cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slow roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slow rolls
form: slow rolling
form: slow rolled
form: slow rolled
form: slow-roll
form: slowroll
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make a long pause before calling an all-in bet with a strong, usually very strong, hand.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make a long pause before revealing one's winning hand.
examples: text: The president is upset with congressional leaders for slow-rolling his core campaign promise, and for failing to defund sanctuary cities in their spending bill.
ref: 2018 March 21, Elaina Plott, “Trump Vents His Anger Over Border-Wall Funding”, in The Atlantic:
text: “Aah! What did you do?” “Vulcans do not require as much sleep as humans, so I spent the night fully repairing the shuttle.” “Aw, this is terrible.” “I am failing to find the logic in your dissatisfaction.” “I was trying to slow-roll the repairs.” “Slow-roll?” “Tendi and I used to work on this every day. It was our project. She'll be so sad it's done.” “You are implying that the act of collaboration is more important than the work itself.” “I know, I know, it's silly, but...” “No. My request for your aid in studying was an exaggeration. I was trying to deceive you into socializing as well.”
ref: 2024 October 24, Keith Foglesong, “Shades of Green” (18:52 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 2, spoken by Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero):
text: Of course, the Russians want to slow-roll this. They're hoping the whole thing will go away as they successfully slow-rolled Trump's efforts during the first six months.
ref: 2025 August 21, John Bolton, quotee, The Source with Kaitlan Collins, via CNN:
glosses: To obstruct by delaying; to slow-walk.
slow roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow rolls
form: slow-roll
form: slowroll
Senses: examples: text: Saw a very strange slow roll last night in a $20/$40 game. A guy raises with KK and another player calls, all-in, with 99. Flop and turn are rainbow rags. Then, for reasons known only to him and God, the dealer decides to get cute with the river card. He peeks at the corner, pauses dramatically, looks at both players, then turns up a 9 on the river. I've seen a lot of players slow roll but it's unusual to see a dealer do it. A lively discussion followed.
ref: 2007, Irish Mike, “A strange slow roll”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An instance of slow rolling.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A maneuver in which the aircraft makes a complete rotation around its roll axis while maintaining a straight and level flight path.
get one's hands dirty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's hands dirty
form: getting one's hands dirty
form: got one's hands dirty
form: got one's hands dirty
form: gotten one's hands dirty
Senses: examples: text: If you expect to seal up every possible source of draftiness, you'll have to get your hands dirty — there will be some kneeling and crawling involved.
text: He doesn't get his hands dirty — that's what the henchmen and the plausible deniability are for.
glosses: To get involved with the unpleasant parts of a task, such as manual labor or unethical activities.
Related terms: dirty-handed
dirty work
wash one's hands of
the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
get back on the horse that bucked one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets back on the horse that bucked one
form: getting back on the horse that bucked one
form: got back on the horse that bucked one
form: got back on the horse that bucked one
form: gotten back on the horse that bucked one
Senses: glosses: To return to something that previously caused harm.
Related terms: take a hair of the dog that bit one
get back on the horse
gnaw someone's vitals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gnaws someone's vitals
form: gnawing someone's vitals
form: gnawed someone's vitals
form: gnawed someone's vitals
Senses: glosses: To deeply trouble (someone).
Pardew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pardey
form: Pardy
form: Pardoe
form: Perdue
Etymology: From Middle English Pardey, Pardeu, from Old French par (“by”) + Deu (“God”), an oath name, perhaps shortened from de par Dieu (“in God's name”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Salih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Salihs
Etymology: Variant of Saleh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Selim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Selims
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سليم (salīm). This surname is mostly found in Egypt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Recep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹɛdʒɛp/
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Recep.
Senses: examples: text: In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has purged thousands of judges from the judiciary as part of a broader effort to consolidate power in his own hands. But that required decades of effort and multiple constitutional changes, Levitsky said. It only became fully successful after a failed 2016 coup provided a political justification for the purge.
ref: 2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025:
glosses: A male given name from Turkish.
Nur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur نۇر (nur).
Senses: examples: text: When was approaching the last mountain pass to Nur Township, due to the climb and bumps of the road, our media car at finally went on strike, lying on the road 500 meters away from the mountain pass and stopped working.
ref: 2019 December 28, “Kunlun Tianlu, the most attractive destination for self-driving travel in 2020 The Ninth Line to Tibet”, in DayDayNews, archived from the original on 10 May 2021:
glosses: A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Nu'er
Yıldırım
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jəldɝəm/
Etymology: From Turkish Yıldırım.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Turkish
rebud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebuds
form: rebudding
form: rebudded
form: rebudded
Etymology: From re- + bud.
Senses: glosses: To bud again (send forth a second group of buds)
finnochio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Finnochio or Sweet fennel (Fœniculum dulce of Bauhin) is a biennial plant, a native of Italy and Portugal. It differs from common fennel in its dwarfer stature, darker hue, and shorter duration.
ref: 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose [eds.], Encyclopædia Metropolitana, volume 6, page 103:
text: Finnochio is sometimes grown in this country. Its seed or fruit, and the essential oil distilled from it, find a place in our pharmacopœias, but are rarely used. Their warm stimulant properties lead to their employment in the flatulent colic of infants.
ref: 1857, Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, During the Forty-Sixth Session, 1856–57 (Henry Greenwood), № 11, page 95
text: On the earth underneath is grown a crop of finnochio, or asparagus, or berries.
ref: 1886, Lee Meriwether, A Tramp Trip: How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day, Harper & brothers, page 35:
text: Francati had filled the cask with fresh water; he had also laid in a supply of finnochio and eggs, so that the dinner we had, after leaving Pæstum, was quite a swell affair.
ref: 1892, Lee Meriwether, Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean, C. Scribner’s Sons, page 255:
text: We are sure that, when Finnochio is better known in northern countries, it will be as much appreciated as Celery.
ref: 1893, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist (Haymarket Publishing), page 366
glosses: Rare spelling of finocchio.
existential instantiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: existential instantiations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In predicate logic, an inference rule of the form ∃x P(x) ⊢ P(c), where c is a new symbol (not part of the original domain of discourse, but which can stand for an element of it (as in Skolemization)).
Hypernyms: inference rule
Cameroonian Pidgin English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Kamtok
glosses: A creole spoken in Cameroon
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Cameroon Pidgin terms
Welwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlɪn/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Welwyn Hatfield borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2316).
Derived terms: Welbike
Welman
Welrod
Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Hatfield
Welwyn Garden City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A garden city (actually a town without city status) in Welwyn Hatfield borough, Hertfordshire, England.
Related terms: Welwyn
catholicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catholicates
Etymology: From Medieval Latin catholicatus.
Senses: examples: text: A Miaphysite Catholicate continued in very difficult circumstances to sustain the independent life of the Church from the cathedral in the former Armenian capital city of Ējmiacin or Valaršapat.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 276:
glosses: The jurisdiction of an Armenian catholicos.
Synonyms: catholicosate
catholicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catholicate
garden city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden cities
Etymology: Coined in the 1890s by Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928).
Senses: qualifier: urban studies
glosses: Any of several planned, self-contained communities, surrounded by "green belts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.
wikipedia: Ebenezer Howard
Derived terms: Letchworth Garden City
Welwyn Garden City
Mamluk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mamluks
Senses: examples: text: The Mamluks, who seized power in Egypt in 1250, were a caste of men captured for military service, so they drew their identity from their defence of Islam against its enemies.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, “Islam: The Great Realignment (622–1500)”, in A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 278:
glosses: Alternative form of Mameluke.
under the cosh
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Having been under the cosh Swansea were enjoying a promising spell and Begovic had to deny Graham having a free header before Swansea's record signing secured victory with five minutes remaining.
ref: 2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales:
glosses: subjected to (figurative) pressure; under the gun
Ladakh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ləˈdɑːk/
/ləˈdɑːx/
Etymology: From Hindi लद्दाख़ (laddāx), itself from Classical Persian لداخ (ladāx), ultimately from Tibetan ལ་དྭགས (la dwags),
Senses: glosses: A union territory of India. Capitals: Leh and Kargil.
glosses: A mountain range in the union territory of Ladakh, India.
Related terms: Aksai Chin
fielding circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fielding circles
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A line, marked on the field, consisting of two semicircles around each wicket joined by parallel lines, outside of which there may be no more than two fielders
raw_tags: in a one-day match
o-dark-thirty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By analogy with "o-three-thirty" (0330), "o-four-thirty" (0430), "o-five-thirty" (0530), and similar times as often expressed on the 24-hour clock—early morning hours that archetypally share the characteristics of a still-dark/nighttime sky and a distastefully early time of rising/arousal; the letter o in these terms comes from the /oʊ/-for-zero pronunciation, which (despite its conflated nature) is idiomatically widespread (just as it also is in "two-point-oh" for "2.0", for example); thus, it is not homologous to the o' in o'clock.
Senses: glosses: The wee hours.
wikipedia: 24-hour clock
Baki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
Hami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: häʹmēʹ
Forms: form: Ha-mi
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
Etymology: From Mandarin 哈密 (Hāmì) Wade–Giles romanization: Ha¹-mi⁴, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.
Senses: examples: text: Tulufan or Turfan and Fayuan or Kucheng lie to the east of the capital. Hami, an oasis in the desert, is yet nearer the eastern boundary of the province and is an important post on the chief road into China proper.
ref: 1913, Thomas Cochrane, “Chapter XXI.”, in Survey of the Missionary Occupation of China, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 332:
text: THE decision having been reached to send me to Sinkiang, the question arose as to how I was to get there. Urumchi can be reached from three directions ; from Kashmir in India across the Himalaya, Karakoram and Pamir to Kashgar, and thence a further journey of near a thousand miles through Eastern Turkistan to Urumchi ; from China across the Gobi desert to Hami and thence on across the T'ien Shan range to Urumchi ; and via the Trans-Siberian and Turkistan-Siberian railways through Russian Central Asia to the Chinese frontier town of Chuguchak (Ta-ch'eng) and thence by cart or motor truck across the Dzungarian steppe to Urumchi.
ref: 1937, Sir Eric Teichman, Journey to Turkistan, Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 27:
text: The Hami melon, native to the Hami Region of Sinjiang Province, has found a new home here in Jhuangwei, Yilan. The soil downstream of the Lanyang River is great for the cultivation of hami melon because of the plentiful sunshine, excellent water system, and the local mild weather. The Hami melon was introduced to Jhuangwei in 1982.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Food”, in Yilan County Government, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018:
text: Sulaiman’s older brother Ehet, the 57-year-old director of the Tengritagh Township Teaching District in Kumul (in Chinese, Hami) prefecture, and his younger brother Ehmet, the 39-year-old head of Kumul’s Tengritagh township, have both been detained since 2018, RFA recently learned after interviewing several local officials.
ref: 2021 March 3, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “RFA Uyghur Service Editor’s Brothers Confirmed Detained by Xinjiang Authorities”, in Uyghur Service, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
text: The new silos are clearly being built to be discovered. The most recent silo field, on which construction began in March, is in the eastern part of the Xinjiang region, not far from one of China’s notorious “re-education” camps in the city of Hami.
ref: 2021 July 26, William J. Broad, David E. Sanger, “A 2nd New Nuclear Missile Base for China, and Many Questions About Strategy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2021, Politics:
glosses: A prefecture-level city in eastern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: Khamil
Hamil
Kumul
Qumul
Hamza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hamzas
form: Hamzah
Etymology: From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ m z).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
The Muslim Sahabi Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib.
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Aydın
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Aydın.
Senses: glosses: A province and metropolitan municipality in the Aegean Region, in southwestern Turkey.
glosses: A city, the capital of Aydın Province, Turkey.
echage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echages
Senses: examples: text: Security in Gondar depended largely on the sanctity of the echage’s quarter as a place of asylum.
ref: 1972, Donald Crummey, Priests and Politicians:
text: The emperor sent an evasive reply and, upon crossing the border, made sure that the echage (the head of Ethiopia's monastic system) marched on his right.
ref: 2002, Haggai Erlich, The Cross and the River, page 117:
text: Täklä Haymanot was the first in a series of monks to become a key figure at Court, as the Echage (ečägé).
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 281:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The chief official in the monastic system of Ethiopia.
Emin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
derogatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derogatory
Tay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A Metro-Cammell diesel multiple-unit from Dundee approaches Perth on the single-line bridge over the Tay in July, 1961.
ref: 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 269, photo caption:
glosses: The longest river in Scotland, United Kingdom, originating on the slopes of Ben Lui and flowing eastwards through the city of Perth before becoming an estuary, the Firth of Tay.
glosses: A river in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, a left tributary of the Rideau.
glosses: A township in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Firth of Tay
Loch Tay
Newport-on-Tay
tayberry
Tay Canal
Tayport
Tayside
Tay Valley
Tay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tays
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tēⁿ), Teochew 鄭／郑 (dên7), Hokkien 戴 (Tè), or a variant of the English surname Tee.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tays
Etymology: Clipping of Taylor.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the unisex given name Taylor.
Derived terms: Tay Tay
calquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calquers
Etymology: From calque + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This term became popular from the late 1960s onwards, languages being neatly divided between borrowers and calquers.
ref: 2002, Manfred Görlach, Still More Englishes, page 144:
glosses: One who calques.
Tun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tuns
Etymology: From Burmese ထွန်း (htwan:).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Burmese.
Erbil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Arbil.
Upholland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʌpˈhɒlənd/
Forms: form: Up Holland
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (spelt Up Holland) in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5205).
wikipedia: Upholland railway station
fifth columnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth columnists
Etymology: From fifth column + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In both cases audiences can listen to the characters and actually hear them simply because both characters are not who they seem to be; they are fifth column-ists, interlopers in the battlefield of sexual politics. If a homosexual character or a real woman gave the speeches that Andrews and Hoffman gave they would be written off as crackpots by the movie-going public.
ref: 1983 February 12, Michael Bronski, “Tootsie and the Gender Benders”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 14:
glosses: someone who belongs to a group that secretly undermines another organization
Lala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: english: New Guinea
translation: New Guinea
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Lala terms
conditional proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional proofs
Senses: examples: text: A conditional proof corresponds to the application of what Douglas Hofstadter calls the "Fantasy Rule" in his masterwork "GEB:EGB". Surprisingly, the theory of propositional calculus which he develops in GEB:EGB employs several inference rules but no axioms: the need for any axioms is done away with through application of the Fantasy Rule.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proof showing that if an assumption A is true then a consequent statement or conclusion B must also be true, i.e. B is true on the condition that A is true.
South Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Southern Sami.
deduction theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deduction theorems
Senses: examples: text: The deduction theorem reveals the relationship between logical entailment and material implication: it allows to one to "pack" or "record" an inference into a tautology, and conversely, to "unpack" or "play back" a tautology as an inference process.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A procedure for "discharging" assumptions from an inference, causing them to become antecedents of the conclusion; or vice versa. Symbolically, the conversion of an inference of the form P,A⊢C to an inference of the form P⊢A→C or vice versa, where ⊢ is the turnstile symbol. The validity of the procedure is a metatheorem of the given logical theory.
Related terms: conditional proof
inattentional blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon of not being able to perceive things that are in plain sight.
Synonyms: perceptual blindness
Derived terms: inattentionally blind
Related terms: inattentional deafness
willful blindness
major second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major seconds
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 9/8 or 10/9, less commonly 8/7.
Synonyms: M2
whole step
whole tone
major seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of major second
cleptocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleptocracies
Etymology: From clepto- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kleptocracy.
minor second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor seconds
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: an interval that is equivalent to the difference between the third and fourth degrees of a diatonic major scale.
Synonyms: m2
half step
minor seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor second
half steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half step
terrawatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of terawatts.
uvulectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: uvulectomies
Etymology: From uvula + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of the uvula.
tripoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tripod
tripoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tripod
Trendelenburg position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Trendelenburg + position, after Friedrich Trendelenburg, the German surgeon who developed the position.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical position that a patient is placed in by raising the inferior half by 30 degrees, especially useful for superior trauma or pelvic access.
Fowler's position
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After the position's developer, Dr. George Ryerson Fowler.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical position where the patient's head is raised by 45-60 degrees to promote oxygenation via maximum chest expansion.
Related terms: high Fowler's
low Fowler's
semi-Fowler's
Fowler's
Fowler
high Fowler's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: high + Fowler's
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical position that a patient is placed in, raising the head by 60-90 degrees.
Related terms: Fowler's position
low Fowler's
semi-Fowler's
low Fowler's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: low + Fowler's
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical position that a patient is placed in, raising the head by 15-30 degrees.
Related terms: Fowler's position
high Fowler's
semi-Fowler's
semi-Fowler's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + Fowler's.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical position that a patient is placed raising the head by 30 degrees.
Related terms: Fowler's position
high Fowler's
low Fowler's
Fowler's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fowler + -'s, after the developer of the position, Dr. George Ryerson Fowler.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The Fowler's position.
Related terms: high Fowler's
low Fowler's
semi-Fowler's
salpingopharyngeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sălpĭng'gōfərĭnʹjēəs
ipa: /salˌpɪŋ.ɡəʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əs/
ipa: /sælˌpɪŋ.ɡoʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əs/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiəs
Forms: form: salpingopharyngei
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin salpingopharyngeus, clipping of mūsculus salpingopharyngeus (“salpingopharyngeal muscle”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle of the pharynx that arises from the inferior part of the Eustachian tube near its opening and passes downward to the constrictors of the pharynx, joining the posterior part of the palatopharyngeus.
pelvic lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That guy is so fat you cannot see his pelvic lines.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The iliac furrows.
cum gutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cum + gutters, by analogy with an actual gutter on an occasion when a person ejaculates on their sex partner's or their own navel and the semen flows along the pelvic lines.
Senses: examples: text: It mingled with his sweat and ran in little currents along the cum gutters formed by his abs.
ref: 2009, Brad Saunders, “The Jungle Gym”, in Men I Might Have Known, Kensington, →ISBN:
text: Stretching my arms above my head, I notice all the cum pooling along Walt's abs—his “cum gutters” are overflowing.
ref: 2010, Timothy McGivney, Zombielicious, Albion, NY: MLR Press, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Dante's sweat-slick chest was rising and falling rapidly, laced with thick semen. More ran in the grooves of his abdominal muscles. “Cum gutters,” Dante called them.
ref: 2011, Damon Suede, Hot Head, Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: The iliac furrows (also known as a V-line), particularly of a man.
Related terms: six pack
V-line
Trendelenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Friedrich Trendelenburg, the German surgeon developer of the position
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical position that a patient is placed raising the inferior half by 30 degrees, especially useful for superior trauma or pelvic access.
Trendelenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Trendelenburgs
form: Trendelenburging
form: Trendelenburged
form: Trendelenburged
Etymology: Named after Friedrich Trendelenburg, the German surgeon developer of the position
Senses: glosses: To put someone in the Trendelenburg position
Related terms: Trendelenburg gait
Trendelenburg's sign
Trendelenburg test
sorryful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sorryful
form: most sorryful
Etymology: From sorry + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Troye was most sorryful for being unable to get along with the others.
text: Adam and Eve‥felt very sorryful for their departure from Eden and wished to return.
ref: 1821, Religious Intelligencer:
text: I think I have a method of remedying this sorryful condition. Let each Local elect three press secretaries.
ref: 1920, Journal of Electrical Workers & Operators:
text: It was Los Angeles' third power-play goal in four attempts. At that point, Vancouver's power play was a sorryful 1-for-9.
ref: 1993, Vancouver Sun:
glosses: sorrowful
black sanctus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black sanctuses
form: black santis
form: blacke-saint
form: blacke santis
form: blacke santus
form: blacksaunt
form: black-sant
form: blacke saunts
form: blacke sanctus
form: black santos
form: black sanctis
Etymology: Compound of black + sanctus.
Senses: examples: text: I knewe I would make him soone change his note, / I will make him sing the blacke sanctus, I holde him a grote.
ref: 1578, Thomas Lupton, A moral and pitieful comedie, intituled, All for money […], folio 8ʳ:
text: The surly sinners sing / A horrible black santis, so to cheer / The work in hand. And evermore you hear / A shout of awful joy, as down goes some / Three-hundred-years-old treasure.
ref: 1861, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, “Adolfus, Duke of Guelders”, in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 5, page 14:
glosses: A profane or blasphemous parody of a hymn.
examples: text: As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus / Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
ref: 1533, Robert Saltwood, A comparyson bytwene. iiij. byrdes, the larke, the nyghtyngale, ye thrusshe & the cuko, for theyr syngynge who shuld be chauntoure of the quere, folio 14ᵛ:
glosses: Harsh words, especially profanities, or other dissonant noises; a cacophony.
black sanctuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black sanctus
blacke sanctus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of black sanctus.
blacke saunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Singing Psalmes,‥one in this language, and another in that, all at once like a blacke saunts, and one often not vnderstood of another.
ref: 1582, Rheims Bible:
glosses: Obsolete form of black sanctus.
black-sant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A great number had rather heare a iarring blacke-sant, then one of their balde Sermons.
ref: 1593, T. Nash, Christs Teares:
glosses: Obsolete form of black sanctus.
blacksaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The language that they speake Is the pure barbarous blacksaunt of the Geate.
ref: 1598, J. Marston, Scourge of Villanie:
glosses: Alternative form of black sanctus.
spending money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spending-money
Senses: examples: text: "Touching your brethren, Sir Prior," said Locksley, "they shall have present freedom, it were unjust to detain them; touching your horses and mules, they shall also be restored, with such spending-money as may enable you to reach York."
ref: 1819, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 33, in Ivanhoe:
text: "My father will see that you are provided with suitable clothes," proceeded Brown; "and you shall have a little spending money also."
ref: 1876, Horatio Alger, chapter 30, in Sam's Chance:
text: "Percy has lots of spending money, but I doubt if he has twenty dollars at a time."
ref: 1902, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 6, in The Young Bridge-Tender:
text: [T]he best way to head off a recession . . . is to put some spending money back in the people's pockets.
ref: 2011 March 22, Frank Pellegrini, “The Selling of the Tax Cut: First Stop Greenspan”, in Time:
glosses: A sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.
Synonyms: pin money
pocket money
Related terms: mad money
spending-money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spending money.
blacke santus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: An hideous and dissonant kind of singing (like a blacke Santus).
ref: 1600, P. Holand, Livy:
glosses: Obsolete form of black sanctus.
blacke santis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lets sing him a blacke Santis.
ref: 1625, John Fletcher, The Mad Lover:
glosses: Obsolete form of black sanctus.
blacke-saint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many a blacke-saint […] Haue I sung at his window.
ref: 1632, T. Heywood, Iron Age:
glosses: Obsolete form of black sanctus.
black santis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The surly sinners sing / A horrible black santis, so to cheer / The work in hand.
ref: 1861, All Year Round:
glosses: Obsolete form of black sanctus.
black sanctis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1892, (The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases) The phr. black sanctus (sanlus, santos, santis, Sanctis) means an uproarious torrent of profanity
glosses: Alternative form of black sanctus.
black santos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1892, (The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases) The phr. black sanctus (sanlus, santos, santis, Sanctis) means an uproarious torrent of profanity
glosses: Alternative form of black sanctus.
small-town
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smalltown
Etymology: small + town
Senses: examples: text: He was brought up in the 350s and 360s in small-town North Africa.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 301:
glosses: Pertaining to a small town; provincial.
flush toilets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flush toilet
acculture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: accultures
form: acculturing
form: accultured
form: accultured
Etymology: Either ac- + culture or a back-formation from acculturation.
Senses: examples: text: I accultured myself very easily when I moved from Chile to Brazil; Portuguese, being similar to Spanish, was easy to learn. It might have been harder to acculture to life in Hong Kong.
glosses: To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant
Derived terms: unaccultured
Related terms: acculturation
abdominal ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ə.nl̩ ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈdɑm.ə.nl̩ ɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: abdominal rings
Etymology: abdominal + ring
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the two openings in the abdominal muscle wall allowing the inguinal canal to pass through.
examples: text: I think 10 years old is too young for an abdominal ring.
synonyms: belly button ring
belly ring
navel ring
glosses: A form of body art wherein jewelry is placed in a cauterized puncture of the umbilicus.
belly button ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly button rings
Etymology: From belly button + ring.
Senses: examples: text: I think belly button rings only look good on women's navels, not men's.
glosses: A form of body art wherein a piercing is placed in a cauterized puncture of the umbilicus.
Synonyms: belly ring
abdominal ring
mery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A Yonge gentylman of the age of .xx. yere some whate dysposyd to myrth and game on a tyme talkyd with a gentylwoman which was ryght wyfe and also mery.
ref: 1526, John Rastell, edited by Hermann Oesterley, A Hundred Mery Talys: From the Only Perfect Copy Known (published 1866), page 57:
text: As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
ref: 1533, R. Saltwood, A comparyson bytwene. iiij. byrdes, the larke, the nyghtyngale, ye thrusshe [and] the cuko, for theyr syngynge who shuld be chauntoure of the quere:
text: At Christmas be mery, and thanke god of alll And feast thy pore neighbours, the great with the small.
ref: 1581, William Sandys, Christmastide: Its History, Festivities, and Carols (published 2020):
text: There was a mery Monke in Cambridge in the college that I was in, and it chanced a great company of us to be together, intending to make good cheare, to be mery (as scholers wd by mery when they are disposed:)
ref: 1596, Hugh Latimer, Frutefull Sermons, page 52:
glosses: Obsolete form of merry.
belly button rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly button ring
abdominal rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abdominal ring
Gwiazdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gwiazdons
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Gwiazdoń.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
sectionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectionaries
Etymology: From section + -ary, calque of French sectionnaire.
Senses: examples: text: The Sectionary must differ with him — he must refuse to go along with him, else he becomes a Ministerial man — he is no longer a Sectionary — he loses his separate existence — he is absorbed in the Treasury body.
ref: 1835, Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:
text: Every indigent citizen was allowed forty sous a day, to enable him to be present at the sectionary meetings.
ref: 1856, M. Mignet, History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814, →ISBN:
text: Thus the Revolutionary Tribunal followed, in its treatment of the commissaires of Marseilles and Aix, and their allies, the principles which marked its treatment of sectionary officeholders.
ref: 1973, William Scott, Terror and repression in revolutionary Marseilles, page 256:
glosses: A member of a French antiroyalist political party that was one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.
examples: text: The sectionaries replied by a very brisk fire of musketry; but Bonaparte, covering them with grape-shot, obliged them to fall back upon the steps of St. Roch; then, debouching in the Rue St. Honore', he directed upon the church itself a band of patriots who were fighting at his side with the greatest valour, and who had cruel injuries to revenge.
ref: 1838, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers, The history of the French revolution, translated. with notes by F. Shoberl, page 283:
text: The Sectionary must differ with him — he must refuse to go along with him, else he becomes a Ministerial man — he is no longer a Sectionary — he loses his separate existence — he is absorbed in the Treasury body.
ref: 1835, Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:
text: You take a good deal for granted, my young Prusssssian ," rejoined the sectionary, pronouncing the word with a prodigality of s's which attracted the attention of half a score of idlers to the traveller.
ref: 1897, Alexandre Dumas, Sylvandire. The woman with the velvet necklace, page 95:
glosses: A member or supporter of the sectionary party.
sectionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From section + -ary, calque of French sectionnaire.
Senses: examples: text: Any explanation for the triumph of the 'federalist' or sectionary movement at Toulon must, therefore, begin by examining the profound isolation of the incumbent Jacobin administration.
ref: 1991, Malcolm Crook, Toulon in War and Revolution, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Pertaining to the sectionary party.
Related terms: sectionnaire
Genk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Genk (a city and municipality of Belgium).
reinstalment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinstalments
Etymology: From re- + instalment or from reinstall + -ment.
Senses: glosses: An additional or changed instalment.
glosses: The act of reinstalling.
Synonyms: sense: act of reinstalling
word: reinstallation
bodder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bodders
form: boddering
form: boddered
form: boddered
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bother.
bodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bother.
clearcuttings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearcutting
salpingopharyngei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sălpĭng'gōfərĭnʹjēī
ipa: /salˌpɪŋ.ɡəʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.ʌɪ/
ipa: /sælˌpɪŋ.ɡoʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒiˌaɪ/
Senses: examples: text: The salpingopharyngei are two vertically oriented fascicles of muscle fibers running from the auditory tube to the laryngopharynx and larynx.
ref: 1995, Robert J. Shprintzen, Janusz Bardach, Cleft Palate Speech Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Mosby, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: plural of salpingopharyngeus
hind limbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hind limb
bowing and scraping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scraping and bowing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bow and scrape
bowing and scraping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowings and scrapings
form: scraping and bowing
Senses: glosses: Obsequious or deferential behaviour.
SPRG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Abbreviation of Springfield Armory.
raw_tags: with regard to the 30'06 cartridge
salangana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salanganas
Senses: glosses: salangane.
paillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paillon
Haidée
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Lord Byron's transliteration of the Greek name Χάϊδι ("caress") for his 1819 "Translation of the Romaic Song." The name would become popularized in English when he used the name again in 1824 in Don Juan.
Senses: examples: text: He had an only daughter, call'd Haidée, / The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles; / Besides, so very beautiful was she, / Her dowry was as nothing to her smiles:
ref: 1824 Lord Byron, Don Juan/Canto the Second:CXXVIII
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Lucretius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
glosses: Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher.
Derived terms: Lucret
Lucretian
Related terms: Lucretia
salicyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salicyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydroxybenzoyl radical derived from salicylic acid
jumpered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpəd/
Etymology: From jumper + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: bejumpered
glosses: Wearing a jumper (pullover).
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Fitted with a jumper.
ectypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectype
ectype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκτυπος (éktupos, “worked in relief”), from ἐκ- (ek-) + τύπος (túpos).
Senses: examples: text: Peireskius sent the Ectype of a Medal to Sir Robert Cotton, in which Britannia was with both a double and single N.
ref: 1697, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of Inscriptions”, in Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke […], →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: An impression (in wax, clay, &c.) of a seal or medal.
topics: architecture
glosses: An object in relievo or embossed.
examples: text: If my account is correct, both archetypes and ectypes are 'real' insofar as they are composed of ideas of sensation. But I draw a distinction that Johnson does not acknowledge, viz., a distinction between ontological and epistemic ectypes.
ref: 2001, Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, numbers 170-172, page 30:
text: The painting traces itself from itself by suddenly appearing in these ectypes. But the ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.
ref: 2004, Jean-Luc Marion, translated by James K. A. Smith, The Crossing of the Visible, page 38:
text: It is likely that little attention has been paid to the archetype/ectype relationship in Kant scholarship in the English speaking world partly as a result of inconsistent translations of the German terms “Urbild” and “Nachbild” that make it difficult to even notice the relationship.
ref: 2008, Ryan L. Showler, Archetypal and Ectypal Ideals in Kant's Practical Philosophy, page 51:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A copy, reproduction; especially as contrasted with the original, archetype, or prototype.
glosses: An idea or impression that corresponds to external reality.
Derived terms: ectypal
Related terms: ectypography
Christoffersen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Christoffersens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Christoffersen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gregersen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gregersens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Gregersen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lauritsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lauritsens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Lauritsen electroscope
Gundersen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gundersens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Gundersen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Gundersen flap
Sivertsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sivertsens
form: Severtson
form: Sivertson
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Sivertsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ellingsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ellingsens
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Ellingsen, from Elling + -sen (son).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Isaksen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isaksens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Isaksen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jenssen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
misomusist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsəʊˌmjuːzɪst/
Forms: form: misomusists
Senses: glosses: One who hates or opposes culture.
glosses: One who hates learning.
radioflash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioflashes
Etymology: From radio- + flash.
Senses: glosses: electromagnetic pulse
alonely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: alonelier
form: more alonely
form: aloneliest
form: most alonely
Etymology: From alone + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Exclusive; sole; only.
alonely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: alonelier
form: more alonely
form: aloneliest
form: most alonely
Etymology: From Middle English aloonly, alonly, al only, equivalent to alone + -ly, or more strictly, all- + one + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity.
ref: c. 1529, Hugh Latimer, Sermons on the Card:
glosses: Only; merely; singly.
isostrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + strain.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A condition of constant strain
Related terms: isostress
chare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛə/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: chair
Forms: form: chares
form: char
form: chore
Etymology: From Middle English chare, variant (due to the verb form charen) of char, cher (“a turn”), from Old English ċierr, ċerr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to turn, bend”). More at char.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of char ("turn, task, chore, worker").
glosses: A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.
Synonyms: sense: narrow lane
word: alley
chare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛə/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: chair
Forms: form: chares
form: charing
form: chared
form: chared
form: char
form: chore
Etymology: From Middle English chare, variant (due to the verb form charen) of char, cher (“a turn”), from Old English ċierr, ċerr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to turn, bend”). More at char.
Senses: glosses: To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs; to char.
Damar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Damars
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
VCD player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VCD players
Senses: glosses: An electronic device for playing VCDs.
Inverness-shire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Invernessshire
Etymology: From Inverness + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A former county of Scotland, including Inverness, absorbed into Highland Region in 1975.
enmired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From enmire + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enmire