cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chouriço
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈɹis/
Forms: form: chouriços
form: chourico
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese chouriço, of uncertain origin. Doublet of chorizo, which arrived via Spanish.
Senses: examples: text: Also local bluefish, filleted and grilled alongside a few lengths of chourico, the garlicky pork sausage that is made in nearby New Bedford by the great-great-grandchildren of Portuguese whaling men.
ref: 2003 July 30, Sam Sifton, “A Perfect Change-Up: Bluefish, Sausage and Clams”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The pork is free of tenderizers; more than a few pilgrimages have been made for the cured ham and spicy chouriço sausages (both $3.99 a pound).
ref: 2006 June 17, Tammy La Gorce, “Iberian Treats”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A Portuguese spiced sausage.
Related terms: chaurice
Dom Pedro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dom Pedros
Etymology: After Dom Pedro (whose name means 'Sir Peter'), a 19th-century Emperor of Brazil.
Senses: glosses: A South African cocktail made with ice cream and whisky.
wikipedia: Dom Pedro
Labiau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Labiau, from Old Prussian [Term?] or Lithuanian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The former name of Polessk, a formerly German city in historical East Prussia, now the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.
espetada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espetadas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese espetada, literally "(something) skewered."
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese dish made usually from large chunks of beef rubbed in garlic and salt, skewered onto a bay leaf stick with vegetables and left to grill over smouldering wood chips.
espetadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espetada
Portuguese roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portuguese rolls
Senses: glosses: A light bread roll with a crisp crust sprinkled with flour.
Portuguese rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Portuguese roll
prego roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prego rolls
Etymology: From Portuguese.
Senses: glosses: A steak sandwich made with piri-piri sauce and served on a Portuguese roll.
prego rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prego roll
Tharau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German.
Senses: glosses: A village, located in what was historically East Prussia and is now the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.
trinchados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinchado
Samlandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Samland + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Samland.
boitjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boitjies
form: boykie
Etymology: From Afrikaans, from English boy.
Senses: examples: text: 'It's a local fish - tastes just like barracuda,' said Leo from behind the bar as we dug into platteland-size plates of fish. A bunch of boitjies stood resting their boeps against the counter and talking about fish size and breast size.
ref: 2002, Justin Fox, With both hands waving: a journey through Mozambique, page 44:
glosses: A sporty young man; a jock.
boitjies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boitjie
boep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boeps
Etymology: From Afrikaans boep.
Senses: examples: text: 'It's a local fish - tastes just like barracuda,' said Leo from behind the bar as we dug into platteland-size plates of fish. A bunch of boitjies stood resting their boeps against the counter and talking about fish size and breast size.
ref: 2002, Justin Fox, With both hands waving: a journey through Mozambique, page 44:
glosses: beer belly
boeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boep
boykie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boykies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boitjie.
boykies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boykie
synodic period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synodic periods
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: synodic time
glosses: The apparent orbital period of a planet as seen from Earth; the period between two consecutive conjunctions (or oppositions) of a given planet with Earth.
Coordinate terms: sidereal period
clutchplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutchplates
Etymology: From clutch + plate.
Senses: glosses: One of the plates in a clutch (device used in engine etc.).
clutchplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clutchplate
Samland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German.
Senses: glosses: A peninsula, situated in what was historically East Prussia and is now the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, which juts out into the Baltic, and from which the Vistula Spit (enclosing the Vistula Lagoon) and Curonian Spit (enclosing the Curonian Lagoon) extend.
Synonyms: Sambia
Derived terms: Samlandic
rockspider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockspiders
Etymology: From rock + spider.
Senses: examples: text: […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
ref: 1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rock spider.
sidereal orbital period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidereal orbital periods
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The sidereal year of a planet. (I.e., in the definition for "sidereal year", replace "Earth" by the given planet.)
rockspiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockspider
crunchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: crunchies
Etymology: From crunchy. Use to refer to infantrymen in Vietnam is from their "crunching" through the jungle brush. Use to refer to white Afrikaners is perhaps from their supposed tendency to eat crunchy food.
Senses: examples: text: “Crunchie?” said Velvet, her face lighting. “I got them this morning.” “On tick still?” “Yes. She was cross but I swore we'd pay by Saturday.” In the gold paper was a chocolate stick. Beneath the chocolate was a sort of honeycomb, crisp and friable, something between biscuit and burnt sugar. Fry's chocolate crunchie.
ref: 1935, Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, page 18:
text: A different method and a different flavour from the usual brown crunchie. The recipe is easily doubled for a larger batch.
ref: 2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, The Best of Cooking in South Africa, page 207:
glosses: A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form.
examples: text: To the subjective mind of the combat crunchie and cannon cocker, executing with his legs, sweat, and often his life, the grand designs […]
ref: 2016, Micheal Clodfelter, Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier’s Memoir, →ISBN:
qualifier: US Vietnam era military slang
glosses: An infantry soldier, a grunt.
examples: text: […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
ref: 1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54:
glosses: A white Afrikaner.
Related terms: english: dry cat food in the form of small pellets
translation: dry cat food in the form of small pellets
word: crunchies
english: hippie
translation: hippie
word: crunchy
crunchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crunchie
glosses: plural of crunchy
sidereal rotation period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidereal rotation periods
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The sidereal day of a planet. (I.e., in the definition for "sidereal day", replace "Earth" by the given planet.)
hairyback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairybacks
Etymology: From hairy + back.
Senses: glosses: A gastrotrich.
examples: text: I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.
ref: 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:
text: A mistake which is often made by our South African militants is to assume that we are cleverer than the police, that we can out-manoeuvre the 'hairybacks' and the 'rock spiders'[…]
ref: 1986, Breyten Breytenbach, The true confessions of an albino terrorist, page 344:
text: […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
ref: 1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54:
glosses: A white Afrikaner.
hairybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairyback
sidereal period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidereal periods
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: synodic period
glosses: Sidereal orbital period.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Sidereal rotation period.
chowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaʊɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chow
chowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chow
whenwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛn.wiː/
Forms: form: whenwes
Etymology: From when + we, suggesting the start of an anecdote, e.g., "When we were in Rhodesia...".
Senses: glosses: A former British settler or expatriate who talks nostalgically about his or her former home in colonial Africa.
Related terms: Rhodie
whenwes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whenwe
gatsby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatsbys
form: gatsbies
Etymology: From Gatsby, named after the protagonist of the novel The Great Gatsby.
Senses: examples: text: Who wants to nag, if you can go to the beach and eat a Gatsby with smoked salmon and cream cheese?
ref: 2007, Robyn Cohen, Nearly Finished: A Guide to Home Renovation, page 33:
text: A favorite Cape fast food is the gatsby, a large hot dog bun filled with cooked or processed meat, French fries, and sauce, or a salomi, curry wrapped in a roti flat bread.
ref: 2011, Ken Albala, Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, page 178:
glosses: A snack consisting of a baguette filled with french fries, sauce, and other ingredients.
wikipedia: The Great Gatsby
salomi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salomis
Senses: examples: text: […]spices and aromas of "traditional Cape cuisine": smoortjies, bredies and gently spiced salomis[…]
ref: 1996, Pippa Skotnes, Miscast: negotiating the presence of the Bushmen, page 267:
text: A favorite Cape fast food is the gatsby, a large hot dog bun filled with cooked or processed meat, French fries, and sauce, or a salomi, curry wrapped in a roti flat bread.
ref: 2011, Ken Albala, Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, page 178:
glosses: A snack consisting of a curry-filled roti.
salomis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salomi
lappie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lappies
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans lappie, from Dutch lappie, Hollandic form of lapje (“a little rag”).
Senses: glosses: loincloth
glosses: dishtowel
glosses: face cloth; flannel
lappie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lappies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lappy.
artroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artrooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of art room.
artrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artroom
instantiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instantiators
Etymology: From instantiate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, instantiates.
instantiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instantiator
dtor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dtors
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Abbreviation of destructor.
Related terms: ctor
stukkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stukkies
Etymology: From Afrikaans stukkie (“girl, girlfriend”, literally “little piece”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm not really interested in his stukkie, I just want to check what she looks like.
ref: 1997, Barney Simon, Born in the RSA: four workshopped plays, page 43:
glosses: girlfriend
stukkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stukkie
tannie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannies
Etymology: From Afrikaans tannie (“auntie”), diminutive of tante (“aunt”), from Dutch tante (“aunt”).
Senses: examples: text: Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies, the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.
ref: 2008, Chris Cocks, Out of Action, page 135:
text: I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers[…]
ref: 2011, Charles Kingsley, From Afrikaner to Zebra – A Vet’s Life, page 81:
glosses: An older female authority figure.
Synonyms: antie
tannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tannie
toppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toppies
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays, Afrikaans must find its place among ten other official languages, and although a lot of the older toppies fear its extinction, it is alive and well and growing by the second.
ref: 2003, Justin Nurse, Laugh It Off: South African Youth Culture, page 42:
text: There were only two rooms with a double bed and for some reason, the management felt the two old toppies deserved the smaller of the two, each time.
ref: 2004, Michael Hilburn, Travel Diary - Bolivia, page 47:
glosses: An old man.
toppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toppie
wazee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mzee
laanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laanies
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans.
Senses: glosses: A smart, well-to-do person.
laanie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laanie
form: most laanie
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans.
Senses: glosses: Describing something fancy, new or expensive
laanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laanie
Ren fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ren fairs
form: ren fair
form: Ren Fair
Senses: examples: text: "Where you headed?" / "A Ren fair in San Antonio."
ref: 2009, Delilah Devlin, Texas Men, New York, N.Y.: Aphrodisia, →ISBN, page 247:
text: But the Attila Billy Joel, he's the one who goes to ren fairs, had his last sexual experience in the parking lot of a community college, and wouldn't be caught dead singing a song like "She's Always a Woman."
ref: 2016, Eric Spitznagel, Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past, New York, N.Y.: Plume Books, →ISBN, page 142:
text: "Everywhere else has a ren fair but here, so why doesn't Newfoundland have a ren fair? We have a huge nerd population. So something should have happened a long time ago."
ref: 2022 March 23, Elizabeth Whitten, quoting Phil Swift, “Mount Pearl gets royal with first renaissance festival”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023:
text: The Moscow couple have been longtime Ren Fair enthusiasts. Noble has lived in Moscow since 1984 and has only missed two Ren Fairs in the past 39 years. This year, the couple will have the distinction of being royalty during the event's 50th anniversary.
ref: 2023 May 5, Anthony Kuipers, “Moscow Renaissance Fair vets ascend to royalty”, in The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, W.A.: Review Publishing Corporation, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
synonyms: Ren faire
glosses: Clipping of Renaissance fair.
Ren fairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ren fair
nonrenewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrenewers
Etymology: From non- + renewer.
Senses: glosses: One who does not renew (a contract, subscription, etc.)
nonrenewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrenewer
nonreviewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonreviewer
guzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guzzies
form: guzee
form: guzzee
Etymology: From Persian [Term?] and Hindi गज़ी (gazī). Possibly connected to guz/gaz, the fabric having been made a guz in length.
Senses: examples: text: […]a double sheet, made of very coarse cotton cloth, called guzzy; of which tents are usually constructed.
ref: 1810, Thomas H. Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, page 52:
glosses: A kind of coarse cotton cloth.
wikipedia: Arthur Coke Burnell
Henry Yule
Hobson-Jobson
John Murray (publishing house)
William Crooke
guzzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guzzy
Vade Mecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vade Mecums
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of vade mecum.
vade-mecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vade-mecums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vade mecum.
vade-mecums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vade-mecum
dribbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drib
dribbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drib
umlungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umlungu
electrosex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: At a command to lift his legs, Savin switched out the plug for another electrosex variety, adding the needed gel to the torpedo-shaped insert.
ref: 2010, Michelle Polaris, Magician's Chains, page 216:
text: He wasn't done using his electrosex toys on Gina. Jacob watched her face as Mike placed one clamp on her right nipple and then her left. She grimaced a bit before writhing around seductively on the table.
ref: 2012, Gail Starbright, Slave Girl for Rent, page 43:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Electrostimulation for erotic purposes.
electrotorture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + torture.
Senses: examples: text: And there's a long-established school of S/M, I discovered, where folks of all genders and orientations matriculate in piss play and electrotorture.
ref: 2003, Simon H. Sheppard, Kinkorama: dispatches from the front lines of perversion, page 93:
text: American and Argentinean police forces used electrotorture in the 1920s.
ref: 2008, Laura L. Finley, The torture and prisoner abuse debate, page 29:
text: Why then, one may ask, does stealthy electrotorture appear first in the colonies and foreign wars of democracies and not in the colonies and foreign wars of authoritarian states?
ref: 2009, Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, page 194:
glosses: torture involving electric shock
unarisen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + arisen.
Senses: examples: text: As Spring's heart dreams of unarisen flowers / And of soft summer joys unseen[…]
ref: 1890, George Barlow, From Dawn to Sunset, page 360:
glosses: Not having arisen.
churchdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchdoors
Senses: examples: text: Without this previous knowledge we should be utterly unable to account for the presence of Orpheus charming the beasts, as a Christian allegory in the catacombs; of "Sigurd Fafni's bane" and the dragon on churchdoors in Norway; or of King Tidrik and the drake on churchdoors in Iceland; […]
ref: 1876, “Notes of the Survival of Pagan Customs in Christian Bural”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume 11, page 365:
text: She went in at the open door, always kept open, as churchdoors should be, […]
ref: 1878 February, in the Churchman's Shilling Magazine, volume 22, part 132
text: […] in Bracton's time, as in Glanvil's time, the churchdoor covenant might always be made to include the husband's future acquisitions as well as his present possessions. […] For wherever the husband had named at the churchdoor a definite piece of land as her dower, her claim became indefeasible; […]
ref: 1879, Courtney Stanhope Kenny, The history of the law of England as to the effects of marriage on property, page 48:
text: . . . when the man came through the churchdoor on a scruffy Mule, […]
ref: 1981, Suzette Haden Elgin, Twelve Fair Kingdoms (republished in The Ozark Trilogy), page 4
glosses: Alternative form of church door.
church door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church doors
form: churchdoor
form: church-door
Etymology: From Middle English churche-dore, chirche-dor, kurkdure, chyrchdurr, kirrkedure, from Old English ċiriċdor, ċyriċdor (“church door”), equivalent to church + door. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerkedoar (“church door”), Dutch kerkdeur (“church door”), German Kirchentür (“church door”), Danish kirkedør (“church door”), Icelandic kirkjudyr (“church door”).
Senses: glosses: A door to a church, especially the front door (or double doors) that open directly to the narthex or nave, often ornate.
churchdoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchdoor
church doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church door
EMALS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMALSs
form: EMALSes
Etymology: Abbreviation of Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System. Genericization of the product name and its abbreviation, of such a system developed by General Atomics for the U.S. Navy.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
synonyms: electromagnetic aircraft launch system
hypernyms: electromagnetic catapult
launch catapult
aircraft catapult
catapult
coordinate_terms: steam catapult
CATOBAR
glosses: Acronym of electromagnetic aircraft launch system: A launch catapult system for airplanes on aircraft carriers powered by linear acceleration with electromagnetic forces
church-door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church-doors
Senses: examples: text: What is more extraordinary still, is, that during Holy Week particularly, there are many among them who inflict corporal punishment upon themselves; and while they are performing this flagellation, the church-doors are open, and they care not who enters.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] II.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of church door.
church-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church-door
true anomaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true anomalies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: celestial mechanics
glosses: The angle PFC formed by P = the periapsis of a celestial body's elliptical orbit, F = the focus of that orbit, and C = the current position of the celestial body.
Related terms: eccentric anomaly
mean anomaly
salt horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt horses
Etymology: From the fact that horse meat was considered especially unappetizing and rarely eaten, but that the meat had been so heavily salted and dried that it could just be horse meat passed off as beef.
Senses: qualifier: sailor's slang
glosses: salt beef
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A naval officer or rating whose training and experience have qualified him as a seaman rather than in any specialised trade.
see the elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees the elephant
form: seeing the elephant
form: saw the elephant
form: seen the elephant
Senses: glosses: To witness something unexpected and awe-inspiring.
examples: text: "[W]hy he's a natural born carakter. He is the best hand at a yarn in all west country, and will whip more cats, tell more lies, and eat more pork, than any fellow in Texas. […] [H]e's rare, jist the chap, and no mistake. He's seen the elephant, I imagine, a little more nor twice, I expect."
ref: 1846, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, page 338:
glosses: To be up to the latest moves; to be knowing and worldly.
qualifier: American Civil War
glosses: To witness or participate in a battle.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see see, the, elephant.
seeing the elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see the elephant
saw the elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see the elephant
Swerin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: Alternative form of Schwerin.
Butternut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Butternuts
Etymology: After the color of the Confederate uniform.
Senses: examples: text: Yankees took to calling the Borderlanders “butternuts”—a reference to the color of their crude homespun clothes.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Southern settlers of the Ohio river basin, who used dye from the butternut tree to colour their home-made clothing
examples: text: The Illinois troops delivered a volley that sent the butternuts scampering back across the field.
ref: 1958, Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville.:
glosses: A Confederate Southerner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slavery
Butternuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Butternut
hair dyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair dye
Copperhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Copperheads
Etymology: After the dangerous copperhead snake, to which propagandists of the Republican Party compared Democrats interested in appeasement.
Senses: synonyms: Peace Democrat
glosses: A northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War.
glosses: Any member of the Democratic party.
Copperheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Copperhead
Jacksonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacksonites
Etymology: From Jackson + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A Jacksonian.
hickoryite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hickory + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Jasper of the color of hickory bark.
hickry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hickory.
Know-Nothings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Know-Nothing
Texican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of Texan + Mexican
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to both Texas and Mexico, or people connected with both places by habitation or ancestry.
Texican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texicans
Etymology: Blend of Texan + Mexican
Senses: glosses: A resident or denizen of Texas who identifies as Mexican.
Texicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texican
Yankeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Yankee
Yankeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Yankee
wienerwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wienerwursts
Etymology: German Wienerwurst, from Wiener (“Viennese”) + Wurst (“sausage”).
Senses: glosses: Vienna sausage
dundy-funk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dunderfunk.
dundy funk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dunderfunk.
d'yer
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: do you?
chemoorganotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + organotrophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of bacteria) organotrophic and also requiring organic compounds for growth
chemosusceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemosusceptibilities
Etymology: From chemo- + susceptibility.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The susceptibility of a microorganism to the chemical action of an antibiotic
coordinatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coordinated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a coordinated manner (by acting together)
decasaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decasaccharides
Etymology: From deca- + saccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide that has ten monosaccharide units
desulfation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desulfations
form: desulphation
Etymology: From de- + sulfation.
Senses: glosses: The removal of sulfate
Related terms: desulfated
dienolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dienolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any macrolide derived from a diene
glutamyltranspeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutamyltranspeptidases
Etymology: From glutamyl + transpeptidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the transfer of glutamic acid residues between proteins.
glycocylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of glycosylase.
right stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the right stuff
Senses: examples: text: Those that are made of the right stuff are those that can be seasick and want to die but still push themselves into remaining a functioning part of the crew.
ref: 2012, Andy Lear, The Joys of Yachting, page 34:
glosses: Ideal and essential qualities in character that are critical for success.
glycomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glyco- + mimetic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That mimics the structure or function of a sugar (or glycoside)
glycomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycomimetics
Etymology: From glyco- + mimetic.
Senses: examples: text: The described anti-DS antibodies might contribute to the future development of glycomimetics, which may ultimately lead to a better treatment of selected renal nephropathies and prevention of renal rejection.
ref: 2015 September 1, “Differential Expression of Specific Dermatan Sulfate Domains in Renal Pathology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any glycomimetic substance.
glyconanoparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyconanoparticles
Etymology: From glyco- + nanoparticle.
Senses: glosses: A nanoparticle composed of carbohydrate, typically of a glycan
glyconanoparticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyconanoparticle
sidewalk superintendents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidewalk superintendent
heparinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heparinases
Etymology: From heparin + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolytic cleavage of heparins
Synonyms: heparin lyase
houseproud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more houseproud
form: most houseproud
Etymology: From house + proud.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Molyneux was extremely proud of her doors and ceilings and fire places, but indeed she was altogether what Lancashire folk call a "houseproud woman."
ref: 1890, F. Mabel Robinson, The plan of campaign: a story of the fortune of war, page 7:
text: We also witness Marlowe at his most houseproud, serving coffee for Eileen Wade[…]
ref: 1978, Miriam Gross, The world of Raymond Chandler, page 98:
text: Houses are not mirrors for Narcissuses, and even the most houseproud people don't eat off the kitchen floor, whatever they say.
ref: 1984, Joan Perkin, It's never too late, page 136:
glosses: Alternative form of house-proud.
ataque de nervios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish ataque de nervios.
Senses: synonyms: Puerto Rican syndrome
glosses: A psychological syndrome among Iberian-descended cultures, involving uncontrollable screaming or shouting, crying, trembling, sensations of heat rising in the chest and head, dissociative experiences, and verbal or physical aggression.
crack the whip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks the whip
form: cracked the whip
form: cracked the whip
form: cracked the whip
Senses: glosses: To make harsh demands in a position of leadership.
crack the whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crack-the-whip.
Related terms: fair crack of the whip
crack-the-whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack the whip
form: Crack the Whip
Senses: glosses: An outdoor children's game in which participants try to maintain hold of hands as random movements by the leader at the head of the line increase the force at the tail, as with the end of a whip.
glosses: Any maneuver in a variety of disciplines that mimics the motion of the tail of a whip.
white-ants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of white-ant
white-anted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of white-ant
pn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of upon.
heparinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heparinase
hexosamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexosamines
Etymology: Blend of hexose + amine
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino sugar derived from a hexose.
Related terms: lyxohexosamine
ribohexosamine
idopyranoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idopyranosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoside derived from idopyranose
pf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of power factor.
glosses: pff
tf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: tf is that?
related: word: TF
glosses: Initialism of the fuck.
idopyranose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idopyranoses
Etymology: From idose + pyranose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare hexose whose derivatives, obtained from the plant Vitex negundo, protect against diabetes.
iduronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iduronates
Etymology: From iduronic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of iduronic acid.
iduronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of idose + uronic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to iduronic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: iduronate
langerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Langerhans + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An antigen produced by Langerhans cells
larviciding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From larvicide + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The application of larvicide.
larvivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larvivore
methylsulfates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylsulfate
nomoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of normoxic.
nonchemotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chemotactic.
Senses: glosses: That do not undergo chemotaxis
nonprogression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + progression.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An absence of normal progress (of a disease)
phosphomutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphomutants
Etymology: From phospho- + mutant.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mutant protein that is a phosphoprotein, wherein the mutation changes one or more amino acids modifiable by phosphorylation into non-phosphorylatable residues.
mutant protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutant proteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any protein produced via a mutated gene
phosphomutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphomutant
polysulfated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: polysulphated
Etymology: From poly- + sulfated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: modified by the addition of multiple sulfate groups
proteic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French protéique. Cf. protein, proteinic. From the stem of Ancient Greek πρωτεῖος (prōteîos) and the suffix -ic.
Senses: glosses: proteinic
religated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + ligated.
Senses: glosses: ligated again
glosses: Misspelling of relegated.
reprobing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + probing.
Senses: glosses: probing again
sensorgrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensorgram
thermoresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoresistances
Etymology: From thermo- + resistance.
Senses: glosses: resistance to heat
Related terms: thermoresistant
transdominant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + dominant.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can control the expression of a structural gene on another chromosome
raw_tags: of a mutation
Related terms: transdominance
transilluminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transilluminate
transilluminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: illuminated by transillumination
trimerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimerisations
Etymology: From trimer + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trimerization.
trisulfated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: trisulphated
Etymology: From tri- + sulfated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by the addition of three sulfate groups
veterinary surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veterinary surgeon
to the end of the chapter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in readiness anew.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 27”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To the very end; exhaustively; to the last.
kitchen sink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n ˈsɪŋk/
ipa: /ˌkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n ˈsɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Etymology: The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: It is evident that neither objectivity nor abstraction is the aim of the young painters of the kitchen-sink school.
ref: 1954 December, David Sylvester, “The Kitchen Sink”, in Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, editors, Encounter, London: Encounter Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2:
text: [T]here are a number of instances of [John] Berger promoting the four artists known as the Beaux Arts Quartet, or the Kitchen Sink painters—John Bratby, Jack Smith, Edward Middleditch and Derrick Greaves.
ref: 2004 autumn, Adrian Clark, “Two British Art Patrons of the 1940s and 1950s: Sir Colin Anderson and Peter Watson”, in The British Art Journal, volume V, number 2, London: Art Journals, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:
text: The home and domesticity were the main subjects of "kitchen sink" painting, a short-lived style of realism active in London between 1952 and 1957. The four artists typically associated with this genre are Jack Smith, Edward Middleditch, Derrick Greaves, and John Bratby. […] In the histories of post-war British art, it remains widely unchallenged that these four men are the only "kitchen sink" artists. Their works from the 1950s are considered as central in discourses of post-war representations of the home and labour, with critics and historians often locating "kitchen sink" painting's legacy as a precursor to British pop art's focus on everyday domestic objects.
ref: 2019 May 31, Abi Shapiro, “The Kitchen Sink Too”, in British Art Studies, number 12, London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023:
qualifier: painting
glosses: Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
fiction
film
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
television
theater
glosses: Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
Derived terms: kitchen sink drama
kitchen sink realism
kitchen sink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n ˈsɪŋk/
ipa: /ˌkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n ˈsɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: kitchen sinks
form: kitchen sinking
form: kitchen sinked
form: kitchen sinked
Etymology: The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork.
glosses: To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
topics: business
glosses: To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
glosses: To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
Related terms: word: kitchen-sinking
kitchen sinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchen sink
kitchen sinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kitchen sink
bae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪ/
enpr: bā
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: bay
homophone: bey
Forms: form: baes
Etymology: Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from "before anyone else", a possible backronym.
Senses: examples: text: And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.
ref: 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9
text: Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”
ref: 2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3
text: A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?
ref: 2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98
synonyms: babe
baby
darling
dear
love
sweetheart
loved one
significant other
special someone
glosses: Darling (term of endearment).
Derived terms: baecation
baeless
bae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪ/
enpr: bā
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: bay
homophone: bey
Forms: form: baes
Etymology: From Korean 배 (bae).
Senses: glosses: Asian pear.
bae
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪ/
enpr: bā
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: bay
homophone: bey
Forms: form: baes
form: baeing
form: baed
form: baed
Etymology: From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.
Senses: examples: text: He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
ref: c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 3, line 70:
text: ...the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.
ref: c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, line 10:
glosses: To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
acceleratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acceleratedly
form: most acceleratedly
Etymology: From accelerated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an accelerated manner.
acategorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + categorical.
Senses: glosses: Not categorical; not subject to being included in a category.
and be done with it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ―I hate this medicine!
―Just take the horrid-tasting stuff and be done with it.
text: One junior minister failed to see why main lines could not simply be turned into motorways and be done with it.
ref: 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 28:
synonyms: and have done with it
glosses: Used to terminate discussion or delay with a call to action
Related terms: get it over with
disinsection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + insect + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: 6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]
ref: 1949, World Health Organization, Report on the 1st- Session May 10-15, page 19:
qualifier: air travel
glosses: The use of insecticide for pest control; disinsectization.
Related terms: disinsect
disinsectization
boatspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boat + -speak.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used by boating enthusiasts.
gummata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumma
edutainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edutainment
infotainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infotainment