cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overextreme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɪkˈstɹiːm/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ɛkˈstɹiːm/
ipa: /oʊ.vɚˈɪkˈstɹim/
Forms: form: more overextreme
form: most overextreme
Etymology: From over- + extreme.
Senses: examples: text: The first of these is that the thermo-electric lines of many metals are by no means straight lines overextreme ranges of temperature.
ref: 1896, The Electrical Review 1896-09-04: Volume 39, Issue 980, St. John Patrick Publishers, page 317:
text: I am interested in this question. I believe I am not an overextreme alarmist — not an extremist.
ref: 1909, New York Medical Journal, M. & M, page 317:
text: In experiment No. 2 the temperature did not at first rise so rapidly as in the others, but it shot up rapidly after a time, and reached 250° in about 1¾ hours. In this experiment, the wool was teased out with perhaps overextreme care; in the last two experiments less care was taken.
ref: 1927, Archbutt Leonard, Lubrication And Lubricants, page 372:
text: Similarly, there is no occasion to permit at this critical time any loss of production through overextreme cautiousness in the interpretation of specifications in those cases where for good practical reasons specifications must allow for some exercise of judgment, due caution, and care on the part of inspectors.
ref: 1943, United States Congress, Congressional Record April 06-May 13, 1943: Volume 89, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 3543:
glosses: Too extreme.
overfaithful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfaithful
form: most overfaithful
Etymology: From over- + faithful.
Senses: glosses: Too faithful.
Derived terms: overfaithfully
overfaint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfaint
form: most overfaint
Etymology: From over- + faint.
Senses: glosses: Too faint.
overfertile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfertile
form: most overfertile
Etymology: From over- + fertile.
Senses: glosses: Too fertile.
overfearful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfearful
form: most overfearful
Etymology: From over- + fearful.
Senses: glosses: Too fearful.
overfeminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfeminizes
form: overfeminizing
form: overfeminized
form: overfeminized
Etymology: From over- + feminize.
Senses: glosses: To feminize excessively.
overfatten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfattens
form: overfattening
form: overfattened
form: overfattened
Etymology: From over- + fatten.
Senses: glosses: To fatten excessively.
overfamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfamous
form: most overfamous
Etymology: From over- + famous.
Senses: glosses: Too famous.
overfeminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfeminize
overfeminizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfeminize
overfeminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfeminize
overfattened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfatten
overfattens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfatten
overfattening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfatten
oysterhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oyster + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: It has been computed that two millions of these ciliated embryos may be produced by a single oyster, but few, comparatively speaking, grow up to oysterhood.
ref: 1867, The North British Review, volume 46, page 195:
text: Only a miserable remnant of the oyster's progeny arrives at the stage of adult oysterhood.
ref: 1934, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection, volume 2482, page 64:
glosses: The state of being an oyster.
oxyweld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oxywelds
form: oxywelding
form: oxywelded
form: oxywelded
Etymology: From oxy- + weld.
Senses: glosses: To weld using oxyfuel.
oxywelded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oxyweld
oxywelds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oxyweld
oxywelding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oxyweld
Rooth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bad to beat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare the phrase "beat badly"; see badly (“very much; to a great degree”).
Senses: examples: text: "But, you see, they know nothing of discipline. If they'd only form reg'lar, and stand firm in a square, they'd be bad to beat, as them dogs of robbers would find."
ref: 1861, Anne Bowman, Among the Tartar Tents, Or, The Lost Fathers, page 183:
text: Twenty-one yearling fillies faced the judges, and in this competition Mr. Clark's Silver Queen was an easy first, and with a little more flesh and condition will be bad to beat.
ref: 1886, The Breeder's Gazette, page 274:
glosses: Difficult to beat; sure to succeed.
Quested
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Korah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Korach
form: Core
Etymology: From Hebrew קורח / קֹרַח (kórakh).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A biblical character who rebelled against Moses.
Derived terms: Korahite
Korahitic
viburna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vīburna.
Senses: glosses: plural of viburnum
demirip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demirips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demirep.
demirips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demirip
ben-cull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ben-culls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bene cove.
synonyms: word: bene cove
ben-culls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ben-cull
Blind Half-Hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Blind Half-Hundred
Etymology: So called because many members suffered from ophthalmia.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot.
hot tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot tigers
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: A drink of hot spiced ale mixed with sherry.
hot tigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot tiger
minilateralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minilateralisms
Etymology: A portmanteau of mini + multilateralism.
Senses: glosses: multilateralism that operates with a small group of the most relevant countries
key of the street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And all his literary life Dickens had the vision of the boy who was given the "key of the street" when other boys are at school.
ref: 1907, The Dublin Review, volume 141, page 290:
glosses: An imaginary item said to be possessed by anyone who is locked outdoors.
minilateralisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minilateralism
kibbosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kibosh.
kibbosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kibboshes
form: kibboshing
form: kibboshed
form: kibboshed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kibosh.
kibboshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kibbosh
kibboshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kibbosh
kibboshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kibbosh
put on the kibosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on the kibosh
form: putting on the kibosh
form: put on the kibosh
form: put on the kibosh
Senses: glosses: To put the kibosh on something; to bring an end to something.
negrish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more negrish
form: most negrish
Senses: examples: text: He dotes on this woman, whom he persuades now and then to our chapel service, and she complies without devotion, being a strict adherer to the negrish customs.
ref: 1803, Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, John Hatchard, J. Mawman, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, volume 2, page 11:
glosses: Obsolete form of negroish.
Brondesbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒndzb(ə)ɹi/
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2484).
Grove of the Evangelist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Grove of the Evangelist
Senses: glosses: The district of St John's Wood in London, England.
fawney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fawneys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fawny (“a ring”).
fawneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fawney
fawnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fawny
nap the regulars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: naps the regulars
form: napping the regulars
form: napped the regulars
form: napped the regulars
Senses: glosses: To divide up the booty.
Marantz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yiddish מאַראַנץ (marants, “orange”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
misimagine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misimagines
form: misimagining
form: misimagined
form: misimagined
Etymology: From mis- + imagine.
Senses: examples: text: When the fact of their being ice, and not snow, is fully realized, still persons are apt to misimagine their appearance; for they are by no means smooth like our frozen lakes and rivers, but present a very unequal surface, undulating, furrowed, and broken.
ref: 1892, Thomas Osmond Summers, Switzerland: Historical and Descriptive, page 110:
text: The stupidity, parochialism, and greed in the international mismanagement of the whole nuclear challenge should not tempt us to misimagine the circumstances of the bomb's first “use.”
ref: 1990, Paul Fussell, Killing, in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays, page 36:
text: It is not easy to say what it is to misimagine another person. It is easier to give a useful description of some other kinds of misimagination.
ref: 2006, Shaun Nichols, The Architecture of the Imagination, page 59:
glosses: To imagine incorrectly; to form an inaccurate mental image of.
Derived terms: misimagination
misimagines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misimagine
misimagining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misimagine
misimagined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misimagine
misimaginations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misimagination
fo'c'stle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊk.səl/
Forms: form: fo'c'stles
Senses: examples: text: A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and menavelings from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.
ref: 1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of fo'c'sle.
fo'c'stles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊk.səlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fo'c'stle
misimitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misimitates
form: misimitating
form: misimitated
form: misimitated
Etymology: From mis- + imitate.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever anyone for some reason is motivated to improve his speech, he imitates ( or misimitates ) what he thinks to be the community norm .
ref: 1969, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 1, Parts 4-6, page 87:
text: The SK wants his Yatì (vs. the Kavi's weak one!); but the Kavi preserves that and the final rhythm, managing the proper names with a variation of 2b (q.v.), which latter the SK partly misimitates.
ref: 1971, K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Journal - Issue 43, page 19:
text: Just as historic styles are distorted, cheapened and misimitated for commercial production, modern designs can be “knocked-off" through imitation that almost always misses the point of the original, copies its least significant aspects, and introduces modifications that distort its real values.
ref: 1990, John F. Pile, Furniture: Modern and Postmodern, Design and Technology, page 3:
text: They have all misheard and misimitated song lyrics without great trauma.
ref: 2003, Brock Dethier, From Dylan to Donne: Bridging English and Music, page 49:
glosses: To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of
misimitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misimitate
misimitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misimitate
misimitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misimitate
menavelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manavelins.
euxenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euxenic
form: most euxenic
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: With hydrogen sulfide and extremely low oxygen.
medical Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their form is like the "Medical Greek" of London medical students, who "poke a smipe" instead of smoking a pipe, and take a "stint of pout" for a pint of stout.
ref: 1898, The Pedagogical Seminary, volume 5, page 375:
glosses: The English slang once used by medical students in London hospitals, involving deliberate spoonerisms.
Hopton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoptons
Etymology: From Old English hop (“valley among hills”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish (served by Carsington and Hopton Parish Council) in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2553).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Great Ness parish, (served by Great Ness and Little Ness Parish Council) in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3820).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Hopton and Coton parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9426).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish (served by Hopton cum Knettishall Parish Council) in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9979).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Hopton and Coton
Hopton Castle
Hopton Heath
Hopton-on-Sea
Hopton Wafers
BLI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of boundary layer ingestion.
BLI
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of boundary layer ingesting.
misimitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misimitations
Etymology: From mis- + imitate + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: All of them have their allowed and profitable use in God's Church, though not in so high a nature; except that of extreme unction; which as it is an apish misimitation of that extraordinary course which the apostolic times used in their cures of the sick, so it is grossly misapplied to other purposes than were intended in the first institution.
ref: 1863, Joseph Hall, edited by Philip Wynter, The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall - Volume 8, page 699:
text: We have a critical tradition that is a misimitation of the sciences, for while science seeks out the significant qualities of things, anesthetic criticism seeks out only the most easily enumerable.
ref: 1971, James Joyce Quarterly - Volumes 9-10, page 295:
text: The Assassins talk ludicrously—This is a most egregious misimitation of Shakespere—Schiller should not have attempted Tragicomedy & none but Shakespere has succeeded.
ref: 2018, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Poetical Works of Coleridge:
text: One does not hear one's own mistakes or misimitations unless they are the ones on which one is expressly concentrating one's intellectual attention.
ref: 2018, Wilga M. Rivers, Teaching Foreign Language Skills, page 503:
glosses: The act of misimitating; defective imitation.
misimitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misimitation
BWB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BWBs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of blended wing-body.
stale drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She was stale-drunk; she had, doubtless, a vile headache; probably she felt twinges of remorse and apprehension of possible police interference.
ref: 1917, John Locke, The Red Planet:
text: He counted all the points in favour of his staying home: from the long night he was still tired and sleepy; also he was stale drunk; and the traffic jams!
ref: 1982, Race Today, volumes 14-16, page 170:
glosses: Drunk from a long (possibly overnight) session of drinking alcohol.
lily foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lily feet
Senses: glosses: The traditionally bound foot of a Chinese woman.
lily feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lily foot
mahogany flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahogany flats
Etymology: From their colour and shape.
Senses: examples: text: When ready for sea we went up to Greenhithe, that their lordships might inspect us, and then to Portsmouth, to take troops to Cork, a pleasant trip; but the troops left us a legacy of "mahogany flats," with which their beds were so swarming that we never got them under.
ref: 1892, Sir George Giffard, Reminiscences of a Naval Officer, page 45:
glosses: A bedbug.
mahogany flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahogany flat
Norfolk Howard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norfolk Howards
Etymology: Said to be an allusion to a person named Ephraim Bug, who advertised that in the future he would call himself by the more aristocratic name of Norfolk Howard.
Senses: examples: text: All the insects he had sorted, / Placed in paper bags the insects, / In one bag the Norfolk Howards, / In one bag the fleas, the Jumpers […]
ref: 1888, James Arthur Lees, Walter J. Clutterbuck, B.C. 1887: A Ramble in British Columbia, page 244:
text: Speaking of advertising changes of name, a title by which those lodging-house pests, bugs, are now often known, that of Norfolk Howards, is derived from an advertisement in which one Ephraim Bug avowed his intention of being for the future known as Norfolk Howard.
ref: 1874, Henry Sampson, A history of advertising, page 278:
glosses: A bedbug.
Norfolk Howards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norfolk Howard
madake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 真竹.
Senses: glosses: Timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides)
age like milk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ages like milk
form: aging like milk
form: ageing like milk
form: aged like milk
form: aged like milk
Etymology: Referring to milk’s tendency to go bad quickly.
Senses: examples: text: While rewatching this movie after twenty years, I realized that it had aged like milk.
synonyms: age like vinegar
antonyms: age like a fine wine
qualifier: simile
glosses: To age very badly; to look bad in hindsight, or after time has passed.
SEUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SEU
SEEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SEE
SEL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SELs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: SEE
coordinate_terms: SEGR
SEU
glosses: Initialism of single-event latchup (a destructive internal short circuit produced by a particle of ionizing radiation striking a CMOS computer chip).
examples: text: In a March interview conducted over email, Mr. Rufo stated that while social-emotional learning sounds “positive and uncontroversial” in theory, “in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for radical pedagogies such as critical race theory and gender deconstructionism.”
ref: 2022 April 22, Dana Goldstein, Stephanie Saul, quoting Chris Rufo, “A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Social–emotional learning.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Initialism of shelf edge label.
SELs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SEL
battered person syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A more recent, gender-neutral formulation based on battered woman syndrome.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal defense according to which a murderer had no choice but to kill their violent partner in response to cumulative abuse rather than a single provocation.
firm error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firm errors
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and stays wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage the equipment's hardware.
Coordinate terms: hard error
soft error
firm errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firm error
country ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country ships
Senses: glosses: A ship belonging to the East Indies, and trading from port to port in that country.
country ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of country ship
ca. sa.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've noted down the amount of the taxed costs and damages for which the ca-sa was issued, and we had better settle at once and lose no time.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of capias ad satisfaciendam.
cat and kitten sneaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the police courts it is not uncommon to hear that such and such low persons have been "had up" for "cat and kitten sneaking," i.e., stealing quart and pint pots.
ref: 1867, Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten, The History of Signboards, page 177:
glosses: The theft of pint and quart pots and small pewter spirit measures from public houses.
power-cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: power-cycles
form: power-cycling
form: power-cycled
form: power-cycled
form: power cycle
Senses: examples: text: If the computer's frozen, try power-cycling it.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: To turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in troubleshooting the device.
Related terms: cold boot
power cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: power cycles
form: power cycling
form: power cycled
form: power cycled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of power-cycle.
power-cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of power-cycle
power-cycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of power-cycle
power-cycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of power-cycle
power cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of power cycle
power cycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of power cycle
power cycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of power cycle
manavilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manavelins.
old gentleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old gentlemen
Senses: glosses: A playing card that is almost imperceptibly longer than the others in the deck, used by cheats.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, gentleman.
old gentlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old gentleman
hard error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard errors
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A type of error which persists even after power-cycling the equipment; associated with permanent physical damage to the equipment's hardware (for instance, from a latch-up).
Coordinate terms: firm error
soft error
hard errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard error
give someone his gruel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone his gruel
form: giving someone his gruel
form: gave someone his gruel
form: given someone his gruel
Etymology: Perhaps a reference to administering poison.
Senses: examples: text: "Cruel! Cruel! Cruel!" he cried. "Yes, you gave him his gruel hot enough," answered Charlotte.
ref: 1837, The Gambler's Dream, page 247:
text: I have 'barkers' by Nock, Sir,
 With percussion locks, Sir,
 Will give you your gruel —
 hang me if I box, Sir
ref: 1856, Thomas Ingoldsby, The Ingoldsby Legends: Or, Mirth & Marvels, page 87:
glosses: To kill or trounce someone.
Related terms: cook someone's goose
settle someone's hash
fulldive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full dive
form: Fulldive
Etymology: From a fictional technology in the Japanese light novel and anime Sword Art Online.
Senses: examples: text: Experts say it will take at least another ten years before we create real fulldive technology.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: word: full-dive virtual reality
word: FDVR
glosses: Virtual reality technology that inputs sensory data directly into a user's brain (especially when the brain may also act upon the technology), which is usually a brain–computer interface, brain implant, or any other similar technology.
Hypernyms: virtual reality
Related terms: metaverse
bellows to mend
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: This constitutes the process of respiration or breathing, and on its due performance will chiefly depend the health and usefulness of the animal. A horse calling “bellows-to-mend” is fit for little.
ref: 1859, James Crawford Ledlie Carson, The Form of the Horse, page 25:
text: A pause now took place, and some mutual feinting and dodging, it being 'bellows to mend' on each side.
ref: 1897, R. G. Allanson-Winn, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Boxing, page 72:
glosses: out of breath
full dive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fulldive.
Derived terms: full-dive virtual reality
Fulldive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fulldive.
hop merchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop merchants
Senses: synonyms: caper merchant
glosses: A teacher of dancing.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, merchant. (one who sells hops for brewing)
hop merchants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hop merchant
hop and pop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops and pops
form: hopping and popping
form: hopped and popped
form: hopped and popped
form: hop n pop
form: hop 'n pop
form: hop 'n' pop
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skydiving
sports
glosses: to jump from a plane at altitudes of 5000 ft and deploy the main parachute soon after.
kimbo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The gentleman who usually fell into his, with his legs astride the seat, and his arms kimbo on the back, was Mr. Burton, a very small man, who took all the liberties accorded to small people.
ref: 1887, Towards the Gulf: A Romance of Louisiana, page 21:
glosses: Archaic form of akimbo (“with hands on hips and elbows outward”).
kimbo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kimbos
form: kimboing
form: kimboed
form: kimboed
Senses: glosses: To position (the arms) akimbo.
Field-lane duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Field-lane ducks
Etymology: Field Lane was a low London thoroughfare leading from the foot of Holborn Hill to the purlieus of Clerkenwell.
Senses: glosses: A baked sheep's head.
Field-lane ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Field-lane duck
sharkette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharkettes
Etymology: From shark (“someone who exploits others”) + -ette (suffix forming female equivalents).
Senses: examples: text: Cass's lips curved in a full - fledged grin this time. Maybe Mercedes's little sharkette had some plain ordinary child in her, after all.
ref: 1995, Anne Marie Duquette, Finding Father, page 32:
text: A sharp-eyed, flinty-voiced business sharkette.
ref: 2011, Robert Ward, The King of Cards, page 175:
text: Lorraine Lemoile, cat-eyed sharkette, always with eyes for Ducky.
ref: 2017, Bill Roorbach, The Girl of the Lake: Stories, page 128:
glosses: An exploitative woman.
Jemmy-John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jemmy-Johns
Etymology: Probably related to demijohn.
Senses: glosses: A jar for holding liquor.
Jemmy-Johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jemmy-John
sharkettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharkette
misophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misophone
nobbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nobbish
form: most nobbish
Etymology: From nob + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nobby.
synonyms: word: nobby
husband's tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the idea that a selfish housewife might drink all the tea before her husband returns from work, and refill the pot with water.
Senses: examples: text: "WELL, I never! Mrs. Morris, why how poor the tea has got all at once! Why, sure enough, it is as bad as husband's tea now!"
ref: 1851, Ann Jane, The Mothers' friend, ed. by Ann Jane, page 169:
text: Some take their tea so hot that its flavour, if it had any, would be lost upon them, and many take it so weak that it can have no flavour in particular. We have also heard of "husband's tea," which sufficiently explains itself.
ref: 1875, Saturday Review: Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 442:
text: As soon as active growth has commenced weak liquid manure may be given; the draining from a cowshed diluted to the colour of "husband's" tea is good, but that should be discontinued when the blooms show colour.
ref: 1884, Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer, page 353:
synonyms: water bewitched
glosses: Very weak (dilute) tea.
Related terms: word: weak tea
english: hot water as hot beverage
translation: hot water as hot beverage
word: white tea
fegary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fegaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of figary.
fegaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fegary
obstropolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obstropolous
form: most obstropolous
Senses: examples: text: So, as he was goin’ on a war-expedition in his canoe, he left her to think about it, sayin’ he’d be back in six months or so, when he hoped she wouldn’t be so obstropolous.
ref: 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
glosses: Alternative form of obstropulous.
Irish loo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A form of lanterloo with no dummy and in which players are permitted to exchange their cards.
sick as a horse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very ill.
Synonyms: sick as a cat
sick as a dog
sick as a parrot
cyclostrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.kləˈstɹoʊ.fɪk/
ipa: /-ˈstɹɔ.fɪk/
Forms: form: more cyclostrophic
form: most cyclostrophic
Etymology: From cyclo- + Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the balance, in the atmosphere, between the opposing effects of the horizontal pressure gradient and the centrifugal force on a rotating air mass.
Coordinate terms: geostrophic
love curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love curls
Senses: examples: text: An aggravator, or love curl, of a delicate roundness, hung low upon the imperial forehead, […]
ref: 1848, William Evans Burton, Waggeries and Vagaries, page 57:
glosses: Synonym of kiss curl.
synonyms: word: kiss curl
love curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love curl
needy mizzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needy mizzlers
Senses: glosses: A shabby person; a tramp who runs away without paying for his lodging.
needy mizzlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needy mizzler
mat leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Anita and Jennie are going on their mat leaves next month.
glosses: plural of mat leave
defrostee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defrostees
Etymology: From defrost + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: One thing alone seems to be certain, and that is that the cockroach will be the final master of this globe; and if the defrostee is unfortunate enough to survive into that era, he will have to take what is given him, and the greatest minds of our time declare it is not likely to be much.
ref: 1973, National Lampoon, page 60:
text: We would be better off enjoying the re-runs of his films rather than the expensive re-run of a rapidly aging defrostee.
ref: 1995, Robert Kastenbaum, Is There Life After Death?: The Latest Evidence Analysed, page 251:
text: The paranoia which finally takes hold of Lem's 'defrostee' in his confrontation with Symington (144ff.), like much else about the fantasy world of Tichy's wherein 'Procrustics, Inc.' looms larger and larger, is surely reminiscent of that work by Philip K. Dick in particular, as is the tromp-l'esprit which gulls us into believing that in the anti-utopian garbage dump we at last get to what is really going on in 2039.
ref: 2005, Robert M. Philmus, Visions and Re-visions: (re)constructing Science Fiction, page 77:
text: By far its most interesting fixture, for the time being, was a second bed, which was occupied by a second defrostee.
ref: 2007, Brian Stableford, Dark Ararat:
text: Looking around, the other 'defrostees' seemed content to stay wrapped up in their own tormented world.
ref: 2017, Is Anyone out There?, page Rick Kalm:
text: This is meant for people who have been cryogenically frozen and feel an urge to share their experiences with other post-cryogenics or defrostees.
ref: 2018, Luc Peters, Anthony R. Yue, On Mirrors! Philosophy—Art—Organization, page 61:
glosses: One who has been revived after being in cryonic suspension.
defrostees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defrostee
off-and-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-and-off.
State of Manchuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Official name of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1934.
soiled dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soiled doves
Senses: examples: 1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Idalia
[…] thought the telegraphist, with a yawn, returning to his dog-eared green-covered shilling novel, relating the pungent adventures of a soiled dove of St. John's Wood, […]
glosses: A disreputable woman, sometimes a prostitute.
soiled doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soiled dove
cold meat train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold meat trains
Etymology: So called because this train used to convey corpses to Woking on behalf of the London Necropolis Company.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.
wikipedia: London Necropolis Company
cold meat trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold meat train
Mach tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mach-tuck
Senses: topics: aerodynamics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A change in an aircraft's pitching tendency at transonic speeds, often manifesting as a strong tendency to pitch down into a dive.
Synonyms: tuck-under
Mach tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Mach tucks
form: Mach tucking
form: Mach tucked
form: Mach tucked
form: Mach-tuck
Senses: topics: aerodynamics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To experience Mach tuck.
aquilinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aquilinely
form: most aquilinely
Etymology: From aquiline + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nosed aquilinely, the skipper is finely
Snubbed by a cut from the gay Chasseresse.
ref: 1887, C. C. Rhys, “La Chasseresse”, in Minora Carmina, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, page 69:
text: On the pillow the fair head otherwise so aquilinely reminiscent of old Mendes on his deathbed grew clearer,
ref: 1969, Hortense Calisher, The New Yorkers, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 129:
text: He was relieved to be greeted by a quietly dressed, aquilinely beautiful woman, whose long dark hair fell freely over her silk-covered shoulders.
ref: 1992, Jackson Mac Low, Pieces o’ Six, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, X, page 53:
glosses: In an aquiline manner; like an eagle.
anemographia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The first three sections of the poem are an exercise in the classical mode of anemographia (description of the wind).
ref: 1991, Essays on Canadian Writing - Issues 43-46, page 24:
text: I think it safe to conclude that Poe's prose suggests a fondness for parallel structure, sometimes antithetical. I have also catalogued nearly two dozen devices of description, from anemographia to triplets adjectival and adverbial, and conclude that Poe is a highly descriptive writer.
ref: 1999 Winter, Brett Zimmerman, “A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, in Style, volume 33, number 4:
text: The well-known inscription in the Vatican Torre dei Venti of the late 1570's, inspired by the anemographia of the Dominican astronomer Ignazio Danti, is a testimony, amongst several, of the not so good reputation of the peoples of the North Wind in the Eternal city, not rarely in the past a victim of their furor nordicus and of their heresies threatening to rock the boat of orthodoxy, "quella Santissima navicella."
ref: 1999, Marie-Louise Rodén, Ab Aquilone, page 10:
text: Although it is tempting to look at colour in terms of each energia in turn (what could be said about a chromatic analysis of anemographia? ) for our purposes here, we will continue to focus on the temporal and spatial planes that articulate the figural cadences created by syncrisis.
ref: 2007, Wendy Ellen Everett, Questions of Colour in Cinema: From Paintbrush to Pixel, page 134:
text: An analogous focus upon good continuation is to be found in the many forms of enargia or figures of description recorded by rhetoricians, such as anemographia (of wind), astrotesia (of stars), characterismus (of personality), chorographia (of nations), chronographia (of time), dendrographia (of trees), etc.
ref: 2015 January, Giorgio Baruchello, “A classification of classics. Gestalt psychology and the tropes of rhetoric”, in New Ideas in Psychology, volume 36:
glosses: The rhetorical enargia used to describe the wind.
Sherardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sherard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Sherard (1659–1728), English botanist, who established a professorship at the University of Oxford, the Sherardian Professor of Botany.
Dizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and twice prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Dizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dizzys
form: Dizzies
Senses: glosses: A nickname.
dizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dizzie
form: most dizzie
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dizzy.
Gillick competency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gillick competence.
pajeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pajeet
vireonine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of the vireo
hotpatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotpatches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot patch.
hotpatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotpatches
form: hotpatching
form: hotpatched
form: hotpatched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot patch.
Gweniver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwɛ.nɪ.və/
ipa: /ˈɡwɛ.nɪ.vɚ/
Etymology: From Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever, from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. Cognate with English Jennifer.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Cornish.
virgater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgaters
Etymology: From virgate + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who owned or cultivated a virgate of agricultural land.
virgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgies
Etymology: Clipping of virgin + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Marveling, I said to her ear—and the pleasure I took in touching it with my talking lips!—“How do you know? A virgie like you were.”
ref: 1969 March [1956], Herbert Gold, The Man Who Was Not With It, New York, NY: Avon Books, page 181:
text: “Ferget ever'thing but feeling good!” the first one added, to Maia's growing confusion and irritation. The third man, of average height, with a dark complexion, nudged his companions. “Come on. You can whiff she's just a virgie. Let's go clean up an' head for Bell House.”
ref: 1993 June, David Brin, Glory Season, New York, NY: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A virgin.
Great Ness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Great Ness and Little Ness Parish Council) in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3918).
Related terms: Little Ness
Little Ness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Great Ness and Little Ness Parish Council) in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4019).
Related terms: Great Ness
Little Ness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Three headlands in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland:
On Mainland (north) (OS grid ref HU3167).
glosses: Three headlands in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland:
On Mainland (south) (HU3143).
glosses: Three headlands in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland:
On Yell (HP5403).
viseite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed, hydrated silicate, phosphate and fluoride of calcium and aluminium.
vitellarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪ.tɛˈlɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌvaɪ-/
ipa: /-tə-/
ipa: /ˌvɪ.tɛˈlɛ.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌvaɪ-/
ipa: /-tə-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vitellarial.
synonyms: word: vitellarial
CI/CD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CICD
Etymology: Initialism of continuous integration / continuous delivery or continuous deployment.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (combined practices)
examples: text: In this chapter, we aim to extend the reach of CI/CD pipelines into common automation use cases.
ref: 2023, Christopher Cowell, Nicholas Lotz, Chris Timberlake, Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines: Build efficient CI/CD pipelines to verify, secure, and deploy your code using real-life examples, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 253:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (combined practices)
Haberle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haberles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Haberle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Golphin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Golphins
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Golphins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Golphin
Haberles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haberle
Goerke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goerkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Goerke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Governale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Governales
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Governale.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Governales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Governale
Goerkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goerke
Full
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fulls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Full.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Fulls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Full
Gallettis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Galletti
Fowers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fowerses
Etymology: Status surname, from Old French fouuer, itself from Latin focārius (“hearth-keeper”). Compare modern French foyer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
Fidalgos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fidalgo
Fowerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fowers
Fauber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Faubers
Etymology: Variant of Faubert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Kaeding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaedings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Käding.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kaedings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaeding
Faubers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fauber
Kalinoski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kalinoskis
Etymology: Variant of Kalinowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kalinoskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kalinoski
McPeak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McPeaks
form: McPeake
form: McPeek
form: McPike
Etymology: * As an Irish and Scottish surname, Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac Péice (“son of Péic”), of non-Celtic but obscure origin, perhaps in actuality related to English peak or its source.
* As an English surname, from Old English pik (see Pike) though it could also be from or influenced by Peak.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Kalinowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kalinowski
McPeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McPeak
McKittricks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKittrick
Pulaskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pulaski
Trimalchio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A wealthy freedman in the 1st century CE Roman work of fiction Satyricon.