cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
far rightist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: far rightists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of far-rightist.
Crook County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both counties are named after George Crook.
Senses: glosses: One of 36 counties in Oregon, United States. County seat: Prineville.
glosses: One of 23 counties in Wyoming, United States. County seat: Sundance.
smoothifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoothify
prudifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prudify
nerdifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nerdify
hipsterfying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hipsterfy
autocommitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autocommit
overbleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbleed
working around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work around
going around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go around
banging around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bang around
banging about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bang about
Logan County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Logan (Arkansas), John A. Logan (Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma), his father John Logan (Illinois), Benjamin Logan (Kentucky, Ohio), and Chief Logan (West Virginia).
Senses: glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seats: Booneville and Paris.
glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Sterling.
glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Lincoln.
glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Oakley.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Russellville.
glosses: One of 93 counties in Nebraska, United States. County seat: Stapleton.
glosses: One of 53 counties in North Dakota, United States. County seat: Napoleon.
glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Bellefontaine.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Guthrie.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Logan.
ultralethal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + lethal.
Senses: glosses: Exceedingly lethal or deadly.
Osage County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Lyndon. Named after the Osage River (original name).
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Linn. Named after the Osage River.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Pawhuska. Named after the Osage tribe.
Middleton-in-Teesdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish (served by Middleton-in-Teesdale and Newbiggin Parish Council) in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9425).
qts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qt
spready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛdi
Forms: form: more spready
form: most spready
Etymology: From spread + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1602, William Basse, Three Pastoral Elegies of Anander, Anetor, and Muridella, Elegie II, in R. Warwick Bond (editor), The Poetical Works of William Basse, London: Ellis & Elvey, 1893, p. 49,
The spready Beech, and dangling Sycomores
Were clad in tender leaves and shady shiver,
text: The walls are covered with good Massimos, and the spready tapestry-coloured canvas of Lucas Giordaino and Solimene.
ref: 1837, Frank Hall Standish, chapter 25, in The Shores of the Mediterranean, volume 1, London: R. Lumley, page 283:
text: I should use very thick worsted and make very big, loopy, spready stitches.
ref: 1913, Gouverneur Morris, chapter 11, in If You Touch Them They Vanish, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 125:
text: Things about my place were more spready than high, myself; my house, the sheep-dogs, and Dolf, the Persian cat, whose silver fleece parted down the centre of his back and fluffed wide. Even my apple trees and lilacs grew spready.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Attic Eagles”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: Tending to spread horizontally.
examples: 1912, Hides and Skins: From the Animal’s Back to the Tannery Door, Chicago: Shoe and Leather Weekly, “The Hid and Skin Trade in Great Britain,” p. 132,
A fine spready hide is also obtained from the Hereford breed, these being favored by harness and belting makers.
glosses: Having a large surface area in proportion to its weight.
raw_tags: of an animal hide
examples: text: These bacteria form large, spready colonies.
glosses: Having a tendency to spread more easily.
raw_tags: of a microorganism
spready
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛdi
Forms: form: spreadies
Etymology: From spread + -y.
Senses: glosses: A spready hide.
glosses: A spreadsheet.
omphalosceptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omphalosceptics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of omphaloskeptic.
omphalosceptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omphalosceptic
Ashtabula County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Lenape language ashtepihële, 'always enough (fish) to go around, to be given away'.
Senses: glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Jefferson.
living-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living-room
Lasithi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Λασίθι (Lasíthi).
Senses: glosses: A regional unit in the east of Crete.
glosses: A plateau in the east of Crete.
preterite tense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preterite tenses
Etymology: See preterite.
Senses: examples: text: The relation between tense and time in English, however, is by no means straightforward, as we saw in Ch. 1, §3, and it is important to be aware that preterite tense does not always signal past time.
ref: 2005, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey Pullum, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, page 30:
text: There are two past tense aspects and forms in Spanish: the preterite and the imperfect. This chapter provides a clear explanation of the preterite tense.
ref: 2011, Jill Rodriguez, Ken Stewart, CliffsNotes Spanish 1 Quick Review, page 118:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb tense indicating action in the past and marked by verb inflection; the preterite.
ripgut brome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripgut
form: ripgut grass
Etymology: From rip (verb) + gut + brome.
Senses: glosses: A type of weedy grass, Bromus diandrus, with sharp seeds having awns with one-way bristles that make them hard to remove from clothing or animal fur.
ripgut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ripgut brome.
Related terms: ripgut fence
ripgut grass
ripgut grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ripgut brome.
ripgut fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripgut fences
Etymology: From rip (verb) + gut + fence.
Senses: glosses: A type of fence made of criss-crossed pairs of wood poles, which was fairly common in western rangeland before the introduction of barbed wire.
ripgut fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripgut fence
sound wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound walls
Senses: glosses: A wall intended to block sound from entering an area.
sound walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound wall
fupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fupas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FUPA.
block wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block walls
form: blockwall
Senses: glosses: A masonry wall made of large blocks such as cinder blocks or concrete blocks, especially concrete masonry units.
orthopædically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of orthopaedically.
orthopædist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopædists
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of orthopaedist.
kilogram-force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilograms-force
Etymology: From kilogram + force.
Senses: examples: text: A mass of one hyl gets accelerated at a rate of one meter per square second by a force of one kilogram-force (namely, 9.80665 N).
ref: 2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com:
synonyms: kilopond
glosses: A unit of force equal to the weight, on earth (subject to standard gravity at 9.80665 m/s²), of a mass of one kilogram; equal to 9.80665 newtons. Symbol kgf or kg_f.
orthopædics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of orthopaedics.
orthopædy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of orthopaedy.
gymnopædic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gymnopaedic.
gynæcandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynecandrous.
gynæcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynæcia
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaecium.
gynæcian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaecian.
gynæcic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaecic.
giant butterbur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant butterburs
Senses: examples: text: ["Butterbur"] Refers often to Petasites hybridus (common butterbur), but the leaves of another species, Pentasites japonicus (giant butterbur or fuki), are eaten as a vegetable in Korea and Japan.
ref: 2009, International Food Information Service, Dictionary of Food Science and Technology, page 65:
glosses: A flowering plant (Petasites japonicus), native to Asia.
Synonyms: butterbur
fuki
sweet coltsfoot
sex tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex tools
Senses: glosses: The penis.
glosses: Synonym of sex toy.
synonyms: word: sex toy
Zomba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The capital of Malawi until 1975, and seat of parliament until 1994, Zomba is probably the most immediately appealing of Malawi's larger towns.
ref: 2006, Philip Briggs, Mary-Anne Bartlett, Malawi: The Bradt Travel Guide, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: Zomba (the former capital city of Malawi)
for better or for worse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: This wouldn't have worked as well in, say, 1967. In that America, many white people called racists by this kind of person, for better or for worse, would have just taken a sip of their cocktail and said, “I don't think so at all.” Or even just “Fuck you!”
ref: 2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 1, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of for better or worse.
Holofernes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒləˈfɜːniːz/
ipa: /hɑːləˈfɝːniːz/
Etymology: From Late Latin Holofernēs, Holophernēs, from Ancient Greek Ὀλοφέρνης (Olophérnēs), from Old Persian *Varufarnāh. Compare with Ancient Greek Ὀροφέρνης (Orophérnēs).
Senses: glosses: a character in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, an invading general of Nebuchadnezzar, beheaded by Judith.
wikipedia: Manfred Hutter
abderitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to abderitism
as one does
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of as you do.
pornographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pornographical
form: most pornographical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pornographic.
synonyms: word: pornographic
Synonyms: adult
X-rated
pornographic
Twitler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪt.lə/
ipa: /ˈtwɪt.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtlə(ɹ)
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + Hitler, in comparison with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and due to a tendency for Donald Trump to tweet on the social media platform Twitter during his presidency.
Senses: examples: text: This rule is precisely why the 68% of America who would never have voted for Resident Trump must keep a viable vigil in the streets and in the courts. “Twitler” Trump was allowed to insult, embarrass and engorge every individual and institution he wanted to for an entire campaign cycle. We taught him well.
ref: 2017 February 10, Vincent Hall, “Quit Playin': To Allow is to Teach?”, in The Dallas Weekly:
text: A pleasure to see that two attorneys generals, from D.C. and Maryland, just slapped Dum Dum with another emoluments lawsuit. We can’t have enough of these actions jammed up Twitler’s tailpipe.
ref: 2017 June 15, Bruce Van Dyke, “Too true to be good”, in Reno News & Review:
text: How long will Hair Twitler reign – And will he get out what he Putin? So now the world waits – and worries, to see What he will get up to next, the new fuhrer – A malicious clown has the nuclear codes Yet can't even acquit himself on Twitter.
ref: 2017, TRUMPOCALYPSE, →ISBN, page 61:
text: [...] with posters featuring caricatures of Trump as Hitler, but that is no easy swipe at Twitler.
ref: 2018 April 12, Jack Helbig, “Hate has a home here”, in Chicago Reader, volume 47, number 27:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Nickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present).
glosses: Elon Musk.
Related terms: Bushitler
Hitlery
Putler
California smoothtongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California smoothtongues
Senses: glosses: A species of ray-finned fish native to the northeastern Pacific Ocean from British Columbia to Oregon, and the Gulf of California (Leuroglossus stilbius).
smoothtongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothtongues
Etymology: From smooth + tongue.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number species of ray-finned fish of the taxonomic genus Leuroglossus
Derived terms: alt: Leuroglossus stilbius
word: California smoothtongue
alt: Leuroglossus schmidti
word: northern smoothtongue
North American freshwater catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North American freshwater catfish
form: North American freshwater catfishes
Senses: glosses: Any of the species of catfish native to North America, of the family Ictaluridae
monkeyface prickleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkeyface pricklebacks
Senses: synonyms: monkeyface eel
glosses: A prickleback of the eel-like species Cebidichthys violaceus, native to the Pacific coast of North America.
monkeyface eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkeyface eels
Senses: glosses: A species of prickleback native to the Pacific coast of North America (Cebidichthys violaceus).
Synonyms: monkeyface prickleback
goldspotted killifish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldspotted killifish
Senses: glosses: Any of species Floridichthys carpio of pupfish, native to the southeastern United States, Mexico and northern Central America.
goldspotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having gold or goldish-coloured spots
Derived terms: goldspotted angelfish
goldspotted eel
goldspotted grenadier anchovy
goldspotted killifish
goldspotted oak borer
goldspotted pond frog
goldspotted sand bass
goldspotted snake eel
goldspotted spinefoot
goldspotted sweetlips
goldspotted tetra
goldspotted trevally
updog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updogs
Senses: examples: text: Mary Dunn recommends moving into a variation of Updog that teaches you what is necessary to avoid compressing the lower back in the pose.
ref: 2003, Schneider, Carrie, American Yoga, →OCLC:
text: Push your shoulders back and lift the raised leg high, then drop back into the updog.
ref: 2014 August 28, “'Yoga's not just for girls!': 'Broga' - aimed at men and created by an American footballer turned bodybuilder - is the latest way for guys to tone up”, in Daily Mail, Australia:
text: yoga postures that stretch the abs, such as “cow” pose and “updog” pose
ref: 2016, Stephanie A. Prendergast, Elizabeth H. Akincilar, Pelvic Pain Explained: What You Need to Know, →ISBN, page 113:
text: I don't think I'll ever forget watching one of my clients do a full expression of updog one week before giving birth. I was in awe at her grace.
ref: 2018 December 12, Kate Kendall, “What You Need To Know About Practicing Yoga When You're Pregnant”, in Sporteluxe:
text: As we stretched through various postures to lengthen and soothe the body with the sound of the sea and birds in the background, with every updog I was hit with the beautiful views once more, and came out feeling like a new (bendier) woman.
ref: 2019 January 1, Nish O'Connor, “You really *can* restore your wellness on the party island of Ibiza, here's how...”, in Glamour:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: A yoga pose in which the practitioner lies prone with the torso erect, supported by the arms, and the head tilted back.
Synonyms: upward dog
upward-facing dog
urdhvamukha shvanasana
Related terms: downdog
updog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updogs
Etymology: Clipping of "What's up, dog?" Earliest known citation from 2000.
Senses: examples: text: Me: Hey, do you think it smells like updog in here?<P>Them: What's updog?<P>Me: Nothin', what's up with you?<P>*SLAP*<P>-Forbin
ref: 2000 December 6, “Jokes that make you groan and/or wanna smack your forehead”, in Ars OpenForum, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
text: "It smells kinda gross in here, like updog."
"Really? I don't smell anything. What's updog?. . . I can't believe I just said that. Jake, you're terrible."
ref: 2005 March 17, Carleton University, The Charlatan:
text: Jim Halpert: "Is it me or does it smell like updog in here?
Michael Scott: "What's updog?
Jim Halpert: "Nothin' much what's up with you"?
ref: 2006 January 19, The Office, season 2, episode 13:
glosses: A fictional ostensible substance coined to trick a victim into asking "What's updog?"
Related terms: bofa
ligma
sugma
Sugondese
downdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downdogs
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: The downward-facing dog
on a first-name basis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We are not yet on a first-name basis.
synonyms: on first-name basis
glosses: Having enough familiarity with another person to call them by their first name, as opposed to their surname.
Related terms: on first-name terms
bend the knee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bends the knee
form: bending the knee
form: bent the knee
form: bent the knee
Etymology: Calque of Latin genūflectō. Popularized by its use on the television series Game of Thrones (2011-2019).
Senses: examples: text: The timid among them declared that he would burn the houses and hang all that had bent the knee to King Louis.
ref: 1905, Max Pemberton, The Hundred Days, page 137:
text: The Earls have power over their lands and people, but must bend the knee to the King and serve as his vassals, just as their own vassals bend the knee to them, and serve them.
ref: 2001, Cynthia Voigt, Elske, page 129:
text: Joffrey, Renly, Robb Stark: they're all thieves. They'll bend the knee or I'll destroy them.
ref: 2012, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, “The North Remembers”, in Game of Thrones, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane):
glosses: To swear fealty or allegiance to another person.
examples: text: Jezebel, though she bent the knee to Baal, was pleasing in Ahab’s sight; and he saw that her father’s army, though deplorably pagan, wielded heavy swords.
ref: 1928 January, Ernest C. Wilson, “A King and a Kingdom That Limped”, in Youth, volume 2, number 1, page 13:
text: We will realize that in our weakness He is strong and that as we bend the knee to His lordship, God is more than able to deliver us.
ref: 2001, Beth Moore, Living Free: Learning to Pray God's Word, page 86:
text: For one thing, Christians refused to bend the knee to anyone but God, certainly not to Caesar.
ref: 2006, James W. White, Christianity 101: Tracing Basic Beliefs, page 55:
glosses: To submit to or show reverence toward a divine power.
examples: text: Some thought we had in Mr. [Abraham] Lincoln the nerve and decision of an Oliver Cromwell; but the result shows that we merely have a continuation of the Pierces and Buchanans, and that the Republican President bends the knee to slavery as readily as any of his infamous predecessors.
ref: 1861 April, Frederick Douglass, “The Inaugural Address”, in Douglass' Monthly, volume III, number XI, page 434:
text: But there's something more sinister in the need for companies to bend the knee to Washington politicians.
ref: 2013, Gary Shapiro, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses, page 117:
text: Kafka had bent the knee to his father’s desires and taken a job in an insurance office.
ref: 2016, Stuart Jeffries, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School, page 166:
glosses: To show undue deference, obedience, or support for someone or something.
Trumbull County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jonathan Trumbull, who was a landowner here.
Senses: glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Warren.
wikipedia: Jonathan Trumbull
Webster County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All were named after Daniel Webster.
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Preston.
glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Fort Dodge.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Dixon.
glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Walthall.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Marshfield.
glosses: One of 93 counties in Nebraska, United States. County seat: Red Cloud.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Webster Springs.
Related terms: word: Webster Parish
mini-golfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minigolfing
Senses: examples: text: Turns out that having sex in public means that eventually the public is going to notice you, and in this case the public takes the form of a surprising number of recognizable Springfieldians who chose this exact day to go mini-golfing.
ref: 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: The activity of playing minigolf.
over the line
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: But despite being the first episode of The Simpsons to feature Marge’s naked butt, there’s nothing particularly risque about any of the nudity—if anything, the pitchfork-wielding farmer’s threat of “ass-forking” feels the most over the line.
ref: 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: beyond the pale
off the reservation
coordinate_terms: over the edge
glosses: Beyond the level of what is acceptable.
Related terms: get over the line
getting busy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get busy
Webster Parish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Daniel Webster.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states.. Parish seat: Minden.
wikipedia: Daniel Webster
Related terms: Webster County
Nailsea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4770).
Yatton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Aymestrey parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4366).
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4365).
Derived terms: Yatton Keynell
Doomguy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Doom + guy.
Senses: examples: text: KOTOR lets you feel like a Jedi for the first time, instead of the Doomguy with a light saber.
ref: 2004, George Jones, Maximum PC 2005 Buyer's Guide, page 247:
text: In the novelization of the game, Doomguy is called Flynn Taggart.
ref: 2016, James Egan, 3000 Facts About Video Games, page 60:
text: Unable to leave, the only course of action for the Doomguy is to fight through the base.
ref: 2019, Dawn Stobbart, Videogames and Horror: From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!, page 47:
topics: lifestyle
video-games
glosses: The unnamed protagonist in the Doom series of video games.
Chepstow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English ċīepa (“merchant, tradesman”) + stōw (“place”), to denote a marketplace or trading center.
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Monmouthshire, Wales, on the border with England but separated by the River Wye (OS grid ref ST5393).
Helicon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkɒn/
ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkən/
ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkɑn/
ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkən/
Senses: glosses: A mountain of Boeotia sacred to Apollo and the Muses.
Derived terms: Heliconian
foremonish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foremonishes
form: foremonishing
form: foremonished
form: foremonished
Etymology: fore- + monish
Senses: examples: text: nor the sufferings by the Ammonites, Midianites and Philistines, related in the Book of Judges, but He foremonished Israel by Joshua
ref: 1860, Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets With A Commentary:
glosses: To forewarn, premonish.
electric potential differences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric potential difference
Wincanton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7128).
bryo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Ancient Greek βρύον (brúon, “moss”)
Senses: glosses: moss
rutheno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: ruthenium
intemperaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intemperament
watchclock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchclocks
Etymology: From watch + clock.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watchman's detector.
synonyms: word: watchman's detector
watchclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchclock
homebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homebreakers
Etymology: From home + breaker.
Senses: glosses: One who breaks into a house, typically to burgle it.
glosses: Synonym of home wrecker.
synonyms: word: home wrecker
homebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From home + breaking.
Senses: glosses: The act of breaking into a house, typically to burgle it.
homebreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homebreaker
entity tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entity tags
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In the HTTP protocol, an identifier assigned to a version of a resource, such that if the resource’s content changes, it is given a new identity tag.
Synonyms: ETag
Hypernyms: tag
Orton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.tən/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.tən/
ipa: [ˈɔɹ.ɾn̩]
ipa: [ˈɔɹ.ʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tən
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in England:
A civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, previously in Carlisle district, which includes Great Orton and Little Orton (OS grid ref (approx) NY3454).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6208).
glosses: A place in England:
A small village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering borough (OS grid ref SP8079).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburban area in south-west Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL1596)
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Wombourne parish, South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SO8695).
glosses: A hamlet in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ3152).
glosses: A hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A community in East Garafraxa, Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Ortonesque
Ortonian
Orton Longueville
Ortonville
Water Orton
ETag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ETags
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of entity tag.
Hypernyms: tag
pyracanthuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyracanthus
prewait
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + wait.
Senses: glosses: Before a period of waiting.
postwait
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + wait.
Senses: glosses: After a period of waiting.
Sherborne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Sċīraburna, equivalent to scīr (“bright, clear”) + burna (“stream”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in northwestern Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST6316).
glosses: A village and civil parish with a brook of the same name in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1714).
glosses: A hamlet in Litton parish, Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5855).
mislooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislook
mislooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislook
mislooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislook
entity tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entity tag
grenados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grenado
indispensable nations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indispensable nation
Aludra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Arabic العَذْرَاء (al-ʕaḏrāʔ, “the virgin”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star in the constellation of Canis Majoris.
Scheat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic السَاعِد (as-sāʕid, literally “the forearm”).
Senses: examples: text: [This is the Scheat of Tycho, the Palermo Catalogue, and modern lists generally, either from Al Sā'id the Upper Part of the Arm, or, as Hyde suggested, from the early Sa'd appearing in the subsequent three pairs of stars. Bayer had Seat Alpheras; Chilmead, Seat Alfaras; Riccioli, Scheat Alpheraz; and Schickard, Saidol-pharazi.]
ref: 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 325:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
Synonyms: sense: star in Pegasus
roman: beta
english: primary designation
translation: primary designation
word: β Pegasi
sense: star in Pegasus
english: abbreviated form
translation: abbreviated form
word: β Peg
sense: star in Pegasus
english: Latinized form
translation: Latinized form
word: Beta Pegasi
crowns of thorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown of thorns
Litton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish near Tideswell, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1675).
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD9074).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5954).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A surname.
curtins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtin
precentours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precentour
cocuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Venezuelan liquor made from the leaves of Agave cocui.
Tideswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tideswells
form: Tidwell
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Tidi + -s- + wielle (“well, spring”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1575).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
barred out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bar out
barred out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In a state of amnesia from benzodiazepine abuse.
barring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bar out
bars out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bar out
informationization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From information + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of informatisation.
synonyms: word: informatisation
guoqing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwoʊˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
enpr: gwôʹchǐngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 國情／国情 (guóqíng).
Senses: glosses: The special identity and national situation of China.
milkoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkoholics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milkaholic.
milkoholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkoholic
informationize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: informationizes
form: informationizing
form: informationized
form: informationized
Etymology: From information + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of informatize.
synonyms: word: informatize
milkshakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more milkshakey
form: most milkshakey
form: milkshaky
Etymology: From milkshake + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a milkshake.
informationizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of informationize
informationizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of informationize
informationized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of informationize
watchman's time detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watchman's detector.
synonyms: word: watchman's detector
leaprosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of leprosy.
glacial milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacial milk
partookest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: partook + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of partake
compulsionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From compulsion + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to compulsion; compulsive.
compulsional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From compulsion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to compulsion; compulsive.
defeminisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of defeminization.
barbituratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barbiturate + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of barbiturism.
synonyms: word: barbiturism
Sabbatean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sabbatean
form: most Sabbatean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabbatian.
Sabbatean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabbateans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabbatian.
Sabbateans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabbatean
quasilinearizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasilinearization
CLNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CLN
multihome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multihomes
form: multihoming
form: multihomed
form: multihomed
Etymology: From multi- + home.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use the technique of multihoming.
multihomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multihome
shigatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shigatoxins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shiga toxin.
shigatoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shigatoxin
Shiga toxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shiga toxins
form: shigatoxin
Etymology: Named for Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages.
Shiga toxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shiga toxin
anti-Nazi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-Nazi
form: most anti-Nazi
Etymology: From anti- + Nazi.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to the Nazi ideology.
anti-Nazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-Nazis
Etymology: From anti- + Nazi.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes the Nazi ideology.
e-frauds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-fraud
frikeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freekeh.
farik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freekeh.
retromods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retromod
retromoderation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + moderation.
Senses: glosses: The process of retromoderating.
C&W
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of country and western.
coat trailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat trailings
Senses: examples: text: In order to find out the class level as early as possible, a bit of coat trailing on the very first evening seems to be a good thing, provoking plenty of discussion and giving the tutor ample opportunity to study form.
ref: 1951, Scottish Adult Education - Issues 1-25:
text: My Lords, I should like to thank the noble Viscount for the way in which he has introduced the Bill. It was much less provocative and with much less coat trailing than the way in which it was introduced in another place.
ref: 1986, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report, page 405:
text: He was commended for his work, and there is no suggestion that if he had eschewed all coat trailings his success would have been greater.
ref: 2010, David Burnett-James, Ravel: Illustrated Lives Of The Great Composers, →ISBN:
text: Elvira had spent several weeks 'coat trailing' through the South of France, spending time in casinos and expensive restaurants while maintaining her 'cosmopolitan cover as a society girl mixing in the very top circles', without so much as a sniff from German intelligence.
ref: 2012, Ben Macintyre, Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of coat-trailing.
coat trailings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coat trailing
detransitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detransitioners
Etymology: From detransition + -er (“agent noun”).
Senses: examples: text: Detransitioners will need to be aware that 'reverse' genital surgery is not likely to be as successful as their original surgery because there will be less tissue to work with.
ref: 2019, Jennie Kermode, Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses, page 72:
text: In 2021 she spoke out in favor of approaching gender dysphoria in a more considered way, urging others in the field to pay attention to detransitioners, people who no longer consider themselves transgender after undergoing medical or surgical interventions. […] “I transitioned because I didn’t want to be gay,” Kasey Emerick, a 23-year-old woman and detransitioner from Pennsylvania, told me. […] Many detransitioners say they face ostracism and silencing because of the toxic politics around transgender issues.
ref: 2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
text: Id., at B2; accord, e.g., Eknes-Tucker v. Governor of Ala., 114 F. 4th 1241, 1267 (CA11 2024) (opinion of Lagoa, J.) (“Alabama presented evidence from many detransitioners who uniformly testified that they were not aware of the long-term impacts of the treatments they underwent”); Brief for Respondents 12–13 (explaining that, before enacting SB1, the Tennessee Legislature heard testimony “from a detransitioner who explained that she was not ‘capable of making informed lifelong decisions’ as a teenager” but nevertheless received transition treatments).
ref: 2025 June 18, “UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REPORTER FOR TENNESSEE, ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States, page 47:
synonyms: retransitioner
coordinate_terms: desister
glosses: One who detransitions.
Hyponyms: MTFTM
FTMTF
detransitioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detransitioner
coat-trailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat-trailings
Etymology: From the idea of deliberately trailing one's coat on the ground to entice another to step on it.
Senses: examples: text: The Peshawar agent will often be an ambitious man "in a hurry," in which case he will push the forward policy, and amongst future Viceroys Aucklands, Lyttons, Lansdownes, and Elgins will be more frequent than Lawrences and Curzons, and then we shall have complications, coat-trailings, warlike movements, perhaps even wars, and they mean, as was the case through the 'nineties, extravagance trans-Indus, and crippling retrenchments or tax enhancements cis-Indus.
ref: 1904, Septimus Smet Thorburn, The Punjab in Peace and War, page 348:
text: It would still remain a perfectly good Bill without the Clause. Its presence in it is nothing but what I said earlier, namely, a typical example of coat-trailing.
ref: 1962, Northern Ireland Parliament Senate, Parliamentary Debates. The Senate Official Report, page 504:
text: I am not prepared to be involved or drawn into a controversy on the one hand with those who proposed to abolish the name in a coat-trailing political exercise or on the other hand with those who rose to that bait and opposed the decision to try to change the name, equally for reasons of political opportunism and coat-trailing.
ref: 1983, Northern Ireland Assembly, Official Report of Debates - Issue 8, page 118:
text: My own coat-trailing was totally ineffective, but the system of having an obvious road black, with 'cut-offs' behind and down side streets to catch those deliberately avoiding them proved useful.
ref: 2006, Peter Hinchcliffe, John T. Ducker, Maria Holt, Without Glory in Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden, →ISBN, page 182:
text: It was an Abwehr tradition for each of its officers to recruit his own agents. British M.I.6, who were responsible for the planting, obviously failed to do their coat-trailing either in the right places or with the right Abwehr officers.
ref: 2016, Barton Whaley, Turnabout and Deception, →ISBN:
glosses: A disingenuous act or arrangement intended to provoke a desired response.
coat-trailings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coat-trailing
cigarette holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarette holders
form: cigarette-holder
Senses: examples: text: The cigarette holder that uses a plastic cylinder filled with granules of silica reduced the nicotine content by 14 percent and the tar content by 21 percent.
ref: 1943, Health Yearbook 1954, →ISBN, page 145:
text: He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly. Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder.
ref: 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22:
text: Cigarette holders were considered an essential part of women's fashion from the early to the mid-twentieth century and are sometimes of quite simple design; or they may be incredibly ornate, with gemstone or mother-of-pearl inlays.
ref: 2007, Rayner W. Hesse, Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: A tube-like device that holds a cigarette and through which the cigarette is smoked.
Related terms: roach clip
gabeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabey
GVWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GVW
collective note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collective notes
Senses: examples: text: The undersigned, ministers for Russia, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and France, have the honor to refer to their collective note of the 24th February, in which they expressed their desire to have an audience of His Majesty the Emperor of China for the purpose of presenting their congratulations to His Majesty, and requested his imperial highness to move His Majesty to issue orders for their reception.
ref: 1873, United States Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 156:
text: On the other hand, French Foreign Minister Delcassé thought that this collective note would be more effective and successful if all the European Powers joined it.
ref: 2011, Pinar Senisik, The Transformation of Ottoman Crete, →ISBN:
text: A collective note was sent to Germany on the interpretation of Article 16.
ref: 2015, Willard N. Hogan, International Conflict and Collective Security, →ISBN, page 65:
topics: diplomacy
government
politics
glosses: A formal piece of diplomatic correspondence signed by the representatives of several governments addressed to one or more other governments.
Derwent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)wənt/
Forms: form: Darwent
form: Darwen
form: Darwin
form: Darran
form: Durrans
form: Durant
Etymology: From Middle English Derwent, Derwente, Derwynd, from a Brythonic word such as *dwr-gent (“clear water”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Derbyshire, England, which flows into the River Trent.
glosses: A demolished village, now flooded by Ladybower Reservoir, with its site in High Peak borough, Derbyshire.
glosses: A civil parish (served by Derwent and Hope Woodlands Parish Council) in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, which formerly included the above village.
glosses: A river in North Yorkshire, England, which also forms the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire before joining the River Ouse.
glosses: A river in Cumbria, England, which flows into the Irish Sea at Workington.
glosses: A river forming the border between County Durham and Northumberland, before entering Tyneside and joining the River Tyne.
glosses: A river in Tasmania, Australia, which flows into the Tasman Sea near Hobart.
glosses: A hamlet and former village in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A community in Thames Centre, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Valley Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Above Derwent
Derwent Valley
Derwentwater
Derwent Water
ball lightnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball lightning
tourist highways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourist highway
trepanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trepaning