cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carbethoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbethoxies
Etymology: From carb- + ethoxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical -CO-OCH₂CH₃
boukólos rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the boukólos rule
Etymology: The rule is named after an example of such a dissimilation: the Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd”), which is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷow-kólos, from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷól-os (“herder”).
Senses: glosses: A rule of the Proto-Indo-European reconstructed language that states that a labiovelar stop (*kʷ, *gʷ, *gʷʰ) dissimilates to an ordinary velar stop (*k, *g, *gʰ) next to the vowel *u or its corresponding glide *w.
fast-growing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: faster-growing
form: fastest-growing
Senses: examples: text: A fast-growing traffic of which British Railways should receive a larger share is the delivery of new private cars from manufacturer to local dealer.
ref: 1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R. wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335:
text: The study, which mapped the vaccine conversation on Facebook during the 2019 measles outbreak, found that there were nearly three times as many active anti-vaccination communities as pro-vaccination communities. In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers, anti-vaccine pages were faster-growing.
ref: 2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times:
text: The Mayor said that before the pandemic, the West Midlands was the fastest-growing regional economy, with opportunities offered by HS2 key to that.
ref: 2021 February 24, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: Thousands of jobs as HS2 feeds West Midlands growth”, in RAIL, number 925, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of fastgrowing.
rerecommend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerecommends
form: rerecommending
form: rerecommended
form: rerecommended
Etymology: From re- + recommend.
Senses: examples: text: Cummins was an original choice of ours in 1984, and based on our revisits in 1991 we don't hesitate to rerecommend it.
ref: 1993, Robert Levering, Milton Moskowitz, The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America, New York, NY: Currency Doubleday, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: To recommend again.
camping coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camping coaches
Senses: examples: text: All regions of British Railways are offering camping coach accommodation to holidaymakers this summer. Since the war until this year, camping coaches (24 in number) have been available only on the Southern Region, but a programme of converting 89 vehicles has enabled coaches to be sited in attractive holiday areas in East Anglia, North Wales, the Peak District, the West Country, the South of England, Yorkshire Coast and Dales, and in Scotland.
ref: 1952 August, “Notes and News: Camping Coaches on British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 565:
text: At Littleham, a pleasant little station with three camping coaches, the token was exchanged.
ref: 1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-West Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 337:
text: After renovation at Preston Park works, they will replace the 52 wooden-bodied cars still working south of the Thames, one of which dates back as far as 1906; some 20 of the latter will be converted to camping coaches.
ref: 1960 November, G. Freeman Allen, “New Pullman Cars for the East Coast Route”, in Trains Illustrated, page 666:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A retired passenger coach converted into accommodation for holidaymakers, and placed in a station siding in an area frequented by holidaymakers.
camping coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camping coach
draught-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From draught + -free.
Senses: examples: text: The engine was Class "3" 2-6-2 tank No. 82013, with Driver Sampson (Exmouth), and its roomy draught-free cab was a striking contrast to the spartan comfort offered on the Drummond tank.
ref: 1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 337:
glosses: Without or not suffering from draughts (currents of air).
now you tell me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that the person telling them should have told the speaker earlier, typically with annoyance.
Related terms: you're telling me
you tell me
tell me about it
Ayerbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ayerbes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ayerbe, a habitational surname from Basque Aierbe.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ropedancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropedancers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rope dancer.
Newton Poppleford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Newton Poppleford and Harpford parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0889).
Chiriquí
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Panama.
bull feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull feasts
Senses: examples: text: The Commodore staid at Lisbon a week, in which time there happened two of the greatest sights that could be seen had he staid there a whole year, – a bull feast, and the procession of Corpus Christi.
ref: 1750, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 9:
glosses: An entertainment featuring a bull; a bull baiting; (in Spanish contexts) a bullfight.
Harpford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Newton Poppleford and Harpford parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0990).
extraconstitutionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being extraconstitutional.
Colyford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the River Coly + ford.
Senses: glosses: A village in Colyton parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY2592).
Coly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor river, the River Coly, in East Devon, England, which joins the River Axe near Colyford.
Derived terms: Colyford
Colyton
wood sedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood sedges
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of sedges (Carex spp.).
glosses: European woodland sedge (Carex sylvatica)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Carex flaccosperma
word: blue wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex albursina
word: blunt-scaled wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex platyphylla
word: broad-leaved wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex blanda
word: charming wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex blanda
word: common wood sedge
word: curly wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex rosea
word: curly-styled wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex davisii
word: Davis wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex gracillima
word: graceful wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex grisea
word: gray wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex hitifolia
word: hairy wood sedge
word: Henderson wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex hendersonii
word: Henderson's wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex digitalis
word: long-spiked wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex laxiflora
word: looseflower wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex strigosa
word: loose-spiked wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex sylvatica
word: pendulous wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex plantaginea
word: plantain-leaved wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex purpurifera
word: purple wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex digitalis
word: slender wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex depauperata
word: starved wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex radiata
word: straight-styled wood sedge
taxonomic: Carex strigosa
word: thin-spiked wood sedge
Related terms: word: woodland sedge
taxonomic: Carex woodii
word: Wood's sedge
Axmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksməθ/
rhymes: -æksməθ
Etymology: From Axe + mouth, at the mouth of the River Axe.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY2591).
Kabylian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: more Kabylian
form: most Kabylian
Etymology: From Kabylia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kabyle.
synonyms: word: Kabyle
Kabylian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: Kabylians
Etymology: From Kabylia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kabyle.
synonyms: word: Kabyle
Kabylian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Etymology: From Kabylia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kabyle.
synonyms: word: Kabyle
last-mentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The last-mentioned down train includes a buffet car which must be incorporated in the formation of the 2.35 p.m. Seaton-Waterloo; [...].
ref: 1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 340:
glosses: The last of a number of things or people mentioned, e.g. in the preceding text.
Related terms: aforementioned
last-named
Bidenesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bidenesque
form: most Bidenesque
Etymology: From Biden + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: In a conservative law journal, Thomas explicitly acknowledged Biden's argument in the Bork fight and concluded in almost Bidenesque language, "These rights are inalienable ones given to man by his Creator, and did not simply come from a piece of paper."
ref: 1992, Mark Gitenstein, Matters of Principle: An Insider's Account of America's Rejection of Robert Bork's Nomination to the Supreme Court:
text: I got to speak for the first time about being on the “right side of history,” a refrain we'd continue to use until the campaign's end, and let the electric crowd know I'd learned much from Biden over the years—“some would say a little too much,” I joked, donning a pair of Bidenesque aviator sunglasses.
ref: 2019, Doug Jones, Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights, New York, NY: All Points Books, →ISBN, page 332:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician, the 47th vice president and 46th president of the United States.
Kabylia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbɪlɪ.ə/
ipa: /kəˈbɪliə/
rhymes: -ɪliə
Etymology: From Kabyle + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: In Kabylia, men never set out to find a wife. Finding a wife is the most important and essential phase.
ref: 2007, Makilam, translated by Elizabeth Corp, The Magical Life of Berber Women in Kabylia, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: A region of Algeria.
Derived terms: Kabylian
Related terms: Kabyle
Peninsular Spanish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: peninsular Spanish
Senses: coordinate_terms: Latin-American Spanish
glosses: The standard form of Spanish spoken in the Iberian peninsula.
Bidenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bidenisms
Etymology: From Biden + -ism. The plagiarism sense is a reference to the plagiarism scandal in September 1987 that ended Biden's first presidential campaign.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The ideology and policies of Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician and the 46th president of the United States.
examples: text: When talking about policies, he often said the president “gets it,” a condescending Bidenism for “agrees with me.”
ref: 2013, Michael Grunwald, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 256:
text: Invoking one of the vice president's Bidenisms, "Don't die on a small cross," I proposed that we instead pursue a "Big Bang."
ref: 2019, Susan Rice, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 409:
text: BIDENISMS If you have to ask, it's too late. […]
ref: 2020, Jill Biden, Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 1991:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A quip, phrase or aphorism commonly said by Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician and the 46th president of the United States.
examples: text: This is an election year, so forgive me if I steal a line from a more innocent time to ask also for help from the rest of you (not to be accused of a Bidenism, it's from JFK's inaugural address) […]
ref: Summer 1988, Cristine Russell, Newsletter of the National Association of Science Writers, p. 14
text: That was Mr. Seidman's line. I don't want to do a Bidenism here.
ref: January 1989, Stanford Parris, Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, page 94
text: (We have not used quotation marks in this paragraph because that from which it is basically copied is in an unpublished decision of Division 7; we give credit only to avoid any claim of "Bidenism.")
ref: 1991, attorneys representing the City of Long Beach, California, brief submitted to the California Court of Appeal (2nd District), page 22
topics: government
politics
glosses: An instance of plagiarism, or the act of plagiarism.
Related terms: Bushism
heteroglossic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + gloss- + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Of, relating to, or characterized by heteroglossia.
appropriater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appropriaters
Etymology: From appropriate + -er.
Senses: glosses: An appropriator.
appropriaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appropriater
strammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stram
strambang
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strambang
form: most strambang
Etymology: From stram + bang.
Senses: examples: text: an way that a geed en sich a wap in the niddick that strambang a het es head agin the clovel, an made a bump in es brow.
ref: 1837, Mary Reynolds Palmer, A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, page 19:
glosses: In a noisy, violent manner; slambang.
-glossia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -glossy
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”). Compare gloss-, glott-.
Senses: examples: text: diglossia, macroglossia, pachyglossia
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Used to form nouns relating to the tongue.
examples: text: diglossia, heteroglossia, xenoglossia
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used to form nouns relating to language or speech.
Related terms: -glossic
-glot
pachyglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pachy- + -glossia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal thickening of the tongue.
mixed train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed trains
Senses: examples: text: On both the Gothland and the Öland Railway, a spanking railcar provides an alternative to riding in the wayward, steam-driven mixed train, but the latter is the proper conveyance for a real railway lover, even over the flat, limestone plains which form much of the Baltic island scenery.
ref: 1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 51:
text: One passenger train in each direction can run as a mixed train, and by this means the empty wagons are returned.
ref: 1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 343–344:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train consisting of both passenger coaches and freight vehicles.
mixed trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed train
Ibero-Spanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ibero- + Spanish.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the people, culture, or language of Spain, as opposed to the Spanish-speaking communities of Latin America.
teenspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teen + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: "Righteous" and "dude" were part of teenspeak at the time, and had already been immortalized by another clueless adult, Grace, the Wite-Out sniffing secretary (Edie McClurg) speaking of the hero in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
ref: 2011, John Ross Bowie, Heathers, page 51:
text: Real teenspeak is a mess of ums, likes, you knows, tangents and runaway trains of thought that, when transcribed onto paper, are pretty much impenetrable.
ref: 2011, Deborah Halverson, M. T. Anderson, Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies, page 175:
text: […] "Nice to meet you, Mr. Tomasi. Thank you for the party tonight. That's just sick."
"Sick means good in teenspeak," Audrey translated, before demanding, "What party?"
ref: 2013, Lucy Monroe, Million Dollar Christmas Proposal, page 107:
glosses: Communication by adolescents viewed as slangy, awkward, or immature.
zeuhl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by French musician Christian Vander, who claimed it meant "celestial" in his constructed language Kobaïan.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of progressive rock, typically incorporating asemic lyrics, massed unison vocals (often with both male and female vocalists), and jazz-influenced rhythmic accompaniment.
wikipedia: Kobaïan
womanspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woman-speak
Etymology: From woman + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Women often punish men without even knowing it. For example, a woman may say, "This trash fills up quickly." This is woman-speak for, "Get up right now and take out the trash."
ref: 2012, Barry Cooper, Stopping the Epidemic of Divorce: Practical Steps to Stop Divorce in Its Tracks, unnumbered page:
text: "Come on, are you kidding me? Really?"
Brandon patted his chest, then the front pockets of his jeans. "Oh no. It looks like I forgot my woman-speak code breaker at home, so do you mind helping me out with a little translation on what I'm missing?"
ref: 2012, James L. Rubart, Soul's Gate, unnumbered page:
text: It was clear that this was womanspeak and that they were familiar with this term because there wasn't the customary smiles and laughs that usually follow such novel-type statements.
ref: 2014, Raymond D. Petty, Thug Love: Why Women Are Attracted to Bad Boys, page 95:
glosses: Communication by women viewed (by men) as nagging, critical, or shallow.
Coordinate terms: manspeak
Related terms: femspeak
Tashelhiyt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tashelhit.
Tashlhiyt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tashelhit.
Tashlhit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tashelhit.
sheepskin effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Academic degrees were traditionally presented on sheepskin parchment.
Senses: examples: text: The sheepskin effect represents a proxy measure, or the quest for a proxy measure, to detect such things as self-discipline, learning ability, aptitude for passing tests, ability to collaborate in peer groups, and so on, as well as, perhaps, willingness to conform.
glosses: The theory that people who have completed an academic degree earn more income, not because of the knowledge they gained during their education, but rather because their degree indicates things about their mental abilities and personality that employers are seeking.
Related terms: credentialism
paper ceiling
the more you know, the higher you go
fuckwaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkˌwɒfəl/
Forms: form: fuckwaffles
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of fuck + waffle.
Senses: examples: text: “Oy, you're gonna break the eggs, ya fuckwaffle,” he said, elbowing me out of the way.
ref: 2018, Roan Parrish, Riven, unnumbered page:
text: “Sir, I understand the posters are a bunch of inbred fuckwaffles, but I thought even they upheld the policy of no nukes,” said Fulcrum.
ref: 2018, R. Grayson Brice, The Wrenchtown Architects, Volume 1, page 93:
text: Damn, I hated him.
"Fuckwaffle," I said under my breath.
ref: 2019, Laurelin Paige, Dirty Beginnings, unnumbered page:
glosses: An annoying or contemptible person.
Cincitucky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Cincinnati + Kentucky.
Senses: glosses: The city of Cincinnati, so called because of its close proximity to the Ohio-Kentucky border.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The Cincinnati Bengals.
glosses: Northern Kentucky, the metropolitan area close to Cincinnati.
flinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fling
stinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a double-stinged serpent
glosses: Having the specified number or kind of sting.
stinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sting
Bidenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bidenites
Etymology: From Biden + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: And Iowa's Democratic caucus-goers might not easily forgive his campaign for zapping Biden while Biden was leading the anti-Bork fight. Still, at a showdown with bitter Bidenites in Sioux City late Friday, Dukakis seemed to sway the crowd with his contrition.
ref: 1987, Newsweek, volume 110, page 40:
text: The Bidenites say they will be more assertive with China than was the case during the Obama administration, especially on trade issues where they will seek to emulate Mr Trump’s attempts to negotiate a more equitable arrangement.
ref: 2020 November 7, Con Coughlin, “The West's enemies will breathe a sigh of relief that Trump's leaving the White House”, in The Telegraph:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of American politician and US president Joe Biden.
creepy crawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creepy crawlers
Etymology: From creepy-crawly + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Lily: I couldn't just abandon my friends to this creepy crawler!
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The Dreaded Human Spider" (season 1, episode 5a)
text: I'd never been afraid of creepy crawlers before, ...
ref: 2007, Linda Ladd, Dark Places, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN:
text: They happen to be those creepy crawlers. Those animals could not come into the garden for the time being, but as sure as I kept hanging there in mid air, one of those crawlers would find its way into the garden.
ref: 2008, Debi Toporoff, When God Came Down, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
text: “After the nice place is a more evil place, a desert filled with caves and creepy black mansions. It is filled with ghosts, trolls, evil wizards and witches, pirates living in the murky waters, and terrible traps and poisonous creepy crawlers everywhere.
ref: 2009, Grace Templeton, Katherine's Quest, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: When he opened the front door, there were several of these creepy crawlers exploring our entry way.
ref: 2011, Patricia Monasmith, Unearthed: Digging the Jewels of Sobriety from the Trenches of Addiction, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: Besides angels and demons type creatures, he especially had an obsession with creepy crawlers and all those insects that would make anybody run away in a really crazed fashion.
ref: 2012, A. Rodriguez, Johnny the Eternal: A Dawn in Darkness, iUniverse, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of creepy-crawly.
synonyms: word: creepy-crawly
creepy crawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creepy crawler
has got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have got
had got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have got
having got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have got
have a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a point
form: having a point
form: had a point
form: had a point
form: have got a point
Senses: examples: text: You have a point. We should limit our budget to only include what is necessary.
glosses: To express a correct or valid idea.
Related terms: get the point
pointless
point taken
the point
take someone's point
take the point
have got a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has got a point
form: having got a point
form: had got a point
form: had got a point
Senses: examples: text: He's got a point!
glosses: Alternative form of have a point.
has a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have a point
had a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have a point
having a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have a point
Chufou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Chufou.—Ninety miles south of Tsinanfu on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway is Chufou, the place where Confucius lived and is buried. When the railway was being constructed a few years ago, the Duke of Kung, a lineal descendant of Confucius, objected to the defilement of the sacred place by such a barbarous thing as a foreign railway and so was able to keep it out of Chufou, where he is very influential. It is therefore necessary for the visitor to ride five miles in a Chinese cart or wheelbarrow from the railway station. The fact that the Duke is now a wiser man and regrets that the road does not touch his city does not make the-ride any shorter.
The principal point of interest at Chufou is the great cemetery, covering about 600 acres and containing the bone 3 of the Confucian clan in all its branches for 2500 years.
ref: 1921, Carl Crow, The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong), 3rd edition, Dodd, Mead & Co., →OCLC, page 277:
text: He died in Chufou, Shantung, in 479 B.C., having established himself as the most important teacher in Chinese culture
ref: 1990 [1982], Josh McDowell, “Confucianism”, in Bill Wilson, editor, The Best of Josh McDowell: A Ready Defense: Over 60 Vital "Lines of Defense" for Christianity, Here's Life Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:
text: He died in Chufou, Shantung, in 479 BC, having established himself as the most important teacher in Chinese culture.
ref: 2008, Josh McDowell, “Confucianism”, in Scott Dawson, editor, The Complete Evangelism Guidebook: Expert Advice on Reaching Others for Christ, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 222:
glosses: Synonym of Qufu: A county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.
synonyms: word: Qufu
extra: A county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China
Taianfu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chinese 泰安府 (Tài'ānfǔ).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tai'an (a city in Shandong)
synonyms: word: Tai'an
extra: a city in Shandong
Tsinanfu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chinese 濟南府 (Jǐnánfǔ).
Senses: examples: text: We were to travel second class from Shanghai to Tsinanfu, a distance of about 700 miles, so Brother Keihn suggested we had better enter our compartment early in order to secure our seats, inasmuch as it was a night train, and usually densely crowded.
ref: 1915, Hiram F. Reynolds, World-Wide Missions, Kansas City, Missouri: Publishing House of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, page 67:
text: She was persuaded to spend Christmas with his family at Tsinanfu — as a surprise for Hos’s homecoming.
ref: 2009, Judith March Davis, Pagoda Dreamer, Langdon Street Press, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Synonym of Jinan: A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China.
synonyms: word: Jinan
extra: A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Shandong, in eastern China
Tai Shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: T'ai Shan
form: T'ai-shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 泰山 (Tài Shān).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mount Tai.
synonyms: word: Mount Tai
give someone grey hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone grey hair
form: giving someone grey hair
form: gave someone grey hair
form: given someone grey hair
form: give someone gray hair
Etymology: The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).
Senses: glosses: To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.
wikipedia: Nature (journal)
greying of hair
Synonyms: give grey hair to
Coordinate terms: get grey hair from
Related terms: grey-haired
oxidative stress
give someone gray hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone gray hair
form: giving someone gray hair
form: gave someone gray hair
form: given someone gray hair
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of give someone grey hair.
gives someone grey hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone grey hair
giving someone grey hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone grey hair
gave someone grey hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give someone grey hair
given someone grey hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give someone grey hair
give grey hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives grey hair to
form: giving grey hair to
form: gave grey hair to
form: given grey hair to
form: give gray hair to
Senses: glosses: Synonym of give someone grey hair.
synonyms: word: give someone grey hair
give gray hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives gray hair to
form: giving gray hair to
form: gave gray hair to
form: given gray hair to
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of give grey hair to.
get grey hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets grey hair from
form: getting grey hair from
form: got grey hair from
form: got grey hair from
form: gotten grey hair from
form: get gray hair from
Etymology: See give someone grey hair.
Senses: glosses: To acquire great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness from (something or someone).
gets grey hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get grey hair from
getting grey hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get grey hair from
got grey hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get grey hair from
gotten grey hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get grey hair from
get gray hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets gray hair from
form: getting gray hair from
form: got gray hair from
form: got gray hair from
form: gotten gray hair from
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get grey hair from.
gets gray hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get gray hair from
getting gray hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get gray hair from
got gray hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get gray hair from
gotten gray hair from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get gray hair from
gives someone gray hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone gray hair
giving someone gray hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone gray hair
gave someone gray hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give someone gray hair
given someone gray hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give someone gray hair
gives grey hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give grey hair to
giving grey hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give grey hair to
gave grey hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give grey hair to
given grey hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give grey hair to
gives gray hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give gray hair to
giving gray hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give gray hair to
gave gray hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give gray hair to
given gray hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give gray hair to
outsuave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈswɑːv/
rhymes: -ɑːv
Forms: form: outsuaves
form: outsuaving
form: outsuaved
form: outsuaved
form: out-suave
Etymology: From out- + suave.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Conradre turns as Thomas Remington Sloane, a supersleuth who almost outsuaves James Bond in his feats of derring-do.
ref: 1979 September 22, Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa, page 8:
text: Then again, when she’d made the huge mistake of falling in love with this man, he’d been William Prescott Wyatt, a man who could outsuave Pierce Brosnan or even Cary Grant.
ref: 2006, JoAnn Ross, Impulse, Pocket Star Books, →ISBN, page 119:
text: I heard that the Clarrie actor was supposed to be the original one from yonks ago but I have to admit she doesn't sound anything like I remember Clarrie ever sounding. And it isn't just Clarrie who was promising violence - Christine wasn't quite as vicious as Clarrie, indeed she outsuaved 007, but she was having a good laugh at Jazza's attempts at espionage when he invited himself round
ref: 2013 June 13, John Fairhurst, “Re: Lazy SWin again - silly feud (sp. 2013-6-11 [Tuesday])”, in uk.media.radio.archers (Usenet), message-ID <9iput.33048$RF7.3670@fx07.am4>:
text: Rains and Milland spend most of their time trying to outsuave each other, with O’Hara caught uncomfortably between them.
ref: 2013, Aubrey Malone, Maureen O’Hara: The Biography, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Elaine, however, appeared to be swept away when Santiago took her hand, kissed it, and introduced himself. “Santiago Andrada.” / “Um, uh ...” Elaine stammered. “Th-thank you!” / Nav couldn’t stand it. Shouldering his way in front of Santiago, he said smoothly, “Elaine, have I told you how much how I liked your design for the league gala? It is the best I have ever seen.” Not to be outsuaved, he kissed Elaine’s hand, too.
ref: 2018, Bobbi JG Weiss, Ride: The Search for TK, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: To exceed in suaveness.
ferrandin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrandins
Senses: examples: text: I did buy a coloured silk ferrandin.
ref: 1665 June 19 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “June 9th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ferrandine.
stroke of luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strokes of luck
Senses: examples: text: What makes this accident so significant is that Hunt's southbound goods train was loaded with ammunition bound for the First World War battle zone. The major stroke of luck was that the 39 trucks loaded with ammunition did not explode as a result of the collision, and that there was no fire from cinders from either engine or from the stoves in the brake vans.
ref: 2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 52:
glosses: An instance of unexpected luck, usually good luck.
Synonyms: stroke of fortune
strokes of luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroke of luck
stroke of fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strokes of fortune
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stroke of luck.
synonyms: word: stroke of luck
strokes of fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroke of fortune
flesh and bone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flesh and bones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flesh and blood.
synonyms: word: flesh and blood
flesh and bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flesh and bones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flesh and blood.
synonyms: word: flesh and blood
flesh and bones
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mona: Gasp! There! She's alive, flesh and bones—a living mannequin!
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The Living Mannequin" (season 1, episode 5b)
glosses: Alternative form of flesh and bone.
flesh and bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flesh and bone.
trenchersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trencherful
dealer's choice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dealer's choices
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A game in which the dealer decides what variant to play and/or what stakes are to be bet.
Sicilianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sicilianisms
Etymology: From Sicilian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Leonardo Sciascia, for example, views the motif of the dissolution of individual identity as an aspect of Pirandello's Sicilianism rather than as a reflection of the vaster Western crisis of identity.
ref: 1997, Fiora A. Bassanese, Understanding Luigi Pirandello, University of South Carolina Press, page 158:
text: 2 Isle-solitude, island and solitude, is a much wider concept than Sicilianism, a subjective condition resulting from the Sicilian mental condition. The Sciascian island and the ‘isle-solitude’ that follows from it, considered both with its good and bad connotations (as a port and a refuge), in Sciascia becomes an ideology. See Sciascia, ‘Sicilia e siciltudine’^([sic – meaning sicilitudine]) (Sicily and Sicilianism), La corda pazza (The Crazy Rope), in Opere 1956–1971, pp. 961-8 (p. 963).
ref: 2011, Ubaldo Riccobono, “‘Isle-solitudes’ and European Archaeologies in Leonardo Sciascia”, in Rossella M. Riccobono, editor, The Poetics of the Margins, Peter Lang, footnote, page 17:
glosses: The ensemble of customs, mentality and attitudes traditionally attributed to Sicilians.
examples: 1900, J. Rendel Harris, Further Researches into the History of the Ferrar-Group, C. J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press, page 76,
In proving or testing for Sicilianism or Ferrarism amongst the MSS. tabulated above, we must be to a large extent dependent upon fresh examinations and further collations. It is, however, interesting to note that in the case of some of the MSS. referred to, including the less accessible of them, the Ferrarism, or the Sicilianism, can be clearly made out.
1994, Frede Jensen (editor and translator), Tuscan Poetry of the Duecento: An Anthology, footnote, page 308,
12. dia: is Provençal or a Sicilianism: ogni dia (Notaio, v. 6: Cont I 61) 'every day'.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase identified as being Sicilian (language or Italian dialect), as written in Sicily or by a Sicilian, or as expressive of Sicilian mentality or attitudes.
examples: text: 2009 [Pearson Education Ltd], Martin Clark, The Italian Risorgimento, 2nd Edition, 2013, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 23,
‘Sicilianism’ was conservative and aristocratic, but it was a real separatist threat to the weak and remote Bourbon government in Naples.
text: The exception was western Sicily where the ‘Sicilianism’, the desire for a Sicilian statehood, more or less independent, had never subsided.
ref: 2015, Marcello Caroti, Garibaldi the first fascist, Youcanprint, page 69:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Sicilian nationalism; a political movement within Sicily, and to some extent in the Sicilian diaspora, which seeks greater autonomy or even full independence for Sicily from Italy and promotes Sicilian identity in terms of culture, history and language; also used historically.
Related terms: Sicilianity
Elyot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛljət/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pootoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chinese 普陀 (Pǔtuó).
Senses: examples: text: Pootoo.—The most lovely spot in Far Cathay is the sacred isle of Pootoo, two hundred miles from Shanghai, and sixty from Ningpo, from which latter city, in another direction overland, is reached the far-famed Snowy Valley. The route to Pootoo is among hundreds of islands, great and small, all mountainous, which compose the Chusan archipelago, and as the steamer winds its tortuous way among them, every variety of wild scenery is presented; now the precipitous rocks and projecting headlands, the barren knolls and rugged crags; then the mountains covered with trees, and hills beautifully terraced to the top with waving fields of grain; or villages nestling in little bays, or encircled in foliage, lying on the water's edge; indeed in its approaching views and receding vistas it is a twin-sister of the inland Sea of Japan. Pootoo is the capital of Indo-Chinese Buddhism, and its renown is as far- famed as the Chinese language is spoken or Chinese literature known.
ref: 1886, Hampden Coit DuBose, The Dragon, Image, and Demon, London: S. W. Partridge and Co., →OCLC, pages 274–275:
text: Some people in Amoy still persist in sailing about five hundred miles on old sailing junks to the Pootoo Islands off the coast of Ningpo every spring.
ref: 1936, Lin Yutang, My County & My People, Singapore: Heinemann Asia, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 124:
text: They still frequented the casinos and went to St Anna Ballroom in Love Lane and to cabarets at Ladow’s Casanova or Del Monte’s where the curfew could be seen off in style until dawn when it was lifted. They still took their breaks in places like Soochow or Hangchow or on the island called Pootoo, where the ‘trouble’ was made to seem far away.
ref: 2002, Denis Way, Robert Nield, Counting House: The History of PricewaterhouseCoopers on the China Coast, PricewaterhouseCoopers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: Synonym of Mount Putuo.
synonyms: word: Mount Putuo
Mount Putuo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: po͞oʹtôʹ
Etymology: Partial calque of Mandarin 普陀山 (Pǔtuó Shān).
Senses: examples: text: Mount Wutai is really a cluster of five huge summits ranging in altitude up to 10,000 feet that is breached only by a few dirt roads twisting over the windswept passes of northern Shanxi. It is the most revered of the four mountains sacred to Chinese Buddhists, more than Mount Emei in Sichuan, Mount Putuo in Zhejiang or Mount Jihua in Anhui.
ref: 1984 October 16, Christopher S. Wren, “TO BE LEFT ALONE, CHINA'S BUDDISTS OPEN A DOOR”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World:
text: Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines has launched flights to Zhoushan, a mainland Chinese city known for its Buddhist pilgrimage site of Mount Putuo, adding a new route that will soon be followed by three others, even as it recently cut a flight to Haikou that began in late July.
ref: 2024 November 12, Emily Hung, “Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines launches new route to Zhoushan, site of sacred Mount Putuo”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2025, Hong Kong economy:
glosses: An island of Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
Synonyms: Pootoo
Hypernyms: island
mountain
Erta Ale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ertale
form: Irta'ale
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ኤርታሌ (ʾertale).
Senses: glosses: A continuously active basaltic shield volcano in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia.
Ertale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Erta Ale.
Irta'ale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Erta Ale.
Afars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afar
Karpowitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karpowitzes
Etymology: A corruption of Polish Karpowicz.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Karpowitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Karpowitz
does battle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do battle
doing battle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do battle
done battle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do battle
did battle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do battle
BMAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex.
dynostarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynostarters
Etymology: Apparently from dynamo + starter
Senses: examples: text: The diesel engine is mounted forward of the transmission with the dynostarter coupled to an auxiliary drive at the rear of the transmission.
ref: 1960 June, “The N.B. Loco. Co. diesel-hydraulic Type "2" locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 345:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A dynamo which is also a starter motor.
dynostarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynostarter
CSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Côte Saint-Luc: a city in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
CSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSLs
Senses: examples: text: Currently all that has been shown of the CSL Hommage is a single image.
ref: 2015 May 13, Hunter Skipworth, “BMW to create one-off tribute to 3.0 CSL”, in Evo, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2020, retrieved 14 May 2015:
glosses: A car of the BMW CSL series.
NDG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Notre Dame de Grace: a district of Cote-des-Neiges---Notre-Dame-de-Grace borough, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
echimyine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the subfamily Echimyinae of the rodent family Echimyidae.
Park Ex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ParkEx
form: Parkex
form: Park-Ex
form: Parc Ex
form: ParcEx
form: Parcex
form: Parc-Ex
Etymology: Clipping of Park Extension.
Senses: glosses: Park Extension, a neighbourhood of Montreal.
Outremont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Outremount
Etymology: From French Outremont.
Senses: glosses: A borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A former city in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Outremount
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Outremont + mount. Calque of French Outremount. From a corruption of French Outremont, substituting the English + -mount for the French -mont, while treating "Outre" (outre) as a base name.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Outremont.
synonyms: word: Outremont
Westmount
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛstmaʊnt/
Etymology: From West + mount.
Senses: glosses: A city in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; An affluent suburb on the Island of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada
glosses: A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Related terms: mount
Mount West
West
West Hill
Westhill
Westmont
West Mountain
Hunnicut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hunnicuts
Senses: glosses: A surname.