cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intake valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intake valves
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A valve in the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine that controls the passage of fluid to be drawn into the cylinder.
valve snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valve snails
Senses: glosses: Any snail of the genus Valvata.
valve snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valve snail
vein valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vein valves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small, crescent-shaped flap of tissue that is located in a vein and operates as a one-way valve to direct blood flow towards the heart and to prevent backflow.
vein valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vein valve
toggle valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toggle valves
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: machinery
glosses: An implement that uses a directional toggle switch in order to control the flow of fluid in a piping system.
toggle valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toggle valve
non-return valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-return valves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of check valve.
synonyms: word: check valve
Ballynoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Cobh, on Great Island, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7767).
glosses: A village and civil parish in eastern County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 9389).
glosses: A townland in Donegore civil parish, north-east of Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 1989).
glosses: A townland in Bright civil parish, south of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 4840).
non-return valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-return valve
valvula connivens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of valve of Kerckring.
synonyms: word: valve of Kerckring
Kerckring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Derived terms: valve of Kerckring
valves of Kerckring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valve of Kerckring
Bauhin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Bauhin's valve
actuability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin āctuō + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: As the Phyſical Idea of Body, Matter or Subſtance Material contains in it immediately of its own nature or intimate ſpecifick Eſſence real Diviſibility or Diſcerpibility, Impenetrability and mere Paſſivity or Actuability, as the proper fruit of the Eſſential Difference and intimate Form thereof, unalterably and immutably as in its Idea in the Divine Intellect, ſo in any Body or Material Subſtance that does exiſt : […]
ref: 1682, Henry More, “Annotations upon the Diſcourſe of Truth”, in Annotations upon the Two Foregoing Treatises, London: […] J. Collins; S. Lounds, page 180:
text: Passivity is therefore nothing but the further actuability of the substantial term ; […]
ref: 1875 February 24, “Matter”, in The Catholic World, volume XX, number 119, page 676, column 1:
text: Henceforth we adhere closely to the truths that possibilities differ from nothing, in the blankest sense of the word; and that they already possess a virtual existence in the power of the agents that can bring them into actuality, and in the intrinsic actuability of their own nature.
ref: 1890, John Rickaby, “The Possibilities of Being” (chapter V), in General Metaphysics, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 175:
text: No nation now believes in the utility of the ideal, in the actuability of collective righteousness, or in international brotherhood as a near possibility.
ref: 1920 February 24, George D. Herron, “The Peace of Paris and the Youth of Europe”, in The World Tomorrow, volume III, number 2, page 36, column 1:
glosses: Capable of being acted or actuated upon.
chop off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chops off
form: chopping off
form: chopped off
form: chopped off
Senses: examples: text: They will chop off your head.
text: We'll chop off sales from the marketing department.
glosses: To sever by chopping or as if by chopping.
examples: text: When she found out what happened, she chopped off the engagement.
glosses: To end (something); to finish (something).
checks notes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Tuesday Trump is different from (checks notes) Friday Trump.
ref: 2024 April 16, Jonathan Nicholson (@JNicholsonInDC), Twitter:
glosses: Used to express confusion about two or more pieces of contradictory or nonsensical information.
chuck over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks over
form: chucking over
form: chucked over
form: chucked over
Senses: examples: text: Even my own family has chucked me over.
glosses: To abandon (someone); to leave (someone) behind; to break up with (someone).
chuck it in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks it in
form: chucking it in
form: chucked it in
form: chucked it in
Senses: glosses: To quit (something, especially a job).
chuck it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks it up
form: chucking it up
form: chucked it up
form: chucked it up
Senses: glosses: To quit a job.
run away from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs away from
form: running away from
form: ran away from
form: run away from
Senses: examples: text: You can't run away from your actions.
text: They're running away from that awful plan, but they were the ones who introduced it.
glosses: To avoid or shirk a problem or consequences; to rush to back away from or disclaim responsibility for something.
chum in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chums in
form: chumming in
form: chummed in
form: chummed in
Senses: glosses: To live with someone as chums; to bunk up or join up with someone as chums.
b'ezrat Hashem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: b'ezras Hashem
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew בעזרת השם (“with God's help”)
Senses: examples: text: Yes, it was really great. I missed not being in shul, though, especially on Simchas Torah. Well, next year, b'ezras Hashem."
ref: 1994, Sarah M. Schleimer, Far from the Place We Called Home, Feldheim Publishers, →ISBN, page 116:
text: One thing is for sure, if I b'ezras Hashem have children one day, I will not allow any computer w/ internet access in the home.
ref: 2001 August 1, N. Samuel R.title, “Avoid Unseemly Ads w/ WebWasher”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: I'm not overjoyed with the idea of it having to be a step-parent adoption, since neither I nor my partner nor Tova consider me to be anything but a full parent, but I'll take it, particularly since it's way cheaper than the second parent adoption process. The law takes effect on January 1, so b'ezrat Hashem, we'll get it finished up before Tova turns 2.
ref: 2001 December 10, Lisa, “Why Lisa Left”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
chump off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chumps off
form: chumping off
form: chumped off
form: chumped off
Senses: glosses: To treat (someone) as a chump.
antimirror neuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimirror neurons
Senses: examples: text: This "antimirror neuron" activity, as some researchers call it, appears to deactivate the brain's propensity to imitate another person."
ref: 2012, Andrew Newberg, Mark Robert Waldman, Words Can Change Your Brain:
text: Another interesting finding was that there exists what can be called "antimirror" neurons (Keysers & Gazzola, 2010). Eleven neurons increased their firing when the patient performed a certain action but decreased their firing when the patient observed someone else performing this same action. These "antimirror" neurons may help us distinguish our own actions from those of others, and allow us to prevent unwanted imitation when we observe someone else engaging in some action.
ref: 2014, Holly C. Matto, Jessica Strolin-Goltzman, PhD, Michelle S. Ballan, Neuroscience for Social Work: Current Research and Practice, pages 41-42:
text: They also pointed out that fMRI recordings would be blind to the difference between mirror and anti-mirror neurons, because the fMRI is sensitive to changes in metabolism and both excitation and inhibition consume energy..
ref: 2014, Ross Buck, Emotion: A Biosocial Synthesis, page 121:
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A neuron that fires when someone performs an action and reduces its firing when that person observes another performing the action, or vice versa.
Related terms: mirror neuron
antimirror neurons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimirror neuron
click for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clicks for
form: clicking for
form: clicked for
form: clicked for
Senses: examples: text: He made money after clicking for an inside edge in the market.
glosses: To acquire or gain (something).
examples: text: After two hours of studying, it finally clicked for me.
glosses: To suddenly make sense to (someone).
climb into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: climbs into
form: climbing into
form: climbed into
form: climbed into
Senses: examples: text: They really climbed into me last night.
glosses: To fight or attack (someone), physically or verbally.
neuter voices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuter voice
place-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more place-less
form: most place-less
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of placeless.
sealioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealioners
Etymology: From sealion + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Much like actual interrogators, sealioners bombard the target with question after question, digging and digging until the target either says something stupid or is so pissed off that they react in the extreme.
ref: 2015 March 24, Sarah Seltzer, “Beyond Mansplaining: A New Lexicon of Misogynist Trolling Behaviors”, in Flavorwire, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2015:
text: Simply put, a sealioner asks you a lot of questions (whose answers are already available in the public domain) about a statement you’ve made online, but it’s not because they are genuinely curious.
ref: 2022 July 17, Shephali Bhatt, “It’s called sealioning, and we’re still looking it up”, in mint:
glosses: A sealion; one who engages in sealioning.
sealioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sealioner
hoopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoopy
glosses: plural of hoopie
semiyear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiyears
Etymology: From semi- + year.
Senses: examples: text: The 1934 act, as amended in 1964, requires most corporations with 500 or more stockholders and $1 million in assets to file these reports with the SEC: 10K (the annual report) to be filed within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year, 9K (the semiannual report) to be filed within 45 days of the end of the semiyear, and 8K (the current report) to be filed after important happening(s), for example, changes in company's capital stock, election of new officers, etc.
ref: 1984, Damodar N. Gujarati, “[The Effects of Regulation on Disclosure of Information] The Benston Study”, in Government and Business, New York, N.Y. […]: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, part 3 (Economic Regulation), section 14 (The SEC and Regulation of the Securities Markets), footnote 23, page 366:
text: First step: Find the interest (I₁) earned at the end of the first semiyear, 6 months.
ref: 2000, Fabián Lacret-Subirat, “Interest Problems”, in Lacret HS-Math Self-Tutoring (Solving Word-Problems), [Lacret Publishing Company], →ISBN, page 47, column 2:
text: Sure, but that is not everyday (or perhaps every semiyear!) experience for the "man on the Clapham omnibus", whereas 23/24/25 is (except '68-'70 in the UK!).
ref: 2014 March 31, Tom Gardner, “Daylight savings date identification over the net”, in comp.arch.embedded (Usenet):
glosses: Half of a year; a period of six months.
semiyears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiyear
CHPer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CHPers
Etymology: From CHP + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The news story said three fire trucks showed up at the scene and the CHPer asked all three to move their rigs. Two complied and guess who didn't. Does that make a difference now? I don't know. From reading various online sites, it seems the civilian consensus is to fire the CHP officer.
ref: 2014 June 2, masameet, Bay Area Riders Forum:
text: Visiting on biz here and a CHPer came in to Starbucks with an HT on his belt. I know CHP is VHF Lowband but the antenna on that HT looked like it was also for VHF Low... Really long. Do they really carry Lowband HTs? No vehicular repeaters for VHF or UHF link to their vehicle that repeats to their Lowband channels? How well are VHF Low HTs working for them?
ref: 2016 October 5, popnokick, RadioReference.com:
synonyms: CHiP
glosses: A member of the California Highway Patrol; a CHP officer.
CHPers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CHPer
nip nops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nip nop
`num`MeToo'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: #MeToo'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of #MeToo
Great Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in Cork Harbour, County Cork, Ireland, where the town of Cobh is located.
glosses: One of the Ramea Islands in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: An island in Falkland Sound, Falkland Islands.
glosses: An island in Chalky Inlet, Fiordland, New Zealand.
glosses: The largest of the Three Kings Islands, north of Northland, New Zealand.
Related terms: Great Barrier Island
Great Bird Island
Great Dog Island
Bandjoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the West Region, Cameroon.
Related terms: Ghomala' Jo
-pody
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -ποδία (-podía) from πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A unit or line consisting of a specified number of metrical feet
Related terms: -podia
-pod
Kedahan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kedahans
Etymology: From Kedah + -an.
Senses: glosses: A resident of Kedah in Malaysia.
Kedahans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kedahan
Carrigaloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality on Great Island, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7868).
Water-rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A townland west of Midleton, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 8674).
fleshspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flesh + space.
Senses: glosses: Meatspace, the physical world.
Broombridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Broom Bridge, a canal bridge named after William Broome. Broombridge Road crosses the bridge and the railway.
Senses: glosses: A railway and tram interchange beside the Royal Canal in the suburb of Cabra, Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 1337).
wikipedia: Broom Bridge
perpetuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːˈpɛtjuːəslɪ/
Etymology: From perpetuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It deserved to be perpetuously memorable.
ref: 1611, John Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published 1614, page 23:
text: A Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ, and make, if I could, perpetuously Consummativ.
ref: 1683, Edward Hooker, Preface to Pordage’s Mystic Divinitie, page 71:
glosses: Synonym of perpetually (“everlastingly, in perpetuity, for ever”).
synonyms: word: perpetually
extra: everlastingly, in perpetuity, for ever
wrestle with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wrestles with
form: wrestling with
form: wrestled with
form: wrestled with
Senses: examples: text: I've been wrestling with your problem all night.
glosses: To agonize over (something); to debate a quandary or endeavor to come to a conclusion about a difficult issue.
perpeyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The altar set on a foot pace about three feet from the east wall, with a low stone perpeyn wall at its back.
ref: 1860, G. E. Street, Archæol. Cant., volume III, page 126:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of perpend (“a stone which passes through a wall from side to side, having two smooth vertical faces”).
perpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Perpin, are less than the size of Ashlers.
ref: 1688, R. Holme, Armoury, book iii, page 111/1:
text: A perpin wall, is a Single stone wall.
ref: ibidem, page 457/1
glosses: Obsolete spelling of perpend (“a stone which passes through a wall from side to side, having two smooth vertical faces”).
red rock hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red rock hares
Senses: glosses: Any of the Southern African lagomorphs of the genus Pronolagus, the basal leporids.
adamantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adamantizes
form: adamantizing
form: adamantized
form: adamantized
Etymology: From adamant + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I have known such things begun over the loan of a hymn-book, drawn closer by an exchange of cards, cemented by a morning call, adamantized by a walk, and transformed into a regular life-and-death affair by a proper number of cups of tea. It seems to me an interesting weakness.
ref: 1853 June 18, Eliza Cook, “Making Acquaintances”, in Eliza Cook's Journal, number 216, page 114, column 2:
text: " I wonder you don't marry, then, sir."
" My time is past. Forty years of single blessedness have moulded my character and adamantized my resolutions. Besides, I am a poor man, and a wife is an expensive luxury. […]"
ref: 1859, Frederick William Robinson, “I Finish the Day” (chapter IV), in Woodleigh, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 231:
text: Modern science has formulated this in a canon of seeming austerity,—"The survival of the fittest." Oh, yes!—Nature is a disciplinarian. Her storms harden the rocks, and adamantize the mountains. Her tempests root the giant trees deeper, and strengthen the fiber of those that are young.
ref: c. 1888, Samuel Lockwood, chapter IX, in Animal Memoirs: Birds, New York: Ivison, Blakeman, and Company, page 36:
text: There must be a fusion of these ingredients, there must be form, there must be control of the material for some great conscious, or perhaps unconscious, end, and if we go on to adamantize our egg into a crystalline lucidity, it will reveal to us the shining truth that any supreme work of art is the product always, or almost always, of a great imagination, the echo of a lofty mind, or of a soul possessing some kind of greatness.
ref: 1940, Logan Pearsall Smith, chapter XV, in Milton and His Modern Critics, Oxford University Press, page 64:
text: Yorkud and his Tunkati developed a crystal transport on their home we planet of Daegis. They found a way to adamantize diamond to withstand propagation in excess of fifty times the speed of light.
ref: 2001, William Alan Rieser, Pmat, […] Writers Club Press, page 85:
glosses: To render (something) adamant; to harden; to strengthen.
adamantizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adamantize
adamantizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adamantize
adamantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adamantize
closed e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Italian
glosses: The letter e pronounced as the close-mid front unrounded vowel.
Related terms: closed o
mute e
open e
open o
open e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Italian
glosses: The letter e pronounced as the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The letter ⟨ɛ⟩.
Related terms: closed e
closed o
mute e
open o
closed o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Italian
glosses: The letter o pronounced as the close-mid back rounded vowel.
Related terms: closed e
mute e
open e
open o
open o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Italian
glosses: The letter o pronounced as the open-mid back rounded vowel.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The letter ⟨ɔ⟩.
Related terms: closed e
closed o
mute e
open e
RRV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RRVs
Senses: examples: text: The importance of track workers obeying site rules has been stressed after a man was hospitalised after being hit by a moving road-rail vehicle (RRV) and falling into the 'four foot' between the rails.
ref: 2024 June 26, “Network News: RAIB stresses importance of road-rail vehicle vehicle safety procedures”, in RAIL, number 1012, page 17:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of road-rail vehicle.
glosses: Initialism of right renal vein.
ULAB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh).
road-rail vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road-rail vehicles
Senses: examples: text: The importance of track workers obeying site rules has been stressed after a man was hospitalised after being hit by a moving road-rail vehicle (RRV) and falling into the 'four foot' between the rails.
ref: 2024 June 26, “Network News: RAIB stresses importance of road-rail vehicle vehicle safety procedures”, in RAIL, number 1012, page 17:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: road-railer
RRV
glosses: A vehicle that can be driven along roads to a place where retractable railway wheels can be lowered onto railway track to allow it to be used on the railway, often used for maintenance and construction purposes.
road-rail vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road-rail vehicle
RRVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RRV
GUB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Green University of Bangladesh (a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh).
glosses: Initialism of Global University Bangladesh (a university in Barishal, Bangladesh).
prigman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prigmen
Senses: synonyms: prig
glosses: A thief.
prigmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prigman
Batford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Harpenden parish, St Albans district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1415).
drano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of draino.
jejunisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jejunization.
eluctability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: eluctableness
glosses: The state or condition of being eluctable.
eluctableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eluctable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eluctability.
synonyms: word: eluctability
ineluctableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ineluctable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ineluctability.
synonyms: word: ineluctability
aortoduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aorto- + duoden- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: aortoduodenal fistula
coordinate_terms: aortojejunal
glosses: Pertaining to or (usually) connecting the aorta and the duodenum.
raw_tags: of a fistula
hematobilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemato- + bili- + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemobilia.
highkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highkey
form: most highkey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-key.
Horomazes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒ.ɹəʊˈmɑːzɪs/
ipa: /hɔ.ɹəʊˈmæ.zɪs/
Forms: form: Ahuramazda
form: Auramazda
form: Ormazd
form: Ohrmazd
form: Hourmazd
form: Hormazd
form: Hurmuz
form: Hormuz
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὡρομάζης (Hōromázēs), though Latin Hōromazēs, ultimately from Avestan 𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁 (ahura mazdā).
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Ahura Mazda, the divinity exalted by Zoroaster as the highest God.
EUB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Euabalong West railway station in Australia.
glosses: Initialism of European University of Bangladesh (a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh).
adamantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adamantic
form: most adamantic
Etymology: From adamant + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Adamant.
cladia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladium
Tiszatenyő
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Hungary.
GunTube
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of gun + YouTube. By surface analysis, gun + -Tube.
Senses: examples: text: YouTube is awash in gun content, often referred to as “GunTube” by firearm enthusiasts. Individuals who come to GunTube—including children and teens—can find videos which glorify assault weapons, show how to modify firearms, and teach viewers how to shoot through bulletproof glass or “win gunfights.”
ref: 2023 May 16, “YouTube and Gun Content: A Dangerous Combination for Kids and Teens”, in Everytown Support Fund:
glosses: The community of videobloggers (particularly YouTubers) who create videos about firearms or advocate for gun rights.
Derived terms: GunTuber
GunTuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GunTubers
Etymology: From GunTube + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A massive scandal has broken out over the purchase of Hungarian-made SVD “sniper” rifles by an American “GunTuber”- who recently berated others for price-gouging on online gun auction sites.
ref: 2021 March 22, Andy Wolf and Todd Speyer, “Marine vet, ‘GunTuber’ called out for ‘hypocritically’ price gouging limited imports of Dragunov sniper rifles”, in War Is Boring:
glosses: A videoblogger who is part of GunTube.
GunTubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GunTuber
superprojectiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superprojectile
mashing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mash up
dissful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissful
form: most dissful
Etymology: From diss + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Dude. . . In the first one, you look like Ricky Martin or something . Not to be dissful or anything, That's just my opinion.
ref: 2001 July 28, Tifa, “Re: BHRIGGA PIX now up....check the site out”, in alt.disney.disneyland (Usenet):
text: HOWEVER, I am also sure [Brian] Frons has gotten other fans' emails about Sam Page also, and that he's just being rude and dissful.
ref: 2003 February 25, Seth J. Bookey, “Re: AMC: Brian Frons/Marj Dusay question”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet):
text: I think if something is said with the intention to be rude or the intention to be dissful [sic] or nasty or to separate or segregate, if there is anything that is with that intention, any words or collective words then that is obviously not welcome.
ref: 2022 February 9, Alicia Adejobi, quoting Joss Stone, “Joss Stone reflects on Brit Award win in ‘urban’ category amid calls to ban term”, in Metro:
glosses: Expressing disrespect; disrespectful.
cheeks it through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cheek it through
cheeking it through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheek it through
cheeked it through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheek it through
cheeks it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cheek it out
cheeking it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheek it out
cheeked it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheek it out
Y&R
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of The Young and the Restless: an American television soap opera first broadcast in 1973.
Fényeslitke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary.
Tulpius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
glosses: A surname from Latin.
Derived terms: Tulpius valve
OLTL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of One Life to Live: an American television soap opera broadcast from 1968 to 2013.
cyber-Balkanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyberbalkanization.
lexical middle voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: syntactic middle voice
glosses: An instance of the middle voice that results from a verb inherently conveying a middle voice meaning without the need for any additional grammatical markers, such as die.
syntactic middle voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: lexical middle voice
glosses: A form of a middle voice in which the sentence construction requires an adverbial adjunct of some kind.
Klerksdorp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈklɑːrksdɔːrp/
Etymology: From Klerk + -s- + dorp.
Senses: glosses: A city in North West, South Africa.
Derived terms: Klerksdorp sphere
prior claustral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prior (“the person ranking just after the abbot in an abbey, appointed as his deputy”).
synonyms: word: prior
extra: the person ranking just after the abbot in an abbey, appointed as his deputy
prior conventual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priors conventual
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prior (“the head of a priory or some other minor or smaller monastery”).
synonyms: word: prior
extra: the head of a priory or some other minor or smaller monastery
prioracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prior + -acy. First use appears c. 1895. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: St. Hugh's immediate successor in the prioracy was Bovo, who at the Chartreuse had had a prophetic vision of him as a bishop.
ref: 1895, E. Margaret Thompson, A History of the Somerset Carthusians, page 71:
text: Whenever a prior of that place should die, another prior, who should be appointed in succession from Marmoutier (de majori Monasteri) by the abbot of that place to the dignity of that prioracy, should come and dwell there ...
ref: 1906, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series - Volume 37, page 130:
text: ... livestock and crop output between the beginning and end of Semeno's prioracy.
ref: 1984, Charles Julian Bishko, Spanish and Portuguese Monastic History, 600-1300, page 349:
text: ... that he may be able to get himself a prioracy or abbacy, where he can first introduce a numerous retinue of his relatives.
ref: 2023, Jill Mann, Nigel of Longchamp, Speculum Stultorum, page lvi:
synonyms: priorate
priorship
coordinate_terms: abbacy
curacy
glosses: The office of a prior.
Related terms: priory
Kismaros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Pest County, Hungary.
great prior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great priors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grand prior.
synonyms: word: grand prior
great priors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great prior
alien prior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alien priors
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A foreign prior who is affiliated with an alien priory.
alien priors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alien prior
CV joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CV joints
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: U-joint
glosses: Abbreviation of constant-velocity joint.
constant-velocity joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constant-velocity joints
form: constant velocity joint
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: CV joint
coordinate_terms: universal joint
glosses: A mechanical coupling which allows the shafts to rotate freely and compensates for the angle between the two shafts, within a certain range, to maintain the same velocity, commonly used in front-wheel drive vehicles.
CV joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CV joint
constant velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: constant-velocity boots
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: homokinetic
glosses: Describing constant-velocity joints.
Derived terms: constant-velocity joint
U-joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-joints
form: U joint
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: CV joint
glosses: Abbreviation of universal joint.
Kőbánya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Kőbánya, from kőbánya (“quarry”).
Senses: glosses: The tenth district of Budapest, Hungary.
Old Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I have often wondered what's so "new" about the New Age; its basic tenets that we can completely create our own reality and that everything happens for a reason, to teach some sort of lesson, have always seemed to me to carry the same message as the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" philosophy of the Old Age.
ref: 1988 December 11, Kiki Zeldes, “New Age: Cult Out Of Control”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 4:
coordinate_terms: New Age
glosses: The mainstream of Western culture, especially as existed prior to the New Age movement.
Kispest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Kispest.
Senses: glosses: The 19th district of Budapest, Hungary.
DOST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of Science and Technology.
Rákospalota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Budapest, Hungary.
NDFP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
cirri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cirro-.
Aston-on-Trent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4129).
clock onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clocks onto
form: clocking onto
form: clocked onto
form: clocked onto
Senses: examples: text: He clocked onto his shift late.
glosses: Synonym of clock on.
synonyms: word: clock on
examples: text: The company clocked onto her subterfuge and fired her for it.
glosses: To accept, recognize or acknowledge (something).
clout on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clouts on
form: clouting on
form: clouted on
form: clouted on
Senses: examples: text: You're gonna clout on his car?
glosses: To steal (something).
duodenoileal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duodeno- + ile- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: duodenoileal fistula
text: duodenoileal bypass
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: ileoduodenal
hypernyms: intestinointestinal
intestinal
coordinate_terms: jejunoileal
glosses: Pertaining to or (usually) connecting the duodenum and the ileum.
cock it over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cocks it over
form: cocking it over
form: cocked it over
form: cocked it over
Senses: glosses: To lord it over (someone); to act cocky and superior to (someone).
ileoduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ileo- + duoden- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: ileoduodenal fistula
coordinate_terms: ileojejunal
glosses: Synonym of duodenoileal.
synonyms: word: duodenoileal
seawatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sea + watching, after birdwatching.
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A type of birdwatching where participants observe seabirds from a fixed point on the mainland.
Related terms: seawatcher
mong out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mongs out
form: monging out
form: monged out
form: monged out
Senses: glosses: To be tired, stupid, lazy or freaked out due to being stoned or intoxicated.
rightthink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of right + think, modeled after wrongthink, ultimately modeled on crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: There is a rightthink and a wrongthink, as Orwell predicted, and pretty well everyone knows what they are. It’s very difficult to get students to even hint at the wrongthink, therefore difficult to get people to discuss both sides of an issue. In this scenario, O’Brien has been replaced by angry anonymous people and groups on social media, who insist that we’re all wrong to thing^([sic]) that 2+2=4.
ref: 2017 May 12, Daniel Robinson, “Free speech on campus: are we being too careful not to offend?”, in University Affairs:
text: As a parent, you can’t control everything. If something is truly beyond the pale, of course, step in and fight. But there’s always going to be something you don’t love. You can’t cocoon your kids in a vanilla fortress of rightthink. It’s going to be OK.
ref: 2023 October 20, David Ramsey, “Busybody Republicans and their neurotic quest to control public education”, in Arkansas Times:
glosses: Synonym of goodthink.
synonyms: word: goodthink
wikipedia: George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
correctthink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CorrectThink
Etymology: Compound of correct + think, modeled on goodthink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, the Associate Provosts for DEI are not (yet) authorized to fire people outside academia. But perhaps, if SCBWI and the knitting and bird-watching organizations keep up the fight, the general public will gradually learn never to say anything on any subject without including the approved formulas of correctthink.
ref: 2021 July 7, Jon Gallant, Why Evolution Is True:
text: As I recall, the word ‘Orthodox‘ takes its meaning from the Greek words orthos (‘right’) and doxa (‘belief’). Or correctthink in today’s terminology. Either way, orthodoxy is entirely accurate.
ref: 2024 May 4, strativarius, Watts Up With That?:
glosses: Synonym of goodthink.
synonyms: word: goodthink
wikipedia: George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
comb down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: combs down
form: combing down
form: combed down
form: combed down
Senses: examples: text: She comb the horse down last night.
glosses: To comb (something or someone).
examples: text: She really combed me down about that.
glosses: To beat or fight with (someone).
befucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befuck
befucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of befuck
befucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befuck
conk off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conks off
form: conking off
form: conked off
form: conked off
Senses: glosses: To die, kill or fall asleep.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: engine
glosses: To stop functioning.
raw_tags: of a machine
cork out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corks out
form: corking out
form: corked out
form: corked out
Senses: glosses: to fall asleep.
examples: text: He corked out a home run.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball, especially powerfully, with a particular result.
hazeler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hazel: more hazel
hazelest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hazel: most hazel
makes bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make bank
making bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make bank
made bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make bank
USI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of United Submitters International.
torch lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torch lamps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of torchiere.
synonyms: word: torchiere
torch lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torch lamp
wasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Whasian.
whasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Whasian.
Oriental Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of East Asian.
synonyms: word: East Asian
compared with
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in relation to.
synonyms: word: in relation to
three halfpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three halfpennies
form: three halfpence
Senses: glosses: singular of three halfpennies
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:three halfpenny.
glosses: singular of three halfpence
three-halfpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-halfpennies
form: three-halfpence
Senses: examples: text: […] three-halfpennies and three-farthings are all dated and have similar types. One three-halfpenny piece has MM obv. cinquefoil, rev. acorn. 1574. MB. The halfpence have no legend, have a portcullis […]
ref: 1876, Edward Hawkins, Robert Lloyd Kenyon, The Silver Coins of England: Arranged and Described; with Remarks on British Money, Previous to the Saxon Dynasties, page 300:
glosses: singular of three-halfpennies
glosses: singular of three-halfpence
three-halfpennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of three halfpennies.
three-halfpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of three halfpence.
possum pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: possum pies
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
qualifier: Arkansas
glosses: A pie made with vanilla pudding, cream cheese, chocolate custard, and sour cream.
hawk tuhh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hawk tuah.
Derhams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Derham
Jewnited States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʒuːˌnaɪtɪd ˈsteɪts/
/dʒuˌnaɪtəd ˈsteɪts/
Forms: form: the Jewnited States
Etymology: Blend of Jew + United States, implying that the United States is controlled by Jews. First use appears c. 1892. See citations page.
Senses: synonyms: Jewnited Snakes
Jewnited Snakes of Amerikkka
glosses: The United States.
jibbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jibbon
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:jibbon.
glosses: Spring onions.
cutthroat compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutthroat compounds
Etymology: Coined by editor and linguist Brianne Hughes in the 2010s, as cutthroat is an example of the class of compound words. Compare cranberry morpheme, eggcorn, Hobson-Jobson, mondegreen.
Senses: examples: text: But not for the compounds I study — the fun ones! — which are called agentive and instrumental exocentric verb-noun compounds. Now, for the rest of the talk I'm going to be calling them cutthroat compounds, so don't worry about that.
ref: [2013 November 14, Brianne Hughes, “Cutthroat Backstabbers: The Devious World of English Verb-Noun Compounding”, in YouTube, archived from the original on 16 May 2015:
text: Cutthroat compounds name things or people by describing what they do. A cutthroat cuts throats, a telltale tells tales, a wagtail wags its tail, a killjoy kills joy
ref: 2015 May 22, Stan Carey, “The Kick-butt World of Cutthroat Compounds”, in Slate Lexicon Valley:
text: When did it become common for linguists describing a class of words to use a particular(ly good) example to refer to the class as a whole? (e.g. "eggcorn," "cutthroat compound" quite recently
ref: [2015 May 31, D-AW [David-Antoine Williams], “Eggcorn makes it into Merriam-Webster”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 15 May 2024, comment:
text: many early English cutthroat compounds were French loanwords, which were then translated and played with, creating variations and semantic clumps.
ref: 2017 February 7, Brianne Hughes, “What are Cutthroat Compounds?”, in Encyclopedia Briannica, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2023:
text: There aren’t a lot of cutthroat compounds in common use these days — only about 30, depending on your definition of common. Probably the most well-used one is breakfast, that meal that breaks the fast begun (presumably) after dinner the previous night.
ref: 2023 May 12, Andy Hollanbeck, “In a Word: Cutthroat Language”, in Saturday Evening Post:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: cutthroat
word: turncoat compound
glosses: A compound word formed of a transitive verb and a noun; an (usually exocentric) agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound.
cutthroat compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutthroat compound
base pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of basic pay.
synonyms: word: basic pay
base wallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base wallahs
Senses: glosses: A person employed at a military base, or with a job far behind the front lines.
base wallahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base wallah
waalah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wallah.
walah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wallah.
vaala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wallah.
vaalah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wallah.
montivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin montivagus + -ant, from mōns (“mountain”) + vagus (“wandering”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:montivagant.
glosses: Wandering among or moving over mountains.
recensusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of recensus
JQs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of JQ
JQing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of JQ
JQed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of JQ
Newcastle on Tyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Newcastle upon Tyne.
some such
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of somesuch.
some such
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of somesuch.
parental controls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parental control