cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tech necks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tech neck
size inflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vanity sizing.
synonyms: word: vanity sizing
range extender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: range extenders
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A fuel-based auxiliary power unit that extends the range of a battery electric vehicle by driving an electric generator that charges the vehicle's battery.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
coordinate_terms: repeater
amplifier
glosses: A device which extends a signal beyond its normal limit.
glosses: A device which expands coverage available to a wireless network with a new coverage area, which can be connected to the primary network node via a wireless backhaul or a wired one, depending on device.
Coordinate terms: topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: APU
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: BEV
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: EREV
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: EV
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: HEV
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: PHEV
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
word: REEV
sense: wifi
english: AP
translation: AP
word: access point
sense: wifi
word: gateway
sense: wifi
word: mesh
sense: wifi
word: mesh networking
sense: wifi
word: mesh node
sense: wifi
word: mesh router
sense: wifi
word: networking
sense: wifi
word: node
sense: wifi
alt: RT
word: router
sense: wifi
word: wifi
sense: wifi
word: wireless
sense: wifi
alt: WAP
word: wireless access point
sense: wifi
word: wireless gateway
sense: wifi
word: wireless networking
sense: wifi
alt: WRT
word: wireless router
range extenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of range extender
ULEV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULEVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ultra-low-emission vehicle.
canned hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canned huntings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of canned hunt.
synonyms: word: canned hunt
fly grazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly grazings
form: fly-grazing
Senses: examples: text: These changes were regarded as essential to follow the example set by the Welsh Assembly to ensure that fly-grazing is tackled consistently and with the necessary resolve to protect horses from neglect and to safeguard the public from danger.
ref: 2019, W.H. Bassett, Tim Deveaux, Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures, CRC Press, page 707:
text: Traveller horse owners are often singled out as the main contributors to reduced horse welfare with fly-grazing (unauthorised grazing on private land), tethered and abandoned horses regarded as Traveller practices.
ref: 2018, Michael Cockram, Tarjei Tennessen, Luis Bate, Renee Bergeron, Sylvie Cloutier, Andrew Fisher, Maria Hötzel, editors, Proceedings of the 52nd Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology: Ethology for health and welfare, Wageningen Academic Publishers, page 60:
text: Fly-grazing is the same as fly-tipping: owners may no longer want the horse, but can’t afford - or don’t want - to pay the charges for having them legally slaughtered, so they let them out to starve or take their chances.
ref: 2021, Bella Bathurst, Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land, Profile, page 42:
text: Defra Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Lord de Mauley, subsequently informed us that the Government supported Julian Sturdy MP’s Private Members’ Bill on the Control of Horses (England) 2014 which introduces several important changes to help tackle fly-grazing.
ref: 2015, House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, HC 942 - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee - Work of the Committee: 2010-15, The Stationery Office, page 26:
glosses: The grazing of animals, such as horses, on land without the permission of the landowner.
fly-grazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-grazings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fly grazing.
kninkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪŋk.l̩z/
Etymology: Blend of knee + wrinkles. Itself a modification of ninkles, which was coined by Emily Sheffield. Kninkles appeared shortly after ninkles, but only kninkles became generally accepted.
Senses: examples: text: My sister called me last night and declared she has "kninkles" (knee wrinkles)...oh the things that happen to your body as you get older...
ref: 2011 April 21, @bobfm, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024:
text: Photos of her in Venice in a pair of shorts at the weekend appeared to show that the Hollywood actress — 39 this month — is suffering from knee wrinkles, or ‘kninkles’, as they’ve been nicknamed.
ref: 2011 September 6, Claire Coleman, “Curse of the KNINKLES: That's knee wrinkles... and Gwyneth's not the only star who's got them”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024:
text: Radio-frequency treatments are often used on the face to tighten slack skin and can work wonders on kninkles. "They deliver energy into the dermal tissue," explains Dr Bowler. "This heats the tissue, causing the collagen to tighten and, over time, to produce more collagen."
ref: 2011 September 7, Claire Coleman, “Ugly knees: The curse of the kninkles”, in The Courier-Mail, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Even super-fit stars such a Demi Moore, 51, right, and Catherine Zeta Jones, 44, left, can't avoid kninkles
ref: 2014 February 25, Katy Winter, “No more kninkles (that's knee wrinkles): Now there's a $500 lunchtime lift that promises to banish that saggy skin”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cher and Sharon Stone have been called out for “kninkles,” or knee wrinkles — and Demi Moore is rumored to have had an $8,000 knee-lift in 2012 to firm and smooth saggy knees.
ref: 2015 July 27, Merle Ginsberg, “Hollywood’s Knee Anxiety: Ironing Out Those “Kninkles””, in The Hollywood Reporter, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: Knee wrinkles.
Related terms: cankle
fire ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of methane hydrate.
synonyms: word: methane hydrate
fifty-state strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifty-state strategies
Senses: examples: text: [Howard] Dean assumed the D.N.C. chairmanship in 2005, pledging a "Fifty State Strategy" to contest elections across the country. This put him at odds with Rahm Emanuel, then the leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who wanted to focus on a few targeted swing seats.
ref: 2017 February 19, Vinson Cunningham, “Will Keith Ellison Move the Democrats Left?”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2024:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political strategy in which a presidential candidate campaigns in all fifty states, rather than only focusing on those which are considered most important.
fifty-state strategies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fifty-state strategy
pollen vortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollen vortexes
form: pollen vortices
Etymology: Modeled after polar vortex.
Senses: examples: text: If the constant cold weren’t enough, a brutal winter has many speculating that the polar vortex will be replaced by a “pollen vortex,” leaving allergy sufferers sniffling and miserable.
ref: 2014 April 17, “Now a 'Pollen Vortex'? Wild Weather May Mean Allergy Nightmare”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
ref: 2014 April 21, Bahar Gholipour, “'Pollen Vortex'? Long Winter Worsens Allergies in Spring”, in Live Science, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: A "pollen vortex" was thought to succeed the "polar vortex" of 2014, but a study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology last fall declared that it didn't happen. In Ontario, Canada, pollen counts were actually lower than they'd been in 12 years, the researchers concluded.
ref: 2015 April 10, “Allergy Season 2015: Jury Still Out On So-Called Pollen Vortex”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: As it warms up, expect everything to bloom at once, creating what allergists call a pollen vortex.
ref: 2018 April 22, “Local allergist says pollen vortex is on the way due to weather”, in WSBT-TV, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Despite a rough beginning, this season might not continue to be so brutal, and the pollen vortex could soon become a distant memory. For now, pollen counts remain high, and people who want help with their symptoms should go see an allergist.
ref: 2021 March 26, Jeffrey Kopman, “What Is a Pollen Vortex?”, in The Weather Channel, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: An unusually high concentration of pollen in the air over a relatively short period of time.
pollen vortexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollen vortex
pollen vortices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollen vortex
CIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CITs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of collagen induction therapy.
glosses: Initialism of counselor-in-training.
quarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quart
quarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quart
HKFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hong Kong Football Association.
flashing lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashing lanes
Senses: glosses: A roadway at a horse fair where horses are exhibited by being led or ridden.
flashing lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flashing lane
Changjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chängʹjēnʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 장진(長津) (Jangjin).
Senses: glosses: A county of South Hamgyong Province, North Korea.
glosses: A river in North Korea, a tributary of the Yalu River.
cuspidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuspidations
Senses: glosses: A cuspidate form.
cuspidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuspidation
discabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discabinets
form: discabineting
form: discabineted
form: discabineted
Etymology: From dis- + cabinet.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the Cabinet Council is not a true act of discabineting, and it is possible that Ralegh's status as truth-teller is being ironised, since any educated reader would recognise this as merely a collection of other people's ideas.
ref: 1997, Anna R. Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Most important, he may have felt that while working through Machiavelli, Raleigh had discabineted a series of sentiments immediately relevant to his own understanding of the war.
ref: 2001 February, Paul Stevens, “Milton's "Renunciation" of Cromwell: The Problem of Raleigh's Cabinet-Council”, in Modern Philology, volume 98, number 3, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 386:
glosses: To reveal (something secret).
discabinets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discabinet
discabineting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discabinet
discabineted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discabinet
besonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besonians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bezonian.
besonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besonian
bibliotist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliotists
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practises bibliotics.
bibliotists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliotist
bichromated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bichromate
bichromating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bichromate
dichromating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dichromate
dichromated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dichromate
Needingworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Holywell-cum-Needingworth parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3472).
workadays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workaday
woodspite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodspites
Senses: glosses: A woodpecker.
woodspites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodspite
fishet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishets
Etymology: From fish + -et.
Senses: examples: text: When they remembered how they came to be partakers of the banquet last year, they must have felt very unsafe until the little crisp fishets were crunched between their teeth.
ref: 1867 August 24, “Town Talk”, in Fun, volume the fifth (new series), London: […] J. Alder, →OCLC, page 248, column 1:
synonyms: fishling
fishlet
glosses: A young or small fish.
fishets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishet
wastelot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastelots
Etymology: From waste + lot.
Senses: glosses: A plot of wasteground.
wastelots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastelot
wastegrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wasteground
hashtagified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hashtagify
ventred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ventre
ventring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ventre
teentier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of teenty: more teenty
teentiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of teenty: most teenty
deathiversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathiversaries
Etymology: Blend of death + anniversary.
Senses: examples: text: If all the world's a stage, Shakespeare seems to be rarely off it these days, to the extent that some may be less tempted to celebrate his deathiversary than to say, "Him again, still?"
ref: 2016 April 22, Jennifer Schuessler, “Shakespeare. Dead?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2022:
text: In the midst of TV's full brunt of Diana deathiversary specials, Showtime has decided that what one naturally wants instead is a dispassionate, depressing documentary about the downward spiral and untimely death of pop superstar Whitney Houston, who drowned in a hotel bathtub in 2012 (official cause: coronary artery disease, complicated by drug use), leaving many unanswerable questions: Who was she? What was her legacy? Where did it all go so wrong?
ref: 2017 August 24, Hank Stuever, “’Whitney: Can I Be Me’ tries and fails to bring meaning to the late singer’s legacy”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2024:
text: Soon, he was only asked to offer remembrances on the successive unhappy deathiversaries of that film director/painter he referred to as The Living Dead Man […]
ref: 2019 [2017], Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden, The Dreamed Part, Rochester, N.Y.: Open Letter, →ISBN, page 478:
glosses: The anniversary of someone's death.
deathiversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathiversary
Dellionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dellionaires
Etymology: Blend of Dell + millionaire.
Senses: examples: text: Times had settled down, though, and now many of the houses were owned by retired couples or banks that had foreclosed after some Dellionaire couldn't make his payment.
ref: 2009, Laura Griffin, Untraceable, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Star Books, →ISBN, page 75:
text: As revenues soared, so did its stock price. From the day of its initial public offering in 1988 to its peak in March 2000, Dell's stock rose a staggering—no, staggering is not quite the word—apocalyptic 87,000 percent. Thousands of Dell employees got rich. At one point Dell's stock was said to have created 2,700 millionaires, so many that they got a name: Dellionaires. Many of them had a lot more than a million dollars.
ref: [2013 February 7, S. C. Gwynne, “Dell's Great Success Story”, in Texas Monthly, Austin, T.X.: Texas Monthly LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023:
glosses: Someone who became wealthy by buying stock in the computer company Dell.
Dellionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dellionaire
Holywell-cum-Needingworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, which includes the named places.
democratatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democratatorships
Etymology: Blend of democracy + dictatorship.
Senses: examples: text: Aleph admits that Israel is trying to develop genuinely democratic institutions but, because of her compromises with ethnic religion, the new state can be described at best as a "democratura," or "democratatorship"!
ref: 1954 July, Robert L[isle] Lindsey, “Israel's Coming Crisis Over "Jewishness": The Rebellion Against the Religio-Ethnic State”, in Commentary, volume 18, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The American Jewish Committee, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
text: Yet such men regarded parliamentary democracy as a sham 'democratatorship' (Demokratur), believed the multi-party system had to be abolished and wanted somehow to reunify the country with the assistance of like-minded fascists abroad.
ref: 2008, Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 573:
glosses: A dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy.
democratatorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of democratatorship
diworsify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diworsifies
form: diworsifying
form: diworsified
form: diworsified
Etymology: Blend of diversify + worse.
Senses: examples: text: You can see whether and to what extent a fund manager is lagging or beating his or her benchmark, and whether he or she is taking on more risk than the investment universe (or, on the other hand, lagging due to holdings in cash, or "diworsifying" by going beyond its single-sector mandate).
ref: 2007, James Lowell, What Every Fidelity Investor Needs to Know, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 102:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To make something worse by diversifying.
Related terms: diworsification
diworsifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diworsify
diworsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diworsify
TWAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: TWAGs
Etymology: Blend of tennis + WAGs (“wives and girlfriends”).
Senses: examples: text: Either way, the future looks secure for Tim and original Twag (tennis wife and/or girlfriend) Lucy. There's no need to become a PE teacher or pub landlord just yet.
ref: 2007 August 21, Barney Ronay, “Game, set and match”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Number one TWAG (that's tennis WAG) Kim Sears put her best fashion foot forward at the opening day of Wimbledon yesterday.
ref: 2014 June 24, Sarah Barns, “Get the look: It's all white for Kim Sears as she wows in £225 Reiss dress and Aspinal bag”, in Daily Express, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: FORGET the beautiful women cheering on from the side lines at Euro 2016, now it’s time for the TWAGs (that’s tennis wives and girlfriends) to steal the spotlight.
ref: 2016 June 21, Sarah Barns, “IT’S LOVE-ALL! Meet the TWAGS (that’s the tennis wives and girlfriends) bringing the glamour to Wimbledon 2016”, in The Sun, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: With her appearance in the Netflix series Break Point, Riddle is the unofficial queen TWAG, with Nick Kyrgios’ girlfriend Costeen Hatzi, US player Tommy Paul’s partner Paige Lorenze and Daria Sergeyevna’s girlfriend Natalia Zabiiako part of a growing online royal court.
ref: 2024 January 20, Damien Woolnough, “Meet the TWAGs changing the look of tennis”, in The Age, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2024:
glosses: A wife or girlfriend of a tennis player.
diworsified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diworsify
TWAGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TWAG
worsify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: worsifies
form: worsifying
form: worsified
form: worsified
Etymology: From worse + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Well they could barely worsify Great Expectations (from Destroyer), or some instrumental stuff like Love Theme from KISS or Escape from the Island no :)
ref: 1993 October 15, Frederic Bourbeau, “Black Sabbath/Kiss Tribute albums (Michael J McClure)”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal (Usenet):
text: It'd be expensive, sure, in time and energy, but would it be nearly as expensive as struggling for weeks to "properly" fix a self-worsifying problem with which to begin?
ref: 1999 December 26, meme_e...@my-deja.com, “I witnessed it......”, in misc.survivalism (Usenet):
text: A combination of one lucky flop, one unlucky river, and your aggressive projection of image has improved your situation considerably. You've lost a pot and won a pot, but more important, you've worsified your foes.
ref: 2002, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker: Strategy and Tactics for Winning Poker Play, New York, N.Y.: Lyle Stuart/Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 153:
text: I was using a TOC's own site, which uses the "certain train booking site"'s engine. Until now the version provided to TOCs has not been worsified significantly.
ref: 2018 July 12, Ian Jackson, “Consumer Protecton from Unfair Trading enforcement”, in uk.legal.moderated (Usenet):
antonyms: improve
better
goodify
glosses: To make (something) worse.
Related terms: diworsify
worsification
worsifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of worsify
worsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worsify
worsified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of worsify
Girgis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
worsification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worsifications
Etymology: From worse + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: shittification
text: I shouldn't mind these well-intentioned worsifications. But I just don't believe they happen.
ref: 1946, James Agate, Ego 8: Continuing the Autobiography, Sydney, N.S.W. […]: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd., page 229:
text: I'm not a xenophobe, Musette. I've seen what's happened to my home and its environs and I don't like it. In spite of all the worsification and uglyfying and franchisation that's happened here, it's still better than elsewhere.
ref: 1999 September 4, Icono Clast, “we just got here”, in ba.consumers (Usenet):
text: I know I could improve. Just during phases of intense worsification there is no HOPE of improving. Big difference : )
ref: 2002 June 30, BHaber, “disaster streak”, in rec.games.go (Usenet):
antonyms: goodification
glosses: The process by which something becomes worse.
Related terms: worsify
worsification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of worse + versification.
Senses: examples: text: Since we have found fault with some of what we may be allowed to call the worsification, we should say that the prose work is done conscientiously and neatly.
ref: 1849 December, [J. R. Lowell], “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, volume III, number IX (review), page 51:
glosses: The act of composing poetic verse poorly; bad versification.
worsifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worsification
RMAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
synonyms: TUDM
glosses: Initialism of Royal Malaysian Air Force.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Moroccan Air Force.
glosses: Initialism of Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation.
no poo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-poo
Etymology: From no + poo (“shampoo”).
Senses: glosses: The act of hairwashing without commercial shampoo, instead using water or non-commercial products, such as baking soda and vinegar.
dickprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickprints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dick print.
dick-print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dick-prints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dick print.
hashtagifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hashtagify
hashtagifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of hashtagify
Agudong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agudongs
Senses: examples: Siena Agudong, b. 2004
glosses: A surname.
UwU speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uwu speech.
diworsification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diworsifications
Etymology: Blend of diversification + worse. Coined by American investor, mutual fund manager Peter Lynch.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, even well-regarded public companies have been known to fritter away their shareholders' funds in ill-timed business expansions or, as Peter Lynch has said, "diworsifications."
ref: 1997, Ralph L. Block, The Essential REIT: A Guide to Profitable Investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts, San Francisco, C.A.: Brunston Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Not only does the process create an organic and self-sustaining kind of teamwork, but it prevents diworsification for companies, which can stay focused on what they do best and what fits their core competencies.
ref: 2008, Paul Orfalea, Lance Helfert, Atticus Lowe, Dean Zatkowsky, The Entrepreneurial Investor: The Art, Science, and Business of Value Investing, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 68:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The process by which something is made something worse by diversifying.
Related terms: diworsify
worsification
diworsifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diworsification
dumbwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmˌwɔː.kɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdʌmˌwɔ.kɪŋ/
Etymology: From dumb + walking.
Senses: examples: text: Michael Cucek is a consultant who has lived here for more than 20 years. In his spare time, he writes a popular political blog called Shisaku that has recently been littered with posts about what he calls "dumbwalking".
ref: 2014 July 14, Alex Marshall, “Japan enters the era of smartphones and 'dumbwalking'”, in BBC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2014:
text: In Japan, smartphones are extremely popular, although they are often demonised in the media. The issue of ‘dumbwalking’ is a serious problem in Japan, although in Japanese it is known as arukinagara (walking whilst [on the phone]).
ref: 2018, Richard S. Pinner, Augmented Communication: The Effect of Digital Devices on Face-to-Face Interactions, Springer International Publishing, page 107:
glosses: The act of walking while distracted or preoccupied by something else, often looking at a smartphone.
Related terms: smombie
time trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
synonyms: time pressure
glosses: In a game played with a time control, the situation in which a player has little time to complete the required moves, thus increasing the probability of making a blunder.
time pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Stress that arises from a tight deadline; an urgency from needing to finish something when there is barely enough or not enough time.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of time trouble.
synonyms: word: time trouble
kludgeocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌd͡ʒˈɒ.kɹə.si/
ipa: /kluːd͡ʒ-/
ipa: /klʌd͡ʒˈɑ.kɹə.si/
ipa: /klud͡ʒ-/
rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: kludgeocracies
Etymology: From kludge + -ocracy. Coined by Steven M. Teles in 2012.
Senses: examples: text: Neither party is immune from the costs of policy complexity: the interests of both liberals and conservatives are ill-served by kludgeocracy.
ref: 2012 December 24, Steven M. Teles, “Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy”, in New America Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2024:
text: Teles suggests that our kludgeocracies be scrubbed clean of regulatory language that obscures rather than enlightens.
ref: 2014 April 20, John Sweeney, “Fixes: Too many cooks spoil the soup and too many chiefs spoil the schools”, in Sunday News Journal, 39th year, number 16, Wilmington, Del., page A16, column 4:
text: Despite the complexity and hidden difficulties in our “kludgeocracy,” much can be achieved. By adopting the best principles and practices to be learned from great leaders, today’s public sector leaders can themselves do great work and make great contributions to the nation.
ref: 2016, Ronald R. Sims, William I. Sauser, Sheri K. Bias, editors, Transforming Government Organizations: Fresh Ideas and Examples from the Field, Information Age Publishing, page 193:
text: Mike Lind may not agree with much of what is in this book, but his support for Steve's writing on kludgeocracy is a major influence on this book’s argument.
ref: 2017, Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles, The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality, Oxford University Press, page 7:
text: The institutional separation in Unites States between executive and legislature is also accused of emergence of “kludgeocracy,” but the phenomenon is equally true in administrative practices of developing nations like India.
ref: 2023, Ranvijay Upadhyay, Ethics Integrity And Aptitude in Governance, S. Chand Publishing, page 113:
glosses: A government characterized by complex, inefficient, and ad-hoc solutions to problems.
kludgeocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kludgeocracy
Trans-New Guinean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Trans-New Guinea language family.
doorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorers
Etymology: From door + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A new word has been coined in the Big Apple to cover an increasingly common cause of death or injury — doorers. That means someone opens the door of a stationary motor vehicle and sends a cyclist flying in to the path of a passing car or bus usually with dire consequences.
ref: 2012 October 5, Tom Sullivan, “Distracted drivers lead to injured pedestrians”, in The Record, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2014:
text: This got me wondering, is there any comeback for the doorer, and is there any recourse for the dooree? Apparently there is and I thought I would share this with you in case you are the next victim.
ref: 2014 January 28, Honour Tomkinson, “Oxford cycling campaigner Honour Tomkinson will be sticking to cycling along the canal path...”, in Oxford Mail, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2024:
text: "It actually forces them to look behind," he said. "That way. they can get a good view at what's coming up behind them so that they don't actually become a doorer."
ref: 2016 March 18, Karin Larsen, quoting Colin Stein, “Car door killers: Campaign tries to make a dent in cyclist doorings”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2022:
text: "Police officers think that it's just as much the fault of the cyclist as of the doorers, which is not the law," Vaccaro said. "I don't think police officers are taught the law about opening doors unsafely."
ref: 2018 April 26, Christopher Robbins, quoting Steve Vaccaro, “Cyclist Killed By Driver Opening Door In Morningside Heights”, in Gothamist, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2023:
glosses: Someone who doors ("to cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian").
doorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorer
Solombala English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pidgin, derived from both English and Russian, that was spoken in the port of Solombala in the city of Arkhangelsk, Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries.
wikipedia: Solombala Shipyard
fugitive emission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fugitive emissions
Senses: glosses: Leaks and other irregular releases of gases or vapors from a pressurized containment – such as appliances, storage tanks, pipelines, wells, or other pieces of equipment – mostly from industrial activities.
fugitive emissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fugitive emission
aortally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Via the aorta
Derived terms: intraaortally
bunolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nonselective ẞ-adrenergic blocking agent, C₁₇H₂₅NO₃, used in the treatment of glaucoma.
Derived terms: levobunolol
project accounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A type of managerial accounting oriented toward the goals of project management and delivery.
frontrunneritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front-runneritis
form: front-runner-itis
form: frontrunner-itis
Etymology: From front runner + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: "This is sort of the fourth generation of front-runner-itis he's suffered through," said Carney. "First it was that he was hiding in Austin and not campaigning. Then it was all he cared about was money. Then it was 'he's afraid to debate.' Now it's that he's not substantive enough. I don't know if it's all just wishful thinking on the part of his opponents or something more."
ref: 1999 December 9, Mark Z. Barabak, quoting David Carney, “Bush's Winning Glow Dims After Poor Debate Reviews”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2024:
text: Yes, FrontRunneritis is a terrible disease. Lyndon Johnson had it. Ed Muskie had it. Howard Dean had it. Candidates for all levels of office catch it.
ref: 2007 October 8, Peter Fenn, “FrontRunneritis”, in The Hill, Washington, D.C.: Nexstar Media Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2024:
text: Romney, on the other hand, is exhibiting signs of "front-runneritis," said Lehane, "where they try to protect themselves. They go into a cocoon; they don't want to engage in the hurly-burly that is the very definition of an Iowa caucus or a New Hampshire primary."
ref: 2011 July 2, Lindsey Boerma, quoting Chris Lehane, “It's Mr. No Comment Versus Ms. Accessible”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022:
text: But she also has "front-runneritis" - in some cases drawing comparisons to New York's Christine Quinn: early favorite to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg; finished third in her Democratic primary.
ref: 2014 January 27, John Baer, “Allyson Schwartz's 'frontrunneritis'”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2024:
text: Look, I understand the current Seahawks mania. Who can't love Pete Carroll and his Legion of Boom? But I have the sense — bear with me, now — that there's an element of frontrunner-itis infecting us.
ref: 2015 October 10, “Take 2: Why I'm still a Mariners fan first amid the sea of Seahawks fans in Seattle”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, W.A: The Seattle Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2020:
glosses: A supposed affliction said to cause someone, especially a political candidate, to struggle as soon as they become a front runner.
time tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time trackings
form: time-tracking
Senses: topics: business
qualifier: human resources
glosses: A written record of the working hours of the employees of a company or organization in order to ensure accurate compensation.
Derived terms: time-tracking software
Related terms: timesheet
front-runneritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frontrunneritis.
front-runner-itis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frontrunneritis.
time trackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time tracking
frontrunner-itis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frontrunneritis.
acystia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + cyst(o)- + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Congenital absence of the bladder.
breaker-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakers-up
Etymology: From break up + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, it cannot be consistently maintained that social workers are in all cases both insensitive breakers-up of families and ineffectual bystanders.
ref: 1991, Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton, editors, Social Work, the Media, and Public Relations, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Someone who breaks something up (in various senses).
breakers-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breaker-up
time-tracking software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: human resources
glosses: A program or application allowing a user to record the amount of time spent on tasks or projects.
time-tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-trackings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time tracking.
time-trackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-tracking
Wordle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)dəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Etymology: Coined in 2021 as a blend of word + Wardle, the surname of the game’s creator and developer, Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle.
Senses: examples: text: Wordle is a seemingly simple puzzle, giving users six tries to guess a five-letter word that resets every day.
ref: 2022 January 31, Doha Madani, “Wordle, the latest internet game sensation, is headed to The New York Times”, in NBC News:
text: Fourteen months on from the NYT's acquisition of Wordle, some players remain keen enough on the game to supplement their daily fix with similar puzzles such as Quordle, Heardle and Worldle.
ref: 2023 April 3, Harry Low, “Have we fallen out of love with Wordle?”, in BBC News:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A web-based word game, where players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of colored tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position.
Derived terms: Wordler
Wordle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)dəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Forms: form: Wordles
Etymology: Coined in 2021 as a blend of word + Wardle, the surname of the game’s creator and developer, Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle.
Senses: examples: text: “I’ve rarely missed a day,” said Cona, who still looks forward to her “every morning Wordle ritual,” and whose friends and family share photos of their completed Wordles as a way to stay connected.
ref: 2024 March 14, Saira Mueller, “Millions have played Wordle, but there’s more to the game than you’d expect”, in CNN:
glosses: A puzzle from Wordle.
battle rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle ropes
Etymology: First introduced into the fitness industry. Coined in 2010.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, doing just a couple of different battle rope workouts made my forearms run for their money.
ref: 2022 March 23, Matt Kollat, “To improve grip strength, I tried battle rope workouts – and they are ultra-efficient”, in T3:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A thick, heavy rope that is used when doing exercises to increase strength
roof deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roof decks
Senses: examples: text: In multi-story commercial construction, the dominant form of deck (including roof deck) construction is composite steel deck.
ref: 2024 March 3, Wikipedia contributors, “Deck (building)”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
glosses: The flat layer of construction materials to which the weather impervious layers are attached to a form a roof. It is known as the "roof deck", and they may be either level (for a "flat" rooftop) or sloped.
examples: text: There are four decks under the main deck and three above, which are named the roof deck, the promenade deck, and the boat deck
ref: 1913 May 29, “SS Gallia AND SS Lutetia”, in Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, volume 1, LONDON: Queen Anne's Chambers, S.W., page 323:
glosses: An upper deck of a ship that provides shelter for another deck underneath.
lucky girl syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lucky Girl Syndrome
Etymology: Attested from the 2020s, popularized by TikTok influencers.
Senses: examples: text: The latest trend to sweep through the social media world is known as “Lucky Girl Syndrome”, or LGS.[…] LGS is a combination of manifesting and the law of attraction; it involves repeating mantras such as “Great things are always happening to me unexpectedly” in order to attract positive outcomes into one’s life.
ref: 2021 October 6, Audrey Sawyer, “The Pros and Cons of Lucky Girl Syndrome”, in Thriving Guide, archived from the original on 20 May 2024:
text: The trend surged around New Year, and since then the main #Luckygirlsyndrome hashtag has had more than 80 million views. It's a spin on manifestation, the belief that positive thinking will help you to achieve your goals.
ref: 2023 January 14, Riyah Collins, “Lucky Girl Syndrome: Smug TikTok trend or life-changing positivity?”, in BBC:
text: So if you want to reap the benefits of Lucky Girl Syndrome, by all means, reframe the way you view yourself and your goals, just don't act like reality can be rigged by day dreaming.
ref: 2023 February 14, Flora Gill, “The dangers of ‘Lucky Girl Syndrome’”, in Evening Standard, page 19:
text: In general, Lucky Girl Syndrome is a long-standing idea with a trendier, rebranded name.
ref: [2023 March 16, Dr. Albers, “‘Lucky Girl Syndrome’ Isn’t the Antidote To Bad Luck, but It Can Help Challenge Negative Thinking”, in Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials:
qualifier: social media
glosses: The idea that one can make good things happen simply by imagining them happening and believing one is lucky.
Related terms: law of attraction
manifest
wishful thinking
M.P.H.
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mph.
mi/h
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mi/h
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mi/hr.
spathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spathrooms
Etymology: Blend of spa + bathroom. Attested from at least the 2010s (see quotations below).
Senses: examples: text: A recent survey by bathroom specialists Villeroy & Boch confirms that view, dubbing the space the "spathroom". It found that almost half of Britons say they consider their bathroom an important private space where they can relax
ref: 2014 February 3, “Splash out with a bathroom facelift: Pull the plug on your outdated bathroom and create your own spa at home”, in Hull Daily Mail, page 20:
text: It’s why that major home-living trend cocooning is becoming more and more entrenched and now also moving in to bathrooms in the form of the spathroom.
ref: 2023 January 16, “Bring the world to a stop in your spathroom sanctuary”, in IMM Colongne:
text: Sleek cylinder lights are perfect for a spathroom with their elegant elongated holder. They pair beautifully with round or dome shades giving an air of simplicity and calm.
ref: 2023 May 2, Isobel Green, “Lighting the way to fabulous style”, in Echo News, South Essex: Gannett:
text: As he explains, your bathroom doesn’t have to be so clinical. Give it the upgrade it deserves, to make it a 'spa- bathroom' or a spathroom.
ref: 2024 April 12, “From spa bathrooms to curvy comfort: Must-have design trends for 2024”, in Gulf News, Dubai:
glosses: A bathroom that has been designed to be very clean, comfortable and relaxing, like a spa.
mi./hr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mi./hr.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mi/hr.
mi./hr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mi./hr
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mi/hr.
roof decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roof deck
functional training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Exercise which involves training the body for the activities performed in daily life.
global boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: global boilings
Etymology: Coined by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in July 2023.
Senses: examples: text: “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
ref: 2023 July 27, Catherine Clifford, quoting António Guterres, “‘The era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN boss, as White House announces provisions to protect workers from extreme heat”, in NBC News:
text: In the aftermath of global warming, concerns regarding the sustainability of natural resources have intensified due to global boiling (Arora and Mishra, 2023).
ref: 2024 December 24, Sae Eun Lee, Kyu-Hye Lee, “Environmentally sustainable fashion and conspicuous behavior”, in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, →DOI, page 2:
text: The mass bleaching is a relatively new phenomenon that's turned chronic in what UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes as the era of global boiling.
ref: 2025 March 25, “Reef allies plunge heart and soul into coral rescue”, in Sunday Age, Melbourne, page 28:
text: The term “global boiling” is now used to describe current climate change, as recent climate data highlight a significant departure from the conventional understanding of global warming.
ref: [2025 April 1, Yu Jung Sohn, Se‐Yeun Hwang, Haeyoung Lee, Subeen Jeon, Ji Young Park, Jaehyung Kim, Donghyuk Kim, Ki Jun Jeong, Sang Yup Lee, Jeong Chan Joo, “Metabolic Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for High‐Level Production of 1,5‐Pentanediol, a C5 Diol Platform Chemical”, in Advanced Science, →DOI:
topics: sciences
hypernyms: global warming
climate change
glosses: A very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space; an extreme form of global warming.
Red Roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Red Roses extended their championship winning record to 29 games, as John Mitchell's ruthless side struck five first-half tries before Assia Khalfaoui's second-half red card.
ref: 2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The England women's national rugby union team