cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
decopunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Deco + -punk.
Senses: examples: text: The walls are bedecked with improbable decopunk contraptions, a chrome rocket hangs above the entrance, and the servers are uniformed in snappy Eastern European military outfits, like crew members of a visiting zeppelin.
ref: 2012 February, David Dudley, “Lost City Diner”, in Urbanite, page 57:
text: Join Valente, bestselling author of the Fairyland series, for a talk on Radiance, a decopunk pulp sci fi alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own.
ref: 2015 October 28, “Phoenix Books Presents”, in Seven Days, page 52:
text: Although it represents an underdeveloped derivative of cyberpunk, decopunk appears a more adequate descriptor for Bioshock's visual and design aesthetic, both externally and internally.
ref: 2018, Gareth Schott, “What or Who is behind Rapture? Experimentation, Social Engineering, and Bio-Hacking in Bioshock”, in Felan Parker, Jessica Aldred, editors, Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, page 226:
glosses: A subset of the dieselpunk science fiction genre and aesthetic that incorporates Art Deco elements and other aspects of the technology, culture, and fashion of the 1920s-1930s.
toban djan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 豆板醤 (トウバンジャン, tōbanjan), transcribed using French spelling convention.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tobanjan.
Sidamo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sidama.
Burji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Cushitic language spoken in southern Ethiopia.
Konso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Cushitic language of southwest Ethiopia.
you know nothing, Jon Snow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From a catchphrase said repeatedly by the character Ygritte to Jon Snow in the novel A Storm of Swords (2000) by George R. R. Martin. The phrase, initially used reproachfully and then later affectionately after Jon and Ygritte fall in love, was popularised by its use in the television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Senses: examples: text: People in New York are complaining about how hot it is and I’m like you know nothing Jon Snow.
ref: 2014, @becafarmer, quoted in Metro (New York), 3 July 2014 - 6 July 2014, page 2
text: All your planning is done. Your bag is packed. You've got your pass. You've finished marathoning Orphan Black. It's con time. But if you think you're ready to head inside just because you've done all this planning, you know nothing, Jon Snow. There is a lot to deal with once you're through the front doors.
ref: 2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Geek Girls, page 124:
text: Charles nodded, understanding. "I know."
From up front, Pete said, "You know nothing, Jon Snow."
ref: 2023, Jason Powell, No Man's Ghost, unnumbered page:
glosses: Used to imply that someone lacks experience, knowledge, or understanding, especially as a rebuttal of a previous statement.
wikipedia: A Storm of Swords
Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
Jon Snow (character)
Ygritte
recals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recal
doughnutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doughnut
Hebraisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebraism
chearfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chearful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Sun to the Terms of Mercury. It inclineth the native to be Mercurial, given to ſtudy Arts and Sciences, and to delight in reading, and to follow his Calling with chearfulneſs.
ref: 1682, Joseph Blagrave, “[The Effects of Directions.] The Sun Directed unto Promittors.”, in Obadiah Blagrave, editor, Blagrave’s Introduction to Astrology. In Three Parts. […], London: Printed by E. Tyler, and R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], →OCLC, part III, page 254:
text: “Come, come,” ſaid Madame D’Alberg, forcing an appearance of chearfulneſs which ſhe was far from feeling; […]
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter IV, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 76:
text: Nature has made ſorrow and grief the companions of age, and beſtowed chearfulneſs on youth, to prepare it for the ſufferings of declining years. I never knew chearfulneſs.—My enjoyments have been the hard fare of a common ſoldier, and the ſeverity of the ſerjeant into the bargain.
ref: 1798, Augustus von Kotzebue, translated by Stephen Porter, Lovers’ Vows, or, The Child of Love. […], London: […] J. Parsons, […], page 82:
glosses: Obsolete form of cheerfulness.
Szydłowiec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Szydłowiec.
Senses: glosses: A town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
Gostynin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Gostynin.
Senses: glosses: A town and county of Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
Garwolin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Garwolin.
Senses: glosses: A town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
woman servant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woman servants
form: women servants
Senses: examples: text: […] they learned that all the domeſtics had appeared; and the women ſervants, began to be very eloquent in praiſe of D’Alonville, to whom they declared the preſervation of the family had been entirely owing; […]
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter IV, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages 91–92:
text: But two cheerful women servants appeared from what was presumably the kitchen direction, wheeling a curious wicker erection, which his small guide informed him was called Aunt Clatter—manifestly deservedly—and which bore on its shelves the substance of the meal.
ref: 1916, H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Book I, Chapter 1, § 9:
text: It was no longer acceptable for employers to beat servants, but some pushed woman servants around or boxed their ears or scolded them humiliatingly, calling them “silly girl,” “lazybones,” or “blockhead.”
ref: 2002, Marilyn French, “Industrialization”, in From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, volumes 3 (Infernos and Paradises, the Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century), The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, published 2008, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of womanservant.
woman servants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman servant
women servants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman servant
wear yellow stockings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears yellow stockings
form: wearing yellow stockings
form: wore yellow stockings
form: worn yellow stockings
Etymology: Compare Swedish bära svarta strumpor.
Senses: glosses: be jealous
Cleganebowl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Clegane + bowl (“a postseason football competition”).
Senses: examples: text: Believers in the Cleganebowl were a unique brand of fans who embraced the tagline “GET HYPE.”
ref: 2019, Kim Renfro, The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones, page 173:
text: In a similar vein to Cleganebowl, I feel almost certain that Hodor will appear as a wight in the Night King's army.
ref: 2019, Joe Cunningham, "Game of Thrones Season 8", University Express (University College Cork), 2 April 2019, page 18
text: The style evident in the ‘Cleganebowl’ scene contrasts with that apparent in the intercut scenes, which follow the narrative perspective of Arya Stark.
ref: 2021, Daniel Clarke, “A city in flames: King’s Landing as artistic archive in HBO’s Game of Thrones”, in Landscape Research, volume 47, number 7, page 905:
qualifier: ASoIaF/GoT fandom slang
glosses: The showdown between brothers Sandor Clegane and Gregor Clegane on the television series Game of Thrones.
wikipedia: Clegane
Przasnysz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Przasnysz.
Senses: glosses: A town and county of Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
Kozienice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Kozienice.
Senses: glosses: A town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
Aŋlɔ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aŋlɔs
Senses: examples: text: He added that already, indigenous clerks in the provincial centres of Kpalime and Kpando were western Eʋes (mostly Aŋlɔs) and not Popos (Anexɔs).
ref: 1971, Gilbert Ansre, “Language Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in Thomas A[lbert] Sebeok, editor, Current Trends in Linguistics, volume 7 (Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa), The Hague; Paris: Mouton, →LCCN, page 687:
text: The following song makes reference to a Dahomean war in which the Aŋlɔs seemed to have taken part.
ref: 1975, E. Y. Egblewogbe, Games and Songs as Education Media (A Case Study Among the Ewes of Ghana), Ghana Publishing Corporation, page 60:
text: The next day when Campbell was returning to Keta, he was attacked by 3,000 Aŋlɔs and wounded five times and some others, including Tameklo’s sons were killed.
ref: 1976, Charles M. K. Mamattah, The Eʋes of West Africa: The Aŋlɔ-Eʋes and Their Immediate Neighbours, Volta Research Publications, page 656:
text: The second group, which includes the present-day Aŋlɔs first went to settle in Adele in Togo before joining the rest in ŋɔtsie later.
ref: 2001, Jane Garry, Carl R. Galvez Rubino, editors, Facts About the World’s Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages, Past and Present, H. W. Wilson Company, →ISBN, page 208, column 1:
text: The previous exchange in (36) does show that some amount of the relative frame of reference is used among the Aŋlɔs as well, even if not by everybody.
ref: 2006, Felix K. Ameka, James Essegbey, “Elements of the grammar of space in Ewe”, in Stephen C. Levinson, David Wilkins, editors, Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 385:
text: The Aŋlɔs clearly demonstrated that they preferred to stay with their traditional religion and were suspicious of the missionaries' true objective which they believed was trade.
ref: 2017, David C. K. Tay, Mawuli School: The Early Years, FriesenPress, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Anlo.
Aŋlɔ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Additionally the verb me in Aŋlɔ is used when reference is made to the Supreme Being as creator.
ref: 1968, Journal of Religion in Africa, volumes 1–3, Brill Publishers, page 69:
text: He continued that Lome, which was mainly Aŋlɔ-speaking, would become the capital town, the educational headquarters, and the terminal for the proposed railway system which was to service the interior.
ref: 1971, Gilbert Ansre, “Language Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in Thomas A[lbert] Sebeok, editor, Current Trends in Linguistics, volume 7 (Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa), The Hague; Paris: Mouton, →LCCN, page 687:
text: And today, for the Aŋlɔ speakers, “s” and “z” have two values each […]
ref: 2000, Hounkpati Bamikpo Christophe Capo, The New Ewe Orthography: Based on the GBE Uniform Standard Orthography, Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Even though Duthie’s observation may not be wholly correct, it may explain why the Aŋlɔ speaking teacher tends to regard his dialect as the Standard form.
ref: 2001, Actes du colloque inter-universitaire sur la coexistence des langues en Afrique de l’Ouest: Ouagadougou du 26 au 28 septembre 2001, Université de Ouagadougou, Centre d'étude et de recherche en lettres, science humaines et sociales, page 293:
text: The Ewe spoken in Ghana consists of Aŋlɔ in the coastal towns and the Inland dialects to the north (Ministry of Education of Ghana, 2000).
ref: 2005, Sophia A. Adjaye, Ghanaian English Pronunciation, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Inland speakers are more likely to use the relative frame of reference, while Aŋlɔ speakers use both relative and absolute frames of reference with some preference for the latter.
ref: 2006, Felix K. Ameka, James Essegbey, “Elements of the grammar of space in Ewe”, in Stephen C. Levinson, David Wilkins, editors, Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 382:
glosses: Alternative form of Anlo.
Aŋlɔs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aŋlɔ
dracarys
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from High Valyrian dracarys. Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in that fictional language featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Senses: examples: text: Tiny lines of blue lightning wrapped around the silver rings on my fingers. Hellfire came to me so easily.
"Dracarys," murmured Harvey, and shot me a smile. "That's from a TV show. Just trying to be supportive."
ref: 2020, Sarah Rees Brennan, Sabrina: Path of Knight, unnumbered page:
text: They're watching me like they expected me to start yelling “Dracarys” and torching random buildings, even though they've no proof that I did anything wrong and the source of the fire is still under investigation.
ref: 2022, E. M. Snow, Malice, unnumbered pages
text: The starter whirls for what seems like 15 seconds and then, Dracarys, the fire spitter behind your head starts howling.
ref: 2022 April, Jonny Lieberman, “Attempt To Tame The Most Ferocious Pagani Yet”, in Motor Trend, page 37:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Used to underscore the act, intent, or desire to start a fire or burn something.
dracarys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dracaryses
form: dracarysing
form: dracarysed
form: dracarysed
Etymology: Learned borrowing from High Valyrian dracarys. Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in that fictional language featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Senses: examples: text: It's no secret that I love hot and spicy food, so in addition to the hundred-plus people I'd like to dracarys on a daily basis, I'd do it to my Bloody to ensure it has extra heat.
ref: 2020, Joey Skladany, Basic Bitchen, page 35:
text: What Warren Buffett Should've Told Ya #5: You Didn't Get into This to Dracarys a Bitch
ref: 2021, Phoebe Robinson, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays, page 90:
text: On my last day of work, when I wanted to Dracarys everyone (I'll get to that), I realised why.
ref: 2023, Sonja Hadj Said, Bluebird, unnumbered page:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To burn or destroy.
Białobrzegi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Białobrzegi.
Senses: glosses: A town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: Various villages in Poland.
I choose violence
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "No One" (2016) of the television series Game of Thrones, in which Cersei Lannister, facing clerical detention and ordered to restrain her bodyguard, calmly responds, "I choose violence."
Senses: examples: text: You see, I have this funny thing I say every morning and to my close circle of women friends quite often, especially when they're looking for advice on how to deal with white privilege and entitlement, and that is: 'Choose violence' I don't mean this literally. But when we say what needs to be said, a Black woman will always be seen as aggressive or arrogant, instead of confident, unafraid and assertive. […] But choosing the easier path doesn't benefit me, harmlessness does not benefit me. I choose violence.
ref: 2022, Haji Mohamed Dawjee, Here's the Thing, unnumbered page:
text: On my last night in town before heading to the Midwest, I decide to try the hot dog at the Cape Cod Cafe. The suggestion draws some mockery on both sides of the family, who know damn well that coming to CCC without getting a bar pizza is a waste of their money (I offer to pay: "Oh my God, Mrs. Hollywood with her own frickin' money, huh," an aunt says before slapping down a Visa with travel points). It is overpriced, eight dollars without any description except "hot dog." I choose violence. I order the hot dog.
ref: 2023, Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, unnumbered pages
text: The boring asss griiiiind. I usually enjoy the grind, I’m currently up to my ears in Diablo4 grind. It was just so bland and monotonous. Same with Witcher3 and Skyrim……I choose violence.
ref: 2023 June 28, u/KickballJamal, Reddit, r/AskReddit:
glosses: Used to express that one is firmly committed to making one's own choice(s) regardless of disapproval from others.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, choose, violence.
Related terms: choose violence
sushi burrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sushi burritos
Senses: examples: text: Then there are sushirritos (sushi burritos) and other hybrid foods occurring as Latinos and other ethnic groups interact.
ref: 2013, Leo Chavez, The Latino Threat, page 213:
text: Of all the faux burritos I tried the sushi burrito is the farthest departure, but it works by reminding us of everything these two great dishes have in common.
ref: 2016 August 16, Charlotte Simmonds, “With Burger King's Whopperrito, have we reached peak burrito?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
synonyms: sushirrito
glosses: A dish in Japanese-American fusion cuisine, consisting of sushi ingredients such as raw fish and vegetables rolled into a wrap made of nori and sushi rice, served like a burrito.
sushi burritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sushi burrito
stop thief
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: stop thief !
Senses: glosses: Used to call attention to the fact that one is being robbed and to request aid in stopping the thief.
Ciechanów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Ciechanów.
Senses: glosses: A city in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
sushi rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bright makes his risotto with sushi rice rather than with traditional risotto rice and says that home cooks can use any short-grain rice that produces starch.
ref: 2013 September 25, Michelle da Silva, “Sushi rice for risotto? Todd Bright's dish gets flexible”, in The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, B.C.: Overstory Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2017:
text: Most of those calories come from the sticky white rice that holds your roll together. Sushi rice is typically made by adding in vinegar and sugar, and the sugar gives it more calories than steamed rice, Zeratsky says.
ref: 2018 April 18, Sophia Gottfried, “Is Sushi Healthy? Here's Everything You Need to Know”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2023:
synonyms: sumeshi
glosses: Sticky short-grain white rice, steamed and seasoned with sugar and vinegar, especially used in sushi dishes.
lady's bedstraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady's bedstraw
continious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of continuous.
bloodmages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodmage
blood mages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood mage
PB and J
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PB and Js
Senses: examples: text: Michael, darling, you look hungry. How about some split-pea-with-ham soup and a PB and J?
ref: 1981, John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1983, →ISBN, page 253:
text: Daniel and I scrounge around in the kitchen cabinets, looking for something to eat. “Looks like it’s PB and Js again,” I say, sounding as cheerful as I can while silently cursing Mom for never buying any food.
ref: 2018, Katrin van Dam, Come November, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: We had quick PB and Js for lunch there and moved along as fast as we could to get to our next campsite, and final half portage, Grand Pitch.
ref: 2019, Pete Cooke, Justin Callahan, Keelan Woodard, “Bank II, East Branch Penobscot River & Katahdin Woods and Waters & Bigelow Mountain, June 26th”, in The Kieve Annual, Damariscotta, Me.; Newcastle, Me.: The Lincoln County Publishing Co., page 172, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of PB&J.
PB and Js
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PB and J
counterattractants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterattractant
counterelaborations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterelaboration
counterinhibitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterinhibition
counterprotestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterprotestor
counter-punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-punch
count-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of count-off
countrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countrate
country merchants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of country merchant
coupé utilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coupé utility
cream the crop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creams the crop
form: creaming the crop
form: creamed the crop
form: creamed the crop
Etymology: From cream of the crop.
Senses: examples: text: In the past, most agencies assumed that the other agencies were “creaming the crop,” training (or placing) the easiest or most docile or best-educated clients, manipulating data (or losing it if necessary) to look good: promising to do next year what they had promised to do the year before.
ref: 1968 July, Maurice F. X. Donohue, “Manpower Problems—Five Ways”, in Mountain Life & Work, volume 44, number 6, page 11:
text: Taking new designs and young designers upmarket can take them out of context, though, killing idealistic ambitions with adult realities and removing them from the wider audience that might stand to profit from the value of their solutions. Mr. Pucci risks criticism that he could be creaming the crop.
ref: 2002 July 11, William L. Hamilton, “Seizing The Throne Of Good Taste”, in The New York Times:
text: Principals of nearby schools felt they had students “taken” from them, other teachers thought small schools were being given special treatment and more money, and some thought the small schools were “creaming the crop”—taking the best students from other schools.
ref: 2011, Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp, The Community Organizing and School Reform Project, ““A Match on Dry Grass”: Organizing for Great Schools in San Jose”, in A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
synonyms: cherry-pick
hypernyms: separate the wheat from the chaff
sort the chaff from the grain
glosses: To pick out the most valuable or desirable things or people from a group for one's own interests.
Related terms: creaming of the crop
dveykus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dveykut.
tephila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tephilot
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tefilla.
Krias Shema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kriat Shema.
Yishuv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יישוב (yishuv, “settlement”).
Senses: glosses: The community of Jews living in Palestine before 1948.
Derived terms: Old Yishuv
Mbulu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Manyara, Tanzania.
Kw'adza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A recently-extinct language, likely Cushitic, of Mbulu, Tanzania
Ngomvia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Kw'adza
Qwadza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kw'adza.
BBC-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more BBC-esque
form: most BBC-esque
Etymology: From BBC + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: At WLRN Wagner's crisp BBC-esque tone dovetails with the highbrow fare of National Public Radio.
ref: 2004 October 14, Carl Juste, “British in Miami wade in 'wa-der'”, in The Miami Herald, page 4C:
text: With this approach to broadcasting, content, production and presentation styles that emerged along the vein of a BBC-esque style produced a particular approach and thinking that had to be employed in order to conform...
ref: 2005, Rafael Oei, Riding the Bandwidth: Producing for Digital Radio, Marshall Cavendish Academic, →ISBN, page 28:
text: But now that we're all so much more sophisticated, only pedantic twits insist on absolute accuracy, which isn't accuracy anyway, but some BBC-esque imaginary accuracy that comes from the department of Fake Authenticity.
ref: 2019 February 16, Lisa Armstrong, “How I found the secret to fuller looking lashes and brows”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Alternative form of BBCesque.
MVAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MVACs
Etymology: Abbreviations
Senses: glosses: Initialism of motor vehicle accident claim.
glosses: Acronym of motor vehicle air conditioning.
glosses: Abbreviation of motor vehicle air conditioner.
Coordinate terms: sense: insurance claims
word: AC
sense: insurance claims
word: MV
sense: air conditioning systems
word: AC
sense: air conditioning systems
word: HVAC
sense: air conditioning systems
word: MV
John Hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: John Hops
Etymology: Rhyming slang for cop (“a police officer”).
Senses: synonyms: Johnny Hop
johnop
glosses: A police officer.
John Hops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of John Hop
Johnny Hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johnny Hops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of John Hop (“a police officer”).
synonyms: word: John Hop
extra: a police officer
Johnny Hops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnny Hop
johnop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: johnops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of John Hop (“a police officer”).
synonyms: word: John Hop
extra: a police officer
johnops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of johnop
flatdweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatdwellers
Etymology: Compound of flat + dweller.
Senses: examples: text: That inadvertently chucked a handful in the fan, all right; the foreman was summoned to the dispatch manager's office and there upbraided for squandering such an asset on mere flatdwellers. After all, he was forcefully reminded, it was the manager who dealt with the irate Greenside subscribers who invariably began their calls with: 'I would have you know that the managing director of your paper is a personal friend of mine...'
ref: 1972, James McClure, The Caterpillar Cop, London; Boston, M.A.: Faber and Faber, published 1992, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: One who lives in a flat.
flatdwellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatdweller
Medigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Medigans
Etymology: From Neapolitan americano. The first vowel is reduced to a schwa in Neapolitan and further undergoes apheresis in American Neapolitan. To American ears, Neapolitan /k/ sounds like English /ɡ/ due to Neapolitan unvoiced stops being unaspirated unlike in American English. The final vowel in Neapolitan is reduced to a schwa and is further apocopated in American Neapolitan.
Senses: examples: text: I don't mean white like Caucasian. I mean a white man like our friend Cusamano. Now he's Italian, but he's a Medigan. It's what my old man would have called a Wonder Bread wop. He eats his Sunday gravy out of a jar.
ref: 1999 March 14, Joe Bosso, Frank Renzulli, “A Hit Is a Hit”, in The Sopranos, season 1, episode 10 (television production), spoken by Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini):
text: In any case, the pretentious LaPenna is representative of precisely the Medigan types whom Tony sees as having abandoned their ethnic heritage in order to pursue mainstream respect and success in America – except that LaPenna wants to have it both ways and continue to claim Italian ethnicity as well.
ref: 2017 March 1, M. Keith Booker, Isra Daraiseh, Tony Soprano's America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, →ISBN, page 193:
qualifier: Italian American
glosses: An Italian who has lost touch with their cultural heritage.
examples: text: C'mon, you're Italian, you understand. Guys like me we're brought up to think that Medigans are fuckin' bores. The truth is the average white man is no more boring than the millionth conversation over who should have won, Marciano or Ali.
ref: 1999 March 14, Joe Bosso, Frank Renzulli, “A Hit Is a Hit”, in The Sopranos, season 1, episode 10 (television production), spoken by Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini):
text: Marilyn does not overtly use the term medigan when discussing her husband, but she does specifically name those "whiter" ethnic groups that are typically associated with this notion.
ref: 2018 March 2, Andrea L. Dottolo, Carol Dottolo, Italian American Women, Food, and Identity: Stories at the Table, Springer, →ISBN, page 32:
qualifier: Italian American
glosses: A non-Italian person, particularly a white American.
T&S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of trust and safety.
duoethnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duoethnographies
Senses: glosses: An ethnographic work with more than 2 researchers.
duoethnographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to duoethnography.
duoethnographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duoethnographic.
duoethnographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a duoethnographic manner.
equilibrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of equilibrize
chears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chear
bed room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed rooms
Senses: examples: text: […] going down Stairs, I found his Bed Room Door open, and knowing the Drawer in which he kept his Money, I broke it open, and took out five Guineas and five Gold Rings, and ſo marched off; […]
ref: 1730, The Life and Actions of James Dalton, (The Noted Street-Robber.) […], London: […] R. Walker, […], page 8:
text: They Keep Cloſe-ſtools in their Bed Rooms, which they call Boxes, and are emptied out of the Windows at Night, ſo ſhitten Luck often lights on the Perſon who walks at late Hours in the Streets.
ref: [1747], James Ray, A Compleat History of the Rebellion, from Its First Rise in 1745, to Its Total Suppression at the Glorious Battle of Culloden, in April 1746, Manchester: […] [F]or the Author by R. Whitworth, […], page 313:
text: […] going to her own apartments, which conſiſted of a large anti-room that divided her dreſſing room and bed room from that where her children were, ſhe bade her woman who ſlept in the latter, go to bed, ſaying ſhe herſelf ſhould not to night ſit up to read, as was very frequently her cuſtom.
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages 7–8:
text: This is the order, and is obſerved ſo exactly, that every year, their bed rooms, medals, croſſes, &c. are changed, and each perſon’s property for the enſuing year is determined by lot, unleſs by the advice of a phyſician, one room is ſuppoſed to be more expedient for his patient than another.
ref: 1787, The Life of the Baroness de Chantal. […], London: […] Fry and Couchman, […], page 269:
glosses: Archaic form of bedroom.
bed rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed room
anti-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-rooms
Senses: examples: text: [G]oing to her own apartments, which conſiſted of a large anti-room that divided her dreſſing room and bed room from that where her children were, ſhe bade her woman who ſlept in the latter, go to bed, ſaying ſhe herſelf ſhould not to night ſit up to read, as was very frequently her cuſtom.
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages 7–8:
text: [H]e walked into the anti-room—the most delightful perfumes scented the apartments from large and rich vases, which stood at small distances from each other.
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: One entered into a dark anti-room, and after that into a small corridor or passage, then there were two rooms, and after the two rooms the sleeping-room.
ref: 1820, The Trial of Her Majesty, Queen Caroline, Consort of George IV. for an Alledged Adulterous Intercourse with Bartolomo Bergami; Comprising the Whole of the Proceedings since Her Arrival in This Country, London: […] T. Kaygill, […], page [326]:
text: [S]tatues stand in the midst of them, museums have their walls covered with them, and the very saloons where oil paintings hang, have their anti-rooms and staircases decorated with frescoes.
ref: 1875, Henry Bedford, A Vacation Ramble in Germany, page 25:
glosses: Obsolete form of anteroom.
anti-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-room
temper-tantrumy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more temper-tantrumy
form: most temper-tantrumy
Etymology: From temper tantrum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Peter Kurth plays the temper-tantrumy, ineffectual emperor well.
ref: 1976 February 7, Judith Edwards, “‘The Chinese Wall:’ Moving, Unusual Treatment”, in The Burlington Free Press, 148th year, number 38, page 8, column 5:
text: Her behavior was that of a temper-tantrumy, 2½-year-old child; so was that of her mother.
ref: 1982, Ruth P. Kane, “The Family’s Role in Primary Prevention”, in Mary Frank, editor, Primary Prevention for Children and Families (Journal of Children in Contemporary Society; volume 14, numbers 2/3), New York, N.Y.; London: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 31:
text: […] that embracing who you truly are is about accepting yourself through all of it—when you’re at your most victorious, your most irritable, your most temper-tantrumy, and your most vulnerable.
ref: 2020, Jen Sincero, Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick, John Murray Learning, →ISBN:
glosses: Having or tending to have a temper tantrum.
Related terms: tantrumy
drunkardry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drunkard + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: When the hour of departure arrives, you see the pavement and carriage way of Bow Street studded with a choice assemblage of the raggedry, ruffianry, felonry, misery, drunkardry, and drabbery, whom the infamous hundred of Drury [Lane], and the scarcely less infamous tithing of Covent [Garden], have cast out into a thoroughfare which, two hours hence, will be re-echoing to the wheels of carriages bearing noble lords and ladies to listen to the delicious [Angiolina] Bosio in the “Traviata,” or the enchanting notes of [Enrico] Tamberlik in “Otello.”
ref: 1858 August 7, George Augustus Sala, “Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London […] Five o’Clock p.m.—The Fashionable Club, and the Prisoners’ Van.”, in The Welcome Guest: A Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, number 15, London: Office […], page 233, column 1:
text: Fallacy of the consequent. (Drunkardry causes destitution, ‘therefore’ destitution proves drunkardry. It is only a ‘factor in favour’ in the terminology of Ref. 18).
ref: 1959, Methodos, page 153:
text: When the [American] Civil War broke out, [Mark] Twain may have briefly entertained pro-Union sentiments but at length decided to serve with a ragtag bunch of Confederate irregulars. After a couple of weeks, “hunted like a rat the whole time,” he thought better of that commitment and, as Huck Finn did, lit out for the territory. This territory was Nevada and California, where he prospected for silver without luck and practiced scurrilous journalism and general drunkardry with zest.
ref: 2008 July 14, Roy Blount Jr., “America’s Original Superstar”, in Time, volume 172, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, page 51, column 1:
text: But just in case the Danes decide it isn’t nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous drunkardry from across the water, there are contingency measures.
ref: 2009 January 11, David Whitley, “Two beers or not two beers?: Denmark”, in The Sun-Herald, Sydney, N.S.W., page 22:
glosses: The quality of being a drunkard.
Frollo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frollos
form: frollo
Etymology: With reference to the character Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, a cruel, sanctimonious priest who persecutes a young woman for his own sexual temptation.
Senses: examples: text: 99% of the time, Frollos only have issue^([sic]) with sexual content or content related to ships (like if a relationship is abusive). They don't use this energy toward content that is violent yet non-shippy.
ref: 2020 July 24, discourse catharasis (@lizcourserants), Twitter:
text: Also, Frollos worrying about people posting problematic stuff? No one introduce them to the anime of this.
ref: 2020 October 15, Tenoko1 (@tenoko1), Twitter:
text: To anyone who has been in fandom circles, particularly of late and seen the loudest Frollos being caught out by their own fanfiction bookmarks, this isn’t a surprise.
ref: 2023 February 27, Hemlock Dumpling (@Singloom), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: anti
fancop
fandomentalist
fanpol
fanti
glosses: Ellipsis of fandom Frollo.
wikipedia: Claude Frollo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
outfield player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outfield players
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of the players on a team other than the goalkeeper.
non-resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-resistances
Senses: examples: text: I knew but little, no more than other men of what has been taught or written on the subject of non-resistance in former times.
ref: 1894, Leo Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], “Introductory”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Kingdom of God is within You: or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-conception. […], London: Walter Scott, […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of nonresistance.
tippy tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tippy top
tippe tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tippe top
sexuoerotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a sexuoerotic manner.
sexuoeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexuo-economic.
sexuopharmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexuopharmaceuticals
Etymology: From sexuo- + pharmaceutical.
Senses: glosses: Any pharmaceutical drug used to enhance sexual performance.
sexuoeroticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sexuoerotic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being sexuoerotic.
pixel artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixel artists
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps not unlike the farrier whose horse-shoeing business declined with the advent of the motorcar, the pixel artists’ time is drawing to a close. Or is it? There’s a growing demand for pixel artists again, thanks in part to a growing demand for portable games.
ref: 2006, NFGMan, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 011:
text: However, I’m a pixel artist by profession, and I know we can’t go back in time. Whether the demand for pixel art continues, or it ends up being forgotten, we have no choice but to keep pushing forward.
ref: 2020, Square Enix, quoting Kazuko Shibuya, FF DOT: The Pixel Art of Final Fantasy, Dark Horse Books, →ISBN, page 276:
text: Some skilled pixel artists even use unexpected colours in the shading within their sprites, using complementary colours to produce an enticing artwork.
ref: 2021, Cindy Lee, “Best Practices for Pixel Art”, in The Digital Gaming Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: One who makes pixel art.
pixel artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixel artist
Baghdad boil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baghdad boils
form: Bagdad boil
Etymology: So-called because during the European explorations of the Middle East it was endemic to Baghdad, whereas unknown to other areas of the Middle East. The equivalent Arabic حَبَّة بَغْدَاد (ḥabba(t) baḡdād) was then only invented by Arabic-speaking foreigners.
Senses: glosses: cutaneous leishmaniasis
Bagdad boil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bagdad boils
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Baghdad boil.
Bagdad boils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bagdad boil
Baghdad boils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baghdad boil
manicot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manicots
Etymology: From the American Neapolitan pronunciation spelling of manicotti.
In Neapolitan, the final vowel of a word is reduced to a schwa, which is further apocopated, hence the deletion of -i.
Senses: glosses: manicotti.
marocchinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marocchino
Eynatten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Eynatten, possibly from Middle Dutch *enet (“lonely place”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Raeren municipality, Liège province, Belgium; part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
cosmic web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmic webs
Senses: examples: text: The observations reveal that an ancient cluster of galaxies about 12bn light years away in the constellation of Aquarius are linked together by a network of faint gas filaments. The existence of the cosmic web is central to current theories of how galaxies first formed following the big bang, but until now evidence for it had remained largely circumstantial.
ref: 2019 October 3, Hannah Devlin, “Scientists observe mysterious cosmic web directly for first time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A vast foam-like structure of galaxy clusters, superclusters, sheets, walls, and filaments, separated by immense voids.
happily-ever-after
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happily-ever-afters
Senses: examples: text: But this is 1979: marriage once again is on a lot of minds and romantic comedies, complete with tradition and happily-ever-afters, are back in style.
ref: 1979 January, “Marriage ’79: Sara & Ted”, in Edith Raymond Locke, editor, Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 136, column 1:
text: Disney CEO Robert Iger believes in happily-ever-afters. For two years, Disney's relationship with Pixar Animation Studios—creator of such blockbusters as "Finding Nemo" and "Toy Story"—was on the rocks, soured by an epic battle of wills between former Disney chief Michael Eisner and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs. But when Iger took over last year, he was determined to kiss and make up.
ref: 2006 January 9, David J. Jefferson, “An Incredible Marriage? Disney and Pixar’s CEO Steve Jobs Talk of Joining Forces”, in Newsweek, volume CXVII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: The couple’s romance, captured with intimate closeups and accompanied by a jaunty Europop soundtrack, is rapturous. But Martin’s increasingly provocative ideas throw a wrench in Elena’s dreams of a happily-ever-after.
ref: 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2022:
text: As a water sign, Cancers are deeply sensitive. They long to give and receive love, and they frequently find themselves always fantasizing about their "happily-ever-after."
ref: 2020 November 6, Kyle Thomas, “Your Cosmic Love Triangle, by Zodiac Sign”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of happily ever after.
Odiongan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Romblon, Philippines.
Ferrol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
couponners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couponner
courtesyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtesying
covercosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covercosine
coversed cosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coversed cosine
cowpoxviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowpoxvirus
cowpunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowpunch
coyote bushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coyote bush
C-peptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-peptide
cradlehoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradlehood
Craft Services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Craft Service
craniomappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craniomapper
crank arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crank arm
crank pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crank pin
cranses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cranse