cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
needledick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needledicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of needle dick.
needledicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needledick
Eurohouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + house.
Senses: glosses: A European style of house music.
ecothriller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecothrillers
form: eco-thriller
Etymology: From eco- + thriller.
Senses: glosses: A thriller (suspenseful dramatic work) with an ecological theme.
ecothrillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecothriller
econut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: econuts
Etymology: From eco- + nut.
Senses: examples: text: Murder, arson, rape, pestilence and doom, screamed the econuts. Death by radioactivity, malformed children for generations, atomic holocaust. Not one bugaboo of the econuts' arsenal of horror tales was left unused[…]
ref: 1973, Petr Beckmann, Eco-hysterics and the technophobes, page 91:
glosses: One who takes a strong interest in environmental issues.
ecofanatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecofanatics
Etymology: From eco- + fanatic.
Senses: glosses: One who takes a strong interest in environmental issues.
econuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of econut
ecofanatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecofanatic
ecoclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecocline + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecoclines.
econometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From econometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of econometrics.
ecotoxicologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotoxicologists
Etymology: From eco- + toxicologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ecotoxicology.
ecotoxicologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecotoxicologist
cissexist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cissexist
form: most cissexist
Etymology: From cis- + sexist or cissex(ual) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Living in this extraordinarily cissexist (and oppositionally sexist) world, transsexuals recognize cissexual privilege for what it is: a privilege.
ref: 2007, Julie Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Seal Press, →ISBN:
text: It seems necessary to stress that there is a rather large gulf between the indeterminacy accorded trans subjects by the normative presumptions of cissexist culture and the self-identifications of trans people.
ref: 2011, Em McAvan, “Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence”, in Jes Battis, editor, Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, Lexington Books, →ISBN, pages 26–27:
text: Indeed, many transgender men use the excuse 'oh, I was such a tomboy when I was younger' in order to validate their gender identity to a cissexist (the belief that the genders of trans people are less legitimate than those of cis gender people) society.
ref: 2013, Jon Edwards, Luisa Edwards, The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother’s Unconditional Love for Her Child, Arrow, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Exhibiting or related to cissexism.
cissexist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cissexists
Etymology: From cis- + sexist or cissex(ual) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who exhibits cissexism.
Synonyms: transphobe
electropainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + painted.
Senses: glosses: painted electrophoretically
Bohra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bohras
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of a particular Sevener Shi'ite denomination, now found mainly in India.
computerologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computerologists
Etymology: From computer + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or works with computers.
Related terms: computerology
computerologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computerologist
computerland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From computer + -land.
Senses: examples: text: Out in computerland, people are talking to each other about how to make a bomb.
ref: 2009, Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys, page 112:
text: 2K – Literally 2000, but in computerland it is 2048 (2¹¹).
ref: 2013, Steve Wright, Digital Compositing for Film and Video, page 443:
glosses: The world of computers and the people associated with them.
ecoefficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + efficiency.
Senses: glosses: efficient, non-wasteful use of environmental resources
Related terms: ecoefficient
unwasteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwasteful
form: most unwasteful
Etymology: From un- + wasteful.
Senses: glosses: Not wasteful.
ecoefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more ecoefficient
form: most ecoefficient
Etymology: From eco- + efficient.
Senses: glosses: Making efficient, non-wasteful use of environmental resources.
Related terms: ecoefficiency
ecocrisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecocrises
Etymology: From eco- + crisis.
Senses: hypernyms: crisis
emergency
<
problem
glosses: Ecological crisis.
Related terms: Anthropocene
sozology
ecocrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecocrisis
ecocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecocities
Etymology: From eco- + city.
Senses: glosses: A city designed to have a low impact on the environment.
ecocities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecocity
ecofascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-fascism
Etymology: From eco- + fascism.
Senses: examples: text: No ecofascism government has yet existed, but important aspects of it can be discerned in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was Blut und Boden, “[pure] blood and [pure] land.”
ref: 2008, Bron Taylor, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 531:
text: But eco-fascism is a longstanding political ideology that is currently undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the contemporary extremist right. In general, unlike many on the political right, eco-fascists concede the reality of looming ecological catastrophe. But the “solutions” they propose are frankly genocidal.
ref: 2019 March 19, Jason Wilson, “Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right”, in The Guardian:
text: As climate change politics develop, ecofascism and neo-Malthusian thought are also gathering strength.
ref: 2020, Oscar Berglund, Daniel Schmidt, Extinction Rebellion and Climate Change Activism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 3:
text: But we are beginning to get a picture of what new kinds of eco-fascism and eco-authoritarianism might look like, including its genocidal implications.
ref: 2021 May 7, Luke Buckmaster, “The Mad Max films depict a world increasingly degraded. Furiosa will be far from comforting”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The combination of fascist politics with support for ecological concerns.
glosses: Aggressive environmental activism.
Related terms: ecofascist
ecofascistic
fascistoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fascistoid
form: most fascistoid
Etymology: From fascist + -oid.
First attested in an article by Geoffrey Pyke in The New Statesman on 5 September 1936.
Senses: examples: text: We must now be prepared, too, for that Puritan reaction here, which seems to accompany all Fascistoid movements.
ref: 5 September 1936, Geoffrey Pyke, “Politics and Witchcraft”, in The New Statesman, volume 12:
text: In sum, we ought to realise that our enthusiasm for sports heroes is fascistoid in nature.
ref: 2002, Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö, Values in Sport: Elitism, Nationalism, Gender Equality and the Scientific Manufacturing of Winners:
synonyms: fascistic
glosses: Resembling fascism.
fascistoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fascistoids
Etymology: From fascist + -oid.
First attested in an article by Geoffrey Pyke in The New Statesman on 5 September 1936.
Senses: examples: text: The modern fascistoids employ terribly violent language, with often tragic and murderous consequences, but they do not stage invasions and do not really aim at war.
ref: 2021, Harold James, “Globalization and Its Neologisms”, in The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: A person who holds fascistoid views.
lesbophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛz.bəˌfəʊb/
ipa: /ˈlɛz.bəˌfoʊb/
Forms: form: lesbophobes
Etymology: From lesbo- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Lesbophobes disown all interest not only in lesbians themselves but also in lesbian films, plays, and novels.
ref: 1972, Natalie Gittelson, The Erotic Life of the American Wife, Delacorte Press, published 1972, page 222:
text: […] and because most men, being to some degree misogynists or lesbophobes or both, dislike me and other wimmin.
ref: 1994, Joyce Trebilcot, Dyke Ideas: Process, Politics, Daily Life, State University of New York Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 129:
text: Much as I hate to admit it, that notorious theoretical lesbophobe, Julia Kristeva, may have been right when she asserted in her 1980 article, […]
ref: 1997, Kathleen Martindale, Un/Popular Culture: Lesbian Writing After the Sex Wars, State University of New York Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: One who hates or has a negative perception of lesbians.
Hypernyms: homophobe
Related terms: lesbophobia
lesbophobic
lesbophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbophobe
Euro-rebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euro-rebels
Etymology: From Euro- + rebel.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A politician who goes against the party line by opposing European integration.
Euro-rebels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euro-rebel
ballotini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian ballotini plural of ballotino.
Senses: examples: text: The 40cm fractionating column was packed with 3mm ballotini.
topics: sciences
synonyms: glass beads
glosses: small beads (usually of glass, typically of 1-4mm diameter)
glosses: glass microspheres (used in reflective materials, typically < 100μm diameter)
ballotini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A style of glass with a helical pattern, made by caneworking.
jalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jali
jaali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaalis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jali.
jaalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaali
razoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈzʉː/
Forms: form: razoos
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Birt, M.L.A., referred to the "splendid sacrifice" of public servants during the war period. "And they did not get a razoo for it," he added scornfully.
ref: 1919 September 30, The Newcastle Sun, page 3, column 3:
text: Mona came with a late run to pip Jim's Boy on the post in 2.13¼. The stable hadn't a razoo on the winner, and when the time was hoisted, 2.13¼, the question went round as to how the grass was going to slow down the times.
ref: 1933 July 1, The Sydney Sportsman, page 4, column 4:
text: Some of those old aristocratic families haven't got a razoo any more.
ref: 2011, Margaret Way, The Bridesmaid's Wedding:
synonyms: brass razoo
glosses: A fictitious coin of very low value.
examples: text: And I never cared a "razoo" for that "shielar" any way.
ref: 1919 May 17, The Tweed Daily, page 7, column 3:
text: He did not care one razoo that now the very hills had ears—how that rifle shot rolled and rolled away! Let them all come! He would take them all on!
ref: 1961, Ion Idriess, Tracks of Destiny: From Derby to Tennant Creek, published 2021:
text: He ate his Kentucky Fried Chicken and I am not to eat a thing...not a razoo.
ref: 2009, Marja Harris, My Memoirs: A Period in the Life of Marja Harris, page 28:
glosses: The smallest part or particle imaginable; a whit; a jot.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
razoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of razoo
Mills-and-Boonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mills-and-Boonish
form: most Mills-and-Boonish
Etymology: After the romance publisher Mills & Boon, + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Romantic in a formulaic way.
wikipedia: Mills & Boon
rap metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A music genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip-hop with heavy metal.
autokill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autokills
Etymology: From auto- + kill.
Senses: topics: IRC
glosses: A software setting that automatically disconnects a user whenever they attempt to connect.
Related terms: akill
autokills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autokill
mutilater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutilaters
Etymology: From mutilate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These heretics were the original mutilaters of the Eucharist; as their predecessors, the Gnostics, were the original advocates of image-worship.
ref: 1830, George Stanley Faber, The difficulties of Romanism, page 262:
glosses: Archaic form of mutilator.
mutilaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutilater
Mutsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mutsus
Etymology: From Japanese 陸奥 (Mutsu, “Mutsu Province”), an old province of Japan, where the cultivar was first grown.
Senses: synonyms: Crispin
glosses: A variety of apple, a cross between the Golden Delicious and the Indo, first grown in Japan.
wikipedia: Mutsu Province
Mutsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mutsu
Crispins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crispin
mustarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mustard + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: When we consider the results the allopaths have obtained from purging, mustarding, poulticing, and blistering, disastrous enough, we cannot help feeling surprise that Dr. Hall obtained such good results as he did.
ref: 1875, American Institute of Homeopathy, Transactions of the session of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, volume 27:
glosses: The medicinal use of mustard plasters.
myelinogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to myelinogenesis.
myelofibrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myelo- + fibrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myelofibrosis.
myoball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoballs
Etymology: From myo- + ball.
Senses: glosses: A spherical muscle cell.
myoballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoball
myoclonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoclonia
myoelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + electrical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myoelectricity.
myxosporidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxosporidians
Etymology: Myxosporidia + -an
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Myxosporidia.
myxosporidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myxosporidian
Nahuatlaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Nahua people.
twocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twoccer.
twockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twocker
twocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twoc
twocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of twoccing.
twocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twoc
Demosthenean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Demosthenean
form: most Demosthenean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Demosthenian.
Arabish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ɹə.bɪʃ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛ.ɹəb.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.əb.ɪʃ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɚ.əb.ɪʃ/
Etymology: Blend of Arabic + English
Senses: glosses: The Arabic language when informally written in the Latin alphabet, typically on computers or cell phones that do not support the Arabic script.
Arabish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ɹə.bɪʃ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛ.ɹəb.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.əb.ɪʃ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɚ.əb.ɪʃ/
Etymology: From Arab + -ish.
Senses: glosses: The Arabic language.
backmutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backmutations
form: back mutation
Etymology: From back + mutation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mutation that restores the original sequence and hence the original phenotype.
backmutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backmutation
rickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rickle
Namaqualand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Namaqua + land.
Senses: glosses: An arid region of Namibia and Northern Cape province, South Africa, divided by the lower course of the Orange River into two portions: Little Namaqualand to the south and Great Namaqualand to the north.
Derived terms: Namaqualand daisy
nasbandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sterilization: vasectomy or tubal ligation
muurkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Afrikaans
Senses: glosses: An ornamental cupboard built into a wall.
Breastapo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastapo
Etymology: Blend of breast + Gestapo.
Senses: examples: text: In that vulnerable post-natal daze, brainwashed by the NCT and other hard-line members of the Breastapo, I almost believed it was better to starve my son than pollute him with formula.
ref: 2011 May 11, Anna Maxted, “Breastfeeding: Protect us from the Breastapo”, in The Telegraph:
text: Not all women can produce enough milk to feed their babies, and many push themselves to the brink of sanity in the attempt to do so, partly because of the pressure piled on to them by the Breastapo.
ref: 2011 June 21, Emma Cowing, “The 'Breastapo' need to lay down their arms”, in The Scotsman:
text: I'd heard about the Breastapo but hadn't encountered a member yet. These are midwives and nurses whose keenness on breastfeeding somewhat overwhelms their ability to be kind and considerate.
ref: 2013, Jen Wight, Day 6: When Motherhood & Madness Collide, Green Olive Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Overzealous lactivists who pressure women to breastfeed and criticize formula-feeders, taken as a group.
Meronyms: word: lactonazi
mycophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycophile
mycophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myco- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: The love of mushrooms.
Related terms: word: mycophile
word: mycophilic
word: fungiphile
word: fungiphilic
word: fungophile
mycophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycophobes
Etymology: From myco- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Mycophobe or closet mycophile? It isn't always easy to tell the difference.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 233:
glosses: One who fears or dislikes fungi.
Related terms: mycophobia
mycophobic
mycophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycophobe
breastapo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Debate over breast feeding versus formula has flared this year, with formula-feeding mothers complaining they feel vilified for choosing formula for their babies - with "breastapo"-like tactics on many maternity wards.
ref: 2012 October 9, Teuila Fautai, “Little need seen for warning on baby formula”, in Wanganui Chronicle:
text: Breastfeeding experts like Ms Burbridge must help us banish the breastapo, the mafia, breastfeeding nazis and the witches of breastmilk, those so-called carers who can no longer see the women for the tits.
ref: 2013 March 7, Anna White, “The 'Breastapo' need to stop nipple gazing”, in The Telegraph, UK:
text: As news emerges that supermarkets are rationing popular brands to prevent formula being bought in bulk and shipped to China, where it can fetch three times the price, the ‘breastapo’ are out in force, berating the formula-feeding pariahs who feed our babies this manufactured ‘poison’.
ref: 2013 April 10, Jill Foster, “The formula milk shortage is stressful enough without the breastapo piling on the guilt: A cry of anguish from a mother of seven-month-old twins”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Breastapo.
popmobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pop + mobility.
Senses: glosses: A form of aerobics performed to pop music.
Porro prism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Porro prisms
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Ignazio Porro.
Senses: glosses: A reflection prism used in optical instruments to alter the orientation of an image. It consists of a block of glass shaped as a right geometric prism with right-angled triangular end faces.
wikipedia: Ignazio Porro
Christianoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christianoid
form: most Christianoid
Etymology: From Christian + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: a process of religious inoculation, by which small doses of Christianoid concepts and terminology are injected into consciousness
ref: 1961, Peter Berger, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: That modern Christianoid notion of “spirituality” that is all about experiences and feelings, and little or nothing about solid growth in biblical knowledge, wisdom, and holiness, has no connection with what the Lord or the apostles taught […]
ref: 2011, Dan Phillips, The World-Tilting Gospel:
text: There's something undignified about repentance and the desire for forgiveness, something Christianoid that bothers me. The Devil, even in defeat, stays faithful to himself and to his own contradiction.
ref: 2013, Arturo Fontaine, La Vida Doble:
glosses: Resembling Christianity.
postcreole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + creole.
Senses: examples: text: There is a postcreole situation when the creole has lost most of its speakers, as in Louisiana[…]
ref: 2010, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, page 870:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: After a creole; after decreolization has taken place.
postcreole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcreoles
Etymology: From post- + creole.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A creole language after decreolization has taken place.
pradhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pradhans
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रधान (pradhāna).
Senses: glosses: An official in parts of India, equivalent to vizier in rank and function.
pradhans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pradhan
prajnaparamita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रज्ञापारमिता (prajñāpāramitā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A central concept in Mahayana Buddhism, suggesting that all things appear as thoughtforms (conceptual constructs).
Porfirian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Porfirian
form: most Porfirian
Etymology: From Spanish Porfirio + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Porfirio Díaz (José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori; 1830–1915), Mexican soldier and politician who served seven terms as President of Mexico.
posiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of posey: most posey
postcommunism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + communism.
Senses: glosses: The period of political and economic transformation or transition in former communist states located in parts of Europe and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economies.
posole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pozole.
posoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posole
poriomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An impulsive tendency to wander away.
positraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ækʃən
Etymology: Originally a Chevrolet brand name, from positive traction.
Senses: glosses: Limited-slip differential
unburdensome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unburdensome
form: most unburdensome
Etymology: From un- + burdensome.
Senses: glosses: Not burdensome.
Derived terms: unburdensomeness
portastudio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portastudios
Etymology: Short for portable studio. Originally a trademark, from the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: A four-track recorder based on a standard compact audio cassette tape.
portastudios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portastudio
Pompeii worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pompeii worms
Senses: examples: text: The two-metre-long tube worms and the smaller Pompeii worms which bathe in scalding temperatures on volcanic vents in the deep ocean, and the bristly Christmas tree worms that achieved fame in impossibly large but otherwise accurate translation to the planet Pandora in the film Avatar
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 88:
glosses: Alvinella pompejana, a deep-sea polychaete worm.
Pompeii worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pompeii worm
squiggliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squiggly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being squiggly.
tarnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eternal.
Senses: glosses: damned (as an intensifier)
Related terms: darn
darnation
tarnation
postpunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpunkers
Etymology: From post- + punk + -er.
Senses: glosses: An aficionado of postpunk music.
postpunkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postpunker
postpolio syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition, involving fatigue and muscular pain and weakness, affecting some individuals who have previously contracted poliomyelitis.
potty parity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alliterative.
Senses: glosses: Equal or equitable provision of toilet facilities for men and women within a public space.
powerbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of power box.
powerboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerbox
prajna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɑːd͡ʒnə/
/ˈpɹʌd͡ʒnə/
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Wisdom; understanding; insight.
ponderomotively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ponderomotive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ponderomotive manner.
postroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postrooms
Etymology: From post + room.
Senses: glosses: mailroom
postrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postroom
pragmaticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pragmaticists
Etymology: From pragmatic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies pragmatics.
pragmaticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pragmaticist
postexposure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + exposure.
Senses: glosses: After exposure (to radiation, pathogens, etc.).
pomerac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomeracs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pommerac.
Populuxe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Related to popular and luxury.
Senses: glosses: An optimistic, futuristic consumer culture and aesthetic in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
one potato, two potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A children's counting game in which the fists are bumped together.
postvention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postventions
Etymology: Blend of post- + intervention
Senses: glosses: An intervention conducted after a suicide, largely taking the form of support for the bereaved.
postventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postvention
mell of a hess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Spoonerism of hell of a mess
Meckel's ganglion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meckel's ganglia
Etymology: Named after German anatomist Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781–1833).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pterygopalatine ganglion.
synonyms: word: pterygopalatine ganglion
wikipedia: Johann Friedrich Meckel
megagametogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The development of a megaspore into an embryo sac.
medicinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of medicinal.
Melmac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brand of dinnerware moulded from melamine resin, popular in the mid-twentieth century.
megafossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafossils
Etymology: From mega- + fossil.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large fossil showing the structure of an organism.
Related terms: microfossil
megafossils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafossil
Meissner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: German
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Meissner corpuscle
Meissner effect
Meissner oscillator
Meissner's plexus
memory metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory metals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shape memory alloy
synonyms: word: shape memory alloy
memory metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory metal
melonhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melonheads
Etymology: Compound of melon + head.
Senses: glosses: One of a group of legendary beings, known in parts of Michigan, Ohio, and Connecticut, and generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding-places to attack people.
examples: text: Uncle Gene turned toward Dad. "Let the melonhead laugh. We'll show him, won't we, pard?"
ref: 1992, P. J. Peterson, Liars, New York, N.Y. […]: Scholastic Inc., published 1994, →ISBN, page 162:
text: The picture showed the group, a gurning, multichinned James looking like a melonhead in the foreground, dressed in formal evening-wear and cummerbunds. How the fuck had they got hold of those pictures? The boys looked like a cabaret band. It was bad. It was very bad.
ref: 1999, Kevin Sampson, Powder: An Everyday Story of Rock 'N' Roll Folk, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 477:
text: Of course you should you melonhead. Why are you being so obtuse. You are just making my whole point.
ref: 2005 April 21, Lee Harris, “Shefield and the Fan”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet):
synonyms: word: alcatote
word: asshat
word: arsehole
word: asshole
word: bayard
word: berk
word: birdbrain
word: blither
word: bobchin
word: bonehead
word: bozo
word: buffoon
word: brickhead
word: Charlie
word: chucklehead
word: chowderhead
word: chump
word: clart
word: clown
word: der-brain
word: dill pickle
word: dim bulb
word: dingleberry
word: dipshit
word: dipstick
word: dirtbrain
word: div
word: divvo
word: divvy
word: dolt
word: donk
word: doodle
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: dote
word: dotterel
word: dullard
word: dumbass
word: dumbbell
word: dumb fuck
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dupe
word: fathead
word: fenderhead
word: fiddle
word: fuckwit
word: fuzznut
word: geck
word: gig
word: gink
word: goober
word: gooseberry
word: gowk
word: gubbins
word: gump
word: ha'p'orth
word: Homer Simpson
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: jamoke
word: jerk
word: jerkoff
word: jolterhead
word: jolthead
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knucklehead
word: lamebrain
word: mameluke (US (Italian-American)
word: slang)
word: maroon
word: meathead
word: mong
word: moron
word: mug
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: numskull
word: numps
word: numpty
word: nupson
word: oaf
word: pillock
word: pinhead
word: plonker
word: prat
word: retard
word: shit for brains
word: shithead
word: shitwit
word: schmo
word: schmuck
word: snapperhead
word: softhead
word: sot
word: stupid
word: sucker
word: thickhead
word: tonto
word: tool
word: tosser
word: tosspot
word: twat
word: twerp
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzock
word: yampy
glosses: A fool or idiot.
melonheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melonhead
Langkasuka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient Hindu Malay kingdom located in the Malay Peninsula.
care in the community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The treatment and care of physically and mentally disabled people in their own homes, rather than in an institution.
Related terms: deinstitutionalization
black beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black beers
Senses: glosses: A dark German lager beer.
foreign body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign bodies
Senses: examples: text: The foreign body stuck inside the dog's stomach turned out to be a bottle cap.
glosses: An unwanted, intruding object or piece of matter.
Synonyms: word: foreign object
avania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌavəˈniːə/
enpr: ăv'ə-nē􂀽'ə
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: avanias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian avania, from Byzantine Greek ἀβανία (abanía, cfr. modern Greek αβανιά (avaniá) “defamation, slander”), possibly from Arabic خَوَّان (ḵawwān, “unreliable, treacherous”).
Senses: examples: text: The merchants are considered as more immediately under the protection of the Mohassil, and therefore not so subject to the Avanias made by the Bashaw.
ref: 1794, Alex Russell, The Natural History of Aleppo, 2nd edition, page 330:
text: “Khoja,” said the pasha, slowly, removing the chibouque from his mouth, and looking towards the secretary; “write that Yacob the Jew shall, before sunset, pay an avania to the pasha of one hundred piastres, for selling dhourra within the walls of the city, without authority—now Hebrew, once more we listen.”
ref: 1846, Julia Pardoe, Miss Pardoe's Complete Works, page 55:
text: Ten years later, as they told their ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Thomas Bendysh, they were still loth to meddle in those ‘barbarous places’ because of the ever-present hazard of avanias.
ref: 1935, Alfred C. Wood, A History of the Levant Company, page 63:
text: The Europeans often felt that these practices went against the capitulations, and considered them extortions – which they called avanias.
ref: 2000, Merlijn Olnon, ‘Towards Classifying Avanias’, Friend and Rivals in the East, page 162:
glosses: A tax or fee imposed on foreigners under the Ottoman Empire, especially one considered to be irregular or extortionate.
avanias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avania
mochadi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mochadi
form: most mochadi
Senses: qualifier: among the Roma people
glosses: impure; filthy; polluting
Woo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woos
form: Wu
Etymology: From an irregular romanization of various Mandarin Chinese surnames including 吳／吴 (Wú), 伍 (Wǔ), 武 (Wǔ), and 巫 (Wū), or from Cantonese 胡 (wu4).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Woo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woos
form: Ou
form: U
form: Wo
form: Wu
Etymology: From Korean 우 (u).
* (surname): from Korean 禹, 于
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
Soochow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 蘇州 /苏州 (Sūzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: An official, one of the many provincial deputies charged with the carrying of tribute to the Court at Hsi-an, returning thence to his post at Soochow, sent to a friend at Peking a detailed description of the life of the Court in exile, from which the following extracts are taken.
ref: 1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, China Under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 359:
text: For our purpose new economic centers are defined as those vigorously developed in Communist China prior to the economic crisis in 1960-62, but not necessarily completely new industrial centers. They consist of 26 cities included in categories A-II and B-II in Table 4-8 and B2, B3, B4, B5, and B8 in Table 4-3 (excluding Soochow and Kuei-yang, which are predominantly nonindustrial).
ref: 1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, page 145:
text: By the middle of June there had been additional disturbances at Chinkiang, Tan-yang, Wu-hsi and Soochow along the Grand Canal, and at Wu-hsueh, Kiukiang and Sha-shih on the Yangtze.
ref: 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Several thousand people from rice producing areas throughout the country came to visit the high yielding units in Soochow Prefecture every day.[…]
In Wuchiang County which has a rural population of 600,000, the 23 communes are divided into five groups.
ref: 1977 October 4 [1977 October 1], “Socialist Emulation in Agriculture Progresses”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 192, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 11, E 12:
text: In Soochow of Kiangsu Province, people burned incense at daybreak. During the day, stores were closed and people ate and drank, as if they were celebrating the New Year.
ref: 1982 December 26, Charlotte Summer, “Tung Chih festival a time for rejoicing”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報], volume XXIII, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
english: 自由中國週報
translation: 自由中國週報
text: He could always just leave on the next train to Nanking, or the little steamboat to Soochow.
ref: 2015, Xiao Bai, translated by Chenxin Jiang, French Concession, Harper Collins Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: Alternative form of Suzhou.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Derived terms: word: Soochownese
Soochownese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Soochow + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: When challenged to a fight, a Soochownese would, while beating a hasty retreat to avoid a confrontation, glare at his challenger and say, "It will degrade me to fight a louse like you. I'll go home and get my younger brother to beat you up."
ref: 1973, Arthur Chu, Grace Zia Chu, Oriental Antiques and Collectibles, A Guide, Crown Publishers, published 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of Suzhounese.
Suzhounese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Suzhounese
form: most Suzhounese
form: Soochownese
Etymology: From Suzhou + -n- + -ese; under the influence of earlier forms such as Soochownese.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to Suzhou.
Suzhounese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soochownese
Etymology: From Suzhou + -n- + -ese; under the influence of earlier forms such as Soochownese.
Senses: glosses: The Suzhou dialect of the Wu family of Chinese languages
glosses: The people of Suzhou, (particularly) the native Chinese.
Synonyms: word: Suzhou dialect
word: Soochow dialect
word: Wu
spelling pronunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spelling pronunciations
Etymology: From spelling + pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: The audio contained some spelling pronunciations, such as when "sieve" was mistakenly portrayed as rhyming with "leave".
text: Jespersen ([1909] 1954) says that spelling pronunciation has affected the pronunciation of all the following words: second (1:25); nephew (1:42); theater, apothecary, catholic, throne (1:45); humble, host, inherit, heretic, heresy, homely, hypocrite, hypocrisy, hospital, heritage, heritor, humor, hermit, hotel (1:61–62); novel (1:91), periwig (1:105); registrar (1:198); assoil, precise (1:204); wassail (1:268); fault, vault, assault, Walter, altar, fealty, moult, cauldron, baldric, herald, ribald, emerald, soldier, falcon, realm (1:295–97).
ref: 1988, D. W. Cummings, American English Spelling: An Informal Description, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one or another interpretation of) the spelling of the word in question.
Related terms: english: = phonemic orthography
translation: = phonemic orthography
word: phonemic spelling
english: = phonetic orthography
translation: = phonetic orthography
word: phonetic spelling
word: pronunciation respelling
word: pronunciation spelling
muhassil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muhassils
form: mohassil
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish محصل (muhassıl), from Arabic مُحَصِّل (muḥaṣṣil).
Senses: examples: text: The Mohassil, in return, pays a visit to the Consul, and is received with much pomp and the Consular house.
ref: 1794, Alexander Russell, The Natural History of Aleppo, 2nd edition, volume II, page 22:
text: Ibrahim Pasha, in addition to being governor of the holy cities, was made, on the 3rd of May, 1833, mohassil, or collector of the revenues of Adana.
ref: 1870, Andrew Archibald Paton, A History of the Egyptian Revolution, 2nd edition, volume II, page 100:
text: It was a promotion in status, the Pasha being next in rank to the Grand Vezir and therefore more important than a Muhassil; but this was of course no guarantee of better government.
ref: 1952, George Francis Hill, A History of Cyprus, volume IV, page 75:
text: A document sent to Istanbul by the muḥaṣṣıl of Aleppo in the 1790s clearly states that French bills of exchange had been purchased against payment of a ‘premium’ […].
ref: 1999, Edhem Eldem, French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century, page 127:
glosses: A senior public official under the Ottoman Empire charged with tax collection.
muhassils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muhassil
mohassil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohassils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muhassil.
mut. mutand.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Already it will have been seen that M. de Pourtales found this (for Stelletta (Tisiphonia) agariciformis of Schmidt appears, mut. mutand., to be identical with it) in 178 fathoms; so that here we have a sponge, in form and habitat respectively, connecting the Pachytragiæ of the shore, through the Coralliospongiæ, with the Calycispongiæ (Kent) of the deepest seas.
ref: 1871 February, H.J. Carter, “On Fossil Sponge-spicules of the Greensand compared with those of existing Species”, essay xiv in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, fourth series, volume VII (№ 38), page 126
glosses: Abbreviation of mutatis mutandis.
mut. mutandis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Several of the arguments urged in the preceding demonſtration will (mut. mutandis) prevail here; eſpecially thoſe taken from the proportion of the ſexes, mutual jealouſy, and the want of peculiar endearments ariſing from one moſt intimate friend.
ref: ante''' 1751, Philip Doddridge (author), Samuel Clark (editor), A Courſe of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity (second edition, 1776), part III, proposition lix, subpart 2, demonstration, page 147
glosses: Abbreviation of mutatis mutandis.
mutat. mutandis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Such systematic misrepresentation of the past may usefully reinforce our present day views, but it is not history. Nor is the reasoning improved by substituting, mutat. mutandis, a bad thing.
ref: 1989, BMJ: British Medical Journal, CCXCVIII, issues 6,677-6,689, page 1,588/1:
glosses: Abbreviation of mutatis mutandis.
regester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of register.
regester
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of register.
Date
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dates
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Marathi दाते (dāte), from Sanskrit दाता (dātā), nominative singular of दातृ (dātṛ, “giver, donor”).
* Borrowed from Japanese 伊達 (Date, “a city in Hokkaido Prefecture”), a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A ghost town in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
Spring and Autumn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 春秋 (Chūnqiū), the attributive sense of 春秋時代 /春秋时代 (Chūn–Qiū Shídài, “Spring and Autumn period”), derived from the name of its seminal history, the Confucian classic Spring and Autumn Annals. The title of the work reflected a common Chinese metonym, using "spring and autumn" to refer to the year as a whole.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or related to a period of Chinese history during the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, usually reckoned from its founding at Luoyang in 771 BC until the Partition of Jin in 403 BC, considered to have begun the Warring States period.
wikipedia: Spring and Autumn Annals
Synonyms: word: Chunqiu
word: Ch'un-ch'iu
Hypernyms: Eastern Zhou
Later Zhou
Zhou
Chunqiu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Ch'un-ch'iu
form: Chun-chiu
form: Chunchiu
form: Ch'un Ts'ew
form: Ch'un Ts'ëw
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 春秋 (Chūnqiū).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Spring and Autumn.
synonyms: word: Spring and Autumn
Chunqiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ch'un-ch'iu
form: Chun-chiu
form: Chunchiu
form: Ch'un Ts'ew
form: Ch'un Ts'ëw
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 春秋 (Chūnqiū).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Spring and Autumn Annals.
synonyms: word: Spring and Autumn Annals
Ch'un-ch'iu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Chun-chiu
form: Chunchiu
Etymology: The Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin 春秋 (Chūnqiū) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻun¹-chʻiu¹.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chunqiu.
Ch'un-ch'iu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chun-chiu
form: Chunchiu
Etymology: The Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin 春秋 (Chūnqiū) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻun¹-chʻiu¹.
Senses: examples: text: The earliest reliable accounts of Chinese eclipses come from Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), recording eclipses from 772 to 481 BCE, including a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE.
ref: 2017, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, “Ancient Efforts to Understand”, in Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of Chunqiu.
Chun-chiu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: An irregular form of the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin 春秋 (Chūnqiū) without spiritus asper apostrophes.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ch'un-ch'iu.
Chun-chiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An irregular form of the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin 春秋 (Chūnqiū) without spiritus asper apostrophes.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ch'un-ch'iu.
Chunchiu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: An irregular form of the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 春秋 (Chūnqiū) without the necessary apostrophes or usual hyphens.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ch'un-ch'iu.
Chunchiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An irregular form of the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 春秋 (Chūnqiū) without the necessary apostrophes or usual hyphens.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ch'un-ch'iu.