cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
enteroreceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enteroreceptor
enterosorptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterosorption
enterotransporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterotransporter
entitlees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entitlee
entocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entocone
entrance exams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrance exam
entrance halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrance hall
environmental assessments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of environmental assessment
Izu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 伊豆 (Izu).
Senses: glosses: A city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: An ancient province of Japan.
Derived terms: Izu Islands
Izu Peninsula
enzymoimmunoassays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzymoimmunoassay
eolids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eolid
EPBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EPB
ependymoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ependymoblast
eperlans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eperlan
ephebophiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephebophiliac
ephebosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephebosexual
epichorions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epichorion
epidermizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epidermization
epifilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epifilm
epigrowths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigrowth
epikarsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epikarst
epimorions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimorion
epinephelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epinephelin
epithelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epithelin
epitoxoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitoxoid
Woolnough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woolnoughs
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Wulfnoþ, a compound of wulf (“wolf”) + noþ (“daring, courage”). Compare Woolner, which shares the same etymology.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
pescatorio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian pescatorio.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piscatory ring.
synonyms: word: piscatory ring
Cock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a Dutch and West Flemish surname, from de Cock, related to the noun cook.
* As an English surname, spelling variant of Cox.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tromans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Glynn +
Owen +
Carterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Carterizes
form: Carterizing
form: Carterized
form: Carterized
Etymology: From Carter + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The latest evidence of an executive branch apparently determined to Carterize itself comes in the waffling over gasoline lead regulations.
ref: 1982, Commercial West, volume 163, numbers 1-13, page 8:
text: Ronald Reagan, already under attack from news hounds and political commentators as being overly simple in his approach to everything, deftly avoided all their efforts to "Carterize" him and his Christian beliefs and cruised to an easy electoral victory.
ref: 1996, Norman E. Wymbs, Ronald Reagan's crusade, page 327:
text: It would seem to me we'd be Carterizing Reagan policy.
ref: 1998, Rick Ball, Meet the Press: Fifty Years of History in the Making, page 153:
text: One Clinton strategist grumbled that with so many initiatives in play, "We're worrying about Carterizing ourselves."
ref: 2000, John P. Burke, Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice, page 348:
glosses: To make like former US president Jimmy Carter.
Related terms: Carterization
Carterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Carterize
Carterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Carterize
Carterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Carterize
Carterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Carter + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: They set a prolongation of what is happening on the economic scene as the key to restoration from their fall from political grace that resulted during the four-year Carterization of American economic stability.
ref: 1982, Paper Trade Journal, volume 166, numbers 13-24, page 11:
text: This, however, could lead to an even greater loss of prestige——to "Carterization," to use the now fashionable definition of an indecisive president with an unreliable policy.
ref: 1982, USSR Report: USA, economics, politics, ideology, numbers 4-6, page 48:
text: In late December 1976 Reston observed that while all new administrations proclaim great changes and then disappoint, "as the Carterization of Washington proceeds, the idea is getting around that it may really be a New Year after all."
ref: 1989, Mark J. Rozell, The Press and the Carter Presidency, page 20:
text: His Carterization began when he let Newt Gingrich, the second-ranking House Republican, roll him on the budget.
ref: 1990, Newsweek, volume 116, page 130:
text: From the viewpoint of the free world the development in international relations has not been favorable; it reached its nadir at the time of the Carterization of American politics , and only recently has the tide begun to turn.
ref: 1990, Marcelo Alonso, Organization and Change in Complex Systems, page 182:
text: George Bush's unexpected troubles represented what some began to see as a "Jimmy Carterization" of the Bush presidency, taking place in a period that eerily recalled Carter's own travail during a time of "national malaise."
ref: 1993, James W. Ceaser, Upside Down and Inside Out: The 1992 Elections and American Politics:
glosses: The act or state of becoming like the presidency of Jimmy Carter, especially in relation to perceived ineffectiveness or unreliability.
Related terms: Carterize
cachupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese cachupa.
Senses: examples: text: A one-pot meal, cachupa, is unofficially the national dish of Cape Verde, a drought-stricken archipelago off the western bulge of Africa. The dish is chock-full of cassava, seasoned sausages, corn and potatoes.
ref: 1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A slow-cooked stew of hominy, beans, cassava, sweet potato, and fish or meat, a traditional dish of Cape Verde.
Capeverdeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Capeverdean
Caboverdian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cape Verdean.
Caboverdian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caboverdians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cape Verdean.
Caboverdian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cape Verdean.
Caboverdean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cabo Verdean.
Caboverdean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caboverdeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cabo Verdean.
Caboverdean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cabo Verdean.
Caboverdians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caboverdian
Caboverdeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caboverdean
visual poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: visual poems generally
shape poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: shape poems generally
Dan-y-graig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Danygraig
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in St Thomas community, Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6793).
concrete poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: concrete poems generally
concrete poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete poems
Senses: glosses: A kind of poem whose meaning is expressed more by the typography and layout than by the words themselves.
Hypernyms: visual text
Hyponyms: visual poem
Related terms: popcrete
concrete poems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concrete poem
popcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pop art + concrete, coined by Augusto de Campos; see concrete poem.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.
wikipedia: Augusto de Campos
word art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Artistic forms, such as concrete poems and visual poems, that use words as visual elements rather than merely to convey verbal meaning.
Related terms: sense: a technology for creating stylized text effects in wordprocessing
word: WordArt
Danygraig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Risca West community, Caerphilly borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST2390).
glosses: Alternative form of Dan-y-graig, Swansea.
Taliesinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Taliesinic
form: most Taliesinic
Etymology: From Taliesin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ancient poet Taliesin.
snooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snoot
snooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snoot
pull-tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pull-tabs
Senses: coordinate_terms: pop-top
glosses: The flexible piece of metal on top of a beverage can (for soda pop, beer, etc.) that opens the can when pressed, thus obviating any can opener or church key.
glosses: A ticket for a pull-tab game.
Related terms: beer can
crack open
conquest sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conquest sales
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A sale to the customer of a rival company.
conquest sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conquest sale
CWG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CWGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of constant-wear garment.
CWGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CWG
constant-wear garment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constant-wear garments
Senses: synonyms: CWG
glosses: A one-piece cotton garment worn alone or under a spacesuit during Apollo space missions.
constant-wear garments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constant-wear garment
Malvern Wells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7742).
biobelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biobelts
Etymology: From bio- + belt.
Senses: examples: text: Each group spent 28 days confined in the Human Research Facility at NASA Ames where, like the nurses, they wore 'biobelts' and underwent a similar battery of physical tests.
ref: 2005, David J. Shayler, Ian A. Moule, Women in Space - Following Valentina, page 151:
glosses: An astronaut's belt with electrodes for monitoring heart rate, blood pressure etc.
examples: text: However, the beaches have, no doubt, recovered and been made physically more resilient through the upgrading of beaches and biobelts.
ref: 2012, James P. Terry, James Rodney Goff, Natural Hazards in the Asia-Pacific Region:
glosses: A region that is the habitat of wild species.
glosses: A region where there are many biotechnology companies.
biobelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biobelt
caesaropapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesaropapists
Senses: glosses: A supporter of caesaropapism.
caesaropapist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caesaropapist
form: most caesaropapist
Senses: glosses: adhering to or based on the principles of caesaropapism.
caesaropapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caesaropapist
Corfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town and locality in the Shire of Winton, Queensland, Australia.
contour chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contour chases
form: contour chasing
form: contour chased
form: contour chased
Senses: examples: text: Latterly the visibility, due to the dense haze, had been poor indeed—they had to practically contour chase portions of the way in order to keep the "road" in sight. All hands, however, were glad to be on the job after the long flight from Melbourne […]
ref: 1937, Michael Terry, Sand and Sun:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To fly an aircraft at low altitude, following the shape of the ground below.
contour chasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contour chase
contour chases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contour chase
contour chased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contour chase
contract agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contract agents
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A secret agent recruited by another agent, and having no direct contact with the agency.
contract agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contract agent
Forest Row
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4234).
contractation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The purchase of agricultural produce by the Soviet government from an individual farmer or collective.
mandevilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandevillas
Etymology: From the genus name, after Henry Mandeville (1773-1861), British diplomat and gardener.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Mandevilla of tropical and subtropical flowering vines, native to the Americas.
Related terms: dipladenia
mandevillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandevilla
cannot help but
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cannot help but
form: could not help but
Senses: examples: text: As we drove at breakneck speed through the streets, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the gaunt and desperate faces of the people, the endless squatter settlements of cheek-by-jowl, single-room shacks surrounded by ankle-deep mud, and the occasional glimpses of the rich apparently oblivious to the suffering around them.
ref: 1991, Robert C. Linthicum, City of God, City of Satan, page 64:
text: Radulph could not help but notice how the breasts of a lady flugelhornist trembled whenever she blew into her instrument.
ref: 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 109:
text: Standing on top of Trash Mountain (our local megadump) and affirming the Messianic promise of the kingdom of heaven, we cannot help but take responsibility for recycling and reducing consumption.
ref: 2000, Ari Elon, Naomi M. Hyman, Arthur Waskow, Trees, Earth, and Torah, page 414:
text: I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario.
ref: 2008, Ilan Kapoor, The Postcolonial Politics of Development, Routledge, →ISBN, page 69:
text: One cannot help but wonder whether the concerns ultimately had root in the presence of a diminutive, pileous, and swarthy Mediterranean atop a military vehicle, instead of our accepted Anglo-Saxon image of leadership and might.
ref: 2008, John Tehranian, Whitewashed: America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority, page 17:
text: The first thing Joe noticed was the seating arrangements — Katz at the head of the long antique cherry wood table, John Nagoshi to his right, Peter Nagoshi next to his father (and Joe could not help but study the younger Nagoshhi as he entered the room, his smooth expressionless face barely turning to acknowledge their entrance), and across the table FBI Boston Field Office Special Agent in Charge Leo King and Special Agent Ned Jacobs — the Feeb's resident profiler.
ref: 2009, Sydney Bauer, Alibi, page 103:
text: Every guest is appalled and fantastically humourless about the experience, even at this distance. You cannot help but wonder at cultural divides and how differently the British might have approached – or at least recalled – such events, at least in the early days. For us, surely, it would be a story for the ages. You could dine out on it for ever, so to speak.
ref: 2026 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of cannot but.
waistlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From waistline + -ed.
Senses: examples: a high-waistlined dress
glosses: Having the specified kind of waistline.
Shoreham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Sċorhām, from *scora (“shore”) + ham (“village, home, estate”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5161).
glosses: Ellipsis of Shoreham-by-Sea: a coastal town and port in Adur district, West Sussex, England.
glosses: A village in Berrien County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A village in Suffolk County, New York, United States.
glosses: A town in Addison County, Vermont, United States.
glosses: A coastal town in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: New Shoreham
Old Shoreham
Shoreham-by-Sea
Co-op mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We found one once, 550lbs of Co-Op mix — and we found the firing position, on our side of the border. So I stood on this bloody thing […]
ref: 1985, Desmond Hamill, Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland, 1969-1984, page 198:
text: Disrupting Co-op mix devices by burning off the mixture by the use of low-velocity bullets proved ineffective […]
ref: 2008, A. R. Oppenheimer, IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity:
glosses: A mixture of sodium chlorate and nitrobenzene used in making improvised bombs during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Trib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Trib
Etymology: Clipping of Tribune.
Senses: examples: text: Jeans also had recently finished writing Tropical Disturbance: The Story of the Making of the Miami Tribune. The book, which was published as a special insert in the Trib, was both a history of the newspaper and Jeans's valentine to himself.
ref: 2019, Willie Drye, Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, page 244:
glosses: Any newspaper called The Tribune.
cop and blow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cop and blow, no love for a hoe. Sex them, rob them, go inside there^([sic]) purse steal their doe^([sic]).
ref: 2010, Angelo M. Schell, Emotional: My Day to Day Book of Bipolar Poetry, page 35:
text: […] The name of the game has always been cop and blow, and if your game is tight, you will always cop more than you can blow,” Darius declared, dropping jewels of game knowledge on Midnight.
ref: 2010, C. J. Land, A Hustler's Tale, page 94:
text: Rainbow frowned and pinched his nose. "Damn, I hadn't even thought about it that way, but shit that's the rules of the game, cop and blow; every player knows that. Come to think of it, some hoes be spilling rumors that he had some bitch iced for talking about his business out in the open. […]
ref: 2013, L. E. Newell, The Grind Don't Stop, page 55:
glosses: A pimp's habit of exploiting prostitutes and then getting rid of them when no longer profitable.
colonic cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonic cocktails
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A barium mixture taken orally as a contrast medium to facilitate a later rectal examination.
colonic cocktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonic cocktail
cocktail game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail games
Senses: examples: text: Atari sold it as a cartridge, upright video, and as a cocktail game.
ref: 1993, Gene N. Landrum, Profiles of Genius: Thirteen Creative Men who Changed the World:
text: Accordingly, cocktail games were commonly programmed either for cooperative play or to rotate between multiple competitors in turns.
ref: 2015, Nathan Altice, I Am Error, page 20:
glosses: A video game built into a cocktail table.
cocktail games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocktail game
colonographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to colonography.
colonogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonograms
Etymology: From colon + -o- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image produced by colonography.
colonograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonogram
pneumocolon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumocolons
Etymology: From pneumo- + colon.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A colonic diagnostic procedure during which the colon is inflated with air.
pneumocolons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumocolon
shakes hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shake hands
shaking hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shake hands
shook hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of shake hands
shaken hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of shake hands
Portslade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2506/2605)
Derived terms: Portslade-by-Sea
Portslade Village
mulcify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mulcifies
form: mulcifying
form: mulcified
form: mulcified
Senses: examples: text: The powder in water mulcifies with a little yolk of egg with the addition finally of a little dextrin ( 20 grms. per litre ), salt ( about 7 grms. per litre ), and a little strong wine ( Malaga, Roussillon, etc., 3 tablespoonfuls ).
ref: 1906, Armand Gautier, Diet and dietetics, page 443:
text: The only way to use such a sticky varnish was to mulcify it with white of egg.
ref: 1913, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, page 12:
text: Scrub the skin briskly with Helen Randle health soap, dry with a turkish towel, massage the skin with mulcified peanut oil.
ref: 1934, Helen Gertrude Randle, The Proper Diet for Every Case of Impaired Health, page 210:
glosses: Synonym of emulsify.
synonyms: word: emulsify
examples: text: I should be quite prepared to see it crowded with the portly forms of a number of London draymen, porters, footmen, etc., with a proportional number of cooks, kitchenmaids, and other specimens of the "area belle", all as plump, blooming, and buxom as "forty ounces of solids,” mulcified with twenty ounces of milk, and the whole washed down with “either half a pint of port, sherry, or Marsala; or one pint of Burgundy, claret, or other similar wine;
ref: August 31, 1867, “The 'Forty Ounces of Solids' Theory and the Pancreatic Emulsion”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, page 239:
text: Tillage aerates the soil, exposes it to the sweetening influence of the atmosphere, and encourages root growth; surface tillage mulcifies the soil and prevents undue evaporation of moisture.
ref: 1902, Natal Agriculture Journal - Volume 5, page 646:
text: […] those old stories of defeated emperors and disgruntled philosophers retiring for a comfortable suicide to their warm bathrooms, are as frequent as those of tough old gentlemen and warriors, as well as the Lesbias and Lydias of the poets, resorting to the mulcifying solutions of their epidermis in asses' milk.
ref: 1926, The Commonweal - Volume 4, page 139:
glosses: To soften.
examples: text: A man or woman having a Mole on the left side toward the upper part of the corner of the Eye, as in the first figure and number (41) they have another the left Loin or Thigh; this signified a great and perillous sicknesses to a man; if it be honey colour or red, these sorrows are somewhat mulcified, but if black, a short life through a gievous Fall or choaking in the Waters: but if as a Lentil or wart, if promiseth a good end.
ref: 1671, Richard Saunders, Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, page 321:
text: At length the soothing speeches of the astounded courtiers mulcified the illustrious personages wrath ; he resumed his seat on the conviction that no insult had been intended.
ref: 1835 July 25, “Interpreter”, in Figaro in London, volume 4, number 190, page 124:
text: 'Tis yours to mulcify the dolorific heart,
ref: 1878, ULULA: THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE:
glosses: To soothe or mitigate.
mulcifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mulcify
mulcifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mulcify
mulcified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mulcify
Colegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Judgy McJudgerson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From judge + -y (nickname-forming suffix) and Mc- (surname-forming prefix) + judge + -son (surname-forming suffix). See also the snowclone Xy McXface.
Senses: examples: text: A bicycle (really of any kind, IMO) is an elegant machine. Everything's exposed, simple, efficient, and functional. I can't help but look either. I just hope I don't become judgy mcJudgerson about peoples' equipment. Perhaps (based on this thread), I've done so but in the opposite extreme.
ref: 2006 June 19, Paul, “Re: What does my bike tell you?”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet):
text: Well, you try to come up with a better explanation for what it does. It really does fill in the cracks and keeps the model and the view together. Someone else invented the term, not us; so, let's continue without the Judgy McJudgerson viewpoint, mmmkay?
ref: 2015 June, Isaac Strack, Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework, 2nd edition, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Not even gonna lie. I am a company snob. Now don't get all Judgy Mcjudgerson about my judgy-ness. Hear me out. It's not even that I think certain companies are better than others (although some most certainly are).
ref: 2015 October 22, Ambra Benjamin, “CV Tips: this is what a recruiter can see after 30 seconds with your resume”, in The Independent:
glosses: A judgmental person.
Woolton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4286).
Related terms: Woolton pie
allspiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allspice + -ed.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Flavored with allspice.
Hurlford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4536).
no-sew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a craft object, no requiring sewing to be made; constructed out of material without stitching.
Louey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uːi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Louie (“short form of various names”).
smoketree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoketrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smoke tree.
smoketrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoketree
Gorgie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2272).
gray asexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gray asexual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of graysexuality.
synonyms: word: graysexuality
graysexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graysexual
gray asexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gray-asexual
form: grey asexual
form: grey-asexual
Etymology: Formed as an elaboration of gray-A shortly after that term's coining in 2006, more details at gray-A § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: They listened to me and didn't talk about my gender and sexuality issues when I didn't bring it up. They also never said anything rude or judged me for the alternative or feminine clothes I started to wear. (16, agender/man, grey-asexual/sensual, grey-aromantic, demisexual/sensual, demiromantic, sapiosexual/sensual, sapioromantic, lithsexual/sensual, lithromantic, quoiromantic.)
ref: 2017 February, Paul Byron, Sophia Rasmussen, Dani Wright Toussaint, Roanna Lobo, Kerry Robinson, Brett Paradise, ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Director, Sydney: Western Sydney University Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, →DOI, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Graysexual.
Derived terms: gray asexuality
gray ace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gray-ace
form: grey ace
form: grey-ace
Senses: glosses: Synonym of graysexual.
synonyms: word: graysexual
Ruslana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A transliteration of the female given name - Russian and Ukrainian Русла́на (Ruslána)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, masculine equivalent Ruslan.
off the face of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Those files were wiped off the face of the earth.
glosses: Used to emphasize the state of cessation, destruction, termination, etc.
Synonyms: the face of the earth
Related terms: on the face of the earth
from the face of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of off the face of the earth.
synonyms: word: off the face of the earth
bespue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespues
form: bespuing
form: bespued
form: bespued
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bespew.
multimovie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + movie.
Senses: glosses: That concerns multiple movies.
pimpin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of pimping.
sufferner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufferners
Senses: glosses: A southerner (person from the southern region of a country).
sufferners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sufferner
Suffern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sufferns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York.
Sufferns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Suffern
Ramapo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in New York and New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A town in Rockland County, New York, United States.
megatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatron
Ch'ü-chou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 衢州 (Qúzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻü²-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: It appears that at the prefectural city of Ch'ü-chou eight Foreigners, belonging to the China Inland Mission, were still remaining, awaiting the arrival of three others from up country to depart together;…
ref: 1906, China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, Etc. of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinceshttps://books.google.com/books?id=6j9BAQAAMAAJ, →OCLC page 19
text: As a matter of fact we have dated Sung Ch'ü-chou wares as well as Lung-ch'üan ones bearing Ming dates.
ref: 1970, Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, Revised edition, volume I, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 151:
text: Meanwhile, a subordinate went north to Kinhwa and Yenchow and made alliances with secret societies in those prefectures. Liu then moved against the prefectural capital in Ch'ü-chou.
ref: 1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of Quzhou.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
McCartin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCartins
Etymology: Variant of McCartan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
negativate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: negativates
form: negativating
form: negativated
form: negativated
Senses: examples: text: He says magnetism and electricity are nearly akin, and then shows in what slight respect they differ; so it is not clear to me how he can “entirely negativate” his statement.
ref: 1882, The Electrical Review, page 377:
text: That in itself would be inflationary and would negativate the effects of the food subsidies.
ref: 1974, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report:
glosses: negate
town belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town belts
Senses: glosses: An area of undeveloped land around an urban area that is protected from large-scale housing; green belt
Tsinghai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Born in Tsinghai, Kao has spent his entire career in his native northwest as a Party and government official. He was first reported in 1946 as a delegate from Yen-ch’ih hsien to the Third Assembly of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia (Shen-Kan-Ning) Border Region, the first session of which was held in April 1946.
ref: 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Kao Feng”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965, volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:
text: Liu's account of developments in Tsinghai omitted one important fact- that his predecessor in command of the Tsinghai Provincial Military District...had "carried out savage, armed repression of revolutionary mass organizations."
ref: 1971, Peter Bridgham, Mao's Cultural Revolution in 1967 (China In Ferment Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution), Prentice Hall, page 131:
text: Party members who are Moslems are urged to attend “special seminars” emphasizing “political learning.” Recently in Kansu and Tsinghai provinces, the typical theme of such seminars is “learning more from Marx and less from Muhammad.”
ref: 1981 August 30, “Moslem Under Control”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, page 3:
text: A fantastic legend was told about the first Gyalwai Odzer. This legend, believed to be authentic, had no fixed origin in time because the nomads of the region, the Tibetan province Tsinghai, could not, not even vaguely, indicate a date. The legend, however, was clear enough, so well known that it was no longer discussed, for everybody had been told the tale during childhood. It had become a dogma, to be believed passively without even trying to ascertain its probability or validity.
ref: 1982, Alexandra David-Neel, Aphur Yongden, translated by Janwillem van de Wetering, The Power of Nothingness, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 2:
text: In December 2009, the Tsinghai University Diving Team came to America for a competition.
ref: 2014, Quanyu Huang, The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of Qinghai.
wikipedia: US Army Topographic Command
Sang-chu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 桑株 (Sāngzhū), Wade–Giles romanization: Sang¹-chu¹.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sangzhu (Sanju)
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
codenaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of codenature
codenatures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of codenature
body cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body cams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bodycam.
body cams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body cam
Chia-hsing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 嘉興 /嘉兴 (Jiāxīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chia¹-hsing¹.
Senses: examples: text: The province also shows a gradual and slow recovery to cultivation of the fertile lands of the province from the fearful desolation wrought by the rebels. In the prefecture of Chia-hsing, for instance, there were formerly more than a million souls; now there are hardly eighty thousand.
ref: 1869 March 22, Chr. T. Gardner, “Notes on a Journey from Ningpo to Shanghai”, in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, page 181:
text: Moreover, while Hang-chou benefited greatly from immigration and Chia-hsing and Hu-chou either maintained or improved their academic success, the once dynamic area of Shao-hsiung and Ning-po suffered from considerable emigration and hence contributed significantly to the success of Hang-chou and especially other provinces.
ref: 1964, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Science Editions, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 253:
text: Shih Hsün's first attempted suicide, for example, falls on the same day Wang Chung-chao goes to Chia-hsing to visit his ideal love (chapter 3); and Wang's return from Chia-hsing coincides with three events inside and outside of the revolutionary camp: the internal quarrel and disbandment of the "west-side" group as reported to him by Chang Ch'iu-liu, Chang Man-ch'ing's invitation to the debate in his "school" on where the next war will start, and the Tsinan Incident of May 3, 1928, in which Japanese soldiers murdered Chinese civilians in Shangtung^([sic – meaning Shantung]) Province.
ref: 1986, Yu-shih Chen, Realism and Allegory in the Early Fiction of Mao Tun, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
text: On 12 May, the PLA took Chia-hsing in Chekiang, on the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, as well as P'ing-hu, a locally important town nearby.
ref: 1987, Betty Peh-T'i Wei, Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiaxing.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
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Wu-hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹho͞oʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 蕪湖 /芜湖 (Wúhú), Wade–Giles romanization: Wu²-hu².
Senses: examples: text: On the 30th October the strength of the stream and the want of wind obliged us to stop at Wu-hu, a very considerable town about ten miles above the "Pillar Hocks," and dependent upon Taeping....Quitting Wu-hu on the 31st October, we started with a north-west wind,
ref: 1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes, London: John Murray, →OCLC, pages 178–179:
text: As my husband's ship stopped for a day or two at Kiu-kiang, Anking, and Wu-hu, enroute to Nanking, I arrived three days before his ship anchored off the bund.
ref: 1939, Virginia Holton, The Beeps, New York: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 133:
text: Ju-kao, Hsing-hua and Huai-an in northern Kiangsu, Chia-ting and Ching-chiang in southern Kiangsu, and above all, Wu-hu in Anhwei, became important processing centers.
ref: 1978, Martin Heijdra, “The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming”, in The Cambridge History of China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 506:
glosses: Alternative form of Wuhu.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Chiu-chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiu³-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing. During the late eighteenth century there were 221 chia (official divisions within the pao-chia system, which reflected population) inside the city and approximately 1,900 chia in the remainder of the hsien, indicating that 10 percent of the hsien population resided in Chiu-chiang city.
ref: 1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
text: On February 18, 1853, Chiu-chiang fell to the rebels, who went on to take Anking. Less than a month later, on March 19, the Taiping forces captured the beautiful city of Nanking, which was renamed T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital) to commemorate the occasion.
ref: 1975, Federic Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:
text: This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.
ref: 2003, C.J. Shane, editor, China (The History of Nations), Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiujiang.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Encyclopædia Britannica
Wu-hsüeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 武穴 (Wǔxué), Wade–Giles romanization: Wu-hsüeh.
Senses: examples: text: Four days later a still more violent and unexpected attack was made at Wu Hsüeh, a city twenty-five miles above Chiu Chiang, on the Yangtze.
ref: [1901, Arthur Henderson Smith, China in Convulsion, volume I, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 83:
text: At Tan-yang Hsien, in the province of Kiang-su, and at Wu-hsüeh, in the province of Hu-peh, similar outrages have been committed on missionary establishments there, and it is now necessary that the miscreants should be arrested and unrelenting measures taken in good time to provide against further outrages of this kind.
ref: 1904, William Woodville Rockhill, Treaties and Conventions with Or Concerning China and Korea, 1894-1904, →OCLC, page 416:
text: On May 14 the Fourth Field Army led by Lin Piao, Lo Jung-huan and other comrades forced the Yangtse on a front of more than one hundred kilometres in the Tuanfeng-Wuhsueh sector east of Wuhan.
ref: [1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, volume IV, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 388:
text: But on June 5 after rioters at Wu-hsüeh killed two British subjects the riots became the foremost concern of British policy in China.
ref: 1966, Edmund S. Wehrle, “The Riots of 1891: A Pattern Set”, in Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots 1891-1900, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: We can surmise that Liu K’un-i’s suppression of the Ko-lao hui finally forced the agitators back into Hupeh, where they helped to instigate the riot at Wu-hsueh on June 5; the riot got out of hand (two foreigners were killed) and the agitators were arrested at Wuchang on June 12.
ref: [1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of Wuxue.
Huang-mei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 黃梅 /黄梅 (Huángméi), Wade–Giles romanization: Huang²-mei².
Senses: examples: text: I arrived in the city of Huang-mei around eight or nine and crossed the obscure and silent city guided by large stones on the main street. Here and there I could see a light in the dark homes and on occasion a passerby broke the spell of darkness with the arabesques of his lighted and circling sticks.
ref: 1965, Efrem Trettel, Rivers-Rice Fields-Souls, Franciscan Herald Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
text: It must be due to my good karma in past lives that I heard about this, and that I was given ten taels for the maintenance of my mother by a man who advised me to go to Huang-mei to interview the fifth patriarch. After arrangements had been made for her, I left for Huang-mei.
ref: 1990, A. F. Price, Wong Mou-lam, transl., The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-neng, Boston: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
text: At the age of forty Tao-hsin moved to Shuang-feng Mountain in the district of Huang-mei, present-day Hupeh province. There he attracted a large following; it is said that he had five hundred students studying under him.
ref: 1992, Cheng Chien Bhikshu, Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of Huangmei.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Ying-shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 英山 (Yīngshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ying¹-shan¹.
Senses: examples: text: FOUR BAPTISMS IN YING-SHAN
We had looked forward to four or five days' work in Ying-shan similar to that in Yün-mung,but at the end of our two days' walk from the one city to the other (they lie more than fifty miles apart), Mr. Terrell had a touch of fever, so we judged it best to remain in Ying-shan only for a day and then travel as quickly as possible by chair to Teh-ngan to consult our good friend, Dr. Morley, of the Wesleyan Mission Hospital in that city, and from thence take boat for Hankow....The third, Tseng, is a cloth-seller living in the northern suburb of the city; while old Mrs. Leu lives seven miles to the south of Ying-shan.
ref: 1894, “From Month to Month”, in The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, number 33, Readers Union, →OCLC, page 220:
text: Next morning we started for Ying-shan, and reached the city early in the afternoon. Having deposited our baggage in an inn at the south gate, we went to the north gate, hoping to hear something of Mr. Lo, our convert in Ying-shan.
ref: 1906, R. Wardlaw Thompson, Griffith John: The Story of Fifty Years in China, London: Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 415:
text: After the Fourth Red Army moved up to the front at Ying-shan in mid July, it routed the KMT troops stationed in that area one after another, capturing altogether some two thousand rifles and men. And in the wake of victory, the Fourth Red Army occupied the two county seats of Ying-shan and Yi-shui.
ref: 1972, Chang Kuo-t’ao, The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party 1928-1938, volume II, University Press of Kansas, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 265:
glosses: Alternative form of Yingshan.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
coälition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coälitions
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:coälition.
glosses: Dated spelling of coalition.
Jefferies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Jeffries
anti-blackness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiblackness.
Dunford Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Dunford parish, Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1502).
VNSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VNSAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of violent non-state actor: a group independent from governments that uses violence, such as a drug cartel, a private militia, or a terrorist group.
VNSAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VNSA
NSAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NSAGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of non-state armed group.
Related terms: VNSA
NSAGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NSAG