cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
katagelast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəd͡ʒəˈlæst/
Forms: form: katagelasts
Etymology: * See katagelasticism.
Senses: examples: text: A characteristic caption for a katagelast was: “Does this mean that you were not talking about your bed when you said: ‘too tiny/small’?” This statement apparently refers to the size of the man’s genitals. The caption produced by a high scorer in gelotophilia for the same cartoon was: “I can’t be blamed—I am as speedy in bed as on the highway.”
ref: 2009, Willibald Ruch et al., “Investigating the humor of gelotophobes: Does feeling ridiculous equal being humorless?”, in Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, volume 22, numbers 1-2:
text: “But I’m betting that it’s a bad idea to invite a gelotophobe and a katagelast to the same party.”
ref: 2011, Robert Mankoff, “Fear of Laughter”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: One who engages in katagelasticism.
Synonyms: ridiculer
Related terms: katagelasticism
Leleasca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Leleasca.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Olt County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Leleasca, Olt County, Romania.
katagelasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katagelast
Ialpujeni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ialpujeni.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Cimișlia, Moldova.
chest-beating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is very rare to find good, personal analysis of events that does not degenerate into chest-beating, pettiness, pomposity, or political doggeral ^([sic]).
ref: 1977 December 17, Andrew R. Weiss, “Kudos For Cagan”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 4:
synonyms: chest-thumping
glosses: Boastful belligerence.
Related terms: beat one's chest
chest-beating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Boastfully belligerent.
disharness
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disharnesses
form: disharnessing
form: disharnessed
form: disharnessed
Etymology: From Middle English disharneisen, or dis- + harness.
Senses: examples: text: Arrived there, Edwald had himself disharnessed: he placed all the pieces of his fair bright armour carefully together, with a kind exactness, almost as if he were burying a beloved friend that was dead. Then he beckoned his squires[…]
ref: 1827, Thomas Carlyle, The Works of Thomas Carlyle, page 235:
text: "Damn this armor! A man can't dig in armor." He stripped off his breast-plate, back-plate, greaves, and sollerets; took the mattock from the amazing load on Beamish's shoulder. “I also propose to dig—with my hands,” said de Gys. “Phu-nan can help us.” They, too, disharnessed.
ref: 1921, Gilbert Frankau, The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M. D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China, page 337:
glosses: To take off one's armor; to strip off one's armor.
disharnessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disharness
disharnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disharness
disharnessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disharness
gelotophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelotophile
gelotophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətəˌfaɪ̯l/
Forms: form: gelotophiles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γέλως, γέλωτος (gélōs, gélōtos, “laughter”) + φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).
Senses: examples: text: “[G]elotophobia is […] the dread of being laughed at at. That makes sense to me. Who likes being laughed at? Turns out a gelatophile does.”
ref: 2011, Robert Mankoff, “Fear of Laughter”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A person who actively seeks and establishes situations in which others may laugh at them.
Synonyms: ridicule
Related terms: gelotophilia
katagelasticism
gelotophobia
gelotophobe
puts facts on the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put facts on the ground
putting facts on the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put facts on the ground
bustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bustable
form: most bustable
Etymology: From bust + -able.
Senses: glosses: That one may be busted for
raw_tags: of an offense
glosses: Able to be busted for an offense
glosses: breakable
Brearton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Breartons
Etymology: From Old English brǣr (“briar”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE322610).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Odells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Odell
H0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of H0 scale.
H0 scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of HO scale.
induced voltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A voltage produced in an electric circuit from a nearby electric field.
water tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water trees
Senses: glosses: An electrical treeing phenomenon inside insulation, caused by the presence of water inside buried or water-immersed high voltage cables.
glosses: The flowering plant Grevillea berryana.
glosses: The shrub or small tree Hakea leucoptera.
tutoieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tutoie
tutoied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tutoie
watermelon cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watermelon caps
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 西瓜帽 (xīguāmào).
Senses: glosses: A kind of skullcap from China that resembles the rind of half a watermelon, made of six pieces of fabric woven together and a knot on the top, commonly worn by men during the Qing dynasty.
watermelon caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watermelon cap
truck driver's tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truck driver's tans
form: truck driver tan
Senses: glosses: A tanning pattern where one arm from the sleeve downward is tanned significantly more than the other arm, due to extensive driving of a motor vehicle with the window down.
Related terms: farmer's tan
farmer's tans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmer's tan
truck driver's tans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truck driver's tan
ugba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Nigerian condiment made from fermented African oil bean seeds (Pentaclethra macrophylla).
truck driver tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truck driver tans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of truck driver's tan.
truck driver tans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truck driver tan
farmer's sausages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmer's sausage
naïfness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From naïf + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, if in fine—exposed hourly to the novelty and naïf'''ness of so versatile, capricious, and momentarily contradictory a disposition—the admiration predominated above the marvel, he considered it did so but because it could not, by possibility, be withheld—never dreaming of a comparison with Grace Evrett, between whom and the rest he recognised an impassable line,—for it was she who had infused new life into his veins, and, long as that new life lasted, so long should herself be its inseparable essence.
ref: 1846, Social Influences: or Villiers, volume I, London: T. C. Newby, page 206:
text: They are quick to detect a false note in construction or delineation of character, and, with the charming naïfness of children, are never afraid to express their real opinion.
ref: 1899, Harper’s Magazine, page 501:
text: Worship of ancesors, direct or indirect, looms as clearly behind Mosaism or Jahwéism as it does behind Hinduism and the mixed later worships of the Chinese and Burmans—and Sir G. Birdwood is quite right about the naïfness of the Jews here.
ref: 1899, Alexander H[ay] Japp, Some Heresies Dealt With, page 172:
text: We expect, indeed, that last verse of the poem just quoted from the very start, yet in all its sweet naïfness it comes as a surprise—a surprise from its simplicity and its reserve of grace, and because of this it is a true lyric.
ref: 1906, The Humane Review, page 169:
glosses: Alternative form of naiveness.
anacronymically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anacronymic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anacronymic manner.
theyfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theyfriend
Xiahe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyäʹhŭʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏河 (Xiàhé).
Senses: examples: text: The lamas of Hsiaho County, Kansu Province, welcome the goodwill mission in their famous temple, Labrang Gomba, and hear the government's policy towards national minorities.
ref: [1951 January, Kung-liao Sa, “National Minorities Welcome the Goodwill Mission”, in China Pictorial, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16?:
text: A new upsurge in farmland development has taken shape in Hsiaho County, Kansu, in the mass movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture.
ref: [1970 November 9 [1970 October 29], “Kansu Farmland Extension”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow Kansu Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1:
text: Foreign tourists in the southwestern Gansu province town of Labrang, the seat of Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, moved through its streets like phantoms.
ref: 2007, Charlene E. Makley, “Introduction”, in The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: The man, Sangye Khar, 33, self-immolated in the mountain town of Sangchu, known as Xiahe in Chinese, home to the Labrang Monastery, one of the most important sites in Tibetan Buddhism and a major tourist attraction.
ref: 2014 December 17, Dan Levin, “Tibetan Man Dies After Self-Immolation in Protest of Chinese Rule”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2014, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Gannan prefecture, Gansu, China.
Xiahe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyäʹhŭʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 下和.
Senses: examples: text: Participant. My name is Yang Dongyi, and I am from Xiahe village. I grew up in this village. First I was a farmer, and now I rent a little company.
ref: 1999 [1998 June 26], “Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With Xiahe Area Residents”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton 1998, volume I, →OCLC, page 1063:
text: President Clinton visited the Terracotta Warriors, the Tang frescoes and the basement of the Shaanxi History Museum. He stayed at the Xi’an Hyatt Hotel. Near the Warriors, he visited Xiahe village with an annual per capita income of Y2601. Its life had been changed by tourism.
ref: 1999, Ruth Lor Malloy, China Guide: Be a Traveler, Not a Tourist!, 10th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 507:
text: The men were just digging a well in Xiyangzu, Xiahe Village, Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. “It was on March 29, 1974 when we were digging in the south west of our village, looking for water,” Yang Xinman, head of the team of workers, told Beijing Today. “After having dug four meters, we noticed some fragments of arms, legs and arrow heads made from pottery.”
ref: 2003 December 26, Su Wei, “We Found the Terracotta Warriors!”, in Beijing Today, number 135, →ISSN, →OCLC, 焦点 [jiāodiǎn, Focus], page 8, column 1:
english: Focus
roman: jiāodiǎn
translation: Focus
text: We began the trip at the ancient capital of Xi'an, where the Chinese put on an elaborate and beautiful welcoming ceremony. The next day we had the opportunity to walk among the rows of the famous terra-cotta warriors, and to have a roundtable discussion with Chinese citizens in the small village of Xiahe.
ref: 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 434:
text: Five kilometers east of the Lintong County seat, in the vicinity of Xiahe Village, is the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.
ref: 2007, 高洁, editor, 口语六大原则, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: A village in Qinling, Lintong district, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
nobile officium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōbile officium.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The equitable jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.
Gangajal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ganga jal
form: Gangajala
form: Ganga jala
Etymology: From Hindi गंगाजल (gaṅgājal).
Senses: examples: text: In Hinduism, Gangajal is considered to be immensely sacred. This is the reason why one should always keep the holy water at the place of worship.
ref: 2022 January 26, “Keep these things in the home temple to maintain Goddess Laxmi's blessings”, in Hindustan Times, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2022:
glosses: The water from the river Ganga, considered holy in Hinduism.
Gangajala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Using Gangajala and Yamunajala for puja (offerings to deities) affirms the eternal essence of these rivers. Devotees also carry Gangajala in jugs to temples, where they perform jalabhisek […]
ref: 2011 December 21, Barbara Rose Johnston, Lisa Hiwasaki, Irene J. Klaver, Ameyali Ramos Castillo, Veronica Strang, Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Gangajal.
Ganga jal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sacred water of Ganga, or Ganga jal, plays an integral role in ritual practices for residents and pilgrims.
ref: 1996, Shalini Singh, Profiles in Indian Tourism, APH Publishing, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Gangajal.
Ganga jala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After the deities are seated on their respective rathas, the Gajapati Maharaja in case of puri and other state heads in other places sweeps the flores of the three Raths with the sacred Ganga jala and golden broom.
ref: 2018 July 23, Dhiren Kumar Sahoo, “Lord Jagannath’s Rathyatra as a Marker of Odia Identity”, in The New Leam, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Gangajal.
Vuthys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vuthy
Ohis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ohi
Dembskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dembski
Breartons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brearton
Billintons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Billinton
roundell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of roundel.
Schab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schabs
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Schab or a variant of Dutch Schaap.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Misato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Schabs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schab
Schlangens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schlangen
Tortorello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tortorellos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tortorello.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tortorellos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tortorello
Tomalas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tomala
Stutesman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stutesmans
Etymology: Variant of Stutsman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Spomer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spomers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spomer, possibly a variant of Spamer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Spomers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spomer
Stutesmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stutesman
Pinera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pineras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Piñera.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Primer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Primers
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Primers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Primer
Pineras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pinera
Perots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Perot
Latorița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Vâlcea, Romania.
Lăpușata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Lăpușata.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
Spinuș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Spinuș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bihor County, Romania.
Sălăuța
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania.
Neddo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neddos
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of French Nadeau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Ninans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ninan
Neddos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neddo
Nagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nagars
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi नगर (nagar), from Sanskrit नगर (nagara, “of the city”).
Senses: glosses: A surname of Indian usage.
Related terms: Bhatnagar
Devanagari
Nagari
Nagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nagars
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew נַגָּר (nagár, “carpenter”), an occupational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Nagamines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nagamine
Nagars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nagar
Ch'ang-chih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 長治 /长治 (Chángzhì) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-chih⁴.
Senses: examples: text: A study of 6 Party branches in Ch’ang-chih Special District, Shansi, showed that 39 of 141 Party members engaged in exploitation.
ref: 1970, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Keeping the revolution going: Problems of village leadership after land reform”, in John Wilson Lewis, editor, Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 245:
text: Moving into eastern Shansi, the 129th division engaged the Japanese in October along the Cheng-t’ai Railroad (running from Shih-chia-chuang, Hopeh to Taiyuan, Shansi), and after the Japanese broke through the Communist lines, Liu’s division established its major base in the T’ai-hang Mountains north of Ch’ang-chih in southeastern Shansi.
ref: 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Sun Jen-ch’iung”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965, volume II, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 788, column 1:
text: In vessels unearthed in 1923 at Li-yü, and more recently in the much more prosperous and important area of Ch‘ang-chih in Central Shansi, the décor of flat interlocking bands of dragons looks forward to the restless, intricate decoration of the mature Huai style; but in their robust forms, in the tiger masks which top their legs and the realistic birds and other creatures which adorn their lids, these vessels recall the vigour of an earlier age.
ref: 1973, Michael Sullivan, “The Period of the Warring States”, in The Arts of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:
text: A Ho of this type, but not inlaid, was discovered in a Warring States tomb just outside the Ch'ang-chih shih, Shansi in 1955 (see Kaogu, 1964, no. 3, PI. 2, fig. 4 and p. 126, fig. 15.
ref: 1977, René Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé, “Han”, in Bronze Vessels of Ancient China in the Avery Brundage Collection, Kodansha International, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 130:
text: Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province.² However, a bronze human figure holding a shallow rimmed basket mounted on the back of the quadruped from Ch'ang-chih indicates that the piece actually did serve as a container. There is no indication that the Freer quadruped ever supported such a figure or that it was meant to be used tor any related function.
ref: 1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Changzhi.
wikipedia: Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica
Frederick A. Praeger
Likelys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Likely
Fulbourn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5156).
McClane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McClanes
Etymology: Variant of McLean.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Frech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frechs
Etymology: From the German and Alemannic German surname, from the adjective frech (“bold, daring”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lenzens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lenzen
McClanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McClane
Frechs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frech
Prundeni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Prundeni.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Vâlcea County, Romania.
Tăcuta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Tăcuta.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vaslui County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Tăcuta, Vaslui County, Romania.
Tătăruși
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Tătăruși.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Iași County, Romania.
drag queenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drag queen + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The fact or practice of being a drag queen
drama queenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drama queen + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Behavior befitting a drama queen; exaggeratedly dramatic behavior.
unblasphemously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From un- + blasphemous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What they undertake is to explain God's words and works, so as to make His utterances cohere — as if, be it said unblasphemously, He were a human authority.
ref: 1962, Gerald Abrahams, The Jewish Mind, Beacon Press, page 79:
text: As far as political censorship of the drama went, being unblasphemously serious could be more offensive than being blasphemously silly.
ref: 2008 April 15, Laurie Maguire, How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Angelica's instinctive grasp of colour, and her artistic vision generally, seemed to Herder so obviously reflections of God's creation that he could simply regard her as divinely gifted, and unblasphemously call her by sacred names.
ref: 2011 November 15, Susan Marie Smith, Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process: Liturgical Explorations toward a Realized Baptismal Ecclesiology, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: Not blasphemously.
drag-queenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drag-queenish
form: most drag-queenish
Etymology: From drag queen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a drag queen
drama queenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drama queenish
form: most drama queenish
Etymology: From drama queen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a drama queen; dramatic, histrionic.
The Stukeleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, which includes the villages of Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley north-west of Huntingdon.
Burfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Burfoots
Etymology: Variant of Barefoot.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
formiminoglutamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From formiminoglutamic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The conjugate base, or any salt or ester, of formiminoglutamic acid. Used as a biomarker for intracellular folate level in testing for vitamin B₁₂ deficiency, folate deficiency, and liver failure or liver disease.
Synonyms: FIGLU
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: formiminoglutamic acid
muzac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is in the name of Community, the utopian impulse, and in the names of communism (Bernard Marx and Lenina) that the system is seen as realised, though the actual tendencies—from the degradation of labor through an ultimate division and specialisation to the organised mobility and muzac of planned consumption—rely for their recognition on a contemporary capitalist world.
ref: 1978, Raymond Williams, “Utopia and Science Fiction”, in Science Fiction Studies, 5(3), p. 211:
text: When asked to name a place or chain with particularly bad piped music, I point out that, as most places now have muzac, you simply need to walk down any high street.
ref: 2011, John Stewart et al., Why Noise Matters: A Worldwide Perspective on the Problems, Policies and Solutions, Earthscan, page 120:
text: Management played on the unpopularity of the muzac in launching UBN by creating posters which contrasted UBN with the muzac...
ref: 2013, Marek Korczynski et al., Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain, Cambridge University Press, page 229:
glosses: Alternative spelling of muzak.
Padang Besar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A border town in Perlis, northern Malaysia.
glosses: A corresponding border town in Songkhla Province, southern Thailand.
badonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badonker
pussy pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy pads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barbell pad.
synonyms: word: barbell pad
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: The backseat of a motorcycle.
glosses: A menstrual pad.
pussy pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussy pad
squat sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squat sponges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barbell pad.
synonyms: word: barbell pad
squat sponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squat sponge
hip thrust pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip thrust pads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barbell pad.
synonyms: word: barbell pad
hip thrust pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip thrust pad
squat pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squat pads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barbell pad.
synonyms: word: barbell pad
squat pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squat pad
Kuala Lipis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Lipis District, Pahang, Malaysia.
kujawiak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kujawiaks
Senses: glosses: A Polish folk dance in triple meter, from the Kujawy region.
domicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domicides
Etymology: Coined by J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith, from domestic + -cide or domicile + -cide or -icide.
Senses: examples: text: Currently, no word exists for the action of destroying peoples’ homes and/or expelling them from their homeland. We suggest the neologism “domicide,” the deliberate destruction of home that causes suffering to its inhabitants.
ref: 2001, J. Douglas Porteous, Sandra E. Smith, Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home, McGill-Queen’s University Press, page ix:
text: The work of Porteous and Smith (2001, 64) is central here to understanding what is coined "domicide", the deliberate destruction of home, which in its "extreme" form involves "major, planned operations that occur rather sporadically in time but often affect large areas and change the lives of considerable numbers of people".
ref: 2012, Katherine Brickell, “Geopolitics of Home”, in Geography Compass, 6(10), p. 577:
text: Inspired by Katherine Boo (2012, p. 251) who contends that "better arguments, maybe even better policies, get formulated only when we know more about ordinary lives", I draw on the displacees’ testimonials collected from formal and informal settings and examine their intense, layered and complex experiences of losing homes and communities, or domicide.
ref: 2017, Yunpeng Zhang, “‘It Felt Like You Were at War’: State of Exception and Wounded Life in the Shanghai Expo-Induced Domicide”, in Katherine Brickell, et al, Palgrave Macmillan, editors, Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Resistance, page 98:
text: Domicide, a concept increasingly accepted in academia, is not a distinct crime against humanity under international law, and the UN special rapporteur on the right to housing tabled a report to the UN in October last year arguing that “a very important protection gap” needed to be filled.
ref: 2023 December 7, Patrick Wintour, “Widespread destruction in Gaza puts concept of ‘domicide’ in focus”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The deliberate destruction of a home or homes.
domicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domicide
Gannan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gänʹnänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘南 (Gānnán).
Senses: examples: text: IN 1970 a hospital was set up in the Wankatan commune in the Kannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in south Kansu province.
ref: [1976 February, “Peking Doctors Settle in the Grasslands”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:
text: Some of the worst rioting outside Lhasa took place here in Gannan, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where the worlds of the Tibetans, Chinese and Hui Muslims converge. It is a dry area of herders roaming the plains and white-walled monasteries nestled against brown hillsides. At least 94 people - almost all police officers - were injured here last March, according to official news reports.
The most prominent monastery in eastern Tibet, Labrang, lies in the town of Xiahe, in western Gannan.
ref: 2009 March 5, Edward Wong, “50 years after uprising, a clampdown on Tibetans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023, Asia Pacific:
text: The death toll jumped to 337 late Monday from an earlier figure of 137, Xinhua said, quoting Chen Jianhua, communist party chief of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous prefecture. Another 1,148 others were missing.
ref: 2010 August 9, “Landslides death toll mounts to more than 300”, in France 24, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2010:
text: Independent reporting in the region is almost impossible because of Beijing’s tight controls. Though foreign journalists can travel to Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, police closely followed a group of Associated Press reporters on a recent trip, preventing them from interviewing most local Tibetans.
ref: 2013 October 23, Didi Tang, “Tibetan denies official version of cousin’s death”, in AP News, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2022:
glosses: A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Gansu, China.
mamelière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmæməˈljɛɚ/
Forms: form: mamelières
form: mamellière
form: mamillière
Etymology: From French mamelière, from mamelle + -ière.
Senses: examples: text: During the following reign an increased quantity of plate is visible, and small circular plates, mamelières, so called from their position, and to which chains were attached, that were secured at the other end to the helmet[…]
ref: 1885, Frederick William Fairholt, Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century, London : G. Bell & Sons, page 150:
text: For the first time in the Seals the pomel of the sword is fastened by a chain to a mamelière. The examples of monumental effigies and brasses exhibiting these features are far from numerous, and they are always associated with[…]
ref: 1888, The Archaeological Journal, page 103:
text: On the neck is the gorget of plates, and on the cuirass is seen one of the mamelières or ornamental circular plates to which the chain was attached for holding the helmet.
ref: 1895, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, page 253:
text: Mamelières prevailed during the fourteenth century, more especially in the first half. Examples are rare. These plates are present on an effigy in Tewkesbury abbey church, the date of which is doubtless about the middle of the[…]
ref: 1898, Archaeologia Aeliana: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 221:
text: There is a brass in Minster church, Isle of Sheppey, which represents an armed figure with only one 'mamelière;' it is on the left breast, with the chain going up over the left shoulder.
ref: 1899, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 221:
text: Clearly defined are the quatrefoil piercings in the lower front that were used for attaching the helm, by means of a chain and bar, to the mamelières of the breastplate. From this same Kaiser Dom of Frankfort we take our next[…]
ref: 1920, Guy F. Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries:
text: ... the heaume is suspended by means of a chain from a cuir-bouilli mamelière on the left breast; the shield is carried at the hip in the French fashion; the demi-jambarts and sollerets are of scale cuir-bouilli.
ref: 1927, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal:
text: Su-Suru considered this as he toyed with the silver mamelière on his furred vest. "You'll need to fight our current Champion then, Wolf-Brother, just as you thought. Ferrian doesn't believe in foreign adventuring."
ref: 1977, Brian Daley, The Domfarers of Coramonde, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: A circular armor plate (of metal, leather, etc) worn over the breast of a fighter to hold chains to which the sword, dagger, or helmet could be attached, so as to be recoverable if knocked from the fighter.
mamellière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamellières
Senses: examples: text: In Plate IX. is a knightly sword of the fourteenth century, furnished with a ring at the pommel, for attachment by a chain to the mamellière of the breastplate. A portion of the chain itself appears on the same plate.
ref: 1801, Central Committee of the British Archaeological Association for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages, The Archaeological Journal, page 405:
text: ... while he winds up the string by means of a moulinet and pulleys; his armour consists simply of a leathern jacket, with mamellières or plates on the breast, and round elbow-plates, and he is armed with a cut and thrust sword.
ref: 1842, S.R. Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of Illuminated Engravings : with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, page 102:
text: […] was customary to secure it from accidental loss by a guard chain fastened to a mamellière of the breast-armor,
ref: 1877, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 670:
text: ... and being open at the sides; it is also generally made to fit closer to the body, and, as in this instance, is often laced up on one side (the right). Mamellières of plate embossed, of a sexfoil shape, are on each breast, forming attachment for chains […] In the brass of Sir John de Northwood, Minster-Shepey, there is one mamellière with chain passing over left shoulder. In St. Peter's Church, Sandwich, […] are two mamellières formed of lions' heads, […]
ref: 1880, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, page 186:
text: Near the left shoulder is the tilting helmet, attached by chains to the mamellières; a pair of bull's horns form the crest. The sculpture is excellent, and preservation good. So singular a combination of brass chain-mail with a[…]
ref: 1892, Alfred Heales, The Architecture of the Churches of Denmark, page 123:
text: This effigy wears an elaborate costume of the early part of the reign of Edward III., with the very uncommon additions of mamellières or chains from the breast to the sword-hilt and scabbard. The high , pointed bascinet and the[…]
ref: 1902, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 259:
text: up of two parts (front and rear) the fore part is known as the breastplate, plastron, pectoral, or (rarely), mamellière; the rear portion is termed dossière.
ref: 1923, The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World. Biographies, page 294:
glosses: Alternative form of mamelière.
mamelières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamelière
mamellières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamellière
snapshotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snapshotters
Etymology: From snapshot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is time we forgot the old distinctive class borderline between the snapshotter and the amateur photographer, which was based on the capabilities of the equipment the two sectors used.
ref: 1987, The British Journal of Photography, volume 134:
text: The implication is that the snapshotter, because of his unwillingness to slow down and perceive the complexity of the unmediated landscape, could only wreak havoc with his camera.
ref: 2010, Eric Gordon, The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google, UPNE, →ISBN, page 50:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Synonym of snapshooter.
synonyms: word: snapshooter
snapshotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snapshotter
Port Swettenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Port Klang, Malaysia.
crayweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cray (“juvenile rock lobster”) + weed.
Senses: glosses: A species of brown algae, Phyllospora comosa, that forms extensive underwater forests, native to the coastal waters of eastern Australia.
flankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flank + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be flanked.
Derived terms: unflankable
unflankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flankable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be flanked.
outadvertise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outadvertises
form: outadvertising
form: outadvertised
form: outadvertised
Etymology: From out- + advertise.
Senses: glosses: To advertise more or better than.
outadvertised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outadvertise
outadvertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outadvertise
outadvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outadvertise
freshwater crayfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of the small decapod crustaceans of the family Parastacidae, living in freshwater habitats of Australasia, New Zealand, South America, and Madagascar.
Port Klang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Port Swettenham
glosses: A town and port in the Klang District, Selangor, Malaysia.
deployables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deployable
nondeployables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondeployable
play the cat and banjo with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the cat and banjo with
form: playing the cat and banjo with
form: played the cat and banjo with
form: played the cat and banjo with
Senses: examples: text: […] and here it is that the two Dromios get their cue to come in and play the cat and banjo with our cabinet.
ref: 1919, Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food, Annual Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Food, page 69:
text: […] but the dislocation of all markets by such a recession might play the cat and banjo with all present trends and forecasts.
ref: 1957, The Statist, page 300:
glosses: Synonym of play the devil with.
synonyms: word: play the devil with
cuffbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuffband
cargomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargoman
domopolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by William Walters, from Latin domus (“home”) + politics.
Senses: examples: text: If modern political economy echoes the project of government in the image of the household, domopolitics refers to the government of the state (but, crucially, other political spaces as well) as a home.
ref: 2004, William Walters, “Secure Borders, Safe Haven, Domopolitics”, in Citizenship Studies, volume 8, number 3, page 241:
text: Though William Walters developed his concept of ‘domopolitics’ for the US in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it aptly describes recent developments in Western Europe as well …
ref: 2011, Jan Willem Duyvendak, The Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Europe and the United States, Palgrave Macmillan, page 23:
text: While anxieties about migrant women’s reproductive activities are not new, the emergence of domopolitics has greatly expanded the securitisation and disciplining of these activities.
ref: 2018, Gwyneth Lonergan, “Reproducing the ‘National Home’: Gendering Domopolitics”, in Citizenship Studies, volume 22, number 1, page 3:
glosses: The governance of a polity as if it were a home.
headcoverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headcovering
transferred intent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: transferred malice
glosses: The situation where, when the intention to harm one party inadvertently causes a second party to be harmed instead, the perpetrator is still held responsible.
crawbob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crawbobs
Etymology: Alteration of crawdad, influenced by bob.
Senses: glosses: An Australian species of freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor; a yabby.
crawbobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crawbob
crawchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crawchies
Etymology: From craw(fish) + -ie.
Senses: glosses: An Australian species of freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor; a yabby.
crawchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crawchie
gigless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gig + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a gig.
craypot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craypots
Etymology: From cray (crayfish) + pot.
Senses: glosses: A large, basket-like trap used to catch crayfish.
craypots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craypot
crayboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crayboats
Etymology: From cray (crayfish) + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat used to catch crayfish, especially commercially.
crayboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crayboat
Nolly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Senses: examples: 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Nolly, dear?” murmured Nancy in a gentle voice; “Nolly?”
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.
Teluk Anson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anson came from Edward Anson.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Teluk Intan, Malaysia.
wikipedia: Edward Anson
Ofwat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfwɒt/
ipa: /ˈɔfwɒt/
Etymology: From office and water. See Of-.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Office of Water Services, a regulatory body responsible for the water industry in England and Wales.
ofudas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ofuda
BTG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BTGs
Senses: examples: text: In the summer of 2014, at least thirteen BTGs and elements of five SPETSNAZ units were poised on the Ukrainian border.³⁶
ref: 2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 42:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of battalion tactical group.
Coordinate terms: sense: battalion tactical group
word: BCT
Related terms: sense: battalion tactical group
word: TG
BTGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BTG
dividended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dividend
dividending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dividend
semi-naïf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semi-naïf
form: most semi-naïf
Senses: examples: text: Marc Chagall comes from Vitebsk but has nothing Jewish about him in looks, in manner, in any peculiarities. Yet he paints almost nothing but ghetto life—and in a semi-naïf, rather childish fashion, does it with enough feeling to “put it over.”
ref: 1978, Sidney Alexander, Marc Chagall: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 460:
text: Drawings of a simple, semi-naïf type also stress the homely, almost accidental tenor of the re-tellings.
ref: 1979, Growing Point, page 3509:
text: Other Australian work which impressed included the semi-naïf paint-[…]
ref: 1986, Studio International, page 44:
text: Up some steps behind the hotel the All Saints church was built in 1620–30 and is now being restored; it has new paintings in a nice light style and semi-naïf icons.
ref: 2002, Tim Burford, Georgia with Armenia, Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Rebeyrolle’s semi-naïf, deliberately ugly and pathetic portraits, still lifes and rude examinations of the bestial world were hailed as a vital example of revelatory realism, admired in France as in England for their durable construction of quotidian objects and bulky bodies, suggesting the necessity of a committed return to drawing and modelling after the Old Masters.
ref: 2009, Natalie Adamson, Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944–1964, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Politi had actually made multiethnicity a focus of his art (before it became the norm) and showed a penchant for expressions of ethnically costumed festive celebration in a simple, even semi-naïf vein (appropriate to children’s literature).
ref: 2014, Luisa Del Giudice, “Afterword: Personal Reflections on the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative”, in Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development, New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, →LCCN, page 344:
glosses: Alternative form of semi-naive.