cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cash on the barrelhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: On the American frontier, barrels were employed as desks or tables with which to conduct transactions.
Senses: examples: text: "[W]e're selling, to the highest bidder, and for cash on the barrel head. . . . Cash in hand, no checks accepted."
ref: 1938 September 1, Charles B. Parmer, “Serial Story: Photo Finish—Twelve”, in Telegraph-Herald, Iowa, US, retrieved 23 Jul 2013, page 11:
text: [I]n 1946 the U.S. exported $2,166 million worth of food. . . . Most of this ($1,354 million) was paid for, cash on the barrelhead. But $628 million was the U.S. contribution to UNRRA stocks, and $184 million went through Lend-Lease.
ref: 1947 March 31, Foreign Relations: Potent Weapon, Time
text: In return for support of an Iraq invasion, Turkey wanted—and got—immediate aid, cash on the barrelhead, rather than mere assurances about future help.
ref: 2003 February 25, Paul Krugman, “Threats, Promises and Lies”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Jul 2013:
glosses: Money in the form of paper currency or coins, paid immediately at the time and place of a transaction: cash only (no credit), and at the point of sale.
Related terms: cold cash
cash and carry
cash on the line
on the drum
on the nail
headcanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headcanons
form: head canon
Etymology: From head + canon. First attested in c. 2007.
Senses: examples: text: In my own headcanon of Rocky IV, Ivan Drago is a Russian Mafia enforcer instead of a Red Army Captain.
text: Technically, the social context of Borogravia is such that the actual external difference between a trans man and a woman disguised as a man is practically indiscernible – the technology level means they’re indistinguishable by the bodily modification standard (although now that I think about it, there's no reason Igors couldn't perform sex changes, and that's going in my headcanon now), and there does not appear to be a space in the language for self-identification.
ref: 2012, Maggie K, "Let's talk about socks: Gender performativity in Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment", Queer Vertigo 2012 (University of Technology, Sydney), unknown date, page 17
text: That wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that they just fill in the missing information with whatever headcanon (one's personal belief of what is true to the universe) they want instead of actually trying to find out more about the character.
ref: 2012 June 11, Bea Huff, “Love the character, not the actor”, in Daily Nebraskan, volume 111, number 151, Lincoln: University of Nebraska, page 3:
text: Don't forget if they can write pages and pages and pages of “headcanon” information for an already developed character, probably changing his or her already set personality or even expanding upon it.
ref: 2013, Kristal Frenero, "Fifty shades of fan crazy", The Talon Newsmagazine (John A. Ferguson Senior High), Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2013, page 8
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual or small group of fans, but not necessarily found within or supported by the official canon.
Related terms: fanon
headcanon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: headcanons
form: headcanoning
form: headcanoned
form: headcanoned
form: head canon
Etymology: From head + canon. First attested in c. 2007.
Senses: examples: text: I headcanon her as gay.
text: From headcanoning him, kicking his legs, and blushing at a compliment to wearing cat ears, Ghost’s menacing persona is being accepted as a cute little quirk to the girlies. In response, much of COD’s male fanbase is accusing this mostly-female demographic of babygirlifiers of sexualizing him.
ref: 2022 November 30, Rachel Choi, “The babygirlification of Ghost in COD is threatening the incels”, in The Berkeley Beacon:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To interpret in the form of a headcanon.
dulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dullas
Senses: examples: text: The soft palate, also called a "dulla", can be extended. The rutting male protrudes the dulla from its mouth.
ref: 2023 August 31, Masroor Ellahi Babar, Muhammad Ashraf, Biology and Breeding of Camels: Focus on Pakistan Camels, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An inflatable sac in the throats of camels, displayed out of the mouth when in rut to assert dominance and attract females
action song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action songs
Senses: examples: text: My little sister's favourite action song is "Miss Polly Had a Dolly." She learned it from her English grandma.
glosses: A children's song that is accompanied by specific actions.
science-fictiony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more science-fictiony
form: most science-fictiony
form: science fictiony
Etymology: From science fiction + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She wishes science-fictiony things like videophones existed so Jaypee could see her smile when she says that Actually, she's moving into another area of creative work entirely. Publishing.
ref: 1991, Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: There was no other indication that the attack was under way—no cool science-fictiony laser sounds, no beam of light slicing through the sky, just a small blinking “L” indicator on their supercockpit displays.
ref: 2007, Dale Brown, Strike Force, Harper, →ISBN, page 504:
text: There were kids playing weird, science-fictiony music on synthesizers, and all the teachers who were telling everyone where to go were wearing outfits made out of aluminum foil, like robot aliens.
ref: 2012, James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts, Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of science fiction.
Synonyms: science-fictionish
Related terms: Star Trekky
Star Warsy
cash on the barrel head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cash on the barrelhead.
cash on the barrel-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cash on the barrelhead.
Hesychius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛˈsɪkɪəs/
Etymology: From the Latin Hēsychïus, from the Ancient Greek Ἡσῠ́χῐος (Hēsŭ́khĭos).
Senses: glosses: A Greek grammarian from the 5th century AD, known for compiling the richest lexicon of unusual and obscure Ancient Greek words.
Derived terms: Hesychian
carater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caraters
Etymology: From carat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She asked about diamonds, and he showed her a very nice one-carater set in a silver ring.
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: (preceded by the number of carats) Something that is a given number of carats.
caraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carater
ugali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili ugali.
Senses: examples: text: Still tall as the doorway, still fat from crocodile meat and ugali porridge.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 256:
glosses: African cornmeal porridge
screwed, blued and tattooed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: screwed, glued and tattooed
Senses: examples: text: Bubba is already getting shafted—as he says himself, screwed, blued and tattooed.
ref: 1993 October 27, Molly Ivins, “Nafta Will Bring Lower Wages”, in Gainesville Sun, retrieved 23 Jul 2013, page 10A:
text: The Canadians were hosed. They were screwed, blued and tattooed.
ref: 2006 Feb. 8, Terry Jones, "Is the fix in? The judging scandal that rocked figure skating, Edmonton Sun (Canada) (retrieved 23 July 2013)
text: He wailed, “I've been had, snookered, fucked, screwed, blued, and tattooed!”
ref: 2008, Riki Ott, Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Placed in a perplexing, very difficult situation, especially a situation in which one has been unjustly victimized.
screwed, glued and tattooed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screwed, blued and tattooed.
screwed, glued, and tattooed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screwed, blued and tattooed.
Nikon choir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkɒn kwaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnaɪkɒn kwaɪɚ/
Forms: form: Nikon choirs
form: Nikon chorus
Etymology: From Nikon (a brand of camera often used by professional photographers) + choir. The brand Nikon, which dates from 1946, is a blend of Japanese 日本光学 (Nippon Kōgaku, “Japan Optical”) (from 日本光学工業株式会社 (Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha, “Japan Optical Industries Corporation”)) and Ikon, a camera brand owned by Carl Zeiss AG.
Senses: examples: text: And with television, radio, the "Nikon choir" of photographers and 10 daily newspapers in London, there's plenty to manipulate. The Chuck and Di show opened to smash reviews and, 10 years later, has evolved into a thriving industry.
ref: 1991 July 28, Roxanne Roberts, “State of the union, ten years after”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2016, page F01:
text: [A]fter drinking vodka and cranberry juice at the Pangaea nightclub in the West End, he came out at to be confronted by the "Nikon choir" of paparazzi.
ref: 2004 October 24, “Harry: ‘Spare heir’ with a tendency to snap”, in The Times of India (reprinted from The Sunday Times, London), retrieved 31 August 2016
text: Fortunately, the Royal baby has sensible parents. […] I congratulate them on how they managed to arrive at St Mary's hospital without the Nikon Choir outside getting sight of them.
ref: 2013 July 23, Michael Cole, “Thinking of the late Princess Diana as her first grandchild is born”, in East Anglian Daily Times, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2016:
glosses: A large group of photographers simultaneously capturing images of a celebrity, producing numerous photographic flashes along with an accompanying din of clicking camera shutters.
wikipedia: British Royal Family
Carl Zeiss AG
Related terms: paparazzi
Colón
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A town in La Libertad department, El Salvador.
glosses: A province in Panama.
glosses: A city, the capital of Colón province, Panama.
Mirza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mirzas
Etymology: From Persian میرزا (mirzâ), from earlier میرزاد (mirzâd), composed of میر (mir, “commander”) (from Arabic title أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”)) and the suffix ـزاد، ـزاده (-zâd, -zâde, “child of, son of”), from زادن (zâdan). Akin to Amir, amir, emir and admiral.
Senses: glosses: A title denoting the rank of a high nobleman or prince, signifying a male-line descent and relationship to the Imperial Families of Turkey, Persia and later South Asia, and was the title borne by members of the highest aristocracies in Tatar states, such as the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan.
Mirza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian میرزا (mirzâ), from earlier میرزاد (mirzâd), composed of میر (mir, “commander”) (from Arabic title أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”)) and the suffix ـزاد، ـزاده (-zâd, -zâde, “child of, son of”), from زادن (zâdan). Akin to Amir, amir, emir and admiral.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shahryar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian شَهْرْیَار (šahryār).
Senses: glosses: Name of the fictional Persian Sassanid King of kings who is told stories by his wife, Scheherazade, to delay her execution.
motherfuckerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motherfucker + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: I went on to tell her instance after instance when she inspired motherfuckerhood in me.
ref: 2001 April 8, Phil Phantom, “{ASSM} Confessions”, in alt.sex.stories.moderated (Usenet):
text: In many ways, it's quite ironic that Roz Chast would be featured in an Interesting Motherfuckers column. After all, she is a mother of two, a boy and a girl. In fact, perhaps it would be more fitting to list Roz Chast's husband as an Interesting Motherfucker, at least that would be more literal, but as you can see from the definition provided at the top of the page, the phrase "Interesting Motherfucker" is really more a general description to be applied to someone who has the ability to cause others to take notice of their uniqueness and in that case, I think it's quite fair to file Roz Chast under the pedigree of Interesting Motherfuckerhood.
ref: 2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema and Rebel Music, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 66:
text: While I’ll never doubt our capacity for eye-rolling scorn, to expend any actually visceral hatred on Pitchfork, or any website that isn’t trafficking in landmines for baby sheep, is consigning yourself to trivial motherfuckerhood.
ref: 2013 January 1, Zachary Lipez, “Adult Problems - A Wrap-Up of Things That Happened in 2012 I Can Actually Remember”, in Noisey:
glosses: The state or quality of being a motherfucker.
Synonyms: motherfuckerdom
big woop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪɡ wʊp/
Forms: form: big whoop
form: no big woop
Etymology: From whoopee, used sarcastically.
Senses: glosses: so what? Used dismissively to discount the importance of something or the magnitude of its effects.
no big woop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big woop.
propagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propago
motherfuckerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motherfucker + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: “Let me tell you, when I stopped pimpin’, I was real negative about quitting,” Rosebudd says. “I thought I was giving up being a motherfucker. Now to a hustler, being a motherfucker is what you strive for. So when someone says ‘Rosebudd’s a motherfucker,’ that’s the highest compliment you can get because they’ve run out of adjectives. I was depressed until I realized that I was not stopping being a motherfucker, I was stopping pimpin’. I just had to become a motherfucker in another arena.”
The other arena in which Rosebudd, aka John Dickson, is aiming for motherfuckerdom is writing.
ref: 2000 July 26, Stephen Lemons, “'American Pimps'”, in Salon:
text: In a culture dependent upon oral traditions going back to the griots—tribal historians and genealogists—of Western Africa, the heroes of the toast were often the ultimate bad mammyjammers, the archetypes of motherfuckerdom.
ref: 2009, Jim Dawson, The Compleat Motherfucker: A History of the Mother of All Dirty Words, Feral House, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Take Watch the Throne, on which two grandiose motherfuckers explore the theme of grandiose-motherfuckerdom from vastly different perspectives, stacking dubstep on top of opera on top of Otis Redding, triumphalism on top of sorrow on top of more triumphalism, striving for a sound as vast and strange as the world they've come to inhabit.
ref: 2011 December, Alex Pappademas, “Jay-Z King”, in GQ:
glosses: The state or quality of being a motherfucker.
Synonyms: motherfuckerhood
Nikon chorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nikon choruses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nikon choir.
phagget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaggets
Senses: glosses: Faggot.
AUSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AUSAs
form: A.U.S.A.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: initialism of assistant United States attorney
Related terms: United States attorney
U.S. attorney
U. S. attorney
United States district attorney
U.S. district attorney
U. S. district attorney
assistant United States attorney
assistant U.S. attorney
assistant United States district attorney
assistant U.S. district attorney
A.U.S.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A.U.S.A.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AUSA.
D. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DA.
D. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DA.
D.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DA.
D.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DA.
DAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DA
DA's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DA
A. D. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ADA.
A. D. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ADA.
A.D.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ADA.
A.D.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ADA.
EADA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executive ADA
form: executive A.D.A.
form: executive A. D. A.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of executive assistant district attorney.
Related terms: sense: executive assistant district attorney
english: district attorney
translation: district attorney
word: DA
sense: executive assistant district attorney
english: district attorney
translation: district attorney
word: D.A.
sense: executive assistant district attorney
english: district attorney
translation: district attorney
word: D. A.
sense: executive assistant district attorney
english: assistant district attorney
translation: assistant district attorney
word: ADA
sense: executive assistant district attorney
english: assistant district attorney
translation: assistant district attorney
word: A.D.A.
sense: executive assistant district attorney
english: assistant district attorney
translation: assistant district attorney
word: A. D. A.
E.A.D.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of EADA.
E. A. D. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of EADA.
dysthymias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysthymia
re-abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-abuses
form: re-abusing
form: re-abused
form: re-abused
Etymology: From re- + abuse.
Senses: glosses: To abuse again.
re-abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-abuses
Etymology: From re- + abuse.
Senses: examples: a re-abuse rate of six percent
glosses: Abuse that is repeated or perpetrated again.
reabuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + abuse.
Senses: examples: text: At this point, a judgment is made about the likelihood of reabuse or reneglect if the child is left at home.
ref: 1997, California. Department of Finance. Performance Review Unit, A Performance Review: California's Child Welfare System (page 94)
text: Arrest, prosecution, and incarceration, nonetheless, did not prevent reabuse, and revictimizers were particularly prone to violating orders of protection (A. Klein et al., 2008).
ref: 2010, Ola W. Barnett, Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, Robin D. Perrin, Family Violence Across the Lifespan: An Introduction, page 608:
glosses: Repeated abuse.
reabuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reabuses
form: reabusing
form: reabused
form: reabused
Etymology: From re- + abuse.
Senses: glosses: To abuse again.
canche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canches
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Alternative form of canch.
style guides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of style guide
great-grandpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-grandpas
Etymology: From great- + grandpa.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, according to recent research, the alleged grumpiness of great-grandma and great-grandpa is more myth than reality.
ref: 2010, Gerald Leinwand, Intimations of Immortality: Do You Want to Live Forever?, page 98:
glosses: A great-grandfather.
great-grandpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-grandpa
great-grandma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-grandmas
Etymology: From great- + grandma.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, according to recent research, the alleged grumpiness of great-grandma and great-grandpa is more myth than reality.
ref: 2010, Gerald Leinwand, Intimations of Immortality: Do You Want to Live Forever?, page 98:
glosses: A great-grandmother.
great-grandmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-grandma
ale-stake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ale-stakes
Senses: examples: text: No one was permitted to brew ale so long as any church-ale lasted, nor so long as the keeper of the park had any to sell, nor at any time without licence of the lord or court ; nor to sell without a sign, or, during the fair, without an ale-stake hung out, nor to ask a higher price for ale than that fixed by the jury of assize, nor to lower the quality below what the ale-tasters approved, nor to sell at times of Divine service, nor after nine o'clock at night, nor to sell at all without entering into a bond for ₤10, with a surety of ₤5, to keep orderly houses.
ref: 1889, John Bickerdyke, The curiosities of ale & beer: an entertaining history, page 108:
text: If you ran a public drinking house, you were required to have an ale-stake to show that you were conducting a business where ale was being brewed for sale.
ref: 1998, Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake, page 53:
text: This was effected by the brewer putting an ale-stake outside of his establishment, with a branch or bush attached to the end of it (Figure 6.1).
ref: 2003, Ian Spencer Hornsey, A History of Beer and Brewing, page 286:
glosses: Alternative form of alestake.
spike addition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spʌɪk əˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: spike additions
Senses: examples: text: […] single spike addition experiment does not indicate the absence of systematic error […]
ref: 2002, D. T. Burns, K. Danyer, A. Townshend; Use of the terms “recovery” and “apparent recovery” in analytical procedures, Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 74, No. 11, p. 2201–2205
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calibration technique for quantification that involves adding known amounts of a substance to an aliquot of an analyte.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: spike method
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: spike procedure
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: spiking
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: standard addition
speleotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speleo- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: The beneficial effect of salt (speleotherapy) was reported by the Polish doctor F. Bochkowsky in 1843. Speleotherapy is based on the in-patient treatment in salt caves possessing a specific microclimate.
ref: 2017, Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan, editors, Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes, Springer, →ISBN, page 220:
coordinate_terms: halotherapy
glosses: The use of the microclimate of salt caves and mines for the treatment of asthma.
crab-eating foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crab-eating fox
apsar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apsars
Etymology: From Abkhaz аԥсар (apsar).
Senses: glosses: An unrecognized currency of Abkhazia.
apsars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apsar
naxar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naxar
form: nakhar
form: nahar
Etymology: From Chechen нахар (naxar).
Senses: glosses: An unrecognised currency created by the Chechen separatists.
porkalicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more porkalicious
form: most porkalicious
Etymology: From pork + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: Cute though they may be, pigs must serve a function: mama pigs produce little pigs, and papa pigs produce, from their own chubby carcasses, sausages and hams and all the other porkalicious products that will feed a hungry nation.
ref: 2007, Martin Rubin, “1933: Movies and the New Deal in Entertainment”, in Ina Rae Harm, editor, American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 107:
text: One mere whiff of the air after stepping onto the third floor of The Standard New York made the theme of the evening’s festivities instantly obvious: bacon – and lots of it, the porkalicious smell seemingly pouring out of the hotel’s tiny High Line Room.
ref: 2009 October 12, Yuan-Kwan Chan, “Bacon, blues and expanding bellies at the Food Network NYC Festival”, in Meniscus:
text: […] but the “fresh”, “flavorful” fare – from “porkalicious” potstickers to other “cheap” “Chinese” chow – is something “special” say supporters, adding that lines that “wrap around the block” “tell the story.”
ref: 2011, Meesha Halm, Cynthia Kilian, editors, San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants 2012, Zagat, →ISBN:
glosses: Delicious or tantalising because of the pork it is made from or contains.
raw_tags: of food
Venerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛnəɹəbl/
/ˈvɛnɹəbl/
Forms: form: more Venerable
form: most Venerable
Senses: glosses: A form of address for an archdeacon in the Anglican Church.
glosses: The description in the Roman Catholic Church of someone in the first stages of canonisation.
glosses: The description of some saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Related terms: Venerable Bede
Venerable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛnəɹəbl/
/ˈvɛnɹəbl/
Forms: form: Venerables
Senses: glosses: A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Buddhist monks and nuns.
Synonyms: Ven.
firebrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firebrats
Etymology: From fire + brat, after their habit of collecting near furnaces.
Senses: glosses: A thysanuran insect, Thermobia domestica.
firebrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firebrat
protomullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomullets
form: proto-mullet
Etymology: From proto- + mullet.
Senses: examples: text: Groups of glittery girls and boys with 1960s protomullets slid past homeless people too tired to beg for money.
ref: 2003 December 10, Annalee Newitz, “The high-tech black market”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian:
text: Byron on the other hand, had a protomullet viz Farrah Fawcett Fangs.
ref: 2005 January 8, marika, “Re: Navigating through hazards in Internet discussions”, in alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley (Usenet):
text: Able to bring together his solo songs and his Marillion career in an album and a live show that demonstrates the weight and breadth of his work, the shaven-headed figure that walks on stage tonight comes accompanied by gravitas, as well as the quirky charisma that has survived face-paint, parachute pants and that 1980s protomullet, to prosper in this more restrained era.
ref: 2006 February, John Hotten, “Fish”, in Classic Rock, page 96:
glosses: A mulletlike hairstyle which is shorter than a full-fledged mullet or which preceded the popularization of the mullet in the 1980s.
proto-mullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-mullets
Senses: examples: text: The 47-track Best Of Bowie DVD ($34.98, store.davidbowie.com) collects every single one of David Bowie's looks, from his finest dresses to tailored suits, skintight jumpers to clown costumes, proto-mullets to pompadours.
ref: 2002 December, “All through the house…”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:
text: Rather than leading the world in glamour and style, the majority of continentals seem to have been left behind in an era when proto-mullets, moonwalk loafers and white socks were right up there with Pac Man and rollerblades.
ref: 2003, Tamara Sheward, Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in Southeast Asia, Academy Chicago Publishers, published 2007, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The new story opens with our hero Perseus (Sam Worthington) as a widower and single father, his curly proto-mullet signaling that he has given up on soldiering and is determined to live as a simple fisherman.
ref: 2012 March 29, Mark Olsen, “By-the-numbers 'Wrath of the Titans' lets down cast of able performers ? 1/2”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: Alternative form of protomullet.
proto-mullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto-mullet
protomullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protomullet
necrohipposadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necro- + hippo- + sadism.
Senses: examples: text: So on the whole, the posts the newbies see that don't have the filter are going to be divided between those ignoring the whole thing, and those committing necrohipposadism on someone else's behavior, real or imagined.
ref: 1999 October 1, Kay Shapero, “Filters and the Loyal Opposition”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: But seriously for a moment (and hopefully avoiding necrohipposadism here) the issue is whether we are to have hypothecated taxes or not.
ref: 2002 April 7, Philip Crookes, “Re: Dramatically Depleted Rail Services in N.Z.”, in soc.culture.new-zealand (Usenet):
text: I've actually written two other longish responses, perhaps against my better judgement because I think Gordon and others are probably right, this topic HAS been beaten to death, but sometimes I'm a bit optimistic (perhaps pollyannish), and/or in denial that I'm practicing necrohipposadism.
ref: 2005 May 2, Ben Bradley, “Re: OS level programming vs microcontrollers”, in comp.robotics.misc (Usenet):
glosses: The act or practice of beating a dead horse, i.e. persisting beyond a reasonable point.
Synonyms: necrohippoflagellation
shinrinyoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinrinyoku
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 森(しん)林(りん)浴(よく) (shinrin'yoku).
Senses: glosses: A recreational trip to a forest intended to improve one's well-being.
Synonyms: forest bathing
Minnehaha County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dakota mníȟaȟa (“waterfall" or "rapids”) (mní (“water”) + ȟaȟa (“curling”)) + English county.
Senses: glosses: One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Sioux Falls.
Related terms: alt: and tautologically
word: Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis was independently named from the same Dakota word
word: Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis was named after the Minnehaha Falls within it
word: Minnehaha Trail is named after the Minnehaha Park
word: which is at one end of it
roman: pólis
english: city
translation: city
word: Minneapolis was named by blending the same Dakota word and Ancient Greek πόλις
english: the fictional woman in a Longfellow poem
translation: the fictional woman in a Longfellow poem
word: Minnehaha was named after the Minneapolis waterfall
necrohippoflagellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necro- + hippo- + flagellation.
Senses: examples: text: This is probably necrohippoflagellation, but how can you be sure you're really thinking? :)
ref: 1997 October 9, Soleil Lapierre, “Re: [RANT] NM:ToD #1”, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks (Usenet):
text: For now, though, and for here, I vote that instead of the current necrohippoflagellation, we, like, move on, put aside any grudges, and start talking about, like, Buffy.
ref: 1999 October 31, Miriam Ruth Rocke, “Enough already (was Re: For those of us who can't be arsed)”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: < Not being one for necrohippoflagellation, I've given up on this joker, so one big old snip here, but there was one thing I still wanted to address. >
ref: 2006 July 25, Siobhan Burke, “Re: New Fan...”, in alt.tv.firefly (Usenet):
glosses: The act or practice of beating a dead horse, i.e. persisting beyond a reasonable point.
Synonyms: necrohipposadism
-lect
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛkt/
homophone: lect
Etymology: From the terminal element of dialect, thus representing the Ancient Greek element -λεκτος (-lektos), ultimately from λέγω (légō, “I say or speak”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A (language) variety.
Related terms: lect
lectal
hot favorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot favorite
Sioux Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States.
Minnehaha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the tautologically named Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis (borrowed from Dakota mníȟaȟa (“waterfall" or "rapids”) (mní (“water”) + ȟaȟa (“curling”)) + English falls ("waterfall"))
Senses: glosses: A fictional Native American woman who features in the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow.
Derived terms: Minnehaha Springs
Related terms: english: independently formed using the same Dakota word
translation: independently formed using the same Dakota word
word: Minnehaha County
english: Minneapolis
translation: Minneapolis
word: Minnehaha Park is named after the same waterfall as Minnehaha was
english: Minneapolis
translation: Minneapolis
word: Minnehaha Trail is named after the Minnehaha Park
word: which it connects to Fort Snelling State Park
knuckerhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckerholes
Etymology: From knucker + hole.
Senses: examples: text: There is a knuckerhole north of Lyminster where a nicor is said to have lived. As a matter of fact, the warrior who slew the knuckerhole dinosaur was honored with a tombstone that is still located in a church there dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.
ref: 2011, James Edward Gilmer, 100 Year Cover-Up Revealed: We Lived with Dinosaurs!, page 67:
glosses: In English folklore, a hole in the ground said to be the home of a knucker, a dragon-like creature.
knuckerholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knuckerhole
knucker hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knucker holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knuckerhole.
knucker holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knucker hole (alternative spelling of knuckerholes).
puffing the magic dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puff the magic dragon
sepometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sepometer
Moody County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Gideon C. Moody.
Senses: glosses: One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Flandreau.
wikipedia: Gideon C. Moody
Flandreau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Moody County, South Dakota, United States.
Flandreau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tribe of the Sioux people.
black kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black kites
Senses: glosses: A species of kite, Milvus migrans, widely distributed throughout the Old World.
Synonyms: word: shitehawk
black kites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black kite
herring gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herring gull
Karipúna Creole French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karipuna Creole French
Senses: glosses: a French-based creole language spoken in northern Brazil
Synonyms: Lanc-Patuá creole
Moody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmudi/
homophone: moody
rhymes: -uːdi
Forms: form: Mowdy
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in St. Clair County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in McLennan County, Texas.
glosses: A locality on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
Derived terms: Kac-Moody algebra
Moody chart
Moody County
Moody diagram
Port Moody
accurise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accurises
form: accurising
form: accurised
form: accurised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of accurize.
accurising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accurise
accurised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accurise
Brookings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Brookings County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A city in Curry County, Oregon, United States.
Derived terms: Brookings County
Brookings County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Wilmot Wood Brookings.
Senses: glosses: One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Brookings.
wikipedia: Wilmot Wood Brookings
androgynize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: androgynizes
form: androgynizing
form: androgynized
form: androgynized
form: androgynise
Etymology: From androgyne + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make androgynous.
glosses: To become androgynous.
Derived terms: androgynization
Related terms: androgenize
androgenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: androgenises
form: androgenising
form: androgenised
form: androgenised
Etymology: From androgen + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of androgenize.
androgynise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: androgynises
form: androgynising
form: androgynised
form: androgynised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of androgynize.
androgenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of androgenise
androgynises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of androgynise
androgynised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of androgynise
androgynising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of androgynise
androgenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of androgenize
androgynized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of androgynize
androgynizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of androgynize
androgynizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of androgynize
adrenalectomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adrenalectomise
huggability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From huggable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The hostess introduced herself as Joelle. She was in her thirties, with short, curly dark hair. She had the look of a mom, a combination of warmth, huggability, and an air of parental authority you didn't mess with.
ref: 2006, Jessica Conant-Park, Susan Conant, Steamed, Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN:
text: Customers choose an animal (it's not just bears) without stuffing, take it to a station, where it is stuffed "to the right amount of huggability" and (crucial touch) a heart is placed inside.
ref: 2007, Eric Clark, The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers, Free Press, →ISBN:
text: Before back pains limited my huggability, one of my favorite ice breakers was to say, "Come and give me a hug."
ref: 2010, Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: The quality or state of being huggable.
Synonyms: huggableness
huggableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From huggable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She looked as if she would be a plucky, tireless sportswoman; yet she had a wistful, tender huggableness that a girl ought not to lose, however well she plays tennis.
ref: 1916, Rupert Hughes, The Thirteenth Commandment, A. L. Burt Company, page 16:
text: From Elvis's (I just wanna be your) teddy bear huggableness to Bowie's extraterrestrial transvestism, rock 'n' roll had always considered male androgyny to be axiomatic.
ref: 1985, David Dalton, Piece of My Heart: A Portrait of Janis Joplin, De Capo Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Ashley’s idols are Drew Barrymore (who returned the admiration by giving them cameos in the new Charlie’s Angels), Oprah, and “Martha, because of, like, everything she’s created within her brand.” The Olsens’ ingenuity in platforming their Full House huggableness into a Martha Stewart–caliber brand consciousness has become the model and matrix for the rest of the entertainment industry.
ref: 2003 July, James Wolcott, “Teen Engines: Riding with the Kid Culture”, in Vanity Fair:
text: "Yes yes, the phenomenon of elevated huggableness at increased or reduced sizes has been observed... ...but I really need to measure Sarah's height."
ref: 2019 December 30, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Dec 30, 2019:
glosses: The quality or state of being huggable.
Synonyms: huggability
embraceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embracability
Etymology: From embraceable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: She brings an utterly loving embraceability to this somewhat chubby creature, a "Miss Four Eyes," with her glasses on a chain.
ref: 1992, Theater Week, volume 6, page 37:
text: Here is the gist of that simple and foul thought: how can one reconcile the ethereal beauty of these women, their fragility and embraceability, their humour, sanity and sharp intelligence with their capacity to inflict pain – quite apart from their regular craziness contingent on their menstruation?
ref: 2006, Robert L. Quinn, The Accompanist, Ogma Press, →ISBN, page 22:
text: So where does that leave Tiger Woods on the embraceability scale? Or Kobe Bryant? Once lauded, then despised, then, at least in Bryant's case, lauded again, both manifested signs of regression.
ref: 2012, Ellis Cashmore, Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama's America, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: The quality or state of being embraceable.
shell-shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shell-shock
shell-shocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shell-shock
adrenalectomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adrenalectomise
Ramesses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramasses
form: Ramases
form: Rameses
form: Ramses
form: Ramsses
form: Rhamesses
form: Rhameses
form: Rhamsses
form: Rhamses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ῥαμέσσης (Rhaméssēs), itself from Egyptian rꜥ-ms-sw,
ra-ms-sw
Senses: glosses: Name of several pharaohs of 19th and 20th dynasty of Ancient Egypt, 13th to 10th century BC.
Coordinate terms: Ozymandias
Related terms: Ramesside
Ramose
Ramasses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ramesses.
Rameses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ramesses.
enc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encs
Senses: qualifier: postal
glosses: Abbreviation of enclosure (indicating that a letter is accompanied by further material).
clash of the ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the use of ash wood in the manufacture of hurleys. Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: hurling (the sport)
hields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hield
hields
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hield
hielding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hield
hielded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hield
anding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of and
anded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of and
Gerber tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gerber tubes
Etymology: Named after Niklaus Gerber.
Senses: glosses: a type of butyrometer (used to estimate the proportion of butterfat in milk)
wikipedia: Niklaus Gerber
Inundation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt.
evil-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evil-eyes
form: evil-eyeing
form: evil-eying
form: evil-eyed
form: evil-eyed
Etymology: Denominal verb of evil eye.
Senses: glosses: to cast an evil eye upon someone or something
jumping mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumping mouse
jumping mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping mice
Senses: examples: text: The jumping mouse is little larger than a house mouse and has a very long, scaly, untufted tail, one-third longer than the head and body.[…]In fact, various observers have found that jumping mice with injured or amputated tails tumble over and are as helpless as a ship without a rudder.
ref: 1953, Lowell Sumner, Joseph Scattergood Dixon, Birds and Mammals of the Sierra Nevada, page 423:
text: In some respects a jumping mouse resembles kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice in habits and appearance. A jumping mouse may readily be distinguished from these animals, however, by its lack of fur-lined cheek pouches and by its preference for, or nearness to, moist habitats instead of arid places.
ref: 1954, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California and Its Coastal Waters, page 256:
text: That was when we realized that we have two species of jumping mice on the mountain.
ref: 1999, Marcia Bonta, Appalachian Summer, page 138:
glosses: Any species of the taxonomic family Zapodidae of rodents, variously endemic to North America or China.
Synonyms: zapodid
Derived terms: taxonomic: Eozapus setchuanus
word: Chinese jumping mouse
taxonomic: Zapus hudsonius
word: meadow jumping mouse
taxonomic: Zapus trinotatus
word: Pacific jumping mouse
taxonomic: Zapus princeps
word: western jumping mouse
taxonomic: Napaeozapus insignis
word: woodland jumping mouse
Sherrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sherrins
Etymology: From the brand name; invented by Thomas William Sherrin in 1880.
Senses: examples: text: Give the Sherrin to the umpire.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A football used in Australian rules.
gnu goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnu goats
Senses: glosses: Budorcas taxicolor
Synonyms: sense: Budorcas taxicolor
word: takin
sense: Budorcas taxicolor
word: cattle chamois
cattle chamois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle chamois
Senses: glosses: Budorcas taxicolor
Synonyms: sense: Budorcas taxicolor
word: takin
sense: Budorcas taxicolor
word: gnu goat
bodyswaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyswap
muton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutons
Etymology: Contracted form of mutation + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as "[t]he unit of mutation […] defined as the smallest element that, when altered, can give rise to a mutant form of the organism."
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unit of mutation forming part of a recon.
Tartessians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tartessian
Gallaecian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gallaeci + -an.
Senses: glosses: Northwestern Hispano-Celtic, an extinct language of the Celtic family, spoken by the Gallaeci at the beginning of the first millennium CE in a north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula.
Gallaecian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gallaecians
Etymology: From Gallaeci + -an.
Senses: glosses: One of the Gallaeci.
Gallaecian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Gallaeci + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Gallaecia or the Gallaeci.
Related terms: Galician
fiberglassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fiberglass
fiberglassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fiberglass
touch-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-up