cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
downdoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downdoots
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from down- + doot.
Senses: glosses: A downvote.
downdoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downdoots
form: downdooting
form: downdooted
form: downdooted
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from down- + doot.
Senses: glosses: To downvote.
ideal mixtures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideal mixture
downdoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downdoot
downdoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downdoot
downdooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downdoot
downdooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downdoot
dewclawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dew-clawed
Senses: glosses: Having dewclaws.
glosses: Having had dewclaws surgically removed.
dew-clawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dewclawed.
Gay-Lussac's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proposed by French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gas law stating that when held at constant volume, the pressure of a gas is proportional to its temperature (now subsumed by the ideal gas law).
wikipedia: Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
melodramaturge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodramaturges
Senses: glosses: A creator of melodrama.
melodramaturges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodramaturge
Avogadro's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proposed by Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gas law stating that when held at constant pressure and temperature, the volume of a gas is proportional to the amount of molecules in it (now subsumed by the ideal gas law).
wikipedia: Amedeo Avogadro
wheatie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheaties
Etymology: From wheat + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Since he hasnt answered the thread, a "wheatie" is an old Lincoln penny with two heads of wheat on the back, instead of the house (Memorial Bldg.).
ref: 1999 November 27, Nathaniel Bates, “"Clad".”, in uk.rec.metaldetecting (Usenet), retrieved 08 Dec 2022:
qualifier: numismatic slang
glosses: A wheat penny.
wheaties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheatie
melodramaturgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art of creating melodrama.
Amagat's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proposed by French physicist Émile Amagat.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gas law stating that the volume of a gas equals the sum of the volumes of all of the component gases, if they were separated but kept at the same temperature and pressure.
wikipedia: Émile Amagat
Related terms: Dalton's law
van der Waals equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the van der Waals equation
form: Van der Waals equation
form: van der Waals equation of state
Etymology: Named after Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals.
Senses: examples: (P+a/(V²))(V-b)=RT, where a and b are constants experimentally determined for a particular gas.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: van der Waals law
glosses: A gas law which generalizes the ideal gas law to non-ideal gases, taking into account intermolecular forces and the size of molecules.
wikipedia: Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Related terms: van der Waals gas
Van der Waals equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of van der Waals equation.
non-ideal gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-ideal gases
form: nonideal gas
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gas which does not follow the ideal gas law; a gas which is not an ideal gas.
non-ideal gases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-ideal gas
nonideal gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonideal gases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-ideal gas.
nonideal gases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonideal gas
van der Waals gases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of van der Waals gas
van der Waals law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van der Waals law
Senses: glosses: Synonym of van der Waals equation.
synonyms: word: van der Waals equation
Van der Waals law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of van der Waals law.
calcanthum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chalcanthum.
synonyms: word: chalcanthum
chalcanth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chalcanthum.
synonyms: word: chalcanthum
update one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: updates one's priors
form: updating one's priors
form: updated one's priors
form: updated one's priors
Senses: examples: text: In others words, the study doesn't make me think I should update my priors much at all.
ref: 2016 March 23, Aaron E. Carroll, “In Defense of Moderate Drinking (Again)”, in New York Times:
text: I think that is a testament to documentary audiences: the film absolutely requires an open mind and heart and a willingness to update your priors in the face of new information.
ref: 2019 April 19, Simon Thompson, quoting Penny Lane, “The Devilishly Compelling 'Hail Satan?' Challenges More Than Preconceptions”, in Forbes:
text: Every so often a story comes along that causes me to update my priors — that is, to rethink what I thought I knew.
ref: 2019 September 19, Tyler Cowen, “What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Says About Elite Men”, in Bloomberg:
text: (title)
ref: 2022 January 9, Conor Friedersdorf, “Justice Reformers Need to Update Their Priors”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: revise one's priors
qualifier: rationalist community
glosses: To change one's beliefs in the face of new evidence.
updates one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of update one's priors
updating one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of update one's priors
updated one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of update one's priors
revise one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revises one's priors
form: revising one's priors
form: revised one's priors
form: revised one's priors
Senses: examples: text: If a rationalist wants to pay you a big compliment, she might tell you that you have caused her to "revise her priors"—that is, to alter some of her well-justified prior assumptions.
ref: 2021 August 16, Joshua Rothman, “Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?”, in New Yorker:
text: We can follow Bayesian decision theorists and dub what is happening 'revising your priors', or we can think of it as simply an increased tolerance for the side-eye you get when advancing your new views.
ref: 2022 February 10, Sam Haselby, “Fringe theories stack”, in Aeon:
glosses: Synonym of update one's priors.
synonyms: word: update one's priors
revises one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revise one's priors
revising one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revise one's priors
revised one's priors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revise one's priors
Tangsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Sino-Tibetan language or language cluster spoken in Burma and India.
deez nutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deez nuts.
Werner's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Werner syndrome.
Sugondese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: sugondese
Etymology: Used for its phonetic similarity to "suck on these", as in "suck on these nuts".
Senses: examples: text: "Hey, do you speak Sugondese?" "What's Sugondese?" "Sugondese nuts!"
glosses: A fictional language/ethnicity/disease designed to sound similar to "suck on these" (used to trick a person into asking the meaning).
Related terms: deez nuts
ligma
bofa
sugma
smegma
anarchization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anarchizations
Etymology: From anarchize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of anarchizing.
Rabin-Karp algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rabin-Karp algorithms
Etymology: Created by Richard M. Karp and Michael O. Rabin (1987).
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: Karp-Rabin algorithm
glosses: A string-searching algorithm that uses hashing to find an exact match of a pattern string in a text.
nickar nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickar nuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nicker nut.
nickar nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nickar nut
ottering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Wolfskill's last ottering was done a year later under a license granted by Governor José Figueroa for six months beginning in October. Another beaver trapper and leader of an overland party, Ewing Young, also tried his hand at ottering.
ref: 2021, Ogden Adele, The California Sea Otter Trade 1784-1848, page 110:
glosses: The hunting of otters.
Kruskal's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An algorithm in discrete mathematics/graph theory that is used to generate the minumum spanning tree in a given direction of two paths. It translates a forest from the nodes in the graph, considering each node as its own tree.
Kongu Nadu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋɡuː nɑːduː/
ipa: /koŋɡɯ n̪aːɖɯ/
Etymology: Transliteration of Tamil கொங்கு நாடு (koṅku nāṭu).
Senses: glosses: the region comprising the western districts of Tamil Nadu, India
orchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchats
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of orchard.
orchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchat
meritocratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meritocrat + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Advocacy or partisanship in support of meritocracy.
openmouthedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Looking past him, I stood openmouthedly. The walls . . . the walls, they were gone.
ref: 2018, Frederick W. Gross, Castles in the Sand:
text: I looked at her openmouthedly.
ref: 2020, Bedrettin Simsek, Is Love a Madness?:
glosses: With the mouth open, especially in astonishment.
technocratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From technocrat + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Advocacy or partisanship in support of technocracy.
darraigne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darraignes
form: darraigning
form: darraigned
form: darraigned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of deraign.
darraignes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of darraigne
stratocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratocrats
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στρατός (stratós, “army”) + -crat, in some cases influenced by modern Greek στρατοκράτης (stratokrátis, “militarist”).
Senses: examples: text: This alone would, in the opinion of the committee, be sufficient reason for the interference of the United States to prevent an attack on England by the autocrats and stratocrats of the continent.
ref: 1852 March 13, Charles C. Hazewell, Report on Intervention; republished as Kossuth in New England […], 1852, page 301:
text: This meant that all the stratocrats responsible for leading their men to safety were inexplicably bunched together in a small group far in the lead, with but two exceptions—John Gates and George Watt.
ref: 1969, Cecil D. Eby, Between the Bullet and the Lie: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, page 243:
text: Munro’s role as a stratocrat is visible less through his sparse writings than in his own career. He had earned his reputation through warfare, principally the seizure of Dharwar during the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–18).
ref: 2022, Christina Welsch, The Company’s Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: One who governs or leads others through military force, or on account of their position as a military officer.
Related terms: stratocracy
stratocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stratocrat
Rosemblatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosemblatts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bureaupathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bureaupathological
form: most bureaupathological
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bureaupathic.
synonyms: word: bureaupathic
connectest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of connect
Redcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Borůvka's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A greedy algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a graph, or a minimum spanning forest in the case of a graph that is not connected.
greedy algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greedy algorithms
Senses: glosses: Any algorithm that follows the problem-solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage.
countersabotage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + sabotage.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antisabotage.
synonyms: word: antisabotage
countersabotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + sabotage.
Senses: glosses: The prevention or countering of sabotage.
polyplural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + plural.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Containing plurals of nouns in distinct noun classes.
raw_tags: of a noun class
East Dulwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Southwark, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3474).
Kosaraju's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kosaraju's algorithms
Senses: glosses: A linear time algorithm to find the strongly connected components of a directed graph.
Jafnapatam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jaffna (“city in Sri Lanka”).
synonyms: word: Jaffna
extra: city in Sri Lanka
orang utans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orang utan
jhau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jhow (“kind of tamarisk”).
fixedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of fix
Skvyra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Скви́ра (Skvýra)
Senses: glosses: A city in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
sanjakbeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanjakbey
Skole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Ско́ле (Skóle)
Senses: glosses: A city in Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
chapkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapkans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chupkun.
chapkans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapkan
chupkun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chupkuns
form: chapkan
Senses: glosses: A kind of cape or cassock once worn in parts of India and Persia.
chupkuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chupkun
chucklah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chucklahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chakla (“territorial subdivision”).
chucklahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chucklah
chakla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaklas
form: chuckla
form: chucklah
form: chukla
form: chuklah
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An Islamic territorial subdivision of India.
chakla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaklas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चकला (caklā).
Senses: glosses: A flat circular board used for rolling out dough.
chaklas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chakla
chuckla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chucklas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chakla (“territorial subdivision”).
chukla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuklas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chakla (“territorial subdivision”).
chuklah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuklahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chakla (“territorial subdivision”).
chucklas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuckla
chuklas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chukla
chuklahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuklah
Sudova Vyshnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Судова́ Ви́шня (Sudová Výšnja)
Senses: glosses: A city in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
well-breeched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-breeched
form: most well-breeched
Senses: examples: text: That was the general opinion of Blaisthwaite, though only a powerful, well-breeched man would dare say it aloud and then not too often.
ref: 1950, Ralph Bates, The Dolphin in the Wood, page 149:
text: Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.
ref: 1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194:
text: Here he always turned his musings away from unpleasant fact and played even harder at being the well-breeched man on the town.
ref: 1985, Eileen Jackson, The Secret Bluestocking, page 165:
text: What he saw was a well-breeched man holding the reins of a thoroughbred horse, a man whose dignity did not preclude his saddling the pony of a ragged priest. It confused him.
ref: 2010, P. J. Keogh, In Those Blighted Fields, page 242:
glosses: Wealthy.
Slavuta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Славу́та (Slavúta)
Senses: glosses: A city in Shepetivka Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.
Kovacsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kovacsian
form: most Kovacsian
Etymology: From Kovacs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ernie Kovacs (1919–1962), American entertainer, whose visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs.
Snihurivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Снігурі́вка (Snihurívka)
Senses: glosses: A city in Bashtanka Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine.
broady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That referred to the circumstance of Dannelly having , on the preceding evening gone to Mr. Poole's cloth shop. He said he had been on the screw, (that is, lifting the latch of a door,) and sneaked out a piece of broady […]
ref: 1816, George Vaughan (Bow-Street officer), The Whole Four Trials of the Thief Takers (page 26)
glosses: Broadcloth.
ditto, brother smut
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “You fucking bitch!” Rose blubbered.
“Ditto, brother smut.”
ref: 2014, Colleen McCullough, Sins of the Flesh, page 250:
text: '[…] So far as I can see, there's nothing whatever to substantiate her statement.'
'Ditto, ditto, Brother Smut,' quoted Crook cheerfully.
ref: 2014, Anthony Gilbert, Give Death a Name:
synonyms: pot, meet kettle
glosses: Calling attention to the addressee's hypocrisy; a form of tu quoque.
buckled to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buckle to
buckles to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buckle to
buckling to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buckle to
declinedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of decline
post-build
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + build.
Senses: examples: a post-build event
a post-build verification script
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: After the build step that creates an executable program from source code.
postbuild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of post-build.
declaration of love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: declarations of love
caligraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caligraphs
form: caligraphing
form: caligraphed
form: caligraphed
Senses: examples: text: "There," said Robert, as he carefully caligraphed the envelope, […]
ref: 1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of calligraph.
caligraphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of caligraph
caligraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caligraph
caligraphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caligraph
caution to snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cautions to snakes
Senses: examples: text: I am crammed full of faults, I'm a mass of mistakes / So stupid, in fact, that you'd deem me half-witted; / But though in my way I'm a "caution to snakes," / I think I'm a party who ought to be pitied.
ref: 1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 11:
glosses: Something bizarre or astonishing.
cautions to snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caution to snakes
bands together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of band together
banding together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of band together
banded together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of band together
bangs away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bang away
banging away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bang away
bangs like a dunny door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bang like a dunny door
banging like a dunny door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bang like a dunny door
banged like a dunny door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bang like a dunny door
goblinmode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goblin mode.
pannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panny
patrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrin
musthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musthy
form: most musthy
Senses: examples: text: In nature, almost all elephants avoid musthy males—with the exceptions of other musthy males (with whom they fight) and receptive females (with whom they mate). Musthy males do not always confine their rage to other elephants, however, as zoo keepers and white rhinos can attest.
ref: 2004, Richard C. Francis, “Social Inhibitions”, in Why Men Won’t Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: I have it filed away that in the future, no matter how free, no matter how fascinating the squiggles on the bottle, I shall avoid Russian vodka as if it were a musthy elephant.
ref: 2005, Colin Cotterill, “Two Dead Men on a Bicycle”, in Thirty-Three Teeth, Soho Press, →ISBN:
text: An hour ago, I had taken the truck out to collect the musthy Smokey’s dung in the pitch-black. A lioness on the prowl made for a tense dung safari. A while later, Smokey returned to the water hole with his musthy deliberations, as a lazy lioness roared to the east.
ref: 2015, Caitlin O’Connell, “Baying at a Testosterone-Filled Moon”, in Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Alternative form of musty (“in musth”).
cavault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cavaults
form: cavaulting
form: cavaulted
form: cavaulted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cavort.
cavaults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cavault
cavaulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cavault
cavaulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cavault
cherry-merry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "That not proper business," said Croke Sahib. "What for I give cherry-merry?"
ref: 1858, Michael Rafter, The Rifleman, page 232:
glosses: A present of money.
Derived terms: cherry-merry-bamboo
fishfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishfags
Etymology: From fish + fag.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fishwife (“female fishmonger”).
synonyms: word: fishwife
extra: female fishmonger
glosses: Synonym of fishwife (“vulgar, abusive or nagging woman”).
synonyms: word: fishwife
extra: vulgar, abusive or nagging woman
fishfags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishfag
Tarjan's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Robert Tarjan.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for finding the strongly connected components (SCCs) of a directed (connected) graph by using the depth-first search function.
wikipedia: Robert Tarjan
Tschirnhausen cubics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tschirnhausen cubic
wikipedia: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
level to the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: levels to the ground
form: leveling to the ground
form: levelling to the ground
form: leveled to the ground
form: leveled to the ground
form: levelled to the ground
form: levelled to the ground
Senses: examples: text: They leveled the building to the ground.
synonyms: raze to the ground
glosses: To completely demolish, to raze.
van Emde Boas tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: van Emde Boas trees
Etymology: Named after Peter van Emde Boas.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A tree data structure that implements an associative array with keys of up to m bits. It can perform all operations in a time proportional to the log of the size of its largest element, or equivalently with an upper bound equal to the logarithm of 2 multiplied by m.
wikipedia: Peter van Emde Boas
Holme East Waver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The parish is east and north of the River Waver.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough.
wikipedia: River Waver
aplastic anaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplastic anaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aplastic anemia.
fi-fi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fi-fi
form: most fi-fi
Senses: examples: text: Virtuous, orthodox, unromantic, respectable, they had not the makings of an Ibsen play or a fi-fi novel among them.
ref: 1897, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Dulcie Everton, page 34:
ref: 1985 October 20, Michael M. Thomas, “Tough Times for the Fi-Fi Novel”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Scandalous; immoral; applied to literature and stories.
first flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first flights
Senses: glosses: The first competitor to finish in a footrace or horse race, in a foxhunt, etc.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, flight.
Related terms: first flight cover
first flights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first flight
fox hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox hunt
fimble-famble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fimble-fambles
Senses: glosses: Lame, prevaricating excuses.
fimble-fambles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fimble-famble
full fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See in full fig.
Senses: examples: text: He had evidently been instructed to await the royal party, and had on his full fig of fine black cloth full-dress uniform, top boots, spurs, and sword.
ref: 1895, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, The Japs at Home, page 199:
glosses: Full costume; uniform or evening dress.
Derived terms: in full fig
four-and-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-and-nines
Etymology: From the price of four shillings and ninepence, at which a once noted advertising hat-maker sold his hats.
Senses: examples: text: Around me young and old, / Take this advice of mine, / When you want a hat, / Don't buy a four and nine.
ref: 1850, William Mark Clark, Clark's Orphean Warbler (page 424): Four and Nine Tile (song)
glosses: A cheap hat.
four-and-nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-and-nine
four-ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-ale
four ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four ale
sling the hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slings the hatchet
form: slinging the hatchet
form: slung the hatchet
form: slung the hatchet
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To skulk about, not getting work done.
cybergovernance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + governance.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of e-governance.
synonyms: word: e-governance
cherry-merry-bamboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See cherry-merry.
Senses: glosses: A beating with a bamboo stick.
chalked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chalk out
chalks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chalk out
chalking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chalk out
Angmering
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0604).
Greenodd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Egton with Newland parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD3182).
jet-packing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jet-pack
jet-packed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jet-pack
jet-packed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These visions had been sanctioned by the media, with color supplement pictures of London in 2001 as a city of jet-packed men in bowler hats, and artists’ impressions of domed colonies flying the flags of the United Nations on Mars in 1985.
ref: 2011, Grant Morrison, Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 160–161:
text: His Valkyries wheeled right, plowing into Xander’s jet-packed goblin assassins.
ref: 2012, Derek Benz, J. S. Lewis, Grey Griffins: The Paragon Prison, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
text: The jet-packed person clung to my back, falling with me, while shoving me around midair.
ref: 2014, Shannon Hale, “Prologue”, in Dangerous, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
text: The three jet-packed men flew up to his level quickly enough.
ref: 2016, Brett Wortham, An Orbiting Dilemma, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of jetpacked.
antibaptism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + baptism.
Senses: glosses: Opposing baptism.
anti-tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tongues.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the religious practice of speaking in tongues.
Kiringul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Korean 기린굴 (girin'gul, literally “Kirin's Grotto”).
Senses: glosses: A cave in North Korea, said to have been the home of the mythical kirin.
Natchitoches meat pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Natchitoches meat pies
Senses: glosses: A meat pie from northern Louisiana, United States, made with ground beef and pork, onions, peppers, garlic and oil in a crescent-shaped pie shell, and often fried in peanut oil.
Natchitoches meat pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Natchitoches meat pie
youlk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nyunga [Term?].
Senses: synonyms: Ravensthorpe radish
glosses: Platysace deflexa, a small shrub endemic to the south west of Western Australia.
youlk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youlks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of yolk.
youlks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youlk
Ravensthorpe radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ravensthorpe radishes
Senses: examples: text: I've recently learned that the Ravensthorpe Radish is grown solely in the Great Southern region so I'm looking forward to incorporating that into my menu.
ref: 2014 February 3, Faust, quotee, “Southern taste draws chefs”, in Perthnow.com.au, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2022:
text: There is a market for native bush foods. Kings Park Restaurant currently has on the menu Sandfire and Salt Bush Worikle Greens, Finger Limes and Ravensthorpe Radish. All ingredients are easily produced and would thrive with good drip irrigation.
ref: 2018 February 27, Ron Lockley, quotee, Minutes of the Ordinary Council Meeting, Katanning: Shire Council, page 9:
text: The Ravensthorpe radish truly is a useful bush tucker plant and easy to grow in a well drained soil.
ref: 2020 Spring, “Plants of Interest”, in Bush Telegraph, number 127, Maida Vale: Zanthorrea Nursery, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Synonym of youlk (“the shrub Platysace deflexa”).
synonyms: word: youlk
extra: the shrub Platysace deflexa
Toblerone tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toblerone tunnels
Etymology: In reference to the distinctive triangular shape of the Toblerone chocolate bar.
Senses: glosses: A triangular thigh gap.
Toblerone tunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Toblerone tunnel
reflashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflashing
Egton with Newland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally a manor, chapelry and township before becoming a civil parish.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Egton with Newland, Mansriggs and Osmotherley Parish Council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district.
frontovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontover
click-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of left-handed (“using one's left hand by preference, or more skilfully than one's right”).
synonyms: word: left-handed
extra: using one's left hand by preference, or more skilfully than one's right
shoulderboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulderboard
clickership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickerships
Etymology: From clicker + -ship.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: An association or companionship of printers.
clickerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickership
olutasidenib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An anticancer medication used to treat relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia.
pegged it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peg it
pegging it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peg it
pegs it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peg it
pegs away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peg away
pegging away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peg away
pegged away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peg away
run nowhere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs nowhere
form: running nowhere
form: ran nowhere
form: run nowhere
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To finish the race unplaced.
arse antlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: tramp stamp
glosses: A tattoo on a person's lower back, especially one with a horizontally spreading design.
countercritique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercritiques
Etymology: From counter- + critique.
Senses: glosses: A critique in response to another critique.
countercritiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercritique
EPK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EPKs
Senses: examples: text: "Auditions will be held Friday, 10 April in Los Angeles for drummers who are looking to play with THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. […]" / Any would-be multi-millionaire drummers with an archive of YouTube clips, Flickr snaps and SonicBids EPKs, this is your chance!
ref: 2009 March 31, Sean Michaels, “Smashing Pumpkins to hold auditions for new drummer”, in The Guardian:
topics: media
glosses: Initialism of electronic press kit.
EPKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EPK
putter up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putters up
Senses: examples: text: The thieves never take the putter up with them, nor do they allow him to know when they intend to crack the house.
ref: 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 353:
text: Should the "put-up job" succeed, the putter-up comes in for his share of the criminal spoil.
ref: 1866, Good Words, page 414:
glosses: A person who seeks out information of use to burglars, for example by ingratiating himself with the members of a household, and in return receives payment after the burglary is committed.
Related terms: put-up job
putters up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putter up
semigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + graphic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semigraphical.
kiss of charity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kisses of charity
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of kiss of peace.
synonyms: word: kiss of peace
Coombaconum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kumbakonam.
Combaconum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kumbakonam.
Kumbakonam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coombaconum
form: Combaconum
Etymology: From Tamil கும்பகோணம் (kumpakōṇam).
Senses: synonyms: Kudanthai
glosses: A city in the Thanjavur district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Congeveram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kanchipuram.
Conjeevaram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kanchipuram.
Conjevaram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kanchipuram.
consoo-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consoo-houses
Etymology: Perhaps from council; perhaps from a Chinese word, kung-su, denoting a public hall.
Senses: synonyms: council hall
glosses: In Canton, a range of buildings adjoining the foreign factories, owned by the hong merchants and used for their meetings.
consoo-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consoo-house
frontover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontovers
Etymology: From front + over.
Senses: coordinate_terms: backover
glosses: An accident in which a motor vehicle drives over a person who is in front of the vehicle but too low to be visible to the driver.
Koch Bihar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cooch Behar.
Kuch Bahar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cooch Behar.
creezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creeze
pedelavium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedelavia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedilavium.
pedelavia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedelavium
go to water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to water
form: going to water
form: went to water
form: gone to water
Senses: examples: Cooper, Erin; Powell, Meg; Bovill, Monte (9 December 2022), “Robbins Island wind farm proposal approved on condition of 5-month annual shutdown due to orange-bellied parrots”, in ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation: “There's absolutely no doubt this company will appeal the decision of the Tasmanian EPA, and there is no doubt the EPA will go to water. There's also no doubt the federal government will go to water.”
glosses: To give up under threat or pressure.
usneoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Usnea + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the genus Usnea.
yellow thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow thistles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone mexicana)
synonyms: word: Mexican prickly poppy
extra: Argemone mexicana
opalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opalisation
crossedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of cross
Lesothoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lesothoan
form: most Lesothoan
Etymology: From Lesotho + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lesothan.
Lesothoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lesothoans
Etymology: From Lesotho + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lesothan.
out-statistic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-statistics
form: out-statisticking
form: out-statisticked
form: out-statisticked
Senses: examples: text: While the bureau with the best of good feeling and the best of faith, I believe, can sometimes out-statistic us, when it comes down to finalities you build more hospitals and they are occupied as fast as you build.
ref: 1927, United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, Hospital Building Program, page 146:
text: You know we almost out-statisticked them ?
ref: 1975, Gerald Green, My Son the Jock, page 77:
text: Your Honor, you have become a budgetary expert. You shouldn't leave now. You can out-statistic any of us.
ref: 1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1982, page 347:
text: Only in land area — and only then in a special sense — could the South, with its eleven states, out-statistic the twenty-two states of the North: 780,000 square miles as opposed to 670,000 in the area including Texas and the first tier of states west of the Mississippi.
ref: 2011, Shelby Foote, The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville:
glosses: Alternative form of outstatistic.
out-statistics
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of out-statistic
out-statisticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of out-statistic
out-statisticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of out-statistic
statisticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of statistic
statisticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of statistic
grobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grobbles
form: grobbling
form: grobbled
form: grobbled
form: groffle
form: gruffle
Etymology: From grob (“to grub”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare grubble.
Senses: glosses: To make holes; dig, poke, pick out.
glosses: To feel around, as in the dark; grope.
glosses: To work in an inefficient and laborious way; to do rough, dirty work.
glosses: To loiter, hang around idly.
come up short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes up short
form: coming up short
form: came up short
form: come up short
Senses: examples: text: They kept coming up short every time they closed out the register.
text: The register kept coming up short every time they closed it out.
text: She fished in her purse for more quarters but came up short.
text: "Avanti has never employed enough drivers to deliver the services it has promised. That is why, every day this year, the company has come up short."
ref: 2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of "rewarding Avanti's failure"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:
glosses: Synonym of fall short.
synonyms: word: fall short
Related terms: word: come up roses
word: come up snake eyes
english: an outcome or lesson
translation: an outcome or lesson
word: come away with
word: come out ahead
word: come up with
fareway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/
ipa: /ˈfɛəweɪ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)weɪ
Forms: form: fareways
Etymology: From Middle English farewaye, fairway, fare-waye, from Old English færweġ (“a cartroad”), from Proto-West Germanic *faraweg, *faruweg (“fareway”), equivalent to fare (“travel”) + way. Cognate with West Frisian farwei (“waterway”), Dutch vaarweg (“waterway”), Middle Low German vārwech, vaerwech (“fareway”), German Fahrweg (“fareway”).
Senses: examples: text: From Troy there's a fareway by sea direct
Across to the glorious ancient Athens; […]
ref: 1907, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem, page 172:
text: He spoke of his several forefathers' experience at expanding the Far Fleets, which rendered safe all fareways running between the Attican Peninsula and all southerly depots that had been mentioned.
ref: 2011, House Ascendant, page 362:
text: The others parted their ships asunder, and made a fareway between the ships.
ref: 2022, The Spirit of the Vikings, page 6:
glosses: A road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.
Related terms: passageway
roadway
seaway
fareways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fareway
nahiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nahiya
Bout
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bouts
Senses: glosses: A surname
formedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of form
merchant of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchants of death
Senses: glosses: One who engages in the unlawful distribution or supply of substances or objects with potentially fatal consequences, such as drugs or weapons.
Related terms: arms race
warmonger
super-majority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-majorities
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supermajority.
super-majorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-majority
phosphonopyruvates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphonopyruvate