cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pot-au-feu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-au-feus
form: pots-au-feu
Etymology: Borrowed from French pot-au-feu.
Senses: examples: text: The meat and vegetables for our pot-au-feu cost only twelve sous, or sixpence sterling — a cheap dish indeed!
ref: 1824, Thomas Gill, The Technical Repository, page 180:
glosses: A thick soup of meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot.
examples: text: The chez la portiere is its imitation, en petit; every homely subject is there discussed, from the pot au feu to another sort of pot.
ref: 1839, “Parisian characteristics”, in Bentley's Miscellany, page 203:
glosses: A large cooking pot.
back answer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back answers
Senses: examples: text: He’s called The General from the brazen craft
And dash with which he sneaks a bit of road
And all its fares; challenged, or chafed, or chaffed,
Back-answers of the newest he’ll explode;
ref: 1901, William Henley, Bus-driver:
glosses: A sharp reply given to someone.
Synonyms: retort
scoobies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scooby
management system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmænɪdʒmənt ˌsɪstəm/
Forms: form: management systems
Senses: topics: management
glosses: A computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content, especially for loading to a website
Hypernyms: system
Hyponyms: content management system
management systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of management system
unfannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈfæn.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ænɪʃ
Forms: form: more unfannish
form: most unfannish
Etymology: From un- + fannish.
Senses: examples: text: It is considered unfannish to cater to the whims and desires of readers.
ref: 1958, Ralph Merridette Holland, Ghu's Lexicon, Fanzine, page 9:
text: I want to see the BNF anyway, so that I can get a new beanie. You know that beanies protect the fannish headbone from unfannish thoughts ... well, my beanie is so worn out that I'm afraid I'll turn into a non-fan if I don't look out.
ref: 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Scarecrow”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
text: What, like the Croydon lot who run a Fannishness contest not unlike the Purity Tests? Well, tupp 'em all, I say. Besides, in some ways it would be *dreadfully* unfannish to stand for TAFF without ever having pubbed your ish. I think that ought to gain you a lot of points for creativity in your unfannishness.
ref: 1995 November 17, Ulrika, “Re: TAFF 1996”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <48j0sb$f4u@newsbf02.news.aol.com>:
text: Compare Paul's review with Anthony Brown's piece on 'The Claws of Axos' run by DWB exactly a year earlier. Paul's review seems rather elliptical and unfannish whereas Anthony's - a real passionate hatchet job, also drawing on the fan-background of the period - is much more fan-traditionalist and analytical in approach, while still expressing unexpectedly radical viewpoints about Pertwee's sacred cow stories.
ref: 2000, Daniel O'Mahony, “Re: Cornell pisses on R.A.D.W (again!)”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), message-ID <01bfeca5$db88d540$LocalHost@LineOne>:
text: Wound up back at the Jim Baen's Universe suite, which seemed to be the only non-bidding suite open after 3:00—very unfannish, how early the parties kept shutting down—and visited with the Baeniacs for a couple of hours, then toddled off to bed just ahead of the sunrise, which is how you're supposed to do it at Worldcons.
ref: 2009, Mike Resnick, ...Always a Fan, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Not fannish.
supereon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supereons
Etymology: From super- + eon.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic are lumped together in a supereon called the Precambrian.
ref: 2015, Charles S. Cockell, Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe, page 254:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A time period encompassing more than one eon, principally used to characterize the Precambrian.
Cryptozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From crypto- + -zoic, as any life from the period was considered to be hidden from scientific examination.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An eon or other time period before the Cambrian, when the fossils of hard-shelled animals first appeared in the geological record.
Synonyms: Precambrian
Pre-Cambrian
Danification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Dane + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act of Danifying.
Synonyms: Danicization
Greenlandification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greenlandifications
Etymology: From Greenland + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something have more Greenlandic characteristics.
glosses: The adoption of Greenlandic customs or culture.
camping mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camping mats
Senses: glosses: A simple device often used in conjunction with a sleeping bag, to provide padding and thermal insulation.
alfaqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /alfəˈkiː/
ipa: /alfaˈkiː/
Forms: form: alfaquis
form: alfaki
form: alfakih
form: alfaquin
Etymology: From Spanish alfaquí, from Arabic الفَقِيه (al-faqīh, “the theologian”), from فَقِهَ (faqiha, “to be wise”).
Senses: examples: text: It was the Head of the Christians Alfaqui, or Priest; so they termed the Cardinal.
ref: 1632, J. Morgan, A Compleat History of the present seat of war in Africa:
text: The Alcayde found the prince playing at chess with an Alfaqui or priest.
ref: 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain:
text: The Court of Lions was thronged with guards and courtiers and alfaquis, as in the old times of the Moors […]
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
glosses: An Islamic cleric, an expert in Islamic law and jurisprudence, especially in medieval and early modern Spain.
Related terms: faki
fiqh
alfaquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alfaqui
forework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreworks
Etymology: From fore- + work.
Senses: glosses: A fortifying structure erected for defense, such as an embankment, wall, or tower.
forework
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreworks
form: foreworking
form: foreworked
form: foreworked
form: forewrought
form: forewrought
Etymology: From fore- + work.
Senses: examples: text: Then the curd is “foreworked”—that is, stirred slowly, either continuously or at intervals—for 30 minutes to an hour or more as it acquires firmness.
ref: 1969, United States. Agricultural Research Service. Dairy Products Laboratory, Cheeses of the World:
glosses: To work beforehand or in preparation for; make ready; prepare.
alfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alfins
form: alphin
Etymology: From Middle English awfyn, alphyn, aufyn, etc., from Middle French alfin, from Old Spanish alfil, arfil, from Arabic الفِيل (al-fīl, “the elephant”).
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: bishop
alfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alfin
dewd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dude.
protero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒt(ə)ɹəʊ/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρότερος (próteros, “anterior”).
Senses: glosses: First
glosses: Earliest.
glosses: Early.
Synonyms: sense: first
word: proto-
sense: earliest
word: eo-
Related terms: word: proto-
english: later, subsequent
translation: later, subsequent
word: meta-
water-salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-salamanders
Etymology: From water + salamander. Compare Dutch watersalamander (“newt”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any salamander (Order Urodela) which habitually or permanently lives in water.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A newt.
Synonyms: ask
newt
Related terms: land-salamander
land-salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-salamanders
form: land salamander
Etymology: From land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.
Senses: examples: text: They think they can turn him into something rich and strange —turn him in a single generation—even as certain ingenious experimentalists turned what Nature meant for a land-salamander into a water-salamander, with new ruddertail and gills instead of lungs and feet suppressed, by feeding him with water animals in oxygenated water and cajoling his functions.
ref: 1888, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts
glosses: A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
glosses: A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.
Related terms: water-salamander
algefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more algefacient
form: most algefacient
Etymology: From Latin algeō (“become cold”) + faciēns (“making”), present active participle of faciō (“make”).
Senses: glosses: Making cool; cooling.
algetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈd͡ʒɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more algetic
form: most algetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek, as if *ἄλγητικός (*álgētikós), from ἀλγεῖν (algeîn, “have pain”).
Senses: glosses: Producing or having relation to pain.
Synonyms: algesic
painful
passing bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passing bell
mundania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mundania
Etymology: From mundane + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: In this way, you could liken mundania unto a sea, whose tides lap onto the beach of fandom. Each flow brings its quota of bright, bubbling neos--still tainted with mundania. Each ebb leaves a hardcore of driftwood, stranded forever in fandom.
ref: 1965 February 23, Chris Priest, “Postscripts”, in Hyphen, number 37, published 1987:
text: This leads us to body language. Our body language is also different from mundanes. We tend to not use eye contact nearly as often; when we do, it often signifies that it's the other person's turn to speak now. This is opposite of everyone else. In mundania, it's *breaking* eye contact that signals turn-taking, not *making* eye contact.
ref: 1999 April 15, Cally Soukup, “Fannish Accent? Minicon panel (LONG)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <7f5o9g$ft2$1@wheel.two14.lan>:
text: The problem with living so close to a convention finds the call of mundania beckoning one home and thus we spent most of the day, missing the trivia contest that I would have stunk at anyway, and as I understand it, Sandra Bond shellacked the local boys!
ref: 2004 April, Alan & DeDee White, “Saturday, March 20th / The Fear of Beer”, in Black Cat, number 1, page 7:
text: Gary Ehrlich stalks the hallways of Northeast conventions and assorted filk conventions. A mild-manner^([sic]) structural engineer in mundania, at cons he can be found on stage or in the filk room offering songs of space flight, lunar colonies and hyperspace hotels.
ref: 2008, “Denvention 3: Program Participant Biographies”, in The Fanac Fan History Project, retrieved 04 Nov 2014:
text: Verva Malone was from a 1920s world, because I liked the that era's style so much that I sported a bob haircut with bangs during my hours in “mundania,” as larpers occasionally termed real life.
ref: 2012, Lizzie Stark, Leaving Mundania, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The world outside fandom; the normal, unfannish life.
Synonyms: mainstream
real life
fluctuance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluctuant + -ance.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being fluctuant.
bairnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪʃ
Forms: form: more bairnish
form: most bairnish
form: barnish
Etymology: From Middle English *bernis, *barnisch, from Old English *bearnisċ and Old Norse bernskr (“childish”), from Proto-Germanic *barniskaz (“childish”), equivalent to bairn + -ish. Cognate with Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (barnisks, “childish”).
Senses: glosses: Having the manners of a child; childish; silly.
Derived terms: bairnishlake
bairnishness
Related terms: bairnlike
dewds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewd
warezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of warez
juarezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of juarez
juarezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of juarez
alhidad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alhidads
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of alidade.
alhidads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alhidad
alienigenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin aliēnigenus (“foreign-born”).
Senses: glosses: foreign-born
Synonyms: non-native
sev'n
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Contraction of seven.
foreign-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foreign + born.
Senses: examples: text: Jewish immigrants came together with other foreign-born groups in organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World, helping to create one of the cornerstones of the American left.
ref: 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
text: “There are a lot of jobs in the US that native-born people don’t want – and foreign-born people are happy to have,” said Stephanie Roth, chief economist at Wolfe Research.
ref: 2025 July 25, Matt Egan, “How Trump’s mass deportations could backfire on the American economy by shrinking paychecks”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Being born outside of one's country of residence.
foreign-born
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign-borns
Etymology: From foreign + born.
Senses: glosses: A person who was born outside outside of their country of residence or citizenship.
aliety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin alietas, from Latin alius (“other”).
Senses: examples: text: But in our case there are but Two single Attributes, viz, Self-Knowing and Self-Loving, and yet each of those single Attributes imports Distinction and Aliety, (if I may use that word) in it's own Particular Notion.
ref: 1700, John Sergeant, Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysicks:
glosses: The state of being different; otherness.
Scadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪ.di.ən/
rhymes: -eɪdiən
Forms: form: Scadians
form: SCAdian
Etymology: SCA (abbreviation of Society for Creative Anachronism) + -d- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
wikipedia: Society for Creative Anachronism
Scadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scadian
lupicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lupicides
Etymology: Latin lupus (“wolf”) + -cide
Senses: glosses: The killing of a wolf or wolves.
examples: text: This noble proposition was received with acclamation by the assembled multitude, and fifteen lupicides were selected from the gallant volunteers who had so generously and heroically come forward to rid the surrounding country of the dangerous and savage intruders.
ref: 1845 July, British Farmer's Magazine, number 9, page 256:
glosses: A person who kills a wolf.
As. Mos.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Assūmptiō Mōsis.
aerostable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Of a virus, capable of surviving in the air and potentially being transmitted via airborne means.
stokeholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stokehold
throward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more throward
form: most throward
form: thrawart
Etymology: From throw + -ward. Compare thraward.
Senses: examples: text: Before triumphing he heartily beseeches Railton to put Sadler and Croftes in mind of the writer's former request, that men ... be appointed not only over the English soldiers, but also to correct the disobedience of the throward Scottish footmen; […]
ref: 1865, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth
qualifier: literal
glosses: Twisted; crooked.
Melachim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Melakhim
Etymology: From the Hebrew מְלָכִים (melakhim).
Senses: glosses: Either one of the two Books of Kings (1 Kings = Melachim Aleph; 2 Kings = Melachim Bet).
Melakhim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Melachim.
prolatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolative
unbowsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbaʊsəm/
Forms: form: more unbowsome
form: most unbowsome
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English unbowsom (Southern unbuxom); equivalent to un- + bowsome or buxom.
Senses: examples: text: Will Martin, with a lisping unbowsome tongue, addressed the one next to him to the following effect.
ref: Oct. 2, 2014, Supernatural Classics: The Three Perils of Man, Thrawn Janet and Other Stories, Phantastes and Lilith
glosses: Unbending, not bending, not shifting.
glosses: Uncompliant, disobedient, steadfast
thinksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thinksome
form: most thinksome
Etymology: From think + -some.
Senses: glosses: Thoughtful, full of thoughts.
examples: text: Long time the thinksome foe I sought...
ref: 1902, The Vassar Miscellany:
glosses: Thought of very much, heavily bethought
venomsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venomsome
form: most venomsome
Etymology: From venom + -some.
Senses: glosses: Venomous, poisonsome, poisonsome.
clamorsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clamorsome
form: most clamorsome
Etymology: From clamor + -some.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clamoursome.
emys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪs/
Forms: form: emydes
Etymology: From the translingual genus name Emys and its etymon, the Classical Latin emys, from the Ancient Greek ἐμύς (emús).
Senses: examples: text: Certain Emydes…tend to the Sea-tortoises or Turtles…and yet exhibit characters peculiar to themselves.
ref: 1843, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, XXV, page 57/2:
text: Remains of the elephant…the beaver, the emys…and goats.
ref: 1873, James Murdoch Geikie, The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, page 492, Appendix:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the small Emys genus of freshwater pond tortoises.
Synonyms: sense: member of the Emys genus
word: emydian
Derived terms: emydian
emydin
emydosaurian
Related terms: emydid
passing-bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passing-bell
passing-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passing-bells
Senses: examples: 1917, Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
glosses: Alternative form of passing bell.
H.M.S.O.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office.
bemeaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemean ("to demean, lower, abase")
bemeant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemean ("to mean, signify, inform")
Australian white ibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian white ibis
form: Australian white ibises
Senses: glosses: Threskiornis molucca, a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which is widespread across much of Australia and has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long downcurved bill and black legs.
Synonyms: word: bin chicken
sod this for a game of soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: sod that for a game of soldiers
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: screw this, fuck this; see also Thesaurus:screw this
text: "All that grovelling. It's no wonder most people say, 'Sod this for a game of soldiers'. It's a very odd person who retains practising religion."
ref: 1996 December 8, Caroline Sutton, “My First One-in-a-Bath Romp, by Father Ted”, in Sunday Mirror:
text: In the middle of a very hot mixed-up fight one of our men remarked drily on his radio "What price this for a game of soldiers!"
ref: 1941, James Lansdale Hodson, Through the dark night: being some account of a war correspondent's journey, meetings and what was said to him in France, Britain, and Flanders during 1939-40, V. Gollancz Ltd., page 343
text: A cold gust of wind fans your face, you shiver slightly, you have been standing still, "get moving," you say to yourself, only another hour to do, the rifle is heavy, brrrr, blow this for a game of soldiers, they have no consideration at all.
ref: 1952, Hashomer Hatzair, Forging the link: a handbook of Hashomer Hatzair, page 108:
synonyms: blow this for a game of soldiers
fuck this for a game of soldiers
screw this for a game of soldiers
;
blow this for a lark
fuck this for a lark
screw this for a lark
sod this for a lark
glosses: Expressing exasperation or impatience with a situation.
SSIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: „SSIS is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. It features a fast and flexible data warehousing tool used for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL). The tool may also be used to automate maintenance of SQL Server databases and updates to multidimensional cube data.“
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of SQL Server Integration Services.
espiocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espiocrats
Etymology: From espio(nage) + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: If the Enforcers bonded closer every day, the espiocrats from Pure Intelligence did not take lightly to their rôle as second-class citizens.
ref: 1993, John le Carré, The Night Manager, Penguin, published 2013, page 59:
text: He'd vanish off the face of the earth before he'd follow orders from an espiocrat.
ref: 1994, Janice MT Miller, Final Thunder, page 121:
glosses: A professional spy; a member of an espionage bureaucracy.
Daniel Lambert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daniel Lamberts
Etymology: From Daniel Lambert (1770–1809), who was in his lifetime the heaviest man in the United Kingdom.
Senses: examples: text: The courtiers were Daniel Lamberts of learning.
text: A whipstick was a Daniel Lambert in comparison with him.
ref: 1849 September, Z, “The Undergraduate. Chapter 1—My First Day at College”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 34, page 335:
text: If laughing makes people increase in bulk, "Snarleyow" would have been found guilty of making Daniel Lamberts of the human race
ref: 1854, R. M. DeWitt, “Advertisement for Snarleyow, the Dog Fiend”, in The Chess Player's Instructor, page 75:
text: A student may become a very Daniel Lambert of learning, and remain utterly useless to himself and all others.
ref: 1873 June, Herbert Spencer, “A Study of Sociology”, in Popular Science, page 172:
text: Whales and other Daniel Lamberts of the deep can take care of themselves well enough, but a grave question arises — should not all ocean ships be compelled to ring bells and carry fish-catchers attached to their prows for the benefit of aqueous Tom Thumbfins and their spouses?
ref: 1874, Charles Henry Webb, John Paul's book: moral and instructive: consisting of travels, tales, poetry, and like fabrications, page 372:
text: This accommodates the three Daniel Lamberts of the bench, and I am told that the Supreme Court has never been without a large proportion of Colossuses upon it.
ref: 1874, George Alfred Townsend, Washington, Outside and Inside, page 306:
glosses: Something that is giant, or otherwise great in some way.
Derived terms: Daniel Lambertish
Daniel Lamberts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daniel Lambert
BIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: „BIDS functionality can be augmented with BIDS Helper, a Visual Studio add-in with features that extended and enhance business intelligence development functionality in SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2 BI Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). BIDS Helper is hosted on Microsoft's open source project hosting website CodePlex.“
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Business Intelligence Development Studio.
bilingual dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: bilingual dictionaries
Senses: glosses: A translation dictionary in two languages.
Coordinate terms: dictionary
bilingual dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilingual dictionary
economistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more economistic
form: most economistic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to economism.
Daniel Lambertish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Daniel Lambertish
form: most Daniel Lambertish
Etymology: From Daniel Lambert + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The term is supposed to be derived from φιλο ςοφια, Gr., the precise meaning of which has never properly ascertained ; it is however supposed that the individuals who composed the class of ancient philosophers, porcine in their habits, and Daniel Lambertish in their persons, were usually large enough to fill-a-sofa, and hence the term.
ref: 1849 May, "The Bunkumville Chronicle", “Philosophy”, in The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 432:
text: A young man of perhaps twenty had previously attracted the attention of all the passengers, from his peculiarly Daniel Lambertish proportions.
ref: 1851, Unknown author, “Steamboats and Steamboating in the Southwest”, in The Literary World, volume 9, page 181:
text: Dissatisfied Mugwumps say that Cleveland is getting so Daniel Lambertish of late that when he gets into a street-car the conductor always says, " Will five or six of you gentlemen please get up and give the President a seat ? "
ref: 1887 Jan-Jun, Schmidt Lasil, “Postscripts”, in WASP:
glosses: Extremely obese.
luna moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luna moth
craplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: craplications
Etymology: Blend of crap + application
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A poor-quality application
mixish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mixish
form: most mixish
Etymology: From mix + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: There the cats and the dogs are all able to talk, When you meet 'em together, out taking a walk. There the roses are green—and the leaves may be pink; And things are so “mixish” it scares you to think.
ref: 1890, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas:
text: In the woris of one informant, these people are all, "a sort of reddish mixish people", a mixture, judged by their own accounts, of Amerindian, Dutch and African.
ref: 1981, Ian Robertson, The Dutch linguistic legacy and the Guyana/Venezuela border question:
glosses: Like or characteristic of a mix.
murky bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of German Murky-Bässe.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Intervals, each containing a low note followed by the pitch that is one octave higher, played on a keyboard, especially a harpsichord
Polandball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Polandballs
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Slavic *poľe
Proto-Slavic *-janъ
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-janinъ
Proto-Slavic *poľaninъder.
German Polebor.
English Pole
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
English Poland
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Germanic *balluz
Old English *beall
Middle English bal
English ball
English Polandball
From Poland + ball. Coined c. 2009.
Senses: examples: text: One comic, in which Poland flies into space and stops Russia using Crimea as a means of ramming the United States, has shot to the top of the charts in the Polandball sub-forum on Reddit.
ref: 2014 March 4, Emmet Ryan, “Polandball is Reddit's answer to Crimea crisis”, in The Daily Business Post, Businesspost.ie, retrieved 01 Nov 2014:
text: This Polandball comic sums it up better.
ref: 2014 September 11, Arunabh Saikia, “Why Some Calamities Are More Equal Than Others”, in The Newslaundry:
ref: 2014, "Mexicoball", The Polandball Book, →ISBN:
text: It’s also gotten attention from the Polish media. Gazeta Wyborcza reported on it (po polsku), and, on Culture.pl, Wojciech Oleksiak wrote an in-depth English analysis, including a presumably tongue-in-cheek guide to drawing a Polandball.
ref: 2015 May 2, Steven Hoffman, “How Polandball can of taking over internets”, in Krakow Post:
glosses: Synonym of countryball.
synonyms: word: countryball
Related terms: meme
parody
satire
Polandballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Polandball
Cumberperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cumberpeople
Etymology: Blend of Cumberbatch + person.
Senses: examples: text: In your quest to get a regular Sherlockfix, hundreds of thousands of 'Cumberpeople' have been switching over to Alibi on Thursday nights to watch repeats of the first series of Sherlock.
ref: 2013 May 24, Ellie Walker-Arnott, “Sherlock almost doubles Alibi viewing figures”, in Radio Times:
text: Who plays this epic villain? That would be one Benedict Cumberbatch, an English actor who refers to his ever-growing legion of fans as Cumberpeople. Well, sign me up, because I think I am a Cumberperson. I’ve tasted the Kool-Aid, and it’s good.)
ref: 2013, Sasha McBrayer, "Latest 'Star Trek' is otherworldly good", Coastal Courier (Hinesville, Georgia), 24 May 2013
text: He may be one of the most famous actors on the planet, with scores of fervent Cumberpeople in every port, but even Benedict Cumberbatch didn't get to where he is today without a significant amount of hard work.
ref: 2014 November 1, Guy Kelly, “7 Benedict Cumberbatch performances you haven't seen but should”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Synonyms: Cumberfan
Hyponyms: word: Cumberbabe
word: Cumberbitch
word: Cumberlady
Cumberpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cumberperson
excist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exist.
femcunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmkʌnt/
enpr: fĕmʹkŭnt
Forms: form: femcunts
form: femicunt
Etymology: Blend of feminist + cunt.
Senses: examples: text: Femcunts love to say that we men need to fight against rape, and it's true, we do. I'd fight against rape, I wouldn't fight rape alongside feminists, but I'd fight it. But where are the feminists fighting for victims of slander?
ref: 2007, MCP [username], “Feminists love to claim that of all rapes reported, only 5% end up in prosecution”, in soc.men (Usenet):
text: This is an excellent example of female supremacist femcunts using whatever shitty logic they can to gain as many advantages that^([sic]) they can.
ref: 2007 October 5, MCP [username], “Equality Means Only Help Girls - Says Feminist Report To EOC”, in soc.men (Usenet):
text: You femcunts are all alike lol
ref: 2008 March 7, Avenger [username], “Re: Boy Age 8 Passes Law School Exam (Hillary and Obama failed lol)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet):
text: “Some bitch,” Political mumbled. “You should know. She's always on the news. Her and Ribit the Horrible. Flapping their lips about something. Never thought I'd say this, but your femcunts are worse'n ours.”
ref: 2010, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
synonyms: fembitch
femifascist
feminazi
glosses: An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.
hateboner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hateboners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hate-boner.
Cappie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cappies
form: cappie
Senses: glosses: capitalist
incestously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of incestuously.
racially challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses.
ref: 2009, Michael Dibdin, End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Derricotte explains that being racially challenged moves one “outside of love, community” and places “that territory in another person's head that made her the thing hated".
ref: 2013, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Crossing Black: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture:
text: "You must have quite a powerful mind for one so young and racially challenged." Ted looked up sharply at the dragon's comment. "What do you mean, racially challenged? A black kid can't be a wizard? I guess all wizards have to be white […]"
ref: 2019, Brock E. Deskins, The Portal, Crossroad Press:
glosses: Not white, and thus facing challenges (or perceived as deficient) due to racism.
examples: text: […] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.
ref: 2000, Refugees, page 20:
text: And he gives an account of the odd coupling of Utopian co-op developer Abraham Kazan and the anti-utopian, racially challenged Robert Moses that is alone worth the price of admission.
ref: 2010, Peter R. Eisenstadt, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:
text: It was also implied that the racially challenged Republicans, hobbled by their party's overwhelming whiteness, somehow didn't want nonwhite Americans to share in the coming cornucopia.
ref: 2013, L. Brent Bozell, III; Tim Graham, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election---and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc.
examples: text: […] belonging, accommodation and attachment to a nation, with white Africans or Asian Africans being nationalistically and racially challenged. The case of politically aspiring white Kenyans has become a recent politically heated debate.
ref: 2000, Edmond Maloba Were, Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Nationalism and Democracy for People Centred Development in Africa:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially, challenged.
junk job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk jobs
Senses: glosses: A disrespectable job offering no real benefits to the community.
Soviet Jewnion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Soviet Jewnion
Etymology: Blend of Soviet Union + Jew
Senses: glosses: the Soviet Union, viewed as being under the control and influence of Jews.
improven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of improve
quyght
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quite.
beautiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beauty + -ness.
Senses: examples: 2015, "Diaz Family Vacation", season 1, episode 5a of Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Rafael Diaz: [talking to his wife, and taking pictures of her] Come on, my dear. Let me capture your beautiness on this magnificent adventure.
glosses: beauty, beautifulness
examples: her beautiness was overwhelming
glosses: the quality of having beauty
aerospace engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The primary branch of engineering concerned with the research, design, development, construction, testing, science, and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.
Related terms: aerospace engineer
defencive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more defencive
form: most defencive
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of defensive.
Slurvian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And you've very probably overheard snatches of the same kind of language in the school corridors and the cafeteria. So Slurvian isn't new to you. You've been translating it almost all your life.
ref: 1961, Alex Madison Caughran, Lee Harrison Mountain, High School Reading: Book 1, page 170:
glosses: A highly colloquial version of a language, in which many terms are carelessly slurred and run together.
enzymatic fuel cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzymatic fuel cells
Etymology: From enzymatic + fuel cell.
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of fuel cell (electrochemical power generation device) that uses enzymes as catalysts.
enzymatic fuel cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzymatic fuel cell
toxify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toxifies
form: toxifying
form: toxified
form: toxified
Etymology: Attested since 1917, apparently a back-formation from detoxify. (attested since 1905). Equivalent to tox- + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The experiments made with this objective showed that agar-gel could toxify a rat serum which had been heated at 45 an 50 C. for half an hour.
ref: 1917 June 24, F. G Novy, P. H. DeKruif, “Nonspecific anaphylactic shock in sensitized rats”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, number 6, page 819:
glosses: To make or render toxic.
Derived terms: detoxify
retoxify
toxifier
radio star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio stars
Etymology: From radio + star; see star (“celebrity”).
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A celebrity famous for appearances in radio broadcasts.
Related terms: film star
movie star
television star
pop star
rockstar
radio star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio stars
Etymology: From being discrete astronomical radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation sources found in the sky, which would twinkle when the Earth's ionosphere varies.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A discrete astronomical radio source
radio stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio star
nerdify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nerdifies
form: nerdifying
form: nerdified
form: nerdified
Etymology: From nerd + -ify.
Senses: glosses: to make or render nerdy
chumpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chumpions
Etymology: Blend of chump + champion
Senses: glosses: A gullible champion.
Inspector Knacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Inspector Knackers
Etymology: Coined by Private Eye as "Knacker of the Yard", a pun on knacker's yard and the practice of referring to Scotland Yard as the Yard.
Senses: examples: text: You won't be smiling when Inspector Knacker pays you a visit.
text: However, just before he is discharged, the French ring up Inspector Knacker and say, "Look, I'm sorry we haven't made it in time, but we absolutely promise you that we will get it to you in another 48 hours, so please arrest this man again, as soon as he is discharged".
ref: 2003 June 18, Lord Goodhart, “Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Extradition Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 349:
text: Reid wants to be top of the cops, issuing orders to Inspector Knackers and James Bonds with criminals and terrorists in his sights.
ref: 2007 January 24, the Editor, “Secretary for Public Safety”, in The Mirror:
text: Please note: Inspector Knacker has been known to query applications by phone in the early hours NZ time, so forewarn your family, friends and flatmates that you are not the subject of an Interpol inquiry.
ref: 2008, Georgina Pallfey, Working and Living in New Zealand, page 129:
text: But, on this occasion, caution wisely stayed his hand and he confined himself to poisoning the Birdas coffee only, reasoning that wiping out an entire Conservative Party Association branch, while desirable from the point of view of most decent folk, might, unfortunately, have the countervailing disadvantage of attracting the attention of Inspector Knacker.
ref: 2012, Chris Payne, Erased!, page 123:
glosses: A generic police officer, or the police in general.
pigdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigdogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pig dog.
foncused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foncused
form: most foncused
Etymology: Deliberate transposition of consonants, suggesting confusion.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of confused.
hettie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hetty.
hettie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hetty.
Inspector Knackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Inspector Knacker
sack of flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacks of flesh
Senses: glosses: Somebody who barely qualifies as human.
titty juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Human breast milk.
Mnevis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Mnēvis, from Ancient Greek Μνεῦῐς (Mneûĭs), from Egyptian U7:r-wr:O5-E1 (mr-wr).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A bull-shaped aspect of the god Atum-Ra venerated in Heliopolis.
undistort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undistorts
form: undistorting
form: undistorted
form: undistorted
Etymology: From un- + distort.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove the distortion from (an image, sound, or other signal).
precome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + come.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of precum.
undistorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undistort
undistorts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undistort
Oslo breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oslo breakfasts
Etymology: It was rolled out as a free universal provision for schoolchildren in Oslo, Norway, in 1932.
Senses: glosses: A healthy breakfast served to schoolchildren, typically including wholemeal bread, cheese, milk, and fruit.
shithooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shithook
peasantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peasant + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The China case was also incorporated in an international debate that centered on the conflict between conserving “peasantness” versus “peasant elimination” in the course of development and globalization (Bernstein 2006; Ellis 2000; Kitching 2001; Zaputovich 2009).
ref: 2014, Anna Ahlers, Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China:
text: Ethnicity as a dimension of social identity thus contrasts with peasantness in not being based primarily in the productionist assumptions of the latter term.
ref: 2018, Michael Kearney, Reconceptualizing The Peasantry:
glosses: The lifestyle or status of a peasant.
Arvanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːvənaɪt/
Forms: form: Arvanites
form: Arvánite
Etymology: Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Ἀρβανίτης (Arbanítēs), a variant of Ἀλβανίτης (Albanítēs, “Albanian”), possibly influenced by the Modern Greek reading of β (v).
Senses: glosses: A member of a population group in Greece who traditionally speak Arvanitika, a dialect of Albanian, and who settled in Greece during the late Middle Ages.
Derived terms: Arvanitic
Related terms: Arbëreshë
Arvanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arvanite
SSDT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: "BIDS functionality can be augmented with BIDS Helper, a Visual Studio add-in with features that extended and enhance business intelligence development functionality in SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2 BI Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). BIDS Helper is hosted on Microsoft's open source project hosting website CodePlex."
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of SQL Server Data Tools.
Bunbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnbəɹɪ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5658).
glosses: A port city and local government area in the South West region, Western Australia.
Bunbury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnbəɹɪ/
Forms: form: Bunburies
form: Bunburying
form: Bunburied
form: Bunburied
Senses: examples: text: I suspected that, my dear fellow! I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire on two separate occasions. Now, go on. Why are you Ernest in town and Jack in the country?
ref: 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest […] , [Act I]:
glosses: To practice Bunburying.
Derived terms: Bunburying
Messi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛsi/
rhymes: -ɛsi
homophone: messy
Forms: form: Messis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Lionel Messi
Argentine footballer
bootyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootyholes
Etymology: From booty (“the buttocks”) + hole.
Senses: examples: text: "Holy shit, that girl is crazy," I remarked at her scandalous poses with huge ass telephones betwixt her nether-loins and also up her bootyhole.
ref: 2009, Zack Parsons, Your Next-Door Neighbor Is a Dragon: A Guided Tour of the Internet's Strange Subcultures and Weird Realities, Rebel Base Books, →ISBN, page 196:
text: “Now y'all done started something. It's about to go down. I just wanna see a couple nipples and bootyholes.”
ref: 2010, Karen Williams, Dirty to the Grave, Urban Books, →ISBN:
text: I was already wet back there, but for another first, my bootyhole had this serious hankering to fit some dick in it.
ref: 2014, R. Talent, “Jojo”, in Shane Allison, editor, Men on the Make: True Gay Sex Confessions, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: The anus.
bootyholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootyhole
degenderize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degenderizes
form: degenderizing
form: degenderized
form: degenderized
form: degenderise
Etymology: From de- + gender + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: At their religious services Am Tikva makes all attempts to de-genderize the liturgy by neutering English nouns and pronouns and, when Hebrew is used, by using both masculine and the feminine forms of the language.
ref: 1983 December 3, Warren Blumenfeld, “Am Tikva”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 7:
text: I have tried to degenderize the narrative and dispose of unneeded words.
ref: 2003, Robert Marshall Utley, The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890, page xviii:
glosses: To remove gender from.
defyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defyers
Etymology: From defy + -er.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of defier.
defyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defyer; alternative form of defiers
degenderizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degenderize
degenderizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degenderize
degenderized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degenderize