cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
t'internet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪntənɛt/
Forms: form: t’Internet
Etymology: From t’ (“the”) + internet, in imitation of the definite article reduction of the Lancashire and Yorkshire dialect of north-western England.
Senses: examples: text: The recent thread where nerd fought nerd over which geeky game was better got me to thinking about my own particular brand of geekery.
ref: 2004 March 26, 6:55pm: “James Bremner” (initial thread poster), rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Google group): Wargames on that there t’internet
text: Mail order is not instant like t’internet is and it is still the way a lot of people like to buy things.
ref: 2008 August 1, 8:21am: “Tickettyboo”, uk.people.silversurfers (Google group): Here we go again :-(
text: Take a break from t’internet scrote and gather your thoughts, you’ve took one hell of a twatting this week. Nobody will think any less of you, well tbh they can’t as in most people’s opinions dogshit has more value.
ref: 2008 August 11, 10:33am: “Diablos Rojos”, alt.sports.soccer.chelseafc (Google group): OT: Perfect car for the missus (rude)
glosses: The Internet.
Jack Pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack Puddings
form: jack-pudding
form: Jack-pudding
form: jack pudding
Senses: examples: text: And first, Sir Thomas Wroth (Jack Pudding to Prideaux the Post-master) had his cue to go high, and feel the pulse of the House.
ref: 1648, Clement Walker, Relations and Observations: Historical and Politick, Upon the Parliament Begun Anno Dom: 1640, pages 69–70:
text: [Lord Chief Justice:] It may be so, more know Jack Pudding, than Jack Pudding knows.
ref: 1680, “Trial of Lionel Anderson and Others for High Treason”, in A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason, published 1816:
text: so great was his Fame for Puddings, that he was called Jack Pudding all over the Kingdom, tho', in truth, his real name was John Brand, as appears by the Records of the Kitchen
ref: 1744, Henry Cary, A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling; its Dignity, Antiquity and Excellence. With a Word upon Pudding, 6th edition, pages 7–8:
text: Aha! said I, here is the Jack Pudding. I see he has forgot his broomstick and gridiron; he'll compensate for these wants, I suppose, by his wit and humour
ref: a. 1839, William Dunlap, A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832, page 310
text: One of them, the Jack Pudding of the company, mounted upon a pair of stilts that were strapped to his legs, and dressed most fantastically,
ref: 1843, Peregrine Mango, “A Trip to the Tropics”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, page 289:
text: Then he brought forward Jack Pudding, and had a dialogue with him ; the jocularity of which,' by heavens ! made the heart ache to hear.
ref: 1843, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Irish Sketchbook”, in The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, published 1869, page 246:
text: The jack-pudding who now masquerades with motley countenance in the market-place of Lhasa.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 222:
glosses: A buffoon character appearing in stage and street performances.
Related terms: Hanswurst
Harlequin
Jean Potage
Macaroni
Pickelhering
Pickelhäring
t'Internet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of t'internet.
missing boundary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having had some but not all of its boundary removed.
raw_tags: of a compact topological space with boundary
go there
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes there
form: going there
form: went there
form: gone there
Senses: examples: text: LOUISE: Okay, enough with the "tricycle" stuff!
LADY IN VAN: Why don't you wanna talk about it? Because you're too old to be riding one?
LOUISE: (laughs) Okay...
TINA: Whoa.
LADY IN VAN: That's right: I went there, with a child.
ref: 2018, Bob's Burgers (TV series), "As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps" (episode)
glosses: To discuss a subject that is usually avoided as taboo or controversial.
Related terms: who goes there?
homotope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homotopes
form: homotoping
form: homotoped
form: homotoped
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: More loosely, to exhibit a homotopy equivalence between two spaces.
Related terms: isotope
partial fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partial fractions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several fractions to the sum of which a single fraction is equal.
Cauchy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊʃi/
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A French surname; notably that of prolific mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857).
Derived terms: Cauchyan
Cauchy boundary condition
Cauchy data
Cauchy distribution
Cauchy horizon
Cauchy momentum equation
Cauchy problem
Cauchy-Riemann equation
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Cauchy sequence
Cauchy space
Cauchy stress tensor
Cauchy surface
Cauchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊʃi/
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: Whose terms become arbitrarily close to one another.
raw_tags: of a sequence in a metric space
craftswomanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæftswʊmʌnʃɪp/
Etymology: From craftswoman + -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.
Senses: examples: text: …were to cease purchasing machinery, labor-saving devices, hired service, ready-made food and clothes, and go back to the old-fashioned craftswomanship.
ref: 1934, Joseph Kirk Folsom, The Family: Its Sociology and Social Psychiatry, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 296:
text: 1991 Duke L.J. 365 (Duke Law Journal); quoted in:
text: When will I cherish my hair again, the way my grandmother cherished it, when fascinated by its beauty, with hands carrying centuries-old secrets of adornment and craftswomanship, she plaited it, twisted it, cornrowed it, finger-curled it, olive-oiled it, on the growing moon cut and shaped it, and wove it like fine strands of gold inlaid with semiprecious stones, coral and ivory, telling with my hair a lost-found story of the people she carried inside her?
ref: 2000: Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, page 275 (Temple University Press)
text: Its swift intercutting suggests theatrical craftswomanship based on a working knowledge of the effects that could be achieved with shutters and scenery offered by the Theatre Royal.
ref: 2006: Alison Findlay, Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama, p200 (Cambridge University Press)
glosses: The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
Related terms: craftsmanship
craftspersonship
craftspersonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæftspɜːsənʃɪp/
Etymology: From craftsperson + -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.
Senses: examples: text: The carpenter’s role – like that of a story told 1900 years earlier – is not to craft, for in his craftspersonship he is faulty, but to comprehend.
ref: 1935, Arts Magazine, Art Digest Inc., page 140:
text: This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.
ref: 2001: Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture, page 115 (Blackwell Publishing)
text: The olive too they say belongs to this pioneeress, and craftspersonship, plus many arts and crafts are this inventress’s.
ref: 2007: John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville, page 205 (Cambridge University Press)
glosses: The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
Related terms: craftsmanship
craftswomanship
picture-skew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkt͡ʃəˌskjuː/
Etymology: A deliberately mispronounced respelling of picturesque, for humorous effect.
Senses: examples: text: However, in a broad-brimmed hat
And frilly dress, she figured that
She looked quite sweet and picture-skew,
When seated in a green canoe.
ref: 1926: Florence Nelson & C F Scheer, Safety education (Education Division, National Safety Council), page 22
text: This was their first trip on this road.
That they were thrilled, their faces showed.
One of them oft admired the view,
Exclaiming, “Ain’t that picture-skew”!
ref: 1943: James Styles, The Soul of the Universe, and Other Poems (New Method Ptg. Co.), page 12
text: Cheap-looking, true — but picture-skew — my Kots will stretch for miles […]
ref: 1945: New statesman: The Week-end Review (Statesman and Nation Publishing), page 31
text: ^({1}) “[…] I thought it was out of date to like things to be picture-skew,” Peter said, […]
^({2}) Picture-skew; a bit of tout droit; carry on, Jeeves; the horrible puns […]
ref: 1958, George Smith, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 170, numbers 1015-1020, Smith, Elder and co, page 333:
text: “[…] We’ll get the elk and the deer and the rocks in our own picture-skew way, won’t we, Ron?”
“If you mean ‘picturesque’ I’d say that you are quite right. […]”
ref: 2005, Philip Hart, The Flight of the Mystic Owls, Kessinger Publishing, page 184:
glosses: Alternative form of picturesque.
Related terms: eggcorn
malapropism
mondegreen
precognitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more precognitively
form: most precognitively
Etymology: From precognitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a precognitive manner; with precognition.
KO'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of KO
KO's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KO
KO's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of KO
KO'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of KO
kapos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kapo
manship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænʃɪp/
Etymology: From Middle English manship (“position of honor; respect; courtesy; manly spirit or conduct; humanity; human condition”), from Old English mansċipe (“humanity, courtesy”), equivalent to man + -ship. Cognate with Dutch manschap (“homage, manred, crew”), German Mannschaft (“team, crew, squad, force”), Swedish manskap (“rank, crew”).
Senses: examples: text: Every man is a man if he chooses to be, and has in himself all that he needs in order to be a man in the full significance of the term; and therefore no one has any occasion to borrow a part of his manship from his brother.
ref: 1845, Orestes Augustus Brownson, Charles Elwood, page 161:
text: He certainly had nothing to do with the choosing of his manship, any more than his sister had of her womanhood.
ref: 1902, Lebbeus Harding Rogers, The Kite Trust (a Romance of Wealth), page 324:
text: They were middle-class and, therefore, "had a better attitude towards girls because boys [in Washington Highlands] like beating girls to show their manship.
ref: 2003, Leon Dash, When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing, page 200:
text: The manship of Jesus was hid from the eyes of men as completely as the Godship.
ref: 2007, Kevin P. Novak, Adam Versus Adam, page 69:
glosses: The characteristic of being a man; maleness; masculinity; manliness; manhood.
examples: text: Ac fourti winter Madan mid mansipe held his riche.
ref: c1400, Cursor Mundi:
glosses: Position of honor or respect; dignity, worthiness
examples: text: For los and priis þou miᵹt þer winne & manschip to þe & al þi kinne.
ref: c1330, The Romance of Guy of Warwick:
glosses: Honor shown to a person; homage, respect; courtesy
examples: text: And how that ever ye do, hold up your manship.
ref: c1465, The Paston Letters:
glosses: Manly spirit or conduct; courage, valor, gallantry; chivalry
examples: text: Bot he was ferliful to call if þou it sagh..þat in a man all manscip war.
ref: c1400, Cursor Mundi:
glosses: Human condition.
Related terms: manshiply
one-up-manship
straw men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawmen
Senses: glosses: plural of straw man
strawman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straw man.
strawman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strawmans
form: strawmanning
form: strawmanned
form: strawmanned
Senses: examples: text: We are also charged with strawmanning Type la. This is 'boomerang misrepresentation' - a disingenuous tactic deployed by writers in an effort to establish the superiority of their own work when all they are really doing is simply repeating
ref: 2009, Bits of Organization page 44:
glosses: Alternative spelling of straw man.
strawmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strawman
subtotals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtotal
subtotals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subtotal
subtotaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subtotal
subtotaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subtotal
Krugerrands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Krugerrand
suburbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbɜː(ɹ)biən/
Forms: form: suburbians
Etymology: From suburb + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from the suburbs.
suburbian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbɜː(ɹ)biən/
Forms: form: more suburbian
form: most suburbian
Etymology: From suburb + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: suburbian muse.
ref: 1709, J[ohn] Dryden, J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], →OCLC:
glosses: suburban
suburbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suburbian
force someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forces someone's hand
form: forcing someone's hand
form: forced someone's hand
form: forced someone's hand
Etymology: A metaphorical reference to card games.
Senses: glosses: Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely.
Related terms: preclude
caracara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹəˌkɑ.ɹə/
Forms: form: caracaras
Etymology: From Spanish caracara or Portuguese carcará, from Tupian, probably imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The caracara's flight is direct and rapid, not at all like that of the vulture, which sails and soars in spirals.
ref: 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106:
text: A few still live on the remote coasts of Tierra del Fuego, and though warrahs and gauchos vanished from the Falklands soon after Darwin's visit, striated caracaras still cling to life on the archipelago's outer islands, where they hunt and scavenge in colonies of penguins, seals, and albatrosses.
ref: 2021, Jonathan Meiburg, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, Vintage, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the subfamily Caracarinae.
Derived terms: Audubon's caracara
carunculated caracara
Phalcoboenus carunculatus
chimango caracara
Chimango caracara
Milvago chimango
crested caracara
mountain caracara
Phalcoboenus megalopterus
northern crested caracara
Caracara cheriway
red-throated caracara
Ibycter americanus
southern caracara
southern crested caracara
Caracara plancus
striated caracara
Phalcoboenus australis
white-throated caracara
Phalcoboenus albogularis
yellow-headed caracara
Milvago chimachima
Blissymbols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Bliss + symbols.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1970s, disabled people who couldn't write or speak—such as those with cerebral palsy—used Blissymbols to communicate by point to the drawings on a large board. It was time-consuming and required a person who knew Blissymbols to help translate.
ref: 2020, Carla Sinclair, Girl Genius, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:
synonyms: Blissymbolics
glosses: A constructed language with only a written form, using ideographs invented by Charles K. Bliss after the Second World War.
Related terms: Semantography
Blissymbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Bliss + symbols.
Senses: glosses: plural of Blissymbol
Kotava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a constructed language invented by Staren Fetcey, who began the project in 1975.
Romanova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Romanovas
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Романова (Romanova), feminine form of Романов (Romanov).
Senses: examples: text: The narrative also mentions a woman called Anna Romanova, supposed to be Akulina's associate, who is not named in the inquest and may not have existed at all.
ref: 1999, “Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale”, in Laura Engelstein, retrieved 21 Jan 2023:
glosses: A female surname from Russian, masculine equivalent Romanov.
Romanova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constructed language based on Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
refutal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refutals
Etymology: From refute + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of refutation.
synonyms: word: refutation
tendido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendidos
Etymology: From Spanish tendido.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A seating area in a bull ring.
anoctamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anoctamins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of transmembrane proteins associated with the channelling of chloride ions
biostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + statistics.
Senses: topics: biology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The application of statistics to the study and analysis of biological and medical data
biostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + statistics.
Senses: glosses: plural of biostatistic
enterococci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterococcus
hepatobiliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + biliary.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gall bladder
Derived terms: extrahepatobiliary
hepatobiliary triangle
somatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more somatically
form: most somatically
Etymology: From somatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a somatic manner
glosses: With regard to somatics
somatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Etymology: From somato- + -ics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several holistic approaches to physical therapy that attempt to train both the body and the mind.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Movement practices which emphasize the dancer's sensations, or which incorporate somatic therapies.
glosses: The science dealing with the general properties of matter; somatology.
transepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transepithelial
form: most transepithelial
Etymology: From trans- + epithelial.
Senses: glosses: Through or across an epithelium.
aquaporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquaporins
Etymology: From aqua- + porin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that form water-permeable pores in the membrane of biological cells.
Derived terms: superaquaporin
wellderly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of well + elderly
Senses: examples: text: the welderly
text: hiking vacations for the welderly
antonyms: illderly
hypernyms: elderly
;
see also Thesaurus:old person § Holonyms
glosses: Old people who are in good health: healthy senior citizens.
illderly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ill + elderly
Senses: examples: text: the illderly
text: at-home nursing care for the illderly
antonyms: wellderly
hypernyms: elderly
;
see also Thesaurus:old person § Holonyms
glosses: Old people who are in poor health: unhealthy senior citizens.
andromonoecy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From andro- + monoecy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of both bisexual and male flowers on the same plant
Related terms: andromonoecious
andromonoecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more andromonoecious
form: most andromonoecious
form: andromonecious
Etymology: From andro- + monoecious.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing both bisexual and male flowers on the same plant
Related terms: andromonoecy
hammerhead ribozyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerhead ribozymes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of self-cleaving RNAs found in some viroids.
placozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placozoans
Etymology: Placozoa + -an; compare protozoan, protozoon.
Senses: examples: text: 2010, Vicki Buchsbaum Pearse, Oliver Voigt, 12: Field Biology of Placozoans (Trichoplax), Rob Desalle, Bernd Schierwater (editors), Key Transitions in Animal Evolution, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), Science Publishers, page 273,
Similarly, at Madang, Papua New Guinea, a small rhabdocoel flatworm crawling on a slide among placozoans was observed contacting a placozoan, recoiling vigorously, and changing its direction of movement only to encounter another placozoan and repeat this behavior several times.
text: Although ciliates, nematodes and are other small animals are observed around or even on placozoans, they do not seem to elicit any response (Pearse and Voigt, 2007).
ref: 2018, Fatik Baran Mandal, Biology of Non-chordates, 2nd edition, PHI Learning, page 112:
text: Placozoans have a lower side facing the substratum and an upper side facing the water body.
ref: 2019, Oliver Voigt, Michael Eitel, “3: Placozoa”, in Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, editor, Handbook of Zoology: Miscellaneous Invertebrates, Walter de Gruyter, page 41:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: placozoon
glosses: Any of a group of balloon-shaped marine organisms, of the phylum Placozoa, considered to be the simplest living animals.
electrophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophysiologists
Etymology: From electro- + physiologist.
Senses: glosses: a physiologist whose speciality is electrophysiology
meddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meddies
Senses: topics: climatology
natural-sciences
synonyms: Mediterranean eddy
Mediterranean lenses
glosses: A large, gently spinning region of warm water that carries saline water from the mouth of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic.
meddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meddy
battery booster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battery boosters
Senses: glosses: A portable battery, fitted with cables and a charger, used to charge a dead battery, especially in a car.
big mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big mouth
bad eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad egg
bad apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad apple
back waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back water
back-waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-water
catches up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch up
Afghan hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afghan hounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Afghan Hound.
catching up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catch up
caught up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catch up
examples: text: The invited guest was caught up in a family quarrel.
glosses: Involuntarily involved in a situation.
city slickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of city slicker
helping hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helping hand
accidents waiting to happen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accident waiting to happen
sighthound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sighthounds
Etymology: From sight + hound.
Senses: synonyms: gazehound
coordinate_terms: scent hound
glosses: A hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance.
Derived terms: Italian sighthound
gazehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪzhaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪzˌhaʊnd/
Forms: form: gazehounds
form: gaze-hound
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱwṓ
From gaze (noun) + hound.
Senses: examples: text: And foresters, in green-wood trim, / Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim, / Attentive, as the bratchet's bay / From the dark covert drove the prey, / To slip them as he broke away.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Second: To the Rev. John Marriot, M.A.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 61:
text: I entered the house with some wrath upon me at seeing the gazehounds in the yard; for it seems a cruel thing to me to harass the birds in the breeding-time.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XXII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 250:
coordinate_terms: scent hound
glosses: Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).
synonyms: word: sighthound
extra: a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance
salici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salicus
Indian burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian burns
Senses: examples: text: HORACE: […] Like, remember when Pop used to give me an Indian burn?
ref: 1956, Reginald Rose, “The Incredible World of Horace Ford, Act I”, in Six Television Plays, New York: Simon and Schuster, published 1969, page 268:
glosses: Synonym of Indian sunburn.
synonyms: word: Indian sunburn
thick as a plank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: thick as a brick
word: thick as two short planks
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very stupid.
shoeshines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoeshine
freak show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freak shows
Senses: examples: text: It only takes a little tweaking for the Simpsons’ home to become a full-on freak show, with Homer as its perpetually apoplectic main attraction.
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: An intentionally shocking exhibition of people with unusual characteristics, and which may include people who are gigantic, dwarfish, intersex, physically deformed or who have other extraordinary diseases, conditions and talents.
examples: text: “Get out of here, you freak show,” Emmy said.
ref: 2012, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Fingerprints of You:
glosses: A freakish person, or a group thereof.
suburbias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suburbia
strip-mines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strip-mine
strip-mines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strip-mine
strip-mined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strip-mine
æsthete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æsthetes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of aesthete.
apathete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpəθiːt/
Forms: form: apathetes
Etymology: From apathy, apathetic, on the pattern of æsthete.
Senses: examples: text: He does not condemn the apathete, indeed he recognises that the alienating character of most industrial and commercial work affects leisure too; […]
ref: 1976, Christopher G. A. Bryant, Sociology in Action: A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist, Allen and Unwin, →ISBN, page 145, →ISBN:
text: I remember that afternoon in SoHo because it was on my first, conscious trip to New York; and even an experienced apathete such as myself – the shirker of the Taj Mahal, the dodger of the Alhambra – was still struck by how inappropriate this seemed.
ref: 2007, Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psychogeography, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., →ISBN, page 42, →ISBN:
glosses: An apathetic person; one given to apathy.
Synonyms: apathist
Related terms: apatheia
apathesis
apathetic
apathic
apathize
apathy
apathetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apathete
yellow dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow dogs
form: Yellow Dog
form: yaller dog
form: yallar dog
Etymology: Carolina dogs were called yellow dogs because many had yellow coats. The fact that many mongrel dogs also had yellow coats lead to the term's application to any worthless item or person. For the etymology of the term Yellow Dog Democrat, see that entry.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog.
glosses: A Carolina dog.
examples: text: If I had a woman like that I'd trade her off for a yellow dog and then shoot the dog.
ref: 1877, Charles White with Andrew J. Leavitt, The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes, page 5:
text: A respectable class of candidates for minor state offices, and for state senate and assembly, at this moment desire to run on the ticket with Roosevelt. As soon as there is a third ticket in the field no one but a yellow dog will consent to run on Platt's ticket.
ref: 1897, John Jay Chapman, editor, The Political nursery, volumes 1:10 - 4:10:
glosses: An item or person of low value.
examples: text: What led Rick Perry to pronounce the Yellow Dogs dead?
ref: 2011, William Earl Maxwell, Ernest Crain, Adolfo Santos, Texas Politics Today: 2011-2012 Edition, page 125:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Ellipsis of Yellow Dog Democrat.
Related terms: word: yellow dog contract
english: yellow dog Democrat
translation: yellow dog Democrat
word: Yellow Dog Democrat
word: yellow dog fund
p.t.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pro tem.
p.t.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pro tem.
San Antone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænənˈtoʊn/
Senses: glosses: The city of San Antonio.
chronotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + therapeutics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of therapy that is administered in phase with a person's biological clock
leetle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: leetler
form: leetlest
Senses: examples: text: "Thanksgiving eve," he repeated. "We was to have a leetle celebration Thanksgiving eve." And he added somewhat anxiously: "You ain't forgot about that, Bill? It's an awful long time since we had a drink."
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
text: 'You speak English? he added in that language. 'I speak a leetle, yes.' Her accent was charming.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 126:
text: I'll bet a hat that Isaac Asimov could knock us all for a row of uranium cans if he wrote about something a leetle more familiar to us poor planet-bound humans. This massive sweep of millions of light years and thousands of centuries away was hot stuff fifteen years ago. Isaac, please come home, all is forgiven.
ref: 1953 July 24, George O. Smith, Space Science Fiction, page 94:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of little.
gravadlax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑvədˌlɑks/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːvədˌlæks/
ipa: /ˈɡɹævədˌlæks/
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish gravad lax (literally “salmon dry-cured in salt and sugar”), from grava and lax.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gravlax.
songfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songfics
Etymology: From song + fic.
Senses: examples: text: For example, in Lines 3 and 4, she asks readers to be gentle with their comments, as this is her first attempt at writing a Beyblade songfic.
ref: 2006, Rebecca Ward Black, "Access and Affiliation: Adolescent English Language Learners Learning to be Writers in an Online Fanfiction Space", dissertation submitted to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, page 77
text: The denigration of songfics relies on both their tendency toward melodrama and their central utilization of two source texts resulting in production of less "original" content.
ref: 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 130:
text: That was my community, where I grew up—in the midst of flaming reviews and shipping wars and OTPs and AU!fics and headcanons and songfics and half-baked homages to My Immortal.
ref: 2017, "Acknowledgements," in Ashley Poston, Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale, page 320
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic that incorporates song lyrics and/or uses them as inspiration for its plot.
examples: text: In addition to longer switches, the corpus also included songfic based on songs that are originally not in English.
ref: 2017, Valeria Franceschi, Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users as Creative Writers, page 173:
text: Although the songfic genre was by no means invented by Buffy fandom it is more common there because of the importance of popular songs to Buffy.
ref: 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 129:
text: […] Jenkins describes members of specific fan communities mailing each other VHS tapes containing amateur recreations of canonical scenes, or edited footage with a new soundtrack laid over it (the filmic counterpart to songfic).
ref: 2021, Shawn Edrei, The New Fiction Technologies: Interactivity, Agency and Digital Narratology, pages 53–54:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
washeteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: washeterias
form: washateria
form: washerteria
Etymology: Blend of wash + cafeteria. The trademark Wash-a-teria was prominent in the U.S. South during the 1930s.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laundromat.
synonyms: word: laundromat
examples: 1997, Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey, link
A washeteria is a single building with showers, toilets, and washing machines. The washeteria often doubles as a water treatment plant with heated water storage.
glosses: A building that houses a village's only running water for drinking, washing, and showering.
Related terms: drugeteria
Joycean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪsɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪsi.ən/
Forms: form: more Joycean
form: most Joycean
form: Joycian
Etymology: From Joyce + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: Even Muldoon's fans find some of the “difficulty” of this pyrotechnical erudition too playful, suspecting him of a Joycean desire to “keep the professors busy”.
ref: 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Around the world these days there are thousands of Joycean scholars who make their living parsing and reparsing the great man who, perhaps much to his chagrin if he were alive, has become a symbol of all things Irish to millions.
ref: 2011 June 15, Debbie McGoldrick, “The genius of the Irish writer James Joyce”, in IrishCentral.com:
glosses: Of or pertaining to James Joyce (1882–1941) or his writings.
examples: text: Jimson is a total nonconformist and his god is William Blake, whom he quotes endlessly in his somewhat Joycean interior monologues.
ref: 1984, Anthony Burgess, “The Horse's Mouth — Joyce Cary [1944]”, in Ninety-nine Novels, London: Allison & Busby:
glosses: In a verbally inventive style similar to that of James Joyce.
raw_tags: of writing
Joycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪsɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪsi.ən/
Forms: form: Joyceans
form: Joycian
Etymology: From Joyce + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: But [Richard] Ellmann himself was a Joycean avant la lettre.
ref: 2025 June 16, Eric Bulson, “Yes I Will Read ‘Ulysses’ Yes”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who studies or admires the works of James Joyce.
scientific calculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientific calculator
face painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The application of decorative paint to the face.
pling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: plings
Senses: examples: text: This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
ref: 1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing:
text: IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.
ref: 1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet):
text: Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
ref: 1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines:
text: Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).
ref: 1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
Related terms: bang
pling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: plings
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A soft bell-like sound; ding.
pling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: plings
form: plinging
form: plinged
form: plinged
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.
ref: 2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade:
glosses: To produce a soft bell-like sound.
logoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From logo + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: You can buy our company's logoed shirts at the gift store.
text: The standard conductor’s uniform is a conservative affair: a single-breasted navy jacket, two logoed brass buttons, and straight-leg, pleatless pants.
ref: 2009 July 28, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Offering Alterations and Fittings, Before the Next Train”, in New York Times:
text: He sipped coffee cut with milk from a paper cup logoed: ’bucks!
ref: 2015, James Grady, “Next Day of the Condor”, in Last Days of the Condor, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, →ISBN, page 350:
text: The invitations to this show were rolls of logoed eco-friendly, recycled and recyclable bin bags made from low-density polyethylene, stamped with the label’s logo.
ref: 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Imprinted with a logo.
tee-shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tee-shirt
fanlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanlistings
Etymology: From fan + listing.
Senses: examples: text: I have yet to join a fanlisting, I don't exactly have an all-about-me webpage that would necessitate advertisement like this.
ref: 2005, Carl Whithaus, Teaching and evaluating writing in the age of computers and high-stakes testing, page 125:
text: I always assume if I don't know someone, it's because they don't have access to the internet. Even Kat and Lori met each other on an internet fanlisting for folk/alt/country/rock singer Ani DiFranco.
ref: 2007, Allyson Beatrice, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?, page 182:
glosses: A website listing the submitted names of fans of a celebrity, film, or other topic.
Related terms: hatelisting
gjetost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of geitost.
shuffleboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuffleboard
vatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: VATable
Etymology: From VAT + -able.
Senses: examples: text: You will be invoiced for everything — first for the non-vatable items and later for the vatable items.
glosses: On which VAT must be paid.
brunost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Norwegian brunost (literally “brown cheese”), from brun + ost.
Senses: synonyms: geitost
gjetost
glosses: A brown Norwegian whey cheese with a strong, sweet flavor.
geitost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gjetost
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian geitost (“goat cheese”), which is geit (“goat”) + ost (“cheese”), from Old Norse geit + ostr.
Senses: glosses: brunost
bushel basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushel baskets
Senses: glosses: A basket that is the right size to hold a bushel.
bushel baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushel basket
enharmonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From enharmonic + -ally.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In an enharmonic manner.
lylab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Acronym of love you like a brother (or like a bro).
Related terms: english: love you like a sister
translation: love you like a sister
word: lylas
first lieutenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first lieutenants
form: 1st lieutenant
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The second lowest rank of a commissioned officer in the United States Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, ranking above a second lieutenant and below a captain. The rank of first lieutenant is equivalent to the naval rank of lieutenant junior grade.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An equivalent rank in other military forces.
Synonyms: english: first lieutenant
translation: first lieutenant
word: lieutenant
Coordinate terms: lieutenant senior grade
osmose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: osmoses
form: osmosing
form: osmosed
form: osmosed
Etymology: Back-formation from osmosis.
Senses: glosses: To diffuse by osmosis.
glosses: To cause to diffuse by osmosis.
Derived terms: diosmose
osmose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from osmosis.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of osmosis.
osmoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmosis
osmoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of osmose
Tin Man
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tin Man
Senses: glosses: The Tin Woodman, a metallic character in the fictional Land of Oz who travels with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion to the Emerald City in search of a heart.
sticker book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticker books
Senses: glosses: A booklet of self-adhesive stickers especially for use as rewards for children.
glosses: A pre-arranged booklet for the collection and placement of stickers as child entertainment.
polemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polemists
Senses: glosses: A polemicist
rurban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɜːb(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈɹɜɹbən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən
Etymology: Blend of rural + urban, early 20th c.
Senses: examples: ref: 1915, Charles J. Galpin, Rural Life, New York: The Century Company:
text: The rurban community offers greater possibilities of social stratification than does the open country community.
ref: 1926, John M. Gillette, “Community Concepts”, in Social Forces, volume 4, number 4, page 686:
text: There exists what has come to be called the "rurban fringe," an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.
ref: 1946, Walter Firey, “Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes”, in American Sociological Review, volume 11, number 4, page 413:
text: In the lands of the Indian Ocean ‘agrarian cities’ and ‘rurban’ settlements of all sizes were the general rule throughout the medieval period.
ref: 2002, Andre Wink, “From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, volume 44, number 3, page 428:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.
Derived terms: rurban fringe
rurbanism
rurbanist
rurbanite
rurbanization
rurbanize
United States Uniformed Services
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of eight uniformed services of the United States federal government defined by federal law. It includes six armed services (the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Space Force) and two non-military services (the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps).