cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
salegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salegoers
Etymology: From sale + goer.
Senses: examples: text: One would think that the average salegoer would prefer going home to his dinner, but not so with the stamp enthusiast — he or she would miss many meals, and sacrifice all sorts of valuable appointments, for a stamp auction.
ref: 1904, The Stamp Collectors' Annual, page 117:
glosses: Alternative form of sale-goer.
salegoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salegoer
Chaoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They are under the guidance of a Chaoosh, or Superintendant, a most consequential personage, and generally a Seid, with a mixture of Turkish and Persian in him which no doubt adds both to his servility and insolence.
ref: 1828, Robert Cotton Money, Journal of a Tour in Persia, during the years 1824 & 1825, London: Teape and Son, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of chaoosh; obsolete spelling of chiaus.
shop-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shop-goers
Etymology: From shop + goer.
Senses: examples: text: Large office blocks and shopping streets are being put up with not even an awning to protect the head of the shop-goer from the sweltering Persian sun.
ref: 1935, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 49, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of shopgoer.
shop-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shop-goer
bathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of bathymetric; compare topo.
Senses: examples: text: Many bathy systems will use an additional infrared pulse to determine the water surface.
ref: 2013, Kirk Waters, "Bathy Lidar: Harder Than It Looks", September 25
glosses: bathymetric.
chaoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See chiaus.
Senses: examples: text: When the sultan of the genii had read the note, he called out to one of his chaoosh⁸, who immediately attended before him, and commanded him to bring into his presence without delay the genie who had enchanted the daughter of the sultan of Cairo.
ref: 1811, Jonathan Scott, The arabian nights entertainments, volume 6, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chiaus.
show-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show-goers
Etymology: From show + goer.
Senses: examples: text: Because performances tend to start around 8 p.m. and French restaurants tend to open at 7 p.m., with dining lasting anywhere from one and a half to three hours and more, what's a hungry show-goer to do?
ref: 2009, Cheryl A. Pientka, Paris For Dummies, →ISBN, page 305:
text: Bring someone with you when you exhibit at a cash-and-carry show. You have to display a lot of product and if you run to the restroom, a less-than-honest show-goer could steal something.
ref: 2009, Sandy Abrams, Your Idea, Inc, →ISBN, page 203:
text: The usual show-goer, who knows little of such dogs and their work, would call them 'weedy.
ref: 2013, The Skye Terrier - A Complete Anthology of the Dog, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of showgoer.
show-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of show-goer
shul-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shul-goers
Etymology: From shul + goer.
Senses: examples: text: If you're an occasional shul-goer and have not yet found a home, ask your friends, people you feel are on the same wavelength as you. Go shul hopping!
ref: 2012, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Joel Segel, Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of shulgoer.
shul-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shul-goer
shulgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːlˌɡəʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ʃʊl-/
Forms: form: shulgoers
form: shul-goer
Etymology: From shul + goer.
Senses: examples: text: This is often an awkward moment, even for the veteran shulgoer; how much the more so for a new visitor, a non-Jew, or a recent Jew by choice.
ref: 2006, Terry Bookman, William Kahn, This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and The People who Dwell There, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: One who attends shul (a synagogue); a practising Jew.
shulgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shulgoer
spa-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spa-goers
Etymology: From spa + goer.
Senses: examples: text: Like the tourist and the pilgrim, the spa-goer becomes the heroine of her own adventure: her growth and self-mastery consist of dominating the flesh.
ref: 1995, Katharine Young, Bodylore, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Alternative form of spagoer.
spa-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spa-goer
spit feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spits feathers
form: spitting feathers
form: spat feathers
form: spat feathers
form: spit feathers
form: spit feathers
Senses: examples: text: Where is that sodding drink? I'm spitting feathers.
ref: 2003, Robert David MacDonald, “Salto Mortale”, in Plays Two, →ISBN, page 94:
text: I was just about spitting feathers. My throat was so dry and sore that I could barely feel my own tongue.
ref: 2003, M. Dylan Raskin, Little New York Bastard, →ISBN, page 202:
text: “I've always liked camomile tea, and I'm spitting feathers after walking all the way over here. Nothing quenches the thirst like camomile tea.”
ref: 2010, Peter Bond, Exodus: Earth Fights Back, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: To feel very thirsty.
examples: text: He is high as a kite on Fair Trade espressos and spitting feathers that Ted Nicholls is apparently having some sort of comeback.
ref: 2007, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Anonymous, Fashion Babylon, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Yesterday's heresy—the sort of thing that made orthodox theologians spit feathers—becomes today's tourist attraction.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Wright, Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church, →ISBN, page 258:
text: Spartan education was entirely geared to the sublimation of the individual to the state, the disintegration of the ego and its reorientation as an agent of Spartan civilization. Proponents of child-centred education would spit feathers, I imagine.
ref: 2012, Tom Bennett, Teacher: Mastering the Art and Craft of Teaching, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: To feel very angry; to sputter angrily.
Synonyms: sense: to feel very thirsty
word: spit cotton
sense: to feel very angry, to sputter angrily
word: spit nails
spitting feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spit feathers
tour-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tour-goers
Etymology: From tour + goer.
Senses: examples: text: This tour-goer stopped everyone in their tracks when she told of seeing a family in the attic window many times prior to this particular night.
ref: 2007, Dianna Avena, Roswell: History, Haunts and Legends, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of tourgoer.
tour-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tour-goer
chowse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chous
ipa: /t͡ʃaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: chowses
form: chowsing
form: chowsed
form: chowsed
Senses: examples: text: Shall chance ſupercede nature? And if nature has given me more ſtrength or cunning than you, why was that, but to make uſe of it? And either to chowſe you, or beat you out of what I think more convenient for my ſelf?
ref: 1706 August 3, Charles Leslie, A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the rehearsals, volume 2, number 127, London: W. Bowen, →OCLC, page 300:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”).
wedding-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding-goers
form: weddinggoer
Etymology: From wedding + goer.
Senses: examples: text: I tried to turn away and found myself winking some more at the most innocuous wedding-goer I could find: Francine's great-aunt in the front row.
ref: 2012, Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, →ISBN:
glosses: One who attends a wedding.
self-mutilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + mutilation.
Senses: glosses: self-harm
wedding-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding-goer
weddinggoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weddinggoers
Etymology: From wedding + goer.
Senses: examples: text: Site includes weekly specials, newest items, and information on collecting vintage items and offers layaway. A must-see sight for the eccentric weddinggoer.
ref: 1998, Marcia Layton, New Rider's Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages, →ISBN, page 370:
glosses: Alternative form of wedding-goer.
weddinggoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weddinggoer
antiroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirooms
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of anteroom.
antirooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiroom
antinormative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinormative
form: most antinormative
Etymology: From anti- + normative.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering what is normative.
antinaturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + naturalism.
Senses: examples: text: Nature's waters are subverted to turn against its guests, complementing a xenofeminist commitment to an anti-naturalism that also entails dismantling nuclear domestic spaces.
ref: 2020, Jennifer Cooke, “Feminist Manuals and Manifestos in the Twenty-first Century”, in Jennifer Cooke, editor, The New Feminist Literary Studies, page 196:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The view that the natural world and the social world are different, related to antipositivism.
Related terms: antinaturalist
antilight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + light.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical inverse of light, associated with antimatter.
antish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æntɪʃ
Forms: form: more antish
form: most antish
Etymology: From ant + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Le Shechin prescribes the scales as a remedy against all sorts of antish swellings, because they are used to entrap ants […]
ref: 1839, The Chinese Repository, volume 7, page 49:
text: Ensure no queen ants enter your 'scope's mounting alive by introducing an arachnid defense force. One adult spider per square ... the following night. Most startling was my discovery that the antish queen had seen fit to use the entombed 240 v junction box as a nursery! Its casing was packed solid with a yellow-white froth of ant eggs and larvae.
ref: 2010, Steve Ringwood, Astronomers Anonymous:
text: It seems to me a cold, antish trick. But the fire that is ... I will use it against the ants, while they swarm over everything.
ref: 2013, D.H. Lawrence, Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated):
text: “Oh, I don't know. Like—like something antish.” “What's antish?” Heart asked, intrigued. “Something only ants like,” Alyssa explained, thinking of the muffin. “It's a pretty exact map for just antish things,” Owl said briskly.
ref: 2015, Valentine McKay-Riddell, The River Goddess and Other Stories: - Page 87:
glosses: Of or relating to ants.
antitheocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitheocratic
form: most antitheocratic
Etymology: From anti- + theocratic.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to theocracy.
antiteleological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiteleological
form: most antiteleological
Etymology: From anti- + teleological.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposing teleology.
antirhetorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirhetorical
form: most antirhetorical
Etymology: From anti- + rhetorical.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or avoiding the use of rhetoric.
antigodlin
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Seemingly an alteration of antigoglin.
Senses: glosses: crosswise; askew; not straight or directly opposite or adjacent
antitime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + time.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical construct that resembles time but somehow opposes or counteracts it.
anticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticky
form: most anticky
Etymology: From antic + -y.
Senses: glosses: Given to antics; clownish; playful.
antibi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibi
form: most antibi
Etymology: From anti- + bi.
Senses: glosses: antibisexual
hyperpresence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + presence.
Senses: examples: text: When the hierarchical organization of space that privileges the eye and vision, this perspective simulation - for it is merely a simulacrum - disintegrates, something else emerges; this we express as a kind of touch, for lack of a better term, a tactile hyperpresence of things, “as if we could grasp them.” But this tactile fantasy has nothing to do with our sense of touch: it is a metaphor for “seizure,” the annihilation of the scene and space of representation.
ref: 1988, Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: An orchestration of affect laces through the textual source, affects following one another or overlapping, integrating all the hyperpresences at the level of consciousness.
ref: 1996, Silvan Solomon Tomkins, Knowing Feeling: Affect, Script, and Psychotherapy, Norton, page 341:
text: For while Strindberg seems to insist on his own hyperpresence when inviting a friend into a room full of Wunderkamera photographs of himself, the diverse images also serve to undermine photography’s referential function—rather than shoring up the body’s authority and presence, they suggest that the body has been something and somewhere else, is not a dependable continuity or singularity, cannot be counted upon.
ref: 1997, Picturing Ourselves, page 88:
text: Heine criticizes this lack of differentiation, this hyperpresence of the effect in its cause, in the following description of the early Liszt.
ref: 1998, Susan Bernstein, Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: All the same, he should have taken her into the garden they both loved so much one sunny afternoon and talked to her about the kind of love for her that he was capable of and the kind he was not. He wouldn’t even have needed to speak about skies and angels, let alone hyperpresences.
ref: 2008, Robert Dessaix, Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives, Picador, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Strong presence; the quality of being hyperpresent.
antimyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimyths
Etymology: From anti- + myth.
Senses: examples: text: On a deeper level, Stivers believes, there is "an underlying commonality" to myth and ritual of traditional societies and the antimyth of modern, technological society.
ref: 1996, John R. Maier, Desert Songs, page 86:
text: Indeed, one way of reading this is not as a myth, but as an antimyth, intended to limit further mythic development.
ref: 2004, Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A belief or system that opposes a myth or myths.
antinaturalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinaturalistic
form: most antinaturalistic
Etymology: From anti- + naturalistic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Of or relating to antinaturalism; opposing naturalism.
antiaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiaesthetic
form: most antiaesthetic
Etymology: From anti- + aesthetic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or rejecting what is aesthetic.
somedays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From some + days.
Senses: glosses: On certain days, or at certain times; sometimes.
hardnose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardnoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard-nose.
hardnose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardnose
form: most hardnose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard-nosed.
hardnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardnose
hornrims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horn + rims.
Senses: examples: text: Tonight after carefully plaiting my hair, and putting on the cute tweed suit […] I grabbed my horn-rims and rushed down to a staff meeting of the GCN.
ref: 1973 August 25, Rita, “Excerpts From The Journal Of Mzzz. Rita Digest”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 10, page 3:
glosses: horn-rimmed spectacles
barber surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barber surgeon
handstitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hand-stitched
Etymology: From hand + stitched.
Senses: glosses: Stitched by hand.
chowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […]in his discourse on the heinous sins of chowsing, cheating, and defrauding one's neighbours,[…]
ref: 1792, John Croft, editor, Scrapeana: fugitive miscellany, Sans Souci [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: present participle and gerund of chowse
beardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beardly
form: most beardly
Etymology: From beard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Beards and nobility go hand in hand, so it will come as no surprise to most that members of the great lordly houses are wont to vaunt their beardly heritage.
ref: 2011, Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Jack Passion, Poets Ranked by Beard Weight:
text: I leaned far off the safety of my board, so low that if my beard had been any longer its tip would have brushed the rumbling pebbles. But my beard was not long then, barely able to brush the hollow above my sternum, and I snatched up the coffer without bodily or beardly harm.
ref: 2013, D F Lewis, Horror Without Victims - Page 196:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a beard; beardish.
beardish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beardish
form: most beardish
Etymology: From beard + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [...] I was saying: "When in the city the cats recount Their innocent tales of mating, Why should the jungle elephants [Entangled in the beardish fibres Of sacred trees] spit out The rich verses night and day To frighten their sinful innocent hearts?
ref: 1995, N. M. Rāshid, Poems of N.M. Rashed: A Poet of the Third World - Page 139:
text: "Sure you know Doug, Doug's a kick-ass guy," the aforementioned Biff is heard from, short and broad with watery denim eyes dull and beady with party, and a little blond beardish thing sprouting from his chin, making it look a little like an armpit, Lenore.
ref: 2014, David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader:
glosses: Characteristic of a beard; somewhat like a beard.
Related terms: beardly
Johannine Comma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Johannine Comma
Senses: glosses: A short phrase, included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8, whose authenticity is debated and is widely agreed to be an interpolation.
Synonyms: Comma Johanneum
Heavenly Witnesses
Comma Johanneum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8.
Heavenly Witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Heavenly Witnesses
Senses: glosses: The Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8.
good word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good words
Senses: examples: text: My grandfather mentioned the problem to Lord Fermoy, whom he knew through the British Legion. and Lord Fermoy said he would put in a good word.
ref: 2011, Roger Garfitt, The Horseman's Word, →ISBN, page 59:
text: For instance, if the person worked for a large company or lived in a large apartment building, he would give them a special price on their medications and tell them that he was doing so in the hope that they would pass the good word about the store to their friends.
ref: 2011, George Silverman, The Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Not surprisingly, my students rarely have a good word for good works!
ref: 2003, Allison A. Trites, R. Glenn Wooden, Timothy R. Ashley, You Will be My Witnesses, →ISBN, page 279:
glosses: Positive recommendation.
examples: text: "Hello, Worth: What's the good word?” “I have some news for you, but I'm afraid its not 'the good word' as you say.” “OK, What's the bad news?"
ref: 2001, Paul Krebill, A Place Called Fairhavens, →ISBN, page 102:
text: He starts to thank me PROFUSELY, and I tell him to can that shit. I tell him to slip me the good word via General Delivery, Hubbard, North Dakota. "Listen, asshole," I say, "send me a postcard from the Weird Land of Mooses."
ref: 2006, Keith Maillard, Looking Good, →ISBN, page 418:
glosses: News, recent events, especially of a positive nature
examples: text: God's good word, both law and gospel, is your bulwark, your defense against bad theology and techniques of spirituality that make you anxious.
ref: 2010, Phillip Cary, Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You Don't Have to Do, →ISBN:
glosses: A holy promise or teaching.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, word.
good word
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the good word
Senses: examples: text: My Emily was always after me to read the good word with her, and now that she is gone, it is my only consolation.
ref: 1975, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine- Volume 66, page 18:
text: I also could have done without the scene illustrating the difficulties that an ignorant savage—or anyone whose brain is in full, working order—might have with certain passages of the Bible. Sitting in the prayer tent while Wes Studhi is conducting business, the Indians look at their copies of the good word with the same look of uncomprehending bafflement that Sid Vicious used to sometimes look at his bass, and then fall out of their chairs laughing when one smarty-pants among them allows as how she’d love to have been a fly on the wall when Mary was explaining to Joseph about how she’d gotten pregnant.
ref: 2011 December 11, Phil Dyess-Nugent, “Review: Hell On Wheels: “Pride, Pomp And Circumstance”, in A.V. Club:
glosses: The Bible, especially the New Testament.
Apollinarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Apollinaris of Laodicea, who taught this theology, + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The Christological theology that Jesus's mind was only divine and not human, condemned as a heresy at the First Council of Constantinople.
wikipedia: Apollinaris of Laodicea
Apollinarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Apollinarian + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Apollinarism
Yuat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Nyungar, an Australian Aboriginal language,
transgenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transgenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being transgenic, containing one or more transgenes.
raw_tags: of an organism
material heresy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: material heresies
Etymology: Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis māteriālis.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
coordinate_terms: formal heresy
glosses: An opinion that is objectively contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical, but which is uttered by a person without the subjective knowledge of it being so.
ribbonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ribbon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: ribbons collectively
godslaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From god + slaughter. Compare manslaughter.
Senses: glosses: The killing of a god or goddess.
Synonyms: deicide
quackademic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of quack + academic; see quackery.
Senses: glosses: pseudoscientific but within the academic community
quackademic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quackademics
Etymology: Blend of quack + academic; see quackery.
Senses: glosses: A quackish or pseudoscientific academic.
material heresies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of material heresy
nerd pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerd poles
Senses: examples: text: That guy is such a noob! Why would he use a nerd pole to get up there? Doesn't he know how to use ladders?
topics: video-games
glosses: Any tall, thin structure, usually only a few blocks wide, built in a voxel-based video game, especially one constructed by jumping and placing blocks beneath one's avatar.
nerd pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nerd poles
form: nerd poling
form: nerd poled
form: nerd poled
Senses: examples: text: Quick! Don't bother with ladders; just nerd pole up to me!
topics: video-games
glosses: To build a nerd pole, especially for the purpose of getting to higher ground.
long memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long memories
Senses: examples: text: The Celtic race has a long memory, and the prospect of waging war in the insular Britain against the Saxon intruder may not have been without charms for the descendants of the Armorican exiles.
ref: 1867, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results, Volume 3, page 210:
text: HABITUÉS of the Hobbyhorse Hitching Post-those with long memories-may recall that the first contributor to the department was free lancer ALAN DEVOE, of Hillsdale, N.Y.
ref: 1938, “Hobbyhorse Hitching Post, The Scrawls of the Great Go to Market”, in The Rotarian, volume 52, number 2, page 53:
text: Irishmen have long tongues, but long memories also.
ref: 2006, John Waller, Irish Flames:
glosses: The ability to remember events that occurred a long time ago.
glosses: The act or habit of holding onto a grudge or grievance for a long period of time.
Related terms: grudge
feud
nerd poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerd pole
nerd poling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nerd pole
nerd poled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nerd pole
egg wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg wracks
Senses: glosses: knotted wrack
blackleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blacklead
blackleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blacklead
blackleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blacklead
blackleads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacklead
Royal Irish Constabulary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Irish police force when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
overpublish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpublishes
form: overpublishing
form: overpublished
form: overpublished
Etymology: From over- + publish.
Senses: examples: text: We don't overpublish them, we don't oversell them, we do all the things that take a person from here and move them there after five to seven years, as opposed to being here and having no place to go.
ref: 1997, Kenneth A. Marantz, Sylvia S. Marantz, Creating Picturebooks:
text: In my humble opinion, the publishing business continues to overpublish. Too many books are published.
ref: 2014, Jeff Herman, Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents - Page 250:
glosses: To publish excessively.
Eurofascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + fascism.
Senses: glosses: The modern European fascist movement, or its philosophical framework.
Eurosocialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + socialism.
Senses: glosses: The modern European socialist movement, or its philosophical framework.
Gramscians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gramscian
parcen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːsɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɑːsn̩/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹsən/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹsn̩/
homophone: parson stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: parcens
form: parcening
form: parcened
form: parcened
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from parcener, from Old French parçonier, from parçon, parcion (“part, portion”), from Latin partītiō (“a division”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To divide among parceners
parcening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parcen
parcened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parcen
human-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: humanmade
Senses: synonyms: man-made
glosses: Created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic.
Zhdanovism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Andrei Zhdanov + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political and cultural doctrine of Andrei Zhdanov.
wikipedia: Andrei Zhdanov
Related terms: Zhdanovian
Zhdanovist
Zhdanovshchina
Zhdanovist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zhdanovists
Etymology: From Andrei Zhdanov + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Zhdanovism.
Related terms: Zhdanovism
Zhdanovist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zhdanovist
form: most Zhdanovist
Etymology: From Andrei Zhdanov + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of, Zhdanovism.
trench art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Senses: topics: art
arts
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any decorative item made by soldiers, prisoners of war, or civilians, where the manufacture is directly linked to armed conflict or its consequences.
ispán
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ispáns
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian ispán, from a Slavic language.
Senses: glosses: The leader of a castle district or county in the Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th century.
Derived terms: ispánate
mudlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mud + lined.
Senses: glosses: Lined with mud, particularly of a road or path.
Rastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rasta
re-forms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-form
re-forming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-form
re-formed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-form
rubber-stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubber-stamp
rubber-stamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rubber-stamp
rubber-stamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubber-stamp
rubber-stamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with exceptions so rare as to be negligible, think alike and function alike.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 5:
glosses: Characterised by routine and thoughtless acceptance.
SCOBY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskəʊbi/
Forms: form: SCOBYs
form: scoby
Senses: examples: text: Avoid cleaning your brewing vessel and equipment with antibacterial soap because SCOBYs contain bacteria.
ref: 2012, Alex Lewin, Real Food Fermentation, Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Strain out the tea. Stir in the starter kombucha. Transfer to a large glass jar and add the SCOBY.
ref: 2014, Lisa Sussman, Cold Press Juice Bible, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Acronym of symbiotic culture (or community, or colony) of bacteria and yeast.
wing rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing rails
Senses: glosses: A junction between two rails that diverge in a V-formation
zedoaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɛdəˈwɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Senses: examples: text: Use the volatile oil or an injection preparation of zedoaria to treat externally the early stages of vulval, cervical, or skin cancers […]
ref: 2012, Joseph P. Hou, Youyu Jin, The Healing Power of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes:
glosses: Alternative form of zedoary.
Kingdom of Ireland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Irish state under the English monarchs from its creation during the reign of King Henry VIII of England when he elevated Ireland from a lordship to a kingdom, to its abolition in 1801 under King George III, when it joined the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
zeugita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeugitae
Senses: glosses: A member of a certain class of people in Ancient Rome, those whose property or estate could produce 200 medimnoi of wet or dry goods (or equivalent), per year.
moll buzzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moll buzzers
Senses: examples: text: Habitual criminal Molly Holbrook "has taken as her companion one Jim Hoya who is known to the police detectives as a moll buzzer, a man who follows a female pickpocket about, and receives from her the 'leathers' taken from a woman in public gatherings."
ref: 1874 July 26, Chicago Daily Tribune:
glosses: A petty criminal who follows a female pickpocket.
chawush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chä.wo͞oshʹ
ipa: /t͡ʃɑˈwʊʃ/
Forms: form: chawushes
Etymology: * See chiaus
Senses: examples: text: The chawush, or sergeant, who had charge of these executions, generally turned them to his profit:[…]
ref: 1878 April 11, Gilbert Kirker, “Notes on Adrianople and Constantinople”, in Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast: Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, →ISSN, page 103:
glosses: Archaic spelling of chiaus.
Chawush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chawushes
Senses: examples: text: He carried on a long conversation with the dragoman in Turkish, the upshot of which was that he would give me a "buyuruldu" or special order to go to Sivas, and would provide an escort if the British Consul would send a written guarantee that I was a bona fide traveller. We thanked the Vali for the concession, and took our leave, […] He wrote the required guarantee, and a Chawush, or sergeant of Zaptiehs, was told off to accompany me to Sivas.¶
Sivas is in another province, not under Memdouch Pasha's rule, and as the Vali there was on bad terms with him, it was more than likely that he would send me back in spite of the buyuruldu. The Chawush was sent with me, possibly to make sure that I was neither an agitator nor a newspaper correspondent, but I paid him well and he proved of great use to me.
ref: 1897, Charles Clive Bigham Mersey, A ride through western Asia, London, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of chawush (“chiaus”).
vever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vevers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veve (“voodoo symbol”).
veves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veve
stiff-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stiff-arm
stiff-arming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stiff-arm
stiff-armed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stiff-arm
Chawushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Sultan's Household troops formed a class apart; for though connected with the standing army, they were looked on more as a department of the Court than a division of the army.[…]The Imperial Chawushes (sergeants) were a similar body, four or five hundred strong. In time of war they acted as guides to the army, marechaux-de-camp, provosts and gallopers; in time of peace as messengers and ushers of the Court.
ref: 1889 October, Frank H. Tyrrell, “The Turkish army of the olden time”, in The Asiatic Quarterly Review, volume 8, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 403:
glosses: plural of Chawush (“chiaus”)
nonaluminium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aluminium.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonaluminum.
decapitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decapitalizations
form: decapitalisation
Etymology: From de- + capitalization.
Senses: glosses: The process of decapitalizing something.
chawushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On Friday, 1 January 1620 there came chawushes from the Sultan of Turkey and went from Kamenets to Warsaw.
ref: 1968, Ödön Schütz, editor, An Armeno-Kipchak chronicle on the Polish-Turkish wars in 1620-1621, Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 11, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: plural of chawush (“chiaus”)
world language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world languages
Senses: examples: text: English, French and Spanish are often considered world languages.
glosses: A language spoken internationally and which is learned by many people as a second language.
Related terms: lingua franca
panlingual
translingual
universal language
walkshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walksheds
Etymology: Blend of walk + watershed
Senses: examples: text: Though the exact number or distance (sometimes referred to as a walkshed) may be a subject of debate, and may vary depending on the demographics and motivations of the walkers, one thing is abundantly clear: a driveshed is much large than a walkshed. This is not only because cars move much more quickly than pedestrians but also because driving is almost effortless compared with walking.
ref: 2009, Colin Ellard, You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, →ISBN:
text: However, premiums were notably higher for parcels within the 500 metre walkshed of the urban greenway entrance points than the freeway on-ramps.
ref: 2010, William Ascher, Corinne Krupp, Physical Infrastructure Development: Balancing the Growth, Equity, and Environmental Imperatives, →ISBN, page 195:
text: Picturing the city as a series of overlapping walksheds is an important start to understanding, conceptualizing, and mapping the city as a convivial place for pedestrians.
ref: 2013, John Rennie Short, Globalization, Modernity and the City, →ISBN, page 154:
qualifier: transportation planning; urban studies; transportation planning; urban studies
glosses: The land area within a defined walking range of a specified location.
walksheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkshed
driveshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drivesheds
form: drive-shed
form: drive shed
Etymology: From drive + shed.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: carriage house
text: He pushes the lawn tractor further out into the rain and angles it off to the side. Gets in the yellow loader and backs it out, turns it around in the gravel in front of the doors and drives it in to where the blade sits on its dolly at the back of the driveshed and points at the chain on the side wall.
ref: 2014, Peter Blendell, Jonagold, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A rural outbuilding for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.
driveshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drivesheds
Etymology: Blend of drive + watershed; by surface analysis, drive + shed.
Senses: examples: text: Though the exact number or distance (sometimes referred to as a walkshed) may be a subject of debate, and may vary depending on the demographics and motivations of the walkers, one thing is abundantly clear: a driveshed is much large than a walkshed. This is not only because cars move much more quickly than pedestrians but also because driving is almost effortless compared with walking.
ref: 2009, Colin Ellard, You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, →ISBN:
qualifier: transportation planning; urban studies; transportation planning; urban studies
glosses: The land area within a defined driving distance of a specified location.
drivesheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driveshed
drive-shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive-sheds
Senses: examples: text: The farmer who lived on the farm prior to my arrival had left the floors of the barn and drive-shed littered with junk metal.
ref: 1986, R. Murray Schafer, The thinking ear: complete writings on music education, page 294:
glosses: Alternative form of driveshed.
drive-sheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drive-shed
drive shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive sheds
Senses: examples: text: Old Buggy and Winter Birds shows a buggy parked in front of a drive shed, while cardinals, juncos, and song sparrows feed on grain strewn over the ground.
ref: 2014, Robert Bateman, Bateman: New Works, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of driveshed.
drive sheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drive shed
chicken lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken lanes
Etymology: The name derives from the game of "chicken," in which two drivers head directly at each other head-on, which is what drivers in opposing "chicken lanes" do until they both turn.
Senses: examples: text: It's about two miles long with three lanes - one this way, one that way, and a chicken lane. Our driver was determined that the chicken lane was his going across the bridge driving about sixty miles per hour.
ref: 1998, Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia:
glosses: An additional lane in the middle of a two-way street that assists drivers who are turning onto the two-way street.
Synonyms: suicide lane
chicken lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken lane
Mizzou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈzu/
Etymology: Derived from Missouri.
Senses: synonyms: MU
coordinate_terms: MSU
Missouri State
glosses: University of Missouri
Crockard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
stalding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staldings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scalding.
lionine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lionines
Senses: examples: text: [M]oſt deceits and corruptions are found in this reign [of Edward I of England], vvhen there vvas imported (beſides clipped ſterlings) a ſort of light money vvith a mitre, another with a lion, a third of copper blanched in imitation of the Engliſh money, a fourth like that of King Edvvard, and a fifth kind that vvas plated, and others, knovvn by the name of Pollards, Crokards, Mitres, Lionines, Staldings, Steepings, Eagles and Roſarys, vvhich vvere coined in parts beyond the ſeas, and privately brought into the kingdom, and uttered here for ſterling, though not vvorth above an halfpenny.
ref: 1787, John Topham, “Observations on the Wardrobe Account of the 28th Year of King Edward the First”, in Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae. Anno regni regis Edwardi primi vicesimo octavo. A.D. MCCXCIX. & MCCC. […] [Daily Book of the Counter-roll of the Wardrobe. In the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King Edward the First. A.D. 1299 & 1300. […]], London: […] J[ohn] Nichols […], →OCLC, page xxii:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of leonine (“13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny”).
lionines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lionine
leonines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leonines
Senses: glosses: plural of leonine
forepublished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forepublished
form: most forepublished
form: fore-published
Etymology: From fore- + published.
Senses: examples: text: He thinks we might then be able 'to foretell how an individual would think, feel, or act, throughout life,' but if these foretellings be forepublished the illustration loses its appositeness.
ref: 1866, Meliora - Volumes 9-10 - Page 298
text: Assuming that the abstract possibility of foreseeing human conduct, alluded to in the extract above quoted, is quite compatible with our practical consciousness of freedom, I maintain that a difficulty of an entirely distinct character is introduced the moment we suppose that this conduct is foretold, or rather, if one may use the term, forepublished.
ref: 1866, John Veen, The Logic of Chance - Page 348:
glosses: Published beforehand or in advance.
Related terms: forepublishing
stephening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stephenings
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Alternative form of steeping.
stephenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stephening
steping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepings
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Obsolete form of steeping.
stepings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steping
warmedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmedies
Etymology: Blend of warm + comedy
Senses: examples: text: It preserves the blue-collar setting of The Flintstones, and the family constellations are similar, but the "warmedy" Flintstone world is turned on its ear.
ref: 2004, John Alberti, Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Another popular “warmedy” (warm family comedy) of the late 1980s was Family Ties, which starred Michael J. Fox as the eldest sibling in a close-knit family.
ref: 2005, James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, →ISBN, page 220:
text: The "capitalization, dematerialization, and idealization" of this "warmedy" (an awkward term used by Budd, Steinman, and other critics to denote a "comedy overlaid with empathetic audience identification") extended even to the lives and celebrity status of the actors who played the show's universally loathed or much-loved characters...
ref: 2008, David Scott Diffrient, M*A*S*H, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A warm-hearted comedy targeted at a family audience.
warmedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warmedy
the way
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Forms: form: the way that
Etymology: Ellipsis of in the (same) way (that).
Senses: examples: text: We don't party the way we used to. We got older and smarter!
glosses: As; like; in the way that.
examples: text: You'd think there was a fire the way everyone was screaming.
text: Call me a housewife the way I'm always cooking.
glosses: Because of how.
waybung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waybungs
Senses: glosses: The white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
waybungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waybung
webeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webeyes
Etymology: From web + eye.
Senses: glosses: A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating from the cornea over the surface of the eye
Synonyms: pterygium
webeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webeye
I'm pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is pregnant.
hot cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot cakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotcake.