cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whooties
Etymology: Blend of white (“Caucasian”) + booty (“buttocks”)
Senses: examples: text: she's a whooty, a white gurl witha booty
ref: 2009 May 26, “Whooty”performed by Edubb:
text: Jess was what we referred to as a “whooty”, a white girl with booty.
ref: 2011, Cynthia White, Forever Queen, Pulse Blaze, page 6:
text: “You did good, Ms. Whooty,” Big D says. Ms. Whooty is Big D's nickname for Bethany. The white girl with a big booty = whooty.
ref: 2012, Nikki Carter, Time to Shine, New York: Dafina Kteen Books, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: A white girl with large buttocks.
whooties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whooty
adytus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adytuses
form: adytus
Senses: examples: text: These two continuants, voiceless and voiced, respectively, are actually made by lowering the epiglottis over the adytus (opening of the larynx) [...].
ref: 1992, chapter 2, in The grammar of the Kabardian language, London: University of Calgary Press, →OCLC, page 11:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Opening of the larynx.
Derived terms: adytal
adytalise
adytalize
flash for cash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First sense drives from the UK practice of flashing lights at another car to indicate they can proceed, + cash. Second sense derives from the flash of the camera's light.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Pertaining to a scam where a motorist flashes their headlights to indicate to another driver to proceed against normal give-way rules, then runs into them and sues for damages.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Pertaining to speed cameras.
Related terms: flash the cash
porkpie hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porkpie hats
Senses: examples: text: One mysterious collector wearing a black porkpie hat enthusiastically bid on many of the best Arte Povera works and ended up buying several by Boetti.
ref: 2014 February 12, Carol Vogel, “In London, an Auction of Arte Povera Yields Rich Results”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pork pie hat.
Balticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balticisms
Etymology: From Baltic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: There are some old Balticisms though they are difficult to differentiate from Lithuanian.
ref: 1996, Zigmas Zinkevičius, The History of the Lithuanian Language, page 52:
text: The influence of the Baltic languages on Finnish is evident. For instance, there are about 1.1% of Balticisms in modern Finnish.
ref: 2018, Liāna Pliss with Gunita Zariņa, Agrita Puzuka, Agnese Zariņa, Baiba Lāce, Didzis Elferts, Andrey Khrunin, Svetlana Limborska, Jānis Kļoviņš, and Linda Gailīte Piekuse, “Population Genetics of Latvians in the Context of Admixture between North-Eastern European Ethnic Groups”, in Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, volume 72, number 3, →DOI, page 132:
glosses: A word or other feature originating in a Baltic language that has been borrowed by another language, usually a Slavic or a Finnic one.
Balticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Balticism
gnocchetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small Italian dumplings.
Related terms: gnocchi
drink link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drink links
Etymology: Humorously suggesting that it is a convenient source of money for alcoholic drinks.
Senses: examples: text: This particular ATM was known as the 'drink-link'. It was good to know she would get money any time, for an extra round or a taxi home — assuming she could still remember her PIN number.
ref: 2000, William Cullen, Doris Lehniger, B for Business, page 91:
text: 'Yes, and CCTV on the drink link and at Fabio's chipper.'
ref: 2023, Sam Blake, The Mystery of Four:
glosses: An ATM machine.
green lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green line
Gilette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
Drap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
Gars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: French, of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *kar, *gar (“big rock”), referring to the geography, probably from the same ultimate origin as Welsh craig (“cliff, rock”).
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
Fontan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
Fontan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fontans
Senses: examples: text: In preparation for our first meeting after months of cyber-contact, I send Dr. Chin Damon's complete medical records. But he keeps asking for more: echo reports, Holters (heart monitoring data), growth curves, and all protein and albumin readings since his Fontan.
ref: 2013, Doron Weber, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A Fontan procedure.
Fontan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fontans
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Fontán.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Èze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Carros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Carros, itself from Occitan Carròs.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Gorbio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
glosses: A river in the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Peille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
Peillon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
Peillonnex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Haute-Savoie department, France.
Juvigny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of three communes in France
Queudes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Marne department, France.
Vélye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Marne department, France.
Unchair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Marne department, France.
Norrois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Marne department, France.
Œuilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Aisne department, France.
glosses: A commune of Marne department, France.
Related terms: doily
Housset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Aisne department, France.
Jussy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of three communes in France.
glosses: A municipality in Geneva, Switzerland.
Xanrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Moselle department, France.
Yutz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Moselle department, France.
civil code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil codes
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A systematic collection of laws addressing dealings between private parties, such as business contracts and negligence lawsuits.
Related terms: criminal code
civil codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil code
criminal codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminal code
Œting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Moselle department, France.
Wuisse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Moselle department, France.
Entrange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Moselle department, France.
Uckange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Moselle department, France.
fantigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantigues
form: fanteague
form: fanteeg
form: fantique
Etymology: Unclear; possibly from or influenced by frantic or fanatic. Related to fantod.
Senses: examples: text: "What, ma'am!" placing her brawny arms akembo, "to fall into these fantigues and fantasies, and swound away, as a body may say, and all about a traitorish scape-grace the like of he![…]"
ref: 1825, Ephraim Hardcastle (William Henry Pyne), The Twenty-Ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration, volume 1, page 14:
text: Lissy thought for a moment, and then said, in a cheering voice, "Come, come, get up; it's never no use at all to be kneeling there. Don't be in sich a fantigue, don't! Get up, and hear what I has to say."
ref: 1834, Peregrine Reedpen, Our Town; Or, Rough Sketches of Character, Manners, &c, volume 2, page 341:
text: “Oh dear! my lady! sure don't put yourself into such a fantigue; its quite sad for to see you; poor sweet lamb, she'll get better soon, and have no more nasty medicine to take—no more bitter stuff, that she shan't.”
ref: 1839, Caroline Leigh Smith Gascoigne, Temptation, Or, A Wife's Perils, volume 1, page 160:
glosses: A state of worry or excitement.
Tressange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Moselle department, France.
naying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nay
nayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nay
Vaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English, Scottish, and French name, all from placenames in France derived from Old French val (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: One of four communes in France
Derived terms: vauxite
CAML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Collaborative Application Markup Language.
Caml
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæməl/
homophone: camel
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Categorical Abstract Machine Language, a dialect of ML.
Derived terms: OCaml
Parlyaree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polari, from Italian parlare (“to talk”). See Polari for more.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Polari.
Wadewitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Adrianne Wadewitz, a scholar of 18th-century British literature who became one of the most prolific and influential editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, died on April 8 in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 37.
ref: 2014 April 19, Noam Cohen, “Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies in Rock Climbing Fall”, in The New York Times:
text: When Adrianne Wadewitz became a Wikipedia contributor 10 years ago she decided to use a pseudonym, certain that fellow scholars at Indiana University would frown on writing for the often-maligned "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."
ref: 2014 April 23, Elaine Woo, “Adrianne Wadewitz dies at 37; helped diversify Wikipedia”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A surname.
chloromelanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloromelanites
Senses: glosses: A dark green to black variety of the mineral jadeite.
chloromelanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloromelanite
megastigmatrienone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megastigmatrienones
Senses: glosses: A carotenoid-derived aromatic compound that produces some of the spice notes associated with Chardonnay wines.
megastigmatrienones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megastigmatrienone
greenlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of greenline
greenlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of greenline
cyberbegging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + begging.
Senses: examples: text: Cyberbegging has grown big enough for a backlash to start: Bosnak's appeal has spawned such cyber-responses as savekarynnot.com and dontsavekaryn.com.
ref: 2002, Time, volume 160, page 29:
text: The story covers the phenomenon of cyberbegging. Privileged folks, mostly White I believe, have been hustling up tuition or wedding expenses.
ref: 2005, Adam J. Banks, Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground, page x:
synonyms: e-begging
glosses: Requesting monetary donations by means of the Internet.
Related terms: cyberbeggar
rebirthday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebirthdays
Etymology: From rebirth + day, modelled on birthday.
Senses: examples: text: Birthdays are wonderful occasions to thank God for the gift of life. What about your rebirthday, the day you were born again?
ref: 1995, Carl C. Fickenscher, Faith Alive Student Bible, page 1470:
glosses: A day of rebirth or its anniversary.
rebirthdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebirthday
private language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private languages
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey could not say much because of his presence. But it did not greatly matter, for their past was now rich enough to have given them a private language; [...]
ref: 1917, Edith Wharton, chapter IX, in Summer […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 128:
text: Every calling has its private language, clear and precise to insiders but pure babble to others.
ref: 1984 July 1, Donal Henahan, “On Language: The Words of Music”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Apr 2014:
text: They were an affluent, unstuffy, slightly bohemian family, keen on holidays and socialising, with their own Mitfordian private language.
ref: 1993 March 14, Lynn Barber, "Books: Daphne's dilemma" (book review of Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster), The Independent (UK) (retrieved 29 Apr 2014)
text: In daily life, the Kallawaya use Spanish or Aymara, but when discussing the medicinal plants central to their role as healers, the men speak their own private language.
ref: 2010 August 13, Mark Brown, “Linguist on mission to save Inuit 'fossil language' disappearing with the ice”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 29 Apr 2014:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, language.
examples: text: A private language was not merely a language contingently spoken by one person. . . . A private language was meant to be semantically and necessarily private: one whose symbols could by definition be "understood only by the speaker".
ref: 1986, Héctor-Neri Castañeda, edited by James E. Tomberlin, Profiles: Héctor-Neri Castañeda, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Back in the 1960's, art-world philosophers liked to cite Wittgenstein's contention that there can be no such thing as a private language, because the meaning of words is determined by their shared public usage.
ref: 1995 October 6, Pepe Karmel, “Art in Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Apr 2014:
text: But a private language—one that is spoken and understood by only one person—is a contradiction in terms. The concept of meaning is a public concept. And language is a public phenomenon.
ref: 1996 May 4, Peter Mullen, “'I' is a tyrant. You are what you eat”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 29 Apr 2014:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A language which expresses one's inner thoughts, feelings, or experiences but which cannot be used for communication, since it is known to and understandable by only one person—the existence of which was famously argued by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to be impossible.
Derived terms: private language argument
private language problem
private language thesis
private language argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private language arguments
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
hypernyms: argument
glosses: The argument, famously made by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), that a private language cannot exist.
private language problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private language problems
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The problem, considered by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and other philosophers, of whether it is possible for a private language to exist.
private language thesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private language theses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The thesis or contention that a private language cannot exist.
Asai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
bandh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandhs
form: bundh
form: bund
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”), from Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha). Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”).
Senses: examples: text: The impending course of events and the patterns of violence could have readily been foreseen after the incident in Godhra, and particularly after the VHP's declaration of a state-wide bandh, both by the city's residents and government authorities […]
ref: 2007, Ornit Shanri, Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat:
text: A week-long bandh was in progress. People had nothing to do.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
text: Opposition parties said that the bandh was a success. The ruling parties said the opposite. Some saw government insensitivity in the bandh and the beginning of the fight against inflationary trends.
ref: 2013, Purnendu Ghosh, The Rising Sun, page 26:
glosses: A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work.
Related terms: shutdown
wall knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall knots
Senses: glosses: A knot made by untwisting the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first.
Coordinate terms: crown knot
salt of tin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
dyeing
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: stannous chloride, especially when used as a mordant
tear a cat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tears a cat
form: tearing a cat
form: tore a cat
form: torn a cat
Senses: examples: text: Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play / Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.
ref: c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 1, scene 2:
text: Sirha is this you would rend and teare the Cat / Upon a Stage, and now march like drown'd rat?
ref: c. 1599, John Marston, Histriomastix, act 5, scene 1, page [53]:
text: Till, in his periwig combustion / Will. Shakespeare sounds like Irish fustian, / In which Macready tears a cat, / And Shiel, the patriot, writes so pat;
ref: 1835, George Daniel, “The Conversazione”, in The Modern Dunciad, William Pickering, page 224:
text: From this performance there is no doubt in anyone's mind that Hamlet is an amateur actor having a fling at histrionics, or as Guthrie might say, "tearing a cat."
ref: 1970, Alfred Rossi, Minneapolis Rehearsals: Tyrone Guthrie Directs Hamlet, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21:
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: To overact; to violently rant and rave on stage.
Synonyms: chew the scenery
ham
ham it up
melodramatize
overact
Related terms: tear-cat
electric candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric candles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Yablochkov candle.
synonyms: word: Yablochkov candle
electric candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric candle
Yablochkov candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yablochkov candles
form: Jablochkoff candle
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Pavel Yablochkov.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: electric candle
glosses: A type of electric carbon arc lamp.
wikipedia: Pavel Yablochkov
not worth the candle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque of French le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle
Senses: glosses: Not worth the cost or trouble.
Related terms: the game is not worth the candle
short division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short divisions
Senses: glosses: A division algorithm which breaks down a division problem into a series of easy steps, relying on mental arithmetic.
Synonyms: bus stop method
short-hand division
Coordinate terms: long division
bus stop
gigacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigacities
Etymology: From giga- + city, after megacity.
Senses: examples: text: To me it is clear that these gigacities are not prospering partly because of governance issues and partly because of disparities created in the host country by accommodating one megacity within its infrastructure.
ref: 2001, Kenichi Ohmae, “How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy Into a Region”, in Allen J. Scott, editor, Global City-Regions : Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Inhabitants of modern megalopolises and gigacities take for granted the built environment with its complex mix of buildings, public equipment, technical networks, and mechanical devices.
ref: 2001, Dominique Lorrain, “Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life”, in Journal of Urban Technology, volume 8, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1–20:
text: He argues that we have been entering, over the last two or three decades, a new phase of urban history with the emergence of the gigacity, a new, distinctive form of networked city differing from its nineteenth-century ancestor by its unprecedented size (population), its vertical extension above and below ground, its network density and its blurring of city boundaries made possible by new fast transportation and broadband telecommunications systems.
ref: 2005, “Network Systems Revisited: The Confounding Nature of Universal Systems”, in Olivier Coutard, Richard Eugene Hanley, Rae Zimmerman, editors, Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems, Psychology Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 3:
text: Sinnerman tracked that brumby truck from the dump and we roaded west, follerin it on the scanner, rollin thru forest an trees then out past the dyin farms an the old grain silos which now the food come from unnerneath the gigacities.
ref: 2006, Andrew Macrae, “Truckdreamin”, in Cat Sparks, editor, Agog! Ripping Reads, Wollongong: Agog Press, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A city even larger in scale than a megacity.
scrag whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrag whales
Senses: glosses: A North Atlantic baleen whale now generally considered to be part of an extinct population of the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus, once considered by some the young of right whales (Balaenidae).
Synonyms: sense: extinct population of gray whale
word: Eschrichtius gibbosus
quasit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒ.sɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.sɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsɪt
Forms: form: quasits
Etymology: Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Senses: examples: text: "Quasits are natural cowards. When minor demons become so bold, their more powerful brethren cannot be far behind."
ref: 2006, Matt Forbeck, Prophecy of the Dragons, page 6:
text: Shadows on the ground moved as the quasits chased us […]
ref: 2012, Ann Aguirre, Devil's Punch: A Corine Solomon Novel:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A small horned humanoid demon with a long tail.
quasits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasit
hornetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hornetlike
form: most hornetlike
Etymology: From hornet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hornet.
knock on the head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks on the head
form: knocking on the head
form: knocked on the head
form: knocked on the head
Senses: examples: text: My young brothers and sisters looked very awestruck at this first glimpse of barbaric life, and I fear many of the theories they had formed about going into the wilds alone, and experiencing some Robinson Crusoe-like adventures, were suddenly "knocked on the head," to use a forcible colonial expression, one, however, which rather pointed to their probable fate if they had attempted anything of the kind.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 46:
text: The urban myth of the sun shining through Box Tunnel on Brunel's birthday may have been knocked on the head, but in its portal facing designs he created structures which have stood the test of time well.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:
glosses: To put an end to; to defeat or frustrate (a scheme or project).
gigacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigacity
Arçay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Either of two communes in France.
Esvres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.
femismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of female + machismo.
Senses: examples: text: All feminists' talk about a woman's superior ability to identify and express their feelings is just that, TALK. It's just more femismo designed to inflate the deflated self-esteems of mean spirited women.
ref: 1996 October 13, westel [username], “Re: May/December Emotional Facelifts”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet):
text: i'm not doing any meds. perhaps it's my femismo that keeps me saying no to meds, perhaps it's that i don't want to mask other things.
ref: 1998 July 7, Epona [username], “first time post”, in alt.support.anxiety-panic (Usenet):
text: Do these women, like Damon Cross in Wright's The Outsider or Bigger Thomas in Native Son, succeed in establishing their own autonomy only through violence, forging a "femismo" or female counterpart to the "machismo" brutality of a Mailer protagonist?
ref: 2000, Marilyn Maxwell, Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in American Fiction, University Press of America, published 2000, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
Coordinate terms: machismo
Chargé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.
Vou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.
jects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'jects
Etymology: Clipping of projects.
Senses: examples: text: A few days later, Pharoah, now eleven, told a friend: "I worry about dying, dying at a young age, while you're little. I'll be thinking about I want to get out of the jects. […]
ref: 1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America, Anchor Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 264:
text: Monie grew up in the music industry, not in the jects.
ref: 2006 December 28, TJ Xenos [username], “Re: Monie Love gets fired for making Young Jeezy sound like a tard...”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: "Whattaya expect? We in the 'jects, baby, a project for rejects," Jasmine sneers.
ref: 2010, Carol Taylor, The Ex Chronicles, New York N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 200:
text: Olander grew up around the “jects,” but wasn't born there; he actually lived about two blocks away in a three-story house with his mother and younger siblings.
ref: 2011, Garrett S. King, Something to Live For, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: A multi-story low-income housing development; projects.
Eps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, France.
Sarton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, France.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
Érin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, France.
Locon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, France.
shitnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitnuts
Etymology: From shit + nuts.
Senses: examples: text: If alt.castlenet is shut down, we go to alt.config and say set it back up, shitnuts, or we'll come on down and hurt you.
ref: 1999 November 13, entropy [username], “Re: OK, the secret is out.,”, in alt.castlenet (Usenet):
text: Keep on saying "I knew it..." every time, because the only predictable thing is that you will say you already knew that I was going to say something. If that is the case, Dionne Warwick has a job for you, shitnuts.
ref: 2000 September 13, Cock Rocket [username], “Re: starcraft rules”, in alt.games.starcraft (Usenet):
text: I told you shitnuts-you have only two options now; cooperation or non-cooperation.
ref: 2006 January 15, Wereo_Gogg [username], “Re: NEXT STEP COMPLETED”, in alt.music.deep-purple (Usenet):
glosses: An annoying or stupid person.
Neulette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, France.
red envelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red envelope
Banderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbændəɹaɪ̯t]
Forms: form: Banderites
Etymology: First attested in 1951. Borrowed from Ukrainian банде́рівець (bandérivecʹ) + -ite, from the surname of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader. Compare Russian банде́ровец (bandɛ́rovec).
Senses: examples: text: Shooting could not be avoided both times when we took into custody suspicious persons who turned out to be Banderites
ref: 2004, Evgenii D. Moniushko, David M. Glantz, From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-1946, page 92:
synonyms: Banderist
Banderovite
glosses: A member of, or one who subscribes to the ideas of, the political movement of Stepan Bandera.
glosses: A nationalist Ukrainian.
Banderite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbændəɹaɪ̯t]
Forms: form: more Banderite
form: most Banderite
Etymology: First attested in 1951. Borrowed from Ukrainian банде́рівець (bandérivecʹ) + -ite, from the surname of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader. Compare Russian банде́ровец (bandɛ́rovec).
Senses: synonyms: Bandera
Banderist
Banderovite
glosses: Of or related to Stepan Bandera or his political movement.
Related terms: Banderism
Judeo-Banderite
Hetmanite
hetmanite
Hetmanist
hetmanist
Mazepite
mazepite
Melnykite
Melnikite
Melnykist
Melnikist
Petliurite
Petliurist
Ustashe
Banderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Banderite
hemihelix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemihelixes
form: hemihelices
Etymology: From hemi- + helix.
Senses: glosses: a three-dimensional geometric shape similar to a helix, but with one or more perversions causing changes in chirality along its run
Coordinate terms: english: a region where the chirality reverses
translation: a region where the chirality reverses
word: perversion
english: perversion; long form of
translation: perversion; long form of
word: tendril perversion
english: the direction of twist
translation: the direction of twist
word: chirality
Related terms: helix
hemi-
hemihelixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemihelix
hemihelices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemihelix
putnisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Putnis + -ite, from the name of the discoverers, mineralogists Andrew and Christine Putnis.
Senses: glosses: A quartz-like mineral, purple in colour, naturally occurring brittle crystals smaller than 0.5 mm, with an orthorhombic crystalline matrix of SrCa₄Cr³⁺₈(CO₃)₈SO₄(OH)₁₆·23H₂O
Latzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Latz
fulvate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulvates
Etymology: From fulvic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of fulvic acid
AFr.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Anglo-French.
calcyphosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium-binding protein that may play a role in the regulation of ion transport.
subcontrariety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + contrariety.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being subcontrary.
headload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headloads
Etymology: From head + load.
Senses: examples: text: In India, we saw women carrying headloads of firewood.
text: That night he collected his most valuable belongings into head-loads.
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, page 129:
glosses: A load carried on the head.
headloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headload
Beringian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Beringian
form: most Beringian
Etymology: From Beringia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Beringia or the Bering Sea.
Derived terms: amphiberingian
Beringian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beringians
Etymology: From Beringia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists believe that all Native American people descend from a single population that used to inhabit Beringia, a region that comprises Alaska, eastern Siberia, and western Canada along with several lands that are now below water. Very little is known about the ancient Beringians but a new discovery in Russia might finally give us some clues.
ref: 2017, Stone Tools Could Be First Concrete Evidence Of Ancestors Of All Native Americans, IFL Science:
glosses: A member of an ancient people who populated Beringia
Related terms: Solutrean
Paleoindian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paleoindians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paleo-Indian.
Paleoindians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paleoindian
Paleoamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paleoamericans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paleo-American.
Paleoamericans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paleoamerican
Paleo-American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paleo-Americans
Etymology: From paleo- + American.
Senses: glosses: Paleo-Indian
Paleo-Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paleo-American
nonnotarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + notarized.
Senses: glosses: Not notarized.
nonevanescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + evanescent.
Senses: glosses: Not evanescent.
noneventful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eventful.
Senses: glosses: Not eventful.
Synonyms: uneventful
powiats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powiat
phyllobolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φυλλοβολία (phullobolía), from φύλλον (phúllon) and βάλλω (bállō).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Greece, the showering of a victorious athlete or bridal couple with leaves or flower petals.
rewatchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewatching
quasihelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasihelical
form: most quasihelical
Etymology: From quasi- + helical.
Senses: examples: text: A hemihelix is a quasihelical geometric shape.
glosses: Having certain aspects of a helix.
hemihelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemihelical
form: most hemihelical
Etymology: From hemi- + helical.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a hemihelix.
tendril perversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendril perversions
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A reversal of handedness in helical curves.
quasigluons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasigluon
Carolingian minuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carolingian minuscules
Senses: examples: text: The Carolingian minuscule, which we have already found brought to perfection at Tours and at other centres of France, was the literary hand of the Frankish Empire, and extended its influence and was gradually adopted in neighbouring countries.
ref: 1912, Edward Maunde Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, published 2013, page 403:
text: The Carolingian empire did not endure past the 9th century; yet Carolingian minuscule survived in France well into the 12th century, as it continued to be the preferred style of writing in monastic book production.
ref: 1995, William W. Kibler, editor, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, page 1304:
text: Later Merovingian hands, however, often from Italy and drawing heavily from half uncials, prefigured the later Carolingian minuscule and achieved a certain graceful legibility.
ref: 2001, Steven Roger Fischer, History of Writing, published 2003, page 247:
topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
synonyms: Caroline minuscule
glosses: A script developed to standardise writing in the Latin alphabet throughout the Holy Roman Empire, used between approximately 800 and 1200 CE.
examples: text: Written in black ink in Carolingian minuscules, holdings are identified by reference to the vill in which they were situated and their assessment is noted, whilst the lord in 1086 is indicated by an interlineation in red in the same hand.
ref: 2000, David Roffe, Domesday: The Inquest and the Book, page 85:
topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A character written in the script.
rereinforce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rereinforces
form: rereinforcing
form: rereinforced
form: rereinforced
Etymology: From re- + reinforce.
Senses: examples: text: This means that we have to rereinforce our relevant previous results in [6], [8] and [9] along the line.
ref: 1998, Liming Ge, Operator Algebras and Operator Theory:
glosses: To reinforce again or further.
odontophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontophobias
Etymology: From odonto- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Odontophobia, or the fear of dental work, seems equally plausible, as does pentheraphobia - fear of the mother-in-law.
ref: 2008 October 1, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail:
text: In fact, in dentistry, there is often a widespread condition of odontophobia among patients.
ref: 2019 October 8, Rosa De Stefano, “Psychological Factors in Dental Patient Care: Odontophobia”, in Medicina, →DOI:
text: People with dentophobia, also called odontophobia, have a fear of dentists. Someone with dentophobia may have extreme anxiety at the thought of going to the dentist or while in the dentist’s office.
ref: 2022 March 25, “Dentophobia (Fear of Dentists)”, in Cleaveland Clinic:
glosses: An irrational fear of dentistry.
Synonyms: dentophobia
Derived terms: odontophobic
odontophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontophobia
increates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of increate
increating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of increate
increated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of increate
increated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of increate.
synonyms: word: increate
lambels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambel
Récourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, France.
womanthropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanthrope
Quinquatrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quinquatria.
synonyms: word: Quinquatria
Wissant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Wissant, from Dutch wit zand (literally “white sand”).
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, France.
up a tree
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "I'm a bit up a tree, Miss," he said shuffling his feet on the oak floor. "I behaved a fool."
ref: 1864, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 53, in Uncle Silas:
text: I found the doctor in his study, and the whole room full of rods and lines and reels. . . . When he called me to come and look at his flies I was all up a tree, and didn't know what he was talking about.
ref: 1891, Laura E. Richards, chapter 14, in Hildegarde's Holiday:
text: "Oh, I'm up a tree again. I see I don't even know the A B C of this business."
ref: 1894, Robert Barr, chapter 7, in In the Midst of Alarms:
text: "You're a liar," says I, a little riled that Idaho should try to put me up a tree.
ref: 1904, O. Henry, “The Handbook of Hymen”, in Heart of the West:
text: The general consensus of opinion in Outwood's during the luncheon interval was that, having got Downing's up a tree, they would be fools not to make the most of the situation.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 40, in Mike: A Public School Story:
glosses: In or into a disadvantaged or difficult situation; at a loss; cornered.
Synonyms: over a barrel
perplexed
stumped
up the creek
wall hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall hangings
Senses: glosses: A wall decoration, often a scroll or a tapestry.
ordeal tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordeal trees
Senses: glosses: A term used variously to describe trees whose products have been used in ordeal tests.
A poisonous tree of Madagascar (Cerbera manghas (syn. Tanghinia venenifera). Those suspected of crime were forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals were put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
glosses: A term used variously to describe trees whose products have been used in ordeal tests.
A similar tree (Erythrophleum spp.) put to similar use in Liberia; sassywood.
glosses: A term used variously to describe trees whose products have been used in ordeal tests.
A deciduous tree of the African savanna, 1.8-15 m tall, with a rounded crown and pendulous branchlets (Crossopteryx febrifuga).
geodimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to measurement with a geodimeter.
negative pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negatives pregnant
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: pregnant denial
antonyms: affirmative pregnant
glosses: A denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, "I have never consumed cocaine while on duty" might imply that the person making the statement had consumed cocaine on other occasions.
negatives pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative pregnant
light ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light balls
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A ball of combustible materials, used to provide light, and sometimes made so as to fired from a cannon or mortar, or to be carried up by a rocket.
light barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light barrels
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An empty powder barrel pierced with holes and filled with shavings soaked in pitch, used to light up a ditch or a breach.
stationary air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The air which under ordinary circumstances does not leave the lungs during respiration.
cradleland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradlelands
Etymology: From cradle + land.
Senses: glosses: The region where something, especially a race of people, originated; the Urheimat.
cradlelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradleland
ethnogenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ethnogenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of ethnogenesis.
from the cradle to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: from cradle to grave
form: from the cradle to the deathbed
Senses: glosses: Spanning an entire lifetime; from birth to death.
Related terms: cradle-to-grave
womb to tomb
hatch, match, and dispatch
ramshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramshorns
Etymology: From ram's + horn.
Senses: topics: fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch.
glosses: An ammonite; a fossil cephalopod.
glosses: A ramshorn snail.
coordinate_terms: hartshorn
glosses: The horn of a ram.
Related terms: ram's horns
great ramshorn
ramshorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramshorn
second distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: fine art
glosses: That part of a picture between the foreground and the background; the middle distance.
disintegrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disintegration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to disintegration.
integrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From integration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to integration.
undisintegrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + disintegrated.
Senses: glosses: Not disintegrated.
disintegratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disintegrate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Causing or relating to disintegration.
integratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Causing or relating to integration.
slavecatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slavecatchers
Etymology: From slave + catcher.
Senses: glosses: One who attempts to capture and bring back fugitive slaves.
slavecatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slavecatcher
slave ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave ants
Senses: synonyms: negro ant
glosses: Any of various species of ants which are captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea.
Related terms: slave-making ant
slavemaker
rosinback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosinbacks
Etymology: From rosin + back, since the horse's back would be rubbed with sticky rosin to keep the rider from slipping.
Senses: glosses: A horse used for bareback riding performances.
rosinbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosinback
beat the dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the dust
form: beating the dust
form: beat the dust
form: beaten the dust
form: beat the dust
Senses: glosses: To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
speculum metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of around two-thirds copper and one-third tin making a white brittle alloy that can be polished into a highly reflective surface.
slavecatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slave + catching.
Senses: glosses: The capture and bringing back of fugitive slaves.
herb Christopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after St. Christopher.
Senses: glosses: baneberry plant