cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Flanderisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flanderisations
Etymology: From Flanders + -isation, see Flanderization.
Senses: examples: text: Prime realises Swoop must be under some sort of external control as he's at heart a loyal Autobot (over the years Flanderisation will make the Dinobots more and more maverick) and does the one thing that he knows will so enrage his mind controlled colleague that Swoop will fight off the influence. He gives him a direct order.
ref: 2015, Stuart Webb, “The Icarus Theory”, in Transformation: A Personal Journey through the British Transformers Comic, volumes 1 (1984–1987), [S.l.]: Solar Pool, →ISBN, page 129, column 1:
text: A sympathetic wrestling savant, Eugene became, through a process of rapid Flanderisation (the process in fiction of a character being consumed by their identifiable trait, named after The Simpsons’ Ned Flanders), in Cornette’s words, “a fucking retard”.
ref: 2017, Michael Sidgwick, “A Box of Fluffy Ducks”, in Development Hell: The NXT Story, U.K.: WhatCulture.com, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Flanderization.
cardiorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiorrhaphy
two percenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two percenters
Senses: examples: text: "Those are the 'two percenters,' " Becky said of the students who ran on the field, "the two percent of Aggie students who don't have the spirit."
ref: 1992, Edward Zuckerman, Small Fortunes: Two Guys in Pursuit of the American Dream, page 102:
text: Students who forgo Midnight Yell and other traditional activities are dismissed as "2 percenters."
ref: 2005, U.S. News Guide, America's Best Colleges, page 41:
text: […] 'Anything you do twice is a tradition,' 'Don't be a 2 percenter.' You learn about The Bonfire, Aggie Muster, and Silver Taps. […] Isn't it fascinating to see how an amazing team-oriented culture in one institution (Texas A&M) can inspire a fantastic culture in a totally different and separate organization (Rackspace)?
ref: 2013, Bill Schley, The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power, page 143:
text: Detractor two percenters diminish momentum. Wet blankets can put fires out! True Aggies are all Twelfth Men and learn the importance of yelling for the team instead of (like most other schools and some “two percenters”) mainly yelling at them.
ref: 2016, Barry Bauerschlag, Aggie Spirit 101: Greater Love:
text: She’s an Aggie, but she never got into any of the lore there, not even a little bit. She’s a proud “two percenter,” as they call such people in College Station.
ref: 2017 October, “An Oral History of Watching (and Not Watching) the Last Three Innings of That Crazy Astros Game”, in Texas Monthly:
topics: education
glosses: A student of Texas A&M University who only attends classes and does not participate in student activities or traditions.
two percenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two percenter
fell at the final hurdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall at the final hurdle
fallen at the final hurdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall at the final hurdle
falling at the final hurdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall at the final hurdle
falls at the final hurdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall at the final hurdle
epicureanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epicureanizes
form: epicureanizing
form: epicureanized
form: epicureanized
form: epicureanise
Etymology: From epicurean + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Along with it came the rapid growth of wealth, and of the arts which minister to wealth, whether by feeding or by pampering it: and these naturally tend to enervate and epicureanize men's minds, to “ incarnate and imbrute" the soul, “till she quite loses The divine property of her first being," to lower the dignity of thought, and to relax the severe purity of feeling; so that people learn to account happiness the one legitimate object of all aim, and that too a happiness derived from nothing higher than the temperate harmless indulgence of our pleasurable appetites.
ref: 1848, Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, page 47:
text: A certain openness of mind, and a literary good taste nourished, — not epicureanized on good literature, nor specialized on one master's bounties, is more necessary than scholarship to make a good reviewer, though scholarship, if not case-hardened, is indeed good.
ref: 1889, Poet Lore - Volume 1, page 386:
text: To countenance artificial methods is not to advocate forced manipulations of people's desires, of course, any more than to recommend hypnotism to a reluctant smoker is to kidnap and brainwash a smoker who is happy only with tobacco. The suggestion is just that if individuals decide that it really would be desirable to epicureanize their aspirations, they may as well use artificial means of doing so rather than limiting themselves to what they can achieve through sheer willpower.
ref: 2009, David Benatar, Life, Death, & Meaning:
glosses: To make epicurean; To cause to value and pursue refined pleasures.
epicureanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epicureanize
epicureanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epicureanize
epicureanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epicureanize
epicureanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epicureanises
form: epicureanising
form: epicureanised
form: epicureanised
Senses: examples: text: If you are not a rich man it is not easy to epicureanise your life. Most fine tastes are expensive; but fine taste in literature is very cheap.
ref: 1904, T. P.'s Weekly - Volume 4, page 107:
glosses: Alternative form of epicureanize.
epicureanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epicureanise
epicureanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epicureanise
epicureanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epicureanise
fry-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fry-pans
Senses: examples: text: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel[…]. Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: These men know and respect the heavy iron fry-pan.
ref: 1936, Harry Botsford, “Wizards of the Fry-Pan”, in Field and Stream, volume 41, page 30:
text: But there was another fry-pan which distanced these both in respect of lightness and space.
ref: 1993, John Davis Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life, page 134:
text: Then, still deep in their talk, they filled their plates from the fry-pan, helped themselves to meat, wrapped the rest of the bread in the cloth, and sat comfortably back on their heels, eating with their fingers and knives.
ref: 2009, Dane Coolidge, Hidden Water:
glosses: Alternative form of frypan.
fry-pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fry-pan
fry pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fry pans
Senses: examples: text: If the fry pan is to be used for pancakes and french toast as well as for meat, it must be extra large, which makes it awkward to handle; with a griddle for these purposes, the fry pan can be a little smaller.
ref: 1963, U.S. Department of Agriculture, “Pots and Pans for your kitchen”, in Home and Garden Bulletin, volume 2, number 13, page 10:
text: On our first boat, my alcohol stove dared me to cook, and I got by with feeding a family of five using one covered, medium saucepot and an electric fry pan—operated dockside.
ref: 2002, Joy Smith, Kitchen Afloat: Galley Management and Meal Preparation, page 86:
text: There's a rule in my house that when there's enough Teflon scraped off the bottom, I'm allowed to get a new fry pan.
ref: 2003, Phyllis Porter Dolislager, A King-Size Bed, a Silk Tree, and a Fry Pan, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of frypan.
fry pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fry pan
Lusanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from South Africa.
mafura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Natal mahogany, a tree of species Trichilia emetica, source of mafura butter.
unopportunistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unopportunistically
form: most unopportunistically
Etymology: From unopportunistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unopportunistic manner.
griddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more griddy
form: most griddy
Etymology: From grid + -y.
Senses: synonyms: gridlike
glosses: Resembling a grid.
griddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griddies
Etymology: Clipping of gridiron (player) + -y.
Senses: qualifier: Indiana
glosses: A player of gridiron (“gridiron football”) (American football)
griddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griddies
Etymology: From the nickname of the dance's creator, Allen "Griddy" Davis, an American football player; thus presumably a clipping of gridiron + -y.
Senses: glosses: A dance move in which a person alternatingly taps the heels, either in place or while walking, while swinging the arms back and forth; the move also involves holding one's hands in the OK gesture in front of one's eyes (known as "throwing one's Bs").
Derived terms: hit the griddy
spectatorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectator + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of being a spectator, of watching rather than taking part.
microfund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfunds
Etymology: From micro- + fund.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A small fund, especially a venture capital fund.
microfund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microfunds
form: microfunding
form: microfunded
form: microfunded
Etymology: From micro- + fund.
Senses: glosses: To fund through micropayments.
microfunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfund
microfunds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microfund
lycosoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lycosoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any spider in the superfamily Lycosoidea or similar taxonomic group.
Related terms: lycosid
microfunded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microfund
microfunding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microfund
microrecrystallizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microrecrystallization
croshabell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croshabells
Etymology: Blend of crouse (“lively, bold”) + belle (“attractive woman”)
Senses: examples: text: […]in Italian called a curtezan, in Spain, a margerite, in French une curtain, in England, among the barbarous, a whore, but among the gentle, their usual associates, a punk: but now the word refined being latest, and the authority brought from a climate as yet unconquered, the fruitful county of Kent, they call them croshabell, which is a word but lately used, and fitting with their trade, being of a lovely and courteous condition.
ref: 1607, “How George Read a Play-Book to a Gentleman”, in The Jests of George Peele; republished in The Works of George Peele, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: William Pickering, 1829, page 290:
glosses: A prostitute.
wikipedia: Green's Dictionary of Slang
Synonyms: harlot
lady of the night
tweak
prostitute
croshabells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croshabell
elegious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elegious
form: most elegious
Senses: examples: text: If your elegious breath should hap to rouze / A happy tear, close harb'ring in his eye.
ref: 1634, Francis Quarles, “Canticles v. 8”, in Emblems, Divine and Moral, book 5:
glosses: Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
Synonyms: elegiac
forlorn
lamentful
sad
TERFism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From TERF + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Contemporary TERFism, or trans exclusive radical feminism, extends such arguments to deny the validity of transgender identities.
ref: 2018, Aniruddha Dutta, “Allegories of Gender: Transgender Autology versus Transracialism”, in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, volume 39, number 2, page 90:
text: The validation always comes after the lifelong internalization of transphobic messages we see constantly promulgated in the mainstream media, the numbing regularity of TERFism being splashed across op-ed pages and uttered by prominent feminists, […]
ref: 2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 239:
text: TERFism is clearly unpopular with Zillennials.
ref: 2019, Robby Soave, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, unnumbered page:
glosses: The beliefs on trans people held by TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists).
anti-diagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-diagonals
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of antidiagonal.
Chayuco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Chayuco, from a Mixtec language; cf. San Juan Colorado Mixtec Tsàhà Yùcù.
Senses: synonyms: San Agustín Chayuco
glosses: A town in San Agustín Chayuco, Jamiltepec district, Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: San Agustín Chayuco
glosses: A municipality of Jamiltepec district, Oaxaca, Mexico.
science up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sciences up
form: sciencing up
form: scienced up
form: scienced up
Senses: examples: text: That is the calibre of person who, in the age of express delivery, is working on sciencing-up the plain cardboard box.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To develop or create in a scientific way
quadcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadcycles
Senses: examples: text: he showed me a low, slim parcel trailer that can be loaded on to an electric quadcycle – a delivery rickshaw of sorts, which UPS is currently testing in Dublin.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of quadracycle.
synonyms: word: quadracycle
pitch deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitch decks
Senses: examples: text: For £498m, Chetwoods estimates, it can turn the line into a chute for 16,000 deliveries per hour, erasing a quarter of daily city traffic in the process. Selfridges is interested, a Chetwoods pitch deck told me; so are John Lewis, DHL and Amazon.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A short presentation in order to pitch a product
within one's rights
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to be within one's rights to do something
synonyms: have every right to do something
glosses: entitled, able
Deby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
flash around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flashes around
form: flashing around
form: flashed around
form: flashed around
Senses: examples: text: to flash one's money around
synonyms: flaunt
glosses: To make an ostentatious show of; to show to everybody in a boastful manner.
Talmyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Talmyan
form: most Talmyan
form: Talmian
Etymology: From Talmy + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The typology of the wAn languages established on the basis of the results given in table 1 clearly shows that the languages each have a characteristic tendency in one direction or the other, thus necessarily tolerating exceptional strategies when one tries to work within a strictly two-way Talmyan typology.
ref: 2005, Shuanfan Huang, Michael Tanangkingsing, “Reference to Motion Events in Six Western Austronesian Languages: Toward a Semantic Typology”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 44, number 2, page 330:
text: This difference between Danish and English supports the argument that there is a Talmyan window of attention effect in the compound: ‘skudsår’ has a window to the act and the result, gapping the instrument and the agent, whereas ‘gun wound’ has a window to the instrument and gaps the act and the agent.
ref: 2007, Peer F. Bundgaard, Svend Østergaard, Frederik Stjernfelt, “Meaning Construction in the Production and Interpretation of Compounds Is Schema-Driven: Conceptual Schemata and Cognitive Operations in Compound Constructions”, in Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, volume 39, number 1, pages 165–166:
text: Many languages that allow encoding possibilities ‘against’ their Talmyan type may in practice disprefer them as they are more complex than other available options.
ref: 2010, John Beavers, Beth Levin, Shiao Wei Tham, “The typology of motion expressions revisited”, in Journal of Linguistics, volume 46, page 335:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.
gooduns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goodun
Dzungars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dzungar
out of one's own pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to pay out of one's own pocket
synonyms: out of pocket
glosses: Using one's own funds.
Related terms: out-of-pocket
bursting at the seams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burst at the seams
Galton-Watson process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galton-Watson processes
Etymology: Devised by Francis Galton and Henry William Watson and published in an 1874 paper.
Senses: glosses: A branching stochastic process arising from the statistical investigation of the extinction of family names, which are modelled as patrilineal, while offspring are randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if holders die without male descendants. It is useful in understanding human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups.
Galton-Watson processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Galton-Watson process
centesimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centesimation
quintations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintation
septimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septimation
vicesimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicesimation
Ammie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmi
Forms: form: Ammies
Etymology: From amateur + -ie, from the club's former name, the Salford Amateurs.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Someone associated with Salford City F.C., as a fan, player, coach etc.
now that you mention it
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of now you mention it.
accept at face value
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accepts at face value
form: accepting at face value
form: accepted at face value
form: accepted at face value
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take at face value.
synonyms: word: take at face value
glebe-farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glebe-farms
Senses: examples: text: A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833.
ref: 1848, Samuel Lewis, “FRODINGHAM, NORTH (St. Elgin)”, in A Topographical Dictionary of England, […], 7th edition, volume II, London: S[amuel] Lewis and Co., […], →OCLC, page 268, column 2:
text: Part of my father's income, as rector of the parish, was derived from a pretty little glebe-farm, on which was a neat old-fashioned farmhouse, surrounded with small but well-arranged buildings. All was let, years before I could remember, to a man named John Ashmeade, one of the most respectable men in the parish, […]
ref: 1880, H[enry] C. Barkley, chapter XVI, in My Boyhood: A Story Book for Boys, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, →OCLC, page 205:
text: We cannot easily admit that land has been distributed amongst a few men, like the benefices or glebe-farms in the king's gift, merely that it may yield them a certain income.
ref: 1891, Charles Gide, “The Man who Lives on His Income”, in Edward Percy Jacobsen, transl., Principles of Political Economy, Boston, Mass.: D[aniel] C[ollamore] Heath & Co., →OCLC, page 529:
glosses: Alternative form of glebe farm.
Algiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑlɡiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Proto-Germanic *algiz (“elk”). Doublet of alce.
Senses: examples: text: Algiz is a solid, stable, and very firm rune. It makes a good fence or wall, and functions nicely to guard one's Wyrd and one's property.
ref: 2009, Galina Krasskova, Runes: Theory & Practice, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Algiz, one of the oldest runes, associated with sedge grass, and Thor, and Heimdall, and a number of other things depending on who you asked and which runic alphabet you used. Algiz had a universal meaning: protection.
ref: 2011, Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays, Penguin, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Hold up the stone and trace the Algiz rune in the air before you. Visualize it as glowing with white, purifying light. As you do so, growl the word Algiz.
ref: 2020, Denny Sargent, Werewolf Magick: Authentic Practical Lycanthropy, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
synonyms: Elhaz
glosses: The 15th rune in the Elder Futhark, the 7th rune in Hagal's Aett, ⟨ᛉ⟩.
Cuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ʌfə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: A surname.
put through the mill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts through the mill
form: putting through the mill
form: put through the mill
form: put through the mill
Etymology: From through the mill.
Senses: glosses: to be abused or treated very harshly; to suffer intense anguish, stress, or grief.
Related terms: go through the mill
put through the wringer
put through the mangle
Grosmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref NZ8305).
glosses: A village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, on the English border (OS grid ref SO4024).
custom and practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The way something is generally done.
have one's guard up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's guard up
form: having one's guard up
form: had one's guard up
form: had one's guard up
Senses: glosses: Synonym of keep one's guard up.
synonyms: word: keep one's guard up
drop one's guard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops one's guard
form: dropping one's guard
form: dropped one's guard
form: dropped one's guard
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lower one's guard.
synonyms: word: lower one's guard
let one's guard down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets one's guard down
form: letting one's guard down
form: let one's guard down
form: let one's guard down
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lower one's guard.
synonyms: word: lower one's guard
warcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Steff Yotka in Vogue in 2018, from war + -core.
Senses: examples: text: Arguably, this strain of warcore clothing is reflective of the violence, chaos, and widespread anxiety in the world at large.
ref: 2018 July 27, Steff Yotka, “Has Warcore Replaced Normcore in Fashion?”, in Vogue:
text: Your trench coat, your chinos, your Father’s Day necktie—your closet overflows with gear that was originally worn by stout patriots, fearful conscripts, and paid killers. But this warcore thing is new.
ref: 2019 March 6, Troy Patterson, “From Grunt Style to 'Warcore,' Civilians Are Embracing Military Fashion”, in The New Yorker:
text: They can be thrown on top of a denim jacket or underneath a light coat for extra warmth, or can even be worn as part of a multi-pocketed warcore ensemble.
ref: 2020 January 2, Adam Welch, Ashley Clarke, “20 menswear essentials for 2020”, in Mr Porter:
glosses: A style of fashion characterised by aspects of military apparel.
Related terms: gorpcore
normcore
woaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woak
ground man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground men
form: groundman
form: ground-man
Senses: examples: text: Red carted their overnight bags to the plane, and the ground man broke off his conversation with the pilot to stuff them into the nose compartment.
ref: 2010, Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind:
text: The ground man and I were stepping through the checklist.
ref: 2011, Earl Heron, One Desert Jet Turner:
text: A ground man is polishing the newly mended nose, rubbing every bit of dirt from it, so that the bombardier may have a good sight of his target.
ref: 2014, Martin W. Bowman, We Were Eagles:
glosses: A man who works at an airfield as a member of the groundcrew.
examples: text: The above list is by no means exhaustive but outlines the ways in which a ground man may affect the performance of a climber.
ref: 1986, The Arboricultural Journal, page 290:
text: With Cowboy acting as his ground man he started climbing a corner of the cabin where logs overlapped in a locking pattern.
ref: 2010, Dennis Perry, Mad Dog Steel Time, page 76:
text: Then Robert in the hoist signalled to Larry the 'ground man' and the crane driver lowered them down to the topsail which Ronnie and Robert worked on.
ref: 2011, Michael Sutton, On the Crest of a Wave:
glosses: A man who works from the ground alongside others who climb or work on a lift, ladder, hoist, etc.
examples: text: The ground man had pulled up the large tacks when using the mowing machine, and put them into the ground again (anywhere) afterwards.
ref: 1904, The Era Annual, page 41:
text: It is surprising how few people outside the regular ground man know how to tend a green.
ref: 1922, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes:
text: The ground man should be trained not to work too close to the tree.
ref: 1936, Clarence Rugg Cleveland, Oil Sprays: A Fruit Growers Handbook and Record, page 63:
text: As stated above, a man can only play football in good form for a few years, and then he has nothing to fall back upon; whilst a cricketer can retain his form for a long number of years, and when getting on in years he can still be a ground bowler, a teacher of the game, a ground man or an umpire, so that through cricket a man can get genuine occupation for a number of years.
ref: 2015, Francis Marshall, Football: The Rugby Union Game, page 105:
glosses: Alternative form of groundsman.
ground men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground man
ground-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-men
Senses: examples: text: Lockers may be rented on application to the ground-man, at a charge of 5s.
ref: 1895, Guy's Hospital Gazette - Volume 9, page 373:
text: The ground-man, Jeffrey, who appears in these two pictures, is doing his utmost with his excellent mile and a-half of country, and when it becomes better known and the members flock in, the additional sinews of war will give him more complete control over the bents and bracken that ask no permission in making their annual appearance.
ref: 1898, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality - Volume 23:
text: A local Rule states that a ball driven into this ditch may be lifted and dropped on the course under penalty of one stroke. This ditch is at present being drained, and the ground-men were at work upon it when the disputed point arose.
ref: 1906, D. G. Soutar, The Australian golfer, page 257:
glosses: Alternative form of groundsman.
examples: text: The entire operation is conducted from a safe distance by the crane-man, thus eliminating the danger of accident to ground-men, who are usually required for operating a mechanical trip.
ref: 1905, The Literary Digest - Volume 31, page 84:
text: The maximum saving which owners can effect with a lifting magnet is, however, derived from the fact that besides the operator of the crane and a ground-man all other manual labor at present required for the loading or unloading of the material can be entirely dispensed with and a saving in some cases amounting up to several hundred dollars per month per magnet can thus be obtained and the capital outlay for the magnet soon recovered in this way.
ref: 1911, Factory: The Magazine of Management - Volume 6, page 321:
text: Regular instruction in operating practices should be scheduled for old and new officers and ground-men.
ref: 1959, American Society of Safety Engineers, National Safety News, page 121:
text: It was a ground-man signaling the pilot to cut off his engine.
ref: 1960, Science News - Volumes 77-78, page 199:
glosses: Alternative form of ground man.
ground-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground-man
seedcrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedcracker
sexual marketplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual marketplace
public art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Any artwork planned and executed with the intention of being presented openly to the public, usually outside and accessible to all.
VTOLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VTOL
puff pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puff pipes
Senses: examples: text: Basically, the Bedstead proved that stabilizing a jet-borne aircraft by means of "puff pipes" was practical and that not only was auto-stabilizing possible but that, with training, manual stabilizing could also be achieved.
ref: 1966, Sung-ming Wang, VTOL vehicles: practice and potential, page 72:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pipe on a VTOL aircraft that expels compressed air in order to stabilize the craft.
puff pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puff pipe
NAFAL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Initialism of nearly as fast as light.
Related terms: FTL
STL
FTLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FTL
puppy foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppy feet
Etymology: From the resemblance of the club symbol to the pads of a dog's paw.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card in the suit of clubs.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A club flush.
without a murmur
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: With no complaint or objection; in a quietly passive manner.
pusser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussers
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A purser.
pussers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pusser
with time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: in time
given time
glosses: As time passes; over time.
purser's crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pusser's crabs
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Boots issued by the navy.
pusser's crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of purser's crabs.
strike a bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes a bargain
form: striking a bargain
form: struck a bargain
form: struck a bargain
form: stricken a bargain
Senses: examples: text: And they gladly embraced the treaty, and struck a bargain with him [Judas Iscariot], that he should have thirty shekels to deliver him [Jesus] up without much noise,
ref: 1659, Henry Hammond, chapter 22, in A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, The Gospel according to S. Luke, page 257:
text: My horse was soon produced, and in fine we struck a bargain. Nothing now remained but to pay me, and he accordingly pulled out a thirty pound note,
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 14, in The Vicar of Wakefield, volume 1, London: F. Newbery, page 139:
text: I think you had better strike a bargain: exchange me for Mrs. Pryor.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Case of Domestic Persecution.—Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties.”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 240:
text: She hires a contractor named Retief, striking a bargain with him that for fifteen pounds he will convey not only the furniture but the three of them as well, in his cab.
ref: 1997, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, London: Secker & Warburg, page 134:
synonyms: make a deal
glosses: To enter into a bargain; to agree upon the conditions of a sale or other transaction.
guard book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guard books
Senses: examples: text: Most of the advertising material surviving from Rowntree & Co. is in the form of guard books of cuttings and proofs of press and magazine advertising, and therefore most of the material pre c. 1950 is in black and white.
ref: 1997, Judith Burg, A Guide to the Rowntree and Mackintosh Company Archives:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: An advertising agency's internal archive of work done for a particular client.
guard books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guard book
habitualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: habitualizes
form: habitualizing
form: habitualized
form: habitualized
form: habitualise
Etymology: From habitual + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Third, in all but two circuits [those encompassing Miami and Sarasota], the habitual offender sanctions are much more likely to be used against black offenders than non-black offenders, even after adjusting for prior record, the nature of the current offense and a variety of other factors that might have a bearing on the decision to habitualize.
ref: 2019, Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright, Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication, page 152:
topics: law
glosses: To classify as a habitual offender (which has implications for sentencing).
examples: text: The real secret of exercise is to habitualize it, to make it as automatic as eating lunch.
ref: 1973, Earl Ubell, How to save your life, page 68:
glosses: To make habitual.
examples: text: I was much pleased too that Francis was placed at school at Lynchburg, as, besides giving me opportunities of seeing him, it will habitualize him to the neighborhood, and give him those early attachments of friendship and acquaintance which carry their impression and value through life.
ref: 1993, S. Allen Chambers, Poplar Forest and Thomas Jefferson:
glosses: To cause to treat something as habitual; to familiarize or accustom.
Derived terms: habitualization
habitualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of habitualize
habitualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of habitualise
habitualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of habitualise
habitualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of habitualize
habitualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of habitualize
gut course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut courses
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An easy, unchallenging course.
Related terms: weeder course
gut courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gut course
Guzz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guz
Etymology: Uncertain; there are various speculative theories. See HMNB Devonport § Nickname on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: HMNB Devonport.
habitualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitualizations
Etymology: From habitualize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of habitualizing.
habitualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitualization
fundamental painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: De Keyser's work from this period can be unequivocally linked to the so-called Fundamental Painting that was prominent in the art world at the time.
ref: 2000, Raoul de Keyser, Steven Jacobs, Raoul de Keyser paintings 1980-1999, page 19:
text: Evidently, formalist and fundamental painting practices dependent upon American reductive theories of art, such as the modernist painting thesis propounded by Clement Greenberg […]
ref: 2005, Jessica Wyman, Pro Forma: Language, Text, Visual Art, volume 1:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.
funk art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An American antiestablishment art movement opposing Abstract Expressionism.
Funkspiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Funkspiel; originally the name of a Nazi counterintelligence operation during World War II.
Senses: examples: text: After a few months of Funkspiel, Giskes' bag was impressive: fifty-three agents taken prisoner immediately on arrival from England; […]
ref: 1969, Gilles Perrault, The Red Orchestra, page 147:
text: At the same time, Gehlen began to score successes with one of his other specialities, his own form of Funkspiel, […]
ref: 1981, Anthony Read, David Fisher, Operation Lucy: most secret spy ring of the Second World War:
text: Used the Russian version of funkspiel to do it, too.
ref: 2009, Dan Speers, Master Spies Die Laughing, page 93:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The practice of sending deceptive information to the enemy by means of their official channels that have been subverted.
death card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death cards
Etymology: The card is superstitiously a sign of misfortune associated with death.
Senses: glosses: The ace of spades.
death cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death card
satellitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From satellite + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: An obligate association between two viruses
glosses: The dependence of a city or other geographical region on another more powerful one
duboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dubok
habitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more habitative
form: most habitative
Etymology: From habitat + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so).
ref: 1981, Yoel L. Arbeitman, Allan R. Bomhard, Bono Homini Donum, page 712:
text: Another habitative term occurs in Castlethorpe, which was probably originally a simplex name from Old English throp, thought to denote a settlement initially dependent on a more important place.
ref: 1993, R. A. Croft, Dennis C. Mynard, Margaret Gelling, The Changing Landscape of Milton Keynes: Maps, page 47:
text: Taking this fact into account increases the density of known habitative names at Shapwick to 1 about every 185 acres.
ref: 2002, Nick Corcos, The affinities and antecedents of medieval settlement, page 163:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community.
examples: text: The fiend himself, when started on his ill-intentioned cruise into chaos, could scarcely display a wider range of locomotive and habitative powers.
ref: 1851, The London Quarterly Review, page 165:
text: Thus, whatever idea, whatever purpose, whatever need, whatever fancy, predominates in him when he builds, it takes shape, it finds expression, it embodies itself, forthwith, in fitting material, fittingly contrived, and is, according to his habitative wish, his taste in a tabernacle, possibly a pig-sty, possibly a palace; for his range of invention stretches over every thing that lies between the two.
ref: 1854, Homes of American Statesmen, pages 183–184:
text: According to the principle of subsidiarity, government should be as habitative as possible. Government functions must therefore be exercised at the most habitative level, as close as possible to those affected by the exercise of such functions.
ref: 2012, Koos Malan, Politocracy: An Assessment of the Coercive Logic of the Territorial State and Ideas Around a Response to it, page 282:
text: In this chapter we shall examine the countryside more in habitative and economic terms: what were the settlement patterns, social structures and economic formations of the countryside?
ref: 2013, Simon Esmonde Cleary, The Roman West, AD 200-500: An Archaeological Study, page 264:
glosses: Pertaining to habitation.
Dutch roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch rolls
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of yaw and roll, especially prominent on sweptwing aircraft.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Skating repetitively to right and left on the outer edge of one's skates.
phulouries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phulourie
Dutch rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch roll
politocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politocratic
form: most politocratic
Etymology: From Latin politicus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”) + -cratic.
Senses: examples: text: I argue that this is still the case, although the elections in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the rapid evolution in Poland of a modified multi-party system with organized oppositions may well create new forms of politocratic systems that go further on the road already traveled by Yugoslavia.
ref: 1990, Bogdan Denis Denitch, Limits and Possibilities, page 7:
text: The right thing to do faced with chronic annual trillion-dollar budget deficits and globally destabilizing sovereign debts is to pare the politocratic foreign-policy mission.
ref: 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills, Democracy and its Elected Enemies, page 125:
text: In politocratic constitutionalism there is no single centralised sovereign locus of government, established in terms of the demands of the territorial state and for the sake of its intact maintenance and veneration.
ref: 2019, Koos Malan, There is no Supreme Constitution, page 267:
glosses: Pertaining to the role of citizens in the organization and choice of government.
politocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: politocracies
Etymology: From Latin politicus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”) + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of historical fact, U.S. politocracy didn't begin in 1776, and was not established in a coup d'état later. There always may have been elected officials who were the people's enemies, but they were not sufficiently powerful to exert strong politocratic influence until the twentieth century.
ref: 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills, Democracy and its Elected Enemies, page 42:
text: By chance (or fate) the global financial crisis intervened to deliver an inflection point, providing an enabling stimulus (arguably the excuse) for the politocracy to readdress the sovereignty and subsidiarity considerations, which for many years resulted in the laggard status of the free movement of capital, aptly demonstrated by the diversity of economic policies, the kaleidoscopic regulatory structures, the MS influences over capital inflows and outflows, the national direct control over interest rates, the manipulation of foreign exchange rates and the availability of credit, all of which provide many of the funamental levers of MS's monetary policy. An argument could be constructed in support of the hypothesis that the orignial proposals were nothing more than a cynically timed power grab or anschluss by the politocracy, but this would be a shallow view given the certainty and coherency benefits that centralisation could bring.
ref: 2014, Eamonn Killian, Capital the EU and the Global Financial Crisis, pages 41–42:
text: At the very core of politocracy lies the authentic constitutional tenet of power distribution and mutual checks and balances, fending off the risk of power centralisation and safeguarding justice.'
ref: 2019, Koos Malan, There is no Supreme Constitution, page 268:
glosses: Government that is in some manner chosen by the governed citizens.
politocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politocracy
outsiderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outsider + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The status or behaviour of outsiders.
uncorporatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + corporatized.
Senses: glosses: Not corporatized.
uncorraled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncorralled.
politarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: politarchs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολῑτᾰ́ρχης (polītắrkhēs).
Senses: examples: text: Under the pretence of going to bring the money, the condemned called on a relation, who served as janissary, or armed constable, under the orders of the politarch, Mitzo Machaliotti; and having obtained the assurance of his protection, sent word to the police-officers, that, if they chose, they might come and take the sum demanded.
ref: 1831, Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece, page 228:
text: “It is your responsibility to make sure that does not happen again,” shouted the leading politarch.
ref: 2011, Beulah Wood, The People Paul Admired:
text: Politarchs often deceive themselves into believing that they are true democrats, but in actuality have become masters by transforming the democratic facade into a govenment of elected officials, by elected officials, for elected officials.
ref: 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills, Democracy and its Elected Enemies, page 23:
glosses: A ruler or magistrate, especially one within a politocracy.
politarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politarch
audience-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more audience-proof
form: most audience-proof
Etymology: From audience + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. "Of course," she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]
ref: 1951, Horace Wyndham, Chorus to Coronet, page 126:
text: Hazel Kirk had been fashioned out of ingredients that had long proven audience proof — a projected marriage […]
ref: 1974, The Players Magazine, volume 50, page 42:
glosses: Of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.
Related terms: criticproof
mulchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulching