cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tighten up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tightens up
form: tightening up
form: tightened up
form: tightened up
Senses: glosses: To make sufficiently tight.
examples: text: As noted in the last chapter, you should tighten up your argument and prose when you revise the first draft for substantive change.
ref: 2012, Stanley Chodorow, Gordon Harvey, Writing a Successful Research Paper, and, Writing with Sources, →ISBN:
text: He might do a third cut of silage, or he'd tighten up around the place in preparation for the winter, or he'd be still going off doing blocklaying jobs.
ref: 2013, Donal Ryan, The Thing About December, →ISBN:
glosses: To fix something or make it correct.
examples: text: You must follow every change because every change affects your play. If another player loses a big pot, you must ask yourself how this will affect his play. Will he go on tilt? Will he tighten up?
ref: 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons From The Pro Poker Tour, →ISBN:
text: He could feel himself tighten up as he prepared himself to ask her.
ref: 2008, William Moran, Alj, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: To become tense and restrained.
examples: text: In May 1973 Honecker made another speech to the SED Central Committee, in which he appeared to want to tighten up the rules, as if his remarks in 1971 had been interpreted too liberally, but the VIIth Writers' Congress in November of the same year confirmed the relative freedom of the previous two years.
ref: 1997, Pól Ó Dochartaigh, The Portrayal of Jews in GDR Prose Fiction, →ISBN, page 153:
text: Or perhaps states were beginning to appreciate how ironic welfare reform really is. With the Supreme Court invalidating lower benefits for newcomers, states may now have even greater incentives to tighten up and make welfare less attractive.
ref: 2000, Sanford F. Schram, After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: To become stringent and ungenerous.
examples: text: Plainly winter was at hand.
"Just as well we started when we did," said Bill. "No tellin' when she'll tighten up."
"May do it any time," Sam agreed.
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
text: You need to tighten up and stop being so fuckin' emotional for one in your life.
ref: 2012 -, Mychea, He Loves Me, He Loves You Not, →ISBN:
glosses: To become focused and serious; To stop any vacillation or inconsistency.
tightened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tighten up
tightens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tighten up
tightening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tighten up
poured down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pour down
pours down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pour down
pouring down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pour down
fawny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fawny
form: most fawny
Etymology: From fawn + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The people thus afflicted cried out, that they saw their tormentors though invisible to every body else, in the shape of a little devil of a fawny colour, attended with spectres that had something more human in their forms.
ref: 1822, Philip Stansbury, A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America:
glosses: Somewhat fawn in colour.
fawny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fawnies
form: fawney
Etymology: From Irish fáinne (“ring”). Doublet of fainne.
Senses: glosses: A finger ring.
freaky-deaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freaky-deaky
form: most freaky-deaky
Etymology: Reduplicative form of freaky.
Senses: glosses: Freakish, weird or unusual.
play God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays God
form: playing God
form: played God
form: played God
Senses: examples: text: With all due respect, professor, do you really think that playing God and researching human immortality is a wise idea?
glosses: To act in ways commonly associated with or reserved for God, especially by scientific means, such as exercising omnipotence or excessive control over life and nature.
Related terms: God complex
lay pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays pipe
form: laying pipe
form: laid pipe
form: laid pipe
form: lay some pipe
Etymology: The figurative sense is a jocular extension from the literal sense referring to the work of a pipelayer (a tradesperson).
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lay, pipe.
synonyms: word: hide the sausage
word: lay the pipe
word: have sex
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
glosses: To have sex.
raw_tags: of a man
Related terms: pipefitter
pipefitting
pipelayer
pipelaying
playing God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play God
played along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play along
plays along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play along
playing along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play along
feedhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedholes
Etymology: From feed + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Approximately three chambers are periodically fed with fuel by lifting the metal lid from the feedhole, charging fine coal with a small hand shovel and then replacing the lid.
ref: 1978, Albert Parker, Industrial air pollution handbook, page 564:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hole through or into which something is fed.
glosses: Any of the holes in punched paper that engage with the sprocket in a machine.
feedholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedhole
fellmongered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fellmonger
fellmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fellmonger
slims down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slim down
slimming down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slim down
slimmed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slim down
slips down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slip down
slipping down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slip down
slipped down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slip down
slipped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slip up
slips up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slip up
slipping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slip up
Jumbomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jumbo + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Public enthusiasm for Jumbo (c.1860–1885), the first African elephant to be brought to modern Europe alive.
polkamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polka + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Enthusiasm for the polka dance.
Chinamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From China + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An obsession with the Chinese culture, language, or people.
pornomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From porno- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An obsession with pornography.
musomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From muso- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An obsession with music.
hagiomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From hagio- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: One regular symptom of hagiomania (if the word may be allowed) is the desire of martyrdom.
ref: 1807 March 24, The Athenaeum, page 275:
glosses: An obsession with saints and sainthood.
Hellenomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From Helleno- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An obsession with the Greek culture, language, or people.
syphilomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From syphilo- + -mania.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: syphilophobia in people who do not already have syphilis
feminacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminacies
Senses: examples: text: In a word, the face and the figure were not in harmony; the figure prevented you from pronouncing her to be masculine — the face took from the figure the charm of feminacy. It was the head of the young Augustus upon the form of Agrippina.
ref: 1846, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia; or, The Children of Night:
glosses: effeminacy
feminacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feminacy
yeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeet
yeets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yeet
fenman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenmen
Etymology: From fen + -man.
Senses: examples: text: But Lilburne's presence has been equally problematic for those historians who have examined the activities and attitudes of the fenmen whom Lilburne, and his Leveller colleague, John Wildman, temporarily led.
ref: 1987, Anthony Fletcher, Order and Disorder in Early Modern England, page 167:
glosses: A (male) inhabitant of the fens.
Coordinate terms: fenwoman
fenmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenman
fernier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ferny: more ferny
ferniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ferny: most ferny
share house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share houses
Senses: glosses: A residence with shared common areas, typically furnished and equipped, and bedrooms typically rented independently to unrelated temporary occupants, similar to a boarding house but often lacking provided services such as meals and laundry.
Synonyms: sharehome
feuilletonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feuilleton + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
Related terms: feuilletonist
fewtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fewter
fewtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fewter
feutring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feutre
feutred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feutre
fibrined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fibrin
fibrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrin
fibrins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fibrin
fibrinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fibrinlike
form: most fibrinlike
Etymology: From fibrin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fibrin.
ficin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ficain.
ficuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ficus
filariases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: filaria + -iases
Senses: glosses: plural of filariasis
finesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finessers
Etymology: From finesse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who finesses, or manages something with care or skill.
finessers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finesser
finessings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finessing
finnicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: finnickier
form: finnickiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finicky.
unplump
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplump
form: most unplump
Etymology: From un- + plump.
Senses: glosses: Not plump.
caulerpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caulerpas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Caulerpa, from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem, stalk”) + Ancient Greek ἕρπω (hérpō, “to creep, to crawl”).
Senses: glosses: Any seaweed of the genus Caulerpa.
Related terms: Caulerpa
throws over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw over
throwing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw over
threw over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw over
thrown over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw over
hippieism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippie + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The activities, beliefs and traits of hippies.
demon dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Demon Dialer product from Zoom Telephonics, Inc., a telephone device produced in the 1980s which repeatedly dialed busy telephone numbers under control of an extension phone.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: The use of a computer to dial a number repeatedly (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user has hung up.
Related terms: war-dial
lithpth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithp
automatophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automatophones
Senses: glosses: Any musical instrument that operates by mechanical means.
automatophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automatophone
short a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short a's
Senses: qualifier: phonics
glosses: The vowel sound in the English words cat and rack, usually represented by /æ/ or /a/.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: flat a
antonyms: broad a
long a
glosses: The vowel sound in the English words grass and castle when pronounced with a near-open front unrounded vowel (/æ/); associated with northern England accents.
short e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short e's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound /ɛ/, as in the words "pet" and "sled".
short i
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short i's
Etymology: * (Cyrillic letter): Calque of Russian и кра́ткое (i krátkoje).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the words pit and stick.
examples: text: When the Cyrillic "short i" [y] precedes the omitted fragment, the next consonant should not be dropped: for example, kaliynyy [potassium] = kaliyn., liteynyy [foundry] = liteyn.
ref: 1988 July 8, N. I. Boyarshin, T. M. Babenko, “Rules for Abbreviation of Names of Enterprises and Organizations”, in Science & Technology; USSR: Computers (JPRS Report; JPRS-UCC-88-002), Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, →OCLC, UDC 025.4:001.4:061.5, page 38:
text: “j” here refers to the Cyrillic “short i” or “i-kratkoe.”
ref: 2003, Michael S. Gorham, “Notes”, in Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia, DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, note 47, page 215:
text: On the other hand, Unicode defines the Cyrillic letter short i й (U+0439) as decomposable into the Cyrillic letter i и (U+0438) and a diacritic mark (breve), although people who use these letters hardly see things that way.
ref: 2006 June, Jukka K. Korpela, “Design Principles”, in Unicode Explained, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, part II (A Systematic Look at Unicode), chapter 4 (The Structure of Unicode), page 167:
text: For the common endings of male given names in ий (i and short i or ï) I simply use the letter ‘i’.
ref: 2022, Elizabeth Wilson, “Transliteration”, in Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page xiv:
glosses: The name of the letter й/Й in Cyrillic alphabets.
short o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short o's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound /ɒ/, as in the words "top" and "dot".
short u
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short ues
form: short u's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound /ʌ/, as in the words "cut" and "run".
firepink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firepinks
Etymology: From fire + pink.
Senses: glosses: Silene virginica, a brilliant red wildflower of eastern North America in the family Caryophyllaceae.
firepinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firepink
fishworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishworms
Etymology: From fish + worm.
Senses: glosses: A worm used as bait in angling.
glosses: A worm that parasitizes fish.
fishworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishworm
long a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long a's
Senses: qualifier: phonics
glosses: The vowel sound in the words game and cake, signified by the silent e; /eɪ/.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: broad a
antonyms: flat a
short a
glosses: The vowel sound in the English words bath and castle when pronounced with an open back unrounded vowel (/ɑː/); associated with southern England accents.
long e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long e's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound /iː/ in the words "green" and "seem".
fisnomie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of physiognomy.
long i
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long i's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: the English vowel sound /aɪ/ in the words "fine" and "like", conventionally written ⟨ī⟩.
topics: biology
epigraphy
geography
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
palaeography
paleogeography
paleography
paleontology
publishing
sciences
glosses: a tall variant of the letter i, ⟨ꟾ⟩, used in all-capital Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages for a long vowel /iː/. (Other long vowels were marked with apices.)
long o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long o's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound /əʊ/, as in the words "cone" and "note".
long u
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long ues
form: long u's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The sound /juː/, as in the words "cube" and "mute".
Related terms: long oo
short oo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short oo's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound, /ʊ/, of the "oo" in the word "good", as opposed to the "oo" in the word "mood".
long oo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long oo's
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The vowel sound /uː/, as in the word "mood" as opposed to "good".
fixive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fix + -ive.
Senses: examples: fixive power
glosses: fixative
flagellantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagellantisms
Etymology: From flagellant + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The act of whipping oneself, typically for religious penance or for sexual excitement
flagellantisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagellantism
phallomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phallo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: obsession with the penis
flamfew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamfews
Senses: glosses: A worthless thing; a trifle or bauble.
flamfews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamfew
flaptrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaptracks
Etymology: From flap + track.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The track on which the flaps of an aircraft are mounted.
flaptracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaptrack
flary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛəɹi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: more flary
form: most flary
Etymology: From flare + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.
ref: 1914, Irvin S. Cobb, Europe Revised:
glosses: flaring
interbeddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interbedding
flaunty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flauntier
form: flauntiest
Etymology: From flaunt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Now to meet this lorn maiden, Lucette had put on
Her flauntiest of dresses; her blackest shoes shone
Against her white stockings; her white and red gown
Was tasselled with ribands, around, up and down […]
ref: 1843, Ebenezer Jones, Studies of Sensation and Event: Poems, page 195:
glosses: flaunting; showy; meretricious
Derived terms: flauntily
flauntiness
flauntier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of flaunty: more flaunty
flauntiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of flaunty: most flaunty
flavourfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flavourfully
form: most flavourfully
Etymology: From flavourful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flavorfully.
flavorfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flavorfully
form: most flavorfully
Etymology: From flavorful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flavorful manner.
fleasome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: flē'səm
ipa: /ˈfliːsəm/
rhymes: -iːsəm
Forms: form: more fleasome
form: most fleasome
Etymology: From flea + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Gentle Bandar, an inscrutable Decree
Makes thee a gleesome fleasome Thou,
and me a wretched Me.
ref: 1919, Rudyard Kipling, Divided Destinies:
text: A rollicksome frolicsome rare old cock
As ever did nothing was our dog Jock;
A gleesome fleasome affectionate beast,
As slow at a fight, as swift at a feast […]
ref: 1884, James Payn, On Our Dog Jock:
glosses: Covered in fleas.
fleechings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleeching
flisky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flisky
form: most flisky
Etymology: From flisk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You're like ADAM BLACK's poney, Flisky, and pranky, and no very canny;[…]
ref: 1856, George Henderson, The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick, page 48:
glosses: Frisky; inclined to flisk (frisk) or caper.
examples: text: First came fitful scuds of rain, "flisky" rain they call it, loose outriders of the storm, spurning the soft ice, as they dashed by, and lashing the woodman's windows.
ref: 1881, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest, page 177:
text: 'Flisky rain,' Tom announced with dismal satisfaction. 'Be like this all day, I reckons. Drops so tiny you'd think they'd not do more'n wet your hair. But it'll drench you top to end, y'know?'
ref: 2003, Ed Wicke, Mattie and the Highwaymen, page 104:
glosses: Sprinkly; flisking.
flopovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flopover
mistakeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistakeable
form: most mistakeable
Etymology: From mistake + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mistakable.
Derived terms: mistakeably
unmistakeable
mistakeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mistakeably
form: most mistakeably
Etymology: From mistakeable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mistakably.
djamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑmbə/
Forms: form: djama
form: djoma
Senses: examples: text: However, the coagulated, musky, sickly smell of djamba overwhelmed all other odours. […] The four small parcels of djamba were included in our order. […] He winked at us knowingly as he dragged on the huge, glowing wrap of djamba in his mouth.
ref: 2013, Roland Charley, Dead End Poverty, Author House, →ISBN, page 311:
glosses: Marijuana.
Synonyms: marijuana
preradio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + radio.
Senses: glosses: Before the invention of radio.
radiolocational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + locational.
Senses: glosses: Relating to radiolocation.
adbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adbots
Etymology: From ad + -bot.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bot (automated software agent) that displays advertisements.
adbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adbot
squadoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɑˈduʃ/
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: Nothing at all; zip; zilch.
audiovisuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audiovisualities
Etymology: From audiovisual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being audiovisual.
audiovisualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audiovisuality
audially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From audial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of the sense of hearing; aurally.
triniscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triniscopes
Etymology: Originally the proprietary name for a system developed by RCA. See tri- (“three”), and -scope.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: An early color television system using three separate video tubes with colored phosphors producing the primary colors, combining the images through dichroic mirrors onto a screen for viewing.
triniscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triniscope
transverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transverters
Etymology: From trans- and converter.
Senses: glosses: A device used in radio, consisting of an upconverter and a downconverter in a single unit.
Related terms: transconverter
transverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transverter
transpondor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpondors
Senses: glosses: Dated form of transponder.
transpondors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transpondor
telepic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepics
Etymology: Short for telepicture.
Senses: glosses: telefilm
telepics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepic
telefeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telefeatures
Etymology: From tele- + feature.
Senses: glosses: telefilm
telefeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telefeature
Stevengraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stevengraphs
Etymology: From Steven + -graph, named after Thomas Stevens, who originated them in the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A picture woven from silk.
Stevengraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stevengraph
filmcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmcards
Etymology: From film + card.
Senses: glosses: A card containing microfilm data, used in a microfiche system.
filmcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filmcard
nicheness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From niche + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being highly specialized, or targeting a very small audience or market.
decolourises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decolourise
decolourising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decolourise
decolourizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decolourize
decolourizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decolourize
telebridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telebridges
Etymology: From tele- + bridge.
Senses: glosses: A kind of teleconference that connects groups of people in different countries by means of satellite television.
Related terms: space bridge
telebridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telebridge
binit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.nɪt/
rhymes: -aɪnɪt
Forms: form: binits
Etymology: Blend of binary + digit
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bit, or binary digit.
binits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binit
cardpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardpunches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of card punch.
cardpunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardpunch
photodiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photodisc
cybercasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cybercast
cybercasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cybercast
fraping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frape
fraped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frape
frapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frape
frapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frape
Evernet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of ever + Internet
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical future Internet that is ever-present and always available.
netsurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: netsurfs
form: netsurfing
form: netsurfed
form: netsurfed
Etymology: From net + surf.
Senses: examples: text: After you've netsurfed around the world a few times, your imagination, creativity, and desire to participate in this phenomenon will come together […]
ref: 1996, Rick Stout, The World Wide Web Complete Reference, page xx:
text: We do not have the time, need or inclination to netsurf to meet people only in cyberspace.
ref: 1999, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Cyberfeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity, page 27:
glosses: To surf the Internet.
netsurfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of netsurf
netsurfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of netsurf
spimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spim + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
ref: 2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:
glosses: The sending of spim.
IMers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IMer
cybersurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cybersurfs
form: cybersurfing
form: cybersurfed
form: cybersurfed
Etymology: From cyber- + surf.
Senses: glosses: To surf the Internet.
cybersurfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cybersurf
cybersurfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cybersurf
diskspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disk + space.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: storage space available on a computer disk
wikitorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wikitorials
Etymology: Blend of wiki + editorial, coined by the Los Angeles Times to describe an experiment of this kind that they attempted in 2005.
Senses: glosses: An editorial that can be edited by users in the manner of a wiki.
wikitorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wikitorial
CODEN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CODENs
Senses: glosses: An alphanumeric bibliographic code used to identify periodicals and other publications.
CODENs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CODEN
nerds out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nerd out
nerding out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nerd out
nerded out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nerd out
cybernate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cybernates
form: cybernating
form: cybernated
form: cybernated
Senses: glosses: To automate (an industrial process, etc.) using a computer system.
Related terms: cybernation
cybernated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cybernate
cybernates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cybernate
cybernating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cybernate
rings out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ring out
ringing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring out
rang out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ring out
rung out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ring out
ring outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring out
wrung out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wring out
wrings out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wring out
wringing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wring out
exfil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exfils
form: exfill
Senses: examples: text: After all this information has been gained, the troops and teams start conducting rehearsals on hitting the target. What this means is that they will conduct Full Mission Profiles (FMP). This covers every aspect of the operation — the infil to the target, actions on the objective, and then exfil from the target location back to the staging area.
ref: 2019 November 22, Brian Gilly, “Gilly: When Army Special Operations gets ‘the call’ for battle”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: infil
glosses: Clipping of exfiltration (“the act of going out of a place”).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of exfiltration (“covert extraction of data”).
exfil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exfils
form: exfiling
form: exfilling
form: exfiled
form: exfiled
form: exfilled
form: exfilled
form: exfill
Senses: glosses: Clipping of exfiltrate.
exfils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exfil
meadow mushrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow mushroom
field mushrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field mushroom
holddown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holddowns
form: hold-down
Etymology: Deverbal from hold down.
Senses: glosses: That which holds something down.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: holdback
tiedown
glosses: A clamping device that holds another structural element in place.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A period during which a network router ignores messages about a currently unreachable route, giving it time to become reachable again.
holddowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holddown
informatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: informatizes
form: informatizing
form: informatized
form: informatized
Senses: glosses: To make informational, or treat in terms of informatics.
Derived terms: informatization
informatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of informatise
informatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of informatise
informatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of informatize
informatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of informatize
informatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of informatize
lifehacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifehackers
Etymology: From life + hacker.
Senses: glosses: One who uses lifehacks.
lifehackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifehacker
social notworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of social networking + not working
Senses: glosses: The use of social networking web sites in the workplace, when one is supposed to be productively working.
Related terms: notspot
notwork
robotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robot + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The policy or process of using robots; robotization.
synonyms: roboticism
glosses: Robotic behaviour.
pumpkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpking
pumpking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌm(p)kɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpʌm(p)ˌkɪŋ/
Forms: form: pumpkings
Etymology: Blend of pumpkin + king, anecdotally from the use of a stuffed pumpkin toy that was handed between employees as a token of permission to make changes, ensuring that only one person could make changes at any particular time.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, various people are pumpkings for different areas. For example, Andy Dougherty and Jarkko Hietaniemi share the Configure pumpkin, and Tom Christiansen is the documentation pumpking.
ref: 1999 winter, Nathan Torkington, “Hacking the Perl Core”, in The Perl Journal, volume 4, number 4 (number 16 overall), Boston, Mass.: Readable Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2020:
text: Releases are coordinated by a ‘patch pumpkin holder’, or ‘pumpking’ – a quality controller who, with help from Larry [Wall], decides which contributions make the grade and when and bears the heavy responsibility of releasing a new Perl.
ref: 2000, Simon Cozens, with Peter Wainwright, Beginning Perl, Birmingham, West Midlands: Wrox Press, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Each release of Perl is assigned a "pumpking." This person controls all changes to the actual source code of the language itself. The pumpking for 5.6 was Gurusamy Sarathy, and the pumpking for 5.8 is Jarkko Hietaniemi.
ref: 2002, Clinton Pierce, “Basic Perl”, in Charlotte Clapp, editor, Perl Developer’s Dictionary, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Thanks to Doug Miles, the Phoenix Perl Mongers Pumpking, for his tireless dedication to the Phoenix Perl community, which he brought together. Writing Perl in the valley would be a lot lonelier without his hard work.
ref: 2005, Scott Walters, Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 (Expert’s Voice in Open Source), Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page xxii:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A Perl user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only person who is allowed to make changes.
cyberathlete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberathletes
Etymology: From cyber- + athlete.
Senses: examples: text: Amy Ketchum is a “cyberhost” at XS New York, which is something of an arcade of the future in Times Square. Her job is […] to provide a running commentary as the “cyberathletes” show their skills at Road Rash and other games.
ref: 1997 January 31, “Metro Digest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: One who competes professionally in video game tournaments.
Related terms: cyberathletic
cyberathletics
cyberathletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberathlete
cyberathletics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + athletics.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of e-sports.
synonyms: word: e-sports
Related terms: cyberathlete
cyberathletic
cyberathletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + athletic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cyberathletics, or e-sports.
clitichood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clitic + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a clitic.
affixhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affix + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being an affix.
compoundhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From compound + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Inseparability is perhaps the strongest test of compoundhood.
ref: 2006, Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, Handbook of Word-Formation, page 377:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a compound.
adverbhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adverb + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: The only candidate for adverbhood seems to be schnell, as indicated by the English gloss.
ref: 1986, Studies in Language, volume 10, page 30:
text: Using form as a criterion for adverbhood leaves us with a highly mixed bag of forms with little in common, such as HOWEVER, OFTEN, NOT, VERY, MORE, EVEN, OUT, DOWNSTAIRS, etc.
ref: 1998, Alex Klinge, Mastering English: A Student's Workbook and Guide, page 36:
text: The primacy of semantic features in creating an inventory tends to make it necessary to define degrees of adverbhood or subordinatorhood, for instance, and in this analysis discoursal and textual properties of clause-combining devices play an important role.
ref: 2004, Marina Dossena, Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology, page 177:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being an adverb.
determinerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From determiner + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a determiner.
facetimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facetime
facetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of facetime
phrasehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phrase + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a phrase.
facetiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of facetime
prepositionhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preposition + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a preposition.
adpositionhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adposition + -hood.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being an adposition.
headhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From head + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a syntactic or morphological head.
phonemehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phoneme + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a phoneme.
morphemehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpheme + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Morphological features can only be posited for a substrate language if there is sufficient positive evidence, i.e. an alternation between non-inherited endings. "Morpheme-hood" should only be posited based on language-internal evidence, as positing suffix alternation on the basis of forms in different languages renders both the comparison of the forms and the identification of the suffix circular.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 41:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a morpheme.
lexemehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lexeme + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a lexeme.
vowelhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vowel + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: However, since timing tiers lack the information of consonanthood and vowelhood in other syllable theories, consonanthood and vowelhood must be defined in different ways depending on phonological theories.
ref: 1997, Hyeon-Kwan Cho, A Phonological Analysis of Consonantal Assimilations and Consonant-vowel Interactions, page 159:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a vowel.
Related terms: consonanthood
sentencehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sentence + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a sentence.
clausehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clause + -hood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a clause.