cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
champagne pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the colour of 'pink' rosé champagne.
Senses: examples: text: Both machines are built with slender frames, milled completely from metal and Dell has even introduced a Champagne Pink color – which tragically isn’t coming to the US – to compete with Huawei’s Pink Ultrabook.
ref: 2017 August 28, Kevin Lee, “Hands on: Dell Inspiron 13 7000 (2017) review”, in TechRadar:
text: Emma stunned in the champagne pink off-the-shoulder gown, which featured an elaborately embroidered bodice.
ref: 2018 July 2, Connie Rusk, “Emma Roberts looks ethereal in champagne pink gown as she attends star-studded Dior show in Paris”, in Daily Mail:
text: Customers wanting to get their hands on the calender^([sic]) will have to race to their local store - otherwise eager shoppers may have to wait up to two weeks for the calendar to come back in stock. This year's offering contains a collection of 24 products which come in a sleek black and champagne pink box.
ref: 2018 October 19, Lottie Gibbons, “Boots' No7 2018 advent calendar has makeup bundle worth £177 for only £42 - here is the contents”, in Liverpool Echo:
text: The champagne-pink youngster, believed to be about two or three weeks old in this footage and the smallest in the herd, was being carefully guarded by protective adults. It's unclear from the clip if the calf is a true albino or if its unusual colouring is caused by a genetic condition called leucism.
ref: 2019 March 14, Earth Touch News, “Baby 'pink' elephant filmed frolicking on South African game reserve”, in Earth Touch News Network:
text: This champagne-pink nail polish lives up to its name (I mean, have you ever seen a nail polish that felt more Gatsby than this?), but you definitely don’t need a fancy-schmancy party to wear it to.
ref: 2019 July 30, Ruby Buddemeyer, “12 Pink Nail Polishes and Colors You’ll Want to Wear All Summer Long”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: The article in question was colored a champagne pink and adorned with so many thousands of sequins, beads and jewels, it seemed as though if Larson stood in strong sunlight the beams would refract into a thousand rainbows.
ref: 2020 February 10, Andrew Marshall, “The Internet’s Losing It Over Brie Larson’s Oscar Dress”, in We Got This Covered:
text: Curl up in this curvaceous, champagne pink velvet armchair with a brass-clad base for an added pop of glitz. An instant room updater.
ref: 2020 February 10, Lara Sargent, “The roaring 2020s: What’s not to love about this glamorous take on the new decade?”, in Metro:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A light shade of pink.
Mexican pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mexican + pink.
Senses: glosses: The perennial herb Silene laciniata.
examples: text: Casillas's design, which was implemented in Australia by Evolva Architects, also contrasts the exposed concrete interior walls with inbuilt wooden furniture, white plasterboard and soaped douglas fir solid-wood floors that add warmth to the space. Colourful paintings by Chucho Reyes offset the fields of grey concrete and white walls, as does Casillas' signature yet judicious use of Mexican pink in surprising places.
ref: 2015 May 22, Ray Edgar, “Victorian Architecture Awards 2015: Camberwell's concrete monolith in the mix”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: "In Mexico," Mr Kalanick writes, "we were inspired by Mexican pink and the patterns in the local tiles; in Ireland, from the Georgian architecture and the lush greens; and in Nigeria, from the ankara, which came up again and again because of its bright colours and beautiful geometric patterns."
ref: 2016 February 2, Dave Lee, “Uber drops its U. Why?”, in BBC News:
text: She wears a very full, ruffled poplin skirt in a bright color, such as red, Mexican pink, yellow or blue, striped with colorful ribbons. The top has elbow-length sleeves and a bibbed front. Her hair is braided and adorned with wide ribbons, and she wears black ankle boots.
ref: 2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles:
text: Derived from insects found on the prickly pear cactus, cochineal became one of the principal exports of colonial Mexico. Following the country's revolution (1910–20), cochineal's associations with indigenous cultures led to a widespread embrace of the intense Mexican pink derived from it.
ref: 2018 September 5, Hettie Judah, “A New Exhibition Examines The Power Of Pink”, in Vogue:
text: Speaking of cultural identity, Mexican pink is now the color used to identify Mexico City. We have assimilated this in such a natural way that we didn’t realize it was completely planned.
ref: 2019 December 2, Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, “Frida Escobedo and Pedro Reyes look to the future to save Mexico’s lost past”, in Document Journal:
glosses: A shade of pink, similar to fuchsia or magenta, and common in Mexican culture.
disinvaginations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinvagination
dismembranators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismembranator
dismutators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismutator
Disney parents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Disney parent
disobservances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disobservance
dispensomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispensome
Georgia overdrive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The referent Georgia is the US state of Georgia. The term is most likely an allusion to hillbilly culture, whether in a derogatory way or in a celebratory way, depending on the perspective of the speaker. See more at Mexican overdrive § Etymology.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Synonym of angel gear.
synonyms: word: angel gear
disphyllids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disphyllid
disseminated intravascular coagulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disseminated intravascular coagulation
dissymmetrizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissymmetrization
brink pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named by Crayola in 1998.
Senses: examples: text: Her blonde locks were styled down, as her face was touched up with some smokey eye shadow and brink pink lipstick.
ref: 2013 April 16, Rachel Levy, “Baby's almost here! Pregnant Jessica Simpson busts out of clinging black gown to attend a friend's wedding”, in Daily Mail:
text: Varieties like “Shindeshojo,” “Orange Dream,” “Akane” and “Coral Magic,” have stunning brink pink, orange or coral foliage in spring. Some like “Tsuma Gaki” or “Murasaki Kiyohime” come out lime green with red edging.
ref: 2017 April 27, Steve Smith, “Notes from a gardener with a Japanese maple addiction”, in Washington Herald:
text: If red is too bright for you, opt for this brink pink tone. Lots of gorgeous details embellish this cotton kurta from frayed layered collar, fabric loops and buttons to a pleated hemline with laces.
ref: 2019 November 20, “Ammara Khan brings effortless elegance in RTW collection 'Queen Bee'”, in Something Haute:
text: Rafael Nadal will be wearing a brink pink colour jacket and the same colour shoes at the tournament. His shorts will be white in colour. The tee will be sleeveless like the previous two seasons.
ref: 2020 January 14, Aryan Sharma, “Outfit Revealed For Rafael Nadal For Australian Open 2020”, in Essentially Sports:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A vivid red shade of pink.
multibalconied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multibalconied
form: most multibalconied
Etymology: From multi- + balconied.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple balconies.
risetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risetime
superwideband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + wideband.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ultrawideband.
synonyms: word: ultrawideband
vactrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vactrols
Etymology: From a trademark introduced by Vactec, Inc. in the 1960s.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A resistive opto-isolator.
vactrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vactrol
isolatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolatees
Etymology: From isolate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is isolated.
Related terms: isolant
isolator
isolatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isolatee
X station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X stations
Etymology: From the initial letter X of Mexican radio stations' call signs.
Senses: examples: text: Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […] That same year, the Mexican government revised its radio licensing law, drastically reducing the X stations' autonomy.
ref: 2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:
text: X-station broadcasts could be heard occasionally in every region of the United States and in Canada, though it is difficult to know who listened to them.
ref: 2015, Bill C. Malone, David Stricklin, Southern Music/American Music, page 73:
hypernyms: border blaster
glosses: A Mexican broadcast station whose signal overpowers those of stations in the United States.
X stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X station
Leeming Bar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Aiskew and Leeming Bar parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE2890).
currency strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currency straps
Senses: synonyms: bill strap
currency band
glosses: A simple paper device designed to hold a specific denomination and number of banknotes in a bundle.
glosses: A bundle of banknotes held together by such a device.
Related terms: cash-strapped
strapped for cash
bill strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bill straps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of currency strap.
synonyms: word: currency strap
currency band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currency bands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of currency strap.
synonyms: word: currency strap
currency straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of currency strap
currency bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of currency band
bill straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bill strap
cyberasset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberassets
Etymology: From cyber- + asset.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An asset in digital, electronic form.
cyberassets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberasset
cyberrisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberrisks
Etymology: From cyber- + risk.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Risk arising from computer systems or networks.
cyberrisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberrisk
superbracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbrackets
Etymology: From super- + bracket.
Senses: examples: text: […] while the notion of commutativity is computed using the superbrackets of derivations.
ref: 1990, Annales Polonici Mathematici, volumes 55-56, page 148:
text: We show that variational Schouten and Nijenhuis brackets on evolution equations can be understood as Jacobi superbrackets on natural extensions of these equations: […]
ref: 2008, Russian Mathematical Surveys, page 360:
topics: mathematics
sciences
leekier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of leeky: more leeky
leekiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of leeky: most leeky
prescaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prescalers
Etymology: From pre- + scaler.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: predivider
glosses: A counting circuit used to reduce a high-frequency electrical signal to a lower frequency by integer division.
prescalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prescaler
park the beef bus in tuna town
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parks the beef bus in tuna town
form: parking the beef bus in tuna town
form: parked the beef bus in tuna town
form: parked the beef bus in tuna town
Senses: examples: text: Well, ten beers, twenty minutes and thirty dollars later / I'm parkin' the beef bus in tuna town if you know what I mean
ref: 1999, Bloodhound Gang (band), A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When the Stripper Is Crying (song)
text: 'Shagging.' He pronounced it slowly and distinctly, as if to a backward child. 'Or, as they say in my beloved new homeland, “parking the beef bus in tuna town”.'
ref: 2011, Catherine Robertson, The Sweet Second Life of Darrell Kincaid:
text: “There's nothing wrong with it and besides which she's gagging for it and it's been a while since I parked the beef bus in tuna town.”
ref: 2014, Stewart Bruce, Nigel Moreland, Inside Uranus:
glosses: Of a man: to engage in penetrative vaginal sexual intercourse.
golden ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden duck
platinum duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinum ducks
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: diamond duck
royal duck
glosses: The score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball of a team's innings.
Related terms: golden duck
royal duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal ducks
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of platinum duck.
synonyms: word: platinum duck
royal ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal duck
platinum ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platinum duck
diamond duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond ducks
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of platinum duck (“score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball of a team's innings”).
synonyms: word: platinum duck
extra: score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball of a team's innings
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The situation where a batsman is dismissed without facing a ball (most usually run out from the non-striker's end, but alternatively stumped or run out off a wide delivery).
Related terms: golden duck
diamond ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamond duck
Y-junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y-junctions
Etymology: From Y (“capital letter”) + junction.
Senses: synonyms: Y-intersection
coordinate_terms: T-intersection
T-junction
glosses: A three-way intersection of routes shaped like a capital letter Y.
glosses: A similarly shaped section in a pipe, etc.
Y-intersection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y-intersections
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Y-junction.
synonyms: word: Y-junction
Y-junctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Y-junction
Y-intersections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Y-intersection
whac-a-moles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whac-a-mole
whack-a-moles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whack-a-mole
transitionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transition + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] so, a transitionism (from whatever, to whatever else) has become a permanent evil fate of their existence and work, […]
ref: 2008, Nenad Kecmanovic, The Reaches of Democracy, page 42:
text: Today the style of art is pure transitionism.
ref: 1978, Ruben Nuñez, Holokinetics: Exhibition September 8 Through November 26, 1978, Museum of Holography:
glosses: A policy or attitude based on transition from one thing to another.
Related terms: transitionist
Gaeldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gael + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The legions of the Wee Free were receding into the mists of Gaeldom.
ref: 1991, Jan Webster, I Only Can Dance With You, page 96:
glosses: The Gaelic people collectively.
Wee Free
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From wee (“small”).
Senses: examples: text: The legions of the Wee Free were receding into the mists of Gaeldom.
ref: 1991, Jan Webster, I Only Can Dance With You, page 96:
glosses: The Free Kirk, as opposed to the United Free Kirk.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A small group in the 1918 Liberal Party who on principle did not want to go into coalition with the Conservative Party.
Wee Free
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wee Frees
Etymology: From wee (“small”).
Senses: glosses: A member of this political group.
Coalie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coalies
Etymology: From coalition + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, the 'Coalie Libs' have suffered a consistently dismal reputation.
ref: 1971, Alan John Percivale Taylor, Lloyd George: Twelve Essays, page 225:
text: The 'Coalie' Macnamara was opposed by a 'Wee Free' in a triangular contest.
ref: 2005, Roy Douglas, Liberals, page 188:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of the proposed coalition between the Liberal and Conservative Parties.
Coalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coalie
Celtdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Celt + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The Celtic people collectively.
bioresilience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + resilience.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability of a whole species or an individual of a species to adapt to change.
double bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double bubbles
Senses: topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: The presence of two air-filled bubbles in the abdomen, often indicating various pathological conditions.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fuselage formed from two conjoined hulls.
examples: text: I feel you, man. But if you don't want the overtime, I'll work a double-bubble for you. Cool?
ref: 2012, Brandon Massey, Voices From The Other Side, page 176:
text: He had been on leave, but when his supervisor had called him at home and offered him 'double-bubble' overtime to cover a colleague who had gone sick, he had been unable to refuse.
ref: 2017, Tim O'Rourke, The Mirror Realm:
glosses: Overtime paid at twice the normal rate.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain meeting of spherical surfaces, relevant to the double bubble conjecture.
Related terms: double bubble conjecture
double bubble mint
double bubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double bubble
blue carbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere by the world's coastal ocean ecosystems.
Trumpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trumpy
Trumpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Yet the confrontation they sought to avoid has arrived nonetheless, and even the Trumpiest justices, such as Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, joined their colleagues in informing the Trump administration that what it had done was illegal and should be remedied.
ref: 2025 April 10, Adam Serwer, “The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: superlative form of Trumpy: most Trumpy
Trumpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of Trumpy: more Trumpy
herbfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbfields
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant community dominated by herbaceous plants, especially forbs and grasses.
wikipedia: herbfield
herbfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbfield
windwatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windwatts
Etymology: From German Windwatt.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mudflat exposed as a result of wind action on water.
windwatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windwatt
Ferneyhough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Heisenberg principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
synonyms: word: Heisenberg uncertainty principle
boarder baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarder babies
Senses: examples: text: Boarder babies are both a cause and a result of foster care placement shortages.
ref: 1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources, The Enemy Within: Crack-cocaine and America's Families:
text: Another facet of infant abandonment is boarder babies, which are babies who are medically cleared for discharge but incapable of leaving a hospital facility due to caregiver complications or legality issues […]
ref: 2019, Mary de Chesnay, Barbara Anderson, Caring for the Vulnerable, page 343:
glosses: An infant kept in hospital because its parents are unable or unfit to take care of it.
boarder babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boarder baby
bought priesthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bought priesthoods
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The constellation of technocrats, columnists, pundits, university professors, public intellectuals, business lobbyists and other powerful groups who benefit from the political status quo and use their position to defend and support it.
bought priesthoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bought priesthood
Locks Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5107)
boffinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boffinry.
boghead coals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boghead coal
boultin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boultins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boultel.
boultins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boultin
BOMFOG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And when reporters covering Mr. Rockefeller discovered that his stenographer was so used to hearing him speak of “the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God” that she coded the cliché into BOMFOG, Mr. Rockefeller dropped the phrase.
ref: 1970 November 4, Albin Krebs, “…and Still Governor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God, a political catchphrase of Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979).
Derived terms: bomfoggery
bomfoggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From BOMFOG + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Supplemented by contributions from other reporters, the Thimmesch shorthand of bomfoggery included such words as fisteg, for "fiscal integrity"; goveclop, for "government closest to the people"; respub, for "responsible Republicanism"; […]
ref: 1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever, page 58:
text: His people insist that he is precisely what he seems: a citizen politician who sees through all the bureaucratic bomfoggery to the simple truth and the practical solution.
ref: 1980, Newsweek, volume 96, numbers 1-8, page 208:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The pompous, obfuscatory language used in politicians' speeches.
bonedome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonedomes
Etymology: From bone + dome.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike their USAF brethren with their 'bonedomes', the Australian pilots were only issued WW II type leather helmets. They afforded scant protection.
ref: 2006, Lloyd Knight, Rainbow, No End:
text: Still in their bonedomes, the pilots perched on top of the ladders, answering the ground crews' excited queries.
ref: 2008, Jed Mercurio, Ascent, page 18:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aviator's protective helmet.
bonedomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonedome
bonk bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonk bags
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cyclist's musette or satchel used to carry food to counter "bonk" (sudden glycogen depletion).
bonk bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonk bag
energy gel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy gels
Senses: glosses: An edible carbohydrate gel that provides energy for exercise and promotes recovery in endurance sports.
energy gels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy gel
boondocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boondockers
Etymology: From boondock + -er, adopted by 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots during World War II under the U.S. military.
Senses: examples: text: The correct method is to crawl out flat on top of the line, balancing yourself with one heavy boondocker boot hanging down as a counterweight. Then you let loose, and swoop!
ref: 1967, Erick Berry, Underwater Warriors: Story of the American Frogmen, page 9:
glosses: A kind of combat boot worn in the US Marine Corps.
examples: text: While these no/low-cost opportunities exist for freedom camping in the US, there is also a vast array of commercial sites offered by federal agencies at tariffs acceptable to the boondockers.
ref: 2018, C. Michael Hall, Dieter Müller, The Routledge Handbook of Second Home Tourism and Mobilities, page 324:
glosses: A person who lives in a rural location.
examples: text: The party took place near 126th — a boondocker, which meant kegs in the back of pickup trucks and off-road lights pointed into the sky.
ref: 1994, T. M. McNally, Until Your Heart Stops (page 116)
glosses: A party held in a rural location.
boondockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boondocker
Middle Claydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP7225).
Related terms: Botolph Claydon
East Claydon
Steeple Claydon
boot money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In New Zealand and South Africa, as well as in Australia, rugby, for many years the subject of allegations of under-the-counter payments and 'boot money', now also has a central position in the professionally orientated sporting establishment.
ref: 2000, Frank Galligan, Advanced PE for Edexcel, page 240:
text: For years, the little tax-free extras or inducements took the form of “boot money” – a few notes left surreptitiously in a player's boot […]
ref: 2001, Keir Radnedge, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Soccer:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Bribes paid to rugby or soccer players.
bootstrap aggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootstrap aggregations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bootstrap aggregating.
synonyms: word: bootstrap aggregating
bootstrap aggregations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootstrap aggregation
nuclear democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The idea that there is no real distinction between composite and elementary particles.
S-matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S-matrixes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of scattering matrix.
S-matrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S-matrix
bootstrap model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootstrap models
Etymology: See pull oneself up by one's bootstraps: particles were surmised to be held together by forces consisting of exchanges of the particles themselves.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a class of theories that use very general consistency criteria to determine the form of a quantum theory from some assumptions on the spectrum of particles.
bootstrap models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootstrap model
schtschi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Between the borschtsch and the schtschi there is the same kind of relationship, and at the same time the same difference in characteristic qualities, as between the people of Little Russia and Great Russia.
ref: 1843, Johann Georg Kohl, Russia and the Russians, in 1842, volume 2, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of shchi (“Russian cabbage soup”).
negative raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neg-raising.
synonyms: word: neg-raising
shtchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shchi.
Tenterden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8833).
glosses: A town in the Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia.
Boston version
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boston versions
Senses: examples: text: If a routine was on the blue side — unsuitable for families — performers might want to develop a Boston version so they could play the Sunday school circuit.
ref: 2005, Rosemarie Ostler, Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers:
text: Some theaters put on censored “Boston versions” of shows. The Watch and Ward Society successfully stamped out what it considered indecency in Boston's public life. But this movement had unintended results.
ref: 2010, Christine Zuchora-Walske, Internet Censorship: Protecting Citizens or Trampling Freedom?:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A bowdlerized version of a play to appeal to puritanical sensibilities.
Boston versions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boston version
Dutertenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Duterte + -nomics.
Senses: glosses: The socioeconomic policies of former president Rodrigo Duterte that were significantly focused on the development of infrastructure and industry.
dutifullness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dutifulness.
loyaltie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loyalties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of loyalty.
Cradley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO7347).
glosses: A suburb of Halesowen, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9484).
Derived terms: Cradley Heath
neutrologistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neutrologistic
form: most neutrologistic
Etymology: From neutro- + logos + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Concerning the neutrologistic character of the sentence — Man is naturally mortal, there can be no controversy. It is one of those (comparatively few positions which never produce difference of opinion or of affection; for no human being was ever yet offended any more than gratified by this affirmation;
ref: 1824, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Etymologic Interpreter, page 78:
text: Out of the most multitudinous vocabulary, very few terms, comparatively considered, can be selected that are absolutely neutrologistic; i.e. purely intellectual, without any mixture of sentiment and prejudice and passion.
ref: 1829, Thomas Tegg, London Encyclopaedia:
text: To avoid the use of terms which imply a foregone conclusion, we shall not employ what Jeremy Bentham calls Eulogistic or Dislogistic expressions, but those which he aptly calls Neutrologistic, naming the one the Old, the other the New School.
ref: 1878, William Binnington Boyce, Six lectures on the higher criticism upon the Old Testament, page 5:
glosses: Neither eulogistic nor dyslogistic; having a neutral affect, with neither positive nor negative connotations.
raw_tags: of a word
neutro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin neutralis (“neuter”).
Senses: glosses: Neutral.
glosses: Neuter.
shivari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shivaris
Senses: examples: text: When she and Maurice returned from their honeymoon — most of which was spent in Des Moines, buying furniture — practically the entire town of New Providence turned out and gave them a "shivari."
ref: 1956, Collier's, volumes 138-139, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of shivaree.
shivari
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shivaries
form: shivariing
form: shivaried
form: shivaried
Senses: examples: text: […] the time the boys 'shivaried' him. You see, just the day after the first woman was buried old Bill started in to paint up his buckboard, and as soon as the paint was dry he was off huntin' up another woman; and he got her, too […]
ref: 1910, Nellie L. McClung, The Second Chance, page 350:
glosses: Alternative form of shivaree.
neutropassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neutro-passive
Etymology: From neutro- + passive.
Senses: examples: text: It will terrify linguists among ourselves to be told that this Slav language which the Germans despise as barbarous , which has scarcely any literature , and which is spoken by very few men of high education — possesses, in addition to our ordinary verbs, also verbs “neutropassive," "inchoative," "durative," "momentaneous," and "iterative"; an aorist, like greek, and a preterite aorist of its own; a subjunctive pluperfect, and in declension seven cases, including a "sociative" case, and a "locative."
ref: 1894, Henry William Wolff, Odd Bits of History, page 149:
text: The oldest example yet to emerge is a fragment in Venetian dialect, dating from the end of the Duecento; here the pupil focused on syntactical topics central to the secondary curriculum such as impersonal verbs, verbs of cost, deponent verbs, passive verbs with the ablative, neutropassive verbs, participles and comparatives.
ref: 2007, Robert Black, Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, page 113:
text: The neutropassive extension, discussed above, is sometimes called the stative extension. This is because verbs in the neutropassive form often indicate states resulting from some action, rather than the action itself.
ref: 2014, Lutz Marten, Donovan Lee Mcgrath, Colloquial Swahili:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The past perfect tense of a neuter (intransitive) verb which is formed by a passive participle.
neutro-passive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The transitive-intransitive pair is correctly interpreted as an opposition of the active and neutro-passive genus; it would be appropriate correspondingly to treat the relationship of the N and the A as an opposition of the neutro-active and passive genus.
ref: 2011, Roman Jakobson, Linda R. Waugh, Morris Malle, Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies 1931-1981, page 71:
glosses: Alternative form of neutropassive.
neutroclusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutroclusion
shivaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shivari
shivaries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shivari
shivariing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shivari
shivaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shivari
neutroceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutroceptors
Etymology: From neutro- + receptor.
Senses: examples: text: He divides receptors into three classes— "nociceptors", such as the nerve-endings for pain and hunger, "beneceptors", such as the nerve-endings stimulated when sugar melts on the tongue, and "neutroceptors", such as the nerve-endings in the eye and ear, called " neutroceptors " because they receive more or less indiscriminately both pleasant and unpleasant messages.
ref: 1929, The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, page 310:
text: The “beneceptors,” “nociceptors,” and “neutroceptors” generally signalled stimuli that were, respectively, beneficial, harmful, or neutral as regards the organism or its species.
ref: 1973, Behaviorism, page 42:
glosses: A sensory receptor that is stimulated by both pleasant and unpleasant stimuli.
neutroceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutroceptor
new-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: but how meanly soever they thought of him, they were resolved thus to curry favour with him, and strengthen the new-made peace between him and them.
ref: 1828, Matthew Henry, J.B Williams, Exposition of the Old and New Testament - Volume 3:
text: After stating thus much relative to this class of strawberries, it can hardly be necessary for me to point out the necessity of closely examining all new-made beds of them, and of entirely extirpating those worse than useless sterile plants.
ref: 1839 -, Charles McIntosh, The new and improved Practical gardener:
text: the builders, to avert the calamity, kill a lamb or a black cock on the stone, just as at Frankfort they made a cock run across the new-made bridge, DS. no. 185.
ref: 2012, Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, page 1143:
glosses: Alternative form of newmade.
new-made
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of new-make
newnames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of newname
newnaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of newname
newnamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of newname
new-name
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: new-names
form: new-naming
form: new-named
form: new-named
Senses: examples: text: For this likewise must be taken into the account, that some remarkable accident, or the peculiar interest one district has above others, or the great share it bore in the revolution of the state, frequently gives occasion to new-name a country, or to extend the name of one district to its neighbouring provinces.
ref: 1768, Edward Holdsworth, Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil, page 430:
text: The ancients felt the same fastidiousness; and among the Romans, those who were called to the equestrian order, having low and vulgar names, were new-named on the occasion, lest the former one should disgrace the dignity.
ref: 1823, Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature - Volume 4, page 82:
text: Adam in the garden, I am to new-name all the beasts of the field and all the gods in the sky.
ref: 1987, Vernon Louis Parrington, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860, page 386:
text: Old words do not reach across the new gulfs, and it is only in vision and oracle that we can chart the unknown and new-name the creatures.
ref: 2004, Eva Maria Räpple, The Metaphor of the City in the Apocalypse of John, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of newname.
new-names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of new-name
new-naming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of new-name
new-named
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of new-name
new name
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: new names
form: new naming
form: new named
form: new named
Senses: examples: text: It seems that she loaded at Santa Cruz, in Barbary, with Wax, Copper, fine Matts, &c. with which she sailed for Marseilles, but the Night after they put to sea, the Crew rose, killed the Capt. Super-Cargo, Mate, Surgeon, &c. and then new named the Ship, calling her the Revenge.
ref: 1725, The New-England Courant:
text: When [Juan Ortiz de] Zarate left the Plata he thought himself entitled to new name that river, and ordered that it should from thenceforth be called Vizcaya, the Biscay, he himself being a Biscayan.
ref: 1810, Robert Southey, chapter XI, in History of Brazil, 1st part, London: […] [William Pople] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 347:
text: The King and the Subject, June 5, 1638. Acted by the same company. This title, Sir Henry Herbert says, was changed. I suspect it was new named The Tyrant. The play is lost.
ref: 1821, Edmond Malone, William Shakespeare, Poems and Plays, volume III, page 230:
glosses: Alternative form of newname.
new names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of new name
new names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new name
new naming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of new name
new named
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of new name
newspaperland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From newspaper + -land.
Senses: examples: text: In most ordinary trades goods are bought and sold by weight or measure or quantity, and a customer knows just how much he will get for his pound sterling; but in the glorious realm of newspaperland, where every editor is qualified to tell the Prime Minister what to do in every emergency, nothing so vulgar as accurate quantum for cash paid is allowed.
ref: 1914, William S. Murphy, Modern drapery and allied trades, page 140:
text: It is obvious that commercial television endangers the advertising revenue of the Press. As I have indicated, it will not be a healthy happening for newspaperland.
ref: 1954, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):
text: The Beverly-Wilshire is famous in Los Angeles newspaperland for the jealous care they show about protecting their guests from the Press, and you cannot get past unless the person to be interviewed is absolutely willing.
ref: 2018, David Kipen, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018:
glosses: The subculture of people who write and publish newspapers.
examples: text: The author is, of course, well aware that much is untouched in this book, even in the provinces of newspaperland, of London's foreign visitors and of its old shops, hotels and taverns, subjects to which he had given some particular study.
ref: 1949, James Bone, London echoing, page 11:
text: Out there in TV/magazine/newspaperland, the customers are barraged by 9000 ad messages a day.
ref: 1970, Car Life - Volume 17, page 61:
text: It's the cover story and they are aghast, downtown in newspaperland. .
ref: 2010, Joey Comeau, One Bloody Thing After Another:
glosses: The world as depicted in the newspaper or which reads the newspaper.
developper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Influenced by French développeur (noun).
Senses: examples: text: […] the distribution of new dwellings among single family and multi-family dwellings as well as the various developpers (public and private developpers, households as developpers)
ref: 1983, Energy Demand Analysis: Report from the French-Swedish Energy Conference, Stockholm, 30 June-2 July, 1982, Energy Research Commission:
text: Because taking adaptation into account should not burden too much the application developpers, it is necessary to provide them adequate frameworks and mechanisms.
ref: 2005, Jérémy Buisson, Françoise André, Jean-Louis Pazat, “Dynamic Adaptation for Grid Computing”, in European Grid Conference, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, →DOI:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of developer.
hypertumour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypertumours
Etymology: From hyper- + tumour.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypertumor.
hypertumours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypertumour Alternative form of hypertumors.
cephalotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cephalotrophic
form: most cephalotrophic
Etymology: From cephalo- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to cephalotrophy.
glosses: Misspelling of cephalotropic.
Related terms: encephalotrophic
cephalotropism
cephalotropic
cephalotrophy
cephalotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cephalotropic
form: most cephalotropic
Etymology: From cephalo- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to cephalotropism; tending to move or orient towards the head.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to head sinuses, orbital regions, brain, and neck.
Related terms: encephalotropic
cephalotropism
cephalotrophic
cephalotrophy
cephalotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalotropisms
Etymology: From cephalo- + -tropism.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to move or orient towards the head; the condition of being cephalotropic.
Related terms: encephalotropism
cephalotrophic
cephalotropic
cephalotrophy
spousehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spousehoods
Etymology: From Middle English spousehode, spoushod (also as spousehed, etc.), equivalent to spouse + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition or state of being married; wedlock, marriage.
spousehoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spousehood
feedbunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedbunks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feed bunk.
feed bunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feed bunks
Senses: glosses: A trough from which cattle are fed
ferricretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferricrete
flashlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashlets
Etymology: From flash + -let.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Flash animation
flashlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flashlet
footcave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footcaves
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A basal indent in a karst landscape caused by water
footcaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footcave
thin as a yard of pump water
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A stream of water falling approximately three feet from a water pump into a bucket is both straight and thin.
Senses: examples: text: Her mother was betwixt and between, and her father the same; but Rosie was as thin as a yard of pump-water, and could—and did—eat like a beagle without ever putting-on an extra ounce. Maybe she was abusing her good-fortune.
ref: 1947, Lynn Doyle, Green Oranges: Stories:
text: She wadn't no summer morning to look at, poor soul, and her mistress kept her so thin as a yard of pump water. But there Providence knows best! There were a old fellow over by Aisholt, and he were such a upstanding courageous man he'd a […]
ref: 1965, Publications of the Folk-lore Society:
text: […] managed, but they all went on looking so thin as a yard of pump water except Dicky — and he grew fat.
ref: 1968, Katharine M. Briggs, Folktales of England, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 74:
text: […] puts away enough food to satiate a pack of ravenous hyenas and remains as thin as a yard of pump water. It's the injustice of the whole thing that infuriates me.
ref: 2014, Daniel P Mannix, Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others, eNet Press, →ISBN, page 139:
text: 'Mmm. You're as pale as a lily and as thin as a yard of pump water. Mind you, a month or two out working in all weathers should pink you up, and rationing or no, I'll find something to put a bit of weight on you.'
ref: 2018, Gloria Cook, Never Just a Memory, Canelo, →ISBN:
glosses: Very thin (skinny).