cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
couteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couteaus
form: couteaux
form: cutto
form: cuttoe
Etymology: From French couteau. Doublet of cuttle.
Senses: examples: text: "Brave!—brave enough, I warrant you," answered Norman; "I was in the wood at Tyninghame, when there was a sort of gallants hunting with my lord; on my saul, there was a buck turned to bay made us all stand back; a stout old Trojan of the first-head, ten-tyned branches, and a brow as broad as e'er a bullock's. Egad, he dashed at the old lord, and there would have been inlake among the peerage, if the Master had not whipt roundly in, and hamstrung him with his cutlace. He was but sixteen then, bless his heart!"
"And is he as ready with the gun as with the couteau?" said Sir William.
"He'll strike this silver dollar out from between my finger and thumb at fourscore yards, and I'll hold it out for a gold merk; what more would ye have of eye, hand, lead, and gunpowder?"
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter III, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A knife; a dagger.
recommencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recommencers
Etymology: From recommence + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Frederic Morton Eden has defended the peace too well for the recommencers of hostile practices.
ref: 1803, The Annual Review and History of Literature, volume 1, page 257:
glosses: One who recommences.
Home Office
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Home Office
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The British government department, headed by the Home Secretary, responsible for security and law enforcement in England and Wales.
Related terms: Foreign Office
reconnaître
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconnaîtres
form: reconnaîtring
form: reconnaîtred
form: reconnaîtred
Etymology: From French reconnaître.
Senses: examples: text: An officer sent forward to reconnaître, returned with the intelligence that they were British troops, for he had seen their red uniforms.
ref: 1841, [Charles Lever], Charles O’Malley, the Irish Dragoon, volume II, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; Edinburgh: Fraser and Company; London: W. S. Orr and Company, page 295:
text: His cavalry, whom he sent out to reconnaître close to Hawley’s camp, brought word that they could see no appearance of movement.
ref: 1841, Lord Mahon [Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope], History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors; CCCXXVI), 3rd edition, volume II, Paris: Baudry’s European Library, page 245:
text: To reconnaître the enemy’s camp.
ref: 1887, Edward R. Bensley, A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, Paris: Garnier Brothers, […], page 98, column 3:
text: […] to reconnaître the sites where the clays are to be found, through their possible relation with bauxite sediments.
ref: 1957, Conferência internacional dos Africanistas Ocidentais, C.C.T.A., page 213:
text: It is a well known fact that Lapps can fall into trances in order to reconnaître how things and human beings are in distant places.
ref: 1984, Shamanism in Eurasia, part 2, →ISBN, page 394:
text: if it is true,...., that the orders contained information concerning certain positions from which the British warships might have been fired at, it cannot be deduced therefrom that the vessels had received orders to reconnaître Albanian coastal defences
ref: 1994, Andrea De Guttry, Lo status della nave da guerra in tempo di pace, →ISBN, page 75:
text: At the same time, the rescue vessel should reconnaître the area around the wreck to see if there are any obstructions which might hamper the boat.
ref: 2008, “[Function 1: Navigation] Part B1: Course Outline and Guidance Notes”, in Officer in Charge of a Navigational Watch on a Fishing Vessel (Model Course 7.06), London: International Maritime Organization, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Having arrived at Libourne, instead of going straight to the Refuge as originally planned, she’d decided it was best to reconnaître the surroundings at different times of the day.
ref: 2012, Sally Spedding, Malediction, Sparkling Books, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: Rare form of reconnoitre.
Angika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language, spoken primarily in India, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Malaysia.
home office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home offices
Senses: examples: text: In this type of company, the development of capabilities and the decisions to diffuse them globally are essentially made in the company's home office.
ref: 2011, Kenneth A. Kim, Global Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach, page 11:
glosses: The headquarters of an organization.
glosses: A room, in a person's home, equipped as an office so that the person may work from home.
Synonyms: hoffice
study
traverser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traversers
Etymology: From traverse + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which traverses or moves, such as an index on a scale.
glosses: One who traverses a region.
topics: law
glosses: One who traverses, or denies.
examples: text: As the pithead (Fig. 15) had not been designed for large wide gauge cars it was necessary to replace the usual runround with a traverser.
ref: 1954, Colliery Engineering - Volume 31, page 8:
text: Before I left Paris I had the chance to visit La Chapelle depot. I was fascinated by the place. Basically, the steam depot is divided into two halves, the repair side and the steam side, with a traverser in between.
ref: 1961 March, ""Dalmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
text: The outside sidings and test areas are rail-connected at the western end to the Down Service line, whilst the test area and assembly area are connected via a traverser at the eastern end of the site.
ref: 2019 October, “Trackwatch: Wales”, in Modern Railways, page 90:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A traverse table.
chauffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔː.fə/
Forms: form: chauffers
form: choffer
Etymology: Compare French chauffoir, a kind of stove, from chauffer (“to heat”). See chafe.
Senses: glosses: A small, portable stove.
glosses: A chafing dish.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
chauffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔː.fə/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chauffeur.
chauffer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔː.fə/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chauffeur.
Konkani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔŋkəni/
ipa: /ˈkoːŋkəni/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkəni/
Forms: form: Konkanis
form: Konkani
Etymology: From Marathi and Hindi कोंकणी (kõkṇī).
Senses: glosses: A member of the indigenous peoples of the Konkan coast of India.
Konkani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔŋkəni/
ipa: /ˈkoːŋkəni/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkəni/
Etymology: From Marathi and Hindi कोंकणी (kõkṇī).
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Konkan region of India.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Konkani terms
Magadhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Magahi
Etymology: From Hindi मगधीय (magdhīya, “relating to South Bihar”), from Sanskrit मगध (magadha, “Magadha”), a kingdom in southern Bihar.
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language, spoken primarily in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India.
bobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bobbers
Etymology: From the verb, bob + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Put apples in a kitchen sink, a bathtub or a large shallow bucket filled with water. Each player must grab an apple with his or her teeth, using no hands. The fun of bobbing is for the bobbers to get wet! So don't forget the towels.
ref: 2005, Robin Mercer, The Warm Wonderful World of Hospitality, page 137:
glosses: One who takes part in apple bobbing.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: dobber
cork
float
glosses: A buoyant device (frequently made of cork or hollow plastic) attached to a line so as to suspend the end of the line with the hook (and bait or lure) above the bottom.
glosses: A style of custom motorcycle with stripped-down bodywork and a shortened (or "bobbed") rear fender.
glosses: A person who rides a bobsleigh; a bobsleigher.
examples: text: Not to be outdone, another group of students formed the Bobber's Union and wore a much different hairstyle.
ref: 2004, Jim C. Tumblin, C. Milton Hinshilwood, Fountain City, page 54:
text: Newspaper articles from the time describe employers who refused to hire women with bobbed hair […] In Japan, a speaker at a national hairdressers' convention declared, “All bobbers are not dissolute women, but all dissolute women are bobbers.”
ref: 2005, Rose Weitz, Rapunzel's Daughters:
glosses: One who has a bob hairstyle.
Derived terms: deely bobber
pajock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.dʒɒk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌdʒɑk/
Forms: form: pajocks
form: paiock
form: paiocke
form: pajocke
Etymology: Unknown. First attested in the 16th century, in the writing of William Shakespeare and possibly coined by him.
Senses: glosses: A peacock, a male peafowl, noted for its large and extravagantly coloured tail.
examples: text: For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
This realm dismantled was
Of Jove himself, and now reigns here
A very very — pajock
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: “Peace! Your Majesties! My Lords!” said King Lune. “Have we no more gravity among us than to be so chafed by the taunt of a pajock?”
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Horse and His Boy, →ISBN:
text: And wearing my stolen beard, I'll be bound! I'll trounce the pugging pajock in seemly style!
ref: 1958, L. Sprague De Camp, The Tower of Zanid:
text: “Dickie Harewood is a tardy-gaited, unhaired pajock.” Dougless frowned, not understanding. “An ass, madam,” Nicholas explained.
ref: 2002, Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor, page 111:
glosses: savage, degenerate
damehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪmhʊd/
Forms: form: damehoods
Etymology: From dame + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The fact or condition of being a dame.
Related terms: knighthood
angling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angle
angling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anglings
Senses: examples: text: It is a speciall point to have the sun and moon before you, for the very motion of the rod drives all pleasure from you, either by day or by night; in all your anglings, both with worms and flyes, there must be a great care of that.
ref: 1651, Thomas Barker, The Art of Angling: wherein are discovered many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that recreation:
glosses: A form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.
Synonyms: the gentle craft
Derived terms: ground angling
nonangling
self-incrimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + incrimination.
Senses: glosses: Act of giving testimony, in a trial, that would incriminate oneself.
Related terms: right to remain silent
take the fifth
participatory democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: participatory democracies
Senses: topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: A form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies affecting their lives, rather than through elected representatives.
treble hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treble hooks
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishhook where three hooks share a single shank, each point separated by 120º.
Caluyanon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Visayan language spoken in the Caluya Islands, Antique in the Philippines.
Eimer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eimers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eimer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Chenoua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The indigenous peoples living in and around Mt. Cheoua.
Chenoua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Berber language spoken around Mt. Chenoua in Tipasa, Algeria.
Chhattisgarhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Chhattisgarhi छत्तीसगढ़ी (chattīsagṛhī).
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
Chittagonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɪtəˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɪtəˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Chittagong + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Chittagonian Bengali
glosses: A language spoken in the Chittagong District and Cox's Bazar District of south-eastern Bangladesh as well as neighbouring areas in India and Myanmar, often treated as a dialect of Bengali.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Chittagonian terms
Erker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erkers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Erker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Dahlik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Semitic language spoken in the Dahlak Archipelago of Eritrea.
Dameli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dardic language spoken by the people of the valley of Damil-Nasar of Pakistan.
running board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running boards
Senses: examples: text: One of the "locomotors", a 72 h.p. machine for light yard shunting which can be driven by a shunter from the running board. [A long step on the side just above rail level]
ref: 1962 March, “Dutch diesel and electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 173, photo caption:
glosses: A narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A narrow footway above the driving wheels of some steam locomotives, and along the sides of some diesel locomotives.
ferrotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrotypes
Etymology: From ferro- + -type.
Senses: glosses: An early photographic process in which the image was made on an iron plate having a sensitized surface film.
coordinate_terms: tintype
glosses: A photograph produced by this means.
ferrotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ferrotypes
form: ferrotyping
form: ferrotyped
form: ferrotyped
Etymology: From ferro- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: "He ferrotyped the pictures, and the next morning, bright and early, he mounted each one in an art-folder (bought during a period of prosperity), and then fared forth to sell them to the eager parents of his little subjects."
ref: 1916, Michael Gross, Photo-era, Volume 37:
glosses: To produce a ferrotype from.
SKS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of some kind soul (usually in a request for information etc.)
glosses: The SKS rifle.
feu de joie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feux de joie
form: feu-de-joie
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French feu de joie (literally “fire of joy”).
Senses: glosses: A bonfire.
examples: text: while Platte was rolling over and over on the turf, like a shot rabbit, the watch and guard flew from his waistcoat—as an Infantry Major's sword hops out of the scabbard when they are firing a feu-de-joie
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 60:
glosses: A celebratory salute made by firing guns into the air sequentially along a line.
fibroblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibroblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to a fibroblast
Derived terms: antifibroblastic
nonfibroblastic
finger painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger paintings
Senses: glosses: The technique of painting using the fingers instead of a brush.
glosses: A painting made using this technique.
finger painting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finger paint
first-string
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: describing the members of a sports team who play regularly at the start of a match (rather than being substituted on)
Related terms: first string
first string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I played first string in the last quarter of the game.
glosses: the members of a sports team who play regularly at the start of a match (rather than being substituted on)
glosses: the first violinist in an orchestra.
Derived terms: first-stringer
Related terms: first-string
fitchew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fitchews
Etymology: From Middle English fitchewes (mistaken as a plural), variant of Middle English fichouse, ficheux, from Old French fissiauls (plural) and fichau, fissel (“polecat”), from Middle Dutch vitsche, visse, fisse (“polecat”), ultimately (via a Northern French dialect) from Latin vissiō (“stench”). Compare French vison (“mink”).
Senses: glosses: polecat
fix up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fixes up
form: fixing up
form: fixed up
form: fixed up
Senses: examples: text: I need someone to fix me up with a tent and some camping gear.
text: Ef you don't fix me up a rake-off I got to scrap roun' fer myself.
ref: 1913, Harris Dickson, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 186:
glosses: To provide (someone) with something; to furnish.
examples: text: Can you fix me up with a date for Saturday night?
text: Please don't fix me up with any of your tycoons
ref: 1975, Shelley Steinmann List, Nobody Makes Me Cry:
text: Syl finally fixes Chris up with Candy, a school teacher. Of course, they hit it off instantly. They return home from a date, and before they can lock Candy's front door behind them, the two women are doing it on the rug.
ref: 1988 April 9, Liz Gaist, “Lesbian Trash At Its Finest”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
text: "You and I are going dancing," he said. "I'm going to buy you a drink, and then I'm going to fix you up with someone. You've been alone too long. It's time for you to get back in circulation." "Don't fix me up," I said. "I'll go, but don't fix me up.
ref: 2006, Leisure Entertainment Service Company, Nine romantic stories to remember:
glosses: To set up a date or to introduce people, especially with the intention of a possible romantic or sexual coupling.
raw_tags: with with
examples: text: I've been fixing up the boat for the holidays.
text: Creech is flexible enough to hide inside of the old truck that Tripp is fixing up, and Tripp discovers that, with the right tweaking, the oil-guzzling Creech can actually power that truck from the inside.
ref: 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: word: amend
word: correct
word: fix
word: fix up
word: kludge
word: make whole
word: mend
word: patch
word: put to rights
word: rectify
word: reform
word: remediate
word: remedy
word: renew
word: renovate
word: restore
word: restrive
word: revamp
glosses: To repair or refurbish.
examples: text: His mother will fix up a snack for the sleepover tonight.
glosses: To prepare or provide (something).
examples: text: Fix up, look sharp. Don't make me get the blicks out, get dark.
ref: 2003 July 21, “Fix Up, Look Sharp” (track 6), in Boy In Da Corner, performed by Dizzy Rascal:
glosses: To get one's act together; to sort oneself out.
examples: text: "If you don't fix me up I'll report you and have your whole shop raided.”
ref: 1906, Myra Kelly, "A Soul Above Buttons":
text: I didn't extend credit to other kids, but after he'd become a regular customer he asked me to take some bets for which he'd fix me up later.
ref: 2016, Steve Austin, Working Dog Heroes:
glosses: To settle up with; reimburse.
glosses: To get an abortion; to procure an abortion for someone.
glosses: To do a dose of a drug, especially heroin; to provide a drug (often alcoholic drink) to someone addicted to it.
Derived terms: word: fixer-upper
word: fix-it-upper
word: fixup
word: fix-up
flatbed truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatbed trucks
Senses: glosses: a truck with no sides, used to carry large, heavy objects
glosses: A form of such a truck adapted or designed specifically as a tow truck or for transporting other vehicles.
Synonyms: sense: truck with no sided
word: flatbed
sense: truck with no sided
word: flatbed lorry
word: rollback
word: slide truck
retire the side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retires the side
form: retiring the side
form: retired the side
form: retired the side
Senses: examples: text: […] and that will retire the side [sportscaster patter]
text: Jones steps on first to retire the side.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To get the third out of an inning, thus ending the turn of one team (side) for batting and signaling the next turn of the other team (side).
flatbed lorry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatbed lorries
Senses: glosses: a lorry with no sides, used to carry large, heavy objects
Synonyms: word: flatbed
word: flatbed truck
petting zoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petting zoos
Senses: glosses: A zoo that permits or encourages visitors, in particular children, to touch animals.
keeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keel
keeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Senses: examples: text: It was a deep-keeled yacht.
glosses: Furnished with a keel.
Derived terms: camber-keeled
even-keeled
Anaiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hebrew ענאיה (“God has answered”).
Senses: examples: And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
glosses: One of the elders who stood with Ezra the Scribe. (biblical character)
rewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewritings
Senses: glosses: The process or result of writing again; a rewrite.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Any of wide range of potentially non-deterministic methods of replacing subterms of a formula with other terms.
rewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewrite
goona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From guna or kuna, found in many Pama-Nyungan languages.
Senses: examples: text: The crows and the birds would have a drink, too, and do a bit of goona.
ref: 1987, Sally Morgan, My Place, Fremantle Press, page 411:
text: Jalyerri greeted them with his usual flash of white teeth. “Go goot goona bugger dat feller,” he observed, referring to Ed Smith. “What’s goona?” Calum asked Brian. “Shit.”
ref: 2010, Jim Nicolson, Long Creek, iUniverse, page 98:
text: They might look for other clues too: fresh goona on the munda.
ref: 2012, Dylan Coleman, Mazin Grace, University of Queensland Press, page 54:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: faeces, excrement, stool
barkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barkans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barchan.
shortsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shortsheets
form: shortsheeting
form: shortsheeted
form: shortsheeted
Etymology: From short + sheet.
Senses: glosses: To make an apple-pie bed of (a bed).
dudely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dudely
form: most dudely
Etymology: From dude + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Long before the slinky Miss Shields was a twinkle in her mama’s eye, nothing came between erstwhile Southern belle Elsa Jane Guerin and her dudely duds.
ref: 1992, Autumn Stephens, Wild Women:
text: 2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1560239980&id=U1N20gh2p-MC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=dudely&sig=zXwiJUJHq_brxfa-MBKQt4aev-o
I love bad whiteboys, the really skanky sort of white-trash ones, you know, the ones that surf or live in the woods or just got out of prison, the dudely ones who’re sort of closeted but really straight-acting, those are the ones I always fall for.
text: Not many dames line up at the bar on this side, as it seems to be a dudely kind of place, what with a TV perched above the liquor-bottle wallpaper blaring out some sports contest, but one lady does attract my notice.
ref: 2003, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Neon Nightmare:
text: The films make explicit that not-gay homosexual sex is constituted by a set of dudely and homophobic gestures, the staging of a heteronormative scene bound by hetero-masculine logics, and an emotional landscape marked by repulsion and resilience.
ref: 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a dude (in various senses).
Derived terms: dudeliness
Pandu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit पाण्डु (pāṇḍu).
Senses: glosses: A mytho-historical figure from India, best known as the father of another group of figures, the Pandavas in Mahabharata.
balance sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balance sheets
Senses: examples: text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A summary of a person's or organization's assets, liabilities and equity as of a specific date.
Derived terms: balance sheet equation
Related terms: income statement
balance sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balance sheet
bat around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats around
form: batting around
form: batted around
form: batted around
form: bat about
Senses: examples: text: If the teams do not have the same number of players, the team with the greater number of players bats around once per inning, and the team with the smaller number of players will bat an equal number of times as the opposing team,[…].
ref: 1965, Recreation, National Recreation Association, page 498:
text: […]the Braves knocked Bunning out, batting around and scoring six runs in the fourth inning. They then scored four more runs the next inning, batting around once again against Dallas Green[…].
ref: 2005, John P. Rossi, The 1964 Phillies: The Story of Baseball's Most Memorable Collapse, McFarland, →ISBN, page 128:
text: The Phillies thus batted around the lineup without a hit for the first time since July 17, 1992, a run that lasted more than 24 years, per ESPN Stats & Info. If not for the inning-ending double play, the Phillies might have even sent 10 or 11 batters to the plate without recording a single hit.
ref: 2016 July 31, Bleacher Report Milestones, “Phillies Bat Around in 8th Inning Without Recording a Hit”, in Bleacher Report:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
To have a team's first batter of the inning come to bat for a second time (after all of the others in the batting line-up have batted). (See the usage note below.)
examples: text: I think we've batted this idea around enough to take a decision.
glosses: To discuss.
examples: text: You must be tired after batting around all day.
glosses: To flit quickly from place to place.
glosses: To waste time; to idle or loaf.
Fach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-anglicized
ipa: /fax/
Forms: form: Fächer
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Fach, short for Stimmfach. Doublet of fack.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A method of classifying singers, primarily opera singers, according to the range, weight, and color of their voices.
Fächer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-anglicized
ipa: /ˈfɛçə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: plural of Fach
fust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of first.
Senses: examples: text: I allude to charcolling. Theirs Miss Creasy the dress maker after having the fashuns reglarly from Parris for some months was indust in a luv tif to shut her self up solus with the prevaling mode, but luckly the charcole went out fust.
ref: 1839, Thomas Hood, “The Corresponding Club”, in The Comic Annual, London: A. H. Baily and Co., Cornhill, →OCLC, page 21:
text: I was standing, one glorious Autumn morning, looking now up to where the crown of the Fall [Horseshoe Falls of the Niagara Falls], illuminated by the early sun, shone like opal, […] I was suddenly roused from a reverie by a sharp voice: "It's a-bilin' and a-sizzling down there fust-rate!"
ref: 1853 July, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume VII, number XXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, pages 294–295:
glosses: Nonstandard form of first.
fust
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of first.
Senses: examples: text: She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.
ref: 1876, Evening Hours, page 629:
glosses: Nonstandard form of first.
Feige
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Feiges
Senses: glosses: A surname.
feuillemorte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fɔɪ.mɔɹt/
/fə.jə.mɔɹt/
Forms: form: feuille-morte
form: feuillemort
form: foliomort
Etymology: From French feuille-morte, feuille morte (“a dead leaf”).
Senses: glosses: Of the color of dead or dying leaves: dull yellowish or orangish brown.
Related terms: alt: philomot
word: filemot
inclusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkluːsɪv.li/
Forms: form: more inclusively
form: most inclusively
Etymology: From inclusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inclusive fashion.
glosses: In a manner which includes every possibility.
Fink
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Finks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Fink effect
Related terms: Finke
cezve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛzveɪ/
Forms: form: cezves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jezve.
parodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parodic
form: most parodic
Senses: examples: text: All gender is parodic in the sense that it is all imitative, but some forms are more parodic than others because that imitativeness is exposed.
ref: 2005, Moya Lloyd, Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics, page 139:
text: From this common background, the G author/redactor seems to have chosen to highlight the more parodic elements in the tradition, while muting the more serious or somber representation of Aesop's heroic end.
ref: 2010, Leslie Kurke, Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, page 176:
text: So even the pastiche one might expect to be the most parodic, the fiercest with the "target" author, turns into—at worse^([sic])—an amusing exercise in self-congratulation, of Proust, by Proust.
ref: 2013, James F. Austin, Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern: Or Why Style Matters, page 49:
synonyms: parodial
parodical
parodistic
glosses: Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.
Derived terms: parodically
unparodic
Related terms: satiric
parodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parodical
form: most parodical
Etymology: From parody + -ical.
Senses: glosses: parodic
Flegel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flegels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Flegel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
congenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of different strains of an organism) That are genetically identical except for a variation in a limited genetic region or locus
Derived terms: congenically
subcongenic
congenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congenics
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
Derived terms: bicongenic
Related terms: coisogenic
e&oe
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of E&OE.
flitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈflɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flitters
form: flittering
form: flittered
form: flittered
Etymology: From Middle English flytteren, frequentative form of flitten, flytten, flütten, possibly from Old Norse flytja (“to carry about, convey”), equivalent to flit + -er (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: To scatter in pieces.
glosses: To move about rapidly and nimbly.
examples: text: How she remembered the gray-feathered titmouse flittering about as she stared unbelievingly at the grave of her sister and clung to Reese, then five years old.
ref: 2003, Rudy Gray, D'n'd, iUniverse, page 41:
text: There were two bugs flittering on either side of her.
ref: 2006, Katherine Macinnis, Kelsar, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, page 60:
text: The back of the group flittered in and out of my view, pulling me forward with only dim hopes of success.
ref: 2014, Daniel Freeman, “The Conquest”, in College Essays That Made a Difference, 6th edition, Penguin Random House, page 129:
glosses: To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
glosses: To flutter or quiver.
Derived terms: flitter down
flittermouse
flittery
flitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈflɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flitters
Etymology: From flit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A waxing moon riding high in the sky and a flitter of bats about the rooftops, dipping and swerving as they gathered up the gnats that danced there in ephemeral clouds.
ref: 2014, Peter Ashby, The Name of Seven:
glosses: A fluttering movement
examples: text: Without a flitter of a blanket o'er me
ref: 1832, Paddy Kelly's Budget:
text: But to return to where we left her, I see her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery. Flitters of perforated starch entwine an ear.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
glosses: Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis.
examples: text: Then all three went out to the flitter. A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed.
ref: 1941 July, Edward Elmer Smith, “The Vortex Blaster”, in Comet Stories, volume 1, number 5, page 10:
text: Small flitters were powered and made ready, and everything that carried manual controls was inspected and cleared for action.
ref: 1944 March, George Oliver Smith, “Circle of Confusion”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 33, number 1, page 54:
text: The small flitters carried by the Queen for exploration work held with comfort a two-man crew—with crowding, three.
ref: 1955, Alice Mary Norton (as Andrew North), Sargasso of Space, page 53:
text: The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.
ref: 1994, Stephen Baxter, Ring, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A small aircraft or spacecraft.
examples: text: Hannah couldn't stop a flitter of panic at the thought.
ref: 2014, Love Inspired September 2014:
text: He sensed Wheeler tensing, the slightest of tremors in the stillness of the ruined chapel, a flitter of irritation.
ref: 2016, Mark Douglas-Home, The Malice of Waves:
glosses: A small perceptible feeling
flitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈflɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flitters
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fritter.
Derived terms: flat as a flitter
estate agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estate agents
Senses: glosses: A person or company that acts in the sale, purchase, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate etc for another.
glosses: A land bailiff.
Synonyms: english: American
translation: American
word: real estate agent
english: American
translation: American
word: realtor
Related terms: estate agency
valk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valks
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: valkyrie
Forst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Forsts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Forst.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Forst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Forst.
Senses: glosses: A town and administrative seat of Spree-Neiße district, Brandenburg, Germany. Official name: Forst (Lausitz).
picquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piquet (“card game”).
picquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picquets
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes, it is true, Gertrude's resistance flagged; but this was only the temporary acquiescence of fatigue, and the battle was renewed with the old spirit on the next occasion, and was all to be fought over again. At breakfast there was generally, as I may say, an affair of picquets, and through the day a dropping fire, sometimes rising to a skirmish; but the social meal of supper was generally the period when, for the most part, these desultory hostilities blazed up into a general action.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Archaic form of picket.
picquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picquets
form: picqueting
form: picqueted
form: picqueted
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Archaic form of picket.
altarpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: äl′-tər-pēs′
ipa: /ˈɑl.təɹˌpis/
enpr: ăl′-tər-pēs′
ipa: /ˈæl.təɹˌpis/
Forms: form: altarpieces
Etymology: From altar + piece.
Senses: examples: text: I walked across the concrete to examine the altarpiece of the atomic age. A large crack ran through it.
ref: 2008 December 15, David Samuels, “Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2015:
text: “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”
ref: 2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025:
glosses: a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church
advisee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advisees
Etymology: From advise + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Camden Citizens Advice colleagues and long-term advisees are here, some in their football gear.
ref: 2021, Isabel Waidner, Sterling Karat Gold, Peninsula Press, page 148:
glosses: someone who receives advice.
Related terms: adviser
advisor
jezve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛzveɪ/
Forms: form: jezves
form: cezve
form: gezve
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جزوه (Turkish cezve), from Arabic جَذْوَة (jaḏwa) or جِذْوَة (jiḏwa, “ember”).
Senses: examples: text: As in many countries around the Mediterranean, coffee in Turkey is prepared in long-handled pots called jezve.
ref: [2005, Essential Mediterranean, Murdoch Books Pty Limited, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: A Turkish coffee-pot with a long handle.
Synonyms: ibrik
athleticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athleticisms
Etymology: From athletic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It catches an American athleticism and energetic team spirit that still seem to smash European notions of ballet classicism, as does its dancers’ selfless manner and their practicelike costumes.
ref: 2008 June 9, Alastair Macaulay, “In Student Steps and Leaps, a Survey of National Styles”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2025:
glosses: The state of being an athlete, or of taking part in athletic events.
examples: text: Both Alcaraz and Sinner pushed themselves - and each other - to the limit in a classic contest that showcased all of their shot-making, athleticism and resilience.
ref: 2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC:
glosses: A show of athletic prowess.
Funke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Funkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Funke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
biddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪdiz/
rhymes: -ɪdiːz
Senses: glosses: plural of biddy
birdshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird shit
Etymology: From bird + shit.
Senses: synonyms: birdcrap
glosses: avian excreta; guano
bloodless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloodless
form: most bloodless
form: bloodlesse
form: bloudless
Etymology: From Middle English blodles, from Old English blōdlēas (“bloodless”). Cognate with Dutch bloedeloos (“bloodless”), German blutlos (“bloodless”), Danish blodløs (“bloodless”), Swedish blodlös (“bloodless”), Icelandic blóðlaus (“bloodless”). By surface analysis, blood + -less.
Senses: examples: text: My bloodleſſe bodie waxeth chill and colde,
And with my blood my life ſlides through my wound,
My ſoule begins to take her flight to hell,
And ſummones all my ſences to depart: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
text: Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads,
Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:
Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sight
Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,
Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.
ref: 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2:
glosses: Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
examples: text: a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory
text: Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.
ref: 1892, Rev. Herbert Henry Gowen, The Paradise of the Pacific, page 129:
glosses: Taking place without loss of blood.
examples: text: Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic […] last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste.
ref: 1937 February 8, “No. 1 Rumanian”, in Time:
text: Many of them are leaving us — the words. Gone into hiding […] Now they lurk, uncaged, behind other words, behind trending, brittle, bloodless little wokeisms […]
ref: 2024, Bruce Wagner, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers:
text: There is plenty of commentary, even among users of other platforms, about how Threads is bloodless (and owned by Mark Zuckerberg), Mastodon is inscrutable, and Bluesky is humorless.
ref: 2025 May 23, Charlie Warzel, “What Are People Still Doing on X?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.
Derived terms: bloodless surgery
bloodlessly
bloodlessness
blowgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbloʊˌɡʌn/
Forms: form: blowguns
Etymology: From blow + gun.
Senses: glosses: A hollow tube through which a dart or similar missile may be blown.
Synonyms: blowpipe
blow tube
bracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, brace + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brace
bracing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: more bracing
form: most bracing
Etymology: By surface analysis, brace + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
text: Stephen Fineman, a professor at the University of Bath’s School of Management, wrote a bracing paper in 2006 on overly cheery corporate practices.
ref: 2014 July 31, Joe Pinsker, “Why Taco Bell Likes to Call Its Workers 'Champions'”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Invigorating or stimulating.
Derived terms: bracingly
bracingness
bracing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: bracings
Etymology: By surface analysis, brace + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In general, we believe it is better to use too much bracing and then reduce the braces to the proper size rather than to start with too little. Cutting down braces gives the patient a feeling of accomplishment
ref: 1969, Daniel Ruge, Spinal cord injuries, page 174:
glosses: That which braces.
examples: text: For stability against lateral forces, vertical bracings are provided.
ref: 1997, Wind Effects on Structures, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: A brace.
glosses: A form of the military attention stance.
Derived terms: crossbracing
sway-bracing
bread box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of breadbox.
cladic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cladic
form: most cladic
Etymology: From clade + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or being part of a clade.
Derived terms: heterocladic
homocladic