cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-izer
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -iser
Etymology: From -ize + -er.
Senses: glosses: used to form nouns which are formed from verbs from nouns or adjectives, the final nouns having the sense of "the agent which makes what is denoted by the noun/adjective".
Related terms: -ise
-ize
-isation
-ization
cock-crow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-crows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cockcrow.
trench stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trench sticks
Senses: examples: text: Paid a visit to Sir Robert Garrett, whom I was glad to find looking just as well as in the old days when he used to trudge past my hut with his "trench-stick" in his hand.
ref: 1859 January 30, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India:
text: He made a circle in the dust with his trench stick, and stared into the center of it.
ref: 1920, Philip Hamilton Gibbs, People of Destiny:
text: When I had finished speaking of the future, he raised a knobbed stick that he carried, up to the level of his throat, surely his son's old trench stick, and there he let it dangle from a piece of string in the handle, which he held against his neck.
ref: 1919, Lord Dunsany, Unhappy Far-off Things:
glosses: A type of baton or cane used by soldiers in military trenches, especially of the First World War, for manoeuvring and for basic combat.
ablast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + blast.
Senses: examples: text: […] their real metier is the giddy tenth-rate circus, ablast with drums and the roaring of wild beasts, the snuffling of freaks, and the shrieking mirth of the vulgar.
ref: 1907, T. W. H. Crosland, The Abounding American, London: A. F. Thompson, page 110:
text: Still steaming toward the battleship, / Fogarty Feegan keeps his little guns ablast.
ref: 1942, Gene Fowler, “The Jervis Bay Goes Down”, in Charles G. D. Roberts, editor, Flying Colours, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, page 109:
text: The radio was ablast with call-in voices, they’re griping, they’re spraying spit […]
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, chapter 3, in Underworld, New York: Scribner, page 167:
synonyms: ablare
glosses: Blasting, making a loud noise.
examples: text: So the next golden or profitable rule of the system soon suggested itself, viz. while you kept literary fire all ablast and crackling, to have a number of irons heating in it.
ref: 1882, Percy Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in Recreations of a Literary Man, volume 1, London: Chatto and Windus, pages 30–31:
text: […] John Williamson […] had spent his time and money on a process for transmuting base metals into gold. […] For months his furnace had been kept ablast, and at last the hour of the supreme test had drawn near.
ref: 1908, Francis Downman, “Romney”, in Great English Painters, Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, page 132:
text: [He] constantly played with matches which, he said, he “stole” from his mother, who smoked all day long. The heat they produced cracked the ashtray one day where he set ablast his mother’s pyre symbolically.
ref: 1962, Hertha Riese, chapter 8, in Heal the Hurt Child, University of Chicago Press, page 306:
synonyms: ablaze
glosses: Burning intensely; (of a furnace) subject to a continuous blast of hot air. (of fire)
nom nom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of om nom nom.
annalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: annalises
form: annalising
form: annalised
form: annalised
Etymology: From annal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of annalize.
annalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of annalise
annalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of annalise
annalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of annalise
angelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: angelises
form: angelising
form: angelised
form: angelised
form: angelize
Etymology: From angel + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of angelize.
Synonyms: angelify
Derived terms: angelisation
Related terms: Los Angelisation
Los Angelise
angelises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of angelise
angelising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angelise
angelised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angelise
Borussia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /boʊˈɹʌʃə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Borussia.
Senses: examples: text: At the age of 22, the Norwegian forward had already established himself as one of the best goalscorers in European football – first at Red Bull Salzburg, then with two prolific seasons at Borussia Dortmund.
ref: 2023 May 12, George Ramsay, “After a record-breaking season, Erling Haaland is on track to become ‘the best striker ever’”, in CNN:
glosses: The national personification of Prussia.
glosses: Ellipsis of Borussia Mönchengladbach (“an association football club in Germany”).
glosses: Ellipsis of Borussia Dortmund (“an association football club in Germany”).
Derived terms: Borussian
anthropised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anthropise
anthropising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anthropise
high times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high time
antiquarianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiquarianises
form: antiquarianising
form: antiquarianised
form: antiquarianised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antiquarianize.
antiquarianised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquarianise
antiquarianising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiquarianise
antioxidise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antioxidises
form: antioxidising
form: antioxidised
form: antioxidised
Etymology: From anti- + oxidise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antioxidize.
antipathise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antipathises
form: antipathising
form: antipathised
form: antipathised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antipathize.
antipathises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antipathise
antipathised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antipathise
antioxidising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antioxidise
antioxidised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antioxidise
antipathising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antipathise
antisymmetrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antisymmetrises
form: antisymmetrising
form: antisymmetrised
form: antisymmetrised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antisymmetrize.
antithesise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antithesises
form: antithesising
form: antithesised
form: antithesised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antithesize.
antisymmetrisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisymmetrisation
Musubi no Kami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Musubi-no-Kami
Etymology: From Japanese 結びの神 (Musubi no Kami).
Senses: qualifier: pop culture
glosses: The Japanese god of matchmaking, love and marriage.
don't bite the newbie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: JavaScript experts, please don't bite the newbies.
ref: 2009, Cody Lindley, jQuery Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, page 88:
glosses: Be patient and friendly toward people who are learning a new technology.
roap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roaps
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rope.
roap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roaps
form: roaping
form: roaped
form: roaped
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rope.
percieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: percieves
form: percieving
form: percieved
form: percieved
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of perceive.
percieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of perceiving.
percieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of perceived.
percieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of perceives.
executive summary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executive summaries
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A short document that summarizes all the reports of a company, or the contents of a longer report to which it is attached.
Synonyms: management summary
executive summaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executive summary
management summary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: management summaries
Etymology: From management + summary.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A document that summarizes all the reports of a company in a readable fashion; an executive summary.
Synonyms: executive summary
management summaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of management summary
supercut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercuts
form: super cut
Etymology: From super- + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Take a few minutes and watch this very well-done supercut of (nearly) every movie that came out in 2010.
ref: 2010 December 14, “All The Movies Of 2010 In One Epic Supercut (VIDEO)”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2025:
text: A supercut of all of the pie and coffee in Twin Peaks, most of it ingested by Agent Dale Cooper, obviously.
ref: 2013 July 13, “Populist: Items of interest this week”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."
ref: 2014 January 9, Jon Blistein, “Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2014:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A montage of short video clips, usually from a film or TV series, illustrating a particular repeated element such as a word or phrase.
SBNR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of spiritual but not religious.
life's a bitch and then you die
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: life's a bitch, and then you die
Senses: examples: text: Life’s a bitch, and then you die.
ref: 1978 March 1, “[Classified Advertisements] Personal”, in The Indiana Penn, volume L, number 58, Indiana, Pa.: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, page 16, column 3:
glosses: An expression of acceptance of misfortune in life.
Related terms: valar morghulis
dust cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust covers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dustcover.
drum 'n' bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drum and bass.
land masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land mass
four-legged friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-legged friend
reserve prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reserve price
reserve banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reserve bank
nature reserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nature reserve
double faults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double fault
rocking horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocking horse
bars of chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar of chocolate
dust covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dust cover
gundis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gundi
bombard-phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bombard phrase.
what do you want, a biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒt də ju ˈwɒnt | ə ˈbɪskɪt/
ipa: /ˈwʌt də jə ˈwɑnt | ə ˈbɪskət/
ipa: /- ˈwʌnt -/
Senses: examples: text: Policeman: I've ascertained the time of death as 9:15.
Monkfish: Have you really? What do you want, a biscuit?
ref: The Fast Show (TV series, 1994–2000)
glosses: Synonym of what do you want, a cookie?.
synonyms: word: what do you want
extra: a cookie?
banana skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana skins
Senses: glosses: The outer skin of a banana, especially once removed from the rest of the banana, which may be slippery if stepped on.
examples: text: The subject is becoming a political banana skin.
glosses: A cause of difficulty, or potential embarrassment.
Synonyms: word: banana peel
Hyponyms: skin
Autonomous Region of the Azores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: official name of the Azores
Sete Cidades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Sete Cidades.
Senses: glosses: A twin-lake situated in the crater of a massive volcano on the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Synonyms: Lagoa das Sete Cidades
Lagoa das Sete Cidades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Lagoa das Sete Cidades.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sete Cidades.
synonyms: word: Sete Cidades
Ottomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ottoman
Prokletije
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈklɛtieɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Prokletije, Проклетије, from prȍklēt, про̏кле̄т (“accursed, bloody”) + -je, -је.
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in the Balkans that extends from northern Albania to Kosovo, eastern Montenegro, and southernmost Serbia; it comprises the southernmost part of the Dinaric Alps.
Synonyms: Accursed Mountains
Albanian Alps
Related terms: Rugova
Lake Skadar
Albanian Alps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Albanian Alpe Shqiptare.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Prokletije (“a mountain range in the Balkans”).
synonyms: word: Prokletije
extra: a mountain range in the Balkans
crumb rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumb rubbers
Senses: glosses: A form of recycled rubber with a granular consistency, generally from tyres after the removal of steel etc.
ringbang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Eddy Grant, imitating a phrase in scat singing.
Senses: glosses: A Caribbean fusion of music genres with an associated philosophy and aesthetic based on communication.
wikipedia: Eddy Grant
pandesal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandesals
Etymology: From Spanish via Tagalog pandesal.
Senses: glosses: A kind of bread roll, popular in the Philippines.
pandesals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandesal
writercraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From writer + craft.
Senses: glosses: penmanship; skill in writing; the art of writing
Synonyms: pencraft
partheneia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɑː(ɹ)θəˈniːə/
/-ˈnaɪə/
/-ˈneɪə/
Forms: form: partheneion
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρθένειᾰ (parthéneiă, “songs sung by a chorus of maidens”).
Senses: glosses: Greek lyric poems sung by choruses of maidens at festivals.
microabrasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microabrasion
hammerscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerscales
Etymology: From hammer + scale.
Senses: glosses: A small fragment dislodged from iron during forging.
hammerscales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammerscale
express kidnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: express kidnappings
Senses: glosses: A method of abduction, mainly in Latin America, where a small immediate ransom is demanded.
express kidnappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of express kidnapping
emmeleia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛməˈleɪə/
/ˌɛməˈlaɪə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐμμέλεια (emméleia).
Senses: glosses: A tragic dance in Ancient Greek theatre.
nutmeg psychosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutmeg psychoses
Senses: examples: text: NUTMEG PSYCHOSIS Ingestion of ground nutmeg can induce symptoms, including transient psychosis and mild tachycardia, that are similar to those of an anticholinergic toxic episode.
ref: 1993, Emergency Medicine, vol. 25, Issues 1-4, (Google snippet view)
text: Large quantities can cause nutmeg psychosis, which may require hospitalization. This is an acute psychiatric disorder that causes confusion, hallucinations, agitation, and the feeling that death is inevitably coming soon.
ref: 2007, Serita Stevens, Anne Bannon, HowDunit — The Book of Poisons, →ISBN, page 80:
text: Eating a whole nutmeg can lead to “nutmeg psychosis,” which includes feelings of impending doom, confusion, and agitation.
ref: 2009, The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists: The Best of listverse.com, →ISBN, page 448:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A transient mental health disorder caused by the ingestion of a significant quantity of nutmeg, characterized by such psychotic symptoms as disorientation, hallucinations, and hyperexcitation.
Airai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Palau.
bedside table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedside tables
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nightstand.
synonyms: word: nightstand
spraypaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spraypaints
Senses: examples: text: Palate-wise, it was nothing new. It was a synthetic kind of coffee flavor, like spraypaint and tree bark.
ref: 2009, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 352:
glosses: Alternative form of spray paint.
spraypaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spraypaints
form: spraypainting
form: spraypainted
form: spraypainted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spray paint.
inwrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inwrite
inwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inwrite
inwrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of inwrite
inwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of inwrite
depressogenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depressogenic
catenators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catenator
milkt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: milk + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of milk
conferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conference
Martirosyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Martirosian
form: Martirossian
form: Mardirosyan
form: Mardirosian
form: Mardirossian
form: Marderosian
Etymology: From Armenian Մարտիրոսյան (Martirosyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
parleyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parleyers
Etymology: From parley + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Lords of grim old castles and all that pertained to them, riders in a thousand forays, parleyers with or advisers of the Lord Deputy[…]
ref: 1920, Matthew Russell, The Irish Monthly, volume 48, page 216:
glosses: One who parleys.
parleyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parleyer
anxiogenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anxiogenic
Five Pillars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Five Pillars
form: five pillars
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: arkan
glosses: Five fundamental devotional practices of Islam, considered to be obligatory for all Muslims to follow; namely: declaration of faith in Allah (shahada), five daily prayers (salah), almsgiving (zakat), fasting (saum), and pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj).
korephilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔɹɪˈfɪli.ə/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹɪˈfiːli.ə/
ipa: /kɒɹɪˈfɪlɪə/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) + φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā, “love”), coined by analogy with pedophilia.
Senses: examples: text: It seems safe to assume that the panelists were referring to (pick your term) man–boy love, pederasty, ephebophilia. They may also have been referring to korephilia (woman–girl) and (looking internationally) may have been referring to paedophilia, since Dutch reformers seem to have seized on this term to refer to all inter-generational sex.
ref: 1991, Geoffrey Scott Puterbaugh (username), “Morning Gays at the AHA” in soc.motss, Usenet
text: Paedophilia and korephilia, respectively adult male and female ‘sexual love directed towards children…in pre-puberty and early adolescence’ (PIE 1978), have been openly championed by various organisations in the recent past.
ref: 1993, David T. Evans, chapter 8, in Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities, published 2004, page 220:
text: How many posts about korephilia are being made to already existing newsgroups at the moment?
ref: 1998, Ruediger Landmann (username), “Re: Proposal: alt.binaries.korephile” in alt.config, Usenet
text: Unlike pedophilia, which defines adult male or female attraction to a prepubescent girl or boy under thirteen, and korephilia, which denotes adult female attraction to girls, pederasty specifically defines emotional, intimate, and physical adult male attraction to teenage boys.
ref: 2007, James T. Sears (editor), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, & Sexuality Through History VI: The Modern World, “Pederasty”
text: Contemporary pederasty and korephilia differ from classical norms in that the younger partner may…take sexual initiative rather than be passive in serving the pleasures of the older partner.
ref: 2008, Bonnie G. Smith (editor), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History III: Kaffka–Service Sector, “Pederasty”
synonyms: korerasty
glosses: Erotic attraction of a woman or older female toward young girls.
Related terms: korophilia
korephile
ephebophilia
girllove
hebephilia
omnipresently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From omnipresent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an omnipresent manner.
geshe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geshes
Etymology: From Tibetan དགེ་བཤེས (dge bshes).
Senses: glosses: A Tibetan Buddhist monk or nun who holds a certain academic degree.
geshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geshe
shiksappeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪks.əˈpɪəl/
Etymology: Blend of shiksa + sex appeal, coined in the Seinfeld episode “The Serenity Now”.
Senses: glosses: The sex appeal of a non-Jewish female (a shiksa) to a Jewish male.
wikipedia: Seinfeld
The Serenity Now
Ven.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Ven. U Warthawa knelt down in the temple of the monastery to worship before the image of the Buddha.
ref: 1997, Ian Stevenson, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, page 133:
glosses: Abbreviation of venerable (used respectfully before the name of a monk or nun).
unguiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + guiding.
Senses: examples: text: As between clear, but inflexible rules on the one hand and flexible, but unguiding rules on the other, where should the balance be struck?
ref: 1986, William Blumenthal, Horizontal Mergers: Law and Policy, page 5:
text: Out of regard for the State's interest, the Court suggests an unguiding, vague standard for establishing “awareness” by the bookseller of the contents of a challenged book in contradiction of his disclaimer of knowledge of its contents.
ref: 2009, Robert Dunne, Computers and the Law, page 95:
glosses: Not guiding.
Powhatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Powhatan
Powhatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /paʊəˈtæn/
/paʊˈhætən/
Forms: form: Powhatans
form: Powhatan
form: Powatan
form: Powhaten
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia.
Powhatan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /paʊəˈtæn/
/paʊˈhætən/
Forms: form: Powatan
form: Powhaten
Senses: glosses: Their eastern Algonquian language.
glosses: An unincorporated community, the county seat of Powhatan County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Powhatan County
haptophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haptophore
stork bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stork bites
Etymology: From the stork as imagined in folklore as the bringer of new babies, since the marking is congenital.
Senses: glosses: nevus flammeus nuchae
stork bites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stork bite
nevus flammeus nuchae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A congenital and usually temporary capillary malformation in a newborn. It is generally pink and flat, and is caused by the dilation of blood vessels.
Synonyms: stork bite
womance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womances
Etymology: Blend of woman + romance.
Senses: examples: text: “We're having an intense moment of womance here, do you mind?” Billie said.
ref: 2012, Sarah Mayberry, Within Reach, Harlequin, published 2012, →ISBN, page 12:
text: “Angel goes through BFFs the way Limbaugh goes through oxy. Always has. I give their little ‘womance’ six months tops before Angel gets tired of her.”
ref: 2013, Marcia Clark, “Chapter 3”, in Inherit the Dead, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 42:
text: She shares an apartment with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner, daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler; she is terrific), but then Sophie dumps her for a rich boyfriend, and although the two have quite a womance going — ‘We are the same person, but with different hair,’ they tell everybody — we are never quite sure if Sophie is true or not.
ref: 2013 July 27, Deborah Ross, “At last, a film about proper women who aren’t just drippily searching for love”, in The Spectator:
glosses: A close but nonsexual relationship between women.
womance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: womances
form: womancing
form: womanced
form: womanced
Etymology: Blend of woman + romance.
Senses: glosses: To be in a womantic relationship.
Synonyms: girl crush
sismance
Coordinate terms: bromance
man crush
Derived terms: womantic
Related terms: queerplatonic
dancescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancescapes
Etymology: From dance + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: He could take Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, for instance, and set it to sweeping movement as the dramatic situation dictated, as well as to inward, seemingly motionless dancescapes that honored the music's aura.
ref: 1991, Donna Perlmutter, Shadowplay: The Life of Antony Tudor, page 2:
text: Everyone is blind and deaf in their own private dancescapes.
ref: 2007, Ian McDonald, River of Gods, page 64:
text: Optimized for the nocturnal condition of psytrance parties and festivals that have flourished globally and which host a range of psychedelic electronic genres, darkpsy possesses fast, sometimes punishing, bpm (beats per minute) starting around 150 and pushing up over 170, typically employing vocal samples and scores from horror cinema produced on tracks which, when performed by DJs in conjunction with the efforts of VJs, lighing technicians, décor artists and stage designers, effect dancescapes infused with suspense during htose hours of the sun's absence.
ref: 2011, Graham St. John, “Rave from the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the Dead”, in Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead, →ISBN, page 31:
text: The Latin Boogaloo trend was motivated by the intrigue and success of the national Boogaloo trend, which in turn influenced the dancescape of American pop culture.
ref: 2012, Thomas Guzman-Sanchez, Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era, page 7:
glosses: A figurative landscape of dancing or dance trends.
dancescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dancescape
gets wet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get wet
getting wet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get wet
got wet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get wet
Londonphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Londonphiles
Etymology: From London + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: A Londonphile returning to live here after more than six years away in Moscow and Rome is struck at almost every turning by the ways, mostly subtle, she has changed.
ref: 1976, European Community, numbers 192-198, page 38:
text: I am, unashamedly an Anglophile and, if there is such a word, a Londonphile. My first trip to London did not come until February 1964.
ref: 2000, Rafe Mair, Rants, Raves, & Recollections, Whitecap Books, →ISBN, page 82:
text: I quickly became a Londonphile and did not regret choosing the University of London over Cambridge […]
ref: 2012, Brian L. Evans, Pursuing China: Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer, The University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: One who is fond of the city of London.
Londonphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Londonphile
bingefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bingefully
form: most bingefully
Etymology: From bingeful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You're going to know that it won't be long before you can eat bingefully again — the weekend will be here in no time — provided you succeed in being a good girl for the five days in between.
ref: 1973, Marcia Seligson, Cosmopolitan's Super Diets & Exercise Guide, Cosmopolitan Books, →ISBN, page 198:
text: I, by the symbolic consumption of this official, Premier Division, Cheese Football; do declare this season of overeating and drinking bingefully open, and may St Rennie has mercy on your innards!
ref: 2003 December 25, joe crowe, “Essex Christmas”, in uk.local.essx (Usenet):
text: The British spirits industry was convinced that commercials were persuading otherwise innocent Britons to drink bingefully and with intent.
ref: 2005, Denis Boyles, Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese, Encounter Books, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: In a bingeful manner.
bingeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bingeful
form: most bingeful
Etymology: From binge + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Eating with the kind of bingeful disregard that regains every pound you ever lost, […]
ref: 1990, Charles F. Wetherall, How to Get Yourself to Stay on Any Diet, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:
text: "This use was sporadic, sometimes 'bingeful,' but never at an addictive level," Ziegler said.
ref: 1990 September 28, “Fuhr Suspended One Year by NHL for Using Drugs”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: It was a veritable paradise for sun worshipers, slumber seekers, tapestry shoppers, joggers, bingeful imbibers, […]
ref: 1995, Alan Cockrell, Tail of the Storm, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Exhibiting or characteristic of bingeing.
Derived terms: bingefully
teabaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teabaggy
form: most teabaggy
Etymology: From teabag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Good thing there are loads of courageous anti-tax patriots (like Michelle Malkin!) willing to organize teabaggy protests designed to bring about a brave new world without bailouts, welfare, wars, or red tape […]
ref: 2009 April 10, Michael Hogan, “The Government Would Suck at Throwing a Tea Party”, in Vanity Fair:
text: Sure, the teabaggy base will make some crazy noise, but the Republican nomination process is nothing if not orderly: […]
ref: 2011 May 25, Paul Constant, “Are They Serious?”, in The Stranger:
text: These teabaggy, colonial cosplayers have been stinking up the political scene with their garish brand of ADHD bigotry, and... what?
ref: 2012 February 9, Josh Ruffin, “Normal Republicans?”, in Metro Spirit, volume 33, number 6, page 12:
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of the Tea Party movement.
dentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Etymology: From dental + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The quality of being dental.
pillarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pillar + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pillarization.
shitflood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitfloods
Etymology: From shit + flood.
Senses: examples: text: Then you dropped a shitflood of lies, whiny accusations, and obscenities.
ref: 2007 June 22, Richard Henry, “Re: Thanks, freaks”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet):
text: One thing it has done it has slowed the shitflood of scum in this area, […]
ref: 2007 July 29, Iconoclast [username], “Re: Border is WIDE open (no fence)”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):
text: The only topic I am responding to is your recent mass shitflood of baseless claims about some unnamed seduction gurus.
ref: 2008 June 27, corky, “Re: Same six flamers ruin this group”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):
glosses: A large amount.
Synonyms: sense: a large amount
word: assload
sense: a large amount
word: boatload
sense: a large amount
word: buttload
sense: a large amount
word: crapload
sense: a large amount
word: fuckload
sense: a large amount
word: fuckton
sense: a large amount
word: shedload
sense: a large amount
word: shitload
Sylfaen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh sylfaen (“foundation”). A trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Senses: glosses: A certain serif typeface that supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian.
shitfloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitflood
subtenancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtenancy
manosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ə.sfɪər/
ipa: /ˈmæn.ə.sfɪr/
Forms: form: manospheres
Etymology: From man + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.
Senses: examples: text: The Manosphere essentially is the counterpoint to the feminist doctrine (that empowers women at the expense of men). It is a free form community consisting primarily of men on the internet sharing experiences and thoughts with the intention of educating, empowering and improving the state of men and boys.
ref: 2014, Alex Peck, Average Married Dad's Guide to Health, Wealth, and a Sexy Marriage, page 84:
text: Incel is short for “involuntarily celibate”. The term rose to prominence because of its adoption by a subsection of the “manosphere”, a loose collection of movements united by misogyny that also includes some men’s rights activists, pick-up artists, and Mgtow/volcel – heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with women for political reasons.
ref: 2018 April 25, Alex Hern, “Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?”, in The Guardian:
text: The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.
ref: 2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All:
text: Maisie says that Danny entered the manosphere through the realm of self-help, which Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociology professor at American University who specializes in extremism, says is “a great example of how radicalization works.”
ref: 2024 November 20, Fortesa Latifi, “How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never”, in Teen Vogue:
glosses: The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, the redpill movement or incels.
Coordinate terms: femosphere
womanosphere
Derived terms: manospherian
manospheric
undertext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertexts
Etymology: From under + text.
Senses: examples: text: The problem is that many of the letters in the undertext of the Palimpsest cannot be read, […]
ref: 2007, Reviel Netz & William Noel, The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist, Da Capo Press (2007), unnamed page
text: […] Agnes reckoned that for the vellum to have been reused in this fashion, the undertext must date to at least 200 years before the overwriting.
ref: 2009, Janet Soskice, The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels, Knopf, →ISBN, page 125:
text: He noticed that one of the manuscripts had some ancient Greek “undertext” beneath the religious writing.
ref: 2011, Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods, Ancient Machine Technology: From Wheels to Forges, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Text situated below overlying text, such as on a palimpsest.
take the law into one's own hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the law into one's own hands
form: taking the law into one's own hands
form: took the law into one's own hands
form: taken the law into one's own hands
form: take law into one's own hands
form: take the law into one's hands
Senses: examples: text: After his son's killer was let off without a conviction, the man decided to take the law into his own hands.
glosses: To punish someone according to one's own idea of justice, without consideration for the role of law enforcement authorities.
Related terms: take matters into one's own hands
law unto oneself
take law into one's own hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes law into one's own hands
form: taking law into one's own hands
form: took law into one's own hands
form: taken law into one's own hands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take the law into one's own hands.
Aspiedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aspie + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: A useful practical definition - Although at the moment I have a very tentative sense that maybe Aspiedom could be "more than the sum of its'^([sic]) parts" - That the characteristics need to "work together" in some way, almost that you could have someone in whom the characteristics displayed rather mildly, yet who would still be recognisably Aspie, whereas someone who "presented" more strongly might come across as not "really" Aspie - Just speculation though - Thoughts anyone?
ref: 2001 May 13, Terry Jones, “Re: New abbreviations needed?”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):
text: I am not sure that if the whole world were an Aspie^([sic]) the social concerns of Aspiedom would actually vansih.^([sic])
ref: 2003 October 1, Gareeth, “Re: Misconceptions of Asperger's”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):
text: That and the tests on Alice's site that she posted recently, plus some quizzes by Simon Baron-Cohen and Tony Attwood all pretty much conformed^([sic]) my Aspiedom.
ref: 2010 April 14, earthpots [username], “Re: Neanderthal DNA lives on ... in some of us”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):
glosses: The state or quality of being an aspie.
allofams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allofam
crotchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crotch + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He was wearing black leather pants, rather tight in the crotchal area.
ref: 2005, Adrienne Miller, The Coast of Akron, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: “It's like announcing to the world that you have crabs. It's embarrassing, and no one'll ever shake your hand again.”
“But these feelings are not ones of crotchal itching,” she said […]
ref: 2012, Gina Damico, Croak, Graphia, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Luce's gaze was unconsciously drawn to what we'll call Wade's “crotchal area.”
ref: 2013, Mark Henry, Parts & Wreck, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:
text: “Hello. Betty Hart coming at you, and this is why I should be on The Amazing Race. Ooh! I just got a splinter in my crotchal region!” “Mother!” “Uh...” “Come here, baby. Let Mama pet you.” (honks) “Aw, now there's a good boy.” “Get to the incriminating one.” “No, no, no, no no! Ow! You pecked me in my crotchal region!”
ref: 2021 April 4, Rich Blomquist & Erin Wagoner, “Easter's 11” (19:24 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 16, spoken by Betty Hart (Maya Rudolph):
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or located in the crotch.
Synonyms: groinal
inguinal
dweebling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dweeblings
Etymology: From dweeb + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: You have no such access, and your boasts are those of an insecure dweebling trying to posture self-importance..
ref: 1999 October 9, Kurt Lochner, “Re: Fraud Robertson Returns~!!..”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):
text: You're just a powerless dweebling that has to spew on usenet to feel better about yourself.
ref: 2001 November 30, Perfect Stranger [username], “Re: ot: the dicks wife is great...”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):
text: I think it's hilarious how you pathetic dweeblings have to attack the person who refuted your abject ignorance, repeatedly, because you cannot address a single fact that I've presented with tossing around your straw men and character smears..
ref: 2013 April 14, Man of Mind [username], “Re: Faulty Sham/Slapped Fraud Is A "Climate Denier" And There Are Too Many "Sockpuppets"..”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
glosses: A pathetic or contemptible person.
dweeblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dweebling
undertexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertext
womances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womance
womances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of womance
translatableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translatable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of translatability.
synonyms: word: translatability
intranslatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or property of being untranslatable; inability to be translated.
Synonyms: untranslatability
untranslatableness
out-of-towners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of out-of-towner
mattress protector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattress protectors
Senses: glosses: An item of removable bedding that sits on top of or encases a mattress to protect it from stains and sometimes to protect the sleeper from allergens and irritants.
Synonyms: bottom sheet
mattress cover
mattress pad
mattress topper
underpad
Hypernyms: bedclothes
bedding
bedlinen
bedsheet
mattress pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattress pads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mattress protector
synonyms: word: mattress protector
glosses: Synonym of overmattress
synonyms: word: overmattress
mattress topper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattress toppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mattress protector
synonyms: word: mattress protector
glosses: Synonym of overmattress
synonyms: word: overmattress
underpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpads
Etymology: From under- + pad.
Senses: glosses: A mattress protector.
glosses: A padding layer underneath a carpet to prevent skidding.
Old World porcupines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Old World porcupine
New World porcupine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New World porcupines
Senses: examples: text: New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail.
ref: 2004, Fred Cooke, editor, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, page 232:
text: The bizarre structure, shared with the New World porcupines, so impressed Stuart Landry that he argued for a common origin for the New World and Old World hystricomorphs long before the mainstream of biologists felt ready to do so (Pocock 1922; Dathe 1937; Landry 1957
ref: 2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, page 206:
text: New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.
ref: 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227:
glosses: Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.
Synonyms: sense: any species of family Erethizontidae
word: erethizontid
Coordinate terms: Old World porcupine
New World porcupines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New World porcupine
box-car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box-cars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boxcar (etymology 1)
mail-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mail-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mailbox.
Nazaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nazarees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nazarene (“member of historical Jewish sect”).
thoracic wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracic walls
Senses: glosses: The chest wall.
thoracic cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracic cavities
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A chamber located within the upper human torso (and other animal bodies) which contains the heart and lungs.
Synonyms: chest cavity
chest cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chest cavities
Senses: glosses: The thoracic cavity.
wage slavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: chattel slavery
glosses: Any form of employment with very low income, or a dependence on wages for survival.
Related terms: minimum wage
slave wage
wage slave
poverty trap
peace be upon him
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /piːs biː əˈpɒn ˈhɪm/
Forms: form: PBUH
Etymology: Calque of Arabic عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu, “peace be upon him”)
Senses: examples: text: Jesus, peace be upon him, travelled to […]
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: alayhi as-salaam
glosses: an honorific phrase used by Muslims after any mention in speech or print of holy persons
glosses: an honorific phrase used by some Jews after mentioning the deceased in speech or print
Derived terms: word: piss be upon him
Related terms: peace be upon her
durood
tear gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear glands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lacrimal gland.
synonyms: word: lacrimal gland