cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Halloweek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Halloweeks
form: Hallowe'ek
Etymology: Blend of Halloween + week.
Senses: examples: text: For a full “Halloweek,” Buzz Lightyear and his Space Rangers battle the ultimate cavalcade of monsters, including the space incarnations of Dracula (“NOS-4-A2,” an energy vampire); the Wolfman (“Wirewolf,” a human who becomes a wolf-like, energy-thirsting creature after being nipped by NOS-4-A2); the Frankenstein monster (“XL,” a self-made robotic monster comprised of stolen parts) and the Mummy (“Ancient Evil,” an entombed “mummy” capable of draining a human's lifeforce); as well as an episode (“Revenge of the Monsters”) featuring the entire quartet of monsters as organized by NOS-4-A2.
ref: 2001 October 16, “‘Disney/Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear of Star Command’ Celebrates ‘Halloweek’ On UPN & Syndication”, in PR Newswire:
text: One of the few times of the year when students are encouraged to pretend to be someone – or something – they are not, Halloweek will feature both on- and off-campus celebrations and attempts to best their peers with creative attire and trickery.
ref: 2013 October 31, Corinne Sejourne, “Halloweek haunts College Hill”, in The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University:
text: Throughout the hair-raising ‘Halloweek,’ bold adventurers can also visit Camel Creek\xE2s scariest residents at the Reptile House and Crocodile Corner and face their fears in the House of Horrors Scare Zone.
ref: 2021 October 11, Ryan Morwood, “Family attraction’s spooky ‘Halloweek’ of activities kicks off next Saturday”, in Falmouth Packet:
glosses: The week of Halloween.
Related terms: Halloweekend
last roundup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last roundups
form: final roundup
Etymology: An allusion to herding of cattle into a group.
Senses: examples: text: It's last roundup time, my fellow grocery patrons. On Saturday, the receipt redemption programs operated by Giant Food and Safeway ended after a 5 1/2-month run.
ref: 1998 March 2, Bob Levey, “Last Week to Send Your Grocery Receipts”, in Washington Post, retrieved 01 Nov 2021:
text: [B]y the 1964-65 season, the number of adult westerns had dwindled to seven. That was the genre's last roundup.
ref: 2003 March 26, Eric Gwinn, “Television: Sun shines on cops, doctors, but has long set on cowboys”, in Chicago Tribune, retrieved 01 Nov 2021:
text: This might have been the last roundup for Papelbon, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Big Papi, J.D. Drew, Miss Heidi, and several of the others you’ve loved all these years.
ref: 2011 September 29, Dan Shaughnessy, “Baseball: Red Sox make unwanted history”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 01 Nov 2021:
glosses: A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization.
examples: text: So Duke is 66. But don't kid yourself that he's headed for the last roundup—even though it may have looked that way a while back when he surrendered a lung to cancer.
ref: 1973 December 30, Guy Flatley, “Cowboy or Cop, Wayne Never Wanes”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Nov 2021:
text: [H]e swears that Jelf is going to beat him to the last roundup in the sky.
ref: 1977, Bill Reed, Dogod, Thomas Nelson (Australia) (reprinted 2015 by Reed Independent)
text: [N]ot everyone who runs with the bulls is young, male, drunk and stupid. […] It also is a way for people of a certain age to do something extraordinary before their last roundup.
ref: 2006 July 8, “Bullish on life”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 01 Nov 2021:
glosses: Death.
final roundup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final roundups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of last roundup.
pasture day moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasture day moths
Senses: glosses: A day-flying agaristine moth, Apina callisto, of Australia.
pasture day moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasture day moth
dingo stiffener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingo stiffeners
Senses: glosses: A person employed to kill dingos in order to eradicate them from a certain region.
dingo stiffeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dingo stiffener
dingo-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of fencing, designed to exclude dingos.
dingo fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingo fences
Senses: glosses: A fence designed to exclude dingos from a certain area.
dingo fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dingo fence
Gingolds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gingold
building permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: building permits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of planning permission.
synonyms: word: planning permission
construction permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: construction permits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of planning permission.
synonyms: word: planning permission
Troughtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Troughton
Bernskoetters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bernskoetter
Tegetmeiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tegetmeier
Mulcasters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mulcaster
Boell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boells
form: Boll
Etymology: From Germanic (Danish Bøll, German Böll). See Boll.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from Danish.
glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from German.
Beddoeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beddoes
Cooler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coolers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Kühler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Coiros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coiro
Coolers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cooler
Cohea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coheas
Etymology: Variant of Cohee.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Chavana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chavanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Chavana.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Chavanas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chavana
Coheas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cohea
Cartlidge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cartlidges
Etymology: Variant of Cartledge.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cartlidges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartlidge
Cristales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cristaleses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cristales. This surname is mostly found in Guatemala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Cutrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cutrells
Etymology: Probably a variant of Cottrell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cutrells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cutrell
Cristaleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cristales
Detlefsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Detlefsens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and North German Detlefsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Finkley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Finkleys
Etymology: From Old English finċ (“finch”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to finch + -ley (“lea”). Doublet of Finchley.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU387234).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Finkleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Finkley
Detlefsens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Detlefsen
Figuero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Figueros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Figuero.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Ferreiros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ferreiro
Figueros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Figuero
toonophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toon + -o- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, that particular four-parter has a special place in my heart... it was the main root from which my toonophilia, and later my furriness, grew. (Well, more likely the root was already there, and it was the fertilizer.)
ref: 1996 March 21, Lenester the Badger, “Re: POLL: Best Cartoon w/ furries?”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: Toonophilia isn't furry fandom, but it can bring people to it, because it's similar to begin with.
ref: 1999 October 30, Muke Tever, “Re: galen's plushie site becomes today's "Cruel Site of the Day"”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: I'm not an Otakusexual — although I respect toonophilia as a sexually responsible choice.
ref: 2015, Blythe Woolston, MARTians, unnumbered page:
glosses: Sexual and/or romantic attraction to cartoon or anime characters.
Synonyms: schediaphilia
Related terms: toonophile
McFeggan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFeggans
Etymology: Variant of McGuigan.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gittens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gittenses
Etymology: Variant of Gittings.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
Gittenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gittens
McFeggans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McFeggan
McCraes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCrae
Stocktons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stockton
Muncasters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Muncaster
furversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furversions
Etymology: Blend of fur + perversion.
Senses: examples: text: And _if_ furversion is a mental illness, would you want it to be cured? (Personaly,^([sic]) I wouldn't, I'm having too much fun in my dreams...)
ref: 1994 April 5, Lycan, “Re: Fox Addiction...”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: While poking through the discount videos rack at Wal-Mart, what should I find but 'Kimba the White Lion'! For you younger Furries, this was a series that played afternoons in the mid 60s. It's one of the things that led to my Furversion, or so I've always believed.
ref: 1996 March 12, Marshall Anthony Woods (quoted by Timothy Fay), “KIMBA!!!”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: So, these are the confessions of a furry toonophile. Our furversion may be less graphic and spoogey than others', but vive le difference, non?
ref: 1996 March 24, Lontra (quoted by D.M. Quozl Falk), “confessions of a furry toonophile”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Sexual interest in furry media and/or the furry subculture.
Related terms: furvert
Lazer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lazers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Aphroditopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] their glorious rising, or birth, was in the city of Kheb in the Aphroditopolitan Nome.
ref: 1893, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Egypt of the Past, page 502:
text: Limestone stele, in the form of a false door of Ka-utch-ankh, district chief of the Aphroditopolitan nome, captain of the king's guard and overseer of the cattle belonging to the guard of the court.
ref: 1911, British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, &c., in the British Museum:
text: Inyotef II would appear to have been a brother of Inyotef I, and was responsible for the addition of the Thinite (Abydene) nome to his patrimony; [I made] its northern boundary as far as the Aphroditopolitan nome.
ref: 2000 December 1, Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American University in Cairo Press, →ISBN:
text: We possess no fewer than seven from the prolific pen of Dioscorus—on the wedding of the magnificent count Callinicus, the most splendid Isacius, and various other distinguished Aphroditopolitan bridegrooms.
ref: 2016, Alan Cameron, Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Of or relating to the ancient city of Aphroditopolis.
Hereman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heremans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Verheest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Verheests
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Withering
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Witherings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tennent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tennents
Etymology: Variant of Tennant.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
Aberigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aberighs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bompas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bompases
Etymology: Borrowed from French Bompas.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A town and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia.
glosses: A surname from French.
Relph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Forms: form: Relphs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Feschuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Feschuks
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Фещук (Feščuk).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
unmaudlin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmaudlin
form: most unmaudlin
Etymology: From un- + maudlin.
Senses: glosses: Not maudlin.
jigsaw identification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The identification of a person whose identity is supposed to be kept secret (for example, in a pending legal case) by piecing together information from various sources.
Chesterman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chestermans
Etymology: Perhaps from Old English ċeaster (“city, town”) + mann (“man”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near a Roman fort or a habitational surname for someone from any of various places called Chester.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
calm as a cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of cool as a cucumber.
synonyms: word: cool as a cucumber
Mears
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mearses
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Mear, topographic surname for someone who lived by a pond, from Old English mere (“lake, pool”), or near a boundary, from ġemǣre (“boundary, border”).
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Meidhir, from meidhir (“mirth”). Compare Myers.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: A census-designated place in Oceana County, Michigan, United States.
Mearses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mears
Pettman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pettmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Horner's scheme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Horner's method.
synonyms: word: Horner's method
Horner's method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William George Horner, though it significantly pre-dates his work.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Horner's scheme
glosses: An algorithm for polynomial evaluation that employs Horner's rule.
Horner's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William George Horner, though it significantly pre-dates his work.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The rule stating that a polynomial of degree n can be (optimally) evaluated with only n multiplications and n additions
Related terms: Horner's method
olays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olay
ollah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ollahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of olay.
ollahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ollah
blue team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue teams
Etymology: Blue was the color of the United States on maps during the Cold War, so "blue team" represented the defense during military simulations.
Senses: coordinate_terms: red team
purple team
glosses: A group within an organization tasked with repelling the efforts of the red team to defeat their security etc.
blue teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue team
stereocomparator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereocomparators
Etymology: From stereo- + comparator.
Senses: glosses: A stereoscopic viewing instrument used in the creation of accurate maps based on multiple aerial photographs.
Related terms: stereoplanigraph
stereocomparagraph
stereocomparators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereocomparator
Cotteridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0480).
Etterby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the north-west of Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3857).
sweet fermented rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: jiuniang
Chinese fermented sweet rice
Chinese sweet fermented rice
Chinese fermented rice
glosses: A traditional food of China, used as a dish itself, or components of other dishes, and is also a folk remedy.
synonyms: pang khao mahk
khao mahk
Thai fermented sweet rice
Thai sweet fermented rice
Thai fermented rice
glosses: A traditional desert of Thailand, composed of a lightly fermented glutinous rice.
synonyms: com ruou
Vietnamese fermented glutinous rice
Vietnamese fermented sticky rice
Vietnamese fermented sweet rice
glosses: A traditional pudding of Vietnam, composed of a lightly fermented glutinous rice
Synonyms: fermented glutinous rice
fermented rice
fermented sticky rice
fermented sweet rice
sticky rice wine
sweet rice wine
Hypernyms: fermented rice
rice
rice wine
Laarbeek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Laarbeek.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.
world of difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worlds of difference
Etymology: First attested in the early 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: There's a world of difference between sushi and poké bowls.
text: There is a world of difference betweene the termes of disobedience, and of deposition. It is one thing to disobey the Kings commaund in matters prohibited by diuine lawes, and yet in all other matters to performe full subiection vnto the King. It is another thing of a farre higher degree or straine of disloyaltie, to bare the King of his Royall robes, throne, and scepter, and when he is thus farre disgraced, to degrade him and to put him from his degree and place of a King.
ref: 1616 [1615], James VI and I, Pierre Du Moulin, “A Remonstrance for the Right of Kings, and the Independence of Their Crovvnes […]”, in James Montague, editor, The Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince Iames […], page 479:
text: Less than six months separate these two days of the year, but some six or seven years of playwriting have intervened and that world of difference between summer and winter.
ref: 1971, Theodore Russell Weiss, The Breath of Clowns and Kings: Shakespeare’s Early Comedies and Histories, page 301:
text: There is, I think, too much abjectness in this, too much unwillingness to grant that a human being may in fact become, and be, good, and that there is all the world of difference between the evil and the good.
ref: 2001, Martha C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, →ISBN:
text: The simple exercise of considering these two case studies makes clear the worlds of difference between Northern and Southern experiences of development […]
ref: 2006, Catherine Moffatt, “Development Unmoored”, in George Jerry Sefa Dei, Arlo Kempf, editors, Anti-Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: A great or insurmountable difference.
glosses: A vast swath or expanse of land or water.
Munzel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Munzels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ghadames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Lybia
glosses: A Berber language spoken in Ghadames.
big oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Oil
Senses: examples: text: Eight years after Kyoto, Big Oil and Big Coal remain in complete and unchallenged power.
ref: 2005 May, Bill McKibben, “Climate of Denial”, in Mother Jones:
text: It follows an inquiry launched by House Democrats in 2021, which focused on big oil’s alleged efforts to mislead the public about the climate crisis.
ref: 2023 June 21, Dharna Noor, “Senate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate action”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: business
glosses: The world's largest oil and gas companies (supermajors), understood as a business group having significant political, economic, or social power.
Related terms: big business
big government
big labor
big money
big pharma
Big Tech
trust someone to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trust, someone, to.
glosses: It is predictable for someone to.
in a puff of smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Disappearing suddenly.
Tozers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tozer
fly blind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies blind
form: flying blind
form: flew blind
form: flown blind
Senses: glosses: To do by guesswork; to feel one's way.
feel one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels one's way
form: feeling one's way
form: felt one's way
form: felt one's way
Senses: glosses: To proceed by touch rather than sight; to feel around.
synonyms: fly blind
glosses: To do by guesswork, erring on the side of caution.
Ballyshannon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the south of County Donegal, Ireland.
Killybegs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪliˈbɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Etymology: From Irish Cealla Beaga (literally “little churches”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in south-west County Donegal, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 7176).
GULAG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːlɑɡ/
ipa: /-læɡ/
ipa: /ɡuːˈlɑk/
ipa: /ˈɡuˌlɑɡ/
ipa: /-ˌlæɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”): see the definition.
Senses: examples: text: The millions of slave-labourers at the disposal of GULAG played an important economic role, and indeed became accepted as a normal component of the Soviet economy.
ref: 1968, Robert Conquest, “In the Labour Camps”, in The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, part II (The Yezhov Years), page 356:
glosses: The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960.
GULAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːlɑɡ/
ipa: /-læɡ/
ipa: /ɡuːˈlɑk/
ipa: /ˈɡuˌlɑɡ/
ipa: /-ˌlæɡ/
Forms: form: GULAGs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”): see the definition.
Senses: examples: text: One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence.
ref: [2006?], David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin, Thomas Lamont, “Day 1 Content Essay: The Establishment and Scope of the GULAG System”, in GULAG: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy […], [U.S.A.]: National Park Service; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2021, page 7, column 1:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of gulag.
Chetwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chetwoods
Etymology: Variant of Chetwode.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Danenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Danenbergs
Etymology: Variant of Dannenberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Unstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the unattested Old English personal name *Ōn or *Ōna + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3777).
Storrar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Storrars
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Roughead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rougheads
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bzdek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bzdeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Bzdek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Belgistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belgium + -stan.
Senses: examples: text: Have you seen the UTube on Belgistan? According to a young spokesman of militant Muslims in Belgium, his coreligionists will be in the majority of voters in Belgium by the year 2030.
ref: 2012, Andrew Brent, Intellect, Sex, Politics...And More:
text: The 700 Club news show recently presented a report on "Belgistan" or Belgium, which is being taken over by Islam.
ref: 2012, Dr. Martha J. Smith, Comfort Ye My People:
text: Belgium or Belgistan? Brussels or Muslim capital of Europe in the making?
ref: 2014, Maanoj Rakhit, Muslim India Will be Like THIS, page 288:
glosses: Belgium, seen as overrun by Muslims.
Aw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aws
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Panofsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panofskys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Richler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Richlers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Irvines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Irvine
Nerad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nerads
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Nerad.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
afterevent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterevents
form: after-event
Etymology: From after- + event.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life.
ref: 1593, Richard Cosin, chapter 2, in An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, London, page 22:
text: What I have promised to my wife, is a Law to me, prudence and after-events not controuling.
ref: 1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 130:
text: It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 107:
text: Looking back now we all seem, with the wisdom of the after-event, to discern a kind of hush rather resembling the sort of tired selfishness that comes among a group of children towards the end of a picnic when they have eaten too much, played too much, and have become, because of submissive nurses and indulgent relations, too certain of their own importance.
ref: 1928, Hugh Walpole, chapter 2, in My Religious Experience, London: Ernest Benn:
text: Two kinds of afterevent have been discerned: one is associated with a deterioration of the cavity and with the development of a chimney, the other is caused by release of tectonic strain energy.
ref: 1977, Ola Dahlman, Hans Israelson, chapter 4, in Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, page 83:
glosses: An event that follows something; a subsequent or later event.
afterevents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterevent
have one's whole life ahead of one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's whole life ahead of one
form: having one's whole life ahead of one
form: had one's whole life ahead of one
form: had one's whole life ahead of one
Etymology: The phrase is an exaggeration, the implication being that by being young one has barely experienced life at all.
Senses: examples: text: You're only 25; you have your whole life ahead of you. Go out and travel and see the world.
glosses: To be young, and therefore have many years left to live and experience life.
see the world
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees the world
form: seeing the world
form: saw the world
form: seen the world
Senses: examples: text: Join the Navy to see the world [recruitment pitch]
glosses: To travel extensively; to experience many different places.
Related terms: broaden one's horizons
take the shilling
Black Power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black power
Etymology: From Richard Wright's book Black Power (1954), describing his travels to the Gold Coast and the rise of Pan-Africanism. In a US context later popularized by Stokely Carmichael.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, Black Power groups such as SNCC and the Black Panthers were voicing support for the Arabs against Israel. This sometimes looked like a mere matter of black nationalism; after all, Egypt was a part of Africa, and black nationalist literature sometimes seemed to identify the Arabs as blacks fighting the white Israelis.
ref: 1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:
text: I dey talk of Black power, I say (Water, him no get enemy!)
ref: 1975, Fela Kuti, “Water No Get Enemy”, in Expensive Shit:
text: “Black Power” quickly became the controversial slogan for a movement that was largely perceived as rejecting the civil rights movement's nonviolent tactics and goals of integration in favor of a new ethos of black identity, self-defense and separatism.
ref: 2006 June 19, Peniel E. Joseph, “Black Power's Quiet Side”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: Red Power
glosses: A slogan and movement supporting Black self-determination and sometimes separatism, especially in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
wikipedia: Richard Wright (author)
Stokely Carmichael
Related terms: Black Panthers
civil rights
Black liberation
Tottle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tottles
Etymology: Perhaps a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hill used as a look-out station, from Old English tot (“look-out”) + hyll (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Red Power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modeled after Black Power, 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Once again—faced not with the religious fervor of the Ghost Dancers but with the political rage of the Red Power activists—the white establishment reacted with uncertainty, and a show of force.
ref: 1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A social movement led by Native American youth to demand self-determination for Native Americans in the United States.
theraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of therap
therapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of therap
therapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of therap
Gaimster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaimsters
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Feschuks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Feschuk
Caporaso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caporasos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Caporaso.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Frykman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frykmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Suffling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sufflings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
digital pre-distortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital pre-distortion
Chestermans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chesterman
Karbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karbes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rushkoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rushkoffs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bohjalian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bohjalians
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Terman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Termans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Termans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Terman
Chelford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8174).
splash text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: splash texts
Senses: glosses: text, often flavor text, displayed on a splash screen
Meierijstad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Meierijstad.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.
Chetwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chetwood
Danenbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Danenberg
Yarrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yarrells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
whatsever
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: I can take care of whatsever left.
glosses: Whatever is.
Rougheads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roughead
Caporasos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Caporaso
seven dirty words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the seven dirty words
Etymology: Coined by American comedian George Carlin, when he listed the words in his 1972 monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television".
Senses: glosses: A parody of seven deadly sins, seven English-language curse words, often referred to as being the most obscene. The words, in the order George Carlin originally listed them, are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
wikipedia: George Carlin
splash texts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash text
Tottles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tottle
Cicierega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cicieregas
Etymology: Variant of Ciecierega.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kitsberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kitsbergs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lanzillotta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lanzillottas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lanzillotta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Hessay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in City of York district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5253).
SNAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SNAGs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of snag (“sensitive new age guy”).
Severa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Severas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech or Italian Severa.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
SNAGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SNAG
Moor Monkton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5056).
Related terms: Nun Monkton
inseperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat great Aſſembly des notables called by K. Francis the Firſt, to give their Judgment of the Articles of Peace lately made with the Emperour Charles V. at Madrid, their ſenſe was, that Burgundy which by thoſe Articles was to be delivered up, was an inſeperable Member of the Crown, of which he was but the uſufructuary, and ſo he could not diſpoſe of the one any more than of the other; […]
ref: 1681, “a Lover of Truth and of his Country” [pseudonym; James Tyrrell], chapter IV, in Patriarcha non Monarcha. The Patriarch Unmonarch’d: Being Observations on a Late Treatise and Divers Other Miscellanies, Published under the Name of Sir Robert Filmer Baronet. In which the Falseness of those Opinions that would Make Monarchy Jure Divino are Laid Open; and the True Principles of Government and Property (especially in Our Kingdom) Asserted, London: Printed for Richard Janeway, in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, pages 122–123:
glosses: Misspelling of inseparable.
Floersch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Floersches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Flörsch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Passavant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Passavants
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wiggam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wiggams
Etymology: Variant of Wickham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Toropov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Toropovs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Evensky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Evenskys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schulmerich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schulmerichs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schulmerich.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Regnery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Regnerys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wilcockson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilcocksons
Etymology: From Wilcock + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Denhardt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Denhardts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Denhardt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
red scares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red scare
Red Summer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by American civil rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson in 1919.
Senses: glosses: The period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States, as well as in one rural county in Arkansas.
Aylett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ayletts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in King William County, Virginia, United States.
Ayletts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aylett
First Red Scare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left extremism, including but not limited to Bolshevism, socialism, and anarchism.
Coordinate terms: Second Red Scare
Meganck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Megancks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
diGriz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: diGrizes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kelk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛlk/
rhymes: -ɛlk
homophone: kelk
Forms: form: Kelks
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the place name.
Second Red Scare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A period in the United States between the 1940s and 1950s marked by a widespread fear of communism and socialism; McCarthyism.
Coordinate terms: First Red Scare
Wilstrop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Tockwith with Wilstrop Parish Council) and site of a medieval village in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4855).
civil rights movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪvɪl ˈɹaɪts ˈmuːvmənt/
Forms: form: civil rights movements
form: civil-rights movement
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of movements against systemic oppression in various different countries, but especially
glosses: Any of a number of movements against systemic oppression in various different countries, but especially:
A social and political movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968 that aimed to end racial segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement.
Luskin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Luskins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Widdicombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Widdicombes
form: Widdecombe
Etymology: Habitational surname from any of several minor places in England, from Old English wīd (“wide”) or wīþiġ (“willow”) + cumb (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Progressive Era
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Progressive Era
Senses: examples: text: The Progressive Era brought a wholesale restructuring of social and political institutions, largely in response to the economic and social transformations of the post‐Reconstruction era, and reform became a driving force during the early twentieth century.
ref: 2012, William A. Link, Susannah J. Link, editors, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
Related terms: Gilded Age
reptating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to reptation.
Shimonski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shimonskis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
politically homeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politically homeless
form: most politically homeless
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alienated from the current political atmosphere or from one's previous political affiliations, and struggling to identify with any political party or ideology.
Related terms: political homelessness
apolitical
centrist
nonextremist
political homelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The condition or state of being politically homeless.
Aukerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑ.kɚ.mən/
Forms: form: Aukermans
Etymology: Americanized form of Dutch Ackerman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
alley-oops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alley-oop
alley-ooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alley-oop
alley-ooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alley-oop
alley ooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alley oop
alley ooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alley oop
alleyoop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alley oop.
alleyoop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alleyoops
form: alleyooping
form: alleyooped
form: alleyooped
Senses: examples: text: Grandpa alleyooped me up and stood me on the wagon, and started pitching and humming, and I was stamping and humming.
ref: 2003, Ronald Garver, Heavens to Murgatroid, page 59:
text: The Beckett alleyooped and struck the floor.
ref: 2014, Gaylord Dold, Bonepile:
glosses: Alternative form of alley oop.
alleyoops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alleyoop
alleyooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alleyoop
alleyooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alleyoop
FSAID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of female sexual interest/arousal disorder.
Coordinate terms: FSAD
HSDD
MHSDD
ISD
SIAD
FSAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of female sexual arousal disorder.
Coordinate terms: FSAID
HSDD
MHSDD
ISD
SIAD
HSDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Coordinate terms: FSAID
FSAD
MHSDD
ISD
SIAD
MHSDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of male hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Coordinate terms: FSAID
FSAD
HSDD
ISD
SIAD
afterlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From after- + light.
Senses: examples: text: The sun had set some time since, but the landscape was still clear in the mellow afterlight.
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston: L.C. Page, page 30:
text: 1949, Dorothy L. Sayers (translator), The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Cantica 1: Hell, Penguin, Canto 16, p. 170,
So may thy soul these many years abide / Housed in thy body, and the after-light / Of fame shine long behind thee,
text: For years they saw each other in full daylight only on Sundays. The rest of the time they spoke or touched or ate in darkness. Predawn darkness and the afterlight of sunset.
ref: 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Knopf, page 25:
text: the simplifying afterlight of metaphor
ref: 2000, Carol Shields, “Ilk”, in Dressing Up for the Carnival, London: Fourth Estate, page 57:
synonyms: afterglow
antonyms: foreglow
forelight
glosses: Light that follows something, especially the dim light in the sky after the sun has fully set.
fire sprinkler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire sprinklers
Senses: synonyms: sprinkler
sprinkler head
coordinate_terms: drencher
fire extinguisher
glosses: A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.
sprinkler head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprinkler heads
Senses: synonyms: sprinkler
fire sprinkler
coordinate_terms: drencher
fire extinguisher
glosses: A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.
corporate social responsibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Far too often, those defending or advocating for corporate social responsibility are interested in diminishing the status of capitalism, profit seeking, self-interest, and/or neoclassical economics. But I think one can embrace corporate social responsibility without this baggage.
ref: 2012 April 12, Megan McArdle, “Should Corporations Be Do-Gooders?”, in The Atlantic:
text: The company's move isn't an act of corporate social responsibility—it’s a response to labor economics that others may soon follow.
ref: 2015 February 19, Joe Pinsker, “Why Walmart Raised Its Wages”, in The Atlantic:
text: There are normally anti-embarrassment clauses in such arrangements and, from a corporate social responsibility point of view, the upside of standing by a tarnished individual is often outweighed by the downside.
ref: 2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
economics
sciences
synonyms: CSR
glosses: A form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature.
Related terms: ESG
Morquio syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morquio syndromes
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare metabolic disorder in which the body cannot process certain types of sugar molecules known as glycosaminoglycans.
Hypernyms: chondro-osteodystrophy
Morquio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Morquio syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morquio syndrome