cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
red in tooth and claw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H.
Senses: examples: text: We love nature, but nature doesn't love us. One night in the Amazon rainforest will show us that nature is red in tooth and claw.
text: And he, shall he,
Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair, […]
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation’s final law—
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed— […]
Be blown about the desert dust,
Or seal’d within the iron hills?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Characterized by uncaring, amoral ruthlessness or brutality, especially of a kind seen as reflecting the way of things in nature.
wikipedia: In Memoriam A.H.H.
Related terms: tooth and nail
red-toothed
Osney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5005).
expansion card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expansion cards
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: expansion board
adapter card
peripheral card
accessory card
glosses: A circuit board that connects to the motherboard of a computer in order to allow additional capabilities.
expansion cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expansion card
false pregnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false pregnancies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pseudocyesis.
synonyms: word: pseudocyesis
fancy up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fancies up
form: fancying up
form: fancied up
form: fancied up
Senses: glosses: To make more stylish, neat, or extravagant
false pregnancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false pregnancy
fan letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fan letters
Senses: glosses: A letter from a fan; an instance of fan mail.
fan letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan letter
farmer's lung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by inhaling dusts from hay or other agricultural products.
super troupers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super trouper
pornophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornophonies
Etymology: From porno- + -phony.
Senses: examples: text: Distributors of canned music—from the self-effacing Muzak air-freshener and the beguiling radio commercial to the pornophony of the disk jockey's turntable and the jukebox—thrive because their products, for better or worse, bewitch those who listen to them.
ref: 1963, Harper's Magazine May 1963, page 77:
text: Puccini endowed his love duets with a sensual lyricism, an almost erotic mysticism that has been called pornophony.
ref: 2002, Puccini's Turandot, page 19:
text: O tongue of oil between the violated
thighs of Iraw, whose open mouth is Israel licking America's gun-butt
while the pornophony
of Palestine gangbanged by all three
sounds though the wall the gyzym
and saliva cries in twisted lascivia...
ref: 2008, All that's left, page 27:
glosses: obscene or erotic sounds or music.
karuhiruhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karuhiruhi
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kāruhiruhi.
Senses: glosses: The Australian pied cormorant.
burroti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrotis
Etymology: Blend of burrito + roti.
Senses: examples: text: Tava Indian Kitchen, a chain in San Francisco known locally as the "Indian Chipotle," offers "burroti." In this Indian burrito, traditional ingredients such as fresh paneer cheese are coated with a choice of Indian sauces and rolled with brown rice in a foil-wrapped roti.
ref: 2016, Sarah Lohman, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, New York, N.Y. […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 115:
text: Customers can create their own bowls or build their own 'burroti', a roti-style burrito, or build a plate if they're feeling extra snacky.
ref: 2023 July 14, Jen Zielinski, “Different and delicious Indian restaurant descends on Kelowna”, in The Vernon Morning Star, Vernon, B.C.: Black Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023:
glosses: A fusion dish based on the popular Mission burrito, but prepared using Indian ingredients.
burrotis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burroti
Mission burrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mission burritos
Etymology: From the Mission neighbourhood of San Francisco, where the Mission burrito was first developed.
Senses: glosses: A dish in American cuisine usually consisting of a tortilla wrapped around meat, rice, beans, sour cream, as well as various vegetables and sauces. The Mission burrito is distinguished from a traditional burrito by its larger size and greater diversity of ingredients and is the most common variety of burrito consumed at a typical "burrito restaurant".
Mission burritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mission burrito
Tannerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannerite
Etymology: From Tannerite, a brand of binary explosive targets.
Senses: glosses: A material that is used to make binary explosive targets.
wikipedia: Tannerite
tannerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tannerite.
motherflipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherflippers
Senses: qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Motherfucker.
Related terms: motherflipping
motherflippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motherflipper
Chinada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaɪnədə/
Etymology: Blend of China + Canada.
Senses: examples: text: For the tiny 35-million population of Canada, including some selfish former Hongkongers who landed shortly after the Tiananmen massacre in June 1989, it would be a nightmare to witness the country that they love transform into a Chinada.
ref: 2014 February 20, “Canada Says No To Chinada”, in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2023:
text: In recent years, a reverse brain drain has seen Canadian-born Chinese moving back to Hong Kong and China in search of better job opportunities (there are up to 300,000 Canadian passport holders in Hong Kong). ¶ They've been replaced by a new wave of Chinese arrivals, this time from the mainland. As one commentator puts it: "Forget Hongcouver, here comes Chinada!"
ref: 2017 June 29, Simon Ostheimer, “World's best Chinatowns”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2023:
text: Unsurprisingly, Skelly and his team are already painting what happened away as simple corruption. Skelly laid the groundwork for this in his morning blog, writing "the Crown will rely on procedural BS or a biased judge." Afterwards on Twitter he wrote, "welcome to Chinada."
ref: 2021 June 28, Mack Lamoureux, quoting Adam Skelly, “BBQ Bro Who Raised $350K to Fight Lockdowns Defeated by His Lawyer's Paperwork”, in VICE, archived from the original on 15 May 2023:
text: At the Dec. 15 event, which The Gazette attended, Pawlowski told the crowd "we are in the middle of tyranny," comparing COVID-19 public health measures to his childhood in Poland under a communist government. ¶ [Artur] Pawlowski also said he calls Canada "Chinada" because of the fines and charges he has faced for breaching pandemic-related health measures.
ref: [2022 December 26, Jack Farrell, “Arden rental policies under scrutiny after controversial event”, in St. Albert Gazette, St. Albert, A.B.: Great West Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2022:
glosses: A version of Canada influenced or politically dominated by the People's Republic of China.
Related terms: Commiefornia
Gilead
osteorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: examples: text: Good results are seldom obtained by wiring the bone fragments, i. e., a uniting of the fractured pieces by means of wire sutures (osteorrhaphy). Wire sutures generally hamper a normal healing of the fracture, because they act as a foreign body, delay consolidation and quite often lead to necrosis and sequestrum.
ref: 1944, Filip Pålsson, “Palsson, F. (1944). Orthopaedic Treatment of Fractures of the Lower Jaw in Children: With Special Reference to Two Cases treated in Children under Two Years of Age”, in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, volume 5, number 2, →DOI, page 33:
text: At our hospital, the temporal approach is most frequently employed, but osteorrhaphy by exposing the fracture site is also performed depending on the indications.
ref: 1987, Yoshiharu Kawano, “Three Dimensional Analysis of the Face in Respect of Zygomatic Fractures and Evaluation of the Surgery with the Aid of Moiré Topography”, in Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, volume 15, →DOI, page 72:
text: Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is commonly used as the load-bearing materials of bone implants such as hip prosthesis, sutures in osteorrhaphy, and synthetic ligaments.
ref: 2017 October 20, Chengchong Ai, Dandan Sheng, Jun Chen, Jiangyu Cai, Siheng Wang, Jia Jiang, Shiyi Chen, “Surface modification of vascular endothelial growth factor-loaded silk fibroin to improve biological performance of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene via promoting angiogenesis”, in International Journal of Nanomedicine, volume 12, →DOI, page 7737:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of osteosuture.
synonyms: word: osteosuture
mythopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mythopathic
form: most mythopathic
Senses: glosses: Understanding the meanings of myths, parables and sacred stories.
Tom-and-Jerryish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tom-and-Jerryish
form: most Tom-and-Jerryish
Senses: examples: text: The stories are amusing, well-written and Tom-and-Jerryish. Sir Charles, playing the cat, always loses, becoming more apoplectic each time.
ref: 1981 May 3, Newgate Callendar [pseudonym; Harold Charles Schonberg], “Crime”, in The New York Times, page 39:
text: It is very sweet and sentimental, but fortunately has enough Tom-and-Jerryish slapstick violence to keep your teeth from grinding.
ref: 1982 November 25, Kirk Honeycutt, “Heidi’s Song”, in North County Magazine (Times-Advocate), page 15:
text: It has nothing else going for it except a little slice of silly, Tom-and-Jerryish action.
ref: 1991 May 17, Rene Carlos, “Not enough effects in ‘FX 2’”, in Chicago Tribune, 144th year, number 137, section 7, page K:
text: Bochco and the show’s writer-producer, Nat Mauldin, provide plenty of stuff for the kiddies as well: Animation that is closer to the feature-film than TV standard; Tom-and-Jerryish chase scenes; slaphappy characters and pratfally situations.
ref: 1992 January 28, Ed Siegel, “Move over, Mickey”, in The Boston Globe, volume 241, number 28, pages 25 and 28:
text: Tom-and-Jerryish spats between Macron and Salvini over art, the euro and migrants feed into a clash for political domination of the Continent, argues Roger Boyes […] The confrontation between Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, may appear Tom-and-Jerryish but it is Europe’s argument made flesh, a gladiatorial struggle between global elites and insurgent politicians for the Continent’s future.
ref: 2019 January 19, Roger Boyes, “The prig versus the populist is a battle for Europe’s soul”, in The Times, page 34:
text: From arguments around the dinner table and a fiasco with bunk beds to nautical misadventures and plenty of Tom-and-Jerryish physical violence, this mines the comedy of immature men acting Like children for all it’s worth.
ref: 2019 April 17, Laurence Phelan, “Film Choice”, in i, number 2,619, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of Tom and Jerryish.
king fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king foxes
Etymology: Calque of Persian شاهروباه (šâhrubâh).
Senses: glosses: Blanford's fox (Vulpes cana)
king foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king fox
gate-crashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gate-crasher
gelometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelometer
the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
phubbees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phubbee
wishes upon a star
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wish upon a star
wishing upon a star
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wish upon a star
wished upon a star
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wish upon a star
LaRae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: LaRaes
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Chagas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
horn-helmeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Kirby's Thor was powerful and good-looking, [...] his Loki a sardonic horn-helmeted creature of pure mischief.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page xi:
glosses: Wearing a (nominally Viking) helmet sporting twin horns.
world tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world trees
Senses: examples: text: He hung from the world-tree, Yggdrasil, hung there for nine nights.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 1:
glosses: In various mythologies, an enormous tree that connects or forms an axis between different realms or worlds and serves as a symbol of the universe's structure and interconnectedness.
Coordinate terms: tree of life
axis mundi
world trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world tree
gallows god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallows gods
Senses: examples: text: It is from this tree that Odin hanged himself in sacrifice, making the world-tree a gallows and himself the gallows god.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil.
gallows gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallows god
DESNZ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Acoba has given Lovegrove, who served as permanent secretary in a predecessor department to DESNZ from 2013 to 2016, permission to “draw on his skills and experience gained in office to advise the Rolls-Royce SMR Board on its strategy and proposals.
ref: 2023 December 22, Henry Dyer, “Sir Stephen Lovegrove to chair Rolls-Royce-led nuclear consortium”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
fumble-fingered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fumble-fingered
form: most fumble-fingered
Senses: examples: text: "Lies!" said the tallest of the sons of Ivaldi. "I wouldn't trust those fumble-fingered incompetents to shoe a horse."
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 34:
glosses: Clumsy with the hands; liable to drop things frequently.
nanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nank
nanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nank
suspish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suspish
form: most suspish
Senses: examples: text: They've lived here a long time. Stranger-wise the folks are a bit suspish, but not of one of themselves.
ref: 2000, Leo Bruce, Death at Hallows End:
synonyms: sus
glosses: Clipping of suspicious.
retracters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retracter
chefmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chef + -manship.
Senses: glosses: The culinary skill of a chef.
aeradios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeradio
acidically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acidically
form: most acidically
Etymology: From acidic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an acidic manner.
amylobarbitones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amylobarbitone
agnolottis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agnolotti
agarwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agarwood
aloeswoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aloeswood
airboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sport of riding an airboard.
ring-oath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-oaths
Senses: examples: text: "The wall is growing apace," he said. "And we swore an unbreakable oath, a ring-oath and a weapon-oath, that if he finishes building his wall in time, we will give him the sun and the moon[.]"
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 59:
glosses: An oath sworn upon a finger ring.
ring-oaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring-oath
folds down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fold down
folding down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fold down
wizenedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wizened: most wizened
folded down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fold down
wordwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of word wrap.
wordwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wordwraps
form: wordwrapping
form: wordwrapped
form: wordwrapped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of word wrap.
wordwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wordwrap
wordwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wordwrap
wordwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wordwrap
weapon oath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weapon oaths
Senses: examples: text: "The wall is growing apace," he said. "And we swore an unbreakable oath, a ring-oath and a weapon-oath, that if he finishes building his wall in time, we will give him the sun and the moon[.]".
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 59:
glosses: A solemn oath sworn upon a weapon, such as practised in ancient Norse tradition.
weapon oaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weapon oath
ustulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ustulate
ustulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ustulate
ustulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ustulate
ustulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ustulated
form: most ustulated
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ustulate.
synonyms: word: ustulate
unilingualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unilingualists
Etymology: From unilingual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monolingualist.
synonyms: word: monolingualist
unilingualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unilingualist
monolingualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monolingualists
Etymology: From monolingual + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: unilingualist
glosses: One who understands, or supports the use of, only one language.
monolingualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monolingualist
unfreezings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfreezing
yellow coltsfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow coltsfoots
Senses: examples: text: The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion[.]
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 60:
glosses: An herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East.
yellow coltsfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow coltsfoot
umbelule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbelules
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of umbellule.
umbelules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbelule
tyropitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyropita
tetraethylleads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraethyllead
sweetheartings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweethearting
glueings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glueing
superglueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superglue
spongeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sponge
spongeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongeings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sponging.
spongeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongeing
sermonisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sermonising
rewildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewilding
has the wolf by the ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the wolf by the ear
having the wolf by the ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the wolf by the ear
had the wolf by the ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the wolf by the ear
phwoah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phwoar.
palmball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmballs
Etymology: From palm + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A change-up pitch in which the baseball is held tightly in the palm or between the thumb and ring finger, then thrown like a fastball.
palmballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmball
overequips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overequip
noctivagants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noctivagant
nikabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nikab
kryptonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kryptonite
kathumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kathump
Kathrynne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine.
inamorati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inamorato
whatdyecallem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatdyecallems
Etymology: From what do ye call them.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatchamacallit.
Synonyms: thingy
whatdyecallems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatdyecallem
Illawarras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Illawarra
Illawarra Shorthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Illawarra Shorthorns
Senses: synonyms: Illawarra
glosses: An Australian breed of horned, large-framed dairy cattle of a predominantly red colour, with some whites or roans.
perh.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of perhaps.
hetmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hetman
hexathlons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexathlon
gaycation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaycations
Etymology: Blend of gay + vacation
Senses: glosses: A vacation/holiday tailored to gay (homosexual) people, or based around gay subculture.
gaycations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaycation
mama mbogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mama mboga
Zainichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌzaɪˈniːtʃi/
Forms: form: Zainichis
form: Zainichi
Etymology: From Japanese 在(ざい)日(にち) (zainichi).
Senses: examples: text: Hwang is a member of the ethnic Korean community known in Japanese as the Zainichi. Their families came here when the Korean peninsula was a Japanese colony from 1910 until 1945. They number around 600,000 and have opted not to take Japanese citizenship.
Political split
And just like their ancestral homeland, the Zainichi are split along political lines.
Bae Chul Eun is a public relations officer at Mindan, an organization that represents the majority of Zainichi -- who hold South Korean citizenship.
ref: 2009 July 1, “Koreans in Japan: Divided Along Political Lines”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2024:
text: Beginning in the late 1950s, Japan offered to help repatriate the Zainichi, many of whom were attracted to North Korea’s socialist promises and an economy then larger than the South’s. Nearly 100,000 people moved, including Mr. Oshima’s parents and siblings.
ref: 2019 February 25, Motoko Rich, “‘We Are Koreans’: Diaspora in Japan Looks to Trump-Kim Summit With Hope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2019, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A long-term Korean resident of Japan whose ancestry dates to Korea under Japanese rule.
Zainichis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zainichi
fuzeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fuze + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a fuze.
painsharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pain + sharing, modelled on earlier gainsharing.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A negative incentive system involving a financial penalty in the event of loss or failure.
painshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of painsharing.
synonyms: word: painsharing
gainshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gainsharing.
synonyms: word: gainsharing
fusariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fusarium
fugginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being fuggy.
flippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flipping
fiqhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiqh
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur (literally “whatever is said in Latin seems profound”).
Senses: glosses: Used to mockingly describe people who seem to use Latin phrases and quotations only to make themselves sound more important or "educated".
fikhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fikh
filmfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmfests
Senses: glosses: An event at which a number of films are shown.
filmfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filmfest
facebooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of facebook
facebooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facebook
exertionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From exertional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of exertion.
euthanazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of euthanaze
Eurocredit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurocredits
Etymology: From Euro- + credit.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A short- to medium-term loan of Eurocurrency extended by a Eurobank to another organization.
Eurocredits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurocredit
esemplastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From esemplastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an esemplastic manner.
revolutionary site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolutionary sites
form: Revolutionary Site
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of historical sites in North Korea, designated by Kim Jong Il for propaganda purposes.
revolutionary sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolutionary site
epimerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epimerise
epimerises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epimerise
epimerising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epimerise
equifinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From equifinal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an equifinal manner.
egocentrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egocentrical
form: most egocentrical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of egocentric.
synonyms: word: egocentric
ecotouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + touring.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ecotourism.
synonyms: word: ecotourism
despoilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despoiling
dequeueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dequeue
decasualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decasualises
form: decasualising
form: decasualised
form: decasualised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decasualize.
decasualised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decasualise
decasualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decasualise
decasualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decasualise
curvaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more curvaciously
form: most curvaciously
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curvaceously.
curvilineally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From curvilineal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a curvilineal manner.
bontbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bontboks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bontebok.
bontboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bontbok
Belgicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgicism
balayaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From balayage + -ed.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a harmonic function: reconstructed by the balayage method.
underspendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underspending
trimixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimix
typecastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typecasting
warehous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warehou
wholesalings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wholesaling
wikialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wikiality
wrinklie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrinklies
Senses: examples: text: Robert was 61 years old in 1837 – quite a wrinklie at that time.
ref: 2016, Terry Deary, Horrible Histories: Villainous Victorians, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of wrinkly.
embryotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From embryotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an embryotic manner.
electorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an electorial manner.
phizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phizzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phiz.
pulpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulping
ribaldest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ribald: most ribald
Rothschildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From children, plural of child, by re-analyzing Rothschild as Roth + -s- + child.
Senses: examples: text: With such a concern, or a share even, the oracle may safely promise that one shall be a Rothschild, with a fine family of Rothschildren; but how is such a brisk business to be had, if we except the profitless transfers of Mr. Figgins?
ref: 1832, [Thomas Hood], “Open Sesamé; or, the Way to get Money. By a Rich Man, who was once Poor. London, 1832. Griffiths.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, London: […] James Holmes, […] J. Francis. […], page 219, column 1:
text: Now, though it must be admitted that the highest grades of wealth are but rarely within the reach of a good sort of person, and that “criminibus debent hortos” is as true at present, as it was in the days of Juvenal, yet is there something in this class that admirably fits its members for the business of money-making. If they are not all Rothschildren, they are, to a man, at their ease; and it is as rare to meet with a good sort of person, as a Quaker, in absolute destitution.
ref: 1841, T[homas] Charles Morgan, [Sydney,] Lady Morgan, The Book Without a Name, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 239–240:
text: The man who believes in his luck at racing is doomed to be a penniless man, let him be as rich as all the Rothschildren of Israel put together!
ref: 1852, “Racy Thoughts: Of a Young Man on coming home from Ascot, wet through, and having lost all his Money”, in Punch, volume XXII, London: […] [T]he Office, […], page 254, column 2:
text: But, as I shall never have that sum at my command, I must lay aside the scheme, leaving it to be carried out by the Rothschildren of fortune.
ref: 1860, [Frederic Charles] Lascelles Wraxall, Camp Life: or Passages from the Story of a Contingent, London: Charles J. Skeet, […], page 258:
text: “Well, my friend, we will crush this quartz, and what will be the result? we shall become Rothschilds.” “There are two of us, shall we not become Rothschildren?” said Ducane incredulously. […] “And the money?” “I will mortgage my South farm.” “Ah! I shall not die—I shall live—we shall be Rothschildren.” “Yes, we will be gods!” and, taking up his hat, Ducane ran from the room.
ref: [1861], Bracebridge Hemyng, The Dark Cloud with the Silver Lining, London: James Blackwood, […], pages 290 and 293:
text: Come all you Rothschildren / “If rape is inevitable,” Sir Frederick Dainton reminded a roomful of UK university vice-chancellors and principals last week, “relax and enjoy it.” The implication was that the saintly maidenhood of university research may be in jeopardy now (après Rothschild) that there may be more ministerial clients hanging around with bulging wallets ready to seduce the impoverished research worker.
ref: 1972 November 16, Nicholas Valéry, “Come all you Rothschildren”, in New Scientist, volume 56, number 820, page 371:
glosses: plural of Rothschild (“very rich person”)
sharecroppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharecropping
shirazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiraz
sildenafils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sildenafil
rollerdrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerdromes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of roller rink (“building for roller skating”).
synonyms: word: roller rink
extra: building for roller skating
rollerdromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollerdrome
nonmeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmeat
nonsignificants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsignificant
Holmes-Rahe scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Holmes-Rahe scale
Etymology: Devised in 1967 by psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe.
Senses: glosses: A list of various stressful life events that can contribute to illness, ranked by assessment of risk.
overexcitements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overexcitement
pisheog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pisheogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piseog.
pisheogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pisheog
plastinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastination
bejasus
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bejesus.
bejasus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bejesus.
boerbull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boerbulls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boerboel.
boerbulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boerbull
catcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catcons
Senses: examples: text: SUVs were favourites because they have larger catcons and offer more clearance, although all vehicles were potential targets, including police cars and low-riders.
ref: 2013, Rob White, Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives, page 167:
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of catalytic converter.
catcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catcon
low-rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-riders
Senses: examples: text: SUVs were favourites because they have larger catcons and offer more clearance, although all vehicles were potential targets, including police cars and low-riders.
ref: 2013, Rob White, Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives, page 167:
glosses: Alternative form of lowrider.
chermoulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chermoula
circuiteered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circuiteer
circuiteering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circuiteer
doilied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From doily + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered with a doily.
econometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: econometers
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An instrument in a motor vehicle that indicates the fuel consumption.
econometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of econometer
fabulisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabulism
innamoratas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innamorata
Hibernicisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hibernicization.
humdurgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of humdudgeon.
iceboated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of iceboat
imposexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having undergone imposex.
kalookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kalooki.
lakewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lake + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a lake.
medalplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medal play.
nitrogelatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nitrogelatin.
Croasdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Ennerdale and Kinniside parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY0917).
pre-bangian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + (big) bang + -ian. First attested in 1999.
Senses: examples: ref: 1999, Gabriele Veneziano, “Pre-bangian origin of our entropy and time arrow”, in Physics Letters B, volume 454, →DOI, pages 22–26
text: There are several good examples of what we may call pre-bangian relics, relics from before the Big Bang: one is a stochastic background of gravitational waves, very much like the already mentioned electromagnetic background that fills up our Universe at a temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute zero.
ref: 2009, Gabriele Veneziano, “Did Time Have a Beginning? A Meeting Point for Science and Philosophy”, in Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danielli, Giuseppe O. Longo, editors, The Two Cultures: Shared Problems, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Perhaps the prebangian universe started to undergo a big crunch and turned around when the density got too high—a big bounce.
ref: 2010 September 1, George Musser, “The Paradox of Time: Why It Can't Stop, But Must”, in Scientific American:
text: What was nothing like, how could it explode, and what came before it (for physicists now suggest there may have been a ‘pre-bangian’ universe)?
ref: 2011, Alison Morgan, The Word on the Wind: Renewing Confidence in the Gospel, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: Pertaining to a hypothetical era before the Big Bang.
black site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black sites
Senses: examples: text: Noting the dearth of serious research on black sites, Paglen endeavored to produce a book that would reveal “how the United States has become dependent on spaces created through secrecy, spaces that lie outside the rule of law, outside the Constitution, outside the democratic ideal of equal rights, transparent government, and informed consent.”
ref: 2020, Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, quoting Trevor Paglen, Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 136:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted.
Related terms: black jail
black ops
black sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black site
Ennerdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A valley in Copeland borough, Cumbria, England.
glosses: A town in the City of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa.
Derived terms: Ennerdale and Kinniside
docilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: docilizes
form: docilizing
form: docilized
form: docilized
Etymology: From docile + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make docile.
docilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of docilize
docilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of docilize
docilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of docilize
Ennerdale and Kinniside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Copeland borough, Cumbria, England.
wikipedia: Kinniside Stone Circle
rings someone's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ring someone's bell
ringing someone's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring someone's bell
rang someone's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ring someone's bell
rung someone's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ring someone's bell
Bronagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Brónach.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
docilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From docile + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making docile.
has one's whole life ahead of one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have one's whole life ahead of one
having one's whole life ahead of one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have one's whole life ahead of one
had one's whole life ahead of one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have one's whole life ahead of one
Eagling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
collabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collab
collabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collab
Lungchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 龍崎 (Lóngqí) Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-chʻi².
Senses: examples: text: According to Tu, two hundred years ago the nearby mountains furnished livelihood substitutes for the scanty farmland of Kuanmiao. At that time, bamboo forests grew from Lungchi to Chishan, in Kaohsiung.
ref: 1984 November 1, “Kuanmiao crafts comfort for the world”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2023:
text: Another alga, Gloeocapsa sp. was isolated from the soil material from the breeding ground of F. taiwana and F. phototropia in Lungchi, Tainan.
ref: 1992, “Medical and Veterinary Entomology”, in Proceedings, XIX International Congress of Entomology, Beijing, →OCLC, page 491, column 2:
text: Two bacillary dysentery outbreaks were reported in a nursing home in Lungchi Township of Tainan County from August through December 2003.
ref: 2004, Tseng SH, “A Molecular Fingerprint Analysis of Shigella flexneri 1b in Bacillary Dysentery Outbreaks in a Nursing Home in Lungchi Township, Tainan County Introduction”, in Taiwan Epidemiology Bulletin [疫情報導], volume 20, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2021:
english: 疫情報導
translation: 疫情報導
text: Pigs lie dead after drowning at a pig farm, where floods caused by heavy rains brought by Typhoon Morakot washed away 700 pigs, in Tainan County’s Lungchi Township yesterday.
ref: 2009 August 11, Meggie Lu, “Agricultural losses exceed NT$5 billion”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2009, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Longci.
Cossackia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The regions traditionally inhabited by the Cossack people.
ruggelach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruggelach
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rugelach.
ruggalach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruggalach
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rugelach.
rugulach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugulach
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rugelach.
Bergoglian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bergoglian
form: most Bergoglian
Etymology: From Bergoglio + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or supporting the policies of Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 1936–2025), who was the head of the Catholic Church from 2013 until his death.
morendos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morendo
mooncraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooncraft
form: mooncrafts
Etymology: From moon + craft.
Senses: glosses: A spacecraft that travels to a moon.
mooncrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooncraft
mukhabarats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mukhabarat
Mukhabarats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mukhabarat
nanograsses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanograss
neosoul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neo soul.
newfangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of newfangle
newfangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of newfangle
nonionising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ionising.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonionizing.