cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
biopacemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopacemaker
birhinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bi- + rhinally.
Senses: glosses: In a birhinal manner
bisindolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bis- + indolic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to bisindoles
bivariably
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + variably.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a bivariable manner
Hialeah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.əˈliː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Senses: glosses: A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
bradyseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brady- + seismic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bradyseisms
budneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budnecks
form: bud neck
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A constriction between a bud and the organism that produced it
budnecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budneck
Brighton Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
kyanoxalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek κυανός (kuanós, “blue”) + oxalate
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pale blue hexagonal mineral containing aluminium, hydrogen, sodium, carbon, oxygen and silicon.
khorixasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Khorixas District, Namibia, where the type locality can be found.
Khorixas + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow-green monoclinic mineral that contains bismuth, copper, hydrogen, oxygen and vanadium.
maxaxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of blue beryl.
synonyms: word: blue beryl
have something going for one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has something going for one
form: having something going for one
form: had something going for one
form: had something going for one
Senses: glosses: To have many advantages.
Related terms: have something going with someone
rosolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rose pink variety of grossular; rose garnet.
xalostocite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of rosolite.
synonyms: word: rosolite
rose garnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pink coloured garnet.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of rosolite.
synonyms: word: rosolite
make an entrance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes an entrance
form: making an entrance
form: made an entrance
form: made an entrance
form: make one's entrance
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To enter the stage.
glosses: To enter noticeably.
make one's entrance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes one's entrance
form: making one's entrance
form: made one's entrance
form: made one's entrance
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make an entrance.
atomic tangerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the name of a fluorescent Crayola crayon released in 1972.
Senses: examples: text: The jokes are dust, and Blair, it is rumoured, is living on a jet full time, flying away from himself or, as I think more probable, under a spray-tan machine, staining himself that peculiar shade of orange that interior decorators call Atomic Tangerine, a fine mirror for his madness.
ref: 2016 April 2, Tanya Gold, “Bellanger review: a posh Islington restaurant for semi-ordinary people”, in The Spectator:
text: Becoming Trump requires a full hour of hair and makeup. He tapes three large photographs of the president, one in profile and two straight-on, to any mirror he’s using, and then uses Ben Nye CoCo Tan foundation to turn his skin the requisite shade of atomic tangerine, dabs on wrinkles, lengthens his nose, and so on.
ref: 2017 June 23, Jordan Kisner, “Being Donald Trump: the life of an impersonator”, in The Guardian:
text: Partida Creus’ “Cart Ver” is atomic tangerine in color and so delicious it’s trouble. Well integrated with lots of acidity, it smells like an Orange Crush and a strawberry michelada and tastes like strawberry ocean water
ref: 2018 March 20, Marissa A. Ross, ““Orange Wine” Needs to Go Away—Hear Me Out”, in Bon Appétit:
text: The first thing you should know about 79 Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge is that it’s not orange. Officially dubbed as “Atomic Tangerine” the home’s distinctive facade is one part quirky to nine parts endearing.
ref: 2019 July 10, Miriam Schwartz, “Cambridge home a tangerine dream”, in The Boston Herald:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A light orange colour.
nice try
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: good try
glosses: Used to express that somebody made a worthy attempt.
good try
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nice try.
synonyms: word: nice try
SPH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPHs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of smoothed-particle hydrodynamics.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of small penis humiliation.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of strategically placed hole (“a hole in a plush toy intended to simulate a vagina or anus”).
lamb's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bar in early wooden windows, having a slightly pointed rounded end that widens like the tongue of a sheep.
synonyms: narrowleaf plantain
English plantain
ribleaf
ribwort plantain
buckhorn
glosses: The flowering plant Plantago lanceolata.
city limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city limits
Senses: glosses: The boundaries of a city.
glosses: A part of the boundary of a city.
Micaella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of rare usage, variant of Michaela.
lambars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambar
city limits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of city limit
half-read
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæfˈɹɛd/
ipa: /hɑːfˈɹɛd/
Etymology: From half- + read.
Senses: examples: text: I put down my half-read book and went outside.
glosses: Partly read.
examples: text: The clown unread, and half-read gentleman
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Inadequately or superficially educated by reading.
deserving poor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: undeserving poor
glosses: Poor people who are incapable of providing for themselves and thus seen as legitimate recipients of charity.
undeserving poor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: deserving poor
glosses: Poor people who ought to be able to provide for themselves but are too lazy to do so, and thus seen as not worthy of charity.
I see
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: right
glosses: I understand.
Havre de Grace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhævɚ dəˈɡɹeɪs/
ipa: /ˌhævɚ dəˈɡɹæs/
rhymes: -eɪs
rhymes: -æs
Etymology: From French Le Havre-de-Grâce (literally “the harbor of grace”), the original name of Le Havre in France.
Senses: glosses: A city in Harford County, Maryland, United States.
Subie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Subies
Etymology: Diminutive of Subaru: Clipping of Subaru + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I maneuvered my Subie into an open spot near her car port.
ref: 2016, Mignon Mykel, O'Gallagher Nights:
glosses: A Subaru automobile.
Subies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Subie
COYBIG
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From COY- + Boys in Green.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Acronym of come on you boys in green, a chant in support of Celtic F.C. and the Republic of Ireland national football team.
lesbianity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lesbian + -ity.
Senses: glosses: lesbianism; female homosexuality
howl-round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: feedback (high-pitched howling noise caused by a loop between microphone and speaker)
draw distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draw distances
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The maximum distance from the camera at which objects are rendered in a three-dimensional scene.
Related terms: distance fog
pop-in
draw distances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draw distance
PIPCU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit.
frillless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frill + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without frills.
snooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: snooches
Senses: examples: text: Josh had heard of Eric and listened to all my stories of him that he christened Eric the “Snooch Wrangler”. Hilarious. And thus Eric was called that the remainder of the week. Though I'm not sure he got much snooch that week.
ref: 2011, Greg Hannah, 3500 Days of Summer, page 499:
text: "Damn it, if I'm embarrassed to go and buy them I'm hardly going to send you to do my dirty work. Those things go up my snooch, CJ—you'll get knowing looks from the people on the check out and maybe even looks of sympathy. […]
ref: 2013, Corri Lee, All My Demons, page 105:
glosses: vulva or vagina
snooches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snooch
New Carrollton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
cybersalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybersalons
Etymology: From cyber- + salon.
Senses: glosses: An intellectual discussion group communicating via the Internet.
cybersalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybersalon
top-slicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A means of spreading a single year's chargeable event gain (CEG) over a number of years, for the purpose of calculating how much income tax is due.
topics: education
glosses: An arrangement whereby part of an educational institution's income is set aside to fund operational costs.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A proposed system whereby part of the television licence fee would be used to fund the rollout of superfast broadband.
Related terms: top-slice
jelly glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly glasses
Senses: glosses: An item of glassware, usually having a conical bowl and square stem, once used for serving dessert and in modern times as a drinking-glass.
jelly glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly glass
corticene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A kind of linoleum decking used to provide a grip for the feet.
girlfriend experience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girlfriend experiences
Senses: examples: text: For many johns, the most popular feature of being with a prostitute is the so-called Girlfriend Experience, or GFE, where a client pays a prostitute to pretend to be his girlfriend during the session, making it seem more real than simply a business arrangement.
ref: 2011, R. Barri Flowers, Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 151:
synonyms: GFE
coordinate_terms: boyfriend experience
pornstar experience
glosses: A sexual encounter with a female sex worker within a context where romantic intimacy is provided.
Related terms: hobbyist
GFEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GFE
girlfriend experiences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlfriend experience
sticky shed syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition where an old magnetic tape cannot be played because of the chemical deterioration of the binders.
counterpublic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kount'əpŭbʹlĭk
ipa: /ˌkaʊntəˈpʌblɪk/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntəˈpʊblɪk/
Etymology: From counter- + public.
Senses: examples: text: An account of this sort provides a historicized moral foundation for a conception of counterpublic spheres more capable of undertaking a (decentered and multifaceted) critique of systematically distorted communication.
ref: 2005, Andrew J. Pierce, Media Technology and Counterpublic Spheres:
glosses: Opposing or serving as a counterbalance to the dominant public.
counterpublic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kountʹəpŭb'lĭk
ipa: /ˈkaʊntəˌpʌblɪk/
ipa: /ˈkaʊntəˌpʊblɪk/
Forms: form: counterpublics
Etymology: From counter- + public.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, with this book they form a “counterpublic” to what they saw as a dominant, adult-controlled public sphere.
ref: 2008, Patrick James Noonan, Creating a Counterpublic, page 5:
text: It is incorrect to conceive of the black counterpublic as historically static or as ideologically cohesive at any given historical moment.
ref: 2010, Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, page 6:
glosses: A group that stands in opposion to the dominant public.
counterpublics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpublic
thermophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + -philia.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
hypernyms: extremophile
glosses: The ability to thrives at relatively high temperatures.
Related terms: thermophile
thermophilic
chuntey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, from an accidental misspelling of chutney.
Senses: examples: text: The hardware itself is largely indifferent to the happy little chuntey particles, as it focuses it's^([sic]) energy on flinging sub-atomic and extra-atomic particles across it's^([sic]) transistors and capacitors. These particles are miserable, unlike the happy chuntey and will try to harm unlucky chuntey particles as they hurtle past.
ref: 2001, Adam Short, “I could do with some help here - networks and stuff”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: It interfaces with the latent chuntey receptors built into all PCs since the PC-AT, but rarely used these days. Via clever use of the Windows DDK I've managed to provide a means of detecting the level of chuntey in the room thus simulating a virtual wobble at the precise moment a real ZX81 would.
Alternatively, after a random number of keypresses, it may decide to either corrupt one row, one column or just a single byte of the 4116 RAM chips - but that's mere hearsay.
ref: 2005, Mike Wynne, “Feature Requests”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: Are you seriously trying to force a disruption of the chuntey?
I have a bad feeling about this.....
ref: 2006, Matt Rudge, “Wanted: gif of a loading thing”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: What a time to return, eh?
Are you psychic? Felt a disturbance in the chuntey?
ref: 2007, spi...@freenet.co.uk, “Some very sad news”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: And think of the chuntey. There you are, quietly setting up your shiny new ZX Methuselah, your mum walks into the room and suddenly you're 112 and she wants you to read her a story about ponies.
ref: 2007, Duncan Snowden, “GODFOREBID , but it willll happen one day................”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: I've also successfully used Ian Rawlings as a computer, although he's not Turing complete and the chuntey is exceptionally strong within him.
ref: 2008, SnakeOilSteve, “OT is SIM card a computer ?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: The veteran games programmer Fred Williams, who wrote several classic titles for Codemasters, reminded me about ‘The Chuntey’, the name given by Spectrum fans to the invisible field surrounding the machine’s cassette player into which only positive vibes could be admitted or else the process would break down. Loading was a religious ceremony and the sounds were sacrosanct.
ref: 2019 August 27, Keith Stuart, “Click, whir, ping: the lost sounds of loading video games”, in The Guardian:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A supposed aura surrounding the cassette loading mechanism of the ZX Spectrum computer, highly sensitive to disruption, which will cause the loading process to fail.
wolf interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf intervals
Senses: qualifier: music theory
glosses: A particularly dissonant musical interval spanning seven semitones.
wolf intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf interval
midshift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + shift.
Senses: examples: text: That committee has been here and has made some recommendations with reference to midshift feeding, under which they would allow these men 8 ounces of meat for each midshift meal.
ref: 1942, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business, Problems of American Small Business, volume 3, page 3840:
glosses: During a shift of work.
Staggers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Jocular modification of Stephen + -ers. See Oxford "-er".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: St Stephen's House, Oxford.
meatfork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːtfɔː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: meatforks
form: meat-fork
form: meat fork
Etymology: From meat + fork.
Senses: examples: text: Gilbert grasped a carving knife and a steel in his great hands, and after setting up a briefly appetizing clangor, speared the roast to its heart with the long tines of a meatfork and carved off rich savory slabs of the rare beef.
ref: 2000, Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, page 15:
synonyms: steak fork
carving fork
glosses: A large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving.
meatforks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatfork
light-fingeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹfĭng'gərd-nĕs
Forms: form: lightfingeredness
Etymology: From light-fingered (adjective) (any sense) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being light-fingered.
kaurenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaurenoids
Senses: examples: text: Kaurenoids hydroxylated at 36-position were efficiently converted into the usual 36-hydroxylated gibberellins […]
ref: 2012, J. MacMillan, Hormonal Regulation of Development I:
text: Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.
ref: 2016, Maurice M. Iwu, Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of derivatives of kaurenoic acid that have antimalarial activity
kaurenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaurenoid
dementalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dementalises
form: dementalising
form: dementalised
form: dementalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dementalize.
dementalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dementalise
dementalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dementalise
dementalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dementalise
Nubianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nubian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Nubian.
diswanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diswant
diswanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diswant
diswants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diswant
Framingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Framlingham, Suffolk, England, but with an unexplained variation in spelling.
Senses: examples: text: A small, nondescript Northeastern town bound by a chain of frozen lakes in midwinter, Framingham is nonetheless an iconic place writ large in the history of medicine.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 444:
glosses: A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Related terms: Framingham Pigot
Framlingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæmlɪŋəm/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM2863).
glosses: A rural township in the Shire of Moyne, Victoria, Australia.
Related terms: Framingham
berbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berbes
Senses: glosses: Pardine genet (Genetta pardina), of parts of tropical western Africa.
Abbasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abbasi
coupé utility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coupé utilities
form: coupe utility
Senses: glosses: An automobile built on a passenger car chassis but with a truck bed.
Derived terms: ute
work the hyphens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works the hyphens
form: working the hyphens
form: worked the hyphens
form: worked the hyphens
Etymology: Coined by Michelle Fine in her 1994 paper Working the hyphens: Reinventing the self and other in qualitative research, which was published in N. K. Denzin & Y.S.Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research; in reference to the grammatical use of hyphens to represent a unified form of two discrete concepts, such as in blue-green or hunter-gatherer.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, they simultaneously worked the hyphens of their mutual existences, forming at times a balanced equation, at other times highlighting the knowledge and strengths of one particular author.
ref: 2000, Judith Glazer-Raymo, Estela Mara Bensimon, Barbara K. Townsend, Women in Higher Education: A Feminist Perspective, page 268:
text: Outside the Gallaudet academic community, I have often, although not always, used two different long-standing interpreter-friends as my contact points at academic conferences and some academic social gatherings — helping me to work the hyphens between the hearing academic world and my own hard-of-hearing capabilities.
ref: 2004, Bonnie G. Smith, Beth Hutchison, Gendering Disability, page 61:
text: One of the ways to work the hyphens is through curricula that engage students in writing and inquiry using both students' multidialectal repertoires and the schools' literacies.
ref: 2011, Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer, Peter Smagorinsky, Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research, page 338:
glosses: To facilitate an improvement in communication and understanding between oneself and a person or group with a differing perspective, by comparing and contrasting the differences and fostering mutual adaptation around them.
works the hyphens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work the hyphens
working the hyphens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work the hyphens
worked the hyphens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work the hyphens
elite overproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In such cases, it may take the elites rather a long time to thin their ranks to the point where the problem of elite overproduction is abated and a new cycle can begin.
ref: 2007, George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson, Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change:
text: Just as overpopulation results in large segments of commoner population becoming immiserated, elite overproduction similarly results in large segments of elites becoming impoverished (not in absolute terms, as with common populace, but relatively to the standards of consumption needed to maintain the elite status).
ref: 2009, Secular Cycles, page 313:
text: The conflicts that we hear among local elites and in provincial cities, especially from the late first century CE onward, could well have resulted from such a situation of elite overproduction.
ref: 2019, David B. Hollander, Thomas R. Blanton IV, John T. Fitzgerald, The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities:
glosses: A situation in which there are more wealthy, well-educated, and ambitious elite individuals than can be absorbed by the existing positions of power, authority, and prestige.
DePaulo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
non-Hellenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: un-Hellenic
glosses: not Hellenic
un-Hellenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: non-Hellenic
glosses: not Hellenic
mustiphini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustiphinis
Etymology: Variant of musteefino.
Senses: examples: text: Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.
ref: 1828, Marly, Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica, page 183:
text: a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini; the child of a mustiphini by a white father is a quintroon
ref: 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493
glosses: Alternative form of musteefino.
samboe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samboes
Senses: examples: text: "A samboe," says he, "is the nearest remove from black, being the child of a mulatto father and a negro woman, or vice versa; a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress;" .. Among all these names, hard to pronounce and harder to remember, the samboe or mongrel, as it is oftener called, the mulatto and the mustee, are the only distinctions between the black and white that really pass current, though more have been defined;
ref: 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493
glosses: Alternative form of Sambo (“person who is three-quarters black”).
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
quintoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintoons
Senses: examples: text: Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male
Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman
Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man
Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman
ref: 2005, Donald Harman Akenson, Irish History of Civilization, page 353:
glosses: Alternative form of quintroon.
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
COPPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“a law passed in the United States of America to require children under 13 years of age obtain parental consent to use social media”).
Laboya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lamboya
Etymology: From Laboya Laboya, from the de-prenasalization of earlier Lamboya.
Senses: examples: text: Moro in Laboya language means "Owner, master". The "Master of the feast" is a translation of the Indonesian "Tuan Pesta", a term which West Sumbanese use when they speak Indonesian. When speaking Laboya, different terms are used, according to the type of feast which is given.
ref: 1987, Danielle Geirnaert, “Hunt Wild Pig and Grow Rice: On Food Exchanges and Values in Laboya, West Sumba (Eastern Indonesia)”, in Rob de Ridder, Jan A. J. Karremans, editors, The Leiden Tradition in Structural Anthropology: Essays in Honour of P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 121:
text: For example, in the Laboya language, which is spoken by a community who are neighbors of the Kodi in western Sumba, nyale is the word for "seaworms" while nare refers to an inedible kind of seaworm that Laboya people say causes an itchy reaction if eaten.
ref: 2017, Cynthia T. Fowler, chapter 3, in Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia, London: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in the Sumba island in eastern Indonesia.
Laboya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lamboya
Etymology: From Laboya Laboya, from the de-prenasalization of earlier Lamboya.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike Westerners, the Laboya prize animal fat more highly than the lean parts of the flesh, both in pigs and in buffalos.
ref: 1987, Danielle Geirnaert, “Hunt Wild Pig and Grow Rice: On Food Exchanges and Values in Laboya, West Sumba (Eastern Indonesia)”, in Rob de Ridder, Jan A. J. Karremans, editors, The Leiden Tradition in Structural Anthropology: Essays in Honour of P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 115:
text: The Laboya say they are traditionally less eager to participate in the barter system (madara as the Laboya call it) than other West Sumbanese people.
ref: 1992, Danielle C. Geirnaert-Martin, The Woven Land of Laboya: Socio-cosmic Ideas and Values in West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia, Leiden University, The Netherlands: Leiden University, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The speakers of the Laboya language.
Derived terms: Laboyan
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Laboya terms
Landover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlændoʊvə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Named after Llandovery in Wales.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
DNT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of Do Not Track.
unaxled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + axled.
Senses: glosses: Without axles.
unaxiomatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + axiomatized.
Senses: glosses: Not axiomatized.
unbabied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + baby + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: One wonders why, to the unbabied adult, that cry is so piercing and so unpleasant; fathers and mothers bear it with equanimity, and even seem to find it a cause for pride.
ref: 1898, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 97, page 412:
glosses: Without a baby; childless.
Thompsonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thompson + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, United States.
glosses: A village in Franklin County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A village in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A village in Benzie County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Jim Hogg County, Texas.
jury of half-tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juries of half-tongue
form: jury of the half-tongue
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A jury for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
Synonyms: party jury
medietas linguae
nonprobationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + probationary.
Senses: glosses: Not probationary.
probationary periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probationary period
probationaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probationary
binary chop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary chops
Senses: glosses: The use of binary search to eliminate a subset of values from a possible set.
binary chops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary chop
Mystic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nevada County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Routt County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village and census-designated place in New London County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Appanoose County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota.
Westerly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Windsor Locks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
Old Saybrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
Baker-Miller pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the directors at the prison at which the hostility-suppressing qualities were first tested.
Senses: examples: text: After years of (somewhat questionable) research, Schauss suggested that this very specific shade of pink could slow a test subject's heart rate and even reduce a propensity for aggressive, violent behavior. He believed the color, called Baker-Miller pink, had a calming effect akin to what you might experience during yoga or meditation.
ref: 2015 November 22, Liz Stinson, “Vollebak's Pink Hoodie Supposedly Calms You by Zipping Over Your Face”, in WIRED:
text: The least likely of this January’s diets came, obliquely, from Kendall Jenner’s official app and was a colour rather than a book. In a post titled “The story behind my pink wall!” she explained the thinking behind the pink living room wall of her expensive Los Angeles home: “Baker-Miller Pink is the only color [sic] scientifically proven to calm you AND suppress your appetite.
ref: 2017 January 10, Morwenna Ferrier, “This colour might change your life: Kendall Jenner and Baker-Miller Pink”, in The Guardian:
text: Schauss named the colour “Baker-Miller pink” after two of his co-experimenters, naval officers Gene Baker and Ron Miller. Baker and Miller were so impressed with Schauss’s findings that they went ahead and painted the holding cells at their naval base this shade of pink.
ref: 2018 October 13, Julie Irish, “Can pink really pacify, or is hype around its calming abilities based on a dangerous stereotype?”, in The Independent:
text: Such is the reputation of Baker-Miller Pink that it’s been painted on walls in a prison, a youth clinic and a psychiatric ward as a technique for reducing aggression. Norwich City F.C. even used it to cover the walls in the changing rooms for away teams in the hope that it’d dampen their fighting spirit.
ref: 2019 June 13, Megan Williams, “Juno Calypso explores the calming power of pink”, in The Creative Review:
text: Santa Clara County Jail is painted Baker-Miller Pink, so is a San Bernardino youth clinic, and it wasn't long before sports psychologists embraced the idea as a way of gaining an advantage over opposing teams.
ref: 2019 June 24, Bridget Galton, “Women's World Cup art in Archway”, in The Hampstead Highgate Express, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2019:
glosses: A shade of pink thought to reduce hostile, violent and aggressive behavior.
bussick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌsˌsɪk/
Forms: form: more bussick
form: most bussick
form: bus-sick
Etymology: From bus + sick.
Senses: examples: text: It's no good to travel by land, he says to himself. You get bussick and empty and dusty.
ref: 1963, Alberto D. Benipayo, Comment, number 18, page 21:
text: "What do you think Izzy is doing right now?" Emma wondered aloud.
"Not sitting in a bus filled with five-year-olds,” Harriet said, “praying one of them doesn't get bussick."
ref: 2019, Sheryl Berk, Frenemies:
glosses: Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a bus.
Related terms: airsick
carsick
motion sickness
seasick
cadet grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the colour of military uniform; first used as a colour term around 1912.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, according to uniform historian Fred Adolphus, Confederate cadet grey may never have been as blue or as irregular as the shade reenactors have tried to recapture, based on a comparison of reproduction cloth with museum-conserved uniforms.
ref: 2016 April 13, Romie Stott, “The Historical Reenactor Accuracy Wars”, in Atlas Obscura:
text: The company marched ahead of the Valley Forge Military Academy and College Regimental Band. Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists. Not even the breeze could make the red tassles sway atop their black and gold hats as they marched up Fifth Avenue.
ref: 2017 March 17, “Thousands Flood Fifth Avenue for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade”, in NBC New York:
text: And Lottie Moss looked every inch the party girl as she headed for a night out with her actor pal Daniel Mickelson in West Hollywood on Sunday. The 21-year-old showed off her incredible figure in a cadet grey bodycon dress as she strutted to Delilah restaurant.
ref: 2019 April 22, Connie Rusk, “Lottie Moss displays her incredible figure in a skintight grey bodycon dress as she heads on night out with pal Daniel Mickelson in LA”, in The Daily Mail:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A bluish shade of grey, similar to cadet blue.
cadet gray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Alternative form of cadet grey.
multicubicle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + cubicle.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to more than one cubicle.
Princeton Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.
side-effecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of side-effect
side-effecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more side-effecting
form: most side-effecting
Senses: examples: text: One feature of our solution was an extensive use of side-effecting functions; we show that such functions simplify the genetic programming paradigm and enable a more powerful machine model.
ref: 1994, Kenneth L. Kinnear, Jr.; Kenneth E. Kinnear; Peter J. Angeline, Advances in Genetic Programming - Volume 1, page 335:
text: The difficulty in a pure language such as Idris — that is, a language where expressions do not have side-effects — is that I/O is inherently side-effecting.
ref: 2015, Viktória Zsók, Zoltán Horváth, Lehel Csató, Central European Functional Programming School:
glosses: Causing side effects.
side-effected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of side-effect
CCAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CCA
overhopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overhopped
form: most overhopped
Etymology: From over- + hopped.
Senses: glosses: Of beer: excessively hoppy.
underhopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underhopped
form: most underhopped
Etymology: From under- + hopped.
Senses: glosses: Of beer: not hoppy enough.
lifetelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifetellings
Senses: examples: text: American Indian literature, in its modern form as Native American fiction, has long been solidly based in character and lifetelling, in the autobiographical dimensions of the protagonist or his analogous author.
ref: 1987, Ray González, The Bloomsbury Review - Volumes 7-8:
text: Some scholars of narrative speak of lifetelling as fiction.
ref: 1999, Ann Goetting, Getting Out: Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men, page 19:
text: Concerns with accuracy have surrounded the literary form of narrative or lifetelling, including biography, for a couple of decades (Goetting, 1995).
ref: 2008, Diane Kholos Wysocki, Readings in Social Research Methods, page 187:
glosses: Alternative form of life-telling.
lifetellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifetelling
life-telling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life-tellings
Senses: examples: text: Leading characters, by contrast, were, according to convention, the sum of their Remarkable Transactions which required that, to trump traditional histories, their life-telling must be not only authentic but also original and human.
ref: 2015, D. A. B. Ronald, Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda:
text: Stephen Maddison has argued that this emergent tradition of 'gay life-telling' in lesbian gay and queer sub-cultural life is particularly significant, as in the development of second-wave feminism, because it has helped destabilise 'the master-narrative of sexuality which inscribes silence as naturalized heterosexuality...'
ref: 2016, S. Greer, Contemporary British Queer Performance:
text: Life-tellings of the moment have become increasingly common and resonant in the Web 2.0 era.
ref: 2017, Brian Schiff, A. Elizabeth McKim, Sylvie Patron, Life and Narrative:
glosses: The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
life-tellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life-telling
steam wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam wagons
Senses: examples: text: The old North Eastern Railway, which was a pioneer in so many directions, obtained powers in 1905 for mechanical road operation, and shortly afterwards began to operate both steam wagons and petrol-driven buses. The steam wagons were used on country cartage services, but presumably they proved too expensive, and they were replaced by petrol-driven vehicles.
ref: 1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
hyponyms: overtype
undertype
synonyms: steam lorry
glosses: An early steam-powered road vehicle for carrying freight.
steam wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam wagon
undertype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertypes
Etymology: From under- + type.
Senses: coordinate_terms: overtype
glosses: A kind of steam wagon having the engine below the cab.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The type of coin used as a blank in the creation of a new coin.
undertypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertype
electric rickshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric rickshaws
Senses: glosses: A three-wheeled rickshaw pulled by an electric motor and running on battery.
electric rickshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric rickshaw
billits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billit
gladiatoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gladiator
gladiatored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gladiator
Halfway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A community in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in County Cork, Ireland.
glosses: A hamlet in Welford parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4068).
glosses: An outer suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4381).
glosses: A hamlet (Halfway Houses) in Upton Scudamore parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8748).
glosses: An area (Halfwayhouse) in Glasgow, Scotland (given grid ref NS5463, not shown on maps)
glosses: A suburb of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6559).
glosses: A hamlet in Talley community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6430).
glosses: A suburb of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire (OS grid ref SN5200).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky.
glosses: A former unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky.
glosses: Two former unincorporated communities in Williamson County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A village in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A small town in Baker County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated hamlet in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.
Bluefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States.
antecedencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antecedency
commitmentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From commitment + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without commitment.