cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
parcellize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parcellizes
form: parcellizing
form: parcellized
form: parcellized
Senses: glosses: To fragment or subdivide
Related terms: parcellization
parcellization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcellizations
Senses: glosses: fragmentation; subdivision
Related terms: parcellize
foeto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feto-.
parcelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parcelizes
form: parcelizing
form: parcelized
form: parcelized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parcellize.
Related terms: parcelization
parcelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcelizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parcellization.
Related terms: parcelize
parcelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parcelize
parcelized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parcellized.
parcellized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parcellize
parcellized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fragmented; subdivided
fetoneurotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feto- + neurotoxic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: neurotoxic to a fetus
Related terms: fetoneurotoxin
supertoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒksɪk
Forms: form: more supertoxic
form: most supertoxic
Etymology: From super- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Excessively toxic.
pentaglucoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaglucosides
Etymology: From penta- + glucoside.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside containing five glucose units
pentaglucosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentaglucoside
pericardiopleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pericardio- + pleural.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: pericardial and pleural
periretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From peri- + retinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the retina
peroxidisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peroxidizability.
cafilah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafilahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cafila.
cafilahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafilah
pescatourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pesca- + tourism.
Senses: glosses: tourism centred on fishing
Related terms: pescatourist
Deggial
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daggial.
Daggial
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deggial
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic دَجَّال (dajjāl).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, an evil figure in Islamic eschatology.
Phaedrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Phaedrian
form: most Phaedrian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Phaedran.
Phaedran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Phaedran
form: most Phaedran
form: Phaedrian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Phaedrus.
petitionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petition + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be petitioned
mesale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
mesale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesales
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
on the scunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: crooked, misaligned
phospholipidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phospholipidases
Etymology: From phospholipid + -ase.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phospholipase.
phosphotriose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphotrioses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triose phosphosugar
phosphotrioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphotriose
photobiotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + biotechnology.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: photochemical biotechnology (typically employing photosynthesis)
photochemoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + chemoprotective.
Senses: glosses: photochemically chemoprotective
photoplanimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + planimetry.
Senses: glosses: photographic planimetry
phylobiogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phylo- + biogeographical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phylobiogeography
physeptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /faɪˈsɛpˌtoʊn/
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: glosses: A form of methadone.
phytomonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytomonads
Senses: glosses: Any trypanosomatid of the genus Phytomonas
phytomonads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytomonad
Hungarophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hungarophobes
Etymology: From Hungaro- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person who hates or fears Hungary, Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.
Related terms: Hungarophobia
Hungarophobic
Hungarophilia
Hungarophilic
Hungarophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hungarophobe
take it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes it
form: taking it
form: took it
form: taken it
Senses: examples: text: I take it on trust that you won't tell my secret.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, it.
examples: text: I began the project; now you take it from here.
glosses: To start doing.
examples: text: I take it that she didn't like the cake.
glosses: To suppose.
glosses: To endure affliction, punishment or torment.
glosses: To taste or sample some food or drink.
examples: text: This isn't the best car ever, but I'll take it.
glosses: To reluctantly accept or believe; to acquiesce.
glosses: To submit to passive sexual intercourse.
Princes End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Tipton, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9593).
pocong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocongs
Senses: glosses: In Indonesian and Malaysian folklore, a ghost that wears a burial shroud.
pocongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocong
Patzinak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Patzinaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pecheneg.
Patzinaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Patzinak
prequalifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prequalifiers
Etymology: From pre- + qualifier or prequalify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who prequalifies.
prequalifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prequalifier
granny tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granny taxes
Senses: glosses: A stealth tax that takes money from the elderly.
granny taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granny tax
Towyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Kinmel Bay and Towyn community, Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH9779).
glosses: Former name of Tywyn, in Gwynedd.
IIWII
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Most of the real professionals have slid sideways into Pro Audio or are too busy doing their work to wade through the muck. ¶ So what! IIWII (it is what it is) If you don't like it what choice do we really have but to leave? Just my opinion...
ref: 1997 October 11, Eric Blackmer, “Re: Scott flame...New rules in the house!!!...was:Annual AES awards”, in rec.audio.pro (Usenet):
text: I don't accept what is happening but I know it will be the same until Al passes. I do think you are right in that his inner circle (Madden, Otto, Hendricks, etc) tell him what he wants to hear or they wouldn't be close to him. That just supports what he already "knows". IIWII.......MR
ref: 2009 October 14, Momma Raider, “Re: The Al jockers sure are quiet”, in alt.sports.football.pro.oak-raiders (Usenet):
glosses: Acronym of it is what it is.
say la vee
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted question, and they chose one, instead, that querried her favourite colour, quelle banel. I had mentioned my web site in my question, hoping for some international exposure, but say-la-vee!
ref: 1997 August 16, PRINCESSPK, “Re: Opinions wanted for magazine article”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
text: Filled up the Ashton with Capstan and had a totally British drive home. Thanks to the wizardry of Ashton and Imperial Tobacco, that first smoke in a new pipe was sweet as a nut. Unfortunately I was forced by circumstances to drive a '95 Ford Escort wagon rather than a Roller, Bentley or Aston Martin, but say la vee.
ref: 2001 April 25, David H. Crehore, “Re: OT?:pipe musings on the drive home”, in alt.smokers.pipes (Usenet):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of c'est la vie.
BYM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BYMs
Senses: examples: text: The officer whose division gets one is marked in his superior's books as a bright young man who will get attention when promotions come round, and the crew under the b.y.m. gets a ten-dollar bonus apiece and a chance to crow.
ref: 1941, Fletcher Pratt, America and Total War, page 202:
text: "You're terribly successful, you see, the BYM of the Directorate."
"BYM?"
"Bright Young Man." She emphasized the words carefully, looking straight at him.
ref: 1983, Robert McCrum, In the Secret State, page 88:
glosses: Initialism of bright young man.
Brownhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Blackburn, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6830).
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Brownhills
McCrum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɪkɹʌm/
Forms: form: McCrums
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Cruim (“son of the cripple”), from crom (“bent, twisted”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
BYMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BYM
mediot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediots
Etymology: Blend of media + idiot.
Senses: examples: text: Now I know there are a lot of mediots who don't like George Steinbrenner for whatever reason -- probably because he treats them the way they treat players. ¶ But on what basis do they keep making the absurd claim that "The Yankees are the best team on paper, but what about the George Steinbrenner factor?"
ref: 1993 March 29, David Marc Nieporent, “Mediots and Steinbrenner”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):
text: The scene shifts to a recording studio set up to look like a nineteenth-century library, shelves with wooden shelves holding neat sets of leather-bound books—a cultural motif of intellect. […] The mediot interviewing her gets right to the point. “Dr. Parris, there has been widespread speculation that your lab was devoted to biowarfare research—”
ref: 2015, Linda Nagata, Going Dark, New York, NY: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A member of the media; a journalist, especially one who makes inaccurate claims in articles.
mediots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediot
PowerPoint ranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PowerPoint rangers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person with a desk job who tends to produce computerized slide presentations rather than doing anything more useful.
Related terms: pencil pusher
PowerPoint rangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PowerPoint ranger
Swarbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
COGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of COG
COMSEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of communications security.
COMSEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Committee Secretary.
poomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poomplex
snookerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snookerers
Etymology: From snooker + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The good part is, teenagers aren't smart enough to be subtle. Play your cards right, and you can be the snookerer rather than the snookered!
ref: 1986, Donna Lagorio Montgomery, Surviving Motherhood, page 130:
glosses: One who snookers.
snookerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snookerer
pukwudgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pukwudgies
Senses: examples: text: […] cliff-dwellers, the many-footed rock lovers finding foothold where you would hardly think the lichens even would survive. I never tramp these roads, which it sometimes seems as if the pukwudgies moved about in the night […]
ref: 1910, Winthrop Packard, Woodland Paths, page 84:
text: The Narrow Land was in chaos in those days, because the pukwudgies were always causing trouble and the good giant Maushop was often too lazy to help. Jean Fritz has drawn from old legends to write of the formation of Cape Cod and the ...
ref: 1982, Jean Fritz, The good giants and the bad pukwudgies, Putnam Pub Group
text: Draw and paint your own version of a pukwudgie.
ref: 1988, Sharron L. McElmeel, An Author a Month: For Pennies, Teacher Ideas Press:
text: And so the pukwudgies had the final laugh. They'd beaten the cruel giant, who ended up floating out to sea. The pukwudgies stood on a cliff and waved goodbye, then flew back into the forest.
ref: 1997, Clayton Emery, The Tale of the Campfire Vampires, Aladdin Paperbacks, →ISBN:
text: Yes, the internet is rife with tales of the little people, but that did me little good for finding out more about the Piedmont Pukwudgie or any pukwudgie specific to Alabama.
ref: 2018, Wil Elrick, Alabama Lore: The Choccolocco Monster, Huggin' Molly, the Lost Town of Cottonport and Other Mysterious Tales, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: A creature in Algonquian (Lenape and Wampanoag) folklore, typically said to be a short humanoid with magical abilities; the creatures were once friendly to humans but have become malicious tricksters.
FOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FO
pukwudgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pukwudgie
JTTF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JTTFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Joint Terrorism Task Force.
JTTFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JTTF
Jedgar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Deliberate running together of his first initial and middle name.
Senses: examples: text: She asked to see her hero, Jedgar Hoover (or J. Edgar to the rest of us).
ref: 1989, Marguerite Kelly, The Mother's Almanac II, page 325:
text: According to Don, humor was synonymous with laziness. After,^([sic]) all, how can you have fun and still get the job done? And, even more importantly, what if the almighty Jedgar Hoover were to show up and find us laughing as we produced photos of some guy robbing a bank?
ref: 2008, Rick Berger, Ok, You Dummies, up Against the Wall!, page 91:
glosses: J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Malcolmson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
spoofiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spoofy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being spoofy.
IOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IO
walk the cat back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks the cat back
form: walking the cat back
form: walked the cat back
form: walked the cat back
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of walk back the cat.
war wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war wagons
Senses: glosses: Any of various early armored vehicles drawn by animals for use in combat.
war wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war wagon
palæoethnobotany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palæo- + ethnobotany.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeoethnobotany.
IMINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of imagery intelligence.
Yahwehism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jehovism.
synonyms: word: Jehovism
archæobotany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archæo- + botany.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archaeobotany.
Sterry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: sterryite
typester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typesters
Etymology: From type + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: It has captured the interest of many in the graphic arts because of its inclusion in the American Institute of Graphic Arts "Fifty Books" show. Typesters may see in it a bit of Rand virtuosity.
ref: 1948, American Printer and Lithographer, volume 127, page 40:
text: Q. And what was your business before working for the Frontier Telephone Company?
A. Typester or copyist.
Q. How long had that been your business?
A. About 20 years.
ref: Supreme Court Appellate Fourth Department (page 44)
synonyms: typist
glosses: A person who operates a typewriter.
typesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typester
Yankeese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yankee + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Men and women too, down our way, walk out so much together that they just lose flavour for each other, and feel like two tame 'possums sitting on a gumtree. Now don't say I can't talk Yankeese!
ref: 1883, Ouida, Frescoes, Etc: Dramatic Sketches, page 119:
text: “I ain't got time,” was his reply in pure Yankeese.
ref: 1924, Louis Cohen, Reminiscences of Johannesburg and London, page 121:
glosses: The American dialect of English.
yaa-boo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: The SDP wanted a different political image from that portrayed in the BBC's Today in Parliament /Yesterday in Parliament reports — of juvenile yaa-boo exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons.
ref: 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and chips: the rise of the SDP, page 10:
text: No! we hug each other, swooning and falling about with the ecstatically comforting knowledge that — yes! it's true! — those feminists have just gone too far. That we are, what we are! Men! Real Men! Yaa-boo!
ref: 1999, Jeff Raglus, Big Funky Action, page 220:
text: This is yaa-boo, in-yer-face, up-yours theatre, vaguely but crudely feminist; a Punch and Judy show with drab dialogue of naff lower-middle-class cliches. Ghastly sex scene, about as erotic as playing dominoes.
ref: 2002, Theatre Record - Volume 22, Issues 19-26, page 1226:
glosses: Alternative form of yah boo.
yardrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardropes
Senses: examples: text: The first thing you do is to unreeve the yardrope, keeping the end aloft at the crosstrees (perhaps the same rope will do), hook the block on under the cap, or if there is no eye-bolt there put a strap round the cap, hook the block on it, reeve the mast-rope through it, then through the heel of the mast, make it fast to the cap on the other side, and call out, "Haul taut the mast-rope;"
ref: 1869, Charles Chapman, All about ships, page 292:
text: Got his hand jammed by yardrope on winch-end. Got his foot jammed between two balks of timber. Fell on deck. A sling of cargo knocked him off ship on to whari. Got his hand jagged by winch-wire.
ref: 1913, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand:
text: Take the end of a yardrope aloft, reeve it through this block from aft forward, and make it fast round the quarter of the yard.
ref: 1953, Alfred Edward Nicholls, Charles H. Brown, Nicholls's Seamanship:
glosses: Alternative form of yard-rope.
yardropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yardrope
walks back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk back
yard-rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yard-ropes
form: yard rope
form: yardrope
Senses: examples: text: Trice down the jack-block, by letting go the halyards and hauling down on the yard-rope. Cast off the yard-rope from the slings of the yard, and hook the tye to its thimble; haul taut the halyards, and square the yard by the lists and braces.
ref: 1841, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-book: Letters to the Midshipmen of the United States Navy, page 57:
text: Have hands by the braces and lifts , man the yard-rope, and when ready, sway up on the yard-rope, and lower lift, steadying the yard by the braces.
ref: 1866, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Seamanship:
text: But this plan is manifestly too expensive and troublesome to meet with much encouragement in the merchant service —a yard-rope being also requisite, in case of sending the yard up or down.
ref: 2012, John M'Leod Murphy, W. N. Jeffers, Spars and Rigging: From Nautical Routine, page 1849:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope that goes through a block or sheave at the top of a mast that is used for hoisting or lowering a yard; gantline.
yard-ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yard-rope
Exell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
walking back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk back
walked back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk back
yard rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yard ropes
Senses: examples: text: If the halyards are not single, the yard must be sent down by a yard rope, like the topgallant yard. In some vessels, instead of making the sheets and clewlines fast to the jack, over-hand knots are taken in their ends, and they are let go.
ref: 1863, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Captain Brown, Dana's Seaman's friend, page 24:
text: When "high enough" for rigging, the grummet which confines the yard rope to the yard is taken off the upper yard-arm, and the yard-arms rigged (Fig. 257).
ref: 1868, George Strong Nares, Seamanship, page 108:
text: They were altogether too heavy to be trusted to a single gantline, or yard rope, so it was necessary to get a couple of heavy twin blocks up to the masthead and rig a double purchase for lowering them.
ref: 1964, Frank V. Snyder, Life Under Sail:
glosses: Alternative form of yard-rope.
yard ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yard rope
idiotists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiotist
walkback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from walk back.
Senses: examples: text: AdaRAID supports multiple CPUs running concurrently, Ada data types, features include break points, watchpoints, timing, tracing, stepping, walkbacks, and histories of last n executions.
ref: 1990, NASA Tech Briefs, page 98:
text: Walkbacks, inspectors, and debuggers are the heart of Smalltalk's debugging facilities. Walkbacks are displayed when Smalltalk detects an error or a breakpoint. The debugger offers many tools for detecting and correcting code errors.
ref: 1992, UNIX Review, volume 10, page 42:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A stack trace.
Related terms: front walk
walkbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkback
Chandlerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chandler + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A style of narration typical of Raymond Chandler, with exaggerated and colorful similes.
Castling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
this is where I came in
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of this is where we came in.
synonyms: word: this is where we came in
phonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏngk
ipa: /fɒŋk/
ipa: /fɑŋk/
ipa: /fɔŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Etymology: Alteration of funk.
Senses: glosses: A style of music derived from hip-hop and trap music, directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap.
examples: text: By smashing together components of hip-hop, EDM, metal and dubstep, phonk is placed as one of the most prominent new genres of music.
ref: 2024 April 15, Andy Ward, Briony Luttrell, Lachlan Goold, “How a global crisis, drift racing and Memphis hip-hop gave us phonk – the music of the TikTok generation”, in The Conversation:
glosses: Drift phonk.
Derived terms: Brazilian phonk
drift phonk
zeroist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeroists
Etymology: From zero + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It leads to the assumption that, unable to resolve many social and economic problems affecting today's America, the administration in Washington has in fact clutched at the recommendations of the "zeroists."
ref: 1971, USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology - Issues 7-12, page 114:
text: But, whereas failure to follow the indications of the “zeroists " will later on have unpleasant consequences for these nations, inability to check population growth in many parts of the developing world may mean that the countries concerned are doomed to sink, irreversibly and in the near future, into an ever-deepening miasma of economic and social stagnation.
ref: 1974, Ceres, page 133:
glosses: A proponent of zero population growth (ZPG).
examples: text: Let us admit at once that the author has made out a case against the zeroist who uses words as a squid uses its color-sac — to becloud vision.
ref: 1929, Printers' Ink - Volume 147, page 154:
text: What are you talking about Ali this is the text we are creating it verbally we are the text we do not exist either we are a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things, an etherised unauthorised other.
ref: 1975, Christine Brooke-Rose, Thru, page 155:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who is part of the movement called zeroism; An artist whose works have no message or meaning.
zeroists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeroist
Zeroist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zeroists
Etymology: From Zero-61, a Polish photography collective in the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: The critic-historian begins confidently with Symbolism and Naturalism, and soon finds himself involved with Expressionism, Imagism, Futurism, Ultraism, Dada, Trans-sense, Vorticism, Surrealism, Functionalism, Social Realism, the New Apocalypse, the Movement, New Romantics, Beats, Angries, Renascents, Projectivists, Lettrists, Concretists, Zeroists, and their rivals and splinters.
ref: 1968, Roy McMullen, Art, Affluence, and Alienation: The Fine Arts Today, page 76:
text: For very young artists today the achievements of the Zeroists stimulated a renewed interest in Mondrian and De Stijl. For too long there had been no trace of De Stijl's influence in Dutch art.
ref: 1969, Art and Artists - Volume 4, Issues 7-12, page 22:
text: […] to mix photography with other mediums points to the multiplicity of their artistic practice; some were practicing painters, while others went on to create more conceptually-based work. The Zeroists' transgressions of their medium and of tradition […]
ref: 2005, Lynne Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography:
glosses: A member of the artistic movement that grew out of Zero-61, which rejected past influences in an attempt to produce fresh new works.
Zeroists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zeroist
nightmarcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightmarchers
Etymology: From night + marcher. Calque of Hawaiian huakaʻi pō.
Senses: examples: text: ... happening in, will not become confused and angry in his efforts to get out. Beds should not be placed directly opposite doorways. One keeps indoors when the Nightmarchers are abroad. On certain nights these progressions of ghosts can […]
ref: 1988, John Donald Kingsley, The Antioch Review:
text: The tail of that sinuous line of nightmarchers seemed very horrible, and as I saw them wriggling into a venerable tomb they seemed more horrible still. Then I noticed that the tomb's floor had an aperture down which the throng was sliding, and ...
ref: 1997, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Crawling Chaos: Selected Pulp Fiction:
text: […] understood the vision of nightmarchers described by the Chinese man. Sometimes the phantom marchers will be seen stopping at the house of a dying person, to prepare to escort them into the afterlife. In this case, the nightmarchers were […]
ref: 1999, Glen Grant, Obake Files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawai'I, Mutual Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 122:
text: "And he hide; da buggah wen hide; if you discovered by a nightmarcher, they take you, boy. So, folks, always watch da road. Go where it's safe." The haole couple next to me nervously chuckled. An understated fright.
ref: 2002, Rona Tamiko Halualani, In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 166:
text: Something from Irene's journals, about what to do if you happen across a nightmarcher on a moon-filled night.
ref: 2018, J. Lincoln Fenn, The Nightmarchers, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: In Hawaiian folklore, a ghost of an ancient Hawaiian warrior who marches together with other such ghosts on certain sacred nights from their burial sites or the ocean to the sites of ancient battles or sacred places.
nightmarchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightmarcher
Ridgemark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Benito County, California, United States.
Tres Pinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Benito County, California, United States.
Zamrock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzæmˌɹɑk/
Etymology: Blend of Zambia or Zambian + rock.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The rock and roll scene and associated style that originated in Zambia during the 70s.
rebatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebatments
Senses: glosses: A rotation of an orthographic view of a construction into the plane of another orthographic view along the line of intersections between the two planes.
rebatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebatment
Afrasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Asia and Africa, considered collectively.
Related terms: Afrasian
Afrasiatic
rebatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebat
rebatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebat
Faberry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Fabray + Berry.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, Faberry are the second most represented couple on the meme, however they still only represent 8.6% of all filled stories [Appendix 1].
ref: 2013 May, Hannah Ellison, “Submissives, Nekos and Futanaris: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Glee Kink Meme”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 10, number 1, page 115:
text: In doing so, the writers fail to create a suitable counterpart to Rachel Berry and the productive example the “Faberry” relationship could have provided is thwarted in favor of drama over boyfriends and tiaras.
ref: 2014, Kasey Butcher, “Gold Stars and Slushies: The High Cost for Overachieving Girls”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, page 195:
text: The way in which the Faberry fandom has taken what few obvious scenes of friendship the show has given them, and also reinterpreted other scenes between Faberry, displays just how important this couple has become to the fandom.
ref: 2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 40
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Quinn Fabray and Rachel Berry from the television series Glee.
peddleresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peddleress
reincision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reincisions
Etymology: From re- + incision.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent incision.
reincising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reincise
reincised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reincise
reincises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reincise
reincisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reincision
gonocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonocide
Bicolanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bicolana
kushtaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kushtaka
form: kushtakas
Etymology: From Tlingit kóoshdaakaa (“land-otter man”).
Senses: examples: text: Written by a non-native scholar, this book contains nine Tlingit and Haida tales concerned with shamans and kushtakas. Land otters were fearful hybrid beings of the spirit world. Able to live on land and in water, they had the special mission of ...
ref: 1994, Resources in Education, page 114:
text: Ordinarily they can't be seen at all, but sometimes kushtakas reveal themselves in elusive shadowy forms; sometimes they are only heard; sometimes the contaminated victim experiences their reality in the furriness of his own arms and legs ...
ref: 2003, Mary Giraudo Beck, Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural, Graphic Arts Books, →ISBN:
text: If a body could not be recovered and cremated, a drowning victim might become a kushtaka, a half-man, half-otter changeling that occupies the realm between life and death.
ref: 2010, Lynn Schooler, Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 20:
text: I learned that kushtakas “saved” drowned people by transforming them into their own kind. Most of the stories told of drowning victims who used their newly acquired supernatural powers to help their living relatives. That seemed pretty benign.
ref: 2010, Mark A. Zeiger, Shy Ghosts Dancing: Dark Tales from Southeast Alaska, Yeldagalga Publications LLC, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: A mythical part-otter, part-human shapeshifter, in Tlingit and Tsimshian folklore, sometimes represented as tricksters and at other times as helpful beings who save (and turn) drowning victims.
kushtakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kushtaka
Bikolana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bikolanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bicolana.
Bikolanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bikolana
Buffydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Buffy + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: On the many chatrooms dedicated to Buffydom, fans refer to it as "the incredible shrinking Buffy," most evident during the fighting sequences, when Sarah Michelle Gellar's stunt double (who actually has curves) switches off not-so-seamlessly with Gellar.
ref: 2002, Rachel Thompson, "Staking It To The Man", Herizons, Summer 2002, page 25
text: There are, however, strong roots in Valley Girl expressions and some slayer jargon has been established by both the show itself and the early years of Buffy'''dom online.
ref: 2013, Liz Medendorp, “Buffyspeak: The Internal and External Impact of Slayer Slang”, in Jennifer K. Stuller, editor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 67:
text: The current volume, however, is not only a major contribution to academic Buffydom.
ref: 2017, Anahid Kassabian, “Afterword”, in Paul Gregory Attinello, Janet K. Halfyard, Vanessa Knights, editors, Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 249:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fandom of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
examples: text: Is Tara the only human character in Buffydom who isn't an only child (not counting the special case of Dawn)?
ref: 2000 December 16, Jerry McLaughlin, “Family”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: If there is one thing that has been consistant^([sic]) in Buffydom, it is that revenge is not a good thing.
ref: 2003 March 26, Dan Armato, “Re: 7th Season Buffy - Lies My Parents Told Me - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: Dawn and the others, much like ants, are oblivious to reality and live in the miniscule^([sic]) world of Buffy'''dom (the kingdom of the Slayer), just as we might find ourselves marching like ants through our own lives in mindless routine.
ref: 2014, Lori M. Butler, “'The Ants Go Marching': Effective Lyrics in Buffy Episodes”, in Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford, editors, The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality, page 121:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Synonyms: sense: Buffy universe
word: Buffyverse
Hypernyms: sense: Buffy universe
word: Whedonverse
muzz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
Forms: form: muzzes
form: muzzing
form: muzzed
form: muzzed
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: MUZZ: To be studious. ‘I was muzzing up my Virgil.’
ref: 1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, “A Westminster Glossary”, in Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 230:
glosses: To study intently; to pore over.
examples: text: ‘If You but knew, cried I, to whom I am going to Night! and who I shall see to Night! – you would not dare keep me muzzing here!’
ref: 1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 105:
glosses: To hang around aimlessly; to loiter.
glosses: To make muzzy or hazy; to confuse.
muzzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muzz
procrusculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈkɹʌ.skjəl.əm/
Forms: form: procruscula
Etymology: From pro- (“before”) + Latin crusculum (“small leg or shank”), from diminutive of crūs (“leg, shank, shin”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The ambulatory buds of rediae.
plectranthadiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid present in Isodon rugosus (syn. Plectranthus rugosus)
plectranthoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid carboxylic acid present in Isodon rugosus (syn. Plectranthus rugosus).
pleotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pleiotropy.
plumbotectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plumbo- + tectonic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to plumbotectonics
gin and Frenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin and French
plumbotectonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plumbo- + tectonics.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of lead isotopes (and also those of uranium and thorium) by the recycling of rock between the crust and mantle
Related terms: plumbotectonic
gins and French
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin and French
NMSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Does NMSL repeal automatically raise the State's maximum speed limit to the pre-NMSL speed limit?
ref: 1995 December 29, “On The National Highway System Designation Act Of 1995”, in Federal Highway Administration:
text: The debate was dragged into the public and political arenas and the support and rationalizations for the 55-mph NMSL started to show serious flaws.
ref: 2005 December, “10th Anniversary of the Repeal of the 55 NMSL”, in National Motorists Association:
glosses: Initialism of national maximum speed limit (or speed law), a U.S. law in effect 1974-1995.
televidiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: televidiots
Etymology: Blend of television + idiot.
Senses: examples: text: Into the high-school classrooms troop the future engineers, scientists, lawyers, and intellectuals: but along with them shuffles a lackluster motley crew of hopeless nincompoops and televidiots.
ref: 1954, The Classical Journal, volumes 49–50, page 344:
text: If music on the radio is the stepchild of commercial considerations, on the other electronic medium—television—it's an absolute orphan. But if you're a confirmed televidiot, you should check in two places: WTTW (channel 11) carries NET programming, including some good (though very intermittent) classical music concerts; […]
ref: 1974, Sally Banes, Sheldon Frank, Tem Horwitz, Sweet Home Chicago: The Real City Guide, Chicago Review Press, page 83:
text: Radio interviews are the best and most productive publicity you can get. People who listen to radio listen to learn something, rather than be passively amused as televidiots do. Radio listeners buy books.
ref: 2002, Lily Splane, The Book Book: A Complete Guide to Creating a Book on Your Computer, San Diego, CA: Anaphase II Publishing, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: A person who is obsessed with watching television.
examples: text: The event is Remote Control, a year-old game show that has quickly become one of MTV's most popular half-hours. Its quizmaster is televidiot Ken Ober. Five feet to his right, ensconced in his keyboard setup and looking collegiate-cool in Blues Brothers shades, is musical director Steve Treccase […]
ref: 1988, Keyboard, volume 14, numbers 7–12, page 24:
text: Before the UK-IU game in Louisville on January 3rd, the televidiots came out with the line, "Two of the best coaches in the country, two of the best teams in the country, and two of the best players in the country -- we should see a wonderful game".
ref: 1993 January 4, Wes Morgan, “Kentucky over Indiana”, in rec.sport.baseball.college (Usenet):
glosses: A television personality.
televidiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of televidiot
Swan Queen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Swan + Queen, a combination of Emma Swan's surname and Regina Mills' title as the Evil Queen, likely chosen to reference the character in the ballet Swan Lake.
Senses: examples: text: Swan Queen fans argue that the show runners of OUAT use subtextual codes within canonical storylines in an effort to queerbait the show’s queer audience members.
ref: 2017, Shannon A. Suddeth, "(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the Once Upon a Time Queer Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page iii
text: […] for OUaT, the “Swan Queen” ship, pairing protagonist Emma Swan and evil queen Regina Mills, is one of the most dominant on Tumblr.
ref: 2018, Pauline Greenhill, “Cinematic”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page:
text: While not all queer female OUAT fans are SQ shippers, and other femslash ships do exist within the fandom, the Swan Queen fandom is the largest and most vocal femslash fandom (and possibly ship fandom in general) within the broader OUAT fandom and is the fandom SUAS is written about and for.
ref: 2019, Colleen E. Johnson, "Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 8
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Emma Swan and Regina Mills from the television series Once Upon a Time.
wikipedia: Evil Queen
Swan Lake
woolwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwʊlˈwɛə/
ipa: /ˌwʊlˈwɛɹ/
Etymology: From wool + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: If you are clad in soft, warm, absorbent woolwear designed for treedom of action there will be no discomfort to mar your thrill when you bag the buck of the season.
ref: 1929, Forest and Outdoors, volume 29, page 552:
text: And so one may re-read 'Epithalamion', observing that to put off bleached linen and woven woolwear and twiny boots is (even if comic) to shuffle off this mortal coil[…]
ref: 1973, Winifred Nowottny -, Hopkins's Language of Prayer & Praise, page 9:
text: The label has often collaborated with other designers, like Australian shoemaker Teva and American woolwear veteran Pendleton.
ref: 2018 April 1, Cristian Bonetto, Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Clothing made out of wool.
Synonyms: woolenwear
joint aspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint aspirations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of arthrocentesis.
synonyms: word: arthrocentesis
with all one's might
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Using as much strength and effort as possible.
Related terms: tooth and nail
might and main
horse and foot
with all one's heart
try as one might
polyarthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyarthroses
Etymology: From poly- + arthrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: polyarthropathy
hypernyms: arthropathy#Noun
arthrosis#Noun
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disease#Noun
disorder#Noun
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condition#Noun
glosses: Arthrosis of several joints.
polymetastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymetastases
Etymology: From poly- + metastasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of multiple metastases
Related terms: polymetastatic
polymetastases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymetastasis
polymetastatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + metastatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to polymetastasis
polyvesicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + vesicular.
Senses: glosses: Having, or involving many vesicles
posteroplantar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postero- + plantar.
Senses: glosses: posterior and plantar
posteroplantarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postero- + plantarly.
Senses: glosses: In a posteroplantar manner or direction
postvulval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + vulval.
Senses: glosses: posterior to the vulva
precuneiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cuneiform.
Senses: glosses: anterior to the cuneiform bone
glosses: Prior to the introduction of cuneiform writing
preimbibe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preimbibes
form: preimbibing
form: preimbibed
form: preimbibed
Etymology: From pre- + imbibe.
Senses: glosses: To imbibe prior to some other action
preimbibed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preimbibe
preimbibed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: imbibed prior to some other action
prelabral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + labral.
Senses: glosses: Anterior to the labrum