cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chick*n
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lightly brown the chick*n strips in the oil then add the onion, pepper, carrot and broccoli and stir-fry for 4 to 5 minutes until the onions just begin to darken in color.
ref: 2018, Michael Abramson, From the Kitchens of YamChops, North America’s Original Vegan Butcher Shop, Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN:
text: And the newest ‘Thriller sandwich filler’ [of The Vegan Sandwich Co.] — roast chick*n pieces and bac*n strips that can be cooked up at home to fill your sambo, or add to your favourite outdoor dinner date dishes — is sure to be a hit with everyone.
ref: 2021 July 28, Rachel Beresford, “It’s Deliveroo to a thrill…”, in Irish Daily Star:
text: Together, the talented twosome will be demonstrating how to make De la Harpe’s MasterChef SA finals dish of butternut steak with asparagus, red pepper sauce, ricotta and smoked chimichurri as well as a croquette made with mushroom duxelles and chick*n fillets.
ref: 2022 May 21, “Passionate about food”, in The Citizen:
text: It compared VFC’s fried chick*n fillets with generic meat-based southern fried chicken fillets, produced in the UK and on sale in UK supermarkets.
ref: 2022 June 1, “VFC challenges meat industry to ‘come clean and then clean up’”, in PlantBased:
text: Like Kale Madrid, vegan fried chick*n brand VFC was also founded last year, and with both institutions seeing great success from the start and with complementing ethics, the partnership is well-matched.
ref: 2022 July 1, “Bristol vegan football team secures exciting sponsorship”, in VeganLife:
text: Our [Sustainable Foods’] hemp chick*n in a unique product that is reframing what a plant-based product can be.
ref: 2022 September 21, Justin Lemmens, “A new taste sensation”, in Kāpiti News:
glosses: Alternative form of chick'n (“meatless chicken substitute”).
asparagusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asparagusy
form: most asparagusy
form: asparagussy
Etymology: From asparagus + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Murphy also reckoned it would be even better in 12 months’ time and liked its “asparagusy” character.
ref: 1989, John Higgins, “Wines worth a second look”, in The Director, page 148:
text: Montana’s most famous wine, certainly as far as export markets are concerned, is its asparagusy Sauvignon Blanc, but it also produces a good range of Chardonnays and two excellent Pinot Noir/Chardonnay sparkling wines, Lindauer and Marlborough Cuvée, the second of which is the result of a felicitous joint-venture with Champagne house Deutz.
ref: 1992, Tim Atkin, Chardonnay, Viking, →ISBN, page 226:
text: Who knows what honour they might have bestowed had they tasted van Zyl’s sometimes asparagusy Sauvignon.
ref: 2001, John Platter, South African Wines 2001, →ISBN, page 356:
text: “Sorry,” I told her, then him, smelling a damp asparagusy odor, peyes grazing our heads as I navigated around his potbelly.
ref: 2002, Nick Fowler, A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 89:
text: In order to temper Sea Kale’s somewhat bitter demeanor, the shoots are blanched with Sea Kale pots (or by heaping soil upon them), and, when harvested at 6 to 10 inches long in April, they are famously “asparagusy,” mild, and tender.
ref: 2005, Jack Staub, 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 193:
text: I used to sniff his wee-sodden nappies when he was little for that asparagusy tang of baby, my baby.
ref: 2010, Polly Williams, How to Be Married, Headline Review, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: ODOR MOLECULES […] • thiols, which smell garlicky, asparagusy, and gassy
ref: 2015, Patrick Di Justo, This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth?: From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets of What’s Inside Everyday Products, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of asparagus.
trigonometric identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigonometric identities
Senses: examples: text: The trigonometric identity sin(2x) = 2sin(x)cos(x).
topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: A trigonometric equation that is true for all values of the input variable for which both sides of the equation are defined.
Derived terms: Pythagorean trigonometric identity
trig identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trig identities
Senses: glosses: A trigonometric identity.
winemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winemasters
Etymology: From wine + master.
Senses: examples: text: Our grapes are picked and crushed under the direct supervision of our winemaster.
ref: 1978, San Francisco, page 56:
text: The comprehension and responsibility of estate-type winery production dynamics may weigh heavily, often entirely, upon the winemaster.
ref: 1981, Richard Vine, Commercial Winemaking: Processing and Controls, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page vii:
text: The Winery Tours / Immerse yourself in 150 years of heritage in South Australia’s renowned Barossa Valley and Clare Valley. Share the secrets of winemasters as they reveal their craft.
ref: 1991, The New York Times Magazine, page 85:
text: I discovered that many customers visit popular winemasters’ websites, copy the names of recommended wines, and buy them from different sources.
ref: 2017, Sunil Kumar V. Kaushik, Innovative Business Management Using TRIZ: TRIZ for Non-Manufacturing Professionals, Quality Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An expert in winemaking, especially one who is in charge of winemaking at a winery.
winemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winemaster
Wellsians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wellsian
duskhawker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duskhawkers
Etymology: From dusk + hawker.
Senses: glosses: A dragonfly of the genus Gynacantha.
PTBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage.
record store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: record stores
Senses: glosses: Synonym of record shop.
synonyms: word: record shop
music shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of music shop
record stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of record store
record shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of record shop
bishopries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bishopry
bodyshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyshop
butcher shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butcher shop
candy shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candy shop
pro shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pro shop
prize lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prize list
prizelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prizelist
shopettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopette
spur-throated grasshoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spur-throated grasshopper
vulcanizing shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulcanizing shop
Vulcan salutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vulcan salute
fair-weather friendships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fair-weather friendship
chanterships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chantership
weather ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather ship
hateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hateship
tug-of-wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tug-of-war
tug of wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tug of war
hapūs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hapū
Kokand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khokand
form: Koqand
form: Qoqand
Etymology: From Uzbek Qo‘qon.
Senses: glosses: A city in Fergana, Uzbekistan.
Betty Boopish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Betty Boopish
form: most Betty Boopish
form: Betty Boop-ish
form: Betty-Boopish
Etymology: From Betty Boop + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: When all hope of getting the foreman, a misanthropic looking fellow, and the school marm to change their minds, was gone, the foreman lost his temper and struck a Betty Boopish little feminine juror, and Mrs. Crane, rushing in where angels might have feared to tread, made the most of it.
ref: 1936 February 16, D. G., “‘Ladies of Jury’ by WPA. The Group’s First Play Is Presented Ably. Alice Ellis, in the Role of a Stubborn School Teacher, Takes the Honors of Her Portrayal.”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 56, number 152, Kansas City, Mo., section “How Foreman Is Won Over”, page 8 A, column 3:
text: May Questal (Betty Boop to you) will take over Morton Bowe’s spot on the Baron Munchausen program at 8:30 p. m. over WENR-NBC, and will sing songs in her best Betty Boopish manner.
ref: 1936 December 21, “400 Needy Tots Will Sing ‘Jingle Bells’ In Yuletide Plea. Ruth Etting, Sad Singer, Is Guest Star Of Himber. “What Do You Think?” Program Inaugurated As A Feature”, in Tyler Morning Telegraph, volume 58, number 37, Tyler, Tex., section ““Betty Boop””, page six, column 2:
text: The free hand of the artist has drawn Cindy’s magic fairy godmother in screwball shades and the soundman has given the curly haired heroine a set of “Betty Boopish” vocal cords.
ref: 1938 July 23, “Cinderella Meets Fella (Vitaphone) Outstanding Cartoon”, in Motion Picture Herald, volume 132, number 4, page 43, column 3:
text: A prim University of California graduate, her hair in pigtails, sat in the first-floor dining room of the Bund Hotel in Yokohama last week and answered newsmen’s questions in a Betty Boopish voice.
ref: 1945 September 17, Newsweek, page 96:
text: And yet she flaunted her 7 Minutes in Heaven come-hither — not to mention a whipped-cream-bazooka bra — with Betty Boopish abandon, a playful PG-13 streak that helped her become the most bankable woman in pop music.
ref: 2014 June 27, Sean Daly, “She is woman; hear her roar: Her pucker’s persuasive, but as she nears 30, her songs are more mature”, in Tampa Bay Times, volume 130, number 338, page 44:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Betty Boop.
Betty-Boopish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Betty-Boopish
form: most Betty-Boopish
Senses: examples: text: Since Martin — the music salesman — is obsessed with being a lover, naturally he would find a homely school teacher to woo. And, naturally, that school teacher would have to be the Betty-Boopish Bernadette Peters.
ref: 1982 February 11, David Jacob, “Martin shines in latest film”, in The Hanford Sentinel, Hanford, Calif., page 3-B, column 1:
text: She sure is, a quirky, almost Betty-Boopish voice that thunders when it wants to.
ref: 1983 December 9, David Okamoto, “A Binge in the Bins — and here’s help”, in The Tampa Tribune, 89th year, number 293, page 25, column 1:
text: They range from a “Superman”-like macho superhero, to a 1920s-era (now aging) black-and-white Betty-Boopish sex symbol, to a small Japanese video-game character who gives kids seizures.
ref: 2004 October 27, “Tommy Smothers: ‘I wouldn’t fit on TV today, either’”, in Naples Daily News, 82nd year, number 88, section “Reality, but not really”, page 8B, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of Betty Boopish.
Betty Boop-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Betty Boop-ish
form: most Betty Boop-ish
Senses: examples: text: Mae, all done up in a demure blue taffeta robe de style, is just about as cute as can be and more Betty Boop-ish than ever.
ref: 1935 July 21, “Loew’s Fox”, in The Washington Post, number 21,584, Washington, D.C., section “Betty Boop in Person”:
text: A bouncy, Betty Boop-ish-type woman, she is a hard-working but powerless representative for the consumer.
ref: 1972, Robert F. Buckhorn, Nader: The People’s Lawyer, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 228:
text: Among the townspeople, Bob Toven as the hapless Mayor and Teresa Killen as the Betty Boop-ish Marietta help to set the show’s mischievous tone.
ref: 2022 October 14, Christina Koomen, “Showtimers’ Dracula bites Tombstone”, in The Roanoke Times, volume 70, number 287, page B12, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Betty Boopish.
Elno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Humorous alteration of Elon, possibly to deter namesearching.
Senses: examples: text: I fact checked Elno in a Birdwatch on his own $44 billion dollar site over his inability to understand GraphQL queries.
ref: 2022 November 11, Brianna Wu (@briannawu@mstdn.social), Mastodon:
text: I blocked Elno back in Nov and haven't seen a 🐦 from him since.
ref: 2023 February 14, SallyBlack (@toastygirl@mastodon.online), Mastodon:
text: Elno is driving regular people off of twitter.
ref: 2023 April 16, AudreyOnTheGo (@AudreyOnTheGo@mstdn.social), Mastodon:
synonyms: Apartheid Clyde
Elmo
Elongated Muskrat
Phony Stark
Space Karen
glosses: A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
McCrindle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tāne
Senses: examples: text: 1986 [1979, W. H. Smith & Sons (Windward)], Arthur Cotterell, A Dictionary of World Mythology, Oxford University Press, page 270,
One of the great conflict myths in Polynesia was the struggle between [the sky god] Atea and Tane-mahuta, which the Maoris conceived of as the separation of the sky father from the earth mother, Rangi and Papa respectively. The Tuamotu islanders believed that Atea tried to capture the young god Tane, and sent a host of lesser deities after him. After Tane escaped from his pursuers on earth and wandered the clouds, he became so hungry that he killed and ate one of his ancestors, which was the beginning of cannibalism. On reaching manhood, Tane declared war on the sky god and, using the thunderbolts of his ancestor Fatu-tiri, 'thunder', he slew Atea.
text: 1995 [1994, The Encyclopedia of Creation Myths, ABC-CLIO], David Adams Leeming, Margaret Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Creation Myths, Oxford University Press, page 228,
The various offspring of Rangi and Papa, led by the forest god, Tane, and the ocean god, Tangaroa, argued over what to do. Some chose to go to land, others chose going out to sea. Tane gave his children canoes and nets so they might catch the children of Tangaroa, and sometimes Tangaroa swallowed up Tane’s people. It is still this way today between the children of Tane and Tangaroa.
text: According to the [Maori] myth ,Tane, the Polynesian god of the forests, first separates earth and sky and then creates his wife from the red clay that contains his parents' blood. Tane and his wife, the first woman in the world, give birth to a daughter Hine Titama, and when Tane and Hine Titama also give birth to children, they become the ancestors of the Maori people.
ref: 2004, Lorena Laura Stookey, Thematic Guide to World Mythology, Greenwood Press, page 88:
synonyms: word: Tāne-mahuta
english: Maori mythology
translation: Maori mythology
word: Tāne-nui-a-Rangi
word: Tāne-te-waiora
qualifier: Polynesian mythology; Maori mythology; Polynesian mythology; Maori mythology
glosses: The god of forests and trees; brother of Tangaroa, Rongo and others.
qualifier: Tahitian mythology
glosses: The god of peace and beauty.
a forteriori
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps influenced by a posteriori.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a fortiori.
a forteriori
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Perhaps influenced by a posteriori.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a fortiori.
Winnie-the-Poohish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Winnie-the-Poohish
form: most Winnie-the-Poohish
form: Winnie the Pooh-ish
form: Winnie the Poohish
Etymology: From Winnie-the-Pooh + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: But during the Christmas holidays will be revived, for matinees, the children’s play, “Toad of Toad Hall,” which A. A. Milne based on Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows.” It is very whimsical and Winnie-the-Poohish and altogether Milnesome.
ref: 1932 December 1, Philip Page, “Plays That Even Fine Acting Cannot Save: Irene Vanbrugh Returning to the Stage in an Edna Ferber Story”, in Evening Standard, number 33,787, London, page 9, column 1:
text: These included Masefield, St. John Ervine (a second play by him helped them recover the losses of three flops in a row), Shaw, and A. A. Milne, whose Mr. Pim Passes By, a mild, domestic, Winnie-the-Poohish comedy done early in 1921, set them solidly in their bank’s good books.
ref: 1974, Jay Williams, Stage Left, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, pages 11–12:
text: Trod and trodden sound vaguely Winnie-the-Poohish to American ears, because Americans seldom use the verb to tread: […]
ref: 1999, Steven Pinker, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, Basic Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh by English author A. A. Milne.
examples: text: We were feeling awfully foolish and Winnie-the-Poohish and in a moment of carefree abandon we fell upon some fan magazines on the boat and started hunting for pictures of ourselves.
ref: 1931 November, Elizabeth Wilson, “The Trans-Continental Wife”, in Silver Screen, volume two, number one, page 70, column 3:
text: My life is very simple, sort of Winnie-the-Poohish.
ref: 1969 August 1, Margaret McKee, “‘Why Have A Painting Unless You Can Read It?’”, in Memphis Press-Scimitar, 89th year, number 234, Memphis, Tenn., section “Showtime”, page 8, column 3:
text: In a distinctly Winnie-the-Poohish way, I began to wonder if striding over Ashdown Forest on a blustery October day was really such a good idea.
ref: 2000, Yvonne Jeffery Hope, “A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh in Ashdown Forest”, in Victoria Brooks, editor, Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame, Greatest Escapes Publishing, published 2002, →ISBN, section 5 (Great Britain and Ireland), page 281:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh from the aforementioned book.
Winnie the Pooh-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Winnie the Pooh-ish
form: most Winnie the Pooh-ish
Senses: examples: text: In spite of its Winnie the Pooh-ish inclination, this book, about being young, married and hopeful in London has its pleasant, even charming moments.
ref: 1972, Martin Levin, quotee, edited by Josephine Samudio, Book Review Digest: Sixty-Eighth Annual Cumulation, March 1972 to February 1973 Inclusive, New York, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Company, published 1973, →LCCN, page 113, column 1:
text: I drove past landscaped gardens and residential complexes with Winnie the Pooh-ish names like Dogwood Hills and Mulberry City.
ref: 1989, Douglas Kennedy, In God’s Country: Travels in the Bible Belt, USA, Unwin Hyman, →ISBN, page 195:
text: With its Buttercup Cottage and Bluebell Wood, the feel of the series is Winnie the Pooh-ish.
ref: 2009 June 2, Leanne Italie, “Phelps and Moore keep up production in children’s books”, in The Call-Leader, volume 119, number 129, Elwood, Ind., page 3, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of Winnie-the-Poohish.
Winnie the Poohish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Winnie the Poohish
form: most Winnie the Poohish
Senses: examples: text: The author of this fable, which sounds somewhat Winnie the Poohish, is Ted Allen, a Canadian, welcomed by the B.B.C. as a discovery.
ref: 1954 December 6, L[eonard] Marsland Gander, “TV and Radio Topics: One Foot in Each TV Camp”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, number 31,017, London; Manchester, page 8:
text: “Song of the Kite,” for example, is a Winnie the Poohish fantasy about a velvet-voiced DJ named Christopher Sky.
ref: 1980 March 25, Doug Simmons, “Private Lightning (A&M)”, in The Phoenix, page 8:
text: It was confidently employed as a remedy for gout, under the name Dover’s Powders; and even given to crying babies, with the Winnie the Poohish-sounding name Godfrey’s Cordial; at least until 1920 when The Dangerous Drugs Act declared that babies were no longer to be drugged into a conveniently deep and dreamy sleep.
ref: 2004, Bob Yareham, English Beauty (Everything You Wanted to Know About English, but Fell Asleep in Class), Blanca Books S.L., →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of Winnie-the-Poohish.
curtain-sider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtain-siders
form: curtainsider
Senses: examples: text: Bailey adds: "Curtain-siders are a third of our business. That is an untapped market for rail. […] You could see trains coming out of the Southampton terminal with 40 to 60 boxes, and the rest filled with curtain siders to East Midlands Gateway, then aggregating them from there to the North.
ref: 2023 April 19, Paul Clifton, “Rail is clearly key to our future”, in RAIL, number 981, page 32:
topics: transport
glosses: A freight vehicle, including semi-trailers, with sides that open and close like a curtain, to facilitate loading and unloading.
curtain-siders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtain-sider.
curtainsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtainsiders
Etymology: From curtain + sider.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curtain-sider.
Agatha Christie-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Agatha Christie-esque
form: most Agatha Christie-esque
form: Agatha Christiesque
Etymology: From Agatha Christie + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: In the first scene, the Agatha Christie-esque “queen of the logical murder” (Shirley Platel) outlines a murder plot with a surprise ending.
ref: 1980 March 14, David Rorden, “Play: Murder spoof starts slowly, but laughs build”, in The Daily News, 308th issue, 57th year, Longview, Wash., page C1:
text: Murder mysteries are always a tricky business, especially the old style Agatha Christie-esque ones where a group of suspects are confined to a single environ while everyone suspects everyone else and someone sleuths away until the end credits are ready to roll.
ref: 2002 October 2, Morgan Idris Little, “8 women too many or (hey, where’s my gun?)”, in The Underground, The Scarborough Campus Student Press, page 12, column 1:
text: Set over a long, dark and increasingly bloody night at a Song Dynasty military fortress, this 12th century comic mystery opens with a touch of “Macbeth” — a visiting leader is found murdered in his bed, suspicion falls immediately on the guards — before peeling back layer after layer of Agatha Christie-esque puzzle-box intrigue.
ref: 2023 March 17, Justin Chang, “The blood and the laughs flow freely in the Chinese blockbuster ‘Full River Red’”, in Los Angeles Times, page E2:
glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Agatha Christie (1890–1976), English writer known for her detective fiction.
Synonyms: Christiesque
Hyponyms: Poirotesque
Agatha Christiesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Agatha Christiesque
form: most Agatha Christiesque
Senses: examples: text: Death Lends A Hand (ATV, 10.30): Agatha Christiesque title for “Columbo” story that features ex-cowboy Robert Culp (now a superior TV movie villain) and veteran Ray Milland with the shabbily perspicacious Peter Falk as hero.
ref: 1976 February 12, Alan Cookman, “Tonight’s Movies”, in Evening Sentinel, number 34,648, page 2:
text: At the bar were an Agatha Christiesque assemblage of hotel guests, including some Arab-type Moroccans in djellabas smoking cigarettes from long holders, and Jean Dethier, an architect from the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, wearing an unlikely pink shirt and floral tie.
ref: 1981 March 8, Rose Dosti, “Ancient Wonders Found in Tour of Southern Morocco”, in Los Angeles Times, part IV, page 1:
text: Readers of author and translator Dovalpage will recall her previous mystery, “Death of a Telenovela Star,” also took place aboard a cruise ship, a perfect Agatha Christiesque crucible of suspicion and subversive motivation.
ref: 2021 September 16–22, Amy Boaz, “Revenge of the jilted lover”, in Tempo (Taos News), page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of Agatha Christie-esque.
illocute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: illocutes
form: illocuting
form: illocuted
form: illocuted
Etymology: Back-formation from illocution.
Senses: examples: text: In some such cases, at least, there will be illocutions q such that S can illocute q and thereby (among other things) convey to A that p.
ref: 1981, Peter Cole, Radical pragmatics, New York: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 93:
text: Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.
ref: 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11:
text: So, we must not conflate consent with nonrefusal: a failure to illocute refusal does not entail that one has illocuted consent to sex instead.
ref: 2019, Mari Mikkola, Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
text: […] [S]ome of these refinements also help us make progress on the question whether machines can illocute.
ref: 2022 January 27, Mitchell Green, Jan G. Michel, “What Might Machines Mean?”, in Minds and Machines, volume 32, pages 323–338:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: To perform an illocutionary act.
Related terms: locute
perlocute
curtainsiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtainsider.
illocutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of illocute
illocuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illocute
illocuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of illocute
HPU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HPUs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: VPU
GPU
PPU
hogel
glosses: Abbreviation of hogel processing unit.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of hydraulic power unit.
VPU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VPUs
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: PPU
FPU
glosses: Abbreviation of vector processing unit.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: GPU
PPU
glosses: Initialism of visual processing unit.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: HPU
voxel
glosses: Initialism of voxel processing unit.
qualifier: computer vision
glosses: Initialism of vision processing unit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: video
glosses: Initialism of video processing unit.
Yaohai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: youʹhīʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 瑤海 /瑶海 (Yáohǎi).
Senses: examples: text: On May 15, 2013, the Open Day of the deputies to the People’s Congress of Daxing Town of Yaohai District (Hefei, Anhui), the deputies visit the communities and the residents to listen to the opinions of the people and have face-to-face communication with the residents.
ref: 2014 June, Yang Deshan [杨德山], Zhao Shumei [赵淑梅], “Organizational Structure”, in Song Jianting [宋建廷], Xiao Ying [肖颖], transl., edited by Wang Feng [王峰], The Communist Party of China and Contemporary China [中国共产党与当代中国] (Contemporary China [当代中国系列]), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
english: 当代中国系列
translation: 当代中国系列
text: The unauthorised bus stops – all of them in Yaohai district, Hefei – were identified by officials from the Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau this week, Anhui News reported on Friday.[…]
But the fake bus stops may not be confined to Yaohai district.
ref: 2018 July 14, “Chinese city duped by fake bus stops built by advertising agency”, in New Straits Times, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2019:
text: The company's initial development is scheduled to be in the vocational education city of Yaohai District, Hefei City, Anhui Province. Consider the pre-administration funds and risks and the pre-environmental car wash service project.
ref: 2020, Lei Yang, Fanling Zeng, Daoru Yao, “Exploration on Innovation Education of Higher Vocational Automobile Specialty Based on Internet Thinking”, in Baoming Liu, Limin Jia, Yong Qin, Zhigang Liu, Lijun Diao, Min An, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2019, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 394:
glosses: A district of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Luyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 廬陽 /庐阳 (Lúyáng).
Senses: examples: text: Luyang District Court in Hefei encountered the embarrassing situation that the defendants, the children of the plaintiff, refused to execute the judgment which ordered the defendants to visit the elderly on regular basis.
ref: 2021, Falian Zhang, “Comparison Between Chinese and Western Legal Orientations: Obligations and Rights”, in A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 177:
text: In terms of budget, the students pay around 400-500 RMB (roughly equals to 70-80 US$) every semester, while the nine teaching staff receive a nominal salary of 600-700 RMB per month (as a reference, the minimum salary of Hefei city was 720 RMB per month as of 2010, which was raised to 1010 RMB in May 2011) for their part time teaching job. The school, however, is not recognised by the educational authority of Luyang district, Hefei municipality.
ref: 2022, Yannan Ding, “Resistance, Public Art and Citizenship”, in Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103:
glosses: A district of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Baohe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bouʹhŭʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 包河 (Bāohé).
Senses: examples: text: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) talks to children of the Jinputao school in Xinnacun village in the Baohe district of Hefei on October 30, 2015.
ref: 2015 October 30, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2023:
text: The low counters at the health centre in Baohe district in Hefei, the capital of Anhui, caused patients some discomfort when they tried to communicate with cashiers and doctors through the windows, according to a report in Chongqing Daily.
ref: 2018 July 11, Sidney Leng, “Chinese hospitals bow to social media pressure over ‘poor service’ of uncomfortably low service counters”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2018, People & Culture:
glosses: A district of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Changfeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈfɛŋ/
ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋ-/
ipa: /-ˈfʌŋ/
enpr: chängʹfǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 長豐 /长丰 (Chángfēng).
Senses: examples: text: In some areas, unauthorised use of land actually exceeds the planned land-use supply by several times. Taoxu Village under Puli Township in Changfeng County, Hefei, is a typical case in point.
ref: 2000, Samuel P. S. Ho, Y. Y. Kueh, “An Urban Economic Beltway for Stemming the Loss of Farmland”, in Sustainable Economic Development in South China (Studies on the Chinese Economy), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234:
text: The man, identified only by his surname Li, had been trying to locate his former employer at the building in Changfeng county, Anhui province, according to Anhui Commercial News.
ref: 2016 October 26, Eva Li, “Chinese man jumps to death after failing to get hundreds of thousands of yuan in unpaid wages from ex-boss”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2016, Society:
glosses: A county of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Feidong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fāʹdo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 肥東 /肥东 (Féidōng).
Senses: examples: text: When a cooperative farm in Feitung County was lagging behind the others, a number of county government officials left their office work entirely and went to help.
ref: [1958 June, Huang Lung, “45 Million Acres of Land Irrigated”, in New World Review, volume 26, number 6, New York: N.W.R. Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
text: Shanghai-based Hasten was established and jointly invested by CBC, Hefei Industry Investment Group and Feidong County, Hefei City, in 2020, according to its website.
ref: 2023 April 20, Yantoultra Ngui, Echha Jain, “Hasten Biopharmaceutic's $315 mln funding round co-led by CBC, Mubadala”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023, Mergers & Acquisitions:
glosses: A county of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Feixi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fāʹshēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肥西 (Féixī).
Senses: examples: text: Leading comrades of Hofei and Wuhu municipalities, Huichou, Anching, Chaohu and Liuan prefectures and Feihsi County have also gone to various prefectural, municipal and county examination centers to inspect and guide the task and to assist in soling various problems.
ref: [1978 August 4 [1978 July 27], “Anhwei Examinations”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 151, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page G 12:
text: Anhui authorities later reported two further locally transmitted cases, both with links to Li. None of the confirmed Anhui cases had been vaccinated, Xinhua cited a local health official as saying.
Two areas in Luan and one part of Feixi county were declared “medium-risk” in response to the cases.
ref: 2021 May 13, Wang Jing, Andrew Galbraith, Roxanne Liu, Lusha Zhang, Tom Daly, “Mainland China reports first local COVID-19 cases in more than 3 weeks”, in Gerry Doyle, John Stonestreet, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023, TOP NEWS:
glosses: A county of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Lujiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹjyängʹ
Forms: form: Luchiang
Etymology: From Mandarin 廬江 /庐江 (Lújiāng).
Senses: examples: text: Online, some people said a couple of the men appeared to be officials in Lujiang County, in Anhui Province. One man, well-fed and with glasses, was said to bear a strong resemblance to the county party chief, Wang Minsheng. Suspicions were heightened when the Lujiang government first asserted that the images had been altered with Photoshop, then said the people in them were not county officials, period.
ref: 2012 August 24, Edward Wong, “Orgy Photos Give More Than a Peek Into Chinese Officials’ Sex Lives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2012, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Chaohu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: chouʹho͞oʹ
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Mandarin 巢湖 (Cháohú).
Senses: examples: text: Authorities have started culling poultry within a 1.9-mile radius of a chicken farm in Chaohu city in Anhui after the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu emerged near Chaohu Lake, the official said by telephone. Poultry within a 3.8-mile radius were being vaccinated.
ref: 2004 July 7, “FINDINGS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2024, Politics:
text: Imagine a city like Los Angeles disappearing from the map completely. That's exactly what happened to Chaohu, a city in eastern China's Anhui province with a similar population — about 4 million. The people have remained, but the city has vanished in an administrative sleight of hand.
ref: 2011 September 21, Louisa Lim, “The Curious Case Of The Vanishing Chinese City”, in NPR, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2011, Asia:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
glosses: A county-level city of Hefei, Anhui, China.
Space Karen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined with reference to Musk's company SpaceX and the pejorative sense of Karen (“a person exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement”).
Senses: examples: text: By the way, journalists shouldn't use Twitter DMs either. They're not safe. Especially with Space Karen in charge.
ref: 2022 November 11, Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@mastodon.social), Mastodon:
text: A stream of insults aimed at new Twitter boss Elon Musk has been projected onto the company’s San Francisco headquarters after workers were locked out of their offices. Insults included “supreme parasite”, “mediocre manchild”, “worthless billionaire” and “space karen”, according to footage posted online.
ref: [2022 November 18, Anthony Cuthbertson, “Elon Musk ‘space karen’ insult projected onto deserted Twitter HQ”, in The Independent, London:
text: Watching Space Karen burn Twitter down is actually quite funny 😂
ref: 2022 December 16, MrMajestikness (@MrMajestikness@mastodon.social), Mastodon:
text: it’s one of the key reasons I left the night Space Karen took over.
ref: 2023 February 1, Jason Allen (@JAllen@mstdn.social), Mastodon:
text: WALLACE: Kara, your boy, Elon Musk, made a lot of news,
SWISHER: Not my boy.
WALLACE: Hit me with your best shot.
SWISHER: Well, I’m trying to think of something that. So that Space Karen doesn’t sue me. So, let me say he’s troubled.
ref: 2023 December 2, The Chris Wallace Show, spoken by Kara Swisher, via CNN:
text: Over on the ever-lovely PC Pro podcast […] we refer to him as “Space Karen”. But despite what you might think of Mr Musk, it’s clear that he has assembled teams of extremely capable engineers in the various companies that he runs.
ref: [2024 June, Jon Honeyball, “Nailing down which device had gone rogue was the sort of wasted morning that consumes many coffee beans”, in PC Pro, page 113:
synonyms: Apartheid Clyde
Elmo
Elno
Elongated Muskrat
Phony Stark
glosses: A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
wikipedia: SpaceX
hard-block
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard-blocks
form: hard-blocking
form: hard-blocked
form: hard-blocked
form: hardblock
form: hard block
Senses: examples: text: And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.
ref: 2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, page 3:
coordinate_terms: soft-block
glosses: To permanently block (a user) on social media, as opposed to soft-blocking.
hard-block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard-blocks
form: hardblock
form: hard block
Senses: examples: text: Essentially, the users in question would not be prohibited from accessing your profile and tweets like a hard block would trigger. Instead, they will still be able to see your tweets and also send you direct messages. Your presence will be taken off from their news feed.
ref: 2021 October 12, Bharat Sharma, “Twitter Lets You 'Soft Block' Insufferable Followers: But Will It Limit Abuse?”, in Indiatimes:
coordinate_terms: soft-block
glosses: The act of doing this.
Govian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Govian
form: most Govian
Etymology: From Gove + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Polly Toynbee is spot on in her excoriation of Govian Gradgrindery. The inevitable marginalisation of the supposedly "soft" arts subjects in the state sector is a scandal.
ref: 2013 November 7, Ian Barge, “Children must learn to question, not simply obey”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Relating to British politician Michael Gove (1967–).
shtwt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From SH (“self-harm”) + -twt.
Senses: examples: text: Among the disturbing statistics in the report is that since October, hashtags related to self-harm such as #shtwt,” which is short for “self-harm Twitter,” have increased roughly 500 percent, the report found.
ref: 2022 August 30, Naomi Nix, “Self-harm posts are surging on Twitter, despite breaking content rules”, in The Washington Post:
synonyms: 988twt
glosses: The Twitter community of people engaging in self-harm.
Related terms: shblr
res.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of resume (“summary of education and employment experiences”).
insucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insuck
Phony Stark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of phony (“fraudulent or fake”) + Tony Stark, referencing the fictional business magnate, inventor, and playboy from the Marvel franchise.
Senses: examples: text: so, yeah, five years on and people on Twitter just kinda endured the Nazis, but now Phony Stark might just tank the whole thing anyway.
ref: 2022 November 10, Muhammad (@muhammad@mastodon.social), Mastodon:
text: Phony Stark seems to want to drive Twitter off a cliff for whatever reason.
ref: 2023 February 6, Simon Zerafa (@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange), Mastodon:
text: I'm not mad at anything Phony Stark does to Twitter. I am mad (or at least dumbfounded) at respectable professionals still using that service, though.
ref: 2023 April 5, Leon Cowle (@leoncowle@hachyderm.io), Mastodon:
text: “As always,” Elon patronised, “please try to stay as close to the truth as possible, even for stuff you don’t like.” Likewise, Phony Stark. Likewise.
ref: 2023 October 10, Marina Hyde, “Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Apartheid Clyde
Elmo
Elno
Elongated Muskrat
Space Karen
glosses: A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
wikipedia: Marvel Comics
Tony Stark
big crypto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Crypto
Etymology: Modeled after earlier instances of the pattern such as big tech (Big Tech), big pharma (Big Pharma), big business (Big Business), and others.
Senses: examples: text: But 2022 was the year that we found out the extent to which Big Crypto is a real thing: a cartel of interconnected players from exchanges, stablecoin companies and crypto networks who work together via group chats — one Signal chat was reportedly called “exchange co-ordination” and included executives from FTX, Binance and Tether.
ref: 2022 December 22, Jemima Kelly, “What this year in crypto has taught us”, in Financial Times:
text: Yet the lobbyists’ narrative is bogus. “Big crypto” blames the serial blow-ups of crypto firms on the failure by the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to provide the sector with “regulatory clarity.” […] The truth is that the agencies couldn’t be clearer about where Big Crypto is breaking the rules.
ref: 2023 February 17, Michael Hiltzik, “Column: The government crackdown on crypto is well underway. Get out while you can”, in Los Angeles Times:
hypernyms: big business
glosses: Large, influential cryptocurrency companies collectively.
greenthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenthorns
Etymology: Calque of Afrikaans groendoring
Senses: glosses: Balanites maughamii, a southern African tree.
She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: She Who Must Not Be Named
form: she-who-must-not-be-named
form: she who must not be named
Etymology: Coined as an ironic reference to the nickname "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" used by characters who fear speaking Lord Voldemort's name within Rowling's Harry Potter series.
Senses: examples: text: Depending on who you ask, JK Rowling is either a heroine of free speech or She Who Must Not Be Named.
ref: 2021 July 28, Charlotte Runcie, “JK Rowling is more than just a Twitter talking point”, in The Telegraph:
text: Witchcraft and wizardry have been the subject of fascination for centuries—just look at the success of a certain magical franchise written by She Who Must Not Be Named.
ref: 2022, Josie Anne Gaitens, “Witch Hunt”, in Reykjavík Grapevine, number 5, page 30:
text: I used to worship She Who Must Not Be Named of Harry Potter before she started using her platform to peddle a bunch of harmful garbage.
ref: 2022 December 24, Prerana Srikantappa, quoting Robbie Crouch, “Robbie Crouch”, in Vulkan, page 83:
synonyms: Rowldemort
Moldemort
glosses: The author J. K. Rowling, when viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.
wikipedia: Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Lord Voldemort
soapbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soapbushes
Senses: glosses: Miconia crenata, a glossy-leaved shrub of the Americas, invasive in many parts of the tropics; .
glosses: Guaiacum angustifolium, a tree of the caltrop family, native to Texas and Mexico.
guaiacwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaiacwoods
Etymology: From guaiac + wood.
Senses: glosses: The wood of the lignum vitae (Guaiacum) tree.
glosses: The tree itself.
birdsite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːdˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɜɹdˌsaɪt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: the birdsite
Etymology: From bird + site, referencing the company's logo depicting a blue bird.
Senses: examples: text: It's a bit more familiar for people moving from "the birdsite," as Mastodon users often call Twitter.
ref: 2022 November 14, Stephen Shankland, “I Want to Like Mastodon. The Decentralized Network Isn't Making That Easy”, in CNET:
text: “I am having a hard time letting go of the birdsite but I was raised by an alcoholic so I understand what a trauma bond is,” the political journalist Ana Marie Cox wrote on journa.host on Nov. 20.
ref: 2022 November 21, Joseph Bernstein, “Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative”, in The New York Times:
text: Always remember where you are when you're posting. It's easy to fall into bad habits, especially after spending years on the birdsite, also known as Twitter.
ref: 2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister, Mastodon for Dummies, page 75:
glosses: The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter; typically referred to outside of the platform itself.
Related terms: bird app
pluralphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʊ(ə)ɹəlˌfəʊbiə/
ipa: /ˈplɔːɹ(ə)l-/
ipa: /ˈplʊ(ə)ɹəlˌfoʊbiə/
ipa: /ˈplɜɹəl-/
Etymology: From plural + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: pluralphobia makes us mad
ref: 2020 September 4, @QueerAnarch, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
text: singlets talking about plurality like *inadvertent constant pluralphobia*
ref: 2021 February 10, @caterpilled, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
text: I wouldn't recommend the second game though because for some reason they go hard on the pluralphobia, a lot of plot points are changed from the original, and Zach barely plays a role in it, which is really disappointing.
ref: 2021 November 13, u/Aichtachi, “DID/OSDD/Plural-ish Positive Media Recommendations?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2023:
text: you think internalized transphobia is bad? oh brother, just wait till the internalized pluralphobia hits
ref: 2023 February 8, @estroBiologist, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
text: Long before any sort of multiplicity was considered a mental disorder, the Christian majority was primed to hate and fear plurals. This pluralphobia later transferred over to DID systems
ref: 2023 March 7, sophieinwonderland, Tumblr, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:
qualifier: multiplicity slang
glosses: The dislike, denial, or stigmatization of, or prejudice against, people with multiplicity (the psychological condition).
Related terms: pluralphobe
pluralphobic
PCNL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
urology
glosses: Abbreviation of percutaneous nephrolithotomy.