cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heptaseme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptasemes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́σημος (heptắsēmos, “of seven marks”) compare semeion.
Senses: qualifier: ancient prosody
glosses: a unit of seven morae or units of time.
Hyponyms: Adonic
epitrite
thymelic
Coordinate terms: monoseme
triseme
Derived terms: heptasemic
heptasemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptaseme
Saraikistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Saraiki سرائیکستان (srā'īkstān).
Senses: glosses: A geographic region of Saraiki-speaking people, in Pakistan.
Related terms: Saraiki
Pakistan
sporo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒ.ɹə(ʊ)/
ipa: /spɔː.ɹə(ʊ)/
ipa: /spɔɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /spɔɹ.ə/
Forms: form: spor-
form: spori-
Etymology: From spore + -o-.
Senses: examples: text: sporocyst, sporangium, sporicidal
glosses: Relating to spores.
Palawans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palawan
Palawano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palawanos
Etymology: From Spanish palawano, from Palawan + -o.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the island of Palawan.
Synonyms: Palawan
Palaweño
Pala'wan
Palawano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish palawano, from Palawan + -o.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of languages spoken by these people.
Palaweño
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palaweños
Etymology: From Spanish palaweño, from Palawan + -eño.
Senses: examples: text: The major fear of Palaweños such as our guides, as they watch their forests disappear, is not the loss of beauty.
ref: 1994, Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Many Palaweños, subjected to air raids and wide ranging abuses from the Japanese, fled into the hills to build primitive homes near the native Batak tribesmen.
ref: 2016, Stephen L. Moore, As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: An inhabitant of the Palawan island.
Synonyms: Palawan
Palawano
Pala'wan
Pala'wan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pala'wans
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the island of Palawan.
Synonyms: Palawan
Palawano
Palaweño
Palawanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palawano
Palaweños
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palaweño
Pala'wans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pala'wan
schtup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃtʌp/
ipa: /ʃtʊp/
Forms: form: schtups
form: schtupping
form: schtupped
form: schtupped
Etymology: See the main lemma.
Senses: examples: text: “Such a Momma’s boy.” The old men had started up again—or perhaps they had never stopped. “No matter who he schtupped. Even Marilyn. I wouldn’t be surprised he was queer.”
ref: 1979, Michael Nickolay, chapter 9, in Brother & Sister: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shtup (“to push; to have sex (with)”).
antireductionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antireductionists
Etymology: From anti- + reductionist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proponent of antireductionism
guayabos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guayabo
guindillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guindilla
cymophenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of carvacrol.
synonyms: word: carvacrol
Japanese night heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese night herons
Senses: glosses: An endangered species of night heron, Gorsachius goisagi, which breeds in Japan and winters in the Philippines and Indonesia, and can also be seen in the spring and summer in Korea and the Russian Far East.
masculinistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masculinistic
form: most masculinistic
Etymology: From masculine + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Filling the gender gaps in history and art is then accompanied by a reflection on the masculinistic, hetero- and ethnocentric construction of cultural values as such.
ref: 1995, Rosemarie Buikema, Women's Studies and Culture: A Feminist Introduction, page 5:
glosses: Of or relating to or in accordance with masculinism.
Derived terms: masculinistically
masculinistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more masculinistically
form: most masculinistically
Etymology: From masculinistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a masculinistic way.
black-crowned night heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-crowned night herons
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia.
haplologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haplologizes
form: haplologizing
form: haplologized
form: haplologized
Etymology: From haplology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In neither instance is more than one possessive s manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes ''haplologize to a single instance of s.
ref: 2000, Morphologie / Morphology, 1. Halbband, →ISBN, page 395:
text: De Lacy admits that "[coalescence] does not make any prediction about the preservation of features when two affixes haplologize."
ref: 2007, Zheng Xu, Inflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: To undergo haplology.
examples: text: A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,
ref: 1999, Compositiones indogermanicae: in memoriam Jochem Schindler (Heiner Eichner, Hans Christian Luschützky, Velizar Sadovski)
text: For example, if the word haplology were to undergo haplology (were to be haplologized), it would reduce the sequence lolo to lo, haplology > haplogy.
ref: 2013, Lyle Campbell, Historical Linguistics, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: To shorten by haplology.
haplologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haplologize
haplologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haplologize
haplologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of haplologize
haplologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haplologises
form: haplologising
form: haplologised
form: haplologised
Senses: examples: text: […] where the SK has obviously misanalysed a "krtam nah" (haplologised by the reciters into "krta nah") and changed it into "karta nah" […]
ref: 1967, Indian Antiquary, page 12:
text: Since in some cases (see (51) below) only a haplologised form is reconstructable on the basis of the Oceanic evidence, I have opted for positing both full and haplologised forms for Proto-Oceanic where both types of witness are found.
ref: 1994, Andrew K. Pawley, Malcolm D. Ross, Austronesian Terminolgies: Continuity and Change, page 275:
text: […] and are therefore haplologised.
ref: 1996, Christel Stolz, Spatial Dimensions and Orientation of Objects in Yucatec Maya:
text: […] where both affixes appear in a sequence and neither one haplologises the other.
ref: 2014, Antonio Fábregas, “Phrasal Spell Out: An Argument From Haplology”, in Linguistic Analysis:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of haplologize.
haplologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haplologise
Kingdom of Great Britain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Great Britain
Etymology: From the name of the island. See Great Britain for more.
Senses: glosses: A former sovereign state in Western Europe, encompassing the island of Great Britain and formed from the union of the kingdoms of Scotland and England in 1707, predecessor of the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: word: United Kingdom of Great Britain
word: United Kingdom
english: official name
translation: official name
word: Great Britain
Tithonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tithonian.
synonyms: word: Tithonian
higumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higumens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hegumen.
fustick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fustic.
Apocrypha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See apocrypha.
Senses: synonyms: Deuterocanon
glosses: That group of works which formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews, and which is considered by some Christians to form an authentic part of Scripture, but which is rejected by others (namely by Protestants).
resiphon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resiphons
form: resiphoning
form: resiphoned
form: resiphoned
Etymology: From re- + siphon.
Senses: glosses: To siphon again or anew.
resiphons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resiphon
resiphoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resiphon
resiphoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resiphon
let someone go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets someone go
form: letting someone go
form: let someone go
form: let someone go
Senses: glosses: To dismiss someone from an employment position or a relationship.
Synonyms: lay off
acouchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acouchis
form: acouchy
form: acuchi
Etymology: From French acouchi, probably from the same Old Tupi name akuti as agouti.
Senses: glosses: Any of several rodents of the genus Myoprocta, smaller than agoutis, which inhabit Amazonia.
acouchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acouchy
knights caligate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knight caligate
knight caligate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knights caligate
form: knight-caligate
form: knight caligate of arms
form: knight-caligate of arms
Senses: glosses: A knight of the common birth who acted as a herald, messenger, and arms-bearer for a noble house and was distinguished by travelling on foot, by his two-color coat, and by his startups (“a kind of thigh-high boots”).
motherfreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfɹiːkɪŋ/
Etymology: Blend of motherfucking + freaking
Senses: examples: text: What I find insanely wonderful about this is that technically my friend is now driving a car which is powered by the motherfreakin’ sun.
ref: 2014 May 13, Matthew Inman, “What it’s like to own a Tesla Model S - A cartoonist’s review of his magical space car”, in The Oatmeal, retrieved 27 Jan 2015:
glosses: An intensifier, used in the same contexts as freaking, but more intense.
motherfreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfɹiːkɪŋ/
Etymology: Blend of motherfucking + freaking
Senses: examples: text: He is one motherfreaking mean dude.
glosses: To an extreme degree.
sugar parents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar parent
sugar mommy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar mommies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sugar mama.
sugar mummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar mummies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sugar mama.
sugar mamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar mammas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sugar mama.
Afghanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Afghanizes
form: Afghanizing
form: Afghanized
form: Afghanized
form: Afghanise
Etymology: From Afghan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Afghan; to cause to have an Afghani character.
rolling papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolling paper
glosses: Official documents permitting one to drive, (particularly) to drive a freight truck
signal aspect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal aspects
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The visual appearance of a railway signal
signal indication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: signal indications
Senses: glosses: The meaning of a railway signal
Related terms: signal aspect
PIV5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIV-5
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of parainfluenza virus 5.
Related terms: english: parainfluenza virus
translation: parainfluenza virus
word: PIV
PIVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIV
hPIV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hPIVs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of human parainfluenza virus.
Related terms: sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: parainfluenza virus
translation: parainfluenza virus
word: PIV
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 1
translation: human parainfluenza virus 1
word: hPIV-1
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 1
translation: human parainfluenza virus 1
word: hPIV1
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 2
translation: human parainfluenza virus 2
word: hPIV-2
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 2
translation: human parainfluenza virus 2
word: hPIV2
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 3
translation: human parainfluenza virus 3
word: hPIV-3
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 3
translation: human parainfluenza virus 3
word: hPIV3
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 4
translation: human parainfluenza virus 4
word: hPIV-4
sense: human parainfluenza virus
english: human parainfluenza virus 4
translation: human parainfluenza virus 4
word: hPIV4
hPIVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hPIV
PIV-5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIV5
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of parainfluenza virus 5.
Related terms: english: parainfluenza virus
translation: parainfluenza virus
word: PIV
catenatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catenative
sheesh kebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheesh kebabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shish kebab.
Five Eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In fact, in 2003, during the United Nations Security Council debate over whether to invade Iraq, the NSA asked all Five Eyes countries to target the communications between diplomats on the Council.
ref: 2008, James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, Anchor, →ISBN:
text: Broadly speaking, the NSA has three different categories of foreign relationships. The first is with the Five Eyes group: the US spies with these countries, but rarely on them, unless requested to by those countries' own officials.
ref: 2014, Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An alliance of the intelligence agencies of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
FVEY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Five Eyes.
crown jewel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown jewels
Senses: glosses: A prized possession or asset, originally one making up part of the royal regalia.
topics: business
glosses: A valuable part of a company, especially one that is sought by another in a hostile takeover.
Related terms: crown jewels
Crown Jewels
uninferant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninferant
form: most uninferant
Etymology: From un- + infer + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 69:
text: riders horses bison beating on soporific wings through the high dry air their close-ranked bodies blotting out the earth so as to be uninferant of progress except that the hooves beneath them jolted on the solid ground
ref: 1975, David Williams, The Burning Wood, page 146:
text: From the cot on which he lay uninferant of what might lie ahead in eternal afterlife he watched three pigs poke moist pink slimy snouts obscenely through the warped slats
ref: 2020, Kirk Curnutt, “The Snopes of Kilimanjaro”, in Studies in the American Short Story, volume 1, number 1:
glosses: Not implying or supporting an inference.
kathodophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathodophones
Senses: glosses: An obsolete form of microphone that detected sound waves by measuring the density of ionised air between a cathode and an anode
Dalhart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Dallam County and Hartley County and their border.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Dallam County, Texas, United States.
Sinton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of San Patricio County, Texas.
Rusk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lost River Township, Martin County, Indiana.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Texas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
glosses: A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Red Cedar, Dunn County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A small town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Rusk County
acouchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acouchi
calls to prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call to prayer
iqamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iqama
iqamat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iqamats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iqama.
iqamats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iqamat
pull-off cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pull-off caps
Etymology: From pull-off + cap.
Senses: glosses: A bottle cap that can be opened by pulling a ring or tab and thereby loosening the cap from the bottle.
Afghanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Afghanises
form: Afghanising
form: Afghanised
form: Afghanised
Etymology: From Afghan + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Afghanize.
Luann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Lu + Ann.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
crown cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown caps
Senses: glosses: A type of bottle cap made by pressing a circular piece of metal around the top of the bottle.
Synonyms: crown cork
crown seal
posterchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posterchildren
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of poster child.
crown cork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown corks
Senses: glosses: A crown cap.
toolage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tool + -age.
Senses: glosses: the wear and tear involved in tool usage
glosses: the quality of being a tool; obnoxiousness; conceit; hubris
leave it be
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves it be
form: leaving it be
form: left it be
form: left it be
Senses: glosses: Synonym of let it be.
synonyms: word: let it be
step up one's game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps up one's game
form: stepping up one's game
form: stepped up one's game
form: stepped up one's game
Senses: synonyms: lift one's game
raise one's game
up one's game
up the game
glosses: To improve one's performance, or the quality of one's work.
blood, sweat and tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
form: blood, sweat, and tears
Etymology: Popularized through a famous speech made by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons in 1940, with slight modification, but already present in earlier poetry.
More information
May be an extension of a much older Indo-European poetic formula “blood and tears”; compare e.g. Hittite 𒂊𒌍𒄩𒉌 𒅖𒄩𒄴𒊒𒌑𒄿 (e-eš-ḫa-ni iš-ḫa-aḫ-ru-ú-i, “in blood [and] in tear(s)”). It is common in Indo-European oral traditions to three bodily substances pertaining to a certain theme, such as “flesh, bone and marrow” for the internal solids (cf. Calin (2017), pages 143–146).
Senses: examples: text: We've poured lots of blood, sweat, and tears into this project.
text: […] for if Princes could keep their own, and that which juſtly belongeth unto them, they could not be urged to draw ſuch extraordinary Subſidies from the blood, ſweat, and tears of their people-; […]
ref: c. 1680 [1655], William Drummond of Hawthornden, “The History of the Reign of James the Firſt, King of Scotland”, in The History of Scotland […] , Tho. Fabian, page 29:
text: She concludes: "I have put blood, sweat and tears into this business. I am genuinely more excited now than I have ever been. I plan to stick around."
ref: 2021 October 20, Angie Doll explains to Paul Clifton, “We were absolutely at rock bottom...”, in RAIL, number 942, page 37:
glosses: A person's determination and hard work.
wikipedia: Winston Churchill
hole saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hole saws
form: holesaw
Etymology: From hole + saw.
Senses: glosses: A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder with teeth on the end or edge, used to produce holes on the workpiece and operated by rotation, often as an accessory to a power drill.
Synonyms: crown saw
Related terms: alt: trephine
word: trepan
Fermi gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fermi gases
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gas composed of a large number of fermions.
crown colony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown colonies
Senses: glosses: A British colony ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch.
Synonyms: royal colony
Related terms: dominion
protectorate
crown colonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown colony
the heart wants what it wants
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the heart wants what the heart wants
Senses: glosses: Who one falls in love with is not a rational or deliberate decision.
'que
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'ques
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing left on the plate but some 'que sauce and a bit of Wonder Bread.
ref: 1979, New West, volume 4, part 1, page 128:
text: Truth, Justice and the BBQ way / In a world full of Arby^([sic]) 'ques and McRibs, […]
ref: 2001, Doug Worgul, The Grand Barbecue: A Celebration of the History, Places, Personalities and Techniques of Kansas City Barbeque, →ISBN, page 71:
text: But for 'que it's probably better known as the Pimlico or Churchill Downs of competition barbecue.
ref: 2003, Steven Raichlen, BBQ USA: 425 Fiery Recipes from All Across America, →ISBN, page 599:
text: Although the blue haze you see rising from a Western skyline is often that of a barbecue pit, the quest for 'que is one that's been undertaken in the East as well as the West. In fact, some of the earliest barbecue can be traced back to the East […]
ref: 2004 September-October, American Cowboy, volume 11, number 2, page 53
text: But he cooked such good barbeque that one day, Albert Hartley, who's long dead now, said, "Why don't you cook up some 'que and sell it? People would come buy it if you cooked it."
ref: 2013, A History of South Carolina Barbeque, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Clipping of barbeque.
'cue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'cues
Etymology: Aphetic form of barbecue.
Senses: examples: text: Some are homes that are converted into barbecue joints and, yes, some are even part of a church. [It ...] will inspire you to do your best in whatever you do, no matter how humble, or at least inspire you to go out and get some 'cue.
ref: 2008, David Gelin, BBQ Joints, →ISBN, page 22:
text: One of the premier events on the BBQ cooking contest circuit. […] To actually feast on some 'cue, head to one of Memphis's many great barbecue restaurants.
ref: 2013, Four Seasons of Travel, →ISBN, page 18:
text: “'Cue's up!” “Ugh, none for me. I lost my appetite due to your ass-smelling yard.” “Oh, yeah. The skunk population is exploding this year.”
ref: 2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:17 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz):
glosses: Clipping of barbecue.
Derived terms: banana cue
camote cue
wall plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall plates
Etymology: From Middle English wall plate, walplate, equivalent to wall + plate.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A piece of timber laid horizontally in or on a wall as a support for a girder, rafter, or joist.
examples: text: Wallplate sockets may become obstructed when a room is repainted; be sure the gold contacts inside the socket are clean.
ref: 1995, David Hakala, Modems made easy: the basics and beyond!, page 237:
hyponyms: switchplate
glosses: A plate mounted to a wall as a housing.
Synonyms: raising piece
reason
snippeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yet the information obtained is immense, and will, we suspect, when published in a readable form,— for snippeting spoils Mr. Senior's work,— have an important influence over public opinion.
ref: 1864, “Mr. Nassau Senior”, in Littell’s Living Age, volume 82, page 230:
glosses: Act of snippeting, excerpting.
examples: text: There was a snippeting of scissors, and snappeting of thread …
ref: 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester::
text: … sounded like the working of a pair of fine silver scissors snippeting a measured line along the margin of the dark …
ref: 2005, Rafi Zabor, I, Wabenzi,, page 294:
glosses: Sound of snipping, as in scissors.
Synonyms: sense: producing extract
word: excerpting
snippeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snippet
Related terms: clipping
trimming
criminal psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Branch of psychology which studies the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals.
scorereader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorereaders
Etymology: From score + reader.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Musical notation reading software, used to read sheet music (especially for piano) and play it back.
Related terms: scorewriter
player piano
virtual piano
virtual piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual pianos
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An online software application designed to simulate playing a piano (or other keyboard instrument) on a personal computer, mobile device or a tablet computer.
apophysate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Possessing an apophysis
planectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: planectomies
Etymology: From planum + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: The removal of the nasal planum (the flat tip of the nose in cats and dogs).
nematodesmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The nematodesmata extend posteriorly to form the rhabdos or litostome cytopharyngeal apparatus. Dileptus species may have two rings of nematodesmata, the inner one of which is not associated with kinetosomes (Grain & Golińska, 1969).
ref: 2008, Denis Lynn, The Ciliated Protozoa:
glosses: Bundles of microtubules that support the oral cilia in some protozoa.
monokinetid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monokinetids
Etymology: From mono- + kinetid.
Senses: glosses: A structure, in some protozoa, consisting of a single kinetid
Related terms: dikinetid
kinetal
monokinetidal
polykinetid
dikinetid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dikinetids
Etymology: From di- + kinetid.
Senses: glosses: A structure, in some protozoa, consisting of a pair of kinetids
Related terms: kinetal
monokinetid
polykinetid
kinety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kineties
Senses: glosses: A row of granules at the base of a cilium.
kineties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinety
monokinetids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monokinetid
dikinetids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dikinetid
big things come in small packages
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Things should not be underestimated because of their small size.
diaphasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to diaphasia.
diaphasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dia- + Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “utterance”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The variation in a language across degrees of formality.
Derived terms: diaphasic
Eonavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Galician-Asturian
'cues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'cue
'ques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'que
abuts on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abut on
abutted on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abut on
abutting on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abut on
adds on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of add on
adding on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of add on
added on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of add on
asking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ask out
asks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ask out
asked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ask out
belts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belt out
belting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belt out
belted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belt out
blasts off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blast off
blasting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blast off
blasted off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blast off
snowmageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowmageddons
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Snowmageddon.
roars on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roar on
roared on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roar on
roaring on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roar on
snowmageddons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowmageddon
palms off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of palm off
palmed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palm off
sizes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of size up
sizing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of size up
sized up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of size up
unalienates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unalienate
unalienating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unalienate
mongos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mongo
hanza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanzas
Etymology: From Hausa [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Boscia senegalensis, a perennial woody plant species of the genus Boscia, native to West Africa
moose limb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moose limbs
Senses: examples: text: a century from now, children will ask; "daddy what's a moose limb?"
ref: 2003, mummu, “Islamic paedophiles want more: The Times(London)”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of mooselimb.
moose limbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooselimb
iPS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of induced pluripotent stem.
Derived terms: english: human induced pluripotent stem
translation: human induced pluripotent stem
word: hiPS
word: iPS cell
word: hiPS cell
Related terms: english: induced pluripotent stem cell
translation: induced pluripotent stem cell
word: iPSC
guerrilleras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guerrillera
guerrillera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guerrilleras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guerrillera.
Senses: glosses: A female guerrilla fighter.
hiPS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of human induced pluripotent stem.
Derived terms: hiPS cell
Related terms: english: human induced pluripotent stem cell
translation: human induced pluripotent stem cell
word: hiPSC
english: induced pluripotent stem
translation: induced pluripotent stem
word: iPS
bran tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bran tubs
Senses: glosses: A tub filled with bran in which small gifts are buried as a lucky dip
Synonyms: bran pie
Congo Free State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Congo Free State
Senses: glosses: A former colony of Central Africa that was ruled by King Leopold II of Belgium as absolute ruler from 1885 until it was annexed by Belgium in 1908. Former name of Democratic Republic of the Congo
North Vietnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: North Viet-Nam
form: North Viet Nam
Senses: examples: text: When we visited Laos, I had lunch with Souvanna Phouma. During the course of the lunch, he said we ought to bomb Red China, that it was the effective way to stop their aid to North Vietnam.
ref: 1976, Hubert H. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 333:
glosses: A former Communist country in Southeast Asia that governed northern Vietnam from 1945 to 1975. Official name: Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Synonyms: Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam
Democratic Republic of Viet Nam
DRV
NV
Derived terms: DRV
Related terms: north
North Vietnamese
South Vietnam
Viet Nam
Vietnam
Viet-Nam
Gridley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Butte County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village and township in McLean County, Illinois, named after Asahel Gridley.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Emmet County, Iowa, named after Asahel Gridley.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Coffey County, Kansas.
mess with the bull and you get the horns
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
synonyms: word: when you mess with the bull
word: you get the horns
Chertsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜːtsiː/
Etymology: From Old English Ċeortes īeġ, from the personal name *Cerot + -es + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Runnymede district, Surrey, England.
glosses: A small town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A municipality of Quebec, Canada.
karashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of Japanese mustard made from the brown mustard plant.
Corsicana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After the island of Corsica, the birthplace of the name-giver's father.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Navarro County, Texas, United States.
interveinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + veinal.
Senses: examples: text: In E. tereticornis, deficiency begins as interveinal chlorosis [yellowing] of young leaves with tissue near the veins remaining green.
ref: 2000, P. J. Keane, Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts, →ISBN, page 392:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring between veins.
heroicke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heroicke
form: most heroicke
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of heroic.
asha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Transliteration of Avestan 𐬀𐬴𐬀 (aṣ̌a). Doublet of rta.
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
antonyms: druj
glosses: The concept of truth and existence in Zoroastrianism, usually associated with the Amesha Spentas.
wikipedia: asha
purity test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purity tests
Senses: examples: text: […] popular online “purity tests,” which use a series of 500 questions about sexual experience and drug use to establish one's level of “purity.”
ref: 2017, Jonathan P. Eburne, Benjamin Schreier, The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons, page 224:
glosses: An informal survey that assesses the participant's supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters, such as sex, drugs, and deceit.
examples: text: To begin, we return to Will: “What started as a critical reading of a children's book became a social justice 'racial equity' purity test full of hypocrisy”.
ref: 2019, Jessica S. Mitchell, Erin N. Vaughn, Participatory Literacy Practices for P-12 Classrooms in the Digital Age, page 211:
text: In retrospect, this was the height (or perhaps the nadir) of a kind of purity-test politics that was making some swing voters, including Rogan, feel less at home in the Democratic coalition.
ref: 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A rigid standard on a specific issue by which a politician or other figure is evaluated.
Derived terms: nerdity test
purity tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purity test
house in Virginia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The phrase has the same initials as the name of the virus.
Senses: examples: text: That other crowd, which is the crowd made up of members of our own same-gender loving community saying, “Girl, Miss Thing losing too much weight. She must have a House In Virginia!”
ref: 2010, Badilisho, “Well It’s Official... Er’body Can Get Married In D.C.” In Mighty Real: An Anthology of African American Same Gender Loving Writing, ed. R. Bryant Smith and Darius Omar Williams, Lulu.com, p. 399
text: Charles suddenly grew very serious. He paused, and then spoke. “Well... how can I put this... Naleejah has a House In Virginia.”
ref: 2012, Dream Jordan, Bad Boy, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 115:
text: “Looks ain’t everything—like a bad bitch could have that house in Virginia, you never know,” says Scoop.
ref: 2013, M. K. Asante, Buck: A Memoir, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.
planectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planectomy
skets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sket
Kerens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Navarro County, Texas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
serosorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sero- + sorting.
Senses: glosses: The practice of using HIV status as a decision-making point in choosing sexual behavior.
Related terms: serosort
Perches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in northeastern Haiti.
tinea versicolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinea versicolour
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin condition of a yeast infection causing discoloured patches on the trunk and proximal extremities.
Synonyms: pityriasis versicolor
gold master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold masters
form: golden master
form: GM
Etymology: See master (“original document or recording”). They used to be prepared on gold-coloured recordable compact discs.
Senses: examples: text: The gold master is the version of the game that will be shipped to stores—the end product, the finish line.
ref: 2006, Phil Co, Level Design for Games, New Riders:
text: Chances are good that the game you were developing will be played on one or more consoles; as a result, you will also have to submit the Gold Master to the console's manufacturer for approval as well.
ref: 2013, Rich Newman, Cinematic Game Secrets for Creative Directors and Producers, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: The finished version of a software program, which is sent for duplication onto physical media to be distributed.
Derived terms: go gold
gold masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold master
tinea versicolour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tinea versicolor.
undemolished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + demolished.
Senses: glosses: Not demolished.
premobilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + mobilization.
Senses: glosses: Actions taken in advance of, and in preparation for, mobilization (of an army).
Moron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in southwestern Haiti.
preapical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + apical.
Senses: examples: text: The aortoiliac bifurcations were divided into three regions based on the area changes: an apical region corresponding to the bifurcation apex (taper = 2.96 ± 0.80 mm²/mm), a preapical region (flare = 3.58 ± 0.87 mm²/mm), and the postapical region (flare = 0.82 ± 0.80 mm²/mm).
ref: 1998, Neil F. MacLean, Margot R. Roach, “Thickness, taper, and ellipticity in the aortoiliac bifurcation of patients aged 1 day to 76 years”, in Heart and Vessels, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, →PMID, page 95:
synonyms: anteapical
glosses: Located before an apex.
preapical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preapicals
Etymology: From pre- + apical.
Senses: glosses: Such a structure.
liberal eugenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ideology that advocates the use of reproductive and genetic technologies where the choice of enhancing human characteristics and capacities is left to the individual preferences of parents acting as consumers, rather than the public health policies of the state.
Roseaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in southwestern Haiti.
Borgne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in northern Haiti.
thiefproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thiefproof
form: most thiefproof
Etymology: From thief + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: And this fireproof, thiefproof office is one of the nerve centres. From this console I can access ... nearly everything.
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 2, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: secure against thieves
Ferrier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a Scottish and English surname, from French ferrier (“ironsmith”). Compare Farrar, Farrier.
* Also as a Scottish and English surname, from the noun ferrier (“ferryman”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A commune in northeastern Haiti.
Derived terms: Ferrier carbocyclization
Ferrier rearrangement
Aquin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Haiti.
Hinche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Haiti.
Romanesco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊ.məˈnɛs.kəʊ/
ipa: /ɹoʊ.məˈnɛs.koʊ/
Forms: form: romanesco
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian romanesco (“of or pertaining to Rome”).
Senses: glosses: The dialect of the Italian language spoken in Rome.
Carice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in northern Haiti.
Gustine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Merced County, California, United States.
glosses: A town in Comanche County, Texas, United States.
scorereaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorereader
superfinishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + finishing.
Senses: glosses: A metalworking process that improves surface finish and workpiece geometry by removing the thin amorphous surface layer left by the last process with an abrasive stone or tape.
loaded language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Language using words, set phrases or idioms that have strong positive or negative connotations beyond their ordinary definitions.
Synonyms: word: loaded word
english: usually sexual or risque
translation: usually sexual or risque
word: double entendre
english: having multiple meanings
translation: having multiple meanings
word: overloaded
blue corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of corn with dark bluish grains.
Synonyms: Hopi maize
coinvestigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coinvestigates
form: coinvestigating
form: coinvestigated
form: coinvestigated
Etymology: From co- + investigate.
Senses: glosses: To investigate together.
coinvestigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinvestigations
Etymology: From co- + investigation.
Senses: glosses: joint investigation, carried out by more than one individual
coinvestigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinvestigators
Etymology: From co- + investigator.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in a joint investigation.
coinvestigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coinvestigate
coinvestigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coinvestigate
coinvestigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coinvestigate
coinvestigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinvestigation
coinvestigators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinvestigator
triboluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more triboluminescent
form: most triboluminescent
Etymology: From tribo- + luminescent.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to triboluminescence.
fractoluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fracto- + luminescence.
Senses: glosses: The emission of light from fractured crystals; a form of triboluminescence.
sonoluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more sonoluminescent
form: most sonoluminescent
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to sonoluminescence.