cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fidget-bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidget-bottoms
Senses: glosses: A person who is constantly fidgeting
foot-strut split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: with the split
ipa: /ˈfʊt ˈstrʌtˌsplɪt/
note: without the split
ipa: /ˈfʊt ˈstrʊt splɪt/
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a phonemic split affecting most modern varieties of English (with the exception of most accents of Northern England and the English Midlands, along with some accents of North Wales and Ireland) in which the phoneme /ʊ/, which occurs in both foot and strut in accents without the split, is separated into two phonemes: /ʌ/ in words like strut and cut and /ʊ/ in words like foot and put.
Related terms: trap-bath split
protopresbyter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protopresbyters
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek πρωτοπρεσβύτερος (protopresvýteros). By surface analysis, proto- (“first”) + presbyter.
Senses: synonyms: protoiereus
protopope
protopriest
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: An archpriest or, in the Russian Orthodox tradition, a non-monastic priest ranking higher yet than an archpriest.
protopresbyters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protopresbyter
island of automation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: islands of automation
Senses: glosses: A stand-alone automation system
Japan clover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japan clovers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Japanese clover.
Japanese clover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese clovers
Senses: glosses: annual lespedeza, common lespedeza, Japanese bush-clover, Japanese lespedeza, striate lespedeza (Kummerowia striata, syn. Lespedeza striata)
Japanese millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese millets
Senses: synonyms: sanwa
sawa
glosses: Japanese barnyard millet, white millet (Echinochloa esculenta)
glosses: Indian barnyard millet, Siberian millet, white panicum (Echinochloa frumentacea)
Jedda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jeddah.
Jiddah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jeddah.
job lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the inability of an employee to freely leave a job because doing so will result in the loss of employee benefits
Related terms: golden handcuffs
job club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job clubs
Senses: glosses: A group of people who help each other to find employment
jibsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jibsheets
Etymology: From jib + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: Release the line by pulling down and unfurl the jib by pulling on the two jibsheets.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “RS Quest Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 2:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The sheet (rope) used to control the jib (sail).
jibsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jibsheet
ink-jet printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ink-jet printers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inkjet printer.
ink-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ink-caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inkcap.
ink-jet printers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ink-jet printer
ink-caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ink-cap
inside lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside lanes
Senses: topics: automotive
road
transport
vehicles
glosses: The slow lane.
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The lane closest to the inside of the track.
inside lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inside lane
imperial moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperial moths
Senses: glosses: A moth, Eacles imperialis
imperial moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperial moth
indigo bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigo birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indigobird.
indigo birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigo bird
industry-wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of industrywide.
howe'er
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of however.
howl down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: howls down
form: howling down
form: howled down
form: howled down
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shout down.
synonyms: word: shout down
human error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human errors
Senses: glosses: a mistake made by a human, as opposed to a machine, or natural occurrences
hung-over
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hung-over
form: most hung-over
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hungover.
identification card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identification cards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of identity card.
synonyms: word: identity card
identification cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identification card
house-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: house-hunts
form: house-hunting
form: house-hunted
form: house-hunted
Senses: examples: text: He was in London at the end of August house hunting[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 58:
glosses: To search for a house to buy or rent.
house-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-hunts
Senses: examples: text: Laura uses her money to keep her doors tightly shut and her privacy intact. Of course, this is never completely possible. When challenged about her relationship with Jane by a real estate agent during their house-hunt in the suburbs, Laura says that the two of them are sisters. Jane gets angry at Laura for lying.
ref: 1980 August 30, Amy Hoffman, “Lesbian Family Retreats to the Safe Sex '50s”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
glosses: The act of searching for a house to buy or rent.
hospitality box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospitality boxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of executive box.
synonyms: word: executive box
horse nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse nettles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horsenettle.
horse nettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse nettle
hemp nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemp nettles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemp-nettle.
fetish bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetish beans
Senses: glosses: The sausage tree.
try'na
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tryna.
metacrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + crap. The "metadata" sense was coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2001.
Senses: examples: text: In art, as in language, “cutting out the metacrap” means to get at the “core” meaning beneath the “superficial form” of a work; what it seems to be is different from what it means.
ref: 1998, John Haiman, Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language, page 118:
text: Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.
ref: 2011, Joyce Cho and Višnja Rogošic, "Burning the Rules, PAJ: Journal of Performance and Art, Volume 33, Number 2, May 2011
text: In this vein, amusing to hear (the first time) was Lieberman’s recounting how, at an international conference on language, Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst and philosopher, gave a presentation on “the linguistic nature of psychological symptomatology” (“the kind of highfalutin metacrap you like, Kunzman,” Lieberman later commented).
ref: 2013, Larry Lefkowitz, The Critic, The Assistant Critic, and Victoria, page 157:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Metatheory, metanalysis, and other meta disciplines.
examples: text: People who refer to the metacrap argument are generally advocating “letting the software sort it out” instead of asking people to explicitly tag everything before making any contribution.
ref: 2004, Christian Crumlish, The Power of Many, page 246:
text: More formally we can say that the metadata is fragile or inconsistent. More forcefully this has been described as 'metacrap'.
ref: 2008, Duncan Grey, Getting the Buggers to Find Out: Information Skills and Learning How to Learn, page 175:
text: The contributors may have certain bias and personal agenda (e.g., to allure visitors to a resource) in entering tags not relevant to the resources at all, thus the tags may be a collection of “metacrap” (Doctorow 2001).
ref: 2009, Hongwei Zhu, Harris Wu, “Sloppy Tags and Metacrap?: Quality of User Contributed Tags in Collaborative Social Tagging Systems”, in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California August 6th-9th 2009, page 1:
glosses: Low-quality or unreliable metadata.
Aegaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aegaean
form: most Aegaean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aegean.
Aegaean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Aegaean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aegean.
Aegaean Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Aegaean Sea
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aegean Sea.
Ægæan Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ægæan Sea
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Aegean Sea.
High West
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Helicina Hungerfordiana, von Mildff. Found at High West (Hongkong) by Dr. Hungerford, Dr. von Müllendorff, and the writer; at Tung-chow (near Macao) by Dr. Hungerford and self.
ref: 1883, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 234:
text: On the 22nd of January a single bird was seen to pass low over Mount Kellett. Over the western slopes it was attacked and mobbed by four Kites as it crossed their nesting ground, and the five birds wheeled round one another for two or three minutes; the Eagle occasionally giving a series of seven or eight yelps, while the Kites were screaming with rage. The pursuit was abandoned as the Eagle passed over High West.
ref: 1932, The Hong Kong Naturalist:
text: We paused at High West — the westernmost point of the trail — where a small park provides a perfect rest stop. From here the path turns south toward the Pok Fu Lam Reservoir.
ref: 2002 May 24, Katherine Tanko, “Get away from the bustle and take a walk on the wild side : The other view of Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2023, Style:
text: The 230th have all three battalions in the Jardine's Lookout area, preparing to attack westwards with a final objective of High West.
ref: 2003, Tony Banham, “Phase V: Pushing the Line West and Encircling Stanley”, in Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:
text: Just west of Victoria Peak is the 494m High West, a mountain offering tremendous panoramic views with a fraction of the crowds. The only caveat? You have to hike to get here.
ref: 2017, Lonely Planet, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, Lonely Planet Hong Kong, Lonely Planet, →ISBN:
text: A footpath leads alongside a stream, then winds up to a car park above the garden. A minute or so from here, there is a vantage point with fine views to the western harbour, Lamma, and a nearby, slightly lower peak, High West.
ref: 2020 January 21, Martin Williams, “It’s a great time to explore Hong Kong with protests keeping tourists away, so put your hiking shoes on and get up The Peak”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2020, Travel & Leisure:
glosses: A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
flag-selling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag-sellings
Senses: glosses: The act of raising money by a registered charity on a flag day.
Schneier's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schneir's law
form: Schneier's Law
Etymology: Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in a 2004 speech with reference to a 1998 quote from security expert Bruce Schneier.
Senses: examples: text: This is especially true if you want to design security systems and not just implement them. Remember Schneier’s Law: “Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to break it.”
ref: 2014, Bruce Schneir, Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneir on Security, page 34:
text: RSA was one of the few fundamental encryption protocols that had not succumbed to Schneier's law in more than thirty years.
ref: 2022, Andy Greenberg, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, unnumbered page:
text: One unifying truth of computer security is described by Schneier's Law (1998) [267]: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard.
ref: 2022, Diego Miranda-Saavedra, How to Think About Data Science, page 184:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: An informal law holding that anyone can create a security system they cannot personally break.
wikipedia: Bruce Schneier
Schneier's Law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schneir's Law
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Schneier's law.
flag bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag bags
Senses: glosses: A bag for collecting donations on flag day.
Aegean Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Aegean Islands
form: Aegaean Islands
form: Ægæan Islands
Senses: meronyms: Crete
Cyclades
Dodecanese
Ionian Islands
Saronic Islands
Sporades
glosses: A group of islands in the Aegean Sea.
LazyWeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Some might want a little widget for their weblog that does something cool. Talk about it online for a bit—through the magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it.
ref: 2003 January 16, Ben Hammersley, “Web-sharing the lazy way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: There was another point of danah’s I wanted to respond to, but yesterday’s post had gotten quite long enough, and in any case, I had a slightly different take in mind for this, including a LazyWeb request at the end, relating to this image:[…] It's damn slow, and should in any case be either a bookmarklet (O LazyWeb, hear my plea…) […]
ref: 2005 January 6, Clay Shirky, “Wikipedia: The nature of authority, and a LazyWeb request…”, in Corante, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2020:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lazyweb.
Graveson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A commune in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
ha, ha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Ha, ha, come you here, this fellow in the ſellerige, / Here conſent to ſweare.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: 'Ha, ha, Patie lad!' quo Bessie Elliot, a free-spoken Liddesdale hempy, 'there's a wife com'd for ye the night, Patie lad.'
ref: 1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book, volume 7, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Printed for the author, page 137:
text: ["]She was as proud as t' other in her way," said the old woman, touching the face of her daughter fearfully, and withdrawing her hand, "for all she's so quiet now; but she'll shame 'em with her good looks, yet. Ha, ha! She'll shame 'em, will my handsome daughter!"
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “After a Lapse”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 587:
text: The elmtree of old felt lonely and cold / When wintry winds blew high, / And, looking below, he saw in the snow / The ivy wandering nigh, / And he said, Come twine with those tendrils of thine / My scathed and frozen form, / For heart and hand together we’ll stand / And mock at the baffled storm, / Ha, ha! Together.
ref: 1848, Martin F[arquhar] Tupper, ““Together””, in Hactenus: Sundry of My Lyrics Hitherto. More Droppings from the Pen That Wrote “A Thousand Lines,” […], London: J. Hatchard and Son, […], page 78:
text: '[…] Human laws we respect—ha, ha!—you and I, because they subserve our convenience, and just so long. When they tend to our destruction, 'tis, of course, another thing.'
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
text: He bewent speedily, and as he vanished I heard him again calling, "Not she, not she! Ha, ha!"
ref: 1902, Carolyn Wells, Abeniki Caldwell, page 178:
text: “Yes, I'll make Simpledoria get out of the way. Come here, Simpledoria. Now, Bill, put your heels together on the edge of the walk. That's right. All ready? Now then! One for the money—two for the show—three to make ready—and four for to GO!” Another silence. “By jingo, Bill Hammersley, you've beat me! Ha, ha! That was a jump! What say?”
ref: 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party, New York: Harper & Brothers, pages 22–23:
text: 'Yes, a chef.' 'A chef? Ahh so. You are Fanny Claddock! Ha, ha!' 'Ha, ha!' 'You are chef in restaurant?' 'No.' 'What location you chefing?'
ref: 2012, Josie Dew, A Ride In The Neon Sun: A Gaijin in Japan, Sphere, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ha ha.
fold mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fold mountains
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: folded mountain
glosses: A mountain created when two tectonic plates collide into each other.
bra inserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bra insert
eates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eate
eateing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eate
enbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enbian
fembies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femby
speakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speake
speakeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speake
sayeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saye
Ma'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maan
Senses: glosses: A city and governorate south-west of Amman, Jordan.
glosses: A town in Hama governorate, Syria.
receaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of receave
receaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of receave
vexeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vexe
rosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rost
lernean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lerneans
form: lernaean
Senses: examples: text: Crustacea.—Embryos are often dissimilar from the adult form. The most conspicuous of these is the larva (Zoe) of the Decapoda, and the active zoeform young of Cirripedia (barnacles) and Lernæacea (lerneans).
ref: 1874, Harrison Allen, Outlines of Comparative Anatomy and Medical Zoology, page 131:
glosses: A member of the family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic crustaceans found attached to fishes and other marine animals.
lerneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lernean
Conan Doylean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Conan Doylean
form: most Conan Doylean
Etymology: From Conan Doyle + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Connie, at great length and with great patience, explained the difference between Conan Doylean and Shakespearian heroes.
ref: 1935 April 6, Malcolm D. Phillips, “When Friends Fall Out”, in Picturegoer, volume 4, number 202, page 8, column 2:
text: For a while I smoked away making rings in the air and then attempted a Conan Doylean approach. Necessarily a poor imitator of Sherlock Holmes, I said, ‘If I’m not mistaken, you’re not only rich but rolling in affluence. You make even your shortest trips in a car—you’re not used to going around on foot. You travel by air instead of boarding a train and when passing a night outside home, your place is a five-star hotel, not a railway retiring room. Right?’
ref: 1987, Diganta Rāẏa, Untold Stories of Shop-Lifters, New Delhi: National Publishing House, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Gaston Leroux is an early writer who spurns the Conan Doylean tradition and invents a detective with a doubting Thomas attitude toward material clues.
ref: 1990, Gillian Gill, Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Thus, the Granada series became haunted by a ghoul of its own making, striving for the impossible dream of definitive, Conan Doylean episodes that dutifully brought Holmes to life for a later twentieth-century audience.
ref: 2011, Neil McCaw, Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives, Continuum, →ISBN, page 39:
text: If Jabez Wilson is a Conan Doylean Everyman, Clay sheds some light on how Conan Doyle adapted real criminal history and lore. […] Sherlock—which, as of 2015, consisted of ten episodes released over four years—contains the essence of such Conan Doylean details, remixing them with modern techno-thriller plotting and mesmeric film techniques.
ref: 2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, published 2016, →ISBN, pages 94 and 249:
text: The London edition appeared in November 1887—in another Conan Doylean coincidence, only a few days before Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, which carried the novella A Study in Scarlet.
ref: 2017, Stephen Knight, Towards Sherlock Holmes: A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who created the character Sherlock Holmes.
Synonyms: Conan Doylish
blogiversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogiversaries
Etymology: Blend of blog + anniversary.
Senses: examples: text: Blog soon begat a whole new generation of techno-neologisms in the blogosphere, where bloggers compile blogrolls, celebrate blogiversaries and suffer from blogorrhea.
ref: [2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: When it comes around again, write a post celebrating your blogiversary..
ref: 2015, Charlotte Hodgson, Peter Woodard, Pocket Blogger: Fashion, page 54:
glosses: The anniversary of one's first blog post.
blogiversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blogiversary
'gator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'gators
Senses: examples: text: It was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different it put you on a wonder. It was like seeing your sister turn into a ’gator.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 76:
text: On the opposite bank was a fresh ’gator wallow. The mud had been packed smooth where they turned and rolled their hard bodies. Penny dropped to his haunches behind a buttonwood bush.
ref: 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 24, in The Yearling, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 303:
text: And the old grempers and gremmers, sitting on benches, telling lies about days when there were still patches of mangrove swamp in these parts, thick with deer and ’gators and even “critters” never catalogued by science.
ref: 1990, David Brin, Earth, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 229:
glosses: Alternative form of gator.
'gators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'gator
Copythorne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3014).
Bonifaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bonifazes
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Holmesy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Holmes + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Then, just before time was called, Greg got his left eye too much in line with the yearling’s right fist. Dazed, Cadet Holmes was saved only by the word from the time-keeper. […] “Make it short, Holmesy, or you’re going to meet with more damage, I reckon.”
ref: 1910, H[arrie] Irving Hancock, “Greg Overhears a Pretty Girl’s Tribute”, in Dick Prescott’s First Year at West Point or Two Chums in the Cadet Gray, Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company:
text: “Time for luncheon, ain’t it, Holmesy, old boy?” I questioned. “Yes. Sure, Watson. I’m hungry, too, after all that heavy thought. We’ll go in and have luncheon now, and then we’ll get some swift action.” Thereupon Holmes led the way to the dining-room, where the others awaited us.
ref: 1918, James Francis Thierry, chapter VII, in The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: […], New York, N.Y.: The Neale Publishing Company, […], page 71:
text: Conan Doyle reveals in the opening chapter that he is upset that the occurrence at the Reichenbach falls did not rid him of an obligation to publish more tales about “Holmesy.”
ref: 1995, The Baker Street Journal, page 191:
text: “Holmesy.” Murchison pulled up and rested against the next desk over. “Mr. Marchand. Anything to tell?” Holmes looked up at last.
ref: 2003, David Corbett, Done for a Dime, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 105:
text: “Aza Holmes?” he asked. […] “Hi,” I said. […] “To what do I owe the pleasure?” he asked, his voice flat, neutral, unreadable. Daisy walked up behind me and held out her hand, then shook Davis’s forcefully. “Daisy Ramirez, Holmesy’s best friend. We had a canoe puncture.”
ref: 2017, John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, Dutton Books, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Zapper leaned around and held up his hand to Holmes for a high-five, saying. “Holmesy, that was totally cold!”
ref: 2021, Kenneth Johnson, Holmes Coming, Blackstone Publishing, published 2022, →ISBN:
glosses: Diminutive of Holmes.
Holmesy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Holmesy
form: most Holmesy
Etymology: From Holmes + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: There were detectives enough to populate a village. […] “Nothing Holmesy about those dicks,” he observed, sotto voce, to Rainfall. “They wouldn’t know a steamfitter from a country parson by his coat lapel;[…]”
ref: 1931, Vincent Starrett, Dead Man Inside, The Crime Club, Inc., page 57:
text: ‘Look, it was the first holiday I’d ever had in my life and I wanted it to be a real holiday, a real rest. I didn’t want to spend it interrogating a girl just on the basis of a Holmesy hunch, did I? I was tired.’
ref: 1971, Adrian Mitchell, The Bodyguard, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 53:
text: According to him, believing that Sherlock Holmes is a detective and believing that Dr Watson is a detective amount to a certain three-place relation obtaining between the subject, the gappy detective proposition, and different ways of believing (cf. Braun 2002, 2005). Whatever it precisely means to believe a proposition in a Holmesy way (as opposed to a Watsony way), this proposal obviously will result in an unexpectedly large number of different ways of believing.
ref: 2014, Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Peter Pagin, “Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names”, in Manuel García-Carpintero, Genoveva Martí, editors, Empty Representations: Reference and Non-Existence, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Accounts of Empty Representations), page 127:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Synonyms: Holmesish
Sherlock Holmesish
Sherlock Holmesque
Sherlock Holmesy
Sherlockish
Sherlocky
gappist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gappists
Etymology: From gap + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Let us assume, for the moment, that Adam was really the grandfather of Seth, as claimed by “gappists.”
ref: 1981, Creation Research Society Quarterly, page 63:
text: Thus, the “gappists” claim the verbs “create” and “make” have different functions and cannot be used interchangeably!
ref: 2004, Marc Millan, Destroying Diabolical Opposition: A Training Manual for Winning the Battle, Dunamis Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Many gappists have used the word “replenish” in the KJV translation of Genesis 1:28 to justify the gap theory on the basis that this word means “refill.”
ref: 2006, Ken Ham, “What About the Gap & Ruin-Reconstruction Theories?”, in Ken Ham, Bodie Hodge, editors, The New Answers, Book 1: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible, Answers in Genesis, published 2022, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: A proponent of gap creationism.
Synonyms: gap creationist
gap theorist
gappists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gappist
Pyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɹ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹən
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Pȳrēnē (“the Pyrenees”).
Senses: examples: text: The power of the Kings more abſolute, than in moſt other kingdomes, their territories very large; for the Kings of England, beſide Ireland, have commanded from the Iſles of Orkenay, to the Pyrene Mountains, and are de jure,Kings of all France by deſcent.
ref: 1636, William Camden, “Britaine”, in Remaines Concerning Britaine, London: […] Thomas Harper, for John Waterſon, page 4:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain; Pyrenean.
Ower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Copythorne parish and Netley Marsh parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3216).
glosses: A small hamlet near Calshot, Fawley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4701).
Basses-Pyrénées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: former name of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Related terms: Basses-Alpes
rollrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollrims
Senses: glosses: A mushroom with a round, folded-over cap-edge, as those of the genus Paxillus.
Rubens' tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rubens' tubes
Senses: glosses: A long tube with a series of small flames coming out the top, the heights of which show the waveform of the sound in the tube.
Netley Marsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3312).
grid method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪd ˈmɛθəd/
Etymology: grid + method, from the visual representation of the multiplication process resembling a grid or table.
Senses: examples: text: Tom always used the grid method for expanding brackets.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A visual approach to the multiplication of polynomials through the use of a grid-like structure to represent the multiplicand terms
Hamson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tate's Cairn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably named after George Passman Tate.
Senses: examples: text: Tea is cultivated in several places in the New Territories, e.g., in the Shing Mun valley and at the villages lying in the higher mountain valleys about Tate's Cairn and Buffalo Hill.
ref: 1906, Hong Kong. Botanical, Forestry Department, Annual Report of the Forestry Department of Hong Kong, page 9:
text: To the north of Kowloon Peak the ridge dips and rises to Middle Hill and Tate's Cairn, then bends sharply to the west and continues over Temple Hill, Lion Rock and Beacon Hill.
ref: 1936, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist:
text: The first installation was a Decca storm warning radar with a maximum range of 250 nautical miles based on top of Tate's Cairn. This equipment was used for nearly 20 years, until June 1979.
ref: 1983, Anthony Dyson, From Time Ball to Atomic Clock:
text: Of all the sights in the world, few can compare with a place Dave and I discovered called Tate's Cairn, a modest hill back in the New Territories whose summit commanded a majestic oversight of the then colony.
ref: 2012, Graham Fisher, “Innocents Abroad”, in A Kiss and a Cup of Tea, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)
ref: 2017 August 26, Anne Marie Roantree, Venus Wu, “Battered Hong Kong and Macau brace for Pakhar, more flooding”, in Andrew Hay, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, COMMODITIES NEWS:
glosses: A peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
Brogborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9638).
Niagra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Niagara.
Niagra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Niagras
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Niagara.
Googlitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Googleitis
Etymology: From Google + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Be careful of Google, though. You can diagnose yourself as having every dreadful disease on the planet with just one sniffle. If I'm being honest, my husband had to save me from being carried away by Googleitis more than once.
ref: 2019, Rachel C. Swanson, Refine and Restore: Revive Your Heart, Release Your Purpose, New York, NY: FaithWords, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: The excessive use of, or overreliance on, Google (or other search engines), possibly leading to misinformation or impaired critical thinking skills.
Googleitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Googlitis.
Seatown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From sea + town, all places are close to the sea.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Chideock parish, Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref SY4191).
glosses: A suburb of Buckie, Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ4265).
glosses: A suburb of Cullen, Moray council area (OS grid ref NJ5167).
glosses: A suburb of Lossiemouth, Moray council area (OS grid ref NJ2370).
unified rear triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unified rear triangles
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: URT
glosses: A bicycle rear suspension design where the bottom bracket and rear axle are directly connected at all times.
URTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of URT
anti-feminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-feminist
girlbossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girlbossy
form: most girlbossy
Etymology: From girlboss + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Smart, imaginative, energetic and blissfully free of girlbossy, corporate-feminist empowerment messaging, the show enters Lady Parts’ world of camaraderie, catharsis and cannabis through the perspective of their new guitarist: […]
ref: 2021 May 21, Judy Berman, “The Best TV Shows of 2021 So Far”, in Time:
text: With “Havana,” Camila Cabello barrelled past the quasi-anonymity of her girl group days to announce who she was and where she was from. […] Fifth Harmony, the Simon Cowell-engineered quintet with which she’d performed girlbossy pop anthems, was in her past.
ref: 2022 April 13, Olivia Horn, “Camila Cabello: Familia [album review]”, in Pitchfork:
text: The fact that men can be victims of abuse is, of course, inarguable. But is “toxic femininity” the right label to apply to the kind of behaviour we’ve seen in the villa? The phrase has recently gained traction online – popping up in girlbossy workplace features, therapy advice sites, and YouTube videos about “femcels”.
ref: 2023 March 12, Eloise Hendy, “Is there really such a thing as ‘toxic femininity’?”, in The Independent:
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of a girlboss.
Chideock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish west of Bridport, Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref SY4292).
too close to the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: See fly too close to the sun.
Senses: examples: text: As she has shifted away from network television and into more roles in film, she’s taking notes from Hollywood greats like Austin Butler and Jeremy Strong and tried method acting while on the set of 2016‘s Dirty Grandpa. However, she may have method acted too close to the sun as she acted “totally insane” around her co-star Robert De Niro.
ref: 2022 October 10, Alejandra Gularte, “Aubrey Plaza Aubrey Plaza’d Too Hard Around Robert De Niro”, in Vulture:
glosses: In an overly ambitious or greedy manner.
chick'ns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chick'n
direction vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direction vectors
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: position vector
glosses: A unit vector used to represent spatial direction, commonly denoted as d.
direction vectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direction vector
suitjacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitjackets
Senses: examples: text: Suitpants are born to be worn with suitjackets. Together they constitute the standard white-collar work uniform of our time. But apart, either looks like an orphan. A man trying to wear suitpants casually will always look as if he just took his jacket and tie off.
ref: 1968 02, Men's Wear:
text: ACT TWO. SCENE THREE Remove overcoat & hat / Remove suitjacket with lapel pin / Remove gray-blue pants / Remove black shirt with white collar […]
ref: 1985, Michael Weller, The Ballad of Soapy Smith: A Play, Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 152:
text: Her suitjacket is buttoned . The veil on her pillbox hat covers her forehead and comes down right to the eyes. Camera stays on her for the whole of the following exchange.
ref: 1998, Kenneth J. Weber, Five-minute Mysteries Reader, →ISBN, page 190:
text: The doctor's gaze was on the right sleeve of his tuxedo suitjacket. "Again, it's part of being a doctor, I guess. I have to keep up with appearances. It never fails that some doctor at the hospital always seems to be having some kind of[…]"
ref: 2005 November 14, John D. Loscher, The Black Madonna, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 484:
text: He reached inside his suitjacket. He took out a brown packet bound in ordinary elastic bands. The package was about three inches thick. “All in all, one hundred thousand to the good life,” he said rather solemnly.
ref: 2006 June 1, James Patterson, The Thomas Berryman Number, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of suit jacket.
suit jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suit jackets
form: suit-jacket
form: suitjacket
Senses: glosses: The jacket portion of a suit.
suitjackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitjacket
suit jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suit jacket
Nuneham Courtenay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From nīwan, dative of Old English nīwe + hām with manorial affix from the Curtenay family; recorded as Newham 1086 (DB), Newenhan Courteneye 1320.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU5599).
C.D.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C.D.
tube lichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube lichens
Senses: glosses: A lichen of the genus Hypogymnia.
whorl snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorl snails
Senses: glosses: A terrestrial snail of the family Vertiginidae.
gendy nooch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gendy neuch
form: gendy neut
form: gendy neutch
form: gendy noot
Senses: examples: text: gendy nooch bathroom; gendy nooch pronouns
text: What are some gendie nootch terms to call ur partnet^([sic])...thats not partner... And not Joyfriend.
ref: 2020 February 2, @JoniWitchell, Twitter:
text: the single person 3rd floor gendy neuch bathroom has done more for my emotional regulation than my own mother
ref: 2023 March 27, @gansbeee, Twitter:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:gendy nooch.
glosses: Gender-neutral.
cozzie livs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cozzy livs
Senses: examples: text: Equally wild is the sticky toffee pudding, the only dessert on the menu and rolling in at the low, low price of £3. At the risk of going all Old Man Yells At Cloud, you can’t get anything for £3 in these days of the cozzy livs.
ref: 2023 May, Peter Simpson, “Skua, Edinburgh”, in The Skinny, number 208, page 61:
glosses: Cost of living crisis.
murder noodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murder noodles
Senses: qualifier: kenning
glosses: A venomous snake
Related terms: danger noodle
murder noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murder noodle
tiger toast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger toasts
Senses: glosses: A combination of Vegemite and cheese strips on toast.
tiger toasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger toast
password child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: password children
Senses: glosses: A child whose name is used by their parents in computer passwords, and therefore supposedly their favourite child.
password children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of password child
moonflask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnflæsk/
ipa: /ˈmuːnflɑːsk/
Forms: form: moonflasks
form: moon-flask
form: moon flask
Etymology: From moon + flask.
Senses: glosses: A discoid drinking vessel.
moonflasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonflask
moon-flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon-flasks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moonflask.
moon-flasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon-flask
moon flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon flasks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moonflask.
moon flasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon flask
whirlstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlstorms
Etymology: From whirl + storm.
Senses: glosses: A storm characterised by whirling winds, typically a cyclone, hurricane, tornado, or waterspout.
whirlstorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirlstorm
sanitation engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanitation engineers
Senses: glosses: An engineer who works on facilities and systems for processing refuse or sewage
glosses: A garbage collector.
porkrind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porkrinds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pork rind.
porkrinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porkrind
Mamikonyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mamikonyans
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մամիկոնյան (Mamikonyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Bayizian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bayizians
Etymology: From Armenian Պայիզյան (Payizyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Bayizians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bayizian
Mamikonyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mamikonyan
reset the dial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resets the dial
form: resetting the dial
form: reset the dial
form: reset the dial
Senses: examples: text: While contemporary designers give us trends, Quant reset the dial on the way we get dressed. Under her influence, women rejected their parents’ vision of beauty and embraced their own.
ref: 2021 October 28, Karen Dacre, “Miniskirt mayhem! Nine ways Mary Quant revolutionised women’s clothes – and lives”, in The Guardian:
text: He said: “I’ve been incredibly lucky to play a part in major new media innovations, from the birth of Sun Online to most recently Times Radio, which has reset the dial on what quality news radio can achieve, and I’m pleased to be still playing a part on the station.
ref: 2022 January 10, Laura Webster, “More journalists join Piers Morgan at Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV channel”, in The National:
text: With the NHS struggling to clear huge surgical and screening backlogs and facing continued pressure from Covid-related staff absences, it’s a tough time for it to take on another major challenge. But ministers have promised to “reset the dial” on gender inequalities in healthcare, with the publication of the first ever government-led women’s health strategy.
ref: 2022 July 20, Hannah Devlin, “Are there enough concrete commitments in the women’s health strategy to truly ‘reset the dial’?”, in The Guardian:
text: Viewers have since been questioning whether Love Island producers – wary of replicating the toxic masculinity of earlier seasons – have in fact reset the dial too far, with many fans branding the women’s behaviour “toxic femininity”.
ref: 2023 March 12, Eloise Hendy, “Is there really such a thing as ‘toxic femininity’?”, in The Independent:
glosses: To change something radically; to reform or revolutionize something.
raw_tags: followed by on
interomniversal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + omniversal.
Senses: glosses: Between omniverses.
intermultiversal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + multiversal.
Senses: glosses: Between multiverses.
rec hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rec halls
Senses: glosses: Clipping of recreation hall.
recreation hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recreation halls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of recreation room.
synonyms: word: recreation room
gravell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gravel.
gravell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gravells
form: gravelling
form: gravelled
form: gravelled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gravel.