cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Colle System
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Belgian chess master Edgard Colle.
Senses: glosses: A Closed Game system in chess, characterized by white developing the center pawns to d4 and e3, king's knight is to f3, the king's bishop to d3, and the queen's bishop's pawn to c3.
wikipedia: Edgard Colle
Findeisen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process
piss on someone's campfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses on someone's campfire
form: pissing on someone's campfire
form: pissed on someone's campfire
form: pissed on someone's campfire
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piss on someone's bonfire.
synonyms: word: piss on someone's bonfire
pisses on someone's bonfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piss on someone's bonfire
pissing on someone's bonfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of piss on someone's bonfire
pissed on someone's bonfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piss on someone's bonfire
travest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtræv.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈtræ.vəst/
Forms: form: travests
form: travesting
form: travested
form: travested
Etymology: From French travestir, from Italian travestire.
Senses: examples: text: I have not much endeavour'd to make any diſcoveries of it, and it is a hard matter to give any account thereof, without ſome hazard of traveſting Hiſtory into Romance.
ref: 1678, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, “Of the Womens Appartment. The Principal Heads” (chapter XVII), in J. P., transl., The Six Voyages of John Baptiſta Tavernier, London, page 89:
text: I grant that wit requires comparison and a contrast, be it incongruity, or even absurdity; in mean, burlesque or dignified objects ; be it in travesting, exaggerating or diminishing reality ; but I see no proof that these mental operations result from the faculty in question alone, and therefore from an intellectual faculty.
ref: 1832, Johann Spurzheim, “Organ of Mirthfulness” (chapter XX), in Phrenology, or, The Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena, volume I, Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, page 254:
text: I have next shown you the Greeks, and " the wisdom" of their philosophy, often travesting, sometimes tarnishing the Christian religion : […]
ref: 1839, Alexander Kinmont, “Lecture the Eighth; On the Unity in Variety of the Human Race”, in Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man, and the Rise and Progress of Philosophy, Cincinnati: U. P. James, page 232:
text: In the first place we shall often be discussing facts which have been so travested by propaganda that your knowledge of them is bound to be imperfect.
ref: 1963, Lewis A. Coser, editor, Sociology Through Literature, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, page 217:
text: The truth is that the child is not ‘like a boy,’ and that if you put him into a coat and waistcoat forthwith, he only would look like a small angel travested.
ref: 1995, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Julia Markus, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Alfred A. Knopf, page 20:
glosses: To travesty; to disguise; to parody; to demean.
travests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of travest
travesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of travest
travested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more travested
form: most travested
Senses: examples: text: Our Traveſted Baroneſs had ſtill at that time above twelve Thouſand Livers, in Gems, and Jewels about her.
ref: 1684, anonymous author, Eve Revived, or The fair One Stark-Naked, London: […] Wiltam Downang, page 84:
text: Mr. Smith says, that the President was educated to worship the Constitution. Nay; but to worship a travested, falsified and mutilated thing called the Constitution, as differerent from the real Constitution of the U.S., as impartial liberty is from the chattel slave gystem.
ref: 1862 February 24, C. Stuart, “Gerrit Smith's Letter to Mr. Croswell”, in Douglass' Monthly, volume IV, number IX, page 597:
text: *The analysis of dreams, which is so travested by the Freudians, is an important and interesting part of psychology.
ref: 1920, Knight Dunlap, Mysticism, Freudianism and Scientific Psychology, St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, page 80:
text: The truth is that the child is not ‘like a boy,’ and that if you put him into a coat and waistcoat forthwith, he only would look like a small angel travested.
ref: 1995, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Julia Markus, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Alfred A. Knopf, page 20:
glosses: Disguised; degraded; debased.
travested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of travest
Perrigny-lès-Dijon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune south of Dijon, Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
I hardly even know her
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of I hardly know her.
synonyms: word: I hardly know her
low-caloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of low-calorie.
lower-carb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of low-carb: more low-carb
lowest-carb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of low-carb: most low-carb
Italian kale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cavolo nero.
synonyms: word: cavolo nero
palm tree kale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cavolo nero.
synonyms: word: cavolo nero
will-they, won't-they
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of will-they-won't-they.
will they, won't they
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of will-they-won't-they.
will-they/won't-they
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of will-they-won't-they.
will they? won't they
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: will they won't they
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of will-they-won't-they.
in rough
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Younger learners will 'copy out in rough, copy it out in neat, draw a coloured border around it, highlight the keywords in primary colours, draw you a picture'.
ref: 1998, Alistair Smith, Accelerated Learning in Practice, page 43:
text: Where accounts exist both in rough (or draft) form and in neat (or finished) form, preference is given to the neat version, which may be considered more 'official,' unless the rough text preserves details lost in the neat text.
ref: 2007, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills, Cheshire Including Chester - Volume 1, page cxcv:
text: However, drafting does not mean 'write in rough – correct – copy up in neat'.
ref: 2012, Tony Martin, Chira Lovat, Glynis Purnell, The Really Useful Literacy Book, page 191:
glosses: As a draft.
Coordinate terms: in neat
in neat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Younger learners will 'copy out in rough, copy it out in neat, draw a coloured border around it, highlight the keywords in primary colours, draw you a picture'.
ref: 1998, Alistair Smith, Accelerated Learning in Practice, page 43:
text: Where accounts exist both in rough (or draft) form and in neat (or finished) form, preference is given to the neat version, which may be considered more 'official,' unless the rough text preserves details lost in the neat text.
ref: 2007, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills, Cheshire Including Chester - Volume 1, page cxcv:
text: However, drafting does not mean 'write in rough – correct – copy up in neat'.
ref: 2012, Tony Martin, Chira Lovat, Glynis Purnell, The Really Useful Literacy Book, page 191:
coordinate_terms: in rough
glosses: Having the final, finished form.
Vigneux-sur-Seine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Essonne department, Île-de-France, France.
r kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of our kid.
year of the Lord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: years of the Lord
Senses: examples: text: And whosoever may hold the balance, though they should cast into the opposite scale all the bayonets and cannon, not only of France and England, but of Europe entire, how would it kick the beam against the simple, solid weight of the two hundred and fifty, or three hundred millions–and American mil- lions–destined to gather beneath the flutter of the stripes and stars, in the fast hastening year of the Lord 1945!
ref: 1845 July and August, John O’Sullivan, “Annexation”, in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, volume 17, number 1, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of year of our Lord.
years of the Lord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of year of the Lord
Hosford-Abernethy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Abernethy Elementary School and Hosford Middle School, in turn named for Oregon pioneers George Abernethy and Chauncey Hosford.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.
wikipedia: Chauncey Hosford
George Abernethy
99%
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 99 percent.
99%
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 99 percent.
MAGAtard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: MAGAtards
Etymology: From MAGA + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: I may sound like MAGAtard but Trump's assassination was not staged, they really wanted to kill him.
ref: 2024 July 14, @Melius_reborn, Twitter:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A person who uncritically supports Donald Trump
MAGAtards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAGAtard
silent vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent votes
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The vote of a person whose choice or intention is not publicly known or previously expressed.
silent votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silent vote
on silent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A setting on an electronic device that prevents it from producing noise when it receives a call or a message, such as an alert or a notification.
silent mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent mutations
Senses: qualifier: molecular genetics
glosses: A mutation in DNA that does not have an observable effect on the organism's phenotype.
silent mutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silent mutation
Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A commune in the Metropolis of Lyon department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
silent modes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silent mode
vibrate modes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibrate mode
lets the dice fall where they may
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let the dice fall where they may
letting the dice fall where they may
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of let the dice fall where they may
letting the chips fall where they may
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of let the chips fall where they may
lets the chips fall where they may
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let the chips fall where they may
best in class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: The best of something's kind.
roid gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Palumboism.
synonyms: word: Palumboism
kirby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kirby; only used in kirby grip and kirby pin. Genericized trademark.
shame weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shameweed
Senses: glosses: Mimosa, especially Mimosa pudica
shame plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shame plants
form: shameplant
Etymology: So called because of its shrinking reaction to being touched. Compare Latin pudica (“shamefaced”) in the taxonomic name.
Senses: glosses: Mimosa, especially Mimosa pudica.
shame plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shame plant
everybody and their uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
everyone and their uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
Saint-Florentin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Indre department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
glosses: A commune in Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
everyone and his uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
everybody and his uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
clean fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean fills
form: cleanfill
Senses: glosses: soil for changing elevation
Synonyms: fill dirt
cleanfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleanfills
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clean fill.
fill dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fill dirts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clean fill.
synonyms: word: clean fill
Combs-la-Ville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
hnefatafl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse hnefatafl (“board game of the fist”), made of hnefi (“fist, the king piece of the hnefatafl game”) and tafl (“a table, a board game”). The historical Norse coined this term to differentiate it from other board games, such as skáktafl (“chess”), kvatrutafl (“tables”), and halatafl (“fox games”).
Senses: examples: text: The Saxon game of Hnefatafl came from Denmark, a game which was played there about A.D. 400 and brought by them to Iceland and Britain. An English manuscript written during the reign of King Athelstan, 925-40, contains a diagram of this game.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 115:
glosses: An ancient Norse board game.
re-excavation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-excavations
form: reexcavation
Etymology: From re- + excavation.
Senses: examples: text: The loess also, in the suburbs and neighbourhood of Liége, occurring at various heights in patches lying at between 20 and 200 feet above the river, cannot be explained without supposing the filling up and re-excavation of the valleys at a period posterior to the washing in of the animal remains into most of the old caverns.
ref: 1863, Dawson, The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, volume 8, page 122:
text: Olsen (1968) describes some of the methods used in the re-excavation of the Viking fortress at Trelleborg, first excavated between 1934 and 1943 (Norland 1948).
ref: 1993, Philip Barker, Techniques of Archaeological Excavation, Psychology Press, page 118:
text: Re-excavation of mass graves is an important area of investigation.
ref: 2024 July 19, Michael Dawson, War and the Historic Environment: The Effect of Conflict from Front Line Ukraine to Historic Namibia, Taylor & Francis, page 249:
glosses: A repeated excavation
re-excavations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-excavation
Perrache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A quarter in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, named after Antoine Michel Perrache.
knucklestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The game of knucklebones.
Menes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Mēnēs, from Ancient Greek Μήνης (Mḗnēs), ultimately from Egyptian Y5:N35-M17 (mnj).
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Menes, uniter of Upper and Lower Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty of Egypt.
re-excavate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-excavates
form: re-excavating
form: re-excavated
form: re-excavated
Etymology: From re- + excavate.
Senses: examples: text: In order, then, to improve the supply of drinking water, it is necessary to dig new tanks and clear and re-excavate old ones.
ref: 1889, The Calcutta Review, volume 89, page 59:
text: Several reports in the literature indicate that these birds are well adapted to this condition and re-excavate burrows quickly.
ref: 1974, Space Shuttle Program, Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB): Environmental Impact Statement, page F-34:
text: The plan to re-excavate was beset with problems: practical access was difficult (impossible by car), the whole area was desisgnate a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation.
ref: 2020 February 27, Howard Williams, Pauline Magdalene Clarke, Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, page 159:
glosses: To excavate again.
re-excavates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-excavate
re-excavating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of re-excavate
re-excavated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-excavate
piecewiseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piecewisenesses
Etymology: From piecewise + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, they do not take advantages of piecewiseness in the heterogeneous network
ref: 2002 August 1, Liang Cheng, Ivan Marsic, “Piecewise Network Awareness Service for Wireless/Mobile Pervasive Computing”, in Mobile Networks and Applications, volume 7, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 269–278:
text: some time may be saved by exploiting this piecewiseness
ref: 2009 October 2, Erik Jonsson, Michael Felsberg, “Efficient computation of channel-coded feature maps through piecewise polynomials”, in Image and Vision Computing (Cognitive Systems: Perception, Action, Learning), volume 27, number 11, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1688–1694:
text: Since TGV features piecewiseness imposed by the L1 norm, it is equivalent
ref: 2016 July 24, Jelle Veraart, Els Fieremans, Ileana O. Jelescu, Florian Knoll, Dmitry S. Novikov, “Gibbs ringing in diffusion MRI”, in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, volume 76, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, pages 301-314:
glosses: The state of being piecewise
jib out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jibs out
form: jibbing out
form: jibbed out
form: jibbed out
Senses: examples: text: She jibbed me out of the money.
glosses: To swindle, cheat or con (something) from someone.
put something over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts something over
form: putting something over
form: put something over
form: put something over
Senses: examples: text: I was always the aggressor in a sexual encounter. I never felt that a man was putting something over on me. I did what I wanted to do. We were brought up to feel that men were always out to seduce you, to take something from you. I felt that I took what I wanted, that I was right.
ref: 1975 December 20, M, L, D, “Coming Out At 30”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of put one over.
bleeding Nora
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 'Bleeding Nora, I asked for Darjeeling not Dunlop,' quipped one of the engineers, grimacing at the enhanced flavour.
ref: 2005, Jeff Dawson, Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
text: 'Bleeding Nora! How on earth did you manage that?'
ref: 2010, L. A. Larkin, The Genesis Flaw, Murdoch Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
text: Bleeding Nora! Half head, it was. Do you want a flake in that, love? Couldn't pull a pint for toffee.
ref: 2016, Matthew Bulgo, Constellation Street, Oberon Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
glosses: Synonym of bloody Nora (slightly milder than it).
synonyms: word: bloody Nora
extra: slightly milder than it
uzhes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uzhe
glosses: plural of uzh
jive around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jives around
form: jiving around
form: jived around
form: jived around
Senses: glosses: To tease or mess with (someone).
jizz up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jizzes up
form: jizzing up
form: jizzed up
form: jizzed up
Senses: glosses: To excite or work up (someone).
head priest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head priests
Senses: synonyms: chief priest
glosses: The high priest of a local temple or shrine.
chief priest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief priests
Senses: glosses: Synonym of head priest.
synonyms: word: head priest
head priests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head priest
chief priests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief priest
join out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: joins out
form: joining out
form: joined out
form: joined out
Senses: glosses: To join up with a gang, band, workplace, etc., often to move away from home in order to do so.
glosses: To form a group with others, especially often homeless people forming a group.
rock-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rock-bound
form: most rock-bound
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rockbound.
bubble romper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble rompers
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A one-piece outfit for babies and toddlers consisting of a loose and baggy fit around the lower body, creating a bubblelike shape.
bubble rompers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble romper
up bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: down bubble
glosses: Having an upward trim (of a submarine); where the bow is higher than the stern.
joke up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jokes up
form: joking up
form: joked up
form: joked up
Senses: glosses: To make jokes aimed upward in social class or level of authority.
glosses: To add humor to (something that isn't funny).
Derived terms: joke it up
joke it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jokes it up
form: joking it up
form: joked it up
form: joked it up
Senses: examples: text: They always joke it up when they get together.
glosses: To be funny, make jokes and carry on.
lose the bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses the bubble
form: losing the bubble
form: lost the bubble
form: lost the bubble
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To cave in under pressure, or to lose situational awareness, control or understanding.
Downeaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Downeasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Down Easter.
Downeasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Downeaster
cedarstrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedarstrip
jump upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps upon
form: jumping upon
form: jumped upon
form: jumped upon
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jump on (all senses)
synonyms: word: jump on
extra: all senses
S ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S rank
S ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of S rank
Bến Cát
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Bến Cát.
Senses: glosses: A city in Bình Dương Province, Vietnam.
romanzovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romanzovites
Senses: glosses: A brownish variety of grossular.
toss in with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses in with
form: tossing in with
form: tossed in with
form: tossed in with
Senses: examples: text: It's about time you toss in with either us or them.
glosses: To join up or ally with (someone).
Oullins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and former commune, in the Metropolis of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
turn in on oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns in on oneself
form: turning in on oneself
form: turned in on oneself
form: turned in on oneself
Senses: glosses: To become inwardly focused, withdrawn and preoccupied.
Sweet Meats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sweet Meat
cricket chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricket chairs
Senses: examples: text: One of these rooms—the "parlour," as Susie called it—had a wide, low embrasure at one end, and you mounted a couple of shallow steps to reach it; indeed, it made quite a little fairy bower, for one side was all casement, through which the roses and the wine-coloured nasturtiums thrust their faces, while the jasmine peered in with its starry eyes; and on the other Mrs. Garland had hung some diaphanous pale curtains, placing a low, wide cricket-chair deftly cushioned at one corner, a tiny bit of a table near it, and a low stool worked in wools, and much prized as being the crowning effort of her girlish days, before it.
ref: 1892, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, page 52:
text: The rockers of her cricket chair snapped rapidly against the floor boards.
ref: 1954, May Dikeman Hoss, The Pike, page 195:
text: Steve tipped the cricket chair forward, slid everything to the floor, and moved the chair to another place on the rug.
ref: 1956, Irving Shulman, Children of the Dark, page 81:
text: I sank down into the small cricket chair beside the fire and gestured to a larger chair on the other side of the fireplace.
ref: 1991, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Rachel C. Payes, The Dark Towers of Trelochen, page 319:
glosses: A small wooden rocking chair or armchair with turned legs and posts, having a padded seat, back cushion, and usually a cloth skirt.
examples: text: Adrian Cole, cricket chair for U.S. Sports in Israel, was picked to lead the second U.S. cricket team, but the group disbanded after the sudden death of John Martyr, the team's heart and soul, according to 1973 team member Joe Siegman.
ref: 2015, Ron Kaplan, The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games:
text: The summer also represented a baptism of fire for former captain Stephen Peters, who had replaced the long-serving Nigel Felton as cricket chair.
ref: 2024, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2024:
glosses: The chairperson of a cricket team.
cricket chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricket chair
dark-zillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark-zilla
Colonels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colonel
Hornby-with-Farleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, which includes the named places.
Xuanwei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shüǎnʹwāʹ
Forms: form: Suanwei
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 宣威 (Xuānwēi).
Senses: examples: text: Nonsmoking women in an area of China’s Yunnan province die of lung cancer at a rate 20 times that of their counterparts in other regions of the country — and higher than anywhere else in the world.[…]
Like others in rural China, the families of Xuanwei County use coal for heat and for cooking. As the coal burns, particles of silica are released with the vapor and inhaled. Women, who do the cooking, face the greatest exposure.
ref: 2010 January 11, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “Coal Is Linked to Cancer in China Province”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2010, Health:
glosses: A county-level city of Qujing, Yunnan, China.
Farleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Beetham parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5381).
glosses: A small village in Hornby-with-Farleton parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5767).
overvalued ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overvalued idea
over-valued ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of over-valued idea
overtranscriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtranscription
pachychoroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachychoroid
palaeocastorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeocastorid
palaeolagoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeolagoon
palaeotsunamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeotsunami
palaeovalleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeovalley
palatoglossals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatoglossal
parazones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parazone
precortexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precortex
pregrabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pregrab
pregrabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pregrab
trophariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropharium
morphodikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphodike
morogakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morogake
Kereks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kerek
indenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indenone
tridems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tridem
chouquettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chouquette
English chamomiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of English chamomile
breakfast tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfast teas
Senses: examples: text: He may have been the purveyor of the most traditional British goods, from shooting sticks and breakfast teas to waxed jackets and sirloins, but he never did get his British passport.
ref: 2010 May 14, Jan Moir, “Sphinxes. A Diana shrine. Piles of tat. the phoney Pharaoh has turned Harrods into an emporium of vulgarity. So why do we still love it?”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2021:
glosses: Synonym of English breakfast tea.
synonyms: word: English breakfast tea
Pelissero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
passive armor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passive armors
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of passive armour.
St. Thomas Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of St. Thomas Sunday
English pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English peas
Senses: glosses: A variety of pea that grows on vines.
English peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of English pea
Kawasakis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kawasaki
Victorian Turkish baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Victorian Turkish bath
she-ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-apes
Etymology: From she- + ape.
Senses: examples: text: “I have never told you my story, Olga. It would have been better had you known it—this might not have happened. I never saw my father. The only mother I knew was a ferocious she-ape.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 46:
glosses: A female ape.
examples: text: Why would anybody, black or white, want to date a big stinky, sweaty, she-ape?
ref: 1998 November 20, Phil Nation, “The figure of a black women”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: Yes, she-ape Serena and she-ape Venus are over the hill, both defeated today by WHITE players - http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/index - Where's loud-mouth Big Daddy 'White girlz are afraid to play my girlz' Williams NOW, eh?
ref: 2004 June 1, Jasper PNL Mfg Co, LTD, “two nigger she-apes defeated by White tennis players”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: A 30-year sentence for murder handed down last week to a 14-year-old Marion girl is reigniting debate over how Indiana deals with violent children.
ref: 2004 July 9, elfatvis, “14-year old she-ape caged for killing grandmammy”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: and that gorilla-faced fecal-colored negress is anything but "beautiful." That she-ape was shot through the ugly forest and hit every tree on the way.
ref: 2008 October 2, me, “Re: Is it just me, or is Obama the dumbest homosexual negro ever?”, in soc.support.fat-acceptance (Usenet):
text: She-Ape of the Cornbelt. When she stalks you, she's got a shucking in mind.
ref: 2009 June 14, Saint BEZARK, “Hey you guys you can re-join the ABC Google forum again”, in Number 71 (Usenet):
text: Couldn't make a decision on his own to save his life. He has to have Czar's to shirk personal responsibility for poor decisions. Married to a racist black she-ape.
ref: 2010 July 4, Husker, “Barack Obama & the USA Chart”, in alt.astrology (Usenet):
text: I was a expecting a Buck.I would not want to think how a she-ape leaked in a sink. Never hire a nigger for anything. Stealing from you is expected but shit like this is sick!!
ref: 2010 November 5, (¯`·.¸®avNsfan®¸.·´¯), “Re: Feral Nigger Nurse Videotaped Pissing In Kitchen Sink”, in alt.baldspot (Usenet):
text: Educating nigger baboons is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME, MONEY, AND RESOURCES. The she-ape in this video should NEVER have been allowed in a classroom occupied by humans.
ref: 2012 March 22, Mangler, “Why are White People Wasting Time and Money "educating" Idiot Nigger Baboons with Sub-100 IQ?”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
text: Obama has not publicly denied that he is a homosexual dick sucker either. Being married to a racist black she-ape who bore the children of a spic gangster speaks volumes...
ref: 2013 September 7, Feinstein Follies, “Note that liberals don't deny Obama is a dick sucking faggot democrat.”, in alt.politics.democrats.senate (Usenet):
synonyms: buffarilla
negress
sheboon
sherilla
glosses: A black woman.
masgid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæs.d͡ʒɪd/
/ˈmʌs.d͡ʒɪd/
/məsˈd͡ʒi(ː)d/
/ˈmæs.ɡɪd/
/ˈmʌs.ɡɪd/
/məsˈɡi(ː)d/
Forms: form: masgids
form: masagid
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of masjid.
she-apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of she-ape
calorie-restricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calorie-restricted
form: most calorie-restricted
Senses: glosses: Synonym of low-calorie.
synonyms: word: low-calorie
masgids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masgid
lower-calorie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of low-calorie: more low-calorie
lowest-calorie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of low-calorie: most low-calorie
front-run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: front-runs
form: front-running
form: front-ran
form: front-run
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of front run.
front-runs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of front-run
front-ran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of front-run
stop error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop errors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue screen of death.
synonyms: word: blue screen of death
stop errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop error
damn you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From subjunctive may god damn you, compare with similar: bless you, fuck you etc. with dropped may and god.
Senses: glosses: Used to express anger with someone or somebody else.
stoplogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoplog
quietways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quietway
internship reports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internship report
status reports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of status report
San Francisco Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, which gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.
address line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: address lines
Senses: glosses: The physical or logical line of an address that usually contains parts of the address, such as the street address, building number, or post box number.
address lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of address line
Proto-Omotic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹoʊtoʊəˈmɑtɪk/
Etymology: From proto- + Omotic.
Senses: glosses: Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Omotic languages.
paucilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔːsɪˈlɪŋɡwəl/
Etymology: From pauci- + lingual.
Senses: synonyms: oligolingual
coordinate_terms: unilingual
multilingual
glosses: Relating to, involving, or knowing few languages.
oligolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒlɪɡəˈlɪŋɡwəl/
Etymology: From oligo- + lingual.
Senses: synonyms: paucilingual
coordinate_terms: monolingual
polylingual
glosses: Relating to, involving, or knowing few languages.
Derived terms: oligolingualism
external urethral orifice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: external urethral orifices
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urinary meatus.
synonyms: word: urinary meatus
urethral meatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urethral meatuses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urinary meatus.
synonyms: word: urinary meatus
urethral meatuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethral meatus
external urethral orifices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of external urethral orifice
jews up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jew up
jewing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of jew up
jewed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jew up
Jewed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Jew up
Jewing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of Jew up
Jews up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Jew up
accidental property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accidental properties
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: essential property
glosses: A characteristic of something that is unnecessary to its essence, and in which a deviation of that characteristic has no effect on its essence.
essential property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essential properties
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: accidental property
glosses: A characteristic of something that is essential or necessary to its fundamental nature or existence.
essential properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essential property
accidental properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accidental property
property man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: property men
Senses: glosses: A person who is in charge of equipment that is used at a coal mine.
glosses: Synonym of property master.
synonyms: word: property master
property men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of property man
shit-show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit-shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit show.
shit-shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit-show
Broadholm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Belper parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3549).
fucking Nora
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: ‘Jesus fucking Nora,’ Ray said in a shuddering breath. […] ‘I beg your pardon?’ Susan said, her voice like a slap. ‘Keep your gutter language to yourself or get out and walk.’
ref: 1994, Trevor Hoyle, Blind Needle, Calder Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
text: ‘Fucking Nora! Are you serious?’
ref: 1998, Minette Walters, The Breaker, Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
text: And the man with the diamond patterns on his socks said, ‘Fucking Nora.’
ref: 2003, Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
glosses: Synonym of bloody Nora.
synonyms: word: bloody Nora
Baitou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 白頭 /白头 (Báitóu).
Senses: examples: text: Tianchi Lake on Changbai Mountain, Jilin Province, is the deepest lake in China. It was formed by a volcano break in 1702 and is located on the top of Baitou Peak, the highest peak of Changbai Mountain.
ref: 2008 March 7, Jackie Zhang, “The legend of the lakes”, in Beijing Today, number 353, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 20, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of Paektu: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Paektu
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
vibrationary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrationaries
Etymology: From vibration + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Helen's customary readings are done over the telephone, and last 30 minutes. She requires payment in advance, but adheres to the rule that she does not cash a check until the reading has been completed. The check she receives before the reading supplies Helen with vibrationary information about the person as she touches (psychometrizing) the envelope, the check, and the signature.
ref: 1980 December 20, Michael Anderson, “Gays & the Occult”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 11:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Relating to vibrations.
quobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quobbier
form: more quobby
form: quobbiest
form: most quobby
form: quabby
Etymology: From Middle English quabby, equivalent to quob + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German quobbich, quöbbich, quöwwich, quabbech (“swampy, sticky, soft, difficult, boggy”).
Senses: glosses: Marshy, boggy.
raw_tags: of land
glosses: Flabby, lacking firmness.
chiyuv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiyuvim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חִיּוּב.
Senses: examples: text: When you're engaged, you have a chiyuv to set up your friends too. You might not have anybody in mind for your friends before you're engaged, but once you are, you obtain a special power that makes it possible to sense a good shidduch when you see one.
ref: 2002 May 15, Harry Weiss, “60 ways to be a frummie”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: When it comes to a person's freedom of action in Judaism, there are only chiyuvim and issurim, and everything else is up to the individual.
ref: 2005 March 24, Lisa, “Force feeding geese for pate”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: Is there an inyan or chiyuv to bury the entire body together, or is it OK to have body parts buried in two separate locations?
ref: 2011 January 30, “Burying Amputated Limbs with Body”, in Ask The Rabbi - Dinonline:
glosses: An obligation.
examples: text: When I was a chiyuv (saying kaddish for my father, a'h, and thus leading prayers almost every day), I asked my LOR whether I should continue my practice, or adopt the more standard version. He told me that my version was an acceptable variant within the shul's own accepted nusach.
ref: 2000 November 3, Eliot Shimoff, “Liturgical issues -- in the spirit of Conservative Judaism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A mourner who is obligated to say Kaddish.
issur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈɪsəɹ/
ipa: /iːˈsuːɹ/
Forms: form: issurim
form: iser
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אִסּוּר.
Senses: examples: text: The C movement has eliminated: mamzerut, the issur of kohen and grusha, permitted eydut of woman, permitted driving on shabbat and half a hundred other issurim.
ref: 2003 July 20, bac...@vms.huji.ac.il, “Re; For Julie”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A prohibition; something forbidden.
Related terms: assur
maledicency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:maledicency.
glosses: The quality or practice of being maledicent or tending to speak evil or to slander.
theoremhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theorem + -hood.
Senses: examples: .
antonyms: nontheoremhood
glosses: The quality of being a theorem.
Derived terms: nontheoremhood
nontheoremhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nontheorem + -hood or non- + theoremhood.
Senses: antonyms: theoremhood
glosses: The quality of not being a theorem.
ruddy Nora
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bloody Nora (slightly milder than it).
synonyms: word: bloody Nora
extra: slightly milder than it
quartz-trachyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartz-trachytes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rhyolite.
synonyms: word: rhyolite
quartz-trachytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartz-trachyte
repool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repools
form: repooling
form: repooled
form: repooled
Etymology: From re- + pool.
Senses: examples: text: to repool a server
text: to repool money
text: The government's banks are offering high interest on savings as another means of repooling capital that the eighties dispersed so widely.
ref: 1999, Hill Gates, Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: I'm also repooling db1179 (x1) now (after checking for errors since it just started after hardware crash: T369855: db1179 crashed - hardware issues) that would prevent the circuit breaking to kick in for x1 and reduce the impact of the issue.
ref: 2024 July 21, Ladsgroup [Amir Sarabadani], “Exception caught inside exception handler: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBUnexpectedError: Database servers in extension1 are overloaded.”, in Wikimedia Phabricator, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024:
glosses: To return (something) to a pool (in various senses) after having previously taken it out; to pool again.
repools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repool
repooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repool
repooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repool
snow quartz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow quartzes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of milky quartz.
synonyms: word: milky quartz
snow quartzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow quartz