cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amphitype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphitypes
Etymology: From amphi- + -type.
Senses: glosses: An ambrotype.
amphitypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphitype
bodiceripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodicerippers
Senses: examples: text: They stubbornly hung on to the idea that Outlander was a Harlequinesque bodiceripper that would only appeal to middle-age bored housewives.
ref: 2016 February 26, Beth Wesson, “Selling Outlander to the Masses … Or Selling Out?”, in My Outlander Blog, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of bodice ripper.
Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem
Etymology: Published independently by philosopher Allan Gibbard in 1973 and economist Mark Satterthwaite in 1975.
Senses: glosses: A theorem dealing with deterministic ordinal electoral systems that choose a single winner, stating that for every voting rule, one of the following three things must hold: (i) the rule is dictatorial, i.e. there exists a distinguished voter who can choose the winner; or (ii) the rule limits the possible outcomes to two alternatives only; or (iii) the rule is susceptible to tactical voting: in certain conditions some voter's sincere ballot may not defend their opinion best.
Related terms: Gibbard's theorem
Gibbard's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proven by philosopher Allan Gibbard in 1973.
Senses: glosses: A theorem stating that, for any deterministic process of collective decision, at least one of the following three properties must hold: (i) the process is dictatorial, i.e. there exists a distinguished agent who can impose the outcome; (ii) the process limits the possible outcomes to two options only; (iii) the process encourages agents to think strategically: once an agent has identified their preferences, they have no action at their disposal that would best defend their opinions in any situation.
Related terms: Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem
manual scavenging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The work of cleaning out pit latrines.
sceney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sceney
form: most sceney
Etymology: From scene + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] its undeniable charms attract an eclectic bunch of fans, including travelers who are seeking a less 'sceney' scene […]
ref: 2008, Mexico: A Travel Survival Kit, page 772:
text: The monthly music nights are sceney, and you may even see musicians from the annual jazz festival perform.
ref: 2015, Fodor's Caribbean 2016:
glosses: Characteristic of a scene or subculture.
rebuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebuckles
form: rebuckling
form: rebuckled
form: rebuckled
Etymology: From re- + buckle.
Senses: glosses: To fasten again by means of a buckle.
rebuckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebuckle
rebuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebuckle
rebuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebuckle
scuddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuddlers
form: scudler
Etymology: From scuddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A scullion; a servant who does the cleaning, etc.
scudler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scudlers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scuddler.
scuddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuddler
scudlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scudler
chokes down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of choke down
choked down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of choke down
choking down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of choke down
gumphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gumph
gumphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gumph
no tickee, no washee
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A phrase stereotypically attributed to Chinese laundry workers in centuries past, who would only return a customer's washing when the ticket (receipt) was presented.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Weiss said that what he had said was, "No grant, no research, no tickee, no washee."
ref: 1974, New York (State). Office of Employee Relations, Grievance and Disciplinary Arbitrations (volume 2, page 118)
text: 'I don't need money. I need information.'
'And if I don't proffer this information you'll take your business elsewhere?' Buzz nodded toward the tram car. 'No tickee, no washee. […]
ref: 1999, James Ellroy, The Dudley Smith Trio, page 191:
text: It was really important to keep the slip of paper, given as a receipt because No tickee, no washee!
ref: 2002, Barbara Ann Lambert, Rusty Nails & Ration Books, page 326:
glosses: Something is not to be had without an exchange; there will be no deal without the required consideration or recompense.
Chinese ace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese aces
Senses: examples: text: Flat-spin pilots are stupid or careless flyers, while Huns or Chinese aces are reckless fellows who have crashed […]
ref: 1933, Robert Earle Galbraith, These Our Moderns:
text: When I reported this to Burwell by telephone, he called me a Chinese ace — in those days Chinese aces were pilots who cracked up their own airplanes […]
ref: 1983, John Thorn, David Reuther, The Armchair Aviator, page 101:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An inept airplane pilot.
Chinese aces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese ace
angelic salutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angelic salutations
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The Hail Mary prayer.
angelic salutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angelic salutation
neocassettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neocassette
FTAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Free Trade Area of the Americas.
sea cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea caps
Senses: glosses: A cap worn on shipboard.
synonyms: vase sponge
glosses: A basket-shaped sponge, sometimes very large, found in Florida waters.
sea caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea cap
sea-catgut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
synonyms: word: sea-laces
extra: the seaweed Chorda filum
sea twine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
synonyms: word: sea-laces
extra: the seaweed Chorda filum
dead man's rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
synonyms: word: sea-laces
extra: the seaweed Chorda filum
mermaid's fishing line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
synonyms: word: sea-laces
extra: the seaweed Chorda filum
bootlace weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
synonyms: word: sea-laces
extra: the seaweed Chorda filum
sea fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea foxes
Senses: glosses: fox shark; thresher shark (Alopias spp.).
sea foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea fox
sea wormwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: old woman
glosses: Artemisia maritima, a European wormwood.
ship a sea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ships a sea
form: shipping a sea
form: shipped a sea
form: shipped a sea
Senses: examples: text: […] VVaterman, ſays I, vvhat are you doing? vvhat did you ſhip a Sea? ay, ſays the VVaterman, and a great one too; vvhy it blovvs a Frett of VVind; […]
ref: 1724, [Daniel Defoe], “Letter V”, in The Great Law of Subordination Consider’d; or, The Insolence and Unsufferable Behaviour of Servants in England Duly Enquir’d into. […], London: Sold by S. Harding, […], →OCLC, page 134:
text: Thus we scudded before the wind […] and at nine shipped a sea in the poop, as we in the cabbin were going to supper.
ref: 1774, David Henry, “The Voyages of Captain Cooke”, in An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, volume 2, London: F. Newbery, page 19:
text: At almost every roll to leeward she shipped a sea, several of which came partially down into the cabin during our scuffle, the hatchway having been left open by myself when I descended.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter VIII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 81:
text: Once I shipped a sea so heavy that I had to stop and bail, with my heart fluttering like a bird […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter XXIV, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 196:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To have a large wave wash over one's vessel.
carnying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carny
carnied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carny
CGM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CGMs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: IGM
ICM
ISM
IPM
glosses: Initialism of circumgalactic medium.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of continuous glucose monitor.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of continuous glucose monitoring.
patricoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrico
Teneriffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tenerife.
circumgalactic medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumgalactic mediums
form: circumgalactic media
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: plasma physics
glosses: The gas and plasma in the region surrounding a galaxy, beyond the galactic disc or ovoid, or interstellar medium (ISM), but within the galaxy's virial radius.
Synonyms: word: CGM
Coordinate terms: word: heliosphere
word: astrosphere
word: intergalactic cloud
english: IGM
translation: IGM
word: intergalactic medium
english: IPM
translation: IPM
word: interplanetary medium
word: interstellar cloud
english: ISM
translation: ISM
word: interstellar medium
english: ICM
translation: ICM
word: intracluster medium
word: nebula
word: supershell
Derived terms: word: CGM
Related terms: intergalactic medium
interplanetary medium
interstellar medium
intracluster medium
garden centipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden centipedes
Senses: glosses: A symphylan.
garden centipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden centipede
symphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sym- + phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: gamophyllous
Related terms: symphylly
singalike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singalikes
Senses: glosses: A singer who impersonates the voice and style of another famous singer.
Related terms: lookalike
singalikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singalike
cambuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambutas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cambuca.
cambutta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambuttas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cambuca.
cambuttas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambutta
cambutas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambuta
Cambrophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cambro- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: The portrayal had some substance, but there was little advantage for the king in vaunting his Welsh connections in London, where Cambrophilia was hardly rampant.
ref: 2007, John Davies, A History of Wales:
text: There were, of course, some contemporary English writers who declined to enter into the contemporary cult of Cambrophilia. There was nothing Welsh about Christopher Marlowe, nor anything Welsh in his plays […]
ref: 2016, Willy Maley, Philip Schwyzer, Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly:
glosses: The love of Wales or Welsh culture.
Related terms: Cambrophile
superbear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbears
Etymology: From super- + bear.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A very bearish investor.
Coordinate terms: superbull
superbears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbear
Le Puy-en-Velay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune, the capital of Haute-Loire department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in south-central France, known for the Puy lentils.
Derived terms: Puy lentil
unlonesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlonesome
form: most unlonesome
Etymology: From un- + lonesome.
Senses: glosses: Not lonesome.
octanones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octanone
oioxenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single species of host
raw_tags: of a parasite
Related terms: stenoxenous
oligometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oligomeric.
oligoprogression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoprogressions
Etymology: From oligo- + progression.
Senses: glosses: The formation of several metastatic lesions from an initial tumour
Related terms: oligoprogressive
oligoprogressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoprogression
oligoprogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + progressive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to oligoprogression
oncopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncopeptides
Etymology: From onco- + peptide.
Senses: glosses: A peptide that is associated with a particular cancer
oncopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncopeptide
orbitohyoideus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A large, tapering muscle, in some frogs, associated with the ceratohyal
Synonyms: orbitohyoidal muscle
orthophotomosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthophotomosaics
Etymology: From ortho- + photomosaic.
Senses: glosses: An image composed of multiple orthophotos
Goldoniesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goldoniesque
form: most Goldoniesque
Etymology: From Goldoni + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793).
Meldrewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Meldrewish
form: most Meldrewish
Etymology: From Meldrew + -ish, after Victor Meldrew, a grumpy old man who is the fictional protagonist of the 1990s sitcom One Foot in the Grave.
Senses: examples: text: If occasionally a poem luxuriates in its nostalgia without much point ('Without Potatoes' is a Meldrewish whinge about Spud-U-Likes), […]
ref: 1998, Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle, Harold Monro, Poetry Review, page 89:
text: Far from being a Meldrewish ogre, Wilson turns out to be one of the friendliest, most open-hearted and most modest […]
ref: 2007, The Spectator, volume 303, page 55:
synonyms: Meldrewesque
glosses: grumpy; prone to peevish exasperation
wikipedia: One Foot in the Grave
Victor Meldrew
Meldrewesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Meldrewesque
form: most Meldrewesque
Senses: examples: text: She was right — both car and boot were firmly locked. My Meldrewesque “Oh, no. I don't believe it,” was of little consolation to crestfallen Jane.
ref: 2013, John A. Richardson, Grey Nomads, page 42:
glosses: Synonym of Meldrewish.
synonyms: word: Meldrewish
OMAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.mæd/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.mæd/
Forms: form: OMADs
form: omad
Senses: glosses: Acronym of one meal a day.
Related terms: 2MAD
cut someone's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts someone's throat
form: cutting someone's throat
form: cut someone's throat
form: cut someone's throat
Senses: glosses: To pursue a course that is ruinous to someone's interests.
infungible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + fungible.
Senses: examples: text: Infungible property is that which cannot be easily or at all substituted and for which varying prices are paid in the market, e.g. manuscripts,
ref: 1963, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, An Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence, page 73:
text: Russian managers and entrepreneurs who seek to adapt to the new environment find themselves fettered by past infungible technological choices that neither adequately foresaw present contingencies, nor the long term needs of global competition.
ref: 1998, Steven Rosefielde, Efficiency and Russia's Economic Recovery Potential to the Year 2000 and Beyond, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 225:
text: In other words, the human assets of workers are relatively infungible, in contrast to highly fungible segments of capital (Lane and Wood 2012).
ref: 2014, Adrian Wilkinson, Geoffrey Wood, Richard Deeg, The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
glosses: not fungible, not capable of being exchanged easily.
infuriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infuriators
Etymology: From infuriate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Wine — the so-called 'red infuriator' — was imported in large quantities and distributed from London throughout the provinces.
ref: 2003, Giles Emerson, City of Sin, page 232:
glosses: One who or that which infuriates.
infuriators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infuriator
infuriatingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infuriating + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being infuriating.
infuriatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more infuriatedly
form: most infuriatedly
Etymology: From infuriated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an infuriated manner.
Ambarvalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ambarvalia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ambarvalia.
amberiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmbəˈɹɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more amberiferous
form: most amberiferous
Etymology: From amber + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: Containing or yielding amber.
ambalama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambalamas
form: ambalam
Etymology: From Sinhalese අම්බලම (ambalama).
Senses: glosses: A simple structure built to provide shelter to travellers in Sri Lanka.
ambalamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambalama
angsanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angsana
angularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: angularizes
form: angularizing
form: angularized
form: angularized
Etymology: From angular + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A longer me—my shadow—walked before me, bending its back and drooping its arms, and angularizing its elongated legs like drowsy compasses.
ref: 1855, The Living Age, volume 44, page 242:
glosses: To make angular.
Related terms: angularization
angularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of angularize
angularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angularize
angularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angularize
angelological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to angelology.
simpletonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simpletonish
form: most simpletonish
Etymology: From simpleton + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a simpleton; dim-witted.
shaved ices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaved ice
Bartókians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartókian
chess tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chess tarts
Senses: glosses: chess pie
chess tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chess tart
omnishambolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more omnishambolic
form: most omnishambolic
Etymology: From omni- + shambolic.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an omnishambles; utterly mismanaged.
simianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being simian.
amortizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being amortizable.
Angelus bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Angelus bell
recompound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recompounds
form: recompounding
form: recompounded
form: recompounded
Etymology: From re- + compound.
Senses: glosses: To compound again or anew.
recompounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recompound
recompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recompound
recompounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recompound
recompositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to recomposition.
Canonbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænənb(ə)ɹi/
Etymology: From canon + -bury, recorded as Canonesbury 1373, from Middle English canoun + Old English burh, byrig.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of London in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3284).
anthemless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthem + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an anthem.
iSheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From i- + sheep in lower camel case, the style used for several Apple products.
Senses: glosses: uncritical Apple Inc. fans
Yellowlees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Spaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gleneagles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality including a hotel and railway station near Glen Eagles in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN9209).
Derived terms: Gleneagles pâté
Audley End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A small settlement in Saffron Walden parish, Uttlesford district, Essex (OS grid ref TL5237; the railway station is in Wendens Ambo parish).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Gestingthorpe parish, Braintree district, Essex (OS grid ref TL8137).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Burston and Shimpling parish, South Norfolk district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TM1482).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Lawshall parish, Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8553).
slough hay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hay (fodder) cut from the edges of a slough (pond or ephemeral wetland)
photo editor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo editors
form: photo-editor
Senses: glosses: A person who modifies photographs.
glosses: A software application for editing digital photographs.
Related terms: photo edit
photo editing
Dominey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Domineys
form: Dorminey
Etymology: Altered form of German Dominik or Dominick.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
slough shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slough sharks
Etymology: From slough + shark.
Senses: glosses: northern pike
Le Puy lentil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Le Puy lentils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Puy lentil.
Plumpton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plumptons
form: Plimpton
Etymology: From Old English plūme (“plum”) + tūn (“settlement, town”). Doublet of Plympton.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A western suburb of Sydney in the City of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A northwestern suburb of Melbourne in the City of Melton, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Hesket parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4937).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3513). The railway station and racecourse are at Plumpton Green to the north.
glosses: A placename:
Two hamlets, Great Plumpton and Little Plumpton, in Westby-with-Plumptons civil parish, Fylde district, Lancashire, England.
glosses: A placename:
A small village in Weston and Weedon civil parish, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5948).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Plumpton Green
Westby-with-Plumptons
Plumpton Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village (separate from Plumpton) in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3616).
Claypole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8549).
glosses: A city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. From the surname.
glosses: A surname.
transmasc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transmasc
form: most transmasc
Etymology: Clipping of transmasculine.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the convention of masculinity through being an “alt” transmasc person (I was always explicitly non-binary) actually amounted to posturing, and ultimately allowed for more or less the same oppressions to be reinscribed, if only because I was uncritical about my position as a white [...] transmasc person.
ref: 2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905:
text: [A] binder is a compression garment for your chest to flatten the chest. It's for other nonbinary or transmasc folks [...]
ref: 2018, KL Reddy-Best, D Goodin, “QueerCrip fashion in the twenty-first century: Sky Cubacub and the QueerCrip Dress Reform Movement”, in Clothing Cultures:
text: Quinn Eades is a queer transmasc writer and poet. Jamie & Quinn are in love. The images and poetry are from their forthcoming book, Queerdom.
ref: 2019, Tiffany Jones, Bent Street 2: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas - 2018/2019, Clouds of Magellan, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: transfem
glosses: Transmasculine.
transmasc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmascs
Etymology: Clipping of transmasculine.
Senses: examples: text: [They say things like] “I'm attracted to all genders, especially androgynous people,” or, “I am primarily interested in other transmascs.”
ref: 2016, Sara Woods, Identifying as Transgender, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 32:
text: And Literally No One treated me like shit when I identified as transmasc (I s2g, white transmascs seem to act victimized more than they materially are, and that's so much a part of the problem); [...]
ref: 2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905:
coordinate_terms: transfem
glosses: A trans man or other transmasculine person.
transmascs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmasc
direct system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct systems
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of algebraic structures (which are part of a concrete category; e.g., modules) and a set of morphisms between them (e.g., module homomorphisms) which all together form a small category which is the image of a covariant functor whose domain is a directed poset.
Boskett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
direct limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct limits
Senses: examples: text: A direct limit has “canonical functions” which map each element of the disjoint union to its equivalence class.
text: Direct limits in the algebraic sense are models of category-theoretic colimits.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of equivalence classes which partition the disjoint union of the members of a direct system; each equivalence class being a sort of “drainage basin” of the mappings (of the morphisms) of the direct system, if these are analogically considered as “rivers”. (If i<k,j<k in the indexing poset, then there exist f_ik:A_i→A_k and f_jk:A_j→A_k. If a_i∈A_i,a_j∈A_j such that f_ik(a_i)=f_jk(a_j) then a_i∼a_j. If k = j then f_jj(a_j)=a_j,f_ij(a_i)=a_j.)
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a colimit
Synonyms: inductive limit
Related terms: direct system
Yutian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹtyěnʹ
Forms: form: Yutien
form: Yu-tien
form: Yü-tien
form: Yü-t'ien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 于田 (Yútián).
Senses: examples: text: Authorities at the Yutian (Keriye) County Agricultural Bureau, Hoten district, called for each work unit to strengthen "management" of bureau staff and retired workers and to guarantee they "don't believe in religion, attend religious activities, or fast," according to an August 3 report on the Agricultural Bureau's Web site.
ref: 2011, “Xinjiang Authorities Implement Ramadan Curbs Amid Renewed Pledges for Tight Controls Over Religion”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China:
text: These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
ref: 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 329:
text: Initial reports from the three villages nearest to the epicenter indicated that “there have been no injuries or deaths, and only some homes were cracked,” said Xinhua, the state-run news agency, citing an unidentified county official in Yutian. But officials and the police were still trying to find out if more isolated homes and herders suffered any harm, Xinhua said.
Yutian County has 220,000 residents across 15,000 square miles, and the vast majority are Uighur, a largely Muslim people who call the county Keriya.
ref: 2014 February 12, Chris Buckley, “Earthquake Strikes Remote Area of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2014, Asia Pacific:
text: Gulnisahan Tohti, who has been growing grapes for more than two decades in the township of Langan, Yutian County, never would have imagined that grape leaves would be sold at a higher price than grapes.
ref: 2019 September 10, “Across China: Grape leaves become commodity hot in Xinjiang”, in mingmei, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2019:
glosses: A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Uyghur
word: Keriya
word: Keriye
word: Kiria
Yutian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹtyěnʹ
Forms: form: Yutien
form: Yu-tien
form: Yü-tien
form: Yü-t'ien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 于闐 (Yútián).
Senses: examples: text: (We can also use Zhang Qian’s report to fill in more on our map of the Tarim Basin itself. Just west of the stay-behinds lived some people the envoy called the Yumi, then came the Yutian, and beyond the Yutian came the watershed we call the Pamirs, for “west of Yutian, all the rivers flow west and empty into the Western Sea, but east of there they flow eastward into the Salt Swamp.” Yutian thus can only be the west end of the Tarim Basin.)
ref: 1999, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Ürümchi, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 123:
text: While there, Zhang sent dozens of assistants to visit other nations including Dayuan, Kangju, Daxia, Darouzhi and Anxi (安息) (present day Iran), Yuandu (身毒), and Yutian (于阗) (present day Hetian, Xinjiang) and Yumi (扜罙) (present day Yutian, Xinjiang).
ref: 2015, Rongguang Zhao, A History of Food Culture in China, SCPG Publishing Corporation:
text: Today known as Hotan or Hetian (和田), this western military stronghold was once known as Yutian (于闐).
ref: 2016, Jeong Su-il, The Silk Road Encyclopedia, Seoul Selection U.S.A., Inc.:
glosses: historical region in southern Xinjiang, China
glosses: A former name for a county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Keriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keriye
Senses: examples: text: The desert returns after you leave Keriya, and dunes periodically threaten the road.
ref: 1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China: the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides), Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:
text: A week into the trip Korbel told me I was riding well, no trouble at all for him, so we would detour a little to the east, toward an oasis called Tongguzbasti. We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between the Khotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the Keriya. Along the way we would see something.
ref: 2004, Barry Holstun Lopez, Resistance (Fiction), New York: Vintage Books, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 105:
text: These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
ref: 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 329:
text: “We use piped water in Keriya (Yutian) county—it’s been like that for years, at least five or six,” a Uyghur farmer from the county’s Achchan town said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
ref: 2015 February 4, Joshua Lipes, Jilil Kashgary (reporter), “More Than One Million Lack Clean Water in Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2015:
glosses: Synonym of Yutian.
synonyms: word: Yutian
wikipedia: International Map of the World
Chirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and community with a town council in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2937).
reds under the beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red under the bed
Stourton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɜːtn̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tən
Etymology: From rivers by the name of Stour + -ton, except in Leeds.
Senses: glosses: A village in Kinver parish, South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8685).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Cherington and Stourton Joint Parish Council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2936).
glosses: An industrial area of the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3240).
glosses: A village in Stourton with Gasper parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST7733).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English from the place names.
glosses: An English barony, derived from the place in Wiltshire.
Derived terms: Stourton with Gasper
twatish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twatish
form: most twatish
Senses: examples: text: The usual cries of "must we fling this filth at the kids" arose from all the usual places, leaving defenders of the twatish twosome to claim that, "hey! it's just a joke, nobody's suggesting that they're role models."
ref: 1995, The Virgin Rock Yearbook 1994-1995, page 1995:
text: And for some reason I'm overcome with the overwhelming impulse to slap Neil on the back of the head, which I do - before I even know her name - and afterwards I don't even know why I've done it and I'm thinking that was a twatish thing to do, not because Neil didn't deserve it but because that's probably what she thinks.
ref: 2008, Tristan Hughes, Revenant, page 31:
text: Sometimes you do twatish things when you're consumed.
ref: 2019, S.J. Cairns, Division:
glosses: Alternative form of twattish.
twattishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twattish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And it's a sort of proof of Johan's twattishness that he actually does leave her.
ref: 2010, Stephanie Calman, How Not to Murder Your Husband:
text: Luca was wary of Tav getting away with too much twattishness, because he had a lot of it floating around, and maybe some people liked that whole knobhead dominant guy thing, but not Luca.
ref: 2015, Matthew J. Metzger, The Italian Word for Kisses, page 193:
text: Is it me, or is that message total presumptuous twattishness?
ref: 2015, Ayisha Malik, Sofia Khan is Not Obliged:
glosses: The quality or state of being twattish.
Seaforth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seaforths
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb in northern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A coastal town and locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the municipality of Huron East, Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An urban area and dock in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3297).
glosses: A town in Saint Thomas parish, Jamaica.
glosses: A tiny town in Redwood County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A submerged ghost town in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States.
eat someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats someone's heart
form: eating someone's heart
form: ate someone's heart
form: ate someone's heart
Senses: examples: text: O God! that I were a man. I would eat his heart in the marketplace.
ref: 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing:
text: “And now you sit like a maggot in my flesh, waiting only to eat my heart.”
ref: 2011, Howard Fast, Moses: The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt:
text: “I threw down with my brother,” said Clint. “And I utterly kicked his ass, and he's on the college wrestling team. He was crying at the bottom of the stairs, and I was, like, 'I will eat your heart, man, I will totally eat your heart.'
ref: 2015, Adam Lewis Schroeder, All-Day Breakfast:
glosses: To destroy and humiliate someone.
eats someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat someone's heart
eating someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat someone's heart
ate someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eat someone's heart
Wentloog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wentlooge.
Wentlooge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wentloog
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in the city and county of Newport, Wales.
Derived terms: St Brides Wentlooge
Garston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Watford borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1100).
glosses: A suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4084).
glosses: A small settlement in northern Southland, New Zealand.
Related terms: East Garston
Drax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6726).
glosses: Ellipsis of Drax Power Station.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Long Drax
hell of a
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛləvə/
Senses: examples: text: Well done! That's a hell of an achievement!
text: She had a hell of a time trying to open the jar. In the end she gave up: it was one hell of a cover.
text: Where were you? / I got lost in the woods. / Wow! Hell of a place to get lost!
text: Yeah, this was one hell of a party / Nobody ever got to bed / But the morning after's killing me / And I have to rest my head
ref: 2007, “One Hell of a Party”, in Pocket Symphony, performed by Air ft. Jarvis Cocker:
glosses: Intensifier; indicates that someone or something is especially good, bad, difficult, etc.
Derived terms: word: heck of a
word: hella
word: helluva
Related terms: big old
band tee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: band tees
Senses: glosses: A T-shirt featuring the name or logo of a band.
band tees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of band tee
graphic tee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphic tees
Senses: glosses: A T-shirt featuring an image.
midway briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Writer Shopping Guide Lynne Tillman lives in white shirts from Brooks Brothers and the Gap. Janet Jackson buys Dolce & Gabbana's midway briefs and ribbed tanks from Barneys New York. Daryl Hannah wears Helmut Lang for her and him.
ref: 1998, Elle, Issues 157-158, page 325:
glosses: Long-leg boxer briefs.
Derived terms: midways
Related terms: trunk briefs
bikini briefs
picqué work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: pounced work; decoration by dots or slight depressions
angularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angularizations
Senses: glosses: The process of making something angular.
Related terms: angularize
angularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angularization
cursivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cursive + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The adaptation of a script into cursive form.
foldables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foldable
consensualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consensual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: These locations reflect the dilemma and uneasy compromise between desirable, yet mutually exclusive features. One axis ranges from majoritarianism to consensualism. The other goes from unitarism to federalism.
ref: 2000, Markus M. L. Crepaz, Thomas Albert Koelble, David Wilsford, Democracy and Institutions: The Life Work of Arend Lijphart, page 79:
text: Faced with a choice between managerial despotism and liberal anarchy CLS founders voted for Utopian consensualism.
ref: 2002, James G. McGann, Robert Kent Weaver, Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action:
glosses: A system where decisions are made based on the consensus of those involved.
consensualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consensualists
Etymology: From consensual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of consensualism.
consensualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consensualist
open-field test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open-field tests
Senses: glosses: A scientific test to gauge an animal's locomotor activity levels, anxiety, and willingness to explore, by placing the animal in an enclosed arena and observing its actions.
open-field tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open-field test
bad-jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bad-jackets
form: bad-jacketing
form: bad-jacketed
form: bad-jacketed
Senses: hyponyms: snitch-jacket
glosses: To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
bad-jacketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bad-jacket
bad-jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bad-jacket
bad-jacketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bad-jacket
snitch-jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snitch-jackets
form: snitch-jacketing
form: snitch-jacketed
form: snitch-jacketed
Senses: hypernyms: bad-jacket
glosses: To create suspicion around (a person) in a way that makes them appear to be an informer.
snitch-jacketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snitch-jacket
snitch-jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snitch-jacket
snitch-jacketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snitch-jacket
theophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theo- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: Love for a god or God.
Related terms: theophile
theophilic
Eye of Horus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəs
Forms: form: Eyes of Horus
Senses: synonyms: udjat
wadjet
wedjat
glosses: An ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power, and good health, used for amulets etc.
udjat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: udjats
form: wadjet
form: wedjat
Etymology: From Egyptian wḏꜣt:
w-DA-A-t-wDAt
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eye of Horus.
synonyms: word: Eye of Horus
wedjat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedjats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of udjat (“the Eye of Horus”).
udjats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of udjat
wedjats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedjat
wadjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wadjets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of udjat (“the Eye of Horus”).
wadjets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wadjet
Eyes of Horus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eye of Horus
snitchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snitchy: more snitchy
snitchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snitchy: most snitchy
bodice-ripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodice-rippings
form: bodice ripping
Etymology: From bodice ripper.
Senses: examples: text: We had a long debate about the ethics of bodice-ripping—who was allowed to rip and who got ripped.
ref: 1989, Alice Thomas Ellis, Home Life Four - Volume 4, page 72:
text: The Dutch sado-masochism, represented first by the Vroom women's attempts at seducing Mason (through multiple bodice-rippings and invitations to spank) for the purpose of reproducing slaves, is further accentuated in a similarly contrived orgy -- described as ritualistic opportunity to transcend societal norms and delineations -- where "Lust is schedul'd, splashing outside the Church-drawn boundaries of marriage, as across racial lines."
ref: 2009, Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds, The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, page 156:
text: All unknowing, innocent as the heroine of a Barbara Cartland Regency romance (at least for the first fifteen pages before the initial bodice-ripping), I came to Hollywood in 1962 with a few published books to my credit and the ingenuous naivete that led me to believe that merely by being the best writer the medium had ever seen, I could raise the level of what went out across the coaxial cable.
ref: 2012, Harlan Ellison, Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed:
text: Naomi Klein is right to call Atlas Shrugged 'pulp' – there is plenty of bodice-ripping in its romantic sections, and, very significantly, there are never any babies produced.
ref: 2014, Mike King, Quakernomics: An Ethical Capitalism, page 204:
synonyms: bodice-rippery
glosses: A lustful scene of seduction and violent or forcefully initiated sex.