cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sabaoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæbeɪˌɒθ/
/səˈbeɪˌoʊθ/
Etymology: From Latin Sabaoth, from Ancient Greek Σαβαώθ (Sabaṓth), from Biblical Hebrew צְבָאוֹת (ts'vaót), plural of צָבָא (tsaváʾ, “army”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An epithet of God in His role as protector of the Israelite army, usually translated (alongside YHWH or Elohim) as "Lord of Hosts".; compare the archaic title Drighten.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Hosts, armies.
topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the seven chief archons in the Ophite cosmogony.
sabbatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabbatias
form: sabatia
Senses: glosses: A plant of Sabatia, a genus of smooth slender North American herbs (family Gentianaceae) with opposite leaves and showy white or rose-pink cymose flowers.
brass neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass necks
Etymology: From stick one's neck out.
Senses: examples: text: This year's commemorations of the start of World War One are a stark reminder of the sacrifices politicians make with other people's lives – except nowadays they'll do so wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt (almost entirely covering their brass necks). When it comes to the hypocritical lauding of the armed forces while simultaneously shafting them, no one does it better than this government.
ref: 2014 March 18, John Hyde, “Help for Heroes? Not from this government”, in The Law Society Gazette, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2014:
text: That’s why it’s particularly outrageous for the government to sneak out its rubbish “blueprint” for cycling and walking on Easter Sunday, and having the brass neck to try to spin its laughably small investment in cycling and walking as a genuine attempt to make them people’s choice for shorter journeys and to reduce the rate of cyclists killed or seriously injured.
ref: 2016 March 27, Helen Pidd, “Government's laughable cycling blueprint does nothing to boost safety”, in The Guardian:
text: Theresa May’s former chief of staff has accused the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, of having a “brass neck” after he said the UK government had “blinked first” in negotiations.
ref: 2020 September 6, Jessica Elgot, “UK's chief Brexit negotiator has 'brass neck', says former May aide”, in The Guardian:
text: After the Conservatives’ economic failure left working people worse off, it takes some real brass neck for the Tory top team to tell the public that it’s really all their fault. It’s the same old Tories. They haven’t changed and they’ve learned nothing.
ref: 2025 January 31, Rowena Mason, quoting Labour spokesperson, “Tory Chris Philp accused of ‘brass neck’ after saying UK needs better work ethic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Gall, shamelessness, cheek.
examples: text: And it will need a strong hand to wield that knife, and it will need a steady nerve besides, because they have necks of brass, these aristocrats, I tell you: brass necks, all of them!
ref: 2010 [2006], Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Mostly, though, open data acts as a deterrent against committing fraud in the first place, since it would take the brassiest of brass necks to post a fake dataset on a public website.
ref: 2020, Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A person with gall.
Related terms: word: brass-balled
word: brass-necked
word: brass-neck
word: [to have] a neck like a jockey's bollocks
frostbiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frostbite
levomethadone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From levo- + methadone.
Senses: glosses: the active enantiomer of methadone
arrestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrestations
Etymology: From French arrestation, from Latin arrestatio.
Senses: examples: text: […] he had continued [the treatment] to the day on which I saw him […] with relief of pain and improvement of his general feelings, but without any arrestation of his decline in strength and weight;
ref: 1847, Thomas Mayo, chapter 3, in Clinical Facts and Reflections, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 22:
text: We realise that the results of the war are revealed not only in the total of lives lost or wrecked […] but on the ruin of the fabric of Society, […] the arrestation of progress moral and material […]
ref: 1922, Charles Masterman, chapter 1, in England After War,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 20:
text: While arrestation of physiological maturation may occur on the basis of inhibiting emotional factors, one cannot make the general statement that the stronger the prohibitions, the greater is the delay in sexual maturation.
ref: 1952, Therese Benedek, “Some Problems of Motherhood”, in A.M. Krich, editor, Women, New York: Dell, published 1953, page 173:
text: […] in most of Europe […] population stagnated or actually declined during the seventeenth century. This arrestation of population growth […] was particularly noticeable in Spain, central Europe, Poland, and Italy,
ref: 1985, Jonathan Israel, chapter 10, in European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 237:
glosses: The act of arresting.
The act of stopping or slowing something (especially a process).
synonyms: arrest
examples: text: Different hypnotists use different methods of inducing this condition, but the main factor in all of them is the fixation and arrestation of the attention and the use of suggestion.
ref: 1922, Violet Firth, chapter 22, in The Machinery of the Mind, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 84:
glosses: The act of arresting.
The act of catching someone's attention.
examples: text: 1794, Helen Maria Williams, letter dated September 1794 in Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1795, Volume 1, p. 4,
[…] the arrestation of the English residing in France was decreed by the national convention;
text: He was not a German, and could prove it, so that only a short time afterwards he got out of arrest and changed his name. But at that hour I saw in his arrestation, the finger of God, for now there was nobody but me to take the waggons through the country.
ref: 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, New York: Random House, published 1938, Part 4, p. 267:
glosses: The act of arresting.
The act of arresting someone (taking them into legal custody).
synonyms: arrest
UEA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juː iː ˈeɪ/
Forms: form: UEAs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of universal enveloping algebra.
UEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /juː iː ˈeɪ/
Senses: examples: text: Andrew Hopper worked on the Virtual Norfolk Project in the School of History at UEA, before moving to the University of Birmingham. He is the author of several articles on regional responses to the English Civil Wars.
ref: 2004, Carole Rawcliffe, Norwich Since 1550, page xviii:
glosses: Initialism of University of East Anglia.
glosses: Initialism of eo:Universala Esperanto-Asocio (“World Esperanto association”).
carpet bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet baggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carpetbagger.
éclaircissements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of éclaircissement
carpet baggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpet bagger
aldols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldol
abiraterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.ɪˈɹæt.əˌɹoʊn/
ipa: /æb.ɪˈɹæt.ə.ɹəʊn/
Forms: form: abiratirone
form: arbiraterone
Etymology: From [Term?] + -terone (“antiandrogen”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A pyridine-substituted sterol used as a drug against prostate cancer.
electroresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroresistances
Etymology: From electro- + resistance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the change in electrical resistance with current
perinatally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From perinatal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Around the time of birth.
roadkills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadkill
weakly symmetric matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A predicted very high-energy state of matter, present in the very early universe for perhaps 10⁻¹² seconds after the Big Bang, when strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces were undistinguished.
strongly symmetric matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A predicted very high energy state of matter, present in the very early universe for perhaps 10⁻³⁶ seconds after the Big Bang, when strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational forces were undistinguished.
banhammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banhammers
form: ban hammer
Etymology: From ban + hammer, perhaps evoking a gavel.
Senses: glosses: The power of a sysop to block a user from participating in an online community.
banhammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: banhammers
form: banhammering
form: banhammered
form: banhammered
form: ban hammer
Etymology: From ban + hammer, perhaps evoking a gavel.
Senses: glosses: To block a user from participating in an online community.
brass-necked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brass-necked
form: most brass-necked
form: brassnecked
Senses: examples: text: I was at Stansted airport with my wife, younger kids and a niece the other week to take a flight to Dublin; one provided by that brass-necked, self-proclaimed champion of the air-travelling masses Michael O'Leary and his low-cost trailblazer Ryanair.
ref: 2007 August 6, Dave Hill, “Plane sailing?”, in The Guardian:
text: “Humbug”. That word may sink him. “Unfit” was Corbyn’s sombrely measured term. Brazen, brass-necked, thrashing about wildly in proclaiming the 11 supreme court justices “wrong”, Boris Johnson’s performance last night defied all democratic dignity.
ref: 2019 September 26, Polly Toynbee, “Boris Johnson’s brutish parliamentary performance defied all democratic dignity”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Nervy; cheeky; shameless.
brass-necked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brassnecked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brass-neck
Related terms: brass neck
long drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long drink
brass-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brass-necks
form: brass-necking
form: brass-necked
form: brass-necked
Senses: glosses: To behave boldly or shamelessly.
Related terms: brass neck
brass-necked
Sabean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sabeans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sabean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sabean
form: most Sabean
Etymology: From Saba (“Sheba”) + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabaean.
Sabean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Saba (“Sheba”) + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sabaean.
Sabean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabeans
Etymology: From Saba (“Sheba”) + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sabaean.
Sabæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sabæan
form: most Sabæan
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Sabaean.
Sabæan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sabaean.
Sabæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabæans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sabaean.
sabatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabatias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sabbatia.
crack babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack baby
money changers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money changer
brown bastards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown bastard
market squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market square
cataloreactant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataloreactants
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A catalytic reactant that is regenerated at the end of a reaction
antimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + metric.
Senses: examples: text: A Butterworth filter with an odd number of elements is symmetric while one with an even number of elements is antimetric.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The converse of symmetric in electrical network theory, especially filter theory. A network where the input and output image impedances are the dual, or inverse, of each other as opposed to symmetric networks where they are equal.
glosses: In mechanics, relating to a pair of forces, a pair of oscillations or other motion acting in the opposite direction to symmetric.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: Going off the rhythm, especially during a transition from one time signature to another.
glosses: Opposed to metrication.
Derived terms: antimetrical
Related terms: symmetric
dissymmetric
antimetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + metric + -al.
Senses: glosses: antimetric
Related terms: antimetric
Sabba-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabba-days
Senses: glosses: the Sabbath
glosses: Saturday
private sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private sectors
Etymology: private + sector
Senses: examples: text: After spending two decades at various government agencies, he returned to the private sector and took a job as a business consultant.
text: Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
ref: 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: After decades of observation, it's pretty obvious to me that all governments are uniformly useless at actually running anything, so we need to employ the private sector to do the job for us on properly specified contracts [...].
ref: 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
topics: business
glosses: All organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.
Related terms: public sector
Sabbatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: săb′ə-târ′ē-ən
ipa: /ˌsæb.əˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Sabbatarians
form: sabbatarian
form: sabbatharian
form: Sabbatharian
Etymology: From Medieval Latin sabbatarius, from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton), from Hebrew שבת (shabát) + -an. In use from c. 1610.
Senses: glosses: A person who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week ("Saturday", the Israelite or Jewish Sabbath) as holy in conformity with the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, such as an Orthodox Jew, Seventh-day Adventist, Seventh Day Baptist, a member of the Church of God (Seventh Day); a Sabbath-keeper, a Saturday-keeper.
examples: text: During the sixties [1860s] the Sabbatarians were particularly active in their attacks on Sunday excursions, and this had an effect both on the companies and the public.
ref: 1954 June, R. Marchant, “Early Excursion Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 427:
glosses: A person who regards and keeps the first day of the week as holy and often considers it as a replacement for the seventh-day Sabbath, a Sunday-keeper.
glosses: A person who favors the strict observance of the Sabbath (either the sixth, seventh, or first day of the week).
glosses: A member of a non-Jewish religious sect originating in Russia distinguished by observance of Jewish rites and festivals including Saturday as the day of rest.
Derived terms: sabbatarianism
Sabbatarianism
Related terms: sabbatism
Sabbatism
Sabbatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: săb′ə-târ′ē-ən
ipa: /ˌsæb.əˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Sabbatarian
form: most Sabbatarian
form: sabbatarian
form: sabbatharian
form: Sabbatharian
Etymology: From Medieval Latin sabbatarius, from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton), from Hebrew שבת (shabát) + -an. In use from c. 1610.
Senses: examples: text: The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway announced a special Sunday excursion from Newcastle to Carlisle for August 29, 1841, and immediately ran up against strong Sabbatarian opposition.
ref: 1954 June, R. Marchant, “Early Excursion Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 426:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.
Sabbatarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sabəˈtɛːɹɪənɪzm̩/
Forms: form: Sabbatarianisms
Etymology: From Sabbatarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In the seventeenth century, the connection between sabbatarianism and material prosperity was fully accepted by many contemporary preachers […]
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 601:
glosses: The principles and practices of a Sabbatarian; the observance of the Sabbath, the keeping of the Sabbath.
Sabbatharian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæb.əˈθɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsæ.bəˈθɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Sabbatharians
Etymology: 1632: Sabbath + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sabbatarian.
Sabbath-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabbath-days
form: Sabbath Day
form: Sabbath day
form: sabbath day
Senses: glosses: The day of the Sabbath; Saturday, the seventh day of the week.
Synonyms: Shabbat Day
Shabbat day
shabbat day
Shabbath Day
Shabbath day
shabbath day
Shabbos Day
Shabbos day
shabbos day
Derived terms: Sabbath-day's journey
feorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feorms
Senses: examples: text: Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.
ref: 1647, Nathaniel Bacon, An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England […] :
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: The most usual and customary feorm or rent […] must be reserved yearly on such lease.
glosses: Alternative form of farm.
Related terms: feorm-fultum
negroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negroid
cash registers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cash register
guerezas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guereza
mantled guereza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantled guerezas
Senses: glosses: A colobus monkey, a kind of Old World monkey, Colobus guereza
Synonyms: sense: Colobus guereza
word: guereza
sense: Colobus guereza
word: eastern black-and-white colobus
sense: Colobus guereza
word: Abyssinian black-and-white colobus
mantled guerezas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantled guereza
diptote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪptoʊt/
Forms: form: diptotes
form: dipt.
Etymology: From Latin diptōtum, from Ancient Greek δίπτωτος (díptōtos), from δί- (dí-) + πτῶσις (ptôsis, “case”).
Senses: examples: text: In Modern Standard Arabic, nouns belong to triptotes or diptotes, or can be indeclinable.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun which has only two cases.
Coordinate terms: aptote
monoptote
triptote
tetraptote
pentaptote
Derived terms: diptotic
diptotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nouns
Senses: glosses: plural of diptote
triptote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪptoʊt/
Forms: form: triptotes
Etymology: From Latin triptōtum, from Ancient Greek τρίπτωτος (tríptōtos), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) + πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”) + -τος (-tos, verbal adjective–forming suffix), influenced by the verbal noun πτῶσις (ptôsis, “inflection”).
Senses: examples: text: In Modern Standard Arabic, nouns belong to triptotes or diptotes, or can be indeclinable.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun which has three cases.
Hyponyms: construct
definite
indefinite
Coordinate terms: aptote
monoptote
diptote
tetraptote
pentaptote
Derived terms: triptotic
triptotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nouns
Senses: glosses: plural of triptote
wamble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑm.bəl/
other: /ˈwæm.bəl/
Forms: form: wambles
Etymology: From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: Nausea; seething; bubbling.
examples: text: Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “Chapter 11”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.
glosses: A rumble of the stomach.
Derived terms: wamble-cropped
wamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑm.bəl/
other: /ˈwæm.bəl/
Forms: form: wambles
form: wambling
form: wambled
form: wambled
Etymology: From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).
glosses: To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.
examples: text: Sicily thought of sand flies and wondered how big they were, what color. […] Organs Sicily had not dared contemplate stomped and wambled and scuffed inside of her.
ref: 2014 May 6, Cathie Pelletier, Wedding on the Banks: A Novel, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 10:
text: His leathery shoes exuded some anachronistic wonder, with damp shimmer of copper buckles which changed color with remedy, easily in the light, and he wambled this way and that to the kitchen and wondered to himself about the many lives[…]
ref: 2015 October 29, Carrie Chang, Monkey-Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: She may shail, but she'll never wamble.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “Chapter 11”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait.
Womble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wombles
Etymology: Created by author Elisabeth Beresford; they originally appeared in a series of children's novels from 1968. The name was suggested to the author by her young daughter's mispronunciation of the place name "Wimbledon" as "Wombledon" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8226039/Elisabeth-Beresford.htmlhttps://www.tidybag.uk/people/interview-with-elisabeth-beresford-daughter/. The books centre on the activities of a group of the creatures who live on Wimbledon Common.
Senses: examples: text: Wombles are a bit like teddy bears to look at but they have real claws and live underneath Wimbledon Common and devote their lives to ‘tidying up’ all the things those untidy Human Beings leave behind.
ref: 1968, Elisabeth Beresford, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A fictional pointy-nosed furry creature. They are supposed to live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways.
glosses: A nickname of Wimbledon Football Club.
raw_tags: as 'the Wombles'
Womble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wamble
Senses: glosses: A surname.
womble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wombles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wamble.
womble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wombles
form: wombling
form: wombled
form: wombled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wamble.
womble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wombles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Womble (“fictional furry creature”).
glosses: A person from the Wimbledon area of London, England.
ribaldo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribaldos
Senses: glosses: Mora moro, the common mora, a deep-sea cod-like fish.
great crest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great crests
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: the great crested grebe.
black cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black cocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blackcock (“the black grouse”).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, cock.
Canadian goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canadian geese
Senses: examples: text: Canadian geese crap along the bank.
ref: 2002, George Harrison, “Pisces Fish”, in Brainwashed:
glosses: Alternative form of Canada goose.
red lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red lions
Senses: glosses: The puma.
red tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red tigers
Senses: glosses: The puma.
butcher bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcher birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butcherbird.
Lady Amherst's pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lady Amherst's pheasants
Etymology: Named after one Lady Amherst who introduced the species to Bedfordshire from China.
Senses: synonyms: Lady Amherst
Amherst
Amherst pheasant
glosses: A colourful pheasant, of species Chrysolophus amherstiae, indigenous to China but also found in Bedfordshire.
red-leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-legs
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The red-legged partridge.
red-legged partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-legged partridges
Senses: glosses: Any partridge of species Alectoris rufa.
Synonyms: Frenchman
French partridge
red-leg
ring-necked parakeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-necked parakeets
Senses: examples: text: The bright-green ring-necked parakeet, originally hailing from India and Africa, has established itself in European cities thanks to the caged-bird trade for much of the 20th century.
ref: 2018, Menno Schilthuizen, “Darwin comes to town”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A species of parakeet, Psittacula krameri, prevalent in Asia and famous for escaping domestication and establishing wild populations in Britain.
Synonyms: rose-ringed parakeet
rose-ringed parakeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose-ringed parakeets
Senses: glosses: The ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri).
on acid
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From on + acid, referring to the intoxicating substance.
Senses: glosses: Exaggerated, bizarre or unpredictable.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, acid.
Synonyms: on steroids
St James's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: St James's Park in London.
glosses: The area of Central London on the north side of the above park (OS grid ref TQ2980, postcode SW1).
Related terms: St James's Palace
heronshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heronshaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heronsew.
hanshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanshaws
Etymology: By corruption.
Senses: glosses: A heronsew.
barny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barnies
Senses: examples: text: So he said she should have said, and we had a bit of a barny, like.
ref: 1983, Marilyn Porter, Home, Work, and Class Consciousness, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of barney (“argument or fight”).
barny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: barnier
form: barniest
Etymology: From barn + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone was breathing hard, and there was a barny smell in the room.
ref: 2006, W. S. Merwin, Summer Doorways: A Memoir, page 210:
glosses: Barn-like.
rood goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rood geese
Senses: qualifier: Southwest Scotland
glosses: The barnacle goose.
rood geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rood goose
green cormorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green cormorants
Senses: glosses: The shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis).
tufty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌfti/
rhymes: -ʌfti
Forms: form: tufties
Etymology: From tuft(ed duck) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Buoyant. That's a tufty. Well, tufted duck, to be formal, but the name always sounds more like tufty duck, and there is something inspiringly matey about a tufty: we are on nickname terms with the bird at first glance.
ref: 2005, Simon Barnes, “Tufted Duck”, in A Bad Birdwatcher’s Companion … Or A Personal Introduction to Britain’s 50 Most Obvious Birds, London: Short Books, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: The tufted duck (Aythya fuligula).
tufty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌfti/
rhymes: -ʌfti
Forms: form: tuftier
form: tuftiest
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: glosses: Of a cow: seeking a bull to mate with.
tufted duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tufted ducks
Senses: synonyms: word: tufty
glosses: A species of duck, Aythya fuligula.
Black Isle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The large peninsula directly north of Inverness in Highland council area, Scotland.
sawbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawbills
Etymology: From saw + bill.
Senses: glosses: The red-breasted merganser.
white-tailed sea eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-tailed sea eagles
Senses: glosses: the white-tailed eagle.
black game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black game
Senses: glosses: The black grouse.
French partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French partridges
Senses: glosses: A red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa).
English partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English partridges
Senses: glosses: the grey partridge
water hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water hens
Etymology: From water + hen.
Senses: glosses: The moorhen.
Norfolk plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norfolk plovers
Senses: glosses: the stone-curlew.
goggle-eyed plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goggle-eyed plovers
Senses: glosses: the stone-curlew.
pie-wipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie-wipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piewipe.
pee-wee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee-wees
Etymology: Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peewee.
pee-wee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee-wees
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeia from the birds' songs.
Senses: glosses: The lapwing.
pee-wee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee-wees
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeia from the birds' songs.
Senses: glosses: An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.
Related terms: peewee
chewit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewits
Senses: qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: the lapwing.
toppyup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toppyups
Senses: qualifier: Scottish Borders
glosses: The lapwing.
Scottish Borders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The areas of Scotland and England adjacent to the border between the two countries.
glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996; it was named Borders Region prior to that.
curlew sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curlew sandpipers
Senses: glosses: A type of sandpiper, (Calidris ferruginea)
purple sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple sandpipers
Senses: examples: text: Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…
ref: 2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:
glosses: A type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.
blackwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackwits
Etymology: Blend of black-tailed + godwit
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: the black-tailed godwit.
barwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barwits
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The bar-tailed godwit.
eses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ese
whaup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whaups
form: waup
Senses: examples: text: It looks eerie at bright midday, when the sun is shining and whaups are crying among the seaweeds; but think what it was on that awesome night, with the Powers of Darkness brooding over it like a cloud!
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: A whaup flapped up with its liquid, rising cry and he found himself wheeling round in a dizziness of blue as he tried to follow its flight.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 368:
glosses: The curlew, Numenius arquata.
spotshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotshanks
Etymology: From spot + shank.
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The spotted redshank.
spotted redshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted redshanks
Senses: glosses: Tringa erythropus, a species of wader.
Synonyms: spotshank
spot-red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot-reds
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The spotted redshank.
scourie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scouries
Senses: glosses: A young gull.
land gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land gulls
Senses: glosses: the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
kitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitts
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: the kittiwake.
Sandwich tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sandwich terns
form: sandwich tern
Etymology: From Sandwich in Kent, England, the type locality.
Senses: glosses: A species of tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis.
wikipedia: Sandwich
sea swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea swallows
Senses: examples: text: There was a light breeze off the land; it was scarcely strong enough to lift the heavy fog which lay over the skerries and the naked cliffs, from which the scared sea-gulls flew and hovered around us with their hoarse cry; the sea-swallows uttered their ringing "Tree, tree," and the oyster-catchers their mocking "Click, click!" which has caused so many an unsuccessful sportsman to smile.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:
glosses: The common tern (Sterna hirundo).
glosses: The storm petrel.
glosses: A mollusc of genus Glaucus.
rosy tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosy terns
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: the roseate tern.
roseate tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roseate terns
Senses: glosses: A species of tern, Sterna dougallii.
Synonyms: rosy tern
Related terms: sterna dougallii
sea parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea parrots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea-parrot.
flying rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying rats
Senses: glosses: a rock pigeon, or a seagull, living in an urban environment, especially one regarded as pesky, loud or a scavenger.
ringed dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringed doves
Senses: glosses: the woodpigeon, Columba palumbus.
glosses: the collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto.
quist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quists
Etymology: From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English cūsċeote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.
Senses: examples: text: It got me thinking about other names we used to call things when we were younger that for some reason as I got older we stopped doing.¶ For example the common woody was a quist, and the sparrow that we so used to love hunting on the summer hedgerows, once the wheat had been cut, were "spugs or spuggies"
ref: 2012 June 26, tegater [username], “Quists, spugs and egg and bacon”, in The Hunting Life Forums:
glosses: The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
stoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoggies
Senses: glosses: the woodpigeon.
Billy Wix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willy Wix
Senses: glosses: The barn owl, Tyto alba.
Synonyms: sense: Synonym
word: western barn owl
Willy Wix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Billy Wix.
white owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white owls
Senses: glosses: the barn owl, Tyto alba.
Synonyms: western barn owl
brown owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown owls
Senses: glosses: the tawny owl, Strix aluco.
kingy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingies
Etymology: From kingfisher + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: the kingfisher, Alcedo atthis.
kingy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingies
Etymology: From king + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: “What's the scare here, kingy," I asked. “What gives?” "You can tell him, sire,” Wanda said. "He's good magic.”
ref: 1981, Isidore Haiblum, The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders, Doubleday Books:
text: Escargoon: You're the court official. How dare you accuse His Royal Highness?! Want me to check them in for a two week stay in the dungeon, sweet kingy?
ref: 2002, Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, "Kirby Comes to Cappy Town" (season 1, episode 1)
text: “Well, kingy,” Gypsy butted in, “time you did buddy! ... Cameron paused and tried to explain to the king, “Sire, it took me some time to completely understand my friends, and I ... Nonetheless, sire, they mean no disrespect and I also trust them.
ref: 2017, David Neill, Thai And The Legend Of Gallows Hill, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: A term of address for a king.
Cathars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cathar
Cathari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cathar
switch-hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switch-hitter
robotizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of robotize
robotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of robotize
robotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of robotize
robotized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more robotized
form: most robotized
Senses: examples: text: 1973, Buryl Payne, Getting There without Drugs, quoted in 2013, Martin Halliwell, Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970, page 262,
[…] and this subtle and pervasive philosophy of squeezing everything into rational schemes has actually made people more thinglike, more robotized and dehumanized.
text: 1991, Op-ed editor, The Awful Truth, Popular Photography, Jan-Nov 1991, page 8,
The newer Canon lens may have been produced with updated, more automated, more robotized techniques.
text: The most robotized plant in the world is probably the GE locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania.
ref: 1986, Peter Drucker, The Frontiers of Management, published 2011, page 8:
text: They do not look the least bit more robotized, nor do they have glazed eyes.
ref: 2010, Paul Goodman, New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative, page 31:
glosses: Like or having characteristics of a robot; automated.
amorphizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amorphization
concentricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concentricity
concordancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concordancy
coreholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corehole
cornhusks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornhusk
paparazzis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paparazzi
rules lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rules lawyer
rules lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rules lawyer
batted for both sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bat for both sides
bats for both sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bat for both sides
batting for both sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bat for both sides
venturi scrubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venturi scrubbers
form: Venturi scrubber
Senses: glosses: A device that uses the venturi effect to separate particles or droplets from a gas stream, used widely to reduce air pollution.
core hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of corehole.
core holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of core hole
tennismen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tennisman
acroatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ă'krō.ăʹtĭk
ipa: /ˌækɹəʊˈætɪk/
Forms: form: more acroatic
form: most acroatic
form: acroatick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκροατικός (akroatikós, “of or proper to hearing”), from ἀκροᾶσθαι (akroâsthai, “to hear”).
Senses: examples: text: The poet Thomas Gray said that reading Aristotle was like eating dried hay. This is something of an exaggeration, but his writing can be hard work. It is generally agreed that these “esoteric” (or “acroatic”) works are actually lecture notes, the working documents that he used on a daily basis for his teaching.
ref: 2001, Rupert Woodfin; Judy Groves, illustrator, “Lecture Notes”, in Richard Appignanesi, editor, Introducing Aristotle (Introducing …), Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: Icon Books; [United States]: Totem Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: acroamatic.
Related terms: acroatics
pennying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of penny
pennying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pennyings
Senses: examples: text: The game, in which participants must ‘save the queen' by downing their drink if a penny is dropped into it, is already banned in most dining halls. However, the revelation that permitting pennying is now a criminal offence may mean that even stricter policies will now be enforced.
ref: 2010 October 28, Eleanor Dickinson, Andrew Georgiou, The Cambridge Student, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2016:
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: The activity of pennying in general, as part of a meal or drinking game, whereby dropping a penny in a person's drink means that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: An act of pennying, as part of a meal or drinking game.
pennied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From penny + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of penny
pennied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penny + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] we have no hesitancy in believing that the "unpennied sweep" frequently became a pennied sweep after the gentle Elia had passed by.
ref: 1910, Edwin Watts Chubb, Stories of Authors, page 29:
glosses: Having a penny, or some amount of money.
thetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θῆτες (thêtes), plural of θής (thḗs, “hired laborer”).
Senses: glosses: The lowest social class of citizens in ancient Athens.
Sabbathless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sabbath + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no Sabbath.
Sabbathly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Sabbath + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Every Sabbath.
Sabbathly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sabbath + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring every Sabbath.
sabbatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sabbatical.
sabbatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabbatics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sabbatical.
sabbatical year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabbatical years
Senses: glosses: A year of rest for the land observed every seven years in ancient Judea, which included allowing the fields to lie without tilling, sowing, or reaping from one autumn to the next in accordance with a Levitical commandment.
glosses: A leave, often with full or half pay granted (as every seventh year) to one holding an administrative or professional position for rest, travel, or research.
private-sector
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: private + sector
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the private sector.
acroatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ă'krō.ăʹtĭks
ipa: /ˌækɹəʊˈætɪks/
Etymology: acroatic (use as noun) + -s, plural suffix.
Senses: glosses: acroamatics.
macroanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroanalyses
Etymology: From macro- + analysis.
Senses: examples: text: We will now develop a model and example for a hospital to illustrate the use of this macroanalysis.
ref: 2003, William O. Cleverley, Andrew E. Cameron, Essentials of Health Care Finance, page 305:
glosses: large-scale analysis
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: analysis (qualitative or quantitative) in which the size of the sample is of the order of grams.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: the analysis of the highest levels of social activity e.g. social stratification.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: the analysis of the highest levels of social activity e.g. social stratification.
Related terms: macroanalytical