno- + inhibitory.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That inhibits an immune response
Related terms: immunoinhibition
immunoinhibitor
immunoinhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoinhibitions
Etymology: From immuno- + inhibition.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The inhibition of an immune response
Related terms: immunoinhibitory
immunoresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + resistance.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunological resistance to a therapy
Related terms: immunoresistant
microtumors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtumor
microtumor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtumors
Etymology: From micro- + tumor.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A microscopic tumor
myelodysplasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myelodysplasic
form: most myelodysplasic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myelodysplastic.
oligoclonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + clonal.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to an oligoclone, or to just a few clones
Derived terms: oligoclonal band
oligoclonality
proteotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteotoxic
form: most proteotoxic
Etymology: From proteo- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or causing, proteotoxicity.
tanespimycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A heat shock protein inhibitor that has some potential for treatment for multiple myeloma.
Neogothic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Neogothic
form: most Neogothic
Etymology: From neo- + gothic.
Senses: examples: text: The travelling engineer Frencesco Senweignoter designed the church at Falzes (1851) and also the front of the mausoleaum for Archduke Reiner in the principal church in Bolzano. The latter is a pleasing and correct example of the Neogothic style.
ref: 1979, Sandro Gattei, Sandro Pirovano, Robert Mainardi, Trentino Alto Adige, page 464:
text: The earlier periods, the original and ideas-phases of German Neogothic, have been well written up in English; now Lewis's work fills an important gap in English-language works on the later period; indeed, so far, there is no comparable work in German either.
ref: 1992, Newsletter - Issues 47-65, page 90:
text: The Neogothic Revival style of the early 1900s sought to tame the excesses of the flamboyant High Victorian Gothic by turning to English Gothic architecture for inspiration.
ref: 1993, East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, City of Berlin intensive architectural/historical survey: final report:
text: His interest in architecture was always strongly linked to his sense of responsibility for the care and preservation of the built environment. In 1973 he published an article on Early Neogothic in Finland.
ref: 1995, Icon to Cartoon: A Tribute to Sixten Ringbom, page 22:
text: Toward the end of the nineteenth century, he made a series of designs in the Neogothic idiom of Martorell.
ref: 2000, Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect:
topics: architecture
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Alternative form of neogothic.
tanycytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanycyte
tanycyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanycytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τανύω (tanúō, “stretch”) + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: A type of ependymal cell, located in the floor of the third ventricle, that has processes extending deep into the hypothalamus.
Related terms: tanylobous
thrombspondin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombspondins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrombospondin.
videomicroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From video- + microscopy.
Senses: glosses: microscopy in which a video camera is attached to a microscope
Related terms: videomicroscope
eargasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eargasms
Etymology: From ear + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: One lady in the audience said that when Robinson sings she just sits in her chair and has multiple "eargasms."
ref: 1976 March 25, M. Cordell Thompson, “New York Beat”, in Jet:
glosses: A sense of pleasure derived from listening to something, particularly music.
examples: text: A sucker for the Q-tip eargasm, I scoffed at the warning on the box: "Do not use swab in ear canal."
ref: 2006 April, Kevin Cook, “Are You a Clean Freak?”, in Men's Health:
glosses: A sense of pleasure derived from the physical stimulation of the earlobe or ear canal, such as when using a Q-Tip to clean the ear.
Acireale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal city and comune in Sicily.
aquametrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aqua- + metrics.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The analysis of trace amounts of water in a sample
Derived terms: aquametric
aquametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to aquametrics
Corean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Corea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Women hold a very low position in Corean estimation, and count for little in the sight of the law.
ref: 1885, Joseph J. Casey, “Chats About Philately”, in Harper's Young People, volume 6, page 427:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Korean.
Corean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Corea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Korean.
Corean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coreans
Etymology: From Corea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: It was not until many centuries later that education reached the common people. There were also teachers (mostly Coreans) of painting, medicine, and the glyptic arts.
ref: 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 18:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Korean.
lovedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From love + -dom; compare kingdom, Christendom.
Senses: examples: text: Naturally — and without, as it seems to me, very much self-sacrifice — he chooses release from lovedom.
ref: 1884, in Progress, volumes 3-4 (George William Foote), page 270
text: In her forties, energetic and painstaking, she has found that the triangle situation is by far lovedom’s gravest problem. In-law trouble comes next.
ref: 1941, Coronet, volume 10, page 131:
text: It's not the dark–blanked windows
across the street at night
that on beach Time Shares
within our lovedom,
blend so right.
It's seeing you. Here again. Along
venues of simple elegance.
ref: 2010, Rorry Nighttrain East, Time Share, in the book In the Gliding Sudden: A Book of Poetry & Prose, page 13
glosses: The condition or realm of love.
paly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Etymology: Compare French palé. See pale (“a stake”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Palewise; vertically striped.
Derived terms: counter-paly
paly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: more paly
form: most paly
Etymology: From pale + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips
 With twenty thousand kisses,
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 141:
text: c. 1857-1873, John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Reformer"
Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes,
With that deep insight which detects
O'erhung with paly locks of gold
glosses: Pale; lacking colour.
cymatograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīmăʹtōgräf
enpr: sīmăʹtōgrăf
ipa: /saɪˈmætəʊɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /saɪˈmætəʊɡɹæf/
Forms: form: cymatographs
Etymology: κῡμᾰτ- (kūmăt-) (kūmat-, the long stem of the Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma), kūma, “wave”, whence cyma) + -graph; compare cymograph
Senses: examples: text: Prof. S. P. Thompson…had also lent for exhibition…a “cymatograph” (an instrument for compounding the resultant of two parallel, simple, harmonic waves).
ref: 1885, Nature, XXXII, page 279:
glosses: An instrument for compounding the resultant of two parallel, simple, harmonic waves.
Poe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ/
ipa: /poʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Poes
form: Pow
Etymology: A nickname from Old Norse pái (“peacock”). This surname is also well established in Ireland.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse
glosses: A surname from Old Norse:
Edgar Allan Poe, an American author and poet of the 19th century, known especially for his dark themes.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Allen County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Poean
Poesque
Poe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ/
ipa: /poʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Poes
form: Pow
Etymology: From Poe's law, an Internet adage coined by Nathan Poe in 2005 on the Christian Forums website. Originally applied to religious fundamentalism, the term has since broadened to describe any situation where parody and sincerity are indistinguishable.
Senses: examples: text: A person who writes a parody of a Fundamentalist that is mistaken for the real thing. Due to Poe's law, it is almost impossible to tell if a person is a Poe unless they admit to it.
ref: 2008, Urban Dictionary contributor, “Poe”, in Urban Dictionary:
text: Normally, a Poe is a fraud trying to make the side look bad they claim to be on.
ref: 2023, “Discussion thread”, in Reddit, r/AtheistExperience:
glosses: A person whose views, statements, or behaviour are so extreme or satirical that it is impossible to tell whether they are sincere or parodic.
examples: text: In this context, a Poe refers to a person, post, or news story that could cause Poe's law to be invoked.… A typical phrase would be “it’s a Poe, guys, don’t be so stupid” when an extremely rational link is posted.
ref: 2014, Neal Umphred, How Apropoe (Wasting Irony On The Internet And Poe’s Law):
glosses: A post, comment, or message whose sincerity cannot be determined; specifically, one that may be parody, satire, or trolling, but could also be a genuine expression of belief.
Synonyms: english: in some contexts
translation: in some contexts
word: troll
english: for sense 1
translation: for sense 1
word: satirist
english: for sense 2
translation: for sense 2
word: satire
Poe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ/
ipa: /poʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Poes
form: Poeing
form: Poed
form: Poed
form: Pow
Etymology: From Poe's law, an Internet adage coined by Nathan Poe in 2005 on the Christian Forums website. Originally applied to religious fundamentalism, the term has since broadened to describe any situation where parody and sincerity are indistinguishable.
Senses: glosses: To impersonate or mimic an extreme viewpoint in a way that invokes Poe's law.
glosses: To write or create a message so extreme or parodic that it is difficult to distinguish from sincere extremism.
Scilly Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scilly Islander
croquembouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɒkɒmˈbuːʃ/
ipa: /ˌkɹɑkəmˈbuʃ/
rhymes: -uːʃ
Forms: form: croquembouches
Etymology: Borrowed from French croquembouche (literally “crunch-in-mouth”).
Senses: glosses: A French dessert made by piling profiteroles and other crunchy sweets in a tall shape, then pouring caramel over them to hold them in place.
frindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪn.dəl/
rhymes: -ɪndəl
Forms: form: frindles
Etymology: Coined by Andrew Clements in his 1996 children's novel of the same name.
Senses: glosses: A pen.
wikipedia: Frindle
nomism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “law”) + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The following of religious laws or commandments as the chief aspect of religiousness.
Derived terms: antinomism
Related terms: antinomian
anti-nomian
anti-nomianism
antinomianism
anti-nomistic
antinomistic
antinomistical
anti-nomistical
anti-nomistically
antinomistically
nomistic
nomistical
nomistically
pro-nomian
pronomian
pronomianism
pro-nomianism
sanderdust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sander + dust.
Senses: examples: ref: 1996, Ann Chambers, Susan D. Kerr, Power Industry Dictionary, PennWell, →ISBN, page 352:
text: Due to the high content of non-combustibles in the sanderdust and drop out of ash in the generating section, it was required to limit the firing rate ...
ref: 1975, Forest Products Research Society, Wood Residue As An Energy Source, Knowledge Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: The fine particles of wood created by sanding, typically finer than sawdust.
wratches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wratch
croquembouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croquembouche
damn Yankee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damn Yankees
form: damyankee
form: damnyankee
Senses: examples: text: REBEL A Damn Yankee comes down here to live.
KC Well, I came down here to live.
REBEL Well, you're going back, you said.
KC Right.
REBEL You're just a Yankee, not a Damn Yankee. But that's the difference between them.
ref: 1998, Kimberly J. Cook, Divided passions: public opinions on abortion and the death penalty, page 6:
text: "What's the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee?"
"I've already heard it many times since I moved here. A Yankee visits the South, spends his money, and leaves. A damn Yankee stays."
ref: 2009, Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search:
glosses: A person from the northern United States (a Yankee) who moves to the South to reside there.
examples: text: I was thinking, these damn ghosts are a preset pattern, because they don't even know that I'm not a damn Yankee. "I'm going to die for something I didn't even do."
ref: 2004, Robert "Dean" D. Russell, The Resurrection of Bayou Savage: Guitar Ghost Fighter, page 52:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see damn, Yankee.
landscraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landscrapers
Etymology: From land + -scraper.
Senses: examples: text: But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.
ref: 2009 December 28, Dennis Yusko, “Skidmore's sounds of music”, in The Times-Union:
glosses: A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
Related terms: earthscraper
groundscraper
landscraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landscrapers
Etymology: Compound of land + scraper.
Senses: examples: text: "We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex.
ref: 1990 July 22, “Activists protest earth-moving at waste facility site”, in Mohave Daily MIner:
glosses: A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
examples: text: "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."
ref: 1926, Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed, Charles Scriber's Sons, published 1926, page 184:
glosses: A gardener or gardener.
landscrapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landscraper
lotologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtɒləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ləˈtɑləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: lotologists
Etymology: Possibly lot(tery) + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: [Alfred] Ricks is a lotologist, one of a growing number of people who collect, study and admire lottery tickets – not for the prizes they promise, but for their art and value as collectors' items.
ref: 1998 August 23, Richard Stewart, “Hobby doesn’t start from scratch: Unused lottery tickets worth more than their prizes to collectors”, in The Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tex.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2012, section A, page 1:
text: Star Trek scratch-off tickets are probably the most valuable of all the California games because they are prized by thousands of Trekkies as well as "lotologists."
ref: 1998 October 22, “Resisting the Urge to Scratch”, in The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, Calif.: The McClatchy Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Held this year in northeast Philadelphia, the gathering is an opportunity to meet other self-described "lotologists," trade tickets and take a gander at the never-ending multitude of collectible material.
ref: 2011 July 29, The Denver Post, Denver, Colo.: Digital First Media, published 3 May 2016 (updated), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2019:
text: Although most lotologists collect scratch tickets that have already been scratched, approximately 15% of lotologists collect unscratched tickets.
ref: 2014, Eric LeMay, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Emergency Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who collects lottery tickets as a hobby.
Hypernyms: hobbyist
lotologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotologist
at school
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Melanie can't come on Monday, because she will be at school.
text: I left my history book at school.
text: Laurence Humfreid was born in the County of Buckingham, and Brought up, first at School, and then sent to Oxford, where he was admitted into the Colledge of Mary Magdalen, and followed his studies hard all the daies of King Edward the sixth.
ref: 1654, Samuel Clarke, The marrow of ecclesiastical history:
text: […] and at length got a Promise, and shall, I think, have these six at School as soon as Hunting-season (now commencing) is at an End; and there is a Prospect of our having the Schools at both Places attended as commonly as any Schools in New-England are.
ref: 1769, Eleazar Wheelock, A Continuation of the Narrative of the Indian Charity-school:
text: […] but nothing of this sort should ever be considered as a part of the serious business of instruction, or admitted as an exercise at school.
ref: 1831, Allison Wrifford, Essays on School Keeping:
text: Mac an Ghaill's (1988) study focused on the theme of 'resistance within accommodation' which was how some Asian and African Caribbean young people in his sample reacted to their experiences of racism at school and college.
ref: 1999, Ghazala Bhatti, Asian Children at Home and at School: An Ethnographic Study:
glosses: At one's school.
green-bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green-beds
Senses: examples: text: He would lie on the green-bed all day long sewing pictures of boats on canvas with coloured wools.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 8:
text: The green bed was formerly to be found in every farmhouse at the side of the hearth opposite the bread oven.
ref: 1980, John McCormack, The Guernsey House, page 77:
glosses: A low bed covered in dry fern or straw for people to sit or recline on, traditionally found in cottages or farmhouses.
spawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spawl
fipenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪpəni/
Forms: form: fipennies
form: fippenny
Etymology: Contraction of fivepenny.
Senses: examples: text: On the Ash Wednesday, when we had holiday from school, I trotted into Town on my own and walked into the Old Bank and plonked down on the counter twenty-one Guernsey shillings in pennies and halfpennies and fippennies and francs.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 13:
glosses: A fivepenny; a fivepenny bit.
glosses: A flick-knife.
fipennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fipenny
fippenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fippennies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fipenny.
fippennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fippenny
long-nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-noses
Senses: examples: text: I liked the long-nose better. The English are funny about the long-nose; or orfi, as we call it. They say it is poison because it got green bones.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 15:
glosses: The needlefish, garfish.
lady crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady crabs
Senses: examples: text: I used to catch lady-crabs in the pools and under the rocks. I don't know why they are called lady-crabs. They are male and female like all the other creatures in the world.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 16:
glosses: Any of various crabs known for their elegant appearance or colouring.
glosses: Ovalipes ocellatus (leopard crab, calico crab, ocellated crab)
lady crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady crab
ormering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːməɹɪŋ/
Etymology: From ormer + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: My father used to take me with him ormering.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 16:
qualifier: Channel Islands
glosses: The gathering of ormers; ormer-collecting.
algophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more algophilic
form: most algophilic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to algophilia
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Tending to be associated with algae
halohydric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From halo- + hydric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the acids formed from hydrogen and a halogen.
Related terms: hydrobromic
hydrochloric
hydrofluoric
hydroiodic
angiocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: perivascular
harshens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harshen
harshening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harshen
harshened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harshen
apophantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποφαντικός (apophantikós, “declaratory”).
Senses: glosses: Involving a declaration, statement, or proposition.
didoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dido
microaneurisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microaneurism
square-pushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Squarepushing up against a backdoor. Maul her a bit. Then the next thing on the menu.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: If I said, ‘Ch'est pour la nanny-goat,’ we'd go square-pushing. He didn't care which. I was the one for chasing the girls, he wasn't.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 34:
glosses: The act of going out with a girl; flirting, lovemaking.
lance-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lance-jacks
Senses: examples: text: They made him a lance-jack; but it was only because they wanted somebody tall at the end of the front rank to fix bayonets by.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 44:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A lance-corporal or lance-bombadier.
lance-jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lance-jack
mommet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mommets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mammet.
lamington drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamington drive
manslaughterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manslaughterer
catbutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catbutt
torsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torsed
form: most torsed
Etymology: From torse + -ed.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Wearing or having a torse.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Twisted.
Guernseyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guernseymen
Etymology: From Guernsey + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Guernsey; a Guernsey native or inhabitant.
Ausonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 63 Ausonia, a main belt asteroid.
azurophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˌz(j)ʊəɹəˈfɪlɪk/
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Readily stained with an azure stain
cymolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymolites
Senses: examples: text: Cymolite. Is a substance nearly allied to the preceding [Green Earth] and the following [Fuller’s Earth]; colour white, or with a reddish tinge, adheres to the tongue; in water separates in laminæ, which become translucent; is rare: from Derbyshire.
ref: 1816, John Mawe, A Descriptive Catalogue of Minerals, Intended for the Use of Students, pages 56–57:
text: Some similar plates have been obtained with the montmorillonites of St. Jean de Cole (Dordogne), of Confolens (Charente), the “confolensite” of Confolens (Charente), the steargilite of Poitiers (Vienne), the cymolites of the Isle of Cymolis (Greece), and the smectic clays of Reigate (England), and of Styrie.
ref: 1976, Wesley William Wendlandt, L.W. Collins, editors, Thermal Analysis, Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, →ISBN, page 15, →ISBN:
qualifier: erroneous
glosses: Rare spelling of cimolite.
reefer jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reefer jackets
Senses: examples: text: My great-uncle in a reefer-jacket, and looking like an old sea-captain with his white beard flying, was putting his whole heart and soul into the wheezey old harmonium [...].
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 59:
glosses: A thick double-breasted jacket.
Synonyms: pea coat
Derived terms: reefer-jacketed
reefer jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reefer jacket
cymoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīʹməskōp
ipa: /ˈsaɪməskəʊp/
Forms: form: cymoscopes
form: cymatoscope
form: kumascope
Etymology: First attested as cymatoscope in 1903 and as cymoscope in 1905; formed as cȳm- (the short stem of the Latin cȳma, from the Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma), kūma, “wave”) + -o- + -scope. Cymatoscope is philologically prescribed in place of cymoscope because it preserves the long stem (κῡμᾰτ- (kūmăt-), kūmat-) of its ultimate Ancient Greek etymon, which properly does not form compounds on its short stem (κῡμ- (kūm-), kūm-).
Senses: examples: text: Apparatus belonging to any of these groups might all be called a cymoscope, or wave-detector.
ref: 1905, Engineering, LXXIX, page 742:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
wireless-telegraphy
glosses: A detector of electromagnetic waves.
cymatoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīmăʹtōskōp
ipa: /saɪˈmætəʊskəʊp/
Forms: form: cymatoscopes
Senses: examples: text: The term is fairly satisfactory, but has been criticised by the Electrical Times, of London, which paper suggests “cymatoscope” as being more philologically correct, though this paper is not entirely satisfied with its own effort.
ref: 1903, George Worthington, editor, Electrical Review, XLII, page 535:
text: The term kumascope, which he had previously himself employed, does not comply with the strict rules of equivalency when Greek words are Anglicized. It is hoped, however, that in this correct form it may meet with acceptance. The word cymatoscope has also been suggested, but although this may be etymologically more correct, the shorter form will no doubt be preferred.
ref: 1908, John Ambrose Fleming, The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy, page 353:
text: Jenny also used a much more advanced form of wave generation: instead of using a bow string, he was able to create cymatoscopes using piezoelectric generators that could be regulated electronically and could produce steadier wave displacements than any of Jenny’s predecessors.
ref: 2010, Stephen D. Lewis, Seeing Sound: Hans Jenny and the Cymatic Atlas, page 17:
qualifier: philologically prescribed; but sees little actual use; philologically prescribed; but sees little actual use
glosses: Synonym of cymoscope.
synonyms: word: cymoscope
cymatotrichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Kentja race of Dravido-Australian origin is slender of body and has a long face with a protruding profil, the hair is cymatotrichous, the colour of the skin grows darker towards the feet, the piliation of the body is stronger than in the Malella race; the Kentja race is well represented in Madura.
ref: 1940, Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, XXXIX, page 82:
text: The Antarides are brown, cymatotrichous, dolicho-mesocephalic, with rather high heads, leptomesoprosopic, mesoleptorrhinous, and medium statured in comparison to the other populations of the Sunda Arch, so mostly taller than the Palae Mongolids.
ref: 1946, Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, XLIV, page 297:
text: Wavy — (Cymatotrichous). Flat Waved or Broad Waved or Narrow Waved or Curly.
ref: 1968, Indera P. Singh, M.K. Bhasin, Anthropometry, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of cymotrichous.
cymatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cymatoid
form: most cymatoid
Senses: examples: 1942, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland LIII–LVI, pages 234,⁽¹⁾ 235,⁽²⁾ and 236⁽³⁾
⁽¹⁾ In both, the septa are rather broadly waved in the dissepimentarium, and frequently show cymatoid carinae in the tabularium; the major septa are unequal and extend almost to the axis, without vortical curvature in the tabularium; dilatation of the septa occurs only near the epitheca.
⁽²⁾ Diagnosis: Acanthophyllum with about 26 septa of each order rather broadly wavy in the dissepimentarium, and somewhat dilated towards the periphery; the major septa are unequal and not vortically rotated, and may have cymatoid carinae in the tabularium; the cardinal or counter septum is frequently longer than the others.
⁽³⁾ Other specimens from this locality show a particularly strong development of cymatoid carinae.
glosses: Rare form of cymoid.
cymæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīʹmē
ipa: /ˈsaɪmiː/
Senses: examples: text: The flowers terminate the branches in four parted cymæ; they are white and make a pretty good appearance.
ref: 1785, Humphry Marshall, Arbuſtrum Americanum, page 161:
glosses: plural of cyma
testies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of testes.
gadjo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadjos
form: gadje
Etymology: Borrowed from Romani gaʒo. Doublet of gadgie and gorger.
Senses: synonyms: gadje
gajo
gauje
glosses: A non-Roma, a non-Romani person.
mallternative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallternatives
Etymology: Blend of mall + alternative.
Senses: examples: text: As the "over-the-counterculture'" has grown, as once cutting-edge alternative styles and products have become "mallternative," Newbury Comics has benefited from the market moving in its direction. Black leather biker jackets, body piercings, tattoos, and jarring hairstyles, which once could shock the counterculturally challenged, today are part of a lifestyle choice that barely raises eyebrows.
ref: 1997 August 24, Jim Sullivan, “Counter culture”, in The Boston Globe Magazine:
glosses: Any style or genre that is ostensibly counterculture or alternative, but actually mainstream enough to be encountered at a mall, or among the type of people who frequent a mall.
examples: text: Although several energy-depleting surface parking lots remain, Mass Avenue's interesting mix of business and people is quickly turning it into a full-fledged window shopper's mallternative, full of energy.
ref: 2004, Kyle Ezell, Get Urban!: The Complete Guide to City Living, Capital Books, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: An alternative to a mall, particularly an open-air urban shopping district.
Related terms: malternative
mallternatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallternative
cymae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīʹmē
ipa: /ˈsaɪmiː/
Senses: examples: text: Acanthus blossoms, drying like immortelles, “bloom continually” (Hellanicus, ap. Athen. XV, 680 a). Therefore carved acanthus garlands adorn the Erechtheum, while the plant is carved on cymae, stelae-acroteria (Conze, Attische Grabreliefs, pl. clxv) and antefixes (Lycian Payava Tomb), and is sketched from life on white Athenian lecythi (Brit. Mus. Coll. pl. xiv), which, conventionalized, it constantly encircles.
ref: 1905, American Journal of Archaeology, page 76:
glosses: plural of cyma
mutton dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutton daggers
Senses: examples: text: She would giggle silently and nudge the girl next to her, and so it would go; Rocco would be shaking his mutton dagger at every girl in class.
ref: 2002, Thomas McLoughlin, Soft Hearts and Hard Times: A Boys^([sic]) Life 1921-1941, page 165:
synonyms: beef bayonet
glosses: The penis.
manufactroversies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manufactroversy
manufactroversy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manufactroversies
Etymology: Blend of manufactured + controversy.
Senses: examples: text: There is, however, a manufactroversy — a manufactured controversy — created by junk science, dishonest researchers, professional misconduct, outright fraud, lies, misrepresentations, irresponsible reporting, unfortunate media publicity, poor judgment, celebrities who think they are wiser than the whole of medical science, and a few maverick doctors who ought to know better.
ref: 2009 June 3, Harriet Hall, “Vaccines & Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy”, in Skeptic:
glosses: The deliberate presentation of a largely uncontroversial matter as subject to substantive dispute in order to further a particular ideological or political agenda.
poncif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poncifs
Etymology: Borrowed from French poncif (“cliché, stereotype”), from French poncif (“stencil”), from poncer (“to copy with pouncing paper”) + -if, from ponce (“pumice”) + -er, from Late Latin pōmex (“pumice”), from Latin pūmex (“pumice”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”).
Senses: examples: text: This hope is based on an optimistic view that human beings are capable of understanding their culture, naïvely, if their minds have not been corrupted by the poncifs of fashion, the superficiality of the juste-milieu, or the kind of art which falsifies the conditions of life.
ref: 1999 July 29, J. A. Hiddleston, “Language and Rhetoric”, in Baudelaire and the Art of Memory, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: An unoriginal or uninspired idea; a cliché.
Related terms: foamy
pounce
pumice
meanderthal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meanderthals
Etymology: Blend of meander + Neanderthal.
Senses: examples: text: It takes 60 to 90 minutes to walk from the Eiffel Tower to the Marais, depending on how many slow-moving "Meanderthals" are in your way.
ref: 2000, Dan Levine, Paris: Insiders' Guide for Urban Adventurers, Empire Press, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: An aimless, slow-moving person.
meanderthals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meanderthal
Yaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The male name is ultimately from Arabic يَحْيَى (yaḥyā); likely through a West African language.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: get one's ya-yas out
menoporsche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menoporsches
Etymology: Blend of menopause + Porsche.
Senses: examples: text: Some doctors believe that midlife crises often stem from men's waning testosterone levels. Dr. Harry Fisch, a New York physician and author of the "Male Biological Clock," drolly refers to the phenomenon as "menoporsche," noting that testosterone treatment may prove a better antidote for the condition than the purchase of a new sports car.
ref: 2005 March 14, Shari Rudavsky, “Manopause”, in Indianapolis Star:
glosses: Male mid-life crisis or andropause, especially the type that manifests in attempts to reclaim lost youth, such as buying a sports car.
examples: text: At the onset of their mid-life crisis, along with the desire to recapture their lost youth, comes a yearning for the sexy, sleek, high-performance car of their dreams — the menoporsche.
ref: 2004, Antony Mason, Marina Muratore, The Bluffer's Guide to Men and Women, Oval Books, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A sports car bought by a man during a mid-life crisis.
Synonyms: sense: male middle-age decline
word: andropause
sense: male middle-age decline
word: manopause
menoporsches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menoporsche
gauge bosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gauge boson
microboredom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-boredom
Etymology: From micro- + boredom.
Senses: examples: text: Orange spokesman Matt Sears says you can use MobiTV to watch "regular telly in moments of microboredom".
ref: 2005 June 30, Jack Schofield, “One size fits all networks”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Momentary or short-lived boredom.
micro-boredom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While most of the participants used the internet for 'chore time', or to complete a specific task, 75% of visitors to the Open platform (BSkyB's digital interactive platform) went there to deal with 'micro-boredom' - to kill a few minutes of spare time.
ref: 2001 March 1, Louise Banbury, “Who's pressing the buttons?”, in Marketing:
glosses: Alternative form of microboredom.
Fuþark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of futhark.
fuþark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuþarks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of futhark.
blue ointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue ointments
Senses: examples: text: His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.
ref: 1861, Richard Barwell, A Treatise on the Joints, page 185:
text: In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.
ref: 1919, Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 73:
text: The worst I got was the crabs and I got rid of those with blue ointment.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 115:
glosses: Mercurial ointment.
conspirancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conspiracy.
market-gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market-garden
marine infantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marine infantry