cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Porro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Porros
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Porro.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
eat one's emotions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats one's emotions
form: eating one's emotions
form: ate one's emotions
form: eaten one's emotions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eat one's feelings.
synonyms: word: eat one's feelings
eat one's feelings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats one's feelings
form: eating one's feelings
form: ate one's feelings
form: eaten one's feelings
Senses: examples: text: The way I eat my feelings now is much different from how I ate my feelings when I was growing up. I used to use “bad food” as a reward system. If I went to the gym, I deserved a pizza, […]
ref: 2017, Lindsey Smith, Eat Your Feelings:
text: When I got home, I knew I needed to eat so I could sober up, but that led to a massive binge as I ate my feelings. Potato chips, cookies, ice cream — everything I could find in our cabinet or fridge, I ate.
ref: 2018, Mary Kesinger, Run My World: How I Empowered Myself Through Fitness:
synonyms: eat one's emotions
glosses: To turn to comfort food in order to deal with one's emotional problems.
featureitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of featuritis.
Inuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Inuk
Ticknall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English tiċċen (“young goat, kid”) + healh (“nook, corner, angle”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3524).
negadecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nega- + decimal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The base of negative 10.
negadecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nega- + decimal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the base of negative 10.
negabinary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nega- + binary.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The base of negative 2.
negabinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nega- + binary.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the base of negative 2.
thermocoupler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermocouplers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thermocouple.
synonyms: word: thermocouple
thermocouplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermocoupler
Forrester effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forrester effects
Etymology: After Jay Forrester, whose Industrial Dynamics (1961) introduced the concept.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bullwhip effect.
synonyms: word: bullwhip effect
Forrester effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Forrester effect
bullwhip effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullwhip effects
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: Forrester effect
glosses: A distribution channel phenomenon in which demand forecasts yield supply chain inefficiencies: there are increasing swings in inventory in response to shifts in consumer demand as one moves further up the supply chain.
bullwhip effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullwhip effect
MSSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Abbreviation of Malin Space Science Systems (a private company that designs, develop and operate instruments and technical equipment for unmanned spacecraft.)
cheugy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːɡi/
rhymes: -uːɡi
Forms: form: more cheugy
form: cheugier
form: most cheugy
form: cheugiest
Etymology: Reportedly coined by American high school student Gaby Rasson in 2013 to describe "people who were slightly off trend" and subsequently popularized by her peers.
Senses: examples: text: Alex Lugger, 32, a boat marketer in Springfield, Mo., said that she self identifies as a bit cheugy. (She also learned about the word through TikTok.) “We were basic in our 20s and now we’re cheugy in our 30s,” she said.
ref: 2021 April 29, Taylor Lorenz, “What is ‘cheugy’? You know it when you see it”, in New York Times, Style:
text: Derived from the notoriously cheugy “live, laugh, love,” the mantra “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” found its funny by lumping together online phenomena the internet hates most.
ref: 2021 September 22, Carter Sawatzky, “An Autopsy Of #Girlboss Feminism”, in Mars' Hill, Trinity Western University, page 15:
text: "You might want to ditch the Crocs to pass the vibe check," Siobhan whispered. "They're a little cheugy."
ref: 2022, Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs: Lucky Enough, unnumbered page (published 4 March 2022)
glosses: Uncool; tryhard.
Derived terms: cheug
cheuginess
Related terms: basic
e-hail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + hail.
Senses: examples: text: Several e-hail services are available in the city, but Uber and Lyft are the most popular. Once you've signed up, a simple tap will search for a car and track it in real time; you pay with a saved credit card.
ref: 2016, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's New York City:
glosses: The use of an Internet service to hail a taxi or book a ride in a private car on demand.
e-hail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: e-hails
form: e-hailing
form: e-hailed
form: e-hailed
Etymology: From e- + hail.
Senses: examples: text: Uber began as a premium private car service for San Fran techies. Driven by professional drivers and e-hailed through the proprietary app, Uber town cars were more expensive than a taxi, but cheaper than a limousine; […]
ref: 2018, Ramon Lobato, Julian Thomas, The Informal Media Economy, page 120:
text: It seems rather likely that MaaS implementation may bring an increase of car-based trips (even if shared or e-hailed), and hence result in more emissions and congestions (Eckhardt et al., 2017). First of all, as underlined by Karlsson et al.
ref: 2020, Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen, Vincent Kaufmann, Handbook of Urban Mobilities:
glosses: To hail a vehicle in this way.
e-hails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of e-hail
e-hailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of e-hail
e-hailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of e-hail
e-taxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-taxis
Etymology: From e- + taxi.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle operating as part of an e-hail service.
e-taxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-taxi
ferricadouzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferricadouzer
pseudochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudochromes
Senses: glosses: An audio cassette tape formulation similar to ferricobalt, and not containing chromium.
pseudochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudochrome
ferricobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferricobalts
Senses: glosses: An audio cassette tape formulation consisting of fine ferric particles encapsulated in a thin layer of cobalt-iron mix.
ferricobalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferricobalt
crossentropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossentropies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross entropy.
superferric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superferrics
Senses: glosses: An audio cassette tape formulation that is a high-quality ferricobalt.
superferrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superferric
microferric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + ferric; originally a trade name.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an audio cassette tape formulation with very small needle-shaped particles, offering increased remanence.
knizocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knizocytes
Senses: glosses: A form of erythrocyte present in the blood of people with thalassemia
knizocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knizocyte
Sowter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sowters
Etymology: Occupational surname, from sowter, obsolete form of souter.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
monoconcavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoconcavities
Etymology: From mono- + concavity.
Senses: glosses: A deformation of a glenoid bone caused by wear
multispike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + spike.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple spikes
neoHebbian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + Hebbian.
Senses: glosses: Describing Hebbian mechanisms in the brain mediated by dopamine
oscillopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oscillopathies
Etymology: From oscillo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any neurocognitive disorder characterised by oscillations in brain rhythms
Related terms: oscillopathic
oscillopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of oscillopathies
osmotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study and measurement of osmotic pressure
Related terms: osmotic
pseudodiscrete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + discrete.
Senses: glosses: apparently, but not actually, discrete
subaveraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subaverage
subaveraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Arranged or characterised as subaverages
underweighs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underweigh
subaveraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subaverage
Westoll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tissicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tissick
Turkish towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkish towel
trotter case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trotter cases
Senses: examples: 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
So he at once expressed his readiness; and, kneeling on the floor, while the Dodger sat upon the table so that he could take his foot in his laps, he applied himself to a process which Mr. Dawkins designated as “japanning his trotter-cases.” The phrase, rendered into plain English, signifieth, cleaning his boots.
glosses: A shoe or boot.
trotter cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trotter case
bubble company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble companies
Etymology: See bubble (“to cheat or swindle”).
Senses: glosses: A sham business that swindles people.
bubble companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble company
Bagworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Bagworth and Thornton parish, Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4408).
cat-lap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap?
ref: 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 46, page 777:
text: […] before he could presume to deliver an opinion upon the comparative merits of cat-lap and grog […]
ref: 1862, Vanity Fair, volume 5, numbers 106-144, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of catlap.
Bagworth and Thornton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England, that includes the named places.
white satin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.
ref: 1966, Henry Mayhew, Peter Quennell, London's Underworld, page 48:
glosses: Gin.
Related terms: yard of satin
chive-fencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chive-fencers
Senses: glosses: A hawker of cutlery in the streets.
chive-fencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chive-fencer
nerve-jangling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerve-jangling
form: most nerve-jangling
Etymology: From nerve + jangling.
Senses: examples: text: Leicester's fans - inside Wembley as 21,000 supporters formed the biggest attendance since lockdown - had to survive a nerve-jangling closing phase before they could celebrate the win in their first final since 1969.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Synonym of nerve-racking.
synonyms: word: nerve-racking
bug-walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug-walks
Etymology: Presumably in reference to the bedbugs that might infest it.
Senses: examples: text: […] Who, when he encounters an over-filled guest, / Either staggering homewards or taking his rest, / Sees him safe to his bug-walk […]
ref: 1887, Truth, volume 21, page 38:
text: There would be no more visiting in that direction for a while, and back he would roost in his 'bug-walk'.
ref: 1969, Kovave, volumes 1-5, page 38:
glosses: A bed.
bug-walks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug-walk
suck the mop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks the mop
form: sucking the mop
form: sucked the mop
form: sucked the mop
Senses: examples: text: Kathy says Much obliged, but what I don't appreciate about this piece of moral news is the pairing of successful writer with sexy hotshot lit prof, which leaves us pregnant librarians and failed playwrights sucking the mop.
ref: 1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, page 426:
glosses: To be left in a disadvantageous position.
examples: text: "Now then, poppy-head:" — this to the conductor of a rival omnibus before us — "how long am I to go on sucking the mop?"
ref: 1867, Banter, number 1, page 81:
glosses: Of a bus: to be deliberately boxed in by another so as to lose the opportunity to pick up passengers.
bald as a bladder of lard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely bald; having no hair at all.
Juliet balcony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Juliet balconies
Etymology: In reference to a scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of balconette.
synonyms: word: balconette
Juliet balconies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Juliet balcony
crack a crust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks a crust
form: cracking a crust
form: cracked a crust
form: cracked a crust
Senses: examples: text: Yet for all this I do not hear one giving him a good name, though there are many cracking a crust on his account.
ref: 1880, Arthur Hamilton, The Confessions of a Scribbler, page 80:
text: "Cracking a tidy crust, thank you, mate," Abe said sheepishly.
ref: 1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, page 270:
text: BIANCA: Well, it's a cooshy enough way to crack a crust...
ref: 1997, Eric Lane, Nina Shengold, Plays for Actresses, page 585:
synonyms: rub along
glosses: To make a living.
caper merchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caper merchants
Senses: synonyms: hop merchant
glosses: A teacher of dancing.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see caper, merchant. (one who sells capers for food etc.)
caper merchants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caper merchant
crow to pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crows to pick
Senses: examples: text: "But where were they? How could they let you down so? Where was your guide?" "Yes, Victor," said Tom Linden, shaking his head at the air above him, "where were you? I've got a crow to pick with you.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Synonym of bone to pick (“a disagreeable matter to settle”).
synonyms: word: bone to pick
extra: a disagreeable matter to settle
crows to pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow to pick
crow to pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crows to pull
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bone to pick (“a disagreeable matter to settle”).
synonyms: word: bone to pick
extra: a disagreeable matter to settle
crows to pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow to pull
crow to pluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crows to pluck
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bone to pick (“a disagreeable matter to settle”).
synonyms: word: bone to pick
extra: a disagreeable matter to settle
crows to pluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow to pluck
Nanpantan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England, just outside Loughborough (OS grid ref SK5017).
stainless steel soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A piece of stainless steel claimed to neutralize or reduce strong odors from handling garlic, onions, fish, etc.
Nernst effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nernst effects
Etymology: After Walther Hermann Nernst (1864-1941), German chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Ettingshausen-Nernst effect
Nernst-Ettingshausen effect
glosses: A thermoelectric (or thermomagnetic) phenomenon observed when a sample allowing electrical conduction is subjected to a magnetic field and a temperature gradient normal (perpendicular) to each other. An electric field will be induced normal to both.
wikipedia: Walther Hermann Nernst
Nernst effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nernst effect
Ernst equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ernst equation
Etymology: Named after the American physicist Frederick J. Ernst.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integrable non-linear partial differential equation used in finding the exact solutions of Einstein's equations in the general theory of relativity.
kiddhoges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddhoge
gulpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulpins
Senses: examples: text: Cal, the world is full of gulpins who don't care who they hurt.
ref: 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal:
glosses: A gullible person; a fool.
gulpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulpin
gonoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ganef.
gonoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonoff
smish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smishes
Etymology: From earlier slang commission, from chemise or related.
Senses: examples: text: He awoke shivering, his heart racing. His smish was soak'd.
ref: 2018, Jordy Rosenberg, Confessions of the Fox:
glosses: A shirt or chemise.
smish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smishes
form: smishing
form: smished
form: smished
Etymology: From earlier slang commission, from chemise or related.
Senses: examples: text: 'NOBODY MOVE' CRIED MARK TWAIN. 'I WILL SMISH the varmint. He grabbed an iron plate from the stove.
ref: 2014, Caroline Lawrence, The Case of the Bogus Detective: Book 4:
glosses: to squash, to squish
Related terms: smishing
smishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smish
smishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smish
cross-counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-counters
Etymology: From cross- + counter.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A counterattack begun immediately after an opponent throws a jab, exploiting the opening in the opponent's position.
cross-counter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-counters
form: cross-countering
form: cross-countered
form: cross-countered
Etymology: From cross- + counter.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To employ a counterattack of this kind on (someone).
cross-counters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-counter
cross-countering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-counter
cross-countered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross-counter
kiddle-a-wink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddle-a-winks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiddlywink.
kiddle-a-winks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddle-a-wink
staggering bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staggering bobs
Senses: glosses: A newborn calf.
glosses: An animal slaughtered not long before it would have died from disease or accident.
staggering bobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staggering bob
capperclaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: capperclaws
form: capperclawing
form: capperclawed
form: capperclawed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clapperclaw.
capperclawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of capperclaw
capperclaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of capperclaw
capperclawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of capperclaw
mournfulest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mournful: most mournful
whatchamacallem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatchamacallems
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatchamacallit.
whatchacallem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatchacallems
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatchacallit.
whatchamacallems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatchamacallem
whatchacallems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatchacallem
bad scran to someone
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: See scran (“food”).
Senses: glosses: A mild malediction of wishing that someone may have bad food.
quill-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quill-drivers
Senses: examples: text: His brother, enraged at this insult, spoke to him very freely, which he returned no otherwise than by calling him quill-driver, and maccaroni of Mincing-lane.
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263:
text: Passenger.—What o'clock is it?
Mr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.
ref: 1803, John Davis, Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802, page 439:
text: He wouldn't be terrified with a pack of lies by a cocky half-bred little quill-driver.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 36:
glosses: A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher.
quill-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quill-driver
hobgoblinish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hobgoblinish
form: most hobgoblinish
Etymology: From hobgoblin + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hobgoblin.
peepo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From peep + -o.
Senses: examples: text: The baby whimpered. Askew opened his coat again and she giggled out at us and Grandpa gasped with delight. 'Peepo,' said Grandpa. 'Peepo, little hinny.'
ref: 2014, David Almond, Kit's Wilderness:
text: Connie fumbled with the material, desperately trying to push her nipples back into place. “I can't close it up!” “Peepo,” said Ryan.
ref: 2015, Kiki Archer, Too Late... I Love You, page 220:
glosses: Synonym of peekaboo.
synonyms: word: peekaboo
Dickey Sam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dickey Sams
Senses: glosses: A Liverpudlian.
Dickey Sams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dickey Sam
Gourock ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gourock hams
Senses: glosses: A salted herring.
Gourock hams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gourock ham
Harry-soph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harry-sophs
Etymology: According to a 17th century chronicler, from Latin sophister Henricianus after King Henry VIII, but remodeled to fit a fanciful Ancient Greek *ἐρίσοφος (*erísophos, “very wise indeed”), from ἐρι- (eri-) + σοφός (sophós).
Senses: glosses: A student of law or medicine at Cambridge who, being of the same standing as the students in arts in his year, is allowed to wear a full-sleeved gown when they assume their BA gowns, though he does not obtain his actual degree so soon.
wikipedia: Henry VIII
Harry-sophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harry-soph
hawbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawbucks
Senses: examples: text: In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.
ref: 1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93:
glosses: A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.
hawbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawbuck
through the hawsehole
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of an officer: having risen from the grade of an ordinary seaman, whose original position in the vessel was forward, before the mast.
Related terms: rise through the ranks
crocodiles' tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of crocodile tears.
gigayacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigayachts
Etymology: From giga- + yacht.
Senses: examples: text: After that, definitions are debated, but people generally agree that anything more than 230 feet is a megayacht, and more than 295 is a gigayacht. The world contains about 5,400 superyachts, and about a hundred gigayachts. For the moment, a gigayacht is the most expensive item that our species has figured out how to own. […] Many of the largest, most flamboyant gigayachts are designed in Monaco, at a sleek waterfront studio occupied by the naval architect Espen Øino.
ref: 2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2022:
glosses: A very large luxury yacht, bigger than a megayacht.
gigayachts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigayacht
HFSS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: nutrition
glosses: Initialism of high in fat, salt, and sugar.
bonnetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonneting
pongelow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Of Anglo-Indian origin, from an Indian language.
Senses: glosses: beer, or half and half
Scots Grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scots Greys
Senses: glosses: A domestic chicken of a tall, upright breed originating in Scotland, with barred plumage and a single comb.
glosses: A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 until 1971.
Scots Greys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scots Grey
Scotch Grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch Greys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Scots Grey (“kind of domestic chicken”).
Scotch Greys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotch Grey
chatter-basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatter-baskets
Senses: glosses: A talkative person; chatterbox.
chatter-baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatter-basket
flue-faker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flue-fakers
Senses: examples: text: The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged.
ref: 1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe, volume 3, page 23:
glosses: A chimney sweep.
flue-fakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flue-faker
Lunans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lunan
lush-crib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lush-cribs
Senses: glosses: A public house.
lush-cribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lush-crib
St. Martin's lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Imitation gold lace; stage tinsel.
swamp water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp waters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
synonyms: word: suicide
extra: beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swamp, water.
cushion-smiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushion-smiters
Senses: examples: text: […] they pass alternately into church and Dissenting chapel, where “Cushion smiters” once abounded.
ref: 1868, Dr. John Doran, Saints and Sinners: Or, In Church and About It, volume 2, page 293:
text: Who's preaching now? You speak like a cushion-smiter.
ref: 1888, James McGrigor Allan, A lady's four perils, volume 1, page 160:
glosses: A tubthumping clergyman or preacher.
cushion-smiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion-smiter
swear like a cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swears like a cutter
form: swearing like a cutter
form: swore like a cutter
form: sworn like a cutter
Senses: examples: text: Patrick swore like a cutter as Antonia rushed to the minister as if he were about to rescue her from all evil. Mayhap she thought that was so, but the minister was frozen like Lot's wife.
ref: 2015, Jo Ann Ferguson, A Model Marriage:
text: Shouting at the top of his lungs and swearing like a cutter, Chip raged at the voices which were shoving him to the brink.
ref: 2017, Stanley Campbell, The Legend of Chip: The Legend Begins:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of swear like a trooper.
synonyms: word: swear like a trooper
Tib's Eve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St. Tibb's Eve
form: St. Tib's Eve
form: Tibb's Eve
Etymology: After Tib (or Tibb), a fictional woman of loose morals in 17th-century English plays. Such a woman would not be a saint and so there was no Saint Tib and therefore no Tib's Eve.
Senses: examples: text: Marry you? I'll marry you on Tib's Eve!
glosses: A supposed future time that will never arrive.
Related terms: Greek calends
in the reign of Queen Dick
when Hell freezes over
when pigs fly
St. Tib's Eve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tib's Eve.
when Adam was an oakum boy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: when Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
glosses: An extremely long time ago; long before living memory.
Related terms: since Adam was an oakum boy
since Adam was an oakum boy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: since Adam was a boy
since Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
since Hector was a pup
since Skippy was a pup
glosses: Since an extremely long time ago; since long before living memory.
Related terms: when Adam was an oakum boy
when Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of when Adam was an oakum boy.
synonyms: word: when Adam was an oakum boy
since Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of since Adam was an oakum boy.
synonyms: word: since Adam was an oakum boy
that's the ticket for soup
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: In allusion to the card given to beggars for immediate relief at soup kitchens.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of that's the ticket (“that is just right, or exactly what is needed”).
fight the tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights the tiger
form: fighting the tiger
form: fought the tiger
form: fought the tiger
Senses: glosses: To gamble against professional gamblers.
Gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garden
Cocked Hat Club
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Cocked Hat Club
Etymology: Named from the cocked hat placed before the president at their meetings.
Senses: glosses: A club of the Society of Antiquaries of London, whose members decided whether any person proposed should be admitted or not.
Broseley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in Shropshire, England.
Broseley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Broseleys
Senses: glosses: A churchwarden pipe made in Broseley, Shropshire.
Broseleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Broseley
wotjer
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "Ya-ar, she's rich, ain't she? Wotjer think? I lay they got a 'aul! Sixty bob, may be. And crowns! And finnufs! Ar!"
ref: 1949, Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark, page 216:
text: 'Well, wotjer want me to say?' demanded Ben.
ref: 2016, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Detective Ben:
glosses: Alternative form of wotcher (“what do you, etc.”).
finnuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finnufs
Etymology: From Yiddish פֿינף (finf, “five”). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”).
Senses: examples: text: Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
ref: 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen, page 129:
text: "Ya-ar, she's rich, ain't she? Wotjer think? I lay they got a 'aul! Sixty bob, may be. And crowns! And finnufs! Ar!"
ref: 1949, Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark, page 216:
glosses: A five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
finnufs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finnuf
mucormycoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucormycosis
B&S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of brandy and soda.
colour men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colour man
silymarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silymarine
rockalow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockalows
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of roquelaure.
rockalows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockalow
ecotheory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + theory.
Senses: glosses: Theoretical explorations of the connections between humans and the environment; the theory of ecocriticism.
ring-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of fraud in which a ring or other spurious article is supposed to be found just in front of the mark, who is tempted to buy it at a fraction of its claimed value.
ecotheorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotheorists
Etymology: From eco- + theorist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ecotheory.
ecotheoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + theoretical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecotheory.
ecotheorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecotheorist
unseditious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unseditious
form: most unseditious
Etymology: From un- + seditious.
Senses: glosses: Not seditious.
ecotheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + theology.
Senses: glosses: Theological explorations of the connections between religion and the environment, especially with regard to environmental concerns.
ecotheologian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotheologians
Etymology: From eco- + theologian.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ecotheology.
ecotheologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecotheologian
ecoethology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + ethology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the relationship between the behaviour of animals and their environments.
molrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molrows
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of meow (“cry of a cat”).
molrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: molrows
form: molrowing
form: molrowed
form: molrowed
Senses: examples: text: They called the tom-cat to the trap, / Who molrowed as he smelt at the door, O— / Opened his mouth and swallowed him slap, / All the while most profanely he swore, O!
ref: 1864, Tony Pastor, John F. Poole, Tony Pastor's Complete Budget of Comic Songs, page 63:
glosses: Obsolete form of meow.
molrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of molrow
molrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molrow
molrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of molrow
molrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of molrow
indoorness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indoor + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Homes, that is to say, in which the only possible home-life is within the walls; the only possible family-life as much doomed to indoorness by the inexorable architectural fact as by the Eastern fact of climate.
ref: 1899, The Land of Sunshine, page 27:
text: One obvious and indisputable advantage of the inclusion of military subjects and training in our school curricula would be the correction of the dreadful tendency toward “indoorness” and desk- and book-work of our present system.
ref: 1916, Good Housekeeping, page 171:
text: In our northern climate the human race after a period of active outdoorness or migration, seems to revert to such a condition of indoorness. Our species, of tropical origin, takes to the open, only under unusual conditions of pressure […]
ref: 1935, A Handbook of Summer Camps: An Annual Survey:
text: Malice, then, would be commensurate with the crime. Flora would not sit around awaiting the next batch of accusations. Larks was right in bemoaning his indoorness. It was the perfect day for a bike ride: new, breezy, ice blue.
ref: 2011, Maggie Pouncey, Perfect Reader, Anchor, →ISBN, page 231:
text: The sickening indoorness of the whole thing. That's what it was. That is what kills me, he told her. It kills every one of us. The damn indoorness of our lives. “The indoor man in his head is dead. So there,” he announced.
ref: 2020, Peter Unwin, Written in Stone, Cormorant Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The characteristic of being indoors, or of tending to stay indoors, especially when considered undesirable.
slittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be slit.
sold again and got the money
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Costermongers' slang, from the announcement that used to be made when goods were sold.
Senses: glosses: Announced on having successfully deceived somebody.
catch-'em-alive-O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch-'em-alive-Os
Senses: examples: 1855-1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune’s, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O.
glosses: A live-trap (trap designed to catch animals without killing them).
catch-'em-alive-Os
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch-'em-alive-O
tangle-leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tanglelegs (“alcoholic liquor”).
overextender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overextenders
Senses: glosses: One who overextends.
overextenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overextender
adulatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adulatorily
form: most adulatorily
Etymology: From adulatory + -ily.
Senses: glosses: In an adulatory manner.
you can't fix stupid
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: It is often fruitless to help people who are stupid and do stupid things.
Farey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fareys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Farey sequence
Boultbee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
acetomannan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acetylated mannan present in aloe
algorithmophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algorithmophiles
Etymology: From algorithm + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who is happy to rely on data produced by an algorithm
algorithmophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algorithmophile
algorithmophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algorithmophobes
Etymology: From algorithm + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person who is unhappy to rely on data produced by an algorithm
algorithmophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algorithmophobe
antimetropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to antimetropia
bioadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioadaptations
Etymology: From bio- + adaptation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: biological adaptation
bursectomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bursectomises
form: bursectomising
form: bursectomised
form: bursectomised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bursectomize.
bursectomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bursectomise
bursectomised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bursectomized.
chemotacticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being chemotactic
circumpolarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From circum- + polarly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumpolar manner or direction
Blackfordby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ashby-de-la-Zouch parish, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK3217).
dendrosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrosomes
Etymology: From dendro- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A vesicle containing dendrimers
Derived terms: synaptodendrosome
Related terms: dendrosomal
dendrimersome
dendrosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to dendrosomes
disassortive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: disassortative
Caters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cater
endosporulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endosporulators
Etymology: From endo- + sporulator.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that produces endospores
endosporulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endosporulator
Sowters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sowter
gymnophallid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnophallids
Senses: glosses: Any trematode of the family Gymnophallidae
gymnophallids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnophallid
Fareys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Farey
ketaconazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ketoconazole
ligamentously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a ligamentous manner
Fulwider
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fulwiders
Etymology: Variant of Fulenwider.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
macroprolactinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: macroprolactinemia
Related terms: macroprolactinaemic
macroprolactinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: macroprolactinemic
Related terms: macroprolactinaemia
Franze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franzes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Franze.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
malacospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malacospores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The spore of a malacosporean
malacospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malacospore
microfocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microfocus
micropeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropeptide
myocytotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + cytotoxic.
Senses: glosses: Cytotoxic to muscle tissue.
Fulwiders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fulwider
Franzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Franze
neurophysiotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + physiotherapy.
Senses: glosses: physiotherapy to help neurological conditions
nidoviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nidoviruses
Thringstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village north of Coalville, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4217).
nonsporulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + sporulation.
Senses: glosses: An absence of sporulation
normoprolactinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: normoprolactinemic
Farler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Farlers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Pfahler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Cirrincione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cirrinciones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cirrincione.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cirrinciones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cirrincione
Farlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Farler
Bushard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bushards
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Buschardt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Cassaday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cassadays
Etymology: Variant of Cassidy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Cassadays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cassaday
Bushards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bushard
Dudney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dudneys
form: Deudney
form: Dewdney
form: Doodney
form: Doudney
form: Dudeney
form: Dudny
Etymology: From Middle English Deudenay, an anglicization of the French characteristical surname Dieudonné (“God-given”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Durnin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Durnins
form: Durnion
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duirnín (“descendant of Duirnín”). Compare Dornan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Durnins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Durnin
Dudneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dudney