cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Guimar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage.
Maynardville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maynard + -ville, named after Horace Maynard.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Union County, Tennessee, United States. Original name: Liberty.
wikipedia: Horace Maynard
Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of Quebec, Canada.
Côte-Nord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Côte-Nord.
Senses: glosses: A region of Quebec, Canada.
Vangramberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vangrambergs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
Senses: glosses: An administrative region and House of Commons constituency in Quebec, Canada.
Chaudière-Appalaches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Chaudière-Appalaches.
Senses: glosses: A region of Quebec, Canada.
Lanaudière
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Lanaudière.
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of Quebec, Canada.
Laurentides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Laurentides, named after the Laurentian Mountains.
Senses: glosses: A region of Quebec, Canada.
Related terms: Les Laurentides
alkalinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From alkaline + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The inorganic substances which may be present partially in the undissolved state are preferably the acid , neutral or alkalinely reacting sodium salts of the acids of phosphorus , which are often used in detergents and cleaning agents[…]
ref: 1973, J. A. Szilard, Bleaching Agents and Techniques, William Andrew:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In an alkaline manner.
Centre-du-Québec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of Quebec, Canada.
warming room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warming rooms
form: warming-room
Senses: glosses: Synonym of calefactory.
synonyms: word: calefactory
warming-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warming-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of warming room.
Elk Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Union County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A town in east-central Alberta, Canada.
Candy Crushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Candy Crusher
Menu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Menus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Menu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Abitibi-Ouest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Abitibi-Ouest.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
uncopyedited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + copyedited.
Senses: examples: text: uncopyedited edition
text: uncopyedited manuscript
text: uncopyedited paper
text: uncopyedited preprint
text: uncopyedited version
antonyms: copyedited
glosses: Not copyedited.
Ferro meridian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So named because it runs through the island Ferro (El Hierro), considered the end of the known world by the Europeans at the time.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A meridian formerly used as a prime meridian; now defined as 18.160792° west.
Rouyn-Noranda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rouyn-Noranda.
Senses: glosses: A city and regional county municipality of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
Témiscamingue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Témiscamingue.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
Kwasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kwasis
form: Akwasi
form: Akwesi
form: Kwesi
Etymology: From Akan Kwasi, from Kwasiada (“Sunday”), from the day of the week, Sunday.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Akan.
Dediu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dedius
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Dediu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
La Vallée-de-l'Or
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French La Vallée-de-l'Or.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
Kwarteng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kwartengs
Etymology: From Akan Kwarteng.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Akan
Milbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb and locality in Nambucca Shire, northern New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Grant County, South Dakota, United States, named after Jeremiah Milbank.
glosses: An unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia, United States.
La Matapédia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Naned after the Matapedia River and valley.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada.
wikipedia: Matapedia River
La Mitis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Mitis River.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality in Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Quebec, Canada.
wikipedia: Mitis River
anti-Italian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + Italian.
Senses: glosses: Against or opposing Italians or Italy.
restricted stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restricted stocks
Senses: topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: Stock of a company that is not fully transferable to shareholders until certain conditions have been met.
Synonyms: restricted security
Derived terms: restricted stock unit
restricted stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restricted stock
restricted security
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restricted securities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of restricted stock.
synonyms: word: restricted stock
restricted securities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restricted security
restricted stock unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restricted stock units
form: RSU
Senses: topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: A monetary grant based on a company's common stock, typically given as compensation to employees for their work.
restricted stock units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restricted stock unit
RSUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSU
cohortmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohortmates
Etymology: From cohort + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: To see how they are faring relative to their original cohortmates, we would compare their performance against that of children at point C- this is a same-age comparison. The corresponding comparison 2 years post retention involves[…]
ref: 2003, Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Susan L. Dauber, On the Success of Failure: A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22:
text: To my NYU cohortmates, it's hard to know what to say. I'll never forget those group outings in our early years (although the outings that ended up at The Continental are harder to recall, for some mysterious reason).
ref: 2016 October 21, Neil Myler, Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences, MIT Press, →ISBN:
text: ... my Boston College cohortmates, Joshua Snyder, Michael Cagney, and Nichole Flores; my housemate, Michael Jaycox, who allowed me to try many of the ideas contained in this book out on him during impromptu conversations in our kitchen;[…]
ref: 2017 November 1, Katie Walker Grimes, Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice, Fortress Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A fellow member of a cohort.
cohortmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohortmate
-mate
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the noun mate (“fellow, comrade, partner”).
Senses: examples: text: classmate, schoolmate
glosses: Used to form nouns having the sense of "a comrade or fellow with whom what is denoted by the noun is shared".
Dociu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Docius
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Dociu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
bookwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From book + writing.
Senses: examples: text: Our bookwriting services embed the true essence of our words in the right manner.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Book Writing Services - Professional Book Writers For hire”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: The process of writing a book.
villagemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villagemates
Etymology: From village + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: He would have a new life in that far away land of brown men who worshipped white gods; where many of his villagemates had gone, where the earth was forever kind and the sun warm.
ref: 1992, Charlson Ong, Woman of Am-Kaw and Other Stories (Contemporary Philippine Fiction), Manila: Anvil Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: One who comes from the same village.
villagemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villagemate
non-overlapping magisteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Stephen Jay Gould in his book Rock of Ages (1999).
Senses: glosses: A philosophical view that sees science and religion as distinct and separate domains.
sush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sushi.
La Grande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French, a comment by a Frenchman on the area's beauty. Renamed from Brownsville for Post Office reasons.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Union County, Oregon, United States.
bcse
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of because.
barnmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barnmates
Etymology: From barn + -mate.
Senses: glosses: An animal (such as a horse) that lives in the same barn.
barnmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barnmate
Corvallis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Taken from Latin, meaning "heart of the valley".
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Ravalli County, Montana, United States, named by settlers from Oregon.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Benton County, Oregon, United States. Original name: Marysville.
award-winning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more award-winning
form: most award-winning
form: awardwinning
Etymology: From award + winning.
Senses: examples: text: A number of these projects have, justifiably, been award-winning. Overall, these schemes make a justifiable achievement.
ref: 2022 December 28, Don Jary, “Partnerships enhancing the S&C”, in RAIL, number 973, page 32:
text: He was part of an award-winning team in high school that deciphered portions of an ancient Greek scroll.
ref: 2025 February 7, Josie Ensor, “Meet Elon Musk’s ‘baby-faced assassins’ leading Doge takeover”, in The Times:
glosses: Having won at least one award; prizewinning.
Derived terms: multi-award-winning
multi-award-winning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multiaward-winning
Etymology: From multi- + award-winning.
Senses: examples: text: Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, a multiaward-winning actor was the first to protest, releasing a video. Not wearing the hijab, she said: “I am not considered a woman in a land where young children, little girls and freedom-loving youths are killed in its fields.”
ref: 2022 October 14, Patrick Wintour, “Authorities in Iran forced to remove poster of women in hijabs after PR fiasco”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having won multiple awards.
get one's panties in a pretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's panties in a pretzel
form: getting one's panties in a pretzel
form: got one's panties in a pretzel
form: got one's panties in a pretzel
form: gotten one's panties in a pretzel
Senses: examples: text: “Don't get your panties in a pretzel, darling. I simply want to scare him so that he pulls over.” Kitty yanked off her fez and stuck her head into the howling wind. Her hair whipped around her eyes, and she pushed it out of the way.
ref: 2008, Susan Goodwill, Little Shop of Murders, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of get one's knickers in a twist.
synonyms: word: get one's knickers in a twist
gets one's panties in a pretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's panties in a pretzel
gotten one's panties in a pretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get one's panties in a pretzel
got one's panties in a pretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get one's panties in a pretzel
glosses: past participle of get one's panties in a pretzel
getting one's panties in a pretzel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's panties in a pretzel
Villon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Villon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Villonian
pseudo-argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: argument
glosses: Alternative form of pseudoargument.
pseudo-philosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudophilosophy.
Villonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Villon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to François Villon (c. 1431 – after 1463), French poet.
Canyon City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor city, the county seat of Grant County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A ghost town, now submerged, in Comal County, Texas, United States, replaced by Canyon Lake CDP.
glosses: Former name of Gitwinksihlkw, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A ghost town in Yukon, Canada.
gusband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gusbands
Etymology: Blend of gay + husband.
Senses: examples: text: When we identify to a car, a gusband, a wife, they control us.
ref: 2011, A.J. Prince, Soul Exposed Volume 2: Inner Guidance, Facts and Self Literacy:
text: I would like to be on a reality show called Gusbands. It's me and my three gay husbands and what we go through all living under one roof. Each gay husband I choose would have a quality that I need in a partner.
ref: 2014, Heather McDonald, My Inappropriate Life:
text: Jeff would affectionately call his tall brunette neighbor with the bright red lipstick his “swife” (straight wife), and she referred to him as her "gusband” (gay husband).
ref: 2020, Heather Cabot, The New Chardonnay:
glosses: A gay husband.
gusbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gusband
throw of the dice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throws of the dice
Senses: examples: text: Will Hunt coming on for Kwarteng be enough to save Truss for 15 minutes or so? It’s not great when your first throw of the dice is also your last. Still, let’s take the temperature of the Conservative party’s restive MPs.
ref: 2022 October 14, Marina Hyde, “So farewell, Kwasi. Your career died so Liz Truss’s might live for at least 15 more minutes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of roll of the dice.
synonyms: word: roll of the dice
luxom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luxom
form: most luxom
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lucksome.
roll of the dice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolls of the dice
Etymology: Referring to the use of dice in gambling games. Compare the verb roll the dice.
Senses: synonyms: throw of the dice
glosses: A risky or uncertain attempt to do something, especially in an unfavourable situation.
Related terms: last cast
crapshoot
Gitwinksihlkw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Nass River valley, north-west British Columbia, Canada. Former name: Canyon City.
cumbungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kʌmˈbʌŋɡi/
Forms: form: cumbungis
form: cumbungi
Etymology: From Wemba-Wemba gambang.
Senses: examples: text: Behind the dune, native bullrush or cumbungi is still growing and was a rich resource for local aborigines. Its big rhizome provides starch used to make bread while its young shoots could be eaten fresh.
ref: 2014 January 10, Gabrielle Chan, “Deserted beaches hide evidence of thousands of years of Aboriginal history”, in The Guardian:
text: Mitchell said that the cakes made from the cumbungi flour ‘were lighter and sweeter than those made from common flour’.
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 56:
synonyms: cattail
bulrush
reedmace
glosses: Any of several Australian perennial herbs of the genus Typha, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Typha orientalis
word: broad-leaved cumbungi
taxonomic: Typha domingensis
word: narrow-leaved cumbungi
Balsam Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in the city of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of lakes, in Minnesota, New York and Wisconsin (United States).
glosses: A town in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A village, the county seat of Polk County, Wisconsin, located within the town.
humble-pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humble-pies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of humble pie.
stuplime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuplime
form: most stuplime
Etymology: Coined by American cultural theorist Sianne Ngai in 2000
Senses: examples: text: One way of calling attention to the affinity between exhaustion and the astonishment particular to the sublime, invoking the latter while detaching it from its previous romantic affiliations, is to refer to the aesthetic experience I am talking about—one in which astonishment is paradoxically united with boredom as the stuplime.
ref: 2000, Sianne Ngai, Postmodern Culture, volume 10, number 2, page 272:
text: To return to my encounters with Reznikoff’s work, I see a strong echo of the stuplime. What I experience isn’t boredom, but it’s certainly something like it. I am shocked and fatigued by the writing, and this drives me into a space where as a reader, I simply shut down.
ref: 2014, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, “Shock and Blah: Offensive Postures in 'Conceptual' Poetry and the Traumatic Stuplime”, in Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics, number 41, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022:
text: The stuplime always works in this way, playing on the viewer's patience, sneaking in arguments about larger systems through its strategic deployment of confusion and boredom.
ref: 2019, David McAvoy, “'Is It About the Bunny? No, It's Not About the Bunny': David Lynch's Fandom and Trolling of Peak TV Audiences”, in Antonio Sanna, editor, Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return, Palgrave Macmillan, page 98:
glosses: Resulting in the simultaneous experience of astonishment and boredom.
stuplimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being stuplime.
chairmaker's bulrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairmaker's bulrushes
Senses: examples: text: schoenoplectus americanus, or the chairmaker’s bulrush, is a common wetland plant in the Americas, and it has an existential problem. It has chosen to live in a place where it is always at risk of being drowned.
ref: 2022 May 23, Gregory Barber, “The Wetlands Are Drowning”, in Wired:
synonyms: Olney's bulrush
glosses: A perennial herb, Schoenoplectus americanus, native to the Americas, used as a model organism in the study of salt marsh ecology.
Friendship
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Ripley County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Knox County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Worcester County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Emmet County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Upper Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Allegany County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in east Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Crockett County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Trinity County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Adams County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Coronie District, Suriname.
Derived terms: Friendship sloop
selenophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selenophilic
form: most selenophilic
Etymology: From selenophile + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In some cases, soil concentrations are such that selenophilic plants can accumulate selenium to toxic concentrations.
ref: 1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 931:
text: Nevertheless, the addition of a selenophilic trap is often beneficial as highlighted in a number of the examples in this section.
ref: 2015 October 26, Molecular Rearrangements in Organic Synthesis, Wiley, →ISBN, page 614:
topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tending to absorb selenium.
big history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big histories
form: Big History
Etymology: Coined by historian David Christian.
Senses: examples: text: And for the last 20 years or so, the historians David Christian and Fred Spier have championed big history, urging their colleagues to begin their once-upon-a-time accounts billions of years ago, with the big bang.
ref: 2011 September 26, Patricia Cohen, “History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Fans of Big History want to put geology and the climate at the centre of the subject, alongside other branches of science and technology. They believe it is essential to show that the course of human life has been altered by both natural and manmade factors.
ref: 2012 October 27, Vanessa Thorpe, “Big History theories pose latest challenge to traditional curriculum”, in The Observer:
text: Big History’s claims to a dramatic new departure seem, in fact, to amount to a superficial re-labelling of most school subjects as “history” in an attempt to link them.
ref: 2014 September 10, Katherine Edwards, “Why the Big History project funded by Bill Gates is alarming”, in The Guardian:
text: We began talking about the Parisian street plan as seen from a Big History perspective, and I began fantasizing about all kinds of possible connections between this street plan and several Big History topics.
ref: 2014, Richard B. Simon, Mojgan Behmand, Thomas Burke, editors, Teaching Big History, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Big history did not spring out of some historical vacuum. It is a continuation of the great historiographical tradition of universal history, which in its written form dates back to Classical Greece and Han China, and in its oral form to the earliest human communities.
ref: 2019, Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, David Baker, editors, The Routledge Companion to Big History, Routledge, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: An academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present.
Related terms: deep history
macrohistory
Big History
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Histories
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of big history.
Fernside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From fern + side.
Senses: glosses: A community in Waimakariri district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
blind summit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind summits
Senses: topics: road
transport
glosses: A summit on a road which prevents the driver of a vehicle from having line of sight of beyond it; commonly considered a potential hazard when overtaking on a bidirectional road.
blind summits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind summit
direct actionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct actionists
Etymology: From direct action + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their cooperation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.
ref: 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Direct Action:
text: The direct actionist does not just refuse to pay taxes to support a militarized school system, she combines with others to try to create a new school system that operates on different principles.
ref: 2009, David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography, AK Press, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Synonym of direct activist.
synonyms: word: direct activist
Blaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Bláras (a field).
Senses: glosses: A civil parish of County Antrim and County Down, Northern Ireland.
direct actionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct actionist
Cosmocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He chose, on the contrary, to be installed as World-Ruler and Cosmocrat at the completion of a mission of self-humbling and lowly obedience unto death.
ref: 1971, John G. Gibbs, Creation and Redemption: A Study in Pauline Theology, Page 83
synonyms: word: Aduwallah
word: Adversary
word: Al-Shaytaan
word: Antichrist
word: archfiend
word: Ash-Shaytan
word: Azazel
word: Beast
word: Beelzebub
word: bogey
word: cosmocrat
word: deceiver
word: deuce
word: Devil
word: diablo
word: Diabolus
word: dickens
word: Dragon
word: Enemy
word: Evil One
word: Father of Lies
word: Gog
word: Iblis
word: Jack Ketch
word: leviathan
word: lord of the flies
word: Lucifer
word: Mephistopheles
word: Old Gentleman
word: Old Hairy
word: Old Harry
word: Old Nick
word: Old One
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Prince of Darkness
word: Prince of Demons
word: Prince of Evil
word: Sam Scratch
word: Satan
word: Serpent
word: shaitan
word: Son of the Dawn
glosses: An epithet for God or Satan.
calls someone everything but a child of God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call someone everything but a child of God
calling someone everything but a child of God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call someone everything but a child of God
called someone everything but a child of God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call someone everything but a child of God
military press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military presses
Etymology: The form of a military press resembles a soldier standing at attention.
Senses: examples: text: Elbow position is critical when you’re doing the military press, and it’s often misunderstood.
ref: 2018 November 28, Brett Williams, “How to Do a Military Press With Perfect Form”, in Men's Health:
text: If you want a shoulder press that forces your core to work even harder – therefore demanding that you have your form absolutely perfect when you do military presses – try the suitcase press.
ref: 2019 July 2, Sam Rider, “How To Master The Military Press”, in Coach Mag:
text: When you do, keep in mind that the standing military press is one of the best upper-body exercises you can do to improve strength in your arms, shoulders, back, and chest, while still also impacting other areas of the body to provide a full-body workout.
ref: 2021 July 11, Isadora Baum, “Here's How To Do a Standing Military Press and Why It’s Such a Power Move”, in Well+Good:
synonyms: overhead press
shoulder press
glosses: An exercise in which one raises a dumbbell above the head while keeping the feet together.
military press
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: military presses
form: military pressing
form: military pressed
form: military pressed
Etymology: The form of a military press resembles a soldier standing at attention.
Senses: glosses: To perform a military press.
military presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of military press
military presses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of military press
NAYLE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: Acronym of National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience.
NYLT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: Initialism of National Youth Leadership Training.
leave no trace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves no trace
form: leaving no trace
form: left no trace
form: left no trace
Etymology: Coined around the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Camping in a pristine area is the ultimate Leave No Trace challenge because it is imperative that you literally leave no trace—and that is very hard to do.
ref: 2003, Annette McGivney, Leave No Trace: A Guide to the New Wilderness Ethic, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 43:
text: These fences catch any MOOP (“matter out of place”) that blows out of peoples' camps, where it can be harvested and packed out—leave no trace—and all that.
ref: 2013, Cory Doctorow, Homeland, Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: "Although people don't think it, the traveller ethos at free festivals was "leave no trace"—you went there, you had a party you cleaned up.
ref: 2017 May 22, Jerry Chester, “Castlemorton Common: The rave that changed the law”, in BBC News:
synonyms: LNT
glosses: To follow certain outdoor ethical guidelines while camping, etc., so thoroughly that it would appear as though one had never previously been there, for the sake of nature conservation.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, no, trace.
leaves no trace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave no trace
leaving no trace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave no trace
left no trace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave no trace
shelters-in-place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shelter-in-place
sheltering-in-place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shelter-in-place
sheltered-in-place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shelter-in-place
sheltered in place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shelter in place
sheltering in place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shelter in place
shelters in place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shelter in place
pain in the back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains in the back
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pain in the butt.
synonyms: word: pain in the butt
pains in the back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pain in the back
Upper Pittsgrove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Salem County, New Jersey, United States.
Related terms: Pittsgrove Township
nociceptive pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nociceptive pains
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain caused by potentially harmful stimuli that are detected by nociceptors around the body.
nociceptive pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nociceptive pain
psychogenic pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychogenic pains
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Physical pain that is caused, increased, or prolonged by mental, emotional, or behavioral factors.
psychogenic pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychogenic pain
run, don't walk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
ref: 2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut, “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell, performed by Ava Max:
text: If you don’t mind subtitles (or just so happen to know French), then please run, don’t walk, to Call My Agent. It’s a comedy (with a bit of drama sprinkled in) about a talent agency in Paris just trying to keep its business afloat and its clients happy.
ref: 2024 August 15, Laura Hanrahan, “19 Shows You Need to Watch if You Love ‘Emily in Paris’”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: A directive given in times of urgency to act quickly and without hesitation.
run high
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs high
form: running high
form: ran high
form: run high
Senses: glosses: Of a river, to experience a strong current and be full and close to overflowing.
glosses: To become very angry or emotional about something.
run a fever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs a fever
form: running a fever
form: ran a fever
form: run a fever
Senses: glosses: Synonym of run a temperature.
synonyms: word: run a temperature
run a risk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs a risk
form: running a risk
form: ran a risk
form: run a risk
Senses: glosses: To perform an action which may result in a loss or failure.
run someone off their feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs someone off their feet
form: running someone off their feet
form: ran someone off their feet
form: run someone off their feet
Senses: glosses: To cause someone to become very busy, especially to an exhausting degree; to make someone work very hard and very quickly.
better-run
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of well-run: more well-run
best-run
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of well-run: most well-run
Le Haut-Saint-François
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality of Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
Coaticook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈætɪkʊk/
rhymes: -ætɪkʊk
Etymology: From French Coaticook, from Abenaki koatikeku (“river of the land of the white pine”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A town on the Coaticook, Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A regional county municipality in Estrie, Quebec, with its seat in the town.
Neillsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From O'Neill + -s- + -ville, after James O'Neill (Wisconsin settler).
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
wikipedia: James O'Neill (Wisconsin settler)
Brome-Missisquoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Brome-Missisquoi.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality of Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality of Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau.
Senses: glosses: A regional county municipality of Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
Richland Center
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Richland Township, Fulton County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Richland County, Wisconsin, United States.
run out of road
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs out of road
form: running out of road
form: ran out of road
form: run out of road
Senses: examples: text: With No 10 in disarray, Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has called for a general election regardless of whether Truss stays or goes, saying the government has “completely run out of road”.
ref: 2022 October 14, Keir Starmer, quotee, “Truss premiership ‘hanging by thread’ after Kwarteng sacking and latest U-turn”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of run out of steam.
synonyms: word: run out of steam
runs someone off their feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run someone off their feet
running someone off their feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run someone off their feet
ran someone off their feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run someone off their feet
nanny dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanny dogs
Etymology: Due to their reputation of being a good playmate for children.
Senses: examples: text: For most of the 114 years since the American pit bull terrier was first recognized by the United Kennel Club, the breed was rightly seen as the perfect "nanny dog" for children because of its friendly nature, loyalty and stability.
ref: 2013 February 5, Joshua Holland, “In defense of the pit bull”, in Salon:
text: Havens says Lady, a Chihuahua/pit bull mix, was a classic nanny dog and was by her four children when a mountain lion crept up behind them.
ref: 2022 June 24, Spencer Wilson, “Hero dog dies after protecting children from mountain lion attack”, in Fox 5 Vegas:
text: Just like Nana the dog from Peter Pan, the term "nanny dog" refers to any breed of dog that’s known to be good with children. Ideally, a nanny dog would protect the children just like a human nanny, while showing them lots of affection, being patient, and entertaining them without toppling them over while playing.
ref: 2019 August 15, Katie McPherson, “7 Nanny Dog Breeds To Help Tuck Your Children Into Bed At Night”, in Romper:
glosses: A nickname for Staffordshire bull terriers or pit bulls.
nanny dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanny dog
Staffordshire bull terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Staffordshire bull terriers
Senses: synonyms: Staffie
Stafford
glosses: A small or medium-sized breed of dog in the terrier group, originating in Birmingham and Staffordshire.
Staffordshire bull terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Staffordshire bull terrier
airmailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airmailers
Senses: glosses: Any aircraft used to send airmail
glosses: Mail sent by air
wall-paperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall-paperers
Senses: glosses: Someone who wallpapers
puriteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊə.ɹɪˌtiːn/
ipa: /ˈpjɔː-/
ipa: /ˈpjʊ.ɹɪˌtin/
ipa: /ˈpjɜ-/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪtiːn
Forms: form: puriteens
form: puri-teen
Etymology: Blend of puritan + teen. Popularized on Twitter in March 2021.
Senses: examples: text: “Sorry to all the puriteens who will never know the unfettered joy of taking your top off inside the Stonewall Inn,” said one prominent activist on Twitter. “I hope you never know the pain of being beaten by a cop for standing up for queer rights.”
ref: 2021 June 14, EJ Dickson, “Are Sex-Negative ‘Puriteens’ Actually Taking Over the Internet?”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Young puriteens have recently been seen on social media moralizing about large age gaps in adult relationships and partaking in the perennial “No Kink at Pride” debate.
ref: 2021 July 30, Maddie Holden, “Gen Z Are 'Puriteens,' But Not For The Reasons You Think”, in GQ:
text: As one Twitter user put it rather succinctly: “The concept of the ‘puriteen’ is the most insane and perverted moral panic ever. Hundreds of 35-year-olds on the internet freaking out because they think teenagers are insufficiently horny.”
ref: 2022 August 6, Eleanor Halls, “This Is What The Sex Lives Of Gen Z-ers Are Actually Like”, in Vogue:
glosses: A teenager or young adult (especially an LGBTQ or LGBTQ-supportive member of Gen Z) whose views on sexuality are seen as sex-negative or moralistic.
wikipedia: Twitter
Related terms: purifur
speedrunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speedrun
lowke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lowkes
form: lowking
form: lowked
form: lowked
Senses: examples: text: 13 April 1588, Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake to the Queen, reprinted in "New Books: The Life, Voyages, and Explits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake", The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1843, p. 836.
I have not in my lyffe time knowen better men and possessed with gallanter mynds than your Majestie's people are for themost parte, which are here gathred together, vollontaryllye to put ther hands and hartts to the fynishing of this great peice of work, werein we ar ail perswaded that God , the gever of all victoryes, will in mercye lowke uppon your most excellent Majestie
text: Sir, I have no matter of anye great moment at thys tyme to advertyze yow of. I heare amoungest theys folkes that they doe daylye lowke for Lyneroll to come forthe of Fraunce hether, so doe they also for a gretter personage after hym.
ref: 11 July 1567, Nicholas Throckmorton, Letter from Sir Nicholas Throckmorton to Sir William Cecil, reprinted in Selections from Unpublished Manuscripts in the College of Arms and the British Museum Illustrating the Reign of Mary Queen of Scotland M.D.XLIII.-M.DLXVIII., p. 263
text: yf youre grace it over-lowke, / And over-lowke it agayne, / Hit wyll tyll yow soo playne / the tenvre and the trowthe
ref: 1709, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, l. 72-73, Harlein MS; reprinted in 1868, Freidrick Furnivall (ed.) Ballads from Manuscripts Vol. I., London: The Ballad Society. p. 125
glosses: Alternative spelling of look.
Staffords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stafford
sets aright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set aright
setting aright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set aright
Brownwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Georgia, United States; from the surname Brown.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Stoddard County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States.
Tolkienish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tolkienish
form: most Tolkienish
Etymology: From Tolkien + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Most campaigns that I have played in have tended to utilise a sort of Tolkienish semi-medieval background, sometimes not very well developed.
ref: 1985 June, Roger Musson, “Stirge Corner”, in Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, page 51:
text: Early on, the trail passes a tiny cedar lake with Tolkienish overtones. A hobbit-size table and chairs have been carved out of wooden stumps.
ref: 1989, Jack Christie, Day Trips from Vancouver, page 55:
text: The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely.
ref: 2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, page 301:
synonyms: Tolkienesque
Tolkienian
Tolkieny
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.
Talcum X
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of talcum + Malcolm X, in reference to the white color of talcum powder, as well as allegations that Shaun King lied about his race.
Senses: examples: text: Shaun King IS a scream if it's the same guy I've seen on the interwebs. He's a white guy who "identifies" as black, whatever the hell that means! On a message board, he's often called Talcum X.
ref: 2017 June 7, Dan the Man, “OT - They Ain't Callin' Kaepernick”, in alt.sports.football.pro.miami-dolphins (Usenet), retrieved 13 Oct 2022:
synonyms: Hueless P. Newton
Martin Luther Cream
Thurgood Partial
glosses: Shaun King.
wikipedia: Malcolm X
puriteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puriteen
McHell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mc- + hell.
Senses: examples: text: I work at McHell and I could have all the beanie babies I want...In fact I do, I have three unopened sets from the last promotion.
ref: 1996 April 16, Ashley Jones, “WTD: 1998 Teenie Beanies”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):
text: BTW, I worked at McHell from '86 til '96. Caught the tail end of the good McD's and saw them sink slowly down to their current sad state.
ref: 1997 June 15, Ken Beard, “does making the big mac?”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):
text: During my time in McHell I disallowed DeLoreans […], cars driving through backward […], and people who thought they were at Wendy's […], but I never disallowed motorcycles, or horses.
ref: 2000 October 23, Kirk Pearson, “They screw you at the Drivethrough (Moto related)”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
glosses: McDonald's (the fast food restaurant chain).
McHell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mc- + hell.
Senses: examples: text: (title)
ref: 1990 December 17, “The Promotion from McHell”, in Adweek, volume 40, A/S/M Communications, page 19:
text: There are infinite possibilities to create your local McDonald's an utter McHell. Don't consider it illegal (most of it isn't...) consider it more of a public service. Yeah... That's it.
ref: 1994 March 30, Charlie X, “Screwing over your local McDonald's”, in Phrack Magazine, volume 5, number 45:
text: I'm also of the opinion that McDonald's standards of operations have gone to McHell since Ray Kroc passed away.
ref: 1996 December 16, Holly Moore, “Houston”, in rec.food.restaurants (Usenet):
text: For the corporation, still insisting that the trial is not about freedom of speech but about the right to stop people telling lies, it is McHell.
ref: 1997, John Vidal, Mclibel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Hell (used in allusion to the McDonald's brand or to similar large corporations).
McShithole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mc- + shithole.
Senses: glosses: McDonald's (fast food restaurant chain).
-lord
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːd/
ipa: /lɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: lord
homophone: laud (non-rhotic)
homophone: lored (horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology: From lord.
Senses: examples: text: war + -lord → warlord
glosses: Someone who exercises power through a particular means.