cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rip-and-reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rip-and-readers
Etymology: Suggesting the tearing off and reading of printed sheets from incoming news transmissions.
Senses: examples: text: In between the all-news stations and the rip-and-readers are a substantial number of stations which sometimes have one or two newsmen and which try to do a respectable job with a limited budget.
ref: 1977, Ronald G. Hicks, A Survey of Mass Communication, page 145:
text: Leave the rip-and-readers to the tender mercies of the Associated Press. Major market radio and television stations are another matter entirely. Their news interests and requirements are similar to those of newspapers.
ref: 1987, Presstime, volume 9, numbers 1-6, page 15:
text: News director Griff Potter says he wants “a journalist, not a rip-and-reader. Someone who understands that highlights, runs, and errors are boring television.”
ref: 2012, Bradley Schultz, Sports Media: Reporting, Producing, and Planning, page 254:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A newsreader or station that delivers the news in a formulaic, uninspired manner.
rip-and-readers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rip-and-reader
take one's custom elsewhere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's custom elsewhere
form: taking one's custom elsewhere
form: took one's custom elsewhere
form: taken one's custom elsewhere
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take one's business elsewhere.
synonyms: word: take one's business elsewhere
Waikiwi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wʌɪˈkiːwi/
Etymology: From Maori wai + kiwi.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the north of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
Wyndham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndəm/
Forms: form: Wyndhams
Etymology: Heterographic variant of Windham.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9391).
glosses: A village on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A local government area west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; in full, the City of Wyndham.
glosses: A town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
glosses: A small town in eastern Southland, New Zealand.
glosses: A census-designated place in Henrico County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname.
Chekoslovakia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Czechoslovakia
Lower Hutt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in the Hutt Valley, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Related terms: Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and territorial authority in the Hutt Valley, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Related terms: Lower Hutt
fall seven times, stand up eight
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 七転び八起き (nana korobi ya oki).
Senses: glosses: One must not give up one's efforts, even those that are in vain.
doughties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doughty
lipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliˌpeɪ/
rhymes: -iːpeɪ
Senses: glosses: plural of lipa
Dannevirke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛniˌvøːk/
ipa: /ˈdɛnɘˌvøːk/
Etymology: Named by Scandinavian settlers after the Danevirke, Danish fortifications in Schleswig-Holstein.
Senses: glosses: A town in Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
wikipedia: Danevirke
Wairoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wʌɪˈɹəʊə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town and local government district of the Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand.
glosses: A river in the Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand, which flows through the town.
glosses: A river in the Auckland region, New Zealand.
glosses: A river in the Bay of Plenty region, New Zealand.
glosses: A river in the Northland region, New Zealand.
glosses: A river in Tasman district, New Zealand.
Taumarunui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in the King Country of Ruapehu district, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
Raglan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village, community, and castle in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4107).
glosses: A community in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A community in the Durham Region of Ontario.
glosses: A locality in the Bathurst Region of New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A small town and locality in the Gladstone Region of Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A small town in western Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A town and harbour in Waikato district, Waikato region, on the west coast of the North Island, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan
take up arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up arms
form: taking up arms
form: took up arms
form: taken up arms
Senses: info_templates: extra_data: words: against
for
expansion: [with against or for]
antonyms: lay down one's arms
glosses: To prepare to fight; to arm oneself.
Waiouru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wʌɪˈuɹu/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A small town in Ruapehu district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, New Zealand.
Iana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Iana.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vaslui County, Romania.
Taihape
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tʌɪˈhapi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in Rangitikei district, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
dichogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to dichogamy
dictyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of reticulate.
synonyms: word: reticulate
diferulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diferulates
Etymology: From di- + ferulate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that contains two ferulate groups
diferulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diferulate
dimethylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dimethylates
form: dimethylating
form: dimethylated
form: dimethylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To add two methyl groups to a compound
dimethylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylates
Senses: glosses: A dimethylated derivative of an amino acid such as lysine or arginine
dimethylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dimethylate
dimethylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethylate
discectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discectomizes
form: discectomizing
form: discectomized
form: discectomized
Etymology: From discectomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To perform a discectomy
discectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discectomize
disinflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinflates
form: disinflating
form: disinflated
form: disinflated
Etymology: From dis- + inflate.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To reduce the rate of inflation
exusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exusions
Etymology: From exude + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of exuding.
examples: text: […] and that, while the former affords an appropriate matrix or bed, wherein the granular exusions from the scion may affix themselves and be secured, the latter keeps up that supply of moisture which is required, till the union is completely effected.
ref: 1830, John Towers, The Domestic Gardener's Manual, page 526:
glosses: Something that is exuded.
Synonyms: exudation
Hawera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /hɑːwəɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in South Taranaki district, Taranaki region, New Zealand.
exusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exusion
dogmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art or skill of controlling the behaviour of a dog
doliroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolirosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic glycoside present in the Chinese herbal medicine Dolichos falcata
dorsoanteriorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dorso- + anteriorly.
Senses: glosses: In a dorsoanterior manner or direction
dorsomidline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsomidlines
Etymology: From dorso- + midline.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The dorsal midline
Port Chalmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Thomas Chalmers, a Presbyterian leader.
Senses: glosses: A town on Otago Harbour, Otago, New Zealand, which is the main port for Dunedin.
wikipedia: Thomas Chalmers
ypsigons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ypsigon
Fairlie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛːli/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2055).
glosses: A small town in Mackenzie district, South Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States.
Fairlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛːli/
Forms: form: Fairlies
Senses: examples: text: Class "R" 0-6-4 single Fairlie No. 28, built by Avonside in 1879, as working for the Timaru Harbour Board in 1940
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 559, photo caption:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A design of steam locomotive with the driving wheels on one or two bogies.
Gazaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːziən/
enpr: gä'zē-ən
Forms: form: more Gazaean
form: most Gazaean
form: Gazean
form: Gazæan
Etymology: From Gaza + -ean, modelled after Latin Gazaeus, from Ancient Greek Γαζαῖος (Gazaîos).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gazan.
Gazaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːziən/
enpr: gä'zē-ən
Forms: form: Gazaeans
form: Gazean
form: Gazæan
Etymology: From Gaza + -ean, modelled after Latin Gazaeus, from Ancient Greek Γαζαῖος (Gazaîos).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gazan.
Gazaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gazaean
Reefton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From reef + -ton, referring to reefs of gold. Both places have a history of gold mining.
Senses: glosses: A small town in Buller district, West Coast, New Zealand.
glosses: A rural locality in Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia.
gets some
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get some
getting some
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get some (“to have sex”)
examples: text: Are you getting some?
glosses: Having sex (habitually, not currently).
Synonyms: sense: having non-current sex
word: getting any
sense: having non-current sex
word: getting enough
got some
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get some
gotten some
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get some
gets one's groove on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's groove on
getting one's groove on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's groove on
got one's groove on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get one's groove on
Waimate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wʌɪˈmati/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in Waimate district, in South Canterbury, New Zealand.
Related terms: Waimate North
fire-plough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-ploughs
Senses: glosses: A firelighting tool consisting of two sticks rubbed together to produce heat through friction and heat.
goes from strength to strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go from strength to strength
going from strength to strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go from strength to strength
went from strength to strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go from strength to strength
gone from strength to strength
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go from strength to strength
Chromebases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chromebase
gets freaky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get freaky
getting freaky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get freaky
got freaky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get freaky
Waimate North
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small settlement in Far North district, Northland, New Zealand.
cat's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hypochaeris gen. et spp.
Chromeboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chromebox
Moz.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: MOZ
english: ISO code
translation: ISO code
glosses: Abbreviation of Mozambique: a country in East Africa and Southern Africa.
Rangiora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹaŋ(ɡ)iˈɔːɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in Waimakariri district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Amberley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈambəli/
Senses: glosses: A small village in Minchinhampton parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8501).
glosses: A small settlement in Marden parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5447).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0313).
glosses: A town in Hurunui district, North Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A rural community in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A community in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh municipality, Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
beergut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beerguts
Senses: examples: text: blokes with beerguts and bulging T-shirts
glosses: Alternative spelling of beer gut.
beerguts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beergut
beer-gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer-guts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beer gut.
beer-guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer-gut
stubbie holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubbie holders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stubby holder.
stubbie holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubbie holder
red-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of redback.
red-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-back
red back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of redback.
red backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red back
funnel-web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel-webs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of funnel web.
funnel-webs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnel-web
funnelweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnelwebs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of funnel web.
funnelwebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnelweb
proximic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proximic
form: most proximic
Senses: examples: text: For example, friends who are thousands of miles apart can routinely text each other and maintain a sense that they are actually proximic (Baym et al., 2012).
ref: 2019, Steven McCornack, Kelly Morrison, Reflect & Relate, 5th edition:
glosses: spatially close together
examples: text: Adults have most of their experiences with proximic violations when they encounter people from different cultures.
ref: 1995, Shannon Brumfield, Fix It Before It Breaks: A Parent-Teacher's Guidebook to Ensuring Your Child's Academic and Social Success, page 118:
glosses: relating to the spatial distance between individuals
AEW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: AWACS
AEW&C
glosses: Initialism of airborne early warning, describing an aircraft dedicated to the radar surveillance mission.
AEW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of All Elite Wrestling: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
WCW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of World Championship Wrestling: a defunct US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
WCW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WCW
Senses: examples: text: Young has been after Iggy for a while -- back in September, he called her out as his crush on WCW (Woman Crush Wednesdays) on Twitter. Iggy tweeted him back and now it seems they're full on dating.
ref: 2013 November 12, “Lakers Star Nick Young -- Date Night with Rap Star Iggy Azalea”, in TMZ, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2021:
glosses: Initialism of Woman Crush Wednesday.
alexipharmacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alexipharmacal
form: most alexipharmacal
Senses: examples: text: Distill'd Vinegar, Camphyr. and alexipharmacal Ingredients are proper Preservatives.
ref: 1699, Etmullerus abridg'd: or, a Compleat system of the theory and Practice of Physio:
text: Diluting and demulcent Drink then is best; as the whiete Decoction made strong with Hatshorn, which is an excellent Obtunder of the Blood, and Sheather of it's Acrimony, and duly Thickner of it's Parts; or Oatmeal, Water-gruel, or boyled Milk and Water plentifully drunk, and swill'd down in great Quantities, when the Heads of the Pustles fall down, and Pocks seem to go back by some Irregularity, which has promoted some of the Evacuations, is the best Cordial in the World; for Saffron and all the cordial or alexipharmacal Crew, are only a slow (nay sometimes a quick) Poyson, by fusing the Blood, rarefying and sending it a packing, by Sweat, Perspiration, Urine, or Stool: And what must raise the Pustle then?
ref: 1725, Thomas Short, A Rational Discourse of the Inward Uses of Water, page 65:
text: What is the poyson in the tooth of serpents, and of thelamprey, and the mus araneus, and the tarantula, but the gall? which according to the condition and qualitye of the creature, as the spirits that accompany those ejactulations are more subtile, aerial, or fierye, soe they appeare more or lesse furious in their effects; whereas, those parts (by which they ejaculate this gall) being taken away, the other parts become not only edible and of high nourishment, as in the thornback and lamprey, and in the honey of the bee; but in some they become the most soveraigne antidotes, as in the flesh of vipers: nay, the very spirits of some of these being received into apte bodyes, in their full strength, imprint such an alexipharmacal or alexitarial virtue into those bodyes, against all poyson, as seemes almost miraculous, as in viper wine and oyle of scorpions.
ref: 1852, Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne - Volume 1, page 239:
glosses: Alternative form of alexipharmic.
alexipharmacal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alexipharmacals
Senses: examples: text: It is not the minute quantity of French brandy, which I take purely upon the advice of my medical man, who pronounces it a sovereign alexipharmacal against the vapours, it is that Mr. Fitzgeorge has again offered to place me in an establishment which—
ref: 1988, Avram Davidson, “One Morning with Samuel, Dorothy, and William”, in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, volume 12, page 61:
text: but to speak frankly with regard to the syphilitic trait, whatever it may be, it seems to me that at all times it requires its alexipharmacals and that, according to many, it does not readily permit the use of baths, and I had rather turn to the genuine and plain antimonial, according to the original and skillful formula, which, not being very unpleasant to the taste, by its continued use during meals and also apart from meals instead of any other drink and instead of wine, which is totally forbidden, it usually becomes acceptable to any stomach and in these circumstances usually produces marvelous results;
ref: 2000, Francesco Torti, The Clinical Consultations of Francesco Torti, page 366:
glosses: Alternative form of alexipharmic.
alexipharmacals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alexipharmacal
Mozambiquan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mozambiquan
form: most Mozambiquan
form: Mosambiquan
form: Mozambiquean
form: Mosambiquean
Etymology: From Mozambique + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mozambican.
synonyms: word: Mozambican
Mozambiquan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mozambiquans
form: Mosambiquan
form: Mozambiquean
form: Mosambiquean
Etymology: From Mozambique + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: “The Mozambiquans,” quips Mai disparagingly.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 299:
glosses: Synonym of Mozambican.
synonyms: word: Mozambican
Canvastown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From canvas + town, originally a town of tents erected by gold diggers.
Senses: glosses: A small settlement in Marlborough, New Zealand.
alexitery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alexiteries
Etymology: From New Latin alexiterium and its etymon Ancient Greek ἀλεξητήριον (alexētḗrion, “remedy”), from neuter of ἀλεξητήριος (alexētḗrios, “keeping off, defending”), from ἀλεξητήρ (alexētḗr, “defender, protector”) + -ιος (-ios, adjectival suffix), from extended stem of ἀλέξω (aléxō, “to ward off”) + ‑τήρ (‑tḗr, agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: These miserable Wretches are included herein with hot bricks, and almost suffocated, till they sweat abundantly in every part of their bodyes, having before drunk of the Decoction of Lignum sanctum, or Sarsaparilla, or some other Alexitery, which will both move sweat, and deleate the French disease.
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 189:
text: Galen saith, as deleteries they are inimical to nature, especially if the party that wears them be given to much labour, exercise, or motion; neither can I advise such, if any, with hope of good success to use them ; but suppose they be made of alexiteries, then Galen nor any judicious person doth or ever did dispute or question them.
ref: 1665, Thomas Cock, Plain and Practical Disourse upon the first of Xix Nonnaturals:
text: Pare believes that the best "alexitery" is to flee from all poisoners as from the plague--"et les chasser du Royaume de France, et les envoyer avec les Turcs et les autres infideles, ou aux deserts inaccessibles avec les Licornes". He did not consider, perhaps, that this drastic policy would have involved the banishment of his royal mistress.
ref: 1985, Odell Shepard, Lore of the Unicorn:
synonyms: alexiteric
glosses: An antidote to poison.
alexitery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alexitery
form: most alexitery
Etymology: From New Latin alexiterius, from Ancient Greek ἀλεξητήριος (alexētḗrios, “keeping off, defending”); see Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Yet some things attract specifically, and not by a manifest quality : as things that are carthartic or purging, and alexitery, or resisting poison.
ref: 1802, Nicholas Culpeper, Ebenezer Sibly, Culpeper's English Physician and Compelete Herbal, page 5:
synonyms: alexiteric
glosses: Acting as an antidote to poison.
alexiteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alexitery
alienship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alien + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The stipulations of international treaties relative to citizenship, alienship, naturalization, rights and obligations of aliens, remain unprejudiced.
ref: 1929, Richard W. Flournoy, Manley Ottmer Hudson, A collection of nationality laws of various countries:
text: The law of alienship is not in harmony with the law of nations. For by the law of alienship foreigners are excluded from the right of succession in the case of the goods of a dead citizen or even of a foreigner who dies in alien territory, nor can they be appointed heirs in a will nor can legacies be left to them, and consequently if there is no one who can become heir by virtue of the laws of that place, the goods of the deceased, as goods of nobody, go by right of occupation to the ruler of the state representing the treasury.
ref: 1934, Christian Freiherr von Wolff, Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum, page 169:
text: We return to the twofold relation between man and the 'other animals', which seems to be one of kinship and one of alienship.
ref: 1986, Einar Jacobsen, The Four Simple Ideas: A Logical-analytical Inquiry, page 256:
glosses: The state or status of being alien.
Takaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɪˈkɑːkɑː/
Forms: form: Tākaka
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori Tākaka.
Senses: glosses: A small town in Golden Bay, Tasman district, South Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A river in Tasman district, New Zealand which passes through the town.
alliterational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alliterational
form: most alliterational
Etymology: From alliteration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Their language has two remarkable peculiarities which seem to separate it from other African tongues; viz., the system of prefixing to every noun a syllable without any separate meaning, and alliterational concord, which changes the initial sound of a secondary word into that of the priamary one.
ref: 1859, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of the human species, page 46:
text: "In whose eyes I shall find grace" is furthermore a very important alliterational brush-stroke on this charming broad canvas.
ref: 1973, Israel Rosenberg, The world of words, page 85:
text: In the heroic lays, parallelisms of long lines predominate, strictly organized from the point of view of alliterational technique.
ref: 1998, Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskiĭ, Kenneth H. Ober, The Elder Edda and early forms of the epic, page 230:
glosses: Involving alliteration; alliterative.
knocked boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knock boots
Kugaaruk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inuktitut Kugaaruk, from ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ (koocaaryok) or ᑰᒑᕐᕈᒃ (koocaarrok) (lit. little stream).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet on a stream on the Simpson Peninsula that enters Pelly Bay in Nunavut.
Synonyms: sense: hamlet on Pelly Bay
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Pelly Bay
Hypernyms: english: the region around Kugaaruk
translation: the region around Kugaaruk
word: Arviligjuaq
Simpson Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Sir George Simpson, a colonial governor (viceroy) of Rupert's Land, for the British colony corporation of the Hudson's Bay Company, by explorer John Rae.
Senses: glosses: A peninsula between the Boothia Peninsula to the west and Melville Peninsula to the east, surrounded by Pelly Bay on its west coast, Committee Bay on its east coast, and Gulf of Boothia to the north. (A peninsula located on the mainland portion of Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic.)
wikipedia: en:George Simpson (HBC administrator)
en:Hudson's Bay Company
en:John Rae (explorer)
spherical cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherical cows
Senses: examples: text: […] something of a "spherical cow" approximation of dark matter.
ref: Csaba Csaki (ed.), Scott Dodelson (ed.), Physics of the Large and the Small: TASI 09, Proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (page 405)
synonyms: spherical chicken
glosses: A highly simplified scientific model of a complex real-life phenomenon.
dyscompetent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + competent.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting dyscompetence
dyscompetence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + competence.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lack of competence
Related terms: dyscompetent
telepuppet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepuppets
Etymology: From tele- + puppet.
Senses: glosses: A remotely controlled robot for carrying out physical tasks in a space environment.
telepuppets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepuppet
dysplasminogenemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysplasminogenemias
Etymology: From dys- + plasminogen + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A deficiency of plasminogen in the blood
dysplasminogenemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysplasminogenemia
dysplasminogenemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dysplasminogenemic
form: most dysplasminogenemic
Senses: glosses: Relating to or exhibiting dysplasminogenemia.
Shlick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Schlick (“silt; mud, slime”), topographic for someone from marshy area.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
echocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of echocardiologic.
electrophoriesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of electrophoresis.
biprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + professional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to two professions.
biprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biprofessionals
Etymology: From bi- + professional.
Senses: examples: text: The biprofessionals, for example, those who combine law and accounting, are often quite useful to their organizations and have great occupational mobility. Just as many of you are now biprofessionals, some will become multiprofessionals.
ref: 1978, Lewis R. Benton, Management for the future, page viii:
glosses: A person working in two professions.
multiprofessionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiprofessional
biprofessionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biprofessional
triaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triad + -ed.
Senses: coordinate_terms: paired
glosses: Grouped into threes.
epibetulinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An epimer of betulinic acid, (1R,3aS,5aR,5bR,7aR,9R,11aR,11bR,13aR,13bR)-9-hydroxy-5a,5b,8,8,11a-pentamethyl-1-prop-1-en-2-yl-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,7a,9,10,11,11b,12,13,13a,13b-hexadecahydrocyclopenta[a]chrysene-3a-carboxylic acid
epiphytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiphytic
main sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of main sequence
Tlaxiaco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tlaxiaco, from a Nahuan language, e.g. Classical Nahuatl Tlachquiyauhco, from tlachtli (“ballcourt”) + quiyahuitl (“rain”) + -co (locative suffix).
Senses: glosses: A city in Oaxaca, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
glosses: A district of Oaxaca, Mexico.
epoxyquinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epoxyquinols
Etymology: From epoxy- + quinol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any epoxy derivative of a quinol
epoxyquinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epoxyquinol
epsilometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an epsilometer
epsilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epsilometers
Senses: glosses: A device used to test the effectiveness of an antimicrobial agent
Related terms: epsilometric
Ginnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪni/
rhymes: -ɪni
Forms: form: Ginnies
form: Ginny
form: Ginni
form: Ginney
form: Jinnie
form: Jinny
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Virginia or Ginevra.
gin pennant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin pennants
Senses: synonyms: drinking pennant
gin flag
glosses: A maritime flag flown aboard ship as an invitation to other ships' officers to come aboard for drinks.
gin pennants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin pennant
gizzit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gizzits
Etymology: Corruption of give us it. Compare gissa, gizza.
Senses: examples: text: […] spent the day chatting to people and selling Air Force 'gizzits' - pens, pencils, posters and other souvenirs - for the RAF Benevolent Fund.
ref: 1995, John Peters, John Nichol, Neil Hanson, Team Tornado: Life on a Front-Line Squadron, page 212:
text: The population of stuffed toys in the gulches on Ardent's Junior Messdeck exploded during the 48 hours the ship was in Narvik. But, even if they were bought, many were soon seen off, destined to become 'gizzits' borrowed from their original […]
ref: 2001, Mark Higgitt, Through Fire and Water:
text: A last visit to Gibraltar for those all-important last minute gizzits (gifts) had ended up being the usual last foreign run ashore before the constraints of home and family conspired to calm the men down a little.
ref: 2015, Steve Carter, 100 Days, page 8:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any item that is stolen, appropriated, or acquired cheaply or for free; loot; swag.
gizzits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gizzit
Veere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Veere.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands.
rock happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpi
Forms: form: more rock happy
form: most rock happy
Senses: examples: text: The civilian ground crew was rock happy. […] They were screaming at each other. Foul. Abusive. Bloodthirsty. It's what happens to men who take stupid jobs in miserable locations just for the money.
ref: 2008, George Lowe, The Hard, Hard Life of George A. Lowe, page 75:
text: After fifteen months most of us were rock happy and would have done anything to get out of there, even if it meant invading Japan.
ref: 2016, Bruce M. Petty, Saipan: Oral Histories of the Pacific War, page 150:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: eccentric or crazy as a result of spending a long time on a remote island
Related terms: Asiatic
pineapple head
space-happy
ro-ros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ro-ro
Fairlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fairlie
board lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: board lots
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of round lot.
synonyms: word: round lot
board lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of board lot
factographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more factographic
form: most factographic
Senses: glosses: Relating to factography.
factography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fact + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A movement originating in the Soviet Union, promoting the use of film and photography for documentary purposes by the working class.
failsoft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fail + soft.
Senses: examples: text: 1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles
The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]
text: After automatic self-test, an important follow-on step in improving test set availability is the incorporation of failsoft features in the control software in conjunction with hardware capabilities.
ref: 1980, Autotestcon '80: 2-5 November 1980, Sheraton Washington, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:
text: The redundancy of components (computers, database management systems, operating systems, databases) inherent in a distributed environment makes the system failsoft […]
ref: 1987, Mary E. S. Loomis, Data Base Book, page 387:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.
Coordinate terms: fail-deadly
fail-safe
Related terms: fail fast
Caversham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Reading, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7175).
glosses: A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
fairbank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fairbanks
form: fairbanking
form: fairbanked
form: fairbanked
Senses: examples: text: I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.
ref: 1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227:
text: I didn't check the dart board for the winner's precise total and will assume he hadn't been “fairbanked.” The guy didn't look like a professional, so I attributed his success to the lean and lady luck.
ref: 2009, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes, page 279:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.
fairbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fairbank
fairbanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fairbank
fairbanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fairbank
leadsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leadsheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lead sheet.
leadsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadsheet
Falklands factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Falklands factors
Etymology: In reference to the success of the British Conservative Party after the winning of the Falklands War.
Senses: examples: text: In the event, a Conservative victory in the 1987 election did not need a 'Falklands factor', but it might be asked here: What kind of citizenship is possible in a society where young, black British-born citizens are stigmatized as an enemy […]
ref: 1992, Eileen Baglin Jones, Neville Jones, Education for Citizenship, page 41:
text: With Arthur it was clearly the Falklands factor writ large. Actions such as organizing and building the Wansdyke or Cadbury 11 (the refortification) would have strengthened the authority and extended the power of whichever king was the organizer.
ref: 2003, Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A distinguishing trait that helps a party or faction win popular approval, other than their general policies.
wikipedia: Falklands War
Falklands factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Falklands factor
falling leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falling leaves
Etymology: So called from the gradual "drifting" motion like a leaf falling from a tree.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aerobatic maneuver, a controlled stall that begins to induce a spin which is then countered with the rudder.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A dated kicking technique used to put the ball into a swaying movement that makes it harder to estimate its trajectory.
falling leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falling leaf
family ganging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of medical fraud in which the patient is encouraged to refer or bring along family members who have no particular reason to come but will provide the practitioner with more work.
mugger crocodile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mugger crocodiles
Senses: synonyms: marsh crocodile
mugger
swamp crocodile
glosses: A crocodile of species Crocodylus palustris
fanny dipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanny dippers
Etymology: See fanny (“backside”).
Senses: examples: text: Thirty-plus years earlier, it was on the beach in front of this building, with its lookout tower and rescue boat at the ready, that the town's earliest "fanny dippers," bathers, and swimmers of varied abilities, first made a practice of entering the ocean "in front of the lifeguard" […]
ref: 2019, Robert M. Craig, Maryland's Ocean City Beach Patrol, page 7:
glosses: Somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing.
fanny dippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanny dipper
Remington raider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Remington raiders
Etymology: From the name of a typewriter manufacturer.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An office clerk.
Remington raiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Remington raider
repple depple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repple depples
Etymology: From the initial syllables.
Senses: examples: text: Cartoonist and commentator Bill Mauldin, who served in the war, explains: When a soldier gets out of an army hospital he will most likely be thrown into a “repple depple.”
ref: 2006, Peter Karsten, Encyclopedia of War and American Society, page 1115:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A replacement depot.
repo depot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repo depots
form: repo depo
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A replacement depot.
repo depo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repo depos
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Alternative form of repo depot.
repo depots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repo depot
repo depos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repo depo
repple depples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repple depple
replacement depot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replacement depots
Senses: examples: (all slang)
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: repo depo
repo depot
repple depple
glosses: A unit containing reserves or replacements for large front-line formations such as field armies.
replacement depots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replacement depot
responaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responauts
Etymology: From respirator + -naut.
Senses: examples: text: Those responauts with severe respiratory impairment (Grade IV) have three times as much machine maintenance as the other responauts.
ref: 1974, Dennis Lees, Stella Shaw, Impairment, Disability and Handicap: A Multi-disciplinary View:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A patient who depends on a respirator in order to breathe.
responauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responaut
retinal art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Artworks designed to please the eye, without philosophical or political content.
Related terms: antiretinal
retreatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retreatists
Etymology: From retreat + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who supports or advocates retreatism.
retreatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retreatist
tend bar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tends bar
form: tending bar
form: tended bar
form: tended bar
Senses: glosses: To work as a bartender.
Rolleston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒləstən/
Forms: form: Rollestons
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Hrólfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A small village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7300).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7452).
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Rolleston on Dove: a village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK2327).
glosses: A placename:
A small town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Selwyn district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Rolleston on Dove
KA-BAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ bɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ bɑː/
Forms: form: KA-BARs
form: Ka-Bar
Etymology: Brand name from 1923 (Union Cutlery Co), said to be derived from the words "kill a bear" in a letter sent to the company by a fur trapper.
Senses: glosses: A kind of combat knife used by the United States military.
KA-BARs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KA-BAR
reverse bigotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While the majority should not impose its religious views on the minority, the minority should respect the views of the majority. Reverse bigotry by the minority is just as reprehensible as bigotry by the majority.
ref: 1990, Richard Nixon, “Religion”, in In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:
text: I think the worst thing they did was to instill a form of reverse bigotry in them. They now think their black side is the best part of them and have made remarks against whites.
ref: 2001, Marie Davis, Pearls of Wisdom: Surviving Against All Odds (book 2, page 327)
text: Of late, reverse bigotry has been making front page news. The pernicious 'special needs' doctrine of the 1976 Race Relations Act has turned the minds of many Asian Indian parents.
ref: 2005, Terry Tan, Culture Shock! Britain, page 135:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Bigotry toward a dominant or privileged group of people by a group that has historically been the target of discrimination.
Related terms: reverse discrimination
reverse racism