cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Depphead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deppheads
Etymology: From Depp + -head.
Senses: examples: text: Florida, the land that new wave forgot (clockwise from left): Depp flies the flannel; […] an ecstatic Depphead
ref: 2008 November, Evelyn McDonnell, “This Ain't No Disco”, in Spin, page 109:
text: On a more cheerful note, Dr. Reid loves sailing in the Bay with her pup Cocoa, she is a lifelong member of the “Who Dat!” nation and a die-hard Depphead!
ref: 2020, "Meet our Associate Chair and Campus Chairs", Criminology Department Newsletter (University of South Florida), Issue 10, March 2020, page 5
text: To further their “Justice for Johnny” campaign, many “Deppheads” have sought to reinstate him on his former Hollywood throne, while knocking his former wife firmly off her perch by engaging in a concerted lobbying effort to have Heard removed from her role in Acquaman 2.^([sic])
ref: 2021, Amber Melville-Brown, “Today's Celebrities Are Blessed With Revolting Fans”, in NYSBA Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal, volume 32, number 3, page 35:
glosses: A fan of American actor and musician Johnny Depp.
Kinosian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kinosians
Etymology: From Armenian Գինոսյան (Ginosyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Rejebian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rejebians
Etymology: From Armenian Ռեճեպյան (Ṙečepyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Rejebians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rejebian
Kinosians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kinosian
urban warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yeh actually works in marketing, and his weapon is a replica -- but he is spending the weekend attending an urban warfare workshop to prepare for what he sees as the very real threat of a Chinese invasion.
ref: 2022 July 7, “Inspired by Ukraine, civilians study urban warfare in Taiwan”, in France 24, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022:
text: In July, the New Taipei city government organized a large-scale drill with its disaster services and the Defense Ministry. Included for the first time was urban warfare, such as how first responders would react to an attack on a train station or a port.
ref: 2022 September 4, Huizhong Wu, “Military reserves, civil defense worry Taiwan as China looms”, in AP News, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2022:
glosses: combat conducted in towns and cities
costructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costructure
glucosamidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucosamidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that hydrolyses glucosamide
Stepford wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stepford wives
form: Stepford Wife
Etymology: From the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (adapted into a 1975 film of the same name), in which a woman moves to the fictional town of Stepford, Connecticut and discovers its eerily docile housewives are android replacements.
Senses: examples: text: Parroting back her husband’s words, by the end of the play, Kate sounds either like a brainwashed member of a bizarre religious cult or a Stepford wife, a woman whose personality has been wiped out and replaced by one more acceptable to her husband.
ref: 1995, Regina Barreca, Perfect Husbands & Other Fairy Tales): Demystifying Marriage, Men, And Romance, page 214:
text: "You can't just sit there and tell me you want Lili to become a 'Stepford wife' at your beck and call. […]
ref: 2005, Mollie Molay, An Engagement of Convenience, page 210:
text: So that prompted me to ask the question: isn’t the ideal Muslim wife in actual fact a Stepford Wife?
ref: 2006, Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips: A Unique Celebration of Muslim Womanhood, page 272:
glosses: A woman who unquestioningly submits to and serves her male partner, and/or does not seem to have interests, wishes, or pursuits of her own.
wikipedia: Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
Derived terms: Deppford wife
Stepford
Stepfordian
Stepford wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stepford wife
Maddur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Mandya district, Karnataka, India.
Siex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Siexes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shimsha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Karnataka, India, a tributary of the Kaveri.
Radi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Radis
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic رَاضِي (rāḍī), a personal name based on the adjective رَاضٍ (rāḍin, “satisfied, pleased”); as a surname, it is predominantly found in Iraq.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Kamphaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kamphauses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kamphaus.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kamphauses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kamphaus
Radis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Radi
Kowalke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kowalkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kowalke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kritz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kritzes
Etymology: * As a German surname, borrowed from German Kritz, from the noun Grütze (“grits”).
* Also as a German surname, Germanized Slavic form of the name Christian, influenced by Czech Kříž. Compare Kriz.
* Also as a German surname, variant of Kreutz, from Kreuz (“cross”); compare Cross.
* As a Jewish/Yiddish surname, from קראַץ (krats, “scratch”), for which see kratzen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kritzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kritz
Kowalkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kowalke
Kunda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kundas
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from Polish Kunda.
* Borrowed from Gujarati કુંડા (kuṇḍā), a surname of the Lohanas, an Indian trading or mercantile jati.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Lohana
Krugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krughs
Etymology: Variant spelling of German Krug.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kratts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kratt
Kundas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kunda
Krughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Krugh
Manago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Managos
Etymology: Various possible origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Manago, from an altered form of monaco (“monk”).
* An altered form of the French surname Manigault.
* Borrowed from Tagalog Mañago, a variant of Maniago.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Flamer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flamers
Etymology: Ultimately a surname of German origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lost Dakota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small, uninhabited portion of land that was left over after the division and organization of the large former Dakota Territory remnants into five new states in the late 19th century, which was overlooked by the federal government for years. It was located at the tripoint between the current states of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.
Flamers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flamer
Managos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manago
Ferriter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ferriters
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Occupational surname for someone who hunts rabbits with ferrets, from Middle English fereter (“ferreter”); this surname is well-established also in Ireland.
* Americanized spelling of German Vorreiter, an occupational surname for someone who rides ahead.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
ECA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ECAs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of emission control area.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of early career academic.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of external carotid artery.
ECA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of European Communist Action.
ECAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ECA
Goeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goes
Ferriters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ferriter
Grassman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grassmans
Etymology: Variant of Grassmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
SECA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SECAs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: ECA
coordinate_terms: NECA
glosses: Initialism of sulfur emission control area.
SECAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SECA
NECA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NECAs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: ECA
coordinate_terms: SECA
glosses: Initialism of nitrogen oxide emission control area.
NECAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NECA
McClory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McClorys
form: McClowry
form: McGlory
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Labhradha (“son of Labhraidh”), a personal name which derives from the verb labhair (“to speak”). Compare Lavery.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McClorys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McClory
Grassmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grassman
Kuranda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town on the Atherton Tableland in the Shire of Mareeba, northern Queensland, Australia.
Bierbaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bierbaums
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bierbaum.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Slominski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slominskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Słomiński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Withee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Withees
Etymology: Altered spelling of Withey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
Withees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Withee
Bierbaums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bierbaum
Slominskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Slominski
bunker barge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunker barges
Etymology: Originally in reference to coal bunkers.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel used to refuel ships with coal or bunker fuel.
bunker barges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunker barge
neuro-biological
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Little did I know that I was about to spend the next twenty-seven years of my life desperately searching for what I knew deep down was some sort of neuro-biological disorder, and the rest of my life coping with the common associated phenomena which are an integral part of Tourettes.
ref: 2003, Chris Mansley, “'Life' for Tourettes”, in Making Allowances: Personal Accounts of Tourette Syndrome, Liverpool: The Bluecoat Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Acting together, Collectors have imprisoned entire cities in stasis. While no definitive forensic accounting exists to explain the fate of those imprisoned, leading speculation is that victims are harvested for scientific experimentation and neuro-biological repurposing.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collectors Codex entry:
glosses: Alternative spelling of neurobiological.
braided belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braided belts
form: braid belt
Senses: glosses: A belt for around the legwear constructed from noticeable interlaced strands between which, in place of punch holes, the prong can be run through.
braided belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braided belt
courtyardful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From courtyard + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It is a bad plan to have the court overstocked with breeders, for the simple reason that they may not always receive the proper amount of attention that a moderate stock would; and if rabbits are neglected it is of no use trying to keep them, as they are then liable at any time to be attacked with the infectious diseases these animals are subject to; and if this were to occur, a whole courtyardful might soon be carried off without the slightest chance of stopping the disease.
ref: [1870s?], T. C. Lord, “A Rabbit Court, and How to Stock It”, in Charles Rayson, editor, Rabbits for Prizes and Profit. Part II. General Management. Part II., London: “The Bazaar” Office, […], page 51:
text: Besides the chapel there are study rooms for the students and each Saturday evening a program of gramaphone record music draws a courtyardful of eager listeners.
ref: 1944, Forth: The Spirit of Missions, page 15:
text: ‘Critic’ of the New Statesman has very justly pointed out that, contrary to popular interpretation, there is excellent support for the advocate of non-violence in the story of a man who picks up a bundle of small cords and with this ferocious weapon drives a great temple courtyardful of tradesmen, herdsmen, and money-changers out into the street.
ref: 1945, Doris Langley Moore, The Vulgar Heart: An Enquiry into the Sentimental Tendencies of Public Opinion, Cassell and Company Ltd., page 95:
text: “Half an acre of blossoming wu-t‘ung trees quietly locks up (so) a courtyardful of sad rain”
ref: 1974, Chou Pang-yen, “Subtlety and Sophistication”, in James J. Y. Liu, editor, Major Lyricists of the Northern Sung: A.D. 960-1126, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 189:
text: As maids pranced primly, swiftly out / And crammed the doorjambs, stared in doubt / At this new neighbor’s striking stances, / A courtyardful of local folks / Assessed their steeds with snorts and pokes.
ref: 1999, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, chapter III, in Douglas Hofstadter, transl., Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Basic Books, →ISBN, verse 3, page 36:
text: A courtyardful of bitter rain has sent autumn home; only the poetic impulse has no place to land, disappearing into white clouds and red trees.
ref: 2005 February, “Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Wu Zao (1799–1863): To the Tune of “Clear and Even Music””, in Tony Barnstone, Chou Ping, editors, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 344:
text: Through the projects he [Monty Don] and his team worked on at Berryfields, the Gardeners’ World gardening playground, you can learn how to create and maintain a spring woodland patch, a drought border, a vegetable plot and a courtyardful of containers, among other delights.
ref: 2005 March 9, “Inspiring advice from Mr Gardeners’ World”, in Homes & Property (Evening Standard), page 34:
glosses: Enough to fill a courtyard.
Related terms: courtful
yardful
contragravitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contragravitic
form: most contragravitic
Senses: examples: text: Earthian flight engineers have harnessed chemicals and fire and are hoping to harness the atom. But the CFM is evidently driven by a vastly superior form of energy which permeates it with contragravitic influence. The whole thing is nebulous; fabulous; fantastic. To Earthians with inquiring minds it often becomes an irresistible challenge[.]
ref: 1989 November-December [1960], Robert Morison, “Driving Whirlwinds”, in The Journal of Borderland Research, volume XLV, number 6, Garberville, Cali.: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:
text: A true contragravitic vehicle, the Kodiak's substantial element zero core allows flight by entirely countering the vehicle's mass.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: UT-47 Kodiak "Drop-Shuttle" Codex entry:
text: Kane played around with the light globe’s control until he induced it to fly through the open hatch. It was fascinating to watch the device, which flew easily and quickly yet never let itself get closer than twenty or thirty centimetres to any surface. It clearly contained a contragravitic drive, but anything so small was unknown on Russalka. That it wasn’t even new technology to the Terrans was unsettling.
ref: 2013, Jonathan L. Howard, “Dead Water”, in Katya's War (Fiction), Strange Chemistry, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 116–117:
glosses: Of or pertaining to contragravity.
empty threat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty threats
Senses: synonyms: word: brutum fulmen
word: China's final warning
glosses: A threat made with no chance of being carried out.
empty threats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty threat
Bures
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Bures Hamlet parish, Braintree district, Essex and Bures St Mary parish, Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9034).
glosses: A commune in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
glosses: A commune in Orne department, Normandy, France.
glosses: A locality in the Rural Municipality of Key West No. 70, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after the English village.
Derived terms: Bures Hamlet
Bures St Mary
Mount Bures
Bures Hamlet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England, serving the Essex half of Bures village and its surrounding area.
Related terms: Bures St Mary
Bures St Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England, serving the Suffolk half of Bures village and its surrounding area.
Related terms: Bures Hamlet
act one's age, not one's shoe size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acts one's age, not one's shoe size
form: acting one's age, not one's shoe size
form: acted one's age, not one's shoe size
form: acted one's age, not one's shoe size
Etymology: In reference to a person's shoe size (in the US or UK shoe size systems) usually being much lower than their age.
Senses: examples: text: You should act your age, not your shoe size!
glosses: Synonym of act one's age (“to behave in a mature manner; to avoid being childish”).
synonyms: word: act one's age
extra: to behave in a mature manner; to avoid being childish
sings small
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sing small
singing small
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sing small
sang small
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of sing small
sung small
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of sing small
schoolful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolfuls
form: schoolsful
Etymology: From school + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The student of industrial, political, and social matters, coming to the investigation of the developments of the 19th century, will find in these subjects ample material to engage the services of schoolsful of colleagues.
ref: 1895, R[ichar]d Marsden, “Introduction”, in G[erhart] von Schulze-Gaevernitz, translated by Oscar S[tandring] Hall, The Cotton Trade in England and on the Continent. A Study in the Field of the Cotton Industry., London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Ltd.; Manchester: Marsden and Co., Ltd., […], page xi:
text: Also my friend should not say that I “would have no ladders from the primary school to the University.” On the contrary, I argued that there always have been such ladders, and quite properly so; but that we should not use them as the dustmen do, for tipping whole schoolfuls of rubbish into the University cart.
ref: 1923, George Saintsbury, “An Omnibus Box”, in A Second Scrap Book, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, […], page 364:
text: TAKE a schoolful of sporty children, a playgroundful of parents and fieldful of bounces - castle and trampoline variety. Add a barbecue, a bar and a large pinch of PTA power and family fun flavouring, and you have the recipe for Thomas Barnes Summer Sports Tournament.
ref: 1993 July 15, “Good Sports”, in Rugeley Mercury, volume 128, number 648, page 21:
glosses: Enough to fill a school.
schoolfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolful
schoolsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolful
Stopkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stopkeys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
death ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of death ride
ERRV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ERRVs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of emergency response and rescue vessel.
ERRVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ERRV
EEBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EEBDs
Senses: qualifier: emergency services
glosses: Initialism of emergency escape breathing device.
EEBDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EEBD
turns of words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn of words
singeth small
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sing small
saddle-oxforded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saddle oxford + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […]all shirt-waisted and saddle-oxforded and pleading loudly: “Teach me. Teach me. Teach me.”
ref: 1969, The Literary Review, page 464:
text: Looking down at her scuffed, saddle-oxforded foot, her socks white and turned down neatly as always, I suddenly slipped into an old reverie of seeing us in a villa on the Riviera.
ref: 1973, John Bowers, No More Reunions, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 135:
text: Or like some 1950s Hollywood depiction of a gang of teen-age hoods (duck-ass hairdos, turned-up collars, short sleeves rolled high, Levi’s low-slung and jackboots and acne) gearing up to savage and pillage the clean-cut, crew-top, saddle-oxforded basketball star for Central High who slipped and squealed to the principal about how he had come upon Arnie, Rance and B.J. in the lower-level men’s room smoking strange cigarettes and sniffing “that stuff.”
ref: 1978, William Hedgepeth, “Interlude: A Day in the Life…”, in The Hog Book, Athens, Ga.; London: Brown Thrasher Books, the University of Georgia Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 121:
text: I was also witty as a child, and this intimidated most who lusted after my 150-pound chartreuse-sweatered, corduroy-skirted, saddle-oxforded body.
ref: 2008, Coleen Grissom, A Novel Approach to Life, Trinity University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Wearing a saddle oxford or oxfords.
Synonyms: saddle-shoed
saddle oxford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle oxfords
form: saddle Oxford
Senses: examples: text: […]because of her childish gait, or because I had memorized her as always wearing heelless shoes, her saddle oxfords looked somehow too large and too high-heeled for her.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 27, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 113:
text: The saddle oxford, whether brown and white, black and white, or navy and white, whether by Spaulding or another manufacturer, caught on as something both new and comfortable.
ref: 1972 winter, “Panorama of a Century—1934-1943”, in The Anchora of Delta Gamma, volume LXXXIX, number 2:
text: On one foot she had a house shoe and on the other a saddle oxford.
ref: 2002, Hal Bynum, The Promise, Beauregard Records and Books, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Synonym of saddle shoe.
synonyms: word: saddle shoe
Derived terms: saddle-oxforded
saddle oxfords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle oxford
IDLH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rescues in IDLH conditions can be extremely hazardous.
qualifier: emergency services
glosses: Initialism of immediately dangerous to life or health.
Walmley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the town of Sutton Coldfield, City and Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1393).
Madou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Matou
Etymology: From Mandarin 麻豆 (Mádòu).
Senses: examples: text: The farmers’ association for Madou District of Tainan, a well-known place for pomelo production, said it has joined a league of Taiwanese pomelo growers to divert sales of the fruit in anticipation of Chinese restrictions.
ref: 2022 August 3, Huang Tzu-ti, “Pomelo farmers in Taiwan stunned by China ban”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2022:
glosses: A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
monokinied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monokini + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Such Danish pastries as Anne-lis Arentoft, a Copenhagen coed and au pair who adds impressive new dimensions (36-22-36) to the sleepy Serpentine while would-be French movie minx and mothers-help around W2, Jeannine Jaroux, lounges monokinied on the grass up-staging the Albert Memorial.
ref: 1966 April 6, “Making Out in London and Paris: Stanley Reynolds discovers European Women”, in Punch, page 495:
text: If your thoughts run more to kini-scope than they do to kinescope, leave your teevee sets and mosey over to the Red Velour in Mission Hills where they offer bikinied barmaids and monokinied dancers …
ref: 1967 September 22, “Cafe Ramblings with Larry Lipson”, in The Valley News, volume 57, number 40, section “Tidbits”, page 24-A:
text: Monokinied Sunworship Is A No-No
ref: 1969 April 18, St. Petersburg Times, volume 85, number 268, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 2-B:
text: The mono-kinied daughter of Mrs. Carl Tenbrock of St. Petersburg, Christine decided on a card chock full of bright birds.
ref: 1969 May 29, “Mod Miss On Shopping Spree”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 85, number 310, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 3-B:
text: Palm leaves wrap around / A monokinied Alaskan / Fruiterer with watermelon / Belly, and celery legs.
ref: 1970, Charles Higham, The Voyage to Brindisi and Other Poems 1966-1969, Angus and Robertson, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Andrea stood monokinied, unaware of one intent on making a devotion, a landscape, a still life from her.
ref: 1972, Grey Gowrie, “The Beach Girl”, in A Postcard from Don Giovanni, London; New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
text: MONOKINIED GIRLS SOAKING UP SUN IN ST.-TROPEZ
ref: 1972 August 28, “The Naked and the Med”, in Time, page 26:
text: Miss [Valerie] Perrine made her debut as the monokinied Montana Wildhack in “Slaughterhouse Five.”
ref: 1972 November 26, Howell Raines, “Junior, They’ll Hardly Know You: Where Have the Good Old Boys Gone?”, in The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, volume 23, number 29, Atlanta, Ga., page 14-F:
text: As he crossed the bridge, he was met by two brawny monokinied men, whose muscles and members were in high relief and who were perceptibly more than two meters tall.
ref: 2012, Tom Ukinski, “Tess”, in Divine Play: An Epic with Commercials, Bloomigton, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: Wearing a monokini.
pseudogravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + gravity.
Senses: glosses: Any force mimicking gravity; artificial gravity.
Derived terms: pseudogravitation
pseudogravitational
earringed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ear-ringed
Etymology: From earring + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Earrings appear soon after: perhaps the first earringed black Magus in European art is in the Bavarian Master of the Polling Altarpiece’s eponymous work of 1444 (Munich, Alte Pinakothek).
ref: 2002 December, Penny Howell Jolly, “Marked Difference: Earrings and “The Other” in Fifteenth–Century Flemish Art”, in Désirée G. Koslin, Janet E. Snyder, editors, Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images (The New Middle Ages), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part three (The Late Middle Ages), page 199:
text: In Britain I visited pubs where earringed boys with long hair stood drinking a Sunday pint next to their dads in cloth caps.
ref: 2006, Joe Boyd, chapter 8, in White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 66:
text: It was made with a local and very restricted audience in mind, which did not attach a stigma to an earringed man.
ref: 2013, Andreas J. M. Kropp, “Royal portraits”, in Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 bc–ad 100, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section “Emesans”, page 83:
glosses: Wearing an earring or earrings.
referologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: referologists
Etymology: From refer + -ologist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical doctor who preferentially refers patients to specialists and other medical practitioners
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical doctor who preferentially refers patients to specialists and other medical practitioners
A general practitioner (GP), who needs to refer patients to specialists to treat conditions, and generally just keeps track of medical records
Locatelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Locatellis
Etymology: From Italian Locatelli, from Lombard, from Bergamasque (“lmo-bmo”). From being a person from the village of Locatello.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian, Lombard, or locations
Piastri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Piastris
Etymology: Italian Piastri
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
Related terms: piastre
hookeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hook-eared
Etymology: From hook + eared.
Senses: glosses: Having ears with a hook-like shape.
Derived terms: hookeared sculpin
dead hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead hand
reviseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revise
Simblrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Simblr
studyblrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studyblr
writeblrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writeblr
WOOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of well-off older folks.
WOOF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: They also run classes, pizza nights, and welcome WOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) voluntary apprentices.
ref: 2016, Chris Young, Slow Dough: Real Bread:
text: Woofers are those who labour on organic farms within the World Organization of Organic Farms (WOOF) Network.
ref: 2016, Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma, Suren Erkman, Food Consumption in the City, page 118:
text: Colton [Kuhn] woke up one day consumed by a post-breakup depression. It was then that he'd decided to sign up for the WOOF program, to travel the world and work on an organic farm in a unique destination.
ref: 2020 February 20, Alyssa Therrien, “Washington-based coffee company using profits to send animals to sanctuaries”, in Daily Hive, Vancouver, B.C.: Buzz Connected Media, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2021:
text: Workaway and WOOF (Workers on Organic Farms) are organizations that connect individuals, businesses and societies from 170 countries where anyone can share honest work and travel the world or work locally.
ref: 2021, Debby JM Ladouceur, Your Life Matters: Choose to Save It!:
text: These "types" include medical tourism, extreme tourism, sex tourism, nature tourism, conflict tourism, pro-poor tourism, MICE tourism (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions), WOOF tourism (World-Wide Working On Organic Farms), etcetera.
ref: 2022, Amir Gohar, Tourism Governance: A Critical Discourse on a Global Industry, page vi:
glosses: Alternative form of WWOOF; a network organization that helps wwoofers connect up with organic farms that are offering work opportunities.
dies hard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die hard
dying hard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die hard
unwooable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwooable
form: most unwooable
Etymology: From un- + wooable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be wooed.
key bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key bumps
Senses: examples: text: […] when a comedian wasn't so funny or I just got the urge, I snuck off to the bathroom and did key bumps of meth.
ref: 2009, Jodie Sweetin, Jon Warech, UnSweetined, page 109:
text: “Banks told me he saw Beckett doing key bumps behind a dumpster.” […] In one breath, she quickly explains how Beckett has been using drugs because he believes he dances better on them.
ref: 2019, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Tangled Like Us:
glosses: A portion of a recreational drug in powdered form that is snorted from a key or similar small object.
key bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key bump
Postverta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Postvorta
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ancient Roman goddess of the past, sister of Antevorta.
Postvorta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Postverta.
Carmentae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddesses Antevorta and Postverta.
Related terms: Camenae
antipairing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The second sample I would like to mention concerns the variation of intrinsic states while rotating a nucleus faster and faster, that is, the so-called antistretching and antipairing effects.
ref: 1973, Jan de Boer, H. J. Mang, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics, Munich, August 27-September 1, 1973: Invited papers, page 113:
text: It is shown that there is a clear decrease of the pairing correlations (antipairing) and a decrease of the quadrupole deformation (antistretching) with increasing angular momentum.
ref: 1974, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3114:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: antistretching
glosses: Characterized by a decrease in pairing correlations.
antistretching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The second sample I would like to mention concerns the variation of intrinsic states while rotating a nucleus faster and faster, that is, the so-called antistretching and antipairing effects.
ref: 1973, Jan de Boer, H. J. Mang, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics, Munich, August 27-September 1, 1973: Invited papers, page 113:
text: It is shown that there is a clear decrease of the pairing correlations (antipairing) and a decrease of the quadrupole deformation (antistretching) with increasing angular momentum.
ref: 1974, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3114:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: antipairing
glosses: Characterized by a decrease of the quadrupole deformation.
isuretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: formamidoxime
glosses: The product of the action of hydrocyanic acid upon hydroxylamine.
overadaptations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overadaptation
overadapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overadapts
form: overadapting
form: overadapted
form: overadapted
Etymology: From over- + adapt.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently conscious of the need to achieve a good fit between Chaucer's text and extraneous materials, the scribe overadapted the poem to context by suppressing its generally springy first triplet, copying only those lines that refer to birdsong.
ref: 1996, Ralph Hanna, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts, page 189:
text: In some cases, there is the problem of wives choosing to overadapt or being asked to overadapt. Adapting that takes away individuality, personhood or self-worth is overadapting. Adapting that requires lockstep thinking is overadapting.
ref: 2006, Gil and Dana Stieglitz, Becoming a Godly Wife, page 64:
glosses: To adapt excessively.
overadapted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overadapt
overadapts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overadapt
overadapting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overadapt
pfah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 'Pfah!' said Naphur, crossing his hairy arms. 'I don't know what makes you two believe you deserve such input. Especially you, young man!'
ref: 2011, Sam Bowring, Prophecy's Ruin, page 164:
text: 'I should care. Pfah!' said my father, meaning that he shouldn't care and that was the least of his worries.
ref: 2012, Michele Hanson, What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia:
synonyms: pah
pfft
glosses: Expressing contempt or dissatisfaction.
clockroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɒkɹʊm/
/ˈklɒkɹuːm/
Forms: form: clockrooms
Etymology: From clock + room.
Senses: examples: text: A radar test was carried out in the clockroom to study the state of preservation of the masonry as well as to verify if the construction technique was the same used for the external walls.
ref: 2003, Luigia Binda, Robert C. de Vekey, PRO 26: International RILEM Workshop on On Site Control and Evaluation of Masonry Structures and Materials, page 221:
text: The pendulum […] is […] supported by the clock frame itself, instead of being hung on a wall, since the intention is to set the clock in the center of the clockroom, and also because the weight, forty pounds, is not too much for the clock frame to carry.
ref: 2022, Ward L. Goodrich, The Modern Clock:
glosses: A room containing a clock or clocks, for example in a clock tower.
clockrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clockroom
Kasbarians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kasbarian
Ohayon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ohayons
Etymology: Sephardic surname, likely derived from Arabic. Cognate with Hebrew אוחיון.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
alder-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːldə/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈɔldɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑldɚ/
Forms: form: aller-
form: allur-
form: aldyr-
form: alther-
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English alder-, from Old English ealra, genitive plural of eall (“all”). Compare German aller-, Dutch aller-, Old Norse allra. For the epenthetic /d/, compare with the development of unrelated alder.
Senses: examples: alder- + liefest → alderliefest (“dearest of all”)
alder- + best → alderbest (“best of all”)
glosses: Of all; having the greatest degree of something, prefixed to superlative adjectives and adverbs.
Laurieston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX6864).
glosses: A village in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9079).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Glasgow in the Gorbals, Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5864).
Related terms: Lauriston
alderbest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alder- + best.
Senses: examples: text: That all the best archers of the north / Sholde come upon a day, / And he that shoteth alderbest / The game shall bere away.
ref: Late 15th c. A Gest of Robyn Hode
text: That Lombard's nose mean I, / That standeth yet awry; / It was not healed alderbest, / It standeth somewhat on the west;
ref: 1522, John Skelton, Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?:
glosses: Best of all.
Eastern Turkestan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eastern Turkistan
Senses: glosses: A historical region.
Gorbals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gorbals
Senses: glosses: An inner suburb of Glasgow, south of the River Clyde in the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5964).
Derived terms: Gorbals kiss
aldermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alder- + most.
Senses: examples: text: So the king bade Thord bear forth the banner, but he himself followed the banner, and that company withal which he had chosen to be anigh him in the battle. And those men were the aldermost of daring and the best arrayed in his company.
ref: 1894, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga Library, Volume 4:
glosses: Most of all.
prepersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + personal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Prior to the development of the individual ego.
shemira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Jewish religious ritual of watching over the body of a deceased person from the time of death until burial.
alderworst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alder- + worst.
Senses: examples: text: You some permit / To second ills with ills, each elder worse, / And make them dread it, to the doers’ thrift.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Worst of all.
shomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shomrim
Etymology: From Hebrew שומר (shomer, “keeper”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: shomeret
glosses: A male who watches over the body of a deceased person in the ritual of shemira.
shomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shomer
form: most shomer
Etymology: From Hebrew שומר (shomer, “keeper”).
Senses: examples: text: He's shomer shabbos, so he won't cook on Saturdays.
glosses: observant, often with regards to a specific set of Jewish laws.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: shomer negiyah
shomer negiah
shomer shabbos
shomer mitzvot
shomrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shomer
shomeret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: shomer
glosses: A female who watches over the body of a deceased person in the ritual of shemira.
Shomrim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A volunteer Jewish civilian patrol organization found in Haredi communities in various countries.
kevlars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kevlar
day-and-date
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Like Cuban, the Independent Film Channel has participated in a variation of day-and-date releasing, agreeing to release twenty-four films simultaneously in theaters and on cable through their First Take Initiative […]
ref: 2009, Chuck Tryon, Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence, page 108:
glosses: Designating the release of a film on multiple platforms, most commonly theatrical and home video, on the exact same day, or in very close proximity to each other.
postshower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + shower.
Senses: glosses: After taking a shower.
postshower
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From post- + shower.
Senses: examples: text: I was feeling a bit better postshower.
ref: 2009, Jane Christmas, What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim:
glosses: After taking a shower.
prophanation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophanations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of profanation.
prophanations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophanation
precapture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + capture.
Senses: glosses: Before capture.
camouflage net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camouflage nets
Senses: examples: text: We have seen details of the types of work for which volunteers are sought, and these range from the manufacture of camouflage nets, on piece work in the Central London area, enabling approximately 6s. a shift of 4 hours to be earned, [...].
ref: 1943 March and April, “Spare Time War Work Scheme”, in Railway Magazine, page 65:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Netting used to hide potential targets on the ground.
Synonyms: camonet
camo net
camouflage netting
precedental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I view this case as a real breakthrough. Maybe the precedental value isn't that great ― it isn't a piece of legislation; it's not the Supreme Court saying, "Yes, you can adopt." But in terms of favorable media coverage and […]
ref: 1983 April 9, Mary Dunlap, “Are We Legal Yet?”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: Synonym of precedential.
synonyms: word: precedential
precedentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a precedent; coming before.
prechemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: From this time until about 10−12 s, in the prechemical phase, some initial reactions and rearrangements of these species occur.
ref: 2008, Michael G. Stabin, Fundamentals of Nuclear Medicine Dosimetry, page 173:
text: But much remains to be done in understanding the complex physical, prechemical and chemical stages of radiation interactions in even the simplest, biologically relevant, condensed materials.
ref: 2012, William A. Glass, Matesh N. Varma, Physical and Chemical Mechanisms in Molecular Radiation Biology, page 100:
text: An implication of this rationale is that a "prechemical" electron transfer occurs prior to the initiating step of carcinogen-biotarget interaction, which can culminate in adduct formation, intercalation, alkylation, etc. […]
ref: 2021, Kirk T. Kitchin, Carcinogenicity, page 253:
glosses: Before a chemical reaction.
camouflage nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camouflage net
preceptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From precept + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The imposition of precepts.
preceptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preceptists
Etymology: From precept + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who imposes precepts.
preceptists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preceptist
superstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersteps
Etymology: From super- + step.
Senses: glosses: The step that contains a substep.
supersteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superstep
prechart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precharts
Etymology: From pre- + chart.
Senses: examples: text: A careful examination of the issue of violating an LSC before its prechart completes raises the following question: why not try to violate all precharts as soon as possible, thus minimizing the set of constraints imposed on the execution.
ref: 2012, David Harel, Rami Marelly, Come, Let’s Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSCs and the Play-Engine, page 153:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Part of a chart that must be traversed with a successful outcome in order for the main chart to have a successful outcome.
precharts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prechart
frith stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frith stools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frithstool.
frith stools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frith stool
fridstoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fridstolls
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of frithstool.
fridstolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fridstoll