cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wagner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæɡnɚ/
ipa: /ˈvɑɡnɚ/
rhymes: -æɡnə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːɡnə(ɹ)
Etymology: From German Wagner (literally “wainwright”), later conflated with wheelwright. See also the English surnames Wainwright and Wheelwright. Doublet of Wagoner.
As the name of a private military company, borrowed from Russian Ва́гнер (Vágner). Reportedly the call sign of Russian GRU officer and company founder Dmitry Utkin, which was ultimately named after German composer Richard Wagner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: Ellipsis of Richard Wagner, German composer (1813–1883).
glosses: Ellipsis of Wagner Group, a private military group loyal to Russia.
Derived terms: Wagneresque
Wagnerian
Wagnerianism
Wagnerism
Wagnerist
Wagnerite
Wagnerize
Wagner tuba
North Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographic region comprising the northern part of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue.
glosses: Synonym of Maghreb.
synonyms: word: Maghreb
Coordinate terms: West Africa
East Africa
Central Africa
Southern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Saharan Africa
Sahara
Sahel
wordoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordoids
Etymology: From word + -oid.
Senses: examples: 2003, Daniel J. Stern, in rec.autos.tech http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.tech/msg/6266d1cea8dd61ba
"Gage", like "flammable", is a fabricated wordoid created on the assumption, not entirely without merit, that people are too stupid to read, understand and pronounce the properly-spelled word ("inflammable", in the latter case).
2003, Eirik Johnson, in A New Twist on Noise https://web.archive.org/web/20060913123513/http://linux.depaul.edu/archive/depaul-lug/2003-03/msg00309.html
Meantime, virii is a perfectly good wordoid, that's right, wordoid. It isn't a word, it just resembles one closely enough that nobody cares!
2005, Pyramus, in Little or Nothing http://cephalogenic.blogspot.com/2005/08/little-or-nothing.html
I can't get away from the word, or wordoid, "miniscule".
2006, David Sims, in First Coffee for St. Valentine's Day, 2006 http://blog.tmcnet.com/telecom-crm/2006/02/14/first-coffee-for-st-valentines-day-2006.asp
Well, I guess there's a new wordoid we all have to endure: infotainment.
2006, James A. Stewart, in Laurel And Hardy movie review https://web.archive.org/web/20060909082844/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/laurelhardycol.php
As Leonard Maltin notes in commentary, a more modern character appropriated that little wordoid.
glosses: A fabricated word coined to identify a new concept.
Related terms: neologism
portmanteau
rock spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock spiders
Senses: glosses: Caladenia petrensis, the rock spider orchid.
glosses: A pedophile or child molester.
glosses: A Boer or Afrikaner.
truck garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truck gardens
Etymology: From truck (“to trade”).
Senses: examples: text: As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted.
ref: 1792 November 4, George Washington, The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: 1745-1799, volume 32:
text: it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.
ref: 1901, Booker T. Washington, chapter 14, in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography:
glosses: Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
synonyms: word: market garden
extra: a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale
Related terms: truck farm
koura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kouras
Etymology: From Maori koura.
Senses: glosses: A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand.
weight weenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weight weenies
Senses: glosses: A cyclist who is overly concerned about the weight of their bicycle.
fajr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”).
Senses: examples: text: Excuse me, brother, but would you mind regularising your fajr schedule.
ref: 2019, John Lanchester, Capital, Faber and Faber (2013), page 406:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims.
Synonyms: dawn prayer
kade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kades
Senses: glosses: The sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus
Synonyms: ked
recovery CD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recovery CDs
Senses: hypernyms: recovery disc
glosses: A CD-ROM distributed with a computer and containing copies of the software originally installed on the computer's hard drive, allowing the end user to restore the system to its factory state.
recovery CDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recovery CD
felches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of felch
arbitrageur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)bɪtɹɑˈʒɝ(ɹ)/
Forms: form: arbitrageurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French arbitrageur (compare arbitragiste).
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: One who engages in arbitrage, such as a financial broker or an investment bank.
deconvert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒnvɜːt/
ipa: /diːkənˈvɜːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
rhymes: -ɒnvə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: deconverts
Etymology: From de- + convert.
Senses: glosses: An apostate.
cluebat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkluːˌbæt/
Forms: form: cluebats
Etymology: From clue + bat.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bat (club) with which someone clueless is struck (figuratively or in one's imagination).
Synonyms: clue stick
clue-by-four
LART
redetermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeterminations
Etymology: From re- + determination.
Senses: glosses: The process of determining again.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The process of calculating again, or making a fiscal determination again.
Hypernyms: determination
protease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊtɪeɪz/
Forms: form: proteases
Etymology: From prote(in) + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of fact the casein protease digests boiled and coagulated serum far more easily than unboiled serum, as set forth by the following experiments.
ref: 1903 November 2, S. G. Hedin, “On the presence of a proteolytic enzyme in the normal serum of the ox”, in The Journal of Physiology, volume 30, number 2, page 195:
text: All were tested for their ability to clot milk and to hydrolyze denatured hemoglobin, egg albumin, protamine (salmon), histone (calf thymus), and benzoyl-l-arginineamide. In no case was any trace of protease activity detected.
ref: 1948 September 20, Margaret R. McDonald, “A method for the preparation of "protease-free" crystalline ribonuclease”, in Journal of General Physiology, volume 32, number 1, page 39:
text: For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier.
ref: 2015, Raja Sivamani, Jared R. Jagdeo, Peter Elsner, Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins.
Derived terms: antiprotease
autoprotease
Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor
coprotease
endoprotease
exoprotease
glycoprotease
leukoprotease
mercapto protease
metalloprotease
neuroprotease
phosphoprotease
proprotease
protease inhibitor
proteasic
pseudoprotease
rhomboid protease
sialoglycoprotease
proteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protein
cleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cleave
proteases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protease
GSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “The key responsibility here falls on the UK,” Hopewell said. “In order to prevent a major drop in LDC (least developed country) exports, it urgently needs to replicate the terms of the EU GSP and the EBA treaty and ensure that these arrangements are in place before the UK leaves the EU on March 29.”
ref: 2019 February 4, Emily Dixon, “The developing countries with the most to fear from Brexit”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Generalized System of Preferences.
glosses: Initialism of Georgia State Patrol.
glosses: Initialism of Georges St-Pierre.
qualifier: scouting
glosses: Initialism of Girl Scouts of the Philippines.
GSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of good safety practice.
glosses: Initialism of good scientific practice.
glosses: Initialism of German Shorthaired Pointer.
Related terms: GMP
pharmacopeial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pharmacopoeial
Etymology: From pharmacopeia + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: Of or pertaining to pharmacopeia.
USP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of United States Pharmacopeia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., a standard-setting authority that publishes USP-NF standards about pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The United States Pharmacopeia, the published standards.
Derived terms: USP unit
Related terms: english: National Formulary
translation: National Formulary
word: NF
USP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialism of United States Pharmacopeia.
Senses: examples: text: Clarithromycin Tablets, USP
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Adhering to the standards of the United States Pharmacopeia.
raw_tags: used after a drug's name
USP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of United States Pharmacopeia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of USP unit.
Coordinate terms: IU
USP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: examples: text: “I have ordered an immediate assessment to determine our needs and the next steps. USP Alcatraz has a rich history. We look forward to restoring this powerful symbol of law, order, and justice. We will be actively working with our law enforcement and other federal partners to reinstate this very important mission,” Marshall said in a statement.
ref: 2025 May 5, Karina Tsui, “Trump wants to reopen one of America’s most notorious prisons. Here’s how Alcatraz earned its reputation”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of U.S. Penitentiaries.
USP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USPs
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: examples: text: I came across this recipe when Helen Graham cooked it for Bracia and Friends, a pop-up whose USP is that chefs must cook a single dish.
ref: 2024 July 13, Harriet Fitch Little, “A reimagined classic”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
text: Glamour and elegance are two USPs of cruising and some cruise companies – Cunard in particular – invest heavily in the nostalgia and fantasy that are hallmarks of the industry.
ref: 2025 July 28, Martin Parr, Susan Mitchell, “Decks appeal: Martin Parr captures life on a cruise liner – photo essay”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: business
marketing
synonyms: UVP
glosses: Initialism of unique selling proposition/selling point.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of user stored procedure.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of ultra-short period planet.
exaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛk.səpˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛk.sæpˈteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: exaptations
Etymology: Blend of ex- + adaptation. Coined 1982 by palaeontologists Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth Vrba to avoid the perceived teleological baggage of the existing term preadaptation.
Senses: examples: text: Birds initially developed wings and feathers as a means of heat regulation. The use of wings for flight is an example of exaptation.
text: I believe that Stephen Gould and Elizabeth Vrba were correct in proposing exaptation as a missing term in evolutionary biology. I want to make a distinction between adaptation and exaptation here. Again it is about mechanistic differences. An exaptation can be viewed as the acquisition of a new and useful function once the novelty has spread and once the environment has changed.
ref: 2000, Gabriel A. Dover, Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature, University of California Press, page 226:
text: These presumed exaptations can be assigned to major categories associated with theories of movement (Nathan et al. 2008). In table 1.2, we list five categories of exaptations that we believe make resident birds possessing them preadapted for migration.
ref: 2013, John H. Rappole, The Avian Migrant: The Biology of Bird Migration, Columbia University Press, page 22:
text: An interesting consequence of this way of characterizing exaptations is that whether or not a trait counts as an exaptation depends upon how we describe it. Human legs are adaptations for locomotion, but exaptations for walking.
ref: 2013, Heather Dyke, James MacLaurin, “30: Evolutionary Explanations of Temporal Experience”, in Adrian Bardon, Heather Dyke, editors, A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, Paperback edition, Wiley, published 2016, page 522:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
examples: text: The process Haiman focuses on is exaptation, which he defines as "the promotion of meaningless or redundant material so that it does new grammatical (morphosyntactic or phonological) or semantic work" (p52).
ref: 2017, Eric Haeberli, Review of Ledgeway & Roberts (eds.) (2017), Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax, Journal of Historical Syntax, Volume 3, Article 4, 2019, PDF edition page 2
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The promotion of meaningless or redundant material so that it does new grammatical (morphosyntactic or phonological) or semantic work.
Derived terms: exaptational
Related terms: preadaptation
regulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛɡjʊlətɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡjʊləˌtɔːɹi/
ipa: /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪtəri/
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡjələˌtɔɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾɛɡ(j)ʊleʈ(ɵ)ɾi/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to regulation.
Derived terms: allatoregulatory
angioregulatory
antiregulatory
autoregulatory
bioregulatory
cardioregulatory
cisregulatory
coregulatory
counteregulatory
counterregulatory
crossregulatory
deregulatory
downregulatory
dysregulatory
glucoregulatory
glycoregulatory
immunoregulatory
ionoregulatory
liporegulatory
mechanobioregulatory
mechanoregulatory
metalloregulatory
morphoregulatory
myoregulatory
neuroregulatory
nonregulatory
osmoregulatory
osteoregulatory
phosphoregulatory
physioregulatory
regulatory capture
regulatory entrepreneur
regulatory entrepreneurship
regulatory framework
riboregulatory
self-regulatory
thermoregulatory
thromboregulatory
transregulatory
unregulatory
upregulatory
vasoregulatory
hembra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hembras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hembra. Doublet of feme, femina, and femme.
Senses: coordinate_terms: macho
glosses: A female llama.
beardo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ
Forms: form: beardos
form: beardoes
Etymology: From beard + -o; in some uses, influenced by weirdo, hence a blend of beard + weirdo.
Senses: examples: text: His [Richard Nixon’s] statement to the press in 1962, after the defeat by Pat Brown, became famous: “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” Less well-known were private comments such as “We’ll kick their toes off in 1968” and “Kick the weirdoes and beardoes on the college campuses.”
ref: 1981 September–October, Fawn Brodie, “Richard Nixon, This Is Your Life: One Last Chance to Kick Tricky Dick”, in Mother Jones, volume VI, number VIII, San Francisco, Calif.: Foundation for National Progress, →ISSN, page 40, column 3:
text: 1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 90,
Moreover, in the regional patois one common expression used by outsiders, including unsympathetic shaykhs, to refer to the group was birubū dign, which can be glossed as the “bearded ones” or more colloquially as “beardo’s.”
text: 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Picador, →ISBN, page 331,
However you get through your day in New York City, well then that’s a New York City kind of day, and if you’re a Bombay singer singing the Bombay bop or a voodoo cab driver with zombies on the brain or a bomber from Montana or an Islamist beardo from Queens, then whatever’s going through your head?, well that’s a New York state of mind.
text: 2003, Suzi Rose, Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker, Authors On Line Ltd, →ISBN,page 146,
Mr Bore is in his garden again. I went to say Hello and he gave me a really stony look so I went back in. I really don’t know what his problem is. Anti-social beardo (that’s a weirdo with a beard).
text: 2004, Joshua Wright, Plotless Pointless Pathetic, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 119,
‘[…] He can’t control the weather. It’s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. It’s not run by just some mouldy old beardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.’
text: Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (Thu., Aces Lounge, 11pm; Sat., the Scoot Inn, 10:20pm) Hyperintellectual, fully ineffectual hip-hop beardoes “Thou Shalt Always Kill.”
ref: 2009 March 20, Marc Savlov, “Eight Brit Unmissables”, in The Austin Chronicle (SXSW Music Supplement), Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, page 21:
text: Morrissey, the poet and musician, refused to go on the Jimmy Kimmel show with the Duck Dynasty beardoes, because he considered them “animal serial killers.”*
ref: 2014, Stanley Bing [pseudonym; Gil Schwartz], “A Short Course in Ethics”, in The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts, New York, N.Y.: Harper Business, →ISBN, pages 256–257:
glosses: A person with a beard.
angle bracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle brackets
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.
topics: mathematics
media
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
Either of a pair of symbols, ⟨ ⟩, used to enclose text in various technical contexts, and in mathematical formulas to denote an interval, a continuous parameter or an inner product.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean punctuation.
glosses: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used to enclose the name of the domain in which a concept and a term is used.
qualifier: terminology
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
an object used to connect two other objects at an angle
Synonyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: wicket
sense: typographic and mathematical symbols
word: chevron
Related terms: brace
bracket
curly bracket
guillemet
lenticular bracket
parenthesis
square bracket
have the run of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the run of
form: having the run of
form: had the run of
form: had the run of
Senses: examples: text: "[W]hilst I am looking over the documents you can ramble about the rooms where you like. I have the run of the house at any time, you know."
ref: 1873, Thomas Hardy, chapter 5, in A Pair of Blue Eyes:
text: He told of his power in the prison by virtue of his being trusty in the Warden's office, and because of the fact that he had the run of the dispensary.
ref: 1915, Jack London, chapter 2, in The Jacket:
text: Having the run of an airport lounge takes some of the pain from flight delays, cancellations and long connecting times.
ref: 2005 July 15, Roger Collis, “Setting priorities when planning vacations”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jun 2014:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: To have permission or freedom to move around throughout an area or to use something at will.
Related terms: run of house
plunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: plunks
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; the noun is attested earlier than the verb. Noun sense 3 (“dollar; large sum of money”) may refer to the sound of a coin hitting a surface.
As regards verb sense 1.4 (“(transitive) to drop, set, or throw (something, or oneself) abruptly and/or heavily”) and sense 2.4 (“(intransitive) to drop, land, or set abruptly and/or heavily”), compare French plonquer (Picardy), a variant of plonger (“to plunge”).
Senses: examples: text: They listened and could hear the steady plunk, plunk of an axe somewhere far above them.
ref: 1930 July 21, Arthur Ransome, “The Charcoal-burners”, in Swallows & Amazons, London: Jonathan Cape, […], published 1953, →OCLC, page 131:
synonyms: plonk
plump
glosses: A brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.
glosses: A (heavy) blow or hit.
examples: text: Den I gives him a five-plunk piece, and he gins me the shange.
ref: 1885 September 16, “A Terrible Experience”, in H[enry] C[uyler] Bunner, editor, Puck, volume XVIII, number 445, New York, N.Y.: Keppler & Schwarzmann, →OCLC, page 43, column 3:
text: Dere's a loidy here […] dat's got a necklace of jools what's wort' a hundred t'ousand plunks. Honest, boss. A hundred t'ousand plunks.
ref: 1910 May 11, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Spike’s Views”, in The Intrusion of Jimmy [A Gentleman of Leisure], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published 1910, →OCLC, page 126:
english: A Gentleman of Leisure
translation: A Gentleman of Leisure
glosses: A dollar.
glosses: A large sum of money.
Derived terms: kerplunk
plunkety-plunk
plunky
plunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; the noun is attested earlier than the verb. Noun sense 3 (“dollar; large sum of money”) may refer to the sound of a coin hitting a surface.
As regards verb sense 1.4 (“(transitive) to drop, set, or throw (something, or oneself) abruptly and/or heavily”) and sense 2.4 (“(intransitive) to drop, land, or set abruptly and/or heavily”), compare French plonquer (Picardy), a variant of plonger (“to plunge”).
Senses: glosses: With a brief, dull sound, such as the thud of something landing on a surface.
examples: text: "Bang!" went a gun behind me. I heard the whistle of shot. Something stung me sharply on the cheek, and I fell forward on my face, giving myself up for lost. […] "Oh, ye will never dee o' a chairge o' guid saft garden peas!" said the daft lassie, scornfully. "Maybe no," retorted I, for my choler was raised. "They are a' vera weel in broth, but if you got them plunk on the jaw, wi' a strong chairge o' powder ahint them, they might bring the water to your e'en as well as mine."
ref: 1897, S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett, “Wager of Battle”, in Lads’ Love, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 55–56:
english: "Oh, you will never die of a charge of good soft garden peas!" […] / "Maybe not, […] They are all very well in broth, but if you got them plunk on the jaw, with a strong charge of powder behind them, they might bring the water to your eyes as well as mine."
translation: "Oh, you will never die of a charge of good soft garden peas!" […] / "Maybe not, […] They are all very well in broth, but if you got them plunk on the jaw, with a strong charge of powder behind them, they might bring the water to your eyes as well as mine."
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text: [I]t's one thing to be buried with all your pleasures, like Sardanapalus; it's another to be buried right plunk in front of them, where you can see them.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 75:
synonyms: word: plump#Adverb
word: accurately
word: correctly
word: dead-nuts
word: definitely
word: directly
word: even
word: exact
word: exactly
word: fully
word: incisively
word: just
word: jump
word: on target
word: on the button
word: on the dot
word: on the mark
word: on the money
word: on the nose
word: perfectly
word: plump
word: plunk
word: precisely
word: punctually
word: right
word: sharp
word: slap
word: slap bang
word: squarely
glosses: Directly, exactly, precisely.
plunk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; the noun is attested earlier than the verb. Noun sense 3 (“dollar; large sum of money”) may refer to the sound of a coin hitting a surface.
As regards verb sense 1.4 (“(transitive) to drop, set, or throw (something, or oneself) abruptly and/or heavily”) and sense 2.4 (“(intransitive) to drop, land, or set abruptly and/or heavily”), compare French plonquer (Picardy), a variant of plonger (“to plunge”).
Senses: examples: text: Look at me; is my eye dilated? do you notice a quiver anywhere? Feel my pulse: plunk—plunk—plunk—same as if I were asleep.
ref: 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 196:
text: It was the noise of rowing, hard, fast rowing, the noise of two pairs of oars in a native boat, pin oars, and the slap, slap of a boat's bows into the short waves. She knew that noise well. It came nearer and nearer. It passed close by her. Plunk, plunk. She could hear the splash of the oars so clearly that she almost thought she could see the boat in the dark.
ref: 1930 July 21, Arthur Ransome, “Titty Alone”, in Swallows & Amazons, London: Jonathan Cape, […], published 1953, →OCLC, page 207:
text: John, swinging the axe, plunk, plunk, plunk, was chopping the thinner branches all to the same length.
ref: 1936, Arthur Ransome, “A Run on Blowpipes”, in Pigeon Post, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published October 1944, →OCLC, page 292:
glosses: Often reduplicated: used to represent a brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.
plunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: plunks
form: plunking
form: plunked
form: plunked
Etymology: Origin uncertain; possibly the same as plunk (etymology 1), or related to Dutch plenken (“(archaic) to wander around; (Limburg, archaic) to play truant”).
Senses: glosses: To be absent from (school) without permission; to be a truant.
examples: text: Unless we repented and humbly begged for mercy … I might as well tell lies, break crockery, kick the cat, plunk from school, and enjoy my transgressions.
ref: 1979, Lavinia Derwent [pseudonym; Elizabeth Dodd], chapter I, in A Border Bairn, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: To play truant.
dishware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishwares
Etymology: From dish + -ware.
Senses: synonyms: dishes
glosses: crockery used for serving or cooking food
Related terms: dishwashing
Taffia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tafia
Etymology: Blend of Taff + mafia
Senses: qualifier: may be mildly offensive
glosses: Any group of Welsh people who practice nepotism or live in an ethnic enclave.
Related terms: Murphia
unsettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsɛtəl/
Forms: form: unsettles
form: unsettling
form: unsettled
form: unsettled
Etymology: From un- + settle.
Senses: examples: text: Don't unsettle the horses or they'll bolt.
text: Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: word: disturb
word: perturb
word: agitate
word: freak
word: bother
word: bring down
word: discompose
word: disconcert
word: enturbulate
word: disturb
word: mortify
word: perturb
word: put out
word: ruffle
word: throw off balance
word: unsettle
word: upset
antonyms: comfort
relieve
settle
glosses: To make upset or uncomfortable
synonyms: betumble
derange
disarrange
discompose
displace
disrange
ruffle up
antonyms: array
order
settle
glosses: To bring into disorder or disarray
nocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Containing nocks.
Derived terms: unnocked
nocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nock
nocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nock
nocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: binoculars
Derived terms: nockies
nocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nock
unsettles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsettle
plunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plunk
plunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plunk
plunking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plunkings
Senses: glosses: A noise that plunks.
plunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plunk
kipu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quipu.
proxeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒksəni/
Forms: form: proxenies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προξενία (proxenía) derived from πρόξενος (próxenos).
Senses: examples: text: If there be near me now a man of the Achaians who dwelleth far up the Ionian sea, he shall not upbraid me: I have faith in my proxeny […]
ref: 1876, Pindarus, translated by Francis David Morice, Nemean 7: For Sogenes of Aegina:
glosses: In Ancient Greece, an arrangement whereby a citizen (chosen by the city) hosted foreign ambassadors at his own expense, in return for honorary titles from the state.
heterosexist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterosexists
Etymology: From heterosex(ual) + -ist; modelled on sexist.
Senses: glosses: A homophobic heterosexual person.
Derived terms: anti-heterosexist
heterosexistly
nonheterosexist
sanctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæŋkʃənz/
ipa: /sæŋkʃɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sanction
sanctions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæŋkʃənz/
ipa: /sæŋkʃɪnz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sanction
sanctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sanction
sanctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanctionings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who sanctions.
sanctioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sanction
coercive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
Forms: form: more coercive
form: most coercive
Etymology: From coerce + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program, according to U.S. officials and independent analysts.
ref: 2006 July 19, Post Staff Writers, “U.S. Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran”, in Washington Post, Washington, page A01:
glosses: Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that the ratio of |F(x)| to x approaches infinity as x approaches infinity.
raw_tags: of a function F
Derived terms: anticoercive
cocoercive
coercive citation
coercive control
coercive force
coercively
coerciveness
coercivity
discoercive
hypocoercive
noncoercive
semicoercive
uncoercive
have a screw loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a screw loose
form: having a screw loose
form: had a screw loose
form: had a screw loose
Senses: examples: text: Richard, glorious in new livery, [...] went with his sad message, first to the church and then to the banqueting-hall in Albemarle Street. "Not any wedding?" said the head-waiter at the hotel. "I knew they was folks as would have a screw loose somewheres. [...]"
ref: 1871 July – 1873 February, Anthony Trollope, “The Major”, in The Eustace Diamonds. A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1872, →OCLC, page 306, column 1:
text: "You know he really has got a screw loose in his head somewheres, an' there ain't any one but what says he's the town fool, all right."
ref: 1916, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 22, in Just David:
text: Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) would be just another irritating office brown-noser, a prep school Sammy Glick, except that he too has a screw loose and a mystical rapport with firearms.
ref: 2010 July 16, Alessandra Stanley, “Television: Back to Work for ‘Mad Men’”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jun 2016:
text: "A successful murder has to be 'attempted' in the first place." "We both know what matters here is how you perceive the meaning." "Any immortal who considers that a loophole has a screw loose." "For all I know, your screws..." "I vow to not do anything with the intent of Elliot getting killed, okay? Leave my screws out of this."
ref: 2016 September 23, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 23, 2016:
glosses: To be insane, irrational, or eccentric.
Related terms: screw loose
have one's head screwed on
screwball
screwy
screwier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of screwy: more screwy
screwiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That's the screwiest idea I've ever heard of.
glosses: superlative form of screwy: most screwy
mesomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛzəˈmɔɹfɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɛsəˈmɔɹfɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Forms: form: more mesomorphic
form: most mesomorphic
Etymology: From mesomorph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, compared to the typical ectomorphic or endomorphic child, the mesomorphic boy or girl may have more energy and a greater motivation for vigorous play with peers.
ref: 1993, Henry B. Biller, Fathers and Families: Paternal Factors in Child Development, page 155:
text: An average man is more mesomorphic than the phantom whereas the average woman is more endomorphic than the phantom (see figure 3.2).
ref: 2005, Bruce Abernethy, The Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement, page 37:
text: Players in the best teams were less endomorphic and more mesomorphic than those in the worst teams, but forwards and backs in the best teams did not differ in somatotype.
ref: 2009, Timothy R. Ackland, Bruce Elliott, John Bloomfield, Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport, page 62:
text: Studies have found that elite athletes can be primarily mesomorphic with ectomorphic qualities or primarily mesomorphic with endomorphic qualities.
ref: 2025 February 4, Laura Schober, “What Does It Mean To Have an Endomorph Body Type?”, in Health:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a mesomorph.
mesomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛzəˈmɔɹfɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɛsəˈmɔɹfɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Etymology: From meso- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: 1958, Chemical Society (Great Britain), G. W. Gray, Steric Effects in Conjugated Systems, page 161,
Changes in the chemical constitution of a mesomorphic compound may therefore radically alter the mesomorphic properties and thermal stabilities.
text: 1993, Nikolaĭ Alʹfredovich Platė (editor, original Russian edition), S. L. Schnur (translator), Liquid-Crystal Polymers, page 132,
This x-ray is typical of mesomorphic structures which occupy an intermediate position between crystalline and amorphous with respect to the degree of order.
text: The thermodynamic conditions under which such a mesomorphic phase can interfere and affect the crystallization process are described in Fig. 5.40.
ref: 2007, Gert R. Strobl, The Physics of Polymers: Concepts for Understanding Their Structures and Behavior, page 200:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to phases of matter intermediate between solid and liquid; of or pertaining to liquid crystals.
ectomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ectomorphic
form: most ectomorphic
Etymology: From ectoderm + -morph + -ic, equivalent to ectomorph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Studies have found that elite athletes can be primarily mesomorphic with ectomorphic qualities or primarily mesomorphic with endomorphic qualities.
ref: 2025 February 4, Laura Schober, “What Does It Mean To Have an Endomorph Body Type?”, in Health:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an ectomorph.
Synonyms: leptosomatic
endomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endomorphic
form: most endomorphic
Etymology: From endomorph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Studies have found that elite athletes can be primarily mesomorphic with ectomorphic qualities or primarily mesomorphic with endomorphic qualities.
ref: 2025 February 4, Laura Schober, “What Does It Mean To Have an Endomorph Body Type?”, in Health:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an endomorph.
five-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-nines
Senses: examples: text: All went lame; all blind; / Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots / Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
ref: 1917, Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est:
glosses: A 5.9-inch artillery shell of the kind used by Germany in World War I.
geoduck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuː.iˌdʌk/
ipa: /ˈɡu.iˌdək/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: geoducks
form: geoduc
form: geoduk
form: goeduck
form: goeduc
form: goeduk
form: goeyduck
form: goeyduc
form: goeyduk
form: gooeduck
form: gooeduc
form: gooeyduck
form: gooeyduc
form: gooeyduc
form: gooiduck
form: gooiduc
form: gooiduk
form: gweduck
form: gweduc
form: gweduk
form: gwiduck
form: gwiduc
form: gwiduk
Etymology: From Lushootseed gʷídəq, variously understood as reference to its deep digging or resemblance to male genitalia. The unusual spelling of the first syllable is thought to represent editorial hypercorrection of forms with goe- &c. (probably under influence from the common prefix geo-), despite the earlier attestation of forms with geo-. The spelling pronunciation /ˈdʒiːəʊdʌk/ once listed in dictionaries is now considered nonstandard. The common spelling of the second syllable is under influence from duck, originally with reference to the mollusc's resemblance to the body and neck of a dead duck.
Senses: examples: text: Glycimeris generosa. Olympia, Washington Territory... The boys at Olympia call them ‘Geoducks’; they dig them on a certain sand bar at extreme low tide, and sell them to a merchant who ships them to Portland, Oreg... The boys inform me that the Indians on the Sound... dry them for food with the other clams.
ref: 1881, H. Hemphill, letter in the Bulletin of the US Fishing Commission, No. 1, p. 21
text: I survey the ice-lined crates containing sea snails, rock cod, sea urchin and a Vancouver favorite, geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck)—a giant clam.
ref: 2004 April, Smithsonian, page 92:
glosses: The species of large saltwater clam Panopea generosa, native to the northeast Pacific coasts from Alaska to Washington State, distinguished by its deep burrowing and long unprotected siphon.
glosses: The species of large saltwater clam Panopea generosa, native to the northeast Pacific coasts from Alaska to Washington State, distinguished by its deep burrowing and long unprotected siphon.
its flesh as a seafood.
examples: text: Alick Shaw... uses up to 14 kilograms of geoduck in chowder weekly...
ref: 1989 November 6, Listener, page 33:
glosses: Other species of Panopea, especially Panopea zelandica, native to the coasts of New Zealand.
Synonyms: geoduck clam
king clam
elephant trunk clam
mirugai
mirukuigai
leptonema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptonemas
Etymology: From lepto- (“thin”) + -nema (“filiform structure”).
Senses: glosses: The stage during meiosis Prophase 1 where the chromosomes condense after S-phase and interphase, resulting in the recombination of haploid chromosome pairs with sister chromatids held by a single non-dividing centromeres, and followed by the zygotene stage.
Synonyms: leptotene
set straight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets straight
form: setting straight
form: set straight
form: set straight
Senses: examples: text: I'd like to set straight some misconceptions about recent events.
text: He misspoke, but I quietly set him straight.
text: Your bedroom is a mess. Set things straight before you go out tonight.
text: I can't stand it! I know you planned it!
Imma set it straight, this Watergate!
ref: 1994 May 31, Beastie Boys, “Sabotage”, in Ill Communication:
synonyms: put straight
put right
glosses: To correct; to make right or true.
Related terms: scare straight
set the record straight
straight-sets
gug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gugs
Senses: examples: text: […] found in the Raised Beaches on the coast, or washed up into sheltered "gugs" or caves, as at the Gravel Gugs, Polzeath, where the shingle contains some 35 per cent of flint pebbles.
ref: 1905, Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, page 460:
glosses: A cave.
awag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + wag.
Senses: examples: text: The puppies ran up to the girl, their tails all awag.
text: 1887, John A. Martin, “Memories of the March” in Addresses, Topeka: Kansas Publishing House, 1888,
The men are as silent as if they were dumb. Then something sets all their tongues awag, and the woods and fields echo with their shouts and laughter.
text: In the good suburb, in the bursting season,
their canes awag in the yellow day,
the newly maimed mince back to danger.
ref: 1961, Maxine Kumin, “Rehabilitation Center”, in Halfway,, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 23:
text: […] the walk: undulant, the buttocks awag, the breasts thrust upward by some ingenuity of corsetage.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 3, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson:
glosses: Wagging.
black dwarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black dwarfs
form: black dwarves
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A theoretically predicted stellar remnant consisting of a white dwarf that has cooled and faded for trillions of years and no longer emits visible light.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, dwarf.
Related terms: brown dwarf
red dwarf
blue dwarf
blue straggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue stragglers
Senses: examples: text: This boosted the mass of the companion, turning it into a blue straggler, while reducing the companion to a sub-dwarf B star.
ref: 2015, David Stevenson, The Complex Lives of Star Clusters, Springer, →ISBN, page 168:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters.
globular cluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globular clusters
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a densely-packed spherical star cluster containing thousands to millions of stars
Derived terms: word: globular
Related terms: open cluster
open cluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open clusters
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a more or less irregular star cluster containing tens to thousands of stars
Related terms: globular cluster
caid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈiːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.ɪd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: caids
form: kaid
form: qaid
Etymology: From Arabic قَائِد (qāʔid, “leader”), probably through French caïd (or at least influenced by it in pronunciation). Doublet of alcaide.
Senses: examples: text: Having taken over the land, the caids procured labour for themselves by conscripting people for forced farm work, calling the practice a form of Touiza, which was a centuries-old practice of mutual help in the rural areas.
ref: 1990, Abdelali Doumou, The Moroccan State in Historical Perspective, 1850-1985, CODESRIA, page 43:
text: This results in frequent and severe conflicts which, if the provincial governor and the caid are unable to resolve them, are taken to the Ministry of the Interior in Rabat.
The office of caid can be considered an extension of the province head.
ref: 2002, Ethnology, Volume 41, University of Pittsburgh, page 115:
text: Most of the process was in the hands of the caids who drew up first estimates of the taxable wealth. Then the local head of the Bureau Arab looked over these figures for the final fiscal census. This gave the caid much power.
ref: 2005, Benjamin Claude Brower, A Desert Named Peace: Violence and Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902, Volume 1, Cornell University, page 155:
glosses: A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.
caid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈiːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.ɪd/
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: From Irish caid (“stuffed ball; football”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various ancient and traditional Irish football games.
glosses: Modern Gaelic football.
kaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caid (“kind of governor”).
star cluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star clusters
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of gravitationally bound stars and other material (such as nebulae and planets), conventionally with one generation of similarly aged stars from the same pre-stellar nebula.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: cluster of stars
word: Cl*
word: Cl
Hyponyms: Galactic cluster
globular cluster
open cluster
super star cluster
Coordinate terms: stellar association
moving group
stellar stream
Related terms: star cloud
field star
bleeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bleed
bleeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of bleed
Connie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Constance or, rarely, of Concepción.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Conrad or Cornelius or, rarely, of Conway.
Connie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Connies
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The Lockheed Constellation airliner.
impales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpeɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impale
impaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpeɪlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impale