cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sitarmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈtɑː(ɹ)ˌmeɪk.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /sɪˈtɑɹˌmeɪk.ɚ/
rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Sitarmakers
form: Satarmaker
Etymology: Compound of sitar + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Due to the occupation, people used to call him Sitarmaker, which became very much familiar and lead to change in surname of Shikalkar to Sitarmaker.
ref: 2015 February 25, “About K S Sitarmaker”, in K. S. Sitarmaker (blog), archived from the original on 11 May 2024:
text: The trade is identified so strongly with them, that many use the surname Sitarmaker or Satarmaker.[…]¶ The wooden body of Balasaheb’s instruments comes from the one-room workshop of Abdul Hamid Sitarmaker.
ref: 2018 July 15, Priyanka Kakodkar, “Miraj’s legacy sitar-makers go online to survive”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2020:
text: Another well-wisher is Ibrahim Sitarmaker from Miraj, a town in the adjacent Sangli district that is famous for its instrument makers.
ref: 2020 April 1, Sumana Ramanan, “A rural classical-music festival unites aficionados from all walks of life”, in The Caravan, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2020:
glosses: An occupational surname of Indian usage.
Sitarmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sitarmaker
hookiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hooky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being hooky.
Changchou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In February of that year he went to Changchou, Fukien, and became a teacher in the Shih-Ma Middle School. Three years later he secretly entered the soviet districts and helped the Reds prepare their attack on Changchou, which they occupied briefly.
ref: 1957, Edgar Snow, “The Formosan”, in Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, →OL, page 103:
text: Since the old man used a special method of crushing the meat, which he learned from a master chef at Changchou in Fukien Province, his business flourished and the name “Tuhsiaoyeh” spread rapidly.
ref: 1983 May 29, “Gourmet food at bargain prices in historic Tainan”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXII, number 29, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 2–3:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: Lee Jung-fu (李榮福), former chief of a Taiwanese businessperson's association in Changchou (漳州), Fujian Province, has almost finished his preparations for investing in Taiwan, You said.
ref: 2006 December 29, Jewel Huang, “SEF chairman calls for improved cross-strait exchanges”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2007, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhangzhou.
Satarmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Satarmakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sitarmaker.
Fenyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fǔnʹyēʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 分宜.
Senses: glosses: A county of Xinyu, Jiangxi, China.
Yushui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹshwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 渝水.
Senses: examples: text: According to China’s electoral law, only the ‘official representative candidates’ are legal candidates for the county and village elections, being nominated and recommended by the political parties, civil organizations and the electorate. Thus, ‘independent’ candidates are considered illegal. For instance, a female xiagang worker in Jiangxi Province, Liu Ping, was placed under tight police surveillance after she declared her intention to stand in Xinyu City’s Yushui District elections.
ref: 2013, Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, “Evolving Agencies amid Rapid Social Change: Political Leadership and State-Civil Society Relations in China”, in James Rajasekar, Loo-See Beh, editors, Culture and Gender in Leadership: Perspectives from the Middle East and Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: A district of Xinyu, Jiangxi, China.
Xinyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹyüʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新余 (Xīnyú).
Senses: examples: text: A fire in a commercial building in southeastern China killed at least 39 people on Wednesday, as emergency workers raced to rescue people still trapped inside.
The fire broke out around 3:30 p.m. local time in Xinyu, a city in Jiangxi Province, in the basement of a building that housed an internet cafe on the ground floor and an educational center upstairs, according to Chinese state media and a local government announcement.
ref: 2024 January 24, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Li You, Chris Buckley, Siyi Zhao, “Building Fire in China Kills at Least 39, With Others Trapped”, in The New York Times, sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
Mediterraneanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterraneanization
Etymology: From Mediterraneanise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of Mediterraneanising.
pyridobenzimidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyridobenzimidazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic heterocyclic compound which has benzimidazole ortho-fused to a pyridine ring.
bioscientifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bioscientifically
form: most bioscientifically
Senses: glosses: In a bioscientific manner.
Oroches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oroch
Orochons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oroch
Orochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oroch
hardvapour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hard + vapour, after vaporwave.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An Internet-based microgenre of electronic music, emerged in 2015 as a reimagination of vaporwave with darker themes, faster tempos, and heavier sounds.
coolcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coolcations
Etymology: Blend of cool + vacation.
Senses: examples: text: For the vast majority of folks, summer holidays used to be about following the sun, seeking the heat—watching the mercury climb and hitting the sands. With the intense, record-breaking temperatures of recent years, however, many are considering traveling in the opposite direction: booking "coolcations" in temperate destinations, which also benefit from being less crowded.
ref: 2023 December 30, Sarah Allard, “The Biggest Travel Trends to Expect in 2024”, in Condé Nast Traveller, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2024:
text: The emerging trend for “coolcations” means that more tourists are heading to Scandinavia to avoid the Mediterranean’s searing temperatures, droughts and wildfires. While diversification may be a good thing, simply flying north instead of south isn’t.
ref: 2024 May 28, Rachel Dixon, “Be a better tourist! 28 ways to have a fantastic holiday – without infuriating the locals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2024:
text: The word is “coolcation,” and in an industry that has never met a trend it couldn’t slap a portmanteau onto, the term refers to the growing number of travelers who are avoiding the heat of traditional summer spots in favor of chillier climes.
In Europe, as heat waves close the Acropolis in Athens and spark wildfires in Spain and Portugal, coolcations are driving tourists to Nordic countries. But in a region that takes pride in environmental and social sustainability, the development is prompting as much concern as celebration.
ref: 2025 August 20, Lisa Abend, “In Norway, Are ‘Coolcations’ Taking a Toll?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025:
glosses: A vacation spent in a place with a colder climate to avoid unpleasantly hot weather.
coolcations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coolcation
Klerk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Klerk and Afrikaans Klerk.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch or Afrikaans.
Derived terms: Klerksdorp
Papel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: an ethnic group found in Guinea Bissau
glosses: their language
Papel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Papels
Senses: glosses: a member of that ethnic group
Anāl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Anal.
Anāl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anāls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Anal.
Anāls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anāl
unnormally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unnormal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unnormal manner; not normally.
Llŷn Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lleyn Peninsula
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in North Wales, United Kingdom.
Purim spiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purim spiels
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּורימשפּיל (purimshpil).
Senses: glosses: A (usually comic) theatrical reenactment of the book of Esther.
abcess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of abscess.
Sūmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sumer.
Tlinket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tlinkets
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tlingit.
Tlinket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tlingit.
Tlinket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tlingit.
Choroti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chorotis
form: Chorote
Senses: examples: text: Ball containing nuts, used in the game of tocoroco, by the Chorotis.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 238:
glosses: A member of a Matacoan people of Paraguay and Bolivia.
piggy stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tipcat
sweetnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetniks
Etymology: From sweet + -nik.
Senses: glosses: sweetie, sweetheart
by hook and by crook
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪ ˈhʊk‿n̩ baɪ ˈkɹʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: examples: text: Thus, by diverse little make shifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all those who undersood nothing of the labour of headwork, to have a wonderful easy life of it.
ref: 1820 March 5, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, pages 62–63:
text: In these fields of Mr. Tulkinghorn's inhabiting, where the shepherds play on Chancery pipes that have no stop, and keep their sheep in the fold by hook and by crook until they have shorn them exceeding close, every noise is merged, this moonlight night, into a distant ringing hum, as if the city were a vast glass, vibrating.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Closing In”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 469:
text: He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook.
ref: 1936 August, Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 14 October 1938, →OCLC, page 158:
glosses: Alternative form of by hook or by crook.
pop wood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops wood
form: popping wood
form: popped wood
form: popped wood
Senses: glosses: Of a male, to experience an erection.
background noises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of background noise
water popping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: grain popping
glosses: A technique used to open the grain of wood flooring by introducing clean water to its surface before staining and finishing it.
grain popping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water popping.
synonyms: word: water popping
Gaetzs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaetz
Gaetzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaetz
Gateses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gates
no fixed abode
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: word: NFA
glosses: Not having a fixed geographical location as a residence.
Borong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Borong terms
Bambam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A South Sulawesi language spoken in Indonesia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Bambam terms
anklebiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anklebiter
soap flake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soap flakes
Senses: glosses: A small, translucent, chip or a flake of soap that is used for washing dishes, laundry, etc.
soap flakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soap flake
soap foam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soap foams
Senses: glosses: A lather created when a foaming agent in soaps, detergents, and shampoos mixes with air and water.
soap ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soap rings
Senses: glosses: A product designed to allow a user to carry a small amount of soap to wash their hands when there is no sink available.
soap rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soap ring
soap foams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soap foam
cargo aircraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo aircrafts
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: cargo plane
glosses: A fixed-wing aircraft that is designed or converted for the carriage of cargo rather than passengers.
cargo plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo planes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cargo aircraft.
synonyms: word: cargo aircraft
cargo aircrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargo aircraft
cargo planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargo plane
cargo bicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo bicycles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cargo bike.
synonyms: word: cargo bike
freight bicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freight bicycles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cargo bike.
synonyms: word: cargo bike
pops wood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pop wood
popping wood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of pop wood
popped wood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop wood
cargo bicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargo bicycle
freight bicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freight bicycle
box bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box bikes
Etymology: Calque of Dutch bakfiets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bakfiets.
synonyms: word: bakfiets
carrier cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrier cycles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bakfiets.
synonyms: word: bakfiets
cycletruck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycletrucks
Etymology: From cycle + truck.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bakfiets.
synonyms: word: bakfiets
freight tricycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freight tricycles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bakfiets.
synonyms: word: bakfiets
freight tricycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freight tricycle
box bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box bike
carrier cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrier cycle
cycletrucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycletruck
dead as Hector
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Referencing the story of Hector, a Trojan hero in Greek mythology and a character in Homer's Iliad, who leads the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, and is ultimately killed in single combat by Achilles, who later drags his dead body around the city of Troy behind his chariot.
Senses: examples: text: […] if a man, on coming up to his old friend’s cottage, finds the owner staring him in the face over a stile, all the while as dead as Hector,—still the answer is,—“Why, to be sure, all this is rather absurd; but then, Sir, consider the power.”
ref: 1823 July, “Scottish Novels of the Second Class”, in The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, volume 13, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, page 4:
synonyms: word: dead as a doornail
word: asleep
word: at rest
word: cadaverous
word: clay-cold
word: deceased
word: resting
word: decomposed
word: defunct
word: departed
word: expired
word: extinct
word: fey
word: gone
word: good
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: kaput
word: late
word: lifeless
word: living impaired
word: low
word: no longer with us
word: no more
word: perished
word: reposing
word: six feet deep
word: six feet under
word: stiff
word: wasted
word: whilom
word: with God
qualifier: simile
glosses: Unquestionably dead.
wikipedia: Achilles
Hector
Homer
Iliad
Related terms: since Hector was a pup
sphenosalpingostaphylinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of tensor veli palatini.
synonyms: word: tensor veli palatini
ethnosupremacist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + supremacist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or espousing ethnic supremacism.
tactile sign language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactile sign languages
Senses: glosses: A sign language used by deafblind people that uses the sense of touch rather than vision.
dual sensory impaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: deafblind.
unkneadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kneadable.
Senses: glosses: Not kneadable.
mayurpankhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayurpankhis
Senses: glosses: A Bengal pleasure craft decorated to look like a peacock.
loss condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loss conditions
Senses: examples: text: Standard procedure is that I have to tell you what to do next if this doesn't work. That's the asynchronous research covenant.
ref: 2017 May 4, qntm, “SCP-3125”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
topics: video-games
glosses: An event or state which constitutes defeat for those encountering it.
loss conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loss condition
chipbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipboxes
Senses: examples: text: Farmyards and sets of animals were sold in chip-boxes usually oval in shape and from two to 14 inches across.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 63:
glosses: A small box made of lightweight materials.
Ossaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ossau
Axis Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Axial Age.
Zartosht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zardosht
form: Zardusht
form: Zartusht
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian زرتشت. Doublet of Zarathustra and Zoroaster.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Zoroaster.
synonyms: word: Zoroaster
language-learner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: language-learners
Senses: examples: text: First, we do meet a lot of grammatically incorrect expressions (e. g., a language-learner’s first exercise in composition), of which we seem to understand the ‘meaning’.
ref: 1984, Bimal Krishna Matilal, “Grammaticality and Meaninglessness”, in S[hivram] D[attatray] Joshi, editor, Amṛtadhārā: Professor R[amchandra] N[arayan] Dandekar Dandekar Felicitation Volume, Delhi: Ajanta Publications, →OCLC, page 270:
text: The most effective language-learners are those who develop empathy with (or a feeling for) the other language and the other people, and make the leap of imagination into their territory.
ref: 1991, Terry Doyle, Paul Meara, “Getting going”, in Li′ngō! How to Learn a Language, London: BBC Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Most language-learners succeed well enough to be able to communicate for all practical purposes.
ref: 1997, Philip G[eorge] Zimbardo, Ann L. Weber, “Psychological Development”, in Psychology, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of language learner.
language-learners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of language-learner
language learners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of language learner
mega-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Chappell] Roan draws from the mega-pop of the 2010s, from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift – then laces it with sexually frank asides and lavish doses of camp, and performs it with a maximalist, absurd aesthetic indebted to drag, John Waters and Freddie Mercury.
ref: 2024 August 9, Laura Snapes, “It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of megapop.
quadium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of quadrium.
radiopromethium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + promethium.
Senses: glosses: Radioactive promethium.
Christianhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English Christenhode, Cristenhode, chrystenhede, equivalent to Christian + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: I wish you, then, dear friend, to form a clear conception of what and wherein consists Christianhood; ―what it is, that essentially and necessarily differences the Christian from the ungodly.
ref: 1847, Henry Septimus Sutton, The Evangel of Love, page 149:
glosses: The state or condition of being a Christian.
intradunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + dunal.
Senses: glosses: Within dunes.
slow-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow-burns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slow burn.
slow-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slow-burn
form: most slow-burn
Senses: examples: text: This restructuring is a slow-burn disaster for the funding of the Russian war machine.
ref: 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: slow-burning
glosses: Emerging or unfolding slowly or gradually.
examples: text: Clarke and Lexa's slow-burn romance—and the fan fiction that Vi devoured about it —led to her joining Tumblr and starting to write her own fanfic.
ref: 2018, Jessica Spotswood, The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls, unnumbered page:
text: Since most respondents who prefer slow-burn fics are on the asexual spectrum, this is not surprising, as they are less likely to desire sexual experiences with others in general.
ref: 2018, Lindsay Mixer, "'And Then They Boned': An Analysis Of Fanfiction And Its Influence On Sexual Development", thesis submitted Humboldt State University, page 48
text: Slow burn fics, for instance, can go as far as having seventy thousand words before the character pairing even interacts.
ref: 2020, Shania O'Brien, "The horny POV: Evolution of modern fanfiction", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 5, Semester 5 (2020), page 18
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
synonyms: slow-burning
glosses: Emerging or unfolding slowly or gradually.
Developing slowly over the course of the story.
raw_tags: of a romantic relationship
Related terms: slow burn
slow burner
slow-burning
slow-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slow-burns
form: slow-burning
form: slow-burned
form: slow-burned
Senses: examples: text: When the Missouri-born 26-year-old released her debut album last September, it marked the beginning of a slow-burning second act in pop. [see title]
ref: 2024 August 9, Laura Snapes, “It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To emerge or unfold slowly.
slow-burns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slow-burn
slow-burns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slow-burn
slow-burned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slow-burn
Heyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 河源 (Héyuán).
Senses: examples: text: In Dongguan, a major manufacturing hub, about 20,000 workers from 750 manufacturers have signed up to such schemes since February, according to Dongguan government.
In the high-tech industrial development zone of Heyuan city, home to over 300 industrial companies, more than 100 factories scaled back operations after the pandemic hit orders
ref: 2020 August 27, Stella Qiu, Tony Munroe, “We share workers: Chinese factories redeploy staff to weather pandemic blow”, in Shri Navaratnam, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 May 2025:
glosses: A large prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeast China.
pampushkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pampushka
pampushky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ukrainian пампушки́ (pampušký).
Senses: glosses: plural of pampushka
glosses: plural of pampushok
pampushok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pampushky
Etymology: From Ukrainian пампу́шок (pampúšok).
Senses: examples: text: The wonderful fragrance of the pampushky still brings back memories of working alongside my favorite Baba. […] Place the side of the pampushok that was on the board into oil first.
ref: 1997, Christine Pakush Vaughan, “Pampushky: Pastry Puff”, in Joanne Alfonso Pizarro, Coming Home, Fredericksburg, Va.: Igloo Publishing, →ISBN, page 195, column 2:
text: How Much is That Doggie in the Window - give everybody a pampushok, stand in a semi circle holding the piece of bread near the floor. Let in a dog (a friendly hungry one is usually best), and the holder of the first pampushok that the dog eats will have good luck for the next year. Everyone else gets to eat their pampushky.
ref: 1997 November, Lisa McDonald, “Celebrate Andriivsky Vechir with traditional pagan rituals”, in Student, volume 44, number 2, Toronto, Ont.: Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union, page 5, column 1:
text: Pampushky (Filled Sweet Buns) “Pampushky are a wonderful dessert any time of the year. You can fill them with your favourite fruits like cherries, blueberries or Saskatoon berries. The traditional fillings are poppy seed and prune, but my family also enjoys poppy seed with raisin.” — Zonnia Ostopowich, Edmonton, Alberta […] 1 pampushok: 72 Calories; 4.1 g Total Fat; 35 mg Sodium; 1 g Protein; 8 g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fibre
ref: 2007 October, Cooking at Home: The Magazine Recipe Collection, collector’s edition, Edmonton, Alta.: Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 40, columns 1 and 3:
text: His mother gave the boys coins and pampushky for their efforts. Each boy ate his pampushok then and there and gave the coins to Roman to put in the sack.
ref: 2009, Gloria Siers, “Christmas”, in Once There Was and Will Never Be Again, Mount Pleasant, Mich.: Autumnberry Hill, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of pampushka.
bubliki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian бу́блики (búbliki).
Senses: glosses: plural of bublik
IASs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IAS
unincorporated community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unincorporated communities
Senses: glosses: A geographic area having a common social identity without municipal organization or official political designation.
unincorporated communities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unincorporated community
government in exile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governments in exile
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of government-in-exile.
Gyallu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan རྒྱལ་གླུ། (rgyal glu, literally “Victorious Anthem”).
Senses: examples: text: China’s state-controlled television and radio in Tibet is surprising visitors to a newly launched website with a music video of the banned Tibetan national anthem. The song, called ‘Gyalu’^([sic]) in Tibetan, is sung by exile Tibetans across the world but has been banned in Tibet for more than 50 years.
ref: 2013 November 6, VOA News, “Oops: China State Media Website Plays Banned Tibetan National Anthem”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024:
text: The second Tibetan national anthem was composed in 1950 by Trijan Rinpoche. This anthem is known as ‘Gyallu’ and is strictly banned by the Chinese, especially in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The anthem sung that night was Gyallu.
ref: 2021 December 1, Kalman Dubov, His Holiness, The Dalai Lama: My time with the Tibetan community, Los Angeles, California, June 2001, page 53:
glosses: A Tibetan patriotic song which serves as the de facto national anthem of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
michelinocerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of michelinocerid
to hell and back
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I love you to hell and back.
glosses: Greatly, intensely.
Related terms: to hell and gone
to hell and back
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She's been to hell and back.
glosses: Through an extremely difficult or distressing situation.
michelinocerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: michelinocerids
Etymology: Derived from Michelinocerida, which derives from the genus Michelinoceras, named by Foeste in 1932.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the Michelinocerida (also known as Orthocerida) order of cephalopods.
straight cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight covers
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A cover version (a new performance of an existing song) which has none or very few differences from the original version.
in the rear with the gear
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: In reference to being behind front lines ("the rear") alongside equipment and supplies ("the gear").
Senses: examples: text: They offered me a deployment overseas to see some action, but I declined. I prefer just staying in the rear with the gear.
topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: ass in the grass
glosses: Far away from any battlefield; not involved in active combat; in a support role.
leave someone to their fate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves someone to their fate
form: leaving someone to their fate
form: left someone to their fate
form: left someone to their fate
Senses: examples: text: I thought I could rely on you, and yet you completely leave me to my fate during my illness!
text: When the brake pedal stopped working at that speed, I jumped out through the door and left my car to its fate.
glosses: to abandon; to give up on; to leave on their own – chiefly in regard to avoid upcoming misfortune
Bad Driburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Höxter district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
preproparoxytone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /̩pɹeɪpɹəʊpəˈɹɒksɪtəʊn/
ipa: /̩pripɹoʊpəˈɹɑksɪtoʊn/
Etymology: From pre- + proparoxytone.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: oxytone
paroxytone
proparoxytone
perispomenon
properispomenon
barytone
glosses: Having the stress or accent on the preantepenultimate syllable.
preproparoxytone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /̩pɹeɪpɹəʊpəˈɹɒksɪtəʊn/
ipa: /̩pripɹoʊpəˈɹɑksɪtoʊn/
Forms: form: preproparoxytones
Etymology: From pre- + proparoxytone.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: oxytone
paroxytone
proparoxytone
perispomenon
properispomenon
barytone
glosses: A preproparoxytone word.
boubliks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boublik
sooshkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sooshka
sushkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sushka
nothing if not
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌθɪŋ ɪf nɒt/
Etymology: Literally, asserts the truth of a statement by saying that the alternative is void.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: nothing less than, nothing but
text: He's nothing if not a liar.
translation: He is certainly a liar.
english: He is certainly a liar.
text: Well, thrift is a virtue, and he's nothing if not careful with money.
translation: Not only denotes that he is certainly careful with money (frugal) but also obliquely implies that he is very careful with money (miserly).
english: Not only denotes that he is certainly careful with money (frugal) but also obliquely implies that he is very careful with money (miserly).
antonyms: anything but
coordinate_terms: a bit
glosses: Certainly; definitely; (sometimes also obliquely) thoroughly; wholly; to a high degree; extremely.
Hachijō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hachijou
Senses: glosses: A language, closely related to Japanese, spoken on the Izu and Daitō Islands.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Hachijō terms
pryaniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pryanik
pryaniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian пря́ники (prjániki).
Senses: glosses: plural of pryanik
imagery rescripting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ImRs
form: imagery rescripting & reprocessing therapy
form: IRRT
Senses: glosses: A psychotherapeutic intervention where traumatic experiences are reprocessed by the patient and rescripted and redescribed with the intention of the current self to gain control over them and hence be less overwhelmed with negative emotions in their relation.
Related terms: prolongated exposure
cognitive processing therapy
cognitive therapy for PTSD
eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
narrative exposure therapy
dialectical behavioral therapy for complex posttraumatic stress disorders
bareshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: bare + shaft
Senses: examples: text: A bareshaft pump was installed.
glosses: With shaft only, that is without motor or base.
Rogate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8023).
full-stop landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-stop landings
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A landing in which the aircraft comes to a full stop (rather than performing a go-around or touch-and-go).
haunting grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By confusion of hunting ground with haunts.
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of hunting grounds.
Leafield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3115).
glosses: A southern suburb of Corsham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8669).
Wardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only used in Wardian case
Stoke St Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2622).
VANTA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VANTAs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of vertically aligned carbon nanotube array.
Derived terms: Vantablack
VANTAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VANTA
duderus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːdərəs/
Forms: form: duderuses
Etymology: Blend of dude + uterus.
Senses: qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The uterus of a trans man.
Related terms: bussy
Haydon Wick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and civil parish in Swindon borough, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1388).
CPACer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPACers
Etymology: From CPAC + -er.
Senses: examples: ref: 2014 August 3, Dylan Scott, “CPACer: Gays Don’t Get ‘Extra Rights’ Like The Right To Marry”, in Talking Points Memo:
ref: 2017 February 27, Brian Tashman, “CPACer Falls For Paid Protester Hoax”, in Right Wing Watch:
glosses: A speaker at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference).
CPACers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CPACer
touch-and-goes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-and-go
quaking bog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaking bogs
Senses: examples: text: The turf hardens by degrees , but is still stringy when broken, and at length becomes the red turf employed as fuel. The production of the quaking bogs is as follows : […]
ref: 1821, Sir Richard Phillips, The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Described According to the Latest and Best Authorities, page 235:
text: […] the naturalists attribute this mysterious movement to the isostatic dynamics of the quaking bog itself: their very footfall has created a rippling dynamic through the liquidity of the peat, which disturbed the distant vegetation. Yet even for these scientists, as Meredith (2002: 319) notes, this sense of an animate[…]
ref: 2020 December 15, Melanie Giles, Bog bodies: Face to face with the past, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of floating bog in which vegetation forms a floating mat on the surface of water or above very wet peat, which moves (or quakes) when walked upon.
quaking bogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaking bog
peatery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːtəɹi/
Forms: form: peateries
form: petary
form: peatry
form: peatary
Etymology: From peat + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A peat bog; an area covered by peat, or from which peat is extracted.
tree failures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree failure
touch-and-go's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of touch-and-goes, plural of touch-and-go
floating bog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating bogs
Senses: examples: text: A floating bog drifting about in a bay from one shore to the other, touching at different points and frequently exposed to the strong winds in the middle of the bay, while in transit from bank to bank, becomes a resting place for[…]
ref: 1896, Minnesota Botanical Studies, page 999:
text: A floating bog is terrorizing homeowners in a cove on Lake Marie in Antioch. Homeowners and local officials said the 100-by-100-foot bog is made of vegetation and mud and is estimated to weigh 20 tons[…]
ref: 2021 January 1, Richard J. Heggen, Floating Islands: an Activity Book, Richard Heggen:
glosses: A mat of bog vegetation which floats on the surface of water; a quaking bog.
floating bogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floating bog
schwingmoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schwingmoors
Etymology: From German Schwingmoor.
Senses: glosses: A floating bog.
schwingmoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schwingmoor
bog-wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bog-woods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bogwood.
bog wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bog woods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bogwood.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bog, wood.
sight impaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: visually impaired
hard of seeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Formed by analogy with hard of hearing.
Senses: glosses: Having reduced ability to see.
batumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [The] Batumen Nests of Meliponini are surrounded by a layer of material called batumen. The batumen is made of cerumen (commonly brittle), resin (propolis), or sometimes of vegetable matter or mud mixed with resin or cerumen.
ref: 1974, Charles Duncan Michener, The Social Behavior of the Bees: A Comparative Study, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 334:
text: ... batumen plate Figure 7-8 . Diagram of a meliponine nest in a hollow tree, with parts labeled. The batumen typically surrounds the entire nest; here it consists of two plates that limit the nest area and a thin lining of batumen (not[…]
ref: 2007 May 31, Charles D. Michener, The Bees of the World, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: […] batumen may form a thick layer. For example in a long hollow in a tree trunk, strong batumen plates above and below the nest may close off the nest area from other parts of the hollow (Fig. 1.3 ). The strong and usually laminate[…]
ref: 2013 January 17, Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, David Roubik, Pot-Honey: A legacy of stingless bees, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A mixture consisting of cerumen (beeswax), resin and vegetable matter, used in the construction and maintenance of nests by meliponine bees.
flotants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flotant
Nikolaiev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nikolayev.
Mykolaiiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mykolaiv.
geographicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geographical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being geographical.
nanopunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnænəʊˌpʌŋk/
ipa: /ˈnænoʊˌpəŋk/
Etymology: From nano- + -punk.
Senses: examples: text: Nanopunk: Nanotechnology is the driving technology here. With nanofacs on every street corner, almost any TL6 item can be had for almost nothing. Even the lowest of street scum can easily beg enough for a warm coat and can eat fairly well. Neal Stephenson's _The_Diamond_Age_ is likely the definitive work here, and suggests a basic plot: some street urchin accidentally gets hold of an incredibly powerful artifact, and various powerful groups try to take it from her.
ref: 1998 September 11, Michael C. Martin, “GURPS: Space 1889”, in rec.games.frp.gurps (Usenet):
text: IF YOU’RE NOT hell-bent on immortality, a transhumanist, a subscriber to Life Extension magazine, or an enthusiast of nanopunk (a subgenre, think cyberpunk), you’re likely dismissing the Freitas nanorobots as a Trekkie fantasy. That would put you in the vast majority of humanoids. Even among most nano-savvy scientists and physicians, Freitas’ ideas are too far off, too speculative to merit serious consideration.
ref: 2012, Josh Schonwald, The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food, HarperCollins, page 273:
text: Sequels are dieselpunk, covering the 1930s to the 1950s; atompunk, landing in the period 1945-1965, post-modern cyberpunk; and biopunk and nanopunk, both having been inspired by newly emerging technologies.
ref: 2012, Thaddeus Tinker [i.e., Thomas Willeford], “The Front Page” (chapter 1), in The Steampunk Gazette, volume 1, Barron's Educational Series, Beyond Steampunk, page 11:
text: @Pingukittieh2 A GOOD scify should have an element of horror to it, I think. The one I'm writing now is a nanopunk scify and its scary.
ref: 2014 July 13, @PetersSugarTits, Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2024:
text: They have cyberpunk and nanopunk, soft and hard sci-fi, military and alternate history, space operas.
ref: 2015 July 10, Jessi Cape, “Books on Wheels”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 34, number 45, page 27:
glosses: A science fiction genre that focuses on nanotechnology.
snowball cactuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowball cactus
full-stop landings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full-stop landing
midness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Synchronically, by surface analysis, mid + -ness; diachronically, known to have an equivalent etymon in Old English and probably never absent from the language since then, albeit rare.
Senses: examples: text: Rule (11) formulates that short, non-high vowels that agree in backness, roundness and midness (/a/: [- mid, - back, - round]; 10/: [+ mid, + back, + round]) are lengthened before voiceless fricatives.
ref: 2021 [1985], Beat Glauser, “7: Linguistic Atlases and Generative Phonology”, in Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics, volume 26, Taylor & Francis, page 118:
text: After Bauer (1926/70:11) and Cantineau (1960:111), I analyse this mid height as the result of lowering conditioned by postvelars. It is phonetic because the high vowels are gradiently mid, their degree of midness depending on their degree of proximity to the postvelar. This is illustrated by (30a-b) in which, while the first-syllable vowels are [ɛ], the second-syllable vowels are perceptually a short diphthong from mid [ɛ] to high [ɪ].
ref: 2003, Kimary N. Shahin, Postvelar Harmony, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 69:
text: The curly brackets are necessary because notions such as non-lowness, midness, etc. are not accessible, as such but only implicit in the naming.
ref: 2014, Jacques Durand, Generative and Non-Linear Phonology, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: The state or quality of being mid.
Related terms: mediocrity
middle
middleness
middlingness
sleeping power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeping powers
Etymology: From sleeping (“dormant”) + power.
Senses: topics: government
law
politics
glosses: A power which is unused, or which has not been exercised for a long time; especially one which is extensive, but little-known.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleeping, power.
sleeping powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeping power
MCHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCHCs
Senses: examples: text: Labs […] RBC [red blood cells] 5.0×10⁶/mm³ ¶ MCH [mean corpuscular hemoglobin] 28 pg ¶ MCHC 34 g/dL ¶ MCV [mean corpuscular volume] 90 µm³ ¶ Plts [platelets] 192×10³/mm³
ref: 2009, Julia M. Koehler, Carrie Maffeo, “Chronic Asthma”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 79:
topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration.
Related terms: english: mean corpuscular hemoglobin
translation: mean corpuscular hemoglobin
word: MCH
Lexus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An invented word developed circa 1987 by Team One as the marketing team for the brand; said to have no specific meaning but to be euphonious and to evoke a luxurious and technological image (not unusual among car model name origins); for more, see Wikipedia at Lexus § History.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Toyota#Proper noun
glosses: A brand of high-end motor vehicle from the Toyota Motor Corporation.