cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
steak and kidney pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak and kidney puddings
form: steak-and-kidney pudding
Senses: examples: text: "Excuse me," he said, raising his hat, "but am I right in supposing that this is a steak-and-kidney pudding?"
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:
text: “Nice to be so popular for once,” said Tom, removing the cover from his plate and contemplating with satisfaction a generous helping of steak and kidney pudding and buttered broad beans.
ref: 2007, Carola Dunn, The Bloody Tower (a Daisy Dalrymple mystery), Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: A dish resembling steak and kidney pie but in the form of a steamed pudding.
steak and kidney puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steak and kidney pudding
Bajrangbali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bədʒ.ɾəŋɡ.bə.liː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बजरंगबली (bajraṅgablī).
Senses: glosses: Hanuman, a Hindu deity
heterogloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroglosses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of isogloss.
synonyms: word: isogloss
Kyrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Cyprus.
sorry-not-sorry
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: (In reality, the rapper [Kanye West] offered a sorry-not-sorry apology last year in which he said he didn't regret his comments.)
ref: 2023 May 28, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Can AI make me a star?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of sorry, not sorry.
frock-coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frock-coats
Senses: examples: text: Most of the officers were dressed in uniform which is neat and serviceable—viz., a bluish-grey frock-coat of a colour similar to Austrian yagers.
ref: 1863, [Arthur Lyon] Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States: April-June 1863, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 156:
text: They delight in blue frock-coats and grass-green Newmarkets, and white hats with mourning-bands.
ref: 1864 July, George Augustus Sala, “[The Streets of the World.] Liverpool: Church Street.”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume XI, London: Office of “Temple Bar,” […]. Ward and Lock, […]. New York: Willmer and Rogers, page 484:
text: First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship.
ref: 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 20:
text: A lot of young men in long frock-coats glued to the door-posts, so limp, poor things, and all the women drinking tea by themselves and longing for the young men.
ref: 1892, Hilarion [pseudonym; Campbell McKellar], “Judy on Society”, in A Jersey Witch, London: Eden, Remington & Co […], page 87:
text: From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 1:
text: So there, my dear Bertie, was I, within a few hours of my entrance into this town, with my top-hat down to my ears, my highly professional frock-coat, and my kid gloves, fighting some low bruiser on a pedestal in one of the most public places, in the heart of a yelling and hostile mob!
ref: 1895, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter X, in The Stark Munro Letters: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 215:
text: He was a large, loose, fattish man with unintelligent brown eyes magnified by spectacles; he wore an ill-fitting frock-coat and a paper collar, and he showed me, as his great treasure and interest, a large Bible which he had grangerised with photographs of pictures.
ref: 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “How I Became a London Student and Went Astray”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 2nd book (The Rise of Tono-Bungay), section V, page 138:
text: i remember some years ago, in a New York paper, an extraordinary full-page picture of the funeral in Brooklyn of a murdered Hasidic Jewish child: a scene which might have come straight from Old Russia, with kerchieved women wailing in the street and bearded men in the long frock-coats and wide-brimmed black hats of the sect.
ref: 1967, The Illustrated London News, page 28, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of frock coat.
frock-coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frock-coat
chalk something up to experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chalks something up to experience
form: chalking something up to experience
form: chalked something up to experience
form: chalked something up to experience
Senses: examples: text: However, if the amounts are small and you've exhausted your personal resources, you can chalk it up to experience and write it off at the end of the year. (I did this on several small checks returned for insufficient funds.)
ref: 1990, Michele Loftus, How to Start and Operate a Home-based Word Processing Or Desktop Publishing Business, Adams Media Corporation, →ISBN:
text: When I am scammed, I take my lumps and chalk it up to experience. I then use all my resources and skills to destroy those involved in committing the scam.
ref: 2009 December 7, Michael Anthony, Memoirs of a White Man, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 71:
text: 'Take them to court – or just chalk it up to experience.' 'Don't suppose for a moment that Kodomo would adopt the same attitude. He brought you all the way out here to do something for him. Whatever it is, he'll expect you to deliver.
ref: 2012 November 30, Derek Wilson, The Triarchs, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: put something down to experience
glosses: To take a lesson from a bad outcome instead of grieving it.
put something down to experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts something down to experience
form: putting something down to experience
form: put something down to experience
form: put something down to experience
Senses: examples: text: If something utterly dreadful happens to you, shrug it off, put it down to experience and, in due course, turn it into an anecdote.
ref: 2016 June 9, Caroline Taggart, Her Ladyship's Guide to the Art of Conversation, Batsford Books, →ISBN:
text: Put it down to experience and laugh about it over a pint with your mates. Celebrate it whether it's a car crash or not. Because even if you're smarting like hell, at least you know you're alive.
ref: 2016 December 19, Sue Ostler, Sex, Dating and Really Confusing Girls, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of chalk something up to experience.
synonyms: word: chalk something up to experience
chalking something up to experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chalk something up to experience
putting something down to experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put something down to experience
puts something down to experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put something down to experience
chalks something up to experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chalk something up to experience
chalked something up to experience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chalk something up to experience
yatais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yatai
Guccis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gucci
Guccis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gucci
Gtr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Gtr Manchester
text: Gtr London
glosses: Abbreviation of greater (in place names).
Related terms: Gtr Man
pseudohypericin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypericin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic polycyclic dione closely related to hypericin.
severers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of severer
supercavitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supercavitates
form: supercavitating
form: supercavitated
form: supercavitated
Senses: glosses: To undergo supercavitation.
supercavitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supercavitate
supercavitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supercavitate
Herman ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herman rings
Etymology: Introduced by Michael Herman (1979).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In complex dynamics, a Fatou component where the rational function is conformally conjugate to an irrational rotation of the standard annulus.
Herman rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herman ring
stop lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop lamps
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: A brake light.
goodnight nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: It was goodnight nurse for him. Karl was getting to his feet, and Dean, who was really getting going, was straight into him. He rained blows onto Karl, and, once again, Karl hit the deck this time and was out for the count.
ref: 2014, Dennis J. McTaggart, Cold Gold II, page 123:
text: Once they had found a target, they would radio back the details and location and then it was 'Goodnight nurse' as he put it, because within minutes a missile with a tactical nuclear warhead would be launched and on its way.
ref: 2020, Michael Graham, On Operations with C Squadron SAS, page xiii:
text: If the Germans win, it will be goodnight nurse. The Japs will annex this bit of the world.
ref: 2021, Bronwyn Davies, New Lives in an Old Land, page 66:
glosses: Doom, end; game over.
hello nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hello nurses
Senses: examples: text: Regardless, and once under medical care, David sends a message to her family then he explains in great detail to a “hello nurse” named Samantha, who seems quite skeptical, as do others who now gather.
ref: 2017, Bryan Fletcher, Another Runaway Bride, page 30:
text: The job of a “hello nurse” is to meet a patient within five minutes of arrival—which they do, satisfying the relevant target. They then leave patients waiting for treatment for hours, which wasn't what the target intended.
ref: 2020, Jonathan Smart, Sooner Safer Happier:
text: […] many hospitals employed a 'hello nurse' to make contact with a patient shortly after they entered the hospital. The 'hello nurse' gave them a quick triage assessment before leaving people to wait for hours to be treated by a doctor.
ref: 2022, Alicia Cameron, Building an Innovation Hotspot:
glosses: A nurse (healthcare practitioner) whose role is to greet and briefly assess incoming patients prior to treatment.
hello nurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hello nurse
Madisonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madisonian
hyperparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + parallel.
Senses: examples: text: Two hyperparallel lines have one and only one common perpendicular.
ref: 1995, Howard Eves, College Geometry, page 246:
text: Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.
ref: 2012, G. E. Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page 357:
text: In order that two distinct lines K and L be hyperparallel it is necessary and sufficient that they lie in one plane and that there exists a line M intersecting both of them perpendicularly.
ref: 2018, Karol Borsuk, Wanda Szmielew, Foundations of Geometry, page 292:
glosses: In hyperbolic geometry, lines that do not intersect in a common point in the plane and do not intersect at a common limit point at infinity, but rather, occur outside the limit set by parallel lines which intersect at infinity.
virgin soil epidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgin soil epidemics
Etymology: Coined by Alfred W. Crosby.
Senses: glosses: An epidemic in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the disease and therefore have almost no immunological defence.
wikipedia: Alfred W. Crosby
virgin soil epidemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgin soil epidemic
shift the dial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shifts the dial
form: shifting the dial
form: shifted the dial
form: shifted the dial
Senses: examples: text: The influential speech by the politician aimed to shift the dial on public opinion regarding climate change.
synonyms: change the landscape
glosses: To make a significant change or impact in a particular situation or context.
Jimmies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jimmy
Jimmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jimmy
rat house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat houses
form: rathouse
Senses: examples: text: I've had enough, mate. A bloody man is starting to get the Joe Blakes and the dry retches and if a man keeps this up I'm sure to finish in the rat house with the DTs at this rate.
ref: 1998, Keith B. Saunders, Myall Road, page 91:
glosses: A mental hospital.
rathouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rathouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rat house.
rat houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat house
rathouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rathouse
Koalib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koalibs
form: Koalib
Senses: glosses: A member of a Nuba ethnic group of South Kordofan state in southern Sudan.
Koalib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
Koalibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koalib
wheelie bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelie bags
Senses: glosses: A suitcase with castors.
wheelie bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelie bag
askhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: askholes
Etymology: Blend of ask + asshole.
Senses: examples: text: An askhole is someone who asks for advice but never applies these tips for the changes they seek.
ref: 2021, Derek DeCosta, The Moonlight King:
text: You might say, I'm going to be an askhole and tell you about my dilemma, and I say that I want your opinion, but don't expect me to actually go with your recommendation. Askhole conversations can be draining and unfulfilling […]
ref: 2023, Charlotte Fox Weber, Tell Me What You Want, page 272:
glosses: A person who asks for advice but refuses to follow it.
examples: text: Nanny made a rude noise, crossed her arms in front of her chest, and said, “The man's a complete askhole.” […] “It's what she calls people who ask—in her opinion—stupid and pointless questions,” I explained quickly.
ref: 2018, Peggy Jaeger, Dearly Beloved:
text: And who wants to be seen as an “askhole”— the type of person who requests huge favors from people who don't owe them anything?
ref: 2021, David Nurse, Breakthrough, page 104:
glosses: A person who asks excessive or offensive questions or favors.
askholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of askhole
ballsache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballsaches
Senses: examples: text: Total ballsache really, but our commanders were concerned about the political implications of what we were planning.
ref: 2008, Jerry Pook, RAF Harrier Ground Attack: Falklands, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of ballache.
ballsaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballsache
Bubba votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bubba vote
buchanosteoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buchanosteoid
Bucharesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bucharester
Budweisers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Budweiser
Budweisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Budweiser
buffalo burs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffalo bur
buffalo burrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffalo burr
buffalo thorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffalo thorn
thornshrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thornshrub
record companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of record company
text-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of text-book
stockbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockbook
skybooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skybook
slab cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slab cake
radish cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radish cake
sea pancakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pancake
slabcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slabcake
twelfth day cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twelfth day cake
wastel cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastel cake
turkey comas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkey coma
companimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companimal
hemivulvectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemivulvectomy
multivulvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multivulva
daylight factories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daylight factory
light breezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light breeze
life events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life event
Rakhaing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rakhaings
form: Rakhaing
Senses: examples: text: My paternal grandfather U May Oung, a Rakhaing, feared the erosion of the Buddhist way of life under colonial rule.
ref: 2019, Kin Thida Oung, The Road from Mandalay:
glosses: A member of the Rakhine people.
Rakhaing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rakhine (“Arakanese language”).
Rakhaings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rakhaing
beoparry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beoparries
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A trader, especially a petty trader or dealer.
beoparries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beoparry
trade loading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of channel stuffing.
synonyms: word: channel stuffing
Beruwala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barberry
form: Barberyn
form: Berberyn
Senses: glosses: A large town in Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka.
Columbos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Columbo
butterfly-knotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The charro wears the traditional big-winged sombrero tied under his chin; the butterfly-knotted tie adorning his breast; the leg-fitting trousers and leather leggings; the waist jacket with thin lapels held by one button over the breast.
ref: 1970, J.P.S. Brown, Jim Kane, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Inc., →LCCN, pages 161–162:
text: Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.
ref: 1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170:
text: He rises to get a butterfly-knotted length of yarn from the yarn rack, then sits down and turns on the tape recorder for instructions.
ref: 1980 August 10, Tropic (The Miami Herald, 70th year, number 254), page 11:
text: I was sick against a wall behind an office, on a pile of baby-blue, butterfly-knotted carrier bags which were spilling shredded paper on a pavement already stained dark.
ref: 2004, Gwendoline Riley, Sick Notes, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 130:
text: In the shadows, hanging on the walls or merely leaning against them, were dozens of paintings, drawings, landscapes, and portraits, a prominent spot reserved for the one of Jean dressed as a hunter, wearing a cap and a butterfly-knotted ascot, his left hand on his hip, his right holding the barrel of a gun with the butt resting on the ground and a dog at his feet.
ref: 2016, Pascal Mérigeau, translated by Bruce Benderson, Jean Renoir: A Biography, RatPac Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Tied in a butterfly knot or knots.
Sovetsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Сове́тск (Sovétsk). Before 1946 it was Tilsit.
Senses: glosses: A city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia; formerly, Tilsit.
Barawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barawe
form: Brava
Senses: glosses: The capital of the South West State of Somalia.
Barawe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Barawa (“Somalian city”).
vanjarrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanjarrahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunjara.
brinjarree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brinjarrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunjara.
vanjarrahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanjarrah
brinjarrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brinjarree
brinjaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brinjarees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunjara.
brinjarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brinjaree
pillaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pilaf.
pillaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillaw
pillaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillafs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pilaf.
pillaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillaffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pilaf.
pillafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillaf
pillaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillaff
kibab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kibabs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kebab.
kibabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kibab
fast-mo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for fast motion, as an opposite to slo-mo.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The deliberate speeding-up of film footage.
economic moats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of economic moat
ménages à moi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ménage à moi
red mokis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red moki
Coulee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Coulee No. 136.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States.
door-posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door-post
buxerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buxerries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of baksari.
buxerries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buxerry
baksari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baksaris
form: buxarry
form: buxary
form: buxerry
Senses: glosses: A soldier armed with a matchlock.
baksaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baksari
buxarry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buxarries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of baksari.
buxary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buxaries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of baksari.
buxarries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buxarry
buxaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buxary
Cannanore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kannur (“Indian city”).
Kannur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cananor
form: Cannanore
form: Canonor
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam കണ്ണൂർ (kaṇṇūṟ).
Senses: glosses: A city and a municipal corporation in Kerala, India.
Chillumbrum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Chidambaram.
Chedambram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Chidambaram.
Chilambram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Chidambaram.
Chittambalam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Chidambaram.
peelaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peelaws
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pilaf.
peelaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peelaw
marierom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marieroms
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of marjoram.
marieroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marierom
evil-speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evil-speakings
form: evil speaking
Etymology: From Middle English *ivel-spekynge (suggested by Middle English yvelspeker, yvel speker, ivel spekare (“evil-speaker”)), equivalent to evil (noun) + speaking (noun).
Senses: glosses: The act of speaking ill or maliciously of something or someone; blasphemy, slander; gossip.
seawives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seawife
NanoPutian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NanoPutians
Etymology: Portmanteau/Blend of nanometer + lilliputian
Senses: glosses: Any molecule that resembles a human.
NanoPutians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NanoPutian
Chaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Choul
form: Chowul
Senses: glosses: A historic town in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, India.
Choul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Chaul.
explanatory dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explanatory dictionaries
Senses: glosses: A monolingual general dictionary, a book that explains the meaning of a language's words using synonyms and definitions in that language.
Coordinate terms: dictionary
handkerchieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At this day, you need be no very acute physiognomist to see the class of society to which those slatternly drabs of women, those low-browed, pasty-faced, bull necked, belcher-handkerchieved, ruffianly-looking male creatures, who hang about the street corners, or the well-worn doors of sing-song public houses, or the outlets of filthy courts, belong.
ref: 1861, George Augustus Sala, “The Streets of the World: Their Ins and Outs, Their Lights and Shadows, Their Houses and Their Inhabitants. […] First Series. Street the Fifth. Drury Lane, London.”, in The Welcome Guest: A Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, London: Houlston and Wright […], page 676, column 1:
text: There was Lord de Flukey, with his “aw” in “chawming” and similar murders of the Anglo-Saxon, a light haired, one-eye-glassed, middle-parted, three-silk-handkerchieved “admirer;” […]
ref: 1876, Humpty Dumpty [pseudonym; Richard Gerner], The Winning O’t!, Memphis, Tenn.: W. L. Surprise, […], page 9:
text: For three days, Dr. Nelson hid in the brush and traveled by night, frequently seeing some of these red-handkerchieved regulators pass along the road from his concealment.
ref: 1920 October, William A. Richardson, Jr., “Dr. David Nelson and His Times”, in Jessie Palmer Weber, editor, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, volume XIII, number 3, Springfield, Ill.: […] [T]he Society, page 443:
text: Do the fly-ridden commercial ports of the Spanish Main entirely harmonise with the blue and gold chromos of handsome, handkerchieved pirates strutting on top-heavy caravels?
ref: 1935, Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, volume forty-six, page 376, column 1:
text: Otherwise it was all very much the same—the same demure little girls, handkerchieved, gloved and confident in new dresses, and the same brushed and burnished little boys, occasionally nudging and grinning.
ref: 1962 May 31, “About Ashby: Preservation of Appleby Moat House”, in Burton Observer and Chronicle, numbers B.C. 5,252, B.O. 2,833, page 4, column 4:
text: So let’s add a man in a soldier’s uniform to our mental pictures of these high hatted, long coated men and the handkerchieved neckline and long flowing dresses of the women, when we talk about Thanksgiving.
ref: 1965 November 24, Dorothy C. Meyer, “Along the Way: Standish, A Brave Man With Pilgrims”, in Centre Daily Times, volume 68, number 230, State College, Pa.; Bellefonte, Pa., page eleven, column 1:
text: For [Francisco] Goya, deafness allowed reality to emerge from the world of petty limericks and handkerchieved snickers.
ref: 1974 August 13, Art Perry, “Goya said it all long ago: Artist’s cry from the grave”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 15, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of handkerchiefed.
choultery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choulteries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of choultry.
choulteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choultery
chowree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chowry.
chowrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowree
Goodley Stock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Westerham parish, Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ4352).
chowdry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowdries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaudhuri.
chowdries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowdry
chaudhari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaudharis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaudhuri.
chaudharis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaudhari
Chowringhee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chaurangi
form: Cheringhee
form: Chourangi
form: Chouringhee
form: Chouringy
form: Chowringee
form: Chowringhy
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Chourangi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chowringhee.
Pontacq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in southwestern France.
Chowringhy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chowringhee.
Chaurangi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chowringhee.
Cheringhee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chowringhee.
Chouringhee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chowringhee.
Chouringy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chowringhee.
Chowringee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chowringhee.
caffoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffa
form: cafoy
form: cuffoye
Senses: glosses: A velvet material popularly used in upholstery.
cafoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caffoy.
cuffoye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of caffoy.
Cape Comorin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Cabo Comorim, in turn borrowed from Tamil கன்னியாகுமரி (kaṉṉiyākumari).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kanyakumari.
synonyms: word: Kanyakumari
pyewipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyewipe
mandobass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandobasses
Senses: glosses: A type of mandolin used to play bass.
Cowcolly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Geonkhali.
Geonkhali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cowcolly
Senses: glosses: A village and scenic tourist area in the Mahishadal Block of East Midnapore district of West Bengal, India.
Saint Lawrence Island shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saint Lawrence Island shrews
form: St. Lawrence Island shrew
Senses: glosses: Sorex jacksoni, a mammal found only on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island.
Wordsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8986).
sainik schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sainik school
sainik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sainiks
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सैनिक (sainik), from Sanskrit सैनिक (sainika).
Senses: examples: text: Sainiks have forcibly shut down the whole of Mumbai any number of times over the last four decades, for one reason or another.
ref: 2013, Vaibhav Purandare, Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena:
text: "As far as the sainik colony is concerned, this demand is not coming from ex-servicemen from other parts of the country.
ref: 2016 June 18, “Pakistan may disrupt Amarnath Yatra, J&K deputy CM says”, in The Times of India:
glosses: A soldier.
Derived terms: sainik school
sainiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sainik
maypoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maypole
woobifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woobify
woobifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woobify
woobified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of woobify
Taco Tuesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Taco Tuesdays
Etymology: Chosen for the alliteration.
Senses: examples: text: TACO TUESDAY / Stop in on Taco Tuesday (tomorrow) / You'll get 3 Tacos for $1 plus a FREE COKE
ref: 1973 August 20, Rapid City Journal, number 29107 (advertisement), Rapid City, S.D.: Rapid City Journal Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
text: On a family activity level, endearingly familiar regular activities or rituals, such as the popcorn always made by Dad on Sunday evenings, the dog's exasperating persistence in waking everyone up early on Saturdays by licking their face. Taco Tuesday or Spaghetti Wednesday, build vital memories of family living and set off our family from others, making our parents and brothers and sisters especially beloved.
ref: 1997, Your Child's World: The Specific Approach to Daily Problems, Lake Bluff, I.L.: The United Educators, Inc., →ISBN, page 177:
text: "Do you think I could be a field agent?" Henry asked. "You know, go hunt down clues, like you?" / "Sure," I said, wondering where this came from. "Don't you like being the tech guy?" / "Of course I do." Henry was quiet for a moment. "But tech guys don't get invited for Taco Tuesdays with the president and her daughter."
ref: 2013, F. T. Bradley, Double Vision: Code Name 711, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 98:
text: The home gym is built out, Netflix and Hulu have been trawled to their depths, and Paralympic champion Oksana Masters is nostalgic for Taco Tuesdays at restaurants near her seasonal base in Illinois. Most of all, she is missing the rush of competition, the buzz at the core of her identity since she first sat in a rowing boat as a teenager.
ref: 2020 July 9, Tom Dart, “'I was lucky to make it out the orphanage': Oksana Masters' extraordinary journey”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023:
text: We are deeply devoted to Taco Tuesdays at our house. People wake up, remember it's Taco Tuesday and jump out of bed with enthusiasm.
ref: 2021 August 22, Kim Severson, “What to Cook This Week”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2022:
glosses: A custom of eating tacos or other Mexican food on Tuesday nights; originally and especially, of going out to eat them.
Related terms: Hock Tuesday
Thirsty Thursday
Taco Tuesdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Taco Tuesday
restoritie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restorities
Senses: glosses: A restorative.
restorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restoritie
restricted area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restricted areas
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area behind an arc extending some distance from the basket into the key, to prevent secondary defenders from taking a position under the basket in an attempt to draw an offensive foul while a player is driving to the basket.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see restricted, area.
restricted areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restricted area
Sonning Common
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, north of Reading, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7080).
sit on one's laurels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits on one's laurels
form: sitting on one's laurels
form: sat on one's laurels
form: sat on one's laurels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rest on one's laurels.
synonyms: word: rest on one's laurels
resurgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənsi
Forms: form: resurgencies
Senses: glosses: The quality of being resurgent; a tendency to rise again.
resurgencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resurgency
resymbolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resymbolizes
form: resymbolizing
form: resymbolized
form: resymbolized
Etymology: From re- + symbolize.
Senses: glosses: To symbolize again or anew.
resymbolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resymbolize
resymbolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resymbolize
resymbolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resymbolize
resymbolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resymbolizations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of resymbolizing.
resymbolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resymbolization
resurrender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resurrenders
form: resurrendering
form: resurrendered
form: resurrendered
Etymology: From re- + surrender.
Senses: glosses: To surrender again.
resurrender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resurrenders
Etymology: From re- + surrender.
Senses: glosses: The act of surrendering again.
resurrenders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resurrender
resurrenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resurrender
resurrendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resurrender
resurrendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resurrender
retained income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retained incomes
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Synonym of retained earnings.
synonyms: word: retained earnings
retained incomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retained income
rethrone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rethrones
form: rethroning
form: rethroned
form: rethroned
Etymology: From re- + throne.
Senses: glosses: To throne again or anew.
rethrones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rethrone
rethroning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rethrone
rethroned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rethrone
retinal purple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of visual purple.
synonyms: word: visual purple
retro-engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retro-engines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of retroengine.
retro-engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retro-engine
retrog.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of retrograde.
biocrystallized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biocrystallize
photoblockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoblocker
biocrystallizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biocrystallize
retrg.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of retracting.
Rothschild's giraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rothschild's giraffes
Etymology: Named after the Tring Museum's founder, Walter Rothschild.
Senses: synonyms: Baringo giraffe
Ugandan giraffe
glosses: Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, a subspecies of northern giraffe.
Baringo giraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baringo giraffes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Rothschild's giraffe.
synonyms: word: Rothschild's giraffe
Ugandan giraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ugandan giraffes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Rothschild's giraffe.
synonyms: word: Rothschild's giraffe
Baringo giraffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baringo giraffe
Ugandan giraffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ugandan giraffe
Somali giraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Somali giraffes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of reticulated giraffe.
synonyms: word: reticulated giraffe
Somali giraffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Somali giraffe
reticulated giraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reticulated giraffes
Senses: synonyms: Somali giraffe
glosses: Giraffa reticulata or Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata, a species or subspecies of giraffe native to the Horn of Africa.
reticulated giraffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reticulated giraffe
timberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timberish
form: most timberish
Etymology: From timber + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "Oakleigh, Oaktree," said the Captain, "sound name that, sir,—it has a tough, timberish sound in the mouth,—you're health, Mr. Oakleigh,—here's to our better acquaintance.
ref: 1843, W. H. M Holmes, Oakleigh; Or, the Minor of Great Expectations, London: T. C. Newby, page 82:
text: Another important aspect of vernacular traditions is the way materials are used. The Modernist notion that wood produces essentially "timberish" buildings and brick essentially "bricky" buildings has a lot to do with a simplistic view both of history and the vernacular.
ref: 1982, Michael Foster, editor, Architecture: Style, Structure and Design, North Dighton, M.A.: JG Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 205:
text: I called at the off-licence and got the bottle of disturbingly timberish wine, and then I got to Jack's too early.
ref: 2002, Patrick Thompson, Seeing the Wires, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Thanks to Mr Chris Carter for 'Windytops', which was his teenage nickname for his half-timberish family home.
ref: 2014, Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 325:
synonyms: timbery
timberlike
glosses: Resembling or consisting of timber.
revealingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revealing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: revelatoriness
text: Interview Research. This section reviews research investigating the variable of revealingness in interview settings. In those studies the various instruments used to assess revealingness have been employed as dependent as well as independent variable measures. As dependent variables revealingness measures have been used to assess the qualities of ongoing interview interaction, and as measures of the reactions of subjects to various aspects of the interview situation after the interviews had been terminated. As independent variables, they have been used as procedures for selecting subjects.
ref: 1969, Franz R. Epting, David I. Suchman, Edwin N. Barker, “Some aspects of revealingness and disclosure: a review. [white paper]”, in ERIC.ED.gov:
text: Suchman […] decided to construct a rating scale for measuring self-disclosure based on subjects' voice quality and language style as well as on the content of their disclosure, representing subjects' willingness to communicate feelings. The result was Suchman's six-point Revealingness Scale, which extended the EXP Scale to lower levels of experiencing or revealingness. […] Keller (1965) is developing a scale for measuring revealingness in children.
ref: 2017 [1973], Marjorie H. Klein, Philippa L. Mathieu, Eugene T. Gendlin, and Donald J. Kiesler, “The Experiencing Scale”, in Donald J. Kiesler, editor, The Process of Psychotherapy: Empirical Foundations and Systems of Analysis, Reprinted edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 278:
glosses: The quality of being revealing.
Related terms: reveal
revelation
Revelation
revelator
revelatory
giveaway
indication
indicator
tell
bloominess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bloomy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being bloomy.
crawlingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crawling + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When Nerissa saw the worm her immediate reaction was to kill, for she disliked its sliminess and crawlingness.
ref: 1958, The Literary Review, volume 2, page 188:
glosses: The quality of something that crawls.
cream soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream soups
Senses: examples: text: The company's line of condensed soups offers various cream soups, including cream of celery, cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, and others.
hypernyms: soup#Noun
glosses: A creamy-textured soup, often made with cream and/or milk.
cream soups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cream soup
kokkaloorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokkaloories
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots cockaloorie, from Norn kokkeluri.
Senses: examples: text: I've made you a present, Bella! Do you want to see it? It's a kokkaloorie chain.
ref: 2012, 8:38 from the start, in Shetland, season 3, episode 6:
text: Shetland men aren’t known for their grand romantic gestures (sorry guys) ‒ they might give you a lamb for the freezer and perhaps a kokkaloorie (daisy) from the yard, but 12 red roses and a candlelit dinner, probably not!
ref: 2020 May 29, Laurie, “Shetland with Laurie’s guide to the best of Shetland fiction”, in Shetland with Laurie, Dancing with the Ferryman by Frankie Valente:
glosses: common daisy (Bellis perennis)
kokkaloories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kokkaloorie