cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
subabortive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + abortive.
Senses: glosses: Almost or imperfectly abortive.
Sudan brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sudan browns
Senses: glosses: A deep brownish-red color or dyestuff.
Sudan browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sudan brown
suet pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suet puddings
Senses: glosses: A boiled, steamed or baked pudding made with wheat flour and suet, often with breadcrumbs, dried or preserved fruits, and spices.
suet puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suet pudding
Suess effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Suess effect
wavellitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wavellitic
form: most wavellitic
Etymology: From wavellite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral wavellite.
pectolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pectolitic
form: most pectolitic
Etymology: From pectolite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral pectolite.
sugared off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sugar off
sugars off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sugar off
sugar lumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar lump
cheekie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheekies
Etymology: From cheek + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: […] she must truckle to the party in power, so she nodded brightly to the guardian as she approached the baby. “Tiddledyumps!” she cooed. “Ooh, what fine pink cheekies![…]”
ref: 1917, Munsey’s Magazine, page 294, column 2:
text: How about we pinch those fat cheekies, Seidick?
ref: 1984, Kathryn Seidick, …Or You Can Let Him Go, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 229:
text: I rubbed the light, tinted cream on my cheekies and down my nose.
ref: 1994, Sassy, page 38:
text: Cheekies so chubby and feeties so fatty that I feared total strangers would be unable to resist eating her up when they passed by on the street.
ref: 1998, Lee Potts, Falling Flesh Just Ahead and Other Signs on the Road Toward Midlife, Longstreet Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
text: Sometimes I remind myself of one of those overbearing aunties who kiss and cuddle and pinch the cheekies and speak with puckered lips and wide eyes and Christ, I must look obnoxious.
ref: 2008, Rebecca Woolf, Rockabye: From Wild to Child, Seal Press, →ISBN:
text: Her face is soft (her cute cheekies) and warm.
ref: 2008, Joseph E. Hill, The Irish Rose, B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 279:
text: And can he ever “work” those blue and gold eyes and his gold “cheekies” to get almost anything he wants!
ref: 2012, Brent Atwater, “I’m Home!”: A Dog’s Never Ending Love Story, →ISBN:
text: “It was you who said you wanted to grab his face and pinch his honest little cheekies.”
ref: 2013, Paul Swenson, Slapped!: A Novel Based On a True Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 369:
text: She took hold of my face and kissed both cheeks. “I kiss your cheekies with my love.[…]”
ref: 2016, Cathy Lamb, The Language of Sisters, Kensington Books, →ISBN:
text: I blushed - one of my easiest exercises. One just had to look at me and I got red cheekies.
ref: 2019, Lilly Fröhlich, Interview with Rumpelstiltskin Junior, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: The cheek (skin on side of the face).
examples: text: "Where's my morning kiss?" he would demand of the girls. "No cheekies, now. No cheekies."
ref: 2014, Joyce Milton, Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
glosses: A kiss on the cheek.
Related terms: cheekies
suitcase farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitcase farmers
Senses: glosses: An absentee farmer whose farm is mostly run by others.
suitcase farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitcase farmer
pissoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissoffs
Etymology: From piss off in the sense of annoyance.
Senses: examples: text: The biggest pissoff of my day was waiting in line for fifteen minutes only to realize I'd forgotten my coupons.
text: Can't get the arm out, guys: it's no longer responding. Disconnecting. That's a pissoff.
ref: 2013, Steve Wheeler, Crystal Venom, page 19:
text: What a pissoff. Another waste of a great talent.
ref: 2018, Tom Wilson, James F. Wilson, I am Tommy: On Stage and Backstage, page 231:
glosses: An annoying person, object, or event.
mouseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousey
Wejherowo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Wejherowo.
Senses: glosses: A city in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Bytów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Bytów.
Senses: glosses: A town in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
subtill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subtill
form: most subtill
Senses: examples: text: Now the ſerpent was more ſubtill then any beaſt of the field, which the lord God had made, and he ſaid vnto the woman, Yea, hath God ſaid, Ye ſhall not eat of euery tree of the garden?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:1, signature A2, recto, column 2:
text: But Amnon had a friend, whoſe name was Ionadab, the ſonne of Shimeah, Dauids brother: and Ionadab was a very ſubtill man.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 13:3:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of subtle.
Chojnice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Chojnice.
Senses: glosses: A town in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
cushion plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushion plants
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous species of plants that form large, low-growing mats, typically occurring in alpine and arctic regions.
cushion plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion plant
Człuchów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Człuchów.
Senses: glosses: A town in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Tragard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tragards
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kartuzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Kartuzy.
Senses: glosses: A town in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Kościerzyna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Kościerzyna.
Senses: glosses: A town in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
glitterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glitterful
form: most glitterful
Etymology: From glitter + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: This week she has been appearing in a white satin petticoat much spattered with rosettes veiled with black maline and over-hung by a glitterful tunic.
ref: 1915 April 30, “With the Women”, in Variety, volume XXXVIII, number 9, New York, N.Y., page 7, column 4:
text: It’s a wonderful, glitterful holiday whirl, in styles with that happy Sacony feeling.
ref: 1957 December, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXXIV, number 12, page 137:
text: She paints her toenails with glitterful nail polish.
ref: 1993, Lindsey Collen, The Rape of Sita, Heinemann, published 1995, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Full of glitter.
cock rooster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock roosters
Senses: examples: text: He strode about like a cock rooster and demanded attention.
ref: 1962, J. Hunter Holly, The Flying Eyes, page 46:
glosses: A male domestic chicken.
cock roosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock rooster
glamourful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glamourful
form: most glamourful
form: glamorful
Etymology: From glamour + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Like many other of the vague and glamourful conceptions of the Orient, this one is rather dissipated by close scrutiny.
ref: 1913 February 20, William T. Ellis, “The “Holy War”: An Exploded Bugaboo”, in The Continent, volume 44, number 8 (whole 2230), page 249, column 1:
text: “Women seem to think it is more noble to vote or to join clubs or to throw off the ‘yoke’ of common home duties. City life, with its cramped living quarters, its delicatessen shops which free them from cooking, its glamourful entertainments, its tempting hotel ease, its restricted play places for children as an excuse against having them in the home and the absence of the home atmosphere which a house and yard all create all help stifle, if not smother, the home spirit.”
ref: 1916 June 5, “Says City Stifles Homes. Dr. Reisner Preaches on Living Conditions for Women Here.”, in The New York Times, volume LXV, number 21,317, New York, N.Y., page 9, column 4:
text: A montage charting the Curies’ extraction of radium from pitch-blende in Madame Curie and a montage of Jolson’s accelerating career expressed by speeding trains and visited towns as he sings in The Jolson Story (Alfred E. Green, 1946) may both at the level of narrative function compress time and events, but their emotional, connotative meanings are distinct, one imbued with minute calculation and dogged reiteration, the other with glamourful eupeptic thrust, and while both embody the ‘teleology of fame’ (Custen 1992: 186), to wholly dissolve into an undifferentiated light both the ghostly glow of the researchers’ radium and the lights of Broadway is to lose too much.
ref: 2005, Bruce Babington, “‘To catch a star on your fingertips’: diagnosing the medical biopic from The Story of Louis Pasteur to Freud”, in Graeme Harper, Andrew Moor, editors, Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine, London; New York, N.Y.: Wallflower Press, →ISBN, pages 121–122:
glosses: Full of glamour.
glamorful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glamorful
form: most glamorful
Senses: examples: text: He had sat up half the night, his big eyes rolling in the gloom, and whispered to his audience glamorful tidings of the queer creatures he had seen.
ref: 1912, Alice Calhoun Haines, “A Footstep in the Sand”, in Partners for Fair, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 103:
text: We can warm up perceptibly and purchase reward-bearing lottery tickets on behalf of Belgium with considerable enthusiasm, but for La Belle France, glamorful, cultured, artistic, emotional, piquant France, there is no limit to our devotion.
ref: 1916 October 13, Betty, “A Debutante’s Letter”, in The Los Angeles Times, published 15 October 1916, part III, page 5, column 1:
text: The false objectivity taught in our schools, and the belittling of American institutions generally by our self-designated intelligentsia, have softened up the American-born in the ethnic communities, and enhanced the treasonable impact of the processed propaganda that presents a glamorful portrait of life in enslaved communist countries.
ref: 1966, Edward Hunter, “Down to Bedrock”, in Attack by Mail, Linden, N.J.: The Bookmailer, →LCCN, page 224:
glosses: Alternative spelling of glamourful.
jabborwocky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jabberwocky.
lamahood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lama + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: "Those of us in full lamahood number about fifty, and there are a few others, like myself, who have not yet attained to complete initiation."
ref: 1933, James Hilton, Lost Horizon, published 1973, page 62:
glosses: The state of being a lama.
poataniwha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Melicope simplex, a shrub of New Zealand.
Mycale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mykale
form: Mykali
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μυκάλη (Mukálē).
Senses: glosses: A mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey.
omniscient narrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omniscient narrators
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
coordinate_terms: unreliable narrator
qualifier: literary theory
glosses: A narrator with an overarching perspective, seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story, including what each of the characters is thinking and feeling.
flooringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flooringly
form: most flooringly
Senses: glosses: stunningly
vr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vrr.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of variant reading.
Ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lady
examples: text: Arsenal Ladies and Chelsea Ladies are the biggest women's football teams in England.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: Women
glosses: Clipping of ladies' team (used in club names, as in [Club Name] Ladies)
raw_tags: in the UK
KVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: KVO, on the other hand, is a mixed bag. It can be useful, and it can cause trouble. It's implemented in a highly magical way, and some of its usage is quite awkward.
ref: 2014, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, iOS 7 Programming Pushing the Limits, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 406:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: Apple platforms
glosses: Initialism of key-value observing.
Dubaldo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dubaldos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian D'Ubaldo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
intra-fallopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intrafallopian.
intra-Fallopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intrafallopian.
Chʻien-tʻang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ch‘ien-t‘ang
Etymology: From Mandarin 錢塘 /钱塘 (Qiántáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻien²-tʻang².
Senses: examples: text: About the year 880 an artist named Kuan Hsiu (貫休) made pictures of the Sixteen Lohan, which were given to a Buddhist monastery near Ch‘ien-t‘ang in the province of Chekiang.
ref: 1898, T. Watters, “The Eighteen Lohan of Chinese Buddhist Temples.”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 330:
text: Lin Ho-ching, surnamed Pu, a man who lived during the Sung dynasty of China, was born at Ch‘ien-t‘ang of Hang-chau in Ché-kiang province.
ref: 1903, Shiichi Tajima, Masterpieces Selected from the Kôrin School: with Biographical Sketches of the Artists of the School, and some Critical Descriptions, volume I, Tokyo: Shimbi Shoin, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/gri_33125001228481/page/n130/:
text: CHIN Ying-lin 金應麟, native of Ch‘ien-t‘ang, Chekiang, was a chin-shih of the Tao-kuang period.
ref: 1953, China's Management of the American Barbarians: A Study of Sino-American Relations, 1841-1861, with Documents, New York: Octagon Books, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 712:
qualifier: orthodox
glosses: Alternative form of Qiantang.
Gniew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Gniew.
Senses: glosses: A town in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
countessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more countessly
form: most countessly
Etymology: From countess + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His second daughter, a blooming girl of seventeen, pure from the dissipations of London, being on the eve of becoming a Countess, with all the accessories of countessly dignity:—dress, diamonds, opera boxes, and courtly distinction.
ref: 1838, C[atherine] F[rances] Gore, “Mary Raymond”, in Mary Raymond, and Other Tales, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], chapter VI, page 66:
text: In Bielostock I put up at the “Hotel of Countess Mielnicki.” Only in Poland do you find these countessly hotels. The countess is a considerable landed proprietor and she keeps the hotel in order that she may there sell the estate eggs.
ref: 1915 February 14, Byron Lomax, “Behind the Russian Lines in Poland”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 35, number 150, Kansas City, Mo., section “The Countess and the Jews”, page 6C, column 4:
text: When the ball was at its height the countess cast a countessly eye over the floor and noticed that there were more people there than she had counted on.
ref: 1928 July 28, C. B. Pyper, “Al. In the Dark”, in The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, volume XXXIX, number 180, Winnipeg, Man., page 9:
text: Meanwhile, the beautiful Cassini was consoling Cissy, with countessly wisdom.
ref: 1987, Gore Vidal, Empire, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 380:
text: He’d been sure he’d get one of her countessly summonses the evening following their midnight drive.
ref: 2000, Stephanie Laurens, A Secret Love, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: Of or befitting a countess.
innovator's dilemma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the innovator's dilemma
Etymology: Described in the 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma by American business consultant Clayton Christensen.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."
ref: 2013 August 28, Derek Thompson, “How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, in The Atlantic:
text: The generous reading of all this is that recent films and their creators became victims, essentially, of the innovator's dilemma: They got too good at obeying their own, once-successful formulas—and failed to see beyond them.
ref: 2014 July 9, Megan Garber, “When Harry Met eHarmony”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The observation that well-established companies tend to concentrate on improving existing products, leaving them vulnerable to new competitors and disruptive technologies.
wikipedia: Clayton Christensen
The Innovator's Dilemma
Related terms: Schumpeter's gale
non-plussedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non-plussed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His lecture, which occupied the lion’s share of two hours, was interesting from beginning to finish, and the auditors were loathe^([sic]) to hear the end of a discourse that to the housekeeping portion of it will be a source of non-plussedness to the butcher and dairyman.
ref: 1902 April 9, “Lecture at St. Stephen’s: Microbes Enjoyed by Cultured Audience”, in Wilkes-Barre Daily News, volume 23, number 123, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page 3, column 1:
text: Whereupon poor Elaine was so overwhelmed with embarrassment and non-plussedness that she fled with precipitate haste to Vespers . . .
ref: 1939 December 13, “O’Brien takes notes: For the Record”, in The Agnes Scott News, volume XXV, number 10, Decatur, Ga.: Agnes Scott College, page 4, column 4:
text: The non-plussedness at still being there, so close to one’s nothingness and littleness, is a new kind of peace.
ref: 1978, Kevin O’Shea, The Way of Tenderness, New York, N.Y.; Ramsey, N.J.; Toronto, Ont.: Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: We say, “It’s all Greek to me.” We don’t say it’s all Chinese, or it’s all Arabic, or it’s all Nascapi. No, it’s the Greek tongue which has become synonymous with intellectual non-plussedness, and may I remind you that that race achieved mastery of the language centuries ago.
ref: 1978 October 11, Mac Brockman, “Acorns & Icons”, in The Hope Standard, thirty-first year, number 41, Hope, B.C., page 4:
text: He and Richardson, still in Hollywood, had exchanged letters and cables, showing that both were, as he told Burrell, ‘in the same helpless state of non-plussedness’.
ref: 1984, Garry O’Connor, Darlings of the Gods: One Year in the Lives of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bath: Chivers Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 162:
text: It will eschew all games of ‘wit’ (through which it snarls itself up immediately in institutional snares) in favour of an absolutely ‘silent objectality’: towards unspeakable, unrepresentable, unrepresentative, utterly weak, lost, catatonic objects, objects that have nothing to say, objects that slip away from ‘meaning’ at every turn into a zone of non-plussedness, where nothing can be added to them without detracting from them – an objectality for an unfixable migratory subjectivity-in-process, on the move away from itself.
ref: 1995 April, Kevin O’Brien, editor, Artists from Europe: Works from the Leeds European Fine Art Symposium 1994, Leeds Metropolitan University, →ISBN, page 70, column 2:
text: So why can’t I ever get what I want, like a power structure that’s faults & fissures are not so glaringly obvious as to mock our imagined non-plussedness during normaller, Clintonian times
ref: 2009, David Buuck, The Shunt, Palm Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: The look that the goblin girl gave Vimes was one that he had seen many times before on the face of someone in receipt of Young Sam’s hugs: a mixture of surprise and what Vimes had to call non-plussedness.
ref: 2011, Terry Pratchett, Snuff, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Alternative form of nonplussedness.
non-entity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-entities
Senses: examples: text: If you diſlike the terme of entitie to be given to whiteneſſe, and union, and likeneſſe; then they muſt be non-entities: for the one or the other they muſt needs be, ſeeing there is no medium between entity and non-entity.
ref: 1645, Alexander Ross, The Philosophicall Touch-Stone: or Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie’s Discourses of the Nature of Bodies, and of the Reasonable Soule. […], London: […] James Young, […], page 64:
text: Driven thus back on himself, the Venetian nobleman seemed now to lose even the last remains of his former vigour: he degenerated into a complete non-entity, through a tacit and unnatural isolation, which was not so much the effect of design as the consequence of his own inferiority.
ref: 1820 January, an Italian, “Letters from Venice”, in The London Magazine, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, page 57, column 1:
text: Who was she? She was such a non-entity for me, and yet I do remember her face and body.
ref: 1991, Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks, Sweet Days of Discipline, New Directions, published 1993, →ISBN, page 24:
text: If we look at Stephen Harper’s wife, she was basically a non-entity in public. She maintained real distance from political life and just kept doing her own thing.
ref: 2016 May 12, Shannon Proudfoot, “Sophie’s role: What do we expect of prime ministers’ spouses?”, in Maclean’s, archived from the original on 12 May 2016:
text: The choice of such non-entities in ostensibly important positions betrays their servile role.
ref: 2016 July, Gerard Minuhin, Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil: Recognize the True Enemy and Join to Fight Him, 2nd edition, Uckfield: Castle Hill Publishers, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Alternative form of nonentity.
non-entities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-entity
Val-de-Ruz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.
sweatshirty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweatshirty
form: most sweatshirty
Etymology: From sweatshirt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Austin Maroons should get some new jersies; the ones they use not only have a sweatshirty look but the numerals have faded so that they blend perfectly into the grey background, making it impossible to tell who’s who.
ref: 1935 October 6, Brown Booth, “Maroons’ Echoes”, in Sunday American-Statesman, volume 22, number 130, Austin, Tex., section “Passing Rodgers”, page 10, column 1:
text: There’s a lot of what I call “flash-dancing,” very ’80s, sweatshirty loose fabrics.
ref: 2009 January 2, Hannah Crowley, quoting Rachel Strules, “What I’m into: Rachel Strules: Boutique owner, trend spotter”, in The Burlington Free Press, volume 182, number 2, page 2C:
text: L.A.’s Greg Lauren elevated sweatshirty fleece and fused it with denim, and BCBG’s Cal-inspired tie-dye knits were festival-ready.
ref: 2015 September 20, Booth Moore, “Five lasting impressions”, in Los Angeles Times, section “Comfort is king”, page P5, column 1:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sweatshirt.
Otonabee-South Monaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Created on the merger of Otonabee and South Monaghan townships in 1998.
Senses: glosses: A township in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.
Otonabee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada, a tributary of the Trent River.
Derived terms: Otonabee-South Monaghan
wifery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wife + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Last of all is the girl who isn’t often heard from, the happy young woman who is really fulfilled by motherhood and wifery, and who may dip into one or all of the above five options from time to time, but only for fun.
ref: 1976, Electa Clark, Leading Ladies: An Affectionate Look at American Women of the Twentieth Century, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Mary: Maybe I should never have married, never had children—but those possibilities didn’t exist in the world in which I grew up. […] Linda: We were taught that motherhood and wifery are so fulfilling, and then we had to learn to live with the secret guilt when they weren’t fulfilling.
ref: 1977, Paula McDonald, Dick McDonald, Guilt-Free, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 164:
text: He cannot help observing that she, however dwindled her love for her cuckolded husband, is securely attached to the social role and domestic furniture that come with her wifery.
ref: 1986, John Updike, Roger’s Version, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Eventually, if a woman were sufficiently wealthy, her wifery could be constructed on terms in which her husband was not the recipient of her labor.
ref: 1997, Miriam B. Peskowitz, Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 98:
text: ‘She should find a good day-care centre and go back to work, even if it’s only part-time. Or do some voluntary work, if she doesn’t need the money. She needs adult company occasionally. And challenges outside of motherhood and wifery.’
ref: 2004, Miranda Lee, Bedded by the Boss, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Outside of the reality of my parents' relationship, I didn't see many examples of enviable wifery.
ref: 2011 March 16, Robyn Okrant, “It Took a Village: Nature, Nurture and Pop Culture”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023:
text: Literary works of the fifteenth century showed a new regard for the cultural worth of motherhood and wifery.
ref: 2015, Ross E. Dunn, Laura J. Mitchell, Panorama: A World History, volume 2 (from 1300), McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 445:
text: Everyone in this conversation presumed that black women should be working for wages, that their freedom did not entail the kinds of domesticity, motherhood, and wifery promoted for white women.
ref: 2016, Micki McElya, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: The state of being a wife.
Derived terms: spiritual wifery
Ch'u-hsiung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 楚雄 (Chǔxióng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻu³-hsiung².
Senses: examples: text: The town of Ch’u-hsiung is walled, rather long, and possesses about 15,000 inhabitants. In the Han dynasty Ch'u-hsiung belonged to the territory of I Chou.
ref: 1947, Joseph F. Rock, The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China, volume 1, Harvard University Press, pages 19–20:
text: Sung Yung-hsi of Ch’u-hsiung was a government student during the Chia-ch’ing period.
ref: 1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 235:
text: Most of the Yunnan silver is produced in Ch’u-hsiung, Yung-ch’ang, and Ta-li, with Ch’ü-ching and Yao-an ranking second, followed by Chen-yuan.[…]At Ch’u-hsiung, a different method is used. Because of the low lead content of the local ore, lead is purchased from other places for the purpose of smelting.
ref: 1966 [1637], Sung Ying-Hsing, “The Metals”, in E-tu Zen Sun, Shiou-Chuan Sun, transl., Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung K'ai-wu, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 238, 241:
glosses: Alternative form of Chuxiong.
Sun City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Menifee, Riverside County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Barber County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A community for senior citizens in Summerlin, Clark County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community for senior citizens in Beaufort County and Jasper County, South Carolina; in full, Sun City Hilton Head.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An age-restricted planned community Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas; in full, Sun City Texas.
Derived terms: Sun City West
durr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: She gave me one of those looks that could be interpreted as 'well, durr...'.
ref: 2012, E. H. Walter, Paranormal Investigations 3: Don't Open After Dusk, page 136:
text: Well durr! These are simple brained creatures running off instinct! What do you think!
ref: 2014, Oli Jacobs, Sunshine & Lollipops:
glosses: Alternative form of duh (“indicating stupidity etc.”).
Related terms: hurr durr
car-centric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more car-centric
form: most car-centric
Etymology: From car + -centric.
Senses: qualifier: urban studies
glosses: With cars as the most feasible mode of transport.
blows the gaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow the gaff
blowing the gaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow the gaff
blew the gaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow the gaff
blown the gaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow the gaff
chowed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chow down
chows down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chow down
chowing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chow down
bunked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunk up
bunks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bunk up
bunking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bunk up
bunked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunk in
bunks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bunk in
bunking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bunk in
bunked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunk off
bunks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bunk off
bunking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bunk off
undullable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undullable
form: most undullable
Etymology: From un- + dull + -able.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be dulled or tarnished.
dog-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-end
ditzily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ditzily
form: most ditzily
Etymology: From ditzy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ditzy manner.
ditsily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ditsily
form: most ditsily
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ditzily.
ditsiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ditziness.
siphonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From siphon + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be siphoned.
siphonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphoning
syphonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syphoning
fucked about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuck about
fucks about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck about
fucking about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuck about
fucks and chucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck and chuck
fucking and chucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuck and chuck
fucked and chucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuck and chuck
foobars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foobar
fubars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fubar
butts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of butt out
butting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of butt out
butted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of butt out
bungholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunghole
social tariff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social tariffs
Senses: glosses: A reduced rate for a utility, for people receiving state welfare.
social tariffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social tariff
FLKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FLK
flexting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of flirting + texting
Senses: examples: text: No more flexting. Phone stays in pocket.
ref: 2016, Timothy Caulfield, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?, page 37:
glosses: The sending of flirtatious text messages.
unraffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unraffish
form: most unraffish
Etymology: From un- + raffish.
Senses: glosses: Not raffish.
flap one's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flaps one's lips
form: flapping one's lips
form: flapped one's lips
form: flapped one's lips
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flap one's gums (“talk without effect”).
synonyms: word: flap one's gums
extra: talk without effect
flamboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamboys
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flambeau.
flamboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamboy
farted about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fart about
farts about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fart about
farting about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fart about
fantabuloso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fantabuloso
form: most fantabuloso
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fantabulous.
fannying about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fanny about
fannied about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fanny about
fannies about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fanny about
fannied around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fanny around
fannies around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fanny around
fannying around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fanny around
fMRIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fMRI
fair suck of the pineapple
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fair suck of the sauce bottle.
synonyms: word: fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce stick
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fair suck of the sauce bottle.
synonyms: word: fair suck of the sauce bottle
phaphda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaphdas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fafda.
phaphdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phaphda
giggle water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink.
Related terms: giggle juice
eats dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat dirt
eating dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat dirt
ate dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of eat dirt
eaten dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of eat dirt
dust kitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust kitties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dust bunny.
synonyms: word: dust bunny
dust kitties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dust kitty
dust kittens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dust kitten
namazis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of namazi
frobnicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frobnicates
form: frobnicating
form: frobnicated
form: frobnicated
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of frob (“manipulate in some ill-defined way; tweak”).
synonyms: word: frob
extra: manipulate in some ill-defined way; tweak
frobnicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frobnicate
frobnicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frobnicate
frobnicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frobnicate
Araldite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name, derived from the initials of Aero Research Limited + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of adhesives that set by the interaction of an epoxy resin with a hardener.
Araldite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Araldites
form: Aralditing
form: Araldited
form: Araldited
Etymology: Brand name, derived from the initials of Aero Research Limited + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: And the game's so challenging I bet you'll be Araldited to that self-same keyboard for weeks on end if you're not careful.
ref: 1987, "Jack the Nipper II" (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 24, page 43
text: It was also Pete who had the idea of taking a pair of welding goggles and removing the dark glass, replacing it with clear glass and Aralditing two glass prisms onto the front […]
ref: 2003, John Cavanagh, Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, page 34:
glosses: To glue with, or as with, Araldite.
Araldites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Araldite
Aralditing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Araldite
Araldited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Araldite
car surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: train surfing
glosses: The act of riding or standing on the exterior of a moving motor vehicle, sometimes as a form of an illegal extreme sport.
Related terms: word: car-surf
Sieverts' law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sievert's law
Etymology: Named after Adolf Sieverts (1874–1947), German chemist.
Senses: glosses: A rule to predict the solubility of gases in metals, stating that the solubility of a diatomic gas in metal is proportional to the square root of the partial pressure of the gas in thermodynamic equilibrium.
Minah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meena
form: Mina
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Peak 15
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A designation from the Trigonometrical Survey of India, a British geographic survey of British India.
Senses: examples: text: By 1856 it was clear to Waugh that Peak 15 was indeed the highest mountain as yet discovered in the world and he intended to honor his predecessor, the man who began the Great Trigonometrical Survey in the earliest years of the nineteenth century, by naming Peak 15 after him.
ref: 2007, Russell T. McCutcheon, “What's in a Name?”, in Studying Religion: An Introduction, Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 8-9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Peak XV, former name of Mount Everest: a mountain in Himalayas, South Asia, on the border of Nepal and China in Tibet autonomous region.
drain the python
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drains the python
form: draining the python
form: drained the python
form: drained the python
Senses: examples: text: Riley got sent to the office for draining the python on the school playground.
synonyms: drain the snake
glosses: To urinate.
raw_tags: of men
drain the snake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drains the snake
form: draining the snake
form: drained the snake
form: drained the snake
Senses: synonyms: drain the python
glosses: To urinate.
raw_tags: of men
kicked like a mule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick like a mule
kicking like a mule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick like a mule
cuts like a knife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut like a knife
cutting like a knife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut like a knife
dragged ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drag ass
drags ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drag ass
dragging ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drag ass
Bradley Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John R. Bradley, who had sponsored Cook's expedition.
Senses: glosses: A supposed landmass that the explorer Frederick Cook claimed to have seen between (84°20′N 102°0′W) and (85°11′N 102°0′W) during a 1909 expedition, now known not to exist.
Crocker Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after San Francisco banker George Crocker, a financial backer.
Senses: glosses: A huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906, now known not to exist.
plessitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plessitic
form: most plessitic
Etymology: From plessite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to plessite.
Inuktun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Polar Inuit
glosses: A language spoken by some indigenous Inughuit people of northwestern Greenland.
Polar Inuit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Inuktun (“language”).
synonyms: word: Inuktun
extra: language
dossbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dossbags
Etymology: From doss + bag.
Senses: glosses: A sleeping bag.
dossbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dossbag
dosses around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doss around
dossing around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doss around
dossed around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doss around
doped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dope up
dopes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dope up
doping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dope up
dog's dangly bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The dog's bollocks; something outstandingly good.
compound point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound points
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: An obsolete typographical construction made up of more than one punctuation mark, such as the comma dash (,—) or semicolon dash (;—).
compound points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound point
Inughuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Inuhuit
Senses: glosses: The northernmost Greenlandic Inuit people, who speak the Inuktun language.
Inuhuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Inughuit.
done a never
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do a never
does a number on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do a number on
doing a number on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do a number on
did a number on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do a number on
done a number on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do a number on
does a never
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do a never
doing a never
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do a never
did a never
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do a never
TPNG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Territory of Papua and New Guinea,.
bread soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread soups
Senses: glosses: A soup made with stale bread commonly eaten during Lent.
pre-oxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preoxidation.
dinkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinky
raphe pallidus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphae pallidae
Etymology: Medical New Latin.
Senses: examples: text: FIGURE 4. Stimulation of gastric acid secretion induced by microinjection of the stable TRH analog, RX 77368, into the raphe pallidus in urethane-anesthetized rats.
ref: 1991, Yvette Taché, David L. Wingate, Brain-Gut Interactions, CRC Press, page 175:
text: The raphe pallidus is located medial and ventral to the inferior olivary nuclear complex.
ref: 2013, Ken W. S. Ashwell, “5: Peripheral nervous system, spinal cord, brainstem and cerebellum”, in Ken Ashwell, editor, Neurobiology of Monotremes, CSIRO Publishing, page 91:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: nucleus raphe pallidus
glosses: One of a cluster of nuclei (the raphe nuclei) found in the brain stem.
wikipedia: New Latin
dicked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dick up
dicks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dick up