cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
macho-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macho-ish
form: most macho-ish
form: machoish
Etymology: From macho + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: A collector of guns and knives, [Charles Alvin] Beckwith testified that he read Soldier of Fortune mostly for its gun and knife reviews. He rarely looked at the personal-services ads, and had never suspected any criminal intent. “You read one of these, it sounds so macho-ish,” he said. “It just didn’t make my heart beat fast, so I’d go on to something else that did, that caught my attention.”
ref: 1992 January, Ben Green, “Part Seven: Graven Images”, in The Soldier of Fortune Murders: A True Story of Obsessive Love and Murder-for-Hire, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, section 2, pages 441–442:
text: Good looking, tall, macho-ish and strong but with a soft heart and a witty tongue.
ref: 2001 September 14, mogliettina_1, quotee, “A Portrait of One Forum’s Grief”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 11 September 2002, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021:
text: The macho-ish option: For lashings of pampering, mixed with a dab of grizzle, try Argentina.
ref: 2012 February 9, “Trips of a lifetime”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:
text: The pop songs, which also included hits by the feathery-voiced chanteuse IU and the macho-ish boy-band Bigbang,^([sic]) were aimed at giving North Koreans get a taste of South Korean youth culture, the ministry [i.e., the South’s Defense Ministry] said.
ref: 2015 August 31, Choe Sang-Hun, “To Jar North, South Korea Used a Pop-Music Barrage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2015:
glosses: Somewhat macho.
boy-band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy-bands
Senses: examples: text: "I've had my words completely twisted by a tabloid," cautions [Harry] Judd. "They asked me if I thought we were the new wave of boy-bands and my answer was that I think they're still good at what they do, but I think people like the fact that we play our own instruments. Next day," he continues, "the first paragraph is: 'Harry from McFly hates all boy-bands, he thinks McFly are proper rock.'"
ref: 2004 July 22, Alexis Petridis, “Mad about the boys”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2014:
text: The pop songs, which also included hits by the feathery-voiced chanteuse IU and the macho-ish boy-band Bigbang,^([sic]) were aimed at giving North Koreans get a taste of South Korean youth culture, the ministry [i.e., the South’s Defense Ministry] said.
ref: 2015 August 31, Choe Sang-Hun, “To Jar North, South Korea Used a Pop-Music Barrage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2015:
text: The Jonas Brothers, with their emo quaffs, skinny jeans and ability to play instruments, were a pop-punk boy-band for wholesome tween girls, a parent-approved contrast to the toilet humor of Blink-182 or the queer vaudevillian performance of Panic! at the Disco.
ref: 2023 April 26, Maria Sherman, “The Jonas Brothers debut songs about fatherhood while an audience relives its youth”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of boy band.
boy-bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boy-band
autobelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobelays
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device attached to the top of a climbing route that keeps the top-rope tensioned while the climber ascends and lowers them gradually when they drop off.
chapchae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of japchae.
gray divorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray divorces
form: grey divorce
Etymology: From gray + divorce.
Senses: examples: text: Gray divorce: blame the doctors for allowing people to live longer; blame the chemists with their little blue pills that allow for sexual rebirth; blame capitalism, which after all is a raging success that allows the privileged few to have serial marriages and divorces and pay for discarded wives, the children they put in boarding schools, etc.
ref: 2018, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, “Praise For Gray Divorce”, in Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits, University of California Press, →ISBN:
text: The rise in grey divorce isn't exclusive to the US – it's also happening in ageing populations around the world.
ref: 2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC:
glosses: A divorce occurring between senior or elderly individuals, usually after a long-term marriage.
gray divorces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gray divorce
oikophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oikophobic
form: most oikophobic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or characterized by oikophobia, a dislike of one's own culture or compatriots.
Related terms: oikophobe
oikophobia
Nigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9402).
glosses: A small village by Cromarty Firth in Easter Ross, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH8071).
SBUX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Starbucks (SBUX) is betting on that unusual combination with a new drink released in China to mark the Lunar New Year.
ref: 2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Abbreviation of Starbucks.
Weibo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 微博 (wēibó).
Senses: examples: text: “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.
ref: 2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A Chinese microblogging website.
pool toy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pool toys
Senses: glosses: An inflatable device used as a plaything in a swimming pool.
Morgan Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: By surface analysis, Morgan + island
* (island in South Carolina): Originally named as Morgan's Island, named alongside the bordering Morgan River. Attested without the possessive marker since at least the mid-1890s.
* (island in the Indian Ocean): First appears as "Morgan Bay" in 1860, of which this island was a part. Later coined as Morgan Islands, plural, to describe the same region. The name for the island stuck during when being surveyed during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1948.
Senses: examples: text: Just below Hangman's Point, Morgan River enters the sound from behind Morgan Island, which lies midway between Ladies and St. Helena islands.
ref: 1925, James Henry Rice, Glories of the Carolina Coast, page 62:
synonyms: Monkey Island
glosses: An island of the Sea Islands, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, known for a colony of rhesus macaques established in the late-20th century.
glosses: An island of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia.
midkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more midkey
form: most midkey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-key.
Kildary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Easter Ross, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7675).
terawatt year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terawatt years
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of terawatt-year.
terawatt years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terawatt year
force-put
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: force-puts
Etymology: From force + put.
Senses: examples: text: Job Arthur. […] I’m not one for violence, except it’s a force-put.
ref: 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Touch and Go, Act III, pages 90–91:
glosses: A situation made unavoidable by the circumstances.
force-puts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of force-put
pup hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pup hoods
Senses: synonyms: puppy hood
glosses: A full-face mask, typically made out of leather, latex, or rubber, shaped like the face of a dog (or loosely any animal), used by pups (those who engage in pup play).
pup hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pup hood
Longmorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village with whisky distilleries south of Elgin, Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ2358).
Hayes Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hayes Street, named after Thomas Hayes.
Senses: examples: text: Hayes Valley — an edgy neighborhood that has gentrified — is called “Cerebral Valley,” a hot spot for A.I. engineers to meet over warm lamb and harissa salads at Souvla.
ref: 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:
glosses: A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.
wikipedia: Thomas Hayes (San Francisco landowner)
puppy hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppy hoods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pup hood
synonyms: word: pup hood
puppy hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppy hood
vernal pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernal pools
Etymology: From vernal (“occurring in spring”) + pool.
Senses: examples: text: The report Sliding toward Extinction indicated that 66%, or nearly 2.8 million acres (1,131,000 ha), of Central Valley vernal pools has been lost.
ref: 1992, Allan A. Schoenherr, A Natural History of California, page 526:
glosses: A temporary pool that occurs seasonally in places with poor drainage, often with the onset of spring rains.
Hypernyms: sense: temporary pool
word: wetland
vernal pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernal pool
asweddumize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asweddumizes
form: asweddumizing
form: asweddumized
form: asweddumized
form: asweddumise
Etymology: From Sinhalese අස්වැද්දුම (aswædduma) + -ize. First attested in 1857.
Senses: examples: text: […] of a party who asweddumizes another's lands with his assent...
ref: 1862, Owen W. C. Morgan, editor, A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court Sitting at Colombo, Since the Promulgation of the Charter of 1833, Colombo: Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, page xlvii:
glosses: To prepare unproductive land for cultivation (especially of rice).
Related terms: asweddumization
asweddumizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asweddumize
asweddumizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asweddumize
asweddumized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asweddumize
sun god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun gods
form: sun-god
form: sungod
Etymology: From sun + god.
Senses: examples: text: In the New Kingdom, the power of Amen was nearly absolute. Amen is paired with the sun god, Ra, and is referred to as “a fierce red-eyed lion.”
ref: 2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 38:
text: So they sacrificed to the sun god in the morning, to the earth goddess at noon, and to a mixed lot of fairies and demons in the evening.
ref: 2019, Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Random House, →ISBN:
text: He claims that the pendulums can have a hypnotic effect on the sun god and cause him to sink into a long slumber.
ref: 2014, Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, Tor Books, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: solar god
solar deity
solar hero
sun deity
coordinate_terms: moon god
lunar deity
moon deity
glosses: A personification of the sun worshipped as a god.
Hyponyms: Aditya
Amaterasu
Apollo
Atum
Beaivi
Chaxiraxi
Dažbog
Helios
Huitzilopochtli
Inti
Ra
Saulė
Shamash
Sol
Xihe
watt-year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watt-years
Senses: examples: Holonyms: gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J), exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
Meronyms: kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J)
related: word: mul:W·a
word: mul:W a
word: mul:Wa
word: mul:W-a
word: mul:W·y
word: mul:W y
word: mul:Wy
word: mul:W-y
word: mul:W·yr
word: mul:W yr
word: mul:Wyr
word: mul:W-yr
word: ;
word: watt year
glosses: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one watt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10⁶ joules).
watt-years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watt-year
watt year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watt years
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watt-year.
watt years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watt year
ledgestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdʒstəʊn/
ipa: /ˈlɛdʒstoʊn/
Forms: form: ledgestones
Etymology: From ledge + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Cellar walls to be of ledgestone, 16 inches thick, laid dry and started on good ledgestone, laid in trenches one foot below cellar bottom.
ref: 1879 September, Carpentry And Building, volume 1, number 9, New York, [161 page 161]:
text: Stone, in a variety of types, is also used in shopping centers. Limestone, ledgestone, sandstone, marble and granite are favorites.
ref: 1956, Automotive Retailer, volumes 42-43, page 25:
text: Most excellent are low ledgestone foundations with or without plaster covering.
ref: 2025, M. E. Braddon, Eleanor's Victory, Good Press, page 24:
glosses: A type of building or decorative stone veneer consisting of thin, flat, rectangular pieces of natural or manufactured stone, typically stacked in horizontal courses (often dry-stacked or mesh-mounted) to create a rugged, layered appearance with pronounced horizontal lines and textured shadows.
Related terms: cladding
ledgestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ledgestone
kilowatt-year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilowatt-years
Etymology: By surface analysis, kilowatt + year, or, by surface analysis, kilo- + watt-year.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J), exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
Meronyms: kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J)
related: word: mul:kW·a
word: mul:kW a
word: mul:kWa
word: mul:kW-a
word: mul:kW·y
word: mul:kW y
word: mul:kWy
word: mul:kW-y
word: mul:kW·yr
word: mul:kW yr
word: mul:kWyr
word: mul:kW-yr
word: ;
word: kilowatt year
glosses: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one kilowatt of power acting for one year (31·536 × 10⁹ joules).
kilowatt-years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilowatt-year
kilowatt year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilowatt years
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kilowatt-year.
kilowatt years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilowatt year
sexual matters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "They may also have certain knowledge deficits on what to do regarding sexual matters and fear of confronting these matters with their parents and healthcare providers."
ref: 2019, Richard Meng Kam Lee, Choon How How, Kumudhini Rajasegaran, “Sexual matters among teenagers”, in Singapore Med J.:
synonyms: sex matters
glosses: subjects or topics related to sexual intercourse or sexual relations in a discussion or statement.
subbrachypterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + brachypterous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having short, possibly non-functional wings but still covering the abdomen.
Tanden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And while Biden’s other nominees have done little to provoke Republican backlash thus far, [Neera] Tanden is “radioactive,” as Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) put it.
ref: 2020 November 30, Burgess Everett, Caitlin Emma, Theodoric Meyer, “Joe Biden's 'radioactive' nominee”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2020:
glosses: A surname.
Neera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The easiest way for Neera Tanden to win confirmation as Joe Biden’s budget director is for Democrats to take the Senate in January.
ref: 2020 November 30, Burgess Everett, Caitlin Emma, Theodoric Meyer, “Joe Biden's 'radioactive' nominee”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2020:
glosses: A unisex given name.
brachiopodology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brachiopod + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The study of brachiopods.
brachiopodologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brachiopodology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brachiopodist.
synonyms: word: brachiopodist
espresso-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espressospeak
Etymology: From espresso + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: There are the automatic espresso machines of course, noisy little robots that grind the beans, measure (in espresso-speak, “dose”) the ground coffee, compress (tamp) it, and drive hot water at hopefully the optimum temperature and pressure through the compacted bed of coffee, netting a more or less decent serving (shot) of espresso.
ref: 2009 January 19, Kenneth Davids, “Convenience First: Espresso Pods and Capsules”, in Coffee Review, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2025:
text: One of my great joys each day -- indeed, quite often my very first activity upon awakening -- is making some. "Pulling a good double" in espresso-speak.
ref: 2015 March 7, duceditor, squier-talk.com, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025:
text: Most consumers, myself included, have not been schooled in espresso-speak or espresso history, and you might not be interested either, except to say that many of us have learned to enjoy espresso from a local coffee house, which is why you may be reading this in the first place.
ref: 2021 January 2, Steve Kruschen, “Cuisinart Espresso Machine With 19 BAR, Model EM-15 – It’s In The Capsule”, in Mr. Gadget, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025:
glosses: The jargon associated with coffee and espresso making.
GLOBALCIT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The idea of loyalty to a single country and culture, particularly in East Asia, may also “imply the desire to maintain a cohesive ethnocultural identity,” said Dzankic, of GLOBALCIT.
ref: 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of Global Citizenship Observatory.
mesoproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + production.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The production of mesons.
edit audio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edit audios
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: Short Form Video
glosses: A song or other audio that has been modified or created in order to fit a short-form video format, common in animation memes and other Internet trends.
nanoinfluencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoinfluencers
Etymology: From nano- + influencer.
Senses: examples: text: But Ms. Karwowski, of Obviously, said she was confident in the strategy. Her firm has 7,500 nanoinfluencers in its database, she said, and it plans to double that number by March.
ref: 2018 November 11, Sapna Maheshwari, “Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020:
text: However, depending on the type of post and campaign structure, the average price for a nanoinfluencer post is $10-$200.
ref: 2022 July 7, Claire Beveridge, “How to Be a Nanoinfluencer and Make Money With Under 10,000 Followers”, in Hootsuite:
qualifier: social media
glosses: An influencer with a very small following, less than that of a microinfluencer.
Related terms: nanoinfluencing
elf-light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His mildly vivid dewy beam
Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam
With elf-light tiniest figures lit
Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit
Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip
In circle.
ref: 1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149:
text: No elf-light hovers round the pool.
ref: 1865, G. Linnæus Banks, Daisies in the Grass: A Collection of Songs and Poems, London: Robert Hardwicke, page 142:
text: "You don't mean it!" The promise had come like a blinding surge of elf-light to that soul so long nurtured upon poor hopes.
ref: 1916, Wallace Irwin, Suffering Husbands, New York: George H. Doran, published 1920, page 174:
text: “Jam!” said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them!
ref: 1924, Lord Dunsany, chapter VII, in The King of Elfland's Daughter, New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, page 59:
glosses: A supernatural, soft, glowing light given off by elves.
nanoinfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoinfluencer
nanoinfluencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + influencing.
Senses: examples: text: Your nanoinfluencing career won’t last long if you aren’t able to show brands why working with you will give them a positive return on investment (ROI).
ref: 2022 July 7, Claire Beveridge, “How to Be a Nanoinfluencer and Make Money With Under 10,000 Followers”, in Hootsuite:
qualifier: social media
glosses: The work of a nanoinfluencer.
Chun'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淳安 (Chún'ān).
Senses: glosses: A county of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
elf-cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elf-cups
Senses: examples: text: Elf-cups; All terrestrial species; all seasons; (poor eating of themselves).
ref: 1887, William Delisle Hay, The Fungus-hunter's Guide, and Field Memorandum-book, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowry and Co., page 156:
text: Many toadstools are dainty enough to deserve their popular names: "Pixies' parasols," "Fairies' bath," "Elf cups," and so on.
ref: 1936 March 21, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 43, column 5:
glosses: Any of various species of fungus with a cup-shaped sporocarp, such as scarlet cup, Sarcoscypha coccinea.
examples: text: HOLY-STAAN, A stone with a natural hole in it, which was frequently suspended by a string from the tester of a bed, or from the roof of a cow house, as an infallible prevention of injury from witches!! In Scotland these stones are called elf-cups.
ref: 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven, volume I, London: William Crofts, page 232:
glosses: A stone with a hole pierced by dripping water.
examples: text: Elf cups are often found in Sweden on the covering blocks of our dolmens. The dolmens belong in Sweden exclusively to the Stone-age, but I am not quite sure if the cup-marks on them can be ascribed to so high an antiquity. The cup-bearing blocks could be visible in other prehistoric periods as they are to-day, and in that way they do not necessarily belong to the times of erection of the dolmen itself.
ref: 1880 May 24, Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, page 90:
text: Rude pillars of Neolithic age with the little cup-shaped hollows mentioned above, occur all over the Continent, from the Pyrenees to Scandinavia, and are known as "fairy-cups," "elf-cups," marmites du diable, and "stones of the dead".
ref: 1881 May 14, The Leader, Melbourne, page 3, column 2:
glosses: A cup-shaped depression in the stonework of a Neolithic monument.
elf-cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elf-cup
boopiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boopiids
Senses: glosses: Any louse in the family Boopiidae.
special-purpose vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special-purpose vehicles
Senses: examples: text: The family's business empire is considering backing a special purpose vehicle set up by Forest Road to take a majority stake in OnlyFans that could value the business at as much as $7bn.
ref: 2025 August 2, Oliver Barnes, Daniel Thomas, “Billionaire Reuben brothers in talks to invest in consortium chasing OnlyFans”, in FT Weekend, page 1:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: SPV
special-purpose entity
glosses: A legal entity (usually a limited company or a limited partnership) created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives, typically used for taxation benefits or to reduce financial risks.
special-purpose vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special-purpose vehicle
special-purpose entity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special-purpose entities
Senses: synonyms: word: SPE
word: special-purpose vehicle
glosses: Synonym of special-purpose vehicle
special-purpose entities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special-purpose entity
rally English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Finnish rallienglanti.
Senses: glosses: English spoken by Finns, with a heavy Finnish accent and/or mistakes.
SPVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SPV
inlineability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inlinability.
filestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filestreams
Etymology: From file + stream.
Senses: examples: text: The big questions here would be if your API will support filestreams. If so, it would likely be a very good place to make use of them for sure.
ref: 2012, Louis Davidson, Jessica Moss, Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation (page 340)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A data stream providing access to the contents of a file.
filestreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filestream
particulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of particulate
Goodman and Kruskal's gamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goodman and Kruskal's gammas
Etymology: Named after Leo Goodman and William Kruskal, who proposed it in a series of papers from 1954 to 1972.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A particular measure of rank correlation, i.e., the similarity of the orderings of the data when ranked by each of the quantities.
Related terms: Goodman and Kruskal's lambda
Goodman and Kruskal's lambda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goodman and Kruskal's lambdas
Etymology: Named after Leo Goodman and William Kruskal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A particular measure of proportional reduction in error in cross tabulation analysis.
Related terms: Goodman and Kruskal's gamma
athrepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek a- + Ancient Greek θρέψις (thrépsis, literally “nourishing”) (from τρέφω (tréphō))) + -y.
Senses: examples: ref: 2001 [1899 May 6], Adolf Baginsky, M.D., “On the Atrophic Marasmus of Nurslings (So-Called Hospitalism or Athrepsy of Parrot)”, in Br Med J., volume 1, number 2001, London, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →LCCN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2018, pages 1074-1086
text: High levels of infant deaths due to diarrhoeal-related diseases were found during the first semester of life, accounting for 52% of all infant diarrhoeal deaths, whereas 29% were between the sixth and the eighth month. The vast majority of infant deaths due to atrophy and athrepsy also occurred in the first semester (72% and 83%, respectively), though a quarter of them were of neonates.
ref: 2021 May 4, Michail Raftakis, “Why were infants dying and what were they dying from? Infant mortality patterns in the Greek urban centre of Hermoupolis, Syros (1860–1940)”, in The History of the Family, volume 26, number 3, Oxford: Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, retrieved 06 Aug 2025, pages 405-433:
glosses: Uncommon form of athrepsia
ngaio weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ngaio weevils
Senses: glosses: Anagotus stephenensis, a large flightless weevil found only on Stephens Island in New Zealand.
bug fix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug fixes
Senses: examples: text: The latest bug fixes are available for download on this page.
ref: 2001, James Stanger, Patrick T. Lane, Hack Proofing Linux: A Guide to Open Source Security, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bugfix
bug fixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug fix
bug-fix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug-fixes
Senses: examples: text: For those who haven't been through the drill before, the "Service Pack" is the omnibus set of bug-fixes and improvements that Microsoft puts out six to twelve months after major new releases of its software.
ref: 2007 December 13, James Fallows, “Just in time for Christmas: some (apparently) positive Vista news!”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bugfix
bug-fixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug-fix
gossip-mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gossip-mirrors
Senses: examples: text: Röschen was keeping watch at the gossip-mirror in the library window, and would give warning as soon as she saw the great R and his Hindoo adept in the distance.
ref: 1891 June, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, “The Elixir of Pain. Chapter X.”, in The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, volume XI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 205, column 2:
text: These "gossip-mirrors," about the size of horses' blinders, are two-faced. They survey the narrow street in both directions, catching whatever passes, coming or going. […] The gossip-mirrors of Ribe are much more numerous than the storks for which the town is renowned.
ref: 1951, Hudson Strode, “Ancient Ribe and the New Seaport”, in Denmark Is a Lovely Land, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section X (Peninsula of Jutland), page 252:
text: Hand in hand after dinner they wandered through the streets of narrow, stilted houses with heavy, ornate balconies and brilliant doors, set in dull yellow or olive stucco, and their passage was reflected at all angles from the gossip-mirror adroitly fixed to every window.
ref: 1952, March Cost [pseudonym; Margaret Mackie Morrison], “Thursday … 10 a.m.”, in The Hour Awaits, 1st American edition, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Alternative form of gossip mirror.
gossip-mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gossip-mirror
Kendall tau distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kendall tau distances
Etymology: Devised by Maurice Kendall.
Senses: glosses: A distance function that counts the pairwise disagreements between two ranking lists and thus determines how dissimilar the lists are.
paper works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper work
paper-works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper-work
schwa indogermanicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Schwa indogermanicum.
Senses: qualifier: Indo-European linguistics
glosses: Synonym of schwa primum
synonyms: word: schwa primum
puppy play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of puppyplay.
puppy-play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of puppyplay.
shadow-stalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow-stalkers
Etymology: Alliterative literary calque of Old English sceadugenga, from sceadu (“shadow”) + genga (“goer, walker”).
Senses: examples: text: In the wan darkness, while the warriors slept, the shadow-stalker drew near from the moorland.
ref: 1898, Stopford A. Brooke, English literature: From the Beginning to the Norman Conquest, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 73:
text: [T]he shadow-stalker will not draw anyone down to the shades unless God wills it.
ref: 1952, John A. Nist, The Structure and Texture of Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 53:
text: The out of the night
came the shadow-stalker, stealthy and swift.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 23:
glosses: A monster or other malevolent figure that moves about at night.
shadow-stalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow-stalker
night-stalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-stalkers
Senses: examples: text: [S]he accordingly proceeded with unrelaxed rapidity, startling the deer who came out into the open plots to browze, or scaring their lurking enemy the night-stalker, who, with his toils and engines, concealed himself in the adjoining bushes, that he might ensnare and carry off the fattest of the herd.
ref: 1829, [Horace Smith], The New Forest: A Novel, volume I, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 269:
text: “You can't conceive what he fancies. It seems, according to his account, that you are a night-stalker.”
ref: 1899, William Gilmore Simms, Confession; Or, The Blind Heart: A Domestic Story, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., page 263:
glosses: A person who is habitually abroad at night, especially in order to conduct illegal business.
examples: text: “Thou wilt have no need to bury me, for if I get my death he will have eaten me all dashed with blood, he will bear away my gory corpse, he will taste me; the night-stalker will devour me without mercy.”
ref: 1880, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume XXX, London: Walter Smith, page 602:
glosses: A monster or other malevolent figure that moves about at night; a shadow-stalker.
night-stalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night-stalker
vocabularial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vocabulary + -al.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n spite of serious losses by the way, the dialects of Central and Northern Europe ‘as spoken to-day’ excel in vocabularial purity those of the more primitive Bulgarian and Rumanian Gypsies.
ref: 1913–1914, John Sampson, “E Ísus-Xristóskoro Džiipé thai Meribé e Sfjatoné Lukéstar. The Gospel according to Saint Luke; translated into Bulgarian Romani by Bernard Gilliat-Smith: […]”, in Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, volume VII (New Series), number 3, Edinburgh: […] [F]or the members of the Gypsy Lore Society, […] by T[homas] & A[rchibald] Constable, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, Reviews section, page 233:
text: An interesting little book, full of chunks of undigested material, with terrible terminological wrappings, hardly worth the time and effort of untying the packages and seeing what they contain. In saying this we are not unmindful that the author herself provides a glossary to aid us in this procedure. This glossary, however, is more of an index than an explanation of her vocabularial eccentricities.
ref: 1923 October, “Turner, Julia. The Psychology of Self-Consciousness. […]”, in Smith Ely Jelliffe, editor, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease […], volume 58, number 4, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, Book Reviews section, pages 407–408:
text: To avoid misunderstanding I should explain that at her present vocabularial level she makes occasionally a confusion of the limbs.
ref: 1999 April, Salman Rushdie, “Transformer”, in The Ground Beneath Her Feet, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 358:
synonyms: vocabular
vocabularian
glosses: Of or relating to vocabulary.
vocabulariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vocabularium
gift hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gift halls
Etymology: Calque of Old English gif-heall, from gif (“gift”) + heall (“hall”).
Senses: examples: text: Then morning came and many a warrior
gathered,as I've heard, around the gift-hall,
clan chiefs flocking from far and near[.]
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 27:
glosses: A large communal building used in early Germanic and Norse societies as a place where valuable gifts were distributed to loyal warriors, thanes, retainers, etc.
gift halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift hall
bankfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bank + welfare.
Senses: examples: text: Bank profitability is on the mend, but it's not translating into more loans, Mr. Levy said. He attributed the bounce in bank earnings to “bankfare,” his term for the steep yield curve.
ref: 1992 August 10, Kelley Holland, “Levy Institute Bears Foresee a Slump in '93”, in American Banker, page 2:
text: Bankfare, the Fed's version of welfare that kept interest rates kind to banks burdened with bad mortgages, can no longer be counted on to support prices. Bank stocks now will stand or fall on the success of operations cleanups and strategic growth, Hayes said.
ref: 1995 April 7, Peg Brickley, “Most local stocks post strong first-quarter gains”, in Rochester Business Journal, volume 10, number 51, page 12:
text: Forget welfare and workfare. We need bankfare, where federal and provincial governments help down-and-out types set up their own banks.
Once the formerly unemployed have their banks up and running and are making gobs of money, and in a position to give the economy a real kickstart, they'll be able to do what the real banks do, and start laying people off by the thousands.
ref: 1995 December 16, Linwood Barclay, “Short of cash? Start your own bank”, in Toronto Star, page G.1:
text: The only way to protect taxpayers from the gutter morality of the casino bank is a full separation of High Street and investment banking.
The abuses of Welfare UK may be an outrage in urgent need of reform, but so is Bankfare Britain.
ref: 2013 April 6, “Pass the Salz”, in Daily Mail, London, page 100:
glosses: Support for banks from government or other institutions.
bankfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blend of bank + warfare, modelled after lawfare.
Senses: glosses: The debanking of an opponent, often only to attack, harass, or intimidate.
Geraneia Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Geraneia Mountains
form: Yerania Ori
form: Geraneia
Etymology: Partial calque of Greek Γεράνεια Όρη (Geráneia Óri).
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Corinthia regional unit and West Attica regional unit, Attica, Greece.
Gemmy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Gemma.
Lavongai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Rev. Bernard F. Jakuco, M.S.C., a missionary priest from Lansford, has recently been transferred to the north coast of Lavongai (formerly New Hanover) in the Territory of New Guinea.
ref: 1966 August 21, “Lansford Priest to Serve New Guinea Parish, Schools”, in Reading Eagle, page 33:
text: In the late 19th and early 20th century, a few anthropologists visited Lavongai but left only very little documentation.
ref: 2024, Mark Collins, ‘Seducing the fish?’ Marine interspecies relations on Lavongai Island (Papua New Guinea), page 7:
glosses: Synonym of New Hanover
synonyms: word: New Hanover
glosses: Synonym of Tungag
synonyms: word: Tungag
glosses: A village in New Hanover, Bismarck Archipelago
semivirtual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: semi- + virtual
Senses: examples: text: Webster and Wong (2008) found that semivirtual teams had more positive perceptions of their local teammates compared to the distributed teammates […]
ref: 2014, Jessica L. Wildman, Richard L. Griffith, Leading Global Teams (page 80)
glosses: Of a workplace or other relationship: taking place largely online but occasionally face to face.
unrootable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrootable
form: most unrootable
Etymology: From un- + rootable.
Senses: glosses: Not rootable (in various senses).
milliwatt-year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliwatt-years
Etymology: By surface analysis, milliwatt + year, or, by surface analysis, milli- + watt-year.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J), exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
Meronyms: kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J)
related: word: milliwatt year
glosses: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one milliwatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10³ joules).
uncredibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncredibly
form: most uncredibly
Senses: examples: text: A number here be afflicted with sore eyes […] for the pocks is uncredibly frequent amongst them.
ref: 1621, George Sandys, A relation of a journey begun An: Dom: 1610:
glosses: Incredibly; to a degree beyond belief.
milliwatt-years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliwatt-year
unduty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: un- + duty
Senses: examples: text: So you have followed a course of unduty to the crown of this realm. Therefore the keys to this dwelling will remain with me, in my possession!
ref: 2014, Jan Westcott, The Border Lord (page 389)
glosses: Synonym of undutifulness.
synonyms: word: undutifulness
milliwatt year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliwatt years
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of milliwatt-year.
milliwatt years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliwatt year
unjoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + joyed.
Senses: examples: text: Unjoyed, unvalued, is the crown which he / With regal hand bestows, upon the shrine / Of her cold beauty offering; […]
ref: 1839, Eleanora Louisa Montagu Hervey, The Landgrave, a Play in Five Acts (page 131)
text: And joy'st thou at the life unliv'd, / The thoughts unthought, / The joys unjoyed, […]
ref: 1859, The Welcome Guest, numbers 37-75, page 7:
glosses: Not enjoyed.
unoccupation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + occupation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inoccupation.
Saint Mary Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saint Mary lake
form: St. Mary Lake
Etymology: By surface analysis, Saint Mary (unincorporated community in Montana) + lake. Compare St. Mary Lake and Saint Mary's Lake.
Senses: examples: text: Such outcrops were noted, however, in traversing the plains from Cutbank river to Saint Mary lake, and others were found about the mountain slopes west of Saint Mary lakes, up Swift Current Valley, on Kennedy creek, about Chief mountain, and on Belly river. [...]
Just northeast of the northern end of Saint Mary lake Weller collected from a gray sandstone and according to Stanton's determination obtained Inoceramus sp., possibly young of I. labiatus, Mactra emmonsi Meek? Tellina modesta Meek, Donax cuneata Stanton, Corbula sp., Turritella sp., and Lunatia sp.
ref: 1902, Bailey Willis, “Stratigraphy and Structure, Lewis and Livingston Ranges, Montana”, in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 13, pages 326, 327:
glosses: A lake in Glacier National Park, Glacier County, Montana, United States.
unpriority
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + priority.
Senses: examples: text: The S.1301 provision, I note, does not make a Chapter 13 filing mandatory even if the debtor is able to pay at least 20% of unsecured, unpriority claims back to creditors.
ref: 1997, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, Oversight of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission Report: Hearing... (page 30)
text: You also say, as Exhibit 1 indicates, the medium amount of unsecured and unpriority debt for the 3,151 chapter 7 cases filed in 1998 is a staggering $23,411, with an overall median income of only $21,540.
ref: 2000, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999: Hearing... (page 222)
glosses: Synonym of nonpriority.
synonyms: word: nonpriority
strategizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strategizable
form: most strategizable
Etymology: From strategize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be strategized.
megawatt-year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megawatt-years
Etymology: By surface analysis, megawatt + year, or, by surface analysis, mega- + watt-year.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
Meronyms: yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour (3.6 J) < microwatt-year (31.536 J) < kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J)
related: word: mul:MW·a
word: mul:MW a
word: mul:MWa
word: mul:MW-a
word: mul:MW·y
word: mul:MW y
word: mul:MWy
word: mul:MW-y
word: mul:MW·yr
word: mul:MW yr
word: mul:MWyr
word: mul:MW-yr
word: ;
word: megawatt year
glosses: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one megawatt acting for one year (31·536 × 10¹² joules).
unworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unworlds
Etymology: From un- + world.
Senses: examples: text: But whyever it was, the sun just left the world and went to the unworld.
ref: 2018, Richard Seltzer, The Lizard of Oz:
text: […] the chaotic maelstrom of Husserl's unworld […]
ref: 2023, Claudio Majolino, The Invention of Infinity, page 130:
glosses: An alternative space or state of existence that is not a world.
unworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unworld
megawatt year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megawatt years
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of megawatt-year.
megawatt years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megawatt year
megawatt-years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megawatt-year
malicious compliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The behavior of strictly following the orders of a superior despite knowing that compliance will lead to a negative result, especially in a way that undermines the order's intent while following it to the letter.