cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
morselizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of morselize
morselizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of morselize
adoxographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfə/
ipa: /eɪdɑkˈsɑɡɹəfɚ/
Forms: form: adoxographers
Etymology: From adoxography + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And here again we have a link to Feste, who, on the night of Epiphany at the last gasp of the Christmas season, not only plays the adoxographer as noted above, but in the guise of Sir Topas the curate, making the more or less sane puritan Malvolio out to be mad […]
ref: 2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the Middle Ages; 26], New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Loki proves himself an accomplished sophist – one that may be more precisely defined as an adoxographer (from the Greek, adoxos, meaning "ignoble") who, by rhetorical means, convincingly inverts the presumed categories of noble and ignoble action. It should come as no surprise that the practitioner of such rhetoric here is an angel fallen from grace since, traditionally, those sophists who constitute adoxographers are frequently of the demonic ilk.
ref: 2008, T. Ross Leasure, “Spenser's Diabolical Orator and Milton's 'Man of Hell'”, in Christophe Tournu, editor, Milton in France, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: One who composes adoxography.
Related terms: adoxograph
adoxographic
adoxographical
adoxographically
adoxography
adoxographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adoxographer.
knuckleheadery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knucklehead + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] his own tone and rhetoric might have been part of the reason for the outbreak of knuckleheadery and half-cockedness in the first place."
ref: 2013, Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces:
glosses: The actions or behavior of a knucklehead.
apple-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apple-bearing
form: most apple-bearing
form: applebearing
Etymology: From apple + bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).
Senses: examples: text: It would not be very flattering to the teaching profession if I were to enumerate to you how many times I was punished in order to be compelled to say, right or wrong, that an apple tree was an apple-bearing tree.
ref: 2001, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook
glosses: Bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples
Synonyms: word: pomiferous
light-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From light + bearing. Compare Old English lēohtbǣre (“luminous, bright, splendid”, literally “light-bearing”).
Senses: examples: text: The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion.
ref: 1996, Russian Studies, Philosophy:
text: Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.
ref: 2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science:
glosses: Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright
Related terms: light-bearer
Vulg.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Vulgate.
speed stacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed stackings
Senses: topics: games
glosses: a competitive speed game where competitors stack and unstack nesting cups between stacked triangles and nested stack columns with rapidity
topics: games
glosses: a performance of the action found in the game, of stacking, unstacking, or stacking and unstacking
Synonyms: sport stacking
cup stacking
Related terms: speed stack
speed stacker
speed stacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speed stack
speed stack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speed stacks
form: speed stacking
form: speed stacked
form: speed stacked
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to stack and unstack nesting cups in a competitive manner for the sport of speed stacking
Related terms: speed stacking
speed stacker
speed stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed stacks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a triangular stack of cups created by speed stacking
Related terms: speed stacking
speed stacker
speed stacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of speed stack
knuckleheadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knuckleheadish
form: most knuckleheadish
Etymology: From knucklehead + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I hope these questions don't sound completely knuckleheadish and lame.
text: "We seldom have humility enough to begin to suspect that just possibly there are knuckleheadish elements to our own character."
ref: 2011, Carl Wells, Inconvenient Opinions:
glosses: Of or characteristic of a knucklehead.
speed stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speed stack
speed stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed stack
speed stackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed stacking
speed stacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed stackers
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a person who practices or competes in speed stacking
Related terms: speed stacking
speed stack
speed stackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed stacker
cup stacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: speed stacking
sport stacking
glosses: a sport where the goal is to quickly stack and unstack nesting cups between triangle stacks and columns of nested cups
iktar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iktars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ektara.
adonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adonises
form: adonising
form: adonised
form: adonised
form: Adonise
form: adonize
form: Adonize
Etymology: From Adonis + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Delighted with each other......we rambled....arm in arm......about the citron groves;.......and, when a mossy bank invited our repose...my charmer would weave garlands of flowers to adonise her shepherd ; ..........recline upon my arm..... and to the gentle lullaby of a murmuring stream..... sink into forgetfulness
ref: 1804, Christoph Martin Wieland, Confessions in Elysium: Or, The Adventures of a Platonic, pages 73–74:
text: Formerly, if not exactly to the same extent at the present day, mineral substances were only made use of to adonise the complexion ; indeed, every composition is qualified with this name, whether it be white or red, which women, and even men (coxcombs), with a clear skin, subserve to embellish their faces, with a view to imitate the colours of youth, or artificially to repair the absence of them.
ref: 1830, an old army surgeon, Economy of the hands and feet, fingers and toes, page 107:
text: Of all the looming Negroes that Lincoln could have brought into the White House to adonise his cause, Johnson had been his choice, with the scuttling train of a monitor lizard.
ref: 2013, Steven Douglas, Lincoln’s Bedsheet, →ISBN:
glosses: To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of.
examples: text: Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;
ref: 1820, Peter Bayley, Sketches from St. George's Fields, page 122:
text: Since I parted with Darnley, who went in to adonise, I believe, Cameron has been hindering me with acknowledgments and regrets.
ref: 1859, Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen, Raised to the Peerage: A Novel, page 158:
text: Whenever I find myself growing vapourish, I rouse myself, wash, and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly, and in fact adonise as I were going out.
ref: 1891, John Keats (ed Sir Sidney Colvin), Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends, page 291:
glosses: To enhance one's own appearance.
adonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adonise
adonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adonise
adonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adonise
Adonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Adonises
form: Adonising
form: Adonised
form: Adonised
Senses: examples: text: both male and female Adonise their tails in this manner, which gives them a remarkable appearance amongst all other birds.
ref: 1828, Charles Waterton, B. Fellows, Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824:
text: He next tootled for half an hour upon a one-keyed flute, and then proceeded to Adonise. Notwithstanding all that some writers have said about a physical aristocracy, — an air of refinement,— which is perceptible under the veriest rags, I am entirely of the opinion, with Bob Acres in the Rivals, that dress "does make a difference."
ref: 1845, The Asiatic journal and monthly miscellany - Volume 4, page 422:
text: And more — in the course of your acquaintauce with the Tantrums, you must have noticed, of a cold evening, when Tantrum desired to " Adonise," that he might be intensely agreeable to all beholders, and " lovelily dreadful" to the ladies, that "that razor" would cut his chin in defiance of all he could do to the contrary;
ref: 75, George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Graham's Magazine - Volumes 28-29, page 1846:
text: You swear — you reprobate, so you do — when your bootmaker seeks to Adonise your instep, or the pine you patronized over night quarrels with your coffee in the morning.
ref: 1848, John William Carleton, The Sporting review, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of adonise.
Adonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Adonise
Adonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Adonise
Adonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Adonizes
form: Adonizing
form: Adonized
form: Adonized
Senses: examples: text: But do pray recover your senses time enough to see me married—so run and dress yourself, make yourself gay; fly Simon and Adonize your master.
ref: 1821, Love's Dream; a petite opera, in two acts., page 29:
text: Oh, never mind — you have asked me now— that will do — make no apologies for the lateness of the invitation — I'll Adonize and be with you — a dinner is a sort of extempore performance.
ref: 1838, P. D., Pattie's modern stage: a collection of the most approved and popular Dramas:
text: This was an intimation Pendennis by no means thought it prudent to neglect ; and being,: among other things, a great coxcomb, he took out his watch, and observing he had scarcely time to Adonize himself for dinner, took leave of his fair friends, with the consolatory promise of a very speedy return.
ref: 1823, Tales of a tourist - Volumes 1-2, page 148:
text: A legion of tailors came to Adonize him, but he puzzled them all.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, Bentley's Miscellany - Volume 10, page 253:
text: But come man, up with you ! and begin to Adonize. You are a slow coach, we all know ; and I shall be ready before you, I'll lay any bet, even should I give you ten minutes' advantage.
ref: 1842, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Robert and Frederick, page 244:
glosses: Alternative form of adonise.
Adonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Adonize
Adonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Adonize
Adonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Adonize
Lady chapels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lady chapel
pre-med
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premed
Etymology: From pre- + med.
Senses: synonyms: premedical
coordinate_terms: prelaw
glosses: An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine.
post-graduate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postgraduate.
poly sci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of political science.
embalming fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embalming fluid
capsica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Capsicum chinense or 'Chinese capsicum' is a misnomer since all capsica originate in the New World.
ref: 2012, Cram101 Textbook Reviews, e-Study Guide for: Economic Botany: Plants in our World by Beryl Simpson, →ISBN, page 180:
text: It is the most common of all capsica, and its fruit is particularly pleasing to the feminine palate.
ref: 2008, Lars Hansen, IK Foundation, The Linnaeus Apostles: global science and adventure, Volume 3, Part 3, page 1346:
text: Consistent with this, VR1-knockout mice can eat capsica all day, even though mucosal injuries still occur.
ref: 2003, R. J. Epstein, Human Molecular Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Basis of Health and Disease, page 507:
glosses: plural of capsicum
sell in May then go away
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sell in May and go away.
sell in May, then go away
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sell in May and go away.
buffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buffle
buffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buffle
Bhavani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit भवानी (bhavānī).
Senses: glosses: A Hindu goddess, Durga in her amiable form.
chromomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromo- + magnetism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: quantum chromodynamics
glosses: An interaction between quarks of different colour that has some similarities to magnetism
Related terms: chromomagnetic
galiote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galiotes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of galliot.
Kamakshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit कामाक्षी (kāmākṣī).
Senses: glosses: The Hindu goddess, a form of Parvati.
Icarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Icarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A form of communistic utopianism of the late 19th century, established by the followers of Étienne Cabet.
audienciers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audiencier
coquecigrues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coquecigrue
dizains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dizain
galiotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galiote
nazirite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nazirites
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Nazirite.
secondary intention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: primary intention
tertiary intention
glosses: Allowing a wound to heal without being sutured.
Darija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic الدَّارِجَة (ad-dārija).
Senses: glosses: Maghrebi Arabic, an Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb region, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Western Sahara, and Mauritania. (Western Arabic)
Derived terms: Moroccan Darija
Related terms: Ammiyya
Fusha
Hassaniya
ebrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebraries
Etymology: Blend of e- + library
Senses: examples: text: Our program creates an attached MFHD for each bibliographic record, populates it with information that includes a field indicating it is an ebrary title.
ref: 2011, Karin Wikoff, Electronics Resources Management in the Academic Library:
glosses: A library that provides electronic access to reference material.
Synonyms: cybrary
ebraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ebrary
shmuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmuks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schmuck.
shmuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmuk
reagitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reagitates
form: reagitating
form: reagitated
form: reagitated
Etymology: From re- + agitate.
Senses: glosses: To agitate again
evacetrapib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, the CETP inhibitors like evacetrapib are taken orally.
ref: 2015 October 12, Andrew Pollack, “Eli Lilly Abandons Heart Disease Drug in Final Stage of Trials”, in New York Times:
glosses: A drug that inhibits cholesterylester transfer protein (CETP).
transfixingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transfixingly
form: most transfixingly
Etymology: From transfixing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If “Manhattan” shoots unusual subject matter in a familiar style, Cinemax’s “The Knick,” returning on Friday, takes a much-visited genre, the medical drama, and renders it transfixingly new.
ref: 2015 October 12, James Poniewozik, “‘Manhattan’ and ‘The Knick’ Return to a Forward-Looking Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to transfix.
Synonyms: stunningly
conglomeratelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conglomeratelike
form: most conglomeratelike
Etymology: From conglomerate + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The market was unhappy with the results of EMC’s conglomeratelike structure; the company’s share price declined about 15 percent over the last three years, before the deal was announced.
ref: 2015 October 12, Leslie Picker, “For Joseph Tucci, a Deal to Cement His Legacy, and Cash Out Big”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a conglomerate.
archnationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more archnationalist
form: most archnationalist
Etymology: From arch- + nationalist.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Kaczynski, a conservative, attracted strong criticism inside and outside Poland for strong anti-Russian tones and archnationalist policies when he shared power with his identical twin brother, Jaroslaw, who was prime minister from 2005 to 2007.
ref: 2009 December 3, Judy Dempsey, Alison Smale, “President of Poland Is Sanguine on Economy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely nationalist.
archnationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archnationalists
Etymology: From arch- + nationalist.
Senses: examples: text: Even in a region where former archnationalists and guerrilla fighters have sought to recast themselves, Mr. Vucic’s transformation from staunch Milosevic ally to ardent proponent of the West is viewed as remarkable.
ref: 2014 March 17, Dan Bilefsky, “Ultranationalist-Turned-Liberal Is Expected to Lead Serbia”, in New York Times:
glosses: An extreme nationalist.
hyperball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperballs
Etymology: From hyper- + ball.
Senses: examples: text: We find packing densities using congruent hyperballs and determine the smallest density upper bound of non-congruent hyperball packings generated by the above tilings..
ref: 2015, Jenő Szirmai, “Density upper bound for congruent and non-congruent hyperball packings generated by truncated regular simplex tilings”, in arXiv:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The set of all points that make up a hypersphere.
hyperballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperball
pima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honor of the Pima Indians, who helped raise the cotton on USDA experimental farms in Arizona in the early 1900s.
Senses: examples: text: A svelte pima tank top with little buttons down the back is $118.
ref: 2009 March 12, Cintra Wilson, “Rosie the Riveter in a Pocket T”, in New York Times:
glosses: A soft form of cotton having long fibres (Gossypium barbadense)
Derived terms: pima cotton
Lambertist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lambert + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to any of several people named Lambert, but especially to the French Trotskyist Pierre Lambert
Lambertist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lambertists
Etymology: From Lambert + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Trotskyist who follows the politics of Pierre Lambert.
adoxographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˌdɒksɒˈɡɹɑːfik(ə)li/
ipa: /eɪˌdɑksɑˈɡɹæfik(ə)li/
Etymology: From adoxographic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: But, paradoxically (even adoxographically), it is the venomous snake, for us death warmed up, that triggers the editorial moral […]
ref: 2007, John [Graham Wilmot] Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Truth from Words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 152–153:
text: Redcrosse's "term" has expired; the drum has sounded, claims the ghoul, as the latter embarks upon the second and final round of anthypophoratic and anacoenotic assault, the first question of which adoxographically transmutes the […]
ref: 2008, T. Ross Leasure, “Spenser's Diabolical Orator and Milton's 'Man of Hell'”, in Christophe Tournu, editor, Milton in France, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: In an adoxographic manner.
Related terms: adoxograph
adoxographer
adoxographic
adoxographical
adoxography
adoxograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈdɒksɒˌɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /eɪˈdɑksɑˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: adoxographs
Etymology: From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”) (from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Polycrates, disciple of Gorgias, wrote in praise of mice, pots, pebbles. Others of bees, salt, those are the Adoxographs. Dio Chrysostomos has a praise of mosquitoes, parrots, and hair. Lucian, praise of the fly.
ref: 1989, Friedrich [Wilhelm] Nietzsche with Sander L. Gilman, Carole Blair, David J. Parent, editors & translators, Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: [A]udiences laugh heartily because the adoxographs, if done with mock seriousness, are a broad form of irony, related to sarcasm. […] In the N-Town Passion Play I, Lucifer is an implied presenter of the play and an implied controller of its events. He addresses the audience directly and confidentially in an extraordinary 124-line adoxograph which is part social satire and part seriocomic plea for our commitment to his suzerainty […] The diabolical adoxographs that have been identified here are collectively an analogue of such cosmic symmetries as those in Dante [Alighieri] […]
ref: 2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the Middle Ages; 26], New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, →ISBN, pages 98, 102 and 105:
glosses: A work of adoxography.
Related terms: adoxographer
adoxographic
adoxographical
adoxographically
adoxography
adoxographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adoxograph.
pile-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pile-ons
Etymology: Deverbal from pile on.
Senses: examples: text: We are in a time of never-ending Twitter pile-ons. Sometimes the criticism is warranted: Twitter can be a place for marginalised voices to amplify or bring attention to an injustice they have suffered.
ref: 2019 November 19, Brigid Delaney, “It's the era of the Twitter pile-on. Isn't there something healthier we can do with our rage?”, in The Guardian:
text: A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said.
ref: 2020 December 6, Marie O'Halloran, “Social media ‘pile on’ against Sinn Féin critics does not aid party, Ó Broin says”, in The Irish Times:
text: Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:
text: Online, there’s a level of industrial-scale bullying directed at Heard that puts all previous social media pile-ons to shame.
ref: 2022 May 18, Michelle Goldberg, “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side.
Related terms: pile-up
throffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throffer
pile ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pile on
piles on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pile on
piling on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pile on
piling on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fighting tactic wherein multiple people attack another.
An illegal strategy wherein players tackle an opposing player.
glosses: A fighting tactic wherein multiple people attack another.
The process by which additional combatants join an ongoing fight or argument when they think they know who will win so that they will be on the winning side.
glosses: A fighting tactic wherein multiple people attack another.
The process by which multiple people pick on, complain about or list the faults of their target.
glosses: An ongoing increase in a change or phenomenon, such as the popularity of a fad.
The steady addition of more problems to an already problematic situation or circumstance.
glosses: An ongoing increase in a change or phenomenon, such as the popularity of a fad.
Doing more and more (of something), especially when it is inappropriate or problematic, such as by continuing to break a diet
Related terms: dogpile
piled on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pile on
rolls on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roll on
rolling on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roll on
rolled on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roll on
Arizona rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arizona room.
mellow out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mellows out
form: mellowing out
form: mellowed out
form: mellowed out
Senses: glosses: To become mellow or to soften in intensity (such as a smell, emotion or sound), or to change from uptight to relaxed.
mellowed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mellow out
mellows out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mellow out
mellowing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mellow out
there and then
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more there and then
form: most there and then
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of then and there.
chiefs of staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief of staff
massacree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.sə.kɹi/
Forms: form: massacrees
Etymology: Likely a corruption of English/French massacre, possibly from the Missouri French dialect. Originated in the Ozark Mountains; date unknown.
Senses: examples: text: For several years after they ravaged many places with fire and sword, committing many horrible barbarities, as their; countrymen settled here, joined them on all occasions, till Æthelred ordered a general massacree of them, which was executed November 13, 1002, which was severely revenged afterwards;
ref: 1810, Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of the Borough of Colchester in the County of Essex, page 32:
text: The Fourth of July, by the way, also offers tempting possibilities for a massacree. I know a man in Rhode Island whose father used to go out and shoot a deer every time the date came around, on the safe assumption that the game warden would think the shot part of the celebration.
ref: 1952, Abbott Joseph Liebling, Chicago, the second city, page 136:
text: Four years before his death on the Washita, Cheyenne chief Black Kettle had survived the infamous massacree at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory. Colonel J. M. Chivington, a former Methodist minister and commander of the Military District of Colorado, led the attack on November 30, 1864.
ref: 2007, Ralph Compton, The Dodge City Trail: The Trail Drive:
glosses: Alternative form of massacre.
glosses: A bizarre and improbable sequence of events creating great confusion and fuss.
massacree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.sə.kɹi/
Forms: form: massacrees
form: massacreeing
form: massacreed
form: massacreed
Etymology: Likely a corruption of English/French massacre, possibly from the Missouri French dialect. Originated in the Ozark Mountains; date unknown.
Senses: examples: text: they never make their dromedaries gallop, but after having lost a battle, and when they are anxious to escape from a conquering and enraged enemy who would massacree them without mercy if they were overtaken.
ref: 1808, Sylvain Meinrad Xavier de Golbéry, Travels in Africa:
text: don't they keep a hunderd or two o' great nasty bull-niggers a piece, jess to sharpen their knives on—without a rag to kiver 'em, starvin' 'em most to death all the time, an' lettin' their women folks and babies slash 'em up with case-knives, for jess nothin' at all, an massacree 'em most to death, when there's company to dinner, jess to shew 'em what they can do?
ref: 1833, John Neal, The Down-easters, page 65:
text: Notice to hostile Injuns — Next time you massacree this settlement, bring back the pail, and don't leave the covers off the milk pans.
ref: 1903, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages:
text: I don't allow to rescue you none if she massacrees you," the world's champion announced, grinning.
ref: 1921, William MacLeod Raine, Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story, page 136:
glosses: Alternative form of massacre.
massacree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.sə.kɹi/
Forms: form: massacrees
Etymology: From massacre + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Suffice it to say, that no very pleasant feelings existed (as indeed may easily be believed) between the families of the massacrors, and the massacrees.
ref: 1851 June, “Gleanings after the Spanish Arabs”, in University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, volume 37, number 222, page 776:
text: The battle scene with himself in the role of massacree was not overly inviting.
ref: 1921, Octavus Roy Cohen, Highly Colored, page 269:
text: In the prologue to Black Lamb, West wrote of foreign travellers 'who return with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer', adding: ...
ref: 2014, Marcus Tanner, Albania's Mountain Queen: Edith Durham and the Balkans, page 236:
glosses: One who has been killed in a massacre.
buy when it snows, sell when it goes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: buy when it snows and sell when it goes
Senses: examples: text: There is a phenomenon in stock market investment known as "seasonality." In Canada we sometimes summarize it with the epithet "Buy when it snows, sell when it goes."
ref: 2007 May 10, Peter McKenzie-Brown, “Sell in May and Stay Away!”, in Language Matters, retrieved 13 Oct 2015:
text: Most years, he says, investors can make money by simply holding broad indices, such as the S&P 500 and Canada's S&P/TSX Composite, from Oct. 28 to May 5, when they tend to make most of their gains, and then selling. If that's too hard to remember, Vialoux has a handy catch phrase: “Buy when it snows! Sell when it goes!”
ref: 2010 October 21, Paul Marshman, “Buy when it snows, sell when it goes!”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 13 Oct 2015:
text: According to Carlo R. Besenius, CEO of Creative Global Investments in Luxembourg, the trade, known as "buy when it snows, sell when it goes," was profitable in 53 of the past 61 periods. In a recent note, he pointed out that Munich, Geneva, Luxembourg, and Calgary had their first snowfall on Sunday, Oct. 28. He credits annual recurring events such as transactions for tax purposes and the holidays, among others.
ref: 2012 November 3, Robin Goodwin Blumenthal, “Season for Stocks: Let It Snow, Let It Snow?”, in Barron's, retrieved 13 Oct 2015:
topics: business
finance
stock-market
synonyms: sell in May and go away
glosses: Stock market securities can be expected to increase in value to a greater degree in the cold winter months from November through April than in the warm months from May through October, and profit-minded investors should manage their portfolios accordingly.
Related terms: buy low, sell high
buy when it snows and sell when it goes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buy when it snows, sell when it goes.
sell in May and stay away
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sell in May and go away.
sell in May, then stay away
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sell in May and go away.
Hama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːmə/
ipa: /ˈhæmə/
Forms: form: Hamah
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاة (ḥamāh).
Senses: glosses: A city in Syria.
Derived terms: Hamawi
Related terms: Epiphania
Lunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Equivalent to Luna + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lunar (“pertaining to Luna, the moon of Terra”).
Coordinate terms: Jovian
Martian
Mercurian
Neptunian
Plutonian
Saturnian
Solar
Terran
Uranian
Venusian
Related terms: lunar
lunarian
Lunarian
CCAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
law
glosses: Initialism of Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (“the act controlling bankruptcy in Canada”).
Coordinate terms: Chapter 7
Chapter 11
maritimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maritime + -ization.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The process whereby the coastline of a country comes to play an important part in its economy.
Nalanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India.
glosses: A district of Bihar, India.
Colchagua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Chilean province and former region
Third-Worldism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Third World + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The socialist practice of supporting Third-World countries, especially in their struggle for liberation from colonial powers
Coordinate terms: anti-imperialism
Third-Worldist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Third World + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Third-Worldism
Third-Worldist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Third-Worldists
Etymology: From Third World + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One who engages in Third-Worldism.
Magadha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मगध (magadha).
Senses: examples: text: Among the 16 mahajanapadas the monarchical states of Kosala, Vatsa, Avanti, and Magadha, along with the non‐monarchical mahajanapada of the Vrijis or Vajjis, attained political prominence by eclipsing other contemporary powers. However, it was the mahajanapada of Magadha which ultimately rose to prominence.
ref: 2016 January 11, Susmita Basu Majumdar, “Magadha, Kingdom of”, in N. Dalziel, J. M. MacKenzie, editors, The Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley, →DOI:
glosses: One of the sixteen Mahajanapadas of ancient India.
Montauban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune, the capital of Tarn-et-Garonne department, Occitania, France.
nazirites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nazirite
Cardenal Caro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province and former department of the O'Higgins Region, Chile.
Naxalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to Naxalism
Naxalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Naxalists
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Naxalism
Hiji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Ōita Prefecture, Japan.
lepak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌleɪˈpɑk/
ipa: [ˌle(ː)ˈpɑk̚]
Forms: form: lepaks
form: lepaking
form: lepaked
form: lepaked
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay lepak.
Senses: examples: text: I think we should rally behind PM [the Prime Minister] for the sake of national unity. Without national unity, there will be more single mothers, abandoned babies, people lepaking (loitering) …
ref: 1997, Aliran Monthly, volumes 17–18, Pinang, Malaysia: Aliran Kesedaran Negara, →OCLC, page 19, column 3:
text: We do things together and we lepak together quite a bit (hey, this is the solution to the lepak problem: the family that lepaks together stays together).
ref: 1997, Marina Mahathir, In Liberal Doses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Archipelago Press, →ISBN, page 118:
text: The study's operational definition was that "a teenager lepaks if he gathers and remains in a public place without any special purpose other than chattering or laughing."
ref: 1998, Thomas A. Williamson, Leaving Town: Kuala Kangsar’s Colonial Past and the Postponed Nation in Malaysia (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, →OCLC, page 344:
text: "What do you think will happen?" a reporter asked a beautiful girl lepaking and smoking outside the Starbucks in Bukit Bintang Plaza. "Oh, at the bewitching midnight hour, everything will be back to normal. The office workers at Sri Hartamas will be back to their humdrum 9 to 5 jobs, no doubt bitching and wishing they were elsewhere."
ref: 2005, T. R. R. Raman, The Wedgwood Ladies Football Club and Other Stories, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Silverfishbooks, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Cafes mushroomed everywhere in KL's [Kuala Lumpur's] trendiest spots, and big names such as Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and Starbucks made their presence felt. With these cafes, KLites often lepaked (hung out) way into the wee hours and now it has become a part of our pop culture.
ref: 2011, Tony Wilson, “Beyond Attitudes: To the Audience Itself!: Understanding Consumers: Interpretive Inductivism”, in Global Advertising, Attitudes and Audiences (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies; 44), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.
female impersonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: female impersonators
Senses: examples: text: "About the only job left that a woman can beat a man in is female impersonator in vaudeville."
ref: 1908, O. Henry, “The Hand That Riles The World”, in The Gentle Grafter:
text: It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female impersonator in the High School play Vice Versa.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Danny La Rue, a female impersonator who became one of the highest-paid performers on the British stage by bringing sophistication and spectacle to a form of entertainment previously regarded as dubious, died at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on Sunday.
ref: 2009 June 3, William Grimes, “Danny La Rue, Female Impersonator, Dies at 81”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Oct 2015:
coordinate_terms: male impersonator
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A male entertainer who performs cross-dressed as a woman.
Synonyms: drag queen
Related terms: female impersonation
transvestite
free-swimming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: freeswimming
Senses: examples: text: It is a most remarkable fact that almost all these shore animals in their early development from the egg pass through free-swimming larval stages which are closely alike in form for very widely different zoological groups.
ref: 1885, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 32, page 418:
text: The presence of free-swimming and stalked ciliates, some flagellates, and rotifers in mixed liquor indicates a balanced, properly settling environment.
ref: 2008, Frank R. Spellman, Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, page 715:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to swim about freely.
freeze-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeze-outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freezeout.
freeze-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeze-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from freeze up.
Senses: glosses: The blocking of pipes due to freezing.
examples: text: The heaters, the S.R. now says, will "help tremendously" if there is severe snow and ice—a welcome change of tune from last winter, when the Region was countering criticism of its operation during the January freeze-up with a bland defence of existing precautions [...].
ref: 1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Point heaters on the S.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 371:
glosses: A period of extremely cold, freezing weather.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
seasons
time
weather
glosses: The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over.
freshy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freshie.
Frisian Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago in the eastern North Sea, off the coasts of mainland Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Synonyms: Wadden Islands
Friulan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Friulian.
frock flick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frock flicks
Senses: glosses: A costume drama.
frontenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish frontenis.
Senses: glosses: A racquet sport played on a short pelota court.
front-page
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Amazing! This new revelation is front-page material!
glosses: So important as to warrant being put on the front page of newspapers.
examples: text: The new legislation was front-page news.
glosses: Which appears on the front page of a publication.
front-page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front-pages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of front page.
fro-yo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹoʊˌjoʊ/
Forms: form: fro-yos
form: froyo
form: fro yo
Senses: synonyms: frogurt
glosses: Clipping of frozen yoghurt.
fruitlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitlets
Etymology: From fruit + -let.
Senses: glosses: A young, unripe fruit
Synonyms: fruitling
Fujisawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fujisawas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 藤沢 (Fujisawa) or 藤澤 (Fujisawa).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
full-frontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Senses: examples: full-frontal nudity; full-frontal pornography
glosses: Showing all the genitalia.
examples: text: […] personalities had changed but the sound was predominantly Page – adopting the full frontal guitar heroics he had developed over the last two years.
ref: 1997, Dave Lewis, Simon Pallett, Led Zeppelin: The Concert File:
glosses: Full-on; unrestrained.
full-frontal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Forms: form: full-frontals
Senses: glosses: A photograph showing a completely nude person, with all the genitalia.
full-frontals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full-frontal
fully-grown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having reached complete biological maturity
glosses: fully-fledged
funny-looking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: funnier-looking
form: more funny-looking
form: funniest-looking
form: most funny-looking
Etymology: From funny + looking. First use appears c. 1807. See citations page.
Senses: examples: text: Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.
ref: 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
glosses: Having a strange or unusual appearance.
glosses: Having a comical or humorous appearance.
fussock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌsək/
rhymes: -ʌsək
Forms: form: fussocks
Senses: examples: text: "Ay, the mercer's wife—I shall come to her presently. Well, Peregrine, as you have often seen, is a shade or so jealous of that fussock, his wife, who looks, when she is tricked out in her new russet grogram cloak, more like a brown haycock in motion than a living woman."
ref: 1838, John P. Kennedy, chapter X, in Rob of the Bowl, volume I:
glosses: A fat woman.
Hypernyms: woman
landwhale
Derived terms: fussocky
G5
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Group of Five, the five largest emerging economies.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of Generation Five (“the fifth generation of the My Little Pony toy franchise, known as A New Generation”).
Galapagos giant tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galapagos giant tortoises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Galápagos giant tortoise.
Galápagos tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galápagos tortoises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Galapagos tortoise.
Galápagos giant tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galápagos giant tortoises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Galápagos tortoise.
Galapagos tortoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Galapagos tortoise
Galápagos giant tortoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Galápagos giant tortoise
Free State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Free State
Etymology: Proprialisation of free state.
Senses: glosses: A province of South Africa. Capital: Bloemfontein, formerly Orange Free State.
glosses: Nickname for Maryland: a state of the United States.
glosses: The Irish Free State.
glosses: Irish republican term for the present-day Republic of Ireland.
Free State
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Free States
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of free state.
freeze-frame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freeze-frames
form: freeze-framing
form: freeze-framed
form: freeze-framed
form: freeze frame
form: freezeframe
Senses: glosses: To show a video in slow motion using freeze frames
glosses: To acquire a still image from (video footage).