cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cold-brew coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold-brew coffees
Senses: examples: text: Cold-brew coffee is made using a profoundly low-tech process. […] A cup of cold-brew coffee actually has more caffeine in it than standard drip coffee or espresso, he [Greg Johnson] said.
ref: 2005 February 16, Mary Garrigan, “Some like it cold”, in Rapid City Journal, page B1:
text: In Austin, it’s easy to find coffee shops with a few beers on tap or bars with a couple cold-brew coffees, but you can’t easily fit the Brew & Brew into either of those descriptors.
ref: 2014 November 14, Arianna Auber, “10 East Austin bars to wet your whistle during EAST”, in Austin360 (Austin American-Statesman), page 5, column 3:
text: Starbucks is one of the many companies that recently started to sell cups of cold-brew coffee in their shops.
ref: 2016 August 12, Consumer Reports, “Perk up with a cup (or bottle) of cold-brew coffee”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 90, number 12, page B-3:
text: I breathe some more and finally am ready for my cup of cold-brew coffee!
ref: 2022, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation, Broadleaf Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of cold brew coffee.
cold-brew coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold-brew coffee
lentilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentilists
Etymology: From lentil + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A vegetarian or vegan; one who eats legumes as their chief source of protein.
oriental melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental melons
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of Cucumis melo cultivars produced in East Asia.
oriental melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oriental melon
Suzie Q
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uː
Forms: form: Suzie Qs
form: Susy Q
form: Suzy Q
Etymology: Various theories; see Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A dance move, originating in the USA in the 1930s, in which the feet perform alternating cross-steps and sidesteps with a swivel action.
Suzie Qs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Suzie Q
Suzy Qs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Suzy Q
Susy Q
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Susy Qs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Suzie Q.
Susy Qs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Susy Q
heelplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelplates
Etymology: From heel + plate.
Senses: glosses: A metal plate used to reinforce the heel of a shoe.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Synonym of buttplate.
synonyms: word: buttplate
heelplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelplate
neoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocultures
Etymology: From neo- + culture.
Senses: glosses: A new culture formed by the intermingling of existing cultures.
Related terms: neocultural
neoculturation
neocultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neocultural
form: most neocultural
Senses: glosses: Relating to a neoculture.
neocultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoculture
bank-robber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank-robbers
Senses: examples: text: With groupes of pick-pockets, bank-robbers and hen-pecked dotards, who make a jeſt of their holy functions, and with more than gallic indifference, ſport with liberty, property and life.
ref: 1799 March 4, Gazette of the United States, and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser, volume XV, number 2015, Philadelphia, Pa., page [2], column 2:
text: Suelson, the Petersburg bank-robber, has been taken and lodged in jail at Quebec.
ref: 1827 December 3, The National Gazette and Literary Register, volume VII, number 2170, Philadelphia, Pa., page [2], column 1:
text: “If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside the rail-track, “it is an excellent thing;⁠—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it. A great thing, indeed, sir; particularly as regards the detection of bank-robbers and murderers.” / “I don’t quite like it, in that point of view,” replied Clifford. “A bank-robber, and what you call a murderer, likewise, has his rights, which men of enlightened humanity and conscience should regard in so much the more liberal spirit, because the bulk of society is prone to controvert their existence. An almost spiritual medium, like the electric telegraph, should be consecrated to high, deep, joyful, and holy missions.[…]”
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 283:
text: Starring Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert and Mel Gibson, Bandit is the real-life story of U.S.-born bank-robber Gilbert Galvan (played by Duhamel), who in the late 1980s won himself the title of Canada’s “flying bandit.”
ref: 2022 September 29, Alex Browne, “Crime ‘dramedy’ Bandit set for local opening in Langley”, in Cloverdale Reporter, Black Press Media, page A26:
glosses: Rare form of bank robber.
bank-robbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bank-robber
bankrobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankrobbers
Senses: examples: text: The program contains lexical information about the domain of crimes, committed by actors such as bankrobbers, hi-jackers, burglars, and kidnappers. The parser parses assertions that correspond, for example, to the following description: The bankrobber with the knife rang up the bank. It first builds a model of the actor, by accessing its lexical semantics for the noun, bankrobber.
ref: 1991, Ruth M.J. Byrne, “The Construction of Explanations”, in Michael F. McTear, Norman Creaney, editors, AI and Cognitive Science ’90: University of Ulster at Jordanstown 20–21 September 1990 (Workshops in Computing), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH, →ISBN, section 7 (Explanation), page 344:
text: In both questionnaires - in the 1970s and the 1980s - positive and negative adjectives had to be underlined when they were thought to be applicable to a bankrobber and a drunken driver. No positive attributes in either of the two surveys were underlined. Also, no change in the attribution of adjectives to the two types of offender can be perceived. Bankrobbers are typified by words like dangerous, mean, greedy, and dishonest pertaining to the total image of the person.
ref: 1995, Elisabeth Lissenberg, “Fantasy and the Embodied Moral Capital: Children’s Moral Judgments of Crime and Criminals”, in Günter Albrecht, Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer, editors, Diversion and Informal Social Control, Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, part IV, page 332:
text: The Sounds reviewer pointed out that Joe’s Daddy was not a bankrobber but a Foreign Office diplomat. Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan had never been called to account for singing about bankrobbers, and in May 1979 the Clash themselves had released a song about ‘robbing people with a six gun’ without anyone turning a hair. Why was ‘Bankrobber’ being interpreted so literally, and deemed so unacceptable?
ref: 2009, Marcus Gray, “… To the World’s End: Returns”, in Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling, London: Vintage Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 433:
glosses: Rare form of bank robber.
bankrobbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankrobber
conativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conativists
Etymology: From conative + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of conativism.
conativists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conativist
conativism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conative + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And — the crucial point for present purposes — they enable Hume to drive home the conclusion that moral cognitivism's first, or psychological, claim must be rejected, and moral conativism endorsed, if one is to understand the tie between morality and action.
ref: 1996, John Bricke, Mind and Morality: An Examination of Hume's Moral Psychology, page 81:
text: We have spent the last couple of chapters working out the core features of conativism: the nature of desiring and promotion, the issue of idealization, the nature of practical reasons, and an account of the weight of favorings.
ref: 2018, Stefan Fischer, The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism, page 248:
text: The argument against desire which was presented in the preceding section only addresses strong conativism.
ref: 2018, Joel Marks, The Ways of Desire:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The belief that the basis of all action lies in desire.
Related terms: conativist
Payómkawichum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Luiseño people.
LWP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LWPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of life without parole.
glosses: (computing) Initialism of lightweight process.
LWPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LWP
Lucifer hummingbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lucifer hummingbirds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lucifer sheartail.
synonyms: word: Lucifer sheartail
Lucifer hummingbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lucifer hummingbird
Lucifer sheartail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lucifer sheartails
Senses: synonyms: Lucifer hummingbird
glosses: Calothorax lucifer, a medium-sized green hummingbird with a slightly curved bill and distinctive outward flare of the gorget feathers, found in high-altitude areas of northern Mexico and southwestern United States.
Lucifer sheartails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lucifer sheartail
Bulange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bulange
Senses: glosses: The parliamentary building of Buganda.
Lukiiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lukiiko
form: Lukiko
Senses: glosses: The parliament of the kingdom of Buganda.
glosses: The parliament of the kingdom of Busoga.
Lukiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lukiko
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lukiiko.
fruit-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit-trees
Senses: examples: text: 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider, London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, “Kalendarium Hortense,” p. 10,
Prune Fruit-trees, and Vines as yet; For now is your Season to bind, plash, naile, and dresse, without danger of Frost: […]
text: Then comes a fine old castle, with its broad walls and square towers shooting up into the sky; then high banks of tall trees, with the verdant earth seen between; lower still, gardens filled with the luxuriant and varied greens of the artichoke, the pomadore, the finocchia, arched over with shrubs and fruit-trees, and topped by tall Oriental palms in full vigour and luxuriance.
ref: 1842, Edward Villiers Rippingille, “Il Monte di Fato (The Mountain of Fate): Wanderings of a Painter in Italy” in Bentley’s Miscellany (American edition, Joseph Mason), volume 9, ed. William Harrison Ainsworth, page 406
text: All her little womanly ways, budding out of her like blossoms on a young fruit-tree, had their effect on him, and sometimes caused his very heart to tingle with the keenest thrills of pleasure.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Clifford and Phœbe”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: Archaic form of fruit tree.
fruit-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit-tree
Khlysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khlyst
Khlysti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khlyst
Khlysty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khlyst
Campbells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Campbell
Campbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Campbell
KGC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Knights of the Golden Circle.
MTTH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mean time to happen.
chimney-corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney-corners
Senses: examples: text: And now the Concern which Partridge felt at being obliged to quit a warm Chimney-corner, and a Cup of excellent Liquor, was ſomewhat compenſated by hearing that he was to proceed no farther on Foot; […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing little more than a few odd Observations”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XII, pages 255–256:
text: The Library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sybil—if Sybil she were, was seated snugly enough in an easy chair at the chimney-corner.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 90:
text: Scarcely any of the items in the above-drawn parallel occurred to Phœbe, whose country birth and residence, in truth, had left her pitifully ignorant of most of the family traditions, which lingered, like cobwebs and incrustations of smoke, about the rooms and chimney-corners of the House of the Seven Gables.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pyncheon of To-day”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 135:
text: […] it was Angel Clare’s custom to sit in the yawning chimney-corner during the meal, his cup-and-saucer and plate being placed on a hinged flap at his elbow.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XVIII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the third (The Rally), page 237:
glosses: Archaic form of chimney corner.
chimney-corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney-corner
glass terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass terminals
Senses: glosses: A computer terminal that has a CRT or other type of video screen ('glass') for a display
Synonyms: video terminal
Malzahn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malzahns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Malzahn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Macera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maceras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Macera.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Malzahns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Malzahn
Maceras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Macera
Mashek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masheks
Etymology: Americanized form of either Czech Mašek or Polish Maszek.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Matthewson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Matthewsons
form: Mathewson
Etymology: From the personal name Matthew + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Matthewsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Matthewson
Masheks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mashek
Kertz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kertzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kertz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Reasner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reasners
Etymology: Americanized form of the German surname Riesner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Reasners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reasner
Kertzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kertz
Raczka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raczkas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Rączka.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Raisch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raisches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Raisch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Raisches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Raisch
Raczkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Raczka
Pirone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pirones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pirone.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Micucci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Micuccis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Micucci.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Pellows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pellow
Pirones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pirone
Micuccis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Micucci
MtH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To date, AI chatbots have had a rather short MtH (meantime to Hitler) score. Tay was ~16 hours.
ref: 2021 July 17th, Elon Musk, “[untitled post]”, in 𝕏 (social networking site):
glosses: Initialism of mean time to Hitler.
Mormino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Morminos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Mormino.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Spalla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spallas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Spalla.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Spallas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spalla
Morminos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mormino
honey-dippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey-dipper
Mustons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Muston
Hinves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hinveses
Etymology: Probably a variant of Envis, with prosthetic H-.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Envis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Envises
form: Hinves
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman enfes, a variant of enfant (“child”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Courtnage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Courtnages
Etymology: Probably a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in southeastern England.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Courtnages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Courtnage
Hinveses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hinves
Envises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Envis
clickbaitiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickbaityness
Etymology: From clickbaity + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So, on average, an unreliable outlet’s headline has a higher chance of receiving more clicks or attention than a reliable outlet’s headline. To further investigate this, we examine the clickbaitiness of the headlines.
ref: 2019, Sameer Dhoju, Md Main Uddin Rony, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Naeemul Hassan, “A Large-Scale Analysis of Health Journalism by Reliable and Unreliable Media”, in Lucila Ohno-Machado, Brigitte Séroussi, editors, MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All: Proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, part 1, section I (Interpreting Health and Biomedical Data), page 95, column 2:
text: “Clickbaitiness is still really important, as it was in 2016,” Mr. [Guillaume] Chaslot said.
ref: 2020 November 3, Jack Nicas, “YouTube Cut Down Misinformation. Then It Boosted Fox News.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2020:
text: Questions assessing the overall article credibility, and other dimensions on the news headline (i.e., the degree of headlines’ accuracy, clickbaitiness, sentiment intensity, irony/sarcasm) and news body content (i.e., reliability of the sources of information mentioned in text, linguistic accuracy, sentiment intensity, and sensationalism).
ref: 2022, Danielle Caled, Paula Carvalho, Mário J. Silva, “MINT - Mainstream and Independent News Text Corpus”, in Vládia Pinheiro, Pablo Gamallo, Raquel Amaro, Carolina Scarton, Fernando Batista, Diego Silva, Catarina Magro, Hugo Pinto, editors, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 15th International Conference, PROPOR 2022, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 21–23, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Springer, →ISBN, section “Resources and Evaluation”, page 30:
glosses: Synonym of clickbaitness.
synonyms: word: clickbaitness
16th note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 16th notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Abbreviation of sixteenth note.
Richings Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential village in Iver parish, Buckinghamshire, England, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref TQ0379).
echelon forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echelon form
echo plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echo plate
echocardiographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echocardiographist
echois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echoi
echoreflectances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echoreflectance
echotimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echotime
ecoenvironments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoenvironment
ecologizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecologization
economicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of economicide
ecoregionalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoregionalisation
eco-thrillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-thriller
ecovalences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecovalence
ectoconchions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectoconchion
ectocraniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectocranium
basiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basil (“leaves of Ocimum basilicum used as a herb”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Take perfect fried or poached eggs and set each one on a good thick slice of “basiled” tomatoes placed on fitted rounds of buttered toast spread with anchovy paste or little Portuguese sardines.
ref: 1952, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume 69, page 76, column 2:
text: Neither tortelloni—overgrown tortellini—in a basiled tomato sauce with cream drizzled over at the last minute nor an aristocracy of sea creatures in nests of thin capellini pasta is especially moving.
ref: 1985 January 28, Gael Greene, “That’s Italian”, in New York, volume 18, number 4, →ISSN, page 37, column 2:
text: Basiled Noodles
ref: 1986, Phyllis Shaudys, The Pleasure of Herbs: A Month-by-Month Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying Herbs, Storey Communications, →ISBN, page 138:
text: And with help from Sharon Kebschull Barrett’s Desserts From An Herb Garden (St. Martin’s), gardeners can add natural flavor to after-dinner treats (try the basiled peaches bruschetta with pineapple mint custard sauce).
ref: 1999, New Age: The Journal for Holistic Living, volume 16, number 7, page 62, column 3:
text: Minted meat balls, basiled goat cheese, mango and cilantro salsa, sushi.
ref: 2002, Northwest Review, volume 40, University of Oregon, page 16:
text: Basiled Tomatoes
ref: 2012, Shazzie, Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body, and Spirit, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 407:
text: It didn’t take long before I nodded off at my desk dreaming of eating buttered scampi atop basiled pasta in a breezy Portofino cafe with Doc Holliday.
ref: 2012, John S. Craig, Mile High Cold and Other Stories, Lulu Books, →ISBN, pages 194–195:
glosses: With basil (leaves of Ocimum basilicum used as a herb).
basiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From basil (“to grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of basil
'nation
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The two young men were acquainted, though not intimate with each other, and they bowed, and then shook hands; and Barry told the attorney that he was welcome to Dunmore House, and the attorney made another bow, rubbed his hands before the fire and said it was a very cold evening; and Barry said it was 'nation cold for that time of the year; which, considering that they were now in the middle of February, showed that Barry was rather abroad, and didn't exactly know what to say.
ref: 1848, Anthony Trollope, chapter IX (Mr. Daly, the Attorney), in The Kellys and the O'Kellys, from the last London edition, New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton, […], published 1860, pages 92–93:
text: "I hope there ain't, but I can't make so 'Nation sure of that," said the guard, in gruff soliloquy. "Hallo you!"
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Mail”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of nation (“extremely, very”).
'nation
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Stop a bit," said the mate, and, springing before the clergyman, he set his back against the door. "Don't be in such a nation hurry: for, if you do, it will be bad for me, but worse for you."
ref: 1868, Charles Reade, Dion Boucicault, chapter IX, in Foul Play, volume I, London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 163:
text: 'What's the meaning o' that? 'Nation seize such husbands as you seem to get, say I!'
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVIII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume II, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the fifth (The Woman Pays), page 259:
text: "You've got him to care for 'ee a bit, 'nation if you ha'n't!" murmured Anny, judicially. "It's well to be you!"
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC, part I (At Marygreen), pages 51–52:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Clipping of damnation (“expressing annoyance or disappointment”).
GymTok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From gym + -Tok.
Senses: examples: text: As the is it gold is it blue? dress moment proved all too well, dividing opinion on social media is really not that hard. And, when it comes to GymTok, that couldn't be truer. From arguing in the comments section over the best way to work your glutes to critiquing someone's deadlift skills, there's always some kind of disagreement brewing between gym-going TikTokers. But, the latest GymTok clip dividing viewers has much less to do with the perfect squat style and more to do with, what we'd say, should be basic gym etiquette.
ref: 2022 January 14, Jade Biggs, “This TikTok of a woman squatting in the gym is dividing people”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2023:
text: Every so often, a viral GymTok clip would make the rounds on the platform – and sometimes it's ugly. Some clips show TikTokers mock an unsuspected gym-goer for their form. Others show gymfluencers get frustrated because a person unintentionally 'ruins their video'.
ref: 2022 March 18, Becca Monaghan, “'This one absolutely disgusted me:' Man puts gym influencer on blast”, in Indy100, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:
text: Bodybuilder Joey Swoll called out a TikToker for hogging gym equipment and the GymTok community stands with him.
ref: 2023 May 23, Tatayana Yomary, “A Bodybuilder Calls out TikToker for Hogging Gym Equipment and GymTok Is in Shambles”, in Distractify, archived from the original on 24 May 2023:
glosses: The community of fitness- and bodybuilding-oriented accounts on TikTok.
Derived terms: GymToker
Related terms: gymfluencer
gymfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymfluencer
public display of affection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public displays of affection
Senses: glosses: An act of physical intimacy in the view of others.
Derived terms: word: PDA
wicky-wack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wicky-wack
form: most wicky-wack
Senses: examples: text: He told me how you get ready to go into the tank by looking at yourself in the mirror with your nose up against it—all kinds of wicky-wack things, all kinds of gorp.
ref: 1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, page 331:
text: Hacky Sack? Kinda wicky wack—get a real sport, like hopscotch.
ref: 1994 August, Ricky Powell, “What's Up With That”, in VIBE, volume 2, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Time Publishing Ventures, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:
text: A horse may also exhibit trotting or walking motion in either his front or hind legs along with a cantering motion from the other pair, producing an odd half canter, half something else. […] This gait is so common in gaited horses that it has a specific name in some languages, although the closest term for it in English is "wicky wack."
ref: 2005, Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses: Gentle, Humane Methods for Training and Riding Gaited Pleasure Horses, North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 192:
text: 'Bring Me To Life' was accompanied by a video in which Lee jumped off a building and sang the song on her way down, scoring with its combination of Lee's soaring larynx and some rapped interludes, plus the requisite big guitars and some wicky-wack scratching.
ref: 2006, Singles: Six Decades of Hot Hits & Classic Cuts, San Diego, C.A.: Thunder Bay Press, →ISBN, page 307:
text: Except it quite obviously is. If anything, the music in Friends With Benefits is worse than the music in, say, Sleepless in Seattle; either the sort of tinpot wicky-wack scratchy guff that middle-aged men with ponytails think kids listen to at parties, or soggy ukulele nonsense.
ref: 2013 October 5, Stuart Heritage, “Friends With Benefits recap: unsexy bestie sex”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2022:
glosses: Not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric.
quartals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartal
sim racer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sim racers
form: sim-racer
form: simracer
Etymology: From sim (“simulation, simulator”) + racer.
Senses: glosses: A person, such as a video gamer or e-sports competitor, who takes part in motorsport simulations.
Kui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.
biritual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + ritual.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Alternative form of bi-ritual.
Mylar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪˌlɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑɹ
Etymology: No meaning. Chosen by Du Pont based on euphony.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mylar, especially when used in its non-genericized form.
tibbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tibby
nibbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nibby
yannow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of you know.
yunnow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of you know.
regularizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being regularizable.
chart caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chart callers
form: chart-caller
form: chartcaller
Senses: examples: text: The chartcallers' routine goes something like this: When the horses come onto the track, chartcallers jot down equipment information -- which runners are wearing blinkers, bandages on their forelegs, special horse shoes. While this is going on, they memorize and match the color of each jockey's silks to his mount's name. Or, as is the case with Feustle and most newer chartcallers, the number on the saddle cloth.
ref: 2003 May 16, John Scheinman, “Chartcallers, Setting the Track Record”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023:
text: When Jim Bishop was an Equibase chartcaller himself several seasons back, he would sometimes stray from the pre-programmed database comments and get creative with his past performance charts. For sorry horses such as Regal Bishop, he liked to utilize his favorite selfcoined disparity: Appeared to dislike racing.
ref: 2007, T. D. Thornton, Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 42:
text: The technology has been sufficiently accurate that Equibase has changed its method of charting races at tracks using the system. Historically, the details of every race have been gathered by a chart-caller who watches the action through binoculars and calls out numbers to a partner. Now Trakus produces the charts, though the data still requires oversight and tweaking by Equibase personnel.
ref: 2012 February 8, Andrew Beyer, “New racing technology could offer vast amounts of data to handicappers”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023:
text: Another, Jamie Zoeller, was a Pavement superfan. He met Nastanovich at a bar in Chicago in the '90s, and Nastanovich told him about his Derby house. Nastanovich (now a chart caller at Prairie Meadows racetrack in Altoona, Iowa) wrote down the address on a bar napkin, and Zoeller carried it around in his wallet until one day he made it, in 1999.
ref: 2021 May 1, Melissa Hoppert, “At This Kentucky Derby Party House, Everyone Is 'Like Family'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2022:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A person who is responsible for systemically recording the performance of the racehorses throughout a horse race.
chartcaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chartcallers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chart caller.
chartcallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chartcaller
chart callers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chart caller
chart-caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chart-callers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chart caller.
chart-callers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chart-caller
atragene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atragenes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Atragene.
atragenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atragene
narratage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narrate + -age.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The combination of screenwriting and audiovisual effects that captures an audience.
Peke-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a flattish face resembling that of the Pekingese dog; applied to certain Persian cats of a breed that arose in the 1950s.
pelican gulper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelican gulpers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pelican eel.
synonyms: word: pelican eel
pelican gulpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelican gulper
pelleters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelleter
penalty card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty cards
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hyponyms: black card
blue card
green card
red card
white card
yellow card
glosses: A card shown or presented by an official to indicate that a player has committed an offense.
penalty cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penalty card
missplit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missplits
form: missplitting
form: missplit
form: missplit
Etymology: From mis- + split.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1953 program, it was more or less a crash progam in which the Bureau of the Budget on one day told us we could come up here with so much money and that night at 4 o'clock in the morning they finally finished splitting items, and they missplit this particular item and had the estimate too low .
ref: 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, The Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1955, page 719:
text: Also if you missplit, you can just undo it and skip the split.
ref: 2015, “Livesplit Question : r/speedrun”, in Reddit:
text: The modern meaning of cyber- is heavily influenced by Gibson's cyberspace, but he wasn't actually the first to missplit it.
ref: 2023, “The etymologies of common computer terms : r/etymology”, in Reddit:
glosses: To split incorrectly.
examples: text: After observing them at work for some 5 minutes, Ludlow concluded it was Beedle who missplit 10 to 30 percent of the cattle he sawed.
ref: 1973, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 879:
text: The likelihood that missplitting will occur depends on the size and age of the animal (e.g. calves are less likely to be missplit than bulls or cows) and the proficiency of the saw operator.
ref: 2003, Brian K. Nunnally, Ira S. Krull, Prions and Mad Cow Disease, page 68:
text: Plants should have protocols for handling missplit carcasses.
ref: 2005, J Sofos, Improving the Safety of Fresh Meat, page 292:
qualifier: meat processing
glosses: To incompletely sever the spinal column with a saw.
missplit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missplits
Etymology: From mis- + split.
Senses: examples: text: It took about three long-pull shaves (right, left and middle) of the draw knife, upon the shingle, clamped in the shaving horse, to thin its top surface and straighten its long sides. Numerous missplits were thrown away.
ref: 1929, Henry C. Mercer, Ancient Carpenters' Tools, page 13:
text: The extent to which AMR product becomes contaminated is particularly sensitive to missplits because they can leave behind pieces of spinal cord encapsulated in the vertebral column that are processed by AMR.
ref: 2003, Brian K. Nunnally, Ira S. Krull, Prions and Mad Cow Disease, page 68:
text: Billy recalls particularly the scream lady, a neighbor who had undergone a hysterectomy, victimized by the blind missplit of a single cell that then steadily, stupidly copied that error, metastasizing into a tumor.
ref: 2008, John N. Duvall, The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo, page 60:
glosses: An instance or result of missplitting (any sense)
missplits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missplit
missplits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missplit
missplitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missplit
missplitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Data for the potential human exposure portion of the model include antemortem and postmortem inspection, pneumatic stunning, carcass missplitting, advanced meat recovery systems, and […]
ref: 2003, Marianne D. Miliotis, Jeffrey W. Bier, International Handbook of Foodborne Pathogens, page 809:
text: The likelihood that missplitting will occur depends on the size and age of the animal (e.g. calves are less likely to be missplit than bulls or cows) and the proficiency of the saw operator.
ref: 2003, Brian K. Nunnally, Ira S. Krull, Prions and Mad Cow Disease, page 68:
text: Anyone familiar with King Lear will recall that Shakespeare had his nuncles—nuncle being a form that arose from a missplitting of mine uncle.
ref: 2016, Rebecca Gowers, Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English:
glosses: An instance of missplitting.
shaving horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaving horses
Senses: examples: text: It took about three long-pull shaves (right, left and middle) of the draw knife, upon the shingle, clamped in the shaving horse, to thin its top surface and straighten its long sides. Numerous missplits were thrown away.
ref: 1929, Henry C. Mercer, Ancient Carpenters' Tools, page 13:
text: Of the vises and devices used to hold wood while it's being worked, the shaving horse, or "mule," is among the most basic you can find.
ref: 1990 May-June, Don Weber, “Bodger's”, in American Woodworker, number 14, page 36:
text: Harkening back to a time when men like David Wright made furniture under a shady tree, this shaving horse could have been made centuries ago.
ref: 2004, Lon Schleining, The Workbench: A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench, page 189:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
synonyms: shaving bench
shave horse
glosses: A device that allows a woodworker to sit astride it while it clamps onto a piece of wood which is being worked.
shaving horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaving horse
rail-track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail-tracks
Senses: examples: text: A carriage, such as we have described, could not travel along a railway with single rail-tracks, owing to the axles not being both of one length; […]
ref: 1824, Mr Scott, “[Essays on Rail-roads, Presented to the Highland Society.] Methods proposed by Mr Scott for overcoming Ascents on Rail-roads.”, in Robert Stevenson, editor, Prize-Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland. […], volume VI, Edinburgh: […] Arch[ibal]d Constable & Co. […], page 45:
text: “If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside the rail-track, “it is an excellent thing;⁠—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it.[…]”
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 283:
text: In this country the torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on the rail-tracks in front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like the president of the company; […]
ref: 1886 May 23, T[homas] De Witt Talmage, “[Tabernacle Pulpit: A Monthly Report of the Sermons Delivered by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., from the Pulpit of the Brooklyn Tabernacle.] Duties of Employers to Employees. […]”, in The Brooklyn Magazine, page 54:
glosses: Archaic form of rail track.
rail-tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail-track
kiddiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kiddy: most kiddy
way-station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: way-stations
Senses: examples: text: Just then, as it happened, the train reached a solitary way-station.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 285:
text: Here Belinsky has reached a way-station on the route to something else.
ref: 1975, Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr., The Positive Hero in Russian Literature, 2nd edition, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
text: At the same time, Mano Majra serves as the site of a murder-burglary, attempted communist activities, and “ghost train” way-station.
ref: 2013, Cara N. Cilano, Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of way station.
way-stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of way-station
penicillated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penicillated
form: most penicillated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penicillate.
subpenicillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subpenicillate
form: most subpenicillate
Etymology: From sub- + penicillate.
Senses: glosses: Almost or approximately penicillate.
penocorrectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to penal correction.
pentametrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentametrists
Senses: glosses: One who writes in pentameter.
pentametrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentametrist
pentametrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In pentameter.
peopledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From people + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of people.
peregrinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peregrine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being peregrine.
perigynial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a perigynium.
peristaltoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling peristalsis.
peritoneoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritoneoscopy
peritoneoscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritoneoscopists
Senses: glosses: One who performs a peritoneoscopy.
peritoneoscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritoneoscopist
perning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pern
perned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pern
personality inventory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personality inventories
Senses: glosses: Any of various tests that attempt to determine a person's personality and how it fits into a number of categories.
personality inventories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personality inventory
personnel carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personnel carriers
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of armored personnel carrier.
personnel carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personnel carrier
petal pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petal pinks
Senses: examples: text: I mixed two colors together—a petal pink and fuchsia—but get creative with it and use whatever color or colors you like.
ref: 2015, Adrianna Adarme, The Year of Cozy, page 94:
text: If you love hot pinks but your partner doesn't, try turning to red and matching it with pale petal pinks to soften the effect so you both get your way.
ref: Color Harmony for Interior Design (page 62)
glosses: A pale pink like that of rose petals.
petal pinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petal pink
petits-chevaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French [Term?] (literally “little horses”).
Senses: glosses: A gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors.
electric showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric shower
effectances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effectance
effluxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effluxer
eicosadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eicosadiene