cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bossman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒsmæn/
ipa: /ˈbɔsmæn/
ipa: /ˈbɑs-/
Forms: form: bossmen
form: boss man
form: boss-man
Etymology: From boss + man.
Senses: examples: text: Valerie nodded her head and added, "The workers don't back you up. They want to cooperate when they don't see the bossman, but as they see the bossman, they get frightened. […]
ref: 2004, quoted in Laurie Kroshus Medina, Negotiating Economic Development:
text: I had a job but the bossman let me go (he said)
I'm sorry but I won't be needing your help no more (I said)
Please, mister bossman, I need this job more than you know
But he gave me my last paycheck and he sent me on out the door
ref: 2010, “I Need A Dollar”, performed by Aloe Blacc:
coordinate_terms: bosslady
bosswoman
glosses: A male boss or employer.
examples: text: You should watch what you say, bossman.
text: I don’t know what to tell you, bossman.
glosses: Used as a term of address for an unfamiliar, possibly distrusted man: bud, buddy, friend.
examples: text: You really showed them, bossman. What’s your name?
glosses: Used as a term of address for a man who appears courageous: boss.
Related terms: mensch
the man
chow fun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chow foon
Etymology: From either Taishanese 炒粉 (cau² fun²) or Cantonese 炒粉 (caau² fan²).
Senses: glosses: A Cantonese dish, composed of stir-fried wide noodles, bean sprouts, and meat or tofu.
Derived terms: beef chow fun
Related terms: hor fun
hofan
chao fan
chuquiragua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuquiraguas
Etymology: From Spanish chuquiragua.
Senses: glosses: A plant, Chuquiraga insignis.
chuquiraguas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuquiragua
Manabí
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Ecuador.
sugarmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sugar + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of sugar.
sugarmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarmakers
Etymology: From sugar + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of sugar.
sugarmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarmaker
B.C. roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B.C. rolls
Senses: glosses: A form of makizushi popular in British Columbia, containing barbecued salmon, cucumber, and other varying ingredients.
B.C. rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B.C. roll
tributor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tributors
Etymology: From tribute + -or.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A miner who was paid a percentage of the value of whatever ore he mined.
tributors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tributor
scalesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalesias
Etymology: From the genus name Scalesia, in turn from "Scales" + -ia, "Scales" being an error for the English surname Stables.
Senses: glosses: A type of tree found in the Galápagos, in the genus Scalesia.
scalesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalesia
wank bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wank banks
Senses: examples: text: Hosing her down made her jeans cling to her labia even more, not to mention the peanuts she smuggled under her shirt when I brushed her tits. That whole bit of business made a deposit in my wank bank.
ref: 2006, P. F. Kozak, Passion, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 15:
text: I flipped through the wank bank, finally stopping at a love scene starring me and a Bay State Games bronze-medalist pole-vaulter who was in the same Major British Writers study group as me.
ref: 2009, Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:
text: She reaches out and lazily trails her fingers along his shaft, all the way from base to tip, as though mentally filing its dimensions in her private wank bank, to bring out on those nights when she has only her rabbit vibrator for company.
ref: 2013, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Anything for You: Erotica for Kinky Couples, Cleis Press, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of spank bank (“mental stock of images or fantasies brought to mind when masturbating”).
synonyms: word: spank bank
extra: mental stock of images or fantasies brought to mind when masturbating
examples: text: Finally, you should send your post to the wank bank, they'd probably classify it as a semen deposit.
ref: 2008 November 16, Sir Oswald P Wrong, “OFFICAL^([sic]): Aussies Are Wankers”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):
text: Years ago at medical school, her husband, Mike — along with countless others — had been quick to donate to what was universally known as the wank bank, in return for a few quid to buy a round in the Students' Union.
ref: 2009, Catherine Alliott, The Secret of Evie Hamilton, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: They did too. ‘Troop the loop invades spunk dump’. ‘Interest up at wank bank’.
ref: 2012, Charles Morgan, Knights of the Secondhand Stew, Trafford, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A sperm bank.
branchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more branchingly
form: most branchingly
Etymology: From branching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to branch or divide.
remandeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: remand + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remand
maddeneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: madden + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of madden
kipuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipukas
form: kipuka
form: kapuka
Etymology: From Hawaiian kīpuka.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a word Trevor once told me about, one he learned from Buford, who served in the navy in Hawaii during the Korean War: kipuka. The piece of land that’s spared after a lava flow runs down the slope of a hill—an island formed from what survives the smallest apocalypse.
ref: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 171:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A zone of unharmed land completely surrounded by lava flows.
kipukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kipuka
handrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handroll
antideformity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + deformity.
Senses: glosses: Preventing deformity.
anticontracture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + contracture.
Senses: glosses: Preventing contracture.
keweenawite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Keweenaw + -ite, after discovery locality in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, United States.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A copper ore and discredited mineral species composed of arsenic, copper, nickel, and cobalt.
zincolivenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zinc + olivenite, after its composition of zinc and olivenite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral species of the olivenite group, CuZn(AsO₄)(OH)
Sandinista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪstə
Forms: form: Sandinistas
Etymology: From Spanish sandinista.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
Sandinistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sandinista
Brouwerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brouwerian
form: most Brouwerian
Etymology: From Brouwer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to L. E. J. Brouwer (1881–1966), Dutch mathematician and philosopher.
ectoparasitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectoparasitoids
Etymology: From ecto- + parasitoid.
Senses: glosses: An ectoparasitic parasitoid.
ectoparasitoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectoparasitoid
abnegatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abnegatory
form: most abnegatory
Senses: examples: text: 1630, Elizabeth Cary (translator), The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine the First Tome, Douay: Martin Bogart, Chapter 27, p. 120,
[…] he spake not with a iudiciary anathema, but with an anathema abiuratory, and abnegatory whereby hee did not seperate Liberius from the communion of the Church, who had alreadie seperated himselfe, […] but whereby he seperated himselfe from the communion of Liberius.
text: To say that the blanks left by such men are not felt—to say that their places can be readily supplied would be absurd, and unwise as abnegatory of that high reputation which the Society has ever enjoyed.
ref: 1848 May 1, “New Society of Painters in Water-colours: Fourteenth Exhibition—1848”, in The Art-Union, volume 10, page 141:
text: […] the Spanish government requested Great Britain and France, in January, 1852, to secure the signature by the American government in conjunction with them of an abnegatory declaration with respect to Cuba.
ref: 1900, John H. Latané, chapter 3, in The Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Spanish America, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, page 113:
text: Lord Irwin […] toyed with the idea of entering upon a fast himself, in the Gandhian manner, to bring peace to India by self-redemption, and though he was dissuaded from this unprecedented gesture, still his approach to Indian politics was tinged with an abnegatory mysticism.
ref: 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 13, p. 291:
glosses: Of or relating to abnegation; serving to abnegate.
Derived terms: self-abnegatory
by the sly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I read Plutarch, and Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by the sly, and supplied myself in that way with wandering thoughts, while my tutor was assuring me that "an improved man, as distinguished from an ignorant one, was a man who knew the reason why water ran downhill."
ref: 1859, George Eliot, The Lifted Veil:
glosses: on the sly
Plutarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Plutarchic
form: most Plutarchic
Etymology: From Plutarch + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Plutarch or his writings
Inkan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Incan.
Cañar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Cañar, from Quechua kañari (“Cañari”).
Senses: glosses: A province in the Andean region of Southern Ecuador.
hurriedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hurried + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was a strange agitation in Prout's manner, a strange hurriedness in his tones.
ref: 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Prout's Lovely Black Eye:
glosses: The state of being hurried.
persuadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more persuadingly
form: most persuadingly
Etymology: From persuading + -ly.
Senses: glosses: persuasively
Azuay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Azuay.
Senses: meronyms: Cuenca
Gunag
Paute
glosses: A province in the Andean region of southern Ecuador.
Afro-Ecuadorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Ecuadorians
Etymology: From Spanish afroecuatoriano. By surface analysis, Afro- + Ecuadorian.
Senses: glosses: A person who is both Ecuadorian and black.
Afro-Ecuadorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Spanish afroecuatoriano. By surface analysis, Afro- + Ecuadorian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to such people and their culture.
Afro-Ecuadorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afro-Ecuadorian
doleite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doleites
Etymology: From dole + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Ordinary out-of-school youth make a similar distinction between themselves and the slapheads, doleites or dossers.
ref: 2005, Monica Barry, Youth Policy And Social Inclusion, page 123:
text: He was a poet and from a completely different class than us bunch of working-class doleites[…]
ref: 2011, Jon Gaunt, Undaunted: The True Story Behind the Popular Shock-Jock:
glosses: Somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.
doleites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doleite
witness stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witness stand
Lessingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lessingian
form: most Lessingian
Etymology: From Lessing + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic of the Enlightenment era.
dramaturgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramaturg
disallowability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disallow + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being disallowable.
Otavalo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Otavalo.
Senses: glosses: A town in Imbabura province, north of Quito, Ecuador, famous for its markets.
indigenismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish indigenismo
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indigenism
synonyms: word: indigenism
geobotanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + botanic.
Senses: glosses: Phytogeographical.
Cuzco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːskoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkʌzkoʊ/
Forms: form: Cuzcos
form: Cusco
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cuzco, from Quechua Qusqu.
Senses: glosses: A city in Peru, the former capital of the Inca Empire.
glosses: A habitational surname.
Cusco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cuzco (“city in Peru”).
orchidarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː.kɪˈdɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌɔɹ.kɪˈdɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: orchidariums
form: orchidaria
Etymology: From orchid + -arium.
Senses: glosses: An orchid garden.
orchidariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchidarium
orchidaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchidarium
typecutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typecutters
Etymology: From type + cutter.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A person who cuts the die used in traditional printing.
typecutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typecutter
Lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of literature.
VPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of visual and performing arts.
VPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: PAVN
glosses: Initialism of Vietnam People's Army.
microzyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkɹəʊˌzaɪmə/
Forms: form: microzymas
form: microzymata
Etymology: Equivalent to micro- + zymotic
Senses: glosses: Any pleomorphic organism inside any given body.
elfin saddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elfin saddle
nantaimori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 男体盛り (nantaimori, literally “male body serving”).
Senses: examples: text: Some American bars also offer nantaimori: sushi served on a naked man.
ref: 2010, Catherine Price, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die, Harper, published 2010, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Just say yum when Montana's polyamory social group Polytana presents a night of nyotaimori and nantaimori, aka eating sushi off a female body and a male body, starting at 7 PM in [address redacted].
ref: 2011, Missoula Independent, Volume 22, Number 7, 24 February - 3 March 2011, page 24:
text: Actually, there'll be some nantaimori -- that's male body presentation -- at the event, too. It'll be a guy on display on that second stage, serving as a human table.
ref: 2011 March 15, Joe Crea, “Harvest Kitchen & Lounge in Solon has big possibilities: Restaurant Row”, in The Plain Dealer:
glosses: The practice of serving sashimi or sushi on the naked body of a man.
Coordinate terms: nyotaimori
guidably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From guide + -ably.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In such a way that its movement can be guided.
Related terms: guidable
light-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightmindedness
Etymology: From light-minded (adjective) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of one who is light-minded; lack of seriousness.
Synonyms: capriciousness
frivolity
inconsiderateness
Related terms: word: light-mindedly
Jabba the Hutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jabba the Hutts
form: Jabba the Hut
Etymology: After the character Jabba the Hutt, a large, sluglike alien crime lord in the Star Wars film saga.
Senses: examples: text: It may be painful to remember that the latter day Elvis, he of the Las Vegas leer, became a besequined Jabba the Hutt, a virtual caricature of himself.
ref: 1992 February 26, “Which Elvis goes on stamp”, in The Milwaukee Sentinel:
text: He nods in the direction of our client, Vince Russo, an oily-looking man about Joel's age who has jammed his Jabba the Hutt torso into the chair at the table next to Holmes.
ref: 2000, Sheldon Siegel, Special Circumstances, Bantam, published 2001, →ISBN, page 11:
text: In small towns that merely want a fire station out of this Jabba the Hutt of a stimulus package, that's about as much as they can ever hope for insofar as a return on the dollars their local taxpayers send to Washington, D.C.
ref: 2009 February 9, “The downside of a federal stimulus package gone local”, in Peoria Journal Star:
glosses: Something very large or bloated; a fat person.
wikipedia: Jabba the Hutt
Star Wars
Synonyms: Jabba
saprobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saprobic
form: most saprobic
Etymology: From saprobe + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It cannot be said that one saprobe is more saprobic than another, even though one produces ten times as many spores as another in the same habitat or one produces no spores in the polluted habitat but countless numbers of spores in the ivory tower of the pure culture laboratory.
ref: 1986, William Bridge Cooke, The Fungi of Our Mouldy Earth, page 38:
text: Saprobic edible fungi are also collected from the wild but they are best known and most widely valued in their cultivated forms.
ref: 2004, E. R. Boa, Wild Edible Fungi: A Global Overview of Their Use and Importance to People, page 8:
text: Diploscapter coronatas and Poikilolaimus oxycerca are two of the most saprobic species.
ref: 2009, R. Danovaro, C. Gambi, S. Höss, S. Mirto, W. Traunspurger, A. Zullini, “6: Case Studies Using Nematode Assemblage Analysis in Aquatic Habitats”, in Michael John Wilson, Thomais Kakouli-Duarte, editors, Nematodes as Environmental Indicators, page 162:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a saprobe or saprobes; that feeds on dead or decaying organic matter.
examples: text: 1969, Wilhelm Rohde, Crystallization of Eutrophication Concepts in Northern Europe, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Eutrophication: Causes, Consequences, Correctives, Symposium Proceedings, page 60,
Each of the polysaprobic, mesosaprobic, and oligosaprobic zones is now divided into one α- and one β-level, of which the former is more saprobic than the latter.
text: The s-score relates to the saprobic zone of which the species are characteristic; a score of between 1 and 4 is assigned to each species, depending upon whether it is typically found in oligosaprobic, α-mesosaprobic, β-mesosaprobic or polysaprobic zones, respectively.
ref: 1996, P. D. Abel, Water Pollution Biology, 2nd edition, page 87:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: That contains dead or decaying organic material (and therefore also saprobes).
Synonyms: sense: containing saprobes
word: saprobiotic
Derived terms: hypersaprobic
oligosaprobic
polysaprobic
saprobic index
saprobicity
saprobism
Related terms: saprobity
saprobity index
saprophyte
besequined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more besequined
form: most besequined
Etymology: From be- + sequined.
Senses: examples: text: It may be painful to remember that the latter day Elvis, he of the Las Vegas leer, became a besequined Jabba the Hutt, a virtual caricature of himself.
ref: 1992 February 26, “Which Elvis goes on stamp”, in The Milwaukee Sentinel:
text: Although much of Chilean theater revolves around the besequined, tassel-toting showgirls that star in so-called comedias musicales, […]
ref: 2009, Carolyn McCarthy, Chile and Easter Island, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Generally, though, it has been the besequined figure-skating dolls who have most often been permitted to revel in their sexuality.
ref: 2012, Frank Deford, Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter, Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing or decorated with sequins.
Synonyms: sequined
cryptonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptonym + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or published under, a cryptonym.
unintroverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unintroverted
form: most unintroverted
Etymology: From un- + introverted.
Senses: glosses: Not introverted.
truckwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckwits
Etymology: Blend of truck + fuckwit.
Senses: examples: text: Problem is I'd forgotten how many truckwits there were on King George's Road.
ref: 1998 October 23, Matt Cremer, “Re: Advice please: Lancer coupe 94 for $8000?”, in aus.cars (Usenet):
text: Hmm ... car drivers trying to get in front of the truckwits ... wouldn't be anything to do with their vision being impaired by the truckwits, would it? Nah, couldn't be that ..,
ref: 2004 June 28, Forg, “Re: Special licences for 4WD”, in aus.cars.offroad (Usenet):
text: Excellent, when your truck is blown over and you are horribly injured, refuse all assistance on the grounds that you knew better.
Oh hang on, no, you'll do what all the other truckwits who ignored the warnings did, blubber like a baby and scream for help.
ref: 2008 February 2, Steve Firth, “Re: Sad loss”, in uk.transport (Usenet):
glosses: A reckless or idiotic truck driver.
truckwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckwit
negaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negaholics
Etymology: From neg + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: The member, Mary Benson, was a longtime member of the church whom Elaine, despite all efforts at charity, had never been able to warm up to, since she was a classic half-empty negaholic.
ref: 2009, Sid Gardner, The Faults of the Owens Valley, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 321:
text: Even so, those whom corporate trainer and management consultant Chérie Carter-Scott would call “negaholics” will take glum comfort in the news that some Americans seem to be tiring of the Pursuit of Wow.
ref: 2012, Mark Dery, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, University of Minnesota Press (2012) →ISBN, page 172
text: An example might be a negaholic at work who is not helping you achieve your dreams. You know what a negaholic is, don't you? They are like an alcoholic that can't drink without becoming intoxicated. A negaholic can't seem to speak without griping or complaining.
ref: 2013, Tom Ward, Paul Gustavson, Ed Foreman, The Power of Living by Design, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A person who has a persistently negative or pessimistic outlook.
negaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negaholic
batophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Batophobia, or fear that high things will fall, is not uncommon, and is matched by the perhaps still more common fear that one may fall off high places should one be perched on an altitude, or on the top of a bridge, or walking along cliffs.
ref: 1912, Edwin Ash, Nerves and the Nervous, Brentano's, page 23:
text: Batophobia is the specific fear of high objects, such as tall buildings. Batophobia may be related to acrophobia — the fear of high places, or to anablepophobia — the fear of looking up at high places.
ref: 1995, Mir M. Ali, Paul J. Armstrong, Architecture of Tall Buildings, McGraw-Hill, published 1995, →ISBN, page 303:
text: That doesn’t seem to be a problem for the wealthy investors who are wiring millions of dollars to New York to snatch up a piece of 157 West 57th Street — what will be New York City’s tallest residential building, with 90 floors overlooking Central Park.
A bigger worry for these buyers may be acrophobia (fear of heights) or batophobia (fear of being near an object of great height, like a skyscraper).
ref: 2012 February 3, Alexei Barrionuevo, “The World at Its Feet”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024:
glosses: The fear of high objects or of high objects falling down.
Related terms: acrophobia
altophobia
bathophobia
peemergency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peemergencies
Etymology: Blend of pee + emergency.
Senses: examples: text: YKK zipper across the chest, shoulder to shoulder, is extremely easy to operate alone - no help necessary in a peemergency. (I've tried the neck entry/zipperless suits, and agree with the owners I've talked to about them: we can't get the darn things off.)
ref: 2000 August 31, Mike F, “FS: New Body Glove Hooded Steamer”, in rec.windsurfing (Usenet):
text: Junior insists he doesn't have to use the facilities at the rest stop. Ten minutes and 45 miles from the next roadside oasis, the little schnook has to go - right now. Enter the civilized, anytime, anywhere solution to "peemergencies": TravelJohn Disposable Urinal.
ref: 2003 December 14, Jacky Runice, “Give a gift with travelers in mind”, in Daily Herald:
text: A company called TravelJohn Products, for example, promoted portable, unisex disposable urinals. […] Literature says the device helps families avoid a peemergency.
ref: 2004 August 14, Tom Wharton, “Bold products spice up Outdoor Retailers' 'newbie' tent”, in The Salt Lake Tribune:
glosses: A situation in which one has an urgent need to urinate but is prevented from doing so due to lack of access to a toilet, restrictive gear, etc.
peemergencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peemergency
untweetable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untweetable
form: most untweetable
Etymology: From un- + tweetable.
Senses: examples: text: And some recipes are just untweetable, like lobster Thermidor, which calls for 26 ingredients and 32 steps. Twitter can’t handle too many instructions like “pour the cognac in and boil for a minute or two, shaking the skillet.”
ref: 2009 August 5, Michael Hill, “Tweet and potatoes: Recipes get scrunched”, in The State Journal-Register:
text: The opener, Cardona's Light Conversation, was anything but -- Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos dancing mostly to a recording of a dense conversation about Kierkegaard's philosophy and other untweetable subjects.
ref: 2010 January 6, Jordan Levin, “Disabled dancers heat up Winterfest”, in Miami Herald:
text: For an Amy or a Gaga that’s all fine – there’s a whiff of cordite there – but for someone who makes The Jonas Brothers look like Megadeth, it’s just dreadfully untweetable.
ref: 2010 November 12, Brian Boyd, “Revolver”, in Irish Times:
glosses: Not capable or worthy of being communicated via the Twitter microblogging service.
blizzicane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blizzicanes
Etymology: Blend of blizzard + hurricane.
Senses: examples: text: The "blizzicane" of '93 drenched Hampton Roads with monsoonlike rains Saturday morning, ripped the area with near-hurricane force wind in the early afternoon then began dropping some light snow after nightfall.
ref: 1993 March 14, Steve Stone, “Wicked Winds Tear Up Hampton Roas”, in The Virginian-Pilot:
text: A certain form of extra-tropical cyclone, the infamous Nor'easter, can even come to exhibit "blizzicane" features, including dramatic drops in central pressure and an eyelike structure.
ref: 2007, Chris Mooney, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, Harcourt, published 2008, →ISBN, page 293:
text: Lauer applauded the Hub for its response to last weekend’s blizzicane — a storm, he said, that “hammahd’’ the city, mimicking a Boston accent.
ref: 2013 February 15, Mark Shanahan, Meredith Goldstein, “Fans flock to see ‘Today’ show at Faneuil Hall”, in Boston Globe:
glosses: A weather system that produces intense rain, wind, and snow.
blizzicanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blizzicane
rurbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rurbanites
Etymology: From rurban + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: If you're a farmer in any Connecticut community the chances are that your next-door neighbor is a "rurbanite." He lives in the country. He may call his home a "farm," but he gets most of his income selling insurance, or working as a toolmaker in a brass factory, or teaching school or working on the road for the State Highway Department.
ref: 1950 March 5, Frank Atwood, “Rurbanites”, in The Hartford Courant:
text: The average citizen is now a "rurbanite," owning a house on the outskirts of a city in an area where town and countryside have fused into TV-land.
ref: 1987, Flora Lewis, Europe: A Tapestry of Nations, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 109:
text: People who make the choice to live “in the country” are in fact totally cut off from it. These “rurbanites” usually have to take the car to reach the neighboring woods.
ref: 2009, Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne, Birkhäuser, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A person who lives in a rurban area; someone who lives in the country but works in the city.
rurbanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rurbanite
bumtastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more bumtastic
form: most bumtastic
Etymology: From bum + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: Leaving the dramas and protests of Wentworth, Bea seems in paradise at the Barnhurst rural retreat, happily getting to know the charming Mrs Roberts, Barnhurst's version of Vinegar Tits played by Gerda Nicolson with auburn hair and a funny accent, and reacquainting herself with the bumtastic Marie Winter and with her new cell-mate Tracey Morris (Wow! Continuity!!)
ref: 1999 October 10, PCBH Digest, “PCBH Digest V2 Edition 1008 - 10 Oct 1999”, in alt.tv.cell-block-h (Usenet):
text: […] exposés of domestic British fascism and pictures of bumtastic Kylie Minogue in her underwear advertising free pop CD giveaways.
ref: 2003, Chris Horrie, Tabloid Nation: The Birth of the Daily Mirror to the Death of the Tabloid, André Deutsch, published 2003, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Phillips performed as a clown in the circus show, and introduced the company's Russian gymnasts to a new word, describing his costume as a cross between bumtastic singer Jennifer Lopez and an Oompa Loompa from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
ref: 2008 August 4, Emily Dunn, Elicia Murray, “Bigger and bigger beat at the bay”, in Brisbane Times:
glosses: Having shapely and appealing buttocks.
Synonyms: asstastic
bootylicious
callipygian
callipygous
rumpalicious
jubilatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of jubilus.
synonyms: word: jubilus
jelly fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly fungus
interdentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interdental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between the teeth.
piggy-wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggy-wigs
Senses: glosses: A pig.
LOLer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOLers
Etymology: From LOL + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the worst offender is the LOLer who has no grasp of nuance or subtlety. He's like a comedian who comes down from the stage to sit on your lap, tell you a joke and then say, 'Get it?'
ref: 2009 September 22, Malcolm Venable, “Once-welcome LOL is now virtually DOA, and here's why”, in The Virginian-Pilot:
text: When I actually laugh at what someone has written to me, I like to insert I AM LEGITIMATELY LAUGHING OUT LOUD, because it differentiates me from the frequent LOLers.
ref: 2011, Octavia Lehman, "In Lehman's Terms", The Sounding Board (Grace College), Volume 58, Issue 2, 8 September 2011, page 7
text: The talk show host created the now international day of action in 2010. From the start it was a huge success, as Kimmel said on his show: “We killed off millions of LOLers and OMGers.”
ref: 2012 November 19, Dahlia Kurtz, “National UnFriend Day calls on Facebookers to cull their lists”, in 24 Hours, Vancouver, Canada:
glosses: A person who uses the expression LOL (laugh out loud).
examples: text: >You know what picture reminds me of? The Roseanne Show, the
>Haloween^([sic]) episode, where her Dan's head was sticking out of the table
>on a platter vegetables! :-)
>
>Judi
Ha!
I saw this too! What a LOLer!!
ref: 1998 July 18, Hari Har Singh, “Re: AFAB BULLIES ARE DISAPPOINTING”, in alt.consciousness.4th-way (Usenet):
text: And the classic... Elizabeth died..of many causes scene... LOL that one is a LOLer from beginning to end. "I'm famished, anyone want a tuna on rye?"
ref: 1999 May 8, Bizarra, “Diva That Wouldn't Die”, in alt.tv.remember-wenn (Usenet):
text: > Let"s not "forget" it took 86 years to win a world series-LOL
Yes, that was a real LOLer!
ref: 2005 May 16, Jim Tiberio, “Re: 8 wins against Oak-Sea....”, in alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees (Usenet):
glosses: Something that causes one to laugh out loud.
LOLers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LOLer
Elkesaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elkesaites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Elcesaite.
Elkesaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elkesaite
jurator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʊˈreɪtə(r)/
Forms: form: jurators
Etymology: From Latin iūrātor. Doublet of juror.
Senses: examples: text: And this courſe was uſed by the Four and twenty Jurators in Kent in Rumney Marſh, who always upon their Oaths ſet down every particular mans ground in certain, and their juſt quantities, and accordingly were the parties ſeverally taxed.
ref: 1622 August, Robert Callis, The Reading of That Famous and Learned Gentleman, Robert Callis Esq; Sergeant at Law, upon the Statute of 23 H. 8. Cap. 5. of Sewers: As It Was Delivered by Him at Grays-Inn, in August, 1622, London: […] William Leak, published 1647, page 97:
text: It was an improvement on this ancient cuſtom, that the jurators were named by the court instead of being selected by the parties. It was a further progreſs towards our preſent mode of jury, that the jurators were to hear the ſtatements of both parties before they gave their deciding veredictum, or oath of the truth. While the ordeals were popular, the trials by jurators were little uſed;
ref: 1805, Sharon Turner, “The Trial by Jury”, in The History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Laws, Poetry, Literature, Religion, and Language, of the Anglo-Saxons, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, book V (The History of the Laws of the Anglo-Saxons), page 342:
text: This was indeed the second stage of trial by jury, the first being that of jurators, or compurgators.
ref: 1860, Robert Ross, Outlines of English History for Junior Classes in Schools; or a First Book for Pupils Preparing for Public Examinations, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., page 54:
text: Compurgator.[…]2. A jurator who, together with the accused and eleven others, swore to his innocence.
ref: 1872, Orby Shipley, editor, A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms, London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 129:
text: These jurators for a long time combined the functions of accusers and triers.
ref: 1887 November, D. H. Chamberlain, “The American System of Trial by Jury”, in Journal of Social Science, Containing the Transactions of the American Association, number XXIII, […] for the American Social Science Association, Damrell & Upham, Boston, and G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, page 95:
text: But we learn from Bracton, who wrote in the reign of Henry II, that the system of compurgators was extended after a short time so as to submit the final decision of the case to what was called jurators. These jurators were charged with the preliminary inquiry as to the guilt of any person charged with certain crimes, and upon their finding him guilty he was put to the ordeal of compurgation as he might elect.
ref: 1909, Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the Texas Bar Association, page 154:
text: The same author dwells much on the fact, that these jurators were of the number of twelve.
ref: 1965, The Southern Quarterly Review, page 113:
glosses: A juror.
memedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meme + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: And now, a week after his death, the quirkier side of the Internet is coming forward: the best Jackson lyrics about pets, the top 10 Jackson outfits, the best Jackson moonwalks. And onward to memedom.
ref: 2009, Joshua Errett, “The Jackson five”, in Now, Toronto, Volume 28, Number 44, 29 June - 6 July 2009:
text: But Gosling, in his memedom, is too much of an underdog hero to become People's "sexiest man." While Gosling actually seems kind of bland in real life save for his put-upon Brando accent and his nobility on the streets of New York, on the Internet he's a feminist, a lawyer, even a typographer.
ref: 2012 November 14, Esther Zuckerman, “Why Ryan Gosling Should Never Be the 'Sexiest Man Alive'”, in The Atlantic Wire:
text: Ever since Kanye West and Taylor Swift fatefully crossed paths during the MTV Video Music Awards a few years ago, that moment's instant memedom has obscured an intriguing similarity between the two artists.
ref: 2013 January 2, Marc Hogan, “Watch Kanye West Announce Impending Fatherhood Onstage in Atlantic City”, in Spin:
glosses: The state or quality of being a meme.
examples: text: In celebration of all the treasured gems that are internet memedom, a group of Harvard folks are throwing what’s bound to blow up into the the^([sic]) biggest nerdfest outside of a Star Trek Convention.
ref: 2007 December 7, Jenna Wortham, “Famous Internet Memes to Gather at ROFLCon 2008”, in Wired:
text: An inventive joke born of Internet memedom.
ref: 2012 March 28, Katherine Boyle, “Peeps Show VI: Power to the Peeps”, in The Washington Post:
text: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has one of his top aides to thank for uttering the words that would secure his place in memedom.
ref: 2012 December 29, Samantha Rollins, “The 11 best memes of 2012”, in The Week:
glosses: The world of memes.
justificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: justificates
form: justificating
form: justificated
form: justificated
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, when an application was made for the first quarter's rent, Mr. Cincinnatus W. Sloaker coolly returned for answer, that " he knew of no obligation no-how to justificate him to part with a cent's worth of scrapins until the correct balance of time was figured up;" and, therefore, all that Mr. Poppyhead took by his motion was the conviction that — to continue the phraseology of Mr. Sloaker — he was "drawn out cold," which, being interpreted, means that he was "done" in every kind of way.
ref: 1851, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 92, page 446:
text: These arguments are used to justificate the preference for the road transport.
ref: 1993, Carlos E. Myreböe, A Study of Two Export Processes of Eucalyptuswood from Uruguay:
text: I will now turn to the theme of the unconscious by maintaining that there is no possibility for Kant to justificate the reality of moral consciousness through the a priori feelings without adopting the view that the origin of them lies in the fundus animae.
ref: 2012, Piero Giordanetti, Riccardo Pozzo, Marco Sgarbi, Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: To provide a justification for; to justify.
justitium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin jūstitium.
Senses: glosses: An interregnum after the death of an emperor.
undinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undinal
form: most undinal
Etymology: From undine + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of, an undine
catastrophic kills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catastrophic kill
nerdfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerdfests
Etymology: From nerd + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: On Nov. 14, at Comdex, the industry's annual nerdfest in Las Vegas, Chairman William H. Gates III unveiled the Microsoft Network, an on-line service that he says will draw millions more consumers into the Information Age.
ref: 1994 November 27, “Home Computers”, in BusinessWeek:
text: At a recent nerdfest, where it was decided Pluto wasn't a real planet, one of the scientists held up a stuffed Pluto (the Walt Disney kind) and an umbrella, and wittily pointed out that Pluto was under the umbrella of planets that include “dwarf planets.”
ref: 2007, Scott Adams, Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey Gods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More, Portfolio, →ISBN:
text: Originally a single event in Sydney in 2000 named "comicfest", this expo has now grown into a country-spanning event, with gatherings in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. A huge all-encompassing nerdfest, it attracts a huge crowd of Aussies hoping to meet their favourite creators and stars.
ref: 2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 293:
glosses: A gathering of nerds or an event centered around the interests of nerds.
examples: text: The in flight nerdfest doesn't stop with video either. Air NZ has used active noise cancellation system supplied by local noise cancelling gurus, Phitek.
ref: 2009 December 16, Pat Pilcher, “Is Air NZ's in-flight tech enough to make flying fun?”, in The New Zealand Herald:
text: I remember the day I walked into Barnes and Nobles shortly after George Lucas released his latest nerdfest, Revenge of the Sith.
ref: 2010, Melissa Howell, Greg Howell, Fusion: Where You and God Connect, Review and Herald, →ISBN, page 150:
text: When Oberon says things like that, it takes all my will not to dive into a Star Wars nerdfest; […]
ref: 2011, Kevin Hearne, Hexed, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Something which appeals to or is characteristic of nerds.
nerdfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerdfest
stick to one's knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks to one's knitting
form: sticking to one's knitting
form: stuck to one's knitting
form: stuck to one's knitting
form: attend to one's knitting
form: ’tend to one’s knitting
form: tend to one's knitting
form: keep to one's knitting
Senses: examples: text: [A]s sportsmen I think that we should stick to our knitting and not allow economic or social conditions to interfere with the Olympic Games.
ref: 1935 October 27, “Helene Mayer to be in Olympics: Woman Fencing Champion Accepts Invitation”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Oct 2013:
text: Researchers should stick to their knitting, finding cancer cures and discovering new shades of lipstick, and refrain from debunking history.
ref: 1975 Nov. 21, "Puritans Denied Drumstick" (editorial), Spokane Daily Chronicle, p. 4 (retrieved 1 Oct 2013)
text: "We stuck to our knitting and stayed in one market rather than going for growth," he says.
ref: 2001 July 15, Chris Taylor, “E-Grocers Check Out”, in Time, retrieved 01 Oct 2013:
glosses: To concentrate on one's own tasks, affairs, area of expertise, etc., especially in order to avoid distraction, embarrassment, or other needless problems.
Synonyms: mind one's own business
stay in one's lane
paddle one's own canoe
Related terms: let the cobbler stick to his last
ultracrepidarianism
attend to one's knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attends to one's knitting
form: attending to one's knitting
form: attended to one's knitting
form: attended to one's knitting
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stick to one's knitting.
'tend to one's knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'tends to one's knitting
form: 'tending to one's knitting
form: 'tended to one's knitting
form: 'tended to one's knitting
Senses: examples: text: Say! if you want to be happy, loved and admired by all, keep your place—’tend to your knitting—mind your own business, and mind it well.
ref: 1915, The Spectator: An American Weekly Review of Insurance, volume 94:
text: “Better go home and ’tend to your knitting, you men,” said one, urging his horse forward […]
ref: 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-Trigger Brand, page 66:
text: “You want me to forget all those things, go home, and ’tend to my knitting. Is that it, Perdue?”
ref: 1938, Hugh Pentecost [Judson Philips], The Death Syndicate, page 166:
glosses: Alternative form of stick to one's knitting.
tend to one's knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tends to one's knitting
form: tending to one's knitting
form: tended to one's knitting
form: tended to one's knitting
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stick to one's knitting.
keep to one's knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps to one's knitting
form: keeping to one's knitting
form: kept to one's knitting
form: kept to one's knitting
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stick to one's knitting.
mind one's business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minds one's business
form: minding one's business
form: minded one's business
form: minded one's business
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mind one's own business.
bikeporn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bike + porn.
Senses: glosses: Images of bicycles, and associated equipment, in a style meant to arouse feelings of appreciation and envy.
allozymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allozyme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an allozyme/alloenzyme.
Derived terms: allozymically
alloenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloenzymes
Etymology: From allo- + enzyme.
Senses: glosses: allozyme
Related terms: alloenzymatic
amoxiclav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of amoxicillin + clavulanate.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Co-amoxiclav.
apoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Apoidea + -n.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bees of the superfamily Apoidea.
barophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baro- + physical.
Senses: glosses: Describing the physical effects of (elevated or changing) pressure
evilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of evil + evolution.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, dinosaurs are an atheist plot to get kids to believe in evilution.
ref: 1993 August 29, Frank Reid, “Re: 4 more Barney (end)”, in alt.music.filk (Usenet):
text: Ooops, no, he can't use alcohol, either. That's produced by fermentation, which is studied and optimized by evil biologists and chemists, almost all of whom believe in evilution.
ref: 1996 October 5, Paul Myers, “Re: The eloquent words of Immanuel Velikovsky [really: more on Carboniferous bones]”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
text: I don't care if every man, woman and child, from the first conscious ape (if you believe in evilution) to the last man standing, if they all believe that "X" is wrong and "Y" is right, it is still a relative ethic.
ref: 2002 May 9, Loren, “Re: Tradition and Scripture”, in soc.religion.christian (Usenet):
glosses: Evolutionary theory viewed as something evil.
Related terms: evilutionist
Nips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nip
cotransduced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + transduced.
Senses: glosses: transduced along with another