cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Jhang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæŋ/
ipa: /ʒæŋ/
enpr: jäng
homophone: Chang
homophone: Zhang
Forms: form: Chang
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Zhang
Etymology: The Mandarin 張 /张 (Zhāng) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Jhang.
Senses: examples: text: The big blow in the decisive third game came from catcher Jin-De Jhang, whose three-run triple gave Altoona all the breathing room it needed.
ref: 2017, “Minor Leagues”, in Baseball America 2018 Almanac, Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 372:
text: For the second straight game, the Altoona Curve beat the Akron RubberDucks, 4-3, in walk-off fashion on a game-winning single by Jin-De Jhang on Thursday at Peoples Natural Gas Field.[…]
After Logan Hill was hit by a pitch, Elvis Escobar pinch ran for Craig at second base prior to Jhang’s game winner.
ref: 2018 June 1, “Jin-De Jhang gives Altoona Curve second straight walk-off win”, in The Express, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023, Local Sports:
text: Council official Du Jhang Mei-jhuang (杜張梅莊) last month said that 10,000 of the 260,000 hectares of land designated as Indigenous Reserved Land have been “lost” through fraudulent sales and deed transfers.
ref: 2022 April 2, “EDITORIAL: Indigenous issues need attention”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2022, Editorials, page 8:
text: Some of the places are being opened for the first time, such as the former residence of Jhang Syue-liang (張學良). Meanwhile, a car used to transport former dictator Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣中正) is also on display for the public to sit in.
ref: 2022 August 7, Lyla Liu, “Creative Expo Taiwan features ocean party, foot bath, and Formosa ice shop”, in Taiwan News, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022, Culture:
glosses: A surname from Mandarin.
bootleggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootleggery
bristle moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bristle mosses
Senses: glosses: Moss of genus Orthotrichum
Hindu push-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindu push-ups
Etymology: Referring to the fact that the exercise combines elements of a push-up and yoga (a system of exercises based on several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines).
Senses: topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exercise in which one goes from downward-facing dog to upward-facing dog, and vice versa.
overcreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcreative
form: most overcreative
Etymology: From over- + creative.
Senses: examples: text: "I tend to get overcreative when things aren't going well," says [David] Cone in one of his many astute self-analyses. "I've tried all those different grips — some I've never used before — and somewhere in the middle I lose my way. Too much tinkering, too much Young Tom Edison. I'm a victim of my own style."
ref: 2001 May 1, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of The Times: Toting the Wins and Losses Of a Pitcher's Art and Psyche”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2022:
text: It's called Bell's Diner and the chef is called Chris Wicks. It's in Montpelier in Bristol. He's a very creative chef, but not overcreative.
ref: 2008 November 25, Rachel Dixon, quoting Andrea Leeman, “Table talk”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2015:
text: He was lean and wore a Hawaiian shirt with teal sharks eating palm trees, Dickies painter pants, a straw hat with a beer logo, argyle socks with red sneakers, unflinchingly overcreative.
ref: 2009, Matthew Stewart, The French Revolution: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Soft Skull Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: Excessively creative.
Inca lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Inca lilies
Senses: glosses: The Peruvian lily
birdsnest soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Travellers have so often spoken of birdsnest soup, canine hams, and grimalkin fricasees, rats, snakes, worms, and other culinary novelties, served up in equally strange ways, that their readers get the idea that these articles form as large a proportion of the food as their description does of the narrative. […] The famous birdsnest soup is prepared from the nest of a swallow (Hirundo esculenta) found in caves and damp places in some islands of the Indian Archipelago; […]
ref: 1848, S[amuel] Wells Williams, “Architecture, Dress, and Diet of the Chinese”, in The Middle Kingdom; A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley and Putnam, pages 42 and 50:
text: Birdsnest soup was the first course, but following came only American dishes.
ref: 1904, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples, The Lake Mohonk Conference, page 80:
text: When I tell you, sir, his grandfather was scalped by the Sioux forty years ago, and he has a profound dislike for birdsnest soup, you know everything I’ve spotted from a quick look round.
ref: 1978, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, Michael Turner, transl., Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin), Egmont, published 2012, →ISBN, page 45:
text: In Southeast Asia, swifts’ nests are gathered for the famous curative delicacy “birdsnest soup,” featuring filmy masses like boiled eggwhites—actually the special gluey saliva swifts work up for constructing nests.
ref: 1988, Daniel Mathews, Cascade-Olympic Natural History, Raven Editions in conjunction with the Portland Audubon Society, →ISBN, page 395:
glosses: Alternative form of bird's nest soup.
Sligoville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Howe Browne, Marquess of Sligo and Governor of Jamaica, in 1834, the year that freedom came to the enslaved people of Jamaica.
Senses: examples: text: Benjamin left to join his minister-man to work his own piece of land in a place called Sligoville.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 336:
glosses: A village in Saint Catherine parish, Jamaica.
swipe file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swipe files
Senses: examples: text: It’s well known among artists, art historians and just us plain ol’ comic fans that good ideas get borrowed from time to time. Most comic book artists keep a “swipe file,” clippings of people or fashions, cars, animals… whatever figure or thing a story might call for.
ref: 2010, Mike Howlett, “The Sincerest Form of Flattery”, in The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds, Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: A collection of documents or templates (e.g. successful designs or marketing materials) used for future inspiration by creative professionals (cartoonists, graphic designers, copywriters, etc.).
swipe files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swipe file
Stevulak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stevulaks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
birdsnest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdsnests
Etymology: From bird + -s- + nest.
Senses: examples: text: It begins, as some one has beautifully said, “with a mother’s look,—with a father’s smile of approbation, or sign of reproof,—with a sister’s gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother’s noble act of forbearance,—with handfuls of flowers in green and daisied meadow,—with birdsnests admired, but not touched,—with creeping ants, and almost imperceptible emmets,—with humming bees,—with pleasant walks and shady lands,—and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly tones and words, to incite to acts of benevolence, to deeds of virtue, end to the source of all virtue, to God himself.”
ref: 1865 May, “Farming for Boys. IV.”, in J[ohn] T[ownsend] Trowbridge, Gail Hamilton [pseudonym; Mary Abigail Dodge], Lucy Larcom, editors, Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls., volume I, number V, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, […], page 332:
text: A fat woman in a birdsnest hat and white canvas shoes run over at the heels and clutching a white imitation leather handbag, strained forward behind the officer.
ref: 1939, Irene Baird, Waste Heritage, Toronto, Ont.: Macmillan of Canada, published 1974, →ISBN, page 19:
text: In these was a blaze of athletic flesh; I found beneath me two pairs of dazzlingly naked young gentlemen, with the bulging breasts with birdsnests in the middle, and bulbous calves, obtained by those who muscle round after balls, and bright red shoulders (the reward of redhot sunbaths), that heaved and undulated in the arc-lit court.
ref: 1940, Wyndham Lewis, America, I Presume, Howell, Soskin & Co., page 240:
text: At Cambridge King Henry’s crown was full of birdsnests.¹⁷⁴ […] At ⟨Oxford⟩ K[ing] Henry’s crown was full of birdsnests.²⁰
ref: 1973, Merton M. Sealts, Jr., editor, The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, volumes X (1847–1848), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, pages 334 and 427:
text: […] I shrank from any sport where I’d be expected to strip down afterward and shower, especially shower with macho manly wrestling-type guys from the older grades with birdsnests of curls above their drooping hoses, […]
ref: 2009, Brian Preston, Me, Chi, and Bruce Lee: Adventures in Martial Arts from the Shaolin Temple to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of bird's nest.
birdsnests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdsnest
dumbdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dumb + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: He was a doper, the pied piper of dumbdom, always banged to the gills on some queer mix of speed, mescaline, hash or cocaine.
ref: 1998, Steven Tolliday, The Rise and Fall of Mass Production, volume 2, page 64:
text: We could finally say with conviction that dumbdom had a king and court complete with jokers, jesters, and dirty, old men in silk pajamas who put their own baited spin on those tumultuous waters in Hell Gate that to this day still swirl as Charybdis between Manhattan and Queens.
ref: 2011, Richard Lauer, Dues and Don'ts, page 17:
text: This to no avail, given that Ivan has been reduced to a quivering puddle of orange dumbdom.
ref: 2011, Douglas Dunn/Cujo, The Cujo Cat Chronicles, page 28:
qualifier: possibly regarded as nonstandard
glosses: The quality of being dumb or stupid; stupidity.
Related terms: dumdum
nowhen else
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: By analogy with nowhere else. See nowhen.
Senses: examples: text: […] that not a weed grows in a particular spot, without a special Providence of God that it should grow there, and nowhere else; then, and nowhen else.
ref: 1884, Charles Kingsley, The Works of Charles Kingsley, page 214:
text: Amidst a spectacle, staged nowhere and nowhen else in the world, they heard the voice of the Almighty giving the Ten Commandments. So impressed were they that they declared that all which God had spoken they would solemnly do.
ref: 1920, George Betts Swann, Sermons, page 98:
text: The temporal order compels you to be exactly when you are at any moment, and nowhen else. Thirdly, everything in time occupies the whole of the time during which it exists. You entirely fill one part of the temporal dimension.
ref: 1999 February 1, Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: “He has nowhen else to go.” “Maybe I should go help him plot a course,” Efren offers. “You aren't coming with us,” Thyme says. Efren opens his mouth to say something. Closes it. Opens it again and only wordless breath expires.
ref: 2022 May 9, Edward Newton, The Infinite Minute, World Castle Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: At no other time.
Kożuchów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Kożuchów.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: Several villages in Poland.
Crucorney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in north Monmouthshire, Wales, bordering onto Herefordshire in England.
Derived terms: Llanvihangel Crucorney
cyber transport systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of computer networking.
synonyms: word: computer networking
Coordinate terms: cyber
cyber systems
cyber transport
Derived terms: cyber transport systems airman
cyber transport systems journeyman
cyber transport systems rating
cyber transport systems technician
Related terms: cyber
cyber system
cyber systems
cyber transport
cyber transport system
transport system
transport systems
cyber transport systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyber transport system
cyber transport system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyber transport systems
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of computer network.
synonyms: word: computer network
Related terms: cyber
cyber system
cyber systems
cyber transport
cyber transport systems
system
transport
transport system
transport systems
Schaeffler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schaefflers
Senses: glosses: A surname
Tsaoyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 棗陽 (Zǎoyáng).
Senses: examples: text: “It is stated that a general drive against the Kuominchun invaders has already started from Tsaoyang, in North Hupeh, near the Hunan border, and General Liu Shih, the Wuhan garrison commander, expresses confidence that his forces, 100,000 in number, are adequate to deal with the situation.
ref: 1929 November 23, “Government Faced with Triple War Threat”, in The China Weekly Review, volume L, number 12, →OCLC, page 468, column 1:
text: In the see-saw battle for Tsaoyang in May the Japanese suffered 45,000 wounded or killed, and they had to pull reinforcements from Manchukuo before take Ichang (→ 17).
ref: 1940 June 12, “Heavy losses as Japan advances into heart of China”, in World War II: Day by Day, DK, published 2004, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94, column 4:
text: On 5 December, HUPEH DAILY frontpaged a report on the Tsaoyang County CCP Committee giving free rein to the masses to thoroughly expose and criticize the towering crimes of the "gang of four" in laying their hands on Tsaoyang and added an editor's note.
ref: 1976 December 9 [1976 December 6], “Hupeh Daily Criticizes Local 'Gang' Activities”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 238, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Zaoyang.
Accettura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Matera, Basilicata, Italy.
glosses: A habitational surname from Italian.
fancy stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancy stitches
Senses: examples: text: she sewed one final fancy stitch and admired the final product
text: […] to the paper with fine green sewing silk ; then catch the lining to each section by a little fancy stitch at each scallop . The top of the shade consists of two hexagons made of cardboard covered with pink silk and edged with lace .
ref: 1886, Jane Cunningham Croly, Ladies' Fancy Work: A Manual of Designs & Instructions in All Kinds of Needlework, page 97:
text: Having arranged all your pieces to your own satisfaction, the next step is to work all the seams with fancy stitches in various colors. All your odds and ends of embroidery silks will now be useful.
ref: 2022 August 10, anonymous author, Embroidery and Fancy Work, DigiCat, page 134:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A stitch for decorative or detailing purposes only.
unrooved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rooved.
Senses: examples: text: Cities harbour countless such pale frigates, ghost ships, anchorless, unrecorded cruisers who pass through ports unwelcomed & soon exit thankless—though glad to find most cities’ freedoms & complexities, including domiciles, unrooved, unmitred—not like homes which occupants must broom & furnish & then lock to keep outside such passersby as these, the uninvited.
ref: 2001, Henry S. Maas, “The Uninvited”, in Poems New & Selected, Wallace Crescent Press, →ISBN, page 120:
text: In fact, there is also a dedicatory statue for Achilles in the same unrooved courtyard.
ref: 2002, Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Was Greek Thought Religious?: On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, from Rome to Romanticism, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 221:
text: On numerous trips to Abomey, friends and tour guides have noted that the statue of King Benhazin of Dahomey stands purposefully unrooved, so that both rain and sun will beat down on his head as an eternal reminder that it was he who lost the kingdom to French colonials.
ref: 2016, Neil L. Norman, “Feet of Clay: An Archaeology of Huedan Elite Anxiety in the Era of Atlantic Trade”, in Jeffrey Fleisher, Neil Norman, editors, The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear, Springer, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Rare form of unroofed.
Monmouth Cap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of a former inn, which was named after the Monmouth cap.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Grosmont community, north Monmouthshire, Wales, very close to the border with Herefordshire in England (OS grid ref SO3926).
wikipedia: Monmouth cap
throdd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɒd/
ipa: /ˈθɹɑd/
Etymology: Blend of three + odd.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: threeven
glosses: Not divisible by three.
lipsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lips
Alegría
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Alegría.
Senses: glosses: A town in Usulután department, El Salvador.
Llangua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Grosmont community, north Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO3925).
juggling act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juggling acts
Senses: examples: text: Parenthood is always a juggling act, balancing time and energy and finances and emotions with your child's — and your own — natural good days and bad days.
ref: 2008, Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide, page 17:
glosses: A situation in which someone has to deal with several conflicting things simultaneously
examples: text: The clown's juggling act was both technically fantastic and hilarious.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: juggling act.
juggling acts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juggling act
jumping-off place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping-off places
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jumping-off point.
synonyms: word: jumping-off point
jumping-off point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping-off points
Etymology: Includes a deverbal component from jump off.
Senses: examples: text: Not far south of Keelung is the small inland town of Juifang, the jumping-off point for one of northern Taiwan’s most picturesque getaways.
ref: 2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:
text: St Davids is also the jumping-off point for the Tarka Line to Barnstaple, and to Exmouth as well as to Waterloo, all of which makes the station a busy location.
ref: 2024 September 18, David Clough, “Riding the route of the 'Riviera Express'”, in RAIL, number 1018, page 39:
synonyms: jumping-off place
glosses: A starting point for a mission, adventure, investigation etc.
jump ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump ramps
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A ramp used to be jumped from, and do tricks on the skates/board/skis/bike etc.
jump ramps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump ramp
Jura Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Juras
glosses: a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany.
Kanaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kanakas
form: Kanaka
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of kanaka.
kapok bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kapok bushes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kapok tree.
synonyms: word: kapok tree
kauri gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The resin from the kauri tree
Kechua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Quechua.
Keflavik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Keflavík.
Kemp's ridley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kemp's ridleys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kemp's ridley sea turtle.
key club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key clubs
Senses: glosses: A private club, the members of which each have a key.
key fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key fruits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of key-fruit.
khapra beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khapra beetles
Etymology: See khapra.
Senses: synonyms: cabinet beetle
glosses: Any of a species Trogoderma granarium of beetles that infest grain.
Khmer Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Khmer Republic
Senses: glosses: The Cambodian state existed from 1970 to 1975.
kick flip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick flips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kickflip.
kick-starter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick-starters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kick start (“bar used to start a motorcycle engine”).
synonyms: word: kick start
extra: bar used to start a motorcycle engine
examples: text: This book serves as a kick-starter for those who care deeply about tackling poverty but don’t know where to start.
glosses: Something that kick starts.
kidglove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidgloves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kid glove.
kill shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kill shots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of killshot.
king mackerel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king mackerels
form: king mackerel
Senses: synonyms: kingfish
glosses: A species of mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
king salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king salmons
form: king salmon
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chinook salmon.
synonyms: word: chinook salmon
Kingston-upon-Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kingston upon Thames.
kissing ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪsɪŋ ˌbɔːl/
ipa: /ˌkɪsɪŋ ˈbɔːl/
ipa: /ˈkɪsɪŋ ˌbɔl/
ipa: /ˌkɪsɪŋ ˈbɔl/
ipa: /-ˌbɑl/
ipa: /-ˈbɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: kissing balls
Etymology: From kissing (noun) + ball (noun), from the custom of people kissing under the suspended ornament: see the 2001 quotation.
Senses: examples: text: The Division Office employees and their families enjoyed a Christmas party at the Highway Patrol clubhouse […] Clara Moran and Jackie Russ were responsible for the decorations—a tree and "kissing ball" of mistletoe …
ref: 1953 March–April, Sam M. Wilson, “Division Three”, in Margaret Burk, editor, North Carolina Roadways: A Magazine for Employees of the State Highway Commission, Raleigh, N.C.: Highway Information Department, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:
text: Kissing balls using fresh or dried herbs, flowers, cones, berries, or fresh greens make wonderful holiday decorations.
ref: 1991, Susan Hight Rountree, “Cones, Topiaries, and Kissing Balls”, in Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, published 1992, →ISBN, page 83:
text: And, most certainly we are careful to add the requisite bunch of mistletoe – often including a sprig in a kissing ball suspended in the front entryway. Of course, we always make certain there are plenty of berries on the mistletoe. Each kiss captured beneath the kissing ball necessitates the removal of one of the berries in keeping with the traditional rhyme: / Pluck a berry from the mistletoe / For every kiss that's given. / When the berries are all picked / It brings an end to kissing.
ref: 2001 October, “Deck the Halls”, in Celebrating the Tradition: The Victorian Christmas Booklet (Front Range Christmas Tree Program), Golden, Colo.: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Dave and Nicole exchanged vows and rings beneath an iron canopy topped and sided in ivory organza, complete with a "kissing ball" bouquet of black roses (matching Nicole's bouquet) hanging from a chain of orchid blossoms.
ref: 2008 spring–summer, Mary Kenny, “Nicole Knox & Dave Rickards”, in Heather Holliday, editor, Exquisite Weddings, volume 2, number 1, San Diego, Calif.: San Diego Magazine, →OCLC, page 139, column 1:
glosses: A hanging ornament, often used as a Christmas decoration, made by arranging plant parts, especially sprigs of holly or mistletoe, and evergreen leaves, into a ball shape.
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kissing balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissing ball
kiss my balls
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kiss my ass or suck my balls.
synonyms: word: kiss my ass or suck my balls
Related terms: kissing balls
knee drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee drops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kneedrop.
knee slide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee slides
Senses: examples: text: You can only perform a knee slide on a wet pitch.
glosses: The act of sliding along a surface on one's knees. It is a common goal celebration
Derived terms: black widow knee slide
knee slide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knee slides
form: knee sliding
form: knee slid
form: knee slid
Senses: glosses: To perform a knee slide
Klinsmann dive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klinsmann dives
Etymology: Popularized by German footballer Jürgen Klinsmann.
Senses: examples: text: Never attempt a Klinsmann dive if the ground is dry.
glosses: The act of running and diving onto the ground, with the momentum causing the body to slide along the floor
wikipedia: Jürgen Klinsmann
Kraut rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of krautrock.
ladybird beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladybird beetles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ladybird.
synonyms: word: ladybird
lancet fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancet fishes
form: lancet fish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lancetfish.
landing pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing pads
Senses: examples: text: Get to the barracks, save those men. Then escort them to the Landing Pad for evac.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest:
glosses: A helipad
lantern fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lantern flies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lanternfly.
laodicean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laodicean
form: most laodicean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Laodicean.
lap-chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap-charts
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A graphic showing the position of each car during every lap of a race
tens across the board
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Referring to the points awarded by judges in juried competitions, ten being the highest possible score.
Senses: examples: text: Flashing their magical smiles at the premiere of “The Dressmaker” in Melbourne, Australia, we couldn't decided^([sic]) who was the better looking bro, Liam (far l.) or Chris Hemsworth (near l.), so we'll just call it even. Tens across the board – for being handsome.
ref: 2015 October 20, “Hemsworths Have a Hot-Off”, in New York Daily News, volume 97, number 117, page 22:
text: Yas (Vivian Oparah): Babe, that outfit? Tens across the board.
Woman in Shop (Charlotte Melia): Oh. Thank you so much.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:
glosses: Used to express praise or amazement.
lap chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap charts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lap-chart.
lap robe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap robes
Senses: glosses: A small blanket that covers the legs of someone seated
large-toothed aspen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large-toothed aspens
Senses: synonyms: big-tooth aspen
American aspen
Canadian poplar
white poplar
glosses: A deciduous tree of species Populus grandidentata.
Ghey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Prez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prezzes
Senses: examples: text: "I have a very good source close to Joe that tells me VP Biden will run for Prez," Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) tweeted Monday.
ref: 2015 October 20, Cameron Joseph, “Joe or no Joe?”, in New York Daily News, volume 97, number 117, page 6:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of prez (“president”).
naxalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of naloxone.
Liszt fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We all had heard of the phenomenon that was sweeping across Europe wherever the pianist, Franz Liszt, played. […] Most troubling, at least to the men who reported it, was that it was not maids or shopgirls who were succumbing to Liszt fever but respectable wives and daughters, well-trained women who should have known better.
ref: 2013 September, Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe, New York, NY: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 163:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of Lisztomania.
synonyms: word: Lisztomania
Galuten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galutens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
paracusias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracusia
Canon Frome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Froma Canonicorum 1242, from possession by the canons of Llanthony. Frome relates to the River Frome, Herefordshire.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Stretton Grandison Group Parish Council) north-east of Hereford, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6443).
wikipedia: River Frome, Herefordshire
SITREP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SITREPs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sitrep.
SitRep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SitReps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sitrep.
full screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full screws
Senses: examples: text: It was especially important when I was promoted to the rank of staff sergeant, with all its additional responsibilities. I'd loved being a fullscrew – a corporal – because I was still one of the lads and didn’t have too much else to think about.
ref: 2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 111:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: lance-jack
glosses: A corporal.
full screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full screw
proto-Britain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south[.]
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:
glosses: The formations far back in geological time that resulted eventually in the British Isles.
bedesten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedestens
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بدستان (bedesten).
Senses: glosses: An indoor marketplace in the Ottoman Empire.
one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: one's belly thinks one's throat has been cut
Senses: glosses: Used as an indirect way to say that someone is hungry.
peridromos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peridrome.
one's belly thinks one's throat has been cut
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut.
synonyms: word: one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut
cowbarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowbarns
Etymology: From cow + barn.
Senses: examples: text: 275 feet of pipes have been laid from dairy to cowbarn to convey the milk after it has passed through the Separator, back to the barn, while it is still warm just right for the calves.
ref: 1891 June 12, F. C., “Alfred, Me.”, in The Manifesto, volume XXI, number 7, published July 1891, page 161, column 2:
text: They found an old coat of his this morning on the bank by Manter’s cowbarn,—boy brought it up to the rectory; […]
ref: 1894 February, Walter Mitchell, “Two Strings to his Bow. In Two Parts. Part One.”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXXIII, number CCCCXXXVI, page 181, column 1:
text: Here, as has been mentioned, the manure from the cowbarns is thrown out daily and dried in the sunshine, a process favored through the greater part of the year by the aridity of the climate.
ref: 1902, C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge, chapter X, in Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History, Cleveland, Ohio: The Utopia Publishing Company, page 108:
text: Aside from the $4500 residence, $5000 has been spent in other improvements such as stable, cowbarns, fences and ice house.
ref: 1906, Writer and Engraver’s Picture of Graham County’s Progress since Its Organization, Topeka, Kan.: F. M. Steves & Sons, […], page 76:
text: The deadly gasses from dung in the cowbarn ruin her digestion—poison her hay and other foods—sap her vitality and prevent her from giving you a maximum supply of good milk. Ventilate Your Cowbarn with an ILG FARM BARN POWER VENTILATOR
ref: 1921 June 10, Hoard’s Dairyman, page 869:
text: Most had vines creeping up their walls and gardens or large courts with old cowbarns and dovecotes, relics of the time when they were farmsteads in open country, before the town had expanded to embrace them. […] It was of light-colored stone, two stories with a stable or cowbarn tucked in below and an old dovecote rising like a tower to one side.
ref: 1998, Martha Wells, chapter 10, in The Death of the Necromancer, Avon Eos, →ISBN, pages 137 and 140:
text: While walking in the orchard a few days later, the boys took a shortcut to the cowbarns. […] The cowbarn was below in the back of the house with several cattle in the barnyard.
ref: 2002, James S. Benedict, The House of Harding: A Novel, JB Press Company, →ISBN, pages 104 and 221:
glosses: A barn for cows.
Synonyms: byre
cowhouse
Coordinate terms: horsebarn
cowshed
cowbarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowbarn
truke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trukes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trvke
truke
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trvke
Balikian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balikians
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Պալիքյան (Palikʻyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Moroukian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moroukians
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մորուքյան (Morukʻyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Moroukians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moroukian
Balikians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Balikian
Quasney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quasneys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
enantiosemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enantio- + sem- (from Ancient Greek σῆμα "token, sign") + -y, modelled after polysemy.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: contronymy, contranymy, autoantonymy
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: A type of polysemy in which a word or other seme can be read as two opposing senses.
Related terms: enantioseme
Monolith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
vbg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I'm getting too old for this...well, too old to stay up all night for anything other than reading Senfic <vbg>
ref: 1999 June 25, Annie :), “Life, the universe and Mac (was: Silly question...)”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
coordinate_terms: word: bg
english: big grin
translation: big grin
word: bg
english: big grin
translation: big grin
glosses: Abbreviation of very big grin; often enclosed in * * or < > to indicate that the user is grinning very widely.
pumpkin spice latte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkin spice lattes
form: pumpkin-spice latte
Etymology: The drink was developed by the Starbucks coffee chain in 2003, with antecedents going back to at least the mid-1990s.
Senses: examples: text: Fall has become synonymous with pumpkin spice everything, including tasty pumpkin spice latte.
ref: 2019 October 9, Addie Broyles, “How to make pumpkin spice lattes at home”, in Tri-City Herald, volume 117, number 282, Pasco, Wash., →OCLC, page 1B:
synonyms: word: PSL
glosses: A coffee drink made with a mix of traditional fall spice flavors (cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove), steamed milk, espresso, and often sugar, topped with whipped cream and pumpkin spice.
wikipedia: Starbucks
Port St. Lucie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in St. Lucie County, Florida, United States.
sneaky beak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneaky beaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sneaky beaky (“furtive person”).
Ningwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Shalfleet parish, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4089).
wtd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: BOY Wtd. for Solicitors’ Office.—Write 753, Mail, Hull. […]
YOUTH wtd. for window cleaning, must be clean worker.—Appleton, 54, Sharp-st.
ref: 1946 January 9, “Prepaid Advertisements: Apprentices, Youths”, in The Daily Mail, number 18,768, Hull, page 2:
glosses: Abbreviation of wanted.
Back of the Wight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Other proposals were for an extension of the railway to Totland Bay, where the company had already acquired an hotel; and for a line from Freshwater to Brightstone [sic: Brighstone] and Ventnor, to serve the sparsely-populated south-western coast of the island, known as the Back of the Wight.
ref: 1947 May and June, K. Westcott Jones, “The Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 145–146:
glosses: An area on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
pref.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: pref
glosses: Abbreviation of prefix.
pref.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: BOOT Repairing.—Wtd., Benchman, exp. in Sewn and Cemented work pref., but not essen.—Wilks, 967, Spring-bank West.
ref: 1946 January 9, “Prepaid Advertisements: Clerks, Workpeople, etc.”, in The Daily Mail, number 18,768, Hull, page 2:
glosses: Abbreviation of preferred.
reqd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: TYPIST for Despatch Department; state exper. and salary reqd.—Write 621, Mail, Hull.
ref: 1946 January 9, “Prepaid Advertisements: Clerks, Workpeople, etc.”, in The Daily Mail, number 18,768, Hull, page 2:
related: word: reqd
glosses: Abbreviation of required.
req.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: DENNY, Mott & Dickson, Ltd., req. Lady Clerk for general office work.—Apply in own handwriting, stating age, exp., and salary reqd. to 14, Beresford-ave., Hull.
ref: 1946 January 9, “Prepaid Advertisements: Clerks, Workpeople, etc.”, in The Daily Mail, number 18,768, Hull, page 2:
glosses: Abbreviation of require.
reqs.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: DENTAL Surgeon reqs. Nurse Receptionist or Girl to train as same.—Write 531, Mail, Hull.
ref: 1946 January 9, “Prepaid Advertisements: Clerks, Workpeople, etc.”, in The Daily Mail, number 18,768, Hull, page 2:
related: word: reqd
glosses: Abbreviation of requires.
perm.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: DIGS Reqd., single man, ex-Army, anywhere Fish Dock - Aire-st. bus route; sit.-room or bed-sit. room, small family, similar. Perm. if suitable. Terms. All answered.—Write 1000, Mail, Hull.
ref: 1946 January 9, “Prepaid Advertisements: Lodgings, Apartments”, in The Daily Mail, number 18,768, Hull, page 2:
glosses: Abbreviation of permanent.
BAOR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of British Army of the Rhine.
sand crocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand crocuses
Senses: glosses: Romulea columnae, a small flower of Europe and the Middle East.
Skarzinski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skarzinskis
Senses: glosses: A surname
Neether
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neethers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
TWX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of teletypewriter exchange service.
Totland Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ3186).
portaledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portaledges
Etymology: Blend of portable + ledge.
Senses: examples: text: A ferocious storm kept the two men trapped on a portaledge—an artificial tent platform hung from pitons over the vertical void—for seven days and nights.
ref: 1999, Conrad Anker, David Roberts, The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 99:
text: [Warren] Harding, renowned for being tough and hard headed, had climbed the route in the days before portaledges, hanging every night in cramped and claustrophobic hammocks called 'Bat tents' which would fill with water when it rained.
ref: 2008, Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical, London: Arrow Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 204:
text: Have you ever been shy to go to the bathroom when you're on a date at someone else's house? Well, when you're living on a portaledge, there's no room for such modesty.
ref: 2017 August 18, Sasha DiGiulian, “What Life’s Really Like 1,400 Feet Up a Big Wall”, in Outside, Chicago, I.L.: Outside, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023:
text: It's your little pod, and on El Capitan specifically, you end up spending a tremendous amount of time in these portaledges, it becomes your home. It's where you cook. It's where you sleep. It's where you eat. It's where you go to the bathroom. Anytime you're not climbing, you're in these portaledges.
ref: 2018 November 27, Dave Davies, quoting Tommy Caldwell, “'It Looked Impossible': New Film Follows Free Climbers Up The 'Dawn Wall'”, in WFSU-TV, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A portable tent system used by rock climbers to sleep in during a climb lasting multiple days.
portaledges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portaledge
Gunville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet near Hungerford, Hyde parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1611).
glosses: A western suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4888).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia, United States.
oganessium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rejected name for oganesson
Related terms: tennessium
Hunny Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England, north-west of the town centre (OS grid ref SZ4989).
tennessium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rejected name for tennessine
Related terms: oganessium
bemuscled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bemuscled
form: most bemuscled
Etymology: From be- + muscled.
Senses: examples: text: All the bemuscled residents of the hotel were huddling in the lobby looking like sailors' wives waiting on the dock.
ref: 1971, James Blake, The Joint, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, page 376:
text: But the arrest of Sunjay Dutt, who usually plays a singing, dancing, bemuscled hero, has also plunged the Bombay film world into a witchhunt similar to Hollywood's anti-Communist purge in the 1950s.
ref: 1993 May 4, Tim McGirk, “Star's arrest worries the film industry: Indian cinema is no longer popular with politicians”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023:
text: The only men who seem to be relaxed at the gym are those who spend half their lives there - the personal trainers, the addicts, the pros. We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym. And, secretly, I wonder: how do I get anywhere near that level of tautness?
ref: 2003 August 23, “A weight on their shoulders”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2014:
text: As fantasies go, this one is beyond innocent, involving neither a bemuscled UPS man nor an indulgent yoga boot camp with my best friend in Tulum.
ref: 2012 March 2, Lisa Miller, “To Putter, Divine”, in New York Magazine, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022:
text: I was quite glad to have some wood between me and the bemuscled specimens of manhood in the hall, bristling with sharp things and making me feel inadequate.
ref: 2013, Francis Knight, Fade to Black, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Having large muscles.
ideal point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideal points
Senses: glosses: Synonym for omega point, in hyperbolic geometry. Also called: point at infinity
ideal points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideal point
real projective planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real projective plane
Fairport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former settlement in Modoc County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Muscatine County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fairbanks Township, Delta County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Perinton, Monroe County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
Rosy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Rose and other related names, variant of Rosie.
Derived terms: Rosy Lee
Rosey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Rose and other related names, variant of Rosie.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Roosevelt.
Horcrux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horcruxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of horcrux.