cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
take on strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes on strength
form: taking on strength
form: took on strength
form: taken on strength
Etymology: From take on (“enlist”) + strength (“armed forces”).
Senses: examples: text: Taken on strength, 7th Light Horse, 6th April 1915.
text: To assist him in the task of organizing his unit, Lieutenant-Colonel O'Driscoll took on strength a nucleus of officers and N.C.O.'s who had served in the Newfoundland Militia or the Royal Artillery during the Second World War.
ref: 1964, G. W. L. Nicholson, The Fighting Newfoundlander, 2006 edition, page 521:
topics: government
military
politics
war
related: word: TOS
antonyms: strike off strength
glosses: To commission a soldier, animal or vehicle into the service of the armed forces.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take on, strength.
Laksar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An earlier spelling may have been Lhaksar.
Senses: glosses: A town in Uttarakhand, India.
takes on strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take on strength
taking on strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take on strength
took on strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take on strength
taken on strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take on strength
USrael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of US + Israel.
Senses: examples: text: Given the mass of U.S. power that is keeping the Jewish state in place, the right name for it is 'USrael', which will be used in the following text.
ref: 1999, G̲h̲ulām Ḥaidar, Pakistan, Some Notes, page 40:
text: The United States and Israel are preparing to attack Iran because of their alleged development of nuclear weapons, which Iran has denied on many occasions. Of the Iraqis who warned the United States that it was mistaken about the WMD, Saddam Hussein was executed, Tariq Aziz is awaiting execution. Which Iranian officials is USrael going to hang after their country is laid to waste?
ref: 2013, William Blum, America's Deadliest Export: Democracy—The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else, Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:
text: It accompanies a distinct missionary fervour on the part of anti-Israeli activists that often results in the unsavoury combination of Israhell and USrael.
ref: 2020, Thomas Klikauer, Alternative Für Deutschland: The AfD - Germany's New Nazis Or Another Populist Party?, page 175:
glosses: The United States and Israel, considered as a political unit.
right-handiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From right-hand + -i- + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Right-handedness.
Pissrael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of piss + Israel.
Senses: examples: text: Time for Pissrael to give up ITS weapons of mass destruction.
ref: 2004 November 8, John Keller, “Re: ~ I'D LIKE TO SEE THE PUSSY U.S. SOLDIERS FIGHT AN ARMY! ~”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):
text: I have as much right to hate Pissrael as you have to hate France. I have MORE RIGHT.
ref: 2006 July 22, slip_i...@yahoo.com, “Re: Pat Buchanan: No, This Is Not 'Our War'”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):
text: Actually Pissrael should be embargoed.
ref: 2006 September 9, Gary Renzetti, “Re: Gaza: The new Warsaw Ghetto”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
synonyms: Israhell
Isn'treal
Shitrael
glosses: Israel.
comes in handy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come in handy
coming in handy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of come in handy
came in handy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come in handy
gave someone a break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give someone a break
giving someone a break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone a break
gives someone a break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone a break
given someone a break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give someone a break
strike off strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes off strength
form: striking off strength
form: struck off strength
form: struck off strength
form: stricken off strength
Etymology: From strike off (“remove from”) + strength (“armed forces”).
Senses: examples: text: Struck off strength three horses after 10 months' service.
text: Has the minister received communications asking him to reconsider his decision to strike off strength the only highland regiment in the Canadian army, the Black Watch, and has he made any further decision in this regard?
ref: 1969 October 31, Russell MacEwan, “Striking off strength of Black Watch—Request for Reconsideration”, in House of Commons Debates, 28th Parliament, 2nd Session, volume 1, Canada, pages 355–6:
topics: government
military
politics
war
related: word: SOS
antonyms: take on strength
glosses: To discharge or decommission a soldier, animal or vehicle out of the service of the armed forces.
strikes off strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike off strength
striking off strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strike off strength
struck off strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strike off strength
stricken off strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of strike off strength
unshadowban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshadowbans
form: unshadowbanning
form: unshadowbanned
form: unshadowbanned
Etymology: From un- + shadowban.
Senses: examples: text: You’re also probably wondering how to unshadowban your posts or account. We’re going to break down how to get unshadowbanned on Twitter for you in this comprehensive guide.
ref: 2023 August 24, Steve Kuhn, “How To Get Unshadowbanned on Twitter”, in ITGeared:
text: While you're navigating the unshadowbanning process, focus on the good stuff.
ref: 2024 June 28, “How to get "unshadowbanned" on Twitter!”, in Circleboom Blog:
glosses: To remove a shadowban against.
unshadowbans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshadowban
unshadowbanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshadowban
unshadowbanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unshadowban
fillgap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fillgaps
form: fill-gap
Etymology: From fill + gap. Compare stopgap.
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: That which fills a gap, or serves as a short-term temporary fix until something better comes along.
qualifier: literal
glosses: Speech or text that takes up time or space but conveys little to no meaning; fluff.
Synonyms: stopgap
blinys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bliny
Keily
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
flex-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flexitime.
flexi time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flexitime.
littlefur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littlefurs
Etymology: From little + fur (“furry”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of babyfur.
synonyms: word: babyfur
littlefurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of littlefur
baby space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of little space.
synonyms: word: little space
babyspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of little space.
synonyms: word: little space
Ilanz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and former municipality, now in Ilanz/Glion municipality, Graubünden canton, Switzerland.
tidal ranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidal range
Champions tiebreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Champions tiebreak
shortcakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shortcakey
form: most shortcakey
Etymology: From shortcake + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Simple though this method is there is no danger of losing fruit by using it, and the tasty mixture will be found ripe and ready for a midwinter shortcake, which will be, I am assured, as appetizing and as short-cakey as if made in leafy June.
ref: 1899 August 30, “In Woman’s World”, in The Jersey City News, volume XI, number 3159, Jersey City, N.J., page [3], column 1:
text: It is cakey or shortcakey, fried up with a nicely crispy exterior, and a moist, rich, buttery interior (very moist and rich if you select one of the options with a filling inside).
ref: 2010 January 15, Mick Vann, “Gourdough’s”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 29, number 20, page 33, column 2:
text: Co-owned by Ed Strojan and his step-father, Gary Coleman, who also has the English Gardener gift shop across the street, virtually everything here is made with an eye to authenticity, from the shortcakey scones with imported clotted cream to pastry-wrapped banger sausages, sides of mushy peas, Madras curry sauce, and, especially, those fish and chips.
ref: 2010 September 9, Craig LaBan, “GoodTaste”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 101, page F5:
text: Anne Reeves had asked Nell to make some shortcakey iced biscuits.
ref: 2012, Margaret Morgan, “The Wedding Day”, in Mrs McKeiver’s Secrets, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, →ISBN, page 56:
text: I emailed Jago when I got home and told him the verdict on the cakes: Eccles cake was definitely favourite, Chorley cake was all right, but Sad cake was a bit more shortcakey, so that fingers of it would go well for elevenses with a cup of coffee.
ref: 2013, Trisha Ashley, Wish Upon a Star, London: Avon, →ISBN, page 108:
text: S also liked, to the point of insisting that I taste all the parts in various permutations, her coconut panna cotta with pineapple, cherry coulis and some shortcakey biscuits.
ref: 2013 August 18, Zoe Williams, “The Olde Bell”, in Stella (The Sunday Telegraph), page 51:
text: Ved became distracted by a shortcakey biscuit, and ate it.
ref: 2021, Anjali Joseph, Keeping in Touch, Melbourne, Vic.: Scribe Publications, published 2022, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of shortcake.
Reichenau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Feldkirchen district, Carinthia, Austria.
glosses: A municipality partly on Reichenau Island in Konstanz district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
glosses: A village in Tamins municipality, Graubünden canton, Switzerland.
CEU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CEUs
Senses: topics: business
education
glosses: Initialism of continuing education unit.
topics: transport
glosses: Initialism of car equivalent unit.
Mörel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Rendsburg-Eckernförde district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
glosses: A village and former municipality, now in Mörel-Filet municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
fruitcaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruitcaky
form: most fruitcaky
Senses: examples: text: […] smoke from the fruitcaky denizens?
ref: 1965 December 21, Wilmington News Journal:
text: In character they are loose-knit, somewhat warmer and sweeter than in the Médoc, with a spicy, fruitcaky flavour which derives from the predominant Merlot grape.
ref: 1990, Clive Coates, The Wines of France, London: Century Editions, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Lovely tarry fruitcaky wine from the South of France.
ref: 1998, Oz Clarke, Oz Clarke’s Wine Guide 1999, 15th edition, Ted Smart, →ISBN, page 418, column 1:
text: In the original Italian recipe, candied lemon zest is used, but I find this a bit fruitcaky for modern tastes.
ref: 2004, Orlando Murrin, No Cook Cookbook: Over 200 Simple Recipes and Ideas for Mouthwatering Meals Without Cooking, Quadrille, →ISBN, page 75:
text: He sat cross-legged down-highway from the driver, mouthing a semi-intelligible sing-song, for sadly the poor devil had been knocked fruitcaky, perhaps permanently.
ref: 2004, Irving Warner, Wagner, Descending: The Wrath of the Salmon Queen, New York, N.Y.: Pleasure Boat Studio, →ISBN, page 195:
text: This great sadness, what a treat it is to feel like this . . . what a kind of honour. Grief isn’t a curse, it's a blessing. To be so connected that you feel true loss – what is there to commiserate about that? Why should you want to make anyone ‘feel better’ when they’re unhappy in this way? This grief is only another side of loving, one part of what it is to be human. I can’t help being angry with people who try to claim sympathy when they are feeling bereaved. This deep fruitcaky, purple pain is a sort of joy, such a luxury.
ref: 2006, Virginia Ironside, No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub, Fig Tree, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: Alternative form of fruitcakey.
fruit-cakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruit-cakey
form: most fruit-cakey
Senses: examples: text: And so this day, the sweet, fresh, fruit-cakey taste of Lorrilard’s Climax Plug was an enormous help to a person with Mlle. de Maupin too much on his mind.
ref: 1932 May, Oliver Egleston, “The Cemetery”, in The Haverfordian, volume LI, number 7, Haverford, Pa., page 234:
text: Of course, it wouldn’t be Hollywood if they didn’t order the beard shaved off after the honeymoon was over and even before the picture started. That’s what makes actors so fruit-cakey, if you know what we mean.
ref: 1942 July, Photoplay Combined with Movie Mirror, volume 21, number 2, page 88, column 3:
text: In case you do not feel like going the whole way in making a fruit cake, you might try this wonderfully moist date and nut cake—very fruit-cakey in taste.
ref: 1950 December 8, Elizabeth Hedgecock, “Kitchens Should Smell of Fruit Cake Now”, in The News and Observer, volume CLXXI, number 161, Raleigh, N.C., page 16, column 3:
text: “Would the atom bomb be used?” / “Man has become so crazy, my boy, that there is no telling how fruit-cakey he can get.[…]”
ref: 1955 January 29, H. I. Phillips, “Father And Son Dialogue”, in The Salem News:
text: He had heard of Ed Orloff; Gordon had met him at the last Venice Film Festival. How had Jack described him? “Very good looking in a dark, fruit-cakey kind of way. A smart dresser and really on the ball as far as film publicity goes.”
ref: 1959, Frederic Mullally, Danse Macabre, London: Howard Baker, published 1970, →ISBN, page 115:
text: Alena said, “Yeah, but I don’t know if I want to run into them. Remember, they were kind of fruit-cakey.”
ref: 2003, Terry Smith, Helvena, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 73:
text: That stupid, nutty, fruit-cakey man.
ref: 2011, Laura Fitzgerald, Dreaming in English, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 347:
text: Would he notice that the bath store across the way gave off a fruit-cakey aroma that often clashed with the subtle blend of furniture polish and grass that her managers strove to maintain in their space?
ref: 2020, Katherine Hill, A Short Move, New York, N.Y.: Ig Publishing, →ISBN, page 255:
glosses: Alternative form of fruitcakey.
rescoop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescoops
form: rescooping
form: rescooped
form: rescooped
Etymology: From re- + scoop.
Senses: glosses: To scoop again.
rescooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescoop
rescoops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescoop
rescooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescoop
overvoltaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overvoltage
overvoltaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overvoltage
savagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savager
brand spankers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of brand spanking new + -ers.
Senses: glosses: Brand spanking new.
chokeholded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Makes no difference: Eric Garner was chokeholded to death. It was racist murder by the NYPD, and it was intentional.
ref: 2014 July 24, “Racist NYPD Murder of Eric Garner”, in The Internationalist:
text: People angry at another black man being chokeholded to death rioted, and (unfortunately) due to that riot, this store got burned down.
ref: 2020 May 30, Max, “Uncle Hugo’s Bookstore in Minneapolis Burned Down During Riots, GoFundMe Open”, in Unusual Things:
text: Bluse claimed she was "chokeholded" to the ground. Another passenger responded she deserved it.
ref: 2021 June 2, Ben Acosta, “Woman Demands To Speak To Manager Of Entire Airport After Getting Tackled By Security”, in Comic Sands:
glosses: simple past and past participle of chokehold
Synonyms: chokeheld
fish one's wish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fishes one's wish
form: fishing one's wish
form: fished one's wish
form: fished one's wish
Senses: examples: text: ELI The sound of your voice...
CHASTITY Come here.
ELI I used to pray that I could hear her voice again.
CHASTITY Well Eli. You finally fished your wish.
[They kiss. They stumble to the wall. She begins to undo his pants. He stops her.] […]
ref: 2000 January 1, William W. Demastes, The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
text: He wished not to have the responsibilities of a family, and once he "fished his wish," it appears that his family may have been the only thing he did want. I wonder what his last few moments were like in his car. What flashed before his eyes?[…]
ref: 2014 January 20, Bonnie L. DiMichele, in Grandma's Shoes, BalboaPress, →ISBN, page 42:
text: "Why don't you make a wish?" she said.
I nodded. "Okay."
[...] Beverly stood with her back to me by the shore some fifteen yards off, her clothes in a crumpled heap by her feet. Her skin was caramel coloured from top to bottom.
"Guess what?" she called back.
"What?"
"You just fished your wish."
And then with all the supple grace of a gymnast, she bent her knees spreading rounded buttocks slightly as a pair of sinewy thighs tensed, swung her arms upward and sailed in a perfect arc up and out slicing the water with only the slightest rip.
ref: 2022 January 25, W.L. Liberman, Dead Fish Jumping On The Road, Next Chapter:
text: But hey, remember all those times you were like 'Zach, I just pray we'll be together in the afterlife.' My friend, you fished your wish.
ref: 2022 May 12, Zach Star, When your religious friend ends up in Hell with you:
glosses: To get what one desires; to get one's wish.
superpolylogarithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + polylogarithmic.
Senses: examples: text: The polylogarithmic bound on g is necessary. To see this, let f(x) = Σxᵢ, and let g(x) be |x|/2 (or any other superpolylogarithmic threshold).
ref: 2003, Jiri Wiedermann, Peter van Emde Boas, Mogens Nielsen, Automata, Languages and Programming: 26th International Colloquium, ICALP'99, Prague, Czech Republic, July 11-15, 1999 Proceedings (page 152)
text: Lindzey noticed that it is possible to speed-up several graph algorithms using switching to a lower number of edges - he obtained up to superpolylogarithmic speed-ups of algorithms for diameter, transitive closure, bipartite maximum matching and general maximum matching.
ref: 2016, Thang N. Dinh, My T. Thai, Computing and Combinatorics: 22nd International Conference, COCOON 2016, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, August 2-4, 2016, Proceedings (page 169)
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: growing faster than any polynomial but slower than any exponential function.
microtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + time.
Senses: glosses: microscale time
mintleaf beebalm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Monarda fistulosa.
mitchboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitchboards
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A support on the deck for the mast when it is lowered.
mitchboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitchboard
mixed-blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed-bloods
Senses: glosses: A person of mixed ancestry.
mixed-bloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed-blood
mizpah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Hebrew מִצְפָּה (miṣpāh, mitspah), "watchtower". It is mentioned in the biblical story of Jacob and Laban in Genesis chapter 31, where a pile of stones marks an agreement between two people, with God as their watching witness.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The pile of stones erected by Jacob and Laban as a figurative watchtower to mark their separation.
glosses: An emotional bond between people who are separated.
mizrach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mizrah.
mrkr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mrkrs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of marker.
mrkrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mrkr
MSGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MSG
msged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of msg
msging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of msg
MSG symptom complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of monosodium glutamate symptom complex.
Homlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhæm lɪn/
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the city of Kaliningrad, a mythological creature, who, according to legend, lives next to people, and at night produces amber products; according to legend, they bring happiness and goodness.
Wulin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 武林 (Wǔlín), ancient name of Hangzhou, which is traditionally derived from the name given to the area of Wulin Mountains and Wulin Lakes.
Senses: examples: text: He was born at Hangchow or Wulin, had the agnomen [Jan-chên] 然眞, and died in 1665.
ref: 1960, Pasquale M. D'Elia, translated by Rufus Suter and Matthew Sciascia, Galileo in China: Relations through the Roman College between Galileo and the Jesuit Scientist-Missionaries, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: Synonym of Hangzhou.
synonyms: word: Hangzhou
wikipedia: Hangzhou
Wulin Lakes
musharoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musharoons
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: mushroom
musharoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musharoon
mussel shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mussel shrimps
form: mussel shrimp
Senses: glosses: Synonym of seed shrimp.
synonyms: word: seed shrimp
mussel shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mussel shrimp
inculcatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of inculcate
Spartist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spartists
Etymology: From Dave Spart (“stereotypical left-winger”) + -ist, itself a clipping of Spartacist (“member of the communist Spartacist League”).
Senses: examples: text: ... At this party, some local Spartists differed on fundamental issues of principle, their collective consciousness heightened by quantities of drink.
ref: 1982, Private Eye:
text: [...] the Spartists in the new universities when they found that a non- white , a man whose tattoos could be seen so clearly , had been painted in the same classical manner as an English aristocrat.
ref: 1996, New Statesman:
text: [...] there is a hackneyed line of attack against their kind. They are Spartists, bleeding hearts , do-gooders , limousine liberals who probably live in Hampstead and care more about criminals than their victims.
ref: 2000, Nick Cohen, Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, Verso, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Despite these very real differences, certain common themes can be traced in the writings of those – quietists and Spartists alike – promoting spontaneous improvisation and role-play during the 1980s and 1990s.
ref: 2002 January 4, David Hornbrook, Education and Dramatic Art, Routledge, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A left-winger, particularly a revolutionary but bourgeois one.
Synonyms: champagne socialist
Spartist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spartist
form: most Spartist
Etymology: From Dave Spart (“stereotypical left-winger”) + -ist, itself a clipping of Spartacist (“member of the communist Spartacist League”).
Senses: examples: text: In between putting the finishing touches to the theory of 'permanent revolution', he even manages a flirtation with the wife of a fellow guest ... and not a spartist gesture in sight.
ref: 1983, The Listener:
text: [...] and what a Spartist crew they are — all revolutionary clap-trap and middle class guilt.
ref: 1989, Tom Milne, The Time Out Film Guide:
text: The C of E primary school that my children go to is a lot better than most , but , no matter how hard it tries, it will always be shackled by the left-liberal orthodoxy imposed on it by the governments, the unions and Spartist educational theorists.
ref: 2007, The Spectator:
text: He's a political animal most thought had become extinct, a Spartist dinosaur reeking of hummus and hemp and definitely not the smoky fires of industry.
ref: 2017 July 20, Stuart Maconie, Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Far-left, particularly of a revolutionary but bourgeois nature.
mustanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustangers
Etymology: From mustang + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who captures wild horses.
mustangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mustanger
Grengiols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.
mythopoem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythopoems
Etymology: From mytho- + poem.
Senses: glosses: A poem that relates a myth.
mythopoems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythopoem
neppiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neppy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being neppy.
neppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neppy
form: most neppy
Etymology: From nep + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of cotton: having neps or knots.
Derived terms: neppiness
big as a house
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French gros comme une maison.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very large.
Soghdian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Soghdian
form: most Soghdian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sogdian.
Soghdian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soghdians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sogdian.
Soghdian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sogdian.
Soghdians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soghdian
Fiesch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.
buck up one's ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bucks up one's ideas
form: bucking up one's ideas
form: bucked up one's ideas
form: bucked up one's ideas
Senses: glosses: to pull one's socks up
give someone a lift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone a lift
form: giving someone a lift
form: gave someone a lift
form: given someone a lift
Senses: examples: text: Can you give me a lift to the airport?
glosses: To take (someone) in a vehicle
Niederwald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German nieder + Wald.
Senses: glosses: A village in Goms municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A minor city in Caldwell County and Hays County, Texas, United States.
Blitzingen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Goms municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
Goms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district and region in Valais canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.
Oberwald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Obergoms municipality, Goms district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
seemurgh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seemurghs
Senses: examples: text: Here the poor babe lay crying and sucking his fingers till he was found by the Seemurgh, who abode on the summit of Elburz, as she was looking for food for her young ones.
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of simurgh.
seemurghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seemurgh
vibe shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪbˌʃɪft/
Forms: form: vibe shifts
form: vibe-shift
Etymology: Coined in a Substack post in June 2021 by trend forecaster Sean Monahan.
Senses: examples: text: [Sean Monahan] thinks the new vibe shift could be the return of early-aughts indie sleaze.
ref: 2022 February 16, Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming – Will any of us survive it?”, in New York, →ISSN:
text: If there wasn't technically a depression, the country had certainly woken up in a depressed mood. There was a marked vibe shift from the sunny optimism of the Reagan '80s.
ref: 2025 June 7, John Ganz, “The decade that made Donald Trump”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: A major change in the current zeitgeist.
Related terms: vibe check
Realp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Uri canton, Switzerland.
Hospental
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Uri canton, Switzerland.
jumps at one's own shadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump at one's own shadow
jumping at one's own shadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump at one's own shadow
jumped at one's own shadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump at one's own shadow
dies and goes to heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die and go to heaven
dying and going to heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die and go to heaven
died and went to heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of die and go to heaven
died and gone to heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of die and go to heaven
bucks up one's ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buck up one's ideas
bucking up one's ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buck up one's ideas
bucked up one's ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buck up one's ideas
LWNJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LWNJs
form: LWNJ
Senses: topics: government
politics
antonyms: RWNJ
;
right-winger
rightist
rightie
righty
hypernyms: left-winger
leftist
leftie
lefty
;
nut job#Noun
nutjob#Noun
nut case#Noun
nutcase#Noun
nut#Noun
wingnut#Noun
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glosses: Initialism of left-wing nut job.
concavifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From concavifiable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: We establish this characteristic of concavifiability for continuous functions whose domain is an arbitrary geodesic metric space.
ref: 2017, Connell, Chris and Rasmusen, Eric B., “Concavifying the Quasiconcave”, in Journal of Convex Analysis, volume 24, number 4, page 1239:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Capability of being concavified (being made concave).
Related terms: convexifiability
convexifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convexifiable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The results of this paper, once one makes the obvious modifications, apply equally well to the analogous question of convexifiability.
ref: 2017, Connell, Chris and Rasmusen, Eric B., “Concavifying the Quasiconcave”, in Journal of Convex Analysis, volume 24, number 4, page 1240:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Capability of being convexified (being made convex).
Related terms: concavifiability
convexifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convexify + -able.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being convexified (being made convex).
Derived terms: convexifiability
Related terms: concavifiable
concavifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From concavify + -able.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being concavified (being made concave).
Derived terms: concavifiability
Related terms: convexifiable
Nätschen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality and ski area of Andermatt municipality, Uri canton, Switzerland.
Sedrun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Tujetsch municipality, Graubünden canton, Switzerland.
LWNJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LWNJ
weigh enough
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of way enough.
how you say
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Wine Merchant: “What do you think of the sample, Monsieur; fifteen years in bottle, hey, hey?”—Frenchman: “How you say, Sare, fifteen years in bottle; how that it possceble, when instanement that I pop out the cork, out comes one large fly. […]
ref: 1827 April 17, “Mr. Mathews at Home; or, Home Circuit and Cockney Gleanings”, in The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, volume 7, number 355, Liverpool: E. Smith & Co., page 339:
text: “I come to thees country to make new life. Rico, he tells me I can do good here. Signor Mosko, I pay him the monies, he weel arrange. Ees no good. I am—how you say?—without help. […]
ref: 1950 May, Robert Bloch, “Tell Your Fortune”, in Dorothy McIlwraith, editor, Weird Tales, volume 42, number 4, New York, page 10:
text: I am a safe installer here to install-a da safe. So just a-point to where the guacamole money is, and I'll-a install-a the safe-a in da, how you say, a-place?
ref: 2017 January 12, Andrew Law, “What's My Motivation” (11:30 from the start), in The Good Place, season 1, episode 11 (television production), spoken by Pillboi (Eugene Cordero), via NBC:
glosses: Used as a filled pause to imitate a stereotypical non-native English speaker: how do you say it? What is the expression?
formicariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formicarium
core business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The main activity of a company, that which a commercial organization primarily concerns itself with.
Related terms: core competency
Andreassian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andreassians
Etymology: Variant of Andreasyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Cow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cows
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Cow Creek.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Cow Island.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Cow Lake.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Cow Mountain.
Old Colwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊld ˈkɒlwɪn/
rhymes: -ɒlwɪn
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and community in Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH8778).
C of W
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CofW
form: C-of-W
form: C Of W
form: C-Of-W
Senses: glosses: A placename
Abbreviation of City of Winnipeg: A city, the capital of Manitoba, Canada: Synonym of Winnipeg.
glosses: A placename
Abbreviation of City of Westminster: A city, a borough of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.
C of W
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C of W's
form: CofW
form: C-of-W
form: C Of W
form: C-Of-W
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of CoW.
Related terms: cow
CoW
Cow
COW
mistax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistaxes
form: mistaxing
form: mistaxed
form: mistaxed
Etymology: From mis- + tax.
Senses: examples: text: If a rare transaction is mistaxed, taxpayers have an incentive to find it and exploit it.
ref: 2004, Henry Aaron, Joel Slemrod, The Crisis in Tax Administration, page 36:
text: That citizens would not be unrepresented, mistaxed, overlorded, or involuntarily impressed into military service put the country in a New World indeed.
ref: 2008, Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln: A History:
text: More generally, the policy concern that the use of carried interests enables labor income to be mistaxed as preferential capital gain would not seem to depend upon how long a particular investment is held.
ref: 2020, George K. Yin, Karen C. Burke, Partnership Taxation, page 328:
glosses: To tax inappropriately.
mistaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistax
mistaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistax
mistaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistax
pangeni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: … fargo, craps, draw poker, studhorse poker, pangeni or pangene, twenty-one …
ref: The Butte Miner, 18 April 1925, page 2
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Alternative spelling of panguingue.
Bigrigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Egremont parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY0013).
partying like it's 1999
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of party like it's 1999
Dodman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
partied like it's 1999
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of party like it's 1999
parties like it's 1999
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of party like it's 1999
partied like it was 1999
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of party like it's 1999
Copgrove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Staveley and Copgrove Parish Council) in Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3463).
xenharmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Ivor Darreg, from xen- + harmony
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of music characterized by the non-conformity to the common 12-tone equal temperament.
Synonyms: microtonality
Related terms: xenharmonic
Alexandra limp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alexandra limps
form: Alexandrian limp
Etymology: Named after Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925), then Princess of Wales, whose limp it imitates.
Senses: examples: text: A monstrosity has made itself visible among the female promenaders in Princes Street, viz., “the Alexandra limp!” […] Indeed, one decent woman expressed her pity in an audible “Puir things!” as she passed, but I was enlightened by hearing a pretty girl exclaim to her companion, “Why that’s the Alexandra limp! How ugly!”
ref: 1869 December 9, “The Ladies of Edinburgh and the Alexandra Limp”, in The Dundee Courier & Argus, number 5103, Dundee, page [4], column 2:
text: They knew nothing of boots tapered where the foot was broadest, of high heels, which threw the body off its balance, and of “Alexandra limps.”
ref: 1875 November, “Mr. Frank Curzon on “Rags and Bones.””, in The British Lyceum; […], volume I, number 2, London: […] William Medlen Hutchings, […], page 31, column 1:
text: She quite deserves it, for now she thinks her counterpart is gone she has broken out more ridiculously than ever with her hair frizzed out, and her Alexandra limp, and all her most unnatural airs!
ref: 1880, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “Autobiography of Patty Applecheeks”, in Bye-Words: A Collection of Tales New and Old, London: Macmillan and Co., page 304:
glosses: A limping gait affected by fashionable women in imitation of the then Princess of Wales who had some trouble with a knee.
wikipedia: Alexandra of Denmark
Princess of Wales
Alexandra limps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alexandra limp
Alexandrian limps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alexandrian limp
non-speciesist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-speciesists
Senses: antonyms: speciesist
glosses: An individual who holds an ethical stance of not considering humans to be greater, lesser, or equal to other species, and who recognizes that humans have much more in common with other species.
non-speciesist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not speciesist.
rabbit trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit trails
form: bunny trail
Etymology: Rabbits defy predators by running in circles.
Senses: glosses: A non-urban area that is challenging to traverse for non-local people.
examples: Near-synonym: rabbit hole
glosses: A convoluted discourse or tangential aside.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rabbit, trail.
Related terms: sense: non-urban area challenging for outsiders to traverse
word: backwoods
sense: non-urban area challenging for outsiders to traverse
word: thicket
sense: convoluted discourse or tangential aside
word: JAQing off
sense: convoluted discourse or tangential aside
word: sealioning
sense: convoluted discourse or tangential aside
word: merry dance
bunny trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny trails
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rabbit trail.
synonyms: word: rabbit trail
bunny trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunny trail
rabbit trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbit trail
end goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end goals
form: end-goal
form: endgoal
Senses: glosses: A goal that is followed by no others building upon its achievement, but furthered by the achievement of more immediate goals.
end-goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end-goals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of end goal.
end-goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end-goal
endgoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endgoals
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of end goal.
endgoals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endgoal
Perettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Perettian
form: most Perettian
Etymology: From Peretti + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The goal of Buzzfeed is not to make people "bookmark" them in their browser. In some ways, having one's own website, in the Perettian way of looking, is only important at the level of monetization: The models aren't quite there yet for monetizing a 100 percent distributed brand.
ref: 2012 February 14, Tom McGeveran, “Some best-guesses about what BuzzFeed is up to, and why it is in fact about Arianna, a little”, in Politico, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2023:
text: For no matter how high-minded Smith's justifications, how Dentonian his dedication to exposing the truth, I know that when he got his hands on that dossier he felt the same Perettian prickle at the back of his neck that I did, interviewing Barney Bishop III.
ref: 2023 April 20, Dan Kois, “A Dishy New History of Online Media Leaves Out Half the Equation”, in Slate, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023:
text: For a while, this Perettian tinkering was our special knowledge, our competitive advantage. Then it was everywhere.
ref: 2023 May 3, Nathan Heller, “BuzzFeed, Gawker, and the Casualties of the Traffic Wars”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of Internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, co-founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post.
Alexandrine parakeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alexandrine parakeets
Etymology: Named after Alexander the Great, who transported numerous birds from Punjab to various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were prized by the royalty, nobility and warlords.
Senses: examples: text: Alexandrine parakeets are among those parrot species that also come in a mutant blue color variety due to the suppression of yellow pigmentation.
ref: 2004, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, San Francisco, Calif.: Fog City Press, →ISBN, page 298:
text: She’s a parrot, children, a special kind – an Alexandrine parakeet. Notice her head, it’s bigger than most other parrots, and when she gets feathers she’ll have these pretty red shoulder patches ....
ref: 2013, Rohini Singh, Free Fall: The Journey Home, Hay House, →ISBN:
text: In the thirteenth century, Frederick II acquired an umbrella cockatoo from the Sultan of Babylon, and in the fourteenth century, Charles IV of France had an Alexandrine parakeet in his aviary.
ref: 2021, Marcy Norton, “Going to the birds: animals as things and beings in early modernity”, in Paula Findlen, editor, Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500–1800 (Early Modern Themes), 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, part I (The ambiguity of things), page 60:
synonyms: Alexandrine
glosses: A medium-sized parrot, Psittacula eupatria, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
wikipedia: Alexander the Great
Alexandrine parakeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alexandrine parakeet
gamaruche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæməɹuːʃ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamahuche (“oral sex, especially cunnilingus”).
gamaruche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæməɹuːʃ/
Forms: form: gamaruches
form: gamaruching
form: gamaruched
form: gamaruched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamahuche (“to perform oral sex, especially cunnilingus, on”).
gamaruches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gamaruche
gamaruching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gamaruche
gamaruched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gamaruche
gamaroosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæməɹuːʃ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamahuche (“oral sex, especially cunnilingus”).
gamaroosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæməɹuːʃ/
Forms: form: gamarooshes
form: gamarooshing
form: gamarooshed
form: gamarooshed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamahuche (“to perform oral sex, especially cunnilingus, on”).
gamarooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gamaroosh
gamarooshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gamaroosh
gamarooshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gamaroosh