cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plainwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plain + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plainward.
planertree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planertrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planer tree.
planertrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planertree.
planetkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetkins
Etymology: From planet + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: A temporary fraction of this planetkin, the whole round of which is but a sand-grain in the all, its whole duration but a moment in eternity.
ref: 1881, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Reminiscences (page 23)
glosses: A small planet.
planetkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetkin.
planetabler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetablers
Senses: glosses: A surveyor who uses a plane table.
HM/DG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HM/DGs
Senses: examples: text: A five-day blitz of surprise inspections for 4,629 commercial vehicles transporting hazardous materials and dangerous goods revealed improper placarding as the top cause for violations issued, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance [CVSA] announced. Inspectors during a roadside initiative that ran June 9-13 across the United States and Canada discovered 1,169 HM/DG violations, of which 598, or 51%, were out-of-service violations. Forty-five jurisdictions — 35 states and all 10 Canadian provinces — participated in the inspection campaign, but the vast majority of vehicles inspected were in the U.S. In total, CVSA inspectors examined nearly 7,300 HM/DG packages across nine hazardous categories. […] “The transportation of HM/DG demands rigorous training and heightened compliance requirements. For motor carriers and drivers, safely transporting HM/DG is imperative to the safety of the driver, the public and the environment,” CVSA said. […] Inspections that uncovered any out-of-service [OOS] violations — including any not related to HM/DG cargo — resulted in trucks being restricted from further travel until those violations were addressed. Inspectors issued 20 OOS orders for HM/DG package integrity (leaking) violations. There are nine HM/DG categories that group a material’s specific chemical and physical properties, which also have different risks. For instance, Class 1 materials include ammunition, fireworks and flares. Class 2 is for gases, flammable/nonflammable oxygen and inhalation hazards. Class 4 contains flammable solids, while Class 7 encompasses radioactive materials.
ref: 2025 September 10, Noël Fletcher, “CVSA Hazmat Safety Blitz Snags Nearly 1,200 Violations. Improper Placarding Top Violation Among U.S. Trucks”, in Transport Topics:
synonyms: hazmat
glosses: Initialism of hazardous materials/dangerous goods.
planetablers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetabler.
plantdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plant + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of plants.
planterdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planter + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of planters (landowners).
plasmophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being plasmophagous.
Plasmon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A proprietary dried milk product used as a fortifying agent in biscuits.
plasmolyzable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: plasmolyze + -able
Senses: glosses: Capable of plasmolysis.
plasmolyzability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ability to undergo plasmolysis.
plasterwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plaster + -wise.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In the manner of a plaster.
platitudinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platitudinisms
Senses: glosses: The habitual usage of platitudes.
Related terms: platitudinist
platitudinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platitudinism.
platycephalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being platycephalic.
platycephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of platycephalism.
synonyms: word: platycephalism
Playmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Playmates
Senses: glosses: A woman who has appeared as the centerfold in Playboy magazine.
Playmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Playmate.
PMOTM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMOTMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Playmate of the Month.
PMOTY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMOTYs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Playmate of the Year.
plebianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plebianisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plebeianism.
plebianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebianism.
plemochoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plemochoes
Etymology: Ancient Greek πλημοχόη (plēmokhóē)
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek pottery vessel with a high foot supporting a wide bowl.
plemochoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plemochoe.
plenipotentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being plenipotential.
plenipotentiarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plenipotentiarily
form: most plenipotentiarily
Etymology: From plenipotentiary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a plenipotentiary manner.
pleiomastia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polymastia.
synonyms: word: polymastia
pleiomazia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polymastia.
synonyms: word: polymastia
baby cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby cages
Etymology: From baby + cage.
Senses: synonyms: health cage
glosses: A wire enclosure, often a bed, that is suspended from the window of an apartment building in order to provide the baby with access to fresh air and sunshine.
glosses: Synonym of playpen.
synonyms: word: playpen
baby cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby cage
pluckage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluck + -age.
Senses: examples: text: If no substitute for a goose-quill had been discovered, it is evident that the world could not have maintained a tithe of its present correspondence, unless geese and other fowls had been bred in extraordinary numbers for the pluckage of their wings.
ref: 1872, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round:
text: Jasper […] is playing guitar — what he terms the "pluckage" for a song he is recording on Garage Band. He adds drums, other percussion, and synthesizer. Next he records his voice, improvising funny lyrics.
ref: 2018, David Sheff, Beautiful Boy:
synonyms: plucking
glosses: The act of plucking.
plottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: plot + -ery
Senses: examples: text: The substance of your crooked plottery being nothing but forgery and swindle of my Civil Rites.
ref: 1940, Case and Comment, volumes 46-50, page 27:
glosses: The development of plots or schemes.
pough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poughs
form: pouge
form: powghie
form: poghe
Etymology: From Middle English pogh, powhe, from Old English pohha, a variant of pocca (“poke, bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokō, from Proto-Germanic *pukô (“bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to blow, swell”).
Senses: glosses: A bag.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A goitre.
pleurosteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the pleurosteon.
Gorgonzolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gorgonzola
plumagery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: plumage + -ery
Senses: glosses: The art of dressing and preparing ornamental feathers.
plumbership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plumber + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a plumber.
plumiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plumiform
form: most plumiform
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a feather.
Derived terms: plumiformly
plumiformly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plumiformly
form: most plumiformly
Etymology: plumiform + -ly
Senses: glosses: In a plumiform manner.
plumlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumlets
Senses: examples: text: This is the name given to the filaments which spring from each side of the stem of the peacock's tail features, and also to the plumlets of those of the ostrich.
ref: 1851, George Philip Rigney Pulman, The Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout, page 100:
text: […] plumlets white, margined by an indistinct black line; a white eyebrow, springing from the nostrils, mingles with these feathers at the back of the head; […]
ref: 1867, Edgar Leopold Layard, The Birds of South Africa, page 246:
glosses: Obsolete form of plumelet.
plumlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumlet.
plushette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plushettes
Etymology: plush + -ette
Senses: glosses: An imitation plush material.
plushettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plushette.
Plymouthite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Plymouthites
Etymology: From Plymouth + -ite.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative evangelical Christian movement.
Plymouthites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Plymouthite.
nuda scriptura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?] (literally “bare scripture”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The evangelical view that scripture is the only rule of faith, to the exclusion of all other sources.
Related terms: sola scriptura
saucelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sauceless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of sauce.
Tafarnaubach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Tredegar community, Blaenau Gwent borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1210).
pneumatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatists
Senses: glosses: A believer in pneumatism.
pneumatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatist.
tendrillessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tendrilless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being tendrilless, lacking tendrils.
pneumatocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pneumatocyst + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pneumatocyst.
tentacleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tentacle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without tentacles.
motorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motorless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a motor.
Podarge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ancient Greek Ποδάργη (Podárgē, literally “swift-foot”)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A harpy, a personification of a swift wind and the mate of Zephyrus.
grey divorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey divorces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gray divorce
pockweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of skunk cabbage (“Symplocarpus foetidus”).
synonyms: word: skunk cabbage
extra: Symplocarpus foetidus
grey divorces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey divorce.
podelcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Madura foot.
synonyms: word: Madura foot
poditti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an Australian Aboriginal language.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yellow-billed kingfisher (“Syma torotoro”).
synonyms: word: yellow-billed kingfisher
extra: Syma torotoro
pododynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of podalgia.
synonyms: word: podalgia
podomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Divination by examining the soles of the feet.
thronely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thronely
form: most thronely
Etymology: From throne + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, a throne.
kinkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kin + keeping. Coined by sociologist Carolyn Rosenthal in 1985.
Senses: examples: text: Kinkeeping, in most of the related research, has been defined as keeping in touch with family members and/or keeping family members in touch with one another. Occasionally, kinkeeping has been more broadly defined to include providing tangible assistance to family members (e.g. helping with tasks such as household chores), but this definition seems to broad.
ref: 2009, Harry T. Reis, Susan Sprecher, editors, Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 949:
glosses: The maintaining and strengthening of familial ties.
Related terms: kinkeeper
kinkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinkeepers
form: kin-keeper
Etymology: From kin + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: The men, in contrast, faced a "social penalty" after divorce, she says. This is because the wives were often the ‘kin-keepers’ in the marriage, meaning, they invested time and energy into their relationships with family and friends, whereas the husbands had relied on their wives to build their social lives.
ref: 2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC:
glosses: Someone doing kinkeeping.
kinkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinkeeper
kin-keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kin-keepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinkeeper
kin-keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kin-keeper
crosslessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crossless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a cross or crossing.
Quinsam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kʷənsəm
Senses: examples: text: Earlier this year, the Liǧʷiłdaxʷ Nations — which include the We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum and Kwiakah First Nations — submitted a proposal to the B.C. Geographical Names Office to restore the Indigenous names of Discovery Passage, the Quinsam River and Tyee Spit.
The changes would include:
Discovery Passage to Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ Passage (pronounced lee-gwith-dow)
Quinsam River to Kʷənsəm (pronounced quin-sam)
Tyee Spit to ʔuxstalis (pronounced oox-sta-lease)
ref: 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News:
glosses: A river in British Columbia, Canada.
Kʷənsəm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Earlier this year, the Liǧʷiłdaxʷ Nations — which include the We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum and Kwiakah First Nations — submitted a proposal to the B.C. Geographical Names Office to restore the Indigenous names of Discovery Passage, the Quinsam River and Tyee Spit.
The changes would include:
Discovery Passage to Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ Passage (pronounced lee-gwith-dow)
Quinsam River to Kʷənsəm (pronounced quin-sam)
Tyee Spit to ʔuxstalis (pronounced oox-sta-lease)
ref: 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News:
glosses: Alternative form of Quinsam.
cyanoticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyanotic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition or degree of being cyanotic.
treescaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From treescape + -ing or blend of tree + landscaping.
Senses: glosses: Tree-based landscaping.
glosses: The maintenance of a treescape.
re-partner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-partners
form: re-partnering
form: re-partnered
form: re-partnered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of repartner
Wilson Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The community of Wilson Creek, south of Sechelt, is to be called ts'uḵw'um, and Saltery Bay, east of Powell River, is now sḵelhp.
ref: 2021 August 19, “2 Indigenous place names restored on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast”, in CBC News:
glosses: A community in British Columbia, Canada.
Synonyms: english: Indigenous name
translation: Indigenous name
word: ts'uḵw'um
Saltery Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The community of Wilson Creek, south of Sechelt, is to be called ts'uḵw'um, and Saltery Bay, east of Powell River, is now sḵelhp.
ref: 2021 August 19, “2 Indigenous place names restored on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast”, in CBC News:
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada.
Synonyms: english: Indigenous name
translation: Indigenous name
word: sḵelhp
shíshálh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Shíshálh Chief Warren Paull says recognizing the original names of the area has great meaning to the community and it's one aspect of revitalizing their language. […] Lori Pratt, chair of the Sunshine Coast Regional District, says it celebrates the name changes and supports work to restore more shíshálh names in the region.
ref: 2021 August 19, “2 Indigenous place names restored on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast”, in CBC News:
glosses: Alternative form of Shishalh.
repartners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repartner
Məllas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Kwak'wala Məllas.
Senses: examples: text: I was born in 1953 to Məllas also known as Tom Smith, and Ǧʷəntilakʷ also known as May Smith, née Scow.
ref: 2017, Ǧʷixsisəlas (Emily Aitken), Qa xəns Nen̓akʷəlaʔinē (Found My Way of Going Home), University of Victoria, page 5:
glosses: A male given name from Kwakʼwala
Ǧʷəntilakʷ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Kwak'wala Ǧʷəntilakʷ.
Senses: examples: text: I was born in 1953 to Məllas also known as Tom Smith, and Ǧʷəntilakʷ also known as May Smith, née Scow.
ref: 2017, Ǧʷixsisəlas (Emily Aitken), Qa xəns Nen̓akʷəlaʔinē (Found My Way of Going Home), University of Victoria, page 5:
glosses: A female given name from Kwakʼwala
ts'uḵw'um
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The community of Wilson Creek, south of Sechelt, is to be called ts'uḵw'um, and Saltery Bay, east of Powell River, is now sḵelhp.
ref: 2021 August 19, “2 Indigenous place names restored on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast”, in CBC News:
glosses: Indigenous name of Wilson Creek, a community in British Columbia, Canada.
sḵelhp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The community of Wilson Creek, south of Sechelt, is to be called ts'uḵw'um, and Saltery Bay, east of Powell River, is now sḵelhp.
ref: 2021 August 19, “2 Indigenous place names restored on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast”, in CBC News:
glosses: Indigenous name of Saltery Bay, an unincorporated community in Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada.
Ǧʷixsisəlas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Kwak'wala Ǧʷixsisəlas.
Senses: examples: text: Hello everyone, I am Emily, also known as Ǧʷixsisəlas. I am from the Ławic̓is tribe, which is a part of what is referred to as the Kʷakʷakaw̓akʷ.
ref: 2017, Ǧʷixsisəlas (Emily Aitken), Qa xəns Nen̓akʷəlaʔinē (Found My Way of Going Home), University of Victoria, page 5:
glosses: A female given name from Kwakʼwala
Rhymney Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality next to Llechryd, Rhymney community, Caerphilly borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1009).
but that
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: After the master of the house found there was no remedy, but that he, his wife, and his children were to be locked up with this poor distempered servant[…]
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
glosses: Except that.
examples: text: He would be wholly a Christian, but that he is something of an atheist, and wholly an atheist, but that he is partly a Christian; and a perfect heretic, but that there are so many to distract him.
ref: 1628, John Earle, Microcosmography:
glosses: Were it not that.
examples: text: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
ref: 1611, “John 3:17”, in The Holy Bible, King James Version:
text: Here I found that the ship was bulged, and had a great deal of water in her hold, but that she lay so on the side of a bank of hard sand, or, rather earth, that her stern lay lifted up upon the bank, and her head low, almost to the water.
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe:
glosses: So that.
examples: text: […]the present is not so glorious but that I should not wish to dwell a little in the past.
ref: 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel:
glosses: Following not so, an elaboration of that.
pancakes and waffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Extrapolated from a tweet by Twitter user Coolee Bravo (@bravocoolee) in 2017. Formed by analogy with apples and oranges.
Senses: examples: text: i get your point but this is giving pancakes and waffles
ref: 2025 August 19, @mikeschmidtwife, Twitter (social media), archived from the original on 14 Sep 2025:
glosses: A response which misrepresents an opponent's argument, i.e., a straw man.
wikipedia: Twitter
Bastoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Bastøy.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of Bastoy is not to punish or seek revenge, Nilsen said.
ref: 2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN:
glosses: An island of Horten, Norway; the site of Bastoy Prison.
conceptums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceptum
Kvernvik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Kvernvik.
Senses: examples: text: “If we have created a holiday camp for criminals here, so what?” asked Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, the prison’s governor and a former minister and psychologist. He added, “We should reduce the risk of reoffending, because if we don’t, what’s the point of punishment, except for leaning toward the primitive side of humanity?”
ref: 2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
dekasegi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekasegis
form: dekasegi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese でかせぎ.
Senses: glosses: a Japanese descendant (chiefly from Brazil or Peru) who migrated to Japan, often through a work visa
orange site
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the orange site
Etymology: From the famous black-and-orange color scheme of the website. May be used euphemistically or to avoid censors.
Senses: examples: text: The orange site being mentioned on this channel caught me off guard.
qualifier: filter avoidance
glosses: Pornhub.
parrot-fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parrot fashion.
CVSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A five-day blitz of surprise inspections for 4,629 commercial vehicles transporting hazardous materials and dangerous goods revealed improper placarding as the top cause for violations issued, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance [CVSA] announced. Inspectors during a roadside initiative that ran June 9-13 across the United States and Canada discovered 1,169 HM/DG violations, of which 598, or 51%, were out-of-service violations. Forty-five jurisdictions — 35 states and all 10 Canadian provinces — participated in the inspection campaign, but the vast majority of vehicles inspected were in the U.S. In total, CVSA inspectors examined nearly 7,300 HM/DG packages across nine hazardous categories.
ref: 2025 September 10, Noël Fletcher, “CVSA Hazmat Safety Blitz Snags Nearly 1,200 Violations. Improper Placarding Top Violation Among U.S. Trucks”, in Transport Topics:
topics: road
transport
glosses: Initialism of Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.
Big G
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From God.
Senses: examples: text: I like to the think that Big G just gave him the greatest luck in the world because of how he survived that incident.
antonyms: little g
glosses: The monotheistic God.
Related terms: big kahuna
tagelmusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagelmust
Vaidehi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वैदेही (vaidehī).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
SIGAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
shoeies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoey
Israel proper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The vast majority of Palestinian detainees from the West Bank are incarcerated in prison facilities that are inside Israel proper.
ref: 2024 March 21, Isaac Chotiner, quoting Tal Steiner, “The Brutal Conditions Facing Palestinian Prisoners”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2024:
glosses: The State of Israel, excluding territories captured during the Six-Day War or afterwards.
Related terms: China proper
sockies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sockie
putz around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: putzes around
form: putzing around
form: putzed around
form: putzed around
Senses: examples: text: Just shut up and get in the truck! You putz around worse than a ninety-year-old woman!
ref: 2002, Edward Lee, chapter 8, in Monstrosity, Abingdon, Md.: Cemetery Dance Publications, →ISBN, section II, page 181:
text: “She used to be in her garden all the time,” [Barbara] Szczecina said. “They were always together, putzing around outside.”
ref: 2015 April 7, Kashmira Gander, “Michael Juskin: 100-year-old man ‘kills wife with axe in murder-suicide attack’”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2015:
text: “I was thinking, this will be a nice, quiet week to myself,” Mr. [William Howard] Critzman said. “I’ll can tomatoes and read and putz around.”
ref: 2019 September 7, Tammy La Gorce, “Two ‘Nice, Quiet’ Vacations Upended by the Dogs”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2019:
glosses: To waste time.
putzes around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of putz around
putzing around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of putz around
putzed around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of putz around
Boiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: boiʹkô
enpr: boiʹkō
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɔː/
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkəʊ/
Forms: form: Boiky
form: Boikos
form: Boyko
Etymology: From Ukrainian бо́йко (bójko).
Senses: glosses: Any member of an ethnolinguistic group native to the Carpathians’ Eastern Beskyds who speak a dialect of Rusyn and are thought to descend from the White Croats.
Boiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: boiʹkô
enpr: boiʹkō
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɔː/
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkəʊ/
Forms: form: Boyko
Etymology: From Ukrainian бо́йко (bójko).
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Rusyn spoken natively by Boiky.
Related terms: Cossack
Hutsul
Lemko
Litvin
Podlashuk
Podolian
Polishchuk
Ruthene
Ukrainian
Boiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: boiʹkô
enpr: boiʹkō
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɔː/
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkəʊ/
Forms: form: Boyko
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Бо́йко (Bójko).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Бо́йко (Bójko)
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Бо́йко (Bójko)
Dmytro Viktorovych Boiko (born 1986), Ukrainian sabre fencer
noobishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noobish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When I first joined, I skulked for the first few days. I was scared of posting just in case I got scolded for my noobishness.
ref: 2006 Christmas, Jamie G, “Letters”, in Jamie Sefton, editor, PC Zone, number 175, London: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 4:
text: I mean, I started out like always: the period I like to think of as the Never-ending Era of Pathetic Noobishness, where I eat lunch on my own, and sit in class on my own, and discover that someone has stapled a dissected frog to my backpack so I m going to be known as Frog Girl till we leave on my own.
ref: 2009, Susie Day, “Recipe for a Heidi”, in My Invisible Boyfriend, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Noobishness runs in her blood, Breeze says. There’s no changing that. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. We just have to accept it.
ref: 2015, Cube Kid [pseudonym; Eric Gunnar Taylor], “Wednesday—Update VI”, in Path of the Diamond (Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior; 4), Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, published 2017, →ISBN, page 168:
synonyms: noobiness
glosses: The quality of being noobish.
newbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newbish
form: most newbish
Etymology: From newb + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I have a big HD disk partitioned as all DOS. It's mostly empty. I want to repartition it with a 100meg Linux partition. Do I ahve^([sic]) to zap what dos stuff I have on it or can I "shrink" the DOS part somwhow?^([sic])
ref: 1993 February 4, David Glen Jacobowitz, “Newbish question :”, in comp.os.linux (Usenet), archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025:
text: The following list includes some of the most commonly used code. […] Hopefully, this list will help you be less newbish and on the road to understanding another communication method.
ref: 2007 June 10, Ann-Marie Berg, “IMO, parents need to catch up on Net lingo”, in The Gazette, volume 125, number 152, Cedar Rapids, Ia.: Gazette Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2L, column 6:
text: At the end, it said, “Are you interested in acting in machinima? Contact Laurina Hawks.” And so I did! I mean little newbish me, just all the moxy in the world, just like, “Yeah! I’m gonna contact this director! I would like to be in a machinima!”
ref: 2012, 1angelcares Writer [pseudonym], “The Voices of Machinima”, in Phylis Johnson, Donald Petti, Machinima: The Art and Practice of Virtual Filmmaking, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 118:
text: She’d lost everything save her life in one fell swoop. Her food, her potions and her weapons -⁠- all gone. She thought it best to at least see if she could salvage any of her lost possessions. She spent a great deal of time looking at the map prior to stepping into the clearing. This perhaps was her first real mistake earlier in the day, a truly newbish error.
ref: 2020 February 14, Black Lyte [pseudonym], “A Gift of Savagery”, in Don’t F*ck with the Healer! (Vanta Fantasies; 2), ASIN B084TS14PL:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a newb.
Related terms: noobish
Duranee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Duranees
form: Duranee
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Durrani (“member of Sarbani Pashtun tribal confederation”).
Duranees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Duranee.
Duranis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Durani.
hip cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip cats
Senses: examples: text: “Every hip cat had a union jack bed spread, a union jack on the wall, bands draped them over their amplifiers and made jackets out of them – part of the reason for that was there were so many flags after the war,” said Groom.
ref: 2025 September 14, Daniel Boffey, quoting Nick Groom, “Racism or celebration? What England’s flag-hoisters are saying – and what others are hearing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of hepcat
hip cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip cat
union jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union jacks
Senses: examples: text: “Every hip cat had a union jack bed spread, a union jack on the wall, bands draped them over their amplifiers and made jackets out of them – part of the reason for that was there were so many flags after the war,” said Groom.
ref: 2025 September 14, Daniel Boffey, quoting Nick Groom, “Racism or celebration? What England’s flag-hoisters are saying – and what others are hearing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Union Jack
elf-maiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elf-maidens
Etymology: From elf + maiden.
Senses: examples: text: “There upon the hill, close by the wood, did I act the elf-maiden,” said Sophie.
ref: 1845, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Mary Howitt, Only a Fiddler! and O.T., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 298:
text: That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white,
“Sorrow and sickness on thee alight”
That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small,
“No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
ref: 1847 September 11, William J. Thoms, “The Folk-lore of Shakespeare”, in The Athenaeum, London, page 958, column 1:
glosses: elfmaid, a female elf.
elf-maidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elf-maiden
union jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of union jack
video installation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video installations
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: a contemporary art form in which moving-images are projected or displayed within a physical space, integrated with its architecture or environment, so that viewers move through or interact with the work and thus become part of the artistic experience
hyperopization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyperopia + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The development of hyperopia.
hemeralope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemeralopes
Senses: glosses: One who has hemeralopia.
Big Crypto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big crypto
Treby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
no doi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no duh
Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Kwak'wala Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ (NAPA spelling).
Senses: examples: text: As part of our ongoing efforts to share Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ history and support meaningful community engagement, we are pleased to announce an upcoming presentation led by Dr. Deidre Cullon.
ref: 2025 April 10, “Learn About Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ History with Dr. Deidre Cullon”, in Wei Wai Kum Treaty:
glosses: NAPA spelling of Lekwiltok.
Liq̓ʷala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Kwak'wala Liq̓ʷala (“NAPA”).
Senses: examples: text: In Liq̓ʷala, the word Liǧwiłdax̌w refers to a large sea worm that cannot be easily killed. If it is cut up, the separate pieces survive and will swim away. The term therefore means “unkillable thing” [...].
ref: 2022-2024, “About”, in Wei Wai Kum Treaty:
glosses: NAPA spelling of Liq’wala.
Lik̓ʷala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Likʷala
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Kwak'wala Lik̓ʷala (“NAPA”).
Senses: examples: text: The Kʷak̓ʷala and Lik̓ʷala bilingual program is a district program housed in Ripple Rock Elementary aimed to develop Kʷak̓ʷala and Lik̓ʷala bilingual speakers.
ref: 2025, “Kʷak̓ʷala & Lik̓ʷala Bilingual K-5”, in Campbell River School District 72:
glosses: NAPA spelling of Liq’wala.
Liq’wala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liḵ̕wala
form: Lik̓ʷala
form: Likʷala
form: Liq̓ʷala
Etymology: Borrowed from Kwak'wala Liq̓ʷala (NAPA spelling).
Senses: examples: text: There are 61 students in Ripple Rock Elementary’s Kwak̓wala Liq̓ʷala Bilingual program.
ref: 2024, 2024 Campbell River’s Vital Signs, Campbell River Community Foundation, page 15:
glosses: Language of the Liqwiltokw, dialect of Kwakʼwala.
Liḵ̕wala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Kwak'wala liḵ̕wala (U'mista spelling).
Senses: examples: text: There are five dialects (Kwak̕wala, Liḵ̕wala, T̓łat’ła̱sḵwa̱la, ‘Nak̕wala, and Gut̕sala; [...]) across twenty Nations. Kwak̕wala has been the term used to describe the language as a whole, although this practice is slowly changing to more accurately reflect the dialect differences between Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw communities.
ref: 2020, Keisha Everson, “Da̱nx̱a̱laga̱litła̱n’s ‘We Will Sing in the House’: Reclaiming Domains of the Home Through Song in Kwak̓wala”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), University of Victoria:
glosses: U'mista spelling of Liq’wala.
Bakʷəmk̓ala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala
form: Bak̓ʷəmgala
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Kwak'wala bakʷəmk̓ala (NAPA).
Senses: examples: text: Kʷak̓ʷala was my first language but after 40 years of not using it very much, I worked to relearn Kʷak̓ʷala when I joined the community driven language group Bakʷəmk̓ala where I first learned to read and write Kʷak̓ʷala in 2001.
ref: 2025, “Board of Directors”, in The Language Conservancy Canada, retrieved 15 Sep 2025:
glosses: Kwak'wala (in the broad sense)
subtles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subtle
subtling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subtle
subtled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subtle
Sticklepath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A western suburb of Barnstaple, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5532).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in West Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6494).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Combe St Nicholas parish, south Somerset (OS grid ref ST3012).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Old Cleeve parish, west Somerset (OS grid ref ST0436).
Lucraft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hoplitodromos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoplitodromoi
Etymology: Ancient Greek ὁπλιτόδρομος (hoplitódromos)
Senses: synonyms: hoplitodromia
glosses: An ancient footrace, part of the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games, run while wearing a hoplite's heavy armour and shield.
hoplitodromia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hoplitodromos.
synonyms: word: hoplitodromos
hoplitodromoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoplitodromos.
engineered spaceship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engineered spaceships
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any spaceship, often a large one, made of discrete parts that is designed through human effort, often through the aid of computer programs, as opposed to one that may emerge naturally from a soup or a similar random pattern, or a large artificial one that cannot be usefully analyzed as having discrete parts, such as Sir Robin or the Turtle.
Cordership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Corderships
Etymology: Named after Charles Corderman, who discovered the switch engine in 1971.
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A class of engineered spaceships in Conway's Game of Life based on the switch engine that move at a speed of c/12 diagonally.
Nordhaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Nordhausian
North Rhine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Derived terms: North Rhine-Westphalia
hoplomachoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoplomachos.
TISO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TISOs
Senses: hypernyms: ISO
glosses: Initialism of technical information security officer.
auspication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auspications
Senses: examples: text: [This] auspication contradicts the typical character of Roman auspications as yes / no inquiries and the typical reference of an auspication to a single day.
ref: 1998, Roberta Stewart, Public Office in Early Rome: Ritual Procedure and Political Practice, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 41:
text: ... auspication of a different kind. He pointed out that "to have the auspices" meant the active possibility to […] auspication which always applied to all assemblies. The observation of the flight of birds was a type of[…]
ref: 2014 July 14, William McCuaig, Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 208:
text: ... auspication begun at night could continue into the day. Other kinds of auspices could be received at, or after, dawn: for example, Livy imagines a dictator watching for the signal of favourable signs ex avibus from augurs on the[…]
ref: 2019 March 7, Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: Divination by birds; auspice.
auspications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auspication
BISO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BISOs
Senses: hypernyms: ISO
glosses: Initialism of business information security officer.
sphaeraphis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphaeraphides
Etymology: Derived from Latin sphaera + Ancient Greek ῥαφίς (rhaphís).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A spherical aggregation of raphides in a plant cell
sphaeraphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphaeraphis
Western Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Another striking peculiarity of the land beyond Jordan is its fine water supply as contrasted with Western Palestine, especially with the upper lands of Judæa.
ref: 1883, Claude Reignier Conder, Heth and Moab: Explorations in Syria in 1881 and 1882, Richard Bentley and Son, page 123:
synonyms: West Palestine
glosses: A region located in the area between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean sea (Cisjordan), usually contrasted with Eastern Palestine (Transjordan).
raw_tags: since 1920
Vican
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vicans
Etymology: Various etymologies, including:
* Serbo-Croatian Vican
* Serbo-Croatian Vićan
* Czech and Slovak Vičan
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lalbagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi लालबाग़ (lālbāġ).
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Eastern Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Dohnens still abound in various parts of Eastern Palestine, and though few now remain west of the Jordan it is probable that there were formerly as many in the one division of the country as the other.
ref: 1912, R[obert] A[lexander] S[tewart] Macalister, A History of Civilization in Palestine, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 17:
synonyms: East Palestine
glosses: A region located in the area between the Jordan river and the Arabian Desert to the east (Transjordan), usually contrasted with Western Palestine (Cisjordan).
raw_tags: since 1920
wikipedia: Mandate for Palestine
Han Solos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Han Solo
Aminabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi अमीनाबाद (amīnābād).
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Kwakʼwala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kwak̓wala
Senses: glosses: A language spoken by the Kwakwaka'wakw people around Queen Charlotte Strait in Western Canada.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kwak'wala terms
Kwak̓wala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There are 61 students in Ripple Rock Elementary’s Kwak̓wala Liq̓ʷala Bilingual program.
ref: 2024, 2024 Campbell River’s Vital Signs, Campbell River Community Foundation, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of Kwakʼwala.
Husainganj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हुसैनगंज (husaingañj).
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
West Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Between the two parallel ranges of mountains now described, or between East and West Palestine, flows the River Jordan, whose channel forms one of the most remarkable features, not only of this country, but of the whole face of the globe.
ref: 1875, Herbert W. Morris, Present Conflict of Science With the Christian Religion, Philadelphia, P.A.: P. W. Ziegler & Co.; Cincinnati, O.H., Chicago, I.L., St. Louis, M.O.: J. C. McCurdy & Co., page 602:
glosses: Synonym of Western Palestine
synonyms: word: Western Palestine
raw_tags: since 1920
Husainabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हुसैनाबाद (husainābād).
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Híɫzaqv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Heiltsuk Híɫzaqv.
Senses: examples: text: The lawsuit says this had led to “an atmosphere of fear and lawlessness” on reserve that put members’ safety at risk.
It further states that the case has broader implications around whether “Canada” respects Híɫzaqv jurisdiction on their own territories.
ref: 2025 February 28, David P. Ball, “Híɫzaqv leaders take RCMP to court, say police discriminate against the nation’s laws”, in IndigiNews:
glosses: Alternative form of Heiltsuk.
Phenicia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the west, moreover, as we have seen, he crushed Damascus, and forced Phenicia, Edom, the kingdom of Israel, and "Palestine" or Philistia, to continue the tribute they had agreed to pay Shalmaneser II.
ref: 1882, [John] Cunningham Geikie, Hours With the Bible, or, The Scriptures in the Light of Modern Discovery and Knowledge, third edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 184:
glosses: Dated spelling of Phoenicia
Kheri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi खीरी (khīrī).
Senses: glosses: Kheri (a town and tehsil in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, India).
Hardoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हरदोई (hardoī).
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Lucknow division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Le Quesnoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France, south-east of Valenciennes.
Arabian Desert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Arabian Desert
Senses: glosses: A large desert covering most of the Arabian Peninsula.
putz round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: putzes round
form: putzing round
form: putzed round
form: putzed round
Senses: glosses: Synonym of putz around
synonyms: word: putz around
flounce out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flounces out
form: flouncing out
form: flounced out
form: flounced out
Senses: examples: text: In 1946, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established to regulate whale stocks and “make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry”. It attempted to impose quotas and move the industry toward something more sustainable. This proved difficult, so the IWC simply gave up and imposed a moratorium on whaling altogether. Some countries flounced out in a huff; others had never joined in the first place.
ref: 2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To leave dramatically and angrily.
IWC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This proved difficult, so the IWC simply gave up and imposed a moratorium on whaling altogether.
ref: 2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of International Whaling Commission.
engine knock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun