cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dick down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dicks down
form: dicking down
form: dicked down
form: dicked down
Senses: examples: text: But whether Angel dicked her down while he had a chick was the least of Dylan's worries. Any fantasy or hope that her pregnancy would somehow bring them back together had diminished as soon as Milania opened her big mouth.
ref: 2011, Keisha Ervin, Material Girl 2:
text: The extra two hours bought me some time to freak out and perform the fine feminine art of speed-cleaning your apartment the way you only do when you’re expecting to get dicked down in it.
ref: 2024 September 5, Serena Sterling, “I Hooked Up With My Favorite Comedian in the Parking Lot Outside His Show”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
glosses: To sexually penetrate.
pigeon English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pidgin English.
doughies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doughy
chinthes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinthe
chinzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinze
Etrulia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
rural coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rural coaches
Senses: glosses: A private tutor not connected with a college.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rural, coach.
Related terms: rusticate
rural coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rural coach
monniker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monnikers
Senses: glosses: Dated form of moniker.
monnikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monniker
off the horn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: […] the butcher's joint of beef was undoubtedly a cut off the horn.
ref: 1955, Helen Ostler Wilson, Land of My Children, page 5:
glosses: Used to describe very hard steak, as though cut from the horn of the animal.
an old dog for a hard road
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: It takes an experienced person to execute a difficult undertaking.
Edgeley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8889).
glosses: A hamlet in Whitchurch Rural parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5540).
glosses: A minor city in LaMoure County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A community in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.
cakeists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakeist
push-penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shove ha'penny.
synonyms: word: shove ha'penny
dick up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dicks up
form: dicking up
form: dicked up
form: dicked up
Senses: examples: text: Just because we had a deadbeat father who dicked up our childhood doesn't mean you have to micromanage every waking minute of Franklin's
ref: 2012, Julie Ann Walker, Rev It Up:
text: He's here to make sure us local woodchucks don't dick it up
ref: 2014, Tom Bouman, Dry Bones in the Valley: A Henry Farrell Novel:
synonyms: cock up
fuck up
glosses: To ruin; to spoil
social services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Grace and her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their hardscrabble childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to one side of the continent, Gilbert to the other.
ref: 2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club:
glosses: A government-run program meant to benefit society as a whole, with a particular view to the less economically fortunate.
T4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiː ˈfɔː/
ipa: /ˌti ˈfɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: T4s
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of thyroxine.
Related terms: T3
actornaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actornauts
Etymology: Blend of actor + astronaut.
Senses: examples: text: HJP (“Douglas”) Arnold has expressed the regret that there was only one distant shot of Neil Armstrong near the LM. […] How could Armstrong forget, what about the list of assignments, the mission timeline? Or was he not there? And if he was not there, then was there an actornaut or A N Other astronaut in that pressurised suit?
ref: 1999, Mary Bennett, David S. Percy, “Photo Call”, in Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers, Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 49:
text: The reality of the ISS is that its a giant hoax!!! […] But one of the more hilarious aspects of these NASA videos has got to be the constantly incomprehensible NASA jargon the actornauts use to communicate with Houston (and with each other).
ref: 2013 November 6, Warhol, “Not working rockets!!! Fake Satellites!!! Fake Astronauts!!! Fake Moon Images!!!Fake Mars rover!!! Its all Fake fake fake”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):
text: The cattle mutilations continued and people in the area wrote to Senator Harrison Schmitt's (former Apollo astronot/actornaut), which eventually resulted in a mutilation conference being held in the Albuquerque Public Library on April 20, 1979.
ref: 2019, Andrew Johnson, Acknowledged: A Perspective on the Matters of UFOs, Aliens and Crop Circles, [self-published], →ISBN, page unknown:
text: A group of fans calling themselves the Flat Hearts has gleefully run with the terraplanismo theme, confecting a whole songbook of chants in double-quick time. […] Another casts doubt on the moon landings, describing “actornauts” suspended on NASA wires.
ref: 2019 September 6, Jack Lang, “World of Football: Flat Earth FC seek to broaden their horizons”, in The Athletic:
synonyms: astronot
glosses: A person who is claimed to be an astronaut, in the context of conspiracy theories that claim that some or all travel into outer space is faked.
trailbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trailbreaks
form: trailbreaking
form: trailbroke
form: trailbroke
Senses: examples: text: The reduction in lake accesses would encourage offroad drivers to trailbreak their own roads, and the rate of soil damage would increase from its present level of 30 to 40 acres per year.
ref: 1985, Lake Mead National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan, volume 2, United States National Park Service:
text: Blake, Yeats, and Graves have pioneered this path in modern times and W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin trailbreaks it now.
ref: 1999, Reuel Denney, Feast of Strangers: Selected Prose and Poetry of Reuel Denney:
glosses: To establish a trail for the first time.
Related terms: trailbreaking
trailbroke
trailbroken
trailbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trailbroke
form: most trailbroke
Senses: examples: text: And that yellow horse ain't what you can call trail[-]broke.
ref: 1913, B. M. Bower, The Gringos: A Story of the Old California Days in 1849, page 336:
text: It would take a few days of driving before they could be called trailbroke.
ref: 1982, Robert Vaughn Bell, Feud at Devil's River, page 159:
synonyms: trailbroken
glosses: Acclimated to being on a trail.
raw_tags: of livestock
trailbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trailbreak
trailbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trailbreak
millinillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Forms: form: millinillions
Senses: examples: text: Recognised extensions to the standard dictionary names go up to a millinillion, 10³⁰⁰³.
ref: 2014, Ian Stewart, Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries:
text: When I say could, it is because we have a defensive perimeter, but now many hours could my few sextillion nanobots resist to the famished appetite of millinillions of attackers—a millinillion is of course one with three thousand zeros behind it.
ref: 2016, Patrick Faure, Anton Müller:
text: Suggesions for extending the named lead to millinillion, which is 10³⁰⁰³.
ref: 2017, Ian Stewart, Infinity: A Very Short Introduction, page 20:
text: With such a constellation, we, which is to say our visible universe(s), are sitting on an energy bomb millinillion times more powerful in each piece of Planck volume than our whole universe could bring together.
ref: 2024, Norbert Schwarzer, Quantum Gravity War: How Will the Nearby Unification of Physics Change the Future of Warfare, page 177:
qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10³⁰⁰³.
Synonyms: millillion
trailbroken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trailbroken
form: most trailbroken
Senses: examples: text: Still , a sandstorm at night , with a herd that wasn't trailbroken and a green crew of men, was not going to be anything to look forward to.
ref: 1994, Larry McMurtry, Three Bestselling Novels, page 187:
synonyms: trailbroke
glosses: Acclimated to being on a trail.
raw_tags: of livestock
trailbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Because of the demands of trailbreaking, however, it does not generally happen in snowshoeing.
ref: 1998, Larry Oldsted, Snowshoeing: A Trailside Guide, page 73:
text: The teams will be following the Old Mail Trail, which a local trailbreaking team will need to reestablish ahead of the teams, bringing them to the backside of White Mountain.
ref: 2020 March 21, Beth Bragg, “After getting stopped by icy overflow, Iditarod’s ‘Elim 11’ is back on the trail and headed for White Mountain”, in Anchorage Daily News:
glosses: The establishment of a trail for the first time.
trailbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trailbreak
Related terms: trail braking
three squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Out there in Breughel, N.D., surrounded by an ocean of durum wheat, we got three squares a day, piled our plates and cried Yes! to seconds.
ref: 1983 February 2, Garrison Keillor, “A Return to Basics: Mealtime without Guilt”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jan 2021:
text: "We have a more than 50 per cent market share in the US and there is room to grow, especially internationally," said Frito-Lay Vice President, Lynn Markley. "People are beginning to snack more instead of having their old three squares a day."
ref: 1999 July 20, David Usborne, “Corporate Profile: The Pepsi regeneration”, in Independent, retrieved 04 Jan 2021:
text: Kay, 79, who lives in Philadelphia's Society Hill Towers, has completely forsaken the conventional three squares a day. Instead, he eats 15 to 20 times a day, grazing and nibbling in the manner of our ancestors.
ref: 2010 October 25, Art Carey, “Constant eating helps senior lose weight”, in The Star, retrieved 04 Jan 2021:
glosses: Three square meals, understood as a complete, satisfying, and nourishing regimen of food taken over the course of a day.
slickstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪkˌstəʊn/
ipa: /ˈslɪkˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: slickstones
Etymology: A variant of sleekstone; equivalent to slick + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Take a Sheet of Lead, and have a piece of Lead made like a Slickſtone; then betvveen them tvvo grind vvhite Lead and Sallet-Oil till 'tis very fine, put it in a Gallipot for uſe.
ref: 1729, E[liza] S[mith], “Medicines and Salves. [Another for the Same [Piles]]”, in The Compleat Housewife: Or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion: […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Pemberton, […], →OCLC, page 286:
text: Fig. 133 represents a white marble slickstone or smoothing implement of altogether different pattern from any previously described[…]
ref: 1881, Charles Conrad Abbott, Primitive Industry: Or, Illustrations of the Handiwork, in Stone, Bone and Clay […] , Salem, Mass.: George A. Bates, page 144:
text: Rounded stone and glass objects with fine radiating scratches on one surface represent the slickstones that were used in garment-making and laundry, to smooth the cloth and to press seams and pleats.
ref: 2020 January 31, Penelope Walton Rogers, “Textile networks in Viking-age towns of Britain and Ireland”, in Stephen P. Ashby, Søren Sindbæk, editors, Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Synonym of sleekstone.
synonyms: word: sleekstone
slickstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slickstone
slime lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slime lilies
Senses: examples: text: Bulbous plants are not particularly common along the coast, but the bright scarlet-flowered Rat's-Tail Babiana (Babiana ringens) is always seen in this sandy bush country which also abounds with blue- and white-flowered Hottentot Nut (Moraea fugax), and the strange-looking slime lilies, of which the Sandveld Slime Lily (Albuca fragrans) and Common Slime Lily (A . flaccida) are most common.
ref: 2000, Peter Goldblatt, Wildflowers of the Fairest Cape: The Wildflowers of the Western Cape, South Africa:
text: Distinguished from other slimelilies by the conspicuous warts at the base of the stem.
ref: 2008, John C. Manning, Namaqualand:
text: Flowers of the African hyacinth genus Albuca (slime lilies) have long intrigued plant reproductive biologists on account of their tightly closed inner tepals with apices covered in papillae.
ref: 2012 August 1, SD Johnson, “Pollination function transferred: modified tepals of Albuca (Hyacinthaceae) serve as secondary stigmas”, in Annals of Botany, volume 110, number 3, page 565:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Albuca, mainly occurring in Africa.
slime lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slime lily
amidotrizoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.ɪd.oʊˌtɹaɪˌzoʊ.ɪk ˈæs.ɪd/
rhymes: -æsɪd
Forms: form: diatrizoic acid
Etymology: From amido + tri(iodo) + (ben)zoic acid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The conjugate acid of sodium amidotrizoate
Derived terms: amidotrizoate
sodium amidotrizoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsoʊ.di.əm ˌæm.ɪd.oʊˌtɹaɪˈzoʊˌeɪt/
Forms: form: sodium diatrizoate
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A salt C₁₁H₉I₃N₂NaO₄ (trademark Hypaque, Gastrografin, Urografin) administered in solution as a radiopaque medium for various forms of radiographic diagnosis.
psychic photography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "You'll find it very instructive, Malone, as bearing upon psychic photography and other matters."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: spirit photography
spirit photography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The purported art of taking photographs of the spirits of dead people, other spiritual entities, ectoplasm, auras, and the like; a common practice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially using black-and-white photography and the technique of double exposure.
breakfast tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfast trays
Senses: examples: text: At the moment of our inopportune, but invisible, visit he was sitting up, propped by the pillows, with a breakfast-tray upon his knees.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A small, lightweight tray with a low rail around the edge used to carry a breakfast meal, sometimes utilised as a serving tray for someone in bed.
breakfast trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakfast tray
landfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlandˌfəʊk/
ipa: /ˈlændˌfoʊk/
Etymology: Calque of Middle English lond folk or Old English landfolc.
Senses: examples: text: […]and I should be happy to know that my homely strains might have at all refined it among the landfolk of my own county, or any other[…]
ref: 1870, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect; Third Collection, 2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, page iii:
text: When the landfolk of Galway converse with a stranger, / softly the men speak, more softly the women, / light words on their lips, and an accent that sings.
ref: 1944, William Bedell Stanford, “Undertone”, in Donagh MacDonagh, editor, Poems from Ireland, Dublin: Hely's Limited:
text: The landfolk of the region had that day brought to the revolutionary court of judgment a young man of handsome and frank countenance.
ref: 1963, Pearl Buck, The Living Reed, New York: John Day Co., →OCLC:
glosses: The inhabitants of a region, especially if native.
wolf up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wolfs up
form: wolfing up
form: wolfed up
form: wolfed up
Senses: examples: text: If he can stick to vegetables, too, he's all the better, but I can't preach that while I am wolfin' up ham and eggs.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which the Reader is Shown the Habits of a Notorious Criminal”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 100:
glosses: To wolf down; to eat voraciously.
Bradburys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bradbury
play up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays up to
form: playing up to
form: played up to
form: played up to
Senses: glosses: To try to gain favour with by flattery.
sandcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandcorns
Etymology: From Middle English *sandcorn, from Old English sandcorn, from Proto-West Germanic *sandakorn, from Proto-Germanic *samdakurną, equivalent to sand + corn. Cognate with Dutch zandkoren, German Sandkorn, Swedish sandkorn, Icelandic sandkorn.
Senses: examples: text: […] overflowing all with golden splendour, gilding mountains, trees, and grass, making all flowers glow in brilliant colours, throwing bright sparks upon each sandcorn, and causing golden waves to roll in the river of the plain.
ref: 1857, Oriental Fairy Tales, page 304:
glosses: A grain of sand
examples: text: It was the tradition of image-making which carried in its stream, as it were, those indispensable sandcorns of tasks.
ref: 2006, E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art: Pocket Edition, page 460:
glosses: Anything causing irritation or discomfort.
levalto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levaltoes
Senses: examples: text: Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes
ref: 1631, Ben Jonson, Chloridia:
glosses: volta (a kind of dance)
turning up one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn up one's nose
turns up one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn up one's nose
turned up one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn up one's nose
ferenghi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferenghis
form: ferenghies
form: Ferenghi
Etymology: In The Journeyer (2010, page 344), Gary Jennings speculates that this word is derived from Frank—Mongols heard westerners call themselves Franks during the Mongol invasion of Europe, and since then the Mongols called any white westerner a Ferenghi regardless of nationality. "Ferenghi" has also been used in the same manner by Turks, Persians, Afghans, Indians and Arabs. See Arabic إِفْرَنْجِيّ (ʔifranjiyy) and Persian فرنگی (farangi).
Senses: examples: text: The appearance of Ferenghi ladies in the Holy City will be an innovation that will fairly eclipse the introduction of the bicycle.
ref: 1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter XII, in Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. II: From Teheran to Yokohama, London: Sampson Low […] , page 241:
text: The tenacity, perseverance, and indefatigability of Britons have always deeply impressed the Asiatic; and i have had the opportunity of witnessing more than one Turks, Persian, or Afghan, who, in spite of being impregnated with the ideas of the Mohammedan Nirvana, began by expressing his amazement at the unremitting activity of the British Ferenghis, and concluded with the remark: "Verily these Ferenghis are a most remarkable people!"
ref: 1891, Scottish Geographical Magazine, page 294:
text: He has despatched us with the army in company with our brother Said Al-Khilafa Saiyfid Mohamed Al-Mutawakkil to the Eastern tract for the purpose of safeguarding it from the guile of the frustrated Ferenghis and for making a severance of the relations existing between them and the Sunni Arab Chiefs.
ref: 1916, Ahmed Nasir Ar-Rounel, Letter to Sheikh Mohsin bin Farod, Al-Aulaki:
text: Suleiman's people, many of whom could barely stomach the sight of the ferenghis, with their sunburnt faces and arrogant bearing, their heavy chain hauberks and their long swords.
ref: 2006, Jack Whyte, Knights of the Black and White:
text: Charkosh held it up for all to see. "Among ferenghis," he said, "it is called 'Greek Fire.'"
ref: 2007, Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio, page 277:
glosses: A white westerner.
Related terms: farang
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːdɹɑː ənd ˌnʌɡəɹˌhəˈvɛli ən dəˈmɑːn ən ˈdiːuː/
Forms: form: DD
form: DNHDD
Senses: glosses: A union territory of India, formed from the merger of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Capital: Daman.
Related terms: Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Daman and Diu
Dadra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːdɹɑː/
Senses: glosses: A tehsil in the district of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, union territory of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, India.
Southamptonshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Hampshire (county in England)
Hamptonshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Hampshire (county in England)
Nagar Haveli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌnʌɡəɹˌhəˈvɛli/
Senses: glosses: A tehsil in the district of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, union territory of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, India.
DNHDD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
DNH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
glosses: Abbreviation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Whitchurch Rural
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Shropshire, England, to the south and south-east of Whitchurch.
phlogopitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of phlogopite
plagioleucitite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plagioleucitites
Etymology: From plagio- + leucitite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An altered form of leucitite
plagioleucitites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plagioleucitite
plutonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of plutonic rocks
postcollisional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + collisional.
Senses: glosses: After collision.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: After collision.
Following the collision of plates (in plate tectonics).
prasiolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prasiolite
pseudoleucite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoleucites
Etymology: From pseudo- + leucite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pseudomorph of leucite that is a mixture of nepheline and orthoclase
pseudoleucites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoleucite
rauhaugite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rauhaugites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A carbonatite composed mainly of dolomite
Synonyms: dolomite-carbonatite
rauhaugites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rauhaugite
rontgenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rontgenites
Etymology: Likely from Röntgen + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed carbonate and fluoride of calcium and a lanthanide, typically cerium or lanthanum
rontgenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rontgenite
saltdome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltdomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salt dome.
schorlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schorlites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black variety of tourmaline; Synonym of schorl.
Derived terms: schorlitic
schorlitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of schorlite
skarnoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Characteristic of skarn
spinellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinellites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A coarse-grained hypidiomorphic-granular titaniferous magnetite-rich igneous rock that has some spinel
stereophoto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereophotos
Etymology: From stereo- + photo.
Senses: glosses: A stereophotograph
sublithospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + lithospheric.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Below (deeper than) the lithosphere
subvolcanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subvolcanites
Etymology: From sub- + volcanite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A subvolcanic xenolith
subvolcanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subvolcanite
syenodiorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syenodiorites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A plutonic rock intermediate in composition between syenite (or monzonite) and diorite
syenodiorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syenodiorite
tinguaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinguaites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A variety of phonolite.
tinguaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinguaite
trachyphonolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trachyphonolites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: trachytic phonolite
Related terms: trachyphonolitic
trachyphonolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of trachyphonolite
ultramafite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramafites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: ultramafic rock
locomotorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more locomotorily
form: most locomotorily
Senses: glosses: With regards to locomotion; in terms of locomotion.
unmetasomatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + metasomatized.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not modified by metasomatism
volcanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volcanite
volcanostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: stratigraphy related to volcanism
Related terms: volcanostratigraphic
volcanostratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to volcanostratigraphy
volcanotectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to volcanotectonics
volcanotectonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: tectonics due to volcanism
Related terms: volcanotectonic
banner repeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banner repeaters
Senses: examples: text: Banner-Repeater signals tend to be provided in locations where drivers receive insufficient warning of the main signal, thereby effectively increasing the sighting distance for the main signal.
ref: 2020 December 30, David Allen, “Unusual signals...”, in Rail, page 64:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A type of railway signal which shows the aspect of a signal ahead of it, normally used in a situation where the main signal is hidden from view, for instance where there is a curve in the track.
banner repeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banner repeater
colpeurynter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpeurynters
Etymology: See colpo- (“vagina”) and eury- (“wide, broad”).
Senses: examples: text: The dilatation should be continued by suitably prepared tents, or if there be sufficient space, with a large colpeurynter, or if the canal be very narrow, with a small Tarnier's balloon.
ref: 1887, Franz Winckel, “Lesions of the Vagina and their Results, Vaginal Cicatrices”, in Joseph H. Williamson, transl., Diseases of Women: A Handbook for Physicians and Students, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., page 213:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inflatable bag used to dilate the vagina or cervical canal.
Related terms: colpeurysis
colpeurysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See colpo- (“vagina”), eury- (“wide, broad”) and -sis.
Senses: examples: text: The improvement in the symptoms after colpeurysis proves their connection with the vaginal cicatrices, and renders it probable that the pain is the result of tension or pressure caused by them, or of the remains of inflammatory swelling in the region of the sacro-ischiatic plexus.
ref: 1887, Franz Winckel, “Lesions of the Vagina and their Results, Vaginal Cicatrices”, in Joseph H. Williamson, transl., Diseases of Women: A Handbook for Physicians and Students, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., page 213:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The dilation of the vagina, as by a colpeurynter.
Related terms: colpeurynter
colpeurynters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colpeurynter
downcame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of downcome
exsequy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exsequies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of exequy (“funeral rites”).
eclatant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eclatant
form: most eclatant
Etymology: From French éclatant (“bright, brilliant, dazzling”), present participle of éclater (“to burst; to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: Some operators differ with Dr. Pratt as to the technique of the operation, but this is a minor matter, so long as their operations are successful, but one fact is patent, the operation when made from proper indications is followed by the most eclatant results.
ref: 1895 May, “Missouri Institute of Homœopathy, Bureau of Gynecology: Address by Dr. T. Griswold Comstock, Chairman”, in St. Louis Journal of Homœopathy and Clinical Reporter, volume 1, number 6, St. Louis, MO, page 178:
text: It is clear that what was once seen as an inconsistency, is actually an eclatant example of one of the most systemic characteristics of the system.
ref: 2014, Marina Gržinić, Šefik Tatlić, “The Unending Transition”, in Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: Impressive, brilliant, striking, convincing.
cockstride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockstrides
Etymology: From cock + stride.
Senses: glosses: A short space of time; a jiffy.
pig's whisper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig's whispers
Senses: glosses: A low or inaudible whisper.
glosses: A short space of time; a jiffy.
cockstrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockstride
pig's whispers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig's whisper
maxacalcitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæk.səˈkæl.sɪˌtɔl/
Forms: form: 22-oxacalcitriol
Etymology: From [Term?] + (o)xa- + calcit(ri)ol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A calcitriol derivative, analog of vitamin D.
cocksuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒksʌk
Forms: form: cocksucks
Etymology: Clipping of cocksucker.
Senses: examples: text: He turned and was about to say more but by then Velva was lunging at him, bawling, "Keep outta there, you cocksuck!"
ref: 1994, Tom Kakonis, Shadow Counter, page 139:
glosses: Clipping of cocksucker (“annoying or objectionable person”).
cocksuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒksʌk
Forms: form: cocksucks
form: cocksucking
form: cocksucked
form: cocksucked
Etymology: Back-formation from cocksucking.
Senses: qualifier: very uncommon; literal; very uncommon; literal
glosses: To perform fellatio.
cocksucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocksuck
cocksucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cocksuck
amidotrizoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidotrizoate
prize ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prize rings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of boxing ring.
synonyms: word: boxing ring
prize rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prize ring
dicked down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dick down
dicking down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dick down
dicks down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dick down
mortgage deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortgage deeds
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mortgage, deed.
glosses: A pawnbroker's ticket or duplicate.
mortgage deeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortgage deed
splitting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of split up
Jemmy Jessamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jemmy Jessamies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jemmy-Jessamy.
Jemmy Jessamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jemmy Jessamy
Jemmy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛmi
Senses: examples: text: Joly Jemmy, [i.e. James IV of Scotland] ye scornefull Scot,
Is it come unto your lot
A solempne sumner for to be?
ref: 1513, John Skelton, Agaynst the Scottes; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 116, lines 49–51:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name James.
Derived terms: Jemmy Ducks
Jemmy-Jessamy
shivering Jemmy
Related terms: Jem
Amigon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Amigons
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Amigon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Amigons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Amigon
Mutton Walk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mutton Walk
Senses: examples: text: However this might be, the pain occasioned by the sudden movement of TALLYHO, who had not yet learned to trip it lightly along the mutton walk, induced the sufferer to roar out most lustily, […]
ref: 1823, Pierce Egan, Real Life in London:
glosses: The saloon at Drury Lane Theatre, once a popular gathering-place.
Amrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Amrines
Etymology: Re-shaping of the German surname Amrein.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Amrines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Amrine
Andas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Anda
extreames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extreame
clean break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean breaks
Senses: examples: text: He decided to make a clean break with his employer.
text: I'm ready for a clean break with my ex-girlfriend.
text: How bitter it is to be slowly separated from great friends! Far better make a clean break and remain in solitude—the natural climate for man.
ref: 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, pages 4–5:
roman: Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá
glosses: The complete termination of a relationship, or an exit from a situation.
clean breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean break
Zenker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zenkers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zenker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zawistowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zawistowski
Zenkers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zenker
scufter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scufters
Senses: examples: text: Nothing like being dead for putting the scufters off the scent.
ref: 1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, page 56:
qualifier: North Country
glosses: A policeman.
scufter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scufters
form: scuftering
form: scuftered
form: scuftered
Senses: examples: text: Scarcely had the boy undressed himself and lain down on his pillow, ere his two brothers, having heard tidings of the fight, came scuftering in hot haste into the room in their night dresses, all aglow with curiosity[…]
ref: 1874, George Coward (of Carlisle), The songs and ballads of Cumberland, to which are added dialect and other poems, with notes, ed. by Sidney Gilpin, page 116:
text: On working-days she went in a short linsey skirt with a loose print bedgown; an old straw hat would be tied over her ears by a rusty black ribbon, and about her waist would hang the packages committed to her charge. But in honour of the evenings celebration, to enjoy which she had spared her willing with the rest, she had clothed herself in garments which had been her "best things" when a girl. "Eh! Aw hev scuftered," said she, glancing at the two women with a pair of keen black eyes set in a frame of tiny puckers. "Titter oop t' sprunt sud ower a bit. Aw'm a' of a swelter wi' runnin'." "Yon's no cloak o' thine, Susannah[…]"
ref: 1900, Emma Brooke, The Engrafted Rose: A Novel, page 100:
text: […] scuftered off an' lowpt t'dyke afooar Ah cud brittle him wid me gibby-stick.
ref: 1963, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman: A Quarterly Review and Miscellany, page 182:
glosses: To bustle, to hurry.
scufters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scufter
Kafkaish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kafkaish
form: most Kafkaish
Etymology: From Kafka + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kafkaesque.
synonyms: word: Kafkaesque
Seigle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seigles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Seigle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Seckman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seckmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Seckmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seckman
Seigles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seigle
electrochemicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrochemical
Sherrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sherrows
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Greenloaning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, historically it was in Perthshire (OS grid ref NN8307).
Sarceno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarcenos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Sarceño.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sarcenos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sarceno
Sherrows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sherrow
Rotert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roterts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rotert, variant of Rothert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rosenlund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosenlunds
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Rosenlund, from ros (“rose”) + lund (“grove”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Rosenlunds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosenlund
Roterts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rotert
Rodeheaver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rodeheavers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rhoad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rhoads
Etymology: Variant of Rhode.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rhoads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rhoad
Rodeheavers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rodeheaver
Tillingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Homestead of the Tillingas, the people called after Tilla, or Tilli," from the Old English folk name *Tillingas, from the personal name Tilla or Tilli + the suffix -ingas (“relating to”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by a village council) in Maldon district, Essex (OS grid ref TL9903).
glosses: A minor river in East Sussex, England, which joins the River Brede at Rye.
go phut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes phut
form: going phut
form: went phut
form: gone phut
Senses: glosses: To fail work, especially suddenly or with a noise
glimmer of hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glimmers of hope
Senses: examples: text: After more than a year of unrelenting bad economic numbers, we finally received a glimmer of hope.
ref: 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in A Promised Land, Crown:
glosses: A good omen; a small but undependable chance of something positive to come.
Synonyms: ray of hope
in the hope of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: With the desire to.
Related terms: in the hope that
ray of hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rays of hope
Senses: examples: text: Asari Councilor: Whether you know it or not, you have become the sole ray of hope in a very dark night.
Asari Councilor: Goddess be with you.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel, Citadel Embassies, Priority: The Citadel III:
glosses: Synonym of glimmer of hope.
synonyms: word: glimmer of hope
minus well
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪnɪs ˈwɛl/
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of might as well.
close on the heels of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So back they ran to the Abbey, dodged the Baronet, armed themselves, and got the old pointer Mark'em (named after his profession and the keeper at a blow) close to their heels, and, by skirting outhouses and slinking under walls, escaped to the security that favors the commencement of adventures of this sort, and made for the coverts of the park.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: Near in time or place; very close.
Related terms: hot on someone's heels
all serene
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “All serene,” cried the jubilant voice outside, “open the door, you fellows!”
ref: 1887, Talbot Baines Reed, The Willoughby Captains, page 201:
text: "All serene, old un — but 'ave yer got the brads (money) to pay for it?" said Bill, sneeringly, with another scornful glance at his fare's humble exterior.
ref: 1893, American Illustrated Magazine, volume 36, page 482:
glosses: All is well; a cry of acquiescence or approval.
box Harry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boxes Harry
form: boxing Harry
form: boxed Harry
form: boxed Harry
Senses: synonyms: dine with Duke Humphrey
glosses: To go without dinner.
Burdon's Hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname of a governor there.
Senses: glosses: Whitecross Street Prison, London, England.
leg-of-mutton fist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg-of-mutton fists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mutton fist.
synonyms: word: mutton fist
leg-of-mutton fists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leg-of-mutton fist
let the cat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets the cat out
form: letting the cat out
form: let the cat out
form: let the cat out
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of let the cat out of the bag.
examples: text: Every night I open the door and let the cat out before retiring to bed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, cat, out.
Pig and Tinderbox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pig and Tinderbox
form: Pig and Tinder-box
Senses: glosses: The Elephant and Castle.
beetle-squasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetle-squashers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of beetle-crusher (“a large flat foot”).
synonyms: word: beetle-crusher
extra: a large flat foot
beetle-squashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetle-squasher