cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lassa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Lhasa.
glosses: Acronym of Latin American Society of South Australia.
examples: text: It was first described in the town of Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
ref: 2013, Arin Bhattacharya, A Review on Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, page 8:
text: Luka. The Gospel According to St. Luke in Margi. Prepared by The Church of the Brethren Mission. Lassa, Nigeria.
ref: 2017, Carl Hoffmann, A Grammar of the Margi Language:
text: Lassa fever was first described in an American nurse working at Lassa, Nigeria.
ref: 2010, Stephen Berger, Lassa fever:
glosses: A town in Borno state, Nigeria.
examples: text: Other Catholic elemntary schools are at Lassa and a few other places .
ref: 1964, Thomas John Larson, A Preliminary Survey of the Cabrai of Lama-Kara Circonscription, Togo, page 65:
text: At Lassa, the president witnessed the unanimous selection of Chief Adre Walla who replaces the deceased Asoumaro Walla
ref: 1972, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa - Issues 1196-1203, page 62:
text: Here to help? Two witch doctors in Lassa, Togo
ref: 2009, Anne Rooney, The Story of Medicine:
glosses: A city in the Kara Region of Togo
Derived terms: Lassa fever
Lassa virus
Old Low German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OLG
Etymology: Calque of German Altniederdeutsch.
Senses: examples: text: The most important isogloss dividing Old Low German is the plural conjugation of the verb.
text: In particular, we will cover Old High German (OHG), Old Low German (OLG, including Old Saxon/OS and Old Low Franconian/OLFr, sometimes also referred to as Old Dutch), Old English (OE), and Old Frisian (OFri).
ref: 2021, Agnes Jäger, George Walkden, West Germanic, p. 281; in: Götz Keydana, Wolfgang Hock, Paul Widmer (eds.), Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European, p. 281ff.
glosses: a grouping of continental West Germanic, not affected by the High German consonant shift, spoken before the 12th century; depending on the definition specifically
Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian combined
examples: text: Old Low German developed after the Frankish subjection of the Saxons.
glosses: a grouping of continental West Germanic, not affected by the High German consonant shift, spoken before the 12th century; depending on the definition specifically
a Franconian-influenced form of Old Saxon that is at the basis of Middle Low German, distinct from “classical” Old Saxon e.g. in its treatment of the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (pure Old Saxon ōðar vs. Old Low German andar)
Meronyms: Old Dutch
Old Low Franconian
Old Saxon
Related terms: Old High German
Middle Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Middle Low German
odds and sods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it's for the best, if this is what his recording career has sunk to: a slapdash assortment of odds and sods from all parts of his career.
ref: 1993 Dec. 16, Andy Gill, "Rock Albums: Up Until Now" by Art Garfunkel, Independent (UK) (retrieved 20 Dec 2013)
text: The new News Corp (unkindly referred to as “crap co”) will consist of around 130 newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London, an education business and other odds and sods.
ref: 2013 June 22, “The News Corp split: Murdoch 2.0”, in The Economist, retrieved 20 Dec 2013:
synonyms: word: odds and bods
word: odds and ends
word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: Miscellaneous items.
examples: text: "I suddenly found that, although my proposals had been accepted at the very highest level, they were not accepted at the lower levels . . . I mean, the aristocrats who appointed the Italian painters or the Viennese musicians didn't have to get agreement from all the odds and sods around, did they?"
ref: 1994 September 12, Tony Jones, “Yorkshire lad who reached for the stars: Tony Jones talks to Fred Hoyle”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 20 Dec 2013:
text: But as the smartly dressed Kim arrived covered in mud from her foray across the pig yard, Tina took the opportunity to sneer, “Now we know how the odds and sods feel when Princess Diana turns up.”
ref: 1997 June 29, Sarah Lyall, “Arts: On British Soaps, the Poor and the Jobless”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Dec 2013:
text: . . . the pervasive need of all those new to hard service discipline to put down those in authority who are making life miserable for all the lowly odds and sods of this world.
ref: 1997, George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Victory: A Soldier's Eye View, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-45, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: hoi polloi
word: odds and bods
word: unwashed masses
word: canaille
word: commonality
word: commonalty
word: crowd
word: demos
word: everyone
word: general public
word: great unhosed
word: great unwashed
word: herd
word: hoi polloi
word: lower class
word: many
word: masses
word: mob
word: multitude
word: odds and sods
word: peasantry
word: plebs
word: populace
word: proletariat
word: rabble
word: rank and file
word: riffraff
word: third estate
word: trash
word: unwashed
word: unwashed masses
word: working class
glosses: Ordinary people who lack distinction.
Related terms: all and sundry
bits and bobs
bus shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus shelter
Brabants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brabant
supralocalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supra- + localisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supralocalization.
supralocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supra- + localization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The replacement of local regional words or phrases with those having a wider currency.
gall of glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The neutral salt skimmed from the surface of melted crown glass.
Synonyms: glass gall
sandiver
white precipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heavy white amorphous powder (NH₂.HgCl) obtained by adding ammonia to a solution of mercuric chloride or corrosive sublimate; amido-mercuric chloride.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance obtained by adding a solution of corrosive sublimate to a solution of sal ammoniac.
red precipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: mercuric oxide (HgO), a heavy red crystalline powder obtained by heating mercuric nitrate, or by heating mercury in the air.
chin whelk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sycosis
sycophantizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sycophantize
stomach staggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The swelling of an animal's (usually, a horse) stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion and sometimes death.
Belgian endive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgian endives
Senses: glosses: Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, grown without sunlight to produce pale leaves.
Synonyms: word: common chicory
word: wild chicory
word: common succory wild succory
word: Italian dandelion
word: witloof
word: horseweed
word: French endive
word: garden endive
word: wild endive
word: blue daisy
word: blue dandelion
word: blue sailors
word: blue weed
word: coffeeweed
word: cornflower
word: ragged sailor
word: succory
word: wild bachelor's button
word: wild bachelor's-button
word: chicory button
Related terms: radicchio
sugarloaf
granulated steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granulated steels
Senses: glosses: A variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.
inductive embarrassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The delay in signalling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction.
planetarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetarian
battle piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle pieces
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting, or a musical composition, representing a battle.
glosses: A piece of music designed to be played in battle.
battle pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle piece
crowd sail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crowds sail
form: crowding sail
form: crowded sail
form: crowded sail
Senses: examples: text: the Spaniards busied themselves in making the most of a sudden favourable change of wind, and, without much regard to order, were crowding sail to get near the land.
ref: 1827, William James, The Naval History of Great Britain […] :
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To carry an unusual amount of sail in an attempt to accelerate the speed of a vessel.
trembling poplar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trembling poplars
Senses: glosses: The European aspen (Populus tremula) or American aspen (Populus tremuloides).
Synonyms: sense: Populus tremuloides
word: trembling aspen
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: American aspen
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: quaky tree
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: quaky aspen
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: mountain aspen
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: golden aspen
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: quaking aspen
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: white poplar
sense: Populus tremuloides
word: popple
Hypernyms: sense: Populus tremuloides
word: popple
trembling poplars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trembling poplar
floe rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floe rats
Senses: glosses: The ringed seal (animal).
floe rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floe rat
unworshippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworshippable
form: most unworshippable
Etymology: From un- + worshippable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be worshipped.
unworshipable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworshipable
form: most unworshipable
Etymology: From un- + worshipable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be worshiped.
worshippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worshippable
form: most worshippable
Etymology: From worship + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being worshipped.
unworshipful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworshipful
form: most unworshipful
Etymology: From un- + worshipful.
Senses: glosses: Not worshipful.
brigade major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brigade majors
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: chief of staff of a brigade.
brigade majors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brigade major
quality binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quality bindings
Senses: glosses: A kind of worsted tape used in Scotland for binding carpets, etc.
quality fade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Paul Midler, author of Poorly Made in China (2009).
Senses: examples: text: Chinese factories often engaged in this sort of quality fade—the incremental degradation of a product over time. They quietly reduced the amount of materials or else manipulated the quality of raw inputs.
ref: 2009, Paul Middler, Poorly Made in China: An Insider’s Account of the Tactics behind China’s Production Game, page 96:
text: In this paper, quality fade, an element of supply chain vulnerability, is defined as the unforeseen deterioration of agreed to or expected quality levels with respect to product and/or service requirements. The use of outcome‐based, behavior‐based, or mix contracts can be used to reduce the likelihood of quality fade and illustrate preferred scenarios for buyer and suppliers.
ref: 2010 August 16, Judith M. Whipple, Joseph Roh, “Agency theory and quality fade in buyer‐supplier relationships”, in The International Journal of Logistics Management, volume 21, number 3:
text: The lack of a defined standard is concerning for quality fade—the phenomenon whereby manufacturers deliberately but surreptitiously reduce material quality to widen profit margins.
ref: 2021 November 1, Rotem Naftalovich, Marko Oydanich, Tolga Berkman, Andrew John Iskander, “Quality Fade in Medical Device Manufacturing: Thinness of Airway Breathing Circuit Plastic”, in Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, →DOI:
topics: business
synonyms: skimpflation
glosses: A gradual, deliberate reduction in the quality of manufactured goods in order to increase profit margins.
wikipedia: Poorly Made in China
protocatechuates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protocatechuate
gadfly petrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadfly petrel
clap net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clap nets
form: clap-net
form: clapnet
Senses: examples: text: The clap net is the grand weapon of the entomologist : it is a large piece of muslin, four feet long, and nearly three wide.
ref: 1835, Edward Newman, The Grammar of Entomology, page 265:
text: One day the colonel, who was very keen on hunting, took me with him when he went out to catch partridges with a clap-net [translating Tyras], an invention which impressed me very much.
ref: 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, II.21, Dedalus 2016, p. 158
glosses: A net for catching birds or insects, which can be drawn closed by pulling a string.
clap nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clap net
vegetable gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetable garden
owl train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owl trains
Senses: glosses: A railway train that travels during the night.
stump it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stumps it
form: stumping it
form: stumped it
form: stumped it
Senses: examples: text: Stump it , my cove ; that's a Bow Street runner
ref: 1841, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Night and Morning:
synonyms: leg it
glosses: To go on foot; hence, to run away; to escape.
glosses: To make electioneering speeches.
homomarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homomarriages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homo marriage.
loo table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loo tables
form: loo-table
Senses: glosses: A round table originally designed for playing the card game lanterloo.
loo tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loo table
colloblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colloblasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -blast.
Senses: synonyms: lasso cell
hypernyms: collocyte
glosses: A kind of cell found in the tentacles of ctenophores, used to capture prey by adhesion.
colloblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colloblast
lasso cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lasso cells
Etymology: In reference to its role in capturing prey.
Senses: glosses: colloblast
lasso cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lasso cell
oziers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozier
Malaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Malacca.
passive iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Iron that has been subjected to the action of heat, strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It is then not easily acted upon by acids.
village carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of village cart
post off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: posts off
form: posting off
form: posted off
form: posted off
Senses: glosses: To send away through the postal service; to mail.
examples: text: A second vse hence we should make, is for reproofe of many, who post off the time of the Lords offer, till age, sicknes, death: of these there are specially two sorts.
ref: 1608 June 12, Thomas Hopkins, Two Sermons Vpon the XII. Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes […], published 1609, page 63:
text: […] let me inferr further, that this late repentance must needs be very dangerous, when as repentance at the best, withall advantages of life, is a worke of the greatest difficulty; why then should we post off that to the last minute, for which all our life is to little?
ref: 1641 February 6, John Marston, A Sermon Preached at St. Margaretts in VVestminster […], published 1642, page 26:
text: Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?
ref: 1658, Richard Baxter, Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live:
glosses: To put off; to delay.
baffling wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baffling winds
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wind that frequently shifts from one point to another.
baffling winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baffling wind
Phrygian stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A light, spongy stone, resembling a pumice (or perhaps the pumice itself), used for dyeing, and said to be drying and astringent.
alien priories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alien priory
alien priory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alien priories
Senses: examples: text: The Plantagenet Kings[…]boldly seized the revenues of these Alien Priories in time of war between England and France.
ref: 1897, Edward Hungerford Goddard, The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine:
text: Velemont, a Benedictine abbey, founded in 1169. Annual income ten thouſand livres. At Stratfield-Say, in Berkſhire, was an alien priory belonging to this abbey.
ref: 1779, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature:
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: alien prior
glosses: A small religious establishment under the control of a larger monastery in another country.
ermine moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ermine moths
Etymology: From the resemblance to ermine.
Senses: glosses: A white moth with black spots (especially Yponomeuta padella of Europe).
glosses: Any of the family Yponomeutidae.
glosses: Any of certain white bombycid moths of America.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Yponomeuta multipunctella
word: American ermine moth
taxonomic: Yponomeuta malinellus
word: apple ermine moth
word: apple small ermine moth
taxonomic: Yponomeuta evonymella
word: bird-cherry ermine
taxonomic: Spilarctia luteum
word: buff ermine moth
taxonomic: Argyresthia castaneella
word: chestnut ermine moth
taxonomic: Prays atomocella
word: hop-tree ermine moth
taxonomic: Argyresthia trifasciata
word: juniper ermine moth
taxonomic: Yponomeuta plumbella
word: large-spot ermine moth
taxonomic: Ardices canescens
word: light ermine moth
taxonomic: Yponomeuta padella
word: orchard ermine
word: spindle ermine moth Yponomeuta cagnagella)
taxonomic: Spilosoma lubricipeda
word: white ermine moth
taxonomic: Yponomeuta rorrella
word: willow ermine moth
ermine moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ermine moth
British gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch. It corresponds in its properties to dextrin and is used in solution as a substitute for gum in stiffening goods.
perforced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perforce
perforcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perforce
weaning brash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A severe form of diarrhea which was said to affect children recently weaned.
Related terms: english: similar disease in piglets
translation: similar disease in piglets
word: post-weaning diarrhoea
homomarriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homomarriage
had like
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Wee had likt to haue had our two noses snapt
off with two old men without teeth.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: [the] report […]had like to have been my utter overthrow
ref: c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana:
text: Ramona had like to have said the literal truth, […] but recollected herself in time.
ref: 1884, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona:
glosses: Had nearly; (did) not quite (followed by the infinitive).
cedar bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cedar birds
Etymology: So called as its diet includes cedar cones.
Senses: glosses: A waxwing bird of species Bombycilla cedrorum.
Synonyms: cedar waxwing
cherry bird
Canada robin
American waxwing
cedar birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedar bird
permanent white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: barite used as a white pigment or paint, in distinction from white lead, which tarnishes and darkens from the formation of the sulphide.
pigmentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigmentlike
form: most pigmentlike
Etymology: From pigment + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pigment.
hornet flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornet fly
hornet fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornet flies
Senses: glosses: Any of genus Spilomyia of hoverflies (Syrphidae), many with coloring resembling that of hornets, some of which are predators of insect pests, others nectar-feeding pollinators.
hypernyms: hawk fly, robber fly
glosses: Any of the genus Asilus and allied genera of large, fierce dipterous robber flies (Asilidae) that often prey on insects larger than themselves to suck their blood, the males of which resemble hornets in coloring.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Spilomyia fusca
word: bald-faced hornet fly
taxonomic: Spilomyia alcimus
word: broad-banded hornet fly
taxonomic: Spilomyia crandalli
word: Crandall's hornet fly
taxonomic: Spilomyia sayi
word: four-lined hornet fly
taxonomic: Spilomyia interrupta
word: interrupted hornet fly
taxonomic: Spilomyia liturata
word: Rocky Mountain hornet fly
taxonomic: Spilomyia citima
word: western hornet fly
bacon beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacon beetles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of larder beetle.
synonyms: word: larder beetle
bacon beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacon beetle
sweating iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweating irons
Senses: glosses: A knife or piece of iron used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
sue me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "So I've got it! So sue me!"
ref: 1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 53:
text: "God, you're preaching again. And your ceiling's dirty."
"So, sue me."
ref: 1982, Judith Guest, Ordinary People, page 78:
text: She was sure they did, but their return journeys would take a little longer. If you don't like it, sue me, Rachel thought and smiled.
ref: 1997, Martin Wagner, Rachel's Machine, page 295:
text: “You're playing games with me, lady, and I don't like it.”
“Sue me,” Diana hissed.
ref: 2008, Bernie Loposer, Seven Is the Perfect Number, page 371:
text: I am a feminist – so sue me.
ref: 2011, Alice Grist, The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living, page 14:
text: My mind wandered for a minute, so sue me.
ref: 2015, Samantha Chase, chapter 10, in Stay with Me / More of Me:
glosses: Phrase sarcastically used to suggest that a person who does not like the actions or opinions of the speaker can respond by filing a lawsuit against the speaker.
volant piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volant pieces
Senses: glosses: An adjustable piece of armour for guarding the throat, etc. during jousting.
volant pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volant piece
catch a Tartar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a Tartar
form: catching a Tartar
form: caught a Tartar
form: caught a Tartar
form: get someone for a Tartar
Senses: examples: text: Now thou hast got me for a Tartar,
To make m 'gainst my will take quarter.
ref: 1674, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, §1.3.175:
text: What a Tartar have I caught!
ref: 1680, John Dryden, Kind Keeper, §5.1.62:
text: Tell him, if he try, he may catch a Tartar.
ref: 1720, Daniel Defoe, Life of Captain Singleton, page 281:
glosses: To discover someone is much stronger, much more dangerous, and/or much more violent than they appeared at first, especially after laying hands on them or (thieves' cant, obsolete) in a failed attempt to rob someone who turns out to be a stronger robber.
examples: text: You must give up flirting, my boy, or if I mistake not, you'll find you've caught a Tartar.
ref: 1897, Florence Marryat, chapter XIV, in The Blood of the Vampire:
glosses: To discover someone who cannot be controlled or disposed of more generally.
serve someone the same sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serves someone the same sauce
form: serving someone the same sauce
form: served someone the same sauce
form: served someone the same sauce
Senses: examples: text: Zeus wants to serve you all with the same sauce and hurl the lot of you into the Barathrum.
ref: 1912, London Athenian Society, Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies, Plutus:
glosses: To treat in the same way, especially as retaliation.
Lydian stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lydian stones
Senses: glosses: A touchstone of flint slate.
rotten stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rottenstone.
pinion wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinion wires
Senses: glosses: Wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions.
spangled coquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spangled coquettes
Senses: glosses: Lophornis stictolophus, a trochilid hummingbird of South America.
jelly powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly powders
Senses: glosses: A powder to be mixed with water to make jelly.
glosses: An explosive composed of nitroglycerine and collodion cotton.
jelly plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly plants
Senses: examples: text: The Jelly plant of Western Australia is used for invalids , as it makes an excellent stock for jelly
ref: 1879, Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association, Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association:
glosses: An edible seaweed (Eucheuma speciosum) from which jelly is made.
flock paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flock papers
Senses: examples: text: There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
glosses: Wallpaper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.
puffing pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puffing pigs
Senses: glosses: A porpoise, especially the harbour porpoise.
rasp palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasp palms
Senses: glosses: The walking palm (Socratea exorrhiza)
rasp palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasp palm
palmsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmful
hawk boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawk boys
Senses: examples: text: The hawk boy's server is about the size and shape of a common garden hoe, but the handle is in the direction of the instrument.
ref: 1867, Arthur Ashpitel, Treatise on Architecture:
text: Whenever any mischief or damage was done, rightly or wrongly, the plasterers' hawk-boys always had the credit of it. The plasterers of London should rejoice that the hawk-boys are abolished.
ref: 1879, The Builder, page 1301:
text: In London and the South of England plasterers formerly had attendants called "hawk-boys," each pair of plasterers having one to wait upon them. The hawk-boy's duty was to knock up and gauge all the materials, keep the men's tools clean, look after the warming of their meals, and serve the materials when gauged.
ref: 1905, William Millar, Plastering: Plain and Decorative, page 550:
glosses: A plasterer's (male) attendant who supplied him with mortar.
hawk boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawk boy
porations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poration
self-sown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + sown.
Senses: glosses: Not planted by humans, but just growing, from seeds spread by another plant, or by animals.
ejaculative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ejaculate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: 1866, George Henry Calvert, First Years in Europe, Extract reproduced in 1993, Karl Ortseifen, Winfried Herget, Holger Lamm (editors), Picturesque in the Highest Degree... Americans on the Rhine, page 28,
We were now so far inland that none of my fellow-passengers had probably ever stood on the wharf of a larger sea-port, for I was the first American they had seen; and the surprise was ejaculative that I was white, and increased to wonder when they learnt that I had made the passage from America to Europe in only twenty days.
text: Having erectile and ejaculative potency gives no assurance of orgastic potency. When erectile and ejaculative potency is in evidence, as it seems to be among gays, it seems superficially libelous to speak of potency problems.
ref: 2003, James W. William, Relax a Little, Understand a Lot, page 85:
text: […]where Sara Smolinksky's struggle with what she perceives to be her problematic overemotionality becomes a key part of her trajectory toward cultural assimilation and where nearly every page contains an ejaculative “Ach!” or “God!”
ref: 2005, Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings, page 94:
glosses: Ejaculatory.
interjectural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sir, in my life I never ſavv an elderly gentleman more aſtoniſhed! He ſtarted back tvvo or three paces, rapt out a dozen interjectoral oaths, and asked vvhat the devil had brought you here!
ref: 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 17:
text: The Science of Language teaches us not only that there can be no concept without a word, but that every word of our language, (with the exception of purely interjectural and imitative words) is based on a concept.
ref: 1873, Friedrich Max Müller, Lectures on Mr. Darwin's Philosophy of Language, from Fraser's Magazine, Volumes 7-8, reprinted in 1996, Roy Harris (editor), Origin Of Language, page 219
text: Students lapse to interjectural speech, gibberish, mimic any dialect, brogue, defect and affectation of speech.
ref: 1969, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence, volume 2, page 403:
glosses: Interjectional.
catalogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /katəˈlɒdʒɪk/
ipa: /katəˈlɒɡɪk/
Etymology: From catalog(ue) + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: catalogical
glosses: Pertaining to or consisting of a catalogue.
perjink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perjink
form: most perjink
form: prejink
Senses: examples: text: All my things were kept by her in a most perjink and excellent order, but they soon fell into an amazing confusion, for, as she often said to me, I had a turn for heedlessness;[…].
ref: 1822, John Galt, Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing, page 299:
text: No, Glenroy, I have more sense than to think that Inch Orran would behave in such a way as that; but I don't like people being so perjink in paying back their entertainments.
ref: 1831, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Destiny; or, The Chief's Daughter, page 165:
text: Hendry had left home glumly, declaring that the white collar Jess had put on him would throttle him; but her feikieness ended in his surrender, and he was looking unusually perjink.
ref: 1889, J. M. Barrie, A Window in Thrums, published 2008, page 108:
glosses: Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky.
Derived terms: word: perjinkety
diddley-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Imitative of the sound.
Senses: glosses: Old style traditional Irish music, typically with tin whistles, banjos, and bodhrans.
Related terms: trad
Xinjiangese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Xinjiang + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: He takes a beautiful ivory and bamboo waterpipe out of a trunk, and packs the bowl with layer after layer of Xinjiangese herbs and sticky hash, grinning. "Most Chinese people hate it, but we Xinjiang people love to fly."
ref: 1992 October, Andrew F. Jones, “Beijing Bastards”, in Spin, volume 8, number 7, New York, N.Y.: Spin Magazine, →OCLC, page 122:
text: The ancient dynasty's storied openness to cultural influences (and particularly exotic new musics) arriving from central Asia and the Middle East through the frontier province of Xinjiang informed the band's choice of musical elements – a mix of heavy metal, Xinjiangese folk harmonies and traditional Chinese instruments.
ref: 1998, Chinese Music, volumes 21–22, Woodridge, Ill.: Chinese Music Society of North America, page 56:
text: Sources of instability [in China] include terrorist threats by radical groups in Xinjiang as well as a broader group of Xinjiangese and Tibetans who desire independence or at least greater autonomy.
ref: 2006, Randall Peerenboom, “An Empirical Overview of Rights Performance in Asia, France, and the USA: The Dominance of Wealth in the Interplay of Economics, Culture, Law, and Governance”, in Randall Peerenboom, Carole J. Petersen, Albert H[ung-yee] Chen, editors, Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to the region of Xinjiang.
Zhejiangese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Zhejiang + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Let me just make certain things clear. With regards to HongKong-->Xianggang, since I now use exclusively Mandarin, I am only calling the city by its MANDARIN CHINESE name just as Cantonese speakers say Hearng Korng and Zhejiangese and Fujianese and Shanghainese call it differently.
ref: 1993, Mr. Zhong, “Final words”, in soc.culture.hongkong (Usenet):
text: "... Learning from other places in the country, we decided to "pool" money (jizi). But we had no idea how to pool money with the Zhejiangese, we were not even able to talk to them! ..."
ref: 1999, Hein Mallee, Frank N. Pieke, Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives, →ISBN, page 232:
text: Two of the leaders involved in preparing the ground for the Fujianese association in Italy were not born in Fujian but in Zhejiang, and, as some Fujianese pointed out, should thus traditionally be considered Zhejiangese.
ref: 2004, Katie Willis, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific, →ISBN, page 1976:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the province of Zhejiang.
Mantjiltjara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mandjildjara
form: Manyjilyjara
form: Manyjilyjarra
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language; one of the principle components of Martu Wangka, part of the Western Desert language group.
Mantjiltjara
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Mandjildjara
form: Manyjilyjara
form: Manyjilyjarra
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Mantjiltjara language.
biliojejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bilio-jejunal
Etymology: From bilio- + jejunal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: relating to the bile duct and the jejunum
intrajejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + jejunal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the jejunum.
pharyngojejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharyngo- + jejunal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: relating to, or connecting the pharynx and the jejunum
Derived terms: pharyngojejunal tube
transjejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + jejunal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Across the jejunum
sejoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin seiunctus.
Senses: glosses: separated, disjoined
unjingoistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jingoistic.
Senses: glosses: Not jingoistic
straight-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English streight up (“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”), equivalent to straight + up.
Senses: examples: text: From her recent comments, I think she's a straight-up racist.
text: Because it doesn’t actually produce anything, some knock Rockstar as a straight-up patent troll.
ref: 2012 May 21, Robert McMillan, “How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads”, in Wired:
text: Want to smell like a straight-up snack on a budget? Try out one of #PerfumeTok's favorite scents with notes of milk chocolate, creamy vanilla, and soft musks.
ref: 2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: True; unambiguous; unqualified; plainly so, with no bones about it.
examples: text: I'm going to go get a straight-up cocktail.
glosses: Of an alcoholic drink: served straight up.
straight-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English streight up (“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”), equivalent to straight + up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of straight up.
Augeas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈd͡ʒiːəs/
Forms: form: Augeias
Etymology: From Latin Augēās, from Ancient Greek Αὐγείᾱς (Augeíās).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A king of Elis, best known for his stables, the Augean stables.
Related terms: Augean
Augeias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Fro Ancient Greek Αὐγείας (Augeías)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Augeas.
unfemale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfemale
form: most unfemale
Etymology: From un- + female.
Senses: glosses: Not female.
feralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feral + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming feral.
cameralike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cameralike
form: most cameralike
Etymology: From camera + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a camera.
enquote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enquotes
form: enquoting
form: enquoted
form: enquoted
Etymology: From en- + quote.
Senses: glosses: To place in quotation marks.
enquoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enquote
enquotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enquote
enquoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enquote
unkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unkeys
form: unkeying
form: unkeyed
form: unkeyed
Etymology: From un- + key.
Senses: examples: text: I forgot to unkey the microphone, and everyone could still hear me.
glosses: To stop transmitting on a two-way radio, etc.
unkeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unkey
unkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unkey
vegetably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vegetable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To achieve the correct riding contact required by the precision of the sport of riding, there is no substitute for pure vegetably tanned leather - which I choose to name "naturally tanned" because no synthetic materials are used in their tanning […]
ref: 1987, H. Alexander Pastene, Riding Contact, page 18:
text: Vegetably speaking, they'll take beans, potatoes, and tomatoes.
ref: 2002, Cathryn A. Buesseler, L. E. Anderson, Recipes of a Pitchfork Ranch Hostess:
glosses: In vegetable terms, or by vegetable means.
marbleization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marbleizations
Etymology: From marble + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of marbleizing.
marbleizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marbleization
maquila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maquilas
Etymology: From Spanish maquila, from Andalusian Arabic مَكِيلَة (makíla), from Arabic مَكِيلَة (makīla, “measured”). In reference to factories, via Spanish clipping of maquiladora, from maquilar (“to assemble”) + -adora (“-ator: forming agent nouns”), from maquilar's original sense of taking a toll of grain. Also understood as a clipping within English.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of medio, half-celemin, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L.
synonyms: word: medio
extra: a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L.
word: half-celemin
extra: a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L.
glosses: Synonym of maquiladora, a factory or sweatshop in Latin American and Spanish contexts.
synonyms: word: maquiladora
extra: a factory or sweatshop in Latin American and Spanish contexts
maquila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maquilas
Etymology: From Basque makila via Spanish maquila.
Senses: examples: text: I would give one of my fingers to have your milord out on the mountains, and each of us with a maquila in his fist.
ref: 1903, Prosper Mérimée, translated by Lady Mary Loyd, Carmen, published 1845:
glosses: Alternative spelling of makila, a kind of walking stick.
maquilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maquila
manipulee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manipulees
Etymology: From manipulate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which is manipulated.
Synonyms: sense: someone manipulated
word: pawn
manipulees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manipulee
pohutukawas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pohutukawa
pohutukawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poːˈhutukʌwʌ/
ipa: /pəˌhuːtəˈkʌːwə/
ipa: /pəˌhuːtəˈkɑːwə/
Forms: form: pohutukawa
form: pohutukawas
form: pōhutukawa
form: pahutukawa
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pōhutukawa.
Senses: examples: text: I found in an old-fashioned garden overlooking the beach and the pohutukawa trees, the mulberry tree with leaves to feed our ‘charges’, and a kindly owner willing to give me supplies of leaves.
ref: 1984, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 279:
text: On the map, this road ends with the representation of a sacred pōhutukawa tree.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 12:
synonyms: Christmas tree
New Zealand Christmas tree
glosses: A coastal evergreen tree, Metrosideros excelsa, native to New Zealand and producing a brilliant display of red flowers with prominent stamens around Christmastime.
myxomycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myxomycete
muttery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muttery
form: most muttery
Etymology: From mutter + -y.
Senses: glosses: Sounding like a mutter.
glosses: Inclined to mutter or grumble.
myosepta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoseptum
nam pla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnam ˈplɑː/
ipa: /ˌnɑm ˈplɑ/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai น้ำปลา (nám-bplaa).
Senses: glosses: A Thai fish sauce.
fishpools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishpool
naqib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naqibs
Etymology: From Arabic نَقِب (naqib)
Senses: glosses: One of the leading missionaries of the Hashimiyya movement who prepared the Abbasid Revolution in Khurasan.
glosses: The head representative of the ashraf, the descendants of Muhammad; an honorary position in the Ottoman Empire.
naqibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naqib
narcomedusan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Narcomedusae.
Related terms: narcomedusa
naupaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naupakas
form: naupaka
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Any of many species of tropical flowering plants of the genus Scaevola.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Scaevola taccada
alt: syn. Scaevola sericea
word: beach naupaka
taxonomic: Scaevola coriacea
word: dwarf naupaka
taxonomic: Scaevola procera
word: forest naupaka
taxonomic: Scaevola gaudichaudiana
word: mountain naupaka
taxonomic: Scaevola mollis
word: purple naupaka
taxonomic: Scaevola gaudichaudii
word: ridgetop naupaka
naupakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naupaka
argileh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argilehs
Etymology: From Arabic أرجيلة.
Senses: glosses: hookah
argilehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argileh