cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
optionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more optionable
form: most optionable
Etymology: From option + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Of or pertaining to options on a stock or equity. For some stocks, it is possible to trade options on them, hence they are optionable, for other stocks options aren't traded so they are not optionable.
suprapubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + pubic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.
Synonyms: word: suprapubian
travesties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travesty
travesties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of travesty
Teutophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teutonophobia
Etymology: From Teuto- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: Germanophobia
glosses: The antipathy toward, or fear of, Germans or German things.
Related terms: Teutophobe
Brouwer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Derived terms: Brouwer fixed-point theorem
Brouwerian
direct maternal death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct maternal deaths
Senses: glosses: A maternal death resulting from a complication of the pregnancy or delivery, or their management.
Related terms: indirect maternal death
indirect maternal death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indirect maternal deaths
Senses: glosses: A pregnancy-related death in a female patient with a preexisting or newly developed health problem.
Related terms: direct maternal death
four pips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: four of a kind, aces.
full boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full boats
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A full house
puppy feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppy foot
huggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: huggles
form: huggling
form: huggled
form: huggled
Etymology: Frequentative of hug: hug + -le.
Senses: glosses: To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
glosses: To hug and cuddle.
examples: Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, e.g. in William Allingham, The ballad book: a selection of the choicest British ballads, Sever and Francis, 1865, p. 269.
Lie still, lie still, thou little Musgrave, | And huggle me from the cold; | 'tis nothing but a shepherds boy, | A-driving his sheep to fold.
glosses: To huddle.
huggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huggles
Etymology: Frequentative of hug: hug + -le.
Senses: glosses: A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
Derived terms: huggler
huggly
de Vries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: de Vries
form: de Vrieses
form: De Vries
form: deVries
form: DeVries
form: Devries
form: Vries
Etymology: From Dutch de Vries.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch
melancholies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melancholy
harmonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmony
lighthouse keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighthouse keepers
form: lighthouse-keeper
form: lighthousekeeper
Senses: glosses: A person who lives in a lighthouse and tends the light together with its optics and mechanisms.
Related terms: wickie
mico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micos
Etymology: From Spanish or Portuguese mico.
Senses: glosses: A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.
Synonyms: sense: Mico melanurus
word: black-tailed marmoset
Kikongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɪˈkɒŋɡəʊ/
Etymology: From Kongo ki- + Kongo, the prefix indicating inanimate or abstract nouns, and used to form language names. Attested in English since the late nineteenth century; Kongo appears earlier in the century.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kongo (language)
synonyms: word: Kongo
extra: language
yahoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yahoo
yahoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yahoo
bitki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitki
form: bitkis
Etymology: From Russian битки́ (bitkí), plural of бито́к (bitók).
Senses: examples: text: Bitki are served with a sour cream, or red sauce like tomato sauce, or Madeira sauce, garnished with fried onions and sautéed potatoes. Some recipes call for finely chopped parsley among the ingredients.
ref: 1964, Robin Howe, “Bitki (1): Beef Rissoles (Russian-style Hamburgers)”, in Russian Cooking, London: André Deutsch, →OCLC, “Meat” section, page 115:
glosses: Synonym of bitochki (“a kind of meatball from Slavic countries”).
synonyms: word: bitochki
extra: a kind of meatball from Slavic countries
Brooklynn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brooklyn.
Chance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæns/
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɛəns~t͡ʃʰeəns]
ipa: [t͡ʃʰæns~t͡ʃʰans]
ipa: /t͡ʃɑːns/
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɑːns]
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɐːns]
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: Chances
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Essex County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.
glosses: A surname.
Chauncey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Norman name based on several locations in France called Chancé. See Old French chance.
Senses: glosses: An American surname from Old French, of Norman origin from a place name in France.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Chance
character actor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: character actors
Senses: examples: text: In an interview with Charlie Rose in November 1999, Johnny Depp stated that he really would like to be known as, and work as, a character actor. Depp cites Lon Chaney as his model and hero, “the greatest character actor of all time."
ref: 2007, Michael Blitz, Louise Krasniewicz, Johnny Depp: A Biography, page 91:
text: One of the great signature traits of the studio years in Hollywood was its wealth of character actors.
ref: 2008, John Fawell, The Hidden Art of Hollywood: In Defense of the Studio Era Film, page 141:
text: The character actor has a much less glamorous effect on their audiences, their impact being made more traditionally over time. Character actors are those who early in their careers discover the chameleon-like ability to play a great variety of roles, each time subsuming themselves into the part until they are almost unrecognisable.
ref: 2009, Gill Foreman, A Practical Guide to Working in Theatre, page 48:
text: But Renner, who’s less of a star and more of a great character actor, remains second fiddle to Hunt, whose future seems secure as the films continue to rake in profits.
ref: 2015 July 30, David Sims, “Why Tom Cruise's Personal Life Hasn't Hurt the Mission: Impossible Movies”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 02 Oct 2023:
text: Merkel is played by Katharina Thalbach, one of Germany's best-loved character actors.
ref: 2024 July 13, Guy Chazan, “Ex-chancellor's imagined career as a sleuth hits Italian TV”, in FT Weekend, page 2:
glosses: A supporting actor who specializes in playing eccentric or unusual roles.
Related terms: character actress
Kian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish, anglicized spelling of Cian.
Killian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An anglicized spelling of Irish Cillian.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
examples: text: The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
ref: 2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Pallister-Killian syndrome
Cedric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛdɹɪk/
Forms: form: Cedrics
Etymology: Invented by Walter Scott for Ivanhoe, possibly misread for Cerdic, name of a Saxon king, anglicized from Welsh caredig (“beloved”), in which case a doublet of Caradoc, Caradog, Caratacus, Craddock, Cradock, McCarthy, and McCarty. Alternatively Scott based Cedric on the Welsh name Cedrych (“spectacular bounty”).
Senses: examples: text: In a hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its extreme length and width, a long oaken table, formed of planks rough-hewn from the forest, and which had scarcely received any polish, stood ready prepared for the evening meal of Cedric the Saxon.
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 3:
text: "It's Cedric Errol, Lord Fauntleroy," answered Cedric. "That's what Mr. Havisham called me. - - -
ref: 1886, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter 2:
glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
Derived terms: word: Cedrica
Flynn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Ó Floinn, "descendant of Flann (red)".
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A place name:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after John Flynn.
glosses: A place name:
A suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, also named after John Flynn.
glosses: A place name:
A township in Sanilac County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Benton County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Leon County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Flynn effect
Flynn-Aird syndrome
Flynn's taxonomy
in like Flynn
Esme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Esmes
Etymology: Anglicized spelling of French Esmé.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from French.
A male given name from French.
glosses: A unisex given name from French.
A female given name from French.
synonyms: Esmee
Esme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Esmes
Etymology: Clipping of Esmeralda.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Esmeralda.
scorrendo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian scorrendo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Gliding or passing smoothly between tones.
Esmé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛzmeɪ/
Forms: form: Esmés
form: Esme
form: Esmée
form: Esmee
Etymology: First recorded as a male given name in Scotland in the sixteenth century, probably from French esmé (“esteemed”), or confused with Aimé / Aimée.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
glosses: A female given name from French, simplified spelling of the feminine form Esmée
Esmé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛzmeɪ/
Forms: form: Esmés
form: Esme
form: Esmée
form: Esmee
Etymology: Clipping of Esmerelda or Esmeralda.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
conoscenti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian conoscenti.
Senses: glosses: plural of conoscente
candite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Candy + -ite, from an old name for Kandy, Sri Lanka, where it was found.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ceylonite (dark variety of spinel).
wikipedia: Kandy
autocratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔtəʊˈkɹætɹɪsiːz/
/ɔtəʊˈkɹeɪtɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of autocratrix
Ivor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪvə/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
homophone: Iver
Etymology: Medieval form of Old Norse Ívarr. Doublet of Igor.
Senses: examples: text: I'd weave through the throng — scanning for empties to return while flirting, sniffing out kids smoking grass and sharing smokes with Ivor and Carl on the door. With a name like Carl you can imagine a six-foot tall and wide bouncer, but Ivor...I couldn't but help to think of the name as belonging to a skinny Welshman getting sand kicked into his face. His name didn't do him justice — this guy was almost as big as Carl and probably faster with his fists.
ref: 2004, David W. Scott, The Disillusioned:A Story of Our Times, Fraser Books, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: A male given name from Old Norse.
glosses: A town in Virginia.
Related terms: Igor
Armando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Armandos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Armando.
Senses: examples: text: In another case pending at the Supreme Court, the administration conceded it made an error in deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador last month but is fighting efforts to bring him back to the US.
ref: 2025 April 8, John Fritze, “Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Colby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊl.bi/
ipa: /ˈkoʊl.bi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Colbys
Etymology: From either the Old Norse personal name Koli or kol (“charcoal”) + býr (“settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY6620).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2231).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Arbory parish, Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC233702).
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Thomas County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Sandusky County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Clark County and Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Clark County, Wisconsin, next to the city.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Colby cheese
Colby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊl.bi/
ipa: /ˈkoʊl.bi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Colbys
form: Colbies
Etymology: From either the Old Norse personal name Koli or kol (“charcoal”) + býr (“settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A soft, moist, mild American cheese similar to cheddar, made with a washed-curd process.
Jaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaxons
form: Jaxxon
form: Jaxson
form: Jackson
Etymology: Variant of Jackson
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Jackson.
glosses: A surname of modern usage, variant of Jackson
Related terms: Jack
Jacks
Jackson
Jason
Jax
Joxxun
rogerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rogering
Grayson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ.sən/
Forms: form: Graysons
form: Greyson
Etymology: From Middle English greyve (“steward”) + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation or as a patronymic for a son of a steward.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A city in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A home rule city, the county seat of Carter County, Kentucky.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A village in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A village in Clinton County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ashe County, North Carolina.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Miami County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
A town in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
Former name of Blanding, Utah.
glosses: A placename in the United States:
Ellipsis of Grayson County.
glosses: A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A village within the municipality in Saskatchewan.
Derived terms: Grayson County
Grayson Green
Graysonian
Related terms: Gray
gray
Greyson
son
rogered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roger
articled clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articled clerks
Senses: examples: text: You'd better go to Edward Dawson on the other side of the river; he that was articled clerk with me two years ago, you know.
ref: 1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, “chapter XXV”, in Sylvia's Lovers:
topics: law
glosses: An apprentice in law.
Synonyms: articling student
articling clerk
Related terms: articling
articles
Hollywood ending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hollywood endings
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An outcome considered to be typical of certain movies produced in Hollywood, California, in which all desirable results are achieved, with protagonists being rewarded, antagonists being punished or destroyed, and positive sentiments (love, happiness, peace) prevailing over negative.
articling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of article
cereal bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cereal bars
Senses: glosses: A snack composed of some form of breakfast cereal that has been compressed into a bar shape and is held together with some form of edible adhesive.
Hollywood endings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hollywood ending
articling clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articling clerks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of articled clerk.
synonyms: word: articled clerk
cereal bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cereal bar
comeback kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comeback kids
Senses: coordinate_terms: comeback queen
glosses: A person who repeatedly demonstrates the propensity to overcome tragedy, and rebound to triumph and victory.
comeback kids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comeback kid
CESG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CESGs
Senses: glosses: Canada Education Savings Grant—a subsidy provided by the federal government of Canada to Canadian residents enrolled in an RESP (Registered Education Savings Plan), in order to help defray the costs of higher education for the enrollee's children.
glosses: Communications-Electronics Security Group—A branch of the British intelligence agency, GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters).
counterfactuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfactual
hardball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardballs
Etymology: From hard + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
glosses: Tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business.
Derived terms: hardballer
hardball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardball
form: most hardball
Etymology: From hard + ball.
Senses: glosses: Being or exhibiting tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business.
Derived terms: play hardball
hardball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hardballs
form: hardballing
form: hardballed
form: hardballed
Etymology: From hard + ball.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit tough and ruthless behavior towards another individual.
hardboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardboards
Etymology: From hard + board.
Senses: examples: text: The compartment ceiling panels are of plastic material backed with ply or hardboard panels.
ref: 1951 May, “British Railway Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328:
text: For convenience and versatility, no mass-produced wood paneling can beat hardboard—a tough, pliable, water-resistant material made from wood fibers.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A high-density chipboard.
Synonyms: high density fibreboard
HDF
hardboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hardboards
form: hardboarding
form: hardboarded
form: hardboarded
Etymology: From hard + board.
Senses: glosses: To cover with hardboard.
chipboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipboards
Etymology: From chip + board.
Senses: synonyms: word: particle board
glosses: A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.
Derived terms: hardboard
Related terms: fibreboard
plywood
hardbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compound of hard + bound.
Senses: glosses: Having a hardcover; hardback.
raw_tags: of a book
glosses: Unable to be remapped.
raw_tags: of video-game controls
indagate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indagates
form: indagating
form: indagated
form: indagated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin indāgātus, perfect passive participle of indāgō (“to search”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: to search into, investigate
Derived terms: indagative
indagator
hardener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdn̩ɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdənɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɑːdn̩ə/
ipa: /ˈhɑːdənə/
Forms: form: hardeners
Etymology: From harden + -er.
Senses: examples: the hardener of hearts
glosses: One who, or that which, hardens.
glosses: A chemical substance added to something in order to harden it; used especially with paints, varnishes and resins.
hardstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)dˌstænd/
Forms: form: hardstands
Etymology: From hard + stand.
Senses: glosses: Open ground, having a hard surface, used for the storage of material or the parking of vehicles.
Synonyms: hardstanding
harpooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpooners
Etymology: From harpoon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Y.T. laughs. So does Raven.
"What's your job?" Y.T. asks.
"I'm a harpooner," he says.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 322:
glosses: A person who uses a harpoon, especially to hunt whales.
hatcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hătʹchĕk'
ipa: /ˈhætˌt͡ʃɛk/
enpr: hătʹchĕk'
ipa: /ˈhatˌt͡ʃɛk/
Forms: form: hatchecks
Etymology: First attested in 1914–1915; formed as hat + check.
Senses: examples: text: Admission 25 cents—Hatcheck 15 cents.
ref: 1914–1915, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (editors), Mother Earth Bulletin (Greenwood Reprint Corp.), series 1, volume 9, page 369
text: The following appeal in French and in English is handed out with the hatchecks in Henri’s Restaurant, Lynbrook, Long Island, of which Henri Charpentier is the amiable owner. Evidently this is not a restaurant to be patronized by persons who refuse to mix hate with their cocktails. It might, however, serve as headquarters for certain “friends” of German Democracy.
ref: 1919, George Sylvester Viereck, Viereck’s (The Fatherland Corp.), volume 10, page 155
glosses: A room, in a theatre or other such venue, in which hats and other garments may be stored.
Derived terms: hatcheck girl
hatcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hătʹchĕk'
ipa: /ˈhætˌt͡ʃɛk/
enpr: hătʹchĕk'
ipa: /ˈhatˌt͡ʃɛk/
Forms: form: hatchecks
Etymology: First attested in 1981; see háček.
Senses: examples: text: For certain consonants normally represented with other diacritics (superposed “hatcheck,” subposed dot, bar) capitalization is used instead.
ref: 1981, Dell H. Hymes, “In vain I tried to tell you”: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics (2004), page 88, footnote 10
text: In other transcription systems…[ʃ], [ʒ], [tʃ], and [dʒ] are written with hatchecks: [š], [ž], [č], [ǰ].
ref: 2006, Ralph W. Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton, editors, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, pages 23–24:
glosses: Rare spelling of háček.
hauler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haulers
Etymology: From Middle English halere, equivalent to haul + -er. Doublet of haulier.
Senses: examples: text: Hauler, noun.
"Then, holding myself in position by grasping the part of the rope that falls from the other side of the fork, I unclip the loop round the trunk and let it swing clear. Next, combining the roles of hauler and haulee, I climb up, hand over hand using irons as much as possible, until I am right under one of the dividing limbs of the fork."
ref: 1943, Captain M.E.W. North, Some artificial methods of tree-climbing, The Ibis, Volume 85, published 1943, page 48:
text: Hauler, noun.
"'Bizarre' and 'normal' remind me of the classic scenario of someone being hauled off to the insane asylum and an argument starts about who is insane and who is normal — hauler or haulee?"
ref: 1985, Thomas M. Paikeday, Noam Chomsky, The native speaker is dead!: an informal discussion of a linguistic myth, Paikeday Pub., page 24:
antonyms: haulee
coordinate_terms: carrier
glosses: A person or thing that hauls another person or thing.
synonyms: haulier
coordinate_terms: carrier
glosses: A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
glosses: A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
synonyms: cart
trailer
glosses: A truck, lorry (vehicle used to transport heavy goods)
examples: text: The majority of a haul video's content, however, is dedicated to the “haul” itself: meaning, these users' recent purchases. And an entire wing of YouTube is occupied by these videos, some with remarkably high viewership. Haulers will go through their purchased goods one-by-one, placing them near the camera so viewers can see the details in each object, and often making observations and recommendations as they go along. Within YouTube's haul discourse, there remain two […]
ref: 2016, Aaron Duplantier, Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube, McFarland, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: Someone who makes a haul video.
Derived terms: gear hauler
long-hauler
subhauler
haycock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haycocks
form: hay-cock
Etymology: From Middle English haycok, hacoke, haycoke; equivalent to hay + cock (“conical heap”).
Senses: examples: text: Brother Kempe, as many alhailes to thy perſon as there be haicocks in Iuly at Pancredge: […]
ref: [1589?], Cutbert Curry-knaue [pseudonym; Thomas Nashe], “To that Most Comicall and Conceited Caualeire Monsieur du Kempe, Iestmonger and Vice-gerent generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarlton. His Louing Brother Cutbert Curry-knaue Sendeth Greeting.”, in An Almond for a Parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues Almes. […], [London]: […] [Eliot’s Court Press], →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
text: [T]hey perceived lying closely concealed beneath the thick foliage of a Haycock, a beautifull little Girl not more than 3 months old.
ref: [c. 1788–1789], [Jane Austen], “Henry and Eliza: a novel”, in Volume the First, page 87:
text: And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
ref: 1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:
hypernyms: cock
coordinate_terms: grass-cock[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
hayrick#Noun
haystack#Noun
rick#Noun
stook#Noun
glosses: A small conical pile of hay, or a heap of hay thrown up in a hayfield while the hay is being cured or awaiting relocation to a haystack or barn.
Derived terms: Haycock
nagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nag
bell-bottomed trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-bottom trousers
Senses: glosses: bell-bottom trousers
unexperienceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + experienceable.
Senses: examples: text: It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist.
ref: 1912 January 18, W. P. Montague, “The New Realism and the Old”, in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume 9, number 2, page 45:
text: It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites.
ref: 2000 Jan, Kevin Schilbrack, “Metaphysics in Dōgen”, in Philosophy East and West, volume 50, number 1, p. 53 n61:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Incapable of being experienced.
watch one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: watches one's mouth
form: watching one's mouth
form: watched one's mouth
form: watched one's mouth
Senses: examples: text: You really need to watch your mouth. You're a teacher now!
glosses: To be careful about what one says, especially with regard to disrespectful or profane language.
examples: text: Hey. Watch your mouth. Don't you realize who's listening?
text: You watch your mouth, sis. I may be old, but I can still knock the stars out of the sky for you.
ref: 2012, Terese Pampellonne, The Unwelcome Child:
synonyms: language
glosses: In the imperative form, used as a warning to choose one's words carefully or else be silent, for fear of consequences.
Synonyms: watch one's language
watch one's tongue
Weymann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: For Charles Terres Weymann
Senses: glosses: An early method of producing fabric bodies for road vehicles, derived from the method used in aircraft
Weymann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: For Charles Terres Weymann
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bachelor of Laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bachelors of Laws
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An undergraduate degree in the study of law.
blood vessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood vessel
arthrodesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɹθˈɹɒdɪsɪs/
ipa: /ˌaɹθɹoʊˈdiːsɪs/
rhymes: -ɒdɪsɪs
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: arthrodeses
Etymology: From arthro- + -desis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: syndesis
coordinate_terms: ankylosis
glosses: The surgical fusion of a joint between two or more bones so that the joint can no longer move; artificial ankylosis.
Related terms: arthrosis
dysarthrosis
tenodesis
nucleogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nucleogenic
form: most nucleogenic
Etymology: From nucleo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Produced by a natural terrestrial nuclear reaction
raw_tags: of an isotope etc
Arabick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Arabic.
Arabick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But because the letters of every tongue, as we shewed in the first book, have in their number, order, and figure a Celestiall and Divine originall, I shall easily grant this calculation concerning the names of spirits to be made not only by Hebrew letters, but also by Chaldean, and Arabick, Ægyptian, Greek, Latine, and any other...
ref: 1651, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy:
text: I shall not spend time here in observing, how this Arabick Translation differs from the other Translations, and the Hebrew Text in calculation, because there is nothing more common than these sorts of Differences; it however usually agrees with the Syriack Translation, although in some places it agrees neither with the Syriack, Hebrew, or the Septuagint.
ref: 1682, Richard Simon, A Critical History of the Old Testament, page 113:
text: When you was pleased to communicate to me some Years ago, your Arabick Version of the Apocryphal Esdras, the Manuscript Copy whereof you was so kind as to leave with me […]
ref: 1722, Francis Lee, “To the Reverend Mr. Simon Ockley, Professor of Arabick in the University of Cambridge”, in An Epistolary Discourse Concerning the Books of Ezra, Genuine and Spurious:
text: If we admire the Italian Language for its Frequency of Vowels, we ought surely to pay the same regard to the Arabick, which, in words genuinely Arabick, never suffers two Consonants to concur, but always interposes a Vowel, or, at least, softens that harshness of sound, which the concurrence of two Consonants often occasions, by such means as the Language is capable of without obscuring the Sense.
ref: 1739, Richard Parker, An Essay on the Usefulness of Oriental Learning, page 28:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Arabic.
sillily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlɪli/
Forms: form: more sillily
form: most sillily
form: sillyly
Etymology: From silly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The man walked down the street so sillily that many a bystander stopped and stared slack-jawed.
text: It was a fish-trap—just a ring of reeds set up in the water with only one little opening in it, and in this opening, just below the water, were stuck reeds slanting the way of the river's flow, so that the fish, when they had swum sillily in, sillily couldn't get out again.
ref: 1906, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet:
text: Even 'Che Isa [...] had behaved sillily, making up to married men.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:
glosses: In a silly manner; foolishly.
Synonyms: silly
unheeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + heeded.
Senses: examples: text: The TSSA said that access to the furlough scheme should be reinstated for the cross-Channel operator to protect jobs, while the RMT said a financial 'safety net' was needed to prevent Eurostar "tipping over". It follows similar but unheeded calls made at the very start of the pandemic, when international travel fell by more than 95% and Eurostar was forced to scale back its operation to just one service between London and Paris each day.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Unions urge government to provide financial support for Eurostar”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
glosses: Not heeded; not listened to; ignored
glosses: not followed.
raw_tags: of advice
run something up the flagpole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs something up the flagpole
form: running something up the flagpole
form: ran something up the flagpole
form: run something up the flagpole
Etymology: Short form of run it up the flagpole, to see who salutes.
Senses: examples: text: The idea might not be so bad; why don't you run it up the flagpole at the next board meeting?
synonyms: float
glosses: To propose an idea or make a suggestion in order to acquire feedback from others.
leets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leet
Bonaire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island, dependent territory, and special municipality of the Netherlands in the Caribbean, off the west coast of Venezuela.
Derived terms: Bonairean
knickerbocker glory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knickerbocker glories
Etymology: A genericized form of Knickerbocker Glory, attested from the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: Knickerbocker Glory An English sundae, imported from the United States, that has become known as the ultimate example of the sundae-makers' art.
ref: 1996, Caroline Liddell, Frozen Desserts: The Definitive Guide, Glossary, 29:
text: They ate in the zoo restaurant and when Dudley had a tantrum because his knickerbocker glory wasn't big enough, Uncle Vernon bought him another one and Harry was allowed to finish the first.
ref: 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter Two:
glosses: An elaborately-layered ice cream sundae served in a tall glass.
ordinary resolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinary resolutions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A resolution that requires a majority vote of members present at a general meeting of a company.
Related terms: special resolution
special resolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special resolutions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A resolution that requires a large majority vote of members present, usually two thirds or three quarters, at a general meeting of a company.
Related terms: ordinary resolution
atheneum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atheneums
form: athenea
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of athenaeum.
monozygotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + zygotic.
Senses: glosses: That has developed from a single fertilized ovum.
raw_tags: of a twin
Synonyms: monozygous
Coordinate terms: dizygotic
semi-identical
sesquizygotic
Derived terms: monozygotic twin
dirty code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That software has dirty code and we should not use it.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software code that has had many editors with conflicting styles, making it nearly impossible to maintain.
tertiary-level education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Higher education.
Coordinate terms: primary school
secondary school
get sick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets sick
form: getting sick
form: got sick
form: got sick
form: gotten sick
Senses: synonyms: fall ill
take sick
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, sick.
examples: text: "I didn't ever do that, but when I first started drinking I got sick all over this guy I was seeing," I say.
ref: 2004, Bridget Bufford, Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: To vomit.
I's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From I + -'s (suffix forming plurals).
Senses: glosses: plural of I (letter of the alphabet or the ego)
Related terms: i's
I's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From I + 's (contraction of is, has, and was).
Senses: examples: text: I's going now.
glosses: Contraction of I is.
examples: text: I's got to go.
glosses: Contraction of I has.
examples: text: I's going to the store yesterday.
glosses: Contraction of I was.
Related terms: english: eye dialect version of it's (it is), rather than I is, but is often written the same as I's because it is at the beginning of a sentence.
translation: eye dialect version of it's (it is), rather than I is, but is often written the same as I's because it is at the beginning of a sentence.
word: i's
I's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Etymology: From I + -'s (possessive marker).
Senses: examples: text: This is my husband and I's favorite place to sit.
glosses: Synonym of my.
synonyms: word: my
incute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incutes
form: incuting
form: incuted
form: incuted
Etymology: See incuse.
Senses: examples: text: This doth incute and beat into our hearts the fear of God, which expelleth sin, and "is the beginning of wisdom."
ref: 1542, Thomas Becon, Christmas Bankette:
glosses: To strike or stamp in.
knop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: knops
Etymology: From Middle English knop, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch knoppe, from Proto-Germanic *knuppô, *knuppaz, *knappô, which is perhaps related to *knappō (“knob, boy”). Possible doublet of knave and knob.
Senses: examples: text: The thin shaft of each stick, composed of two cylinders on either side of a central knop, is engraved with a scrollwork pattern known as vermicule for its wormlike appearance.
ref: 1992, Elizabeth C. Parker, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 148:
text: In the thirteenth century come the chalices of the treasuries of Troyes and Orléans, the one in the latter having been dug up with its paten. They are of very simple design, squat in outline, with a circular foot and a gadrooned knop; the same design occurs in the fourteenth century, on the chalice in the Bordeaux Treasury.
ref: 1966, Jean Taralon, Treasures of the Churches of France, G. Braziller, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A knob, usually ornamental
examples: text: In the three upper elements, the knop-finial-fillet, both masters use all three squares from the base plan forming widths of 1:2:√2 (another pleasing rhythm). In the gable over the window the finials have width in the ratio of √2:4:2. The elements on the pinnacle relate to those on the gable as 1:√2, 1:2 and √2:2.
ref: 2007, John James, In Search of the Unknown in Medieval Architecture, Pindar Press, →ISBN, page 438:
topics: architecture
glosses: A finial, or swelling termination
examples: text: The thick places are created by winding effect yarn around the core yarn. We can distinguish the length of the knop L, its thickness D, the distance between them Q, and the nominal diameter of continuously twisted component yarns d. The sum of the distance between the knops and the length of a knop is the stitch of this kind of fancy yarn.
ref: 2015, Katarzyna Ewa Grabowska, Izabela Ciesielska-Wróbel, “Characteristic and Application of Knop Fancy Yarn”, in Fibres and Textiles in Eastern Europe, volume 23, number 1(109), archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023, pages 17-25:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A tuft or overthickened bunch of looped or twisted yarn
examples: text: On these shawl borders the knop and flower are often also combined, the knop becoming the cone or Cypress-like trunk of a tree, the branches of which fam out like the fronds of the Hom. [Plate III., fig. 6]. In some Indian and Persian carpets the knop or cone throws out graceful Hom fronds, one on either side, from the ends of which hangs a large flower, presenting the alternation of a branching cone and flower.
ref: 1878, Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood, Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878: Handbook to the British Indian Section, Offices of the Royal Commission, page 106:
topics: art
arts
biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A closed bud or bud-like, swelling protuberance of a plant, or the representation thereof in the decorative arts
Derived terms: horseknop
knoppy
out the window
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Women can run, blacks can run, all sorts of people can run. We didn't think people like that could win in years past. That conventional wisdom is out the window now. That's good news.
ref: 1990 June 8, “Newshour”, in PBS Newshour:
text: it's bad for principles that we thought were the basis for post Cold War security -- for example, non-aggression, pluralism, tolerance, things of that kind, and they 're out the window now. I mean this- this framework, for these principles, are the antithesis of principles that we allegedly were backing over the last 45 years of the Cold War.
ref: 1995 September 9, “Aspects of the Bosnian Agreement are Discussed”, in NPR_Weekend:
text: It is a total, consuming quest to run for president of the United States, and to be president of the United States. You have to realize that privacy is out the window.
ref: 1995 November 3, “Nightline”, in ABC Nightline:
text: They're part a formal letter, part some type of dialogue. So, what are the rules? Is it okay to throw formality out the window? Does spelling matter?
ref: 2007 April 13, “"SEND"; Etiquette Guide for Using E-mail (review)”, in ABC_GMA:
glosses: Made obsolete; altered drastically as a result of situational change.
examples: text: Life had gone out the window and scampered off.
ref: 2011, David Seaman, The Real Meaning of Life, page 178:
glosses: Gone; departed; disappeared.
gone down the tube
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go down the tube
go down the toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the toilet
form: going down the toilet
form: went down the toilet
form: gone down the toilet
Senses: glosses: To fail.
glosses: To degenerate rapidly.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down, the, toilet.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: go down the drain
sense: all senses
word: go down the plughole
sense: all senses
word: go down the khazi
sense: all senses
word: go down the pan
sense: all senses
word: go down the tubes
sense: all senses
word: go down the tube
sense: all senses
word: go to hell
sense: to degenerate
word: go to seed
sense: to degenerate
word: go to the dogs
Related terms: go to the toilet
circle the drain
in the toilet
rehome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈhəʊm/
Forms: form: rehomes
form: rehoming
form: rehomed
form: rehomed
Etymology: From re- + home.
Senses: examples: text: The cat recovered after treatment by a vet and has now been rehomed.
text: Lucy added: "Working in a busy station means that acquiring animals on shift isn't particularly unusual. At the start of lockdown last year, we had to rehome a baby dove.
ref: 2021 February 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 924, page 70:
text: The old footbridge will now be rehomed to Brechin station, on the Caledonian Railway heritage operation in Angus.
ref: 2023 February 22, “Network News: New home for old Glasgow bridge”, in RAIL, number 977, page 21:
glosses: To find a new home for (especially a pet).
glosses: To find a new family for (one or more adopted children) without using official adoption agencies.
underexploited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underexploited
form: most underexploited
Etymology: From under- + exploited.
Senses: examples: text: The region's mineral resources are currently underexploited.
glosses: Not exploited to any great extent; not used to full advantage.
innutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + nutrition.
Senses: examples: text: Lacking those developed senses and motor powers which higher animals possess, ninety-nine in the hundred of these minute animals, severally living for but a few hours, disappear either by innutrition or by destruction.
ref: 1879, Herbert Spencer, “Chapter 2”, in The Data of Ethics:
glosses: Lack of nutrition.
Gradgrindian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gradgrindian
form: most Gradgrindian
Etymology: From Gradgrind + -ian, name of a pedantic character in Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times.
Senses: examples: text: But today's winning businesses are positively Gradgrindian in their pursuit of the truth.
ref: 2006 November 13, “Winners must be facts-obsessed in pursuit for truth”, in Financial Times:
text: Whether one favours a Gradgrindian Thatcherism that removes all worker rights, or a Corbynista fantasy of wholesale nationalisation, we will find these are impossible, given the reach of the Brussels acquis.
ref: 2016 February 28, John Old, “The EU refendum: Europe’s antidote to alienation and scapegoating is hope”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: But I have never quite got my head around my times tables, which I think are a Gradgrindian chanting fetish periodically revived by politicians who, if they are honest with themselves, have never really needed times tables either.
ref: 2018 February 16, Peter Bradshaw, “I’ve never known my times tables. Frankly, who needs them?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: Gradgrindish
glosses: Having a soulless devotion to facts and figures; inflexibly utilitarian.
wikipedia: Hard Times (novel)
Related terms: Gradgrindery
Gradgrindish
Gradgrindism