cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fascisty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fascisty
form: most fascisty
Etymology: From fascist + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then he became Rolf the Ranger a member of some camping–“youth-movement”–fascisty–self-help–primitivist–“Rebuild Civilisation in the Backwoods” Association […]
ref: 2011 January 1, T. S. Eliot, The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 6: 1932-1933, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 134:
text: She realized he'd have loved a story about fascisty storm troopers beating the tar out of local Hindus for some small show of faith, like letting a cow cross the road. She was sorry she couldn't oblige. He changed his tack.
ref: 2010 January 21, Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: I got as far as mentioning that some of the people she follows are maybe, a bit, fascisty UKIP, and she just gave me a look. “Have you been stalking me? You're weird, David,” she said, biting the rim of her glass.
ref: 2015 February 24, James Goss, Haterz, Solaris, →ISBN:
glosses: Related to or resembling fascism; fascist.
block device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block devices
Senses: examples: text: The network block device is a block device offered by Linux. It behaves as a normal block device that can be formatted with any block-based file system and mounted for use.
ref: 2016, Joel Reardon, Secure Data Deletion, Springer, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: character device
glosses: An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.
block devices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block device
virusproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virusproof
form: most virusproof
form: virus-proof
Etymology: From virus + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: We are sending a part at least of our vast new army to the American tropics, where our men will be exposed to these lethal viruses, bacteria, and protozoa. There is no virusproof door standing shut between us and our southern neighbors, either.
ref: 1942, Charles Morrow Wilson, Ambassadors in White: The Story of American Tropical Medicine, Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, published 1972, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Resistant to viruses.
examples: text: People want to be able to install their favorite software on their computer, but they want their computer to be virusproof. Well, the easiest way to make a computer virusproof is to not allow new executable programs to be installed on that system.
ref: 2004, Marcus J. Ranum, The Myth of Homeland Security, Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 191:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resistant to computer viruses.
deal-breakery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deal-breakery
form: most deal-breakery
Etymology: From deal-breaker + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Later in a relationship maybe that kind of stuff isn't so deal-breakery. Usually by the time you learn about people's “damage,” you've become attached, maybe even see it as endearing.
ref: 2018, Wendy Brant, Zenn Diagram, page 63:
glosses: Relating to or resembling a deal-breaker.
Christiansburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Christian + -s- + -burg.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana, United States, possibly named after Col. William Christian, as in Virginia.
glosses: A village in Champaign County, Ohio, United States, named after Christiansburg, Virginia.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, named after Col. William Christian. Originally named Hans Meadows, then Christiansburgh, later revised.
Rustburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rust + -burg, named after land donor Jeremiah Rust.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Campbell County, Virginia, United States.
yewie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yewies
Senses: examples: text: “As soon as I realized it was Charlie's place, I pulled a yewie and ran right over.” / Pulled a yewie, parked, and ran over, Dane thought. And then started puking like a newborn. Dworkin read his mind.
ref: 1986, Richard Hyer, Riceburner, New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of uey.
yewies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yewy
glosses: plural of yewie
Uie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uey.
U-ie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-ies
Etymology: From U + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uey.
uies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uie
Uies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Uie
U-ies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of U-y
glosses: plural of U-ie
Kits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Kitsilano.
Senses: examples: text: Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.
ref: 1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, page 57:
text: So often, as they'd stroll down the pathways and sidewalks in Kits, they'd remark on the essence of the neighbourhood, sighing, “only here”.
ref: 2006, Tannis Zboroluk, Kitsilano Al Fresco, page 2:
text: She'd walked from Kits to Granville Island, intending to take the water-bus across False Creek and walk down Burrard Street to West Georgia.
ref: 2014, Patrick Taylor, Now and in the Hour of Our Death: A Novel of the Irish Troubles, page 52:
glosses: The Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver.
Stanardsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Stanard + -s- + -ville, after Robert Stanard.
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Greene County, Virginia, United States.
wikipedia: Robert Stanard
gourdification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gourd + -ification.
Senses: glosses: pumpkinification
Hayekism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hayek + -ism. Named after Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian-British economist, legal theorist and philosopher.
Senses: examples: text: The vision was of a low tax, low regulation society where the richest are freed to unleash their awesome talents and make themselves even richer. According to this vision – whether you call it Hayekism, ultra-Thatcherism, Reaganism or economic libertarianism – when the fortunate few at the top soar ever upwards, some of their wealth trickles down to those at the bottom.
ref: 2022 October 20, Jonathan Freedland, “Truss has discredited high-octane, free-market economics - perhaps for ever”, in The Guardian:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: An economic ideology that emphasizes unregulated markets and the abandonment of welfare.
wikipedia: Friedrich Hayek
Related terms: Hayekian
talk stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talk story
talk stories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of talk story
talk storying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talk story
talk storied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talk story
prognostizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prognostize
prognostizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prognostize
prognostized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prognostize
pseudisodomum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudisodomon.
autotagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + tagging.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: automatic tagging
Kitsilano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by Charles Hill-Trout, from an anglicisation of the Squamish X̱atsʼalanexw, a personal name, after August Jack Khatsahlano.
Senses: synonyms: Kits
glosses: A neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
wikipedia: August Jack Khatsahlano
psikhushka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psikhushkas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian психу́шка (psixúška).
Senses: glosses: A mental hospital used for abusive psychiatric treatment of political dissidents.
Tolkieny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tolkieny
form: most Tolkieny
Etymology: From Tolkien + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Pauline Baynes' illustrations have always seemed to me more suited to the atmosphere of "Hans Christian Andersen” tales, but this time she has come up with a very appealing cover design with a far more "Tolkieny” feel about it .
ref: 1968, Gandalf's Garden, numbers 1-4, page 31:
text: If this sounds a bit Tolkieny, why not? So is Wagner’s Ring cycle.
ref: 2016 February 6, Ismene Brown, “Unforgettable fire”, in The Spectator, page 50:
text: Those little leggies of yours make the trek to Orchid Avenue downright Tolkieny.
ref: 2021, Bryan CP Steele, Shadowrun: Tourist Trapped, unnumbered page:
synonyms: Tolkienesque
Tolkienian
Tolkienish
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.
Singapore-on-the-Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Singapore-on-Thames.
Singapore-upon-Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Singapore-on-Thames.
closure temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closure temperatures
Etymology: Coined 1973 by Martin H. Dodson.
Senses: examples: text: The relationship between the closure temperature of a mineral and its cooling history can be put onto a more rigorous footing by the use of some thermodynamics.
ref: 1990, C. M. R. Fowler, The Solid Earth, Cambridge University Press, page 199:
text: Dodson (1973) introduced the term closure temperature, which he defined as the temperature of the thermochronological system at the time t#95;c corresponding to its apparent age (cf. Figure 2.1). The closure temperature, which by definition lies between the open-system and blocking temperatures, provides the simplest conceptual entity to which a thermochronological age can be related.
ref: 2006, Jean Braun, Peter van der Beek, Geoffrey Batt, Quantitative Thermochronology, Cambridge University Press, page 23:
text: 2020, Barbara A. Romanowicz, Seismic Tomography of the Earth's Mantle, David Alderton, Scott A. Elias (editors-in-chief), Encyclopedia of Geology, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, page 606,
As the closure temperature varies for every mineral and isotopic system, a system can be closed for one mineral at some temperature but open for another.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: blocking temperature
glosses: The temperature, of a mineral, etc., below which there is no significant diffusion of isotopes into the external environment; the temperature of said mineral at the time it was formed (as calculated by radiometric dating).
closure temperatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closure temperature
tolerance break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolerance breaks
Senses: glosses: A break from a drug, especially cannabis, in an attempt to lower one's tolerance to the drug.
tolerance breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolerance break
waterstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterstreams
form: water stream
Etymology: From Middle English water streme, from Old English wæterstrēam, from Proto-West Germanic *watarstraum, equivalent to water + stream. Cognate with West Frisian wetterstream, Dutch waterstroom, German Wasserstrom.
Senses: examples: text: When the solid supply of a waterstream is high and the transfer capacity is not adequate for the transportation of the corresponding solid material, flow speed is reduced and deposition of the heavier solid material begins.
ref: 2009, Kosmas Pavlopoulos, Niki Evelpidou, Andreas Vassilopoulos, Mapping Geomorphological Environments, page 55:
glosses: A stream of water.
waterstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterstream
1TBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of one true brace style.
OTBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of one true brace style.
one true brace style
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the one true brace style
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: word: 1TBS
word: OTBS
glosses: A source code formatting preference resembling K&R style, but where the braces are not omitted for a control statement with only a single statement in its scope.
porotiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A kind of pump drill used in the Maori culture.
pump drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump drills
Senses: hyponyms: porotiti
glosses: A simple hand-powered device used to impart a rapid rotating motion to a rod (the spindle or drill shaft), used to start a fire or to drill holes.
pump drills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pump drill
Lake Butler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Union County, Florida, United States, named after Robert Butler (U.S. commander).
glosses: A census-designated place surrounding the town of Windermere, Orange County, Florida.
glosses: A lake in Polk County, Florida.
mustn't grumble
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Not bad; implying that life is not bad and one should not complain about it.
Related terms: stiff upper lip
cohencidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohencidences
Etymology: Blend of Cohen + coincidence
Senses: examples: text: 1st Annual Meeting of Israelien Impersonators, held this inaugural year, amazing — O what a Cohencidence! such cohenesthesia!
ref: 2010 May 11, Joshua Cohen, Witz (American Literature Series) (American Literature Series), Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 407:
text: Interestingly, the “Holocaust gassing hysteria” didn’t begin until 1967,
about the same time that the Jews attacked their Arab neighbors and
stole their land — that must be just a big Cohencidence! You’d think
that the Holocaust gassing hysteria would have begun in 1945 or 1946!
ref: 2019 March 9, rebcar...@gmail.com, “More Holohoaxing”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
text: • Soros owns company where Coronavirus broke out.
• Israel-linked Dr. Charles *Lieber* arrested for receiving payment and smuggling biomaterials to Wuhan University.
• Israel was “already working on a vaccine”
• That's some MIGHTY BIG COHENCIDENCES.
ref: 2022 June 2, Steven Katz, The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism (Cambridge Companions to Religion), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Something that seems like a coincidence but is actually the work of conspiratorial Jewish groups.
Derived terms: cohencidental
cohencidences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohencidence
breadbasket of Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the breadbasket of Europe
Etymology: Referring to Ukraine being the source of much of Europe's grain, due to its rich soil.
Senses: glosses: Ukraine.
Bests
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Best
Khanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
statutory holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statutory holidays
Senses: glosses: A public holiday that is enacted by law.
statutory holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statutory holiday
hallmark holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallmark holidays
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hallmark holiday.
hallmark holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallmark holiday
blind man's holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blindman's holiday.
winter holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter holidays
Senses: coordinate_terms: summer holiday
glosses: A time of rest from work or studies during the winter months.
winter holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winter holiday
pigeon fancier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeon fanciers
Senses: glosses: A person who keeps pigeons as pets.
Derived terms: pigeon fancier's lung
Blountstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Blount + -s- + town, after John Blount, a Creek Indian chief.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Calhoun County, Florida, United States.
Alonsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɑːn.sə/
ipa: /əˈlɑn.sə/
rhymes: -ɑːnsə
Etymology: The community is named after Canadian surveyor Alonsa Philips.
Senses: glosses: A community and rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
Green Cove Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the portion of the St. Johns River upon which it was built.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Clay County, Florida, United States.
Bifrost-Riverton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.fɹɑst ˈɹɪv.ɚ.tən/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)tən
Etymology: The municipality is named after the former municipality of Bifrost and the community of Riverton.
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
endoerythrocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + erythrocytic.
Senses: glosses: Inside an erythrocyte
St. Johns River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The longest river in the state of Florida, United States, 310 miles long.
Boissevain-Morton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪ.zə.veɪn ˈmɔɹ.tən/
rhymes: -ɔɹtən
Etymology: The municipality is named after the community of Boissevain and the former rural municipality of Morton.
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
Brenda-Waskada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The municipality is named after the former municipality of Brenda and the community of Waskada.
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
Brokenhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹoʊ.kən.hɛd/
rhymes: -əʊkənhɛd
Etymology: The community is named after the Brokenhead River.
Senses: glosses: A community and rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
calpultin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calpulli
radiometric age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiometric ages
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Allen H. Andrews, Erica J. Burton, Kenneth H. Coale, Gregor M. Cailliet, Roy E. Crabtree, Radiometric age validation of Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus, Fishery Bulletin, Volume 99, Issue 3, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, page 394,
For older age groups and individual cores, annulus-derived age was higher than radiometric age by as much as 21.8 years and lower than radiometric age by as much as 23 years.
text: For additional radiometric ages and references to the radiometric ages in the table above see Dickinson, (1997), Wilson et al., (2005) and Tables A1–A6 in Hall, (2002).
ref: 2007, Clarence A. Hall Jr., Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and Its Native Plants, University of California Press, page 129:
text: Use is made of a smoothing spline fit on the two way plot between the composite standard scaling of the stages (Table 23.2) and radiometric ages.
ref: 2012, Felix. M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Mark D. Schmitz, Gabi M. Ogg, The Geologic Time Scale 2012, Elsevier, page 638:
topics: archaeology
biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The age of a material as determined by radiometric dating.
Related terms: closure temperature
geochronometer
radiometric ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiometric age
David City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Butler County, Nebraska, United States, named after David Butler (politician).
betaish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more betaish
form: most betaish
Etymology: From beta + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: VB6 projects can be migrated to VB .NET, but there's no way to automagically port onwards to C#. There was a betaish tool that converted C# code to VB .NET, but I'm not sure if it was ever officially released.
ref: 2002 October 22, Mickey Williams, “Re: .NET Alpha/Beta Code Generator”, in microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a beta version.
Plattsmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Platte + -s- + mouth, situated at the mouth of the Platte River.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Cass County, Nebraska, United States.
wikipedia: Platte River
praepunctis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A compound neume consisting of one or more notes appended before a neume.
plumed whistling duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumed whistling ducks
Senses: glosses: A species of duck, Dendrocygna eytoni, primarily of the Australian mainland, having large pale ornamental plumes on the flanks.
plumed whistling ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumed whistling duck
Clay Center
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Clay County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A minor city, the county seat of Clay County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A village in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, derived from Clay Township.
linking element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linking elements
Senses: examples: text: Many compounds require a linking element or interfix between the parts. Common interfixes are -s, -es, -n, -en, -e.
ref: 1995, Christopher Beedham, German Linguistics: An Introduction
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An element of morphological analysis, usually carrying no meaning, used to connect words or stems to form compounds.
Related terms: interfix
lallang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lying there, on a shake-down comfortable enough, made up of dried lallang - the thick, strong grass of the country - covered by a scarlet blanket, and looking very feeble and wan, was my old chum of bygone years in the --th Regiment!
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 158:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lalang.
back-pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-pockets
form: back-pocketing
form: back-pocketed
form: back-pocketed
form: backpocket
Etymology: From back pocket.
Senses: examples: text: “Right.” He back-pocketed the notebook and lifted the Nikon from my bag. “Take a few steps down the hill and point toward the ruins so I can get both in one shot.”
ref: 2003, Robert Eversz, Burning Garbo: A Nina Zero Novel, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, published 2005, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: To put (something) into a back pocket.
examples: text: “All the lyrics talk about is humility and heartbreak, and then at the end it’s exuberance and joy,” Hines said. “The only way that fits is if the Caps win the Stanley Cup, so I sort of back-pocketed the idea for years. I put together multiple iterations of it in my head, and it just never panned out, because they never ended up finishing the deal.”
ref: 2019 June 7, Scott Allen, “How Mumford and Sons became the soundtrack for Capitals’ Stanley Cup triumph”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To put (something) aside for future use; to keep in reserve.
Related terms: in one's back pocket
back pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back pockets
form: backpocket
form: back-pocket
Etymology: From back + pocket.
Senses: examples: text: To appear in the know, regale your new Italian chums with tales of how he covered the Italy squad in his Panini stickers album with nothing but his own face, or the classic story of the time he was stopped by police with £5,000 in cash in his backpocket and explained it with the line "Because I am rich".
ref: 2014 June 20, Pete Cashmore, “How to become an instant Italy fan”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A pocket found on the back of a pair of trousers.
Derived terms: word: back-pocket
word: in one's back pocket
Related terms: hip pocket
Broken Bow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A township in Custer County, Nebraska.
glosses: A city in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States, named after the Nebraska city.
Sunakism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːnækɪzəm/
Etymology: From Sunak + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This is Sunakism: a belief that it’s suicidal for any government to depend on high borrowing and low interest rates, because those rates could surge at any time.
ref: 2020 December 19, Katy Balls, Fraser Nelson, “‘It’s not morally right to keep borrowing at these levels’: Rishi Sunak’s plan to fix the UK economy”, in The Spectator:
text: But for the time being, it feels as though Johnsonism – with its infrastructure spending and red wall handouts – is winning out over whatever Sunakism might turn out to be.
ref: 2021 October 27, Heather Stewart, “Johnsonism wins budget battle but will Sunakism win the war?”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The political philosophy associated with Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.
Sunakite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːnækaɪt/
Forms: form: Sunakites
Etymology: From Sunak + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: This is stupid politics from the Sunakites. It is akin to being 4-0 down in a football match in injury time and instead of accepting defeat gracefully going around elbowing opponents in the face and performing leg-breaking tackles.
ref: 2022 August 10, Patrick O'Flynn, “Why Rishi Sunak shouldn’t quit”, in The Spectator:
text: I don't write as a long-term Sunakite (or Sunakster or Sunakparast or whatever the agentive sux is). The only conversation I have had with our dapper PM was an awkward phone call in which I told him I would be voting for Liz Truss.
ref: 2023 October 1, Daniel Hannan, “It may be too late, but it is heartening to see Sunak governing like a true Conservative”, in Sunday Telegraph, page 21:
text: Team Sunak were clearly hoping for a "moment" which would flesh out his hopes of having the UK act as a bridge between the US and European regulation. The result was a speech peculiarly unsuited to an international event, to the horror of Sunakites who hoped for "special AI relationship with knobs on" (as one aide put it).
ref: 2024 July 23, Anne McElvoy, “Clunky Kamala can still take the fight to Trump with vigour”, in Evening Standard, page 16:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political supporter of Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.
Sunakite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːnækaɪt/
Etymology: From Sunak + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: My view is that Truss will be forced to adopt those Sunakite, overwhelmingly statist policies anyway, because the alternative is mass penury. The first test of her skill will be how she presents the emergency measures as something she, as a conviction politician, believed in all along.
ref: 2022 August 21, John Rentoul, “Why Truss could be a successful prime minister”, in Gulf Today:
text: Alex Chalk, the cool Sunakite justice secretary, has just abandoned Dominic Raab’s “British Bill of Rights”, which was itself a rather timid attempt to curtail the European court’s powers.
ref: 2023 June 30, John Rentoul, “Defeat over the Rwanda policy is a disaster for Sunak”, in The Independent, page 25:
text: The diaries are the first attempt at setting out a recognisably Sunakite version of the Tories’ recent history. In essence the argument goes that there was nothing that could have rescued the party’s fortunes after Truss resigned.
ref: 2025 March 8, Declan Lyons, “The punishing life of a chief whip”, in The Spectator, London:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to the government, policies, or supporters of Rishi Sunak.
Sunaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunak
back pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back pocket
backpocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpockets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back pocket.
backpocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backpockets
form: backpocketing
form: backpocketed
form: backpocketed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back-pocket.
backpockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backpocket
backpockets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backpocket
backpocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backpocket
backpocketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backpocket
in one's hip pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Wyden right now is coming up with his own provisions that could fit into that” final legislation, said Nathan Dean, a government analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “Think of this as something to have in his hip pocket when the Democrats start negotiating.”
ref: 2021 September 14, Sam Potter, Katherine Greifeld, Elaine Chen, “ETF Industry Risks Losing Key Tax Edge as Democrat Whets Knife”, in Bloomberg:
glosses: Synonym of in one's back pocket.
synonyms: word: in one's back pocket
hip pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip pockets
form: hip-pocket
Senses: glosses: A pocket found near of just behind the hip in a pair of trousers or a skirt.
examples: text: So inflation at the moment has little to do with us wanting more. We’re already taking proactive steps to protect our hip pockets in the face of rising interest rates. While prices have gone up, household spending has not.
ref: 2022 July 19, Jessica Mizrahi, “With inflation rising in Australia, an uncomfortable truth is we waste a lot of what we have”, in The Guardian:
text: It's not just the grey days. Already bruised by a steadily rising cost of living, we've been warned by the Treasurer to expect more hip-pocket pain as the price of food spikes because of the floods.
ref: 2022 October 19, John Hanscombe, “The Echidna: Stuck on a treadmill of trauma”, in The Canberra Times:
synonyms: wallet
glosses: A person's assets; financial matters.
Derived terms: hip-pocket
hip-pocket flask
hip pocket frog
hit in the hip pocket
in one's hip pocket
stay in someone's hip pocket
Related terms: back pocket
hip flask
hip revolver
post-capitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postcapitalist.
post-capitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-capitalists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postcapitalist.
post-capitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postcapitalism.
science-fictionish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more science-fictionish
form: most science-fictionish
form: science fictionish
Etymology: From science fiction + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, speaking of science-fictionish, are you aware of the fact that one branch of future studies and future methodologies grew out of the Pentagon?90 Think about those futures. In 1983, Bob Dylan would sing, in “Union Sundown” (Infidels)[…]
ref: 2009 12, Terry Stocker, The Paleolithic Paradigm, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 51:
text: That was sort of science-fictionish, so I got back into science fiction after that. Q: Now that you are writing science fiction consciously, as opposed to when you were doing it without knowing it was science fiction, does this change[…]
ref: 2012 July 9, Darrell Schweitzer, George R.R. Martin, James Morrow, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Joe W. Haldeman, Harry Turtledove, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D. G. Compton, Howard Waldrop, Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Citing “spare, surreal, science-fictionish” television ads that are “unmistakably evocative of the sixties (or fifties),” Appadurai observes a dynamic that looks backward and forward simultaneously (77). In remembering 1950s futurism,[…]
ref: 2014 September 1, Rob Latham, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 443:
glosses: Similar to science fiction.
Synonyms: science-fictiony
science fictionish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more science fictionish
form: most science fictionish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of science-fictionish.
fictionish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fictionish
form: most fictionish
Etymology: From fiction + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The only fictionish thing about it is his having written it in the first person as he tells the reader plainly. Personally, I own I never heard of Gerald O'Connor before. But that's because I always turned a deaf ear to all the[…]
ref: 1908, Maria Price La Touche, The Letters of a Noble Woman (Mrs. La Touche of Harristown), page 188:
text: ... mat of a fictionish discursive flow with eighteen black and white reproductions of ...
ref: 2005, India International Centre, India International Centre Quarterly:
text: In an industry where it is hard to tell fact from fiction anymore, one writer said bookstores might as well label genre sections “Fictionish,” “Memoirish,” and “Cartoonish.” When. Changing. Genres. Means. Changing. Forms.
ref: 2011 November 1, Laura Oliver, M.F.A., The Story Within: New Insights and Inspiration for Writers, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Similar to fiction.
Synonyms: fictiony
Related terms: pulp-fictionish
science-fictionish
pulp-fictionish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulp-fictionish
form: most pulp-fictionish
Etymology: From pulp fiction + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Similar to or reminiscent of pulp fiction.
science fictiony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more science fictiony
form: most science fictiony
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of science-fictiony.
hip-pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hip-pockets
form: hip-pocketing
form: hip-pocketed
form: hip-pocketed
Etymology: From hip pocket.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Of a talent agent, to informally represent (an actor, screenwriter etc.) without signing a formal contract.
hip-pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hip pocket.
Senses: examples: text: a hip-pocket guide
glosses: Of a size suitable for putting into a hip pocket; of small size or scope.
hip pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip pocket
fictiony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fictiony
form: most fictiony
Etymology: From fiction + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The taint of being 'fictiony' is, above all, to be avoided." *** Harper & Brothers, 49 East 33rd Street, New York, N. Y., and[…]
ref: 1927, The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers:
text: Gabriel Tolliver is "fictiony," and too much sweetening is sprinkled into the tale […]
ref: 1969, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art:
text: ... scales in each chapter will help you navigate between the bits you can cite when writing your own histories, and the fictiony sparkles enlivening those bits. The fictiony sparkles are happening in the time of the room in which the[…]
ref: 2021, Carla Nappi, Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fiction.
Synonyms: fictionish
Related terms: science-fictiony
Gonsiorek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gonsioreks
form: Gasiorek
form: Gonschorek
form: Gonshorek
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of Polish Gąsiorek, from gąsiorek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Gonshorek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gonshoreks
form: Gasiorek
form: Gonschorek
form: Gonsiorek
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of Polish Gąsiorek, from gąsiorek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Aksaray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in the Central Anatolia region, Turkey.
glosses: A district of Aksaray Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital city of Aksaray district and Aksaray Province, Turkey.
glosses: A neighbourhood of the municipality of Fatih, Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Derived terms: Aksaray Malaklisi
Red Cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor city, the county seat of Webster County, Nebraska, United States, named after Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud.
hip pocket frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip pocket frogs
Senses: examples: text: The frogs are commonly referred to as pouched or hip pocket frogs, or sometimes the marsupial frog. […] “The hip pocket frog is not only unique for its amazing breeding biology among Australian frogs, but it is also unique among frogs of the world,” said the University of Newcastle’s Michael Mahony, one of the researchers who discovered the frog.
ref: 2021 November 7, Lisa Cox, “New species of rare tadpole-carrying frog discovered in northern NSW”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: pouched frog
marsupial frog
glosses: Either of two species of frog, Assa darlingtoni and Assa wollumbin, endemic to eastern Australia, notable in that the males have subcutaneous pouches on their hips in which they carry their tadpoles until they metamorphosize.
hip pocket frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip pocket frog
Artvin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in northeastern Turkey, on the Black Sea and Georgian border.
glosses: A district of Artvin Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital city of Artvin district and Artvin Province, Turkey.
Balıkesir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Balıkesir.
Senses: glosses: A province and metropolitan municipality in northwestern Turkey, with coasts on both the Mediterranean and the Sea of Marmara.
glosses: A city, the capital of Balıkesir Province, Turkey.
Synonyms: word: Hadrianotherae
word: Hadrianoutherai
Chingshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 清水 (Qīngshuǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-shui³.
Senses: examples: text: Cho Yi-yueh, of Chingshui, Taichung County, went to Japan in 1937 when he was 19. He began training as a sumo wrestler under the professional name of Niitakayama.
ref: 1976 January 4, “Giant wrestler returns home from Japan for retirement”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVII, number 1, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: Legislators yesterday stated their displeasure with plans to demolish a military residence in Chingshui Township (清水), Taichung County, saying that Taiwanese culture is at risk.
ref: 2006 March 16, Jean Lin, “Taiwanese culture at risk, say legislators”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
text: One wall of Graffiti 43648, a graffiti art village, in Hsiushui Borough in Greater Taichung’s Chingshui District on April 25.
ref: 2012 July 23, Meng-Chuan (蘇孟娟) Su, “台中街頭塗鴉區再增二處 [Taichung adds two more official graffiti areas]”, in Kyle Jeffcoat, transl., Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2012:
english: Taichung adds two more official graffiti areas
translation: Taichung adds two more official graffiti areas
glosses: Alternative form of Qingshui.
Ossipee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.
glosses: A town in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States.
infowhelm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From info- + whelm.
Senses: examples: text: Artists entangle epistemologies by turning scientific information into a representational device in its own right. That is, information becomes a distinct aesthetic element and a space of interpretive activity that diagnoses infowhelm—and, in some cases, even reproduces it—and experiments with ways of managing it.
ref: 2020, Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data, Columbia University Press, page 2:
text: If a change in our diet can potentially modulate the individual impact of glucotoxicity, can another semiotic regime remedy infowhelm?
ref: 2021, Pierre-Louis Patoine, “How Sugarcane Accelerated Semiosis During Industrial Moderity, and How We Can Slow Down with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, in Yogi Hale Hendlin, Jonathan Hope, editors, Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective, Springer, page 72:
text: How can society overcome the paralysis caused by “infowhelm” and denial? As with most complex challenges, one size does not fit all.
ref: 2022, Rachel Dreyfus, Anna Price, “How companies and organizations can overcome ‘infowhelm’ and motivate action for the planet”, in Quirk's Media:
glosses: An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information.
Lake Pleasant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Places and lakes in the United States:
A village and lake in Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts.
glosses: Places and lakes in the United States:
A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota; the former lake with this name has been drained.
glosses: Places and lakes in the United States:
A hamlet, the county seat of Hamilton County, New York.
glosses: Places and lakes in the United States:
A town and lake in Hamilton County, New York; both lake and hamlet are within the town.
glosses: Places and lakes in the United States:
A lake in Clallam County, Washington.
coteacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coteachers
Etymology: From co- + teacher.
Senses: examples: text: Not only are you with your coteacher every day, you are also working toward a common goal: making sure your students learn to their fullest potential.
ref: 2018, Serena Pariser, Real Talk About Classroom Management, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: A teacher that one works alongside.
coteachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coteacher
co-teacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-teachers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coteacher.
co-teachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-teacher
monkeypatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monkeypatch
monkeypatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monkeypatch
curl one out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curls one out
form: curling one out
form: curled one out
form: curled one out
Senses: examples: text: I searched for a place to empty my bowels and found an empty compound. As much as I frowned on the way these people lived, I wasn't going to curl one out on their pillow.
ref: 2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell, Fonthill Media, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: To defecate.
curls one out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curl one out
curling one out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curl one out
curled one out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curl one out
zygomaticotemporal nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygomaticotemporal nerve
zygomaticofacial nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygomaticofacial nerve
zygomatic nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygomatic nerve
Zornhaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zornhau
zootopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zootope
zoöspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoösphere
Little Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
glosses: A township in McPherson County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.
glosses: A village, the county seat of Cattaraugus County, New York, located within the town.
acetophenetidides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetophenetidide
acetopropionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetopropionate
acetotoluides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetotoluide
acetotoluidides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetotoluidide
acetoxyacetyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetoxyacetyl
Conwy County Borough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county borough of Wales located between Gwynedd and Denbighshire.
peshash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peshashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pisachee.
peshashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peshash
Geneseo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful valley".
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Henry County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Rice County, Kansas, named after Geneseo, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Livingston County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Livingston County, New York, located within the town.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Genesee, California.
rarted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rarted
form: most rarted
Etymology: Derived from a misspelling of the word retarded.
Senses: examples: text: What the hell man? Are you rarted?
glosses: Retarded; extremely stupid or deranged.
Sivalik Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shivalik Hills
Senses: glosses: A mountain range of the outer Himalayas that stretches over about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) from the Indus River eastwards close to the Brahmaputra River, spanning the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.
Shivalik Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sivalik Hills.
Wampsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Previously named Wempsville, apparently derived from the founder's name, Johann Myndert Wemple.
Senses: glosses: A village, the county seat of Madison County, New York, United States, located in the town of Lenox.
Siwalikh Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Sivalik Hills.