cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bleachered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bleacher + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 2012, Desert Voices: Personal Testimony From Gulf War Heroes
As we watched family, friends, and patriotic bystanders file into the bleachered area, it gave one a feeling of great pride in the bringing together of our country, the likes of which hadn't been felt since World War II.
text: Just a few stragglers left hangdogging around, latchkey types with no place to be, cutting up in the dim and bleachered gym perimeter.
ref: 2017, David Eric Tomlinson, The Midnight Man, page 37:
glosses: Furnished with bleachers.
hangdoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hangdoggy
form: most hangdoggy
Etymology: From hangdog + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hangdoggish.
synonyms: word: hangdoggish
hangdogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hangdog
hangdogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hangdog
puffed the magic dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puff the magic dragon
puffs the magic dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puff the magic dragon
drama queened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drama queen
drama queening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drama queen
effective altruism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is the language of effective altruism — or E.A. — a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to do good. Bankman-Fried had long flaunted his E.A. bona fides to distinguish himself from other crypto billionaires.
ref: 2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times:
text: He is a supposedly serious young man who was celebrated in the corridors of power not only as a financial savant but also—through his highly publicized philanthropy and conspicuous association with the “effective altruism” movement—as a moral genius.
ref: 2023 January 25, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The People Who Don’t Read Books”, in The Atlantic:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: word: EA
glosses: A philosophy and social movement that advocates the use of evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others.
Related terms: word: effective altruist
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: effective accelerationism
stoicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstoʊɪsɪst/
Forms: form: stoicists
Etymology: From stoic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of stoicism.
stoicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoicist
handicappism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handicapism.
reoilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reoiling
Gaussian eliminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaussian elimination
nooze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noozes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of noose.
noozes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nooze
wakey wakey, eggs and bakey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From eggs and bacon, a breakfast food; chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Wake up.
pseudoreduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoreductions
Etymology: From pseudo- + reduction.
Senses: examples: text: In Field's view, Tarski's truth characterization inherits its inadequacy as a reduction from the pseudoreductions that constitute its base clauses. Thus Field's strategy for solving the problem is to provide genuine reductions for the notions of denotation and application, […]
ref: 1999, Scott Soames, Understanding Truth, page 109:
glosses: Something that resembles a reduction but is not a true reduction.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The period of tetrad formation in nuclear division.
pseudoreductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoreduction
pseudochannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudochannel
agroinoculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agroinoculates
form: agroinoculating
form: agroinoculated
form: agroinoculated
Etymology: From agro- + inoculate.
Senses: glosses: To (cause to) undergo agroinoculation.
agroinoculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agroinoculate
Rooseveltism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Roosevelt + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Four years of Rooseveltism cost twice as much as the first seventy-two years of the Republic!
ref: 1910, Literary Digest, volume 41, page 525:
glosses: Rooseveltian politics
antizenith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antizeniths
Etymology: From anti- + zenith.
Senses: glosses: The point opposite a zenith; nadir
agroinoculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agroinoculate
arteriocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteriocenteses
Etymology: From arterio- + -centesis.
Senses: glosses: centesis of an artery
effendiyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An urban middle class in the Ottoman Arab world.
discreditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discreditations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of discrediting or of being discredited
geographicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The idea of the geographicity of soils nevertheless, if seriously considered, may lead us to some very important logical deductions.
ref: 1927, Konstantin Dmitrievich Glinka, Dokuchaiev's Ideas in the Development of Pedology and Cognate Sciences, page 2:
text: The geographical turn forms a bridge with geography and opens a dialogue amongst the disciplines on the basis of geographicity — the spatiality of all phenomena.
ref: 2005, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Lived Topographies and Their Mediational Forces, page ix:
glosses: The quality of being geographic, or varying according to geography.
thrombocytobarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrombo- + cyto- + bar + -in.
Senses: examples: text: By combining the serological tests involving the presence of thrombocytobarin and the brain test it is concluded that superinfections can be produced.
ref: 1927, Tropical Diseases Bulletin - Volume 24, page 690:
text: As the character of the thrombocytobarin test must be called capricious , it will never be permitted to take the place of the agglutination-lysis test, […]
ref: 1948, Department of State Publication: International organization and conference series. General. I, page 323:
glosses: An antibody that causes the adhesion of blood platelets to microorganisms.
thrombocytocrits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombocytocrit
hydropress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropresses
Etymology: From hydro- + press.
Senses: glosses: A hydraulic press (especially one that employs mains water)
run-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run-down
kuromanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of chrysanthemin.
synonyms: word: chrysanthemin
metazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metazones
Senses: examples: text: Median carina strongly cristate on the prozone and on the metazone and with one deep transverse incision so that the prozone is only about one-third the length of the metazone, the incision inclined anterio-ventrad.
ref: 1924, William Williams Henderson, A Taxonomic and Ecological Study of the Species of the Subfamily Oedipodinae (Orthoptera-Acrididae) Found in Utah, page 53:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: prozone
glosses: The posterior zone of the pronotum in an insect of the family Acrididae or Gryllidae.
metazones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metazone
hydropresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropress
hydroprocessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroprocessors
Etymology: From hydro- + processor.
Senses: glosses: A machine or industrial plant that performs hydroprocessing.
hydroprocessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroprocessor
osteopaenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteopaenias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osteopenia.
crack-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from crack up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crackup.
osteosarcopaenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osteosarcopenia.
Troutner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Troutners
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Trautner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
phonagnosia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phon- + agnosia.
Senses: glosses: An inability to recognise voices
Synonyms: voice blindness
Coordinate terms: prosopagnosia
Troutners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Troutner
Trzeciaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trzeciak
polylecty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from polylectic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The two most basal bee families, Dasypodaidae and Mellitidae, are predominantly composed of pollen specialists, indicating that oligolecty might be the ancestral state in bees[…]. In the western Palaearctic anthidiine bees, several transitions from oligolecty to polylecty were found, but none from polylecty to oligolecty[…].
ref: 2020, R. G. Vastrad, “Specialized Bees Fail to Develop on Non-host Pollen: Do Plants Chemically Protect Their Pollen?”, in A Study of Floral Specialization in Solitary Bees, Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu, →ISBN, page 31:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being polylectic.
Coordinate terms: mesolecty
monolecty
oligolecty
subdiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sub-diagnostic
Etymology: From sub- + diagnostic.
Senses: examples: text: subdiagnostic depression
text: research may continue focusing on the continuum of personality disturbances and trait domains (including sub-diagnostic levels), while practitioners may directly translate findings into the diagnostic categories for the purpose of clinical decision-making.
ref: 2022 April 1, Bo Bach, Ueli Kramer, Stephan Doering, Ester di Giacomo, Joost Hutsebaut, Andres Kaera, Chiara De Panfilis, Christian Schmahl, Michaela Swales, Svenja Taubner, Babette Renneberg, “The ICD-11 classification of personality disorders: a European perspective on challenges and opportunities”, in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation volume, volume 9, number 12, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: subthreshold
subsyndromal
subclinical
glosses: Less than would be required to make a diagnosis.
glosses: Relating to subdiagnosis.
Tummala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tummalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu తుమ్మల (tummala).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Telugu.
Underdahl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Underdahls
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Underdahl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Underdahls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Underdahl
Tummalas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tummala
lockblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockblades
Etymology: From lock + blade.
Senses: examples: text: Whether you are buying a lockblade, a fixed-blade or a pocket knife, the choice of brands is easy: […]
ref: 1993, Field & Stream, volume 97, number 12, page 111:
text: He cuts the fruit with his Gerber lockblade. The steel blade glistens, slips effortlessly inside.
ref: 2011, Christopher R. Howard, Tea of Ulaanbaatar:
glosses: A knife whose blade can be locked in position when fully extended.
lockblades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockblade
Underdown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Underdowns
Etymology: English topographic surname for someone living at the foot of a hill.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
salpingoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to salpingoscopy.
salpingoscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, salpingoscopy.
tuboscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to tuboscopy.
Widrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Widricks
Etymology: Americanized form of German Widrig.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Widricks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Widrick
Underdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Underdown
beleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belead
beleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belead
omnisexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From omnisexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Omnisexually voracious Catherine likes to provoke her lovers, so there are a tantalizing number of suspects with motive. One is Roxy (Leilani Sarelle), her jealous lesbian girlfriend.
ref: 1992, Peter Rainer, Love and Hisses, page 109:
text: In comparing Bellario to Hylas and Adonis, Megra cites two ancient and pervasive queer myths of the androgynously, omnisexually alluring young man.
ref: 2020, Christine Varnado, The Shapes of Fancy:
glosses: In an omnisexual manner.
inoculee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inoculees
Etymology: From inoculate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is inoculated.
inoculees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inoculee
voice synthesizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice synthesizer
voice synths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice synth
soup-and-fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soup-and-fish
Zemanek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zemaneks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Zemánek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Zemaneks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zemanek
Zygmunts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zygmunt
Zolman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zolmans
Etymology: Variant spelling of German Zollmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Annunziatos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Annunziato
Zolmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zolman
Beckom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beckoms
Etymology: Variant spelling of Beckham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Angerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Angers
Beckoms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beckom
McDermid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McDermids
Etymology: Variant of McDiarmid.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: Phelan-McDermid syndrome
Reddix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reddixes
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Reddick.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Babiarzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Babiarz
Reddixes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reddix
McDermids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McDermid
gorilless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gorilla + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The last statement suggests to me the question, did she walk upon her hind legs only, or upon all four? That is, did she walk erect like a man and a brother,—I should say a gorilless and a sister,—or like an attached and humble individual of the canine or feline quadruped species?[…]Was not Seraphine a wonderful young person,—I mean gorilless?
ref: 1861 September 30, “Paterfamilias”, “Gentle Gorilla–Wither Away. To the Editor of Fun.”, in Fun, published 12 October 1861, page 39, columns 1–2:
text: “An’ now I hear you’re sendin’ our flagship Pastores out at four o’clock this afternoon with another cock-eyed cross between a giraffe an’ a Gila monster— / “By my soul, never!” yells th’ G.P.A., jumpin’ up like a bumb has gone off under him. “If the Pastores sails with that red-skirted gorilless aboard, it’ll be over my dead body!”
ref: 1923 December, Volney G. Mathison, “The Woman-Handler”, in Radio, volume V, number 12, pages 68 and 70, column 3:
text: I know it’s horribly sexist but, it has to be said, so are gorillas. / Then there’s the lonely gorilless whose mate has died just before breeding time, leaving both her and her devoted keeper desolate with grief.
ref: 1985, Maureen Lipman, “Lipmanish Allthouthts^([sic])”, in How Was It for You?, Clio Press, published 1989, section “A Joking Aside”, page 186:
text: On another day, at the Program Corporation of America, a White Plains-based company that serves as lecture managers and booking agencies for celebrities, the gorilla was invited to stay for lunch. “You’re a “gorilless,” Joan Steinhaus, executive vice president, said as Miss Corsetti removed the head of her costume. “Would you like a banana?”
ref: 1985 March 31, Lynne Ames, “About Westchester; Listening Device”, in The New York Times, page 2:
text: She wanted a job with Phyllis the Gorilless.
ref: 2016, CJ Verburg, “Lovely Rita”, in Zapped: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery, Boom-Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A female gorilla.
Brentor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brent Tor, a prominent hill.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England.
wikipedia: Brent Tor
Zapruderian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zapruderian
form: most Zapruderian
Etymology: From Zapruder + -ian, named after Abraham Zapruder (1905–1970).
Senses: examples: text: We play and replay the last tinked-up note at the end of the solo, Zapruderian—cold as hell in my primer-coated van.
ref: 2003, Daniel Nester, God Save My Queen: A Tribute, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Films existed of the fight which, analyzed in Zapruderian detail, had more or less resolved the question.
ref: 2010 October 17, Roger Ebert, “The storyteller and the stallion”, in RogerEbert.com:
text: Teddy's death gets replayed from all available angles on my monitor. I watch with Zapruderian intensity. Here's the frame where my too-open posture made them squirm.
ref: 2016, Steven Amsterdam, The Easy Way Out, Quercus, →ISBN:
text: Now, online critics began to examine Ms. Hollis’s words, gestures and history in Zapruderian detail.
ref: 2021 April 29, Katherine Rosman, “Girl, Wash Your Timeline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: meticulous; obsessed
has at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have at
had at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have at
auriculotemporal nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auriculotemporal nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The branch of the mandibular nerve that supplies sensory fibers to the skin of the external ear and temporal region and autonomic fibers from the otic ganglion to the parotid gland.
ligandomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ligand + -omics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of ligandomes
Related terms: ligandomic
ligandomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ligand + -omic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to ligandomes or to ligandomics
abrasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪzəbəl/
Etymology: From Latin abrāsibilis, from abrādō.
Senses: glosses: abradable
Nescafe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nescafé.
Nescafé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Nestlé + French café (“coffee”)
Senses: glosses: A brand of instant coffee
Middle-Indo-Aryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Middle Indo-Aryan.
Saxilby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Saxilby with Ingleby parish, West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8975).
Related terms: Saxelbye
thiopropyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiopropyls
Etymology: From thio- + propyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical, CH₃CH₂CH₂-S-, derived from propanethiol
trogocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to trogocytosis
trogosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trogosomes
Etymology: From trogo- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A membrane-bound vacuole within a cell containing foreign material captured by trogocytosis
trogosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trogosome
teevy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teevies
form: teevee
Etymology: Respelling of the abbreviation TV.
Senses: examples: text: We are the Basset Hounds, as is well known by fans across the land who will be watching us in the Fudge Bowl classic on New Year's Day either in person or through the nationwide teevy.
ref: 1966, The Realm of Sport: A Classic Collection of the World's Great Sporting Events and Personalities as Recorded by the Most Distinguished Writers:
glosses: television
distributed ledger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributed ledgers
Senses: examples: text: Another distributed ledger platform, called Ethereum, works off the same technology that Bitcoin does, but it is run as an open-source software project, meaning the software code is freely available for anyone to work on.
ref: 2016 April 6, Quentin Hardy, “Ripple Aims to Put Every Transaction on One Ledger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: As mentioned, a blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions implemented as data batched into blocks that use cryptographic validation to link the blocks together.
ref: 2018, Joseph J. Bambara et al., Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 6:
synonyms: shared ledger
ledger
glosses: A consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations.
Ingleby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Inglebys
form: Ingilby
Etymology: From Old Norse Englar (“Englishman”) + býr (“village, settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3426).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Saxilby with Ingleby parish, West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8978).
glosses: A placename:
A ghost town in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A habitation surname from Old Norse.
Derived terms: Ingleby Barwick
Ingleby Greenhow
Saxilby with Ingleby
swarmandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarmandals
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi स्वरमण्डल (svarmaṇḍal).
Senses: glosses: An Indian zither.
swarmandals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swarmandal
hair in the gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairs in the gate
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Dirt, debris, or slivers of emulsion in the aperture of a camera or projector.
hairs in the gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair in the gate
East Bedlington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in south-east Northumberland, England.
Related terms: english: civil parish
translation: civil parish
word: West Bedlington
Esmee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Esmees
Etymology: Anglicized spelling of the French Esmée or Esmé
Senses: synonyms: Esme
glosses: A female given name from French.
H&I
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of harassment and interdiction.
harassment and interdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: word: H&I
glosses: The periodic firing of unobserved rounds of ammunition at trails known to be used by the enemy, during the Vietnam War.
Uppinghamian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uppinghamians
Etymology: From Uppingham + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A student or alumnus of Uppingham School in Rutland, England.
falls into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall into
Uppinghamians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Uppinghamian
falling into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall into
long handle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the long handle
Senses: examples: text: Lucas again well set, being ultimately secured in his anxiety to give them the long handle, having played perfect cricket for his century.
ref: 1883, Uppingham School Magazine, page 236:
text: You may leave your ground even to fast bowling on slow wickets if you think you can bring off a hit by so doing, and generally hold the bat nearer the top and give her the long handle.
ref: 1889, Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton (Hon.), Cricket (page 77)
text: Tissera played two fine innings, of 53 and 17 not out and P. I. Peiris (30) wielded the long handle.
ref: 1999, S. S. Perera, S. Muthiah, The Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket, 1832-1996, page 300:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Forceful batsmanship.
fell into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall
fallen into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall into
paper dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper doll
Arduini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arduinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Arduini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
hasslings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hassling
Waghorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Waghorns
Etymology: From Middle English waggen (“to wag”) + horn (“horn”), a nickname for a hornblower.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
hasty breaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hasty breaching requires speed with a minimum of planning. Leading combat units must often clear a lane of all mines. Special mechanical or explosive devices, artillery or aerial bombardment, or specially trained teams accomplish this.
ref: 1969, Engineer Field Data, pages 3–17:
text: Combat arms units are responsible for: Hasty breaching of barriers to include minefields.
ref: 1973, The Engineer, volume 3, number 2, page 15:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The clearing of a passage through a minefield or other barrier by various improvised means.
Nicholforest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkəlˈfɒɹɪst/
Etymology: The forest was probably named after Nicholas de Stuteville, a Norman baron.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in City of Carlisle district.
quality newspaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quality newspapers
Senses: hypernyms: newspaper#Noun
<
periodical#Noun
<
publication#Noun
coordinate_terms: quality magazine
glosses: A newspaper designed to appeal to readers of superior education or culture.
quality newspapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quality newspaper
jug-heavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jug-heavies
Senses: glosses: A safecracker.
jug-heavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jug-heavy
Havana syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the first encounter being reported in Havana, the capital of Cuba.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An illness of disputed cause, producing symptoms of vertigo, nausea, ear-popping, headaches, and traumatic brain injury, experienced by US ambassadors and agents abroad.
Coordinate terms: immaculate concussion
honeywagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeywagons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honey wagon.
honeywagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeywagon
Rood End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Oldbury, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0088).
CPOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: hospitality industry
glosses: Initialism of cost per occupied room.
Slaggyford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh parish, south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6752).
Knarsdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Knar Burn and its valley, Knars Dale.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh parish, south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6753).
360 noscoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of 360 noscope
360 noscoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 360 noscope
noscoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noscope
noscoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noscope
no scope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no scopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of no-scope.
no scope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: no scopes
form: no scoping
form: no scoped
form: no scoped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of no-scope.
no scopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no scope
no scopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of no scope
no scoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of no scope
no scoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of no scope
Kirkhaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh parish, south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6949).
back-seat game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-seat games
form: back-seat gaming
form: back-seat gamed
form: back-seat gamed
form: backseat game
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To commentate excessively on the in-game decisions and actions of someone playing a video game, whilst not playing the game.
back-seat gamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back-seat game
back-seat games
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of back-seat game
unigonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unigonal
form: most unigonal
Senses: glosses: (of a polygon) the quality of having one edge and one side.
Related terms: unigon
Zuma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zumas
Senses: examples: text: Analysts and opinion polls had forecast losses for the ANC but a pivotal factor in the party’s staggering decline was former President Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which capitalized on widespread discontent within the ANC’s traditional voter base.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Ramaphosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramaphosas
Senses: examples: text: Zuma – a fierce critic of current ANC leader and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – was forced to resign as president in 2018 and has been looking for political revenge ever since.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Mbeki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mbekis
Etymology: From Xhosa.
Senses: examples: text: This scenario would hark back to the post-apartheid era when South Africa operated under a GNU to oversee the new constitution, led by Mandela as president and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki as deputy presidents, between April 1994 and February 1997.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
blackguardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blackguardizes
form: blackguardizing
form: blackguardized
form: blackguardized
form: blackguardise
Etymology: From blackguard + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the demoralized and the abandoned.
ref: 1851, Philomathos, “Ought Government to Provide a Secular Education For the People?”, in The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine, number 13, page 351:
text: Accordingly it has been employed, in a modern symphony, in order to parody, degrade, and blackguardize (if I may be pardoned the expression) a melody; the dramatic intention of the work requiring this strange transformation.
ref: 1856, Louis Hector Berlioz, A treatise upon modern instrumentation and orchestration, page 107:
text: I find it generally pays to blackguardize the husband.
ref: 1925, Walter Sichel, Types and Characters: A Kaleidoscope, page 137:
glosses: To make blackguardly.
blackguardizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blackguardize
blackguardizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackguardize
blackguardized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackguardize
blackguardise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blackguardises
form: blackguardising
form: blackguardised
form: blackguardised
Senses: examples: text: Nothing tends so much to blackguardise the sport of the ring as its alleged illegality.
ref: 1860 April 28, “Law and Crime”, in Illustrated Times, volume 10, number 265, page 268:
text: "An' they that winna buy his gear, May pass his door - their duty's clear; While they that never patronize him, Hae nae richt, Tib, to blackguardise him.” Tibbie. “Blackguardise him! what for no? Is't no thro' him the torrents flow?"
ref: 1863, John Young, Lays from the Ingle Nook: A Collection of Tales, Sketches, &c, page 98:
text: If the workers strike to get more money they are denounced as drunkards and shirkers, and are held responsible for a war failure absolutely due to the incompetence of the men who blackguardise them.
ref: 1978, John Maclean, Nan Milton, In the Rapids of Revolution, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of blackguardize.
blackguardises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blackguardise
blackguardising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackguardise
blackguardised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackguardise
globe-earther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe-earthers
form: globe earther
Etymology: Possibly created as a direct antonym to flat-earther by flat-earthers.
Senses: glosses: One who believes the Earth is a globe.
Synonyms: globetard
globe-earthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globe-earther
globe earther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe earthers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of globe-earther.
globe earthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globe earther
boio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boios
Etymology: From boi + -o.
Senses: glosses: boy, boyo.
split-S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split-Ses
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: fluid-S
glosses: A grammatical system that splits the class of intransitive subjects, using a morphosyntactic alignment called active–stative alignment, or split intransitive alignment.
glosses: Alternative form of split S.
isoimmunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoimmunities
Etymology: From iso- + immunity.
Senses: topics: biology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of alloimmunity.
synonyms: word: alloimmunity
holup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holups
form: holuping
form: holuped
form: holuped
Etymology: Abbreviation of hold up, possibly from r/Holup.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hold up.
isoimmunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoimmunity
Jiuzhaigou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiu-chai-kou
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 九寨溝／九寨沟 (Jiǔzhàigōu).
Senses: examples: text: The Jiuzhaigou [Chiuchaikou] preserve will be in a region of dense forests, springs and lakes. Giant pandas, golden monkeys and takins are all to be found there.
ref: 1979 January 31 [1979 January 16], “Sichuan Animal Preserves”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 487, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA [Peking NCNA], →OCLC, Science and Technology, page 94:
text: Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.
ref: 1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
examples: text: Taxi - Taking a taxi from Jiuzhaigou County to the scenic area is about RMB 10.
ref: 2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 420:
text: From January 2013 to October 2013, Songpan County, which includes the Huanglong preserve, had 3.22 million visitors,[…]Jiuzhaigou County had 4.76 million visitors last year.
ref: 2014 June 13, Edward Wong, “In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2014, Travel:
text: Fallen trees are seen blocking a road after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 8, 2017.
ref: 2017 August 8, Ben Blanchard, Nick Macfie, “Four dead as quake strikes in remote part of China's Sichuan province”, in Andrew Bolton, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2017, Environment:
glosses: A county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China.
orodigestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oro- + digestive.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the mouth and the digestive tract.
Related terms: aerodigestive
sacrolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sarcolytic.
sarcolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarco- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or causing sarcolysis.
tetrahydroxychalcone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The 2,4,2',4' tetrahydroxy derivative of chalcone
Tamilism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtamilɪzəm/
Forms: form: Tamilisms
Etymology: From Tamil + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The modern Shaivism shows clear vestiges of difference from the original Tamilism; for the cause of which we need not go far to look, its corruption being chiefly due to the intermixture of Aryanism so widely given birth to in their works of the Puranic period by the Brahmans who had an excessive love of fiction over truth. As the present Tamilism has been swollen by the flowing in of impure streams of thought, it has lost its native clearness and purity, with which it set forth, and betrays itself by showing many inconsistencies and improbabilities.
ref: 1992, Sumathi Ramaswamy, En/gendering Language, page 75:
text: The fusion of 'Tamilism' and Buddhism is completed here: the genuine way of being a Tamil is to be Buddhist, that is, casteless, in every sense of the term.
ref: 1998, G. Aloysius, Religion as Emancipatory Identity, page 176:
text: This newly constructed Tamilism is formed from the different elements of the Little and Great Traditions, and of Christianity. Strictly speaking, the Little and Great Traditions are not defined by deities alone but also include the devotees.
ref: 2002, JCAS Symposium Series - Issue 13, page 187:
glosses: A religion, philosophy and/or culture native to Tamil Nadu, characterized by the worship of ancestors and nature
examples: text: It is symptomatic of inward alienation and militant Tamilism.
ref: 1969, Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, Caste and Race in India, page 364:
text: But when we consider the following Sarvakar statement we see the essential tension between Hindu nationalism and Tamilism: By an admirable process of assimilation, elimination and consolidation, political, racial and cultural, they welded all other non-Aryan peoples whom they came in contact with or conflict with through this process of their expansion in this land from the Indus to the Eastern sea and from Himalayas to the Southern sea into a National unity (qtd. in McKean 1996:80)
ref: 1998, Andrew Clinton Willford, Cage of Freedom: The Politics of Tamil and Hindu Identity in Malaysia and Bangalore, South India, page 566:
text: The latter is slightly reconciled though the former has had sallies in politics and in religion but continues to have an uneasy relationship with aggressive Dravidian Tamilism.
ref: 2003, Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh, Steven Vertovec, Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora, page 75:
glosses: Tamil nationalism.
Tamilisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tamilism
vacc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaccs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of vaccine.
vaccs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacc
Bergfeld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bergfelds
Etymology: Habitational surname borrowed from German Bergfeld.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Shearn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shearns
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shearns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shearn
Bergfelds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bergfeld
Shovlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shovlins
Etymology: Variant of Shevlin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Shermer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shermers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Schermer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Shermers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shermer
Shovlins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shovlin
Schoffstall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schoffstalls
Etymology: Altered spelling of German Schafstall.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Saadeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saadehs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سعادة (saʕāda, “happiness, bliss”). This surname is mostly found in Saudi Arabia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Saadehs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Saadeh
Schoffstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schoffstall
Taite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taites
Etymology: Variant of Tait.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Taites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Taite
Rybkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rybka
Tickner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tickners
Etymology: Topographic surname for someone who lived at a crossroads or a fork in the road, from Old English twiċen (“fork in the road”). Compare twitchel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Spinolas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spinola
Tickners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tickner
Simper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Simpers
Etymology: Variant of Semper.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Siemon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Siemons
Etymology: Borrowed from German Siemon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Siemons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Siemon
Simpers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Simper
McGuirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGuirks
form: McGurk
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Cuirc, patronymic from the personal name Corc.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
feet dry
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The aircraft headed “feet-dry” by the pilot's judicious use of rudders and afterburners.
ref: 1979, Approach, volume 24, number 11:
text: Feet wet: Fighter direction brevity code used to report that a plane had left land ("feet dry") and was now over water.
ref: 1994, Paul T. Gillcrist, Tomcat!: The Grumman F-14 Story, page 196:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
antonyms: feet wet
glosses: Flying over land.
feet wet
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Feet wet: Fighter direction brevity code used to report that a plane had left land ("feet dry") and was now over water.
ref: 1994, Paul T. Gillcrist, Tomcat!: The Grumman F-14 Story, page 196:
text: Three minutes later, at 2015, Captain Brindel entered the CIC and was notified of TN 2202 “feet wet” (aviation terminology meaning that an aircraft is over water) in the northern Persian Gulf and heading south.
ref: 1997, Jeffrey L. Levinson, Randy L. Edwards, Missile Inbound: The Attack on the Stark in the Persian Gulf, page 71:
text: […] when you'd crossed the coastline after departing the ship Roger Klondike twelve dash four, understand flight of three. Feet wet.
ref: 2008, David A. Ballentine, Gunbird Driver: A Marine Huey Pilot's War in Vietnam, page 56:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
antonyms: feet dry
glosses: Flying over water.
Rayases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rayas
Kadlecs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kadlec
McGuirks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGuirk
FIDOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FIDO