cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blue threeawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue threeawn
brownseed paspalum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownseed paspalums
Senses: glosses: A perennial grass native to the subtropical and tropical parts of the Americas and grown elsewhere for pasture and hay, Paspalum plicatulum
brownseed paspalums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brownseed paspalum
bush muhly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A perennial bunchgrass native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Muhlenbergia porteri
cane beardgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cane bluestem (Bothriochloa barbinodis).
synonyms: word: cane bluestem
extra: Bothriochloa barbinodis
cane bluestem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cane bluestems
Senses: glosses: A coarse, upright perennial bunchgrass native to dry areas from the southwestern US to South America; Bothriochloa barbinodis.
Synonyms: cane beardgrass
cane bluestems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cane bluestem
penny sterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pennies sterling
form: pence sterling
form: GBp
form: GBX
form: p
Etymology: From sterling silver, which the coin was originally minted from.
Senses: examples: text: The Semissis, or מםימם Mesimes, was the half of an assar, or the 192d part of a shekel: its weight was 2 barley corns, and its value equal to ּ146, or the 7th part nearly of a penny sterling.
ref: 1823, William Brown, David Jennings, Antiquities of the Jews carefully compiled from authentic sources: and Their Customs Illustrated:
text: Wat imagines he is asked for thirty pennies sterling (two and a half shillings), when he is really being asked for thirty pennies Scots (two and a half pennies sterling).
ref: 1996, James Hogg, Gillian Hughes, Tales of the Wars of Montrose, →ISBN, page 302:
text: The Hong Kong Dollar is the local currency unit and has a fixed value of one shilling and three pennies sterling.
ref: 1964, Commerce & Industry - Volume 23, page 481:
text: A price quoted as “10 pennies sterling” meant only that a buyer was expected to render a coin that was considered “worth” 10 pennies sterling. In such a case, payment might indeed be rendered in an actual penny sterling, but the relationship between the price (expressed by the money of account) and the bullion value of the penny was uncertain.
ref: 2010, Martha C. Howell, Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, →ISBN, page 17:
text: There was a variety of silver coins in circulation, of which the most significant was the silver groat, worth four pennies sterling.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Sumption, Hundred Years War Vol 3: Divided Houses, →ISBN, page 876:
glosses: A British coin worth  1⁄240 of a pound sterling, made of silver prior to 1797, and copper thereafter, Abbreviation: d.
examples: text: Twenty four Grains made one Penny Sterling, 20 Penny weight one Ounce, and 12 Ounces, or 5660 Grains made a pound Sterling, consisting of 20 Shillings.
ref: 1676, Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae notitia ; or, the present state of England:
text: Thirty-two Wheat COrns, taken in the midst of the Ear, weigheth one penny Sterling. Twenty-pence Sterling, maketh the Ounce Troy.
ref: 1727, Michael Dalton, The Country Justice: Containing the Practice, Duty and Power of the Justices of the Peace, As well in as out of their Sessions, page 363:
text: This order to stand in force and touching the fremen when ther is warre; and when peace shall be, then the waterbalifs to have of freemen eight pence sterling of every loader, soe ofte as every vessel of salt shall come into the haven uppon a fremans adventure, for plankage.
ref: 1891, Sir John Thomas Gilbert, Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin:
glosses: A unit of weight amounting to 1/20 of a troy ounce.
beardgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beardgrasses
Etymology: From beard + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of grasses with beard-like inflorescences or other structures, especially those currently or formerly classified in the genus Andropogon
Derived terms: cane beardgrass
golden beardgrass
beardgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beardgrass
transflections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transflection
transflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transflexion
NBR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not believed relevant.
raw_tags: of a document or information
NBR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NBRs
Senses: synonyms: nitrile rubber
glosses: Initialism of nitrile butadiene rubber.
ecodestination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ecodestinations
Etymology: From eco- + destination.
Senses: glosses: A popular destination for ecotourists.
ecodestinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecodestination
to the nines
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Scots, perhaps a rebracketing of to then eyne (“to the eyes”) or to thyn eyne (“(up) to your eyes”).
Senses: synonyms: word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
glosses: To perfection; fully, wholly.
Related terms: dressed to the nines
perstringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perstringe
perstringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perstringe
x86`lowbar`64
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: x86_64
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of x86-64.
coalhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coal hole.
sea bluebell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea bluebells
Senses: examples: text: Sea Bluebells (Mertensia maritima) would seem a pleasant companion for Virginia Bluebells, and there is plenty of foliage all summer.
ref: 1943, Leaflets of the Lexington (Mass.) Botanic Garden, volumes 13-19:
text: […] I found two remarkable flowering plants, sea bluebells Mertensia maritima growing close to the water's edge in a prostrate configuration with grey-green leaves and light bluebell-shaped flowers, and sea beach sandwort […]
ref: 1994, Ernest Ingersoll, Explorers Journal:
text: Botanists have recognized three distinct plant communities containing rare species. One, the sea bluebell, is found nowhere else in BC.
ref: 2016, Dennis Horwood, Haida Gwaii: A Guide to BC's Islands of the People, 5th edition, →ISBN:
glosses: Mertensia maritima, a flowering plant in the genus Boraginaceae.
Synonyms: oyster leaf
oyster plant
sea bluebells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea bluebell
in deep shit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: word: in the shit
word: up shit creek
word: in deep doo-doo
glosses: In trouble; in a difficult situation.
giftlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪftlət/
Forms: form: giftlets
Etymology: From gift + -let.
Senses: examples: text: There is […] a number of plastic dolls in blonde wigs and kilts brought back as giftlets for my now deceased aunt by cronies who tripped off to other parts of Scotland for wee holidays.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 19:
text: Yet the giftlets she offered the gods, the vows she pledged / with silent lips—these were not in vain, not unpleasing.
ref: 2005, Catullus, translated by Peter Green, Poems, page 139:
synonyms: giftling
glosses: A small gift.
Safavis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Safavi
Safawid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Safavid.
Safawid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Safawids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Safavid.
Safawids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Safawid
kirkgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirkgoers
form: kirk-goer
Etymology: From kirk + goer.
Senses: examples: text: I am no great kirkgoer, for many reasons — and the sermon's one of them, and the first prayer another, but the chief and effectual reason is the stuffiness.
ref: 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter
text: But this lady has the stern face of a kirk-goer.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 20:
glosses: Someone who goes to kirk; a churchgoer.
kirkgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirkgoer
giftlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftlet
morning roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning rolls
Etymology: So called because baked freshly each morning. Compare morning goods.
Senses: examples: text: I can't go out to buy morning rolls, those delicious regional specialities, without somebody who remembers the old lady grappling with me on the pavement and stressing the resemblance.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 23:
glosses: A type of white bread roll popular as part of breakfast.
morning rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning roll
traycloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪklɒθ/
Forms: form: traycloths
Etymology: From tray + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: He'd bring her dinner on a tray with always a slightly soiled traycloth.
ref: 1983, Angela Carter, “Sugar Daddy”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 31:
glosses: A cloth laid across a tray on which to serve dishes, food etc.
Victorianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Victorian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, his Victorianness, for want of a better word, means he feels duty bound to come the heavy father, from time to time, always with a histrionic overemphasis: ‘You just watch out for yourself, that's all.’
ref: 1983, Angela Carter, “Sugar Daddy”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 33:
glosses: The fact or quality of being Victorian.
flood pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some clothes would be too big, which was good, because you could grow into them, while others would be too small and look like flood pants.
ref: 2017, Derrick Nearing, Anchor of My Heart: Memories of a Cape Breton Childhood:
glosses: Pants suitable for wear in high water.
coordinate_terms: clamdiggers
capri pants
pedal pushers
;
shorts#Noun
glosses: Pants that are too short.
post-partural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is compiled by somebody called Mary Motley Kalergis, another name on my post-partural hit-list.
ref: 1983, Angela Carter, “Notes From a Maternity Ward”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 38:
glosses: Postpartum.
Mopsuestia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Mopsuestia, from Ancient Greek Μοψουεστία (Mopsouestía), from Μόψου ἑστία (Mópsou hestía, “the house of Mopsus”).
Senses: glosses: an ancient city in Cilicia on the Pyramus River (now Ceyhan River) located east of ancient Antiochia in Cilicia (present-day Adana, southern Turkey)
Manzikert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Armenia, the site of the Battle of Manzikert where the Byzantine Empire was decisively defeated by Seljuk Turks; modern Malazgirt in Turkey
Rubenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Roupenid
form: Roupenide
form: Rupenide
form: Roubenid
form: Rubenide
Etymology: From Ruben (“the name of the founder”) + -id.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Rubenids: an Armenian dynasty who dominated parts of Cilicia, and who established the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
Rubenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rubenids
form: Roupenid
form: Roupenide
form: Rupenide
form: Roubenid
form: Rubenide
Etymology: From Ruben (“the name of the founder”) + -id.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Rubenids.
Roupenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Roupenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roupenids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Roupenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roupenid
Rubenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rubenid
Roupenide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Roupenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roupenides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Rupenide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Rupenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rupenides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Roubenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Roubenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roubenids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Rubenide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Rubenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rubenides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rubenid.
Roupenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roupenide
Rupenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rupenide
Roubenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roubenid
Rubenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rubenide
Hethumid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Hetoumid
form: Hetumid
form: Hethoumid
Etymology: From Hethum (“the name of the founder”) + -id, from Armenian Հեթում (Hetʻum).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Hethumids: an Armenian dynasty who ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia as princes and kings.
Hethumid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hethumids
form: Hetoumid
form: Hetumid
form: Hethoumid
Etymology: From Hethum (“the name of the founder”) + -id, from Armenian Հեթում (Hetʻum).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Hethumids.
Hetoumid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hethumid.
Hetoumid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hetoumids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hethumid.
Hetoumids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hetoumid
Hetumid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hethumid.
Hetumid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hetumids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hethumid.
Hetumids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hetumid
Hethoumid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hethumid.
Hethoumid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hethoumids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hethumid.
Hethoumids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hethoumid
Hethumids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hethumid
fair's fair
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: fair is fair
Senses: examples: text: "Okay," I said. "If we take turns with the dishes. I'm not going to do them all the time."
 "Fair's fair," Matt said. "We rotate the dishes, and Jon and I do our own laundry."
ref: 2008, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life as We Knew it, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN:
glosses: An expression used when asking for fair or just treatment, or when asserting that a situation is fair.
crinkleawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any grass in the genus, Trachypogon
glosses: Crinkleawn fescue, Festuca subuliflora
creosotebush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creosotebushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creosote bush.
creosotebushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creosotebush
thalassocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to thalassocracy.
weight off someone's shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My blood tests came back all clear, which was a huge weight off my shoulders.
synonyms: weight off someone's mind
relief
glosses: A worry, concern or burden removed.
phony as a three-dollar bill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: queer as a three dollar bill
form: as fake as a two-dollar bill
Etymology: As three-dollar bills do not exist.
Senses: examples: text: Though the film has some handsome, carefully staged action sequences, its machismo seems as phony as a three‐dollar bill.
ref: 1978 July 2, Vincent Canby, “Film View”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jan 2018:
text: But this chart, originally created by the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is as phony as a three-dollar bill. Our friends at PolitiFact did a pretty thorough takedown of it in May, giving it their worst rating: “pants on fire.”
ref: 2011 September 29, Glenn Kessler, “The Fact Checker: A bogus chart on Obama and the debt gets a new lease on life”, in Washington Post, retrieved 23 Jan 2018:
text: "You know, Mr. Sunshine, your laid-back, look-at-the-bright-side, the-glass-is-half-full malarkey is starting to come across as very condescending, especially since I know that your life-is-just-a-bowl-of-cherries spiel is as phony as a three-dollar bill."
ref: 2012, Joan Elliott Pickart, The Marrying MacAllister, →ISBN:
qualifier: simile; set phrase; simile; set phrase
glosses: Extremely phony; fake; dishonest; completely bogus.
Synonyms: bent as a nine-bob note
pluriversality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluriversalities
Etymology: From pluriverse + -ality.
Senses: examples: text: As an antidote, border thinking aims at pluriversality.
ref: 2011, Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options, →ISBN:
text: Those conditions of possibility enabled me to move with more intensity from a perspective of universality toward a perspective of pluriversality, from modernity toward transmodernity.
ref: 2013, Virpi Malin, Jonathan Murphy, Marjo Siltaoja, Getting Things Done, →ISBN, page 281:
text: For scholars of engagement the rich space that is created by such a differential movement related to pluriversality suggests opportunities for research based on multiple knowledges reflecting the multiple global forces and options described by Mignolo (see also Shulz, 2012).
ref: 2013, Lynette Shultz, Tania Kajner, Engaged Scholarship: The Politics of Engagement and Disengagement, →ISBN:
glosses: The condition of being pluriversal.
examples: text: Secondly, it is important to reassert collective resilience for action to transform and construct a Europe of and for the people, one in which social justice, intense democratic values, inalienable human rights and the recognition of the pluriversalities of human dignity are primary motives for integration.
ref: 2012, Yael Ohana, Hendrik Otten, Where Do You Stand?:, →ISBN:
text: By highlighting the existence of various different yet converging modernities that are disentangled from specific temporal and geographical setups, the texts suggest that there has never been only one history that can be interpreted and written in one particular way, but a pluriversality of approaches to the past – a pluriversality that has to be critically examined, but can also be joyfully celebrated.
ref: 2016, Christoph Senft -, Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography, →ISBN:
text: The three positions described above—color blindness, counting diverse bodies, and enabling pluriversalities—describe different approaches to engaging questions of diversity in higher education, but there is much still to be done.
ref: 2017, Carol Reid, Jae Major, Global Teaching, →ISBN:
glosses: A state or situation that is pluriversal.
pluriversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluriversities
Etymology: From pluriverse + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: My defense of a universality of social justice (and socialism) for all—creating the conditions of possibility for freedom from necessity for all—in no way rejects the pluriversity of knowledges.
ref: 2009, S. Macrine, P. McLaren, D. Hill, Revolutionizing Pedagogy, →ISBN:
text: To distance himself from the eurocentric concept of modernity, he introduced the concept of "transmodernity," explaining: "A future transmodern culture [...] assumes that the positive moments of modernity (as evaluated through criteria distinct from the perspective of other ancient cultures)[,] will have a rich pluriversity and would be the fruit of an authentic intercultural dialogue that would require bearing clearly in mind existing asymmetries [,,,]" (2010, p. 14).
ref: 2013, Julian Go, Postcolonial Sociology, →ISBN, page 179:
text: In the 1980s, when I first started teaching in the academy, many of my colleagues agreed with me that the role of teaching critical citizenship was too conservative, that we needed to move beyond incremental reform and -- following the advice of my mentor Paulo Freire— create multipolar sites, within the university, of popular democracy bolstered by pluriversity and interculturality.
ref: 2015, Tanya Loughead, Critical University: Moving Higher Education Forward, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: Synonym of pluriversality.
synonyms: word: pluriversality
soon-to-be
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: While some Republicans, especially in the country’s reddest precincts, are delighted about the prospect of Mr. Trump running the party from exile at Mar-a-Lago, those who represent voters exhausted by the soon-to-be-former president are eager to move on.
ref: 2020 November 18, Richard Fausset, Jonathan Martin, “In Georgia, a Republican Feud With Trump at the Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The Woodhead line also had many issues. Yes, it was electrified, but it was done so using a soon-to-be non-standard system.
ref: 2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38:
glosses: Planned or destined to have a specified position or quality in the near future.
Synonyms: eventual
practible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more practible
form: most practible
Etymology: From practice + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: You will inform me how you are inclined as soon as practible.
ref: 1844, Isaac Thomas Hecker, letter, quoted in 2014, Robert N. Hudspeth, The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau - Volume 1
text: He declared, "Drainage is utterly impractible and even if it were practible the reward for such an undertaking would be lands that could be utilized for no other purpose than as a grazing ground for stock.
ref: 2002, Susan Cerulean, The Book of the Everglades, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Both strategies unit in her remarks on ancient writers' views on plays: 'for their must rules of Unity, and God knows what besides, if they meant any thing, they are enough intelligible, and practible by a woman.'
ref: 2017, Brian Woolland, Revival: Jonsonians: Living Traditions, →ISBN:
glosses: Able to be put into practice; feasible.
prisoner of hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prisoners of hope
Etymology: Translation of the biblical phrase אֲסִירֵ֖י הַתִּקְוָ֑ה (assirei ha-tikvah) found in Zechariah 9:12. See אָסִיר (asír, “prisoner”) and תִּקְוָה (tikvá, “hope”) for more.
Senses: examples: text: Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed.
ref: 2009, V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Optimism is a notion that there's sufficient evidence that would allow us to infer that if we keep doing what we're doing, things will get better. I don't believe that. I'm a prisoner of hope, that's something else. Cutting against the grain, against the evidence'.
ref: 2013, Vaidehi Ramanathan, Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship: Rights, Access, Pedagogies, →ISBN:
text: And every genuine educator is a prisoner of hope. The road to all liberation through self-knowing is a path of despair, but all roads have their empty horizons and infinite beyonds.
ref: 2013, David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby, Seth Vannatta, The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man, →ISBN, page 254:
text: A prisoner of hope is an entrepreneur unknowingly trapped in a deceptive world where reality is masked by that person's desire to succeed. Such entrepreneurs are optimistic, convinced that what they want to happen will happen, yet it will never happen because they are not doing, only hoping.
ref: 2013, Tom Panaggio, The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur's Unexpected Edge, →ISBN:
glosses: One who remains hopeful in spite of circumstances that seem hopeless.
kit lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kit lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A camera lens that is bundled with a camera body, usually at a discount price.
process worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: process workers
Senses: examples: text: The term control panel refers to the instrumentation console in a central control room through which process information is communicated to the process worker and via which the worker changes the state of the process.
ref: 2010, CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety), Guidelines for Preventing Human Error in Process Safety, →ISBN, page 121:
text: The process worker, explains Gorz ([19] 111ff.) citing Ilnox, is the by-product of computerization, which represents a new interface between the production process and the worker. The skilled and unskilled worker of the production line will cease to have any physical interaction with the product, but will now focus mainly on controlling and maintaining the production process.
ref: 2016, Sabina Jeschke, Christian Brecher, Houbing Song, Industrial Internet of Things: Cybermanufacturing Systems, →ISBN, page 563:
text: For example, the tradesman may decide to abandon his trade meantime because he can make a better living as a process worker or even as a labourer.
ref: 2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, →ISBN, page 78:
text: The knowledge worker may have a supervisor, but he or she is never supervised in the same way that a manual or process worker is supervised.
ref: 2017, David I. Ben-Tovim, Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking, →ISBN:
glosses: An unskilled or semiskilled worker who is responsible for running processing machinery in a factory.
semi-skilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semi-skilled
form: most semi-skilled
Senses: examples: text: A disruption caused the first semi-skilled factory job to end in 145 cases (three per cent of the total sample) and as a result many of these workers experienced either a semi-skilled factory mobile profile or downward occupational mobility if they were not so lucky.
ref: 1987, Shirley Dex -, Women’s Occupational Mobility: A Lifetime Perspective, →ISBN, page 54:
text: This includes all tasks that he could now undertake: within his particular trade if he is a tradesman; or within some range, whether limited or very wide, of semi-skilled tasks if he is a process worker; or within the range of labouring tasks (and possibly semi-skilled tasks) if he is a labourer
ref: 2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, →ISBN, page 78:
text: "We invested £53m in maintenance alone in 2021, which directly supports skilled and semi-skilled jobs across the UK.
ref: 2023 April 19, “Network News: Angel Trains refutes union's claims over 'scandalous' dividend payments”, in RAIL, number 981, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of semiskilled.
purse puppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpi
Forms: form: purse puppies
Etymology: From the idea that the dog is small enough to fit into a purse.
Senses: examples: text: Regina quickly set Serena onto the floor and spoke baby jabber to the cherished purse puppy.
ref: 2012, Nancy Mangano, Murder Can Be Messy, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Be aware that size descriptions such as teacup, micro, mini, baby doll, purse puppy, teddy bear, and other similar terms for smaller-than-normal Yorkshire Terriers are simply marketing ploys for Yorkies who don't fit the breed.
ref: 2012, Debra Eldredge, Liz Palika, Your Yorkshire Terrier Puppy Month By Month, →ISBN:
text: I was one of those women today, a girl looking for a purse puppy.
ref: 2017, Kelly Collins, Set Up: The Second Chance Series, →ISBN:
text: When Sam and I first moved into our apartment, we discussed getting a puppy. “A purse puppy!” We yelled at the same time. And then jumped up and down in an overly excited, sister roommate dance.
ref: 2017, Raquel Fletcher, The Year I Turned 25: A Memoir About Sex, Anxiety and a Dog Named She-Devil, →ISBN:
glosses: A dog small enough to fit into a sleeve, purse, or backpack.
papulopustule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papulopustules
Etymology: From papule + -o- + pustule.
Senses: examples: text: According to Boeck, the hue of the papulopustule is due to minute capillary hæmorrhages, which later become invisible in consequence of the tumefaction of the overlying integument.
ref: 1893, James Nevins Hyde, A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners:
text: The most common of the eruptive symptoms induced are papulopustule lesions usually discrete, rarely confluent, seen on the face, neck, shoulders, and upper extremities.
ref: 1896, Twentieth century practice:
text: Accidental inoculation of an abrasion, cut or open follicle of the skin with virus from a dead body may give rise to the rapid production at the site of poisoning of vesico-papule, papulopustule, furuncle, tubercle, wart or hemorrhagic bleb; or there may be little or no local disturbance, with a rapid development of septicæmia or glandular enlargement.
ref: 1902, Henry M. Dearborn, Diseases of the skin: their symptomatology, etiology and diagnosis, with special reference to principles of treatment including full indications for drug remedies:
text: The area is covered with a watchglass held in place by a bandage; in a positive case a papulopustule will develop within 24 to 72 hours, and it will then be easy to demonstrate Ducrey bacilli.
ref: 1976, Günter Waldemar Korting, R. Denk, Differential diagnosis in dermatology, W.B. Saunders Company:
text: The primary lesion appears to be a papulopustule which affects the follicle.
ref: 1995, Neal S. Penneys, Skin Manifestations Of Aids, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Pyoderma gangrenosum begins as a small papulopustule that expands to form nodules and plaques.
ref: 1998, John C. Maize, Cutaneous Pathology:
text: An old closed comedo has been shattered at various points along the epithelial lining and is now a papulopustule.
ref: 2012, G. Plewig, A.M. Kligman, ACNE and ROSACEA, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 158:
text: It is due to a true diphtheritic infection by Corynbacterium diphtheriae, which commences as a papulopustule; within a few days, the top of the papule becomes necrotic and an ulcer forms and the ulcer slowly enlarges, until it attains a diameter of 1–2 cm.
ref: 2015, Mahmoud Sakr, Clinical Surgery, JP Medical Ltd, →ISBN, page 399:
text: The lesions of PG usually begin as a tender papulopustule with surrounding erythematous or violaceous induration, an erythematous nodule, or a bulla on a violaceous base; the papulopustule may be follicular.
ref: 2017, Jean L. Bolognia, Julie V. Schaffer, Lorenzo Cerroni, Dermatology E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small, raised, semisolid skin lesion, representing an intermediate stage between a papule and a pustule.
Related terms: papulopustular
Falcón
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Spanish surname.
glosses: A state in northern Venezuela, named after Juan Crisóstomo Falcón.
glosses: A municipality in Falcón state, Venezuela.
Lào Cai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊkaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Lào Cai.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
examples: text: Hokou County in Yunnan Province and Lao Kay in Vietnam are separated by a river. The two banks of the river are full of wandering Overseas Chinese refugees.
ref: [1978 May 24 [1978 May 21], “57,000 Persecuted Overseas Chinese Residing in Vietnam Have Returned to China”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 101, sourced from Hong Kong TA KUNG PAO, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page N 5:
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
bagel girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagel girls
Etymology: From baby, glamour and girl.
Senses: examples: 2015 Eye Candy: Sexy and cute 'bagel girls' All K-Pop
Combining the words "baby" and "glamour," the term "bagel girl" refers to a girl who has a cute, baby-like face and a hot, glamorous body.
2015 Men Who Yearn to Be Erect, and the Women Who Bear Them Korea Expose
The much-touted ideal of South Korean female beauty, the so-called beigeul-nyeo or ‘bagel girl’, is none other than a woman who has a ‘baby’ face and a ‘glamorous’ body, combining the innocence of a child and the allure of a porn star to represent the ultimate object of male desire: a virgin-whore who will seduce but harbour not a shred of her own will. She is that girl who will give in even as she stays still, saying no yet carrying out her expected duty.
glosses: A woman with an adult-looking body and childish facial features, in the context of Korean pop culture.
foof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːf/
Forms: form: foofs
Senses: examples: text: "Hawley Smoot," he said, striking the door with his wand, and with a smoky 'foof' the door disappeared[.]
ref: 1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 85:
glosses: An audible puff of wind.
examples: text: ‘You may have a ring on your hand but I'm of the opinion there's no chastity belt on your foof,’ he whispered.
ref: 2013, Karenne Griffin, New Voices in the Valley, page 299:
text: I am proud of my foof. A vagina is empowering.
ref: 2017 November 19, John Crace, The Guardian:
glosses: The vulva or vagina.
examples: text: He's an old foof.
ref: 1966, Abe Burrows, Cactus Flower, page 93:
text: This press box is full of foofs.
ref: 1994, Martin O'Malley, Sean O'Malley, Game day: the Blue Jays at SkyDome, page 162:
glosses: An exasperating person.
examples: text: I said I didn't know but thought 1950 Los Angeles Rams might have been better. He agreed I didn't know. He said I was an old foof and I said Oh Yeah! or something snappy like that.
ref: 1982, Bob Carroll, The Coffin Corner, volume 4, number 2:
text: If you think of it as the show that switched American musical theatre permanently out of sweet music and Sig Romberg, where it belonged, you're an old foof. If you think of it as a stage dinosaur from when people worried about who sang a song best rather than whose song it was, you're a young squirt.
ref: 1990 June 17, John Flautz, “'Oklahoma!' Rousing at Shawnee”, in The Morning Call:
glosses: An eccentric, foolish, or senile person, usually an old man; a coot, codger, or dotard.
foof
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːf/
Senses: examples: text: Oh foof. You swim like a fish.
ref: 2011, L. Sprague deCamp, The Hand of Zei:
text: Which was idiotic, because there were Necromantic ones, Ghouls and Bonedancers and even Rancelmen. Oh well, and foof.
ref: 2013, Sheri S. Tepper, Wizard's Eleven:
text: 'Foof! They don't care!' Rudolf said.
ref: 2013, Simon Robinson, A Year with Rudolf Nureyev:
text: “Ah, foof!” Quinn sputtered.
ref: 2013, Robyn Parnell, The Mighty Quinn, page 131:
glosses: Used to express exasperation or frustration
examples: text: "Foof!" he cried. "The world went foof."
ref: 1986, NDQ, North Dakota Quarterly - Volume 54, Issues 3-4, page 59:
text: I was desperately searching for the emergency cord when I landed spread-eagle in the frozen creek bed. Foof! The impact caused the chute to finally deploy.
ref: 2005, Dan Rodgers, I Thought You Brought the Can Opener:
glosses: Onomatopoeia indicating an explosive burst of air.
foof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːf/
Forms: form: foofs
form: foofing
form: foofed
form: foofed
Senses: examples: text: I foofed my hair and buzzed the door open, swiping cat hairs from my chest so that I wouldn't leave a tacky hug imprint.
ref: 1995, Dorian Yeager, Eviction by Death, page 123:
text: I'm home from school with barely enough time to foof my hair, brush my teeth, and dab on a little extra mascara before the front doorbell rings.
ref: 2011, Marley Gibson, The Discovery, page 20:
text: What, you gonna wear a glittery sequin tuxedo and foof your hair and play the piano for them?
ref: 2011, Randy Powel, The Whistling Toilets:
text: She straightened her dress and foofed her hair as she jostled herself into position.
ref: 2011, Cate Kendall, Armani Angels, page 12:
glosses: To fluff; to cause to puff up.
examples: text: "Foof me, Dad." She pulled up her sweatshirt. "No." "Foof me. Please." "I'll foof you," Mad said. "No, I want my Dad to foof me. Foof me, Dad." She puffed out her stomach and looked at it.
ref: 1973, A. Wilber Stevens, Stories Southwest, page 36:
text: Then those people who foofed and humphed start calling meetings about why there's not this kind of thinking coming out of Foof & Humph Industries.
ref: 1986, George Mazzei, Moving Up, page 54:
glosses: To blow air through the lips while they are pressed together or against skin; to blow a raspberry.
elevenscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eleven + score.
Senses: glosses: Two hundred and twenty.
Shannen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: given name
glosses: Alternative form of Shannon.
Dutch gin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch gins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jenever.
synonyms: word: jenever
cattleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkætəlˌʃɛd/
Forms: form: cattlesheds
form: cattle shed
form: cattle-shed
Etymology: From cattle + shed.
Senses: examples: text: The occupier of any land within the municipality on which there shall be erected any stable, cowyard, cattleshed or goatshed, shall cause such premises to be kept in such a state in respect of cleanliness as not to be a nuisance or injurious to health […]
ref: 1882, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, volume 4, page 12:
text: When the farm-hand went into the cattleshed there was no sign of the bull there.
ref: 1992, Helena Henderson, The Maiden who Rose from the Sea and Other Finnish Folktales, →ISBN, page 9:
text: "So? Are you afraid they'll starve in my cattleshed?" asked Gunvanta, sarcastically.
ref: 2014, Vishwas Patel, A Dirge for the Damned, →ISBN:
glosses: A small barn in which cattle are kept; a byre, a cowshed.
buldak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 불닭 (buldak), from 불 (bul, “fire”) + 닭 (dak, “fowl, chicken”).
Senses: glosses: A heavily spiced Korean dish of barbecued chicken.
Marinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marinases
Etymology: Borrowed from Galician Mariñas. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Galician.
free-wheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free-wheeling
form: most free-wheeling
Senses: examples: text: Communication over internet evolved into an "electronic democracy". Asari have no politicians or elections, but a free-wheeling, all-inclusive legislature that citizens can participate in at will. Policy debates take place at all hours of the day, in official chat rooms and forums moderated by specially-programmed virtual intelligences. All aspects of policy are opened to plebiscite at any time.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Government Codex entry:
glosses: Alternative form of freewheeling.
bleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "I bleeve I could smoke this pipe all day," said Joe. "I don't feel sick."
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of believe.
barophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being barophilic
Hautes-Pyrénées
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Tarbes.
ECDLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ECDL
speed-dialling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speed-dial
speed-dialled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speed-dial
ganglio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ganglion
PEOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PEO
postpostively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postpositive + -ly.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In a postpositive manner; placed after the word or phrase being modified.
bewends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewend
betwyndes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betwynde
atwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of atwind
begives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begive
blives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blive
berisps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of berisp
clairts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clairt
beclarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beclart
beclepes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beclepe
clumses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clumse
Zekiel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Zekiel Irons was a lean, reserved fellow, with a black wig and blue chin, and something shy and sinister in his phiz.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Clipping of Ezekiel.
flounderling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flounderlings
Etymology: From flounder + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: On such an one I came
All inadvertently,
Splashing the shallows
Where Atlantic ebb
Was making bare
The flats,
As when one
Wading
Sets unguarded step
Upon a lurking
Flounderling.
ref: 1918, Richard Darwin Ware, Rediscoveries, page 102:
text: At first flounderlings are thin-bodied but typically fishlike in other respects. Then suddenly striking anatomical changes take place, and the creature's behavior becomes fixed for an essentially two-dimensional way of life.
ref: 1979, John L. Culliney, The forests of the sea: life and death on the Continental Shelf, page 90:
glosses: A small or young flounder
point one's toes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: points one's toes
form: pointing one's toes
form: pointed one's toes
form: pointed one's toes
Senses: examples: text: Point your toes away from you (downward) as far as you can.
ref: 2000, Delores Christina Schoen, Adult Orthopaedic Nursing, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Press your foot down as if to point your toes, using 30 percent of your strength, and resist with the strap, as shown in figure 14.15.
ref: 2010, Sharon Sauer, Mary Biancalana, Trigger Point Therapy for Low Back Pain, →ISBN, page 201:
text: During another class, Nana's husband Baba, the other paid musician for ADP, sucked his teeth and yelled at Kevin for pointing his toes while doing a kicking movement.
ref: 2010, Lance T. McCready, Making Space for Diverse Masculinities, →ISBN, page 81:
text: The lightning struck and she lifted her front foot and pointed her toes to begin her combo.
ref: 2013, Anastasia Zhivotov, Alice in Reality, →ISBN:
glosses: To flex the ankle as far as possible while simultaneously extending the toes in the same direction.
examples: text: “You're trying to hypnotize me. I'm not going to let you do that.” “You're going to hypnotize yourself. You do everything yourself. I just point the way. I point your toes to the path. Just point your toes. No one can make you go anywhere you don't want to go, but you want to go where your toes are pointed where your toes are limp where your..."
ref: 1999, Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, Baby is Three, →ISBN, page 384:
text: If she pointed her toes at you, you were in. I glanced at her feet. They were together and pointed at me, close enough to almost touch mine.
ref: 2011, Kris Alexander, Servants of the Light, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see point, toe.
pulsar clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulsar clocks
Senses: examples: text: We could precisely measure the orbit and the predicted relativistic effects simply by precisely measuring the changing "ticking" of this pulsar clock as it moved around in its orbit.
ref: 2004, Magdolna Hargittai & Istv n Hargittai, Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists, →ISBN, page 674:
text: Ultimately, rotational instabilities intrinsic to the pulsar known as timing noise can become important, and the internal stability of the pulsar clock is limited.
ref: 2005, D. R. Lorimer, M. Kramer, Handbook of Pulsar Astronomy, →ISBN, page 34:
text: The pulsar PSR B1937+21 has been observed over a period of several years by Kaspi et al. (1994b) and Cognard et al. (1995); although, on a time scale of a few months, this pulsar clock fits a simple model within the reading accuracy of about 100 nanoseconds, an unpredictable wandering limits its accuracy over a period of a year or more (Figure 5.6).
ref: 2006, Andrew G. Lyne, Francis Graham-Smith, Pulsar Astronomy, →ISBN, pages 62–63:
text: When the two bodies are in close proximity, the gravitational field is stronger, the passage of time is slowed– and the time between pulses (or ticks) is lengthened. Then as the pulsar clock travels more slowly through the weakest part of.the field it regains time.
ref: 2014, John Hussey, Bang to Eternity and Betwixt: Cosmos:
glosses: The regular timing of pulses from a pulsar.
glosses: A clock built to measure time based on the regular pulses from a pulsar.
concludeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: conclude + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conclude
divaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diva + -ism.
Senses: glosses: divalike behaviour
continuity nod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɑntɪˈn(j)uːəti noːd/
Forms: form: continuity nods
Senses: glosses: A reference, in a TV series, to part of the plot of a previous episode
areads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aread
bereads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beread
bedears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedear
bedares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedare
continuity nods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuity nod